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Ohio, with a hihlc in niic hand and a l)aj4' of ai)i)lcsec'ds in the 

 other. lie was familiar to the Indians who held him in 

 great awe as a mighty medicine man. 1 le nsuall\- travelled 

 barefoot and alone, his religion forl)ickling him to ride and 

 tlnis take his ease "at the expense of his poor. dumb brother." 

 He occasionally used a horse, however, to transport his bags 

 of a])pleseeds. He called the apple the "chosen fruit of God"' 

 hut believed the only way to propagate the tree was by seeds. 

 He condemned the planting of cuttings and regarded all 

 grafting and i)runing as positively sinful. He abhorred the 

 taking of life in any form and is said to have wept in pity 

 over the body of a dead rattlesnake which had bitten him and 

 which he liad killed in the excitement of the moment. 



J\I.\TCHES. — Not the kind that are made in heaven, but 

 those which have a more sulphurous composition, are the 

 matches referred to in this note. Of these the world uses 

 five trillions annually, or, since figures are more impressive, 

 4.675.650,000,000. To furnish the match-sticks which 

 everybody throws away so carelessly after use, large quanti- 

 ties of white pine and aspen arc required, and this timber 

 must of course be straight grained and free from knots. Ac- 

 cording to the Trade Record of the National City Bank of 

 New York, the bulk of the world's matches are made in the 

 United States, Sweden, Japan. Russia, Germany, and Great 

 Britain, tho United States, of course, leading all the rest. 



India X Strawberry. — Some strange plants were sent 

 to me from Moorestown, N. J. — wild strawberries fruiting 

 in October. The red berry is round with a short neck and 

 looks like the one that comes in June except that the seeds 

 stick out air over and brush off easily. Within, it is spongy 

 and juiceless. Back of the berry are two circles of green : 

 the inner consists of five calyx segments and alternating with 



