Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1881 — Page 7

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THE i INDIANA ; STATE; SENTINEL; yxpNE5DAT, APEIL 13, 188LT ;

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r . More Intemtlne Experience In the Preparation of the New "Winter Fodder. ;orse for Practical Purposes American Butter In Forelrn Land Spring i Plowing: Farm and Work shop Not., Etc. Thm Now "Winter Fodder. New York Real Estate Guide. No proposed change in time-honored methods of agriculture has excited so deep in interest among progressive farmers as the ecent experiments in prewiring green forV ., 1 . 1 - -1 .!... i r n 7e crops insiioaana cemem-mieu juj. vnc of the earliest adventurers in this new field . - - . . Ii it :it.. V3i our old inena air. iiarit . jm, w vrareek Farm, near rorupton, N. J. -Ve have a vivid remembrance of hisdisjointruent with the first experiment, mMrh wassimolv an excavation into which the green corn stalks were placed and cov ered with straw and earth, as well as rood-natured manner with which he the acaarvtaJ anl Ami 11 POl tilt 1in.mtfl.rini: ridicule New Jerm VC fc VA SB.JV X C vf the "natives" of that section of v. Nothing daunted, however, the fol- . 1 ,1 4 :n Via Kirn wi season ue tiunuicu , walled up the sides, and subsequently cemented it. The result was so gratifying tliat he extended its size and added another, until Iii ilns am now as extensive as anv in yhe country, and his success last year was so VncouraKinK that he is now wintering 120 yad of horned cattle and twelve horse Without a pound of hay, and he is confi dent that he will bring his entire stock throtitrh until May weather furnishes grazing. His store of ensilage (or "cow kraut," as facetious farmers style the preserved fodler) wa gathered from less than thirteen irres of laud, and it is simply the stalks of Indian corn, cut when green into half-inch lengths, and packed in silos under pressure so tightly a to exclude the air. Mr. Mills stm;ates the entire cost oi nis supply oi kAiir tXt tni mlu(linTSffl tlll.lff PAT II ,mg. cutting-and ackiiifr, ready for fecdj at less than $5UU. When it is retuemered that a sutlicient amount of hay to wer the ame puriose would have cost as Uch a 7.500. tlie value of the new process fill be recognized. I Recently a number of gentlemen from vaVus iart of New Jersey visited Arrareek Inn to make a personal inspection of the aethod of preparing the ensilage, and of its L i . w . ir w results, in tue iariy were Ii on. jarnes Bishop, Chief of the State Bureau of Statistics", Professor George II. Cook, of the Agricultural College, and State Geologist; Theodore West, Suj-erintendent, and A. T. Neale, Chemist of the State Experimental Farm, besides several prominent stock raisers. In the barn there was not a wisp of hay. The building is eighty feet long, and in it are two pits, each 40x13 feet and twenty feet deep, with perpendicular walls of concrete. One silo has been emptied, and a part of the cover Lad been removed from the ether, and the ensilage cut down to the bottom, leaving a i erpendicular wall of the food for inspection. Mr Mills has found that the freshly-cut nn.ii i tollj dan Vui (tAtiiTtraudiul ill Ktillr naap. Y one-half, and he therefore places a frame f plank, hfteen feet high, and of the fame length and width as the silo, on top of the concrete wall, and this he fills also, l.pon tlie whole mass with the plank addition making a depth a depth of thirty-five feet a cover of pLJkk is laid, of such a size as to l iiuouunil 1 Lit 111 inj uuv Aula is lieavily loaded, and in a few days the cover TWillhave pressed the mass so that its top iill be on the level with .the floor of the yn when the temporary frame is removed ( Se cover is of two inch plank, made in secions, each four feet wide, of matched stuff, id firmly battened, with the battens of each action projecting and fitting into those of the next one, so that, with the weight evenly distributed, it all moves downward together. The sections are an inch shorter than the width of the pit, leaving a place for air and pisses to escape as the cover goes down. The weight used is nearly fifty tons, and in this case was composed of grain in . I I t . m I ,-acas wiicn is grounu ior leeu as it 11 taue 11 off when needed. Of course the material of the weight may be anything sufficiently ponderous, but it should be of a nature that ran be readily handled, aud whose actual .voirdnpois can be known. Mr. Mills' ensilage was perfectly preserved irorn She top layer to ine oouom. nen cut from the solid mass it is of a brownishreen color, and has a slightly acid' taste. It has gone through no "heating process," but - ... a . Deiore u-euing 11 is laiu out in a neap ior a aiant vinous aroma. The cattle devour it rcrly, and their appearance seems to Jtve its healthfulness, while the abundant Tltr. Mills feed less grain than farmers ordinarily use in hay-fed dairies. A tall variety of Southern corn is planted closely In drills, and it is cut after the taswei appears and the ear begin to set. Professor Cook, who has Vanalvzed ensilage from a dozen localities. f. Pronounced the Pompton product of the rst quality, and he thinks the various decc3 here used have reduced the system to tate approachintr ierlection. All the ex (perts present were convinced that the new Tocess would work sometimes like a revolurs in dairv tarmin and stock raisins. WTilvh will be rapidily Believed when it is reSjjcnibered tliat more than 30,000,000 tons of I hay are now needed every year to feed the I horses and cattle of the country through our l long aim cold winter?. Horses for Practical Purpo.e. .A correspondent of the Country Gentle man writes: Visiting New York City recent ly, I noticed particularly the greatly in"rjeaseu proportion oi one-norse venu les as compared with a