Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1885 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1885.

OUR FAR3I BUDGET.

Shelter aid Cost cf Feed Earvestirg Potatces. frare -RTK Now for 'Winder I'orethougbt tf Winter Kgg In Case of Storm He-f or fluff er Household Hint Farm Noten. ' Shelter anl C"ot of Feetl. Milt r once erected costs but little, yet it i e(ual to in annual crop in the saving of feetl in winter. This fact liai become o a- parent of late years that scientists are able to approximate the value of the food in proportion to the warmth of the juarters, ami the intthol of management. Professor Morrow, of the Illinois -Agricultural t'ollego, wiuintains that little or no profit can be- exiectel from full feeding rattle that are not prc.-erly sheltered, and he has tested the Miatter by numerous experiments. Purins three successive winter yearling and iwo-ycar-old steers were kept with the r-lieherof straw stacks, with abundant straw and corn tinkler, some hay and corn, with plenty of water; hut he found them to wn'h fH more tlie lit of -April than they did in November. A nuniler of fat steers were sold in November, w hich were kept twenty days at the rciic.t of the buyer, diirins: . which time the weather became very cold. They ato bushels of "corn, besides hay and Mraw; but the total gain of the 'whole i leven i wa only forty iund., -A comparison of stub, small pains in the winter with the heavy weights of cattle fed in summer, when the weather is warm and the conditions are favorable, may be easily ialc. During several seasons yearling -tecr I diticrent breeds made average gains i 2-' pounds, and later of ISO pounds In six ncntlis. Two-year-old steers did even better, ne of - them attaining pounds in six months. All those weights were from grass ane. With a better sj-stem of feeding, calves have been produced weighing from :irt to -10 ound3 at six months old ; from to 7' pounds at one year old. from l,0o to LH. pounds at two years old, on j;ood pasture and sime grain, which shows that as the fod was digested it was appropriated to growth and fat without being thrown oil' as heat. The value of good shelter is in maintaining the heat of the body. As the heat is produced from the food, ft- is apparent the warmer the animal is kept in winter the less f"d i required to supply its wants. As the - winter is an excellent time for fattening the rtoCk, owing to outdoor work being susended, there is no better assistant lor that purpose than good dry quarters. Before the animal can lay on fat the ordinary demands for the heat bi the body must 'be provided, and during very severe and cold seasons the animal can not even appropriate food . butiicicnt to create the necessary heat to sustain life when exposed without shelter. Every jounil of Hesh lost must be renewed, . und every day that an animal is fed without aining in Hesh is so much time lost that can never be regained. Shelter, " then, is economical, in e nabling the animal not only to supply them.-elve with suflicieut heat, but to .-tore u fat, and it represents just o much grain or hay. The more complete the building lor the purjoscs intended the better, and the more comfortable the animals the faster they will incn ase in weight. One should not wait until the seasou become cold betöre erecting the shelter, as a good start in the fall will materially assist the animals to enter the winter full of vigor and well prepared to endure the cold, provided they are properly cared for. Ai the rattle will gain from good shelter, so will the pigs and sheep, which should also be kept warm. Even the oultry will lay in winter if kept warm and comfortable. t Harvesting Patatoe. irhicago Times.) It is neither a difficult nor unpleasant task , to harvest potatoes on land that contains no weeks nor grass. It is not necessary to do all the work of removing the soil by hand. A cultivator can be run between the rows so that the outer teeth will remove the earth from the outside of the hills or drills, leaving nothing but a narrow ridge to be broken down. The cultivator will make a wide. smooth bed, on which the potatoes can be t-prai. ii tue potatoes are partially green, j-.iany of the tubers will adhere to tbem when they are pulled up. They can be shaken off on the space between the rows and the tops thrown in piles. The digger, with "a ium.k or pronged iioe. can easily pull to pieces the narrow strip that was leu Dy tne cultivator and throw every potato on the smooth surface. There they can remain until they axe sufficiently dry to be sorted and stored. They should not remain in the sun lonsrer than is necesKary for them to become tolerablv dry. as n,t suuugui injures ineir quality. Jl uug in this way very few of the tubers will be cut r otherwise injured. The few that are in jnrcd, together with those that are ill-shaied .ery small or covered with "scab" or other blemishes, should be kept by themselves and fed to hogs or cattle. The best time to sort j-otatoes is when they are taken from the grouna ana r.e where all their defects may be clearly seen. lagging potatoes should not bedelaved till after the heavy fall rains occur. It is ditliult to secure clean tubers if the soil from which they are taken is wet. The dirt will adhere to them, even if much time is spent in trying to remove it. it will injure their apiearance ana ne uteiy to cause them to de ay. If potatoes are not duir till freezing weather occurs some of the tubers will be likely to be frostbitten, and if they are