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The Penn's Grove record., 1894-07-13
The Tiger.

In trapping tigers for export the
Malays dig q hole about ten feet deep,
making the bottom twice as large in
area as the top, to prevent the ami
NAL from jumping out after being
3nce in The hole completed, small
brushwood is lightly laid vel its sur
face, and close by, In the direction Of
The mouth of the pit, a bullock is
chained to a tree. On seeing the
bullock the tiger springs for his ex-
pected prey, and alightS in the pit.
A bamboo cage is placed over the pit,
which Is then filled with earth, the
tiger gradually coming to the sur
lace. Once in the cage, the Matlays
lace and interlace bamboo and rattan
under the tiger. Spring-guns are
sometimes used, but not often, as they
are dangerous to the dogs and human
beings
l once went on a tig er hunt, We
organized a party OF five Europeans
and ten natives. We started on foot,
because it is impossible to ride
through the jungle on horseback.
On finding q tigers footprints, we
followed them to a ravine, where the
tiger had been drinking. Here we
took our thin, and, while eating,
heard groans, which we thought were
from the tiger. Following the sound,
we saw an enormous m%an-cating tiger
dashing away through tho brush.
SHOTS were fred without effect. On
going farther we discovered that he
had found a buffalo, and had been
making short work of him. These
buffaloes are not like those found in
America, but smaller, and more like
an OK. Later this same tiger was
caught in a trap. We knew it was
the same, for not more than one is
found near a village at a time.
On an average four or five people
were killed by tigers on this road in
the course of agar. They generally
seize their prey after dusk, and for
this reason it is never safe to travel
on these roads afrer 6 o'clock at
night. 1t is said that a tiger often
selects his man during the day, and,
perhaps follows him for miles,
until overtaken by dusk, where he
springs on him. Two gentlemen
were once wal cling over a pineapple
plantation, when they discovered that
they were followed by a tiger.
They were three miles from home.
and, having nothing but s~hot-guns
Tor weapons, could not fire at the ami
NAL. He kept at the same distance
behind them all the way and they
reached home before he attempted to
attack. The natives are In constant
terror OF these animals, and it is al
most impossible to send them out
after DARK. l have paid $40 to a
native for taking q message to the
Maharajah after 6 o'clock at night -
Century Magazine.
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Pneumatic Tubes.

Pneumatic tubes, such, for exam.
pie, as are at present so largely EN-.
ployed in bicycle construction, are
now filed by means Of multiplied
pressure, a machine having been con-
trived for the purpose. A series of
rubber bulbs, which mt inside of the
tire, are so arranged that the
outlet of the first is on the under side
of the rim, and connected with the
Hrst bulbs a value which allows the
air to be sucked in, but not to es-
cape; the air Is transmitted to the
second bulb. and from that to the
third, and so on, until 1t finally
smpties into the tire, filling it up
with air until 1t is of great solidity.
1t is impossible for the tire to burst,
as there is an exhaust valve which
:an be guaged to blow of at a pres
sure of from one to forty pounds. Al
though the tire may become pune
tured, enough air can be pumped in
10 keep it solid, the air pressure be-
ing increased every timc the wheel
evolves.
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ostrich Farming in California.

The wild camel In the Arizona
desert, supposed to the survivor OF
an army ex. eriment, has been writ,
ten about a good deal, and there
seems to be strong foundation for the
report that these beasts are occasion.
ally seen like ghosts on the line OF
the horizon. The story that a small
flock of ostriches are running wild in
the Mojave Desert in Southern Cali.
fornia has an ar Of greater prota-
billty. for several experiments in do.
mestieating the South African bird
have been made on the Pacific coast,
and are still being tried. The wild
birds were originally imported and
placed in corral by an enterprisine
breeder who did not take the precau-
ton to build his fences high enough.
One morning the ostriches stam.
peded, jumping the fence and we 9
never again rounded up Mexicans
lassoed some of them, pursuing on
horseback, but to this day Others are
at large and ranging the desert.
Speaking Of ostrich farming In Call
fornia, it is said that 1T is not likely
to prove profitable. Only the wing
and tail feathers are Of commercial
value, the best bringing abont 500
per pound. Each BIRD Furnishes from
half a pound TO a pound and a half
Of feathers yearly. When the risk of
losing birds by sickness and accident
IS reckoned, the margin OF profit is
found to be rather slender. New
York Post
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1UssEr s.
Not o Separate Variety, but stuns BY L
Eaefa.

