nAT;.T; OF BIRDS. 
I pity caged Birds, yet so many people 
have and love them that it is 
of the care of a household to look after its 
“ pets.” First on the list is the canary, ana 
we wDi for a while see what can he done to 
make its little life happy, and at ^e same 
time have all the music we can. The size 
of the cage makes a great difference in this 
matter, for the lai-ger the cage, the less 
music. Your bird will skip about and 
amuse himself otherwise than ivith trills. 
Give him plenty of water to drink, and a 
daily bath in the fidl sunshine. - But the 
hen bird must be deprived of the bath-tub 
while setting. Ornamental brass ivii'e cages 
are bad; the verdigris is siu’e to poison the 
bird. So also are painted cages. Those of 
white, tinned wire are the best, furnished 
with two perches, the food and drinking 
vessels always outside of the cage, the floor 
movable, and always strewn with coarse 
sand. 
There is a great difference in the disposi¬ 
tion of canaries; some are gay and fond of 
company; others are of a retiring disposi¬ 
tion, and, either from vanity or modesty, 
will not sing a note in the presence of 
another bird. The food should be summer 
Rape-seed, and now and then a Uttle Oats or 
Canary-seed. They are fond of Cabbage-leaf, 
a bit of Groundsel, or a quarter of an Apple. 
Avoid sugar or cake, but give a lump of bay 
salt between the bars. Let the seed be put 
in fresh every day, so that he will not pick it* 
over and have to eat the refuse if you do not 
reflll the dish until empty. If he is dull and 
mopish he may have taken cold or have been 
frightened. Give him a little magnesia oi’’a 
drop of castor oil, put down his throat through 
a quiU. After moulting, a canary often loses 
his voice and requires all the care you would 
give to a fledgling. 
Perhaps your pet is a robin, for he is a 
cheery house-bird if once domesticated. He 
should have a large cage, twenty inches 
long by twelve wide, and the same height. 
He wants, lean meat, fresh, green food, 
worms, grains of wheat, and ripe berries. 
The robin is fond of butter, but must not be 
too much indulged. I quote from an old 
work on bird diseases and cures, the follow¬ 
ing: 
“Dysentery: Diet of eggs and meal¬ 
worms. Cramp; Diet, meal-worms. Gid¬ 
diness : Administer a green caterpillar. 
Dullness and melancholy: Chop up a pot 
marigold in the food. Moulting: Give 
poppy seed and saffron in the water. Let 
the robin have plenty of water to drink 
and bathe in.” 
Whatever your pet may be, it is well to 
consider that it will not endure neglect with 
impunity; that fresh air, pure water, and 
clean quarters are a necessity, and that all 
animals know, and feel, and understand a 
great deal more than wo give them credit 
for, and appreciate kindness almost as much 
as a human being. They are sensitive to a 
draught, and suffer in too heated an atmos¬ 
phere more than from cold. But for all the 
care required they will repay us with their 
pretty ways and cheering songn. ~ Jrrnic L. 
Jack, in “ Good Cheer.” 
A SEEMOR IN EHYME. 
1 AO friend worth loving, 
If you have uuow 
Cffc his brow with sunset glow, 
wly should good words ne’er be said 
Ot a Wend-till ho is dead? 
If you hoar a song that thrills you, 
Simg by any child of soug, 
Praise it, do not let the singer 
"iVait deserved praises long. 
Why should one 
who thriUs your heart 
prayeri 
Lack the .loy you may impait i 
If you hear a prayer that moves yon 
By its humble, pleading tone, 
Join it. Do not let the seeker 
Bow before his God alone. 
MTiy should not yoiu- brother share 
The strength of “two or three” in 
If you see the hot tears f.alling 
From a brother's eyes, 
Sh.are them. And, by sharing. 
Own yoiu’ Idnship with the .skies, 
Why should any one bo glad 
When a brother’s heart is sad! 
If a silvery laugh is ripiding 
Through the sunshine on ills face. 
Share it. ’Tis the wise man’s saying — 
For both gi-ief and joy a place. 
There’s health and goodness in the mirth 
In which an honest laugli has birth. 
If your work is made more easy 
By a briefly helping hand, 
Say so. Speak out brave and truly, 
Ere the darkness veil the land. 
Should a brother workmnu dear 
Falter for a word of cheer I 
Scatter thus your seeds of kiuduess, 
All enricliing as you go — 
Leave them. Trast the Harvest Giver. 
