Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1881 — Page 7

THE 1MDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 19, 1881

OUR FARM RUDGET. An Entertaining Collection of Practical Information for Our Farm Friends.

Preferring Fnee Font Tax on Match Hin lira Convention Knsilarg, KtC, KtC. An Ks pertinent 1ith Knallarge. Fhlladcl phi Record. i A short time ago we gave a deicription of the silos of Mr. George L. Clemence and Dr. Curtis, of Soet'.ibrklge. Mr. Clemence tIoned Lis about the 1st of December. It was constructed f chestnut plank, and contained about eighty tons, being rartially filled with corn stalks, upon the top of which was a l-t of rowen. The stalk were cut by Lorse iwer, but the rowen was uncut. The whole was heavily weighted with rocks, and upon examination the ensilarge as found to have settled from five to six feet. hen opened three plants were removed from one side of the silo, and the j rowesi cut out to that width and to a depth of some two or three feet The rowen had lost its green color, was very moist and smelt like sweet steamed hay. About three inches of the top, however, was iiioullv. The cattle eat it greedily, preferring it to the best English ha', ilr. C'lemeoce says his cows have increased their flow of milk about an eighth since herommenced feedmi; cnsilarjre. So wll sati-tied is he with his success in this trial that he intends building .ne of solid masonry, capable of holding 1UJ tons, in which he will have partitions, so that in the future he will not have to open the whole tilo at one time. liarbed Wir Fencing. The suits for infringements of patents for barbed fencing wire, owneil by the Washburn fc Moeu Manufacturing Company, which have been pending for several years, liave been decided by the United States Court in favor of the plaintiffs. The decision fullv sustains the claim ot Washburn A; Moen. .While it is one of the most important ever piven in this country (involving millions of dollars in its results), it is also said to be one of the ablest on the subject of patent law ami patentable invention.- ever rendered, Urictiy stated, the patents owned by plaintiffs were thoe of Hunt, for "a wheel with spurs strung on a fence wire," subsequently amended - on its reissue to "spurs on a wire;" that of Kelly for two jrires. one being twisted around the other so as to hold the barbs in place, and that of ilidden for a wire barb "wound around the strand wire. The decision virtually covers -he whole ground, and gives Washburn A Moen a monopoly of the barbed wire fcn; ug manufacture. Objection) to Knailarge. Although ensilarge appears to be in very renerul favor wherever it has been used, and ilthough the nuntoer of silos erected has been very large, still several very stiong injections have been raised against the new method of preserving finhler for stock. The labor of cutting the corn-stalks, or whatever iind of vegetations used for tilling the silo, is gnat. It can not be performed economically by hand, or the employment of a small machine ojwrated by hand-power. It is necessary to have a lar t machine for cutring the fodder, and .-team, water, wind or torse-power to operate it. A large cutting machine and an engine for cutting it cost a considerable sum. The green vegetation is heavy to handle in the field and to remove to the silo. The fodder, as taken out of the silo where it has been preserved, is also very heavy, ami requires considerable work in petting it to the stack. A cubic yard taken from the top of the mass weigl. more than half a ton, anil it increases in weights an tu lyttom is approached. Sime complain that the ensilarge is likely lo lreeze Miiru caikjm u iu nraiuiT us turn us we have recently had, and that its value is destroyed when it becomes frozen. It is al o i - , . .. i: - . i . ti ui'ed bv jump ng itito a f-ilo and inhaling ;he carbonic Hi-id lms which it contains, and which is the agent for preserving the green fodder. Sjine state that a tight car is neeesr - .1 1 1 - f ji A. .1 Biry ior me removal oi toe louuer irom me silo to the place whr; it is eaten by stock, and to haul it with ease the wheels must run on a tr c :. Others declare that the silo .4Ust bo uug on the side of a hill so that the bottom of it shall be on a level with the floor of the barn or stables where the stock to be fed are kept. They believe that the silo can not be constructed and operated to advantage when stock farms are located on the Hat prairies, a the labor of lifting out the contents will be too great. The objections, however, are all in respect to handling the ensilarge. It it conceded that stock of all kinds arc fond of it; that they prefer it to dry food of any description, and that they thrive well while eating it. The Tax on Matches. Several agricultural papers are demanding that the tax on matches be removed, and the Comruissioner.of Internal lievenue recommends that Congress repeal the law requiring stanij s to be applied to boxes containing matches. The amount of revenue derived from matches is about $3,500,000. It is affirmed that the oter articles from which internal revenue are derived are luxuries, and that quite a number of them are harmful in their -character, as tobacco and spirituous liquors. It is held by many that the money required for the support of the Government should be derived fn.m such articles as may b dispensed with by laboring men or farmers and mechanics without depriving them of the common necessities of life. Matches are not regarded as luxuries but as essential to comfort. They are used by all classes of people on every day in the year. The washerwoman requires "as many of them as the llank l'residentor the Superintendent of a Railway. They are almost