Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1881 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1881. : r

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OUR FARM BUDGET.

'JL Table Giving the Quantity of Seed and Flints to Crop an Acre, Machinery In Agriculture Table Beets The Hoc Improved to DeathFarm Notes. A Valuable Table. lie essrs. D. Landreth it Sons have issued tt se the following table, giving the quantity of seed and number of plant requisite to crop an acre of land, which will prove valuable to farmers and gardeners, and to families generally who may have only a small garden: Usp&rascuii. in 12 Inch drills 16 QarU rW-araijui plants, 4 by li feet o,uw 2busheli leans, in drills. 'iV, feet vans. iole. lima, 4 by 4 feet. IS bushel .... 20 quarts Van! Carolina, ProlÜc, etc. 4 by a LVet - -........ m m i a j:ii. nl ' fn( W quarts pounds pounds A;et ana anuisoins, uruu, -6aaiti inm in drills ........ 1 Z UlUI'l" w . -. Cabbage, out-sMe, for transplanting iounces ounces Cabbage tiown in frames 4 Carrots, In drills. feet 4 a 12 10 6 12 1 10 3 2. 3 4 4 3 2U 6 10 25 20 2H 20 32 X, 3 3 4 35 3 2 20 M 7 5 2 4 pounds Olerv. eeu ... ounces 25.000 filler blunts. 4 bv V. leel - Clover, White Dutch Clover, Lucerne "lover, Ahlke ......... flover. large red w ith timothy vlover, lame red without timothy Corn, sucar........Corn, field Corn Salad, drill 10 inches Cucumbers, in hilts...... Cucumber, in drills ' ETf plants, plants 3 by 2 feeC Eudive, in drills 2J feet pounds pounas pounds pounds Iunds quarts quarts pounds quarU quarts ounces pounds quarts quarts iuurts quarts quarts quarts quarts quarts bushel pounds pounds pounds pounds pounds pounds bushels bushels pounds pounds pounds 17,500 quarts Kouuds bushels Klax. broadcast... Grasa, timothv, with clover Onu, timothy, without clover.. Grass, orchard i irass. red top or herds Grass, blue... Gran.t, rye. - Grats, millet Hemp, broadcast- ..... Kale. German green.. .. ............ Lettuce, in rows, 2Vj feet......... Leek, in rows, 2B feet Uwn grn. Melons, water, in hills, 8 by 8 feet Melons, citron, in hills, 4 by 4 feet Ott ts. ........" okra. in drills, 2J by feet Onion, in beds for seta.Onion, la rows for laive duios Parsnips, in drills. "2 ii-et pepper, plant. 2 by 1 foot l"uinpklu. in hills, 8 by feet.... I'arsW. in drills. 2 feet Peas, in drills, short varieties Pens in drills, tall varieties 1 to V busne s Peas, broaden 3 bushels bushels pounds bushels bushels pounds pounds pounds pounds quarts pounds pounds ounces ounces 3. M00 potatoes.. ...... Radish, in drills, 2 feet Rye, broadcast .- Kye. drilled Salsify, in drills. 2i feet .. .Spinach, broadcast Squash, Bush. In hills, 4 by 4 feet hkj'ianh, running, by 8 feet ...... 8 10 1?4 lit 10 M 3 4 3 3 3 8 .Horvnum - - Turnips, in drills, 2 feet...-.......-" Turnips, brxsideast Tornau ies, in frame - Tomatoe. seed iu hills. 3 by 3 feet Tomatoes, pl:nts . - Wheat, in drills - Wheat, broadcast..... 1.; bushels 2 bushels Table Heets. The culture of table beets, writes a corres pondent of the New England Times, differs from that of sujLrar beets or other beets ?rown for fodder, in this, that the table beet is grown quickly upon very rich land, and is pulled for use before it attains a large size; if sutFered to grow until it is large, the beet becomes comparatively tough and woody, and is inferior in quality to smaller sized ones. In order to prevent their being too larjje, it is usual to clear the land of the early ones in July, and to sow the seed late for winter use, aoout July 1 to 10. The best land for beets is a fine sandy loam, well enriched with line compost. The land is manured in fall, and prepared very early for the early crop, as soon as it will work mellow in April, for the beets are V.nl n n-4 n-Ill smliir nrotrtr spvpre frost without harm. A stiff, or clayey soil will not grow smooth beets, they will grow -TiMich and shapeless. The land for the early crop is usually thrown up in ridges or beds with a small plough in order to receive the ' .t . i a l . : Ii.. Ti. :. I warnitn oi ine sun rauiui v. Aiie fiuea uiv usuallr made three feet apart and sown with two rows of beets to each ridge after raking smooth. Between the rows of beets horseradish is often planted on top of the ridiie: the beets are cleared off before the horseradish begins to grow large, and they do not interfere. Melons, uquashes and celery are also grown -after early beets as a second crop. comes first, but it is only used in small quantities, as it is inferior to the Dewing, which is only a lew days later, ine same seed, viz.: the lewing. is sown for late crop and winter use about July 1, on land just cleared of a cron of earden trreens or tieas. The land should be fine and sandy, and well enriched. It is plowed by swivel plow, and raked by hand to level the surface, and the rows are sown by machine, fifteen inches apart, and the plants thinned out to three inches apart when about two inches high. It is impossible to make beets come up as regularly as many other eeds, since each "need," as we call it, is not aseed but a pod containing three to five or six seeds. These pods are very irregular in shape, and are apt to clog the machine, causing gaps in the rows, unless great care is used in sowing them. The space between the rows is kept clean by the frequent use of the scuffle hoe until the beets bade the ground. Two hand weeding are required, and at the first one the thinning is done; the hoe will be needed four or five times. I would suggest to those farmers who are intending to grow sugar beets for the factory next year that they try a small patch after me manner above described, except that the M-ed tihould be sown early In May, and the plants thinned so aa to stand six oreight inches apart, it will cost rather more to run the