Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1883 — Page 3

;j BOIT QUI MAIj y pants. ow Two Clothing Firm* Clothed the Populace at Bottom Figures—The Effect od John Smith. “I saw them straddling through the air Ah if possessed with witches; Farewell, farewell, I faintly cried, My breeches, ohl my breeches!” At an early hour yesterday morning, while the tain was pourlug, a thousand umbrellas, heaving like the billows of the angry Atlantic, were before the When clothing store. An equal number trere fiercely undulatiug before the Model. Under them were men, women and children—excited, wild-eyed, panting. Both the stores were full of people, not even “standing-room only" to he had, and the doors had been shut. ‘Outside, the populace were clamorous t© get in, even if breeches had to be made in the wall. “I trow, sirs,” said a policeman, his face blanching ■with terror, “we shall get overall without further trouble.” What did it all mean? This: that a cold winter is coming on, so a few days ago one of these houses reduced the price of jeans pants to ninety cents, the other dropped to seventy-five cents, the answer came at fifty cents, then forty, and so down until yesterday, when the price fell to five cents and then to one cent a pair for JeaDS overalls. The cat had started on lined jeans pants, hut as competition went on they changed to overalls, which coat less money, but which they both sold at a great loss. By 9 o’clock yesterday morning both ©tores had sold all the overalls they had on hand, nearly two thousand pairs in all, and had stopped to rest. Both of them had been compelled to stock up lathe city, the overall manufacturing house of C. B. Cones & Bon being called upon for supplies. “The competition has been warm enough, I think,” said one of that firm. “We sold them fifty dozen yesterday, and over a hundred dozen to-day. We have no orders for any to-morrow, ands hope both contestants have got through, though we can supply them with all they want if they desire to keep up the fight, as we can turn out 125 dozen overalls a day. The jeans pants they sold when the cutting began cost them $lO and sll a dozen. Some of these were sold at fifty cents a pair and then as low as twenty cents a pair. The Jeans overalls that they have been selling at ten cents, five cents, and even as low as one cent a pair, cost them from $4 to $8 a dozen—say an average of $5.50 a dozen. So you see they have been losing several dollars on each dozen they have sold.” The Effect on a Speculator. Yesterday about 10 o’clock in the forenoon John Smith was taken to the Hospital for the Insane. The case is a singular one. For several days Mrs. Smith had noticed that her husband acted strangely, and when any article of wearing apparel was mentioned would start suddenly. Yesterday,, when she chanced to say the word pants he came near falling from his chair. In the investigation before the commission of lunacy it appeared that Mr. Smith, under glowing inducementß, had bought a pair of loans pants at seventy-five cents. He had bought long as on investment, confident that they would come up to par. He had always had a mania for speculating, and last spring was interested in several large grain and pork deals, and while everything was crashing around him, went through unshaken. It was the testimony of one of the witnesses that when pants dropped to 50 cents, he complained of inability to sleep at. night and great, restlessness; that when they went down to 20 cents he became pale and haggard; yet still hugged to his bosom the delusive hone that the price would recover sufficient to cover his margin. Yesterday tnornmg. while watching the ticker, when the price of jeans pants came on the paper at 5 cents, he was noticed to tremble violently and clutch wildly at his hair, and two minutes later, when the quotation ran in at 1 cent, reason tottered on her throne, and he fell to the floor a raving maniac.

