POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



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" You no like girl first ; if you do, the 

 girl laugh at you and call you a woman." 

 (That is, the young man must not propose 

 marriage to a girl, but must wait for her to 

 ask first.) 



" You no marry the sister of your mate, 

 or by and by you will be ashamed ; mates 

 all same as brothers." (But " mates " may 

 marry two sisters.) 



"You no marry your cousin; she all 

 same as sister." 



" If any one asks for food, or water, or 

 anything, you give something ; if you have 

 a little, give a little ; if you have plenty, 

 give half." 



" Look after your mother and father ; 

 never mind if you and your wife go with- 

 out." 



" Don't speak bad word to mother." 



" Give half of all your fish to your par- 

 ents ; don't be mean." 



" Father and mother all along same as 

 food in belly ; when they die you feel hun- 

 gry and empty." 



" Mind your uncles, too, and cousins." 



" If woman walk along, you no follow ; 

 by and by man look, he call you bad name." 



" If a canoe is going to another place, 

 you go in canoe ; no stop behind to steal 

 woman." 



" If your brother is going out to fight, 

 you help him ; don't let him go first, but go 

 together." 



A Glacial Epoch in the Carboniferous 

 Period. Data are collated by Dr. C. D. 

 White, in a paper published in the Ameri- 

 can Geologist, on Carboniferous Glaciation 

 in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres 

 based on observations in India, Australia, 

 and South Africa which show that evi- 

 dences of glacial action are abundant and 

 marked within an area extending from 40 

 south latitude to 35 north, and from 20 

 east longitude to 155 east, and including 

 more than one fourth of the earth's surface. 

 The idea that there was a glacial epoch in 

 later Palaeozoic or earliest Mesozoic time 

 has, in the light of these evidences, gained 

 credence steadily since 1872, "until at last 

 it is supported, not only officially, but indi- 

 vidually," by nearly every geologist who has 

 specially examined them or studied them in 

 the field. This is also the conclusion gen- 



erally accepted by European geologists, in- 

 cluding Prestwich and Neumayr, who is 

 quoted as saying, in his Erdgeschichte, that 

 there can no longer be any doubt that 

 during the latter half of the Carboniferous 

 period strata were deposited in southern 

 Australia, Farther India, and the Cape re- 

 gion of South Africa, whose material shows 

 all the characteristic features of transporta- 

 tion by means of glaciers. 



Packing Fruit for Transportation. The 



instructions of the British Pomological So- 

 ciety respecting the packing of fruit for 

 transportation advise that, for protection 

 against injury from pressure, it be put up 

 in boxes or stout baskets ; against shaking, 

 by using cases of moderate dimensions in 

 every direction, or cases cut up by partitions, 

 and by laying the separate articles so closely 

 and compactly that they shall just keep each 

 other steady without crushing. Packing ma- 

 terial which might communicate an unpleas- 

 ant flavor should not be used. The bloom 

 of fruits is best preserved when they are 

 packed in young nettle-tops, partly dried, or 

 in cartridge-paper. Grapes carry best if 

 tied down to the bottom of a shallow box, 

 or when each bunch is inclosed separately 

 in a piece of stout cartridge-paper. Melons 

 should be inclosed in cap paper, placed in 

 a box, and surrounded by chaff, bran, or dry 

 sawdust. Peaches, nectarines, and apri- 

 cots should be carefully inclosed in a piece 

 of tissue-paper, and kept separate from one 

 another by cotton-wool. Plums, when the 

 bloom is important, should be rolled up, six 

 or eight together, in a piece of cartridge- 

 paper, and tied round with matting. When 

 the bloom is not important, they may be 

 packed in strawberry or similar leaves. 

 Cherries, gooseberries, and currants travel 

 very well, under general circumstances, if 

 laid together in small, shallow baskets or 

 punnets. In packing strawberries, raspber- 

 ries, and mulberries, each fruit should be 

 separately surrounded by one or two straw- 

 berry leaves. 



The Care of Milk and Cream. In milk 

 and cream exposed to the air, bacteria readi- 

 ly collect and multiply rapidly. They cause 

 the souring and curdling of milk and induce 

 other changes in it, while their effect on 