scutlle hoe than a cultivator, and it can only be used on land free from stones and nods; but I am satisfied that a much heavier growth of beets can be raised with rows fifteen inches apart than can be done with rows two and one-half feet aimrt. as requirra wnen norse cultivation is practiced Whether the increased yield would pay for me increasea cost can best be answered bv each one after a trial, lieets are pulled in October, before hard frost, the tops wrung off by hand, the large ones and very snial ones sorted out for the cows, and only the medium-sized ones saved for the table or for market. The best size is that of a man ist, or a little smaller. The lies Improved to Death. Under this head V. J. Kmary writes to the Iowa Hommtfad: The hug of a former day say twenty-live years ago) was at once "Ugly and hardy. The bog of to-day is handsome, lielpleut and imbecile. Among the once hardy hogs about ö per cer.t. might die of Accident ana disease. Anung the present race of improved ( ?) hogs, 5) jer cent, mortality is nearer than 5. A learned Ktate Commission has been around, and tie turn mary of their elaborated rejort Is "Preven lion is better than cure." Ouacks and spe ones abound, but hogs are obstinate, and persist in dying. The hog problem has been and ix, from a given amount of food to make the greatest amount of fat, and in the shortest time." In pursuing tins idea, teopIe have g jne the whole ho?," and coming event" seem likelv to compel h limit to this one ides, and make us look a little to first principles. A blacksmith's arm is his best development. A letter-carrier's leg, a I'rofessor's brain and an Alderman's stomach are severally theirs. Uy purity of reasons the development of the hog is as the Alderman all toward stomach and fat. I5ut the comparison if incomplete unless wc fatten the Alderman when he is sixteen, and make a family man of him then. The Alderman would "play out" as does the hog and his present progeny, and be of no account. The former hog had more muscle and less fat than the present hog; had more vitality; had fewer diaeason, but ohl fatal objection,

the feed he ate was of more value than Lis

flesh. The present hog fattens, but is seldom healthy. Scarcelv any oxygen colors his blood led, as formerly, but the slugtrish black blood, propelled by a heart smaller than it should be, enables him to live along, with great care, until he is ready for the market. His lungs are so delicate that one "dogging" kills him. His liver is discolored and spotted. He has kidney worms. His bones are soft and easily broken. His intestines are full of wind. He has catarrh, trichina, cholera, etc. The Improved (?) hog is fast degenerating, and what next? if this article on hogs has not much truth, it is too long already; but it has a good deal of truth, then I may some day say a little more on hogs if our readers wish. Machinery In Agriculture. The various agricultural shows held last autumn in different parts cf the country, says the Scientific American, can not fail to impress all who visited them with the extraordinary developments made in recent years in mechanical appliances for agriculture. It is well, therefore, to notice the benefits which this industry has derived from the cenius and the labors of the mechanician. We may go back in thought to the time when the spade, the hoe, the sickle, and the flail, comprised the farmer's store of machinery, and when the plow was the rudest contrivance, hardly worthy to be called a tool. Then every man tilled the soil or engaged in pastoral pursuits because it was all that one man could do to provide himself and his dependents with food Then each man was forced to clothe himself and be his own mechanic for this sim ple reason, lie labored long and with infinite pains, and the ancient sentence that man should earn his bread by the sweat of lis brow, came home to him with umitiated force. In course of time im proved ana enective tools so ngntenea the labors of the agriculturist, and so in creased his products, that the optortunity to make a division of labor arrived, because there was food to spare for the mechanic. This condition of things became more and more firmly established, until it changed the whole social and political aspect of human affairs. And now what do we see? The true "landlord is not the owner of an English estate, proclaims a writer in Capital and La bor, but the farmer who commands an army of farmers, with brigades of plows, reaiers and other machinery upon tue plains of Western America, lie makes laws tor countries thousands of miles away, and his products rule the world's markets. The cenius of agriculture to-dav is the mechanic; the soul of agriculture is the inventor. One farmer can now, with the help of machinery, feed a hundred men with greater ease than at one time he could feed himself alone. The farmer suports the railroads, for stocks rise and fall with the good and inditlerent reports of what the harvests shall be. He supports lines of steamers with his wonder ful freights of breadstuffs, provisions, meats, cattle and sheep. He maintains the mil lions of artisans who clothe and shelter him. and who provide for every one of his wants outside of the field. lhe mechanical power oi the age is like a series of concentric and eccentric circles, of which the former stands out in the principal center. These all revolve with and about agriculture, and the same force sets all in motion. It is the farmers duty now to make the most of his opportunities. He should be the foremost man of the age. His influence should be felt everywhere. It is felt everywhere, for the wealthiest mer chants and capitalists and the mot active politicians all ask themselves how far the farmers can be depended upon before they make a movement in their special pursuits. But