AMUSEMENTS. tafOUSH’s OPERA-HOUSE—“HttR SECOND LOVE,” Mias Maude Granger began a limited engagement in John A. Stevens’s new drama “Her Becoud Love,” a play that ie a decided improvement over “Unknown,” “Passion’s Slave” and other of the author’s previous productions, but is still far below the mark of dramatic excellence or even mediocrity. The story has to do •with the Nihilistic troubles in Russia, and love, war and domestic infelicities are commfogled in about even proportions. The plot has some elements of originality, but the development is crude and unnatural and the lines commonplace and full of cheap sentiment. An iUustrational this is in the first act, where two Russian noblemen are made to act like clowns initsad of gentlemen, in their attention to the young girl at whose house they are received. The play is full of clap-trap and rubbish that have been introduced to “catch” the gall ry. but the chief criticism against it is the very bad taste displayed by the author in making the story hinge upon a subject which is so indelicate as to be almost intolerable. Ir is a bad play in more ways than one. Miss Granger, however, commands respect by her admirable acting of the part of Olga, and last night she aroused the sympathies of the audience to such an extent that she was greeted with frequent applause and several calls before the curtain. She is an artist of excellent methods and tiue powers of delineation. In certain lines of hocalled “emotional acting” she has no superior on the stage. A feature of her appearance last nifcbt was her elegant and costly costumes, which attracted the attention of the ladies more perhaps than the performance itself. The supSort was generally satisfactory, the efforts of [r. W. 9. Haskins, Mr. George Werses, Mr. J. W. Summers, and Misses Lillian Vane a red Carrie Lennox deserving special mention. “Her Becond Love” will be repeated during the remainder of the week. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE —“A BUNCH OP KEYS.” A better pleased audience never witnessed a performance than that at the Grand Opera-house last night, for the langhter was almost incessant and generally uprorious for the greater part of three hours. “A Bunch of Keys,” whloh was presented l>v the Edouin & Banger company, is a mass of nonsense and absurdities under the guise of a play, with a score of ridiculous situations and more amusing “business” than was ever put together before, and it affords a number of clever people opportunities to display their cleverness ir. various ways. The story depends upon the efforts of an amateur to keep a hotel on the approved plan, and bis troubles and misfortunes, brought about by blundering servants and various accidents are most amusing. It is not a comedy, but a very funny burlesque, and incidentally to its production are introduced a number of the latest songs and dances, several of which were honored with more than one encore last night. Charles Bowser. the well-known comedian, p!j*ed the part/ of the landlord and was ably seconded by Eugene Canfield, ms the bell hoy, and their gags and original business made much fun. The ladies of the company are all good looking, good singers, and generally attractive. Miss Lena Merville, a remarkably bright young woman, played the part of Teddy with much grace and cleverness, and her singing and dancing made a hit. Miss Marietta Nash, a wonderfully graceful danoer, did a small part in such a way as to make the people in front want to see her in something in which she had better opportunities, and Miss Anna Brevoor Diet with favor by her sweet singing and elegant costumes. The other parts were well assumed by Miss Elvia Beabrooke, Mis* Ida Gridin, Harry Booker, George Lauri and William Siuiih. The stage setting was novel and appropriate, and the performance was given with much dash and sprightliness. It will he reposted to-night, tomorrow afternoon and to-morrow night, and should draw large houses. If you miss “The Bunch of Keys” you will miss the “funniest) show” that has been here for a long Lime. NOTES. H. C. Hasted, business manager for “The Princess Chuck” company, which is at the Grand next week, is m town. M. B. Leavett’B All-star Specialty Company id the excellent attract'on that Manager Gilmore has provided for his patrons all uext week. Mr. Will. H. K'dinle, of this ciry, now a member of Ford’s Opera Company, will be mHrru-d in Philadelphia, the first of next, week, to MIsS Lilly Taylor, a member of the same company. Miss Margaret Mather will be at English’d Opera-house the last three bights of he.tr W*ek* nopeafing ,is “Juliet” on Thursday and 9a turd ay evenings; os Jut la (in “Toe Hunohh ick *), Bittu'duy mutiuee, and iu “Leah, the Forsaken,” ou