few years ago. Over i.mooth iavements, and with no steep in clines, most of the hauling can be, and I done, with one horse instead oi two. . it is true the horses are larger and stronger than formerly. Tlie era when light-weight horses tvere most popular has passed, and probably lorever. That the country has within a few rears grown more prosierou3 is due to I'jser calculations in the line of minor economies. On most farms four good, strong, well-fed horses, will do the work of live, and often of six. Jso doubt in time steam power will more largely take the place of horse and manual labor than now. Steam .thrashers have almost entirely superseded Vthe old-time horse-iower machines. But until steam is more generally used, the change in the means for conducting farm labor will be in having i ifewer and more powerful horses. Weight is l" a i. i - a ji important consideration, uuen a ngni. iVjn, nervous horse will, on a short pull, do extraordinary things; butit is at the expense of condition and health. A horse weighing 1.3U0 pounds will do the work by throwing weight into it, and with less expenditure Jlfl 1 1 1 A l ' I . I. iFi nervous iorce. Aiioiuer luiuir is worm 14'iisidering. Horses need men to work vviih them, and if the team is incapable of lloing a full day's work, part of the man's nore valuable labor is wasted. It is for this reason that I have always advocated plough nng with three horses rather than with two, l liut seeing one strong horse drawing neavi iy-Ioaned street cars in New xork has taugt Lie a lesson. If the horses are right, two . good animals will, for ploughing or any l farm work, make an excellent three-horse team. The saving in cost of keeping is an Viraportant item quite as much so on the VArra as in the city, for. though the farm yrse is fed less expensively per day, it is on norse can be used throughout the entire year, thoufih so far as possible this should m . ... . ... . . be done. Excepting colt not read for work, hones

shoald never be pastured. In the season of fresh grass they mar be fed on newly-cut hay, but then in connection with grain, or cut straw and meaL While being worked, most farm-horses get good care, faithful grooming and nourishing food. It is not then that they fall in strength; but after the spring work is done, and they are turned out in the fields to shift for themselves, or, as is generally said, "to rest." I have seen many horses from city liveries that had gone through this recuperating process, and the result has always been that it took several weeks of good feeding and light exercise to recover what was lost. There is no doubt that the business of breeding horses, if properly managed, will lie profitable in a large section of country The heavy draught-horses, Percherons and Clydesdales, have alwavs a ready market at good prices. With lighterbreeds.the business if niorea lottery thananything else, and with ai undue proportion of blanks. Unless one of these I10'ht horses develops extraordinary sieed he is not wanted; and it takes a horse that will make his mile inside of 2:30 to be sure of a sale. There are thousands of

horses that will now travel inside of three minutes, and if they do not happen to have other recommendations, as many have not, nobody wants them. But for heavy draft horses, four or five years old, there is al wavs a market, and for a matched team a hitfhlv profitable one. Another important advantage in breeding draft horses is that they have stronger const itutions and are loss lable to accidents. Ihe absence oi ner vousness, which helps them to erow large and strong, makes them easy ketppers after they get their growth, ana save many accident. Nervous horses are worth little at an age when a good draft horse will have many ears of hard work. To be sure, "loung America" can not make so fine a pi urge on the road; but the l'ercheron horses are by no means bad travelers, and for one who values life and limb will always be preferred. It is at least a comfortable feeling while beim; drawn up a steep hill, or over a road, that your horse is not being strained, or perhaps" ernianently injured, in the operation, American Butter In Foreign Lands. The American Consul at Ceylon, Mr. Morey, deprecates the -acting of butter in tin for shipment to warm climates. lie states that butter arriving at Ceylon from the United States thus packed has become deteriorated from the corrosion of the tin, or he use of impure salt used in the packing, and that there is not only a loss to tlie im porter, but he implies tliat it naturally brings a discredit upon the producer and our Nation, lie says: "ihe rrcncu are gendinir to the Kast large quantities of Nor mandy butter, in one or two-pound bottles, with mouths about two inches diameter, glass stoppered and secured with hard. white cement, so as to be perlectly air-tight. The butter is fresh, but after being packed about one tablespoonful of white pearly salt, almost impalpably tine and exquisitely pure, is put into the neck of the bottle and the stopier applied, lhis butter retails al most unlimitedly at sixtv-live cents gold per one-pound bottle and fifty-five cents gold per pound in two-pound bottles. As our country has now become famous for its excellent glass, and there can be no question about the conservation of butter in vessels of that material, I see no reason why our xiorters should not only imitate the r rench n using it for packing butter, but for cheese also, thereby securing preservation and a never failing market for those commodities n this Oriental hemisphere. How to Granulate Sorghum Syrup. Dr. S. D. Philbrick, in the Des Moines Register, says there in no trouble in making sugar if we neutralize the phosphoric acid and destroy the-glueose in the juice. He docs this by the use of soda, rour poundsof the best super carconate of soda will be