Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 August 1893 — Page 2

THE TELEPUME.

By Waltkr B&aofutx.

BIX)OMINGTON -V INDIANA

TOO VALUABLE TO SELL, Wbor? Property Can Scarcely JSe Bougtit for Ixve or Money. Chicago Post. There are twenty or thirty great business centers in the City of London where property is of almost equal value and rated exceedingly high. To buy the four acres now occupied by the Bank of England and bounded by Princess, Threadneedle and Lothberry streets aud Bartholomew lane it would be necessary to produce a well certified cheek for the snug sum of $40,000,000. Ten million dollars per acre is the valuation made not long ago on a lot in the vicinity of the bank, and a lease was made on that basis. Piccadilly, Strand, Fleet street, Charing Cross and other business streets in London have corners worth from $50,000 to $100,000 a f rent foot. The owners of this property being as a rule men or estates of great wealth, are satisfied with 3 to 3i per cent, on their investments, while here the owners of such property expect 6 to 8 per cent. ; consequently land is a great deal higher in the business center of London than it is in Chicago. I notice that on the second-hand business streets in London land is held about twice as high as it is here- In the suburbs of London a great deal of property has been sold out by the lot by methods similar to ours. London is fast becoming a great city of home owners. The managers of large estates that were held for a number of years upon leases made on a low valuation concluded that it would be better to subdivide the property and sell it out in lots, and reinvest the money. This has been done to a great extent in all parts of the city of London, and probably accounts for the won

derful increase in population during the last fifty vears. Small buildings, such we sell for $300 to $1,000 are

lie London for almost twice that

sum. In Parte little property is offered for saie; in fact a sign board is a rarity, although occasionally you see a piece of property on the back streets for lease. It is very hard to get any information about property in Pans Most of it is held by owners who are wealthy aud refuse to sell, but on the principal street the rent of the stores is high, considering their size, the stores being very shallow and small. Prices are no doubt higher, the rental value considered, than in Chicago. In Venice scarcely any property is offered for sale. The city has decreased in population, but there seem to be no vacant houses, and the only way I could ascertain the value of property was to figure out the rents on the business streets, which were higher, all things considered, than in Chicago. In the old city of Rome rents on two or three of the principal streets are very high, and the stores being small it would seem that a small income must be produced according to the value held upon the land. In some directions from the center of Rome buildings are being erected, and land for an ordinary residence lot, in a rather poor locality, compared with any of our suburbs, woulb about 30 or 40 per cent, higher tban the prices we ask. Even in Cairo, -Egypt, the price of tots along the business streets would astonish an American, asked the proprietor of an English store called the Manchester, located near Sbepheard's Hotel, what rent he paid. The store was about 25 feet front by about forty feet deep, with a small annex half as large. H i answered that he paid about $2,000 per annum. It did not look to be worth over $500. Cairo has a population of about $350,000, and there are some stores in the Turkish quarters where 4:he bazaars are, about 4 feet sq uare room enough for the proprietor to sit tailor fashion and sell his wares to passers-by which bring about $50 a month. Even in Jerusalem a boom is in progress, on account of the railroad having been extended to the city, and lots were selling for 4-500 to $800 that we would consider high at $200; and I discovered in nearly every city I visited, even in old Athens, which is rapidly increasing in population trader the administration of King George, that lots were Belling on the outskirts for $300 to $400. A scientific journal tells this story of a frog's cunning: A brood of chickens was fed with moistened meal in saucers, and when the dough soured a little it attracted large numbers of flies. An observant toad had evidently noticed this, and every day toward evening he would make his appearance in the yard, bold to a saucer, climb in aud roll over and over until he was covered with meal, having done which he awaited developments. The flies, enticed by the smell, soon swarmed around the scheming batraehian, and whenever one passed within two inches or so of his nose his tongue darted out and the fly disappeared. The plan worked so well that the toad made a regular business of it The Eot1a Way. The City of Akra, Egypt, contracted with an English firm to put in water works. After the street hydrants were all in, a person of rank fell over one of them one day and barked his shin, and every hydrant wits at once ordered tstten out as a menace to public safety.

