Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1880 — Page 7

THE INDIANA' STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, NOYEMBJ.lt 11 I860;

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OUR FAR1I BUDGET.

lÜBcelUneona Gatherings for Oar Farma er Friend.-. The Prevailing Horae Dlsease-;-Salt as a Fertilizer Drrlng Potatoes j for Export. X I Doffs bm' Sheep Prot e tori Pickle for Cur J if Meat Profit la Apple Floor . for Poultry Houses, Etc. . - , , Fickle for Carlas Meat. 7 ' A large amount of feet, pork and mutton is lost to farmers every season, by not being perfectly cured. Every year a large number of recipes are published in agricultural papers for curing meat, some of . which are valuable! Some thirty years ago the Germantown (Pa.) Telegraph published a recipe that was tried by a large number of people and highly commended. The next year it was republished with like results, whereupon the paper fell into the habit of pubish'mg it every season, and it claims that no person has ever tried it for curing feet, pork, mutton, tongue, or hams has ever afterward cured meat in any other manner with satisfaction to himself. The following is a reprint of the famous recipe: To one gallon of water take one and a half pounds of salt, one-half pound sugar, onehalf ounce saltpetre, one-half ounce potash. Use only a pure article uf iotash ; if thiscan not be obtained omit it altogether. In this ratio the pickle can be increased to any quantity desired. Let these be boiled together until all the dirt from the sugar rises to the top and is skimmed off. Then throw it into a tub to cool, and when cold, pour it over your beef or pork. The meat must be well covered with pickle, and should not be put down for at least two days after killing, during which time it should be slightly sprinkled with powdered saltpetre, which removes all the surface blood, etc., leaving the meat fresh and clean. Some omit boiling the pickle, and rind it to answer well, though the operation of boiling purifies the pickle by throwing off the dirt always to be found in salt and sugar. If this receipt is strictly followed, it will require a single trial to prove its superiority over the common way, or most ways, of putting down meat, and will not soon be abandoned for any other. The meat is unsurpassed for sweetness, delicacy, ami freshness of color, Cultivating tha Pentimmon. The most promising of all the larger of the wild fruits is the common persimmon. In its native state it gives much greater promise of superiority than the apple, pear, Ieach, or orange. It is, at least, very jalatable, while the others are not. The circumstance that this fruit riiens very late in the season, and is improved by the frost is in its favor. There is no lack of early fruits of all kinds. But there is a scarcity of late fruits. The persimmon ranks among the most nutritious fruits grown in any portion of this world. It is easily preserved by drying r canning. Different trees produce fruit greatly varying in shape, size and flavor. In Missouri a variety lias been discovered that is destitue of seeds. The astringent quality which characterizes this fruit is much stronger in some specimens than in others. The tree has a fine appearance, is hardy, and rarely fails to produce a large crop of fruit. It only requires the same cultivation that the;apple, pear and peach have received to render it of equal value with them. The few persinimon&that find their way to market always command good prices. Profit In Apples. A fruit dealer, in demanding of a customer $2 per barrel for apples, stated that he was obliged to ask a good price for them, as lie was compelled to iay fifty cents per barrel for the varieties offered in the orchards in Michigan. The difference between the buying and selling price represented the cost of gathering the fruit, the cost of the barrel, freight, and profits. Of the selling price of the apples the raiser receives onefourth. A paper published in Rochester, N. Y says that most of the money paid for fruit in that city by consumers goes to the middlemen. Concord grax-s have been sold by the growers at one and a half to two cents per pound. They are retailed at the groceries at six cents a pound. Apples bring ... twenty-five cents to the farmers and are again sold to consumers at fifty or sixty cents per bushel. The grocers have to buy more than their resular trade demands, so as to make a liberal display before their stores, and one-fourth or one-half will perish on their hands and become a total loss. They must pay shop rents and constant attendance out of their profits, and have something to live on besides. It proposes that instead of selling to dealers, the farmers shall sell directly to consiimeis, in which case they must become or employ regular piddlers. They may make cen tracts with consumers foihe season to some extent; but as the supplies and their prices constantly vary, new bargains .are to be made as often. Fruit-raisers will hoose whether to sell their products in the mass at low priees to dealers or at higher rates by employing a peddler or canvassing vender. Floors For Poultry Houfes. Various materials have been employed for constructing tloors for poultry houses, as boards or plauks, concrete, asphaltum, brick and stone. The first named are objectionable, as they absorb portions of the manure dropjed by fowls, and, in consequence, give off vile and unhealthy odors when the temperature becomes warm. Floors made in part of asphaltum are liable to become sticky daring the hot weather of summer. Floors made of concrete, brick or stone are vey cold during