St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 24, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 December 1893 — Page 7

DOMESTIC ECONOMY. TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Fall Plowing Is for Some Kinds of Land Very Desirable—Be Liberal with the Cows ~—The ¢Little Farm Well Tilled”—Low Yields of Corn. Fall Plowing, A great deal had been written hoth in favor of and in opposition to plowing ip the fall. A large part of this writing has been done by practical farmers who have based their opinlons upon the results of many tests of the subject regarding which they have expressed their views. 2 The writers were fully qualified to judge | and their reports are certainly worthy of consideration, At first glance it seems as if one of the parties making these conflicting reports must be jn the wrong. But when we take into account the great variation there is in thé mechanical condition of the soil in diierent localities, and . sometimes in different flelds of the - ame farm, and remembeér that simlar causes afdect these diverse soils g ifferently, we can readily unD s 47‘""‘5&!!“-';“-_ v-. .- B *F&directly opposed to each other| th may be correct. : ~~ 1t is undoubtedly true that some soils are not benefitted, either mechanicaily or otherwise, by fall plowing. The writer ocnce helped subdue a fleld which had not been plowed for a long period and which was well | fllled with the roots of coarse grass. The plowing was commenced in the iail but was not finished until spring. The part plowed in the fall, though naturally like the remainder of the field, proved much more difticult to . cultivate taan that which was turned , over in the spring and at once fitted for planting. With some soils the | result would have been exact!y oppo- | site and the part plowed in the fall would have been much easier to work than the other. Then there are soils , which are naturally light and dry, the fertility of which is impaired by | plowing in the fall; and fields which | are liable to wash, may be, and often | have Leen, seriously injured by work- ' ing at th s season. ’ On the other hand, there are soils, [ such as stiff clay and heavy loams, ] which are greatly benefitted by being i piowed in the fall. A freer circula- | tion of the air is secured, the surplus | water is removed much mcre readily | than it can Le from an unplowed‘ fleld, and much of the soil will be! finely pulverized by the frost. All these | things will be beneficial and there‘ will be the additional advantage of having the land in cordition to work 1’ | much earlier in the spring than it| could te if it were not plowed in | the fall. Then, too, the work ot plowing can Lie more easily done in the fail than it can be in the spring | i "Phe-wall abb which often | 'ustmg“)“j p the teams. [esides, the |, spring is always a busy s&uSt d_if | « left until then the work is likely to be performed with less care than itis !, ..5 | € if done during the comparative leisure | of lateautumn. Consequently,though X fall plowing is not to be indiscriminately adopted, and on some soils | ; should never be practiced, it is for 1 some kinds of land and under certain | | conditions, very desirable.—John E. |, Read, in Agricultural Epstomist. L Small Farms. g When the farmers of the United States fully understand that real! prosperity attends the ‘*‘little farm | well tilled” we shall sce a larger num- | ber of small farms. One of our most | successful truck farmers (now a re- | tired money lender) had only thirteen acres. He raised a large family of children, giving to oneson a $5,000 farm and to anothera $2,500 farm, and always had a good large bank deposit and money out at interest, and all from the cultivation of only | thirteen acres of land. One year he sold $l,lOO worth of lettuce from one | acre of land. As all thelabor on said | acre was performed by members of the family there was ncthing to’ charge against the crop, except seced and fetilizer, which left nearlyj all the gross sales as the profits. ~up- ; pose such a man had attempted to | cultivate 130 acres instead of thirteen, | where would he be now?