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Nov.  19 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
ODDS  AND  HNDS. 
Son  of  a  Wood  Choppkr.  Harper’s 
Young1  People  tells  this  story  of  “Tad” 
Lincoln,  son  of  our  great  President.  He 
had,  while  quite  a  little  hoy,  entered  a 
foreign  school. 
A  rather  snobbish  young  gentleman 
of  rank,  not  knowing  who  young  Lincoln 
was,  inquired,  as  boys  will  of  each  other, 
who  his  father  was.  Tad.  with  the  slow, 
reflective  smile  which  was  his  sole  point 
of  resemblance  to  his  father,  answered, 
“  A  wood-chopper.” 
“  Oh,  indeed!”  was  the  rather  sneering 
answer.  And  for  a  day  or  two  the  high¬ 
born  lad  turned  the  cold  shoulder  to  the 
“  new  boy.” 
Judge  of  his  feelings  when,  very  soon, 
the  American  lad’s  parentage  being 
known  to  all  the  school,  he  found  that 
he  had  made  himself  ridiculous.  Tad, 
however,  was  too  much  of  a  little  gentle¬ 
man  not  to  accept  the  friendship,  how¬ 
ever  tardily  offered. 
Essay  on  thk  Duck. — The  following 
extract  from  a  boy’s  essay  is  “  going  the 
rounds:  ” 
A  duk  has  the  funnyest  gate  1  ever 
saw.  It  is  a  good  deal  like  a  goose’s 
only  more  so.  The  reason  is  a  duk  was 
made  to  swim,  and  when  it  is  out  of  the 
water  it  is  on  furlow,  so  to  speak,  and 
not  on  paraid  duty.  Timmy  McGinnises 
hired  man  told  Timmy  that  duks  have  no 
walking  instinkt,  and  Timmy  told  me, 
that's  how  I  know,  tho  1  alwaz  knew 
they  couldn’t  walk.  The  hired  man  is  a 
nex  perfessor  out  of  a  university,  in  re- 
dooced  circumstances.  Duks  are  birds, 
but  they  do  not  sing  or  fly — not  to  speak 
of.  Sum  birds  can  sing  like  the  canary, 
sum  can  sing  like  the,  parrot,  not  to  men- 
shun  the  rooster  that  crows  and  away 
she  goes  Hut  not  so  the  duk  ;  a  duk 
can  only  say  one  thing  and  that  is  Kwak 
quack,  wich  is  the  reson  he  has  such  a 
large  bill.  These  2  sines  are  relyable, 
and  no  duk  can  stand  investigation  unless 
he  has  them  on  his  person. 
Gknkkai,  Grant’s  Face. — Gen.  Grant 
has  been  called  “the  silent  man.”  He 
never  spoke  useless  words  and  his  face 
was  like  a  mask  behind  which  he  hid  his 
feelings.  Lawrence  Hutton  speaks  of 
him  in  Harper’s : 
As  I  recall  his  face,  that  which  J  re¬ 
member  is  not  so  much  line  and  contour 
as  the  expression  of  strength,  of  great 
patience,  of  calmness,  and  of  gentleness; 
and  the  incidents  which  illustrate  these 
qualities  also  come  ’back  freshly  to  my 
memory. 
He  had,  too,  a  merry  face  ;  at  times  a 
merry  eye.  He  was  full  of  sly  humor. 
The  twinkling  of  his  eye  and  his  quiet 
laugh  promptly  rewarded  an  amusing 
story.  In  his  own  home  his  face  was 
always  kind  and  responsive.  There  he 
was  not  the  silent  man  the  world  thought 
it  knew,  but  a  fluent  and  well-informed 
talker  on  all  that  was  of  interest  to  him. 
Undoubtedly,  however,  he  had  the  gift  of 
silence,  and  when  he  saw  fit  to  exercise 
it  his  face  became  a  mask,  conversation 
ceased  to  be  among  the  possibilities,  and 
to  chat  with  a  graven  image  would  have 
been  a  relief  at  such  a  time.  He  became 
then,  and  designedly,  a  silence-compeller. 
When  there  was  nothing  to  be  said,  he 
said  nothing. 
A  Queer  Experiment. — What  marvel¬ 
ous  stories  are  constantly  “  going  the 
rounds  ”  with  regard  to  matters  agricul¬ 
tural  and  horticultural !  As  a  rule,  too, 
each  is  related  with  all  the  soberness 
befitting  an  account  of  an  actual  fact. 
