Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1884 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA STATE 8ENTI1MEL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1884.

OUR FAEM COLUÄX.

)w ud EVot Kertillilee Grui Lmi Farm ots Iiousehold, Etc. D w and Frot. irtiJtdelphia Eeeor&l Every farmer knows that Jew ia present btTore the sun rises daring certain seasons, Ten in the dryest of periods, and the fact that froet ia but frozen dew is also familiar io 11. For valuable information in regard to the formatioD of dew and ita relation to plants we are indebted to Professor Foryear, ol Virginia, from whose article in the American Farmer the following is condensed: It Is obvious teat daring the Erst days and weeks of plant life dew i? most needed, because at that time the rootlets must ret their supply of moisture fron near the surface, which is liable to become dry. Nature, however, provides for this. Objects to have dew deposited upon them must become sufficiently chilled at right by the radiation of heat, to condenee the aqueous vapor of the atmosphere. All objects must be reduced in temperature to tbe dew point. This is much more easily accomplished in Jlay than in August, for two reasons. In May the aun ia not so hot, nor does it shine so Ion?, as in August, nor is the temperature of the atmosphere and of the earth's surface as elevated in the day during Mayas in August. To get dew objects have to sink at night to the dew point io a ranch lower temperature in May than in A o en st. for in the latter month they must aink from eighty or ninety degrees, and during the former from sixty or seventy degrees, to get to the dew point. In order, therefore, to get a copious deposit of dew, plants tare less work to do in spring or fall than in inmmer, and they have more time to do it io, and hence the abundant deposit in the spring and fall and the scant supply in midsummer. Dew ia lesa Deeded in summer than in spring or fall, for the reason that as the season advances the roots are striking down deeper and deeper every day. Uin may not fall for weeks, yet the roots are getting moisture from below all the while, but when plants have just completed germination, and wbeb their roots are near the surface, a drought of a few days would be fatal bat for the nightly deposits of dew. The benefits derired from the heavy dews in the early fall are reaped by the young plants of wheat, rye, turnips and the grasses. " To get copious deposits ot dew the plants must be chilled, tut if chilled too much the .rw is frozen into frost and vegetable vitalit v octroyed. To secure a benefit a danger is ii curred; but in the very process ot securing the benefit the danger is weakened. Vapor ia water with a certain amount of beat in it heat in the latent Btate. When we condense this vapor the heat, before latent, is evolved or given out. "When aqueous vapor is in the process of condensation into dew all its latent heat (the heet that made- it vapor) Is evolved oa the surface where the condensation takes place. Consider a tine tobacco field, its troad leaves ripening in the mild September. The leaves lose heat rapidly by radiation, tbey become chilled, and the aqueous vapor is condensed into dew, but in such act its latent heat is evolved and wirms up the leaves, thereby lessening the liability of injury from frost. The atmosphere immediately brooding over the leaves is sensibly warmsr than the atmosphere elsewhere. If the same amount of water ia sprinkled at nightfall upon the leaves the cold may be sufficient to freeze it, but not sufficient if this water has been condensed from vapor, for the process of condensation throws out, in sensible form, the latent heat of the vapor. The process of aqueous condensation, or dew formation, postpones the appearance of frost. Plants must become chilled to form dew, but in such condensation heat is thrown out to prevent frost. This battle goes on for weeks, until at last the increasing length and coldness of the nights get the advantage, for then the cold becomes too great to be counter-balanced by the heat evolved from aqueous condensation, the dew freezes as it falls, and the plants is killed. The affect of moisture through the agency of rains and dews ia not always the same. In the case of tobacco little rain and copious dews in the early fall makes tobacco leaves thick, heavy and oily, and its quality is improved by comparatively dry weather and heavy dews. Dews then, to some extent, furnish to all plants, in the earliest stags of their growth, small but frequant supplies of moisture, and enable some of them, such as tobacco, to attain, while approaching maturity their highest perfection. Fertilizing Oram Land. Correspondence New York Tribune. To renew and increase the yield of graw two ways are presented the application of manure as a top dressing, and plowing and reseeding, with as much fertilizing and cultivating of the soil as the means and judgment of the farmer will allow. The value of dressing is illustrated by the rank growth around the droppings of grazing cattle. tuis-'.Juis attributes this rank growth to the lack of grazing, and not to the fertilizing effect of tne droppings. In this section no such mistake is made. In my own fields that were last fall closely gTazed the droppiners, both liquid and solid, have this year caused an increase of growth. The heaps were knocked to pieces early in spring and scattered on the turf. In many of these rank places no manure is seen, but only indications of liquid Toidlngs, and the increased growth plainly proves ita value. To further prove that it is the manure and not lack of grazing that increases the crop, I would report on the application of the urine from the pit under the cow-stable. I got out seven loads on May '' on a level lield well set with herd's grass and other grasses. Ina week the dark green grass showed the track where every