Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1883 — Page 7

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Indiana now has three mimstera to foreign countries —Gen. Lew. Wallace, Hon. Billy Williams and Gen. Foster, x J. R Dodge, statistician of the Agricultural Department, says no reports of damage to the growing wheat have been received by him. He says future disasters alone can injure the crop. Arrangements are making to put the internal revenue changes into effect Commissioner Baum estimates that it will require from $15,000,000 to $20,000-, SOO to pay tobacco rebate claims, and $3,000,000 or $4,000,000 will be fraudulent Serious charges of crookedness have been filed against Supervising Architect Hill, of the Treasury Department and others. Dishonest acts in several several contracts are presumed to be the basis of complaint Those making the charges alaim a clear case, while Hill asserts he courts an investigation of all his official acts. A statement prepared at the Treasury Department shows that from March 4, 1780 to June 30,1882,there was expended for public buildings outside of the Disrict of Columbia the sum of $83,404,221.54. Indiana is charged with $779,057.65. The first building appropriated for was the New Orleans custom house, February 13,1807, to cost $20,000. Ix these days of jobbery and corruption it is pleasing to know that there has been no Congress of late years more free from jobs than the Forty-seventh, which is now numbered with tire past. Throughout the professional lobbyists fared badly. They did not earn their salt Corruption, we are happy to be able to say, was not one of its sins, and in this respect the record of the Fortyseventh Congress compares favorably with any that preceded it No class will bear stronger testimony to this than the uersons who make a living, and often fortunes, by buying and selling Congressional votes. The charges against Supervising Arohitect'Hill were made by Mr. Muroh, of Maine. They cover over twenty pages of legal cap paper, written with a type-writ-er. Before Congress adjourned Mr. Muroh read the charges, which he subsequently filed with Secretary Folger, to a number of persons about the OapitoL One charge is that the system of paying for cutting stone adopted by the supervising architect is extravagant. Mr. Muroh, it is understood, has made such complaints before,but neveer in the shape of formulated charges. Supervising Architect Hill says it is J. G. Mills who is said to be pressing the charges against him (Mr. Hill), not A. G. Mills, formerly chief clerk of the architect’s office, as heretofore published. The members of the Civil-service Commission met by appointment at Willard’s Hotel Monday morning, and then proceeded to inspect the apartments offered as headquarters. Judge Thoman, one of commissioners, said: “We want, three rooms for the commission proper, and a large room in which to conduct examinations.’ After the commissioners have secured quarters they will prepare for the work for which they were appointed. Bules for the government of the commission have not yet formally considered the matter of the appointment of examiner-in-chief, but will do so after they have established themselves in headquarters. Thu ouantity of old whiskies in bonis estimated at 80,000,000 gallons. This is not what is called the whisky of commerce. It is expected to be used as a beverage. The average number of drinks in a gallon is placed at sixty-four. The number of drinks, therefore, in bond, is 5,120,000,000, or 102 drinks for everyman woman and child in the United States. How long this whisky would last depend n the number of people who drink it, and this is a bit of information not sup Bed by the United States census. F e males are not drinkers, as a rule; nor are children. Probably not more than ten million of the population dnnk, and not all of these are steady drinkers, and there is still a large proportion who do not drink bourbon whisky. The calculation is, therefore, probably correct, that there s enough of this class of whisky now on hand to meet the demand for five years. An investigation of the distribution and consumption of corn and wheat, to March 1, has been completed by the Department of Agriculture. It makes the stock of corn on hand at that date about 580,000,000 bushels, or 36 per cent, of last year’s crop. Of this 380,000,000 bushels are in the States of the central basin, north of Tennessee, and 166,000,000 bushels in the Southern States. Most of the remainder is in the Middle States. In comparison with the average stock for the past five years at the same date.there is scarcely any increase at the West or in the Middle States. In the South the per cent of the crop remaining is 43, instead of 36. Taking all the States together,the increased stock is about 2 per cent The seven surplus corn States, from Ohio west *o Kansas and Nebraska inclusive, had 33 per cent of the crop on hand, against 27 per cent last March, and 39 per cent of the 1 crop of 1820, on Lie fixsi

