Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — Page 5

FOR FAT PEOPLE.

THE CAUSE AND TREATMENT OF OBESITY. Bismarck's Private Physician Discourses Upon Corpulency and How It Can Be Cured*-What Fat People May Eat. Professor Schweninger is Prince Bismarck’s protege and private medical adviser, and, although his reputation in Germany rests upon a wholly different footing, this alone should entitle him to be heard with respect whenever he has a consolatory message to deliver to sick and suffering humanity. Of late years he has devoted his attention to the annihilation of the ills to which well fed flesh is heir, and has published his views in an article entitled “Cure and Cures.” His treatment of obesity is the outcome of his views on its nature and origin. As to the causes that produce embonpoint, Professor Schweninger holds that they are legion. Among the most frequent and efficacious, however, he enumerates mental indolence—leanness being a characteristic of the thinker; lack of physical exercise, a sedentary life, too much sleep, badly lighted and badly ventilated rooms, which promote corpulency by impeding the organic process of combustion. But by far the most effective cause is eating and drinking; an increased supply of food, while consumption and secretion remain the same or diminish, of necessity augment the weight of the body and lead to an accumulation of fat.

The German physician lays great store by his method of treating obesity,and condemns those of all his predecessors,who lay too little weight upon details and upon the necessity of adjusting and modifying their prescriptions in accordance with the varying needs of the patient. Food, he holds, plays an important part in the cure of corpulency, not, however, merely by reason of its chemical composition, but in various other respects. Thus, the amount of liquid food, the times and frequency of meals, their mixture and temperature, the relation between the quantity of nourishment taken and the amount of work done by the patient, are more important factors in the eyes of Dr. Schweninger than the question of allowing or forbidding any pa rticular edible. Attention should also be paid to mental activity, to exercise, repose, clothing, dwelling, to the general and local distribution of the blood, to secretion and excretion, to sleep, to the weight and measurement of the whole body and of certain parts of it. The treatment is not at all drastic. In the first place, the progress made during the cure must be verified and controlled at every stage by means of weight and measurement, both of which, of course, are relative. And first weigh*. At least once a week the' girth of the body should be measured round the chest and the abdomen. The girth round the abdomen decreases in direct proportion to the weight, one kilogramme of the latter corresponding to ten centimetres of the former. The girth round the chest decreases much more slowly. The face often reveals furrows and wrinkles during and even after the cure, which had no existence before; and ladies especially are apt to wax wroth at the awkward discovery. It must be borne with, however, the professor tells them, but only for a time. The wrinkles will certainly disappear if only the patient show herself worthy of that name. At the very beginning of the cure the stout man must oast off all clothing of a kind calculated to exert a pressure on the body, to impede free circulation and hinder the process of combustion.

The next prescription is partial cold water applications, which we are assured come as a boon and a blessing to the patient whose body, “being isolated from the outer world by a dense layer of fat, that is, by a very bad conductor of heat,” can with difficulty free itself from the redundant warmth and longs for a cooling. As mechanical causes contribute to obesity, mechanical action must be enlisted in the service of the sufferer from it. Walking, working, gymnastics, are beneficial, in moderation—the essential point being to alternate physical exercise and repose with mental. It is a gross mistake to fancy that long walks, mountain tours, heavy rowing, bicycling or skating for hours at a time are the readiest means to lose flesh. Moderate exercise, short walks, dancing, swimming, rowing, and even tree felling, are all excellent in moderation, the golden rule being that each individual should remain well within the limits of his physical capacity, although he may, of course, aim at extending it gently and gradually. But all exercise should be of short duration and followed by real repose, which same repose consists in something more than mere cessation from previous effort, and includes change of position. Thus sitting is not the appropriate kind of rest that should be indulged in after a walk, but lying, because in both sitting and walking the legs hang downward. Finally comes the all-important question of diet. Man lives not on what he eats and drinks, but on what he digests and consumes, and according to the way in which he digests and consumes it. With reasonable limits his patients may eat and drink as much as they like, provided that they confine themselves to the kinds of food which he permits, that they eat little at once, though oftener than usual, and allow a certain time to elapse between eating and drinking. Prof. Schweninger allows his patients to compose their mepu from the following foods: 1. Staple nourishment —Every species of flesh meat cooked in every conceivable manner, and served hot or cold, fat or lean; fish, oysters, caviar, crabs, lobsters, sausage, eggs, cheese, etc. 2. Subsidiary food —Bread, fruit, spinach, asparagus, cabbages, sauerkraut, cucumbers, green salad. Drinks— Water, soda-water, acidulated mineral waters, fruit juices and lemon juice. Alcohols are to be avoided, as are •Iso soups, potatoes, turnips, nuts,