the. winter, and are liable to the further objection of becoming damp. At present most poultry keepers give their reference to earth floors. They prefer clay, ut are well satisfied with any kind of earth so that it is elevated sufficiently to be out of the way of surface water. "Whatever kind of earth is employed should be packed close, so that it may be swept with a stiff broom as occasion requires. It is best to have the floor covered with pulverized peat, ashes or road scrapings, with which, the droppings of the fowls may be mixed. As often as once a week all this loose material should be swept np and put in barrels for use as manure. Bonansa Farming in Dakota Territory. The Fargo Argus supplies some interesting particulars of the result of this year's operations on the now celebrated Orandin farm in Dakota: "During the season of 1340 the management cultivated 5,'J"Jl acres of wheat, the total yield of which amounted to 137,237 bushels, or an average of twentythree bushels and ten pounds to the acre. In addition to this there were 304 acres of ata, which produced 18,923 bushels, and 111 acm of barley, the crop of which was 3.520 bushels. The Grandins will break new land for the next crop to the extent of 2,080 acres, giving a total area for seeding next spring of 8,001 acres. This splendid estate consists of the River Wheat Farm, of 40,000 acres, on the Bed River of the North, and the stock farm at May vi lie, covering 28,000 acres. Total, C9.000 acres. As a slight commentary upon the question, 'Does bonanza farming pay r it may be mentioned that 37,000 bushels of wheat will pay all the expenses of the institution for the year j the other product ons oats and barley will feed the stock, and the proceeds of 100,000 bushels of North Dakota

No. 1 hard wheat will represent the net profit of the Grandin crop for 1S40." International Potato Society. The exhibition of this Society was held a few weeks since at the Crystal Palace, London, and was so extensive that 2,500 dishes of nine tubers each were shown by 100

exhibiters. Many prizes were awarded, and among tho-e for new varieties the first was given for a long Round .Kidney, raised from the Belgian Kidney crossed by - the Early Rose; the second to a seedling of the Early Rose crossed with. Fenn's Early Market, and the third to a round white variety, not crossed. A writer in the Garden says that, although some collections embraced hundreds of sorts, yet only thirty included about all that are commonly cultivated. Of recognized sorts America furnished about fifty, and one exhibiter, who had a very fine lot of twentyfour sorts, included among these no less than seventeen that were American. English cultivators lind a grtat advantage in employing the American varieties to cross with their own. Stock Poor. Many a farmer is kept poor by keeping too much stock, says the Massachusetts Ploughman, lie would be proieroua if the stock was of the right kind. It does not pay to keep cows through the winter that are dry pretty much all the time. It does not pay to keep over a lot of lean and fractious steers in the expectation that they will make good working cattle by waiting long enough. All such animals should be sold to those who have more food in store thaw their present poor owners. Good stock superior stockpays for itself all the time. A herd of cows is well worth wintering that will pay in milk and butter many times more than the cost of their keep. No other kind ought, therefore, to be allowed on a farm. When cows show beyond a question that they can not give milk enough nor milk good enough to pay for their support and yield a liberal profit besides, it is time they were disposed of on almost any terms that will clear them off the farm. It is the sam; with all creatures that are an incumbrance on the farm instead of a profit; let them be put off without delay, and let the so-called entiment in the case be eradicated by healthier considerations of what constitutes thrifty and profitable farming. The farmer owes it to himself to clean out everything that is trash and worthless, and begin and build np on a sound basis. The more or stock be kieps the poorer he is in consequence himself. Karly Lamb for the Market. There Is no.kind of meat for which epicures will pay as much as for a lamb, provided it furnished sufficiently early in the season. A lamb of sufficient size to roast in Mairh will brin? more than the same animal will if allowed to obtain its full growth. Raising lambs to supply the demands of the market in early spring is a very profitable branch of the sheep busine. It is comparatively easy to fun i. ill the degne of heat necesary to raise lambs during the winter, but more difficult to obtain the requisite amount of milk or some suitable substitute for it. Most ewes give a comparatively small amount of milk during cold weather unless special pains are taken to supply them with suitable food. Lambs, however, may be taught to drink milk as readily as calves, and they may, without weaning them, be induced to drink the warm, sweet milk that is drawn from cows. At first they will not drink more than a gill at a time, but tliey will soon take a pint, and then a quart, at a meal. After they have learned to drink cows' milk readily, some flaxseed meal may be added to it to good advantage. In the course of a few weeks crushed oats and corn meal may be added to the milk. Many farmers declare that it does not pay to feed new milk to calves. They declare that there is economy in killing calves when they are but a few days old, or in giving them away to persons who will raise them, and in converting