THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. 



Father "Now see here! If you many 

 hat young pauper how on earth are you 

 going to live?" 



Sweet Girl "Oh! we have figured that 

 all out. You remember that old hen my 

 aunt gave me?" 



"Yes." 



"Well, I have been reading a poultry 

 circular and I find that a good hen will 

 raise twenty chicks in a season. Well, the 

 next season that will be twenty-one hens 

 and, as each will raise twenty more chicks, 

 that will be 420. The next year the num- 

 ber will be 8.400, the following year 168- 

 000 and the next 3,360,000! " Just think! 

 At only 50 cents apiece we will then have 

 $1,680,000. Then, you dear old papa, 

 we'll lend you some money to pay off the 

 mortgage on this house." New York 

 Weekly. 



A Cleveland man has invented an elec- 

 tric floor-scrubber, which he claims will 

 do the work in one-fourth of the time re- 

 quired by the old-fashioned method and at 

 a saving of three-fourths of the cost. It 

 is operated by an electric motor which re- 

 ceives its current by means of a cord at- 

 tached to any convenient incandescent 

 socket, but it is also arranged so that it 

 can be used as a hand machine in case 

 there is no electric current handy. The 

 machine, which weighs about 300 pounds, 



is mainly intended for use in large public 

 buildings to scrub halls and corridors. 

 The machines are now in use in some 

 buildings and give quite satisfactory re- 

 sults. 



Aqua ammonia is said to be a first-class 

 agent in extinguishing fires. A recent 

 fire occurred in which the vapors of a 

 tank containing fifty gallons of gasoline 

 caught fire, and a druggist, by way of ex- 

 periment, threw on a gallon and a half of 

 ammonia water, which completely extin- 

 guished the flames. 



The late Chas. A. Dana was a success- 

 ful horticulturist. He not only had the 

 knowledge but the means at his command 

 to carry on this study in a practical man- 

 ner, as his summer home at Dosoris, an 

 island in Long Island sound, bears witness. 

 This island consists of about sixty acres, 

 and on it Mr. Danna had specimens of al- 

 most every known shrub or tree that oould 

 be grown in the climate. It is asserted 

 that there is no place on earth, of equal 

 size, where so many different varieties of 

 trees and shrubs can be found. His 

 flower and vegetable gardens were as com- 

 plete. If this garden were only in Greater 

 New York it would be a good investment 

 to have Dosoris preserved in the interests 

 of science as a public botanical garden. 



