Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1887 — Page 7

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. O. E. MARSHALL, - Publisher 5

George Alfred Towns end is threatening the world with another book, which will deal with Dr. Priestly and the administration of George Washington, introducing the Federalists and incidents in the lives of Jefferson, Burr, and Hamilton. j~ The tobncco cultivation is rapidly progressing in the Crimea, where successful attempts have been made to acclimatize the best Turkish kinds of tobacco, which are also the least known in Russia, such as are known under the namefc of Basnm, Fersisand, OujoundJova, and Yenidje. «. The Regent Of Bavaria is making his sons learn useful trades. Prince Rupert, who will probably be King some day, is apprenticed to a Munich woodturner, and works daily at his bench. Prince Francis is learning to paint houses and Prince Charles is an indus; trious market gardner. s A resident of Kidder County, Dakota, went into an unsettled section of that Territory last summer, forty miles ahead of a new railroad, and cut 100,000 tons of hay. The railroad crawled up to his stacks during the fall,and he is now selling his hay for .$8 a ton. He expects to make over*4loo,OOff by his enterprise. Secretary Whitney recently had the Marine Band to play at his house and afterward gave it luncheon. When he invited them to the table he asked their nationalities, and said: “I have hog arid hominy for the Americans, macaroni for the Italians, and sauerkraut for the Germans.” Then he out terrapin and champagne for them all. Mrs. Lille Prok, of Ogalalla,’ Oregon, has not made any crazy quilts lately nor done any Kensington work to speak of, but so far this winter she has killed seven bears. It may be added that she has her husband so welltrained that he never stays out after 9 o’clock, and when the steak is burned or the coffee weak he never grumbles. A Number of .Boston capitalists are building a railway car of steel. Instead of forming their car by the current square-box pattern, they will use, as far as possible, a curved design. Hotair pipes will heat the car, and a compressible platform will render telescoping an impossibility. The general adoption of such a car would be a most desirable result. A Yaldosta, Ga., man, driving along the road near his home, saw a large bald eagle devouring a goose near the roadside. He alighted, gathered a light wood knot, and advanced upon it, but the eagle, so far from fleeing away at his approach, stood by its game and showed fight. The man walked to within a few feet of it, and, with a welldirected blow with the light wood knot, knocked it over. o. Miss Julia J. Stenson was married recently in New York to Dr. Henry P. Loomis. The bride wore a dress more than a century old. It was made for her maternal great-grandmother in 1778, and worn at her wedding, when Alexander Hamilton was groomsman and Gen. Washington and Jiis staff were present as guests. It was worn for the second time by the bride’s mother forty-five years ago. Although the best of the public lands have 1 gone, it is encouraging to note that there still remain unsurveyed about 9,000,000 acres in Colorado, 12,000,000 in Arizona, nearly 30,000,000 in California, 49,000,000 in Dakota, 7,000,« 000 in Florida, 44,000,000 in Idaho, '7,000,000 in Minnesota, 39,000,000 in Nevada, 74,000,000 in Montana, 31,000,000 in Utah, more than 20,000,000 in Washington Territory, and so'on. - •••:- ’ w — 1 1 ----- Mr. and Mrs. William Goose, of Jeffersonville, Ind., recently celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage. They were both born in the county and have lived for fifty-seven years on the farm where the anniversary •was celebrated. They have nine children, the eldest in his 60th year and •the youngest in his 41st. There were also present thirty-five goslings in the name of grandchildren and nineteen as : great-grandchildren. “I should like,” says John Rnskin in a recent letter to a friend, “to see home rnle (in my sense of ruling—not yours) everywhere. I should like to see Irelandjunder a King of Ireland; Scotland under a Douglas, tender and true; India under a Rajah; and England under her Queen, and by no manner of means under Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Bright.” This confirms the rumor that the Empress of India considers Mr. Ruskin a crank. Senator Beck is indignant again. He says: “What do you think of this for insult ? I don’t know what some of my constituents take me for. This letter is from a young man who lives near my home, and he has the cheek to offer me 10 per cent, of his salary for the first year if I secure him an appointment in the railway messenger /service. This is a sample of some of the — ifti, V