the only art cles manufactured that are subjected to a tax. A tax of seven cents on each inhabitant seems to be a very small matter to cause so much talk. Matches were selected from a large number of manufactured articles to bear some of the burdens of Government for two reasons: (1) IVcause the number of ruanu factories arc few, and it would therefore be comparatively easy to collect the tax. (!') It was held that matches should he classed as luxuries, for the reason that more than half of them were employed in lighting pi j s and cigars. Before permanent lights were supported in tobacco hops, it is probable that more than half the matches used in this country were employed in lighting cigars. Al present a very large promotion of them are de-ttroyed for this purpose. The manufacturers d matches were, the first to object to the tax as injurious to their business, atid it isaltogether likely that they would by the only eisons benefited by its renmal. In all human probability housekeepers would be obliged to pay the same pri'je for ma'ches as at present, if the tax on them was removed. Attend the Conventions. An unusually large number of Conventions of daireymen, bee-keeers, stockbreeders, poultry fanciers, fruit-growers, cane-producers, and farmers are being held in the various Northwestern States during the present winter, and they are deserving of large attendance. The persons who read papers and take part in the discussions are, with rare exceptions, well qualified to impart information on the subjects that engage the attention of the Conventions. Of late the papers read and the remarks made at Agricultural Associations of various kinds have been practical in their character. Persons who have had the ries to present have contributed them to magazines and papers. Those who talk to farmers generally present facta instead of theories. They give the result of their observation and experience. Asa

means of acquiring information on various matters pertaining to the different Departments of agriculture, the- Conventions are of very jjreat value. They bring together earnest men who are desirous of improvement. Persons who are thinking of engaging in any new specialty should not fail to attend the nearest meeting that i held in Its interest. They can thin learn what discouragements as well as what encouragements it ofien. They can hear from those who have succeeded, and from those who have failed; and, ix-rhaps. can learn the causes of the success or failure. They can learn the cost of conducting operations, the time required to become established in the new business and the ordinary profits. They can pivo a knowledge of everything valuable in theexperience of years. Ordinarily an opportunity is given at these meetings for asking questions on pertinent subjects, and one always has a chance to talk privately with perton3 of large exjerience. Most of the new facts in any department of agriculture are brought out at the annual meetings of Societies. I'ln firas I'ature. . During this season of the year, says the Iowa State Register, when farmers have time to think and investigate, it is not an

I . ' i .' . ....... fr . n improper time o make wuu. w . is a general objection to allowing grass to oecotue over a few inches high in pastures, as it will become tougli and not relished by stock. Such is not the case with blue grass, except in May and June, when it goes to seed. For fall and winter pasture the taller the grass the tenderer it is. And the way blue grass is generally treated is the greatest reason why it is unjpu!ar with many grazers. llhie grass must never be eaten oil close, as is the custom with other grasses. It should be so managed by the owner that it will always have a heavy coat on the ground. Wheie the grass is short the sun strikes the ground, parches the soil, or dries tin the roots of the grass, and growth ceasesHains have but little etfect, as the succced- : I . . J . 1 . ... ,. . ing not suns soon uruiK up nie iiamjiia-, and in one day the same place is as dry as before. Whilst, if a bountiful crop is allowed to accumulate, the long grass will produce a constant and luxurious crop, supplying three tiniei as much pasture as when cropped short. If this practice was once inaugurated by those now objecting to blue grass, the full virtues of this kind of pasture would be more fully appreciated. Keep in mind if the soil is well fed and not stripped bare of its cohering it will furnish afull return for expense and capital invested. After going to seed early in June, blue grass never becomes tough or tasteless, and no loss will occur if it is allowed to irrow uncropped to any height. Blue grass can be safely sown on'the snows of winter. But it is useless to s;end time spreading such seed if it has the least taint of must caused by heating in some process of gathering, preserving iu the straw, or in being too closely packed after it is thrashed. Most failures in success in this grass crow out of defective seed. The best way i for every farmer to gather his own seed when it is ripe in June, and preserve it carefully. Hut sow freely and largely. You need not to experiment with it to see if it will do. Its character is so well known, and its true merits so fully established that there is more sense in experimenting with corn or jtotatoes. If the seed can be . obtained, withhold not the hand. Sow it on pastures, along lanes, in fence corners, in groves, ou steep or broken lands, and it will pay, and pay richly. How Cat t If Ar Shipped. The Pittsburg Stockman gives the following account of the manner of loading, storing and caring for cattle on ships bound en route from the United States to 1'ngland: Cattle are taken on and under