of March, 1881,when the estimated stocks were 413,000,000 bushels. The present total is about 320,000,000 bushels against 200,000,000 last March. In Illinois and lowa the proportion on hand is less than the average of the previous five years. In Missouri and Kansas it is greater. The distribution of the quantity already consumed illustrates the rural economy of the different sections. In all the South, about one-fifth is used for food for man, over half for food for working animals, and the remainder for feeding swine and cattie; in the West, half is used for feeding for meat production, six per cent for food of man, one-fifth for feeding work animals, and a proportion not much largis shipped to distant markets. The proportion of wheat on hand March 1 is 28 per cent of the crop, or about 140,000,000 bushels. The proportion of the last five years at that date is nearly the same. In the States of the central basin the total reported on hand is 104,000,000 bushels, The proportion remaining in the Southern States is 25 per cent, instead of 22. the average in previous years. In the Pacific States the per centage is 23, instead of a former average of 25 per cent The details of the distribution wifi be given at length in the March report

Farm Notes.

There are 160 square rods in an are, and there are 301 square yards in one rod. This gives 4,840 square yards in one acre; 5 yards wide by 96 Byards long is one acre; 10 yards wide by 242 yards long is one acre; 20 yards wid j by 121 yards long is one acre 80 yards wide by 60|£ yards long is one acre; 80 yards wide by 80%yards long is one acre. Adam Neff, sr., of, Fremont, 0., has the prize poker sans contradiction. It is a white Chester improved sow, qpd has a power of reproduction of her kind that is somewhat startling. The first litter embraced twelve pigs, all of which were raised; the second little numbers thirteen, and nine attained porcine majority; and now this indomitable animal has a litter of seventeen, with a prospect of raising all. Brushing and carding stimulate the vital action of the animal, and therefore bring an increased flow of milk. If the brushing is done daily, only a little time is required to keep the animal clean.' An old broom is often the only implement needed, if abundant litter is used. Give the cattle, horses, and other farm animals a good supply of bedding, and use the brush as necessary to keep them neat and clean. Professor L .B. Arnold says ths points in favor of dairying are: First a dairy farm cost 10 percent less to operate than graingrowing or mixed agriculture; second, the annual returns average a little more than ther branches; third prices areneareuniorm and more reliable, fourth, dairying ex hausts the soil less; fifth it is more secure againest changes in the season, since the dairyman does not suffer so much from wet and frost and varying season, and he can, if prudent, provide against drought Chicago Herald. We do not say this hastily,but with the conviction derived by feeding late-cut timothy and bright oat straw. With four feed-racks in your yard —two kept filled with timothy, one with prairie hav and one with bright oat straw the latter was consumed firsthand the other neglected until the last vestige of the oat straw had disappered. It was the instinctive act of the urchin repeated. He took his cake, pudding and pie first, and reluctantly finished off his dinner on the drier and less palatable bread and butter. Our late-out hay was merely a “fill-up,” to give their digestive apparatus the necessary distention so needful tq ruminants, and thatjis about all late-cut hay - is good for, anyway. H. M. English, of Marietta, Pa., has found the following remedies useful in destroying or repelling some of the insects which infect fruit The peach grub is excluded from the trees by spreading on the bark near the roots a mixture of fresh cow manure mixed with lime. Bark lice on raspberry canes are effectually destroyed by a wash of lime and sulphur, applied early in spring. Borers in apple trees are to be followed with wire, and they are excluded with a heavy coating of lime wash. Peach grubs, after they obtain possession, are taken out by following theminthe;r burrows with a pointed knife. Curoulos are destroyed by jarring, but most persons neglect it,or do not per. form it thoroughly, The practice of hanging corncobs saturated with gas-tar, in the trees has proved a failure.

A Great Actress Handicapped.

Bradford Mail. “Sad thing that about Fanny Davenport,” remarked a gentleman in a Bradford hotel, as he laid down the paper that he had been reading. “Why, how- is that?” queried half a dozen men, as they leaned forward expectantly; “what’s happened to Fannie?” “Why, the doctor has forbade her ever again playing “She Stoops to Conquer. 6 “No! Why?" again asked the crowd. “Simply because she can’t play it She is getting so fat she can’t stoop.” The Chinese never race horses. They prJe* other ioiius of swindling.