macaroni, rice, pastry and butter and lard (except in so far as they are needed in order to cook the meat and vegetables), and not only alcoholic drinks, but also tea, coffee,chocolate, cocoa and milk. The Professor dolefully complains of the indignation often manifested by his stout female patients on hearing sentence pronounced against tea, coffee, milk and chocolate. “Milk, cocoa and chocolate are banished already,” they murmur. “If I have, in addition, to give up my tea and coffee, what else is there for me to take at my first breakfast in the morning?” To this Dr. Schweninger has one stereotyped reply. Tea and coffee have been struck out for the ex press purpose of radically changing the form of the first breakfast, which should be a “compact meal,” consisting of meat, fish, eggs, cheese or some other similar nutritious food.

Queer Goings-on in Chili.

A remarkable occurrence has takea place on a hill called Cerro Negro, situated in the mineral district of Condoriaco. At a spot on this hill between the Molle gully on the west and the Tocobano gully on the east an enormous subsidence of ground has taken place. The length of the subsidence is four squares by two and a half in width, or in round numbers about forty English acres. The depth of the subsidence for about half its length is eighteen metres, and from eight to ten in the other half. About the centre there is an eminence resembling an island, which is surrounded by a fosse of from fifteen to twenty metres deep. The surface of the subsidence is broken here and there by fissures of varying depths, and toward the centre the ground is formed of a light powder in which a man who was attempting to reach the centre sank up to his waist. All the springs of water in the adjacent gulleys have become completely dry. All round the eminence in the centre of the subsidence the earth appears to be in movement as if trickling into a depth below. On the side of the subsidence great pieces of the hill appear to be in process of segregation, and enormous landslides appear to be imminent. The trees and scrub on this side of the hill are withered and appear to be dying, No gases or vaport issue from the fissures in the ground. A Government engineer has been sent to the spot to study this extraordinary phenomenon.—[Chilian Times.

The Moose Made Quick Time.

“Any one who thinks a moosi can’t travel at a very lively gait is very much mistaken,” remaked Geo. T. Horton, of St. Paul, at the Laclede. “I used to be a locomotive engineer up in the northern part of my State, and one day I had an opportunity to test the speed of this animal. I was running a light freight train, and in coming around a curve saw a big moose standing directly on the track. As soon as the animal saw the engine he took to his heels right down the path between the rails. For about four miles we had a perfectly straight track, and as I had heard of the great speed of this animal I determined to test its ability. The gait of the moose was a sort of trot,such only as a moose can exhibit, his paces being about two rods in length. At first It was only a little jog, but as the engine began to gain speed the moose let himself out. Faster and faster sped the engine,but still the frightened moose trotted in the van, and all the mysterious power of steam could not prevail upon this monarch of the forest. At last, after we had covered the four miles, turning a curve, we came upon a gang of section hands who were fixing the track. The sight of.these men frightened the moose from the track, and he was soon lost to view in the forest.”—[St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Eating Alligator.