He will make each seed to gi-ow ; 
So, until its happy end. 
Your life shall never lack a friend. 
BOB, BUEDETTE ON FARMING, 
This month is a good time to pay the 
interest on your mortgage and renew the 
notes you gave a year ago. It is also a 
pretty good time to take up the notes you 
unwittingly gave to the cloth peddler last 
Christmas under the impression that you 
were only signing a contract. 
Oats thrive best in an elevator. A farmer 
who has thirty thousand bushels of Oats in an 
elovator need not worry about the weather 
Always raise Oats in a good elevator and 
keep out of a deal with the Chicago man. 
Look after the Bean polos you had loft 
over from last year. You will look a long 
time before you find any. They have gone 
partially into the insatiate maw of tho all’ 
devouring fire-place, and neighbors have 
stolen tho rest. 
Raise chickens. If you have a nice little 
garden, by all moans raise chickens. V„„, 
neighbor’s hens are tho best ones tn , • 
Youjill find them, from 5.30 a, m. unul 
and flowoHllf You^Jr!:..?'';?’’' 
a shot-gun than' 
Always eat the hen you raise P S 
the hen before eating, p He i. „ ' 
tho hen, that is. ' 
out 
N. B. 
Rook 
eating 
your 
__from the shells first, they wifi 
more easily. 
If a good horse shows symptoms of 
blind, and is developing a few 
spavins, it is time to sell him. 
of the coimty, if possible. Beware of 
deacon who has a little blaze-faced “ 
mare” he wants to trade for “just 
boss.” 
Eternal vigilance is the price of the Point 
crop. About ten hours a day, devoted * 
crushing Potato hugs with hard 8ti48 Jli 
probably save the upper part of the patd 
for you. By the time you dig the Potatoe 
you will be so disgusted with everything 
taining to Potato c{ilture that you^^!^ 
look a Potato in the eye without a feeling of 
nausea, and as for eating one—but thij 
enables yon to sell the whole bushel without 
a pang. 
Young bens lay more eggs than old ones. 
This is because the giddy young thing^ 
have not yet learned their value. In a few 
years they know just how to stand around 
on a strike when eggs are $1.75 a dozen 
and then rush out and work double time 
when eggs are so common the tramps wont 
eat them. 
MUMMY GAELAND8. 
Dr. G. Schweinfurth gives in Ifature an 
account of some new botanical discoveries 
made by him in connection with the mnm- 
mies of the twenty-fii-st Egyptian dynasty, 
found at Deri-el-Baban. In the floral wreath 
on the mummy of the princess IJgi-Khonni 
were found perfect flowers of the Com-poppy 
(Papaver Rheeas, var. genuina) which appear 
to have been gathered in an unopened con¬ 
dition, to prevent the petals from faEing, and 
are in so good condition that so perfect and 
well-preserved specimens of this fragile 
flower are rarely to be met with in herbaria. 
It is worthy to note too that the character of 
tliis variety of the Poppy, as well as of the 
other plants emploj'ed, although gathered 
more than three thousand years ago, is iden¬ 
tical with the same plants known at the 
present day. 
CEMENT FOE MOUNTING FLINTS. 
Take of bisulphide of carbon any quantity 
desired, and dissolve therein a sufficient 
quantity of crude Lidin-rubber to make a 
cement of the proper consistency. Tbs', 
says Mr. J. H. Pystor, in the Torrey 
Club Bulletin, is tho best compound that can 
bo made for tlio purpose of mounting plsB*®- 
as well as for use where a strong cement m 
desired. 
THE WORLD’S SUGAE PEODUOTION. 
'The total world’s production of Sugar fw'* 
various sourcos is, according to the 
Grocer, ostimatod by reliable authority 
less than 5,000,000 tons. Of this tot" 
supply, tho United States and Great Bi'ih"’* 
consnme over 2,000,000 tons. ThoimP®^ 
tanco of this crop, commercially) ^ 
realized if wo ostiinato it at tho low pfi®® ^ 
$05 per ton, or $.T25,000,000 ^ 
crop. Tills ostiinato is exclusive of 
Sugar consumed in India, which, 
to many, produces fully ono-lmlf of 
Sugar produced in tho world. 
2 ,200,000 tbiis,noavly ouo-half of thoexP®^ 
able crop, is prodnood from Beets in Europ 