letters wiget. I have received a lot of such offers, and might make a fair salary if a Democrat had any show, but he has not.” . JMiss Maud Banks, daughter of Gen. N. P., is now regularly on the stage. She is playing Parthenia in “Ingomar” in the small towns of Pennsylvania. The General, who is now 71 years of age,* still holds the office of United States Marshal in Boston and runs an experimental farm of sixty acres just outside the city. Miss Aland is a pronounced brunette, and she wears her hair after. Mrs. oelveland’s style. Sho claims to bo delighted with her profession. Mrs. Harriet Van Ackkn, who has been in the penitentiary at Syracuse, N. Y r ., for ten years, serving a life sentence for the murder of her husband, is dead. On her death-bed she charged Loren Grover with the crimo, and said that she was an unwilling witness to the deed. Grover compelled her to promise never to reveal to anyone wlmt had taken place, and she never told the secret except to her confessor. Another instance of mistaken duty by a woman. - Some thousands of people visited Princes end Tipton, says the London Globe, to witness the funeral of Air. Samuel Alurfitt, who was recently exhibited as the largest man in the world. The deceased, who died after a few day’s illness, was a native of Wimblington, Cambridgeshire, and was 55 years of age. His dimensions were as follows: Height, 6 feet 1 inch; weight, 40 stone; girth of waist, 100 inches, and he measured 20 inches round the calf of the leg. A hearse could not be found large enough for the deceased’s removal, and the body had to be conveyed on a flat. The sashes had to he removed from the windows, and nearly twenty men wero employed to get the coffin through the window on to the flat.

The woman Thomas, wlio was guillotined with her husband recently at Romorantin, was the first female executed in France since 1872. The man, it appears, met his death with great firmness, but bis wife made wild supplications for mercy on behalf of her little damghter, to whom she asked the executioners to send locks of her hair, which they cut off, preparatory to her being placed on the block. She had to be carried in a half-inanimate condition to the guillotine, but when her head was placed on the plank she tried to jerk it back, and struggled violently. Deibler’s men had to bold lier down by tho shoulders until the knife fell. While the blood was being sponged the husband was led to deatji. He embraced the. chaplain three times, and then placed his head calmly on the block. The guillotining of the woman has been described by soirio of the eye-witnesses who were accustomed to capital executions as the most horrible scene which they had ever beheld. A fire which took place lately in a remote village in China, destroyed a collection which was one of the moat remarkable in tbe world, says a foreign letter-writer. Tbe descendants of Confucius are the only persons outside the imperial family ■whose titles descend unimpaired from ' father to son. In other cases the son’s title or rank it the nobility is one degree lower than his father’s, so that every noble family in tbe course of a few generations merges in tbe commonalty. The male heirs of the family of Confucius are dukes, and have resided for nearly twenty-five hundred years in their ancestral home in the province of Shantung. The residence Mas recently destroyed by fire, and all the historical articles presented by successive dynasties and admirers of the philosopher during all these centuries were consumed. As the present duke is a lirieal descendant of Confucius, there can be no doubt of the authenticity of the collection, which can now never be replaced.

Benedict Arnold.

