A NURSE IN'OUBA. This One Couldn’t Understand' the Language and \Vas Badly Frightened. 'An army nurse but lately returned from Cuba to Washington declares that never again will she go to a country whose language she cannot understand. It was before hostilities had come to a definite end that she was startled one day by the unexpected visit of her Cu- ban laundress. The woman was in— tensely excited. Anxiety sat on 'her brow and sorrow (livelt in her eyes. She gesticulated and she talked. The nurse knew not. a word of what she said, but the pantomime filled -her with terror. The Cuban’s hands seemed to speak of an attack on the hospital—of wounded men butchered and nurses cut to rib— bons. The nurse was frantic. She must . know the worst. , Iii-the hospital was an officer very ill with typhoid fever. She knew he under- stood Spanish. Only in a matter of life or death would she disturb him, but this was obviously a matter of life or death. She led the Cuban woman to his bed- side, and there the story was repeated. The officer listened intently. The nurse held her breath. The Cuban ceased. The sick man turned his head on the pillows. » “She says,” he whispered, feebly, “she says the stripes in your pink shirt waist have run, and she doesn’t know what to do with it.” i PRIMROSE DAY IN ENGLAND. On the Last One Ninety-Six Million Blossoms \‘Verei Sold in British Cities. 'Few people who observed the ready sale which bunched “prims.,” as they are named by the trade, secured on Primrose day in the streets of London and other centers possibly gave a thought to the extensive nature of the business, says the London Mail. From 20 reports from different lead- ing cities just to hand, it seems that over 4,000,000 bunches of primroses were dispatched for sale to meet the requirements of Primrose day. These ' bunches contained probably something ' like 96,000,000 blooms. Estimating 4,000,000 plants as being needed to give the yield, they would, set a foot apart each way in the fields, occupy more i than 90 acres of land. Of course the flowers really are gathered in the woods, ' by the hedgerows, and in rural nooks, and the bulk come from the southern counties of England. As far' as profit is concerned it is a question if they yield anyone but the _ flower—girls a remunerative balance, for they are often sold in the markets as low as three shillings a. dozen bunches. More primroses came into London last Week than for a corresponding period in any previous year. This was due ab— ' solutely to the increased demand for supplies for Primrose day. NO MORE MEN NURSES. According to This Account They “‘ere Never as Satisfactory as g the \Vomen. , A writer in a contemporary has late- ly been cudeavoring, in a series of arti- cles to prove the lamentable inferiority of women to men in the different arts and professions, says the Philadelphia Times. If the writer did not include, nursing in his catalogue he was a wise man, for the conference on nursing, lately held at the Medical society’s r'ooms, would certainly have made him look rather foolish. The male nurse is rapidly becoming rarer, but his rarity does not, so far as one can judge from the conference, mean that he is pre- cious. In fact, his disappearance seems to 'be a. matter of congratulation. He is said to be not at all conscientious or sober, very open to bribes and thor- oughly untrustworthy. and it was almost unanimously decided at the conference that his services were best limited to cases of paralysis, with insanity. It is rather an odd theory that men should make bad nurses, as their hands are, as a rule, more deft and skillful than women’s. But evidently the right. sort of man does not adopt the profes- 1 siou, and the right sort of woman does. TRICKS IN 'THE FISH TRADE. The ‘Novel Use to Which a ‘Chicago Dealer Puts His Finny Cannibals. An amateur dealer in goldfish has dis- covered a most profitable trick for his . trade. “He has a modest little shop on the North side near one of the, public schools, and his show windows allure hundreds of children to the reckless in- vestments in tiny aquariums, reports the Chicago Inte. Ocean. Some time ago the shopkeeper happened to buy a number of fish that soon exhibited an appeflte for their companions. Large and small fish were devoured, and the dealer’s stock was soon alarmingly re- duced. him. When he made a sale he tried put- ting one cannibal fish with every lot. In less than a week each purchaser would return with the announcement that all the fish except one had died. The dealer sympathized with the disap- pointment of the