Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1885 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNE8DAI. FEEHUAEI 18, 18854

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OUR FARM BUDGET.

homing Grass Seed la töe SpringBreeding Keese. Pruning Orowiosr Vines Gopher and Molea Milk from Knstlac Household aad Farni Notes. lowing Gras Seed la Spring. Philadelphia Lecorl. It is usual tu bow grass seed as early as possible, so that the young plants may make a fair growth before the very warm days o! summer. The principal grass crop is clover, whi' a is sown upon the w heat, the young clover being thus shaded and protected by the growing wheat. It is c amnion to sow c'over seed without the use ot a harrow for covering, though a brash is. sometimes passed over it if the field is clear of snow, and then, again, the seed is sometimes sown over the enow, upon which it remains until the snow melts, and the seed finds its way to the soil. Farmers who contemplate sowing gr.ns Eeed over the wheat should endeavor to first harrow the eld before sowing the seel. The advantages are that the yield of wheat will be increased by spring harrowing, while the amount of gras3 seed required for an acre may be lessened. If the ground is uneven, and thrown up by the frost, pass the riller ever the field after sowing the grass seed, and the field will be smoothed, the wheat banefiled, and tue seed covered. As a rule timothy and clover are U3ed together, but no two grasses could be selected more at variance in regard to growth aa1 periods of ripening. Timothy is earlier than clover, but still the two crops must be moved together when grown upon the same field. The consequence is that either the timothy must be overripe or the clover net fully matured. Orchard grass is suggested as a substitute for timothy, as it ripens in about the same time as clover. The objection to orchard grass is its tendency to grow in tussocks, but this may be partially avoided by care in cowing the seed evenly. It stand) the drought well, and grows on nearly all kinds of soil. As a pasture grass it ranks hieb, due to its beginning to grow very early in tbe season. One of tbe most frequent causes of failure in securing'good "catches' is using aa insutüclent quantity of seed. Clover especially, does not always make a heavy Staad, owing as a rule to carelessness in the U3 of eed. When it is considered that much of the seed sown over the surface is ancovered, and that a large proportion is destroyed by severe cold, birds and other causes, it is bast t" me an excess rather than too little. It the amount of seed usually sown were increased, and the seed harrowed In. thera would be good crops of clover secured where "catches" are now difficult The best fertilizer for grass lands is potash, and the next best is lime. A. mixture of wood ashes and lime answers, but the cheapest mode is the use of the commercial sulphate of potafh (kainit). If grass seed la eown in the fall, after the dry season h9 passed, there will be no necessity for sowing it on a grain field. On pastures a small pr portion of different grasses may be added to tbe orchard grass and clover, though for that purpose timothy may be freely used, such as blue grass, meadow foxtail, white clover and sweet vernal grass. As some grasses do not thrive on all classes of soils, it will be found more advantageous to rely priacipally on clover, timothy, and orchard grass. Pasture land should be prepared by reducing it to a fine condition, giving a good broadcasting of manure. Od pastures should not be plowed, but a good coatinz of manure, with reseeding, will prove beneficial. A Farm for Bre edlng Geese. iPhilaielphia Pres. The only goo3 ranch that is, a farm devoted to the breeding aud care of gea39 ia this conn try is owaed aad operated by Pailadelphians. Th9 farm is located on the eastem shore of Virginia, and covers nearly 3,000 acres, over which the feathered occupants are free to roam. In England there are a number of sack farms, soci9of them having as high as 1,000 geese. The American one is of much larger proportions, at its ticcks. number in the neighborhood of 5,0'JJ birds. In certain textile branches of trade the down and feathers of geese are the main raw materials. The manufacture of fine quilts and the preparation ot certain artie'ei of dres3 utilize tbe down. and in cheaper grades of goods the younger and softer feathers are used in the way of adulteration. Tue lare and ttrong feathers of the tails and wing go mainly into the quill pens used by professional engrossers, lawyers, clergymen, authors and others. These are too tough for much Bse in the textile productions mentioned above. The American farm is devoted exclus'vely to producing the raw materials needed for the fine down quilts. Several species ot geese are bred, all of them being, however, of American lineage. The largest specimens are the swan geese, and the plumage of all is of snowy whiteness. The birds are regularly fed with corn and other grains, and are given the utmost freedom consistent with the prevention of straying and loss. In consequence men are employed as herders to keep a watchful eye on their charges. Sheds for shelter are provided in case of inclement or especially severe weather, but the birds rarely me them. About every six we9ks the plucking takes place. Only the breast and portions of the sides are touched, the feathers of the back, the wings and the tail being left intact. It requires nearly 100 average geese to furnish a pound of down, though the smaller festn era, which are also taken, weigh much heavier. These feathers, however, form an entirely separate grade of product from ths valuable down. The average life of a goose is said to bs bout forty years, and they