THE WORLD f Ult. TbMalvs- Magnificent Instances "IV onac?s of th e A rgc n t f THE MALAYS.

HE FASTIDIOUS creature from ew York who was shocked by Chicago people .sitting on their porches would

have a stroke of heart disease if he happened in on a Javanese dinner at the fair. The iiliputiai.s from the East think dinning-rooirs a. great extravagance, and they find their verandas good enough for I hem. They are shaded by a thatched roof above and the matted lloor makes an elastic seat when they squat cross-legged. Their shoes taken oft" for comfort, sit around among the dishes, but a little thing like that doesn't ruffle a Javanese appetite. Several diners gather around a single tin basin of rice and curry standing on the floor between them and dip up that delicacy with rude tin spoons contributed by orphaned tomato cans, and when they get tired of balancing the food on the slippery piece of tin, they go for that dish with a little black hand and five fingers.

The Javanese drink coffee brought i from home and their cups arc joints J

of bamboo, a neat and simple contrivance. Since coming to Chicago these pygmies contracted the reprehensible habit of eating bread. A loaf is broken into pieces which are dumped into a basin and each person

jumps from one building to another. Let the reader figure for himself whether by walking forty miles he could see every nook aud corner of the exposition from the washy head of the pier to the westward end of Midwav Plaisanee. Tho moral of all this is: wDon't try to sec everything in one day." THK ARUKNTINE KX MBIT. In .he exhibits made bv the Argen trie Republic in the various buildings and she has space in agriculture, forestry, aud mines in addition to the general display made in Manufactures Building there is everything calculated to show that it is a great and growing country,

tributed to the financial the great show.

success of

CEXTKAL COl.UX OF BRAZILIAN PAVILION. grabs a hunk, which may be nearly as large as his head, and of course has no butter. The floor is the table the tin and the bamboo dishes are scattered about periniscuouslv,

everyone reaches for what he wants

on the midway kxtkkmes mket. or, more properly speaking, a great country being rapidly developed. It is a country for which railroads am doing much in the wa of bringing out resources, one of the many immediate results of railroad building being the opening up of mining industries, which are destined to become one of the country's richest resources of wealth. The mining area of the republic is nearly nine times greater than that of Great Britain. In the provinces of Cordoba, Catamarcs, La Rioja, San Juan, Jujui, Salta, and Mendoza alone nearly three thousand mining concessions have been granted for the exploration of gold, silver, (topper, coal, iron, petroleum, etc.. samples of all of wh.ch are shown in the Mines Buildi ng. Throughout the entire republic this is an industry to which great att en t ion is a id and in to which each succeeding year larger capital is being invested. In the Mines Building the Argentine Republic's mineral exhibit is in charge of Guiitav Niederlein, an expert who has for many years been in government employ and who is thoroughly versed in ail Argentine mining and mineral matters. The rocking stone of Tandil is one of the wonders which Americans will go to see when the intercontinental railway begins to carrv tourists to South America. On

HE WOULDN'T TAKE A KKE. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Isaac Taylor, the architect, who has made several trips to the World's Fair, returned a few days ago, full of an adventure which is received askance by such of his friends a have visited the "White City.'" "Yes, gentlemen, " said Mr. Taylor to a group of friends at the Southern Hotel, "I met during my last visit the only living person in Chicago who would and did refuse a 'tip.' I know it is hard to believe, and 1 was myself much astonished. While strolling through the Midway Plaisanee, in company with William Eden of the Great Northern Hotel, we dropped into the Per.-oan Palace. After inspecting the various relies of ancient and modern art. a gentlemanly young Persian in his native togs, who spoke good English, asked me to sit down and have a cup of tea or coffee. "We complied, ordered tea which was elegantly served in cups of fabulous value. When we had finished the beverage, I asked, 'How mush is it?' "Nothing at all, sir; we give this away.' "The answer took away my breath and it was a moment; before I could recover sufficiently to draw out a coin and say, "Well, take this for yourself.' " 'I beg pardon sir, but it would be in violation of our rules. We cannot accept any fees whatever from the people who arc temporarially our guests.' 4iIputmy money back and checked an inclination to ask this phenominal person if he had photographs of himself for sale. I would have willingly given $5 for one.