the farmer should feel this himself. It is one thing to have power, and another thing to be cognizant of the possession. Let the farmers consider now their position. and, as they take a view of it, let them con sider what they owe to the power and in Huence of machinery. One most conspicu ous example of the results pointed out may be noted. A few years ago Minnesota spring wheat wan graded very low in the grain markets and Lroucli a low price. Unfortunately for the Western farmers this grade of spi intr wheat was the only one they could produce. A new proc ess in milling was introduced. Elaborate machinery was invenetd to perfect the proe ess. The bet wheat by this process was the grade know as "Minnesota spring," heretolore tiespisea ana rejected literally ' re jected," lh fact, in the markets. Afterward this grade became sought by millers, and the value advanced to a point equal to, and sometimes more than that of the r reviously much-sought winter wheats. II Minnesota farmers produce 40.000,000 bushels of wheat annually, this advanced value, due to the new process. Duts several millions of dollars yearly into their pockets; and what a vast amount of comfort and happiness maybe secured by the right use of so much money! This is but one instance of the vast concatcr nation of circumstances which points the moral here alluded to. Farm Notes. Portland cement is made of limestone and day. One gallon of neat's foot oil mixed with four ounces of lampblack makes a good bar ness oil. I'liny tells us P.edalus invetned the aw liie earliest saw mill of which we have rec ord was built in Madetia in 1120. When strawberry plants are set in rows three feet apart and a foot apart in the rows it requires 1 1,."20 for an acre. Oue good farmer says that he purchases in the summer bis mill feed for his stock w hen it is cheaper than it is in the winter. Charred corn is one of the best things w inch can be fed to hens to make them lay It must not be fed as a regular diet but in limited quantities each day. There is no probability that milking eithe heifer or cow before she calves will do he any harm, while neglecting or objecting to do it may do serious injury. Mr. J. W. Gay, West Dedham, Mass , bar vested from one and one-half acres of land the past autumn seventy bushels of winte rye, and sold y,!X) pounds of straw. A simple and effective remedy for lice on cattle is to give them a thorough dusting over with wood ashes every other day, brush ing them clean the following day. To heavily feed a cow of small milkin capacity is very toor economy. Kich food will produce good results when feil to cow that give large quanties of rich milk. White primroses are crown iu irreat nuan tities by the ilorists, being made td serve as background lor colored flowers. The are mixed with violets for funeral pieces. It is said by careful men that it is tl most profitable to grow for beef tlio.se animals that can be turned off at two years oiu. ureater a?e win give weight, but at much increased cost. In Holland the preservation of th woo woric oi uraworntgefl, Muices, gates and other works is conducted Sy the application of a mixture of pitch and tar. whereon are strewn Kuudcd shells, with a mixture of sea sand. It is estimated that there are 1,000,000 acres cultivated in jute each year In India, employing 1, STA 000 persons in it culture .. i and in the m arm fuel u re rf punnv bmw Tim I ITnlfo . ,.,. , annually. During the comparative leisure of the winter the prudent gardener will take care to get in readiness all tools needed lor use in the field; a little forethought now will save hurry and loss of time iu the busy season of the year. Twelve years after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth theru was not a plow in the vicinity of Boston, and the farmers broke up the land with hoes or other hand implements. In 1C37 there were but thirty -eeven plows in the whole State, and at a later period it was the custom for one owning a plough to do nearly If not all the plowing for a town. The town often paid

a bounty to one who would buy and keep a plow in repair and do the work in this way. The exportation of American live hogs to Germany has been found very profitable. About 'ZU per cent, of the bogs die on the voyage. The excessive dry summer and autumn of last year combined with the fact that now the ground has so far been covered with enow, will no doubt add greatly to the fertility of the soil, and, other things being favorably, we may reasonably expect good crops. Two Australian fleeces of wool and two American fleeces were scoured last summer. The Australian scoured four and a half pounds and the American eight and a half pounds. The former was valued at $4.30 and the latter at $-U2. A very simple remedy and said to be effective to rid canary birds of mites is to place a clean white cloth over the cage at night. The vermin leave the bird and gather upon the cloth. They are very small, red, and scarcely discernible with the naked eye. To utilize the feathers of ducks, chickens and turkeys, generally thrown aside as re

