SHADE-TEEES ABOUT THE DWELLING. 
■While we do not advocate, as wo ^ 
^any places, a dense mass of Coliage -eou> 
passing a dwelling, depriving it of s"" ‘ 
liv to a gi-eat extent, says tlio Gernanm 
Telcoraplf, yet, when we see so many of 
them in town and country almost, if not en¬ 
tirely, deprived of shade, when it is so neces¬ 
sary to the comfort of the inmates, we feel a 
smpathy for the neglect, want of thought in 
behalf of the family, or perhaps in some 
oases the cost in labor and a little money m 
providing the shade, that we scarcely know 
how to express ourselves in sufficient j 
cogent a manner in regard to it. Two or 
three ffi-st-class shade-trees, like the Norway 
or Sugar Maple, whose foliage is so dense, 
dark, and heautiful, in front of a dwelliug, 
give such an air of gentle coolness and 
comfort in the scorching days of summer, 
and a calm restfulness that even the most 
stolid beasts of the field seek and enjoy. 
In our towns and cities, no matter how 
closely the streets may he built up. there is 
always room for one or more shade-trees. In 
setting them out, it should be done with the 
utmost care, and be protected against damage 
by strong boxes, in order that children may 
not climb upon them or bend them down, 
or horses gnaw them, or cattle rub against 
them. Some people fail to set out such 
trees, on the plea that they will not grow 
along pavements, owing to want of moist¬ 
ure. But this is a mistake. Where a tree 
stauds in the midst of a wide asphaltuin 
pavement, and it is impossible for moisture 
to reach the roots, there would bo a poor 
chance of its living or growing; but such is 
not the case in either paving with flags or 
bricks, where a tree will gi-ow about as well 
as anywhere else. 
Some object to planting trees along the 
street in front of their houses, for the reason 
that people hitch their horses to them, and 
they are injured or destroyed by their gnaw¬ 
ing. This serious mischief horses will do if 
the trees are used for hitching-posts ; but it 
is only reasonable to suppose that every 
house has a separate hitch-post, cither of 
iron,— which have become very cheap and 
endure forever, and which are beyonil horse¬ 
power to damage with the teeth, — or of 
wood, capped with galvanized sheet-iron. 
It is well, however, to protect all trees 
small enough to bo gnawed, which is v/orth 
being done a dozen times over, rather than 
besleprivcd of grateful shade. 
But there is such a thing as having too 
much shade, or, rather, having loo many 
trees, and they too near the house. In fact, 
a tree should stand at a distance that, wliilo 
it will furnish its full measure of shade, it 
will at the same time permit the free ingi’ess 
of the breeze. At many residences there 
may bo noticed old, ragged, worn-out Spruce 
trees, that afford neither shade nor adorn¬ 
ment, as well as many overgrown old Willow 
trees, all of which should bo rooted out. 
We repeat that wo know of no trees so 
beautiful and umbrageous, and maintaining 
their symmetry, health, and usefulness e(pial 
to the Norway and .Sugar iMai>lcs. Tiie for¬ 
mer is to bo preferred for tho yard or lawn 
the latter for tho street. 
rxrftTISH pbOBLEM. 
the ENGLISH American 
At tho recent English sparrow 
Ornithologists’ Umou, tl to 
was again denounced. collected, 
whom this suhjoe ^ sources at 
inasy-stematicway,^^^^^ for or against the 
their coinmi 
. 1 boon reached, cora- 
Tho conclusion hayi „ English 
luonti 
having removed liis clothing .on goinTt'”^ 
and dragged liim out of the room 
sparrow is in all question arises, 
addition to our f.nma, 1 
i, to bo <1."» to of o fow 
mnnev have been unavauiiit,'.t >- i 
Z s to rid tho country of this curse. 
,, fccuiulity is somethiug start- 
ling, LkI it seems impossible to hold the 
species in chock. 
One method which, so far as it goes, w.H 
p,ove very effectual, is to encourage hose 
Lall species of predatory buds winch . c- 
stroy the sparrow for food. Such aio the 
shrikes, tho screech-owls, and the smallei 
hawks,' the sparrow-hawk and sharpshim 
We have no svmpathy with the sentimenta - 
ists who would shed tears over tho spectacle 
of the sparrow in the claws of a hawk, and 
it is certain that there is no more efficient 
method of getting rid of the sparrows than 
by permitting their natural enemies to de¬ 
stroy them. A shrike or a little owl will, if 
uudislurbed, spend a whole winter in a 
locality where sparrows are abundant, and 
will dui’ing that time kill a great many. 
It would bo interesting to learn whether 
any efficient plan for destroying tho spar¬ 
rows has yet been devised. It is not now so 
much a question of getting rid of tho spar¬ 
rows, as of checking their increase before 
they spread over tho whole land and kill or 
drive away all our native birds. 
