Bowlers Should be Artists at Dissimulation.

One of the secrets of the superiority of advantage held by the batsman over the bowler of late years is declared by certain of the greatest cricketers of our land to be the fact that even the very best of our " head " bowlers cannot pfter their first season of high class cricket disguise from observant bite men what sort of a b&ll is going to be sent down

' Bowlers should bn artists at and masters of dissimomlation nowadays/ said Lord Hawks to a contributor, and he went on to explain that so marked is the style of every great bowler of to day that, with vpry rare exceptions, the latter always, immediately prior to tho delivery each ball shows by some expression of face or motion of the body that he is about to put in a short pitched ball, an extra slow slow or fast one, or some other kind of volley that ho is noted for. The in variable signs—often of the slightest and apparently least significant kind— preceding every possible delivery of every givn ruan soon become well known to batsmen of the first rank, and these latter are seldom surprised by having to meet any port of ball other than thpy, like a flash, had read bs coining during the bowU-r'a run, When that fine crickpter and delight ful character, Tom Emmetfc, bowled a couple of outrageous and impossible wirles, the careful batsman looked out for a third ball that muet be difficult and that might be absolutely unplay able, but these l< head wide?," as they were .jailed, of Emmett'a are a very broad example

Prince • Ranji' is credited with say ing that the successful bowler should almost be a dram itic genius nowadays ; for, even if his face be as stolid and unreadable as a mask, he has still io see that no triok of hand, leg, or body betray his intentions. ' There is not a single great bowler of this agp,' says the Prince, • whasp very finest deliveiiea are not inevitably presaged by some sign, and it only depends upon whether the ball on its merits doea or does not beat the batsman—tha ehment of eui» prise is almost gone.'— -Tit Bits.

Fate Of King Humbert's Assassin

Owinjjf to the abolition of capital punishment m Italy, Bresci, the Anar chist regicide, will not be * xeeated, bat will be subjected (it is believed) to life imprisonment., the first ten years of which are passed in Bolitary confinement under conditioßS that lack little of the horrors of being buried alive. The con dt-mned is entombed in a dark chamber not much larger than a coflia. Prom the moment when the key is tnrned in the lock, the door is never again opened wiihin ten year?,unless to remove a dead man Through a little sliding panel dry bread and water, in quantity barely sufficient to sustain life, and given to the prisoner one« a day, A prisoner keeper night and day keeps the condemn ed always in sight. The poor wretch is not even ali'wej to lalk to himself or to make any sign of life. In winter tim?, however cold the weather, a single light covering is allowed the condemned man. If at the end of ten years the f risoner is still alive and sane he is then re&lisfd from solitary confinement, and sent to the galleys, where 3 unless he be pardoned by the Sovereign, he passes the remainder of his life at hard labour.

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Alleged Ciwe For Bots — The United States Department of Agriculture has recently published the following experiments which ». gentle man from Georgia tried, and found effective in dispelling bots from horses. Some years ago a friend of his lost a valuable horee by these pests, H« took from the stomach of the dead animal about a ejill of the bots to experiment with. He made a prepara tion of all the remedies he had heard of, and put some of the bots in each Most of them bad oo effect ; a fpw affected them slightly, but sage tpa more than anything else, killing them in fifteen hours. He concluded he oonld kill them by putting them in nitric acid, bat it had no more efl ect OQ them than water, as the third day , they were aa lively aa when put io. He took a handful of tansy, braised it, added a little water, squeezed ont the iuiee, and put some of the bots in. They were dead in one minute. Some time after he had another horse affected with botsr. He gave him tansy in the morning and a dose of salts in the evening. The next morning he took from the excretions three half pinta of bots, I£ this account can be relied on, anil it ought to be, published as it is by so high an authority as the American Department of Agriculture, if will not be a difficult matter to circumvent the bots. Farmers, therefore, and settlers generally, will have to go in for the growth of tansy, that they will be able to make a decoction of bo simple and effective a character that horses troubled with the grubs may be cured. The common tansy (tanacetum vulgare) as moat people know, ia »n erect her baceous plant, one to two feet in height with repeatedly divided, deeply cut leaves, and terminal corymbs of button. Jike flower-bends, the flowers being yellow. In English gardens it is a very common pla t All parts of it have a strong, aromatic scent, as also an exceedingly bitter taste. At one time tansy was much used in mcdi« cinal preparations, and still retains ft place in old oookery books aa an ingredient in puddings and cakes Among rustic practitioners tansy wine used to enjoy some amount of reputa tion »c a stomachic, tansy tea being an old popular drink for certain ail ments. The plant is a native of Great Britain and the Continent, and has been introduced and naturalised in the States of America.



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