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Bloomington Telephone BLQOMINGTON, INDIANA. WALTER S. BRADFUTB, - r PctaraiaM.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

EAST

Complainino of pains in her arms, Mrs. Seeley, of Sardinia, N. Y., applied for relief to a physician, "who, afte? an examination, developed sores and applied poultices, the result being the extraction of forty-six needles or portions of needles from the afflicted members. The woman has no knowledge of how they were introduced into her system. Frank S. Chanfrsu, the well-known actor, died in Jersey City, of apoplexy, aged 65. . . .Breed & Edwards, floor manufacturers of Pittsburgh, have made an assignment to discharge liabilities of $70,000. The assets are $130,000. Theib minds being unbalanced by the Erie Gcvz.ly Savings Bank failure, Leo and Francisco Schroeck, a young Bavarian couple, living at Erie, at the instigation of a fnend, buried all their household goods. They also had Schroeck stripped, preparatory to crucifying him, when discovered by officers. The man was readyto be sacrificed as a penance for a crime alleged to have been perpetrated in Bavaria An incendiary fire at Braddock, Pa., destroyed eleven frame structures, the -loss reaching $25,000. A man was struck by a fire-hook and fatally hurt In a tfcane rush" between the Sophomores and Freshmen of Cornell University, at Ithaca, N. Y., three of the contestants were so seriously hurt that it was found necessary to convey them to their residences in carriages. A Freshman by the name of King was badly used up, and was carried away insensible. Blows and kicks were freely interchanged, and' there were many sufferers from the affray. Over '200 students participated in the rush, and many spectators from the upper classes were present. The Freshmen succeeded In obtaining the disputed cane within an hour. It is thought that the faculty of the institution will prohibit any further contests of the kind, as they are regarded as not only brutal but very dangerous. . . . . At Philadelphia Hancock's storage warehouse was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $500,000, with insurance of $150,000. James Graves from Amsterdam, was arrested in New York for smuggling diamonds. About $15,000 worth of gems were found on him. George Turner, aged 16 years, killed Ernest Gibson, aged 10 years, at Binghamton, N. Y., shooting him with a musket The City Treasurer of Newark, N. J., who died two weeks ago, it turn out vas $70,000 short in his accounts. The late F. B. Hayes, of Boston, left' an estate valued at $11,000,000, which goes to hi son.

that Mormons were excluded txom the Grand Jury, was overruled at Salt Lake by Judge Zane, who stated Chat a man was cot fit to try an accused person who believed the person to be investigated had a right to commit the crinate for which he was called upon to answer. . . .James Dacey was found guilty at Woodstock, 111., of the murder of Ala. Gay nor in Chicago. . . .Capitalists interested' will reorganize 'the Toledo, Cincinnati and 1st.' Louis Bead, make it standard gauge, and place it under first-class manage meut A letter from Fullerton, Nebraska, announces the recent imirder near that place of Mr. and Sirs. Percival, their child, and an employe named Myer The St. Paul Road reports gross earnings of $2,201,000 for September, an amount nearly equal to the same period last yoar A dispatch from Ashland, Wis., says: As

1 the result of the railroad accident at Pike

Creek, near Bayfield, fourteen men were scalded and mangled, seven of whom are dead, and three more will die. ...In the army rifle contest at Leavenworth, Lieut Meniam won the first prize and Lieut. Clay the second. Dr. Paaren, State Veterinarian, visited St Charles, 111., and killed two heifers in the pasture of Washington A. Stewart, which were suffering from pleuro-pneu-monia. The cattle in the adjoining pastures were quarantined. The disease is supposed to have beeu brought into the State by a herd of Jerseys purchased in Baltimore last winter A freight train on the Northern Pacific Koad was thrown from the track into the river at Fond du Lac, Minnesota, and the engineer, fireman, and brakeman were drowned The-quadruple murder in Nance County, Nebraska, is charged upon a young Englishman named Baird, for whose apprehension a reward of $1,000 has been otFered.... Assignments have been made in Cincinnati by Gustave Fox and Exnil Dalheimer, jfewelers, whose liabilities are, respectively, $30,000 and $10,000.

