Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-08-17
General Notes.

A single plant of whest will often pro-
duce 20oc seeds in one season; sundower
will yield 1000; poppy $4,000; a tobacco
plant, 500, 600; spleenworth, l,Ooo, ,OOo'
Electricity is to be put to work in
blowing more especially in regions where
beasts are few, or wanting. 1t has been
done successfully in number of cases as
an experiment. A new method is Piow-
ing with dynamite The explosive IS
divided in minute granules and scattered.
1t blows up the earth very thoroughly.
this is an Australian invention.
The possibility of using the water as
method of telephone communication Is
now being dsv veloped, and it is almost q
certainty that before lorg moving ships al
sea will be able to communicate with one
another, though they are out side the
range of vision, and that a warning of the
approach Uf icebergs, derelicts or other
ships will be given by electric apparatus at
tached to vessels.
TO prevent rabbits and worms from
harming trees mix together turpentine
and hogs lard and apply on the trees
This kills the worms in the tree, keeps the
eggs from Matching and prevents the rab-
bit. and the turpsntine kills the worms.
A little, black, innocent-looking bug
has made its appearance in this communl
ty. which might appropriately be called
the skunk bug 1t emits an odor that Is
positively villainous. A dissecting room
or the back yard of slaughter-house are
not in it for moment with the rank-scent-
cd bug. One of these slender little insects,
by a deft movement of its wing can throw
out enough foul odor to demorslize whole
family. We have no idea what this bugs
business ia here on earth, or when it ar
rived 1t is only very recently that it
came to our notice. The odor of the ordi-
nary, old-fashioned "stink bug" or the
blood thirsty bedbug, is perfume in COM
rarison to it. Will some good-nstured
entomologist, who has confronted this
rank compound of putridity put up in the
shape of bug, please tell us its name and
business.
A certain doctor, struck With the
large number Of boys under fifteen years
of age whom he observed smoking, was
led to inquire into the effect the habit had
upon the general health. He took for his
purpose thirty eight boys, aged from nine
to fifteen, and carefully examined them.
In twenty -seyen of them he discovered
injurious traces of the habit. In twenty
two there were various disorders of the
circulation and digestion, palpitation OF
the heart. and more or less marked taste
for strong drink. In twelve there was
frequent blseding of tbs nose; ten had dis
turbed sleep, aud twelve had slight ulcera-
tion of the mucus membrane Of the mouth,
which disappeared on ceasing from the
use Of tobacco for some days. The doctor
treated them all fDr weakness, but with
little effect until the smoking was dis
continued, when health and strength were
soon restored.
The figure 8 in dates is with us and
has come to stay. Few men or women
now living will ever date q document
without using 8. 1t now stands third
-l894-where it will remain six years
IL will then move to second plsce-l90O
and there rest for one hundred years.
A man in Asadvills, bothered about
extlngulshing the electric light in his ho-
tel room at night, and after trying in vain
to blow it out, hit on a happy solution
of the trouble He noticed the long wire
above tho light and concluded it was
meant to tuck it away in q drawer. and
this he did
The city Of Erie spent about 81 ,0OO, 900
on water works, and employs number OF
commissioners at 81 per day 10 manage
them. But the city water ia so filthy that
even the brewers can't use it with their
barley malt to make beer. Pure water is
peddled about the streets, though not
carried in leather bottles rs in Cairo,
Egypt.
Make il 0 rule never to carsss strange
dogs, or pat it tend.rly on any part of its
body Daily incidents are recorded by
the newspapers of the country of people
who are bitten while in contact with these
brutes Make i: rule, then, never to
take liberties with strange dog.