load was driven. In a month the grass that was watered began to lodge, and on J uly 12 I was mowing the field and weighed five plots just a square yard each. With this result the square yards not watered eave grass ju3t as it was cut down one pound five ounces and two pounds, and where it was watered, three and one-half pounds, four pounds and four and one-half pounds. Tue height of the grass was about three feet. These weights show a rapid inci ease, entirely caused by manure, as the soil was the same, and without the maaura the yields must have been only about two pounds to the square yard. In the application of manors its efficiency depends very much upon having a good stand of the right kind of grass plants tobe stimulated. In one place my man stopped the team to let the liquid manure ran down a sandy hill not well turfed over; here it did not cause a well-set turf to be immediately formed; it waa in a great decree washed. I corridor my way of applying liquid manure extrarigant, as 100 gallons wculd be distributed in driving twenty rods. Yet it is better to use it so than to have it soak into the earth under the stable. FARM NOT KS. The drought in Australia has killed off H.OOe.000 head of sheep. It is said that 10,000 bucks will be import-id into Colorado this summer to increase ti e sheep herds. Canada exported 5t,23G sheep to Great Britain in 1S8J, against 8' ,083 sent from tie Tnited States. William Cannon, of Lebanon County, Tennessee, garnered 7: JO bushels of wheat from sixteen acres, an average of 43 2 Z bushels per acre Two correspondents of the INral Nrw Yorker find no other method of relief neo g Jtary tkan ptuhing tt ebttrtction up to the Jw by pressing co the eutaija of the

throat with the thumb and finger, and then choking the animal until it runs out its tongue, when the reaction will cause the ob stroction ta be thrown out. A correspondent of the Convalescent' Re treat Glen Kills, writes under date of October 28 that they have a pear tree in bloom in the open air, Cotten-seed meal should not be fed to young calve3, but for adult stock 100 pounds of cottoa seed meal to 00 pounds of corn meal, or other ground food, is a fair proportion. Mr. A. S. Fuller states that an acre of unripe corn will make -1 per cent, more beef than that which is fully ripe. It is also better for feeding to young and growing pigs. To feed potatoes, beets, carrots or parsnips to bcrses cut them into slices not more than an inch thick, and sprinkle them liberally with bran, to which a little salt has been added.

The loss by the hog plague in Washington, Burt and Dodg Counties, Nebraska, will amount to over 700,000. Veterinarians state that the disease is not hog cholera, but rather a disease of the lungs. This is a good time of the year for tOD-dresf-ing orchards, the mannre serving a? an excellent mulch, as well as decomposing and enriching the soil, thereby assisting tha crop next season. There is ne way in which pork can be so quickly and cheaply produced as upon a partially green diet, which the animals gain through the wholesome exercise of picking from the pastures themselves. The editor of the Iowa Homestead his been filling his residence lot with soil obtained by digging a cellar. Pear trees seemed to be benefited by the operation; apple trees were not Injured; but pine and cherry trees died, the covering being six inches to a foot in depth. Secure a supply of stable bedding befora the wet and cold weather sets in. Swamp grass, leaves, sawdust, etc., are good. Do not use sawdust, if other material can be obtained easily, as it is no advantage to the manure pile until it is decomposed, and years are required to accomplish that. In France foot-rot in sheep is prevented by placing shallow trays in front of the doors of their quarters in order that the sheep may be compelled to wade through a mixture of lime and water. It is not used as a cure, however, as the sheep must be caught and the hoofs pared and anointed with a solution of blue vitriol. Should there be too many apples, the best method of disposing of them is to procure a couple of apple pare rs and cut them into pieces, when they may be evaporated and stored for winter use. Every year large numbers of apples are allowed to rot on the ground when they might be saved and mads valuable by evaporating them. A good ewe well kept pays for its keep in wool, the manure pays for the labor and the the lamb is the profit. A three-months old lamb is often worth more than its dam, and a ilcck of a dozen sheep will easily pay a farmer 100 a year, if only for the domestic consumption of meat, and small Hocks may be managed by a boy. ew xork Tribune. To keep work horses in good condition an English farmer says: "For twj winters I have given the following allowance to six horses: 42 pounds oat9, "J pounds maize, i'l pounds beans, -I pounds cut hay and TO pounds long hay, or a total ot l'J pounds ot food per week per horse. Upoa this food the horses have done admirably while in constant work." It will not pay to collect forest leaves to be nsed as manure alone, saya the Tribane and Farmer, but there is a profit in gathering them for otter purposes. 