TOVGHIXG the prohibitory law, Judge Hayes instructed the Grand Jury at Muscatine, Iowa, that the buyer of liquor should 6 indicted as well as the seller, which will result in malting the law inoperetive, as no witness can be compelled to criminate himself by giving evidence against a saloon man. He also instructed that any person who, at the instigation of an organization, purchased for the purpose of criminating die seller, should be indicted, and that a true bill' Bhould be returned against the society for conspiracy.... Chicago telegram of Oct 1: "The Chicago com market was wildly excited yesterday on the closing of the September deal. As high as 90 cents per bushel was paid, and $1 was bid at one time without business. A great deal of corn was defaulted on 4 A gust of wind struck the scaffolding from a church in process of erection at Kansas City, hurling six men forty feet to the grounds Two of them, father and son, were seriously and the others severely injured George A. Wilt a lumber merchant of Philadelphia, cut his throat in a Fort Wayne sleeping-car near Lima, Ohio, and leaped from Ate train. When found he was dead. His wife, who had accompanied him on the trp. can give no reason for his aqt . . .In the controversy between Editor Cowles and Bishop Gflmour, at Cleveland, the latter has published a card affirming that Cowles denied his daughter freedom of conscience, but withdraws the charge of brutal treatment A SEKSATZOH was produced in Chicago, the other night by the complete collapse of John $cGullough, the eminent and popular tragedian, while playing upon the stage of MeVieker's Theater, in his great character of Spartaeus, the gladiator. He staggered about the stage like a drunken pass, could not recall his lines, and created the utmost demoralization among the supporting actors. Some of the more ignorant of the audience'added to the confusion by hissing the actor, under the impression that he was intoxicated. His manager has canceled all his engagements for the season Mr., McCullough has been ill for two years, and friends and physicians have urged him to retire from the stage and rest for a season. Hits affliction is a species o nervous prostration that threatens soften ing of the brain and insanity. McCullough's engagement at McVickeVs was for three weeks, and his illness caused the dosing of the bouse for six days. Mr. Newton GottholcT, in his popular character of MkaKg, will fill up the other week. Thb Tri-State Old Settlers' reunion was eld at Keokuk, Iowa, 15,000 people participating. Justice Millar, of the United States Supreme 3ourt, and the Hon. Henry W, Strong, of Chicago, were among the speakers Gov. Ghck, of Kansas, has proclaimed a quarantine of sixty days against cattle from the States of Kentucky, Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri. The importation of Jersey cattle from any State is prohibited. A Chinaman, who is married to a white woman, was granted citizen's papers the othetf day at Clevelind, Ohio. Four years ago he took out his first papers, and Judge Tilden decided that he was not birred out by the anti-Chinese act passed in 1882. . . . .Two persons were killed and a dozen seriously injured by a wild train tailing through a bridge near Ashland, Wisconsin. .. .A shot was fired into the railroad car in which ex-Gov. St John traveled from Carlisle to Terre Haute, Ind., the ball barely missing the Prohibition Presidential can didate. Thb pacer Johnston electrified a small number of spectators at the Chicago Driving Park by making a record of 2:06f. His first quarter wis accomplished in 32 seconds, the second and third each in 31, and the last in 31$ There was a hearty outburst of applaus) over the wonderful feat John Splan was the driver. Minnie It, the pacer, hitched :n a buggy with the runner Firebrand, made a mile in 2:03, Thb demurre r of a Utah Mormon to an indictment for polygamy, on the ground

SOUTH.

Attachments to the amount of $40,000 have been served on the agricultural implement stock of Mitchell & Scrogga of Dallas, Tex., who have a branch house at Fort Worth. At Frenchtown, Md., the other morning, the caisson of a railway bridge, containing seven men, sunk in sixty feet of water. About noon the caisson was floated by air pressure, pumped out, and the men were found alive, but in an exhausted condition, and will recover The will of John W. Garrett makes his sons administrators of an estate valued at $20,000,000. The poor of Baltimore are! to receive $5,000 per annum forever, and the sons during their lives are to disburse $50,000 each year for benevolent or educational purposes. The trustees are to hold for twenty years the family interest of thirty thousand shares in the Baltimore and Ohio Bead, and control it for the commercial benefit of the city. . . . For a week the thermometer tit Lynchburg, Ya., has been at 90, and the drought in the southwestern section of ihe State is without parallel. Forest trees are dying, streams have run dry, and the hay crop hag been destroyed. Stock are being token into Tennessee for water. . . .John H, Flynn, Master Mechanic of the Western and Atlanta Railroad, died at Atlanta, Ga ., in his 57th year. Quarantine has been petitioned for against hogs in several counties of Maryland, large numbers being infected with disease akin to diphtheria. Statem ents are mac e that diseased swine are being slaughtered and shipped in large quantities to Baltimore Owing to the protracted drought in Virginia, the tobacco crop of that State has suffered seriously. Two passengeb trains collided at Clayton, Del., a number of cars being upset and several travelers injured, three fatally. ....Wash Fletcher (colored) was hanged at Paducah, Ky., for the murder of Amanda Jackson in August, 1883. W. H. Richards, Postmaster at Clarksburg, W. Va.f and editor of the Weekly Telegraphy was Bhot by A. C. Osborne. There was a woman in the case.