produce from six to ten eggs per annum, a large proportion cf which are hatched. A bird hatched in February is in condition for plucking th following August, and so on thereaiter every six or eight weeks. The feathers are packed in sacks and sent to the Philadelphia factory, where they are trimmed, washei, steamed and otherwise prepared for their ultimate uses. In adulterating the fluffy down for tbe cheaper grades of goods are chopped up fine and then mingled with the more valuable material. S3 practiced are some manufacturers that it requires an expert to distinguish between the grades. Th? local factory, which is the only one of prominence in the country, makes nothing but tbe finer goods. Heretofore tbe down aad feathers used in A met lean markets have been imported. Pruning Growing; Vines. (W. H. Waddlngtoa In Vick's Magazine. One of the mot successful exhibitors of grapes In England told me that "a man should be able to carry all the laterals aud shoots he took off a growing Tine in his waistcoat pocket. I consider this of great moment. I once saw a splendid house of grapes spoiled by the check given in cutting oil a lot of shoots and laterals all at once, instead of giving a quarter of an hour occasionally and pinching off the laterals when they were small. They had been allowed to run. and tben the gardener went at it with Lis knife, and almost every bunch in that house shrank or shriveled in consequence. Gophers and Moles In Orchards. A correspondent of a San Francisco paper writes: If a patent could be secured fer tbe effectual expulsion of gophers from or ctards the patentee would be likely to real ize a fortune thereby. And yet the plan is within the reach o all. While pruning the orchard of 8. B. Marcus, who lives a few miles east of Wataonville, I was struck, wita

the thrifty appearance of the trees and the total absence of any sira of gophers. On inquiry, Mr. Marcus informed me that a few years since the gophers were very numerous in the orchard, and made sad havoc among the trees, nearly destroying them. Having previously observed that the ground mole would not work in or near manure heaps, he came to the conclusion that manure ' placed about the roots of his trees might possibly prevent the depredations of the gophrr. The result more than met his expectations. Sines he has commenced putticg manure about the roots of his trees cot a gopher has been seen, nor even the sifm of one; besides, the trees have been greatly benefited by this manuring. Mr. Marcus sajs be simply digs away the soil from the trees, and places a few forksful of stable manure around the trunksof the treei and covers it over with the soil. If thera is more manure than can be conveniently cover d. he spreads it about the trunk of the' tree. By this simple device he has not only driven these pest3 from his orchard, but preatly benefited it by enriching the soil, air. Marcus deserves a gold medal for makiBt: this discovery. And it affords me much pleasure to ba able to give it to the public through the columns of your widely extended journal, which I nd in nearly every household where I go. Good Milk From Ensilage.

A London paper says: Efforts are being made to throw discredit on the ensilage system by calling in question the hU'h quality of tbe mils: produced by cows fed on suage. The attack can be easily refuted by thote who have had any experiencs in feeding dairy cows on silage. In the tint place, all ensilaged products vary in nutritive Quality and general character quite in much as hay does. The latter substance, if made trona the mowingä of a peat morass, would be f ir different from the best clover or meadow grata hay. Just in the same way would silsge diiler in accordance with char scter ot the original material from which it as ma le, which alone shows the extreme folly any sweeping condemnat'ou of ensilaged products generally. But Mr. Gibson, the owner of an extensive dairy herd at EafTrcn Waiden, has abandoned very much the growth of mangold wurzel for dairy cows, because he finds their milk when fed on silage so much better, and Mr. K. T. Blunt, of Blaby Hall, Leicesshire, after keeping some cows en tirely on eilage and others on hay and roots, gives as the result of his experience that, while the quantities yielded by the two lots are about similar, the ensila.-d-ftd cows keep themselves much better in condition and yield from 4 to 5 per cent, more cream in their milk, which latter appears to be quite as rich as that yielded by grass-fed cows in summer. He adds: '"To my surprise I found the percentage of cream in the milk cf ensilage fed cows was higher than that from the milk of cows fed upon hay, roots, fiour and cake." Mr. Geire Barham, manager of the Express Dairy Company, states that milk to the extent of 400,000 pounds daily passes under his observa tion, coming from nearly all parts of the kingdom, and some from Holland, and that so far from the milk o' ensilage-fed co'.vi being objectionable to ho customers, some of them have asked "to be spec ally supplied with it because of its superior ;uality." On the winter feeding of dairy cows Mr. Bar ham observes: "The only succulent food hitherto available has been roots, including mangolds, cabbage aod turnips. I have no hesitation in saying silage will produce milk of better quality and flavor ttau either." HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Apple Puffs Fried in Butter Take ten or twelve apples, according to aizs, six yelks of egg?, hait a pound of white sugar, two lemons with their peel and juice, reel and core the apples, which must be quartered and boiled in a very little water, tender enough to beat up; it is still better to put tbe apples in a jar, closely covered, and place the isr in a saucepan of boiling