There is reason to believe that the flesh of a young boiled alligator is barely distinguishable from veal. It is probably cleaner and more tender than much of the meat of the animals that are usually consumed ns food on the continent or the east end of London. I have never desired to taste the flesh of crocodiles, cooked or uncooked. But in India I have seen the Santals and other casteless natives greedily devour the flesh of an alligator without waiting to cook it. The flesh was very pale in color, and probably was much superior to the flesh of snakes and rats and such like creatures which form the ordinary food of the predatory Santal when hunting in his native woods. It does not fall to his lot very often to be able to circumvent and slay and eat a large alligator. He more frequently comes upon small alligators, and they go to swell the contents of his cooking pots. If, however, he is so lucky as to meet a sahib who has shot a large alligator, say about 6 feet long, he eagerly falls upon the unwonted delicacy without waiting to cook it—very much as we read in books of African adventure that the natives devour the carcasses of the large game animals that the English sportsmen do not want for their own followers.—[Longman’s Magazine.

Brushes of Spun Glass.

An American glass manufacturer has now begun to make glass brushes such as are used by china decorators for burnishing the gilding on china after it comes from the kiln. These brushes now come from Bohemia. They are marvels of glass spinning. They are made of glass fibres so fine thut they look like spun silk. These fibres are rolled up in bundles about six inches in length and in three sizes in diameter, half inch, threequarters, and one inch. The bundles are wound with cord to within about three-quarters of an inch of each end, each end being used as a brush. The brushes are cut square across the ends, and so extremely fine are the glass fibres that in the face of the brush the compact centre presents a velvety appearance. The brushes are flexible and silky to the touch. They wear away in use, and as they wear the cord is cut away to leave the end of sufficient length.—[New York Sun>

BOOBY PRIZE IN SIGHT

DEMOCRATS HANDICAPPED FOR THE POLITICAL RACE. AU Duty on Sugar, Coal, Iron and Trust Products Should Be Abolished—Popularity of the Income Tax with the MassesPolitical Notes. Pledget Must Be Redeemed. From present appearances the Democratic party intends to lose the political race in which it expects to engage next fall. In fact, some of its representatives in the Senate are coaching It for the "booby” prize by loading it up with the some ism that broke the back of the McKinley party in 1890 and 1892. It is no use for Democrats to deny it The present Senate tariff bill differs from the odious McKinley bill only in degree. Both are full oi protection to trusts which dictated them. The Gorman bill has the advantage in that it makes free one or two important raw materials that were heavily taxed by McKinley, and in that its protective duties are usually not so nigh—though often just as protective. The McKinley bill has the advantage in that it (being entirely in the hands of its protectionist friends) got through Congress with less scandalous exposure of its liaisons with trusts, and in that it is not the result of hypocrisy —it having never been intended a< a purely revenue bill. As regards the tariff features of the two bills it now teems quite certain that the genuine McKinley bill will put up the best race. Honest men hate hypocrites. The Democratic bill which promised so much and realizes so little has so disgusted hundreds of thousands of free traders that they will stay at home or vote for some third party rather than stultify their principles by sanctioning the hypocritical Senate surrender bill. The non-compromising and honest tariff reform and free trade Democrats, such as were the most of those who fought the hard battles of 1890 and 1892, prefer McKinleyism straight if they must accept protection, to the milk and water mixture prepared by Gorman, Brice & Co. They say “rather than have another protective bill, let the McKinley bill continue to work out its own damnation. ” But there is one feature of the Senate bill that will go far toward saving the party responsible for the bill. The income tax attached to the bill will popularize it in all parts of the country. The masses of the voters undoubtedly favor this method of collecting a revenue from those who now escape their fair share of taxes. If the voters of New York City could have an opportunity to express themselves on this question they would declare with an overwhelming majority in favor of an income tax. And this in spite of the fact that New York has about 1,2j0 millionaires and multi-millionaires and that the income tax is repressed by every New York daily except tne World. This fact has become evident from several mass meetings held in New York. One was called under the auspices of the Reform Club, to ask for the immediate passage of a tariff reform bill “with or without an income tax.” Some of the speakers spoke for, and others against, an income tax. The audience demonstrated that it was strongly in favor of this kind of taxation. Another meeting, called by the Manhattan Single Tax Club, to express indignation at the delay in tariff reform legislation and to ask for a radical tariff bill, declared unanimously (except for four votes i in favor of resolutions declaring against all tariff taxation and in favor of an income tax or some other better form of direct taxation. But it is not too late yet for the Democratic party to redeem some of its pledges to the people. It can never make amends for its tardy action, but it can wipe out the more obnoxious and disgraceful features of the bilL It can do this in two ways: 1. By so amending the bill that it will give us free sugar, free coal and free ores, by replacing and increasing the number of ad valorem duties, and by greatly reducing such highly protective duti s as those on collars, cuffs and shirts, on woolens, glass, etc. 2. By accomplishing this same result by separate bills passed as soon as this dicker contrivance is out of the way. hither of tnese plans, if carried out, would give the Democrats a good fighting chance this fall with excellent pros Deets for 189’. If. in addition, it could pass a separate bill making the products of many of the leading trusts absolutely free, its prospects of success would be much brlgnter. Many duties upon such products produce no revenue and are retained for the sole purpose of protection to offensive trusts and combines. Some of these are the Steel Rail, Steel Beam, Linseed' Oil, Borax, Standard Oil, Match, and Agricultuial Implement Trusts. Often these trusts sell their products cheaper abroad than at home and depend upon the otherwise useless duties to prevent the reimportation of their products. Remove these obnoxious duties and put Americans on a par with foreigners in our markets. It will be a most popular move. Protection is becoming more and more unpopular. It is on its last legs. It is only by a combination of circumstances sucn ai can be brought about only by greed and corruption that protection can possibly hold out a lew years longer. The people have already branded it as unconstitutional robbery and their decision will not be reversed except by those who misrepresent and betray them. If the Democratic legislators will stand by the people in this