there is no ceremony, and the the si; mmit of a low hill on a great

"brownies" keep up a merry chatter. These people say they are Malays.

MAC NI KICENT DFSTA XC K. Chicago Record. How far must a man walk to see all the fair? This is a hard question to answer, but here arc some fairly

accurate figures on the larger build-

plain of the Argentine Republic looms this great mass of rock. It weighs 2,000 or 3;000 tons. A thousand iiorses couldn't roll it over. Yet a man can stand under the edge of it and putting his hand against i ; can move the entire mass until it rocks to and fro. If a bottle is put close :o the under edge of the mass . i

and two or three pusnes are given

mgs.

If you wish to traverse the ! the reck will roll back and smash the

main aisifls in th MfmnfWWo I bottle. I here is a picture or this

r;i; . , , i curiosi ty in the Argentine exhibit, mukung, just to get a good general 1 ' - 1 A I 1 . I I

impression oui witnout edging

arouud thousands of show cases, you

will hnd nine main aisles east and west, with north and south aisles, eleven in number, making a total length of 26,000 feet, a trifle less than five miles. The minimum estimate for the gallery on the same basis is 12,500 feet. This does not allow for passing through sections or walking back and forth through the narrow aisles of open Exhibits. It refers only to what might properly be called the streets and avenues. Furthermore, it does not allow for doubling up on each thoroughfare. The visitor must see both sides at the same time. The same rule is followed in the case of each building. Manufactures, main floor 2OOO0 Manufactures, gallery r,faj Agriculture, main door 00 Agriculture, gallery 4,f,00 Agriculture, annex 4,400 Forestry 2.'. 00 Shoe arid leather 3.500 Kruppgun and convent i,00 Administration 403 Electricity, main floor r.2M) Electricity, gallery 2,(00 Mines, main floor 3,1:0 Minos, gallery 2.0(0 Transportation, main floor 5,4 0 Trai-sportation, gallery 4.0OU Transportation, annex" 7,0X1 Horticulture, main floor ;UXK) Horticulture, gallery l.o 0 Government 9.(00 Woman's, including gallery 4,000 Fisheries 1(0 Art palace, main section 3 Qj Art palace, two wings ,0aj The grand total is something in excess "of 118,000 feet, or nearly

THE riiOBAIJLE ATTENDANCE. Cleveland Leader. The paid admissions to the World's Fair n umbered 1,050,037 in May, and 2.675, 113 in June. Up to July 20 the paid attendance for the month was 1,965,205, a total of 5,690.345. This figure was not reached at the centennial until the 16th of September. On Julv 2D, 1876. the total number of

'for,?

Limr

EU1UDINO. twenty-throe miles. At the. same time the estimate docs not include State, government or private buildings, the Plaisanee is ignored and no account s taken of the long