deck in stalls measuring two feet eight inches on vessels sailing from New York, and two feet six inches on those from all other parts of the United States. These Malls are built under the supervision of an .JLnsurunco- insnector. LTherateof freight this season has ranged from 14 15s. to 5 10s. a head, m advance. This rate includes covered room for necessary fodder and passage to destination and back tor one attendant for every thirty animals. During the summer shipjers prefer to ship on leck, as the cattle get more air and come out fresher at the end of the voyage. On deck the steamships carry between 1 a:nl 17." animals, the under deck atxmt 225 head. Drinking water is condensed by steam process, on board, for their use, the ocean itself proving a never-failing source of supply. The rates are exacted in advance, as cattle are not considered so safe a risk as wheat and other commodities. The cattle arc generally put on the steamer in the stream, after it has left the dock, an ;ld ferry boat being used for the purjse. They are shipped at all points along the river front. from Sixty-hfth street to Tier No. 1, and eve l down the erne The number of cattle to be taken is J . HLU'l Ulli- .V VVll 1 Llll r mated bv the insurance inspectors, and cattle exporters must pay the entire freight, according to his report, even if they do not s. up the entire number. Sheep and pigs ar.e äiowed away in stalls on deck where thefjnot enough room for the cattle. Sometimes in the early spring, when the sea is liable to disturbances, some of the cattle get overboard, and then a very lively time ensues in getting them out. The cattle iTe hoisted on board usually and lowered, two at a time, by a winch, into the hold. The allowance of water is from six to t a gallons a day to each bullock. The amount of fodder averages one ton to each animal. The rates of insurance apparently vary. Some shippers give it as from 3 per cent, in tmmmer to 10 jer cent, in winter. There is more risk to the cattle from Jerils of the sea in the latter season, as a heavy storm may make it necessary to lighten the flii p by throwing the entire deck-load of cattle overboard. Shipments in winter are not very heavy, although last year a handsome profit was realized on a select lot of select cattle sent to supply the Knglish with their Christmas roast beef. The New York shippers allow more space to the cattle than shippers at other iorts. The carrying capacity of the vessels, of course, varies; but the average, aa given by an old shipper, may be put safely at 200 head at a shipment, taking large and' small vessels into account On some of tht large steamers the number has reached 50O, and one Boston steamer has carried as many as 11 head. The largest shipment from New York by one steamer was 0 head. Sorghum Jymp At a late meeting of the Oshawa Farmers Club, Mr. Bartlett said the soil best fitted for the amber cane was sandy loam, but any oil that would grow corn would do. lie had grown cane from a heavy clay osil. It was sweet, but not so heavy as that grown on lighter soil. The cane has been lately much improved, and now the sugar made from it granulates easily. It should be planted about the l.'uh of May, as it was not quite so tender as corn. He planted half an inch deep if the soil was damp, but an inch if the soil was dry. It was planted with a planter. It is essential to keeD the voting cane free from weeds. At first it is hard to distinguish from fox-tail, and should be planted in hills, to aid in cleaning it. It required three ounds of seed to the acre, .1 t 1 inl nine to ten seeus in eacn inn. ihesecd is fifty cents er )und. The seed is hardy and win ne in me ground an winter. It was a slow grower at the start, and, if choked by weeds, rarely recovered from it. Afterward it prows a foot per week. Early frost injures it but little. He planted it in hills three feet apart each way. His cane was heavymuch heavier than that brought from the lake shore. His acre produced about 200 gallons of syrup. It was retailed at from 80 cents to $1 per gallon. He could not say how much sugar it would make, but he thought it would make eight pounds per gallon of syrup. He did not ear competition from glucose sugar or syrup. The taste of glucose was nauseous. The competition would be with the refinery syrup. Those who had used the syrup said that it was ex

cellent for sweetening like sugar. His experience would hardly enable him to say what would be the average cost of working up the syrup. He thought it would grow on land which had been exhausted for wheat Care must be used in manuring. Fresh stable yard manure would spoil the crop. He did not think that the land about here would require manuring at all. It was said that it might be continued on the same soil for several years. In Minnesota it was claimed that like onions it improved by cultivation on the same soil. The machinery for manufacturing it is simple. He thought nis syrup cost him akout ten cents per gallon to jnanufacture. It takes about six quarts of sap to make a quart of syrup. The prfcess of manufacture wa not difficult. The corn was run through a pair of upright rollers, which crashed out the sap. The sap was then placed in a heater, where it was treated with a preparation of lime, and the quantity of lime was decided by litmus pajKT. Then it was skimmed and run into setting tubs, anil from thence into the evaperator. The crushed cane or begasse was a good feed for cattle. It had to be dried to preserve it, but he thought it could be preserved by laying down a layer of bepasso, and then a layer of straw. He thought the soil itself could be neutralized, lie treated each hill with a handful of plaster when the cane had grown a few inches high. He thought lime would be equally Rood. He thought the cane would improve in this way. Mr. Bartlett showed samples of sugar, which was rronounced an excellent article with a maple llavor. 