sufficient to neutralize a barrel of syrup. Dissolve the soda in four or five gallons of juice, then add this to enough juice to make a barrel of syrup. Tut the syrup in long, shallow boxes and set in a room of about seventy degrees, and granulation will be accomplished in two or three days. Difficulty la Breeding. The American Cultivator says that one of the most difficult matters in the whole science and system of breeding is that of crossing different breeds of pigs, or rather perhaps in what might be called their hyridization. In breeding from a Chester White sow and a Suffolk boar, one-half of the progeny had all the characteristics of the sow, the other of the boar. In no case was the re any appearance of any combina tion of the two breeds. On breeding from those which had the appearance of 8ufiolk sows with a Suffolk boar, the progeny had the points of a Chester White rather than of the Suffolk. In breeding from recently established breeds it should create no sur prise to find frequent sports, that is, occa sional animals of the progeny will run back to one or other of the breeds from which they emanated. , Spring l'lowlog. Prairie Farmer. A few words here upon spring plowing are not out of place. Sandy or gravelly soils may be plowed or replowed in the spring without running much risk, but it is differ ent with clay soils, and the rule should gov ern that clay is to be plowed in the fall or winter. To pursue a different course in volves a risk, especially with undrained and. A clay loam which is underdrained and has been well-cultivated may be treated more like a lighter soil; but even then pru dence is required, for Clav soils are sensitive and are often Injured by starting the plow too soon after a heavy rain, showing the effect in the yield of the crop. Stiff, adhe sive s:us, whether clayey or loamy, can not :e plowed to advantage while wet or very Iry. However, such soils are improved by frequent plowing, as this reduces them to that finely comminuted condition winch is favorable to the growth of plants. All tilla ble land has more or less clay in it. and if worked when too wet tlie result is hurtful. It is in this way that disaniMiintment occurs in the yield of rich alluvial lands, which fail to produce abundantly because the clay is thus rendered comparatively useless. It may seem superfluous to some of our readers to offer suggestions that are well un derstood by theiu. It must not be forgotten. however, that many ot our later readers are young farmers, or men who have had little or no experience in tilling the soil. Xor is it out of place to occasionally remind farm ers of larger exierience tliat much care must be exercised in plowing and re-plow ing land in soring. In no small degree does the success of the season s crop deiend on the farmer's prudence in this regard; nor does the matter end with a single season, and this is one thing that is frequently lost sight of at the time a farmer maybe turn ing over his land. While land is too wet plow, whether in fall or spring, to turn It up so that it will bake is to injure it ior eev eral years, entailing much unnecessary loss both to vield of crops, and of labor to re store it to a natural condition of fertility. The Agritnral Appropriation Hill. The agricultural appropriation bill, as it final iv tuissod Congress, covers an aggregate of $330,00. Among the iterni are $10,000 for experiments in connection with the cul tureand manufacture of tea; $25,000 for the investigation of the diseases of animals, of which $15,000 is to be devoted to the investi eat in of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle $25000 for the continuation of experiments in tlie manufacture of sugar from sorghum etc: SlO.UOO lor the continuation of exnen ments in the manufacture of sugar from beets: $5,000 for continuing the investiga tion of forestry ; $.5,000 for examination and reports on wools; $10,000 for experiments in the reclamation of arid lands; $9.000 for chemical investigations; $18,000 I r ento mological investigations; $10,800 for the col lection of statistics; $10,000 far matter for the report; about $00.000 for salaries, and $80,000 for seeds, one-half of which shall be distributed by Congressmen among thei constituents and the remainder by the Com

missioner. The Senate added an appropriation of $500 to pay John L. Hayes for hie report on sheep husbandry in the South, published by resolution of Congress. . ,

Farm and Workhop Notes. Three thousand species of grass are known to botanists. The roots of the grasses in a good pasture will weigh from live te ten tons. An Insurance Company has been formed n Prussia to insure against loss of hogs by trichina Never feed dtaved roots of any kind to cows giving milk. One decayed turnip fed to a cow would affect the milk of fifty rows mixed together. Among French farmers it Is considered much better to feed beet pulp to sheep and cattle for production of meat than for milk. lorses will not eat it readilv. A Frenchman is breeding camels in Ne vada .He has forty -am els all but three natives of that State, engaged in carrying goods from railroad stations to mining camps. A simple adhesive for rubber belts is made by sticking powdered chalk, which ias been evenly sprinkled over, to the sur face of the 1h?U by cold tallow ur boiled insved oil. The most successful fruit growers East and West have decided that there is no better remedy for the codling moth than to pasture hogs in the orchard, to eat the wormy pples and the worms therein. In transplanting trees "never set them deeper in the eround than they were origi nally before they were moved. The nots of grape vines should always be kept near thesurface, since their roots never run deeper. Spring flowers are generally small and elicate, but sweet; the flowers" of summer are larger and more plentiful and have