Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1884 — Page 3

Fruits and Flowers of Portugal.

They possess, indeed, many fine orchards of fruit trees, and. groves of oranges and lemons, of olives and mulberries, and extensive forests of pine, chestnut, and cork trees; but they are far behind the Germans in forestal science; and the French, the masters of us all. in pomology. The Portuguese oranges grown in the interior are as large and good as those from St. Michael’s, but the oranges which come from the seaboard districts— the only ones ever exported to Great Britain — are poor in quality, for whi<!fo I can give no reason except bad cultivation, seeing that the best oranges in many other countries grow within the reach of the sea breezes. The olives of Portugal—an important food of the people—are gathered riper than in Spain, France, or Italy, and are small and dark-colored. They are probably more wholesome, and, in my opinion, far better to eat than the olives of any other country ; so good, indeed, and so cheap, that it is a wonder they are not brought to this country in the place of the hard and half-ripe and expensive olives of France. The oil obtained from them is generally badly made, but when purified, it is probably quite as good, though by no means as salable, as the fine oils of Italy. The climate of Portugal appears to be identical, in many respects, with that of Japan; and many Japanese shrubs and flowers, which dwindle and fail in the open air in France and England, grow magnificently in Portugal. Chief among them is the camellia, brought, it is said, about ninety years ago from Japan, .and often seen in Portugal of the size of a full-gro*ra apple tree. The camellia seems to require a rather damp climate and perhaps a granite soil, for the tree is a weakling in the dry air of Lisbon, but thrives close by at Cintra, and still better at Oporto, where many new and beautiful varieties are grown—among others, the sweet-scented kind, of whose existence no English gardener or botanist to whom I have spoken seems to be aware. Lovely as the flowers of the camellia are singly, the tree itself, in fnll bloom, is by no means an attractive sight. A camellia tree with a thousand flowers on it might be supposed, with its compact growth, its shiny leaves of rich green, to be an exquisitely beautiful object,. but it is nothing of the sort. The flowers, as they begin to fade, get to be of a dingy brown, and hang a long time on the tree, and a camellia tree has by far the largest proportion of its flowers withered and ugly. As a flowering shrub, „ the camellia is not comparable to the poinsettia, which blossoms to perfection in the Algarve provinces, with its mass of intense scarlet bloom, looking like a richly colored silken drapery hung on the branches of the tree, or to the white datura. A datura shrub in full bloom, with its thousands of pendent flower-beds reflected in a pool of water, is not soon to be forgotten.

The Maelstrom.

On the 10th of July, 1856, I was sailing very near to the spot where the maelstrom is marked on our English maps, and therefore looked for it on the detailed sailing-charts and other Norwegian maps that were on board. It was not to be found on any of them. I then asked the Captain as to its whereabouts, he having had much experience in these parts. He told me that the only information he had ever been able to obtain concerning it was derived from English geography books and the aocounts of English passengers ; that the fishermen who lived on the islands on each side of it knew nothing at all about it in consequence of thsir ignorance of the English language. He was cruelly satirical. There is a current between Lofoden and Mosken (the position usually assigned to the fabulous vortex) known as moskostrommen, one of the many tidal currents that run through the sounds between the. multitude of islands constituting the Lofoden archipelago. At the spring tides, when heavy gales were blowing from the east or west, the moskostrom is sufficiently dangerous to be avoided by prudent navigators, but in fair and calm weather it is no more dangerous than that between the arches of Putney bridge. As Tonsberg says', in has “Norge” (the national illustrated handbook of Norway), “the fishermen dwelling on the spot have no fear of the strom; they fish in it and suffer their boats to drift on its surface.” For reasons that I have explained this current mnf have been more rapid in former times than now, but it was never anything but a simple tide stream running through a channel. —The Gentleman’s Magazine .

Depredating Wolves.

There is a remarkable increase in the number of gray .-wolves in the cattle counties. They have been on the increase for three or four years past. With the disappearance of the buffalo the wolves also disappeared, as they were left without sufficient food Bupply and of course had to follow the wild herd as they retired to more remote pastures. But now the place once occupied by the buffalo is the pasture ground for thousands upon thousands of cattle, and as wolves are not so particular in their diet as to object to beef when they cannot get buffalo meat, they are returning to their old haunts, and the ranges are alive with them. The cattle, and especially the calves, are the food on which the pests thrive, and it is be-, coming quite a serious detriment to the cattle interests. Wolf- poisoning is likely to become a profitable industry, and some of the counties, by way of fostering it, offer to furnish free strychnine to all who wish to engage in it.—Yellowstone Jomal.