Friday evening. Miss Mather’s company comprises Alexander Salvtni, Milues Leviok. Win. bavldge, Mrs. Carrie Jamison, Miss Kate Fletcher, of Indianapolis, and others. Miss Marietta Nash, of the “Bunch of company, is one of the oleverest young women in burlesque or comedy seen here for many days. She gives promise of becoming a great favorite iu the luture. PERSON A Li. H. L. Wesner, of Blutfton, is at the Grand. Mrs. Julius Falk, of Peru, is at the Bates House. Leonurd Benton, of New York, is at the Grand. Hon. 8. B, Voris, of Louisville, is at the Bates House. W. K. Harrison, of Martinsville, is at tho Grand. C. E. Doyle and wife, ot Peru, are at the Bates House. Judge N. O. Ross, of Logansport, is at the Grand. Prof. W. L. Blumenschein, of l3ayton, is at the Bates House. Hon. Eb. Henderson, of Martinville, is at the Grand Hotel. Hon. G. W. Cunningham, of Nashville, Tenn., is at the Bates House. Hon. Wm. Katun, jr., and Judge W. J. Wood, of Evansville, are at the Bates House. FatLor Bessoniea yesterday received a cablegram from Bishop Cbatard announcing his safe arrival at Queenstown. J. W. Holcombe, Superintendent of Public Instruction, fs at Kcndallviile, attending the teachers’ Institute of Noble county. James P. Luse, formerly connected with tha Journal, bat now register of the land office at Deadwood, D. TANARUS.; accompanied by his wife, is registered at the Deuison. The Young Ladies’ Missionary Society of Me-ridian-street Church will be entertained, this evening, by Miss- Preston, at the residence of C. W. Smith, No. 79 East Pratt street. N. T. Carr, Columbus; 8. Steele, Crawfords ville; W. L. Penfleld, Auburn; 8. O’Connor, ir., and Beuj. Laws, Shelby ville; George W. Harvey, Marion; E. Barnard and wife, Bpiceland; A. J. Holmes, Boone, la., are registered at the Bates House. Owen Rice, wife and two daughters, Elkhart; James Gilmore, Danville; H. L. Btetso, Logansport; James Ryan, Rushville; E. 8. Me In tire, Mitchel; H. C. Turner, Mt. Sterling, Ky.; J. J. Gerson, Philadelphia; T. J. Dills, Fort Wayne; E. G. Potts, Cincinnati, are at the Grand Hotel. Capture of Auother “Suspect.” Mr. Calvin A. KUiott, an old citizen of Indianapolis, has just sent, by erpress, to Prof. Collett, a fine, large and live specimen of Gila monster, the scientific name of which is Helioderma snspectum (Cope.) This is the only lizard known that has fangs and teeth, and consequently Prof. Cope r who described it, gave it the specific name of suspectum, that is, he suspected that it might be poisonous, or as he expresses ir, he would rather be bitten by any other lizard than by the Gila monster. This is the largest land lizard found in the United States. The specimen sent to tho State Museum is about fifteen inches long. It is now shedding its skin, and will soon appear in anew dress of brownish black, spotted with bright yellow. It may be remembered that about four years ago Rev. Myron W. Reed and Dr. Johnson brought a Gila monster to the city on their return from a visit to Arizona. It was given to Prof. Jordan, hut it was not properly caged and made Its escape, and was lost to science. The new arrival will be on exhibition for a few days before it is placed in a bottle of alcohol.

Hold and Persistent Burglars. An attempt was made on last Monday night by burglars to break into the residence of Russell Elliott, on North Tennessee street, but they were frightened away by the family. A second visit was made on Tuesday night, snd two sets of harness were stolen from the stable. The burglars came again last night, shortly after 12 o’clock, and tried to break into the house. Mrs. Elliott fired upon them, and'they fied, but it is not known whether any of them were wounded. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. A. B. Randall, of Oswego, N. Y., an extensive dealer in corn, died yesterday. W. F. Otis, of Cleveland, for forty years prominent in the grain-elevator business, is dead, aged seventy-three. Paul Villars, a veteran journalist of Now Orleans, nearlykilled a colored lad who was stealing nuts from a pecan tree in his yard. The Wall-street National Bank of New York, with a capital of $500,000, has abandoned tne federal system and opeued as a State institution. The feeble health of President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania road, foreshadows the election of A. J. Cassatt to the presidency before many months. Schedules in assignment of Max Wallenstein to Bueno Klopfer, of New York, were filed yesterday. Liabilities. $111,580: nominal assets, $91,962; actual assets, $70,833. Walter C. Hadley, editor of the Las Vegas, N. M., Gazette, aud Miss Alice C. Pax sou , were married last evening iu Philadelphia, at the residence of the bride’s father, Frederick Pax son. A Winfield, W. Va., dispatch says: Jacob Rogers shot William Bush, on a highway, near his farm on Wednesday night, inflicting fatal wound. No cause is known. Rogers escaped. Maria McCabe, of Hamilton, Ontario, who drowned her illegitimate child, has been sentenced to execution on Deo. 18. Her shrieks in the court-room nearly drowned the words of the judge. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pullman Palace-car Company was held at Chicago yesterday. 94,000 shares of the capital stock were represented, and the old board of directors and officers were re-elected. In a saloon row in Chicago, between two colored men, named Charles Reynolds and Edward Patterson, yesterday forenoon, the former pounded the latter over the head with a billiard cue. Patterson died this afternoon. Both men are of the vagrant order. It has been decided by members of the Milwaukee Musical Society that lack of hotel facilities will necessitate a postponement or the national pseni'crfear, which was to have been field therein 1885. There is a probability toe meeting may take place in 1886. The Bangor Furnace Company, of Bangor, Mich., has made a voluntary assignment. Chas. D. Rhodes, of Chicago, president of the company, has also made an assignment. Ho states the liabilities are $130,000; aud the assets are nominal!) twice that amount. A man and wife in Ban Francisco, who are estimated to be worth $75,000, were orrested a short time ago for cruelly to children They compelled their children to go about, nights peddling Trait and failed to properly provide them with clothing and provisions. A spring of magic water that not only cures all the diseases of the fl**ah, bur. ministers to a mind disused, is one of Texas’s proud possessions. It Is situ ited at Toy all, and is reported to have complo'elv cured a ranger who was supposed to Oe hopelessly insane. Richard Day, a notorious thief, was shot and mortally wounded at Toledo, yesterday afternoon, while iu company with h gang of thieves anti burglars who wore resisting arrest. Although still alive at 10 o’clock last night, bis death is looked for at any moment. A suit by the Muskegon, Mich., National Bank against the Northwestern mutual Life Insurance Company, of Wisconsin, for the recovery of $20,000 on tlie life policy of Edwin G. Coin stock, has been begun iu the United States Circuit Court at New York. The defeuae set up is habitual intemperance. During this season 26,000,000bri0k have been used in building in Salt Lake City. The total production by the yards aggregates about 34,000,000, leaving 8,000,000 to carry over to next spring, which is lour nines larger than the amount carried over last winter. The price of brick has ranged from $7 to $25 per 1,000, the latter for extra tine pressed. John Ilahser:, of Missouri Valley, la., writes to t lie authorities nt Milwaukee that the description of Mrs. Eisierinati, murdered in that city by her alleged husband, is precisely that of his daughter, wh. was three months ago seduced and abducted by a man calling himself Ostertueier. Hansen also recognizes the inau in tlie case, who has escaped Rheumatism comes from inactive kidneys. Huy Biuei'd usver fails to cure it. Try it.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCTORER 19, 1883.

A FISHY STORY, Os Which the Header Can Believe dust a. Much as He Likes. Philadelphia Times. William Brinckerhoff, who lives on the Frankford road, near Dauphin street, is the owner o£ an aquarium. At one time it was well stocked with goldfish, which, however, through the neglect of a careless servant, bgpame reduced this summer to a single survivor. This one has been the object of the most jealous care on the part of Mr. Brinckerhott, who objected most strenuously to the introduction into bis household, in July last, of a largo Maltese cat, the pet of his youngest daughter, Beatrice, The child, however, overruled her father’s objections, and secured a berth for tier pet, promising to guard the goldfish from its attentions. That she had not kept this engagement was yesterday proved to her father as he entered the lit.le parlor of his residence, and found the cat its sole occupant, save the goldfish in the globe, for which grimalkin was evidently preparing to make a fishing excursion. For this purpose, apparently, it leaped upon a chair at the side of the glass. The fish showed signs of consciousness of the cat’s approach, but no fear. On the contrary, it rubbed its nose against the glass and splashed its tail in the water, as if to attract the cat’s attention. The goldfish swam to the surface blowing in a manner which Mr. Brinckerhoff characterizes as impatient. Upon this the cat, raising itself on the edge of the howl, reached over a paw. The goldfish swam gently directly under it, when the cat softly stroked its back, purring meanwhile with great contentment. The fish, however, seemed still unsatisfied, and darting away from its strange companion, swam