brighter colors, and are also very sweet and load the air with fragrance; the flowers of autumn are bright and showy, bat have little fragrance. Thousands wer- sold in the fall at ruin ously low prices, but in f pite of this it is estimated that from 30 to 40 per cent, of the cattle in Colorado have perished during the winter. In other sections the loss has not been so great, but it has been sufficiently large to check the business. Loose pullevs require constant attention ami much oil, and are very hard on the belt It is best to have them a trifle smaller than the tight pulley, and with a step or Hange running up to the diameter of the tight one. This takes the strain off the belt and the friction from the pulleys. The phylloxera, the deadly enemy of vineyards, lm appeared in six Counties of ulilormn. ( moans oi getting nu ot tins pest has been discovered abroad, where its ravages have been severely felt Since lf75 it has driven out ot vine culture 000,000 acres, and reduced the vintage ot 180 onethird as compared with that of !$-. To make paste for paper take ten parts by weight of gum arabic, add three parts of sugar in order to prevent the gum from cracking; then add water until the desired consistency is obtained. If a very strong paste is required, add a quantity or flour equal in weight to the gum, without boiling the mixture. The paste improves in strength when it begins to ferment. As soon as the frost leaves the surface of the ground, and we have a few days of warm sunshine, the grnb of the canker worm will eave its winter quarters and take up its line of march for the trunks of apple trees, up which, if no obstruction prevent it will climb to deposit, on the smaller branches, its eggs. Apple trees in locations where this destructive enemy is found should be at once looked after; if they are not pro tected by patent protectors, a strip of tarred paper a foot in width should be tied around the trunk and kept well-covered with tar. printer's ink or a prcjaratioo made bv meltng four parts of rosin with one part linseed oil. The greatest care should be taken to keep the paper covered during the month of April so thick with some sticky substance that no grub can pass over it. In discussing the merits of different breeds of swine. John D. W. French, of Andover, writes: The large breeds, such as the Berk shire, are best for bacon, the smaller breeds for pork. If you want pigs with good con stitutions, which will come to early maturity and weigh 200 pounds or thereabouts at a year old, take an .Essex, or small Yorkshire bt.ar, and cross him on some of the large. coarse sows with which the State abounds. Such pigs will be good feeders, easily kept. and will give the best average results for pork and bacon. If real improvements is expected, a purebred boar should be used as nnich as a pure bred bull on herd of cows, whether the calves are wanted for the dairy or the butcher. The larger the sow and the smaller the boar, the more will the little pigs ba able to eat in proortion to their size, and the greater will be their growth in roportion to the foot! consumed. To pro duce pigs merely for the butcher we should resort to crosses with a large vigorous, unpampered sow put to the tinet thorough bred boar ot the small breeds that can be ob tained. American Cultivator. Abeuce of Mind na m Sign of Incipient Mental Disease. The Medical and Surgical Reporter lvs some suggestions and statements in the article below, which are of interest and impor tance to a good many people: it is essential to sum mat tne musries oi the body should work unconsciously, but tlie moment thev assert, as it were, their in dependence of self-consciousness and prompt to the initiation oi tttorts outsule of what they have been taught, a diseased condition is begun which we call "absence of mind." Such a habit begins on little things, more generally by an omission than a commision. flunking of something else while dressing, a part of the toilet is overlooked, the neck tie is forgotten, the wrong coat is put on and the hair is unkempt Soon, as the habit increases, absurd and even harmful acts are committed. The col lections of anecdotes are full of stories of such follies. We know of an able young lawyer, who, instead of pouring a tonic from a bottle on his desk, carefully emptied the ink from his inkstand into a spoon and swallowed it. Another, an ex-Attorney General of the United States, went on a fort night trip to attend an absorbing legal case. His wife packed a half dozen shirts in his portmanteau. On his return there was no shirt visible, rushing her inquiries, she found that her husband had regularly a clean shirt every other day, but had forgot ten to take oil the soiled one, and now re turned wearing the whole half dozen. An authentic anecdote of the great political economist. Adam Smith, tells us that when called upon to sign a contract, instead of writing his own name he made an elaborate imitation of the signature of the other party, which had already been atnxed. Such incidents tend to depreciate a man, though ierhaps unjustly, in the opinion of those with whom he does business. They become also a grave annoyance to the indi vidual himself. In a sense they are mental weaknesses, which, pushed to a certain de gree, pass into mental diseases. Senility and insanity are not infrequently marked by automatic actions, carried out without the will or consciousness of the doer. The absent-minded one, like the sleep-walker, performs actions without the knowledge of them, and negh cts duties which are press ing. Justly, therefore, it is a source of anxi ety with every, thoughtful person when he finds himself falling into this bad mental habit It is usually gradual in its onset Stealing over one in moments of intensest occupation. Unlike other mind weaknesses it is not the foe of the idle man so much as the busy one. Yet habits of revery and day dreaming may also bring it about Those who feel this habit creeping over them wil do well to make an early and special effort to resist it It can be conquered by a habit of attention, and by severe eelf-chidine woea incuiimjTieiusw m