Benedict Arnold was a native of Connecticut, where be was born in Norwich, January 3, 1840. He joined the patriots soon after the Revolution broke out and was commissioned a Colonel in the service of Massachusetts. In 1775 he led a force of about 1,000 men through the northern forest with the intention of capturing Quebec. Gen. Montgomery’s forces were joined by Arnold .at the St. Lawrence, and the attack made but it failed. Montgomery met his death there and Arnold was seriously wounded. Arnold became a Brigadier-General. He commanded in Philadelphia in 1878, and, living extravagantly there, contracted debts. In 1779 he married the daughter of Shippen, afterward,Chief Justice of the State. Charges were made against him and lie was sentenced by court martial to be reprimanded by the Commander-in-Chief. Washington was very mild in his reproof. Arnold was very much chagrined. In August, 1780, he requested and was given command at West Point, and this important fortress he offered to surrender to Sir Henry Clinton. The capture of Andre disclosed the plot of the traitor, and prostrated it. Arnold escaped to a war vessel of the British. He at once entered the British service, and commanded an expedition against Virginia. Near the conclusion of the war he went to England, where he met with po special marks of favor. He died in London in 1801, poor and depressed. During the eleventh century musical notes were invented, windmills were first used, and clocks with wheels wero introduced. T

HUSBANDRY AND HOUSEWIFERY.

Mattel’s of Interest Relating to Farm and Household Management. Information for the Plowman, Stock* man, Poulterer, Nurseryman, and Housewife. THE FARM. Farm Wagons. There is nd economy in using old wagons on the farm. If the money spent in repairs were reckoned at the end of the year it would make big interest on the cost of a new wagon, besides loss of time, of temper, and often wasto of cfbps. It is poor policy to pay $lO to S2O in patching up an old wagon, when n new one can be bought for $>U to SBO. When the new wagon is purchased it should he kept well painted and tinder cover, else it will soon be an old one. Exposure to the elements injures more than active Use. Neglected Fteltls. There are on every farm some parts that have always received less manure and less care evory way than has been given to the form generally. Thoy frequently comprise the fields remote from the barnyard, and to which for this reason it is difficult to draw manure. The time for this work is generally limited, and the amount drawn in a day when the distance is doubled is so reduced that the work is stopped, and plowing and seeding take the time of teams and men. The result is that despite the most strenuous efforts fields remote from the barnyard never get as much manure as those near by. In some cases the neglected field is too wet for profitable cropping. But whatever the cause of neglect, it is time that it should cease. Even at a low valuation for the land it locks up too much capital for which its owner gets no return. If he. lack money to make this land productive, he had better sell it and use it in improving the land that remains. Some one is always ready to buy the poorest land and to pay more for it than it is worth. In fact, selling the poorest part of the farm is commonly the very best thing that can he done with it. If its owner concentrates labor, time nnd manure on his worst land he can only do it by neglect of his best, from which alone he is sure of a profit. There is a reason for the neglect of cultivation of fields that have been ready for the plow a long time, and it is usually found in the fa'ct that experience has proved that it does not pay. Farm Not ct and Comments. Seventy-six per cent of the raw cotton produced in this country is exported. A farmer should be the architect of his •wn barn, but when he builds his house he ought to leave the arranging of the interior to his wife. In Spain, when a person eats a peach or a pair as he passes along the road, he immediately plants the seeds. Eruit-trees are plenty and free to every passer-by. , Every farmer should aim to raise all the possible products of the climate for his own rise. Herein lies the independence of farm life. He grows every supply for histable, so far as his soil and climate admits,, under his own eye. He is dependent on no one for the necessities of life, or even for the luxuries ot his table. Many farmers in places where their land is swept by fierce winds find it profitable to plant apple trees in masses large enough to make a wind-break on*he side of the farm most exposed. The apple tree branches low down, and, if bordered by a fence four or five feet high on the windward side, the ground will be covered with snow almost as perfectly as it was in the original forests. In the process of drying grass into hay most of the volatile oils which give green herbage its delicate flavor and odor are lost. But some farmers have found that patting clover and other grasses in bams while rather green ! and mixing with them enough dry straw to absorb moisture not only preserve the flavor in the hay, but a portion is communicated to th 6 straw, making it mnch better for milch cows. It is possible that farmers may yet take to sowing sweet vernal grass for the sole purpose of flavoring their winter’s supplies of dry hay or straw. Prof. Dodge says the richest agricultural districts do riot necessarily produce the largest yields of com per acre. The worn-out soil of New England, well cultivated and enriohed, has yielded in the last five years an average of 30.8 bushels to the aere, while the Missouri Valley, with all its natural richness of soil for growing com, falls below this 1 per cent., and the Ohio Valley, with almost equal natural resources, drops nearly 5 per cent, behind. The Middle States are Very nearly on the same footing as the New England States.—Very true, but in New England com is raised at a vast expenditure of manure and labor. In Illinois an average of 100 bushels per acre on eighty acres has been raised.