put in a bin with sound specimens, they will cause them to decay. '1 here is no advantage in allowing potatoes to remain in the ground atter the tops are dead. Thev have then at Limed their growth and have assumed the conditions of riiness. They will keep best if -tort-d in a cool, dark place, not subject to nanesoi icnwrature or ueirree oi moist lire. If placed where thev become wnrm they are likely to sprout and become almost csckss for the table or for plarrting. The pian oi leaving otatoes in heaps in the held or some time, and then removing them to a pit or cellar, is very objectionable. Exposure to the sun injures them, and bruises are the result of frequent handling. J 're pa re Now for Fgg in Winter, (From the Farmers' fall. Those who have devoted much time and attention to fowl farming know that, as a rule, the earliest chickens make the best, the inest and showiest birds. Thew know, too, that early chickens, if well cared for during the summer, will commence to lay in the fall, and do more or less of it all winter. Jf this be true, then we have to keep it J-efore us and prepare for the work when the time conies, f..r then ii when fowl farming is made to pay. Eggs now, when everybody's liens are laying, are hardly worth the gathering and sending off to market as compared with the prices winter eggs and spring chickens will bring. Many young people on the farm can afford to devote a little time and thought to Mich an enterprise as this, and make themselves a handsome nm' every year. Many who spend Lonrs iu comparative idleness, who never earned a dollar intheir lives or rnjoyed the felicity of spendinsr their own .earnings just as they pleae, could so begin life as to lead on to thrift, industry and fortune. J t is from such small beeiunings, indeed, that habits are formed, success attained, and fortunes made 'To begin with, select from the best birds Jora the earlist hatchings, feed them, water

them, train and domesticate them. Make them to know you. to follow you, and to do

pretty mucu as you please, ana you will nnu tuem pror table servants, ana nr-t-rate friends and neighbors. He very careful not to overfeed, rather let them search for a liv ing, being sure, however, they do not sutler. I re pare for them in the meantime a snug and comfortable house in which to'winter, for at that season they are not inclined to lay in a snowbank, tor sit nnder a hedge row. The house need not be an expensive one, but must have it facing south so as to catch all the sun )ossible. The warmer it can be made the better, but it must be ventilated. With such an arrangement many dozen of eggs may be obtained during the winter that will sell at from twenty-hve to lifty cents per dozen.- . forethought of Winter Ejrijs. I New York Tribune. 1 The editor of a leadinir lnmltrv nancr has said that a hen house sunk into the ground is objectionable because, being inclosed on two or three sides, it can not le ventilated. Now, there is no more difficulty about venti lating a cellar or well than a garret, it there are live animals in it to generate heat en "ugh to make a change of air desirable. Another poultry writer says heirs must be let out into open sheds to take the air every w inter day. 1 kept lat year twenty-live shut up three months in a houe as near airtight as T could make it, except the ventilators. The hens were happy, health', and laid everv dav, and, what was more' remark able, almost every egg set hatched. I carried it pailful of esrjrs to. .vt. Albans, right miles, on the bottom of mv buggy, expecting to sell them to inv crocer, but I met a man who picked out thirty of them, and took them in a common luruber-lox double wag on over the hills to Fairfield, about six miles more, aixl every eg produced alive hick. Dr. Kigg". ot Connecticut, lias a brick hennery four feet under ground and live feet alov made to be warm, lie want ed eggs in the winter when they brought til t v cents or sixtv cents a dozen. 1 he pul let were made to lay four month after :hey were hatched Uut he found bad air in this hennery, which could not be got out; that point was not thought of when he construct ed it. So he made a flue reaching up to the gable of the roof, and running down to within four or live inches of the bottom of the hennery, lie had no difficulty after that in making that room jut as nice in atmosphere as your barn or house. The draught was altogether up. Air enough came in. although the windows were as ticht as could be. The result was pure air; chickens never diseased: they were healthy and happy, crowing and cackling and laving nice egg. There is no need of freezing birds' combs; I have kept Leghorns for years and never had a comb freeze. In Case of Storm. AVhen a storm is coming, don't wait for rain before getting tinder cover, ami don't earn mettle tools when thunder. sounds over head, lietter leave the hoeing and the hav and get into safe quarters in time, and don't sit in a barn in a storm, t lose the windows of the house, let the lire go down and keep out of the room where there is a lire. Nt in the middle of the largest room von can choose, away from stoves, stove-pipes, pillar, mirrors, iron chairs, registers or gas fixtures let alone telephones or electric light. In a storm any of these things may conduct lightning, and it is jut as toolisli to despise these precautions as to be careless about loaded gun. At night draw the bed out lrom the corner of the room as far fiom the wall and chimnevus iHissible. Out of d.ior. keep away from