The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-08-02

The long range weather prophet Is
just long range fake weather guesser,
the legitimate partner of the wrinkled
old bag who seeks to tell your fortune
for quarter.
The law of natural selection never
produces such monstrosities as are not
ed when man in his ignorance seeks tc
make violent crosses and improve on
natures work.
A Missouri farmer is keeping, and
keeping well, four cows and rs hogs on
a four acre patch of alfalfa at time
when all other grasses are burned up
with the drought.
We had the pleasure of seeing a live
Cuban owl the other day, dainty,
mottled, fawn colored bird, with a
cowl and hood on it like some Bene-
dictine monk of old.
The old Biblical injunction not to
muzzle the OK which trod out the grain
on the thrashing floor should not be
used to compel a farmer to keep and
feed a driving horse for his hired man.
The state of Wisconsin has appropri-
ated the sum of 81 900 for the special
benefit of the Swiss cheese industry of
that state, which goes to prove that the
stronger a thing is the more help it can
command.
The discontinuance of the many lit
tie country postoflices as a result of
the introduction of the rural mail serv-
ice is causing some criticisms of the
new service by the ousted postmasters
which would not look well in print.
No manufacturer could today COM
pete for business in his line if his ma
chinery and appliances were as anti
quated and unproductive as is the COM
mon 125 pound COW so much in evil
dence in nearly all our dairy herds.
The strawberry and the June roses
have been having their innings the past
lNO MtChSs anu nay I llNAQ NllCL PAetCCo
in both fruit and floral display They
come together and pass away at the
same time, abiding too short stay.
The bacon hog is the product of the
woods-acorns, beech mast, nuts, roots
and grubs, food collected over wide
area of .territory-or he may be devel-
oped where grow peas, rye, barley and
potatoes, but not where corn is stand
ard stock food.
The innate cussedness of lots of road
supervisors is manifest in the large
amount of road grading they will do,
piling the sods in the center of the
highway and then going off and let
ting the public smooth the road down
with wagon wheels and profanity.
Additional testimony comes from sew
eral sources that it is only the female
or seed bearing box elder tree which is
infested with the box elder bug. This
fact seems so well proved that the re-
moval of the seed bearing trees alone
will probably remedy this nuisance.
At 10 cents per quart, which has been
the market price, it would have taken
over $50 to have supplied the writer's
family with the strawberries we have
picked and used from our own bed this
season. Then, there was the satisfac-
ton Of raising them, which was worth
something.
A man should be very careful not
only of himself, but of his horse, when
the mercury touches the 100 degrees
notch. Under such a temperature II
the horse ceases to sweat he needs look
ing after. 1t is we'll to remember that
the horse cannot stand heat any better
than a man.
You may think that you have got on
to the secret of controlling sex in the
breeding of your domestic animals, but
you have not, and no man ever will.
TO give to man this power would be as
disastrous as it would be to give him
the power to regulate the weather and
the rainfall.
1t Takes Time.
''Your wife," we said to the husband
Of the great authoress, lis the woman
of the hour"
Indeed she is" he responded, with a
tinge of sadness in his voice. "She is
the woman of the hour and half when
she is dressing for the theater. BAL
timore American.
BIRD of Passage.
And where, may / ask, do you gen
orally reside?" the young man said aft
er all other subjects had been exhaust
ed.
'Oh, | have no fixed abode" Miss
Mobile replied, "but l usually pass the
greater part of the winter in Reading.
In Lent | find myself attracted to ST.
Paul. After Easter go down to West
Virginia ard spend the summer and
part of the autumn in Wheeling"
Ara Sen