childrfen, gave direc- , tions concerning the change-of water and the allowance of food, and sold a new lot of fish. By a skillful distribu-_ tiou of the cannibal fish he soon doubled . his trade, and he is now Selling choice lots of the cannibal fish to downtown. dealers, and the sales are reported to be increasing in a manner that encour- ages the North side man to put fancy prices on his peculiar specialty. Military Musicians. The German armyg'sincludes more than. 10,000 military .frnusicians. Other ' powerful nations on'ifhe continent em- ploy rather less nuijnbers in military bonds. it: ' He is drawn . from a lower class than women nurses, ' Then a happy thought struck ' THE nv'nn'iuo onanrrn SHEEP ON THE FARM. . They Will Get the Owner Out of Debt " and Enable Him to Save: Some- thing for Old Age. The value of sheep to the farmer is a matter upon which there exists some divergence of opiuibn, but it is a fact. beyond question that where soil and sit- uation are suitable, few if any,~sections of the farmer’s business lead to more satisfactory results. A Canadian farm- er writing on this subject has appar- ently great faith in sheep, and says: “A flock of good sheep of the right sort well managed, will get the farmer out of debt, keep him out of debt, lay him up something for old age and leave the farm fertile, clean and productive for those who come after.” This re- minds me of one great benefit of keep- ing a ewe flock on an arable farm, for - after the crops have been gathered by running over the stubble they will eat up no end of the seed pods of weeds, ’ etc., and will at the same time consume and make into valuable manure a very large quantity of remnants of the grain crop and annual weeds that would otherwise be left unconsumed or util- ized in any way except being turned in by the plow. Good sheep of the right sort- are to be found in every breed, : though one must study the land on i which they are to be kept, but the best should be aimed at whatever the breed. Profitable sheep-keeping can only be assured when first-class sheep are kept; these, cost less to keep, thrive better and their aptitude to rapid development and power to assimilate and apply the food they consume in a profitable way are certain to give a larger profit for the food consumed than sheep that are of an inferior type. Of course we do not mean to say that only pure-bred va- rieties should be kept, for thereis prob- ably not a. more profitable sheep for the ordinary grazier than that of the first cross between two pure breeds. Tests innumerable and show—yard re‘ sults have shown that this is the case. Indiscriminate selection, however, will not do and the parents should be well bred and of a good thriving type—Prai- rie Farmer. ~ CELLARS UNDER BARNS. They Are Very Useful and Should Be Far More Popular Than They Are at Present. l New England iS'the home of the barn cellar. The farmers of this region have found them so advantageous that their 6 use ought to be much more widely ex- tended. Contrary to the opinion of many, the land need not slope greatly in order to make a farm cellar possible. It is an advantage to have more of the cellar walls above the surface of the // ,. ' l w'E‘IG. . "72/ 3 Wm %//////4////;//2///7;//7W// ”' 36.2.. HOW TO BLAKE THE CELLAR. ~ground than it was formerly regarded as expedient. This gives a chance for larger cellar vindows, giving more light and better ventilation. The dia- grams accompanying this show how a collar can easily be made on even very gently sloping ground. Fig. 1 shows the slope. Fig. 2 shows how the cellar is constructed, the earth excavated in the section marked “A” being placed in rent oi" the born (not in the rear, as is usually the case) in the section marked “B.” This gives a gradual rise to the great doors in the front of the barn, and at the same time allows plenty of room for the cellar below the barn—N. Y. Tribune. Alfalfa and Corn for Hogs. Farmers of the corn belt can get a cod pointer on pig feeding from the alfalfa belt. I have seen a pig that was farrowed September 20, 1898, and , raised on. a ration two-thirds of which I was alfalfa hay, which is as large as any pig I can find in the cgrn belt farrowed in June, July or August. The nup- tials of King Corn and Queen Alfalfa are announced to take place on my farm ’ at an early date. The fourth cutting . of alfalfa is the best hay for hogs in ' winter. This cutting is done late in the fall and is raked immediately and shocked, thus curing without very much sun. The leaves and all are saved , in a succulent'condition, thus making a feed that is' relished by the pigs.