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MOST POPULAR NUMBERS.
Seven and Thirteen Are Fixed Upon
in the Kind* of the Greater
Number of Non.
"Ask a man to pick out some num-i
ber between one and ten, and you can
tell him nine times out of tea what
number he has selected, though his se
lection Is made mentally,” said a man
who, according to the New Orleans
Time8-Democrat, is fond of the old
things, “and when you come to think
of it, the task of naming the correct
number is not a difficult one. In the
course of an hour the other day I
asked ten men to think of a certain
! number—any number between one and
| ten—and I would tell them what num
1 ber they had fix id their mind on
in nine cases out of ten I was correct,
missing it only once. The minds of
nine of the persons selected the num
ber seven, and one of them selected
nine. It is not difficult to understand
why the mind should run to the num
ber seven. Even In the case of the
man who fixed his mind on the num
ber nine, he told me when it was all
over that his mind had first run to
seven, but he quickly changed to nine
without knowing just why it was that
he changed. Seven is the most prom
inent figure between one and ten. It
la the most popular number in the line,
and is assoaiated with more things
than any other number, and It is quite
reasonable that the mind should light
on seven. I made another test the
other day with five persons, asking«ach
of them to write some number between
one and ten, and give it to a sixth per
son. When the alina had been handed
to the sixth man I Bald: ‘Seven is the
number on each of the slips.'
"‘Correct," said the man to whom
they had been handed, and the five
men were a bit bewildered for the
moment by the fact that they had all
lilt upon the same number, and that I
was able to tell what the number was.
It would be quite as easy to name a
number between 10 and 20, though I
have made no tests along this line. I
dare say that 13 would be the first
number to flash la the mind, simply
because it is the most talked of, and
the only number between 10 and 20
that has the widest association. So
you can tell there is no trick about it,
and it doesn’t require any knowledge
of the occult philosophies."
EXTENDING BOUNDARIES.
Borne of Our Larger Cities Have Am
nezed Ground Far Into Adja
cent Farm Lands.
According to a recently Issued census
bulletin, the real rank of cities is not al
ways indicated by the order in which
they stand in the tables of population.
Some great centers have a considerable
part of their massed population lying
outside the municipal boundaries. Bos
ton is a good example; about 1,200,000
people live in sight of the state house
dome, and less than 600,000 of them are
governed by the Boston mayor1. Other
cities have annexed far into the farm
lands of the adjacent country, says
Youth’s Companion.
It Is customary to speak of the popula
tion of a state, "in proportion to its
size.” Such a comparison Is seldom
made of cities, although It might not be
uninteresting. Pittsburg, for example,
'has a population of a third of a million
on 18,000 acres of ground; New York’s
population, little more than ten times
as great, spreads over nearly 12 times
as many acres.
Chicago was long famous for Its as>
nexation habit, but since 1890 New York
has annexed much more territory than
Chicago’s total area. New Orleans has
a. oiiguii/ iaigci iubu VyUitagiF.
Each of them covers six times the area
of Baltimore.
Washington, which occupies the Mary
land part of the ten miles square set
aside for a national capital, is a fair
sized city as area goes, for this genera
tion. It may seem small a century hence,
although it looked abundantly ample for
all the purposes of urban development
when laid out.
In the case of cities, as well as of other
corporations, consolidation is plainly
one of the tendencies of the times. More
than one-third of those in the United
States have added to their territory by
annexation since 1890. Townships and
counties are occasionally subdivided, by
reason of local interests, but the cities
seem to be steadily pushing their boun
daries outward. There are some eco
nomic reasons for this, but the reason
in many cases has been the desire of
their inhabitants to make a “good show
ing."
In the Bight Boom.
At the latest of the ladles’ clubs a
“pets’ room," with little stalls for dogs
and cats, lemurs and lizards, all the
small creatures that a lady finds neces
sary as companions, is provided.
One of the most enthusiastic members
was showing her friends of her owe sex
over the establishment, and opened the
door of the “pets’ room with proper
pride.
There, in the center of the room, on
two i chairs, sat two immaculately
clothed young men, grave of face, bat
with a wicked twinkle In their eyes.
“Don’t you know this Is the ladies’
‘pets’ room?’ ’’ asked gie enthusiastic
member, with some acerbity.
"That’s why we are here,” replied the
more serious of the two young mew, with
becoming gravity.—Sporting Times.
Longevity of Binds.
. Small singing birds live from eight to
eighteen years. Ravens have lived for
almost 100 years in captivity, and par
rots longer than that. Fowls live II
tp SO years. The wild goo*e lives up
ward of 100 years, and swans are said to
have attained the age of 300. The long
Hfe of birds has been interpreted as
compensation for Us treat mertaUtg
BERRIES FOR MARKET.