water. adding no water to tbe apples. When they were cool, stir in the eggs, lemon aud sugar. put back again into the jar aod boil until it seems to thicken; then pour it out to cool. add a few bread crumbs, make into small cakes, scak in butter, and fry a nice brown in hot lard. This is a particularly nice way ci serving apples. Beef Croquettes. Mince finely a pound and a half of cold roast beef and mix it with a puncn ot savory neros. a snauot ana aa anchovy, all of these cut up fine. Season with pepper and salt, and put all the ingre dients into a stewpan ; add a half pint of wmte sauce and allow them 13 stew lor a few minutes. Then stir in the yelks of three es, and let it stand aatil the ega are set Tfien spread the meat out upon a dish, and wren it becomes cold cut it into pieces and roll these upon a board strewn with brtai crumcs, giving them a rounu. ooiong. or pear-shaped form, as may bs fancied. Coat the croquettes over with beaten eg?i, then fry, in lard, or a mixture of lard and Lucoa cream oil, being careful that the fry in qv teral is boiling hot when th crooaettea are put in. When done to a golden-brown color, take them out, dta'n them, garnish with rarsley, and send to table with Italian or other desired sauce, served in a tureen Bepa rate. caterer. German Pancakes, or Fritters. Bsat six e?gs separately to a froth; addtheyeics to three pints of sweet milt, and season with a small caspoonf ul of salt and a tablesooonfulof sugar; stir in three smell cupfuls of hour, but only enousrh to make a very thin batter; lastly, add the stirtly beaten whites of the eggs. Put a tablespoonfal of butter into a hot spider, and. when melted, but not browned, pour in enough bitter to cover the bottom of the spider thinly. Whan cooked through, do not turn it over, but sprinkle weit sugar over it, and roll it up in shaoe oi a v jennese to i. voot all the batter in this way, keeping each ctke hot in the oven on a piatter. serve wiin butter-aud-sagir sauce, flavored with wine or wnisky, or with beaten cream and sugar. Squirrel or Partridge Pie. Parboil the game, in just enough water to cover them, for fifteen minutes. Line a pudding dish with pastry, aud put in the meat, seasoning it hifchly with pepper and salt, aod lay slices of hard-boiled eggs over the top layer of meat. Strain tbe liquor the game was boiled in. lake a piece ot batter the size or an egg, and cut it jnto small bits, and roll it in flour, and put all over the top of the pie. pour in the broth at one Bide. Cover with nie pastry, and bake in the oven threequarters of an hour. When it is done, cut a hole in the top to let the steam escape; and when it Is cold close it with an ornament of pastry. Serve tot or rold. Truffled Turkey. Take a plump and youaj hen turkey, weighing about ten pounds, aod let it also be fresh killed. Then select pound and a half ot sound truffles, washing and cleaning them thoroughly to rid them of an eartbv or gritty substance. Cut pound of tr allies into balls from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter. Weigh the trlmminES and parings aad pound them to a smooth paste. Then take an equal weight of fat bacon, cut it and pound it unti smooth; mix it with the truffle paste, and season the whole with salt and pepper. how blend the mass together, and when per fectly smooth mix the truffle calls with it, and stuff the turkey with this forcemeat The turken should hang for at least a week after it Is thus staffed, or even longer would be better,- if the weather is cold enough. To roast the turkey cut a thin slice of fat bacon and lav It upon the breast, ana over tue oscon lay a piece of buttered paper. Then place tbe bird before a clear fire, remembering that a rent turkey Is not apt to be injured by too much basting, wnen done, serve hot, with or without Unfile sauce. If the latter is preferred, make it aa follows: Put half a dczen finely minced truffles into saucepan with some good butter; set the pan over the fire, shaking it frequently, for ten minutes; tben have dissolved in half a pin of boiling water two teaspoonfuls of flatd beef. Pour this into tbe pan wita the minced trufflfs, seasoning with pepper aud salt to tast, and tben (id it glass oi native

sherry. Sow set the pan where the contents may simmer gently for fifteen minutes, when, after skimming the fat from the surface, the sauce is ready to eerve. Caterer. Steamed Oysters. You can steam oysters at heme without much trouble. Get a wire basket, such as has been used for flowers will do very well, fill it with oysters in the shell, and immerse in a vessel of boiling water which is deep enough to completely cover the basket of oysters. The oysters are done almost immediately. They must be opened into a hot dish where there is melted butter, pepper and salt. Yoa may aid brofc en crackeis if you choose. Tue oysters should not stand, but should be eaten at once. Hashed Meat With Yeetab!es.-Slice the remains of any cold roast very thin and cat od the browned edges and dip each sites isto a little flower. Break up the bon?3 of the meat and put it into a Btewpati with a small chopped onion, a thinly sliced carrot, a little chopped celery or oyster plant and some salt, and a few peppercorns and alUpice berries. Boil them in a pint aad a half of water for one hour, dipping out all fatthatrv.es, and thicken the gravy with a little browned flour, browned on a fiat tin in the oven. Skim out the bones aud scraps of meat and put in the slices, and let the whole boil up for a few minutes. Maks a wall of mashed potatoes o; boiled rice around the edge of a platter, and cover it with beaten egg, and brown it in the oven while tbe slices of meat axe being bested through. Then turn the meat and gravy into the platter and serve very hot.