the milk they will consume into butter. Admitting the truth of their statement, it does not appear that there is no jrotit in feeding new milk to lambs. Veal is ordinarily a drug in the market during the spring, and the farmer who obtains five cents per pound for it thinks that he is doing very well. Lamb, however, if ready for the marketsutficiently early in the season, well sell in most h.rge cities for about the same price as butter. Drying; Potatoes for Export. At various times during the past few years papers in different arts of tne country I. are contained accounts of exjeriraents, more or less successful, in desiccating sweet and common iotatoes so they would keep for years ana retain all their qualities. In relation to swet? potatoes it lias been claimed that the dried article could not be distinguished from that which had never been subjected to a process for removing the moisture after both were cooked; at least there was no difference In the taste. As sweet potatoes are hard to keep in a varying climate, there seemed to be great advantages in a process that would preserve them. Recently the project of preserving potatoes lias been revive-1 on the Pacific Uoast, and dried potatoes are now sent to Europe from Han Francisco. In commenting on the new industry an Eastern paersays: "Drying potatoes so as to preserve them, even for several years, in any climate, is a uew industry that has sprung up in California. The tubers, which are dried and pressed by a newly-devised machine, are said to retain to a great extent their natural taste and original freshness. The first shipment made by a San Francisco merchant to Liverpool brought $1G0 per ton over a'l expens s of shipment. Only about twenty tons were exported last year, but the se 9 Id at the rate of $3 per sack "for green potatoes and the demand has become much greater than the supply. California capitalists are reported to be turning their attention to the matter, and several companies are being organized, to push the iuuustry." Heavy Sales of Dairy Stock. A sale of Jersey cattle was held at Dexter Park, Chicago, recently by Z. C. Luse & Son, of Iowa, in connection with Mr. Ellis, of Massachusetts, at which an average of $107.40 was made on fifty-two animals. Mr. Edward Burnett, of the well-known Deerfoot farm, of Southboro. Mass., while on a vacation abroad this season, visited the Island of Jersey and bought twenty head of Jersey cattle for Mr. Ilavenieyer. of New York. It is said to be the best herd that everlcftthe Island. The number of cows in the Island of Jersey is about 11,000, and the number ex ported last year was 1,634. The maximum price for a Jersey cow is about 100 guineas. Thirty-nine head of short-horn cattle belonging to Abijah Powers, of Sterling, 111., were sold on the 27th inst, bringing nearly $7,000. Dogs as Sheep Protectors. In many portions of this country it seems tobe impossible to render the keeping of sheep profitable on account of the ravages of dogs. Land is cheap, and both wool and mutton high, but the losses by the dogs and the expense of protecting sheep from them consumes all the profits. In various parts of South America dogs are relied on to protect sheep, not only from the attacks of wild beasts but from the worthless dogs that range over the country. Darwin states that the shepherd dogs kept there are as much attached to the sheep as most dogs are to their masters. They are brought np with the flocks, and have no other companionship. The puppies are taught to nuckle ewes, and are adopted by them. A California sheep-raiser states that a similar course Is adopted in Germany, with the best results. In a communication he says: "There, in general, the shepherd stays with his sheep all the time, day and night; and he has, according to the number

of his flock, one or more dogs, a kind I neyer saw before nor have seen any where else. It resembles in size the Newfoundland, but its hair is bushy, long, nd partly curled. This breed of dogs are never allowed, even while puppies, to see anything but members of the herd. It is astonishing how these dogs and sheep fraternize with each other. The sheep look in real or Imaginary danger more for the dogs than for the shepherd, and always run to and not, like here, from the dogs. If Americans wish to protect their sheep from strange dogs, they must adopt the German system, bring voung shepherd dogs from their puppyhood into the company of sheep, educate both to live, eat, and run together, and they soon will find out their true relationship to each other, for the sheep will look upon the dog as a natural protector, which attitude and confidence he proudly will repay by untiring friendship and watchfulness." Larr Yields of Corn. A series of prizes having been offered by a Mr. Dond for croj of corn raised on oneeighth of an acre, in Hartford County, Maryland, there were five contestants. The first prize went to a crop which yielded at the rate of lüö bushels (37.2 "barrels") per acre, the second to a crop of 1K3.2 bushels, the third to 1X1.5, and the other two made crops of 175 and 174.15 bushels ier acre. On the first prize crop barnyard and commercial manures and ashes were used at the estimated value of $100 per acre. The next in order made no estimate of the value of manure. The next used manure at the rat of $34 per acre, and the fifth at the rate of $40. Not over two stalks were allowed to grow in the hills, which were in rows three feet apart. The average on the five plats was at the rate of ISO bushels per acre. I rom five to twelve days' work was put to each plat, or forty to ninety-six days per acre.