rapidly about the bowl, and then sought bottom. The cat remained in its position as if puzzled. Shortly afterward the fish came to the surface again and snapped at a fly which was crossing the water, and rested after having done so on the edge of the bowl. Tho cat, seeming to appreciate the situation, with a single swift movement, caught the fly and dropped it into the month of its finny friend. The latter then submitted contentedly to the. back-scratching endearment which it had before resented. Mr. Brinckerhoff ascertained from his little girl that the strange companionship had existed for some weeks, but she had tearedto tell of it, as her negligence had allowed its formation. Mechanical Restraint of the Insane. To the Editor ji the InOlanaoolis Journal: Will you allow me to say that the course being pursued by Dr. W. B. Fletcher in abolishing mechanical restraints is in keeping with that pursued by all progressive asylums in England and Scotland. Such implements of torture and suffering as are mentioned in your paper of yesterday should not for a moment be tolerated in any respectable asylum. In some of the European asylums the abolition of retraints has been carried much further and includes the abandonment of all drugs when used simply for restraint, and in many of the best institutions the most enlarged liberty is allowed patients. The principal of one of the largest asylums in Scotland said to the writer that he had become fully satisfied that patients suffered more from efforts to restrain them than from any other cause; that he was not afraid of an insane person, and found no difficulty in managing them without the use of mechanical apparatus. It is much easier, however, for an unskillful attendant to put on some apparatus which, from the very nature of things, must soon become painful to the patient, than to exercise patience and tact in their management. The friends of the patients and the whole community should be thankful to Dr. Fletcher for the course he is pursuing. c. F. c. Richmond, Oct. 16.

Current Magazines. The last North American Review possesses peculiar interest on account of a paper on the government and the telegraph, by Dr. Norvin Green. Green B. Raum has some suggestions m regard to the public service. Rev. David N. Utter has written a very temperate review of John Brown, of Osawdtorn ie, and his abortive insurrection at Harper’s Ferry. The November Atlantic is a superior number. Among its many attractions are the following: “The new departure in negro life,” “A good-bye to Rip Van Winkle,” “The songs that are not sung,” by John Boyle O’Reilly; a comparison of Ho wells’6 “Woman’s Reason” and Bret Harte's “In the Carquinez woods,” Random Spanish notes by Charles Dudley Warner, etc. Macmillan’s for October contains “The why and the how of land nationalization,” by Alfred R. Wallace. From a paper on corporal punishment in scnools it appears that this vexations question still lives in England toset at loggerheads the sentimentalists on the one hand and the intensely practical on the other. Sick Headache. Journal of Health. Sick headache is sickness at the stomach, a tendency to vomit, combined with pain in some part of the head, generally the left side. It is caused from there being too much bile in the system, from the fact that this bile is man factu reed too rapidly, or is not worked out of .the system fast enough by steady, active exercise. Hence, sedentary persons—those who do not walk about a great deal, but are seated in the house nearly all the time—are almost exclusively the victims of this distressing malady, it usually begins soon after waking in the morning, and lasts a day or two or more. There are many causes. The most frequent is derangement of the stomach by late and hearty suppers; by eating too soon after a regular meal (five hours should, at least, intervene); eating without an appetite; forcing food; eating after one is conscious of having had enough; eating too much of any favorite dish; eating something which the stomach cannot digest, or sour stomach. Any of these things may induce sick headache; all of them can be avoided. Over-fatigue, or great mental emotion of any kind, or severe mental application, have brought on sick headache of the most distressing character in an hour. It is caused by indulgence in spirituous liquors. Decayed teeth are a frequent cause of the severest form of sick headache, through irritation of the nerves and blood poisoning from the nicerated teeth. When a person hag sick headache, there is no appetite; the very sight of food is hateful; the tongue is furreu; the feet and hands are cold, and there is a feeling of general discomfort, with an utter indisposition to do anything whatever. A glass of warm water into which has been rapidly stirred a heaping