—surely not 1 lending money. His case illustrates ! clearly the advantage of intensive | farming. In his case the numler of | ; Rt gezoh t OO 1 Tuck | 1f we can get four times the present | number of farmers at work on the same number of acres as at present are under cultivation, the prosperity of the farmer will be assured. Os course, we know there are seetions of the country- where, from the nature | of things, the farms must be larger that at ovther places. DBut if the old | estates.of the : outh werecut upinto four, six, or even ten smaller farms, | and each subdivision occupied by a ! good worker, we should speedily sece | the routhern ‘‘wilderness blossoming ! like the rose.” The rtrucking sec- | tions of the Sfouth, as well as those! further North, have roached thestage to show most clearly the truth of the | statement that the intensive farmer | will be found doing a successful busi- | ness at the old stand long after the | excensive neighbor has gone *“‘out” of the work. Not more farmers, but better, are now needed.—Virginia | (Cor.) Country Gentleman. j Be Liberal with the Cows, There is no foolishness worse than that of being stingy with cows. 1t is | an attempt to get something out of nothing, which never has and never| can be done. Cows that are fat will, | if they are pood milkers, gradually lose their surplus fat, which will go into the milk pail. But aside from | this, every ounce of either fat or al- ‘ bumen in the milk that a cow furpishes must come through the food |

. e R I R W S PG S WA P LR P S she eats. CP. Goodrich in Hoard’s . Dairyman relates the following incident, showing huw short sighted farmers may be: ¢‘‘There was a man on a farm near my place; he had the farm four or five years. He was paid S4OO a year to run the farm by the owner. The owner asked me to talk to him about taking good care of the cows, feeding, ete. I talked to him about feeding, watering, cleaning, and taking care of them, and he did first rate with the cows. Now this man thought that because there was so much money made keeping cows that he would run in debt for the farm, so he bought it. He had some good cows, but do yosu suppose he ‘ kept on feeding the way he had been? No, indeed. I asked him what he got from those cows, and he tells me I that $24 was all he got per cow, and he says, ‘I wish I was not so poor, so I could feed.’ I tell him he will always be poor if he doesn't feed. I tell him to run in debt and get some feed, or else kill his cows and be done with it.” Low Yields of Corn. It is surprising how low the average vields of corn are, taking the | country.as a whole, Twenty-two to 23 bushels per acre is the yield reported for 1892, and yet with good culturc and manuring yields of more - ‘been attained. No crop has its yield increased more certainly than corn by manuring and thorough culture. The soil cannot he made too rich for corn, as it easily may for any of the ‘smaller grains. The average yield of ‘this crop is, therefore, a fair test of the increass or decrease of soil fertility. It is doubtless growing hard- l er to secure large corn crops than it | used to be. The longer land is cul- | tivated with poor management thel less vegetable matter it contains. | So long as soil is full of its criginal | supply of decaying roots good corn | crops are grown. Now the old con- ‘ ditions must be supplied by manure and the plowing under of clover. | } How to Repair Fenceposts. 1 ~ An exchange tells of a careful farmer who, when his grape trellis ‘ ‘losts rotted off, dug cown into the earth where the post was still solid, ‘and then cut the post half in two a 1 foot or fifteen inches below the ‘ground and then fastened to this half | ‘an upright post of the height de. sired. 1f the post below was mostly rotted off,he used to reverse the post, putting the top side in the ground | and then mortise to it above the sur- | face. In this way he made each | post do double duty. The rotting | off of posts is almost always just at ] the surface, and by putting bolts | through each half and thus fastening them together the end will last as , long as did the original posts at the ‘ surface. Making More Lean Meat, ’ The Irishman’s notion that he | could make a streak of fat and a | streak of lean in his pig by stuiling one day and starving the next seems } to prevail yet among certain farmers. | They starve their pigs through the ! garly part of their life after weaning, and then on a poor frame at the age 3 of a yearer.lß months they pile on | all the fat they can by feeding coru. | Pork so made must cost more than ‘ it can be sold for. Thrifty growth | from the beginning, with milk and wheat middlings as the main feed, l will keep pizs always fit to kill, and | yet always baving a due proportion | of lean meat. It is the kind of feed ; that is responsibie for the character | of the tlesh iy produces. ! Li;.'c Stock Notes. 