Meat rief. Chop very finely any kind cf celd meats two or more kinds, Buch aj ham and veal, beef and veal, lamb and mutton, can be mixed together with good results. Place tbe chopped meats in a deep soup plate or a pie dish, and season it weil with salt and pepper and two tablespoonfuis or tomato or Chili sauce, and add th9 gravy that was left from the roast or broiled meat. Boil and mash potatoes and cover the top of the meat with thera well seasoned, and scatter over tbe lop a layer of bread or cracker crumbs, with bits of butter scattered placed over them. Cut it into inch squares with a knife and bake it in an oven for half an hour, er until handsomely browned, Sarve in the same dish for breakfast. FABJI NOTES. A cellar is not a good place in which to keep butter. About ICO bushels of wood ashes per acre are a fair proportion to apply on light soils. Hard subsoils eerve to arrest and retain es caping fertilizing material, but are usually cold and late in advancing crops. Bice is one of the best substances for fat tening fowls quickly. Boiled and mixed with ground oats and corn meal, it can not be excelled. Seedlings are apt to succeed best where they or;gate; hence the many disappoint ments when varieties are transferred to other sections. Ccane and unpalatable feed, such as straw a iid t ''der, may be advantageously used by passu through a cutter, moistening and epiiDfcii. it with bran and meal. A farm. ' in Maryland has been experi menting villi barbed wire fences for telephone use, and announces that farmers and others will coon adopt them for this purpot e. Dung applied to land in tbe ordinary pro cesses ot agriculture will Cut be entirely ex hausted until a considerable number of years have elapsed from the time of its first application. JLKatsas farmer says, according to the New York Tribune, that he put a stop to the heating cf wheat by mixing with easn fifty bushels a bushel of salt, aud also kept weevils away. Whole, oats, wheat, bran and corn meal form an excellent ration for young eto:k. The health and complete and symmetrical growth cf the body are best secured by feeding a variety of grain. The hog-pen should be always liberally bedded with straw, not only where the pigs sleep, bnt the yard outside where thy run Unless this yard Is well bedded much of the liquid manure will be lost. It has been discovered recently by medical men mat "lump-jaw," as it is caned, or lumps found on the iaws of cattle, are sometimes caused by decayed teeth. It is not known how much the poor brutes suffer with the toothache. The Board of Directors of the American Jersey Cattle Club offers a premium of 600 for the best esay and $200 for the Becond, the essays to relate to Jersey cattle; all carumunications to be sent in aa the property cf the association. The average number of eggs laid by an or dinary flock of hens is eight and one-half dozen to a fowl, yet instances have been re corded where a hen has laid 250 eges in one year, and from sixteen to seventeen dozen is considered by poultry men a remarkable yield. The proposition has been advanced that work hoises be Bold by weight. It is well enough in some respects to charge more for a large horse than a small one, but the dis position, soundness, age, breed and other conditions will also have to be considered. Sir J. B. Laws says that a given weight of nitrogen, in toe tormot nitric acid, will pro dace more growth in the crop to which it is applied than the same peight of nitrogen in manure, but the influence of the nitrogen upon succeeding cross will be very much less In a great many instances diseases of root crops arise from the use of no fermented or partially rotted manure. If only well rotted manure is used there will be less liability of the crops being affected with rot. This has been particularly no iced in the cases of both white and sweet potatoes. In pruning trees aim to distribute the cut tings sufficiently throughout tbe entire tree, If there is twice too much top it might be reduced by cutting off all the branches on ODe side, leaving the other half untoucbel. If a tree looks too thin another year's gro w th will fill it up. Knral Keoord. The United States Commissioner of A.gri culture says that while in some. of the States the pure bred and high grade cattle are but 8 per cent, or the wnole, in Ohio and Ken lucay it is ii per cent., in maiana Zi pr cent., in Illinois 35 per cent, and Massachu tetts 32 per cent, of the whole number. Tbe sheep is exceedingly neat, and even fastidious, about his food and drink, and hence should have clean grass and clear run mng wafer, xnougn they ass less water than other animals, often parsing some days without it, it is none the leas necessary for their comfort and health that it should be accessible. A writer informs the Prairie Farmer that a bleaching process has been invented where by a demand, at remunerative prices, is created for all tbe nax straw that can bs grown. He says that when cut close to the ground, bound and kept straight in thresh mg, me straw is worm as much per acre as tne seed. A forty-quart can of milk contains enough Done eartn to iorm seven ounces of tnne. enough nitrogen to make several pounds of lean meats, and a proportion of potash. If tne mux is soiaorrtne farm all these g: with it, and if the process la kept up for i long while exhaustion follows. Farm Jour sal. ine xsew England farmer states that the coops lor broody hens at Houghton Farm are about two feet square, with bottoms of siais so small and far anart that no hen. however brooiy, will Imagine she Is sitting wnue roosung upon them. They -re raised about four inches above the ground. It seems to be a first-rate contrivance for break log up sitters. Now. n-hen cows ehoili be stabled at nteht. to protect thera from cold, rains and tirm the farmer should see to it that the stabl is sepi scrupulously clean. Cows neglected In this mpect will not yield so much milk, and unless tbe milk can come through clean teats

and uncontaminated by odors of fresh excrement, it will not be fit for any use. Cranberry growers, in National conferencs assembled, estimate the season's product of this fruit at 330,000 bushels, against 400,030 bushels in IS S3, tbe Bhortage resulting from the late frosts of May and J une. Natural vegetable acids da not barm milk, but the artificial acid ot fermenting food introduces en element i:1 the consumption that is not possible for .:ure to neutralize, and hence afiecti the niitx. The amount of ferment may be small and do little injury, but If carried beyond a certain point will have a deleterious effect, which experiment lime and again has demonstrated. Says the Southern World: "A Florida pentleman, in giving an account of the erowth of a tomato vine on a pile of slaked shell lime, rays that it was four feet long ecd abounded with tomatoes. He was urprised at its growth under the conditions.