wall, tn-e. stream or wells, and telegraph joIes. Seek shelter in an on hollow, or under, hu-die, seeking the valley rather than the 'hilltops or side. You don't want to take chances with lightning, but taking every caution keep as free from fear as you can, for the chances are in your favor. People who take care of themselves are not the ones, who are injured by lightning. The precautions are condensed from good authority. P.eef or ltuttrr. A correspondent to the Spirit of the Farm, writing of the cheapest faetor for converting vegetable matter into human food, says: And this question has hi be considered in nearly all of our agricultural industries. And prominent among these is the cattle interest. And the question which suggests itself as to this indusfy i, whether the beef strain or the buttei strain of cattle, is the cheapest factor for the conversion of vegetable matter into human food? And that strain is preferable and more proti table, and consequently will be in greater demand, which will most cheaply attain this end. And the champions of either strain are requested to present their 'arguments pro and con. A cow of the butter strain that will produce a pound oi" butter a day, or .';." pounds of butter a year, 'and at twenty cents aound, will-bring that i the termilk and her calf not taken into the esti mate.' Charge grazing, hay and meal what will this be worth? and deduct from gros profit. A steer of Jhe beef strain at three years of age is worth f?. Charge razin'' hay, corn, etc., for three vears and deduct price of these from the and the remain der will be the net proht. Not leing fa miliar with the amount of food consumed by either strain, or the value of either, I make no statement as to this point. Hut I should like to see a statement hv some ier son familiar with the cost of both prod ad ductions, and then we should be near the solution of the question as to which is the cheaper factor for the conversion of vegta ble matter into human food. 1IOISKHOLI HINTS. 4 It is wise, if you are roin to put Enarlih currants into cake, to dry thciu on u doth by the fire after washing them, as sometimes the cold water will cause the cake to tall. Graham mush isa good substitute for a rich pudding on some occasions. Make iitstas vou do corn-meal mush, but add a few berries or raisins or i-.ngiisii currents, bcrve with milk and sugar. A nice dish for breakfast or for tea is made of sweet potatoes loilcd. llemove the skins. rub the potatoes through a course colander, make into fiat cakes, dm into Hour, and fry A in jioi ouiier. To .Sweeten .Musty Casks. Throw in burn ing eoal, and then cold water, rubln brew ers wash their casks with lime and water, mixed nearly to the consistency of paint; remain until dry and tiien wash well with water. To llemove Mildew. Soap the linen, pre viously wetted, and npplv salt and lemon juice to both sides, or apply finely powdered pipe-clay, or Fuller's earth, or finely owuered chalk. Jh. x pose it lor several hours to the atmosphere. Many cooks consider it a creat improve ment upon ordinary apple sance which is to be served with roast goose or with jork, to nib it through a colander, and then to beat it with a spoon until it ts very light and al most like pulp. Oatmeal cakes may be successfully kept from crumbling if you add a little wheat Hour to oatmeal mush, knead it and then rool it quite thin and bake for half an hour in a hot oven. Jhese must be kept where they will be dry, as they absorb moisture surprisingly and are rendered unlit for use by it. An excellent dish for breakfast is made of sixegj and three teasnoonfuls of of ham chopped very tine; beat the eggs, and after meuinga lump oi nutter in tne lrying-pan, drop the eggsfuto it and stir the ham in; the ham, of course, lias been cooked, either fried or boiled; season with pepper. This is a gooa way to use up pieces of meat that are leu irom dinner. ... Lemons cut in thin ' slices make a eood garnish for broiled spring chicken. Another garnish, or mrtre properly sauce, to be pourec on the platter around the ciiick:a, is made melting current jelly. Take it out of the jelly tumbler, put it into a bowl, and set it

ovef the ton of a tea-kettle which is almost full of boiling water. In this way you escape all danger f burning it. Cinnamon Biscuits. Mix one pound sugar with twelve yelks of eggs and a teaspoonful of essence of cinnamon; work the batter vigorously ith a wooden spoon for a quarter of an hour, and then mix in the twelve whites, whipped tirm, four ounces potatorlour and four ounces best Hour; fill small paper cases with this, sugar them over, and, when the sugar is melted, bake them in an oven of moderate heat of a light color. In decorating dinner table aim to break away from the former stiff and formal method of arranging tlowers. Instead of a large bouquet of conventional shape in the center of the table decorate as far as possible the space n the center of the table with needed dishes. An artificial pond extending the length of the table, with floating warerlillies, waving reeds and goldfish swimming about is an example of what 1 mean. It is the great cry now to "give us something new." Fricassee or f'alfs Liver. Two wunds