EXTHANCk' TO UltUGUAY'S KXXIIXUT SECTION. paid udraiss ons had been only 1,535,958. At the Philadelphia exhibition the er.sh admissions in May were 378,890. In June they numbered 695,66(5. and in July there wore 636,518! August furnished 908.687 paying visitors, and the first hall of September added 806,045, making 3,425,893 in ail. Then the rush began. The last two weeks of September brought 1,324.946 cash admissions, and in Octooer 2.334.530 persons paid their way into the fair. It will be seen that the records of the Center nia.; point clearly to a much larger attendance in October at the Columbian Exposition than there has been in the whole time since the fair was opened, and there should be 4,000,000 visitors in the last half of September, against 2,500.000 in the first tv;o weeks. August is likely to furnish 3,500.000 paid admissions, and there will be nearly 1,000.000 in the last ten days of July. Altogether it is pretty safe to count on a grand total of more than 20,000. fH)0 paid i.dmissionj, and 25,000,000 would not be surprising. If the Columbian Expositon could have had a yeai of general prosperity and casv money markets the record of 28,00000t' made at Paris in 1889 would probably have been surpassed, and 80,000,000 visitors would have con

Lemonade Beats Bandollinc. Youngstown Ohio, Evening Telegram, ' I was out to a dance recently7 said an acquaintance to me, i4and a funny thing happened, It was not so very funny either, but it made me laugh after it was over. You see, it was as hot as a bake oven and the room was crowded to suffocation. I had a girl and we were waltzing around as best we could when suddenly the girl gasped, turned pale and said: 'Get me out to the air I stopped and released her and offered her my arm, wlieu bump! down she went on the floor in a heap. Painted away see? Dead as a herring. What did I do? Why tried to pick her up and couldn't do it, for she was a heavy weight. Then I succeeded, with the aid of others.

in getting her to the porch, but she wouldn't revive. Then I ran into the refreshment room for water, but the tank was empty and the only thing they had was lemonade. Some thing had to be done and I got two glasses, ran back and emptied their contents into her face not exactly into' but :onto.' After using about 30 cents worth of nice, sweet lemonade she came to. Well, say; you would have died to see her hair. Sticky? Why bandoline, quince seed, gum arabic. and kindred concoctions were not in it. Lemonade beats them all. Was she mad? Well, I guess yes. She said I was intoxicated and a natural born fool. Some one else took her home, I didn't The Great State of Colorado. Boston Evening Transcript. The puissant State of Colorado was admitted into the Union in 1876. Its population in 1890 was 412,198. The assessed valuation of the property in the State in 1890 was $220,544,061: its mining property was valued at $5,727,657; railroad property at 134,411,921. The silver bullion product of the State in 1889 was 19,341,847. These figures are well enough to remember when a little back borough like Colorado essays to inde or ruin the Union. Any one of a dozen cities scattered from East to West outweighs the whole State of Colorado in population, in capital and in every material, moral and political consideration, except, indeed, that it has two United States Senators, like several of its near neighbor States. A Natural Inference. Somerville Journal. 'G-ive an example of natural inference," the college professor said. "Well, sir," replied the student, lif you should meet a carriage some Sunday afternoon with a young man on the front seat and another young man and a pretty girl on the back

seat, a natural inference would be that they were going after another pretty girl." A Reasonable Hcqucst. The German. Beggar Please give me a penny, sir: Gentleman No. T never ;ive money away on the street. Beggar AH right, sir. Tf you will give me your name and address I'll call at the house for the money. Now For tho Karthquake-Makers. Atlanta Journal. Since the famous earthquake in South Caiv,.iua the soil of Berkley county has been much more productive. Professor Newman, of Cicmson College, accounts for this on the theory that the earthquake provided better drainage than previously existed As tho Druggist Said It. New York Tribune. It was a popular druggist who exclaimed yesterday, "Let me draw the soda water of a nation, and 1 care not who makes its laws.'1

FARMS AUD FARMERS.