and considers that it demonstrated that slaked shell lime was the fertilizer for that plant when heavily applied, it seeming to answer all purposes. It is estimated that the improvement of the breeds of cattle in the United States amounted to Zö per cent, uf the value ot all the cattle. That is, if unimproved as years aco, tbe total value ot all the cattle woald be 2S7,000,U00, whereas by reason of the introduction of better blood and their improvement they are really worth i 1,100, 000,000. This is a splendid argument for grading up the common breeds. Many trees can be transplanted from the woods. This can b9 done m the fail or tue spring. The little trees should bs taken up carefully, with .as much of the root a3 possible, and planted in a well-prenarei soil the same depth at which they Bto d before. The trees will respond to clean culture as readily as ccrn, or will show petect by a slow, stunted growth, if weeds aud ufa?s are left to grow a oout their roots. Dr. Sturtevaut calls attention to the ob jectionable features of the multiplication ot eynonjms in Beed catalogues. In the catalogues of eight seedmen one variety of cucumDers is found under as many variations of name. Huch a use of names, he says, tends to reduce vegetable nomenclature to a farce, and a revision is advised, which he recommends to the consid ration of the next meeting of the American Seed Trade Assoc ation. Any land that will bear clover can be made rich. It is not wise, however, to put a field in clover and then keep it pastured down closely. If the top is not allowed to grow the root will not grow, and a double loss occurs. By frequent plowing under ot clover the soil will soon become in fine condition for almost any crop. It is more eco nomical to enrich by green manuring than in any other manner, and the ejects are lasting aud permanent. More lambs are consumed for food in Eng'and in proportion to the number of sheep grown than in any other country. And when a year ago the Queen set the example of abstaining from lamb during th season. in order to give an increase to the flocks of tbe United Kingdom, it cost English epicures some self denial to fohow her in this matter. However, tne result is that the number cf Iambs, which bad been rapidly declining, has since greatly increased. The cfficial statement of live stock for shows that the proportion of lambs to sheep is now 59 per cent, and there hj been an increase of nearly 1,000,000 in the number of both, or about 4 ner cent. GHOSTS AND GOBLINS. Ilow a Sea Captain Informed His Faml'y of Ills Death. I Boa ton Letter to Minneapolis Tribune. 1 Somewhere back in the "Blxties" I think jest after the war the family of a sea cap tain, absent on a long cruise, lived in toe town 1 speak of. 1 his family comprised a wife and several daughters. (I would give names and places, were it not for making public what was given me iu confidence.; Well, one night, when the family had gone to bed, oce of the daughters named Carrie, had a very impressive dream ; she started in her sleep and finally arote from her bed. her eyes cpen but fixed, her whole manner that of a person who eees some dreadful vision. She moved from chamber to chamber, aroua Ids tbe different members ot the family, and led them to tbe sitting room. A lamp was lighted, and the little gathering, clad in night-dresees and shawls, wonderingly obeyed the directions of the dreamer. ha called for a rheet of paper, and pen and iuk. No writing paper could be found in the heute, but at last a piece of grocer's wrapping paper was brought and the somnambulist appeared catisded. Taking the pen, she began writing in a large, masculine band. There was profound silence in tbe little gronp. and a feeling ef terror and dread settled upon mother and daughters. None dared to look over the shoulder of the writer, who at last, finishing, gave a sigh of relief and went directly upstairs to her chamber. The mother, no longer able to restrain her cuiiosity. yet fearing something dreadful, took up the brown sheet and begaa to read. "Children," the exclaimed, "i is your father's handwriting!" It was dated at sea, the longitude and latitude being given. In terse language It described tbe coming of a hurricane, the horrors of tne tempest, and final losing of every hope, and tLe sinking of the craft in the angry waters with all on board. Af 'er a brief but pathetic message to his family the drowned captain signed bis name in characteristic fashion. This was the manner in which Captain P s, cf the little town In Maine, sent word to his wife and daughters at home of the manlier of his taking off. Was there ever anything more dramatic? This is the first time that this story known to fully a thousand people, has ever been put in print. It was given me several years ago by an intimate friend of the family. Did that ship go down? No ono knows all that is certain is that the never came into any earthly port. This story wsuld give the