3 Tue careful farmer providesshelter | cf some kind for all of his stock. | Ir a young sow is bred, she should have a good rest before she is bred again. MANXNY a farm can be run to a better advantage without a dog than without a pig. ImprorPEß feeding is the cause in nine cases out of ten of sickness among the horses. BREEDING too young is rather apt to check development than to stamp it on the offspring. GROUND oats and rye, with a little cornmeal added, makes a good ration for the young brood mares. Tne surface of the body constantly gives off heat and the colder the air the more heat given off. BrAN, when its manurial value 18 | considered, is one of the cheapest feeds that can be fed to animals. w Tnenrn: is considerable difference in the appearance of a lean, thrifty pig and a lean, poverty stricken one. NATURE'Ss way with all youns animals is to push growth to make bone and Irame at the expense of flesh. - EvERY successful stock feeder knows how necessary it is for an ani'mal fattening to be regular at its feed. . Tue shorter we can make the corn feeding time in the fall, the less of - hard labor for the men and teams on the farm. . 1r you want the good of the -calf, above all else you will 12t it have its mother’s milk:; from nothing else will | it thrive so well. | IN order to make good beef and ' make it early, the ste dy feeding of the most suitable toods from the very first is very necessary. | Do ~or allow dug wallows to be { made around the watering tanks, as | troughs: in addition to the filthiness, there is danger of injury from falling later on. | T watering of the horses, and, lin fact. of all kinds of stoek, 18 of | more importance than is usually at- | tached to it and care should be taken to have the arrangements as clean cand comfortable as possible. ‘ AprrLEs were worth from one shill | ing to two shillings each in the reign | of Henry VIL

P B b R S T R S S MRO THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TN e i SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. . G T .i i A SBcholarly Exposition of the Lesson—! Thoughts Worthy of Calm Reflection— Half an How's Study of the Scriptures— l Time Well Spent. i The Last Sunday of the Year. l We have reached the last Sunday ot | the year; let us glance backward and . forward a little. The International I Series have taken us in the past twelve ' months over an interesting and prcfit- ! able course of Bible study. The first . six months were spent on the Old Y'es- ’ tament, the second six months on the { New. The period cf Old Testament history taken up was that which be-’ longed pa-ticularly to the tintes immediately following the captivity with ' the suggestive lessons of revival and reconstruction involved. The New | Testament period under study has been | that of the epistles, the time of s[iiritunal and doctrinal development following upon the first proclamation of the i gospel. Surely this has been fruitful ?nstruction for us all. And now we go back to the Old Testament afa.in for six months’ study of the childhood of | the race. After that the lifeof CHIEES. | But it is all about Christ from begii _ Iningtoend .ol ss Sl 1 0 u’-’ box Review. wfa? LESSONS FROMTHE JOO. Tesscn I The Power cf the O Rom. i. 817. o Golden Text: “; an not ashamed of the gospel of Chriit: for it is the pewer | of God nnto salvation to every cna that | believeth. Rom. i. 16. Lesson 11. Rcdamption in ;M lßom. iii. 16-26. | Golden Text: “Fe ng justifiedTiecly i by his grace through t:e redemption | thas is in Christ Jesus.” Rom. iil 24, s l Lesson 111. Justiication by Faith. L Rom v -1 I Geolder Text: “Whily we were yeb sinners, Cin'st died for us.” Rom. v. 8. | Les onIV. Chri-tian Living. Romd P xil. 1-15, 2 4 ' Golden Text: ‘B> not av:icome o i evil, but overcowe evil with good. ißom. Xailsngl | Les:on V. Ab:tinence for the Sake Los Others. 