1'renerving Fence Pouts. How to keep fence posts from rotting, writes a correspondent ot the New 1'ngland Farmer, has been a vexed question ever since I have known anything about farming, and probably tor many years before. Charring the part that goes into the ground is the most usual device employed, and is highly recommended by many. I have found in my own experience that it "does not amount to shucks," and there seems to me to be a very good reason for it The grave digger in "Hamlet" maintains that "water 5s a sore decayer of vour dead body," and the same thing holds good of fence posts. Now charcoal is a very jorous substance, and has the property of absorbing and holding a great deal of .water, so that I honestly Wlieve that a post that is simply charrc-d is worse off than if it had been let alone altogether. Still, charcoal in itself is almost indestructible, but of course on can not char the post clear through, as it would be too brittle. Tar on the outside of an uncharred post will keep the water out to a certain elegree; char the post, and then put on tar, and the tar will be greedily absorbed by the wood and the water will be kept out still more, and if 3our post is made of thoroughly dried timber it will last the longer for it. But if there is any sap in the jxjst. or if the end of the wood is not more carefully prepared than most farmers care to take the pains to do, so that the pores of the wood will take up moisture from the ground by capillary attraction, vou will

tin j in taking up an old fence, that the posts will be all decayed inside, while the outside shows very little rot except just at the surface of the ground, where the water has stood about it. Now I have found salt one of the best preservatives of organic matter of every kind. I have seen a salt lish hang for a sign by the door of a grocery for a dozen years, growing harder and lirmer all the time, and yet it would make first-class fish balls for a Sunday breakfast at the end of that time. I have eaten salt junk on shipboard that outlasted for years the man who pickled it, and I can show you piling that was driven in a salt-marsh fifty years ago, and is still sound to the core, ami even more solid than the day it was driven. The sap left in the wood, or the water that is sucked up from the earth, must be in some way neutralized, or your post will rot. Kyanizing and kindred processes are too expensive, and need special apparatus, but they make the wood practically indestructible. The use of salt, however, is almost equally effective, and within the reach of all. Bore a hole lengthwise into the post, from the lower end, and somewhat deeper than the post is to set in the ground. About an inclfand a half is large enough for the diameter of the hole. Fill nearly full of dry salt, and plug tightly with a do ping, being careful not to split the post. If you tar the lower end it will be all the better, though it is not indispensable. In setting the posts be careful to heap the ground around them, and to keep it heaped if nossible, as it is liable to settle and make a depression 'where water will gather and stand, and eventually destroy the post. If these directions are followed, and if the timber is fairly dry to begin with, you may be sure that the fence will last fully as long t s, in these days of change, you . will want to keep a fence in one place, and will bear moving after that. . Farm Votes. The heliotrope is a native of Peru. There are twenty-four cubic feet of loose earth in a ton. There are no horses in Greenland and Lapland. Skin cleanliness has a great effect upon the assimilation of food. To soften brass, heat it up to a cherry red and plunge it Into water. The most durable woods in dry places are cedar, oak, yellow pine and chestnut. Sound ice, ten inches thick, will bear a pressure of 1,000 pounds to the square foot. Last year Texas was an importer of grain. This year she has a surplus for exportation. " The Massaehuetts Ploughman says agriculture is not on the decline in Nerw Fngland. It is asserted that the dairy products of the Lnited States have twice the value of the wheat crop. It is estimated that the amount of grain frozen up on the canals and the Hudson Iliver is 1,GG3,000 bushels. There is no crop of food raised which yields so large an amount of food and with so little labor as Indian corn. Farmers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania are giving considerable attention to the culture of jute plants. The most fertile farms in New England to-day are, ns a rule, those that are devoted to stock and dairy farming. A Kentucky firm contracted to furnish 100.000 turkeys to the Kastern markets during the recent holiday season. Flants jrrown in the house are best kept in good shajHj by pinching the end buds of those shoots that grow toe) vigorously. The popping properties of corn derend upon an oil which expands on the applicalion oi neat ana bursts upon the ?eed. It is not merelv for laving on fat that oil meat is valuable, but also in the increase -of the fertilizing qualities of the manure pile Now is the time to thin out poultry; cull oat all the hens over two years old, and keep no more cocks than are wanted for next season's use. uecayea cram ot any kind is highly in jurious to stock. It has a paral3zing effect upon the animal fed with it, oftentimes causing death. , . A Company has been' organised in New Orleans, with a capital of $100,000. to manu facture jute bagging, which has hitherto been imported. Irrigation and drainage are often success fully united. Water from drains in uplands can be successfully employed iu irrigating the lands below. ... The entire length of the intestinal canal of the horse is ninety feet, the small intestines being sixty-six feot in length and the large ones twenty-four. The proprietors of many private gardens in England spend from $25.0u0 to $50,000 per annum in labor and materials alone in beautifying their grounds. At the Board of Trade at tittle Falls, N. Y., there was sold during the season of 1880,