society for physical research a month of solid work. Th9 pirituahsts will see nothing wonderful in it. I'erbaps it is only one of tbe commoaplaces of the supernatural. A gentleman of veracity told me that for tbx-e nights be dreamed i hat a man with a full lid isce approached him in his dreiuis, carrying a hammer which he held over his head in a mechanical manner. Oa the morning after the last dream the gentleman went to hij place of business as usual, on bis way he passed a shop. The door was open, and there stood, with hammer uplifted, tbe man 6eeninthe dream. The two men stopped and looked at each other and said nothing. A qneer coincidence. A Maeeachusetts State Senator a man of ultra skeptical views, went awhile ago to visit a noted spiritualist who has puzzled tbe Czar in his winter palace. The Senator was asked to seat himself in a large aad very heavy armchair. While there seated he wa3 lifted by a force unknown to him so that his head nearly touched the ceiling. He was not yet cured of his skepticism, but be fully believes that he was not the victim of a delusion. Age Doth Not Weary. A cbarmirg woman has no age. History is filled with thesdventuresof women whose see il not their conduct, was respectable. Helen of Troy was over forty when that famous elopement took place. TeH years after, when the fortunes of war restored her to Menelaus, be received her with love and gratitude. Cleopatra was past thirty when she made the conquest of Antony, and Diane da Poictiers at thirty-six and for many years afterward was considered the most ; beaut iful woman at tbe court of Henry II of ranee. Urne, De Maintenon was forty-three when ah married Louis XIV. and Ninon de 1' Endo received a declaration of love on her eighteenth birthday. The names of many other ancient society ladies might be added to this Hat. T The President elect has engaged rooms at theArlicgton, Washington, for March 2. Tne Freaident-elect -ill be accompanied by bis three sisters and brother, and his private secretary, Colonel Lamont, and family.

3JEN OF THE HOUR.

ANOTHER MILLIONAIRE SENATOR. IELA2TD STANFORD, V5ITD STATES SESAT0XELECT FROM CALIFORNIA, WORTH $75,000,000. Lately no man has been more prominent ly mentioned in American annals than Leland Stanford, ex-Governor of California, one of the richest men on the Pacific coast. ilr. Stanford la of English stock. He was born in Albany County, New York, ilarch 9, 1S24. His father wa3 a man of wealth and prominence, and had much to do with the establishment of the Erie Canal. After rea IIng law in Albany, Stanford became a resident of Fort "Washington, "Wis. "When t.ie news of the gold discovery in California swept over the country he became very much interested, and in liö'2 pushed across the plains and settled at Michigan Eluffs, on the American River, in Placer County. He took an interest In mining, but at the same time became a commercial speculator and found a fortune in the union of the two. A recent estirrate of his wealth placas it at j7i5,O0O.00O. There is of. Sin Franciaco real estate upward of $5,000,000 worth, besides many vineyards, farms and breeding ranches, while his railroad investments have been on a very lerge scale. Four tears ago he paid a tax on an assessment of $20.tOO,X)0, andcf this sum nearly a half mihion was returned as in personal effects, diamonds, etc., of himself and family. In 1SG1, ilr. Stanford was e'ected Goverror of California. His administration was marked by prudence, a sharp judgment of men and a disposition to look ahead in matters of the development of the State, lie was one of the most enthusiastic promoters of the plan to build a transcontinental rodd. After careful consideration of tbe problem and the possibilities for profitable investment in it, a bill was drawn up and submitted to Conmess. This was the basi3 of tbe great Pacific Railroad act and the opening wedpe cf an immense mass of legislation Bince placed upon the records of Congress. Governor Stanford was elected President of the new corporation. He was thoroughly convinced of the practicability of the idea sought to be developed, and breaking the first earth for the roadbed on Febrnarv 22, 1SS3, saw the completion of the work on May 10, ISOi. Setatcr elect Stanford is above the usaal height, broad-chested and with a straight, military bearing. He is courteous, affable and opec-handed. His liberal patronage of art has secured for him the gailery of fine paintings which is cue of the chief features of his elegant resider es in San Francisco. Stanford Farm, his favoiite country Feat, is situated at Menlo Park, in the Santa Clara Valley, about forty miles fiom San FrancUco. The mansion, which is its chief ornament, wes begun five years age. It stands in the center of 45. acres, which make up the park and lawn, and is surrounded by thousands of trees, con8tituune one of the niott unique collections in tbe world. The owner's aim is to gather :here samples of every tree