— Homestead. Charconl for the Hogs. Un quest-ionably charcoal is a valuable hygienic agent for pigs. It is a cor— rective and certainly prevents some dis- eases arising from disordered digestive _ functions. Wood ashes acts similarly, or at least ministers to similar wants. Both charcoal and ashes are freely used by our best swine growers. There is nd’ need to fix quantities. The best way is l to keep both substances within reach of l the pigs and allow them to consult their own tastes and needs. If you use com- , mercial charcoal throw half a sack at I n. time in a clean, dry corner and re- ; place when used up. All the wood ashes , from the house fire can be used in the same way.—Prairie'l«‘armer. Cattle Eat Russian Thistles. A Nebraska qorrespondent- of the Na- tional Stockman, whose stock has been I wintered largely on Russian thistle, thinks that it isn’ta bad kind of a weed, after all. And many in the west are coming to the same opinion. The Rus- sian thistle is proving a blessing instead of a curse to the drought-stricken or desert lands? Moreover, it is not “tak- 1 ing the country” in any section. as was predicted a few years ago. The various l laws enacted against it are practically . dead now, because there is no need to enforce them. . Don’t wait until the honeyflow is on l you beforel'ordering surplus supplies.- NEPHEW or ms UNCLE. The Expedient Employed by a French Explorer to Get-0n with the Niger Natives. Lieut. Hourst, the Frenchman who made himself famous awhile ago by sailing down the Niger from its upper waters to its month, has just published a. book describing the journey. Every‘ part of'the river he saw had been pre- viously visited, but he was the first trav- eler who traveled down the entire river. His journey was a great success in spite ‘of the rapids and the enmity of some natives, with whom, however, he did not come to blows. o Hourst attributes his success largely to the fact that he was advised by one of the Mohammedan natives, an elderly man,”who had seen Barth during that explorer’s great journey to represent himself as being the son or nephew of the famous German. The man told Hourst that no white man that ever came into the country had made so good an impression upon the people as Barth had done. The fame of the ex- plorer had been handed down from fa- ther to son, and all the more intelligent people of the western Soudan knew of the great man, had heard how much he was liked by their fathers. and would exert themselves to show their friend- ship for anyone connected with him by family ties. Hourst acted on the hint. All along his journey down the river he caused himself to be heralded as the nephew of Barth, and in many places he was re- ceived with special hospitality on this account‘.‘ Inasmuch as he never fired a gun at a. native, but treated all with courtesy and consideration, it is likely that any other “member of Barth’s family” who may visit the Niger will meet with a kindly reception. -NEVER SAW HER HUSBAND. A Nantucket Couple Arc Both mind and He Thinks of Her as Still Young. Mr. and Mrs. Charles II. Chase, of Nantucket, are each nearly 70 years old and they have been married the greater part of that time, yet the wife has never seen her husband, for she has been blind since she was five. He, too, has been blind since he was 18. ' A neighbor, talking to a Vl’ashington Stanman, says of them: “No one would suppose that blind persons were the caretakers of their little home. Inside there is not a speck of dust to be seen. The floors are spot- less and the windows are decorated with house plants. Both Mr. and Mrs. Chase are devout members of the Bap- tist church. They always decline guid- ance to the church, declaring that when doing their duty Providence will guard and protect them from all harm. then, however, the infrequent oppor- tunity of going to hear music, of which both are very fond, comes they are glad of assistance, fearing, as they'say, that in the pursuit of pleasure harm may come to them. “Mr. Chase has been blind 52 years, but his wife lost her sight at five years of age, and has never seen her husband'. He, however, saw her at 18, and thinks of her now as still in the full flush of girlish beauty. Mrs. Chase reads aloud from the raised-letter Bible for the blind, and this is their favorite occu- pation when at leisure. In order that the wife’s fingers may be in good condi- tion to read the husband does the heavier work of the household. The couple are much esteemed by the towns-‘ people, who never allow them to