Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 March 1891 — Page 2

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Their Origin and Their Leading Charaeterist irs. Rural New Yorker discourses as follows on the Patagonians, black and brown, the latter being the preferred

sort:

Several years ago a seedsman advertised a “new breed'* of poultry—the Patagonian. A thrilling tale of a seaman who found a coop of these birds on board a South American ship served to give the breed a start, ft went up like a rocket, but came down Heavier than a stick. We bought several settings of the eggs, some of which failed to hatch at all, while others gave a variety of chickens of all sizes and colors. This seemed to be the experience of most of those who bought eggs, and the “Black Patagonians' are now practically unheard of. Last year, however, we began to hear of the "Patagonians” again. While visiting Mr. (*. S. Cooper's poultry yard to look at his Wyandottes, we noticed n lien of unique and strikingly handsome birds, different from anything we had ever seen before. At first sight they seemed to be small dark Brahmas, but an examination quickly showed that they had several distinct markings. “What are those birds, Mr. Cooper?” “Brown Patagonians! This breed is a ‘sport’ from the old black Patagonians.” The birds were so handsome that we bought a set ting of eggs. The hen,' •Princess,” shown in the cut, was hatched from this first brood. The picture is an excellent likeness of the Ueu. “Princess” weighs about 6} pounds. She is dark gray in color, with delicate white penciling in the feathers. Her legs are short, yellow in color, and lightly feathered. The comb is small and fully protected by arrestor “topknot,” which

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Thk pastors of the different churches in Crawfordsville, have landed together to tight the rum power. There is need of such a combi ae up there. The wonderful new writing Telegraph Machine was successfully operated between Indianapolis and Crawfordsville yesterday. By it messages are sent and received in the sender’s own handwriting. The machine worked with perfect success throughout, notwithstanding the fact that they were never put together until Saturday and yesterday the first current was passed through them. The conditions were very bad, also, yesterday for such a test, but the machine surmounted all obstacles. Those who were present expressed themselves as entirely satisfied with the work of the machine, and it may be accepted as an assured fact that a company to control and operate the writing telegraph in Indiana will aoon be organized in Indianapolis.

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gives the birds an airy and spirited appearance. The body is round and plump, with an astonishing amount of breast meat- In fact, if one could take a small

dark Brahma hen, change her color a little, diminish the size of her comb, add a top knot, take some of the feathers from her legs and make them shorter, thicken her body and add breast meat and double her intelligence he wonld have a hen like “Princess.” Regarding the origin of the brown Patagonians Mr. Cooper tells that he bought a breeding jien of black birds for pure Phtagoniaus. The first season he obtained a few brown chicks from their eggs, reserved the chicks and sold the original black ones. The succeeding season he had a mixture of brown and black chicks; preferring the browns, he disposed of the blacks and reserved browns only. These are the counterpart of the original purchase except in color. They are said to be hardy, fair layers of eggs and good table birds.

A corvette u* a sloop-of-vvar ot uot mors than twenty guns, and ranks next below a frigate. Tbs word is Fiancli, and signifies "a leap,” and is akin to our Kngliab word "curvet,”

Indiana World's Fair Sill I Inu The site for the Indiana World’s | Fair building at Chicago has already been selected. It is known as lot 81 and is one of the most beautiful lots j in Jackson Park. The building is to coat about $ld,000. Indiana stone, brick and other material as well as Indiana workmanship is to be used j iu its construction Everything] abont it as well as everybody connected with it will be from Indiana,

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The Fijians spend no inconsiderable part of their lives making mats in which to be buried, and every bouse has a greater or smaller pile of them rolled up among the rafters, with which their owners will'not part for love or money. Wherever graves are made they are bottomed with clean dry sand brought from the seashore, and sometimes sarcophagi are made of slabs of soft sandstone, over which, when the bodies are placed within, a slab of the same material is lowered, and the grave

filled iu with earth.

Formerly cave sepulchers were formed by digging straight down for fifteen or twenty feet, and then running a shaft horizontally for au equal distance. In a hollowed out chamber at the end of the shaft the body was laid, generally in a reclining position. In the ease of very old iiersons, to whom it seemed desirable to hint that os they had outlived their usefulness it would la-decent for them to accelerate the shuffling off of this mortal coil, it was common not to wait for their decease, but to put them iu the hole while still alive, leaving the a|>erture open, and dropping food down the perpendicular shaft at

stated intervals.

When the food was observed to be no longer utilized, the natural conrlimiou was that the inmates had said farewell to mundane affairs, and the hole was stopped by rolling a stone over it and covering it with earth. Hy this considerate action the veteran who lagged superfluous on the stage was gently assisted to that better land for which the sagacity of his reUv tives perceived that he was so well fitted.

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