St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 October 1892 — Page 7

AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.' A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. flow to Keep Sweet Potatoes—The Caro of Tulips—Convenient Hoisting Appara-tus-Caring for the Corn Crop —A Furrower and Marker, Etc. Substantial House for Swine. As many farmers have requested a description of my hoj?-house, I willi answer the request through the Amer- j ican Agriculturist, writes A. 11. Shel-! don. The house is built for eight brood sows in the spring, or fifty pigs PERSPECTIVE VIEW OP PIGGERY. fn the fall, and furni ues plenty of I room for this number. The size is i twenty feet wide by twenty-four feet j long. The pens are each six feet i square, making the alley through the I center .eight feet wide, giving plenty ' of room to dfive a load of corn under cover of the roof, to unload in the fall. Four of these pens are on each side, and one swill trough, eight feet long, answers for two pens. Over each trough is placed a swinging door three by eight feet so that any litter which may be rooted into them can be easily cleaned out, and the pigs can also be shut back until the swill is poured into the troughs, a great advantage as any feeder knows. There are little doors from each pen into the alley, also into the yards on the sides of the house. These yards should have a board floor, unless the ground is very sandy and well drained. A small pen near a hoghouse becomes a mortar bed, after every rain, and the object of the small yards outside is to give early pigs sunshine and more chance for exercise than a six by six pen affords. Over each pen under the upper roof is a small window to admit air and light This slides on the scantling which supports the lower roof. The outside posts are only four feet high, and the center posts eight feet. The roof is boarded and shingled. The house is inclosed with No. 4 boards, then paper and drop-siding are put on to keep out frost in winter. Large doors at each end can be ■ I Cx6 6*6 6*6 | 6*6 1^ -- I j Trfu.sh-> * Tr-cugh» i! tG *6 6* 6 6*6 6*6 6 | "j ji" ~ '"34^' Lon a j » flw 1 1 oe ILy* fl— GROUND PLAN OF PIGGERY, opened when occasion requires, but for every day use a small door, thirty by seventy-eight jnches, is 1 placed at either end. A- well and ; pump should be placed where most! convenient so that no delay will occur ; when feeding time comes. There is [ but little trouble to provide places for j grain and meal, but a bountiful sup- | ply of water is quite as important! and often neglected. The cost of the I house with lumber at twenty dollars , per thousand, and shingles at three | and and one-halt dollars is about one । hundred dollars. Several loads or sand or gravel may be profitably dumped into the pigyards each year. ; Keeping Sweet ’otatoes. Regard must be had to the proper growing and handling of sweet potatoes in order to insure success in their keeping. They should be grown i on soil suited to them, and early enough to fully mature in season,and j when harvested handled without bruising. They should be planted early : enough to mature before frost for i tubers of frost bitten vines are doubt- i ful keepers. Dig them when the j ground is dry, if possible, that they may be dry and clean. Then lay them in a dark, cool room, or at once store them away in a frost-proof cellar or storehouse. The best manner to store them here is to put them in broad,shallow boxes (shelves will do). These may be placed one above another with a small space between them to give better ventilation. A light covering of dry sand or earth, ___wi.ll add something to their preservation, as it will serve to keep the potatoes at a more uniform temperature, and absorb the moisture arising from them. The place of storage should be dry and have a uniform temperature, and that at about 35 or 40 degrees. Potatoes which have fully matured are thus stored in shallow layers, and kept fairly above frost and moisture will seldom fail to keep well. Choice of .Breeds. The man who goes out hunting for the best breeds of live stock wuthout any references whatever to his environments is hardly up to snuff. The I best breed is largely such simply be- ' cause it is best spiffed to some particular purpo^'fand whether or not that is well tilled depends up^Tlocal surroundings. Let the Sackman study well his conditions as Ko grasses, grains, soil, climate, markets, etc., and he is not apt to make a mistake in the choice of breeds. — / Nebraska Farmer. Securing- the Corn Crop. Corn should be cut for fodder as soon as the kernels begin to glaze on