want for anything that money can pur- chase.” ’ THEIR PET BELIEF. Nearly All \Vornen Think. They Have a Fine Iinack for Mend-v ing‘ Things. If there is a woman who can lay her hand on her heart, or the. region where it ought to be, and solemnly declare that she has ever succeeded in mending anything permanently with paste, gum or cement, I should like to meet her. I have known many housewives and many varieties of paste and cement in the course of a brief but useless life, and I have never yet met with an in- stance where anything mended by a woman with any of the devices in ques- tion has remained mended for ten con- __ secutive minutes when subjected to the slightest strain, says Pearson’s Maga- Zine. A woman can mend a saucer with ce- ment, and its broken parts will con- tinue to adhere until some one picks .it up. She can also mend an umbrella handle with gum, and it will present a decent appearance until some one tries to take it from Ithe umbrella stand. This, however, is not the sort of mend- ing which the woman desires, and it is needless to say that it is worse than no mending whatever. . Yet, although every woman who has reached the age of 35 has probably made 450 attempts to mend things, every one of which has failed, she will still continue to believe that broken articles can be firmly and permanently mended with her favorite sticking mix- ture. Whence comes this indomitable faith? Echo declines to return any an- ‘ swer whatever. More Precious Than Diamonds. Among the rarest of precious stones the green garnet is probably the most valuable. This gem is of superb, rich shade, far more brilliant than that of the emerald. A green garnet easily commands double the price of a pure diamond of equal size, because it is so exceedingly rare, while red garnets are so common that their cost is trifling. Many Languages. There are so many languages spoken in the provinces of Austria-Hungary that interpreters are employed in the various parliaments to interpret the speeches of the delegates and make them intelligible to all the members: .. _--E-.~I..._.. ... .I —. .— 3 . .tance in front. SPANISH STRATEGY. A Shining Example ‘01 It That [I Now Reported “for the First Time. “The newspaper correspondents,with cameras in their hats and pencils stick- ing out of their pockets like quills on a porcupine, didn’t get hold of every- thing that happened in the late war,” remarked the lieutenant to the Har- per’s Bazar man. “There was the time the Spanish fooled the One Hundred and Twenty-seventhvolunteers, for in- stance.” . ' “How was it, lieutenant?” asked somebody. . -. “Why, it was the sharpest trick you ever heard of, and simple as ‘A, B, C. You know, the One Hundred and Twen- ty-seventh is made up of men from New York city—all heroes, of course, but stillthey are accustomed to the civil walks of life. And the civil walks of life, taken literally, nowadays, are peculiar paths. It was at San Juan. The regiment had been ordered to advance and lie down close among some low . bushes. The Spaniards were only a short dis- The firing had ceased in that neighborhood and all was still. Our men were in a state of intense though suppressed excitement. You could never guess what those crafty Spaniards did. Suddenly they rang a bicycle bell and followed it with a cable- car gong. The One Hundred and Twen- ty-seventh jumped into the air as one' man. TheSpaniards blazed away and tried to take ’em on the wing. ‘Of course they didn’t hit a thing, because Spaniards never do; but if they had been good shots they might have bagged the w e regiment. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d had an elevated road guard yell ‘Step lively!’ that they could have stampeded every last man.” FIRST WARM DAY. The Country Folk in Southeastern Pennsylvania Call It a \Veath- "er Breeder. In southeastern Pennsylvania there comes a day in February that brings with it an indefinable sense of joyous- ness. A southern wind wanders up the Delaware with a touch of spring in its air that quickens, for. the first time, the slumbering life. It is then, says Ap- pleton’s Popular Science Monthly, that those mysterious forces in the cells of living things begin their subtle work-— hidden in the dark, underground store- houses of plants and the sluggish tis- sues of animals buried in their winter sleep. On such a day the groundhog ventures from his burrow, some restless bee is lured from the hive to wander disconsolate over bare fields, a snake crawls from its hole to bask awhile in the sunshine, and one looksinstinctive- ly for the first breaking of the