teaspoonful each of salt and mustard, by causing instantaneous vomiting, empties the stomacn of the bile or indigested sour food, and a grateful relief is often experienced at once; and rest, with a few hours of sound, refreshing sleep, completes the cure, especially if the principal part of the next day or two is spent in mental diversion and out-door activities, not eating un atom of food—but drinking freely of cold water or hot teas—until you feel as if a piece of plain, cold bread and butter would “taste really good.” Nine times in ten the cause of sick headache is in the fact that the stomach was not able to digest the food last introduced into it, either from its having been unsuitable or excessive in quantity. When the stomach is weak, a spoonful of the mildest, blandest food would cause an attack of sick headache, when ten times the

amount might be taken in health, not only with impunity, but with positive advantage. Those who are subject to "sick headache” eat too much and exercise too little, and have cold feet and constipation. There is also, in a majority of cases, neuralgia of the faee, caused by decayed teeth, or ulceration at the roots of teeth that appear to be sound. When this is the case there will be no permanent relief, while life lasts, without the assistance of a competent dentist. But where the teeth are not at fault, a diet of cold bread and butter, and ripe fruit or berries, with moderate continuous exercise iu the open air sufficient to keep up a very gentle perspiration, would of themselves cure almost any case within thirty-six hours. Two teaspooniuls of pulverized charcoal, stirred in half a glass of water and drank, generally gives prompt relief. Peach Culture. J. L. Lovett's Catalogue. The peacli requires a warm, dry soil (displaying the aversion to water of a cat) that is but moderately rich in fertility, but, as it is a gross feeder and draws heavily upon the soil, especially of potash, nutriment should be supplied in the form of bonedust and potash. Wood ashes are excellent, as are also some of the commercial fertilizers —notably pure, ground bone. Potash should be supplied in abundance by all means, for not only is it useful in supplying the requirements of the tree, but in repelling the “yellows,” the great enemy of the peach. Muriate of potash is the best form to use, applying broadcast always. In preparing for planting, the land should be plowed thoroughly and as deep as possible, without bringing to the surface the subsoil, following in the furrow with a Goodall or other good subsoil plow. The trees may be planted fifteen or twenty feet apart each wav, owing to the character of the soil—the more sandy the soil the more closely they may be planted—the usual distance being sixteen or eighteen feet apart each way. The best way to mark out the ground for planting is to furrow it with a one-horse plow both ways at the desired distances. In planting be careful to cut off all bruised or broken roots smoothly, and trim back all side branches to within a few inches of the main stem—small ones to a whip—and cut back the main stem at least one-third its length. Many, particularly at the South, prefer to have the trees head low, and to cause them to do this cut off the entire tree eighteen inches to two feet above the collar when planting. The first two years after planting, beets, mangels, sweet potatoes or other hoed crops may he planted among the trees, after which time they should be given the full use of the soil; and whether the space between the trees be devoted to hoed crops while they are young or not, the soil then and in after years should be kept always as mellow and as free of weeds throughout the season as a field of corn; being careful never to disturb or injure the roots while plowing or cultivating. A peach orchard should never be planted to grass or grain crops, as such are exceedingly detrimental to the trees. Although the peach is more generally neglected in pruning than any other orchard fruit, yet there is none that more liberally repays for tiie trouble and expense, both in the superior yield of the fruit and maintaining vigor and fruitfulness. The peach should be annually headed in to jfroduce a sturdy tree with round, compact head, instead of being allowed to grow into dne with an open, spreading, unsymmetrical top as usually seen. In pruning always use sharp tools. The trees should be examined carefully early in the spring of each year, for borers or grubs, to be found in their bodies just at or immediately beneath the surface of the ground. Their presence will be detected from the gum formed by the exuding sap—when tney should be extracted with a sharp pointed knife. Asa preventive of the borer, place at the butt of each tree a shovelful of slacked lime or several of coal ashes.

