Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 15 December 1893 — Page 2

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XISCELLAKEOUS NOTES. There is a wide difference in horse ense and norse talk. One-seventh of the land-owners in Great Britain are women. The most certain sign of wisdom Is a coutinual cheerfulness. Montaigne. There are about eighteen thousand Hungarians in the chief American cities. The assertion is made that no ear of corn contains an odd number of rows The Brooklyn bridge will celebrate Its tenth anniversary on the 24th of the present month. A speck of gold weighing the millionth part of a grain may be easily seen by the naked eye. A prisoner in a Detroit court had revenge on a juror, the other day, by tearing out a handful of the latter's beard. A man is the architect of his own reputation and of ten .puts up a job no other man would take off his hands. "No, Maud, you are mistaken. The man who gives out the return checks at the theater is not known as the ticket-of -leave mam." All the blood in the body passes through the heart in three minutes. This organ pumps each day what is equal to lifting 122 tons one foot high. When showing the violet shade, the thickness of the film of a soapbuble is about one-million-two-hun-dred-and-forty - thousandths of an inch. By serving ox-tail soup at the beginning of dinner and providing calves' head jelly for desert a hotel keeper can manage to make both ends meat. A fabric is being made in Austria from the bark of the mulberry tree which is said to be ten times as tenacious as American cotton, with beautiful gloss and great permanence of colors. The mayor of Oshkosh, Wis., has ordered that all pasteboard milk tickets now in use in that city be destroyed, on the ground that they are active vehicles for the propagation of disease. An effort will be made to substitute metal checks. A monstrosity is carefully guarded on the farm of W. H. Reynolds, at Gannon, Texas. It is a pig with head and ears like those of an elephant, a nose like the trunk of the beast named, and a single eye where the mouth ought to be. Swans keep water free from weeds. A lake in Burghley, England, which gave constant occupation to three men, six month in each year, to keep it comparatively clean, Is now kept completely clean by two pairs of swans. A severe attack of toothache was endured by Simon Kintzer, a wealthy man, of Hummelstown, Fa. A traveling tooth doctor chanced to be in the neighborhood, and applied a "magic cure." In a short time the pain ceased, the doctor received his fee, and departed. In a few hours the man's jaw began to swell, and in three days he was dead from blood poisoning. An article in the November Century on "Tramping with Tramps' is the record of the experience of several months of tramping through different parts of America. The author has made a study of tramp life, ttnd has f u d out the peculiarities of the tramps of different sections of the country. He also gave a report of the way tramps are treated in different States. A curious example of how sharply the edge of a windstorm may be defined is reported by the captain oi the bark Peter Tredell, which recently arrived . at San Di kgo from London. When off Val araiso, the captain says, a whirlwind came along and passed over the stern of the vessel. A great sea accompanied the ind, and every sail and movable thing on the after part of the ship was carried away. The forward part of the vessel was untouched by the storm, which passed away in the distance, leaving a train of foam in its wake. Deadlier Than Pistol. New York Weekly. Highwayman Halt! My turn has come now. You are the book agent who button-holed me on the streets of Boom City, and I had to buy one pf your bulky volumes in order to get awa before a tsrowd-collected. Book Agent Y-e-s; but I am sell ing an entirely different book now. Allow me to show vou Highwayman Save your breath) Your money or your life! Book Agent Money! I had plenty a few days ago, but the courts decided that I must pay the funeral expenses of all the people I had talked to death, and it took every cent I had. Now, just glance at this prospectus of the latest, bestBut the highwaymaa had fled. Tkt SUMt Halt Smith I understand you have formed a co-partnership. J aped For life. , "Jaipur.'. Tes I was married last week." "Whj position do you hold in the "fittest pprtaeft

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. DERELICTS. Abandoned vessels or wrecks on the high seas are technically known to mariners as derelicts. Large numbers of these are afloat and are a constant and menacing danger to navigation. No less than 332 abandoned vessels are shown officially on charts and maps, and the probable course that they will drift from point to point has been also marked down with varying accuracy. At least 625 derelicts are known to exist of which no accurate information has been preserved or reported. The navigator, however skillful, has no protection from the danger of collision with the floating hulks that ever sail, unmanned and lonely wanderers on the mighty waste of waters. Doubtless many of the inexplicable disappearances of ships have been due to this cause. During the recent special session of Congress a joint resolution was passed providing for the reporting, marking and removal of these abandoned hulks from the North Atlantic Ocean. A more valuable service to mankind could hardly be imagined, and it would seem that all civilizecl govern t& en ts woufd gladly co-operate in this effort to remove so great a danger from the path of commerce. During the past year thirty-eight collisions with derelicts have been reported to the Commissioner of Navigation. How many other collisions there may have been none can tell. It is thought by experts that the scheme for governmental supervision of the derelicts is entirely practical, and not necessarily expensive.