It Pare <• Mala* Them, fn itl»t Ife*
■ Crag la Dlifoxi Of la tka RlgM
War aat Plaaa.
Having been naked, by a farmer anfc
scrlber, if it will pay to grow berriea
for market, in reply I trill say **yeeM—
if the buelness is managed right, a«d
the crop disposed of in the right way
and place. A good many of oar
towns are not properly supplied with
berries; what they get If aay, are
second class—the overflow or refuse
from the cities, where the market la
often glutted. The commission aw
send circulars out bsfore the berries |
are ripe, giving prices of berries shipped
from the south, inducing many heme
growers to ship. By the time their ber
ries get ripe the demand la supplied,
prices drop, and the berriea being s per
ishable product, have to be sold for
what they will bring.
My advice la to grow berriea for local
market towns that are not well supplied.
Such places can be found In the weal;
land can be bought for less than half
that close to large cities, pickers art
cheap, and, ns n ruls, more reliable.
Berries that get too ripe on account of
rain, and which will not do to ship, can
be sold la the home market; all the
rough handling of the railroad men,
shipping expenses, commissions, etc.,
are sated, also crates and boxes. Than
when consumers gst fresh, wholesome,
home grown berries, they often pet twice
ns many, and the growers In the local
market often can regulate the price.
It is a mistake to plant too large an
acreage. We hate to pay two ceats a
Quart for pickers; one cent for straw
berries and blackberries and one and
odb-uwi io iwo c«n» lor rupotinn.
The pickers can make good wages i
bare had boys and girls under 16 yean
old make a dollar a day. 1,18 yean
ago, sold as high as $40 worth of straw*
berries in a day. I remember selling
Are dollars worth of raspberries from
one picking off one row f be length of ten
acres Blackberries, 12 or more years
ago, were not profitable, as so many
grew wild; but of late years, growing
blackberries has become more profitable
—Jacob Faith, in Midland Farmer.
PROTECTION FOR PLANTS.
A Simple S;*tem Which Will Way Sse
Itself la tlie Cearee ef a
Staple Week.
Market gardeners, and eren the mat
er of a kitchen garden, feel the need of
some wholesale means of protecting
newly set plants from the drying effect!
of sun or air. A elondy day Is usually
taken tor transplanting, but the sun
may come out with scorching heat «t
any moment, and much harm he done to
unshaded plants. Make a reef, m shown
in the accompanying illustration, and a
lot of wire supports, ueiogNo. 18 wirs
Make the reel roller and the wire sop*
ports about a foot wide.
Now buy a lot of cheap oottpn sloth
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*"• up
PROTBCTOR IN OPERATION.
ft yard wide, and as long as ths rows of
plants over whleh It is to be used. The
cloth can be divided into three stripe,
each strip being tacked at one end to a
red, and at the other end to a 15-inch
rod of wood. Stick the aide* of the reel
Into the earth at one Mid of the row with
wire supports at Intervale along the row,
and pull the cloth along over the plants,
fastening the end at th# lad wire sup
port, as shown In the cut. Occasionally
slip a wire support down over the cloth
to keep the latter from blowing off the
wire supports below it. Wind up the j
cloth on the reel when the plants no
longer need cover. — Orange Judd
Farmer.
Tbe Rlaht Way •( Pranln*.
Set a green hand to pruning trees,
where limbs of any slss are to b« re
moved, and the chances are ten to one
that he will commence on the i$per
side of the limb and saw it off, sawing
through until, by its own weight, it falls,
tearing down the bark and wood, inflict
ing an ugly wound whleh it may require
years to heal, and whleh, if not carefully
protected from tie weather, will cause
such decay as to destroy the tree. To 1
prevent injury to the tree, saw one
fourth or one-third through on the under
aide, and then saw on the upper side, or,
with very large limbs, to have them sup
ported by a crotched pole, held by an as
sistant below.—N. T. Tribune-Farmer.
Startle* Early Ye*etabl«a.
Select a warm, sunny place, dig a
trench four feet deep, fill with horse ma
nure well packed down and made moist,
put on six Inches fine soil, cover with
eash and let stand a few days Thea
plant sweet potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes
and celery. If the bed is big enough, cut
choice Irish potatoes to one eye, fill
small pasteboard boxes with soil and
plant one in each. When soil is warm
enough they cau eaeily be transplanted. .
Cover the bed with heavy straw matting
and boards ia cold storms. The back t
part of the bed should be raised so the :
sash slopes to the south to catch the rays
of the sun and carry off rain.—M. Peet,
In Farm and Home.