Building a Fish-Pond. Writer i Southern Horne and Farm. My deepest water is about five feet deep, and tapers off over a little over three acres of ground to nothing, or as shallow as water can be. I think, ahout oue-third of my pond is four or five feet deep, and one-third one and a half and three feet deep, and then gradually lessening in depth to its edge. At one corner I, with a branch, washed into my pond a sand bed for the use of ray brim in bedding, which is a necessity; but they occupy such surface no longer than until hatching is done, when both the old aud the young put out for mud bottom for support. The remainder of my pond is mud bottom, with swamp vegetation abundant, such as rush, swamp-grass of several varieties, water lily, etc. Then, in a nart of my pond stands the original grounof bushes, such as are seen in this country in all swamp lauds. I find that my fish continually feed among the vegetation. Pish do not feed all the time, but a good portion of their lives are spent in a sleepy or stupid condition, under or near the banks, near logs, stumps, or any object that is so situated as to suit their convenience. When in this condition they will not bite, and often to make them even move you would have to touch them with a stick. No noise seems to scare them, and a jar or touch is required to make them stir. When they are feeding or running about they are lively as can be, next only to a flash of lightning in speed of movement. I have several species of fish in my pond all together. Some fishologists say they don’t do so well all in the same pond, but up to where my experience lias advanced in t.he enterprise, X can't see how they could do much better. Give them plenty of territory, and feed them well. I have not finished my pond yet. It will fake two years to finish it as it should be. Build fish ponds on flat surfaces when you can control enough water to be three or four feet deep, and from that depth to one inch deep, where there is plenty of vegetation, with mnd bottom, and we can, every one of us, raise all we want. Build the dams of solid mud, and throw it out from the inside, which, in nearly every instance, will give a sufficient quantity of deep water for the fish. When on the natural surface it need not be, at the deepest place, more than two and a half or three feet deep. Be sure to, make the pond where there is much water, for succeis in fish culture depends more on the quantity of fresh water coming into the pond than on anything else. Deep ravines dammed up and sandy surfaces are not suitable for raising fish. The Massachusetts Ploughman, among other things, talks suggestively about the compost heap, saying that it is a good plan to itave one for the benefit of the farm. The compost heap may be made of road-scrapings, the semirings of ditches, the cleanings of ponds, clippings from banks and hedgerows, scrapings and sweepings of farmyards, garden refuse, house refuse, and, indeed, all sorts of rubbish may be added to a compost heap. Even weeds will decay and then help to swell the material for enriching the land. The heap should, necessarily, be covered over with a layer of lime, and a layer of salt now and then is also a good addition. These materials are beneficial in themselves, and keep weeds from seeding on the top of the heap. The compost shottld be tur ed over from time to time, and when well mixed the land may be dressed with it, either in spring or autumn. Save the late potato vines for covering the strawberry beds in winter. Spread them thinly over the ground late in the fall, and they will afford sufficient protection through the cold weather. When spring comes they will be found so rotted away as not to interfere with the growth of the plants. They itave also tho advantage of containing no weed seeds. Many sink into an early grave by not giving Immediate attention to a alight cough, wliien could Have been slopped In rime by a 20-ceut bottle of Dr. Bull’s Conga Syrup.

AS ANECDOTE OF THE VANDERBILTS Which Goetl to Show that William K. Can Take Care of Himself. National Republican. ■'l see,” said the railroad man. “that William H. Vanderbilt said to an interviewer on last Saturday that William K. wasn’t in any trouble that he knew of, and that lie bad ‘neither asked for either money or advice.’ I guess tliis is so, too, lor neither of the two hoys have ever shown any weak spots that I know of, and both have made lots of money on their own account, Cornelias, voo know, cot ifo.OUO.OOO from his grandfather, the old Commodore, because lie was named after him. William K. didn’t get near so much, but he lias been sharp enough to make a living with what he got, and save a few millions beside. He’s a keen one, is William K. 1 know of one trick of his that surprised them all, ami his father, William H.. as much as anybody. The old man had been bearing Western Union —this was before Gould got control of it —and had sold the stock way down till pretty nearly everybody had got frozen out, or so afraid of it they didn’t care to bother with it very much. Finally one morning, thinking he had got it low enough, lie telegraphed his broker to buy 25,000 shares, if he could do it without causing too sharp a rise. The broker telegraphed back immediately, asking if he shonld buy the twentv-five thousand in addition to what William K. bought yesterday? ‘How mucli did William K. buy yesterday?’ inquired William H. “Thirty thousand shares,” was the reply. William K,’ had simply kept watch of things, and got in a day ahead of the old man. Tiiat was all. No, I don’t think he needs to ask for either money or advice.” Almost all farmers are overstocked with horses. They keep too many to do the work that will pay for doing. What they dc keep are not often the best. A poor work team makes every farm operation more expensive, besides often delaying seeding until the crop is rendered very doubtful. It is almost impossible to do good farming with poor horses. But when five orsix horses are kept ihe year through to do the work that should be done by two or three; when two men are paid wages and boarded to do the team work that should by done by one, it is easy to see that whatever is gained by grain-growing is more than lost before the gain can be realized in money. One cause of 3 failure to procure eggs at this time is the moulting of the hens. Those that moult the earliest will begin to lay the soonest, and should be kept for winter laving.

