Evening star., 1901-11-09

Those people in the District who raise
chickens ought to be exceedingly care1ui
this time of the year to prevent the BIRDS
getting roup, which, next to cholera, is the
most destructive disease that Gan get
among the FOWLS said a chicken fancier-
''Roup is something like diphtheria or a
severe cold, and affects the eyes, nose ana
mouth causing canker sores in the mouth
The chickens have a bad appetite, and
when the disease is severe get so they will
not eat at all. The disease is caused from
a number of things. The principal one is
housing the fowls in damp quarters, where
there are drafts of air. Another reason
is that the quarters are uncleanly. lmme-
diately that roup is discovered Dy sore
eye or other signs indicating a cold the
diseased chickens should be removed from
the others of the flock. There are num-
ber of treatments, but the best. safest ana
least troublesome is to cut the SICK cnlck-
ems head off and throw it away. Ii the
bird Is a valuable one, however, the treat
ment should consist of tonics with the food,
a good deal of meat and anything that will
build the fowl up Then get a bottle or
peroxide of hydrogen or dioxlde OF ny
drogen. Mix any amount desired with an
equal quantity of lime water and inject
into the nostrils of the fowl An injection
through the throat is also good where
the eye is involved a few drops placed IN
the diseased eye two or three times a day
will be valuable The treatment should be
given several times day
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Dr. See Of the United States naval OBJ
servatory in this city has just concluded a
measurement of the planet Mercury with
the large telescope of that institution. Its
diameter is found to be 2,65S miles. DR.. See
calls attention to the fact that he has never
observed any marked spots on the planets
disk, not even when the sky was absolutely
pure and the image of the planet perfectly
defined on the lens of the telescope. His OBJ
seryation also is that there is no diminution
of brightness at the edges of the disk, such
as would be produced By an absorbing at
mOsphere. Although these results agree in
general with hose obtained at the Lick OBJ
servatory, they disagree with those of Schia-
pareii and Mr.. Percival Lowell.
DR. See has made another interesting esti-
mate regarding meteorS. Every observer
notes a considerable number of small me-
teors while he is engaged in telescope OBJ
servatiOns. The field of view of telescope
is a very small fraction of the surface of
the heavens. and a simple proportion based
on the number of meteors enables an esti-
mate to be made of the number of meteors
in the whole sky. In this manner DR. See
concludes there are about ], 200, 900, 600 teIe-
scopic meteors appearing in tne' sky daily
Between ten and fifteen million meteors
bright enough to be visible to the naked
eye, encounter the earth daily. according to
the estimate of Prof. Newton.
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Visitors to the Capitol who admire the
beautiful decorative work to be seen in
the rotunda and in the corridors, especially
on the Senate end of the building will find
additional interest in the work of the ar
tist when they learn the source of his in
spiration for many of the female figures
that appear in the designs The aged ar
tist Brumidi, whose brush did most of the
most beautiful of the decorative work of
the Capitol, married in this city Miss Jen-
ME German, a young lady well known for
her beauty, which has been perpetuated I'm
many of the paintings executed by her hus-
band Features a little too we'll rounded
TO De thoroughly classic, black hair a fair
complexion and blue eyes together with a
shapely form, We're the characteristics of
Mrs Brumidi. She was the third wife of
the celebrated Italian artist. She was
greatly admired not only for her beauty of
person, but for her qualities of mind which
made her general favorite here One of
the figures in the ceiling of the rotunda is
said TO be an exact likeness of the artists
beautiful wife, while most of the figures
ne painted in the Capitol portray some OF
her characteristics
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pedestrians hurrying along the B street
side of the census bureau building Friday
morning stopped to watch the antics of a
JIG -hditcse lEdI was having all sorts
OF sport catching grasshoppers. The fact
that real grasshoppers were to be found in
Washington was as much of a novelty as
the antics of the cat. The feline. with ma
testic pose. singled out a grasshopper and
when the latter got near the side of the
building gave lurch. sometimes jumping
four and five feet in the air and catching
the insect within its mouth. Then the cat
would give the grasshopper it's liberty tenn
fn p IN,
cum with the paw After the grasshopper
had lost its usefulness from-this treatment