liver, cut into strips more than half an inch thick, and as long as your linger : two young onions, nnncea; one glass wine; pepper, salt and parsley; butter or dripping for frymr: one-half cun cockI cravy. Urease the sliced liver with Hour, and fry to a light rown quickly, and turning often. Mince the onions and parsley, and heat them in thegrayina saucepan: put in the fried iver. let all stew together gently lar ten minutes, w hen our in the wine, and as soon as this is hot, serve the liver piled neartly and the gravy joured over it. Mince Pies. Two pounds fresh beef boil ed, and when cxdd chopped line: one jj:md btef suet cleared of strings and minced to lowder; live pounds apples pared ami chop ped: two iiounds raisins seeded ami chopjxsl: one pound Sultana raisins washed aud picked over; two pounds currents wash ed aud carefully picked over; three-fourths rounp citron cut up tine: twotablesioonfuls cinnamon; one iowdered nutmeg; two taltlespoonfnl allspice; one tablespoonful line salt; two and a half pounds brown sugar; one quart sherry, and one plat best brand v. Compote of Chestnuts. Remove the husks from about lifty chestnuts, and put them to immer gently in a quart of milk and water until done to the degree of floury potato; they must be then drained on a sieve, and bruised in a sugar-lMiIer containing twelve ounces of sugar boiled till it pearls on the surface; flavor witli jouuded vanilla, and. after working all together, rub through a course w ire sieve onto a dish, lodisnun this comixite, first pile up half a pint of lirmlv-whipix'd cream in the center of the comjHitier; with the lingers gently strew the vcrnucelucd chestnuts upon this in a conical form ; garnish round the bae with a compote of oranges with marasthine. This is a very delicious dish. Plain Chicken Fricassee. Cut upthechickens and wash well in salt water; put them in a pot with enough cold water to cover them; add (for two t hickens) half a pound of salt )ork. cut up in thin strips; coverand let heat very slowly, and then stew until the fowls are tender. Cook slowly if thev rook fast they toughen and shrink. When almost done, add, if desired, acbpicd onion or two, some parsley and pepper; cover closely again, ami when heated to boiling, stir in slowly a le.tcuplul of milk containing two beaten cgs and two teaspoonfuls of flour; boil up again, and add one tablespoon tul of good butter. Arrange the thicken ni'-ely in a deep dish, pour the grpvy over, and serve hot. MUM NOTIN. English farmers say sheep and the liquid manure carts ore the best rent-navers. Ivnvmlte ss now regarded as the bestagent for clearing out stumps or felling trees. If iHjsts are to be put in, the holes should be dug now, in order to have all such work done before winter sets in and the ground becomes frozen. A corresiondent of the Ohio Farmer tried a decoction of red pepper, applied boiling hot to cabbage head by sprinkling, which effectually saved them from the worm-. The Southwown sheep is somewhat small, but has a great proiortion of meat to afial. J hey are brown or gray-laced, no horns, thick, close wool between the ears, with line form, and are very hardy. To prevent the hens pulling feathers feed meat, and keep them buy at work scratching for their grain fool. All kinds of fowls will pull feathers if kept closely confined and not kept busy with exercise. Wool at thirty cents a pound is by no means a losing affair, says the New York Junes, as V) ewes, allowing the safe esti mate of an increase of s) per cent., and losses by death of l' percent., will increase to l,4"'"i in ten years, liefore slaughtering an animal withhold all food from it for twenty-four hours, but allow all the water it will drink. This course empties the intestines, facilitates the clean ing of the carcass and lessens the possibility ot contamination of the meat. Fowls as well as chicks become quarrelsome if fed on raw meat. Again, cooking makes meas more nutritious. When raw it is rather harsh and crude compared with the more natural diet of worms and grubbs, which are for the most part oft and easily digested. If one-half the frn usually fed on hogs was fully digested and assimilated it would make, with the assistance of vegetables or roots, more meat, and save many losses. The difficulty is that but little care is given the preparation. Cooked or ground it is cheaier than when fed whole. Stephen Powers says that a sheep may yield the best meat or the worst. Mutton partakes more of the llavor of food than does pork or beef. The .slice py flavor, so much disliked by good judges, is imparted by bad feeUmg tor no leeduiK at all) and by the de lay in the removal of the viscera, fckiu an,i dress the sheep at once. Lady of Otsego, a Jersey cow belonging to John fc-oden, tr est I.uurent, IN. i. dropped her first calf when two years old She gave in twenty-live day. over 107 iounds of milk, which made thirty-eight ouiids and fiftcch ottiu t s of butter. In four months and twentV-tive days she gave .1,4"? i iounds or mWK ami made TZ i-oumls of butter. The Holstein cow Aggie Clara, three years old. gave S4 tonnds of milk m one day.-' J0 pounds in thirtv days, and 10 lounds in sixty days, or over thirty quarts (sixty pound.