Evening star., 1901-11-23

You never heard chicken SilOTe VI
sreeze:" asked the poultry raiser who has
big farm of fancy chickens over in Mary
land We'll, you ought to learn something
about chickens. Just go into chicken
house any night and you will hear chickens
breathing heavily in deep sleep. In differ
ert parts of the house you will hear chick
ems actually snoring making a noise loud
enough to locate the birds that are guilty
of this reprehensible conduct. Whether the
nearby chickens object to this barbarouS
habit | don't know, but there is never much
noise in a chicken house in the early part
OF the night If there is particularly loud
noise around the house a rooster VIII wake
up and give a warning to the slumbering
fowls. but In few minutes all of them Will
settle down to as sound a sleep as before
Gou may take sleeping chicken off roost
In the night and if you hold 1t few min
uteS the chances that it will go soundly
u sleep in your hands. Yes chickens sneeze
when they are taking bad cold When l
hear one snseze | always give it a small
piece Of camphor to drive out the cold, and
the- chicken is soon well. Chickens cough
and have colds, catarrh and diphtheria just
like people,.
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How to impart perfume to the chrysan-
themum is feat the accomplishment OF
which IS just now earnestly being sought
by florists both professional and amateur,
in all sections of the country. The develop
ment of the chrysanthemum within the
last few years from an unattractive flower
tn its present high state of perfection.
beauty and commercial value, is one of the
wonders of horticultural history. To Eng
lish florists is due the credit of this de-
velnpmeHt, but this country has not been
slow in cUltivating that flower, and the
cprreCtness of the commercial instinct OF
the professional florists in this direction can
be realized when il is known that their
revenue from this flower alone was 500 OOo
last year.
More flowers are said to be bought in
New York than in any other city in the
world, and the prices paid higher. In
this connection it is not uninteresting to
note that the flower industry of the whole
country is assuming large proportions ana
il Increasing in perhaps a more rapid ratio
than ether commercial enterprises. The
government figures are available for the
year 1879, and show that during that year
s.. ~ i26 was expended for labor in the
flower industry in this country. The value
OF the whole product is placed at S11 .y2S ST.
which commercial florists have thought too
low IN estimate. The land on which the
flowers were raised and the value of the
buildings III use is estimated at $50, 400 IS1.
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Attorney General Knox has two of the
finest trottins horses in the country" said
man at the Department of Justice, ''and
hc thinks a great deal of them. Some time
e5p dt4 cSt litIS HoS puOllSiltu Saying tfdt
the names of these horses were Hfghball
and SiphOn. a story purely of imagination
The Attorney General did not like the alb
sud publication and was indignant. The
registered names of the horses are Vert
and b. G. These were not chosen by Mr.
kEox himself, and he accepted them as d
part of the pedigrees of the animals Aside
from the names, however, the horses have
a wide reputation 1t is understood that
Il a Is fFtn
sale in Chicago two years ago. Mr.. Knox
drove them hitched to a buggy in Pitts
burg in the remarkable time of =. 1O1.. The
Attorney General has another equally fast
trottcr in DR.. Leek-' He is fond of all of
his animals, and likes to drive them him
self
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While surgery as applied to man has
made great strides in recent years. there
has also been very great progress in tree
surgery or the methods of treating trees
and shrubbery when it becomes necessary
to apply the knife or pruning shears MANY a
tree is living today that would have died
few years ago from causes that would
then nave brought on DEATH but which TO-
day are successfully treated An instance
of this progress can be seen in the Simon,
Cameron tree, as the spreading elm near
the footpath leading from New Jersey ave-
nue. TO the south wing OF the Capitol is
Sd.tu- Ihis tree received the name b.
which IL Is universally known now when
the elder OlmStead laid out the Canitol
grounds and provided for footpath which
would have made necessary the removal
or the stately old elm that was so greatly
admired by Senator Simon Cameron Mr.
Cameron Interested himself n saving the
tree with the result that il was allowed
10 stand in the center of a space that
would otherwise have been covered with A
sfanoHthic walk The tree 1ourisked until
year or so ago, when an amDuta:ion ba-
came necessary. One of it; big limbs,
showing signs Of decay. was cut off Tne
operation was successful enough. but the
wound being left open. in the course ot
time decay set in. The decdT was work
Ing into the very vitals of the elm, and