JOSIAB,

Thing ha coma to a pretty paaa The whole wide country over, When every married woman baa To have a friend or lover ; It ain't the war that I waa raisad, An I hain't no desire 7n have owe feile nokin' lound Instead of ray Josiar. I never kin forget the day That we went out a walklo'. An' sot down on the river bank An' kep' on hours a talkin' ; He twUted np my apron string An' folded it together. An' said he thought for harvest time 'Tvras cur' us kind of weather. The ran went down as we sot there Josiar seemed uneay. An' mother she began to call: "Loweery! oh, Loweezy!" An' then JoMar spoke rit;ht up, As I was lust a Ktanln', An' said, "Loweezr, what's the u&e Of us two ever partiu'?" It kind o took me by surprise. An yet 1 knew 'twas coming I'd heard it all the summer Ionic In every wild bee's hammin'; I'd studied out the war I'd act. But law! I couldn't do it; I meant to hide my love from him. But seems as if he knew it; An' lookin' down Into my eyes He must a seen the fire, An' ever since that hour I've loved An' worshiped my Josiar. TA11LK GOSSIP. A lawyer's brief Is very long. And Mr. White Is black. A man is dry when he's green, And when he's tight he's slack; A fire is Lot when it la coaled, A lamp fc heavy, though li" light, A shoe Is bought when It is soled. A man can see when oat of sight. The man wl speaks to sharp interlocutor. the point has a There's a meter in every hymn, and a mm in every meet tier. The largest ant is the eleph-ant, and the worst uncle the carb-uncle. A single game-oi card for $10,000 was lately played in a club at Nice. There are a great many substitutes for tobaeco. W know of a man in tlie oountry who smokes hams. The meanest pirl in the universe lives In Philadelphia. "Pa," she said, "1 do wish you would lend m your lovely red nose to paint my checks with." When we hear man boast of the lenirth of his ancestry we arc reminded of the quaint saying of the farmer: "The older the seed the worse the crop." "Do not marry a widower," said the old lady. "A readv'raade family is like a plate of cold potatoes." "Oh, I'll soon warm them over," replied the damsel, and she did. "We men of the Bourse," he said to his friend, "are much calumniated. I have now been at the Bourse for more than ten years, and I never knew but two rascals who amounted t anything." "And who is the other?" asked the tnend. Since a sheep was first burned to test the furnace, twelve hnman bodies have been incinerated in the Le Moyne Crematory at Washington, 1., four of thera the present year. Uf tlie "subjects," five were from New Tork, four from Pennsylvania, one was irom uino, one irom Indiana, and one from Massachusetts. I want to find out who is the master of this house," said the man with a book under his arm to the vinegary-looking woman with a pointed nose and a very small top-knot who ojened tlie door for him. "Well, stranger," she said with arms akimbo, 'you just walk around into the back yard, and ask a little spindle-shanked deacon you'll find there fil ing up the grape-arbor, and he 11 tell you if I don't boss this ranch he don't know who does. Now, what do you want of me?" Mr. Samuel Deacon was a somewhat cele brated Baptist minister. He was notably homely of countenance so homely that it seemed as though he must have been . made up of the odds and ends that were left over. fe was quite sensitive abojt his appearance withal, and wrote the following liius- to ward otr the shafts of ridicule: The carcass that you look at so Is not Sam Deacou. you must know; ltut 'tis the carriage the machine Which Samuel Ieacou rldela in. A correstondent of the London Echo writes that matrimony, an expensive luxury at all times, is rendered still more so in England by a tax upon wedding rings. The duty is seventeen shillings an ounce, and the revenue derived therefrom is about 1100,000 per annum. The fashion of wearng very thick wedding rings has greatly in creased the revenue ot late years, viz.: from $30,000 to $100,0X). The corresponds adds: 'Foreigners may well laugh at our calling ourselves a free trade Nation. Inno other country in the world is a wedding ring taxed." Verily it is bard to carry out total abstinence principles, xi the investigations oi M. Müntz are trustworthy, there is no longer much comfort or credit in refusing the mild stimulus of wine sauce, for alcohol is found in spring, river, sea and rain water and in sugar. Nay, more; it probably exists, in the state of vapor, in the very air which the teetotaller, in common with the rest of man kind, is compelled to breathe. Moreover, little would be gained if he should refuse to breathe and die for his principles, for his mortal remains would absorb alcohol from the earth in which they were laid and "smell to Heaven." An interesting incident in connection with the departure of the Princess of Wales for St. Petersburg took place immediately before the train was set in motion. A favorite dog. Joss, accompanied Her Royal Hichncssto the station, and was with much difficulty confined to the waiting room till her departure. ATter frequent plunges the tine animal slipped her collar and dashed out upon the platform just as the train was in motion. Ihe rnncess remained a.t the carriage window waiving adieux to friends and acknowledging the hearty farewell cheers of the dense crowd of spectators, but Her Koyal Highness evidently did not per ceive the elTorts of the dog to overtake the train. The devoted animal was last ob served following the carriage down the line. still in pursuit, till he was ultimately lost