fuse, trim the plume from the stump, inclose them in a tight box, rub the whole as if washing clothes, and you will secure a perfectly uniform and light down, excellent for quilting coverlets and not a few other pur poses, Poultry World. The moisture in which one krnd of seed would flourish would be destructive to an ther class, causing them to rot instead of forcing growth. The heat necessary to start one class of seeds would dry up and utterly destroy the gum of another class. The ap plication of rules requires a mixture of common sense and observation. A iiuantity of flour was exposed by a French experimenter to a pressure of 300 tons, reducing it to one-fourth its original bulk. A portion of it was then placed in cans and sealed, the same being done with some unpressed Hour. A year afterward the cans were opened, when the unpressed flour was found to be spoiled," while the pressed was in excellent preservation. Too many fanners manifest a degree of contempt for the smaller products of the arm. t articuiariv those cultivators who are engaged in raising large crops of wheat and corn, or who are largely engaged in the dairy business. As a consequence, there is often a lack of vegetables on such farms. with, K'rhaps, a short supply of eggs or loney, combined often with a complete neglect of small fruits. Tobacco stalks should be saved, but should not be allowed to dry before being covered up with manure or muck. Before ing covered it is best to cut them into short pieces, then put a layer of much or manure on the ground about six inches thick, then a layer of stalks about the same thickness, continuing this method until all the stalks are used. They will soon begin to ferment and rot, and the result will be that from an acre of tobacco you will get a cord of the best kind of manure. A correspondent hands us the following method of preparing sugar for feeding bees: To four quarts of white sugar add one quart of boiling water; heat over a brisk fire, stir ring all the time, until it boils about five minutes. Remove from the fire and et the dish in a basin of cold water, and stir brisk ly until it begins to get white and creamy. Now pour on plates and let the sugar cool in large cakes. If it does not crystalize by stirring, there is too much water in it, and you will have to put it back on the stove and boil for a few minutes again. When you have got vour cakes of cool, hard candy, put them on the frames over the bees. American Cultivator. The chief value of salt applied to land as manure is in its action as a solvent, thus rendering other plant food available, though t supplies plants with soda and chlorine. both of which are constituents of plants. All plants that require soda or alkali are benefited by it, if applied with judgment. Wheat contains both soda and potash as well as chlorine (the latter and sodium arc constituents of salt). Salt that has been used for brine possesses value for fertilizing purposes. It should be applied to wheat sufficiently early in the spring to get the beneht of wet weather, and at the rate of three to six bushels per acre. Ten bushels are sometimes sown. Squashes are of tropical oriein, and. therefore, when spring opens it is useless ,to plant them until the soil is quite warm and all danger of frost or cold nights Is over. Again, as they make a very rapid growth. there is no necessity of haste in getting the seed into the ground, rkmashes are good eeders, liking a rich noil. It is best to manure In the hill. Jn sowing place dozen seeds in each hill, and when danger from the bugs Is over pull up all but three or four. A mellow, warm soil is the best For bush sorts make hills three or four feet apart, and for running kinds twice that dis tance. All winter squashes should be ripened thoroughly or they are watery, lack ing sweetness and richness, also lacking keeping properties. A QUKKK JCAttTKT. Which a Kentucky Mother Found in the MUnourl Penitentiary Sad Meetloa; 'With Four Convict Sons. Jefferson City, Jan. 23. -One t, the sad dest scenes ever witnessed in the Missouri Penitentiary occurred the other day. A mother met four of her sons wearing the striped suits as convicts within its walls Their names and crimes, as recorded on the Penitentiary rolls, are: James Oreen wade aged thirty years; ten years for robbery; re reived November 30 last. Luther Oreen wade, aged twenty-six: seven years for rob bery and larceny. Breckenndge Green wade, aired twenty-five; seven years for rob berv and larceny. Henry Orecnwade, aged twenty; ten years for robbery and larceny received day before yesterday; all from Bates County. The father and mother of these men I've in Jefferson, near Mount Sterling, Ky.; keep a hotel there, and are tolerably well-to-do in life, t our or live years ngo the elder broth er came to Missouri and bought a farm near llutler, in Kates County. The younge brothers followed soon after, and the fou lived together on the place, the oldest being married. Neighbors looked upon them as people of means, and respectuble. For two or three years all sorts of devilment was per pctrated in and about Butler. Persons w ere waylaid and HOE111K UT DIMOUISKD 1IIJ, Malls were rilled, burglaries were commit ted and hogs stolen. At length suspicion cen tcred on the Mrccnwades, ana they were watched by officer and citizens, and at last caught "dead to rights." Mail pouches, cu open and rilled, were found in the cellar, and stolen proierty on their premises. Con viction was easy, und they were landed in the Penitentiary. At the time stated, the mother, hearing her sons were in trouble Misted in haste to Bates County, only to lean i that they hud all been coi victed of rrlnies and taken to tl Htate Prison. With her daugliter-ip law and the latter s two children she reachei Jefferson City to day, and at once proceeded to the Penitentiary. The meeting with her sous was terribly affecting, and ills said Dei utv Warden Bradbury, for once In his life, gave way to the melting moed. "My 0'd!"hc exclaimed, "that a mother should live to see four of her beloved boy in such a place. The officials were kind and tender to the a filleted ones, but they had, at last, to use force in separating the mother from her sons, and induced her to leave them after visit of three or four hours. A Jerseyman who attended prayer-meeting with his daughter felt compelled to rise up and remark: "I want to be good and go to Heaven, but If. those fellers don't stop winking at Mary there win be a good deal of prancing around here the first thing they aiiow.