which can be mae to grow in the Boil of California. At sue time Mr. Stanford hai a residence in Nw York City. He has giten this up, ard cne of the San Francisco papers makes the foint that his selection as Senator will ancLorhim to the Pacific Coast. His election to the United States Senate is reported to t very gratifying to wealthy circles in Wtsbirgton. THOUGHTFUL, FBIENDS. The Two Persons Who Saved General Grant from Absolute 11 Anferuptcy. New York Mall and Express ! General Grant and all the members of his family have been as might have been expectsd very reticent as to tbe privations and anxieties they have suffered since the failure of Grant & Ward. But the facts communicated to old friends in confidence have been gradually coming to the public, without any intentional betrayal of trust anywbere. So much, however, is known, that it occurred to the writer of the communication herewith published that a conrrctrd and careful account of General (i-ain'a pecuniary straits would be more satt factory to the people, and would give a jtster wew of his situation and of his trials acd conduct than the more or less exaggerated stories that are afloat. The communication hich follows was wiitten by one wbc?e relations with the Grants have been and are euch as to insure the most intimate knowledge of tbe interesting facts Btated. Of cocrte the writer prepared and furnished this communication without the knowledge of any member of tbe Grant family, and without any solicitation of the part of any one connected with the Mail and Express. But bo interesting a story will spent for itself. Here it is: "Four days after the failure of Grant t Ward a Mr. Charles Wood, of LancingOurg, N. Y., wrote to General Grant, whom he hai never seen, offering to lend bim $1,000 for twelve months without interest, with option of renewal at the same rate. He inclosed a cbeck for f 300 'on account of my share' due for services ending about April. IS65 ' " "At this time General Grant had absolutely no money for current expenses. Everything he owned in the world bad been invested or deposited with Grant t Ward. About 80 in his pocket book and 1130 in cash belonging to Mrs. Grant was what he had to live on. The trust fund had been invested in Wabash securities and the company at this juncture defaulted payment, while the guarantors, the K. D. Morgan es täte, could not pay until tbe company had defaulted for six months General Grant accepted the timely offer of Mr. Wood very gratefully. "About the same time Mr. Romero, the Mexican Minister, came to General Grant, and also insisted on aiding him with a loan of $1,000. The General declined at first to receive the money, bnt Mr. Romreo left the rcom abruptly, placing the amount on the table. But for these two acts of friendship, one from a man whom General Grant had never seen, the other from a gentleman by no means wealthy, the distress of the General would have been actual. The checks which bad been paid out a few days before the failure were of course not met, the payment on May 1 on the trust fund was swallowed up by Ward, and there was absolutely for a time no other resource. "Mrs. Grant, however, had a little house in Washington which she had bought some years before for $7 800, and she was able to sell this in a few weeks for $0,300. A check was at once sent to Mr. Romero for tbe debt to bim. tbe outstanding checks on Grant t Ward lor personal or family expeofiei were

raid, and a little was left for livin? duricg the tummer. The sons had all been ruined by the failure as absolutely as the father, and two cf them with their families were obliged for a time to live with him. "In this emergency the General w.is asked to write a couple of articles for the Century Magazine. He was otlered $1,000 for the two, and consented to try his hand at literature, Tbe articles were written and the payment made, and about Christmas the General was able to pay orT the pecuniary itdebtf dnees to bis IrienJ. Mr. Wood, with wtomheisatiil persotully unacquainted. Tbe occupation of writing interested him; the story of his old campaigns distracted him Ire m the thoughts of his Wall street troubles; be continued to write, acd finally decided to compile his military memoirs. Ths first volume of these is corny lete and the secoad msrlyso. The work gives details of his early history not previously known, and a trraph'c j icture of life in Ohio btore when he went to West Point. His acount of ihe Mexican war is also extremely interestlrg, es he was in every battle except Bceca Vista, ucder both Scott and Taylor, The rariative of those campaigns, as seen by a Lieutenant who afterwards became the foremost soldier of his time, is said by those who have seen it to bfl fafcicaticg even to unmilitary readers, v Mle the sketches of the great Generis in both . them and Southern am ies whom be knew as eubalterns is something the like of which has never been written by such an author in all history."