THE STOCK RANCH. About PpCire-llred "if’ The numbers and value of pure-bred cattle, as stated by the Department of Agriculture at Washington, excluding Jer-. Beys, that for some reason are not men-’ tioned except that the number registered is 51,006 head, are as follows: No. reg- No. liv- Av. Total Dreed. istered. ing. value. value. Aberdeen-Angus...... 3,500 S3OO 81,050,000 Ayrshire 12,867 6,433 100 613,000 Devon .......10,187 8,000 81 648,000 Guernsey.... 4,947 3,100 149 461,900 Hereford.. 14,000 300 4,200,000 Holstein Friesian2l,l3B 20,080 200 4,016,200 . - ————— . .... Feeding According to acquirement. As long as the animals arc fed, the kind or quality of food is not always considered; yet one may feed a large amount of food without benefit to the Btock, while by a judicious system of feeding, in proportion to what is required, a lesser quantity may be needed and the cost lowered. As animals differ in the kind of products they provide, so should the food be regulated to conform to that which is expected; A Jersey cow (hat gives a large yield of butter from a small quantity of milk (and some of them have yielded a pound of butter from three quarts of milk) demauds food rich in fat, and in feeding her for cream the breeder keeps. in view the objoct to be obtained. He expects a large quantity of butter, and be knows that the* fat must come from the food. If the feed isfdificient in the element most desired the yield will be less, for the reason that, no matter how highly bred the cow may be, nor how capable she is. it is an impossibility for her to produce anything unless she is provided with the materials with which to manufacture her daily product. Other classes of cows that excel in producing large quantities of milk, but not so rich in cream, have an equal task to perform. While the proportion of fat required may not be large, yet the milk fa nevertheless to be made‘of pertain materials rich in nitrogen and phosphates. Her food, while it may be deficient in fat, should be as complete as possible in those elements required by her, and in making upherallowance of food she must be fed differently from the cow that produces a large amount of butter in proportion to milk yielded. An animal tbat| is growing' requires a

more complo ration than one tfint is matured, for it has not only to supply bodily waste, but also to build up the frame and incrense if the same kind of food' fed to if growing animal bo given to one that is matured, the excess will be voided from the body as manure, simply because the animal cannot appropriate it. In tho face of these facts many farmers feed all classes of stock together, making no distinejion between the growing steer or the) productive cow, tho young or tfie iftatured, and do not consider that butter and milk are very different in composition, and that special feeding materials must he provided according to the objects fulfilled by each animal. If a due allowance is made for the work done By each animal, nnd its characteristics observed, a careful and systematic feeding would savo hundreds of pounds Of material, while tho furmer' would Recure a larger product at a cheaper cost. With systematic feeding comes good shelter, ns tho first important duty performed by tho the food is to heat the body and repair waste. All over and above the immediate bodily requirement is that which becomes product, and if the heat can be saved by warm 6tableß and dry shelter the smaller will be the quantity required fdr repair of waste. The feeding of cornstalks and straw may assist the farmer to winter his stock, but any deficiency of nutriment therein must bo provided by a more concentrated food, such as grain, and the grain must be of the kinds that abound in the principal elements required for the different purposes. —Philadelphia Record.