CONGRESSIONAL.

norsE. Tho Counting of the Kleetoral Court. An hour before the meeting of the House and two hours before the time appointed for the counting of the electoral votes for President and Vice President, the galleries of the louse were filled with spectators, a large majority of whom were ladies. (Jn the floor a few wooden chairs were sandwiched n between the chairs of the members for the accommodation of the Senators, but otherwise there was no indication that any save the usual routine business of the House was to be transacted. The indifference shown bv members, who seemed only anxious to obtain seats for friends in the galleries, was marked contrast with the excitement which prevailed during the electoral count our years ago. After readinc yesterday's journal, the morning hour was dispensed with, and the louse went into the committee of the Whole on the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. The Committee, without concluding the bill, rose, and Mr. Singleton offered a resolution according the privileges of the floor to adies who have not been able to obtain seats in the calleries. The resolution being adopted, a large num ber of ladies entered th-3 Chamber and obtained seats. At a few minutes iast 12 the Doorkeeper announced the arrival of the Vice President and the Senate, who then filed into the Chamber. Vice President Wheeler took a seat on the right of Speaker Ilandall, and the Senators were accommodated with chairs in front of the rows of desks. The Vice President called the Assembly to order and said: The two Houses beintt assembled In pursuance of the Constitution that the votes may be counted and declared for President and Vice President oa the 4th day of March, 18M, it becomes my difty under the Constitution, as President of the Senate, to open the certificates of election of the several States of the Union in the presence of the two Ilouses, and now I proceed to the discharge of that duty. The tellers, Messrs. Thurman and Hamin on the part or tue senate, ami Messrs. House and Crowley on the part of the House, having taken their places at the Clerk's desk, the Vice President said: "1 ojen a package purporting to contain the certificates of the election of the State of Alabama, and hand the certificate to be re ported." The certificate having been read very slowly by Senator Hamlin, and having shown that the Klectors of the State of Alabama had cast the ten votes of that State for Winfield S. Hancock for President, and ten votes for William H. Knglish for Vice President, the vice President said: "The vote of the State of Alabama, having been recorded by the tellers, I open and hand to them the certificate of election of the State of Arkansas." The six votes of the State of Arkansas were recorded for W.- 8. Hancock for President, and W. II. English for Vice President. (Jn motion of Mr. ueagan the reading of merely the formal portions of the certificates was disiensed with. I he certificate from California showed that live of the six votes ot that State had been cast for Hancock and 'nglish and one for Garfield and Arthur. The three votes of Colorado were recorded for Garfield and Arthur. The three votes of Delaware were recorded for Hancock and Knglish. The four votes of r londa were recorded for Hancock and English. The next certificate handed the teller was from Oeorcia. and it was read by Mr. Crow ley, the reading in full being demanded by Mr. Springer. The certificate shows that on the Mh of December, 18S0, the eleven votes of Georgia were cast for Hancock and hnghsh. The Nice President then said: "it ap pearing from the eertincate just reaa that the vote of Georgia was cast on a day other than that fixed for casting such votes by the act of Concress in pursuance with the Con stitution of the United States, the result of this certificate will not be recorded until, in the lancuace of the concurrent resolution under which this count troceeds, it will ap pear whether the counting or omitting to count such votes will change the result of the election." The twenty-one votes of Illinois were then recorded for Garheld and Arthur. The fifteen votes of Indiana were recorded for Garfield and Arthur. The eleven votes of Iowa for Garfield and Arthur. The five votes of Kansas for Garfield and Arthur. The twelve votes of Kentucky for Hancock and hnglish. The eight votes of Louisiana for Hancock and English. The seven votes of Maine for Garfield and Arthur. The eiirht votes of Maryland tor Hancock and lnchsh. The thirteen votes of Massachusetts for Garfield and Arthur. The eleven votes of Michigan for Garfield and Arthur. The five votes of Minnesota for Garfield and Artlm'. The eight votes of Mississippi for Han cock and Knglish. The fifteen votes of Missouri for Hancock and English. The three votes of Nebraska for Garf'eld and Arthur. The three votes ol Nevada for Hancock and English. The five votes of New Hampshire for Gar held and Arthur. The nine votes of New Jersey for Hancock and Lngusli. The thirty-five votes of New lork for Gur held and Arthur. The ten votes of North Carolina for Han cock and Knglish. The twenty-two votes of Ohio for Garfield and Arthur. The