cheese to the value of $1.714.Sn3.R2, being $505,297.33 more than was sold in 1S79. Good sweet milk contains one fourth more suggar than butter; this sugar turns to acid, and if this acid is too much developed before churning, the coveted aroma is de-, stroyed. The following may le accepted as an approximate to the average quantities of milk given by the different breeds of cows: Natives produce annually l,7ii pounds; Jersey, 3,720; Ayrshire, 4,3X); Holstein. 4,527. Ashes, are, for many soils, a standard fertilizer. Places where a tree or brush-heap has been burned often show the effects of the manuring for years. It is an old saying: "The land never forgets ashes." A black ash teee, with beautifully figured grains, taken out of a marsh in Canada, when cut up, sold in New York at $3,000; tlie stump was sold for $100, the product being used for making into veneers. At Utica, N. Y., the number , of boxes of cheese sold during the season of 1S0 were 2.,S57 2,702 boxes less thaa 179. The amount obtained for the product of was 2.085.573.39, being $597,01 7.SG more than the product of 1879 sohl for. Jn Germany the dairyman sends his butter through the mail to the consumer's table. In winter it is sent in parchment paper and wrapped in common paper; in summer, in tin cans or wooden boxes male expressly for that purpose. , In the process of dressing hop for English bacon the hair is removed by being singed, instead of being scalded off; therefore, the animals must not be too fat and chuffy. Hogs suitable for making Ibis singed bacon, tor which there is a .growing demand, are a cross with the pure Berkshires. The raising of horses in the great Yellowstone Valley has become an important and profitable business. Some of the herders have from 800 to 1.500 each, and dispose of their three-year-old colts at from $50 to $100 er head. The animals feed on grass alone, and the only shelter from the weather is roughly-built sheds.

. Any land which will grow good corn or wheat will grow raspberries. The ground should be well plowed, and receive a liberal coating of manure, before planting. Plant Blackcaps seven by three feet, and the red varieties six by three feet if set in rows, and five feet each way, if in hills, so that they can be cultivated each way. A lady who has raised a large number o hens savs that after vainly trying the recommended remedies for lice, she has hit upon me plan ci giving them, once or twice a week, a large loaf of Graham Hour, in which a handful of sulphur has been mixed. The hens like it. and are freed from lice and kept healthy through the season. Dairying has made great progress during the past twenty years. 1 hree thousand pounds of milk, 300 jniunds of cheese, or 120 jounds of butter per cow is no longer satisfactory or profitable, and a low grade of butter will only add to the unsatisfactory condition of the dairyman's finances. George Geddes, of Fairmount, N. Y.. who feeds about 2,000 bushels of grain annually, after thirty years experience, says he is sat isfied that it was worse than lost labor to grind cobs for cattle, and that corn should be ground as tine for stock as for bread, the ob ject being to so reduce the grain that it can be the mst readily acted upon by the gastric juice of the stomach. A correspondent of the Western Stock Journal savs he once had a valuable heifer which was an exceedingly vjcious kicker To cure her of the habit he put a common garden hoe eud in front of her oil hind Jeg, and behind and above the gambrel joint of the nigh hind leg. Thcu sitting down on the right to milk, he put the handle of the hoe well up under h's arm and began milking. The heifer could not stir either hind leg, and after one week she could be milked safely without fettering, and proved to be a valuable and gentle animal It is said to cost less per pound to raise turkeys than to rai chickens. Your can not raise fine, large oultry from small, illformed hens, no matter how large the cock is. It is true that the cock has the ereater influence in determining the external points, but the size ana weight aepena mainly on tKin lion Tlio tiron70 tnrlrev i the lnrmt and hardiest of its species, and will give bet ter results at the close of the season than any other. It should be, therefore, as it is, the favorite. In breeding this magnificent fowl care should be taken to procure large birds of a suitable age. The older the better, up to three years. lloosier Goblins. Joseph Slater, who is the Enquirer agent at Lawrenceburg, Ind., comes out with the most remarkable ghost story of the season Slater is an intelligent, temperate man, with not a grain of superstition in him, and has alwavs ridiculed anything tertaining to the ghostly or unnatural. After three or four nights' wrestling with the shadowy mystery, he told the story, and would like an explanation. Slater leaves Lawrenceburg every morning aliout .lo'clock for Lawrence burg Junction, on theCincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago and St. Louis llailroad, where he meets the earlv train and reis his paters, returning with them to Iawrenoeburg bt f jre it grows light. The wagon road between these two points runs parallel 'with .and close by the