What to Say.

Old Abner was a money lender, and the stingiest man in his county. Ab charged not only the legal rate of interest, bat a good deal more when he had • chance for it. One evening he attended a revival meeting where the appeals Of the preacher and the confessions of various members of the dock so worked upon his feelings that he concluded he most get np and give his testimony: “Brothers and sisters," old Abner commenoed, nibbing his big, bony hands together in a hesitating sort ol

way, *T hardly know wha-a-a-t-t-to say thi-i-s evening.” A profound silence succeeded the sentence, when some one from the rear part of the house yelled ont in thnnder tones: “Say ten per cent., Abner." Old Abner sank back into his seat for once Completely crushed.

A Carious Fir Tree.

Switzerland has its old chestnut trees on the banks of Lake Leman, and the ancient linden of Fribourg, the history of which is said to go back to the time of the conflicts with Charles the Bold. M. Louis Pire, President of the Itoyal Botanical Society of Belgium, has found a fir tree in the forest of Alliaz, Canton of Yaud, which he believes to be still older than the linden of Fribourg, and considers entitled to be regarded as the oldest and most remarkable tree in the canton, if not in the whole confederation. It is growing near the baths of Alliaz, at a height of abont 1,300 feet above the hotel, and 4,500 feet above the sea, surrounded by a forest of firs, which it overtops by more than thirty feet. The trunk of this tree is ten meters, or a little more than thirty feet, in circumference at the base. At about a yard from the ground it puts out, on the south side, seven offshoots, which have grown into trunks as strong and vigorous as those of the other, trees in the forest. Bent and gnarled at the bottom, these sidetrunks soon straighten themselves up and rise perpendicularly and parallel to the main stem. This feature is not, perhaps, wholly unparalleled, bat another most curious fact is that the two largest of the side-trunks are connected with the principal stem by sub-quad-rangular braces resembling girders. These beams have probably been formed by an anastomosing of branches, which, common enough among angiosperms, is extremely rare among conifers ; but it has been impossible to ascertain the planner in wliioh the ingrowing of one branch into another has been effected. The adaptation by which a limb, originally destined to grow free and bear foliage, has been converted into a living stick of timber, is a strange one, and affords a new illustration of the power of nature to fit itself to circumstances. The space between the rough flooring formed by the growing together of the offshoots, at their point of departure, and the girder-limbs, is large enough to admit of building a comfortable hermit’s hut within it. “““

Agricultural Life in Siberia.

Supplementing recently published extracts from the journal of the Russian Minister of Finance as to the agriculture of Siberia, M. Yermolaieff has written a very interesting description of the way in which the settlers from other parts of Russia who come to farm there live. The whole family lives in a small room decorated with copper images and colored engravings of the late war with Turkey. This room is at once a chapel, a bedroom, and a dining room. A second room is reserved for provisions, and the settlers, as a rule, live well, their staple dishes being fish prepared with butter and milk, though they occasionally have meat and gamer There is always a bath, a cellar, and a stable attached to the house, and a kitchen garden around it. Taking a family with which he is acquainted, and which consists of a father and two grown-up sons, M. Yermolaieff says: “The mother has just died, and the two sons help their father—one in the house and the garden, the other upon the land. They make a considerable sum by gathering wild raspberries, currants, and cherries, which they dry and sell, in some years making as much as 30 rubles. One of the two brothers spends the winter shooting, and makes good prices for the game, while the fish which is oaught in the summer is salted down for home consumption. The income of this family is about 250 rubles a year, and the total expenditure is certainly not more than 120 rubles.” Each farm has at the least ten milch cows, with about fifteen or twenty sheep and pigs, the size of the farms varying very little. The poultry yard generally contains some Cochin-China fowls, together with a few ducks and geese of the ordinary breeds.

British Mercantile Marine.

The British mercantile marine is composed of some 21,500 vessels, including 3,650 steamers, with an aggregate measurement of about 0,200,000 tons, while that of France consists of about 2,900 vessels, including 700 steamers, with an aggregate measurement of 1,055,000 tons. The number of steam vessels of war, including transports, dispatch boats, etc., which are available for the protection of the merchant navies, is 337 vessels, with 2,058 guns, for that of England, and 317 vessels, with 1,680 guns, for that of France. It will thus be seen that, whereas the French mercantile marine is protected in the ratio of one ship of war to nine merchantmen, no less than sixty merchantmen are allotted to the care of each British war vessel. In order to place the British merchant navy on an equal footing with that of France as regards man-of-war protection it would be necessary to add 2,053 vessels to the royal navy.