1 hey are particu larly adapted to the want3 of many kinds ot fruit trees and vines as a mulch, and as an enlivener of the soil. When composted with earth they are excellent for young plants, and also make excellent bedding for stock. Many people who have been le I to try maznoiias have been disappointed. The tiowers are large an! fragrant, but they do not impiess mcst people as hindsome. The trees are not beautiful as single specimens To most people the tulip tree ot whitewooi is superior to the magnolias. Us shape and habit is beautiful, and its odd Mowers are fully as attractive as are those of the ordi nary magnolias. Professor II. W. Wiley, chemist to the Na tional Department of Agriculture, is authority for the statement that the beet sugar fac tory at Alvardo, Lai., produced last season l,i.V0, 000 pounds of sugar; "the best showing a yield per ton, which will compare very I favorably with the best areas of Larope. I But one other beet sugar factory is now in I successful operation in America at West I Farnhaui, Canada. ! It is stated in French agricultural journals that French cheesemakers are not satisfied j unless tbey get from 10 to $00 per annum 1 from each cow. This is owing tj their exi pertness and thoroughness in the nunufacj ture of cheese, and each particular agricalj toral district of France has atta;ned a i celebrity for the making of some particular ' variety of cheese, developing into a special and important industry. I A writer to the Tribune and Farmer states i that he has cured several caes of founder j with alum, lie put one tablespoonful, finely pulverized, as far back in the animal's mouth as possible, as soon as making the discovery I that the horse is stillen ed. Not only does he claim that he has cured several cases, but strongly adirius that he has never known the remedy to fail, if given immediately after the trouble has developed itself. A writer to the Prairie Farmer states that be rented a email piece of ground of one and one-eighth acres, for whicn he paid $1. and planted it in sorgbuui. The blades and tops were taken off and used as fodder. Froia the stalks he made 2 U ' j gallons of eyru p, which was sold for ?i 17. The cost for making the syrup was ä;h. From the fodder and tops forty-eight sheep were fed. The gain from the feed, sold in .the shape of mutton, was $:;4 per head. In keeping onions it is much better to have them in a cold place than in ooe that causes them to become too warm, as they sprout into activity with the least degree of warmth. Should they become frozen during severe weather do not handle them, but endeavor to prevent them from thawing too saddeoly when the weather begins to moderate. l)j not put them in heaps, but keep them in thin layers and cover them with straw or some other light material. A convention of all those interested in the breeding and management of live 6tock in the United States will be held at Chicago on November 13 and 1 1 next, during the first week of the Fat Stock Show. The present condition of the live stock interests, especially the official declaration that contagious disease has made its appearance among the cattle of the Western States, is proof of the need of a convention so held as to give the best opportunity for all classei interested to attend. The flavor of cheeBe is the most essential requisite in the composition of the finest quality, and this subtle element is dependent upon contingencies, many of which do not come under the control of the cheesemaker, such aa food and drink of the cows, the absorption of odors from impure surrounding, improper keeping and treatment ot the warm milk, etc., and during the process of making, the treatment of both milk and curd has a decided e fleet in determining the flavor of the product. The efforts of a single individual are often of more value than the combined endeavors f a large number. Without apprising any one of his object Mr. J. W. Sheppard, Secretary of the Mississippi Valley Creamery Association, quietly induced many leading dairy implement manufacturers to offer special premiums to exhibitors. He then went to the exhibitors and induced them to compete. The consequence was that the dairy department was the best feature at the St. Louis Fair, and also the most attractive, it being constantly crowded with visitors till the fair elosed,

Butter-makers will find, if thev inaulre

into the matter, that it 'is not this, that er the other thing put into butter that gives It the lasting qualities, but that these qualities are due to painstaking care and watchful attention to every point in manufacture, and discerning the actual needs of the cream and butter at each stage. Salt has only a small office in the matter. Lot's wife, though excellently well salted, disappeared from off the face of the earth, as will any other perishable article, when salt is relied upon to preserve it. Skill and salt go far better together in keeping butter than salt alone. HOUSEIIOLU HINTS, ETC. A Leaf Album. A leaf album is among the newest fancies. To make one only requires the exercise of a little care and patience. First get a slab of plate glass and spread upon it a daub of printer's ink; then get a small roller such as printer's use, and roll it over the Ink till the glass is equally covered; then lay the leaf clean and freshly gathered on the inked glass, and carefully draw the roller over it. Next lift the leaf by the stalk using considerable tendernefs because of the fragility of tho Bubject and place it between a folded sheet of paper, press and rub gently all over it, being careful not to let it alter its position. Then take the leaf out, and you should have a beautifully clean impression of both the front and back. The tame effect might be got, to a certain extent, with lampblack, oil color or anything of that kind, but when it is done with printing ink it is not only far more clear and distinct but permanent. A bit of common plate glass, or a bit of marble, or even a china palette will suffice to put the upon anything, in fact, so long as it pre Bents a smooth surface and.is non-metallic ard non-ahsorbent. Mutton Barley Soup. Take three pints of the liquor left from boiling a leg of mutton, or take afterward the bone and unused bits and boil them in sufficient water to make three pints when done. Put away to cool. The next day carefullv remove all fat from the top; add to the stock a half cup of pearl barley and boil gently for an hour. If obtainable, boil with it two or three stems of celery, cut into small pieces. Just before serving put it into one pint of sweet cream. If cream is not obtainable add one pint of sweet milk, and