THE DAIRY. Winter Dairying. At a meeting of an agricultural society in the south of Ireland Mr. Richard Baxter gave an address on this subject in which he said: Farmers shbuld carefully consider whether the large increase in the cost of feeding and labor entailed by winter dairying will be compensated by the following advantages: First, cows carried through the winter,and in profit,at a season that milk and butter bring the highest prices; second, I find from carefully-kept records that cows calving in December and January give the largest return in milk—for, say, ten months m milk—as they come on a second spring of milk when they get the grass at the end of April arid May, and yield during the summer nearly as well as if calving in March; third, the calf is raised in time for the grass, and so has the Whole summer to grew and mature; and, if vealed, is sold"when veal is dear; fourth, a largo quantity of farmyard manure is made and the land steadily improves from the quantity of feeding stuffs consumed on the farm; fifth, a market at home for most of the farm produce, and not selling grain, etc., at such prices as are now ruling; sixth, a much better chance of commanding a higher average price through the year for milk and butter by keeping up a continuous supply. The following dietaries are suggested for shorthorn crosses of,say, 1,100 pounds live weight; and I estimate the keep for three of them would be sufficient for four of the country cows weighing 800 pounds, or for live Kerries weighing 550 pounds each. Tho dietary can be altered to suit individual cases arid current prices of feeding stuffs in the various districts. The total albuminoids should not be under 3.5; and the albuminoid ratio should be carefully preserved—being 1 of albuminoids or flesh-formers to 4.5 to 5 of carbo-hydrates (or fat and heat producers). It is most important' that the various foods and drinks should be given at a temperature of from 50 t0„55 degrees Fahrenheit (cool summer heat), but not oVer this; chilled foods and drinks seriously check tho flow of milk, besides the increased quantity of food required to bring them to the above temperature. Except in cold, bad weather cows should have a run on the pasture for a few hours in the middle of the day, but never allowed to stand chilling at the gate, asking to be let in; Buch a run is healthy for the cows and allows the stalls to be cleaned and ventilated. Care should also be taken that the stalls are not too hot at night. Cows should be milked as much as possible morning and evening at the same hour; it has been clearly proved that milk remaining in the udder more than twelve hours will lose proportionately in quantity and considerably in quality, having a lower percentage of cream. j

THE ORCHARD. Ilegrafting Orchards. Much lack of progress in farming is the result of what natural philosophers would call the power of vis inertia, or in other words the tendency of matter to remain in one place. Farmers deal more with this inert matter than with any other class.. Knowing what needs to be done is one thing, but doing it, which requires hard work, is quite another. In nothing is this neglect of what should be done more striking than the almost universal tendency to let poor or unproductive trees remain year after year without taking tho slight trouble to regraft them,-with bettor sorts. It is no serious evil if a tree has been grown to bearing age with some worthless variety. Kegrafting in from three to five years make a new top i often more productive than the tree would have been had the better variety been put in originally. It costs considerable to have such work done by professional grafters at from 1J to 2 h cents per graft. At such rates an active man with an assistant to saw off the limbs will make five or six or even more dollars per day. But the operation of grafting is so simple that any tree-owner can easily learn it, and by knowing the habit of growth of the sort to be put in he can easily make the top-grafted tree into any shape that be desires. When he stops to consider this point tfie owner of an orchard will soon learn to top-graft his trees more to his own satisfaction than will be done by the average grafter, chiefly anxious to make a large day’s work by putting in as many grafts as possible. Fruning the Peach. The peach tree in many cases, if not in most, receives no pruning. As a result of fchiß neglect, after some years the trees have a few long, stragglif% branches, with leaves and fruit on the ends of limbs and nowhere else. The reason of this is that the new shoots come out strongest, from the terminal buds, the largest shoots of the previous year becoming the longest in the succeeding year, and, so on, until tbe fruit is away up out of reach, as the habit of the peach is to bear on wood of the previous season’s growth. Judicious annual pruning will prevent this unshapely growth, and maintain a low-headed, roundish form of top. Tbe pruning is to be done mainly in tbe wav of cutting back, removing from a third to a half in length, or even more in some cases, of the shoots of the previous year’s growth. This not only prevents the running up of the top of the tree, but reduces the crop as well, and prevents injury from overbearing, while from the capacity of enlargement inherent in all the fine peaches the portion of the crop allowed to remain will be greatly improved in every way. Having an eye to thinning the crop, the blossom buds can readily be distinguished from the leaf buds, as the former are much more plump and round than the latter. A well developed shoot usually has three buds together in its best parts, a leaf bad in the center with a blossom bud on each side of it and close up to it. When snch shoots are shortened to about two-thrids or one-half their length four or five of the leaf or wood buds