to view in t'ie outer darkness, up to a late hour he bad not been recovered, and fears were entertained for his fate along so danger ous a track. Parlora. (London Society. The word "parlor" is the remnant of & by-gone state of things. The days are gone past when eiriuaries uranaison maue ha stately bow in the cedar parlor. "There are no parlors nowaday, my dear," said an old lady, whom we may call Mrs. Partington, except, l believe, in tne public nouses." We have cining-rooms. drawing rooms, studios, libraries, smoking-rooms, but the parlor in the ordinary British mansion has almost become a thing of the past. It remains, in a highly fossilized con dition, as a venerable institution priied bv the lower middle class. "Will yon walk into my parlor? said the spider to. the tly. and I always recognize the wretchcJ feelings of that suicidal tly when I am iavited into what people call a parlor. Very probably it is only used on state occasions, lue family may burrow in some subterranean apartment in the basement We perceive r ... hv a hundred signs that sucu a panor is not . ... ... a 1 a a living room, but a dead room. It is fall of stiffness and angularities, hard chairs and still harder aofus. The region In which the parlor retains any vitality is the agricultural region. In multitudes of farm houses, and in soma vicarages, this kind of apartment ia still found. But the British farmer follows hard on tho track of the squire, and gives up the humbler for tbe more ambitions nomenclature. It is the better class of laborer and the thriving artisan who art now aiming at the possession of narlora Among them the rarior reallv a habnr and an educating influence So prevaleut have been peace and pltnty of

recen years, mat . in . the suburbs of great towns you may pass whole rows of

tenements in which yon may distinguish pleasant parlors, with flowering plants umu me wmaows ana tne sound of pianos clashing all down tl row Still, in special cases, the name of parlor yet survives, mm oi wese i would say a few words. The parlor or parloir (Latin, "parabolare;" Kreuch, "paroler," "parier,") as the name indicates, is a place wherein to con verse- The waiting-room of a Club is essen tially a parlor; in a less formal, but more real, sense so is the smoking-room. The old ladjr was jerfectly correct in her allusion which, however, was hardly to be expected of her to public houses. It would have been more decent if she had talked about taverns. And what glorious talk there has been in tavern parlors before now! We think of Ben Jonson at the Mermaid and Sam Johnson at the Turk's Head. There are still a few wits and scholars who haunt the sanded parlors of hotels about Fleet street: "When all his warm heart sherris-wanned. Flashed forth In random speeches ." Such men have felt and said that there is no throne like the easy chair of a tavern parlor. Perhaps there are other attractions besides wit and liquor for a tavern urlor. I know a great firm that advertises for pretty barmaids, and, and always sends them home at nights in a special conveyance, to be intrusted to the charge of a most respectable matron. Reminiscences of "Tom" Corwin. "I know Thomas Corwin well," said Colonel Sweney, the host of the Harret House, Burlington. Iowa, an old Mexican veteran and California pioneer, to a group of interested listeners seated about the stove.. "We were boys together in Ohio. "Mack Tom" we called him when he wis at school, and "BlackTom" he remained until thedav of his death. Corwin amounted to nothing after his celebrated sieech in the United States Sen ate in opposition to the Mexican War, when in one of his remarkable Mights of impassioned eloquence he exclaimed: 'If I were a Mexican as I am an American. I would wel come the invaders with bloody hands to inhospitable graves.' That sjeech was a job put up oil Corwin by W ebster and others." said the old Colonel. "I have heard Cor win. wih tears in his eves, sav so him self. Webster and his friends were at heart opposed to the Mexican War, and thev had determined to oppose the voting of funds tocarry it on. The agreement wa that Webrtfer and others should follow Corwin-in speeches against it. lie watwlecteil to make the first speech, and an eloouent one it was; but it raised euch a howl of indignation throughout the country that the others thought it the better iart of discre tion not to continue the opposition. Sxi they backed out and left poor Tom in the- lurch.. as it were. By the bye." said the Colonel. I have a good story to tell on Tom., whieh is particularly, apropos at this day,, when Ohio is sending out so many big men. It was just the same in Tom's day, as it is now; and I wish you all to bear in mind, gentlemen, that I came from Ohio." The Colonel, it may be remarked. to catch the pith of his intended jest stands fully six feet seven, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Though verging on sixtv years of age, his form is straight as a pine, and his step has the elasticity of a youth." "Tom," he continued, "like a great many other good and great men. was fond of the flowing howl, and once in a while-he would take a tirop too much. It was- on a. convivial occasion when Tom was present at a banquet at the National Hotel, in Washing ton, that he was called upon to respond to' the toast of his native State, and I' must say that lie acquitted himself with honor to the State and to the infinite satisfaction and amusement of all present., in one of the most mirth-provoking post-nrandtal speeches I ever listened to. Arising with all the dignity and gravity that Corwin only could assume, lie acknowledged the honor conferred in calling ujuf him. to respond to a compliment to the State of Ohio. Then proceeding in a quasi-grandiloquent strain, ne exclaimed: 'Uhio! Why, Air. President, while the Lnited, States, this grand