three rotes of Oregon for Garfield and Arthur. The twenty-nine votes of Pennsylvania fur Uartield and Arthur. The four votes of Uhode Island for tarfield and Arthur. The seven votes of South Carolina for Hancock and English. The twelve votes of Tennessee fur Han cock and English. The eight votes of Texas for Hancock aud English. The five votes of Vermont for Garfield am! Arthur. The eleven votes of Virginia for Hancock and English. The live vote of West Vireinla for Han cock and English. The ten votes of Wii :onsia for Garliel and Arthur. The Vice President then announced that the certificate of Wisconsin was the last of the certificates. The tellers then proceeded to foot up the vutcs rust for President and Vice President of the United fctates. Senator Thurman then said: "The tellers report the whole number of Electors at pointed to vote for President of the Unitec Mates was 3?., of which a majority is 183, Were votes of Electors rr the State o Georgia rast on th second Wednesday o December, Imhi), being the eighth day of said month, to be counted, the result would be, for James A. Garfield, of the Stale of Ohio, for President of the Unite States, 214 votes, and for Winfield H. Hancock, of th State of Pennsvlvania, for President of the United States, 1M vbtes, If not counted the result would be for James A. Oarfleld, for President of the United Hutes. 214 votes, and for Winfield 8. Hancock, for President of the United States, 141 votes. In either event, James A. (Jarfield has received a majority of the votes of the whole number of Electors appointed Senator Thurman made a similar state ment relative to the vote for Vice President "Wherefore." said Vice President Wheel er, "I do declare that James A. Garfield, of

the 8tate of Ohio, having received a ma jor-

:y ot the votes of the whole number of Sectors appointed, in duly elected Presi dent of the United States for four years, commencing with the 4th day of March. isi; ana 1 do further declare that Chester . Arthur, of the State of New York, havig received a majority of the votes of the hole number of Electors anoointed' is duly elected Vice President of the United States for four years, commencing on the 4th day of Maren, ism." Loud applause. EXPRESSIONS. Little puffs of powder, Little dabs of paint, Make a face deceitfulLook like t hat of sain t : And hootis and purchased curL Transform the living skeleton Into a gushing girl. The mercury touched zero. The day was Just a aneeaer. And, anxiously, the toper Was hunting for a geezer. He found a flask of benzine ; . He thought that it was gin; He quickly did invert it And scooped the contents in. It did not make him h udder; It did not make him w luceHe fclowly left the oflioe. And hasn't benzine wnce! January, sneezy; February, freezy; March, breezy; April, wheezy; May, showery; June, lowery; July, bowery; August, flowery; September, blowey; October, dowey; 'ovtmber, snowy; Pecemtter, Rlowey. Ixmisville Courier-JöurnaL Water colors so does whisky. "I should blush to simper" is the latent slang. The only secret a woman guards invioably is her age. Railroad track must be feminine they lave switches. Cannibals are captive 'ating creatures. Steubenville Herald. A jail bird is one whose wings have been clipped by legal process. An industrious hen will not lay aside her business on any pretext. Tuneful lyre A music teacher who does not keep his engagements. Garfield rises at seven in the morning. This is his idea of seven-up. The church-going belle the girl who wears the tinkling bangles on Sunday. A newlv married man sava this is the 6coldest winter he has ever experienced. The butchers of Indianapolis are hand some, lhat is when they are dressed to kill. Inquirer. A heathen is a man whose idea of God is different from yours. Hartford Evening Tost When a New York young man pops the question lie now says: "Lefs consolidate." Boston Transcript. Old Nickelpinch says he has often neen men buck the tiger, out lor his part he would rather buckwheat cakes. An exchange says: "When does a lork get ripe enough to pick ?" As soon as the ppring opens, of course. Syracuse Standard. The minister who divides his discouife into too many heads will find it difficult to procure attentive ears tor all of them. Of a miserly man somebody wrote: "His head gave way, but his hand never did. His brain softened, but his heart couidn t." Curiosity Shop "Oh, what a lovely vase! It's antique, is it not?" "No, raa'ra. it's modern." "What a pitv ! it was so pretty." When a man married a very large but homely woman, some one at the wedding said that he took her by weight, and didn't care for the workmanship. Whenever voung ladies learn so to stick a Pin in their apron strings that it won t scratch a fellow's wrist, there will be möre marriages. busan 15. Anthony. When Hays left Fremont for Washington he lent a neighbor a barn-shovel. On his last trip home he walked half a miletosav that he should want the shovel returned early in March. An editor, tue uav alter experiencing re ligion, wrote: "The storm last Wednesday caused great d age in H ertpwn. Pa. A man named u dfrey was dangerously in jured." Puck. The following advertisement