most of the larger ears. At this time if no frosts have occurred the leaves are mostly green, and if put in stocks of from thirty-six to forty hills each and well tied at the top, the fodder will cure in good condition. The juices in the stalks will be sufficient to ripen the unmatured ears, so that husking may commence in earnest in about 11 fteen days. In dry sunny "Weather it will pay to leave the cornfodder spread on the ground for a day or so to dry out and harden, more ; especially if to put away in large i bulk. It will also be found a good , plan to sort the corn when husking, removing all silk and husks from the best, while the small ears, and that intended for immediate feeding, may be hauled without this precaution. If the best corn is cribbed without removing the litter it will make a tine nesting place for rats and mice. When husking corn-fodder many persons jerk the husks so spitefully as to remove them entirely, and being loose and short they are not bound in the bundle but left in the Held to become weather beaten, dirty and useless as fodder; hence, caution should be exexercised on this point. The best ears should be selected for seed. As j the stalks contain a vast amount of ! moisture they should not be placed in ! large stacks or in close barns until I late in the season as they will be । quite certain to heat and mildew, unless a layer of dry hay, or straw, be placed between each layer of bundles. Planting and Care of Tulips. The bulbs of tulips are solid, fleshy, from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, and rather irregular in shape, as indicated in the accompanyeng sketch. They should be set

about three inches deep and six inches apart,in rich, wellpulverized a n d well-drained soil. The best time to I prepare the bed is lin .September or I October. At this season the bulbs are entirely dormant and may be

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lutiuu <4llll limy mv obtained from any florist. After planting, a few mixed flower seeds of hardy annuals may be sown over the bed. These will come into bloom after the tulip flowers fade, and will prove interesting and attractive. Those who are fond of bedding plants can plant the bed with Geraniums or Petunias after the bulbous flowers fade, if such a display is preferred. They are of such a character that they will thrive in almost any soil or : situation, and bloom satisfactorily if i they have but half a chance.—Farm and Fireside. A Remarkable Apple Tree. Accordingto a report of the Committee on Fruits at the State Fair meeting of the Ohio Horticultural Society, Mr. Pierce of Miami County, presented an apple grown upon the sole surviving tree of one of the earliest orchards planted in that county, the tree being now about two feet in diameter, and still vigorous and very productive. It is supposed to be upward of eightv years. The specimens were large, of very bright crimson color with numerous small white spots; very smooth and attractive in appearance. It was stated that the first specimens began to ripen in July, at which time there would be many apples not larger than hickory nuts on the tree, which would ripen in succession until picking time, ; in the fall, when there would be quite | a proportion which would keep till I January. Some of the sp: cimens shown were fully ripe, while others ■ were quite green. The quality was i so poor that the majority of thecomI mittee would not recommend it for I propagation, but its size and beauty were such that it would doubtless meet a ready sale. Feeding corn lor the Rest Profit. I am convinced that it pays, especially when steamed, to grind corn and cob for cattle, writes an experiI enced live stock and dairy man. I am not quite clear whether corn or ' oats is best for sheep; I know corn is ' good. For store sheep, two fair feeds of it daily with plenty of good straw I are sufficient; for fatters, hay with I three feeds of the mixed meals, and dry bran with plenty of water. For 1 cows—not using ensilage—l prefer I cut and steamed cornstalks, with corn ; meal and bran, half of each by weight, i liberally sprinkled on. In the abi sencc of the steamer, I put on the | cut stalks, slightly moistened, a regular ration of corn meal; some