GENERAL

Milk is said to be better than all stimulants in nervous disorders. » The test of a good orange is said to be its thin skin and heavy weight It is said that fashionable ladies won’t go fishing tins summer unless they can get silk worms for bait Punch says that the English reward of bravery is a garter and a wooden leg to wear it on. Black walnut lumber, when dry and in good order, brings the enormous sum of $l5O per thousand. Yellow-haired girls have taken to the wearing of velvet coats of reddish chocolate hue in order to emphasize the luster of their locks. ’Th not an allopath, a homeopath, or a hy-dropath.” said a certain doctor. “But your patients all take the same path ,’’ was the consoling answer. Mr. Knight, the superintendent of the Maginnis cotton factory at New Orleans, makes the prediction that in twenty years all the mills of the United States producing plain brown cotton goods will be located in the south. A fair and accomplished young Dr. Fell in love with a lady named Pr., But his terms scientific. Game forth so terrific, That they really and truly quite shr. Persons uring kerosene lamps will be glad to know that if the wicks are soaked in strong vinegar twenty-four hours, and thoroughly dried before being inserted all smoke will be avoided, the wicks will last twice as long and increased brilliancy of light be obtained. Ex-Judge William Lewis an eccentric character of Texas, who died in Dallas a few days ago, was with Houston in the battle of San Jacinto. He died so poor that his remains were about to be borne to a pauper’s grave, when a few men raised SIOO to give him a decent bunal. King Humbert of Italy drives himself about in a T cart like any other quiqt gentle n.an in Rome. When his carriage gets blocked, as it frequently does in the narrower streets, he takes it more patiently than the foreigners do, who admire the way in which he sits and nods and laughs to acquaintances in the crowd. The medical society of Scott courtyt lowa, has elected Dr. Jennie McGrown, a well known woman physician of Davenport, as its president for the ensuing year. This is the first instance in the history/of the medical fraternity in which a woman has been chosen for the executive pbsiion of a medical society. Unless the newspapers stop calling the Episcopal marriage service “beautiful, and the funeral service “impressive,” or ‘grand” or “stately,” every time a marriage or a funeral is solemnized by their use, the people will stop using them. For this purpose those adjectives are entirely and totally worn out An apple in perfect preservation after 96 years is in possession of a gentle - man in Ulster county. N. Y., As it rounded up from the blossoms of the parent stem in the early summer of 1787 a bottle was drawn over it and attached to the branch, and after the apple had ripened the stem was severed and the bottle sealed tightly. It looks as fresh as when first plucked. The business of canning fruits and vegetables has grown to enormous proportions. Over 52,000,000 cans of tomatoes were pack ed last year, making one for every man, woman, aud child in the country, Nearly half of this work was done in Maryland and Virginia. The wholesale price for three-pound cans ranged from four to five cents each

The Mexican city of Chihuahna is rapidly becoming Americanized through its situation on the line of the Mexican Centeral Railroad, which has attracted many cizens brom the United States, Flour mills, breweries sugar refineries, street railroad, numerousr store and all the hotels are in the hands of Americans. The' Australian's are going for the sparrows with a vengeance. An Adelaide paper says: "The following figures, showing the number of sparrows and eggs that have been destroyed up to Nov. 6. have been supplied by Under Secretary: Heads 27.845; eggs, 197.212. From Oct 1 to Nov. 6. 5,420 heads were paid for and 44,685. eggs. A weapon found on a Philadephia burglar consisted of a canvas bag, 3 inches in diameter and 15 in length, filled with sand and having a wooden handle. A blow with it would not break the skin, like a dub, but would be stunning in its effect while the stroke would make no noise. Some cattle which a boy of 12 was watch ing iu Dakota were destroyed by a prairie fire. As the lad did not return home, it was believed that he had shared the same fate. It now appears, however, that the accident so frightened him that he wandered off, and remained away until he had earned money enough to cover the loss of the stock. Then he reappeared at home triumphantly.