WAsiiiafcrroiv. It is probable that the court-martial in the case of Gen. Swaim will decide that the charges against him have not been sustained, and will recommend that he be restored to his rank in the army. FoLiiOWiNO is the regular monthly statement of the public debt, issued on the 1st inst.: Interest-bearing" debtFour and one-half per cents $250,000,000 Four per cents. 7i(7.6H4,5C0 Three per cents 304,521,250 Refunding certificates. 270,750 Navy pension fund. 14,000,000 Total Interest-bearing debt. $1,206,476,500 Matured debt $18,616,815 Debt bearin no interest Legal-tender notes. 846,739,356 Certificates of deposit 15,945,000 Gold and silver certificates 244497,31 Fractional currency 6,977.260 Total without interest. $61 3,858.957 Total debt (principal) ..$l,8f,952,272 Total interest. 31,546,104 Total cash in Treasury. 425,031,321 Debt less cash tn Treasury. .'. .$1,425,467,055 Decrease during September 3 2,047,039 Decrease since June 30, 13&4 24,583,186 Current Habl'uties Interest due and unpaid $1,763,508 Debt on which interest has ceased. 18.616,815 Interest thereon 833,706 Gol a and silver certificates. 244,197.341 United States notes held for redemption certificates. 15,945,000 dash balance available, 144,174,949 Total... $425,031,321 Available aBsets Cash In Treasury $425,031,321 Bonds Issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable by United States Principal outstanding. $64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet raid. 9& 352 Interest paid by United States 63,099,504 Interest repaid by companies By transportation service $1,858,095 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings. 655,193 Balance of interest paid by United States 43.586,210 Secbetaby Lincoln has forwarded to William Helms, of Chicago, the will of Private Charles B. Henry, who was shot while in the Greely expedition. The document is written in pencil on a small piece of paper torn from a tablet, and bequeaths his pay to his family. Commissioner Evans, of the Internal Bevenue Department, is to be given a Federal Judgeship before the inauguration of President Arthur's successor.

111., will not accept the Democratic nomination. A Greenback convention at Council Bluffs indorsed the nomination of Pusey,

! Democrat.

The Prohibitionists of Iowa held a State convention at Marshall town and nominated a full electoral ticket Candidates for State officers will be selected by the Executive Committee. In the Georgia election, held on the 1st inst., less than one-third of the vote of the State was polled. There was no opposition to ihe Democratic ticket. , , .At a Democratic mass meeting at Charleston, W. Ya., a drunken man filled into the crowd in front of the speakers' stand. A negro was killed and a white man received a serious wound in the neck..,. Gen J. W. Denver has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Eighth Ohio District. This is the district now represented by ex-Speaker Keifer, The political demonstration at Cincinnati in honor of Blaine and Logan was one of the most imposing ever witnessed in the city. , . , Gov. Cleveland received a grand welcome at Buffalo on the evening of the 2d inst. His arrival was announced by an artillery salute and the shiieks of locomotives. Notwithstanding a steady rain storm, scores of organized clubs from all the western counties joined the ci tizens in a parade past the Genesee House, where they were reviewed by the Presidential candidate. . . . Blaine and Logan have promised to visit the State capital of Illinois on Oct. 24, and preparations are being made to receive them John F. Marsh, of Springfield, who was nominated for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts by the Butlerites, positively declines to accept the honor. . . , Over fifteen thousand people attended a Democratic gathering at Lexington, 111,, the principal speakers being Gov. Hubbard, Gen. Black, Senator McDonald, and Carter Harrison. . . . Ben Butler and Gov. St. John spoke at Indianapolis on the same evening, both having large audiences. . . . At the national convention of "drummers," at Louisville, Joseph Mulhattan, the champion Kentucky liar, was nominated for President of the United States, and Z. T. Collier, of Ohio, for Vice President. The platform favors drummers, workingmen. and prohibition, and the claim is made that they can poll about 5,000,000 votes. We give below a vote of Ohio in Presidential years since the organization of the