Salt as a Fertiliser. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman writes: Very conflicting statements are made by those who have experimented with common salt as a fertilizer. While some claim that it works wonders, increasing both the quantity and quality of their crops, others afiirm that it does no good, ami others still say that it is a positive damage. It is a pity that so valuable a fertilizer as salt should be so generally 'discarded because in some localitfes and on some crops it has failed. The explanation of the failure is not difficult. Salt enters into the composition of every "plant, but analysis shows that while it abounds in some, only a trace cun be found in others. Thus in beets salt constitutes nearly a third of the ash; in the ash of the potato about' 7 per cent. ; of the carrot 6 per cent. ; or the parsnip 5 per cent., and of the roots generally it may be said that salt is a prominent constituent. In tobacco also salt plays a prominent part, constituting about 8 ier cent, of its ash. In asparagus and cabbages salt is as manifest as in tobacco. The grains show less salt than roots or green crops, but in all grain there is a trace of salt, and in the leaves and stalks there is generally about three times as much as in the kernels. The grasses vary greatly in the amount of salt which their ash furnishes, perennial rye grass showing the most, 72. per cent. In the ash of some salt is less than 1 per cent. All, however, show more or less; orchard grass showing 4 percent, timothy VA per cent., and white clover nearly 5 percent. It is very manifest from these fact't that salt is much better adapted to some crops than to others, and hence the failure when applied to some, and success when applied to others. Another reason for the varying results of different experiments is found in the fact that different soils naturally contain different quantities of salt. If there is already sufficient of this material, an application of more will do no good, and may do hurt, as salt is an acrid compound, and in excess will destroy all vegetation. Now, there are localities in which it would be folly to attempt an increase of fertility by an application of salt. Such are all lands bordering on the sea, or even affected by the winds of the sea, for the spray of the ocean rises high in the air, and is lorne farther inland than is commonly sujosed. Of course a soil over which mineral waters have been diffused, or one formed by the disinte gration of saline rocks, needs no farther enrichment by salt. No wonder that experimenters iu this fertilizer differ when the demand of different soils for it varies so much. It has, however, been used in agriculture from time immemorial, ana with almost an unvarying success, as has been the case with plaster (gypsum), or most of the commercial fertilizers, and it is a pity to see it thrown out of the back doors of groceries as useless when so much land is suffering for the want of it In the Bible it is said that salt which has lost its savor is neither fit for the land nor the dunghill. It is evidently implied that sound salt is good for the land and should be used in the compost heap. There is no doubt of this, and the testimony of ages, from Cato's day to the present, should not be annulled by a few experimenters who have condemned its use after trial under unfavorable circumstances. As some, farmers want facts, I will add that I have used salt as a fertilizer for a score of years, and withv uniformly good success, especially upon cabbage and potatoes. Applied at the rate of three or four bushels to the a?re on pasture land, it gave the grass a luxuriant growth and deep green color, at the same time exterminaiing weeds. Cattle evidently preferred the grass grown on the salted portions of the pasture, probably because it contained more salt. It is well known that the quantity in plants varies with its abundance in the soil, and that seldom does vegetation furnish sufficient to satisfy the demands of our domestic animals. Wheat and other grains do not api ear to be so much benefited by salt except in the strength which it gives to the stems. Oats, having a very flexible stem, and therefore inclined to fail, are specially benefited. The following is the result cf an experiment by Mr. Johnson, author of the Farmer's Encyclopaedia, in the use of salt on potatoes: Produce per acre, without fertilizer of any kind, 120 bushels; with twenty bushels of salt per acre, 102 bushels; with twenty loads of stable manure, 219 bushels; with twenty loads of manure and twenty bushels of salt, 234 bushels. Here the increase of seventy-two bushels from