y
I Shrewd orange shippers In Florida
says the Fruit Grower, make a virtue
OF necessity, and brand their rusty
oranges with such fancy and attract
I've names as "Golden Russell etc.
Most consumers, aud many Northern
aealers celieve such oranges to be a
alstinct and probably improved va
riety, and sometimes pay a higher
price lor them on that account We
have previously pointed out that the
russell oranges of Florida are made so
by an insect, and are In no n a
separate variety of fruit AZ a re.
GENT meeting OF the Florida State
horticultural Society, Mr.. ". A.
Marsh read a paper from which we
take the following account Of the
:ust mite.
This minute insect which is In
visible to the naked eye, is a great
source Of annoyance to the orange
grower, and causes q loss of thou.
sands OF dollars each year to the grow
RS. The rust mite is only the L.
2oGth part OF an inch long. The eggs
are deposited singly or in clusters
over the leaves and hatch in four or
1--we days. In about ten days they
shed their skins, and reach the adult
condition, which differs from the
young In being a little darker. 1t is
during the. hot, moist weather in
summer when they become most
abundant, cold or dry weather check,
ing them. On e animation OF a single
Leaf infested with them, Mr.. Hub.
bard estimates the number of mites
and eggs at rs, These little
creatures are able to travel twelve
feet per hour. so they are able to
cover a good deal Of space In a short
time. The result OF the little fel-
lows work is not altogether bad, for
our rusty fruit will carry a good deal
better than the bright and late In
tho season there Is not much differ
ence in price. The russell fruit holds
its juices better than bright. Almost
any OF the Insecticides now la usa
will destroy the rust mite, but the
trees must have several appli ations
for they work the year round, as their
food Is the oil in the rini OF the
orange, and other circus fruits"
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A Renewed Danger.

Last year people and press, ire
spective of party or locality, united
in an earnest attack upon the Louis
lana Lottery IS a source Of danger to
public morality and of political cor
ruption wherever IT came In contact
with State or city affairs 1t was an
nounced that the Lottery Company
had bowed tefore the storm OF public
opinion, and would not ask a re-
newal of its charter. A great moral
victory seemed to have been gained;
But now it appears that the com
pany has only retired to renew the
fight from q distance. 1t has bought
an island in the Bay Of Honduras.
and may almost be said to have
bought the Honduras government
also-so extensive are the concessions
given it in re6urn for a million dol
lars in gold and q large percentage
on all tickets sold.
One might at first thought rejoice
in the removal from u shores OF
this great evil, whose annual profits
of many millions of dollars have been
drawn, dollar by dollar, from almost
every village and city In the United
States; but it Is certain that its in
tention is still to subsist on this
country.
International postal laws will per-
NIT it to deluge our mails with scaled
circulars. Even now, despite the
law, lottery advertisements thinly
disguised may be found in half the
theater programs all over the country.
A law making the sending or rccciv-
ing Of lottery INSTRUMENTATION by
mail. express or othcrwlse-a penal
offense has been proposed, and might
meet the danger. That some stricter
legislation than now exists is needed
IS beyond question.
To learn what ruin follows In the
track Of a great lottery read the ac-
counts of the Panama Canal scandal
In France; note that the Hawaiian
revolution followed close after a lot
terry bill had been adopted, and mark
the poverty and degradation Of the
Italian lower cases which yet spend
$40, 0o0, 900 yearly in the national
Youths ComDaniop.
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Where the locality desirable for a
lawn is naturally free from weeds the
modern suggestion of making it by
planting patches Of one particular kind,
which will run together in a few
months, is particularly desirable.
Nothing can be more beautiful than a
lawn wholly made up of one Species
For small gardens, especially where the
new plantation can be hand-weeded
during summer, it is the best of all
methods. No lawn made of grass seeds
will be confined strictly to one kind,
and on account of the different shades
Of green in the grass will always have q
more or less patchy appearance. Those
who supply mixed lawn grass seeds
usually keep this in mind, and endeav,
Or to get their kinds SO generally alike
In tint of green as to avoid this objec-
ton. One advantage of the mixed
system is that one can rarely tell by the
description of a customer what partic-
nlar kind OF grass will thrive to best
advantage. A mixture is, therefore,
likely to best serve the purpose, in
this, that the one most suitable will
eventually crowd out those not SO well
adapted to the soil and circumstances.
We have seen q lawn made of mixed
grasses which had to be secured under
The shade of large trees, eventually be-
rome wholly occupied by the sheep
Icer,In. in the course of a. few years
every cchc- KIND was crowded out, and
this particular species alone occupied
he land, Monthly.
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The Weight Of Compact Bodies.