Republican party: 1856, October 173,618

1856, President 187.497 170,874 16,623 1860, October 212,854 199,951 12,903 i860, President 231.610 198,637 32,973 1864, October 237,210 182,439 64,7.71 1864, President 265,154 205,568 59,586 1868, October 267,065 249.682 17,383 1868, President 280,128 238,700 41,428 1872, .October 265,930 251,780 14,150 1872, President 281,852 244,321 37,531 1876, October 316,872 311,098 5,774 1876, President 330,689 323,182 7,507 1880, Ootober 362,021 343,016 19,005 1880, President 375.048 340,821 34,227 Douglas and Breckinridge vote combined. $

Dem. Plurality 154,238 19,380

POLITICAL.

Democratic Congressional conventions have placed in the field John Quincy Adams in the Second Massachusetts, and J. Kelson Pidcock in the Fourth New Jersey. The Republicans nominated Henry G. Burleigh in the Eighteenth New York,

E. B. Hayden in the Fifth Massachusetts, and Charles Luhling in the Fifth Wisconsin. Thomas Butterworth, of Kockfoajd,

An acid factory at Natrona, Pa., valued at $100,000, was burned, twenty residences were destroyed by fire at Lachine and at Louisville, Quebec. The Funeral Directors' Association of the United States held its third annual con vention in Chicago last week. ...At San Francisco the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers held their yearly convention, Grand Chief Arthur delivering the annual address. ...At New York the Trustees of thePeabody Educational Fund held their annual session, Geneial Agent Curfy reporting an expenditure of $60,000 in the Southern States during the year. Intelligence has reached London of a terribly disastrous hurricane in Iceland on Sept. 11. The accounts thus far received show that nineteen trading vessels and sixty fishing boats were lost and thirty-two other vessel disabled. The most appalling feature of the hurricane was the loss of life. The exact number of those who perished has not yet been ascertained, but it is known to be very great. . . .business failures for the week numbered 183, against 201 the previous week, and 160 for the corresponding period in 1883 The steamer Texan made the' trip from Liverpool to New Orleans in sixteen days and ten hours the fastest on record. Thb Eat Ax Indians in Northern Canada have made war on the white settlers of Kara Forks. . . .The arrival of the steamship Bothnia at Liverpool cleared up the mystery regarding the disappearnce of Miss Sarah C. Carpenter, daughter of a retired merchant of Liverpool. She took passage as the steamer sailed, and leaped overboard on the second day out. It seems that she was ordered by physicians and her parents to submit to a surgical operation for an incurable malady. FOKEIG. Sib Erasmus Wilson, an eminent British doctor who died recently, bequeathed $1,000,000 to the Royal College of Surgeons, London. The interest on this sum is to be devoted to the education of young men in pathological science It is reported from London that the British Government has paid $80,000 to a Chicago firm for pressed beef for the Soudan expedition The Castle Island branch of the Irish National League expelled its President for shaking hands with the Lord Lieutenant Sixty persons were killed in

j a railway accident on the Eastern Bengal

iiailway. It is reported that Mr. Kussell Young, the American Minister to China, has been trying to negotiate a peace between China and France, but without success. It is stated that Mr. Young acted entirely on his own responsibility and was not requested to act by either power The United Kingdom Alliance, a temperance organization of Great Britain and Ireland, adopted resolutions at a recent meeting congratulating Neal Dow on the success of the prohibition movement in Maine.... The Canadian Minister of Customs has sent an assessor to New York to secure evidence relating to false entries made by watch-case manufacturers, by which large amounts of revenue have been lost. . . .Gen, Gordon has recaptured the city of Berber, in the Soudan, after a vigorous bombardment. The rebels escaped with all their treasure. Several persons in London have been poisoned recently from eating the so-called American oyster.... It is stated that the missionary societies have spent $750,000 for the conversion of the Jews of Palestine since 185J, and that not a single convert has yet olen made . . . . Many of the British naval officers are being accused of petty theft. An investigation into their conduct will be held at an early date. , . .Admiral Courbet has telegraphed to Paris that he has occupied the fortress of Ke-Lung, on the island of Formosa without resistance. The Ldndon Times correspondent at Pekin is assured on the highest authority that China is ready to submit to arbitration ....

i In the trial trip of the new Cunarder, Urn-

I ona, on me Liyaa, fine aiuiinea a maximum speed of twenty-four miles an hour.