A young fireman who ran with his so., Told the foreman that he would not po., In an excited manner, He picked up a hammer, And swore at him, but he did not tho.

VOLUNTEERS WANTED. There wm a yoan« lady in Worcester I iWho could crow quite as wall aa a rorcMtor She could whistle and sing— Do moat anything That boys can. except That ahe wasn't adept At climbing with no one to borceeter.

A LITTLE SPICE.

The rule of Three—For the third person to clear out. If you should happen to want your ears pierced just pinch the baby. This style of dosing out at cost One given away with every subscription.— Hawkeye. Whenever a baby is born in Helena, Montana, the fire bells ring out to drown its shrieks of rage. A new reading by the Boston Transcript: “Every Man for Himself and the Devil take Herr Most” Pennsylvania Piety.—An old lady near Beading won’t let her husband visit that city since she read in the Bible that “Reading maketh a full man.” “No. Tabor is no longer a Senator; he’s paired with the woman from Oshkosh,” is the way in which a Chics go woman answered a civil question about the grert Colorado mushroom. Where they Grow.—Small boy of eight (looking ov°r picture book with small boy of ten): “What’s that?” 8. b. of ten: “Why, don’t you know? That’s a donkey. Haven’t you ever seen a donkey?” S. b. of eight (doubtfully): “Why, I have, lots of ’em; in the Theological Gardens, you know.” It has been demonstrated that soapbubbles can be blown to the size of two feet in diameter, and kept two days by making a preparation of oleate of soda and glycerine. This will carry joy into many destitute homes where heretofore it has been impossible to preserve a soapbubble longer than a few seconds. A house full of soap-bubbles two feet in diameter would alleviate a great deal of distress.—Norristown Herald. Heavy tragedian at railway hotel.— ‘Prithee, landlord, dwells there within the precincts of this hamlet a machinist?” Landlord.—“A machinist? Yes, sir.” Tragedian.— “Then take to him this bird of many springs. Bid him wrench asunder theee iron limbs, and then,for our regaleto chisel slices from its unyielding bosoiji, for we would dine anon. And, pray yon, do it quickly. Yon peas you need not carry, for those, with dextrous management, we can swallow whole. Away!”

The Cashier Ahead.

Wall Street News. A new bank which has been established in a town in Indiana had engaged the services of a watchman who cam 3 well recommended, but who did not seem over-experienced. The president therefore sent for him to post him up a bit and began: "James, this is your first job of this kind, isn't it?” “Yes sir.” “Your first duty must be to exercise vigilance.” “Yes, sir.” “Be careful how strangers approach you.” “I will, sir.” “No stranger must be permitted to enter the bank at night under any pretext whatever.” “No, sir.” “And our cashier—he is a good man, honest, r eliable and thoroughly trustworthy, but it will be yoqr duty to keep an eye on him.” “But it will be hard to watch two men and the bank at the same time, sir." “Two men—how?” “Why, sir, it was only yesterday that the cashier called me in for a private talk and he said that you were the squarest man in Indiana, but that it would be just as well to keep both eyes on you, and let the directors know if yon hung around after hours.”

Wiggins—His Storm.

New York Son. A special from Ottawa says: Wiggins to-day gave the theory on which the storm was predicted. He says: “This storm satisfies me that the theory of the opposite tide, which I advanced in 1864, is correct, namely: That it is caused by the vibratory motion of the ocean from east to west If you look at a terrestrial globe and see the peculiar position of the Gulf of Mexico, and the tendency of Cape St Rocque to glance northward the tides moving west, yor. will not wonder at my claim, when observing that the moon’s forces have been increased to the greatest possible extent, and that, too, when she is hastening with other planets from south to north across the equator. This was exactly the condition of things during this storm. And only one element was lacking to have made this a terrible affair for the people of America. For, mark it well, if the moon’s conjunction with the sun had taken place at 1 o’clock on the meridian

of London, instead of 4 o’clock in th morning, London time—in other words, if the conjunction had taken place over the Gulf of Guinea instead of the China Sea—the whole American coast—granting her to have been, as she was, in perigee—would have been put under water. A time will come when this will take place; and should Venus and Mer jury happen at that moment to be at their inferior conjunction, and Jupiter, Saturn and Mars at the superior conjnnotion,the breakers will roar in the streets of New York City, and Florida will be under water. All astronomers, from the Astronomer Royal down, will please make this explanation to show that my system of foretelling storms is not only founded on science, but on the earth and heavenly bodies.”