branch railroad whicli connects Lawreuceburg with the station at the cutotV. It is on the railroad, about one mile Ion?, midwav between the town and station, he, one night last week, saw a flaming light as long as a railroad car. Around it he saw several forms flitting with lanterns. His first thought was that there had been wreck, and hitching his horse to the fence, he ascended the track to investigate. When he got up the embankment not a thing could he fe. The next few nights he had the same experience, and finally grew nervous. Iast night he gave a tramp who was going to Lawrenceburg a lift in his sleigh, and the tramp saw the same sight. It scared the homeless fellow so badly that he crawled under the robes to hide. The place where this unearthly visiem is said to apear before the cut-off was built was the scene of several fatal railroad accidents. Right on this sKt also, a tragedy was enacted during the war of the Rebellion. Two Companies of HomeGuards were watching for John Morgan's men to pass through that weiy during the raid, and, mistaking each other for Rebels, fired into each other's ranks, wounding a number and killing two men. One Receipt l'or Happiness. Peston. Md., Jan. 1. Curtis Andrews, living in the Fourth District of Caroline County, is now eighty-two years old. His wife is nearly the same age, and they have lived together for sixty years. Their life has been plain and laborious, but their faces wear a look of sailing content that draws kindly feeling toward them. When asked the secret ot Iiis happiness, Andrews re plied: "Well, sir, 1 have always noticed that there is more trouble between man and wile over making the fire in the mornin? than anything else. If they can get along smoothly about that everything else is smooth. My wife and I went to housekeeping together in ur log cabin nigh fifty years ago. We've only got one fireplace, but that's a big one. When we moved in I said to her: 'Sally, I'll make the fire and I'll 'tend to it' I made that tire, and it's been burning ever since. For nigh fifty years I've covered the tire before going to bed, and I've fixed it up in the morning. I've- never had any matches in the house, and there are never any sulphur smells in the household. While that fire burns, sir, there is peace in Curtis Andrews' home." The record of marine disasters for 1880 shows that no less than 117 steamers, of a total tonnage of 171.3C2 tons. w.ere wrecked. A very small percentage of them was raised igain, repaired and put back into service. Of the whole number 107 were British, ten French, nine American and eight German; twelve are missing, with no clue to the cause of their destruction.

EXPRESSIONS.

There was a young maid in Missouri Got Into a terrible fury. When the Sheriff dropped in. And. with a comical grin. Took her beau off to sit on a Jury. If Blsiac rocs in the Cabinet, And "Conk's" left in the co'd, Eugene will in the Senate pet, Aud some one will be sold. Tom and Jerry are warm friends. The Parisians have named their new color 'buttered, frog." The sweet buy-arid-buy is over for the present, so far as holiday gilts are con cerned. A bov can pull four times more weight in boys on a sled than he can coal from the back vard. It was the proprietor of a Bessemer fur nace who first rejoiced when he met a "foreman worthy of his steel." A San Francisco paper excuses a certain misstatement by saving that it was a typographical error in. the manuscript No tramp will go awav empty-handed from the ood man's door. Not it' he can reach an overcoat from the good man's hall-rack. A clerk In a drug store says he is never without a pcnnv been use there is a certain jar in which lie always knows "Bella Do ma leaves a scent"' for him. Aman who is as true a? steel, possessing an iron will, some gold, and a fair propor tion of bras, should be able to endure the hardware of this world. A La Crosse, Wis., minister prayed for those "who were smitten with illness, and those who have gone a-tishing, and also those too lazy to dress for Church." There is a great deal of religion in this world that is like a life-preerver only put on at the moment of immediate danger, and then half the time on hind side before. A bashful young clergyman, recently rising to preach for the lirst time, announced his text in this wise: "And immediately the cock wept and Peter went out and crew bitterly." The lightning used on theatrical stages costs $20 an ounce; but then so little is required that you can kill a?o0 brigand and ten $12 brigands so Iteautifully for about two cents. A little lightning is a dangerous thing. "Salvina," it is said, "will smoke none but Italian cigars." Well, he should have no difficulty in getting in a good supply while in this country. A very good quality of Italian cigars is made in New Jersey, but for pure Havanas he must go to Connecticut. Norristown Herald. It is noticed that there is not a Smith in the United States Senate. A body of seventysix great men without one Smith! This can not be stood. Ohio must stop that gap. A legislative grocery should be started in Columbus immediately for the Ohio Smith Richard, of Cincinnati. And Richard Smith would make no slouch of a Senator, neither, you take notice. Cincinnati Saturelay Night. The duty on hippopotami imported from Africa is 20 jht cent Under a "tariff for revenue only," these animals would have been shipped here almost free of duty, and in a little while our bulls, dog?, cats and other home productions in the way of pets would have been crowded out of the market and some of our industries crippled. The wisdom of selecting a Republican President becomes more apparent every day. Norristown Herald. A gentleman traveling in a railway carriage