The milker should wash his hands
thoroughly with soap and water Just
before milking. Under no conditions
should the hands be wet during the
■silking.
I
HYDROGRAPHIC RECORDS.
Practioal Benefit Derived from Them
Illustrated in Geological
Survey Work.
Tho parable of the sower ia appli
cable to all educational work. Muck
of the mission of the great departments
maintained by the government, espe
cially the scientific bureaus is educa
tional in its nature. The government
is in the position of n progressive aad
ambitious instructor in a modern col
lege, who, surrounded by every labora
tory and library facility, spends part
of his time in making original investi
gations and part in communicating to
his pupils the results of his studies.
The seed he sows falls on all kinds of
■oil, but, however poor the ground, it
is sure to bring forth fruit in some
measure, if there is life in the kernels
that he sows. There is great varia
tion in the returns from the different
kinds of educational work prosecuted
by the government The ultimate
value of much of it can be determined
only after the lapse of many years,
but some of it seems to bear fruit a
hundred fold from the very start An
instance of this is seen in the results
that have followed the hydrographic
work of the United States geological
survey in many quarters. The cases
In which it has been of benefit to the
one state of Colorado, for example, are
numerous and interesting.
None of the irrigation work contem
plated by the government would,
ordinarily, be possible without long
delay, were it not for the hydrographic
data accumulated by the survey dur
ing many years of observation and
measurement In addition to that,
the work of private individuals Is con
stantiy facilitated by the same records.
No large engineering enterprises are
now undertaken without reference to
the surrey’s records concerning the
supply of water available at tbs
chosen site. The South Platte Land
and Reservoir company, which has
under way canals and reservoirs that
probably aggregate 9500,000 in value;
has established stations at Orchard
and Kersey, Col., because of tbs
superior hydrographic advantages of
fered by these localities. The choice,
of those points is directly traceable to
the data compiled by the survey.
Equally important is the fact that
projects that would have resulted dis
astrously have in numerous cases been
abandoned after a study of survey'
records that throw light on the prob
able outcome. Data concerning the
flow of water on the Arkansas and
South Platte rivers prevented the ex
penditure of great sums of money on
the state canal in the first lnstaaoe,
and upon the Pawnee pass reservoir
project in the seoond.
Survey data seem to be In great
demand as unimpeachable testimony
In the legal controversies that have
arisen in this stats la regard to irriga
tion matters. A most notable Instance
Is the case of the Colorado A South
ern railroad vs. the Denver Union
Water company, in whioh the sum of
9100,000 was involved,
r Data obtained by the survey in re
gard to the amount of water power
available at certain pfhces have influ
enced the plans of the (Kenwood
Springs Light and Power company,
the New Century Light and Power
company, and also proposed power
companies on Clear and St. Vraln’s
creeks. None of these projects has
yet been carried to a conclusion, but
some of them will undoubtedly be
eventually constructed.
Colorado cities seeking a suitable
water supply have frequently con
sulted data obtained by the survey.
In the case of Durango, in southwest
ern Colorado, the discharge of Florida
river was especially studied in order
te ascertain whether a gravity water
system would be feasible at that point
The location of various manufactur
ing industries has been determined by
report from survey engineers on the
available water lupply.
AN OXEN CAVALRY CORPS.
Natives Queerly Mounted for Police
Duty on the Island of
Madagascar. |
_
The oddest cavalry In the world is
maintained on the west coast of Mad
agascar by Governor General J. G. Gal
lieni. While the French troops in that
country are ample to meet the occa
sional revolutionists, the governor gen
eral makes use of native talent for po
lice work in out-of-the-way localities,
•ays the New York Herald.
On the west coast of Africa Is a
tribe of natives, possibly radically
connected with the Hovas, who are
known as the Sakalova, the most war
like tribe of the country. The natives,
In imitation of French troopers, or
ganized an oxen cavalry corps, under
command of a French officer. They |
are armed with modern long-handled
lances, or spears, and side arms.
Their uniform is khaki, with skull
caps. They ride barefooted, without
stirrups, sitting on their equipment, j
cinched like a saddle, with cords made
of the native fiber plant, and a sort
of bridle of the cord, passing through
the nose of the beast.
The oxen are neither slow or scared,
and it is assumed would create havoc
with their horns among horse cavalry.
Servian Arn.y’a Big Drum
A curious feature connected with tbs
Servian army is the manner in which
most of the regiments carry the big
drum. It is not, as in most countries,*
slung in front of the man who plays it,
but is placed upon a two-wheeled cart
drawn by a single dog, which has been
so trained that it keeps its place even
through the longest and most tedious of
marches. The drummer takes up a po
sition behind the car and performs oq .
the instrument a* the animal pulls II
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