rub together one tablespoon ful of butter and one tablespoonful of Hour until smooth, and stir carefully into the boiling soup, stirring until it thickens. A tablespoonful of finely pulverized dried celery leaves may be nsed instead of the fresh celery, but must not be added until jnst before serving, or a tablespoonful of fresh celery leaves finely cut. Season with salt and a dash of red pepper. Celery salt may be used also. fi, Smoked Beef and Ei Boil siiggs hard ; twelve m inutes will be long enough to cook them if the water is boiliDg when they are put in, and there is a sufficient quantity of it. Chop them fine and sprinkle them with pepper. Siak three-quarters of a pound of shaved smoked beef ten minutes in cold water; take it out and pull it into shreds, or cut it up fine and pour boiling water upon it. Let it stand ten minutes. During that time make a gravy by putting a tablespoonful of butter and half a tablespoonful of Hour upon a frying pan and letting them cook together till they are smoothly blended, after which add some water from the beef, then put in the eg?a and beef. Let them get well heated through, and serve hot. If more gravy is needed use the remainder of the water in which the beef waa soaked, enriching it with butter. Piccalilli. To make piccalilli, take one bushel of green tomatoes, half a peck of green peppers, twelve onions and chop fine. Add one teacup of grated horseradish, one teacup of ground mustard seed, half an ounce of ground cinnamon, cabbage and celery added to suit. Spriatle the chopped articles with salt; let stand over night. Then drain; add vinegar enough to moisture and soak until tender; drain a?ain; add the spices, pack in jars and cover with boiling vinegar. To pickle cabbage: 8lice line, pack in jars, pour over boning, spiced vinegar; allow one tablespoonful of brown su?ar to one head of cabbage. When cold, cover closely. Novel Pincushion. A novelty in the shape of a pincushion is made in the form of a work-bag. It is nearly square. It is faced with pint silk, the covering being ot oliye plush. On the upper Bide is a spray of tiowers m araaene embroidery just a rose and buds, or some similar simple design. The bag is shirred and a pink bow put on over the shirring. This may hang beside the toilet table or lie upon the dres3ing case. It is a pretty ornament and it may bs used an advantage over many ornamental cushions. Banana Cake. One cup of bntter, two cups of sugar, one cup of water or of sweet milk, three eggs, four cups of Üourar.d three small teaspoonf als of baking powder. Mix lightly and bake in layers. Make an icing of the whites of two eggs and one cup and a half of powdered sugar. Spread this on the layers, and then cover thickly and entirely with bananas, sliced thin. This cake may be llavored with vanilla. The top should be simply frosted. Fruit Loaf. Fruit loaf made of bread dough is very nice. Alter the dough has risen the fire-1 time, take a piece about the size you would need for a loaf of bread; roll this out on the kneading-board until it is not more than an inch thick; on this spread any knd of fruit that you choose. Koglish currants, chopped raisins, stewed fiss. or jam, any of them may be used; sprinkle a little powdered sugur ouer the fruit, and put some little lumps of butter here and there on it, or spread the dough with butter before putting the frnir on it. Roll it up very tightly into a loaf. Itt it rise, and bake It in a not oven; eut it in thick slices when done. This may take 'the form of a plain pudding; in this case it must be served hot, with sauce. The sauce should be rich and highly seasoned, and the pudding must be cut in thin slices, and the sauce should be very hot, so that it will penetrate and soften the crust. Watlles. Watlles are an old-time sjppr dish. To a quart of flour stir a quart of sweet milk and half a cup of .melted butter, with a teaspoon even full of salt and one of suar. Add half a cup of yeast, and when the ws til es are very light, two eggs. B?at well and let the mixture stand twenty minutes, when it is ready to bake. Frenca pancakes are made in the same way, but are raked on a thin spider in round cakes, like griddle cakes. Sprinkle powdered siuar over each cake aa you bake it, squeeze lemon juice over it, and roll upand serve at once. Hot scotch soones will occasionally be acceptable as a simple meal. Sift half a spoonful of coda into a quart ot flour and mix in rich buttermilk enough to make a dough as stiff as for soda biscuit. Roll out half an inch thick and bake on a hot gri die in two large cakes the size of dinner plates. Serve with dishes of Dundee marmalade. Easy Way to Cook Herring. Pat them in a tin plate, turn another over in it to keep in the heat, and set in the oven until they are very hot. A few drops of lemon juice or vinegar are an improvement just before taking up. Pepper the herrings in the dish and serve very hot. Apple Sauce, Brown apple sauce, to serve on the platter with pork chops, is made by taking a little soup stock, or if yon have some reast beef gravy it is still nicer. Into this put the apples, which are peeled and cored and sliced; let them cook until tender in this; season with salt and a little red pepper. When the apples are done beat them until light and soft. Keep the mending down, if possible, by doing it every week; then it will not be so much of a burden, and will be none too large to be contained in one of those pretty stocking-bags, which will make a pretty ornament to your room. Tbey can be made of all materials, from bine satin to dark chintz, but something bright and serviceable, like red and blue silesia. or neat cretonne, is the best choice, and perhaps the making of one may be accomplished from the following directions: Take a yard of blue silesia, two yards of blue