1 Cox xill 1430 * | Golden Text. “We then that are i strong cught to bear the infirmities of % i the weak, and not to p'ease ourselves.” | { Rom. 15 : 1. | | Lesson VI. The Resuriection. 1] i Cor. 15 : 12-26. ! Golden Text. “Thanks be to God | which giveth us the victory through | our Lovd Jesus Christ.” 1 Cor. 15 : 57, | Lesson VIIL The Grace of Liber- | tality, 2Cer, 8:112 i Golden Text. “He became poor, that ! ye through his poverty might be rich.” | |2 Cor. 8 : 9. ' | Lesson VIIL. Imitation of Christ. | { Eph. 4 : 20-32, ! | "Golden Text. “And bo ve kind one | ’to another, even as God for Christ's | sake hath forgiven you.” Eph. 4:32, | l Lesson IX. The Christian Home, ' Col 3 126 I ; Golden Text. “I will walk within ! &my h)nusc with a perfect heart.” "Ps. 4 | 101‘. e e Grateful Obedience.® } James 1: 16-27, Golden Text. “We love him because {he first loved vs.” 1 John 4-19. ’ Tesson XI. The Eeavenly Inheritance. 1 .Pet, 1:1-12, i | Golden Toxt. “Giving thanks unto | { the Father, which hath made us meet | !to ba partakers of the inheritance of | I'the saints in light,” Col. 1: 12 | 1 HINTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. I | Have a little talk over the lessons as ] ' @ whole. How a e yvou enjoying them? ! | What are vou ¢ etting out of them? ; | Tell something ior example you had 1 i impresred upon you by the Seripture of ! the quarter or the year. Which lesson ! : helped you mest? One will speak of an | ! Old Testament portion: another of a | | New Testament Scripture. Both are | | good—alike gocd. Neither part is par- | i ticularly adapted to any srecial age. | !Tt is in the estimation of the writer, a } | ruinous theory that one part of the l | Bible is for the children and another | i for the older grewn. It is all inspired | | by the same Spirit, ever youthful and ! ever mature, ard there are lessons, | ' differing of course as needs differ, for l " every pericd of life in every portion of | | God’s word. Oftenest the children L will call for Old Te:stament pictures. { Let us, as wise householders, bring | forth from the store-house things new i and old. 1 | Review day is a gcod day for the use 'of the blackboard. Never mind the ico]ored crayon. Artistic work is not I needed; indeed, is scarcely desirable. | As executed before the schcol, it calls | attention rather to the artist than to his theme. B. F. Jacobs tells of his experience here He saw a Sundayschool worker one day put down a dot on the board for a marble, a cross mark for a boy, and ancther dot for another | marble.” “There,” said Mr. Jacobs, "I‘< ; can do that tco: right there I gradui ated.” How well the President of the I World’s Sunday-school (.‘onve’nfion,c* ' nze the chalk! IHow practically anji ; graphically, but with simple streke ! and outlines, all who have seen him lat the blackboard can testify. Try it | yourself. | It isideas we want from the black- { board, not pictures, not acrostics. Here {we have,,for one theme, the lesscns | from the epistles. Put downa word opr |2 letter for each lesson or each text, | occasionally a book, or a boat, or a box, | or something similar, for a mnemonie | sketch or symbol. Keep the eyes and | so keep the cars of the school to the | front. Call for some remembered texts | from the lessons of the quarter and | make an oft-hand chapter out of them, | using the initial word with which to | recall them: then all recite in concert, ! Make an initial cutline. Ask which ! lesson was the occasion of the happiest i day of the quarter. | s e ‘ | Next ILesson—“The First Adam.” | Gen. 1: 26-31; 2: 1-8. | l THE powerful instrument known ag | the “Bruce” telescope, which has been ilau_ilmng for scme time.paa‘c at Cam-,brldg“-pnr., :\Xu:s,. and is now almost completed, is destined for Arequipa, i Peru, for the observatory maintained i at that place, under the charge of Prof, l Pickering, by Harvard University. | I THE spider is known to be a success- | | ful builder of bridges, and it is reportled in a St. Louis newspaper that g | large spider m\ de a bridge clear across I the Meremac River, a distance of 200 | feet, near where the Missouri Pacifig ' bridge spans the stream. ‘