I'OO " ' 
way to the outer door of tho office 
man succeeded in getting to liis feef''^*'® 
unlocking the door, staggered into the st 
The fire was rapidly spreading over'"^' 
building, and the hotel was filled with ol 
not one of whom had been aroused^ m**’ 
dog no sooner saw that liis helpless 
was safe than he dashed back into the ' 
and ran barldng loudly upstairs. 
EEMAEEABLE lETELLIGENOE AND HEKOISM 
OP A DOG. 
The largo Newfoniidlaiul dog Jlook, bn- 
longing to tho St. h.lmo Hotel, in tho oil- 
town of Eldred, Pa., was known llirougiioiit 
tho northern oil-field for its groat strenglli 
and almost human intolligoMco. 
of tho lioLol, a kiiid-hoartod Iml 
'I'lio porli r 
. iutomperato 
person, was an ospooiai favorite, with llKidog. 
Iho porter, a small inan, slept in n, liitlo 
room back of tin, office. Tim dog slept in 
UieolTice. On Uie niglit of Heptemlwr I.Stli 
asl Iho porter was drunk wlieii lie went 
to bed, an.l soon fell i„|,„ „ 
Sometime ,1, the night he was awakened by 
m mnl h,,,u,,, .nieek.whowiiHjinnping 
the pillow with h’"' " •■■■ ^ 
Ho first stopped at the door of Lis mast >> 
room, where ho howled and scratched at th* 
door until the inmate wa’s made aware of ih 
danger and hurried out of tho house, asthe/ 
■was no time to lose. The dog gavo pj* 
alarm at every door, and in some instance 
conducted guests down-stairs to the outer 
door, each one of those, however, being a 
stranger in the liouso, which fact the dog 
seemed to understand in looking out for their 
safety. All about the house seemed to have 
lost their lieads in tho excitement, and it is 
said that the hotel dog alone preserved com¬ 
plete control of himself, and alone took 
active measures to save the inmates of the 
house. 
In and out of the burning building he 
kept eontuiu ally dashing, piloting some half- 
dressed man or woman down-stairs, only to 
at once return in search of others. Once a 
lady with a child in her anns tripped on the 
stairs wliilo hurryipg out, and fell to the 
bottom. The child was thrown on the floor 
of the hall some distance away. The woman 
regained her feet and staggered in .a dazed 
way out of the door, leaving the child in the 
midst of the smoke that was pom-ing from the 
office door. The brave dog saw the mishap, 
and jumping in through the smoke, which 
was now becoming almost impassable, and 
seizing the child by its night-clothes, car¬ 
ried it safely out. 
Notwithstanding this rescue, the mishap 
that made it necessary led to the deathof the 
noble anim.al. The mother of the child, on 
being restored by tho fresh air, first hecanie 
aware that the child was not with her, an 
crying out wildly that “Anna was 
up) ill t he house ! ” made a dash for the 'u 
ing, as if to rush through tho flames to see 
lior child. Hock had already brougi 
little one out, but it had not yet . 
stored to it.s mother, 'rhe dog saw the &'« '• 
rush of tho inolhor toward tho burning 
ing, and hoard her exclamation the ® 
one was burning up in the 
though the building was now a nuisso 
ami Itainos inside and out, tho dog -1 
forward, and as a dozen hands 
woinan and hold her back from *j 
a ttempt to enter I he house, disapiU‘"’| ^, 1 ^^ 
a beniid over the burning thresho i • 
faitlifiil aninial never appeared agan 
reinains wore found in the rnius. 
, -iisteetli. Tli„„|,iii,ln„ik,m 
and drowsy porter tried I,,, ,, 
away Imt Uie aiiinnd persisted in liiseirorts 
and It liiia ly dawned on tin, l.efuddled i.ii id 
of ;o porter tlnittlielnmso was nil lire 
His room wan full „r sinnlt,, , i i ' 
I.oar tin, crackP- " • ’ 
and In, 
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...».. ...- . 1 lliftt 
riiere is no doubt in any jlcck 
Ind; for tin, intidligoneo and \,g^,,i(liS’ 
tho llro in tlie lioLol would not luv'C 
covered in time for a single >am|*, ,,,11! 
eseaped from the building with his 
tliiit l.lie noble animal understooi 
liall'-erazed movements of tho d" | jniigi’b 
that then, was still another one is 
and to reseno whom ho gavo k'** _o" jp„>k 
n.eef.itl i.il ns e.i,rl'.)lIn. ’IMlO rellUlla*^ JeSS *’* 
ae.eopi.ed as eertaio. Tho 
wer(> givoo a littlng burial, inig''^ 
rogrol.t.od as lihat of a useful 01 