WONT SOMEBODY PLEASE WAKE HIM

Boy Blue, com© blow your horn t Sheep in the meadow, cows in the corn.

fight, the people will not desert the Democratic party. If not—there is likely to be a shaking up of parties, and it may be some time before the Democratic party will come back to its own.—Byron W. Holt Misleading Companions. The Senate Finance Committee must, indeed, think we are a nation of chumps, says a writer in the New York Evening Post Do they hope to delude the people by “official” comparison between the duties of the McKinley act and the Senate and House bills into believing that the average duty in the Senate bill is 36.75 against 35.52 per cent, in the House bill? Do they expect this comparison table will be accepted as fair and just, and that it will make their bill acceptable to the people? While perhaps technically accurate, the comparison is unjust The figures published do not begin to represent the great difference, from the standpoint of protection, between the House and the Senate bills. They are grossly misleading in at least two respects: 1. In the Senate bill duties are included on very important articles which are free In the House bill. Here are three of the articles, and the value of the imports of each in 1893: Sugar and molasses $116,962,222.65 Iron ores 12u.858.7S Coal and coke B,IOI,SUM Total $121398,208.66 The average of 35.52 per cent for the House bill is comp ited upon imports valued at about $360,000,000, while the : 6.75 per cent, average for the Senate bill is computed upon impoi ts valued at about $;>00,(XK),000. To the people who asked for relief from burdensome tariff taxes, this difference is about $65,000,000 —$5 per family. A fairer comparison would include the same articles in both averages. Thus, if we include in the dutiable lists of both bills all articles that are dutiable under either bill, we will have about $5<X),000,090 of dutiable imports. Under the House bill we would get about $129,000,000 of revenue and under the Senate bill about $184,01.0,000. The average ad-valorem duty under the House bill would be about 254 per cent., against 36i per cent in the Senate bill The Senate bill duties on article 4 actually imported are therefore 44 per cent greater than the House bill duties. 2. Many duties that produce no revenue are higher in the Senate than in the House bill. The protective features of such duties have been greatly increased, but no effect has b >en produced upon the average of duties. Thus the House duty of 20 per cent, on steel rails, equal to less than $4 per ton, has been increased to seven-twen-tieths of a cent per pound, equal to $7.84 per ton. Either of these duties will be as prohibitive of importations as is the McKinley duty of $13.44. The Steel Rail Trust in either case will fix prices below the importing point. The Senate bill simply gives 100 per cent, more protection, and will enable the Trust to fix prices $4 per ton higher than would be possible under the House bill. In the same way the House duty of 30 per cent, on structural iron and steel is increased about 80 per cent in the Senate bill. The duty on starch is increased from 1 to 2 cents per pound; the duty on linseed or flaxseed oil, from 15 to 20 cents per gallon. The duties on boracic acid, wash blue, vermilion red, strychnine, and on many other chemicals have been increased, though they were already prohib’tive. In fact, the majority of the 400 increases in the Senate over the House bill are increases of protective and non-revenue-producing duties, which would produce a scarcely perceptible effect upon the “average” ad-valorem duties on all schedules. The unfairness is conspicuous in the comparison of the rates in the sugar schedule. The rate in the House bill is given as 28.43 per cent.; in the Senate bill •as 39.59 per cent. As is well known, the House bill makes all cane and beet sugar free. The 28.43 per cent, represents only the duty on confectionery and on glucose, or grape sugar. The total value of these imports in 1893 was $53,019. The Senate duty of 59.39 per cent represents the duty on the total imports of all kinds of sugars. These in 1893 were valued at $118,285,047. The House duty would produce 815,073, while the Senate duty would produce $46,839,050 in revenue. It will be observed that the discriminating duties of one-eighth and onetenth cent per pound on refined sugars cut no figure even In bringing up the average rate of duty in the sugar schedule. —* Will Gorman Explain Thl»? The assertion that any trust or trusts have dictated any part of any schedule of this bill I pronounce unqualifiedly false. They have received the same attention, although not as much consideration, as Individuals engaged In the business of manufacture—no more, no less. We felt the necessity of dealing all such combinations a death blow.—Gorman. Is that the reason why the sugar trust is given six months in which to import the growing sugar crop free of duty, and a goodly degree of protection after the ex> iration of that time, as well as during the interval? Is that why the specific rate on raw sugars was changed to ad valorem, thus giving the trust the benefit of 40 per cent, on the difference between the foreign price of raw and the foreign price of refined sugar? ,In addition to the 40 per cent, on all sugars the bill puts one-eighth of a cent a pound < n all sugars above No. 16 Dutch standard, and one-tenth of a cent more on such sugars imported from countries which pay bounties. That means about $8,000,000 for the benefit of the trust But that is not