prefer it put on dry. For fattening steers I prefer the scalded fodder plentifully basted with ^orn and oat meal. Jhe meal will do well enough with hay and no doubt with ensilage. Corn thus ted, with close care, 1 have found to wo:k wonders. Colts—except Allies —will keen well on coarse fodder with a little corn twice a day. About Setting Hens. There will surely be trouble with a setting hen if other fowls are permitted to lay in her nest. There will be objections on the part of the breeding hen for which she is not to be blamed. And in the struggle it is certain that some eggs will be broken, when it is probable that one of the hens will eat the broken eggs. The setting hen will be apt to leave the ' nest when it is occupied by the inI trader, and she may not return, when ' the eggs may cool and the chicks either die in the shell or soon after they emerge, from weakness. The only satisfactory way is to have a separate place for the brooding hens and to keep each one in a separate pen, from which she cannot get out, and to feed and water her in it. The pen should be three by two feet, giving the hen room to stretch her legs when she comes off to feed. The next box should be low and be well soaked with kerosene when it is pre-

11 pared for use. This will insure free- > dom from lice to the hen and save a i world of trouble and disappointment and consequent vexation. One Man Can Do It. ,; The cut explains a practical method , for one man to hoist grain, such as corn, etc., into the corn-house in a bushel basket, says a correspondent of Farm and Home. Two ropes are necessary; one on the bottom of the , basket, as well as the hoisting rope. ! fW i| ! Lid ’ : 1 HOISTING APPARATUS. The bottom rope will invert the basket every lime, inside of the granary, and between the two ropes the basket returns out of the window automatically. This enables one man to stand on the ground and put a large number of baskets of grain out of sight in a very few minutes. Treatment of the Garden. If possible all the weeds, grass and other stuff should be burned off the garden, and it should also be plowed late in the fall if possible. If this is done there is very little danger from cut worms and similar pests the following year, and a great many things can be sown in the spring that will have to wait until very late if the ground has to be plowed in the spring. Above all things the garden spot must be rich. The best manure and a great deal of it will be needed if there is to be a good garden, and pay for the work and care needed. A half acre of a good garden is worth ten acres of 1 corn, and requires about the same amount of work. Sheep Shearings. V-shaped troughs are best for feeding grain. A lamb need not be despised because it is small. Sheep may be made the gleaners of the farm; the savers of waste. To raise early lambs for market the ewes must be of good healthy stock. If raising early lambs is to be undertaken select out the breeding ewes in good season. Some breeders claim that early lambs grow faster, are healthier, and make larger sheep than late ones. One advantage with sheep is that if properly managed they eat their food cleaner than horses or cattle. Generally with wool shipped to market it requires a larger time to j get returns than with almost any I other farm product. A Handy Tool. The back figure shows a piece of ! plank with cultivator tooth inserted, i When you want furrows made, bolt i one of these behind each runner. XaX । Nyx ' ■■ FURROW AND MARKER. | Run a board across the rear ends of । each runner and bolt it to each at- : tachment to keep them down and in a line. When using it, lay a board | from the main plank to the rear i board and stand on it. The further back you stand the deeper the marker iio.'-. 1 luu ■ used this for a number Yf years and pronounce it a regular short cut marker and furrower.