-) per day. The two-year-old Holstein lowager 'Mi gavQ nearly 17 pound in one uay and j,t;- ioumis in forty-seven days. Poth are ow ned by Huberts A. .Son, of Maury I ounty, Jenn. A Georgia farmer is inclined to think that a mistake is made in not rai-ingmore goats. He says that they cost absolutely nothing to raise, "are not as troublesome as may be sup posed, are much more prolihc than sheep, and that when tat the goat meat rivals mut ton. lie states that "he has spring lamb the year round, as jroats usually bear young twice a year. As an argument in favor of the soiling system an English breeder says that cows will always searih after the sweetest sjots in a grass field, thereby traveling long distances at.the expense of much valuable time that should be devoted to rumination and rest. When confined, however, they are liberally supplied with everything they require. Poultry-raising, like that of stock, is on the improvement, the whole world being ransacked for breeds. One of the newest varieties in this country is that of the Lang shan. They are comparatively a new bird, but a very excellent one. They are said by visitors to have been the finest birds on ex hibition at New Orleans. They are jerfectly black and very pretty, good layers and neaitliy. In Dr. Ijiwes' experiments potatoes were planted six successive years, some on land receiving no manure, and one place receiving fourteen tons of Iwrnyard manure per acreyeaily. The aeld unmanured rapidly

diminished In yield, as might be expected: but the fact roost remarkable is that another field, with a dressing of uoO pounds of alkaline salt, produced a better crop than that which.had the stable manure. The spring colts aro now ready to be weaned, and care should be exercised in. separating them frm their mothers that they are not stunted and their growth checked in the operation, as is too often the case. The colts should be learned to eat grain before they are weaned, and afterward they should be fed a little grain each day, and not in any way allowed to become stunted, bnt should be kept growing as rapidly as when they fed on their mothers' milk. . It is said that eggs buried in ashes, small end down, will keep several months. The ashes should be sifted and be perfectly drv, and the eggs must be perfectly fresh when put in and not allowed to touch each other. The pa kage must be kept in a dry place. The best dozen of preserved eggs at an English poultry show were simply packed in

common salt. Thev bad been in the salt two months, and on being tested by boiling could not be distinguii-hed from fresh laid "If our agricultural societies would bear in mind," says the Breeders' Gazette, "that none of oxir American trotters, no matter how long the pedigree, and none of our imjorted or native draught horses are eligible to com pete lor preru lurus onered for thorough breds thev would spare themselves much trouble. No pedigree that has Kysdyk's Hambletonian, Abdallah, Morgan, Eellfounder, Hiatogg. Jlambrinot hier, Koyal George, Patchen or any other of our prominent trot ting sires in can belong to a thoroughbred.'' The 1 Mitch cattle Holstein--resian are black and white, thouirh neither all black nor all white, but either color may predominate, and the white is pure white and the black pure black. 1 he Jerseys are usually fawn or light grizzled brown, generally carry - nsr some white but not always. lhe Herefords are liht red, with white face, legs, tail. sometimes the belly, and often the neck and a portion of the back lined white. The Short horns vary more than any other breed, but whether red, roan or w hite, or a combination of these colors, they have no others. Actual analysis of the secrets of Indians reveal the fact that their mixtures for attracting game to their traps are easy to make and apply. 1- or foxes and other large game, mix together muskrat and skunk mucu in equal parts; smear the trap and bait with this, and the animals will soon "get a toot in."' For minks, etc., take unslacked lime one-half pound, sal ammoniac three ounces: mix and pulverize and place in a covered vessel a few days until thoroughly mixed, then sprinkle on the bait and around the places where the traps are set. Turkevs and chickens drv picked sell to a limited extent in the market very well, but none except the choicest kind sJiouW be dressed in that way. u hen they are, they should be packed immediately after killing and wlnie warm, and not put into water either before or after picking, but hung up till the annual heat is entirely out betöre packing for shipment. Ducks and geese should always be scalded, and steamed by covering up with a blrnket for a short time. before picking; in other respects handle them as turkeys and chickens. A correspondent to the Farm and Fireside, pringtield, O., sends the following as a remedy for both hog aud chicken cholera. claiming it as one of the best used: Madder, 1 pound; resm, 1 round; saltotre, 1 pound; sulphur, 1 pound; black antimony, '-j pound; copperas, li tounds; asafetida, '. pound; arsenic, 12 ounces. As a preventive of disease give one tatlespoonful of this mixture to hve hogs twice a week. If sick give three tableSNx)nfuls a day. Pulverize all the ingredients well, and give with soft food. For fow ls give a tablespoonful, mixed with bran, for twenty fowls, each morning. Each hen in a hou-e should have one foot of space on the roosts. One hundred hens then would require four roosts twenty-live feet long, and to prevent the hens crowding too much upon the top roost these should be all on the same level. The roosts should be one foot apart, and be arranged in a frame hinged to the wall, so they can be luted and hooked up for the purpose of cleaning. The roosts will take up four feet, and there should be eight feet more floor space; thus a house for iw bens should be twenty-live by twelve feet on the floor inside and should be at least six feet high in the rear and nine feet high in the front, with ample ventilation. GERMAN POTATOES IN NEW YORK. No Higger Than Walnuts and Solil at the Kate of Five Centn a found. Metropolitan b'rocer.l It may seem