Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — WHERE TO ATTEND SCHOOL [ARTICLE]

WHERE TO ATTEND SCHOOL

1. —Where you cau get good instruction in whatever you may wish to study. 2. —Where you can get good accommodations and good society. 3. —Where the expenses a*re least4. Where things are just as represented, or all money refunded and traveling expenses paid. Send or special terms and try the Ccnral Indiana Normal School and Business College, Ladoga, Ind.

A. F. KNOTTS.

Principal.

Gen. Grant’s Last Vote.—A few months before he was stricken with his fatal disease, Gen. Grant, in conversation with an’old friend, stated that he had not voted since the election of Dick Barret over Frank Blair in the Saint Louis congressional district, in which his vote was given to Barret. It is true, then, that Gen. Grant’s last vote was given to a Democrat. — 'New York Sun. Sherman (Texas) Courier: From the reading of President Cleveland’s proclamation on the subject of enclosing public lands, we conclude that this government will be administered in the interest of the masses and not for the benefit of the favored few, for the next four years. We feel real jolly when we think of the rings, pools, corporations and wealthy s ndicates having to take a back seat for awhile and give the man with the hoe a chance to own a home in tne west. Foreign capital with native American figure heads to represent them have gobbled up too much of the public domain already and, thank the Loid, Grover is going to stop it. Heaven. —“ Samuel,” said Mrs* Tolblitter, as they were walking home from church, “how did you like the preacher’s description of heaven?” “First rate, my dear,” said he, with energy. “If what he said is all true, and of course it is, what do you think you will like the best, when you get there, Samuel?” “The arrangements for securing peace,” said he with glibness. “Now, Samuel, what do you mean by that?” “They don’t have any marrying there, my, dear,” said he edging off a little. Tlid discussion took a warmer turn at once. —Chicago Ledger. - Geraniums for Winter Flow-ering.—-Now is the time for making geranium cuttings for winter flowering. Young shoots are the best for propagation. Cut .the pieces just below a leaf; put them in boxes or flower-pots, placing a bit of potsherd just under each slip. Set the pots and boxes in a shady place and keep the earth moist. Large slips will root just as well as small ones. Care must be taken, however, when large slips are cut to choose well-formed pieces, else the plants will be awkwardlooking. Any good earth is suitable for the slips, but be sure to have a little charcoal or bits of potsherd in the bottom of the pots or boxes for drainage. Cut the s'ips in the morning before the sun has touched them, or in the cool of the evening. Use a sharp knife and make a clean cut. If there be uncertainty as to how many leaves ought to be removed, a safe plan is take a pair of scissors and cut off half of each leaf, following its contour, and for small slips let two, entire leaves at the top remain.—■ From a scarlet geranium with two shoots each about eight inches long, set in the ground in spring, I took twenty cuttings, all of which were thrifty bloomers. Its two seasons there were in all sixty pots of plants obtained from the single stock. I never throw away a piece of geranium, but plant it, no small or stumpy it is. In this way any one may have as many plants as are needed for bedding, besides being able to git, e numbers away to friends who have

neither the time nor inclination for propagating them. Large geraniums may be put away in the cellar, planted in boxes. They must be taken to the light in the early spring so that they may be in fit condition for setting out of doors after frost is over. If there is room in the house the tall plants will be a pleasant adjunct, with their trusses of red, pink, orjwhite flowers. But geraniums must have suu at least half the day, so a northwest window will not be suitable for their well being.—Commercial Advertiser.

The Medicated Nest Egg.—A good plan for making medicated nest eggs. Here it is: Cut a hole in one end of an egg as big ai this capital O. In the other put a pin hole. Now blow out the contents and you have the empty shell. — Next mix plaster of Paris and water together to the consistency of cream. Add a few drops, of carbolic acid. Pour this into the shell until it is filled, and in t ven-ty-four hours it will be dry and you will have a medicated nest egg. I have tried this and find it works admirably. Five cents’ worth of plaster of paris wjjl make a dozen, and that amount of carbolic acid is sufficient to scent a hundred. The time spent in making these medicated nest eggs is by no means lost. They are sure death to lice, and as the hens go on the nest and sit on them every day, they thus take an involuntary dose of antivermin medicine. There is no danger of these eggs being broken and eaten up, if the fowls can get any gravel, £l have known of chickens* endeavoring to eat them where there was no lime at hand.