—M. Murphy, in Practical Farmer. Hints to Housekeepers. To prevent oil from oozing over 1 the top of the burner, turn the wick i down after the light is out. j At night, after a day’s traveling, ■ rub the face thoroughly with vaseline or cold cream. The grease will prove a more effective cleaner than soap and water. The thimble was first called the “thumb bell,” because it was used on ! the thumb instead of the finger, as at [ present. The word soon evolved into thumble. The word thimble is comparatively modern. An ingeninus female has bit upon the idea of a “dressalbum,” in which tiny cuttings of every gown belonging to its owner are lobe chronologically arranged under the dates on which they were purchased. Strawberries are so called from the fact that they were anciently ; brought to market strung upon । straws. Raspberries are also called ■ from the peculiar rasping roughness of their leaves. Raspis-berry originally. There is nothing more useful about the kitchen than sal soda. It will, dissolved in a little water, remove grease from anything,and there is nothing like it for cleaning hair brushes, which, by the way, should be cleaned more frequently than they ; are. It is comparatively easy to exter- ' niinate black ants. The little red ■ ants are, however, very hard to get rid of. A little powdered hellebore [sprinkled around at night will as a rule quickly exterminate them. Care . must be taken in using the hellebore, and in brushing it away in the mornidg, as it is poisonous. Powdered sulphur will frequently answer the £ur- ; pose.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCT TIVE LESSON. Reflections of an Elevating- Character-* Wholesome Food for Thought — Studying the Scriptural Lesson Inteliigontlj and Profitably. Peter's Version. The lesson for Sunday, Oct 16, may b« found in Acts 10: 1-20. IN’IRODUCTORY. The proper introduction to this lesson is the closing verse of the preceding chapter, a verse indeed t hat might well have been paragraphed with the lesson of tc-day. We are Coming to the opening of the door to the Gentiles. Coming events cast their shadows before, and this forty-third verse of the ninth chapter of Acts, is a bit of intimation of what is to take place. Peter tarries “at Joppa with one Simon, a tanner,’ 1 a despised tradesman; so considered among the stricter Jews. The bars end barriers, put up by men, are already going down. God is prep iring his servant for the great step that snail declare the way open to all the world. WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. Caesarea. About seventy miles from Jerusalem, on the seacoast. Band. Th< word originally meant anything twisted, as into a band. (Speira). Our word spira! is probably from this. Devout. Literally, well reverencing. —— Much alms. The word in the singulai means compassion, in the plural, acts ol compassion. Prayed to God. He gave alms to the people and prayed to God. This does not mean, however, that he was any more than a good moral man. The word accepted of verso thirty-five, does not necessarily mean saved, but rather a candidate for the bestowment of favor. A vision. A heavenly visitation in broad daylight The word means sight Evidently. Or, in plain view. Ninth hour. Three p, m. Coming in. The clear outlines of the vision. Looked on him. The word means to fix one’s eyes upon. It is used at Luke 4:20. (“The eyes cf all * * were fastened on him”). Lord. In the sense of sir, in courteous address; not necessarily an apprehension of the visitor as Deity. Are come up. The suggestive Greek is, have made an anabasis. Memorial. The same word used of the woman who broke the alabaster box. Matt. 23: 13, Send men. He was a man like that other centurion. (Matt 8: 9), “under authority.” Call for. Another form of the word send used in this same verse. Lodgeth. Root: Guest. A tanner. From the word for hides, a despised calling. Peter has clearly grown more lenient and broad-spirited. lie will toll thee what thou oughtest to do. Omitted from Tischendorf. When the angel. Or, as the angel. He lost no time but obeyed at once. A devout soldier. Suiting the messenger to the errand. -Of those that waited on him continually. Oue word in the Greek, bodyservants. Declared. Better, related. Ho sent them. From this verb comes our word apostle, i. e., sent ones. Such were they, in a sense. On the morrow, 1. e.. they were still going on the next day, the place being about thirty miles distant. So they went. More accurately and luminously, as they were proceeding. Peter wont up. The word anabasb again, (verse four). As they weie approaching Ihiter was Jo I by the Spirit to tlio house-top. Sixth hour. Noon. Hungry. It was dinner time. Would have eaten. Or, wished to eat; better still, was going to oat ——He fell Into a trance. More accurately, a trance fell upon him. Greek: ecstasy. The English word comes directly from this, (ekstasis). Literally it means out of place. While Peter doubteJ. The verb signlSes io bo utterly without away. Vision. Same