toward the end of the cut will push out vigorously, so that in the succeeding pruning it may be necessary to thin oat the top by removing some of these shoots entirely. Judgment and practice will determine this. The work eau be performed in February or March, any time the wood is not frozen. —Stockman and Funner.

THE POULTRY-YARD. A Cheap Fonlti'if-floune. I have rec ently built a small poultryhouse, writes a> correspondent qf tho Western Rural, which is decidedly the most comfortable’ winter quarters,for, poultry I bavo seen, when the cost is taken into consideration. The.house is Hxl<> feet insido nnd is built as follows: AVhite oak posts split in the forest from trees a foot,in diameter, making four posts to the cut, nnd eight foot long, sot four feet apart and afoot and a half deep. Streamers ljx3 inches are nailed to the posts near the ground, in tho middle, and at the top of posts on the outside. Common oak boxing Ixl2 inches wide is nailed to the streamers and cracks stripped ; with strips 4x3 inches. Space l is left on tho south side for a door and window and two small windows in the ends. Tho inside of tho house is ceiled with tho same kind of boxing, oak, Ixl2 inches. This ceiling is put on horizontally, not upright ns the outside boxing, and is nailed to the posts. Put the first board of ceiling down on the ground, or a little in the ground is better. After it is fastened to the posts, fill the space between the boxing and ceiling with sawdust, and ■ jam down tight and firm with a little hand maul. Then put on another plank or two, and put in more sawdust, and continue until yon get to the top of the posts. Joist are then put across, and a loft laid of the same boxing, and this loft is covered with sawdust to the depth of four or five inches. A large window in the sonth side near tho ground and a small window in each end near the joist secure ample ventilation. The house is covered with a good shingle roof. A good board roof would answer as well. The roosting poles are three-fourths inch iron rod, wrapped with strips of heavy woolen cloth. This cloth is saturated occasionally with coal oil. I have ono of the roosts wrapped with strips of sheepskin with the wool on, cut about two inches wide. I like the sheepskin as well, if not better that the woolen cloth. This house is warm and comfortable, and I expect to have an abundance of eggs all the winter. Plymouth Bock pullets hatched last May are at present making daily contributions to the 1 egg-basket.

Poultry Notes. Rice is a good healthy food for growing chickens, and is inexpensive. Give the fowls a chance to scratch and wallow; it is their nature to do so. Shavings sprinkled with diluted carbolic acid will make a nest free from vermin. Do not keep ducks in the same house with chickens, nor in the kitchen garden, except they be very young duck. They are then the most valuable insect exterminators known. Nothing comes amiss to them. ThE egg shell is porous, and any filth on it very soon affects the meat. Eggs should be cleaned as soon as gathered, if at all soiled, and those to be put up for winter should be eggs which have been gathered as soon as laid. It is said that a teaspoonful of glycerine and a few drops of nitric acid to a pint of drinking water will generally cure a fowl that shows symptoms of bronchitis, when accompanied by gurgling sound in the throat, as if choking. Poultry farming ought to be conducted in connection with ordinary farming; it is its only chance, and there are many reasons why it ought to succeed in this way as why it is likely to fail under other circumstances. The extraordinary question is, why the smaller occupiers of the land who know the enormous consumption of geese, turkeys, and fowls in this country, and to whom the returns they are likely to make are not to be disregarded, make no attempt to increase the number and improve the quality of the poultry they already have.

