Year: 1873

year, and she would have to kiss him
every minute for two years before Ito
millions they amount" This would not
allow time for meals, and it is probable the
poet and the woman would starve As
far as the poet is concerned, we do not
know that it makes much difference Per
haps the world will be happier if he does
die. We think, upon reflection, that we
may possibly be able TO spare him; but it
will be hardly fair to kill the woman at
the same time. Upon the whole, it will
be better to have intervals of repose Sup
pose we say kiss him for an hour and then
pause to let him fill up with beef and
cabbage.-lHar 44deEer.


NECESSITY is the mother of invention,
and it is to Mother Necessity that We are
indebted for that very useful but very dan
gerous little household article-the lucifer
match. Mr. Isaac Holden, in his evidence
before the English Patent Committee, thus
gives the history of the invention, which,
he says, was due to a happy thought that
flashed upon him without any previous
consideration Mr. Holden, many wears
ago, had to rise at four in the morning to
pursue his studies in chemistry, and expe-
rienced the greatest inconvenience from
his tedious efforts to obtain a light from
flint and steel. He was giving lectures at
this time to a very large academy He
goes on to say: ''Of course | knew, as
other chemists did, the explosive material
that was necessary in order to produce in
stantaneous light; but it was very difficult
to obtain a light on wood by that explo-
sive material, and the idea occurred to
me to put under the explosive mixture sui
phur. | did that, and published it in my
next lecture, and showed it. There was a
young man in the room whose father was
a chemist in London, and he Immediately
wrote to his father about TT, and shortly
afterwards luciter matches were issued to
the world.


THE Country Gentleman suggests a
way to prevent hens from eating their
eggs. 1t is to fill an egg with solution
of pepper, and put the egg back in the
nest A Danbury man has tried this and
says it works like charm. He put a
pretty good dose of pepper in the egg, and
placed it in the nest of the criminal.
Pretty soon the hen came round and took
hold 1t was brindle animal, with long
legs and somewhat conceited. 1t dipped
in its bill and inhaled the delicacy Then
it came out doors 1t didn't gallop, we
don't mean, but it came out-came out to
look al the scenery, ana see IL III was gong
to rain. Its mouth was wide open, and
the feathers on the top of its head stood
strai ght up. Then it commenced to go
around the yard like circus horse. Once
in while it would stop and push out one
leg in tone of astonishment, and then
holler "fire," and start on again. The
other hens came out to look on. Soon the
hens from the neighbors came over the
fence and took up position of observa-
ton. 1t was quite evident the performance
was something entirely new and unique
to them. There is good deal of human
nature in hens. When they saw this hen
dance around and have all the fun to itself
and heard it shout fire" and couldn't see
| the conflagration themselves, they filled
up with wrath, and with one accord sprang G
| upon it, and before the Danbury man
could interfere, the brindle hen with the
long legs was among the things that were.
He says the recipe is effectual.-Dma6ury
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