Was endeavoring, with considerable earnestness, to impress some argument upon a fellow passenger who was seated opposite to him, and who ap'veared rather dull of comprehension. At length, being slightly irritated, he exclaimed, in a louder tone: "Whv, sir, it's as plain as A 15 C." "That may be," replied the other, with unexpected alacrity, "But I am P K F." "Isn't it awful cold?" queried Smith, a? he met Jones on the car the other day. "Terrible, terrible." "Any of your pijves freeze up?" "Worse than that." "How?" "Had three barrels of votatoes frozen as hard as stones. I'll lose every one of them." "Oh, no, you won't. Just bead 'em up and send 'em to some charitable institution and no one will know but what they froze while en route. It's a eolded opportunity you should not neglect" Detroit Free Press. TABLE GOSSir. "Old people," said a celebrated German physician, "must keep up their old habits, eTen the bad ones." A Detroit lady called at a drug store the other day and said. "I want a tooth-brush a real nice one. I want it for a spare bedroom." John Randolph told Josiah Quiney that the greatest orator he ever heard was a slave mother on the auction block, appealing for sympathy and justice and denouncing her heartless auditors. Adam Forepaugh, whose testimony must be deemeel exclusive, unless ample rebutting evidence is offered, says that Boston is the best circus city in the country. Boston is yet to be heard in her own defense. Beaconstleld says: "Every political party changes its principles on an average ence in ten years." This is not true of the Republican party. Their principles will never change. They were enunciated by Flanagan: "What are we after but the oitices?" The Kansas newspapers declare that a phj'sician of La Cygne, in that State, narrowly escaped lynching, because he invented a compound that would instantly sober a drunken man. Public sentiment was against anything that tended to cause a waste of liquor. A hollow tree in Southern California has been converted into a dwelling. Doors and windows have been put in, and floors built for eight stories, the entrance to them bein made by .means of a ladder. Outside the topmost room is a small balcony, shaded by the foliage of the tree. Harriet C. Cooper (colored) died at Cheltenham, a subuibof St Louis, New Year's Day, aged 115 years. She weighed 400 pound-!. Mrs. Cooper was the mother of twenty-five children, the youngest of whom is fixty-two years old. Iter husband is 101 years old and is still living. Mahogany was introduced into England by Sir Walter Raleigh, who Jbrougbt the trunk of a tree of that wotid to Queen Elizabeth from Brazil. It was made into various articles, which she presented to her courtiers. For herself a small work-box was constructed, whicli is now in the Tower of London in a perfect state of preservation. 'See here," said a fault finding husband to his wife, "we must have things arranged in this house so we shall know just where everything is kept" "With all my heart," she sweetly answered; "and let us begin with your late hours, my love; I should dearly like to know where they arc kept.1 He lets things run on as usual Among a number of worthless Italians landed at Castle Garden recently was a man whose features, particularly his mouth and eyes, are similar to those of a monkey. In as nearly an upright position as he can put himself he is not above four feet high; his back and right should r.hgsand feet are badly deformed, and there is a large mal formation on his neck. He is unable to walk withoul the aid of a staff. A pastor at Grundy Centre, la, was recently very sick, and, believing that he was near death, confessed that he had not long before been on a most deplorable spree in Chicago. He did not die, however, and his wife not only deserted him. but reported him to the Church. His people are more charitable, and will probably let him off with a reprimand, as nis penitence seems genuine. The White House is an expensive institution aside from the President's salary of $50,000. The staQ of employes in and about

the executive office requires $32X00 a year, and the stationery and miscellaneous ajvpointments $8,000 more. This is exclusive of 110,000 a year for care and repairs of the mansion, $15,000 for lighting the house and grounds, $2,000 for fuel, $J. '00 for the greenhouses, aud a single item of $30,000. for refurnishing. Rlla Hipgins, tlie- young daughter of a poor miner, at Dun more. Pa, desired to dress as well as her companions at a forthcoming iarty, and therefore purchased some fineries at a store, saying they wore for the wife of a neighbor, who would pay for them. The merchant, on ascertaining how he had been tricked, made arrangements to have the girl arrested. When the otlicer went to get her she was found hanging to a beam in the garret of her home. Lord Beaconsfield having, as Is supposed, brought up the question of "Thackeray's Relations te Kngli-h. .Society." in "F.ndymion," the article on that subject by L. S. Nadal !in"'Jie February Soribner, although written before the appearance of Beaconsfield's novel, will now have a timely" interest This article is sajd, by the way, to be oneof unusual thonhtfulncss and value, and it is accompanied by a jven-and-ink sket'h, by Blum, after Boehm's very charaeeristic statuette of the a ithor of "Pcndennis." The following is a description of Mrs. Kate Chase-Spraguc in her glory: "At one of her receptions, when her popularity was at its height, her dress was like herself, a wonder a marvelous patin robe of two f-hades a ale blue and a pearly white, a tint rather thau a shade. It was embroidered in wreaths on the blue satin petticoat and bouquets on the court train and square cut waist. The sleeves were tight to the elbows, and deep white duchesse lace fell over the rounded white arms, on which sparkled gold bracelets set v.ith diamonds. On her head she wore a tiara of turquoise and diamonds; her earrings matched the tiara." Two not very preposcs3ing-looking gentlemen were toasting their feet at a stove in a back room of a saloon. One of them was reading a newspaper. Suddenly he exclaimed: "Why, Sam and Bill Bogs have been caught stealing horses in Kansas. Bill was e-aptured and Sam was shot and killed while running from the Sheriff." "You don't say so! Well, I am glad it turned out that way. I knew them boys. I am glad that Sam did not survive, for he was very high-toned, and it would have almost killed him to have had his brother convicted of stealing. He was too sensitive, Sam was