Republic, has produced more great men than any other country in the world, Ohio has produced more great men, than any other State in the Republic It is a matter of history mark that. Why,, sir, eaid he, 'Warren County,, ia the State of Ohio, lias produced more great men than any other County in. any State in the Union. Ft is a matter of- history mark that Sir. Tun le Creek Township, in the County of Warren, has produced more great men than any other Township in any County in the Union. It is a matter of historv mark that Then, with a merry twinkle in his Mack eye, that for the first time betrayed the humorous intent of the speaker, he added: 'Gentlemen, that is the Township that I came from mark that;' and he sat down amid the uproarous mirth and side-shaking laughter of thelauditors about the table." A Fight With a Big Porpoise. Rochester Democrat.1 Iob Tanguey, the veteran Rocbestersportsman, who has several times appeared in these columns in interviews on fishing and muting, has been spending the winter in Florida, enjoving his favorite occupation an4 Mistime. He favors the Democrat and Chronicle with the following letter: St. Jonx'8 Eivf.r. Fla.. Feb. 26. You have often aitked tne for a great lish Mory, so I will write you of my last trugle with a lame porpoise. Yesterday, as I was rowing up in what we call the "witch-tide," this monster came run ning between nie and the bluff. I struck him on tne head with my oar: he gave a sudden dart and went ashore like Jersey lightning, and I went almost as quickly after him. Then he rushed for the deep water again, but chanced to open his huge mouth 1 nat was my chance, and 1 rammed the ear in hit mouth and down his throat. Then came a tusseie he pulled and I pried. After a lone struggle he quieted down. 1 ran for the boat and got my largeft vorJL w tin it 1 gave nimagaiin in the thront which made him wild with paiu. After a while I got a chance to make him fast to the boat with a line around his tail. A man came to my assistance, and we pounded him with clubs until he was dead. We waited for th next tide, as it was hard work to row a dead porpoise; he doesn't II oat when dead. By hard work we got him ashore ar.4 to camp. Then we measured mm. lie was nine feet ten inches long, two feet inree wenes in diameter, and would probably have weighed more than 600 pounds, we saved aitout four cal lous of his oil. Our dogs did not weep long over the corpse. TeQ my iriends I am we and will soon be nome to my buMuess. This is the coldest winter Florida has ever had cold, raia, an dwind day after day, and the thermometer as low as 18 degrees. I hive rcribbled this on a log in the laud of the palmetto. - it. K. Tangi ey. Two Careers. I. I New York Tribune Nearly iwenty-five years ago a citizen f Ilrattleboro, Vt., was surprised one day at tinding tbe figure of an angel moldediin snow standing on one of thostreets. It was discovered that a Iirattlebcw youth, Lajkin U. Mead, had do.ie the wrk, and he was heled to pursue his artistic studies. Tfo-day at hi studio, in Koir;, this Araencan sculptor is making for Ilrattleboro a marble copy of the snow angel which first brought lau into notice. I Chicago. Tri Dune. 1 Nearly twenty-live- years ago citizen of Chicago was surprised one day at finding hjmself slugged behind the ea? with a snow ball. It was discovered tUat a Chicago youth had done the work. To-day, in his studio at tbe Joiiet Penitentiary, this Chi cago boy is making shoes. Keno ia Texas. f Austin Dispatch.! It is all nonsense trying to induce the Legislature- to suppress the came of keno, Members of the Legislature themselves take a hand at the game, and may be seen ny night "fighting the tiger" in some gambling saloou on our public thoroughiares. a. pious member of a leading Au.s tin Church made his money in this way, and now loans it out at heavy Interest while his victims struggle along as best they can.

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now Advert Wlidt Blew Across the I'atb of True Love. Baltimore American. A couple of young girls living in a board ing house on Charles street played a mean trick the other night on another young and attractive maiden in the same house. They all had some cake and wine together, and in the unsu.iecting one's glass was poured a smau . portion oi tincture of assafretula. which, as every one knows, smells like conglomeration of onions, bad eggs, decayed vegetables and a host of other things too numerous to mention. The prank-playing damsels knew that the unhappy maid's Charles Augustus called on Sunday, and they also knew that while she could not detect the flavor of the assafootida in the fragrant wine, nevertheless it would produce to her aforesaid Charles Augustus the impression that she had been eating onions by the peck. Poor, pretty little unsuspecting thing! She was radiant when she flew to the door and admitted the manly form of the object of her heart's affections; and she did not observe, as they, "were locked in a close embrace, that as his lips met hers, drawing a dimple in the back of her neck, that a look of wild, unutterable horror spread over his lineaments a dusky pallor. He cut the embrace short, and they went and took their places on the cozv tete-a-tcte in the corner. Then she noticed' that there was a far-off, troubled look in his eyes, and he shifted about uneasily, as if vaguely aware that something was the matter, but tliat he couldn't tell exactly what it was. She couldn't detect the odor.' which resem bled day before yesterday's fried onions,and which was lingering dreamily around on the soft, warm air. Oearest," asked she sbvlv. "what ia the matter?"' "Nothing, sweetheart, nothire: that is nothing." answered he. as his uaze new swiftly from one object to another. -nut there must be." said she. leanine for ward.