A Crow Indian Burial Platform.

The influence of missionaries and the agents has caused the Crows of Montana to pretty much abandon their old custom of wrapping their heads up in blankets and buffalo-robes and placing them on rude scaffolding, and to adopt the civilized inode of burying them in the ground. Many of the old platforms still remain, however. The traveler usually gives them a wide berth on the windward side. When the railroad was built across the reservation the line ran right through one of these curious cemeteries, on which was deposited over a Score of bodies in all stages of decomposition, and the workmen were obliged to tarn grave-diggers and dispose of the dreadful mass before the road could be graded. Undoubtedly the custom of disposing of the dead originated' in the practical motive of putting them oat of reach of the wolves, which dig up bodies buried no deeper than Indians, with their rude tools, could readily place them. Mobe destruction. A Montana firm has contracted to deliver 1,000 pairs of buffalo horns. \

CLEVELAND’S CABINET.

Probable Effects of the Change on OfficeHolders—Views of an Old-Timer. 1 [Correspondence Rochester Sunday Herald,] ‘•Yes.toe principal topic of conversation here at present is tho probable action of the incoming administration.” Tho speaker was Mr. William M. Ashley, of 506 Maine avenue, a man whose large and intimate acquaintance with prominent publie men here in Washington renders his opinion of unusual weight. “The all-important question among the clerks of the various departments IS, Who is to go? In my opinion there will be very few changes among the old time employes who have been hero year in and year out through several administrations. The removals will occur among the heads ot departments.” “The sense of mistrust which must necessarily pervade the departments is. I suppose, detrimental to the proper transaction of business'/” “Well, rather, 1 reckon. It unfits the clerks for business. Some get very blue, for they hare purchased little homes which they must sacrifice." ‘ Last summer It was reported that many were ill of malaria. How is it/” “More llke'.y ill of a fear of change. I don’t think Washington is so very malarious. At tho same time 1 admit that since residing here I have not always felt first-rate. At times 1 have been greatly troubled with sharp-shooting pains. One day my right arm and leg would torture me with pain, there would be great redness, heat and swelling of the p irta, and perhaps the next day the left arm and log would be similarly affected. Then again it would locate in some particular part of my body and produce a tenderness which would well-nigh drive me frantic. There would bo weeks at a time that I would be afflicted with an intermitting kind of pain, that would corno on every afternoon and leave me comparatively free from suffering during the balance of the twenty-four hours.” “Of course you consulted the doctors regarding your difficulty?" - ; “Consulted them/ Well, I should say I did. Some told me I had neuralgia; others that I had inflammatory rheumatism, for which there was no oure.” “But didn't they try to relieve your miseries'/” “Yes, they vomited and physicked me, blistered and bled me, plastered and oiled me, sweat, steamed and everything but froze me, but without avail.” “But how did you finally recover?” “I had a friend living in Michigan who had been afflicted iu a similar way and had been cured. He wrote mo regarding his recovery and advised me to try the remedy which cured him. I procured a bottle and commenced its use, taking a tablespoonful after each meal and at bed time. I had used it about a week when I noticed a decrease of the soreness of the joints and a general feeling of relief. I persevered in its use and finally got so I could move around without limping, when I told my friends that it was Warner’& Safe Rheumatic Cure that had put me on my feet.” “And do you regard your cure as permanent?” “ This was more than a year ago, the trouble has not returned, and I haven’t been so well in years as I am now.” “Speaking of President-elect Cleveland, yho, in your opinion, will comprise his Cabinet/” “That Is as difficult to determine as it is to say what office-holders will go. Many good men have been named for the positions— Bayard, Thurman, Bragg, McClellan, not to mention a lot of lesser lights. Every prominent politician has a slate made up which ho Is backing to win; but, then, as is always the case, some one will get left.”

Hallucination.

“Hallucination!” said Dr. Jenks. “Knew a man once who thought his legs were made of glass. Lived down East. An old, wealthy, dyspeptic bachelor. I think the idea about his legs was the result of dyspepsia. Any way, he was so afraid of having his legs broken that he cried .out whenever any one approached thelied. There was an old doctor in the vicinity who was half mad himself, and this old fellow determined to cure hin. One day he called and asked the old man to come out for a drive. Of course the old fellow was horrified, but the doctor insisted, and he at last consented to go ; A bed was made up in the doctor’s conveyance, and the dyspeptic carried out and tenderly laid in it. They drove off and alaout, until over a hill a little distance off they saw the stage coming. “Then the doctor, by a dexterous twist of the lines, overturned the buggy and tumbled the old man out into the middle of the road. Of course he cried out that he was done for, but the doctor righted his buggy and drove off, leaving him. squirming in the middle of the road, and quite unable to move, owing to his glass legs. Suddenly he was alarmed by a shout, and saw the stage come tearing down the slope, heading straight for him. He gesticulated, but the doctor had fixed things with the driver, and the stage came right along. Well, the old fellow stood it until the stage was only a few feet away. , Then he jumped up and ran—ran clean back to town - -and was never bothered with glass legs again.”— Detroit Times.