the use of salt alone shows that it pays on some lands, and very possibly it would have paid still more if Mr. Johnson had used only half is much, for salt is a fertilizer that requires to be applied in homeoiathic doses. These successful experiments might be multiplied indefinitely, but they would only prove that salt is a good fertilizer for some soils and some crojw, and, as they can be offset by some failures the conclusion is that there is. some virtue in salt, but that the experimenter should feci his way in the use of it till he finds whether his lands are salt-hungry. As to the modes of applying salt, it can be sown broadcast like plaster, if fine, but if coarse, it had better be mixed with compost, as the large crystals may prove too big a dose for the plants on which it may fall. Indeed, I prefer composting it in all cases, as there is less danger of an overdose. It is sometimes recommended to apply it directly to the hills of corn and cabbages at planting, so as to keep off cut-worms, but it is too acrid for such direct contact with tender roots, unless mixed in small quantity with ashes or plaster. After potatoes are cut for planting they can be put in barrels and a quart of fine salt mixed with four quarts of plaster be spread over each barrel and shaken down among the potatoes to great advantage. This prevents the pieces from drying up before planting, from rotting after being planted, and gives a wonderful start to the young shoots. A quart of salt to a barrel of potatoes may seem insignificant, but from an experience of twenty years I can confidently recommend it If plaster is not at hand to compost with the

salt, wood ashes, or even sifted coal ashes will answer a good purpose. If any farmer feels that he can not afford to purchase salt for trial, he can go to the village store and ask for the refuse brine of the meat and fish barrels which, in most cases, the merchants will be glad to give away and put it in his compost heap. If his grassland, top-dressed with this salted compost, does not show a more luxuriant growth and a deeper green than that dressed with the same 'compost unsalted, he may conclude that his soil is not salt hungry. The Prevailing' Horse Disease. The epizootic Influenza, which madeil appearance among the horses a few weeks ago, in a mild catarrhal form, and which, with the prevalenceof uniform dry weather, would run its course within ten days to a fortnight from the beginning of the attack, threatens to assume serious complications with the present advent of wet and chilly weather. . It, ttierefore, behooves us to be on our guard, and adopt such measures as will insure against possible serious complications which this disease, under unfavorable circumstances, is liable to assume. JAmong the precautionary measures mav be mentioned a thorough cleansing and disinfection of the stable, and the establishment of proper ventilation by which we do not mean the admission of currents of cold air or a draft through open doors or windows immediately in front of the horses. The food should be of the best qualities; and preferably one meal a day say the even ration should consist of ground, steamed, or scalded food, with an admixture of bran and a handful of ground flaxseed. As the disease, even in its mild form, is of very a debilitating nature, it will be well to use some vegetable tonic, such a? grouud white willow bark, of which a handful may be given, morning and evening, mixed among the food. With a view of relieving the congested state of the upper air passages, it will be well to steam the head once or twice a day, from the beginning of the disease, by means of scalded bran and hayseed, placed in a deep bag, hung over the animal's head. If the animal can be spared from work, so much the better; but moderate, light work, at a slow !ace, will not materially interfere with the avorable progress toward convalescence when the weather permits. When not in motion, he should be blanketed; and if there is any soreness of the throat and coughing, it will be well, in addition, to cover the head and neck with a hood. If the appetite is much diminished, or the horse evinces difficulty in swallowing sufficient food to enable him to perform his work, or if lie misses one or two meals, he should remain indoors, as under these conditions there is danger of serious complications and a fatal issue. To relieve the irritation of the throat some stimulating liniments should be applied twice a day, such as a mixture of one part of aqua ammonia and three parts of common olive oil. The most common complications of the disease are bronchitis and pneumonia, or inflammation