Year: 1875

VAST quantities of dead grasshoppers
| are found on the masses of snow lying


on the sides of the Blue Mountains OF
Colorado, where bears seek them for
food. 1t is thought they become chilled


in attempting to fly over the range and,
falling upon the snow, perish.


THE latest advertising dodge is in the


form of patent stamp to be attached


to the seat of boys trousers when they


go out skating. When they get fall the


advertisers name and business will be


neatly stamped upon the ice so that all


who skate may read.-Boston Courier.


PUNCH furnishes this inscription for


the front of the idiot asylum founded by


Mr.. Holloway, who made his fortune in


"patent medicines:


Not oft is fate SO just-see wealth restored


Back to the simple source from which it


poured.


THE world is full of natures so sensi-


tive that not more easily or utterly are
tender flowerets crushed than they; and


he who walks over such natures with a


barbarous tread lacks everything in lack.
ing the sweetest of human qualities
that which is known as the milk of hu-
man kindness


OF two members of Boston firm, one
possessing all the capital and the other
all the business influence, the latter be-
came dissatisfied and advertised anony-
mously for partner with $4,000. The
advertisement was answered and cor
respondence ensued, ending in meet
ing. 1t was not so agreeable as supris-
ing, for one partner had answered the
others advertisement.


THE sick squaw of dusky chief in
Washington Territory lately told her
noble husband that she didn't think that
she should ever feel any better unless he
killed her doctor. This is novel and
startling view of medical matters, and
interesting to the profession. The doctor
was duly killed and, upon being tried for
his murder, the chief was acquitted on
the ground that he acted in defense of
his wife's life.


A WEALTHY Bostonian, while at Paris
recently on his wedding tour, was swim
died out of $4,000 by an Irishman, who
pretended to have lately come into a
large property, with the condition at
tached that he should give 100000 to
the poor of America, and would like to
send half of it by the gentleman. only
asking as security to be assured that he
was worth that amount. The victim
handed him $4,000 to count, and prom
ised to bring evidence of his account at
the bankers, but without waiting for it
the Irishman fled with the bills, and has
not been seen since.


One of the officers at West Point re-
Gently resorted to the following expert
ments to determine whether the ice on
rivers and creeks thickens on the bottom
or on the top. He cut hole in the ice
opposite West Point and bolted piece
of board to the under side. Examining
it three or four days afterward he found
the bolt head on the top just as he left
it, and cutting through the ice found the
board sandwiched between the upper
layer of ice to which it had been bolted
and about four inches of solid ice which
had been formed underneath it, showing
that ice thickens on the
under side and not on the top.


A CURIOUS story is told of an owl in
County, Tenn. A farmer had
for months been steadily losing his
until his flock was reduced to
very Improbable number. He at last
set a steel trap on an old dead limb upon
which the bird of night was in the habit
of lighting. 1t proved effective. But
the owl, though trapped" was by no
means fastened. By dint of repeated ef-
forts it succeeded in breaking the string
that held the trap, and scared off with
the latter instrument clinging to its leg.
And now comes the wonderful part of
The story: After the lapse of six months
-on the honor of respectable local
owl was shot within ten
miles of the farmers house, and the trap
was found with its grip on the birds leg
unrelaxed.


DIR. J. S. LOMBARD, Professor of
at Harvard, has invented
' calorimeter" which will mark the one
eightieth of degree of the temperature
Of the human body. By means of this
he claims that it is possible
to estimate the increase of heat in the
human brain under varying circumstances
AS, for instance, in the sudden tran
sition from condition of repose to one
Of excitement caused by intense thought.
By means of it he has made the singular
discovery that there is always differ
ence in the temperature of the two sides
Of the body. The left side, he found,
was always the warmer, the difference of
varying from one-twenty-
fifth of degree to two and three de-
grees. He has not had an opportunity
to try the instrument upon left-handed
person.


THE SPRING BoNNET.-Generally it is
to be white in color and chip in material.
Both excellent qualities. What is
prettier, more effective on the
heart of q young man than the sight of
some ones face Unframed in gracefully
outlined chip bonnet, and decorated in
the same spirit of simplicity? 1t is
delight to think that the old and express
i've, properly modified to suit the ad-
vance in the taste, are to be introduced
again. There are associations in these
things which it is neither easy nor de.
sirable to pull away, as one might twitch
a vine from q trellis. A bonnet is &C.
counted but vanity as they have been
making them for many years, but there
is a world of expression crowded into q
graceful one, and hearts very easily get
in the gauzy material out OF
which they are woven into such killing
effects. BY all means let the simple
chip straw be restored to favor, and pray
do not make it carry load of vegetables
and fruits, as if it were made for meas
ure but was blunderingly filed from the
closed side.-Massaehusests HOughnaan.


The Golden Rule Of Agriculture.


PLANTS live double life. They have
o two-fold nutriti0n-mineral and organ
ic. Their mineral food is derived from
the soil and the organic from the air.