word as in v. 3. Had made Injuiry. More expressively, having made nquiry (participial form). Stood before he gate, or, made a stand, halted. How fortunate that they came just at that monent. an I that they strictly kept the Lord's sehe lule of time! WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. A certain man in Cmsaerea called Correlius. And now let us not lay too much Hnphasis on the man. He was a good man. jut not a saved man. His prayers and alms jrepare him for the recognition of the treat salvation, but they do n< t save him. A hen Peter at last speaks to him lie tells lirn (v. 43) that he is a sinner just like any me e ss, an I that if he is saved it is by coming to Christ as the Savior of the lost, lie is Lbc first in the procession of Gentile converts who are washed in the blood of the Lamb; that is his distinction. Yet let as learn this subsidiary lesson that alms rnd prayer, while they do not redeem, are ;een of God. They come up to him; and wherein the,’ are sincerely given they are born of him, whose Spirit prepares the way is well as leads into the light Call for one Simon. It. makes little matter who the man is. only And him. There Is a lad down there at the gateway. It is i matter of little consequence who it is, so ae swing the gate open for the coach and ill it contains to pass through. Peter opens 1 the gate to the Gentiles. It is no great , credit to him, though the honor is not small. God has ca led him to it, and to God be the glory. Just now this gateman has teen isleer, and God’s angel lias waked him up, in more senses than one, but just in time to thrust the rude bars aside and swing the neavy gate for the coming in of God’s elect. He is not yet fully awake, though God has ong been preparing him for this. He rubs ais eyes a little, but there it is clear before nis face. The Gentiles, too, have entered .nto the grace of God and into the gift of i;s Spirit Doubting nothing. It is the way we always climb to new apprehensions of the God-head, the way of no doubt The wordj is a particularly interesting one. It lignite; disputing, discriminating, judging. Peter had as it were suspended judgment. Not seeing clearly how or why it ihould be. he was going forward in simple , ! faith and obedience to God’s command. ' Thus do v,e rise to every new plane of Christian life and doctrine. It is the secret >f the prayer for wisdom. For this is the :ame world that is rendered at Jas. 1: 6, ‘nothing wavering.” The man who exi reels xvisdom must ask “in faith, nothing I wavering.” i. e., having nodispute with Go 1 is to the how of it or the why of it. not judgng his own poor and half-blind intelligence. More suggestively still it is the dentical expression used of Abraham. Som. 4: 20, where being promised a son and Hot seeing in himself how the word could i :>e fulfilled, “he staggered not (wavered - >ot, doubted not), through unbelief, but [and notice this) was strong in faith, giving glory to God.” Os course, because only God knew how it could be brought about, md so in his own blindness he trusted God. thus does Peter here. He is going, like •aul, led with sightless eyes into Damas:us. Go forward, Peter, in faith. You are >n the right path. With thee, too, when ihou hast gone into the city, “it shall be 1 old what thou must do.” Next Lesson. — “Fetor at Ctesarea.” Acts .0: 34-48. Masculinities. A man of science in Germany mainains that all our diamonds come iron: neteors. At a wedding at Winchester, Mass., ’ecently, a guest stole some of the pres- ' snts, it it said. Will Knott is the name of a resident [ >f Manchester, N. H. When he is in a lurry he signs his name Won’t. One of the hardest things in life is for i youth to believe that a man older than limself understands anything, but he gets there some day.