R P T D Y SR TS }, TOO MANY RISKS TO TAKE j | This Was the Trouble with Pasteur's Rab- | 2t Extermination Scheme. In writing about the Australian Tabbit plague and the efforts of tha | | New South Wales Government to put |, -an end to it, Mr. J. N. lngram says f “in Lippincott’s Magazine: | l Pasteur in France found leisure to | give the subject some reflection, and | i thought he saw away to accommo- : idane New South Wales. He opened | ;negotiatlons with the colony, offer- | ing to undertake the extermination | of its rabbits by inoculation. The | ;animals were to be swept from the face of the eartl. by hydrophebia. A |' few of them were to be inoculated ' and set free. These were expected to | bite the healthy ones. and they in | turn to fasten their teeth in their | ' comrades until, by suc essive biting, | Ithe entire rabbit population would | be inoculated and the land finally relieved of their noxions presence. | The proposal wa. consigered by the | 1 colonial government, Pasteie. was | notified to send on hijg expertg s and | i start operaticas. The specialists™of | - g™ Sclentist arrived in Aus | Moos |ih their hypodermic ¥ 8.22€8. The rabbits wer S SOoy ‘filquisicive SHE ¢on hang. ; @essions to parties haq gopg |tt g Propound. Tjg : 10w, before observyij Wished tg S 0 2 e PS the spec. | W g vdC R Y o 3 bbit)s, whethT™ = [ ; an P gnal®would not be eaten by dogs and | j hus communicate rabies to the |- fcanines. They wished ~to know, | ‘further, whether or mot the dogs,‘ Ewou]d then hite the sheep and cattle, ' &,flnish up w:th the people, and afford l ‘the undesirable phenomenon of a | continent where animais and people | were alike afflicted with rabies. xF ki! pre eedings were suspended. | Further objections were heard. The | adverse arguments were considered | sound. The Pasteur nvertures were | rejected. 'The colony concluded that | it preferred to keep its rabbits andt have its human and lower animals in | their right minds, rather than risk ! indiscriminate hydrophobia. | | The French experts returned over | { thessscas with their hypodermic ! | ayrimdes he bunnies (ontinued to . }lhuld high carnival among the gard- g ifens and wheat fields: é ‘i Queer Things About Frogs. ™”; | A curious thing about frogs is that | | the larger part of the breathing is§ ' done through the skin. In fact, it is | ! said that this supply of air is a nec- ’ essary addition to that taken in byi ' ordinary brea hing, as the latter does ! ! not supply sutlicient air to support | | life ina frog. } . Another peculiar thing about the ! - skin of the frog is its powerful ab- | . sorption of water. This is due, ufi ' course, to the numberless pores with | i which their skin is provided. It has ‘ ! been proved that a frog can thus| Soak up its weight in water io an | . RR AR ‘is\ nost active in this way, and, av Lhel same time, is most often in contact | with moisture, such as mu!, dewy | | grass, wet ground. and icaves afford. | As the skin perspires quite as freely |as it absorbs, it is easily seen why { contact with moisture is 50 neces- | sary. Besides the loss from evapora- | : tion, there is the stopping of skin | g breathing also, because the skin has f | to be kept moist and soft to absorb | | fresh air and give off used air from | the system. The soaking of water is | | what gives the frog’s skin sucha' ! cold, clammy, and uncomfortab:e | | feeling when bandled. And it ex- | | plains anotherstrange thing. Though { i a bullfrog were poked with a red-hat | i iron, it would not feel it cnough ‘to ‘ { move out of its tracks; for the moist- | | ure of the skin forms a kind of film of | | vapor between it and theiron, which | g takes time to heat through; and >01( ! the frog would not fe 1 pain from the | ‘ heat. Yet, if hot water is dropped | {upon him, he will instantly qup‘i { from pain,as this heat at once strikes i { into the skin. a | A frog has another safeguard ! | aga‘nst drying up—that is, a Kind of ‘ ‘ interior sack for storing water. Like i { the camel, it thus keeps a supply | %which carries it over many a dry} 1 place, when it would otherwise lose | | all its moisture and die. The water | | is as pure and tasteless as that of| t any spring. | g Iyt, = isn said that in Australia | { there is a species of frog that pre-‘ pares for a drouth in a wonderful J way. Sometimes the traveller suffering from thirst will come to a bush, ' and digging iteg the ground a foot or * two, will fadd® 10y hall. He eracts it open, and out jumps a frog!