recently ap peared in a Liverpool paper: "Wanted, by a younc man of refined musical tastes, a im sition of son-in-law in a quiet, well-to-uo family. Address," etc. A critic as is a critic: A recent isitor to an art gallery said he preferred the statutes to the pictures, because "you kin go all around the statoos, but you can't see only one side of the picters. ' An exchange says it's a very bail thing to get rich too rapidly. We never thought of that before; now here s another danger fo us to worry about and strive -to gua: I against. Milford Journal. It Is perfectly right to speak of a man's magnificent dome of thought and Webstenan brow, but when you ppeak of a redheaded gentleman as the man with the gilded dome ten chances to one he will not feel flattered. A Parisian enters a poor dines badly. In settling up owner: "Dear sir, embrace embrace you?'1 he fays, in restaurant arid he says to the me." "Hum, astonishment. "Why, yes, for I really believe we shall never see each other again." Tim. I want to borrow your black Sunday pants to attend a funeral," said one Galveston Irishman to another. "And whose funeral is it ye are so anxious to attind in me black Sunday pants?" "Your own, be dad, ef you don't lind 'em to me. Jones (who pridcä himself on his beard) "Can you tell me, Mr. Hairdresser, why I have such an extraordinary fine flowing beard, when neither my father nor grandfather had any?" Hairdresser (blandly) "Well, really can't say, indeed, nii unless you took after your grandmother!" A yourg girl attending Sunday-chool eaw a picture of Cain and Able in the lemon book bhe looked at her teacher and said: Um , man dead." "Well, Stella, what killed him?" "Don't know," said. the bright young girl, "run over by the cars, I supose." A country girl at a fashionable hotel In New York noticed that all the guests used their forks only Jn eating thejrple. Upon her return home she reported the fact to the old ladv, who comforted her by observing: "You shouldn't mind 'em Jemima; it's all because they're too tarnal lazy to use their knives." A Galveston darky rushed into a doctor's office, and breathlessly exclaimed: "Come on, doctor, right off. Dar is eomcliody in my house who is in an awful fix laid up tn a bed a grounin' and a-groanin'." "Who is It?" "It's me. Yer nee, bosH, I didn't hab nobody to send, so I coine myself." Galveston News. Soon after the death of the poet Wordsworth a man met a farmer of the neighborhood and said to him, "You have a great loss." "What loss?'' "Why, you have lost the great oet." "Oh, ay," said the farmer, "he is dead; but I hev no doubt t' wife' 11 carry on the business, and make it as profitable as iver it was." J Foote Was talking away one evening at a dinner-table of a man ot rank, when, at the point of one ot his best stories, one of the party interrupted him suddenly, with an air of most conslderete apology: "I beg your pardon, Mr. Foote, but your handkerchief is half out of your pocket" "Thank you, air," said Foote, replacing it, "you know the company better than I do," and finished hie Joke. Elijah Q. Allen Is a very absent-minded man. A friend went to Houston the other day, and when he got back Elijah asked him: "How Is old Major Bones coming on? Has he changed much of latoT' "Changed I I should smilcl He has been dead more than three yean." "That's facti I was

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thinking of old Major Snook who died about the same time, lias he chanced much of late?" Skate makers, plumbers and coal dealers are sending polite circulars from the watering place landlords who expect to keep hotel next summer. "If I can't have anderbilt," remarks a landlord, "give me three of those." Scene at Continental kursaal: English party at card-table "Halloo, we are two to two. ' English party at opposite table "We are two to two. too!' German spectator, who "speaks English," to companion, who is acquiring the language "Veil, now you see how dis is. Of you vant to gife expression to yourself in English, all you hafe to do is to play mit der French horn!" They were talking about the weights of dinerent Individuals m a certain family, and the daughter's younc man. who was present, spoke up before he thought, and said: "I tell you that Jennie ain't so very ugiii, eiiner. aunougn sne looics so. Ana he looked suddenly conscious, and blushed, and Jennie became absorbed in studying a chromo on the wall. Jennie had evidently been in his lap. table ;ossip. From ms to January 1. 