The load which is produced by a
dense crowd OF persons is generally
taken at eighty to 100 pounds per
square foot and is considered to be the
greatest uniformly distributed load for
which a floor need be proportional.
That this value may be largely ex-
ceeded in an actual crowd was pointed
out by Professor W. O. Kernot, of
Melbourne University, Australia, in q
recent paper before the Victorian In
stitute of Engineers, copied into En-.
gineer News. In an actual trial, a class
Of students averaging 1885 pounds
each in weight were crowde1fn a lobby
containing 1928 square feet, making
an average floor load of 1884, pounds.
There was still room to have placed
another man, which would have
brought up the loading to 1881
pounds per square foot. Professor
Kernot also quoted from Stoney, who
! placed ffty-eight laborers, averaging
/ 8 pounds eachin weight, imam empty
| ship deck-house measuring ffty-seven
square feet floor area. Thiswas Q load
of 147.4 pounds per square foot. In
another test, with seventy-three labor
ers crowded into a hut nine feet Ivy
eight feet eight inches, Stoney pro-
duced load Of 142 pounds per square
foot and estimated that two OF three
more men couldhave been squeezed in.
It appear from these experiments that
while the figures ordinarily assumed Of
| a;o;,ty 20 I'm pounda ara nuficiapt1v
correct for spaces on which there is no
cause to induce the collection of great
crowds, larger figures, say 140 to $50
pounds per square foot, should be used
for railway stations and platforms, en-
frances and exits to places ofpublic as
sembliss or office buildings, bridge side.
walks, pavements over vaults and other
places where dense crowds are likeI~
to gather.
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The Brute and the Lady.

Sleighs d avn by four horses are
employed on the Wellington routa
The heavily loaded sleigh was coming
cityward. One of the horses next
the vehicle fell The driver dashed
1t with his whin Then he kicked
it. kinaliy he swore at 1t. But he
did not get uown to extrlcate the
animal from the harness which held
1t a prisoner. The men In the sleigh
buried their chins in their o~yercoats
and INDUCED in contemplation Of
fatalism as a philosophy which re-
moves every passion from the breast.
Suddenly a lady, clad In q seaiskin
sacque, got out and going Up to tho
driver, said to him in an imperative
way: "Give me that whip" The
driver was da ed. In a stupeHel way
ne handed over the whip snow"
said the little lady, III you touch
that horse again I will let you feet
the weight OF this whip across your
shoulders. Get down this moment
and cut the harness and help the
horse to rise" The driver stared at
her. The women in the sleigh TIT
tered, the men hung their heads
Get down this moment" said the
lady, shaking the WHIP over the
driver. The latter mechanically
obeyed. The harness was loosened.
the horse was iaised to his feet The
lady put, her hand 10 her satchel,
brought forth some biscuits, and
treated the whole four horses to one
nanh .E FNha n pToCt ~ rnnntnat Tha
hopeless cynicisn Of their poor faces
gave place TO hope and love and
gratitude. Then the lady. very white
but as resolute as Joan Of Arc ever
was, entered the sleigh. The men
still hung their heads In silence
Montreal Star.
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GROWING rANs1Es TOR PROFIT.