i Twenty-One Persons with Tails. London Standard. J The Discovery cf the tailed man has been so cfteu announced that until he is actually capture, photographed, lionized, and duly repcrted on, we i ball continue skeptical regarding the "well-authenticated statement" of this interesting personage running wild and pretn:uably naked in the woods of New Britian. The fact that some extremely inaccessible ep't has Invariaöly been selected for h"s abede ' as enabled successive generations of rcn arcre to remain uncontradicted until tty end -he:r story were forgotten. Since the fan t Iz-rd Monboddo'a time there have bf "'ri y ci assertions which would have fcetL cm enough proof for a theorist ready to L,öh at any straw, though scarcely weighty enough for ethnologists. For example, a certain Colonel du Corrett reported to the French Academy that when in Mecca forty-three years ago he esw at the house of tbe Emir a "Ghilane" slave made Bsllal, who had a tail three inches lovg iad as fiexiable as a mou key's. L d fortunately Coicnel du is rot generally admitted to have in Mica, though the account Corret ever been which he gives has to an appreciable extent been repeated, it not confirmed, by ether tellers of wordrous tales. John Struys, a Dutch traveler who visited Formosa in l'iTT, asserted that he saw in the interior of that island a savege "with a tail more than a foot loog, r- yered with red hair and very like that of i. cow," an appendage wbich,he adds, was j c rrrrr i to all the inhabitants, and "was the ifiect of the climate.' Hornerrau transferred the story to the Kiam Niams, who were evidently the people to whom M. du Corret referred. Aga ;i acd t gain have travelers in Ethiopia allu- d to the belief in the tailed men which exi ts amoDg the AbysBiniaca, Dr. Wolff was quite convinced of the truth cf the story of there being men acd wemen in Abjtbioia "with tails lite dogs and horses" to oanderous that they nee them as weapons ;'arj'l adds that such people also live near China. Dr. Hubsch affirms that he taw. in 1852, in the Constantinople Hospital, to which he was physician, a Is'iam-Niam woman with a tail two inches IcDg and a wolfish expression quite in keeping. Dr. Hubsch was a man of good status, though at the time his reputation 'or strict adherence to tbe truth was not unquestioned byEzeptics. in reality, it is now known that such deviations from the normal state of ccatters are by no means unique. Setting atide the story of a child in Newcastle which was born with a tail oca and one-fourth inches long, Dr. Max ßer tela, a distinguished German anthropologist, has, within the laet four years, investigated twentyone well authenticated cases of pernors having been born with tails. There is, therefore, no reason for scouting the idea that men provided with the superfluity in queetion may exist, since it is an eesential l rincipal of modern biology that any pecui amy cay become hereditary, and that there is a tendency to perpetuate these accidental "sports" for "the good of the species." In early life the o? ccccygis, or termination of the sacrum which in the adult condition is tucked in projects somewhat, and Professor Ernst Haeckl, who regards these bones as an undeveloped tail, declares that there exist rudimentary muscles, the remains of those which, according to this somewhat wild evolutionist, served to move the tail of our "ancient progenitors." Unfortunately the subject has never yet been reasonably treated from a popular point of view, the idea lending itself too much to burlesque or to ridicule for that calm discussion which so grave a possibility demands. It is, indeed bo Mr. Paring-Gould tells us a widespread superstition among Devonshire children that Comishmen are born with tails, and according to a similar legend, referred to by Andrew Marvel in his "Loyal Scot," certain men of Kent were afflicted in like fashion as a mark of the divine displeasure at their treatment of Thomas a Becket's horse, at Strood. near Rochester. Bnt, after all, what matters it? A tail is by no means an unornamental superfluity. A tailless monkey is infinitely less pleasant to the eye than on with a tail, and among various savage trio, s this fact is recognized by the men attachir these of wild animals to their dress whea performing any particularly sacred daacej. indeed, the train of a fashionable lady, or a great oflicer of State like the Lord Chancellor, end of a debutante at Court may be referred to a similar inarticulate longing after what nature has omitted to supply. Baptists' statistics for the present year show considerable progress. In England there are thirty-five asseciatsons, in Wales ten, and in Scotland and Ireland one each. The totals for the Unitsd Klogdom are as follows: 2,600 churches, 3,900 chapels, with over cne million sittings; S12.4G-") church members, 48,711 Snnday school teachers, 407,9 0 Sunday scholars, 1,908 pastors, and 3,505 evangelists. Compared with the official returns for the previous year, this shows an increase of 105 churches, 171 chapels. 31.böö titticps, 7,0i)3 church members, 2,084 Snnday school teachers, 30,742 Sunday Echolars, and a decrease of thirty-two pastors. Catarrh Is a very prevalent and exceedingly dis agreeable disease, liable, if neglected, to develop into seripus consumption. Being a constitutional disease, it requires a constitu tional remedy like Hood's Sarsaparilla, which, acting through the blood, reaches every part of the system, effecting a radical and permanent cure of catarrh in even its most severe forms. Made only by C. 7. Hood & Co. i Lowell, Mass. She Standard says: "Mr. Hebbun, a Presbyterian missionary in Japan, is rather sanguine in regard to the hold Christianity has obtained upon the people of that coantry. He doubts whether missionaries will be needed there fifteen or twenty veara hence, and thinks that if even all the foreign missionaries were expelled at once, the work would be carried forward by the natives. It Is encoursging that an intelligent missionary upon the ground is thus sanguine, and though we may not coincide with his views, yet there is no doubt but that tbe 'Island Empire' will become Christian at comparatively an early date from the opening of the country to its entrance, less than forty years ago." m No Long Words. There is no call to use long words in speaking of Parker's Tonic It sells on its merits nd cures by its virtues. No family can make a mistake by keeping a bottle in the house. For coughs, colds and all troubles of the bowels, stomach, liver and kidneys. It is exsctly what yon want. For yourself, your wife and children,

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