had too much family pride to succeed in a rough frontier country." A Western woman, tall, gaunt, determined, followed a young man into a railway station at Pittaburg a few days ago, ami pointed a silver-mounted pistol at him. He stopped, deposited his baggage on the platform and mildly expostulated with her in the presence of the crowd. The woman calmly replied that she was his wife and she wouldn't allow him to run away from her. He scratched hij chin, and resumiughis burdens walked back toward the train and embarked thereon, closely followed by the woman, the not very allectionate pair found a seat and the wiic. motioned her husband to take the scat next the window, which he reluctantly did. and qriietnejis reigned. From a passenger it was learned that the pair had quarreled all the way from Chicago, and that the man had threatened to desert his wife at Valparaiso. "Ah. that's what I like! that s what I like!" chirped old Mr. Whistleblossom as he came carefully down the hill where the boys were exercising their sleds. "If there's anything I really love it's to see the boys, full of animal spirits, enjoying these wintry sports," And just at this instant 1"0 pounds of animal spirits came dashifig down the hill on a double-runner, and caught the unsuspecting Mr. Whistleblossom between the heels. There was a sound of reve lry by night, and when they picked up the unfortunate gentleman, and had pinned together the ruptured hack of his coat, he remarked in a tone so gcntlj that it made him piite black in the face, that the city government who would refuse to pass a law making it a Reform School crime to slide on the streets were a set of pusillanimous yahoos. Western 1'a.rcicrs All f Jet-ing Rich. Journal of Commerce. Chicago, Jan. 8. I aked the President of one of our most flourishing country banks the other evening at the Palmer House: "How did the farmers meet their January interest?" "Promptly and without a single default To tell the truth," he added, "most of the interest on our farm loans had been anticipated." "Are you making any new loans for Eastern parties?" "None at all." "Why?'' "Farmers are borrowing very little money. The good crops and the demand now for all farm products have enabled farmers to pay off their debts very fast" "How much money have yon placed in a single year on Western farms?" "As high as fjOO.OOO.'' "Do your Eastern correspondents still send you money to loan upon farms?" "Yes." "What do you do with It?" "Send it back, as I have no place to put it" ' An Irish resident landlord went the other night to a dinner party thus equipped: Behind him, on the back seatof the brougham, lay a Winchester repeating carbine, containing sixteen cartridges, and in the pocket of his overcoat was a five-chambered revolver, carefully loaded. "His wife, who accompanied him, carried a second revolver; and his daughter, a girl of oue-and twenty, was armed with a Derringer. Indigestion, Dyspepsia, nervous prostration, sud all tonus of teuer.d debility relieved by taking Mf.vsmas's Peptonized Hr.r.e Tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire munitions proiK'rties. It is not a mere timulant, like the extracts of beef, but contains blood-making, forcegenerating and life-sustaining properties'; is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion," nervous ijnwtnuion, overwork, or aeute disease; 'particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. "A SWELL, lfAZA1U" 'lo.. Proprietoa, New York. "Bucn.Mpaiba. New, quick, complete cure, four day?, urinary affections, smartine;, frequent or dilticult urination, kidney diseases. $1. Druggists. :1 Washington street. Don't Die on the Irml. Ask druggists for "Roui-h on Rats." It clears out rats, mica, bed bugs, roaches. Only 15c per box. Decline of Man. Impotence of mind, lirnb or vital function, nervous weakness, sexual debility, etc., cured by Wells' Health Renewcr. $1 at druggists. 2$ Washington street. Catarrh of the Bladder. Stinging, smarting, irritation of the urinary passages, diseased discharges, cured by Bucnupaiba. $1. Druggists. Stf Washington street. f ou;h on Rats. Tlie thing desiretl found at lavt. A.ck druggists 4or "Hough on Hats" It clears out rats, fnicc, roachc. bed-bugs, etc Fifteen cents per box. Skinny Men. Well's Health Rcncwer. Absolute cure for nervous debility and weakness of the generative functions. One dollar at druggists, 33 Washington SL A Sure Thing. Chopin's Buchupaiba qnick, complete cure for gravi, stone, kidney, bladder and all urinary affections. $1. 38 Washrngton street. , Terribl Los of Life. Mi ': ons of rats, mice, cats, bed-bugs, ronc!:es, fcse their lives bv collision with "Rough on ltats." Sold by Druggists. 15c boxes. Brain and erre. Wells' Health Itcncww, greatest remedy on earth for impotent", leanness, sexual debility, etc. f 1, at druggists. 38 Washington street.

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