NEW FERTIMZEK. What to do with the slag or waste that accumulates so rapidly about iron furnaces has loner been a se-

I rious problem. A limited quantity has been used in making roadbeds , for railways, but it has piled up in

such quantities as to become an ac

tual embarrassment, and the news that it had been found to possess real value has recently brought joy to the hearts of the ironmasters. By accident the waste was found to contain valuable fertilizing qualities, and it is now being converted into an

! ooor ess nnosonate. ior w men mere

has already sprung up a heavy demand from agriculturists. The Bri.ish steamer Hexam, which sailed on Friday last from the Fort Richmond pier, took a cargo of 2.200 tons of the phosphate to Dantzic, Germany, where it is to be used bv the farmers engaged in beet cultivation, and orders aggregating 50,000 tons have been received by the Pottstown Iron Company, at whose works the

j vast accumulations of siag are being

reduced to powder. RICH IN PHOSPHATES. Not long ago it was discovered that the waste material was especially rich in phosphates, and if properly handled would be a valuable

j plant, good on almost any soil. This

was found to be especially true of the slag formed from the ores used in making iron and steel by the basic process, in which 'iine is extensively used. The siag resulting from other processes is not so valuable, but m s of the powder made so far has t Ddu o:l ex(c ent results. News of the discovery soon reached Germany, and samples sent there

; were tried by the best farmers with ; so much success that the founders in ! that country began converting their

slag mno the fertilizer. The demand becam? so general that heavy orders were placed with the Pottstown Iron Company, the Hoxam's cargo being the first consignment. The new phosphate is regarded as particularly valuable because it contains no weed seeds or disease-carrying matter. It has been found an absolute preventive for the deadly cut-worm, and steps the ravages of the groundmole than; plays such havoc in some parts of the country. The small particles of steel kill them in short order. Credit for the discovery is given to John Reese, a Pittsburg iron master, who has taken out letters patent on his process of making the fertilizer, and it is estimated that no less, than 5,000,000 tons of the stuff will be made and marketed this year. Disease of Plants In Manure. Philadelphia Record. It has long been known that, while manure provides plant food, it also carries to the tields diseases of

plants. The manure heap is the receptacle for all the refuse on the farm that is considered serviceable in any manner, and the vines of potatoes, siocks of grain, tender cuttings of plants and other substances are added to the heap, in which the spores exist until they are spread broadcas t over the soil with the manure, rendering the land unfit for producing healthy plants, though the injury may not be apparent until too late in the season to apply a

remedy for the damage inflicted. It is better, easier and cheaper to destroy disease in the heap than to battle with it during the growth of the plants. Experiments show that lime is an agent that may be used with advantage. First, if green or partially dry material that has been collected from the tields is composted with lime and sufficient heat generated to quickly decompose the materials, the spores will be destroyed, when dry earth may then be added as an absorbent and to arrest the heat. Second, the manure in the heap may be turned over with a fork, and air-slaked lime sprinkled over it sufficiently to create heat, but the heap should be carefully regulated to prevent the creation f too high a temperature. The lime causes the temperature to rise by reason of its chemical action, during which salts are formed and tho materials oi the heap reduced. Lime also destroys the spores by direct contact, owing to its caustic char acterisLics.

EFFECTS OF LIME ON MANUKK. It has been feared that the addition of lime to the manure heap causes a loss of ammonia, which is true, but this loss may be partially avoided by careful handling of the heap during the process of the decomposition of the materials. It is better "to use a diluted quantity of sulphuric acid for the purpose of destroying spores, but it is not as safe to handle as lime. If a mixture of kainitand lime is used the loss of ammonia will be brought to a minimum. It, is a question for discussion, however, whether the loss of ammonia, if any, can not be sustained in the face of the fact that lime converts the manure into plant fo."d in the shortest time and in the most complete manner, as woll as saving t'no loss of the crop by its effect on the heat in the destruction of diseases existing in the manure.