incredible to some of our readers to learn that potatoes are imorted from fiermany into this country, than which no other portion of the globe lias more agri cultural advantages, but such is the case. Whether the potato grown in erman soil possesses any particular virtue not inherent in the American-grown tuber, is a question we are not able to answer, but we do know that certain ciasses of teople, the world over, deem imported foods of every sort far superior to home products, in England and France, for instance, the label of an American bouse claims the first considera tion of the epicure in search of something extra nice, and from our foreign cor respondents and personal observation we learn that everywhere in Kurope American goods are found on sale in immense quanti ties. On the other hand, it seems perfectly natural, when we consider this vagary of human nature, to hnd tierman potatoes, and a thousand other articles we might name, in New York markets, with plenty of purchas ers in the bargain. The particular Herman potato we have in mind has only lately gained a prominent place on our list of import. A few years ago the receipts were from twenty-five to fifty bags yearly. Last year over 1,000 bags of Herman potatoes wero sold m New York City alone, ami this se.avn tue sales have aireadv reached that bgure, showing n remarkably increase in their eonsumption. Noticing this increse, and desir ing to lind out the caue of their itopularitr. we called upon an up-town grocer, who serves a very particular class ot trade, and asked to see his Herman potatoes. He dis played his samples uikxj a plate which held a dozen or more tubers the size of a large walnut. We were surprised to learn that this was the average size, and that in spite of the seeming disadvantage in this respect. the Herman potato was a favorite on the tables of several of his wealthier cus tomers. He sells them by weight, lit live cents a ound, and buys them at three cents by the single bug, or '21 cents a pound in ten bag lots. The bags will average about llio. pounds. Regarding the demand, he in formed us that at present his sales are one bag a week, but during the winter season lrom three to live bags. Curious to know whether they were bought for any special object, we wero informed that they were considered the lincst iotabes for salad, and are principally used for that purjose. reeled and boiled in lard or butter, whole, without slicing, thev make a specially at tractive dish. Uoiled and served in their peel, and eaten with a little butter and salt. they are delightful. Cooked this way, th potato should be broken apart with the hand, and not cut with a knife. A young woman in Detroit put this per sonal in the Free Press: "Dkar Nki Come back; all is forgiven. Pa kicked the wrong man, and didn't know it was you. Come immediately. Makv." The highest tribute to the merit of anything is to imitate it. The worth and suc cess of Pond's Extract for nearly half a century have made it a prominent article for imitation. One by one the most of these imitations have died away after a precarious existence. "This is the penuine" sounds better and is better than the imitation cry : just as good," or "the same as."

JOHN M'CLOSKEY. ! ; THE FlRsT AMI BK AX F.MX U, 1 Cardinal John McCloskey was seventy-six years of age at the time of his death, lie was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 1, 1M0, of t'atholic pr.rcnts, w hose devotion to the church led themj to cross front Brooklyn to New York for the purjtose of attending mass on Sunday mornings. Then there wa no Catholic Church in L'rooklyn, and there were only two in New York. As a school boy he is suid to have avoided the rough games ot his play mates, and to have devoted himself to earnest study, almost invariably stand ing at the head ot his class. He studied the ology iu a seminary at Emniettsburg, Md , and graduated lrom .Mount St. Mary Col lege, j us entire course ot studies, from 11, when he left home lor school, until 1831. when he received the first orders of the priesthood, was thirteen years. He was consecrated January r. ls;u and then went to Jiorne. from isv until is.,, he attended lectures in the Hregorian I'niversitv of that city. After spending a year in France he returned to this country and was appoint ed assistant pastor of St. Joseph's Church, New iork ity. Six months alterward he became rector, bishop Hughes, in 1811, noxiinated him First President of St. John's College, Fordham; but in lsjhe resumed ue rem rship ot St. Joseph's (hurch. On November IM. IMS, he wa appointed, at the suggestion of Hishop Hughes, his coadjutor, and wa" o mi-rated with the title of Bishop f A .x eie, March 10, S44. Bishop McCloskey wua nominated l irst Bishop of Albany, May 1, in the division of the diocese of New lork, which took place in 1S17. After the death of Archbishop Hughes, he was apointed to succeed him, -May i, jmh. He gave tI'Unim lrom his private purse toward the building of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, whieh was begun by his piedccesor, and to secure material for which he visited Home in 174. He was created Cardinal Priest, March 1", Ls7.". His administration a Arch bishop has been energetic and successful. 