of the lungs, and especially of the serous membrane lining the lungs and the inner surface of the ehest, technically termed pleurisy. The advent of either of these complications may be known by the general signs of a febrile condition a staring coat, shivering of. the body, general dullness and drowsiness, loss of appetite, succeeded by increased heat of the body, increased pulsation and respiration, costiveness, scanty urinethirst, etc. No time should then "be lost in administering appropriate sedative and diuretic remedies, such as four ounces of solution of acetate of ammonia, an ounce of sweet spirits of nitre, and half an ounce of fluid extract of belladonna, which should be carefully administered in half a pint of linseed tea, and repeated every three hours until the symptoms subside. At the same time, strong embrocations should be applied along the throat and to the sides of the cnest, such as a liniment made of equal parts of aqua ammonia and common olive oil, or a sott mustard paste. Setons, rowels, and blisters should never be employed in this disease. The nose and eyes should be sponged a few times daily with warm water. The animal should have all the lin seed tea or hay-seed tea it will drink, and when the appetite returns, the food should consist of boiled or steamed barley and oats, with a mixture of bran and boiled flaxseed, sliced carrots, apples, cabbages, etc., and clean, sweet, aromatic upland hay, in preference to timothy hay. With a view of supIorting the strength ef the animal, some vegetable and mineral tonics should be given, such as a powder composed of one drachm of carbonate of iron and half an ounce each of powdered gentian and elecampane, which may be mixed among each ration of food. , During the progress of the disease, the bowels are more or less costive; but instead of laxative or purgative medicines, which are dangerous in this disease, a loosening diet such as recommended, and occasional injections. ier rectum, of lukewarm soapsuds, are all sufficient to keep the bowels in moving order. Resides the admission into the stable of fresh air without draft, it will be well to use, once or twice a day, some disinfectant, such as a solution of chloride of lime in cold water say one or two ounces to a quart of water which should be sprinkled in the stalls and behind the horses, after the manure and bedding have been removed. The common practice of splashing cold water on the limbs and lower parts of the body, by means of the hose, for the purpose of cleaning those parts, when the horse returns from work, can not be too strongly condemned. It is a common practice in some places, during the prevalence of influenza, to close up every crevice in the stable, and subject the horse to the fumes of heated tar, or the smoke of burning old leather. Not only is nothing gained by such n practice, but aside from the torture of the animal, the iritation of the very sensitive and inflamed surfaces of the air passages of the horse is apt to become seriously increased. Of course, the directions here given have reference only to ordinary cases. If by the means recommended no benefit is derived, but, on the contrary, the disease assumes a serious aspect, by the advent of complications whih are peculiar to it, no time should be lost in summoning skilled professional assistance. It Hardly Pays. f Wall Street News. A New Jersey merchant met an acquaintance on a street car on the Elevated vesterday, and, after some general remarks, the latter said : "I saw a newspaper notice that you had failed." "Yes, 1 went by the board." "Very bad?" "Yes, pretty bad." "Outside speculation, I suppose?" "Partly." "Creditors willing to give you a chance to recover?" "Yes." "Glad of it I suppose you'll soon be all right?" "Yes. I tell you what, it is a very disagreeable business. I had to plead family extravagance, and my. wife, who hadn't had a new dress for six months, was as mad as a hop. I proved that I had given too much to the chnrch, and the minister called and raked me over the coals; I had a clerk abscond with a lot of cash, and the creditors made me own up that he was my brother. I supposed that l had lost $500 by a fire, but they figured that I was $100 a head. I figured on having enough to pay thirty cents on the dollar, but somehow they got hold of enough to .y ninety-eight, and put all the costs on me. I lost four weeks of trade on top of this, and I'm feeling awful blue. It hardly pays to fail unless you've got a partner to help bluff creditors."

The Emperor Napoleon spent the night after Sedan In reading a novel. It was "The Last of the Uarous."

TOOSI TOREIGX XJiXDS.