Clover-SI?k I.ancJ Occasionally we are told that iand becomes "clover-sick." This is occasioned by too exclusive growth of the plant. Many assume that because clover and other leguminous crops help the land by fixing nitrates in thebf sail that they can keep their lands fertile by means of legumes

and vet sell on thn Iftrtmtv tnus ac

quired, but the fact must not be ignored that while clover and other legumes furnish nitrogen, they ar great exhausters of tjhe mineral elements of fertility, and, if not kepi supplied with lime, potash and phosphoric acid, they will soon cease, not only to avoid: other crops, but tc grow themselves, but with clover and the mineral constituted commercial fertilizers the maintenance of fertility in any average soil U a comparatively easy matter. Glover sickness is almost always an exhaustion of lime or of other mineral substances which the clover demands for its own support. Upon land which is suffering from too much clover, and too little of anything e;.se. an application of lime usually produces the desired result.

Farm Notes. Dust your turnip plants with wiKk! ashes as a protection against the fly. An old fruit tree may sometime be renewed so as to bear for year? by cutting it back severely, giving good cultivation and applying fertilizers every season. I It docs not pay to hold a fat animal until prices are higher unless the prospects arc plain for a rapid rise, as there may be no further increase except at an expense th&t may not be encouraging. Stable manure is more lasting than fertilizers, but not as beneficial in giving immediate results. The manure does not decompose until 'the second or third year, vrbile fertilizers, which are more soluble, are converted into plant food in a single season. Though the manure may appear more lasting and permanent, it does not supply as ranch plant food each year as its equivalent in fertilizers. As many as a thousand bushels of potatoes have been grown on an acre of ground, yet it has only bee accomplished when fertilizers ware used liberally and in quantities to insure more than a sufficiency of plant food for the crop. Experiments with cabbage show that depth in plantiag has no effect on the size of the heads, and that disturbance of the plants, loosening th roots, though sometimes beneficial in preventing 'cracking" of the heads, also lessens the growth in other respects. Beef cattle should pay as well in the East as in the West. Pood can be purchased and converted into manure while the cattle ar8 growing, and, although but a small profit may be noticed from the cattle, the farm will have been increased in fertility and productiveness. Linseed oil, colored with any preferred coloring matter, makes a cheap paint for outbuildings, and may be applied every year or two with but little expense. Keeping the farm buildings "brightened up, either with paint or whitewash, add additional value to the whole fane. When every acre of the farm can not be made to produce something, it is a sure indication that the fanner has too much land. It is; better to cultivate only as muoh as caa be well manured and kept clean than to leave vacant fields that keep the farm stocked with weeds to be spread over the cultivated land. The distance traveled by a horse when cultivating a piece of land, from early morn until sundown, is many miles, and also very exhausting, as, in addition to traveling the

distance, it draws & load. This should not be overlooked at night, and, in order to afford the animal a sufficiency of food and rest, it must be free from the annoyance of insects. For this reason the stable should receive careful attention in regard to cleanliness. To renew old leds of strawberries clean them out thoroughly betw-en the rows in August, or just before the runners start. Use Ihe hoe in the rows and leave one good plant in each place, wi th one foot of space between each plant in the row. Work the ground between the plants, and also in the spaces between the rows until the soil is loose, killing all weels and grass. This method gives the old plants an opportunity to fill up the rows with runners. In the dairy the value of the cow depends upon her uses. There are cows for producing better that give but a proportionate small quantity of milk, and there are breeds that not only produce large amounts of milk, but also excel as butter producers. K the dairyman makes a specialty of supplying milk to customers he should not overlook 1he breed that gives him the profit in two directions. The milk and butter cow is a safe one to use at all times. The creamer' article has taken the market from the farmers who make butter, because of the greater uniformity and careful handling. The butter made on one farm differs from that made on the next, and this dilticalty is one that is objected to by dealers. On large dairy farms where butter is a specialty, and the modern appliances are used in order to manufacture a high-grad3 of but-

be made successfully. Bacon and pork bring high prices at present. There should be a fair profit to breeders in tho East in producing rxrk, especially when the prices are mo good. There is always a waste of certain foods that can he well utilized by swine, and if only one or two pigs are raised they will pay a profit compared with othr stock. Despite the fact that the West produces, cheap corn and pork t" prices now received for pork are hvirr than for many yors previously.