satin ribbon an incb wide, a small piece of white flannel, some stiff pasteboard and a spool of blue silk. Of the pasteboard cut four circular pieces, each one measuring seven inches across. Cover these four pieces smoothly with blue silesia and overhand the edges of the two together with blue silk, the remaining two to be done in the same way lor tbe opposite side. The puff should be a straight piece measuring sixty inches long and twelve inches wide. This is to be gathered each side to fit round the edge of the circular pieces, leaving a space at the top of the circle, three inches, for the opening. The potT is now tj be Bewed all round the edges of each circular piece except the place left for the opening, thus forming the bag. Make for toe outside of one of the circles a piece of the tame n'ze and shape, and embroider or applique tome httie design upon it. Then cat from the flannel several leaves the same shape, but smaller, buttonhole, stitch or pink the edges and fasten them to tie top of tbe circle on the bag, as the leaves in any needle book are fastened; then eew the embroidered cover outside of this at the top. Where it is fastened place a bow of ribbon. This is for holding tbe darning needles. On the circle, the opposite side, a piece of silesia is gathered top and bottom to cover a little more than half the circle for a pocket. In the casing at the top run an elastic, and in

this pocket is kept the yarn for darning. The satin ribbon is used to draw thepufi together at the top, and the interior is tbe receptacle for the stockings. A big made of olive Bilesia with blue ribbon or red silesia with red ribbon would be serviceable to hang up for constant use, or for a gift one might be made of satin, with tiowers painted or embroidered on the medallion, or a monogram worked in gay silks. Cottage Hearth. IX THE SL B-TKKA.SVKY VAULTS. The Millions of Gold and Silver that Are Held in Reserve Clevereljr Doctored Coins. New York rierald. "Come this wav and I'll show you how much cold cash Vncle Sambas got stored here,'' said Cashier Floyd, as he led a Her ald reporter thronen a labyrinth of desks on the first floor of the sub-treasury building to a heavily barred and studded iron door that opened into a passage leading to the gold vaults. At the other end ot the passage an attendant unfastened a second door. As the reporter followed his euide into a dimly-lighted room, about fifteen feet square, tbe door was closed behind them and they were made prisoners with over $40,000,ouu oi goia coin, ine lour sides ot tbe vault, from floor to ceiling, were covered with iron doors opening Into the compartments con taining the coin. "These boxes that are sealed," said the Cashier, pointing to a door where a slip of paper was stuck to the lock with red wax, "are full. They contain 1.000.000 eacn. Here" throwing wide open a door that was standing ajar, and revealing a compartment partly filled with plump white canvas bags carefully packed "is a box we are using from. There are $200,000 in there," he con tinued, after glancing at the tags. "How much gold do the bags contain?" etked the reporter, as his eyes rested wist fully on the outlines of the coins shown through the canvass. "Five thousand dollars each, always. Silver is put up in thousand dollar bags. This lower tier is tbe double eagle row. In the second are stored eagles, and so on to quarter eae'es, the smallest gold coin we have on hand." How heavy is this? " asked the reporter, as he took np a bag. Ob, that is easiiv handled : it weighs only eighteen pounds. It would be a different matter to carry a bag of silver, though; they weigh sixty pounds each. But come and I will take you down to the silver vaults." There is still another gold vault on the Eecond floor of the building opposite the one tbe reporter bad already visited and exactly like it in tbe interior arrangements. The two vaults together contained 71,400,000. After descending to the floor below in a slowly moving elevator and passing doors with complicated time locks clinging to their backs, a long passage was reached with white painted iron grating on each side. Behind the grating were bags of silver, filling every available inch from floor to ceil ing. "You see we have more silver here than there is accommodation for, so we are obliged to fill up this end of the passage. There are 3ii,ouo,000 before your. Twentyfive millions are in standard dollars. The denominations are separated by unse crossgratings." "What does it all weigh?" "Over 1,000 tons. That would be eighty railroad car-loads. There are 111) tons of geld upstairs. Allowing a ton to a cartload. it would take 1,1-10 carts to carry away the coin in this building." "13 not this an unusually large amount to have on band . "To be tore it is. We are sending away very little com now. and taking it in at the rate of 1 0,000 to $20,000 a day . Silver cer tificates are very popular now, especially in the South and Southwest. New ork mer chants seem to be prejudiced against them, Since March 1, we have sent out $33,000,000 in certificates, and we will probably send out .JJ.lMJO.OOO more before the cotton crop is in." "What is the total amount of cash on hand now?" 