St. Louis Republic.

all. It was recently brought out in debate in the Senate that there is an average difference of about one cent pur pound in the foreign price of raw and refined sugar. The refiners get protection under the amended bill equal to 40 per cent, on this difference, or four-tenths of a cent per pound. Mr. Allison stated that this protection was equal to three-tenths of a cent per pound at least. Calling it that, instead of the higher figure, and adding the two specific rates allowed for protection, and we have a total protection equal to 0.525 of 1 cent per pound, or 52* cents per 100 pounds. That is equal to nearly $19,000,000 a year for the trust, assuming that its output will be 3,ti00,000.000 pounds a year. And on top of this is all that the trust can make by importing raw sugar free for six months and then selling the refined product at full tariff made prices. Does this look as though "the assertion that any trust or trusts have dictated any part of any schedule” was “unqualifiedly false?” It certainly looks much as though somebody had been taking good care of the interests of the sugar trust, whether anyone connected with the trust dictated any part of the schedule or not. As Mr. Gorman is a “business-like" sort of man. perhaps he can tell who dictated this scheau'e. Perhaps, too, he can demonstrate the truth of his remarkable statement that “we have reduced the duty on lead 50 per cent., on steel rails 50 per cent, and on refined sugar 75 per cent, more than on the product of any other trust or any other article."—Chicago Herald. Steel Kill I met In Clover. There is a marked difference between the attitude of the House and that of the Senate toward the tariff on steel rails. In the House seventy-nine votes were cast in favor of putting steel rails on the free list, although the duty reported by the Ways and Means Committee was only 25 per cent, equivalent at present prices to $4.40 per ton. It is noticeable, moreover, that so many votes were cast against any duty whatever, in spite of Chairman Wilson’s earnest plea that the rate reported in the bill should not be disturbed. The duty was afterward reduced in the House "to 20 per cent., or $3.52 per ton. On the other hand, in the Senate, the revb-ers reported a duty ot seven-twentieths of a cent per pound, or $7.K4 per ton. and this was quietly accepted on Wednesday, no attempt having been made to reduce it. In the course of the brief remarks in the Senate upon the proposition, no reference to the existence and the exactions of the steel-rail combination was made. It appears that neither side cared to direct attention to the facts which had been so earnestly discussed in the House. The Senate duty, as we have shown, will permit the combination to maintain its ring price of $24 in the East and $25 in the West, for it will prevent the importation of foreign rails at this port for less than $27.75, as foreign prices now stand. Whose influence caused the revisers to increase the duty from 224 per cent. ($3. IMP, as originally reported, to $7.84? There is a rumor that it was the influence of the Republican Senator Quay, but that seems almost incredible. Still. Mr. Quay has discontinued his serial speech, which at one time promised to be endless. —New York Times.

