Qualities Of Fire Wood

It is a great couveiiienee to know tlie oornparative value of different kinds of wood for fuel. Shell-burk bickory is regnrded as tlie highedt standard of our I forest trees, aüd cnlliug that 100, other trees will compare with it foï real value as fuel for house purposes as follows : Slu.llburk llickory, . i , .lttojYpUii Hik. . , , 60 FiKinit iliokory i)S flard maple 59 White oak 84 Wbito clin 58 , White asli 77 Iteil oedar 50 Bogwood 75 Wild chorry ."■" Scruboafe 73 ï'ellow pine 54 White hazcl 72 OheBtnut 52 Apple tree 70 Yellow pop!ar 51 Ked oak 60 Bntternut 13 White beech 65 Wh!t! Inreh 48 Klark walnnt 6S White pine K lüackl.irch 2 It is worth hearing in mimi tliat in woods of tlie same species there is a great difference, according to the soil ou which they grow. A tree that grows on r. wet, low, rioh gronnd will be less solid .lid leas durable for faal, and therefore I oL a less vidue than a tree of the same kind that grows on a dry and poorer soil. To the ordiniiry p'urchaser, oak in o.dc, and piue is pine, but for home use the tree grown on dry upland and st;iuding apart írom others is worth a gr-at deal more. - Onr Home Journal. On a Monday a young man résöued a girl who had brokfii througli the ice of ti (4kating pond in Toronto, On the i niüdug Saturday tíiey were rnarried, tliií:igli tiiey liad been strangers lip I" tin ,time of the accident.