'A little over uu,uou,oX). There are 50,000,000 each in gold and silver certificates and legal-tender notes." Tbe largest shipment that has recently been made occurrea last spring, when s-.i, 000,000 were sent to Europe in gold coin and bars. Contrary to the belief entertained by most people- no bullion is brought to or stored in the sub-treasury; that is all done at the assay building. The coin is brought from the mints generally by express companies, but. sometimes it is tent as registered mail matter. Never more than j-X)X0 is Eent at one time. It is guarded en route by the company, which ceases tobe responsible for it only when it is delivered into the hands of the Govern ment officials at tbe Pine street entrance to the building. It is tben taken to the couat-ing-room and weighed by the bagful after being passed through the bands of an ex pert, who can instantly tell if the coins have been tampered with. It wss formally re quired by law that every piece should be weighed separately, and that old coins which, by natural abrasion or sweating, had lost one-half of 1 per cent, should be re jected, x or tnis purpose caies were pro vided ot 6ucn delicate mecnanism that an eyelash would torn the balance "How do you detect bad pieces? Well, I can't tell you. It's instict. I gnees," said an old expert in answer to the reporter's ques tion. "Can't yu generally tell by the weipb size "Oh, pshaw, DO. A C0mpO91tl0n Ot leau and platinum is made that weighs and rings exactly like gold. Look here, there is a piece that almost any man in New York would as soon have as any that was ever coined." He tossed in front of the reporter a $20 pisce that looked, weighed, and rang like gold. "Well, what's the matter with it?" "It's only worth 10. It has been cut into, hollowed out, filled with composition and stuck together again. I rather think mv eves are the beBt aids in detecting, though I can pick out a bad one when hand ling a pile blindfolded." "Are many spurious coins brought here?" "Oh. quantities. Most of them are so bunghngty done that it is easy tospct them. Once when an investigating committee was here I was asked to pick a very cleverly 'doctored' piece from a bagful. They were all coined at the same time and exactly alike. I picked it out for them all right, and then the committee pretended to be so interested that they wanted to see It done again. The second time they quietly channed the bad piece for a good one, and were sure of catching me. They 'got left,' though, as tbe boys say. Counterfeits can always be detected by the milling. No one has yet succeeded in reaching the perfec-

tion with which the Government employes

ao it" "What is done with the counterfeit that are presented?" "We are not allowed to destroy them, but we put a mark so that it is impossible to pass them afterward. This big pair of shears is nsed to cut spurious dimes in two." "how about mutilated coins? ' "They are simply returned. v The Govern ment won't buy them. and- we have no more right to mark them than anr one else." "Which are counterfeited most, bills or coin." "Bills, by a large majority; national bank notes generally. They are branded and returned. The latest dodge is a little scheme we dropped on a short time ago. A sharper will take, say live good bills, cut them up into small pieces and shorten them si that be can present tbe fragments as those of six different bills. The law requires that threecafcs of 9 bin be presented to get a good one in return. All sorts of touching and amusing incidents occur every day in this branch. This morning a poor women came to the window, with big tears in her eyes and two burned Si bills in her band She 6aid the baby bad thrown them into the fire. The corners of her mouth went np like a Cash when she was given new money in return. There is another little trick I must tell you that is, to burn a counterfeit note to a crisp and bring it here for redemption ; but, strange as it may seem, they can be detected even when reduced to ashes." A WESTERN DllOVEIi'S STOUT. Tle Wee Cry That Touched a Father' Heart and Saved ills Child. My name is Anthony Hunt I am a drover and live miles and miles away upon tbe Western prairie. There wasn't a house in sight when I first moved there, my wife and I. and now we have not many neigh bors, though those we have are good ones. One day, about ten years ago, I went away from home to sell some fifty head of cattle fine creatures as I ever saw. I was to buy some groceries and dry goods before I came back, and above all a doll for our youngest. Doll v. She bad never had a store doll of her own only rag babies her mother had made her. Dolly could talk nothing else, and went down to the very gate to call after me to get a big one. Nobody but a parent can understand how full my mind was of that toy, and cow, when the cattle were sold, tbe first thing I hurried off to buy was Dolly's doll. 1 found a large one with eyes that would open and shut when you pulled a wire, and had it wrappd up in a paper and tucked it under my arm while I had the parcels of calico and delaine and tea and sugar put up. Then, late as it was, I started for home. It might have been more pruaent to stay until morning, but I felt anx ious to get back and eager to hear Dolly'a praises about her doll. l was mounted on a steaay-gomg old horse. and pretty well loaded. Night set in before W ? A. S 111. J J . i was a nine irom town, aua eeiueu uowu as dark as pitch while I was in the middle of the darkest bit of road I know ot. I could have felt my way, though, I remembered it so well, and when the storm that had been brewing broke, and pelted the rain in tor rents, I was five miles, or may be six miles, from borne. I rode as fast as I could, but all of a sud den I heard a little cry like a child's voice. I stopped short and listened. I heard it again. I called and it answered me. 1 couldn't see a thing: all was as dark' as pitch. 