Going for Gorman. The Washington correspondent of the St Louis Republic (Dem.) says that at the conclusion of Senator Gorman's tariff speech, “one Senator, a strong and earnest tariff-reformer, shook hands with him and said: ‘Gorman, it was a mighty good speech, but it won’t condone all the rascality you have been guilty of for the past two months.’ Gorman smiled at this sharp thrust. He considered it merely a joke. That is Gorman's way.” “The most of Gorman’s speech on the tariff bill might have been made by Aldrich, or any other well-known advocate of protection,” says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.). “ Aside from the fact that the speaker pretends to be a Democrat," says the Chicago Times (Dem.), referring to the same speech, “it was such an effort as might, with more appropriateness, have been delivered by that bloated knight of protection, William McKinley, or by that other plutocratic mouthpiece, the elephantine Reed of Maine. McKlnleylred Democrats. Senator Hill’s pronounced stand for free raw material, evidenced by his votes for free ore and free lead, will deceive no Democrat any more than they were fooled by the recent speech of Senator German. These Senators, with two or three other McKinleyized Democrats as to their own particular local or political interests, are responsible for the delay of the Senate in passing the tariff bill, and for the emasculated and unsatisfactory condition of the bill, as it now stands. Their coming forward at the eleventh hour and professing to be the most orthodox and sincere of tariff ref rmers is simply the old Blaine performance of casting an anchor to the windward.—Pittsburg Post (Dem.). _ MrKinlcylte* Importing CmL By a curions freak of fate it happens that Nova Scotia coal is being imported to the United States, not by the influence of a free trade law. but under the operations of McKinley’s sky-high protection. These b ata n’t frauds precipitated the* coal strike by cutting down wages already reduced by McKinleyism to the starvation point, and now, in furtherance of their war upon American wage--, they are d}ing th? very thing which for a generation they have declared would ruin them—namely, importing foreign coat—Chicago Times

PROFIT IN ORANGES.

Something About the Crop of Southern California. The first oranges in Southern California were planted by the old mission fathers, who undoubtedly brought the seed from Spain, where it was originally carried from Arabia by wandering tribes. The orange is a remarkable tree. It flourishes in what is apparently the poorest soil, is always green, ripe fruit will hang on its limbs for a year, and it is always in fruit or blossom. The tree will bear when 150 or 200 years old, while at Versailles there is a tree known to be over 400 years old, and older still is a tree at Nice that is fifty feet high and still bears 6,000 oranges a year. Its exact age is unknown but it is a product ot antiquity. The orange craze, as it has been called, is most alluring. The prospect, as viewed by the novice, is of Bitting down and waiting for the agent to come round yearly and buy the crop, yet constant work and attention are necessary. The orange grove requires to be irrigated, ploughed and weeded throughout the year, but the chief trouble lies in its various parasites. Five years ago a number of the groves of Southern California were almost ruined by the white scale. Orange men were in despair, and orchards worth thousands of dollars were literally given up to the destroyer and looked as if flecked with snow. The Government sent a Commissioner to Australia, who discovered a lady bug that proved an enemy to the white scale, and today the trees are again in tine condition. The white scale is unknown hero now, despite continual investigations and searches for it by the many local horticultural inspectors and associations.