Here  is  the  latest  or  one  of  the  latest, 
from  the  Chicago  News: 
“  I’ll  tell  you  of  a  queer  experiment  a 
neighbor  of  mine  made  with  a  pea  and  a 
potato,”  said  James  A.  Ilegler,  of  Sunny 
South,  Ala.,  a  few  days  ago.  “  Simpson 
isn’t  a  farmer,  nor  a  horticulturist,  nor 
yet  a  ‘grafter.’  He  works  in  a  small 
foundry  in  our  town  and  is  a  core-maker 
by  trade.  That  fellow  is  always  schem¬ 
ing  around  with  one  thing  and  another, 
trying  to  invent  something.  I  was  look¬ 
ing  over  his  garden  fence  one  day  last 
spring,  while  Simpson  was  planting  pota¬ 
toes  and  he  came  up  to  where  1  was 
standing,  holding  a  potato  in  his  hand. 
‘  See  this  potato,’  he  said.  I  said  ‘  Yes.’ 
‘  Well,’  said  he’ I’m  going  to  get  a  pea 
and  force  it  into  the  heart  of  this  potato. 
Then  we  will  watch  it  and  see  how  it 
comes  up.’  He  took  a  pea  out  of  his 
pocket,  pushed  a  hole  into  the  potato 
with  his  lead  pencil  and  then  pushed  the 
pea  into  the  center.  Then  he  took  the 
potato  to  the  center  of  the  garden  and 
planted  it.  For  months  I  visited  that 
garden  daily  and  watched  the  growth 
of  that  pea-tato.  It  came  up  a  most 
remarkable  plant.  I  can  hardly  describe 
it,  to  you.  It  was  a  commingling  of  the 
two,  with  the  potato  dominating  the  pea. 
The  potato  plant  looked  like  a  sweet 
potato  vine  and  ran  along  the  ground, 
throwing  out  shoots  that  took  root.  The 
flower  of  the  plant  was  not  the  ordinary 
cream  yellow  one  of  the  potato.  It  was 
a  mixture  of  the  same  shape  as  the  daisy, 
with  white,  yellow  and  pink  petals  of  a 
very  pale  hue.  The  fruit  of  the  plant 
was  much  like  the  ordinary  potato,  only 
it  was  much  smaller,  with  a  skin  of  a 
cream  color.  It  did  not  taste  much  dif¬ 
ferent  from  the  ordinary  potato,  although 
there  was  just  a  smack  of  pea  soup  about 
it.  The  plant  flourished  well  enough  and 
did  not  require  much  care.  Simpson  says 
that  next  year  he  will  plant  several  rows 
in  that  manner,  as  he  seems  to  prefer 
the  new  kind  to  the  old.  I  rather  think 
that  the  new  plant  is  a  good  one,  al¬ 
though  some  other  vegetable  might  be 
better.” 
Health  in  the  Yawn. —  Everybody 
enjoys  a  good  yawn  at  times.  It  relieves 
“that  tired  feeling”  and  seems  to  let 
out  a  little  laziness.  We  now  hear  the 
“yawn  cure”  suggested  as  a  remedy 
for  nasal  catarrh,  sore-throat  and  ear¬ 
ache.  Dr.  Naegeli  orders  patients  suf¬ 
fering  from  these  troubles  to  “yawn  six 
to  10  times  successively  and  immediately 
afterwards  to  swallow.”  This  is  the  way 
he  explains  the  treatment — it  is  like 
massage  for  the  throat  and  lungs. 
In  yawning,  not  only  the  muscles 
which  move  the  lower  jaw  are  used,  but 
also  the  breathing  muscles  of  the  chest, 
and  he  who  yawns  to  his  heart's  content 
also  raises  and  extends  the  arms.  In 
the  deepest  inspiration  the  chest  remains 
extended  for  a  short  time,  the  eyes  are 
almost  or  entirely  closed,  the  ears  some¬ 
what  raised,  the  nostrils  dilated.  Inside 
the  mouth,  the  tongue  becomes  round 
and  arched,  the  palate  stiffly  stretched, 
and  the  uvula  is  raised,  almost  entirely 
closing  the  space  between  the  nose  and 
throat.  At  the  beginning  of  the  inspira¬ 
tion  a  cracking  noise  is  heard  in  the  ears, 
a  proof  that  the  duct  leading  to  flic  hear¬ 
ing  also  succumbs  to  this  stretching. 
THE  WIDOW  ROND’S  PEAR  ORCHARD. 