1 he number of priests, churches and mem bers of the Catholic hurch has been vastly increased under his prelacy, lhe Most Kcverend Michael A. Corrigmi, Coadjutor Arch bishop, will succeed him as Archbishop. His successor as Cardinal, should one be ailointed, is yet only a matter of conjecture. In attitearance Cardinal McCloskev has al ways been" spare and thin and apparently r i t i . i i i a i ran, oui wneu in goou iieauii ins cucsiwas full and the tones of Iiis voice were clear and far-reaching. Oentle, learned, pious. and public stunted, he was restected bv citzens generally, whatever their religious opinions. ANECDOTES OF KNOWN MEN. Cieneral Forrest In h llroadway Stage Com modore Yanderbilt's Estimate of a Popular Divine recent rielttes of Patriot Mitchell. Xew York SUar. Jt is the trivial incidents m the lives of public men that frequently illustrate their character, and there is as much interest man ifested in the anecdotes which belong to the sphere of current social gossip as in the more ambitious records of the historian. (ieneral N. 15. Forrest, the famous Confed erate Cavalry leader, visited New York shortly after the close of the war. One day, while riding down town in a Fifth avenue stage, a dude of the mot pronounced tyje entered and took his seat in the corner opposite the General. While search ing his pockets for something. the youth withdrew a large envel ope from which a number of pajers slipped and were scattered on the floor. He picked up those within reach, and turning to t orest, who looked like "a member from the ru ral districts, said, in the drawling, consequential and supercilious tone peculiar to his class, "1 sav, can vou reach those papers. ' The General grasied the situation in a mo ment, and extending his arm until the curl and shirt sleeve separated, exhibiting a broad expanse of writ, replied, with well assumed country patois: "Wall. I jis' kin. stranger, an' that's about all." Then lie drew him self up to a sitting sture again and looked innocent, while the occupants of the stage roared, and the embarrassed dude proceeded to help himself and as ouickly as jossible leave the unsyniathie company. An old gentleman, who, to judge lrom his shaking sides, heartily enjoyed the scene, now changed his seat lor one next to the General, and remarked to him: ''.Stranger, exeme me for the question, but where are you from V "Arkansas: was the rejoinder. "W ell, said tin- old man, "I vo always heard that an Arkansian is a sheol of a fellow, and now 1 lielieve it. Shake hands, stranger!'' lie was doubly delighted a few moments later, when, . on arriving at the New York Hotel. Forrest introduced himself m propria persona, and inyitcd Iiis new-found friend to become his guest at dinner. At another time the General had occasion to take his linen to a laundry, but he was informed that a receipt lor the same was unnecessary. On the day specified for the delivery he called for the articles, but was curtly told by the crson in charge that he knew nothing about them. Pulling out his watch. Forrest re marked, with his characteristic emphasis and those who knew the man rarely misunderstood his meaning: "Ijook here, Mr. Washerman, "I'll give you just ten seconds to get my clothes!-' "And I," defiantly replied the party addressed, "will give you just fifteen seconds lo get out of this place, or 111 kick you out." The General's coat was olf in an instant, and the lauiidryman was suddenly astonished to lind himself go ing headforemost out of a jowerfnl grip over the counter and into a pile of soiled linen. Forrest had his satisfaction, but he lost his clothes. Commdore Yandcrbilt aud the members of his family were present when lliskop MacTyeire preached one of his most eloquent sermons, the occasion being the anniversary of the presentation of the Church of the Strangers by the Commodore to llev. Charles Deems, D. D. Yandcrbilt listened with wrapped attention, and when the celebrated divine took his seat, George Osgood, the broker, observed : "That preacher is a gamecock. Commodore." "No, sir. he's a steamboat a steamboat man! was the emphatic response. This was the Commodore's type of the acme of greatness. During the exile in this country of John Mitchell, the Irish Patriot, he was asked by a lady whether he had seen Niagara Falls from the Canada side. .Iiis reply was: "No, madame, rcsect for nie neck restrains me curiosity.' 1 like the wather on this side "to

"tLe'Queeh taste,' and I don't intend to improve upon it by goin' to the other side." In traveling south Mitchell met Parson Erownlow, the-spiritual mustard-pot of the profession, and being asked how he liked the noted man, answered in his rich brogue: "it forcibly occurred to me mind while lie was spaking to me that he was a ort of rivcrind wild baste." A familiar anecdote in connection with Parson Brown'.ow. is worthy of reietition. When General Hideon S. rillow, of Tennessee, was raising a regiment of volunteers for the Confederate army he sent an invitation to the divine to act as chaplain. The response was characteristic of the man. He w rote : "When I make up my mind to go to , 111 cut my throat and go direct, and not travel around by way ol the Southern. Confederacy." . J udge Longstreet. the celebrated humorist, and the author of "Georgia Scenes," and the father-in-law of Secretary Iimar, w as once traveling in a car from Augusta, Ca., to Columbia.. s. c. irea ted just behind him were two rural individuals, one in a split bonnet and homespun dress, and the other in bluejiian trousers and check shirt. The female in the split bonnet was asleep. Soon after entering the car an old friend of the judge approached, and, calling him by name, received a hearty greeting. A few minutes later, when he left, the rustic leaned over.