Only once in thirteen years has the frost seriously damaged the Southern California orange crop. On Christmas eve in 1891 the mercury went down to 27 deg. above zero in nearly every part of this region, and remained there for several hours. When dawn came the growers knew they hud lost over half a million of dollars in damaged fruit. The oranges on the inner and protected branches of the trees escaped with little or no Injury. In that season Pomona Valley marketed $45,000 worth of oranges, whereas the amount would have been over $250,000 without the cold snap. Some of the statements of profits made by some of the old orchardists seem so absurdly largo that, if they they did not come from reliable and Erominent citizens, one would hardly elieve them. There is, however, positive proof that some of the ten and twelve year-old orange groves in Pomona Valley have, since they came into full bearing, when six years old, borne several crops of fruit that netted the grower $5 a tree, or SSOO an acre. A few orchards here have netted their owners over $650 an acre in some years, but the majority of bearing orange orchards in Southern California yield crops worth between $225 and SBOO an acre in an average year. One or two growers who have learned the art of growing the best fruit, and have packed it carefully themselves, have in several seasons got over S6OO per acre clear for investment and labor, The largest profit that can be relied upon yet reported in the Pomona Valley this season for oranges is that from the seventy-acre Rhorer orchard, which has borne a crop that was sold on the trees last week to a Chicago buyer for $22,000. The trees are nine years old, and have had unusual care. The property has cost to date between $85,000 and $90,000. These profits have created a most wonderful demand for orange land and trees. Thousands of acres that were formerly grain fields or unproductive of any crops, have been planted to groves since the great real estate boom bubble of 1887 burst. Two years ago the Pomona Progress estimated that nearly $4,000,000 was invested in one season in land, trees and labor for orange groves, the amount invested in trees alone being about $700,000. This season orange planting, and the purchase and preparation of land- for the same will probably run up toward $1,500,000. Riverside expects to add to its acreage by about 1,200 acres, Pomona by 900 acres, Pasadena by 600 acres, San Gabriel by 500 acres, Redlands by 600 acres and other localities about 800 acres. What especially pleases the grower is the fact in the last ten years* the consumption of oranges has increased 500 per cent, in this country and is on the increase. Not only this but rival and new roads have opened up a market for California fruit which it has not had in former years.—[New York Sun.

The "Millionaires’ Club."

The white marble palace at Fifth avenue and 60th street, New York, the future home of the Metropolitan Club, was opened for private inspection a few days ago. The members on Thursday will take formal possession. The club house has a frontage of 90 feet on Fifth avenue, and extends 150 feet on 60th street, with a wing in the court 80 by 50 feet. The exterior of the club is in the simple and severe style of the Italian renaissance, modelled after the Roman palaces of the sixteenth century. The interior, however, is a harmonious blending of ancient and modern styles of architecture. While the club officials refuse to say anything about the cost of the club house, it is generally understood that the lot cost $480,000, the building $1,000,000, and the furnishings nearly $1,500,000.—[Washington Star.

Rapid Growth of Redwood Trees.

We have evidence in California that Redwood trees cut down sixty years ago have made sprouts which are new trees from three to five feet in diameter, and from one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet high. It is the rapid growth of some of these trees which leads people to doubt their great age, but there seems to be* no reason for doubting that the method of calculating by annual rings of wood is sound, and that the great age imputed to some of these trees has solid ground work to build on.—[Meehan’s Monthly. >

FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.