The culture of flowers is n of the
most profitable of all this kind of in
dustries, and at fifty cents a dozen for
pansies, the profit will be very salts
factory. To have them early, the seed
should be sown at nce in boxes in a
warm room, and the small plants
moved to pots, but if the seed is sown
in the fall, the flowers may be had still
earlier. This most desirable way is to
SOW seed in the summer in the open
ground on rich soil, and pot the young
plants, picking OF all the flower buds
as they form, until the middle of the
winter end in time to have the flowers
when they are wanted. Then by
gathering the flowers as Dol RS they
are fully blown the plants will continue
to bloom a long time. To force good
flowers the plants should be kept
watered with weak manure water. The
finest varieties are the Imperial Ger
man and Scotch.-New York Times.
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Tho good points of q good COW are
not her good looks. She may not be
and probably is not very good-looking
except to the eye of an experienced
dairyman. She certainly is not fat
while giving milk, and to be a really
good COW she should never be long
time enough between the times ofmilk
giving to fatten. She will most likely
have a large paunch, giving her a some-
what ''pot-bellied" look after she has
filed herself. Something cannot come
from nothing, and we never knew a
COW giving large messes of good milk
which was not q ravenous feeder.
Hence her digestion must be good.
She should have o broad chest, indicat-
ing largo lungs. There is no good
digestion without good lung power.
She should be "deep" from the back
down to the belly, but with q thin and
rather fiat neck. The skin of most
good cows is of velvety texture, and
looks as if it had been groomed for
several generations, as in most breeds
Of the best COWS it has. The good COW
is, indeed, less an accident than a
product. With good material from
which to breed, the good farmer can
make sure of her nearly every heifer
calf he gets. Boston Cultivator.
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SPRAYING APPLE oRcHAHsD IN VET SEASONS.

The time for destroying the apple
worm is Immediately after the petals
fall, and the spraying should be re-
peated once or twice after the apples
begin to hang down. Experiments by
E. G. Lodeman at the New York Cor
nell Station indicate that the first ap-
plication of fungicides should be made
soon after the buds open and just be-
fore the flowers fall. Apple trees should
be SO pruned that both the sunshine
anu the spraying reaches every part.
The Bordeaux mixture reduces the in
jury done by the apple scab fungus.
The addition of Paris green to this
mixture gave better results than when
London purple was used. More spray
ing applications are required during
vet seasons than during dry ones.
The trees should be sprayed once a
week during wet weather. The results
show that the application of the com
bination of the Bordeau mixture and
Paris green or London purple was
valuable and practicable for the treat
ment OF the apple scab fungus and the
apple worm even when over five inches
of rain fell during June. American
Agriculturist.
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must precede improvement Of the
generalcrop.-American Agriculturist.
rARM AND aARprN NOTES

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Let the fowls out when the weather
is mild.
One-fourth Leghorn blood hastens
maturity.
Broilers early in spring sell at very
high prices.
Grade your dressedpoultry in pack.
ing for market.
The Beder Wood is a strawberry
worthy of trial.
Skim milk thickened with bran is ,
goodfeed for poult ry.
In nearly all cases it will be best &c
deepen the soil gradually.
II the hay is the least mlsty, Away
moisten it before feeding.
The poor, unthrifty hog is often the
prey of yermin o~rpaasites.
The more time required to fatten an
animal the greater the cost.
If farmers want to make buttermak.
ing profitable they must mako a good
article.
Horses should not be tied too long,
as they are apt to roll and get cast il
the stall.
Many modern growers use CONNER.
cial fertilizers instead of manure for
potatoes.
Milk may be deficient in solids with.
out having water added to it by the
milkman.
A nervous, irritable, bad tempered
driver generally has nervous, vicious.
runaway horses. .
Too long for the cream to rise and
too long without stirring will make
white specks in the butter.
With q thoroughly good COW one car
always afford to give plenty of feed il
exchange for plenty of butter.
The most profitable COW is the best
mother, and the mother function should
be fostered as much as possible.
While feed has much to do with the
quality of the milk, the breed of the
tow has much more to do with it.
Now that work is on, be sure the
collars fit perfectly before beginning
work. 1t is often easier to prevent
than to cure gals.
Farm horses should be groomed al
least twice q day in the working season,
especially if they have been sweating
Or have been in the mud
A farmer who has q quarter-sectior
of land should set five or ten acres o
orchard trees. They will get him on.
of debt if he is in ard helphim to keeI
out if he is not.
An orchard can be successfully grow1
without interfering with the rest of tn,
farm work, and time thus spent viii
bring returns equal to any other pro
duce. 1t has been proved.
1t is claimed by some horticulturist
that winter pruning while the sap ii
down develops vigorous wood growth
and summer pruning checks this ant
encourages fruit prediction.
A word of caution is due to thos,
who embark in any new enterprise
There are many things TO learn. Book
have a value to the new beginner, bu
practice is necessary. No man shoule
fail to learn the practical details b,
using his own hands.
Are sheep sr,bject to indigestion7 o
course they are, rs much SO as an.
other animal. Did you never smell
Sleeps breath? Some of the health,
sleeps breath is as sweet as an infants
but o diseased sleeps breath suggest
indigestion alad all the ills known t.
mortal flesh.
Joseph Meehan gives n way to rit
plum trees of the c~urculio: GAS sooI
as Towering is over spread a sheet I'M
der your trees and jar the trees, bring
ing down the pest and the stung fruit
which burn. Do this daily until the
fruit is one-fourth grown. If rightly
followed it insures a cro-."
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reefs Is Roncador, where the famous
was wrecked.