The London Balloon Society proposes to fetch down some fog to analyze. The bad times have cansed a very serious diminution, in many cases expected to be permanent in the income of the Oxford and Cambridge Colleges. The estate of an ..English -miser named Rhodes was lately woundup. It realized $390,000. The sale of his effects in his residence resulted in f 2S.75. The property goes to two charities the London Free" Hospital and the National Life Boat Institution. It is wonderful how short-lived is Parliamentary fame in England, when the prominence it gives at the time is considered. Thirty years ago Colonel Sibthorpe and Joseph Hume were names as familiar in the United Kingdom as Gladstone or Disraeli. To-day not one man in 100 knows who they were. A very singular book has been published in Germany. It purports to be written by a lady to whom old King Leojold of Belgium was married secretly about 1827, on the condition that if he were called to a throne the marriaeee should be sonsidered null and void. To this the lady consented; but she now not only discloses the fact but gives a detailed account of the transaction, and of her married life with Leopold. In France horse-flesh, brought into fashion at the siege of Paris, is gaining rather than losing favor. Since 1870 the amount consumed has risen from 171,300 pounds to nearly 2,000,000 pounds. In the year 1870 there were consumed at Marseilles 51 R) horses; in 1875, 1.031; in 187 S, 1,533; at Nancy, in 1S73, 1G5; in 187Ö, 350, and in 1878, 705. Similarly in Rheims and Lyons the figures have advanced from year to year. In Roumelia the rose harvest is reported to have been an exceedingly abundant one this year, the value of the total yield exceeding, it is estimated, 1,000,000 francs. The richest harvest of late years, however, was in 1870, when 3,300 Miunds of attar of roses, of the value of 032,017 francs, was exported from Philadelphia alone. The attar is principally exported to France, Austria, America, and Germany, England obtaining what she requires from India. The French scent manufacturers, and especially the Parisian, buy the finest qualities of attar, while the second qualities are mostly sent to Russia and Austria. A duel was fought a few days ago in France between M. Alfred Gassier, the author of the prohibited play, "Juarez," and M. de Miramon, son of the "former President of Mexico, who took exception to the mention of his father's name in the piece. M. de Miramon received a slight wound in the hand. A curious feature in connection with this duel is that, though M. de Miramon is an excellent fencer, and M. Gassier had never previously handled a sword, the encounter lasted over half an hour, and ended in the inexjerienced swordsman gaining the advantage. The organization of the Parisian police dates from the commencement of the present century. Dubois, the first Perfect appointed, was a man of great administrative ability; and to his vigorous initative the new department owed its speedy establishment upon a broad, sound basis. In its main outlines this, early organization remains unchanged to this day. But naturally it has been greatly amplified and expanded in the course of years. It is now a mighty engine, working with unfailing regularity and far-reaching action, and holding all Paris indirectly all France in its grip. Nothing is too great or too little for its watchful attention. Mr. James Redpath, who is to be indicted by the English Government for his seditious speeches in Ireland, was born atBerwick-on-Tweed, in 1833, and came to America with his itarcnt in 1848. At the age of nineteen lie became connected with the New York Tribune. He was in Kansas from 1855 to 1857, and took an active part in the free soil struggle. During the civil war he helped to organize the colored schools in Charleston, S. C. Afterward he became interested in the movement for llaytian independence, and was one of the Joint Commissioners ent by the Government to Washington. In 1808 he went into the lecture agency business. At one time Mr. Kedjiath was very friendly with General Butler, and did a great deal toward securing the General's second nomination to Congress in ISoS. He considers the Irish race at this moment to be struggling against oppressors, and this is probably the reason why he first went to Ireland as a correspondent, and afterward took an active art in the agitation, lie will have only himself to blame if he is put iuto an English prison. The Man of Sorrow. Philadelphia Times. Mr. Montgomery Blair lias been rescued from under aheap of election returns, and expresses himself as still solid for Tilden. Mr. Blair talks in a strangely emphatic way about some man by the name of John Kelly, who seems to be more or less to blame for some disaster said to have recently overtaken the Democrats. Hack Again. Louisville Post J , The agricultural editor is by slow degrees creeping back into the columns of the papers where politics have been making it too warm for his tender young philosophy to flourish. Remarkable Success. The sciences of medicine and chemistry have never produced so valuable a remedy for the treatment of Kidney diseases as the accidental discovery of the vegetable contained in Day's Kidney Pad. Its reliable character, desirable qualities and masterly curative power have deeply won upon the confidence of the medical profession and countless sufferers who have used it "Buchupaiba." 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One dollar at druggists, 38 Washington St. A Sore Thingt Chapin's Buchupaiba quick, complete cure for gravel, stone, kidney, bladder and all urinary affections. $1. 3 Washington street Terrible Loss of Life. .Millions of rats, mice, cats, bed-bugs, roaches, lose their lives by collision with "Rough on RaU." Sold by Druggists. 15d boxes. Brain and Nerve. Wells' Health Renewer, greatest remedy on earth pr impotence, leanness, sexual debility, etc $1, at druggists. 3d Washington street

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