...,A fire at the royal palace at Copenhagen, Denmark, destroyed a large amount of property. Ten soldiers are reported to havo been burned to death, . . . Lord Garmoyle'sbreach-of -promise case in London was settled by the payment of $125,000 to Miss Fortescue, who lias surrendered nil letters in her possession connected with the affair. . . .Sir Edward Heed, a noted engineer of England, has published a letter which states that the British navy is not equal to those of some other powers. ....Emigration from tho British Islands during the last six months has been directed toward Australia. America has not received its average number of emigrants.

ADDITIONAL NEWS. A Fbench man-of-war has been directod lo occupy a seaport on the Gulf of Aden. It is thought Egypt will object, and that serious complications may follow. Tammany Hall has made the following Congressional nomin:xtionfl for New York City: Sixth District, N. Muller; Seventh, John J. Adams; Eighth, 8. 8. Cox; Ninth, Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the World; Tenth, Abram S. Hewitt: Eleventh, John J. Hardy; Twelfth, Orlando B. Potter; Thirteenth Egbert L. Veile, Samuel Hobebts, paymaster for Charles Parrish & Co., of Wilkesbarre, Pa., who stole about $100,000, and devoted his stealings about equally between home expenses and religious interests, pleaded guilty to the charges, and the Lackawanna Presbytery deposed him from Eldership and suspended him from communion. ,. .While John Sherry and family were at supper at Edenburg, Pa., five masked men entered, commanded all to hold up their hands, and then bound and gagged them. After securing 0,200 the robbers drove off in a carriage. Information received from Virginia is to the effect that streams and wells are fast drying up. Considerable difficulty is experienced in some sections to get water for cattle. Farmers claim the corn and tobacco crops are ruined by one-third, while others say one-half. In different counties tobacco is being cut down and put in wheat. Damage done the peanut crop immense, Fobty Italian railroad laborers, who demanded their pay, created a riot at Tamworth, Ont, and with knives, clubs, and revolvers chased one of the contractors about the town. The citizens armed themselves and took a hand against the Italians, the fight being a bloody one. The majority of the rioters were wounded, five daugerously, and half a dozen of the citizens were also painfully injured An explosion of gas caused the burning of the Windsor Hotel, at Kingston, Canada. One guest leaped from a third-6tory window, and others barely escaped with their lives. The loss is estimated at $40,000 The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions held its seventy-fifth annual meeting at Columbus, Ohio. The reports showed that more than 400 missionaries are in active service, and that the year's receipts reache nearly $590,000. John McCullough became violently agitated while in St. Louis. He went to the Union Depot to board a train. He declared he would go to New York. The conductor resisted his efforts and McCullough knocked him down. He then got into a buggy and started toward the river, but was overtaken and conveyed to his room in the Southern Hotel, where he be-

j came quiet He is in charge of kind friends,

who will take good care or nun At Newaygo, Mich., A. A, Armtstrong killed his wife and a boarder named George Bates for illicit intimacy, using on nx John Jacobs, a cigar peddler of San Francisco, has fallen heir to a property of $3,500,000 in England Fire at Wallula Junction, Oregon, destroyed seven buildings, the loss being $15,000. A barkeeper perished in the flames