NV ~
Kearsarge was wrecked.
Owing to the physical peculiarities
Of the Mosquito coast the settlements
are uniformly situated on the sea
coast, at the mouths of rivers. These
are nothing more than trading posts
collections OF palm -thatched novels
with a few rude weather boarded
houses and stores belonging to mer-
chants, all strung In a line along the
river side. Sometimes these huts
are anchored to trees to keep them
from being blown away In the fierce
Caribbean gales
! An important industry of the coast
Is the collection Of tho crude juice
from which rubber is made; this Is
cvaporated and further dried by heat,
and fashioned in molds according to
the purIojes for which it is destined.
1t is shipped IN a crude form In great
quantities, both liquid and solid.
Tho Mosquito and Valient Indians
are much employed In this work.
These Indians, together with the SUI
niue Indians, are very small OF stat
uro
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GETTING EVEN WITH THE LAND,
LORD,

wen crack the windows, mar the doors. and
ruin eveTvthingi
wen tear the paper Oh tho wails-it's pretty
nearly spriug.
Wen make the house present an awful picture
Of decay
IT'S time to so to smashing things-we1l move
the erst OF May.
Wen dump the ashes In the hail wen clog the
water pipes;
Well PAINT the ceilings and the walls IN wild,
fantastic stripes;
Wen break the knobs and latches all. the house
we'll disRrTey,
For that Is how the people do who move the drst
Of May.
The place we leave behind US viii be awful to
behold;
An air Of wreck and ruin will the premises en-
fold.
No other can awaken such a depth Of dark dis.
may
Except Il be the house to which wen move tie
FIRST Of May.
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Farm Notes.
. AET1cHoxE5 ron SWINE

Artichokes are excellent food 10.
swine, and especially for pigs and
shoats that are growing rapidly. If the
pigs are to be, allowed to gather the
tubers for themselves, then the arti'
chokes should be planted on rather
light soils, because in roofing over the
soil to get at the tubers the ground
will be made more compact by the con-
slant tramping upon itP with the ad-
dition of the manure of the hogs in the
gathering of the crop, during the wet
weather late in the fall and early in
spring. This working over of the soil
by swine will greatly improve light
soils, but it has been found in practice
that it will injure heavy, tenacious
clay by making it more compact. New
York Sun.
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The pleasant effect and perfect safety
with which ladies may use the Califor-
mia liquid laxative Syrup Of Figs,
under all conditions, makes it their
favorite remedy. To get the true and
genuine article, look for the name OF
the California Fig Syrup Co., printed
near the bottom Of the package.
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The h1odcrn style,

II WONDER" SAID the old theatel.
xoer. Wf the old stock company
methods will ever Re reyived?"
stock company" responded Mr..
Barnes former, "why, we are going
out on the road next season with a
company composed almost entirely OF
stock-three horses, a do en- chick.
ems, two goats. a calf and two pigs"
indianapolis Journal
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In Berlin every cab has a registering
machine that tells the passenger exact
ly what he has to pay, and also tells
the owner of the cab what has been
earned by the driver.
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In His Mind.

A good story. even when the same
man continues to repeat It, has q
tendency to grow like q rolling snow
ball. An instance is furnished by a
German paper. $50 our friend Bush
Ter went to the top of Mont Blanc?"
said one man to another. "Not at
ALL" s'But he did So" ''True Two
months ago, when he returned from
Switzerland, he said he had been at
the foot of Mont Blanc. Since then
he has gradually lied himself to the
.toyAu
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THE Frenchman says: "When I
start out In search OF a wife, Pm 60
ing to Havre"
The wettest place in this country is
Seah Bay, in Washington. Over 1913
inches of rain fall there every year.
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Professor Burnham, Of Chicago, says
that solar disturbances, as sun spots
and the Ike, have nothing to do
with meteorological conditions on the
earth.
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Spiders have been known to spin
nearly two miles of thread in twenty
seven days.
Live fishes have been safely sent by
mail from India to the British Muse
um.