and touching the old gentleman on the shoulder, inquired: "'Mister, be you Jedge. Longstreet, the man what writ 'Georgy Scenes'" 'That's what folks say," goodnaturedly replied the judge. The explosion oi a bomb-shell could scarcely have produced greater excitement than this revelation. Blue jeans individual at once commenced the agitation of the split bonnet. "Wake up Sal; wake up! Here's the greatest man the Almighty ever made, the bigjrest man on airth. He w rit ' Jeorgy Scenes." Sjl; wake up and see him!'' By dint of much shaking the female wa aroused, when, taking her by the hand, he said: "Jedge, this is Sal: "we were spliced this morning, an' we're gwine down the road a piece to a log-rollin', and I wanted her to fe ver 'onor as soon as I found ye out." The Judge, in relating the incident, said he had never witnessed an thing more ludicrous in his üiv. When Emily B. Faithful lectured in Steinway Hall on the subject of 'Women, "among those who occupied seats on the platform were Bev--. Dr. Bellows and Parker. They listened attentively while she threw hot shot into the ranks of the males, and when she bad finished, Dr. Bellows.slapping his friend familiarly on the shoulder, said: '-Don't be disheartened, Brother Parker; pluck up courage even if you are a man." Edwin Booth, on returning home after a jKTfornianee one evening, during which his physical and mental strength had been severely taxed, suggested to his wife that he would enjoy a good porterhouse steak and a raw onion. ''Impossible, my dear," said the jealous guardian of his domestic affairs, "your diet, you know, is a lettuce leaf and a glas of water!" At one time during the war it was thought that Jefferson Davis would for some cause remove General Beauregard from command. Senator Wairfall, of Texas a bold, outspoken man. happening to 1 e in the presence of Mr. Javis when the sublet was referred to, said: "Don't touch him. Mr. President; it's dangerous policy. Win n a man becomes so popular that his fellow-citizens name their race horses and steamboat, and the women name their babies after him, let him alone; don't touch him!" One of the French Princes who visited the Confederate army at Manassas, while being escorted down a line of troops by Major Skinner, of the Firn Virginia Begiment. exexpressed a desire to return by the rear. The Major for a moment was placed in an awkward osition, and a blush mantled his cheek, but quickly recovering himself, he replied in French: "Your Boyal Highness, we would gladly take you to the rear, but the truth is the linen ot the men is in rather an exposed condition. It being a part of the person which we never expect to show to the enemy, our toldier think rags in that neighborhood of but little consequence." (ieneral Benjamin F. Butler, when a youth, wo" as great a mad-cap as ever entered the halls of a college. In all jokes, adventures and eeapades he was an acknowledged ringleader. On one occasion, when a lecture was to be delivered in the chapel of the university in which he was a student, "the boys" determined to liave some fun, and as it was to be entirely original, the management of the affair was "turned over to young Butler. It was known that the prettiest girls of the town were to be present. Accordingly on the afternoon of the evening in question, Butler instructed each of his companions to catch all the swallows possible, and to hold them in readiness for the night. This was done, and the boy assembled each with one or more of the birds concealed about his person. On entering the hall the young collegians separated, taking scats in different portions of the room, and each keeping an eye on the ruling spirit of the hour. When the lecture was alout one-third finished the signal was given, and the imprisoned birds were released. Every swallow made straight for a light. At the same instant the gas was extinguished and the cry raised of "Bats!" The ladies and children screamed, the boys cried "Fire!" and the greatest amount of supposititious kissing" took place among the students. When the lights were relit much of the male element of the audience had disappeared, and it was deemed unnecessary to ask any questions r.verybody soon Knew that it was one of the pranks of wild Ben Butler. The Wage Limit. Horton Herald. The Government census shows that the entire people of the United States produce each year what would be equivalent to lifty cents' worth of wealth ier dav for each individual, and, as the average family throughout the United States is made up of five tersons,the average production for each family is equiv alent in value to -.j0 for each working dav. Those who obtain more than this amount do so because others obtain less, for, if an eutial and fair division were, this is the largest amount that anv one one could tossihly re ceive. Now, it is obvious that, if the workingmen of the country banded together for the purjose of demanding that every family should receive .! a dav for its supimrt, thev would be demanding an impossibility. If by cutting down production less wealth was ptoduced, it would manifestly beitiiioss.l;e, with a fair proportionate division, for the head of an average family to obtain the equivalent or per day. As there would le less to divide, he and all other would be the losers by this subtraction. We do not mean by this that it might not be desirable to limit the hours of work, even at the ex panse of this loss, for the moral, mental and physical benefit of the workingmen ; but it ought to be clearly understood that the workingmen of the country will not grow richer by such an operation. The Vnited States has eighty-seven "regu lar" medical schools. Of these, thirty-nine have been opened within fifteen years, and twenty-iine w ithin three years. With them ar associated i,ou instructors ana over p.ooO students; they turn out aliout new doctors annually. Medical .Men of IHstinetion Have been among the foremost to give honor where honor was due fu the ease of llostctter's Stomach Bitters. Abjuring old fashioned professional, prejudice, they have frankly borne evidence to its worth as n means of remedying lyspcps;, fever and ague, billions remittent, rheumatism, const! pation, liver complaint, debility ami renal dis orders. With all ititellijieiit people this favorable professional verdict has had it due weight, cs let-ially as It was in direct confirmation of lliatof the people and the pros. Far more cflcc tunl has it proved than t)inbani- assertion, too often re sorted to by the proprietors of remedies of doubt fid value. "The plain unvarnished truth" about the Hilter Is more than Miftirient to convince a skeptic. A a family medicine of comprehensive utility, prompt and thorough in action and pure in eem jh)mucm), it Mauas ueeervetuy rrti.

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