| - Stranger still, inside the ball is| f found a good drink of pure water! | | And with this the man quenches his | | thirst. | \ e e : { Oranges for Export. I ! American oranges are being in-| }troniuced into England, and if t,hef | experiment proves successful tin;m-; cially shipments will be made to]| i Holland and Beigium, and jerhaps| | also to North Germany. The fruit is | | shipped from Jacksonville, Fla., to , New York or Philadelphia, where 1[ | ig resorted and repacked for the trip| { across the ocean. The first ship-| | ment from Jacksonville was made ! | September 2i, and the oranges sold | tin Liverpool October ¢, -at prices | g ranging from 11 to 16 shillings per | ! box, the average price being 13 shil- ! i lings—about $3.15/ 1 { The cuiture of oranges has grown | | enormously in Florida since 1885, | ! when the yield was less than 1,000,- | 000 boxes. The annual produce has | increased every year, with a single | exception, and the crop was cut short ’ that year by cold weatker, This | year’s crop is estimated at 4,500,000 ; i boxes, an increase of 500 rer cent. in i eight years. 1f this rate is kept up | l for another eight years Florida will | | be able to supply all Europe with | ' oranges and have enough left for I ; home_ consumption. —St. Louis Re- " public.

O R PR R T PARS AR e T ———— WORTH MORE THAN A HORSE. Mules Average Higher in P.very State of the Union Except Oregon. If nobility may be estimated in dollars, the mule is a nobler animal than the horse, says the New York Sun. Yet there are no autumnal mule shows, and even if there were, it is hardly probable that foweradorned young women would make a practice of patting the prize animal. The only way to pat a mule, a cording to the Texas code, is with a fence rail or a board. The man who collected horse and mule stat stics for the census report shows tn the average price of a mule is $7 more than the average price of a hor:se. The ordinary mule in North Carolina. which owns about 55,000 of the longeared beasts, is worth about S9O; the average price of a horse in the same State is about $79. Texas probably Yas more mules (about 200,000) than any other state. The average price is about 841, or nearly twice the | value ot a Texas horse. In Missouri mules are worth about $7 more and | in Kentucky about $3 more than horses. Only a few States have no mules, cr so few that the Statistician Widn't make a note of them. One ot hetßStates mmp&% Island, which Qg mul L ;;.g.\ sol Texas doubtless Bl e = 107 sBUNE g — i S A funi is tINQ R o avollg 2 herses bring highes *PoeeNemgw mulcs. The ordinary mule out there is worth $46 and the horses 851. The figures for California are: Mules, $67; horses, Bsi6. In Pennsylvania, where mules, famous for longevity, are much used in the mines, they bring about SB6; horses, $57. 1n this State there are seventy times as many horses as there are mules, which number about 14,000. A New Yorx mule js worth s9l and a horse $76. Mules are prizes more in New Jersey than in| any other State, the average price | being about $lO6, or S3O more thar | horses, lilinois has about 140,000 mules, or more than any othez='Western State. Wierd Story of the Alps. After thirteen long years, the glacier of Roserline, above Meiringen, has told the sequel of an old Alpine mystery. In 1880, one Dr. Haller -and two guides of Grindelwald, made an ascent from which they never returned; but now the siowly moving bed of ice has given up its secret and brought forth a dead man—one of Dr. Haller’'s unfortunate party, but whether the professor himself or a guide it is no longer possible to determine. A drinking-cup of oldfashioned manufacture and a wagni-fying-glass were tound besice the corpse. The incident recalls, perhaps, one of the most pathetic tales recorded of Aipine