1 got down aud felt around in the grass railed again, and again was answered. Iben l began to wonder. I'm not t;mid, but I waa known to be a drovpr and to have money about me. It might be a trap to catch me unawares and rob and murder me. 1 am not superstitious, not very, but how could a real child be out on the prairie in such a night at such an hour? It might be more than human. Tne bit of a coward that hides itself in most men showed itself to me then, but once more I beard tbe cry, and said I: "If any man's child is hereabouts Anthony Hunt is not the man to let it die." I searched again. At last I bethought me of a hollow under the hill and groped that way. Sure enough 1 found a little dripping thing that moaned aud sobbed as I took it in my arms. I called my horse and the beast came to me and I mounted and tucked the little saked thing under my coat as well as I could, promising to take it home to mamma. It seemed so tired, and pretty soon cried itself to sleep on my bosom. It had slept there over an hour when l saw my own windows, lhere were lights in them, and I supposed my wife had lit them for my sake, but w ben 1 got into the doorway I saw something was the matter, and stood still with a dread fear of heart hve minutes before I could lift the latch. At last I did it, and saw the room full of neighbors and my wife amid them weeping. When she saw me she hid ber face. "Oh, don't tell him," she said, "it will kill him." "What is it, neighbors?" I cried. "Nothing now, I hope. What's that you have in your arm?" "A poor lost child, said I; "1 found it oa tbe road. Take it, will you? I've turned faint." And I lifted the sleeping thing and saw tbe face of my own child, my Dolly. It was my own darling, and none other. that I had picked up on the drenched road. My little f child had wandered out to meet papa and the doll, while the mother was at work, and they were lamenting her as one dead. I thanked heaven on my knees before them. It is not much of a story neighbors, but I think of it olten in the nights and wonder bow I could bear to live now if I had not stopped when I heard tbe cry for help upon the road, hardly louder than a squirrel's chirp. That's Dolly yonder with her mother in the meadow a girl worth saving I think (but, then, I'm her father and partial, may be) the prettiest and sweetest thing this side of the Mississippi. "ItfULIOPllILE .JACOB " Death of a Famous Frenchman or the Generation of Victor Hago All lovers of good books, especially of good old books, and all lovers of Moliere, sre in mourning to-day, says the London Standard. Tbe father of them all is dead. the famous "Bibliophile Jacob," as he called himself, M. Paul Lacroix. The good bibliophile bad reached a patriarchal age; he was of Victor Hugo's generation; be was one of those who fought under the banner ot Herrani, and entered literature with Alfred de Musset. Sainte Beuve, and the author of "Lea Miserables." Tney are almost all gone now. all but the master of them all, tbe im mortal Victor Hueo. The biblophile, of course, did not in any way enter into rivalry with the master. If ever he wrote poetry, which we doubt, it has passed beyond the memory of man, and disappeared among the withered roruao tic leaves, only known to collectors. Though his genius by no means Jay in that direction, the biblophile when a young man, wrote a great many novels. Everyone was writing much, inspired more or less by Scott, and by a general belief (to use a Tulgarism) in the duty of "making things skip." Classicism was over, the reign of passion at any price had come in, and the bibliophile, too, went in for passion. Romance, revel, the knightly wooer, the fair, frail chatelaine, tbe ferocious and inopportune husband, doubtlets, trunk hose, rapiers, convents, jesters, duels, vaults, graves, and all the rest of the materials were as much at the commond of the bibliophile as of his neighbors. He, too, could write idyls of guillotined ladies and dead donkeys so, at least, says tradition, for only three words of the bibliophile's novels can be said to survive. These words are l'orgie echevelee, quoted by Theophile Gantier, and those words are quite enough. The rest can be taken as read. Not fiction, but erudition, bibliography, book collecting, and research were tbe forte of tbe bibliophile. He welldeserved his earner, no on loved books better, and wrote better about them. He could

not compete with Rothschilds and the Leopold Doubles, Pixerocourta, or even Charles Nodiers of this world as a collector. He was not a rich man, but he was alwas on the spot, always had his eye open, and his sale will probably be among the most interesting of our tiie. He ence picked up for a few pence copy of 'Tartn ße," which perhaps bad telonged to Louis XIV, himself. The bibliophile was at the head of one of tbe great public libraries of Paris, the right man in the right place. His most valuable books are doubtless his Bibliographie and Iconographie of Moliee, volumes of prodigious research, full of every possible information about all editions, translations, criticisms, biographies, portraits, and illustratiecs ot tbe great comedian. These books, of course, have no popular interest, but they are delightful to the lover of letters. Asa critic and biographer the bibliophile was, perhaps, a tritle too ingenious, too ready with bis conjecturea, alwajs clever, but now and then disproved by time and by later discoveries. But hypothesis has its value or use in literary as in scientific research. The most generally pleasing of the bibliophile's works are probably his great and richly-illustrated books on the "Arts of tbe Middle Ages." Better reading, for the right class of students, was provided in his gossipping papers of anecdotes about books and men. Those he scattered in magazines, in the prefaces of catalogues, and in other more or less obscure places. A collected volume would find its own fit public among those who liked to hear the ancient man's memories, and to revere that patriarch of bard literary labor. The longer he lived the better be teemed to write about well-beloved books, that were as dear to him