I Met a Friend. For a number of years I have been troubled with diseases of my kidneys and liver, with the most intense pains In tlie back and kidneys. My work being very trying at times, I found it impossible to attend to my business steadily. A short time since I met a ftiend of mine, and I described roy oase to him. He urged me to try Hunt’s Remedy, as he bad used tt for a severe oase of kidney and bladder disease, and was completely cured. I purchased a bottle at once of one of our druggists here in Syracuse, and ooroineuced using it according to the directions, and had not used all of the first bottle before I was improved aud could rest better than I had been able to do for a long time. The pains in my back were relieved, and I continued its use until I used one baU-doztm bottles. I feel like a different man, and I ean most certainly say that it has cared me, and gladly say to any troubled with kidney affection try Hunt’s Remedy. H. S. Proctor, Furniture Dealer, 60 Salina Street. Syracuse, N. Y., June 12, 1883. ‘‘Speak Well of the Bridge That Carries Us Safely Over.” Is an old adage, aud as these wonts seem to apply to my case I use them. For several years I have been terribly troubled with my kidneys and liver. I had intense pains in my loins, back and hips. I could not lie down, or sit down at times as the pains were more than I could bear. I was treated by physicians here in Syracuse that did me no good, and I also tried several medicines that gave me no relief. I finally went to one of our druggists here in Syracuse, and was recommended to use Hunt’s Remedy. I purchased a bottle, as I found it had been used with wonderful success here by others, and I had notused one bottle before Ibegau to Improve, could get rest which before I had been unable to obtain; the pains in my limbs and back were all gone, and it certainly has done all that was claimed for it In my case. Iu fact. Hunt’s Remedy has made a complete cure, and I most heartily recommend it to the public for kidney troubles in general. You are at liberty to use my name for the benefit of others that may he in doubt as to the great merit of Hunt’s Remedy. Gratefully yours, A. Woodruff. With the Dry-goods house of D. McCarthy & Go. Syracuse, N. Y., June ft, 1883. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. INDIANA.POUS. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE, ELLIOTT <sc BUTLER, NO. 3 -TNA BOTIjDtNGI. MISCELLANEOUS. PATENTS, MODELS AND PATTERNS. JOHNSON & CO., Corner of Georgia and Delaware Sts. BUY CETr BAKER Y. Only one quality of CRACKERS made, anil that the beat. Wholesale price, cents, amt retail 10 cents per pound. ERCULE9"POWDER. THE BAFE9T AND strongest powder m the world. Powder. Caps. Fuse, and all cue tools tor Btasunir Stump* kept by C. H. JENNE, bole A&ent, 29 South Pennsylvania street. Indianatjoiis Oil Tank L-ine Cos., DEALERS IN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS. Corner Pine and Lord Streets. * S .A. W S. W. B. BARRY, Saw Manufacturer, 182 and 13i 3 PenosTl? mis Si Smith’s Chemical Dye-Works, No. 3 Martindale’s Block, near Postoffice, Clean, dye and repair gentlemen's clothintr; also, ladies’ dresses, shawm. sacques. and silk and woolen goods of every description, dyed and refinished; kid irloves neatly cleaned at 10c per pair. Will do more first-class worn for less money than anv house of the kind iu tne State. JOHN li. BMITH. iBrsVI Ll ,uul Uyor '°maa other obstinate dis(f Stomach Bit tern is heyoml all comparison n " iinri restoring energy of persons who debilitating elTcctn of paiiifuldisordcrs. this f-tandlird vegetableinvhmrant i* confessed - ly iu!o.|iinlod. H a* fta WK AvM Kor :do to all <1 HlT—l| | tJ*- -.1.,,, "I

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