WATER PROOF VOLK. I looked from my window, And, dancing together, I spied three queer people Who love the wet weather. The turtle, the frog, and the duck alt joined hands To caper so gaily upon the wet sands. The turtle was coated In shell, to defy The pattering rain-drops, And keep him quite dry. The frog in green jacket was gay as could be, “My coat will shed water—just see it!” said he. The duck shook his web-feet And ruffled his feathers; Cried he, “Rain won’t hurt me! I’m dressed for all weathers. And when I can see the clouds frown in the sky I oil my gray feathers and keep very dry!” —[A. L. M., in St. Nicholas. SWIMS ONLY IN SALT WATER. Take a piece of light pine wood, about six inches long, and cut it to the shape of a fish. Paint two of the Bides black and the third white, to give it the appearance of a fish. You can prove to your friends that thia fish lives only in seawater by the following device. Place it in a basin of water, into which you have thrown several spoonfuls of salt, and it will float with its back out of the water like a real fish. Now put it in a basin of ordinary fresh water and it will instantly turn on its back and show the white under surface, like a dead fish. This trick is extremely puzzling to people who do not know that the water in one basin is strongly impregnated with salt. The phenomenon is merely due to a difference in the density of the liquids.—(New York Recorder. a policeman’s pet. “Hello, boy; shake hands!’’ is the very cordial greeting of the Tenth Precinct parrot to Captain Early every morning. The remark is rather too familiar to be made to a police captain in hiß own station house, but then Poll, you see, is a privileged, person. Poll is a green purrot, which has lived at the station two years, and has made herself such a favorite with the officers that, as one of them Bald, the house wouldn't seein "all there” without her. The blue-coats irreverently speak of her as “Tom.” Poll and the captain are great friends, and when the latter is alone she. will sing to him by the hour. She is vain though, for the burden of her song is always: “Polly, pretty Polly. Polly’s a good bird.” Sometimes when a drunken prisoner is brought in Poll calls out: “Lock him up, doorman, lock him up!” Then, too, at roll-call she sometimes gets her innings by calling out something. Polly 1b quite an accomplished actress, and can lie on her back and play dead as well as the best ’possum that ever lived. She will always respond to a friend's invitation to shake hands, but she is rather shy with strangers. The children of the neighborhood are fond of Poll and visit her every afternoon. They stand outside the captain's window—for Poll never invites them in. If she feels in a good humor she answers pleasantly, but if not she says curtly: “Shut up!” and walks away.—[New York Recorder.

BOBINS. Who does not know the roblnsj bright, merry little birds, always busy, hopping or flying here and there in search of food for themselves or the little birds in the home nest, safely hidden away in the bough of a tree. The parent birds are always anxious and watchful for the safety of their families, and If an enemy is seen near the nest, the older birds show the greatest anxiety and distress, and fly back and forth in a most excited manner, uttering at the same time a little cry of fear, and if one of the young birds, by accident, falls from the nest, which is sometimes the case, the distress of the mother knows no bounds. Robins are very sociable birds, and will often build their nests In the lower branches of trees or bushes near a house, where they live fearlessly, seeming to know that they are favorites, and that no one will harm them. The nests are made of twigs for the outside and lined with hair, and in this soft, cozy little home from five to seven small eggs are laid. These are watched carefully until one day the little ones may be seen in the nest. Queer looking little things they are, too, for they seem all necks and mouths, and one would think it impossible for them ever to become like the pretty, sprightly redbreasts. They are cared for by the parent birds and fed with worms, small beetles and other insects until they are large enough to take care of themselves. Though the robin cannot be considered a song bird, yet his note is full and clear, and in the spring, especially, it is heard with pleasure. The birds are sometimes taken when young, placed in a cage and kept as pets. A full grown bird is about five inches long, the body plump, and legs exceedingly slender for the size of the body. The head is black, the body of a brown shade, the upper part of the breast red and the under parts white. The wings are broad, and the tall very slightly forked. They are found in many parts of the world, and in some places are such favorites that laws are made to prevent their being killed at any time. They belong to a species of bird called Sylvidae, which includes the thrush, a bird celebrated for its peculiarly sweet, musical song, a clear, mellow whistle of several notes. There is the bluebird, which is alsocalled the robin. These are generally birds of passage, although they will often remain in sheltered places quite far north, bu|t when they do leave the colder for a warmer clime, they always»*return in early spring, and the brighf little visitors are greeted with a hearty welcome.-—[Detroit-Free Press..