Senator Tabor and the Drummer,

Kanraa City Times. They tell a new story now on Senator Tabor, of Colorado. It is related that, when Tabor was on the Kansas Pacific train going to Washington to take his seat, he met a Hebrew drummer wh ohad known him sometime by reputation. To pass the time they engaged in a game of seven-up. The play was even until the close of the second game when the drummer received four kings and an eightspot. A qudbn was turned up. “Great Gott!” said the drummer, “Mr. Dabor T visht it vas boker. If ve vas playin’ boker I vood bet my whole bundell” “How much is your bundle?” asked the noble Senator from Colorado. “Two hundred and fifty tollar,” replied the drummer. “Well,” replied Tabor, “If; you give me the queen which is turned, I will go you.” “Tun, ’ said the drummer, and Tabor pi iked up the queen. “Dot ees a snap, ’ whispered the drummer, showing his hand to a man in the nextseat. “I should smile,” answered the man laconically. > “Vood you like to bet some more, Meester Dabor?” asked the commercial tourist, with an insinuating smile. “Yes,” said the noble Senator. “I have a fair hand; I will make it $500.” “I has only fifty .’’replied the drummer, and he made his bet good for S3OO. “What have you got, Meester Dabor?” | “Four aces,’’answered Colorado’s favorite son, showing the fatal one-spots. The drummer was perfectly paralyzed, and was unable to speak,while the%oble Senator stowed the pot in his togs. Slowly drawing a cigar from his pocket, Colorado’s favorite was about to light up and withdraw, when the drummer recovered his sense of speech. Leaning forward he said: “Eet ish all right, Meester Dabor; you has won the money sgquare: but, great Got! Meester Dabor, vot had der gqueen to do mit four aces?”

The Cherman Farber's Puzzle.

New York San. “Oh, de very subchect of dot monkey a parber py der negst chair makes me sick oat of my stummick. He has yet once more again mate all de gusdimers mat. He edarted apout a week pehind yesterday to give avay a new gonundrum. *My aunts and ancles,’ he hat sayt, ‘all hat novhere else lived except Ohermany and New Yorick, yet my cousin Loweesa too porn not in New Yorick,not in Ohermany, and not py de ocean already. How could dot peen?* Veil, dot made ont der greatest oxoitement. Blendy of gasdimers says she vos in Belgium born, and France, und Holland, und Danemark, und Hopoken, und New Ohersey, on der ▼ay from Ohermany coming ofer. But dot foolish parber he sayt 'No, no, no,’ every dime choost der sama Brettjr quick he wrote dose dings out und tested ’em der site of der vail: “ho,w cam such dimgs pxbm? “My aunts und angles all peen bom (und livede whole of their lifes out) by' Ohermany and New Yorick. Aber mine cousin Loweesa vos pom not in Ohermany. “It vos easy ven you found him out. “My colly! such an oxoidement you neffer vood dink of. Vise olt men out smarty young vellers, dem all grazy vent, unt I mineaelt, forgot minezelf and sayt maype she vos in de harbor py New Yorick porn, or a Hopoken ferrypoa. iaside But No, no, no,* de monkey parber noding else voud’t sayt. To-day he hatbromised to baste up der explanation, und thera you can see vot it vos: “I HAT GOT MB NO OOVBIN DOWBIBA. “Such a pig lummix of a grazy fool as dot—he dires avay my batience out” The Ohio Legislature is considering the adulteration of foods and medicine. It is informed by a Cincinnati chemist that liver and kindey complaints, so common and so destructive to human life, are large ly due to the nee of sulphurie acid in the manufacture of sugar and syrup. He also declares that quinine pills are extensively adulterated, and that many other medicines are not to be depended upon Justice Field, of the United States supreme court, expects to make a trip to Japan during the oomingsummer.