1881, California turned out in gold and silver $2,130,2.rxS,000. A wolf bit sixteen persons In a village near Naples, nine of whom d:ed of hydro phobia. , About $7,500,000 has been expended on the Mississippi River, aside from the jetties, sincetthe formation of the Government. Don Piatt says: "From the recent terrible marine disasters we are led to decide that water is becoming more dangerous to human me than whisky." There is in Berlin an establishment called the Orfaneum, which consists of a beer garden, a wine cellar, a restaurant, a lodging house, a dance hall, ami a stace. all in one building. In reference to the marriage of Lady Bur-dett-Coutts, a London mjr thinks it necessary to state that should there be issue (the bride is sixty-six) the eldest son will inherit the title, but he and the other children will bear the name of the father. Mr. and Mrs. Garfield are being badgered half out of their lives by persons who urge them.to pursue the course adopted by President Hayes have no wines at their state dinners. And yet they say that President Hayes can drink wine as well as any man at other people's tables. A little boy visited his uncle on his birth day and congratulated him. He then asked his uncle if he washed himself. " by so? asked his uncle, patting the innocent little prattler on the heaiL Ilecause papa said if you did the clean thing you'd give me a dollar, at least" Mrs. Garfield is understood to have said tliat she will not interfere with the President-elect if he chooses to have wine at for mal dinners, and her Washington friends say that she will confine herself to the af fairs of her privat household, with which the public has nothing to do. Jennie June criticises little women who swathe themselves with great folds of heavy material, drag loaded trains and carry pounds of beads. She says: "See a woman in a piain nigii gown oi orown saun wit rutlles of fine lace and a string of amber beads around her neck a dress that is not an obstacle, that even if it is long is easily taken up. lhat is taste. A man in Warren Countv. Kentucky. drives an ox team that once belonged to an intemperate man, ana mat got so used to stopping for him at .-aloons that now when pass ing a saloon the animals will not move un til their new owner goes in to get a drink. He doesn't rare for liquor, he savs. but is obliged to drink to get his team along. He has retused $o,ow lor the oxen. A writer in the "home" column of an Illinois paper has been to Washington, and saj's: "At the hotel table I seen at least a half dozen Eastern Congressmen and their families eating meat stews, potatoes and pie with the sharp edge of the knife toward their mouths. I do not believe there is a family in the West fit to provide a Congress man that does not know enough in eating to turn the dull back of . the knife to the month. In a report lately published in France on the tobacco trade, a Government monopoly, some curious statistical facts are stated. In the first place, the greatest number of snuff takers are found in the departments which surround Taris, four of these departments heading the list with a consumption per head ot between three-quarters of a pound and one iound. The departments in which the practice is carried on the least are Doubs, Pyrenees Orientalin, Nord, Haut Rhin, and Haute Savoie, where the consumption per j head is only one-quarter of a pound. The singular thing is that Nord and Haut Rhin are two ont of three departments in which smoking is almost universal, the averaire consumption in this particular form reach ing as far as four pounds per head. It would seem, therefore, from these statistics that snuffing and smoking go, in France at all events, in inverse proportion to each other, It I mentioned also, incidentally, that the departments which most encourage snuff taking are those in which the most cider is drunk. France, after all, is not snch a nation of tobacco consumers as she is gener ally beiieveu to be; lor sne issurpassea in the annual consumption per heed by the United States (where it is six poi a Is) the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Hun gary, Germany, Sweden and Russia. Indigestion, Dyspepsia, ervoo prostration, and alrforins of KcueruJ oVMlity relieved by takln MEN-SPAN'S Pf.PTONIZKC ItRKT Tovic. th onlr preparation of beef containing itM entire nu tri Uoua properties. It is not a mere stimnlant, like the extracts of beef, but contains blood-maklne. forcegenerating and life-snsVLfnlBg properties; Is Invaluable iu all enf(ebkdronli(ionB, whether the reull of exhatiHUon, nervoos proHtration, overwork, or acnie disease; pamcuarlr If resulting from pulmonary comphiltts. CASWELL, 1IA2Aiu -i")., iTopneioru, Kiew xera. "Hachnpalbaw New, quick, corupfoto cure, four days. urinary aneciicm, pmarvng, frequent difficult urination, kidney diseases. Druggists. 33 WashingWii street Ion't Die oa the Premises. Ask druggists for "Rough on Rats." or $1. It clears out rats, niice Jted bugs, roachee. only loc per box. Decline of Man. Impotence of mindlimb or vital function, nervous weakness wi ual debility, etc., cured by .Wells' Heat Renewer. flat druggists. 38 Washington street Catarrh of the Ttladder. ßtinging, smarting frritation of the urinary passages, diseased discharges, cured by Buchupttiba. $1. Druggista. 38 Washington ttreet, Fough on Rata. The thing desired found at last Ak druggisti for "Rough on RaU" It clears out rats, mice, roaches beoVbugs, etc Fifteen renta per box. Skinny Men. Well's Health Kojicwer. Absolute cure for nervous debirVA' nnd weakness of the generative function One dollar at druggists, 38 Washington 81 A Sure Thing. Chapin's Buch upAtha quick, complete cure for gravel, stone, kidney, bladder and all uriuary affections. $t 38 Washington street Terrible Lose of life. 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