It often happens that a clergyman will forget the name of a child at baptism, but the case of a minister in South Carolina, who purposely miscalled a child, is peculiar. The child's godparents had bestowed tho name "Letitia Adelina Angelina. n The parson calmly said "Mary," a:ad so baptized her. "I hope you will not mind the alteration I have made. I hope it will prove useful to the child in afterlife; so many names are a mistake, M exclaimed the cleryman, coolly. One of the happiest faculties a man can possess is to be able by some opportune remark to pleasantly break the oppressive monotony of silence. Like the kindly word in the midst of an angry discussion, appropriate and felicitous there is a charm about the man who uttersit! THE MARKETS. NEW YOBK. Beeves $6.oo 7.oo Hogs 4.50 6.59 Floub Extra... 3.oo $ 4.00 Wheat No. 2 Spring 84 .86 No. 2 Red 83 .89 CoN No. 2 63 .64 OAT3 White .33 J .39 PoBK New Mess 16.75 (17.25 CHICAGO. Beeves Choice to Pi ime Steers. 7.oo 7.50 Oood Shipping 6.00 rt fl.50 Common to Fair 4.00 $ 5.00 Fos 525 g 6.00 FiOUR Fancy White Winter Ex. 4.25 (e 4.75 Good to Choice Spring. . 4.00 4.50 Wheat No. 2 Spriny 79 (? .so No. 2 Red Winter. 81 ,R2 V Corn No. 2 , 58 ,5'Jh? Oats No. 2 2 i .29 RYE No. 2 .54 .56 Bamjsy No. 2 64 .67 Butter Choice Creamery 26 $ .28 Fine Dairy 20 .24 Cheese Full Cream 11 d& .12J2 Skimmed Flat OS 3l .0:) Unas Freh 17 .13 Potatoes New, per-bo, 25 .30 Pork Mess 16.25 U(.7. Lard 07 .07 3a TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 78 M COKN No. 2 55 .57 Oats No. 2 26 u& .27 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 76 ,77 Corn No. 2 57 & .58 Oats No. 2 28 3 ,m Barney No. 2 58 .60 Pork Measj 15.75 16.25 Lard 7.00 7.50 ST. LOUIS. Wheat No. 2 80 .82 Corn M 1 xed 51 .52 oats No. 2 25 .'27 Rye , 60 .62 Pork Meas 16.25 (16f75 CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 2 Red 81 cm .82 Corn 5fi (.; .58 Oats Mixed 27 .29 IORK Mess 16.75 t?I7.5 Lard 07 072 DKTROIT. FiXHTR .25 5.75 Wheat No. 1 White. 81 (? .82 Corn Mixed 53 .54 Oats No. 2 Mixed 30 :M Pork New Mens 18.00 18.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Red, New ho & .81 Corn Mixed .50 .52 Oats Mixtd 25 .27 EAST L1BKRTY. Cattle Best coo 6.50 Fair 5.. 50 $ coo Common 4.00 d 4.T.0 Hogs.. p. 50 cl uoo SHSEP 4,00 4.50

AGRICULTURAL

L. H. Bailey, a large fruitgrower in Michigan, says that.he can make more money out of apples at 25 cents a bushel, than out of wheat at $1. Let the horses' litter be dry and clean underneath as well as on top. Standing on hot, fermented manure makes the hoofs soft and brings

on lameness. It has been a common opinion that

the horn of the steer or heifer gave indications of the age of the animal, but i;his is now denied by Dr. Stewart, of Xew York, who states that at no time is such evidence to be relied upon. Thk honey locust has been extensively used in Massachusetts for hedges of late years on account of the hardinefss. It is a very vigorous growth and is diili-. cult to keep within proper limits; thorough cutting back is required to secure a thick mass at the bottom. Tup: Hon. C. M. Clay says that the Jerseys are the native cattle of Russia, and lie could load a ileet with them at from $3 to $10 per head. It this ia trtte there is no use in the farmers of the Channel Islands alloAvingthe supply to fall off. It is more than probable if Ave would import directly from Russia little careful judgment would give us a stock of Jerseys that would be harcy, vigorous, and able to "hoe her own row." "Full feeding from the start," says the New York Times, "should be the maxim of the stock feeder, whether his object is beef, mutton, pork, or poultry. Yet there is a way of high feeding by which an enormous carcass of fat is prematurely produced by rich feeding in a short time. And it is a question whether this high feeding is as profitable as a longer period of mor a moderf ate feeding, since it is the moderatelyfed and not overfatted beast which meets the customer's views, rather than the animal which takes the prize at a fat-stock show. Fakmers in New Jersey use goats to protect their sheep from dogs. Two goats can drive away a dozen dogs, and two are about all each farmer puts with his sheep. As soon as a dog enters a field at night the goats attack him, and their butting propensities are too much for the canine, who tinda himself rolling over and over. A few repeti-r tions of this treatment causes: the dog to leave the field, limping and yelling. Formerly, when a dog entered a sheep field at night, the sheep would run wildly around and cry piteously. Since the goats have been used to guard them, they form in line behind the goat and seem to enjoy the fun, Japan clover made its appearance in North Carolina in 1856, and lias since spread to other sections. It is a leguminous, parennial trifoliate, scientifically known as Lespedosa striata, and is said to be excellent for grazing, fattening stock and improving land. It has a deeply penetrating root, and likes a clay soil, growing and thriving on the naked banks of gullies, and brings its supplies from below. It has more ash than clover, half as much potash, twothirds phosphoric acid, and more nitrogenous matter. It thrives hi an exhausted soil, where red clover will not catch at all, and stands the autnmer well. Prof. Failyer, of the Kansas Agricultural College, gives some excellent suggestions in the college paper, the Industrialist He gives the results of his own personal experience: "From a somewhat varied experience in feed