A Valuable Medical Treatise.

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The Boy’s Idea of It.

“Now, then,” said a Sunday school teacher, who was trying to explain a miracle to her class, “how do you account for Peter being able to walk on the surface of the water?” “I know!” said a little bright-eyed boy, whose father lost a limb at the siege of Vicksburg. “Well, how do you account for Peter’s walking on the water?” “He had cork legs and they wouldn’t let him sink!” said the little fellow, triumphantly. —Tarts Beacon.

A Lucid Explanation.

“What is that, lovey dovey?” asked newly married*Mrs. Legaleap Demurrer of her husband, as he laid a heavy volume on the mantel, “That is my brief in the Jones cpse, sweetie,” he responded, with a kiss. “Why does lovey call it a brief?” “Because it oontains 386 pages.”— The Hatchet.

Best Goods Are Put In Smallest Parcels.

•The old •proverb Is certainly true in the ease of Dr. Pierce's “Pleasant Purgative Peseta,” which are 1 little, sugar-wrapped I arcela. scarcely Isrger than musiard seeds, containing as much oa'hartic power as is done up in the biggest most repulsive-look-ing pill. Unlike the big pills, however, they are mild and pleasant in taeir operation—do not produce griping pains, nor render the bowels costive after using.

Woman’s Face.

"What furniture can give such finish to a room, as a tender woman's faoe,” asks George Elliott. Not any, wo are happy to. answea the g ow of health tempers the tender exprr ssion, The pala, anxious, bloodless face of the consumptive, or the evident sufferings of the dyspeptic, * induce feelings of sorrow and grief on our |wirt and compel us to tell thorn of Dr. Pierce's “Golden Medical Discovery,” the sovereign remedy lor consumption and other disea -es of the respiratory system, as well as dyspop-\ sia and other digestive troubles, bold Everywhere.

The glutton that crams up with poultry Is a choke-bore fowling piece. —Yonkers Gazette. * * * Delicate diseases of either sex. however induied, radically cured. Address, World's Dispensary Medioal Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Every man has 240 bones, except the minstrel end-man, who has 244.

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The Best Batter Color.

The great unanimity with which dairymen of high reputation have adopted, in preference to anything else, the Improved Butter Color, made by Wells, Richardson & Co., of Burlington, Vt., is remarkable. It shows that the claims of imitative colors are baseless. Wise dairymen will use no other. Bv the will of nature, honey is the nut versal bee-quest.

Horsford’s Acid Phosphate.

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In Lack.

A few days ago John Coughlin, of 214 Sixth street, accidentally picked up a copy of The Chicago Ledger. After reading a few of the interesting stories contained therein, he concluded he would subscribe for the paper, and forthwith sent his name and dollar to the office of publication In Chicago. Yesterday, much to his surprise, the American Express Co. called at his house with a package bearing his address, which contained an elegantly bound set of Dickens’ Complete Works,fifteen volumes, and a note in forming him that, he being a 25th subscriber to This Ledger, the books were the premium to which be was entitled. Mr. Coughlin considers his dollar well invested, and has great faith in The Ledger, which has given away a large amount of money In premiums during the past three months. Every twenty-fifth yearly subscriber receives a premium worth from five to one hundred dollars. The Ledger is a first-class story paper, and Is last becoming a Western favorite. —Sioux City {lowa) Journal.

Abandoned Cases.

A comparatively large number of the cases whlcli Drs. Starkey A Psion, of 1109 Girard Street, Philadelphia, are so successfully treating with Compound Oxygen are what are kpown as abandoned or “desperate” cases—many of them a class which no physician of any school would undertake to cure. They aie, in fact, st tch as ham run the gauntlet of experiment within the regular schools of medicine and quackery without, until between diseases and drugs the patient is reduced to the saddest and most deplorable condition. No treatment can he subjected to a severer test. Write for information in regard to its nature and actkm.

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Satisfactory Evidence.

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