disaster—that in which a glacier after many years brings to the light a corpse, fresh and voung agmmfiy\ ‘ancient dame—the lover o | guide recognizes her sweetheart, lost so long. Time has stood still ; with him—for forty years he has¢ ]| slept in the ice—and she, giown old i and withered with burden of long | life and luch so row, recognizes herl lover of half a century ago. Lauicy Stone's Marriage. ! The marriage of Lucy Stone W}i!i the most romantic thing in her career. Having dedicated herself to' the cause of woman suifrage, she hadi determincd never to marry. But | Henry B. Blackwell, a young hard- | ware merchant, of Cincinnati, whd i ' had heard her speak at a legis]ativc; ; hearing in favor of the reform. was| equally determined to make her lis- | ' ten to his suit. On his pointing out | | that together they could accomplish | l more for woman’s emancipation Lhan! |in any other way, she consented to] | be his wife, but st'pulated that the | ceremony be performed by a mimstcr‘ g who would not use the.word "‘oflbey.” | { They had to send thirty miles Lo\ ! ind one, and be proved tobe Thomas ‘ Wentworth Higginson. At the time] | of their marriage they issued a_joint | protest against the inequalities otg % the law which gave the husband the i control of his wife’s property, person i and children. This protest, which | was widely published in the papers, | gave rise to much discussion. and | was an ail in the amendment of the ‘ laws. e | Expenses and Revenues of Great ‘ Britain. | Great Britain, that is the United | Kingdom. costs. aboub $440,000,000 ; annually in the way of expenses of i Government. This immense sum i 3 i made up in a variety of ways. Duties !on tobacco yieid about $590,000,000, ! iand those on tea, coffee, currants, { raisins, imported spirits and a few i other articles yield ahout the same tamount. Taxes on the sale of spirfit»:.. heer, stamps, ete.. as well as the ! taa on railwavs farnish a large reveinue. The inceme and property ! taxes yield nearly $100,000,000. In | addition to the furegoing the post- | otlice vields about $30,00¢,000, while | the telegraph and crown lands add i largely to the revenues of the King- ' dom. The Art of Interruption. ! A well-bred Frenchman is nothing |if not polite. At a rocent soiree the !suhject of ladies’ ages was being dis- | cussed. ! “And how old should you take me |to be?” queried a fine-looking dame 3of a male acqguaintance of French i birth. : | “Pardon, madam, but 1 cannot | guess,” answered the gentleman. { “Then, monsieur, 1 will tell you,” isaid the lady. ‘‘Yesterday was my | birthday, and I am just——" I ‘lndeed, but you don’t look it,” 5 gallantly intejrupted the other with i an eloquent shruz.—Toronto >ail | WvERYONE knows something he pan't tell,

e e INDIANA INCIDENTS. & CIDENTS. T — — SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECGRDCED. e——— An Interesting Sammary of the More Im. portant Dolags of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Beaths—Crisnes, Casualties and General News Notes. Condensed state News. THElake steamer Meeks was wrecked near Michigan City. Loss, £125,000. ‘THE store of John L. Mcore and O. M. Gardner, at Mellott, burned. Loss, £6,000. THER: are twenty-twoinmates in the Lake County Poor House, the largest number in may years. ABE WISHARD, a well-known horse man, committed suicide at Bono, by hanging. Cause unknown. PETER ELLIS and wife, zged 79 and 73 respectively, died within an hour of each other near Union City. GEORGE WEBB, freight conductor on the Wabash road. fell under the cars near Wabash, and was instantly killed. MARK GAGE, 11 years old. fell through the ice, while skating an the Mississinewa at Marion, and was drowned. near msdperry. 