IT CAME NATURAL TO SING. How Patti Took Her Lessons fn Private । awl Sung in Public. A Chicago woman tells the follow, fng story of hdl interview with Patti: • “It was in a hotel a good many ' years ago. Just how many I will not 1 sav, but the diva was a young girl of perhaps sixteen summers. She was at the hotel with her sister and ( brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Strakosch. Their rooms were opposite mine, and in one of these rooms was ' a niano where the woman destined to [ become the greatest living singer took her daily lesson. The weather was ; warm and the door of the lesson-room , was frequently left ajar. There was . a long pier glass opposite the piano • and between this and the instrument [ the black-eyed queen kept up a con- ' stant pacing to and fro. She was dressed in some dull material, mak1 ing a stro g contrast for her dark n Jxriuht face and luminous beautiful eyes. She sang as she went the conventional ‘an,’ now running it in cadences down tp those rich clear belllike notes tor which she has always been a marvel to artists, and again tripping lightly from these to the highest note and ending in a soft bird-like trill, at the same time balancing herself on a chair, pulling at her long braids of raven hair and looking at the reflection in the great mirror before her, in a dreamy, unconscious sort of way. “Her teacher was evidently accustomed to this seemingly unusual method of receiving a lesson, for he played on while she went through all these perorations, only looking up when he struck a new chord or exercise to see if she caught up the refrain. She seldom needed correcting and one could almost see in the manner of her tutor that he realized how great and godlike a gift had been bestowed by nature upon this young girl. So she was bound by no conventional rules as another child might have Veen, but was allowed to roam about the great room at will imbibing the necessary musical discipline in an unconscious and perfectly natural manner. “I went soon after this to hear her sing in a great hall where there was a vast throng. She stood on the stage before the baton of her teacher, the only performer, in that same perfectly natural and unconscious manner that belongs alone to perfect genius.” The Cohliiess of Space. I We rarely realize how easily the earth parts with its heat, and how 1 cold space is through which the earth [ sweeps in its orbit. Nor do we coin- ’ monly appreciate how relentlessly [ space sucks away tse heat which the ! eartli has garnered from the sunbeams ! out into its illimitable depths. Away [ out in space is a cold so intense that j we fairly fail to grasp its mear/ng. I Perhaps 300 or 400 degrees below the I freezing point of water, some philoso- : pliers think, are the dark recesses beyond our atmosphere. And night and day, sumijjer and winter, this in- ; satiate space is robbing us of our heat, and fighting with demoniac power to reduce our globe to its own bitter chill. “So, after all, our summer and winter temperatures are only maintained by the residue of the sun's heat which we have been able to store up and keep hold of in spite of the pitiless demands of space. Our margin sometimes gets so reduced on nights in winter that we can readily believe the astronomers and physicists when they tell us that a reduction of the sun’s heat by 7 per cent, and a slight increase in the number of winter days would suffice to bring again to our hemisphere a new age of ice, with its inevitable desolation. The balance is really a nice one between the heat we daily gather from the sun and the share of it which we lose in space.—Harper's Magazine. Too Mucli Attention. Railway ticket agents are not the only people annoyed by foolish questions. A Vermont farmer sent a large black hen to his married daughter, who lives in town and who wished to keep this present as, a pet. The lady put the hen in a coop within sight of the street. Almost immediately a neighbor, passing by, said: “Ah, you have alien, haven’tyou? ' “Yes,” said the lady. “Nice black one, isn't it?” “Yes.” Soon another neighbor came along, and said: “.Whv, you have a hen?” “Yes.” “Just one hen?” “Yes.” “Coal black, isn't it?” “Yes.” In a few minutes another acquaintance came by: “Well, you have a “Bridget,” said the lady to her servant, “kill the hen for supper!” Irrelevant. The carelessness of danger which characterizes certain soldiers does not always extend to the persons about them. The French Marshal, Bugead, was once dictating, very near a battle field, a letter to his Secretary. As the General spoke the words of Ms letter, a bomb from the enemy’s camp fell just in front of the door of the rent. The General went on talking, but the Secretary seized his paper and half rose from his seat. “Why are you stopping?” asked the Marshal. “The b^mb!” gasped the Secretary. “Have i said anything about a bomb?” “No, —but—the bomb—the bomb!” “Now what,” said the Marshal impatientiy. “has the bomb got to do with the letter I am dictating to you?” Go on with your writing!” We resumed his dictation.