The  widow  Horn!  was  left  with  a  little 
family  to  be  cared  for  and  a  farm  on 
which  rested  a  large  mortgage,  'l'he  ad¬ 
vice  was  freely  given  by  her  friends  that 
she  had  better  sell  the  farm  and  take 
what  would  be  left  after  paying  the  debts, 
and  buy  a  little  home  in  town,  take  board¬ 
ers,  or  do  whatever  else  she  could  to 
make  a  living  and  educate  her  children. 
She  could  not  endure  the  thought  of 
leaving  that  home.  All  the  happy  years 
of  her  married  life  had  been  passed  under 
that  roof,  and  many  hallowed  associa¬ 
tions  were  connected  with  it.  The  sur¬ 
roundings  were  ideal  for  a  country  home 
— the  house  situated  in  a  grove  of  grand 
old  trees,  just  where  Nature  planted 
them,  a  gentle  slope  to  the  banks  of  a 
beau1  if ul  creek  lined  with  elms,  willows 
and  vines.  The  house  was  large,  roomy 
and  picturesque,  and  she  could  not  leave 
it;  so  long  as  there  was  a  faint  hope  of 
keeping  the  dear  old  place  she  would  put 
her  shoulder  to  the  wheel  and  push,  keep 
a  brave  heart  and  with  God’s  help  win 
the  victory  over  debt. 
A  few  years  before  his  death  her  hus¬ 
band  had  put  out  quite  an  extensive 
apple  orchard,  which  had  just  commenced 
to  bring  in  some  returns.  Shewasfondof 
horticulture,  and  read  all  she  could  on 
the  subject.  One  day  while  calling  on  a 
friend,  she  looked  over  a  magazine  de¬ 
voted  to  fruit  culture,  and  in  it  was  a 
beautiful  picture  of  a  dwarf  pear  orchard 
which  arrested  her  attention.  She  could 
not  keep  it  out  of  her  mind,  and  finally 
asked  the  loan  of  the  book;  she  took  it 
home,  studied  pondered  and  planned, 
until  her  mind  was  fully  decided.  Across 
the  road  from  the  dwelling  was  a  field  of 
five  acres,  sheltered  on  two  sides  by 
woodland,  and  particularly  well  adapted 
for  pears.  She  got  a  loan  of  a  friend, 
giving  her  note  for  the  amount.  The 
next  mail  took  a  letter  to  Ellwanger 
&  Barry,  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  for  enough 
dwarf  Duchess  pear  trees  to  set  five 
acres. 
She  engaged  a  man  to  prepare  the 
ground  according  to  directions  in  her 
books  on  the  pear,  superintending  all 
the  operations  herself,  and  when  the 
trees  arrived,  they  were  properly  set. 
Only  those  who  have  had  the  same  expe¬ 
rience  can  realize  how  anxiously  they 
were  watched,  how  much  depended  on 
them.  'They  were  grand  trees.  How 
wonderfully  they  grew.  The  soil,  atmos¬ 
phere  and  care  bestowed  upon  them 
seemed  to  vie  with  each  other  in  promot¬ 
ing  their  growth.  The  third  year  they 
bore  several  barrels  and  were  carefully 
pruned  and  cultivated.  The  next  year 
there  was  almost  a  total  failure  of  the 
pear  crop,  and  prices  were  very  high, 
but,  owing  to  its  protected  position  and 
other  causes,  this  orchard  bore  a  wonder¬ 
ful  crop.  The  limbs  were  propped  up  to 
carry  the  load  of  fruit,  and  bushels  were 
thinned  out.  People  came  long  distances 
to  see  the  sight— long  rows  of  beautiful 
trees,  bending  under  their  burden  of 
large,  russet  pears.  'The  soil  was  kept 
free  from  weeds;  care  and  cultivation 
told  the  story.  A  gentleman  from  Bos¬ 
ton  heard  of  the  orchard,  came  and 
bought  the  fruit  on  the  trees,  paying  her 
$3,000  for  the  crop.  Now  the  mortgage 
has  been  lifted,  the  debts  arc  all  paid 
and  the  home  is  safe.  Her  success  created 
a  furore  among  the  farmers  for  miles; 
hundreds  of  acres  were  put  in  pears,  but 
the  Widow  Bond's  pear  orchard  never 
was  eclipsed.  Apples  and  pears  made 
her  rich. 
This  story  is  true.  I  know  the  party 
who,  in  western  New  York,  saved  her 
home  by  means  of  a  pear  orchard. 
MRS  F.  O.  .JOHNSON. 
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The  etude (new) . 
1.50 
2.16 
Tho  Ktude  (renewal) . 
1.50 
2.35 
Architecture. 
Architects'  and  Builders'  edition 
Scientific  American  . 
2.60 
3.16 
Carpentry  and  Building . 
1.00 
1.85 
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