1t issaid that he was drunk and got lost in the woods. BUTNER & WILSON's hardware store and Hutchine & Foster’s grocery store, Lebanon, were burglarized the other night. The safe’s were blown open but only about sl6 was taken. THE Western Glass Works at Marion were destroyed by fire, throwing 175 men out of emplovment. The fire is supposed to have originated from a gas jet turned against a wooden wall. The loss is about $6,600, covered by insurance. THE Pendleton glass tube and pipe works were destroyed by fire. Loss, SIO,OOO. The company is composed largely of Indianapo is capitalists, several of the State officials being heavy stockhoiders. They will rebuild the plant. : THE Columbia Encaustic Tile Company of Anderson has just turned out the largest embossed enameled tile ever manufactured in the TUnited _ States. The tile is 30x12 inches ~=3"% has ten figures perfectly wroug < in relief. : GEORGE GOODENOUGH, for \ : years a locomotive engineer with t } Pennsylvania road, but retired on account of defective hearing. was run down by a Nickel Plate passenger train at Ewing street, Fort Wayne, and so badly injured that he died shortly after. THE ‘“‘official” scale of prices of a Southern Indiana paper is as follows: One year—seventy eggs, tresh, of course: fourteen pounds of steak, not to be tougher than sole leather: two bushels of potatoes, Irish preferred, as ‘the editor is of that descent or ouehalf cord of wood, dry enough to burn. i THE building formerly occupied by the Chicago Ax and Tool Company at ond has been leased by Messrs. %fl@‘\flfim&aw (ol S e about the Ist of January. A ne¥ pn,. cess will be used, which these gentle- ' men claim, will convert a cowhide into leather in ten days. Employment will be furnished for a large force of men. JAmMES ROBINSON, an old man of 80 vears, who lived by himself. in the north part of Lafayette was last seen alive last week. Relatives went tothe - house the other night to see if he was in need of anything and found the octo- ‘ genarian lying on the floor stark and stiff. It could not be told how long he had been dead, but the rats had been at the body, and had eaten away the ears partially, and gnawed the forehead and fingers. | AT Otwell, Pike County, severalmen | congregated at Alexander Howey's sa- { loon, when George Campbell and J. ' W. Phelps began quarreling over a !lovu affair. Seceing that there would i probably be r:'(»tlhlc: George Deßruler, | a bystander, intm“lc‘.‘c(l as a peacei maker and snatched a pistol from Campbell's hands as he was about to ‘use it. This enraged Campbell, and, snatching an ice pick, he tried to dispatch Deßruler, who to save himself, fired a ball from Campbell’s pistol into its owner's brain. The wound was fatal in four hours, and Deßruler isin i jail charged with murder. | A SEVERE windstorm that came from the southwest struck Muncie the other nicht. The most damage was done on the publie square. C.S. Wachtell & Son's business block, on the north side of the square, was partially wrecked. Two-thirds of the immense roof was raised and carried a hundred feet east, where it dropped on the new Times building damaging it seriously. Wachte l's building is a new three-story structure. The Small Block and other buildings were slightly damaged. | 3 - ) nao - killed. The telegraph, telephone, and electric street-car and light wires are down, street ears were stopped and many lights and telephones are use- ‘ less. THE Indiana State Grange in session at Seymour, elected the following officers to serve the ensuing year: Master, Aaron Jones of South Bend; Overseer, J. S. Davis of Columbus: Lecturer, ¥. S. S. Robinson of Cloverdale: Steward, Hiram Henderson of Heltonville: Assistant Steward, R. J. McCallion of Attica; Chaplain, Milten Trusler of Bently: Treasurer, J. W. Holmes of Cortland: Secretary, J. H. Walker of Adams; Gate keeper, O. M. Curry of Terre Haute; Cerus, Lizzie A. Reufi: Pomono, Mrs. A. R. M. Sawden: Flora, Laura Robinson of Cloverdale: Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs. John Hays of Frankfort: Executive Committee, T. H. Walinoton of Madison: John Tilson of Franklin, and L. S. ¥Fitch ot Oakwood. THE Muncie society women who proprosed giving a charity ball are just too angry. The church organizations do not favor a dance and the Charity | Organization Society has published a t card stating that it isnot identified } with the proposed ball. | WiLLiaMm N. WOLFE, a barber at Fontanet, was crushed to death under ! a Big Four locomotive on a coal mine branch. The engine turned over on its side at a bad place in the track and Wolfe, who was riding cn it, was horribly mangled. The tireman escaped by jumping and the engineer was saved by hanging out of the cab window.