IF YOU ARE IN QUEST . OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happenings of the Week— Crimes and Casualties — Suicides-* Ueaths—iVeddin^s, lstc« Minor State Items. Goshen is shippins large quantities of celery. Marion is greatly in need of dwelling houses. Lafayette is overrun with amateur detectives. “Spooney” couples are egged out of Anderson parks. Evansville is giving many excursions to Marengo cave. An unknown man was found dead in the lake at Oakland City. The Wallace circus will spend thecoming winter in Peru, a& usual. Frankfort will have a now high school building iinished Nov. 1. Two burglars were caught in the act of biowing open a safe at LaPort. Cambridge City offers a good location for a lumber yard on a large scale. Two Putnam County men have spent S3OO in Jawing over the possession of a $2 hog. Wesley Hadley, aged 18, was thrown out of a wagon at Russiaville and instantly killed. The State Convention of the Woman's Relief Corps will be held at Crawfordsville on Oct. 20. Rarrv Smith, a brakeman on the E. & T. H., was cut in two while coupling cars near Brazil. Dr Gilliot, a well known Unionville man, fell in his well a few days ago, and his injuries may prove fatal. Charles Patten, near Eminence, in Morgan County, lost two lingers by the accidental discharge of his gun. Muncie may not build her garbage furnace after all. It will cost §IO,OOO to build it and §3,000 a year to operate it Mrs. John Street, living in Bloomfield, was severely gored in the abdomen by a cow. She is in a critical condition. The Presbyterian Church of Shelbyville has extended a call to Rev. A. A. Pfanstiehl of Denver, Col. He will begin work Nov 1. David Blackell was instantly killed at Rosedale, in mine No. 6, by falling slate. The Rosedale mines ciaim a victim every month. W. F, Polk of Needham township, Johnson county, has sixty-five acres of corn which, he says, will average sixtyfiye bushels to the acre. Since the summer killing season came in Indianapolis packers have killed 300,500 hogs against 239.000 during the corresponding period of 1891. Albert Oscar Eastland, a wellknown character in Northern Indiana, died in the county asylum at Valparaiso, of cancer of the tongue, aged 45 years. Berwyn, the 3-year-old son of Howard Fishburn, of Boone Grove, was kicked by a horse, crushing his skull and amputating the left ear. He cannot recover. Thomas Gribble, engineer on the C. & L C., near Sylvania, was fatally injured by the side-bar of his engine breaking and crashing through the cab. A Scottsburg cow, belonging to John Hoagland, swallowed a six-and-a-half-inch knife blade last summer, and it was pulled from her leg the other day, so ’tis said. John 11. Dickson, mine boss at No. 8, Brazil Bloek-coal Company's mine, was mangled 1 y failing slate. Several bones in his body were broken and he was injured. George Nelson of Lake Station, while cleaning out a well, was buried at the bottom by a cave-in. Men began to dig, but the tody was not rcaphed until the next morning. L. B. Moore, who recently killed Henry Tow under very peculiar circumstances, has resigned his positions as town marshal of Mitchell on account of the occurrence. Mrs. Frank Frossard, wife of a farmer residing three miles west of Wabash, dropped dead of heart disease. She was 71 years old and an old resident of Wabash County. “Sheep” Mii.i.er, Richmond, who once boasted the distinction of being the strongest man in eastern Indiana, is now so afflicted with rheumatism that he cau hardly move about. Bertha Schmidt, Fort Wayne, aged 2, fell into a basin of boiling water which her mother had placed on the floor. The little or.e was frightfully burned and died after several spasms. Frank Barr, a well-known young man of Adams, was so badly kicked by a horse that he cannot live. He had gone into the stable to feed the horses xvhen one of them kicked him in the breast. Sell's tiger-wagon caught fire north of Anderson, from a spark from the engine, and for a while it was thought several cages of wild animals would break out and go galloping across the country. A ten-pound cannon-ball was dug up at Fort Wayne, which was identified as a relic of the times when Mad Anthony Wayne was in command thereabouts. It was found ten feet below the surface of the earth. Rorert Hester, an employe of Sells Bros, circus at Greencastle, came near losing an arm while cleaning the tiger's cage. The beast tore the muscle to ribbons. It has already killed two men, and is a real old man-eater. The Standard Oil Company has drilled in on the Graves farm, near Portland, what is said to Le the largest oil well in the State. It is estimated as being good for 500 barrels a day. Seventeen large oil firms are now operating in this field, and it is belived that Portland will received great benefits from the thousands of men who will soon be employed as pumpers and drillers. Thirty thousand acres of land is leased, and oil men are busy leasing more. The annual reunion of the Ninetyninth Indiana Infantry will be held at Peru Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 26 and 27, 1892. The comrades ot the Ninety-ninth at Peru will give the survivors of the old regiment a cordial reception. Dewey Hall, assistant engineer of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago, in charge of construction and bridge work near Delphi, was accidentally killed. He was run over by an engine. His feet had caught in a frog at a switch, throwing him to the track. He was a son of Dr, Hall, a prominent physician ! of Chicago.