earth that tells of the early crocus and the peeping forth of daffodils. The south- erly wind is more than apt to be a tell- tale, for with all its springtime softness it is drawing towards some storm cen- ter, near or remote, that will inevitably follow with rough weather in its sweep. The countryfolk rightly call such a day a “weather breeder,” and even the groundhog knows its portcnt in the very sign of its shadow. Come as it will, the day is really a day borrowed in advance from‘ the spring, as though to hearten one through all the dreary days that will follow, and, in starting the growing forces of vegetation, to make ready for the season’s coming. TRUTH AND A TRUNK. Out for Baggage if n “'01::- un Tells You it Isn’t Heavy. Look I know a woman who travels around the country with a trunk as big as a house, says a writer in the Philadelphia Press. Protests of husband and friends are of no avail, and it seems to me the case is a perfectly proper one for the Anti-Cruelty society. When I men- tioned this to the lady with the trunk she' said: “But they are only to 100] after children and animals.” . - “Perhaps they can twist their con- stitution to get. the baggageman under the head of animals and prosecute you." She did not appear at all discomposed. The last, time she went away I groaned for the expressman. The house was in an awful turmoil and the trunk was on the third floor. “It’s not very heavy,” I heard her say. At the remark the expressman'imme- diately called his helper from the wagon. “I always know what that means,” he said, with a knowing nod to the maid. .When he got upstairs he could hardly lift one end. “Never failed.” he said. “then they say it’s light it’s dead sure to be heavy. They don’t mean it, but they can’t‘ tell the truth about a trunk. I don’t know whether they think we don’t know ' about weight, or we’ll charge them less if they say it’s light, or what, but we always look out for the trunk that’s called light.” Then he and his helper tugged and pulled and jammed holes in the wall as they went downstairs. Nervousness of Russians. A writer in the Contemporary Review claims that there are other points of similarity between the Russians and Americans besides the bigness of their territory and their industrial under- takings. He says: “What impressed me most about the educated Muscovite, however, was his extreme nervousness. He is conscious that his country has lagged behind western nations; he is also conscious that it has been going forward this last decade by leaps and by bounds. F. A. M. '13. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, in a recent address, recalled the fact that when Lowell first went on the lecture plat~ form he got but five dollars a night. Later, however, he was able to echo the demand of Thomas Starr King—~“F. A. M. E.—Fifty and my expenses.” DEBILITY. There is No Necessity oi Dragging Through Life Without Strength or inbiiiea. Vinol, the Modern Tonic Reconstructcr, Makes the Weak Strong. If you feel worn out, languid, run down, you may know something is wrong. Nature did not intend such feelings. ’ ' * . You can get over. this trouble. quickly by taking Vino], the modern tonic reconstructor. I' aids digestion and enables the stomach to go from every day food sufficient nourish~ ment to keep the body well, strong and healthy. A- feeliug of strength and energy will succeed that terrible Iassitude. We guarantee that Vinol will do all we claim for it and will refund the money to any one who is not satisfied. PLAISTED’S drug SLOPE. 43 Washing on St., So. Norwalk.’ . ' v . \ VEWYOBKNEW HAVEN a? narrow L RAILROAD,. —an Yon Dtvzsror. DECEMBER 4, 1898. Trains leave South Norwallc as follows. FOR NEW YORK — Accommodation trains at 9.36, 11:40 a. m., 1.11, 3.04, 4.07, 5. 33, 6. 41,8.11, 10. 20 p. 111. Express trains at 4.55, 5.45, 6.15, (local), 6.55, (local) 7.13, (local), 7.54, (local), 8.16, 9.03 (locals 9.58, 10.35, 11.35. (local) 3.. m. 12.47 2.25,. 5.10 5.55, 7.55 p. m. For Washing: ton via. Harlem River 12.53 a. m. daily) SUNDAYS—Accmnmodation 9.0 a. m. 5.35, (local), 7.20, (loca1)10.10 p. in. Ex press 4.55, 5.45 a. m. FOR NEW HAVEN AND THE EAST- Accommodation trains ,at 6.28, 7.42, 3. 46 and 11.42 a. m., 1.12, 2.42, (to Bp’t,) 4.18, 5.27, 6.27, 7.28 (to B’p't), 9.15 and 11.15 p. m. Express trains at 1.11 1.20 9.11, 10.05, 11.08 a. m., 12.02, 3.05 5.04 (Naugatuck . Express) 7.05, 9:05 o. m SUNDAYS—Accommodation 7.42, 9.12 a. m. and 7.15 p. m. Express 1 11 and 1.20 a. m. C. T. HEMPSTEAD. Gen. Pass. Agent. 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