THE HOUSEHOLD. Hot Weather Housekeeping. Butter needs to be kept cool as well as fresh. To put it in salt water hardens it better than anything except ice. To put it in a basin that stands in salt water is not quite so effectual, but avoids the difficulty of putting it actually under water. Green vegetables soon become flabby and stale in hot weather owing to evaporation from tho leaves. This is soon cured by fresh cutting the 6talks and putting them into (not under) the water. Town vegetables are apt to be in worse plight than this, for they are stacked in wagons or trucks, the first to go in being, of course, the last to come out, and there they heat and ferment, and finally arrive at. the consumers’houses in a state of unwholesomeness for which we know no cure. Fruit also ferments, and, like 'everything else, sooner in damp than in dry weather. Children often become ill from' eating fruit, and so all fruit is tabooed, but the beginnings of fermentation or decay ought to be blamed. It is better to keep fruit on wood, not on a china dish, and there should always be space between each, wherever it is possible, and never more than one layer. If it were practicable, it would be better to hang fruit up instead of laying it on anything. Grapes hung up in a dark cupboard can be kept for many weeks, and they spoil in a few days on a dish. Red currants have been preserved in the same way, bnt it is not often worth while to tie each bunch to a string. —Boston Budget. In-door Decorations. It would appear to be a decided error lo adopt flower pots with aggressive colors brilliantly glazed, as they seriously detract from the charm of the plunts, the intensity Of the reflected light overpowering these. * An appropriate frame and one much admired for water-oolor drawings is flat and with blue ground, on which, leaving wide interspaces, raised leaves, stalks, flowers, and fruit in bronze and gilt are scattered in a somewhat informal fashion. Mounted fans in brilliant colors and with mirrored centers set on carved stands, are used for displaying portrait photographs fixed in hidden and shallow paper pockets behind the eurved upper edge. This rainbow arrangement has a good effect. Ornamental forms of wood covered with velvet plush, that serve for wall ornaments, in shape of anchors, crosses, stars, etc., have center adorned with bouquets in artificial flowers;, arid where space allows a small silver thermometer in a silver case is Inserted. “7 : ; ' i- rr Classic ornaments are adapted for library chairs; tea or coffee plants or masques of Ceres, Bacchus, or Comus for card tables used as breakfast tables; designs from mythological history for library and writing tables; broad ornaments, as the bread tree and its fruit forms or the hop plant for dining table; the moresque orfoliage fruit and flowers for drawing-room tables. If the prospect from the windows be not very good a little pale amber and a very faint blue or green stained glass can be arranged in a neat frame and made to fit oyer and cover tbe glass .—Decorator and Furnisher.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—An American-Belgian Horse Association, comprising many of the leading importers of horses in vnr ions parts of tho country, has been formed at Wabash. The object of the association is to encourage the breeding and importation of heavy draft horses, more particularly those of Belgian blood. Tile officers for the first year ore: President, Harman Wolf, Wabash; Vice-President, Dr. A. G.Van Hoosebelse, Monmouth, lib; Secretary, J, D. Conner, jr., Wabash; Treasurer, U. M. Englemau, Ilich Valley, lud. Directors, JF. W. Wilcox, Pern, Ind.; R. A. Moss, Palmyra, Mo.; W. L. Kcster, North Manchester, Ind.; W. K. Kennedy, Tilman, Ind.; Charles Shillinger, Itoann,’ Ind.; Reuben Lancaster, Virginia, 111. Executive Committee, D: C. Storoman, Denver, Ind.; David Kercher, Gilead, Ind. —There is considerable excitment among tho inhabitants of the northern part of Jasper County over tho discovery of what is supposed to be an underground river. About two years since several head of cattle were lost in a current that ran underground townrd the Kankakee, and now the same current is lowering the waters in the adjoining swamps, which are known to hunters and trappers to be nothing more than wido areas of floating sod. A trapper reports that the water on the Kankakee marsh has raised several feet, the result of tho flow from the region about McKune’s settlement, near which the msbiDg waters make a loud noise.. Many are preparing to leave for higher ground. —Mr. Noah Hall, an old resident of Aluncie, was standing on the track of the Lake Erie and Western Railway, looking at one of the big gas wells, and was so absorbed in the sight that he did not notice a train which was rapidly approaching. engineer saw the man on the track, and whistled loudly to give him warning, bnt he did not seem to hear it, for he stood on the track until the train came along and ground him under the wheels, mashing his left leg and right arm terribly. He was taken to his home and surgeons summoned, but they could do nothing bnt relieve the sufferings of the unfortnnate man, and he soon died. He leaves a widow and daughter. —The boiler of the Litchfield shaft recently exploded near Carbon. The boilerhouse was completely demolished and the boiler thrown nearly three hundred yards. Willie Phillips, a boy about 15 years old, who was standing near the boiler, was killed; William M. Boling, engineer, and Frank Cunningham, were severely injured. Boling has both arms broken, bnt it is thought his injuries are not fatal. William Hopkins was near by at the time, bnt was not hurt. As there were bnt few men at work, and they were not hoisting coal, a much more serious accident was avoided. The works will, in all probability, not be rebuilt. * —Henry Kenner, a farmer residing near Alt. Vernon, in Posey County, accidentally shot and killed himself. He was handling a double-barrel shotgun, and in endeavoring to find out it it was loaded pnt the gun to his mouth to blow in the barrels, at the same time holding the hammers back with his foot. His foot slipped, the hammers discharged the gun, and the top of Kenner’s head was blown off. The deceased was 34 years of age and leaves a widow and two children.