ing ail the ordinary materials., including corn, bran, shorts, rye-chop, corn-chop, and mixed chop, I have come to the conclusion that by plenty of good hay and a mixture of either rye-chops or shorts with cornchop, in the proportion by weight of two of the latter to one of the former, best results in butter are obtained. Turnips and other roots are noted for increasing the yield of miLi. They have not a corresponding effect on the vield of butter; but often have an indirect effect of great value. I have found that for profit one can nol; feed too high, provided always that the food is properly digested. A good cow and none other should be kept will turn this additional feed into butter; and,of course, a greater per cent, is realized on the entire ration." The Chemistry of Ensilage. It is well known that a mass of green corn fodder, or green hay, if piled or stacked up, will soon ferment, heat, and pass into decay. In the silo, the fodder is closely packed, and, the receptacle being air tight, fermentation and heat, instead of encouraging decay, prevent it, and are favorable to the preservation of the mass. The presence of air is necessary to decay, and the complete exclusion of air tends to the preservation of perishable substances. Dr. Thurber says that "in green f coder corn we have a mass of succulent stems and foliage,' in which preparation has been made

for the production of grain. These are

filled with jmces holding in solution the material that would soon 1e deposited in the grain as starch, etc., but now largely in the form of sugar. When the corn plant is cut and packed in the silo, fermentation, the first step in decay, at once begins. By the action of the oxygen of the air upon the sugar and other contents of the stalks, etc., various changes take place, one of which is to produce carbonic acid. This acid is a gas in which a candle cannot burn or any animal live, and in which no further fermentation can occur. If the silo air is tight the very first step in the fermentation of its contents produce a gas that acts as a preservative and prevents further change The more compact the fodder corn, or other succulent material, the less air there will be among it, and the sooner will the fermentation stop. The fermentation not lonly acts upon and changes the composition of the air within the silo, but the fodder itself is acted upou and changed. Sugar, when present in the juices of the forage, is at first converted into alcohol, and, if fermentation continues long enough, acetic acid, or vinegar, will be formed from the alcohol thus produced. If, however, the silo is properly constructed, the walls made of concrete or other material, and the contents be cut fine and Avell packed, and carefully covered with an lir-tight covering, such as a fly of oiled luck cloth, tarpaulin or sail-cloth, upon which is placed eight or ten inches of sand, and the whoie top surface

then covered with boards and jfiW

with about five hundred p JkS of

stone to each square yaro of surface, there cannot be sufficient ah present to allow fermentation to go on to any injurious extent. Injury may occur to the contents of the silo by undue exposure to the air, either while tilling or while feeding out the forage, and gr sat caie is necessarv to prevent d&tmi&re

Lftom tins cause. In the beginning of

ensilage experiments it was supposed that the fodder was subjected by the heat of fermentation to a kind of cooking, and that the plant tissues were thus made tender. The idea is now abandoned, for it is well known that the most successful silos are those in which the least fermentaiion takes place and in which the least heat is produced. Perfect exclusion of the air preserves the contents so far as is possible in the most natural and palatable condition. Kansas City Journal

HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. Howo Keep Pie-crust. Pie-crust can be kept a week, and the last be as good as the first, if put into a tightcovered dish, and kept in a cool place. We have frequently done this, both summer and winter and it has always been successful. Clam Fritters. Two cups of milk, three eggs, two cups creamery buttered flour and fifty clams. Beat the eggs well, stir in the flour, adding the milk slowly while stirring; lastly add the clams, which shoul d be chopped very fine. Fry in hot lard. Boiled Ham. Slice the meat from the ham raw, as thin as you can, then put it into a pan of cold water; set it on the stove in a stew pan and let it come to a boil ; then have your griddle hot, and broil the meat with a little butter dropped into the pan ' and a plentiful sprinkling of black pepper. Fruit Pudding. Chop a pineapple quite fine ; take some cake which is a little dry, rub it fine in your hands, or crush it on a kneading board ; put it into a pudding dish in alternate layers with the pineapple, sweeten abundant ly, mosten with cold water, and bake in a moderate oven for an hour and threequarters. Cantaloupe Pioue. Seven pounds of cantaloupe rind cut from a melon ripe but not soft. Peel thickly: wash and drain thoroughly. To two quarts of vinegar add four pounds of brown sugar, and one ounce each of cinnamon, white ginger, and cloves, with the rind of two lemons Boil the vinegar and sugar together and remove any scum that rises; add the spice and let it boil a few minutes, then put in the fruit and let it boil until the syrup looks a little thick. s Poac hed Eg-gs. Eggs are poached by dropping them raw from the broken shells into a pot of foiling water; lift them from the water in a perforated ladel, and do npt let them remain long enough in the water for the white to be made opaque. The beauty of a poached egg is the visibility of the yellow yolk as seen through the semi-transparent white envelope. Served on a slice of hot buttered toast, and lightly sprinkled with pepper, a poached egg is most appetizing. In tlie spring of the year, a3 a top dressing to boiled greens of any kind, eggs prepared this way are almost universallv liked. Lemon Custard. One quart of milk, four eggs, one cup of sugar, half-tea-spoonful of salt, and heaping teaspoon

ful of cornstarch, the juice and grated yellow of half a lemon. Boil tho milk in a double boiler, heat the yolks and sugar together until they are light, dissolve the starch and salt in a little cold water. Add the cornstarch slowly to the boiling milk. Then stir in the yolks, sugar and lemon. The cornstarch prevents the lemon from curdling the milk, as it sometimes does. Boil five minutes. Pour into jelly glasses when cool. A meringue made of the whites of the egga beaten to a stiff froth, four tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and the juice of half a lemon can be piled on top, with bits pf red currant jelly dotted over it. Studying Art in Munich, Munich, the capital of Bavaria, is one of the great art centers of Europe, Three hundred American students are in the art school. The school is pre sided over by the ablest artists in Europe. One can attend the art school for $50 per year for tuition. Expenses are very low. Many students get along on $350 per year. The course consists of four years. A young man going there should understand cast drawing. That is alL The last year of the coarse is devoted to painting original figure pieces. Models are furnished free, and also studios the last year. The govern ment does everything to foster art. The great gallery, one of the best in Europe, is open to students free. It ranks with the Louvre, the Dresden gallery, and the Hermitage, in St Petersburg. In it is th$ masterpieces of Perugina, the tutor of Raffaelle Cor-, reggio, Tintoretto, Murillo, Van der Werf, Teniers, Eembrandt, Rubens, Titian and Baffaslle. In Munich are many living artists whose pictures sell from $2,000 to $5,000. f Dickens' Appaling Taste in Dress. When in 1839, Dickens was called for (as the author of the libretto) on the first night of John Hullah's opera, he wore a swallow-tail coat with gilt but tons, crimson velvet waist-coat, black satin stock, two breastpin conjoined by a little gold chain, a large gold chain meandering over his waistcoat, black kerseymere pantaloons silk stockings, and pumps, and yellow kid gloves. His

taste in dress was appalling. Howard Paul relates that, Dickens having called but left no name, he asked the servant: What sort of looking person was ho?v The reply was: "I should say, sir, a respectable kind of gasman,9' Portland Transscript A Thousand to One. I believe that for one woman whom the pursuits of literature, the ambition of authorship, and the love of fame have rendered unfit tor home life, a thousand have been made undomestie by poor social striving, tho follies of fashion, and the intoxicating distinction which mere personal bounty 00 u era. Of ace Greenicooil

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