as to bouthey. Talking With A Man 3,000 Miles Away. Chambers' Journal.! Tbe most remarkable piece of telephoning yet attempted has been just accomplished by the engineers of the international Bell Telephone Company, who successfully carried out an experiment by which they were enabled to hold a conversation between SU Petersburg and Bologae, a distance of 2,405 miles. Blake transmitting and Bell receiving instruments were nsed, and conversation was kept up notwithstanding a rather high induction. The experiments were carried on during the night, when the telegraph lines were not at work. Th Russian engineers of this company are so confident of further success that they hope shortly to be able to converse with ease at a distance of 4,000 miles; but to accomplish this astonishing feat they must combine all the conditions favorable for tbe transmission of telephonic sounds. If it is found possible to hold andible con versation at such extraordinary distance, it is possible that this fact will be speedily improved upon, and we shall be enabled to converse freely between London and New York, und by-and-by between London and the aii ti pod es. Indiana Inventors. A weekly list of United States patents issued to the inventors of Indiana for the week ending November 4, 1&S1, and each patent in the list will bear that date. Reported expressly for the Indianapolis Daily Sentinel, by A. II. Evans & Ca, American and Foreign Tatent Solicitors, Washington, D. C. Charge for obtaining a patent, f 20. A copy of the patent laws sent free on application : Alley, H.t Cnifty. saw. brown, 1. 1-, CoiuiniiUg, paper box machine. Brown, I. L, Columbus loloing box. Goodnougli, J., Indianapolis, walking cultivator. Graze, V. M., Logansport, com planter. Hnnicr, v. G., Teire Uaute. tpark arretter. Jan.es. L. L, Medora, wagon brake. Johnson, J. B., V. 11. and Q. B., Indianapolis, seed drill tooth. Keyser, Vf., Indianapolis, roller skate. Lent 7. 1). H., Indianapolis, rolling mill hooking machine. jcevcs, A.B. Colnmbns, cultivator, Utter, J. L., Lrownsville, lorce-feed seeding maChine. Schröck. J. !., Ooshcn. automatic gate. White, W. R., Vincennef, gate. THE ELECTION IN NEW YORK. Estimates of the Various Papers la Regard to Cleveland's Plurality in the State. New York, Nov. 8. The Sun says: "One of the most remarkable features ol this exceedingly close aud exciting election has been the wide discrepancies between the various computations of tbe result In New York Btate, offered to the public from different sources. Not only have both side claimed a plurality for taeir candidate, but their estimates have been as much as ::,000 apart, although it was aoi-arent on Wednesday morning thai the result must be very clofe. The returns collected by the Sun from every county In the State have from the rlrst indicated a small plurality for Clevelnnd, and when fiis fcss been flowly cut down, as the corrected fisrnres baTe reached us. It teems now to have reached a poiut where comparatively little change is likeiy to be made by further revisiou: while the Associated Freu returns Irom election districts appear to vary considerably from figures we obtained, an 1 to give some countenance to the claim ot the Kepuhlican Natioaal Committee tat Biaine baa carried the Btate by a very small pluralitv. Vet ws have so far been unable to discover any reason for expectin? any material change iu the result as shown ry our own carefully collettd returns, which give Cleveland a plurality of 1,206 in tbis oiate." Tbe Times computes the plurality of Cleveland at 1,:1. The Herald places Cleveland's plurality at 1.SW5. The World Fays tle eland's probable plurality in the State is 1,421 The Tribune Extra says the estimates as to the result in this State continue fluctuating in such a way as the returns from time to time come in M to show that the margin is so narrow that the otticialtouut will be ludLpeu.sable to determine the result. THANKSGIVING. The Cioverner of Mew York Has Issued the Following Proclamation of Thanksgiving. Albany, X. Y., Nov. 8. The followias was isBued to-day: "State of New York, rroclamation of Grover Cleveland, Governor. "The people of the btate should permit neither their ordinary occupations and cares, nor any unusual cause of excitement to divert tbeir winds from a sober and humble a knoiedi;ment of their dependence on Almighty God for all that contributes to the happiness and contentment, and for all that secures greatness and prosperity to our proud Commonwealth. In acccj dunce with the long-continued custom, I hereby appoint and designate Thursday, the 27th day of November. ISM, to be specially observed as a dav of thanksgiving and praise; let all the people öf the State at that time forego their uual business and employments, and in their several places of worship, give thanks to the Almighty God for all that he has done for them. Let the cheer of family reunions be hallowed bv a tender remembrance ot the love and wstchful care of our Heavenly Father, and in tbe social gatherings of frieicis aud neighbors let hearty good will and fellowship be chastenel by a confession of the kindness aud mercy of God." Done at the Capitol, in the city of Albany, thi Sth day of November, in the year lsiof our Lord. Gnovr.R Ci .i:t.lani. Governor. Danif.i. La most, I'rlvate oecretAry. The Same Jay Gould. New York Herald. The following is an extract from tbe official record of the sworn stament of Jay Gould before the Ene Investigating Committee on April 11, 187a: We had to look after four State New York, New Jertey, Pennsylvania. Ohio and have helped men in all of them. It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them, and considered them pood paying investments for the company, in a Republican district I was a strong Republican. In a iK-moeratic district I was Democratic. And in doublul districts I was doubtful. Id politics I was an Erie Railroad man every time. The same Jay Gould, on November 7, 13S4, ia conspiring to cheat James G. Blaine into tbe Presidency of tbe United States, and is especially "looking after" the State of New York. So Dry and Drittle. "Wb&t do yon suppose maltes my hair 10 dry and brittle?1' We suppose the gland wbicb supply moisture to it need a stimulus. A bottle of raraer'e Hair Balaam will do the business, and leave your hair soft and ahining. There is no mistake about this. No oil, do dye. Restores original color, removes dandruff.

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