—Recently several fatal cases of lock-jaw have occurred near Brazil. Otis Blair, aged 18 years, got his hand mashed between car-bumpers, but neglected to have' it amputated in time. L. 0. Rector, aged 15 “years, suffered the loss of a foot under the cars some days ago. He died from lockjaw. James H. Benton some days ago ruptured an internal organ while drilling for coal. He lived four days in much ag«iy and died. —Recently there was bom to William and Anna Armstrong, of Coal City, near the Clay County line of Owen County, a daughter, perfect in all other physical respects, but eyeless. The external parts of the eye, the cilia, and the eyelids are perfect, but the eye-ball is entirely wanting. The eyelids are closed normally, never opening voluntarily, but they may be separated with apparently little effort ——- " —The Thirteenth Indiana Veterans’ Association will hold its fourth annual reunion at New Haven, Allen County, on April 7, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle of Shiloh. All letters on business pertaining to the reunion should be addressed to Jasper N. Ohlwine, Cromwell, Noble County. —The members of the Mancie Board of Trade have selected officers for the ensuing year as follows: Mr. Joseph Goddard was chosen President; Will M. Marsh, Treasurer, and S. A. Wilson, T. F. Rose and John R. McMahon, first, second, and third Vice Presidents, respectively. —The quarry company at Salem is running a full force of hands. Many improvements have been made. The traveler trestle is now 400 feet long. New buildings ’for the planer and cutting machinery are going up. Three hundred men will be.employed this year. —Richard Tankergley, a young man living a few miles east of Colfax, went to Clark's Hill, and while boarding the train to come home, slipped and fell, the wheels passing over one leg just below the knee, necessitating the amputation of that joint. —At Hartford City, Blackford County, natural gas has been struck at a depth of nine hundred feet. The volume of gas is equal to that of any well drilled in the State, the pressure being about three hundred pounds. —Joshua Whittaker, of Morgantown, Morgan .County, a prominent citizen, dropped dead of heart disease. —Emory Copeland, residing near Spiceland, crippled and captured a bald eagle that had carried off a lamb from his father’s flock. The bird measures eight feet from tip to (ip of his wings, and is a fine specimen. It is but slightly injured, and will recover. ~ —Two freight trains on the Lake Shore road collided near Rolling Prairie, ditching fourteen cars and entailing a loss to the company of about SIO,OOO. No one was insured. —Henry Miller, farmer at Fort Wayne, suicided with “rough on rats."