- "You are not yourself to-night. You have something on your mind. Tell me, darling;" and she tried to gaze into his face, wnne he dodired her with a look in his eves like that of a hunted wild beast. "My love, you are not well."" said she. anxiously, as she wound her arms about his neck and drew his head about until their j fares nearly touched. "Wh-h-hat is the matter?" and she tenderly sighed her soul bto tears. "Oh, trreat Oodfrey!" he irroaiwd- as the fatal simoom struck: him. "Yen tliat is, 1 am not feeling very well." "liut dearest you seemed all right when ywu came in,' she persisted, lovingly, and then she sighed again, and he nimptd like a goaded mule and kicked over a little table. "I know I did' said he, nervously picking up the poker and abstractedly putting it in his cat-tail pocket "I know I did. but I'm awful b&d now. I'm afraid I'll 'awe to go,' he t-ontinued, as she leaned over toward him aain. "I think I am going to luve the yellow fever." 'firaciom! Churli-,'' said flic, "fan it be that jo u are ill'."' "Y es," answered he. as he aroe and ran the poker through his hair in ar . all-directed, agitated manner. "(lood. ni'i.?. darling. Don't kiss me." he continued, shuddering, "you might catch the fatal scourge," and he burst outot the door and disappeared. The young girl, as she waadered distressed and musing out of the mom, next tackled a grnrl" old lodger, who. in pretty strong language, convinced, her of the fact that she had been eating - or.iwis; and she discovered the joke by asking the same girls who had played the trick on hr, in an agonizing tone of voice, if her breath was really perceptible. They exploded vith ill-timed levity, and then told her all. She says now she never will have anything to do with them again as long as she lives, and as for Charles Augustus, well A Gift For the. IIe:hen. History of Lcadville. "How randi is the ante," whispered a Red (iiilch miner with a single tS gold piece to the deacon with the collection plate in the liaptist Church at Black. Run, t'olo. He was told to contribute whatever be chose, whereupon he said he'd chip in a dollar, and proceeded to take a chance. The deacon softly replid that no change was given. A struggle ensued, the plate was. tippet, and the con gregation were in the act of "jumping the deacon's claim," when th minister, an olJ Californian, leaned over the pulpit with a large navy revolver, and observed : "The brethren will please take notice that I've got the drop on them, and any brother who declines to go to his seat or touches any of that money will have a funeral at bis house tomorrow at 2 o'clock p. m. Our mining friend from Red Gulch will kindly release the deacon's throat or he is a dead man." The $20 gold piece went to save the heathen. The Nihilists and the New Czar. ICourrier da Etats Unis Tbe last number, of the secret Ruüan journal, the NarodnajaVolja, (Will or. the eople) has tlie following communicat-oni : FROM THE KXKCFT1VE COMMITTEE. The sentence imposed upon Alexander Kirch aieviteh on the 2fth oft August, lST'J, was executed .Maren 13, ism. At last: Alter two years of effort and heavy nacrifioe. our work has beenrowned with success. Mtny times lid we five notice to the tyrant, yet he continued pitiless. This he proved recently by the murder of our com rude Kwtatkowt-ki, w.io was hanged in the forrtess. To the new tzr.r. Alexander III., we thus ad dress ourselves: Russia can not remain in her present state, hhe "aeeds Intellectual expansion. Kvemy violator of the national wil His a national enery. and the death of Alexander II. shows what nuniKDraeni auenas wis crime, weal) address ourselves to the society of Russia, and askitfoj the means of action in case we become obliged te en i;ane in a struggle against Alexander III. CaaL 2'reltrtera Contemplations.. Caicago Tribune. Ofer it, don' d vas your brinciral to pay del. interest it should been fo year interest to pay der-brincipal. Ucre was no "probability" cfcout der Ted der dis Vinter, it was cerdaindy. sure. Dat vas much easier dot a camel could valk out mit a needle's eye as a man could if by his ra udder by law. "Der. Lord sees all tings," und it vas a con soling thougbt to some of tr boys dot der Lord don t vul tell. Some of our preacher shcxvdlemans shindy so much, a.dernidy about. (lot uey safe n conceptions of time. Take t)fce news home to-Mary ani tell her that nj cough has gone, and thata.twentyfive ceni bottle of Dr. Ball's Co agh Syrup did it. There is a parrot in : small to n in ?onnsylvania, which, whenJt sees a freight train. coming, will yell at the top of. his VAice'bwitch on: bwitci, our: The catinxwr tion is so distinct that it ncl infrequently happens that the train will be switched to avoid a supposed 'neer, The same bird, when it sees a pcesenjrer train, wall yell All aboard," and thereby- cause a scamper aboard by the passengers,, who. may be on the platforms. Suffering Tfemaa There is but -very small proportion of tho women of tras .Nation thai do. not sunV r from some of the diseses forwhkh KidneyWort is specific. "When the bowels have become costive, heaiaohe torments, kidneys out of fix or piles distress, take a package and its wonderlua tonio and renovaticg power will cure you ao! give new life. Watchman. Ia jhffMtion, Xftspepsl. nervous prostration, and alTlorms of Keuerui uebUity relieved bv tak ing Mknsman's Pvfto.nuzd Bur Tonio, the only preparation of beef cont&inlnf Us entire nutritious properties. It is not a mere tlmulsat, like the extracts of beef, but contains blood-making, forceseneratinK and llfe-tastaiainR prjnertiea: ia in valuable in all enf ot bled -am dlUqciA, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous 'Toatratlon, overwork, or acute disease; parusuiarlv if resulting from pulmonary complalnVl. CA4WELL, VLkaai exsÄ.rropoetora, x yora.

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