natural product of an enlightened and progressive people. India has but one millionnire, the In.iian Prince, and there is no country where the masses of the people are in such a down-trodden condition. In Russia there are no millionaires except those who have inherited royal estates, and the condition of the common people of Russia excites the sympathy of the world. England has great millionaires, and the working people of that country are far superior to those of any European country. In this country, where we have so many millionaires, the American working man is able to waste what would keep a German or French working man in comfort. Mr. Carnegie held that an obligation rests upon every millionaire to guard his surplus wealth as a sacred trust which is given him that ho may use it to elevate and improve the condition of his fellow man. Philanthropists, should not pay much attention to the 'submerged tenth" of the population who are degraded by intemperance and rendered worthless by vice. A millionaire who gives money to a beggar who does not work uses his money in a way to increase crime and pauperism, and thus becomes an injurious member of society, and in no other way can he be justly regarded as a common enera) of mankind.

COLUMBIAN WRECKAGE. The World's Columbian Exposition expired in a blaze of glory, and with the single exception of the tragic death of Mayor ,Har. ison, the enterprise, so far as the public were permitted to know, passed into history unmanvd by dishonorable deed or reprehensible action on the part of the management. All felt that their gicat success was a well merited reward for honest endeavor in behalf of the amusement loving public. One by one, however, circumstances have come to light that are quite the reverse of creditable to those responsi ble for them . Responding to seductive invitations extended on behalf of the lady managers, the Countess Salazar, of Naples. Italy; Mme. Magnusson, of Iceland, and Mme. Korany, of Syria, came to Chicago with exhibits of woman's work from their respective countries. They had reason to expect to make a profit on the sales of their exhibits, but utterly failed to do so. They are ladies cf culture and refinement, and now after hoping against hope, through all the time of of the Expositon, that fortune would surely at last favor them amid the general affluence that prevailed on every hand, they find themselves practically penniless in a strange land, neglected and even shunned by tb persons through whose instrumentality thev have been brought into their present unhappy condition. The very fact that these ladies are of distinguished lineage and of education, elegance and endowed with all the attributes of true ladies, seems to have operated to their disadvantage from the start. They were totally uni customed to the mad rush of American life, and as a natural consequence "got left" in the scramble for spoils. That such disoppointment is common all will admit, but nearly all will feel that the ladies should have been looked after by the managers, vwho had alj$0B$ unlimited financial resources at command, at least to an extent that would have assured their safe return to their native shores in comfort if not with the financial reward that their self-sac rificing efforts merited.

THE COLUMBIAN MUSEUM. Few people, unless of a poetic and imaginative turn of mind, would care to wander through Jackson Park with the thermometer at zero and the wind howling through the peristyle until the very ears of the Goldeu Statue of the Republic tingle nevertheless the scene would not be without a charm and attractiveness peculiarly its own. The work of dismantling the exhibits is said to be progressing very slowly. A great many of the exhibits are being transferred to the Columbian Museum. Italy and Spain have both donated their entire exhibit in the Mines Building. The Korean forestry exhibit is another late contribution to the same enterprise. Additional subscriptions of Fair stock are daily received by the managers. Auction sales of furniture and odds and ends are almost daily held. The Presbyterian Sunday School exhibit has been removed from the grounds. This exhibit never saw the light during the Fair. When the Directory decided to open the gates on Sunday, those having this exhibit in charge refused to open it for inspection and Director.General Davis declined to allowed them to remove it, so it remained in the original packing boxes during the entire time. Lady .Aberdeen's Irish village on the Midway Plaisance is being demolished as fast as the weather will permit. Patriotic Irishmen design making up the available timbers into souvenir canes, and the probability is that a good many 4tsouvenir canes from Lady Aberdeen's Irish village on the Midway Plaisance" will be manufactured from timber that was never near that noted thoroughfare and placed upon the market to beguile the dollars from a credulous public.

FARMS AiND FA.RMRS.

Winter On the Farm, Some of the best farmers are opposed to leaving the ground bare during the winter, claiming that something should be kept growing all the time to prevent the waste of available plant food. They always advise spring plowing for all spring crops. We are willing to grant that there is probably some loss of plant food, even on the flattest of land, from heavy rains, but it is beyond all doubt in our minds that there are many cases in which it is best to plow land in the late fall or winter. Some clayey soils need the action of frost to render them fit for the planting, and when they do not incline to run together in heavy rains, nothing can equal frost as a pulverizer. It helps make an ideal seed bed. In the case of potatoes early planting is usually the safest. In our and other States of like latitude the heat of mid-summer is too great for this crop usually, and the farmer who gets his potatoes up the earliest rarely fails to get the best yield, as they do much of their growing before August. In a majority of cases early planting is equally good for corn. Our nrost successful corngrowers like to plant early. Oats also do best when sown very earlv. When the land is; leftunplowed until spring, ir there be much rain, some of the (planting is delayed. In fact, it is the rule that much land is planted later thau is desired, and the result is a hortened yield. Again, in the case of any of these crops mentioned, a better crop can Oe raised on a rotten sod than a fresh one, unless we except corn on a late plowed sod that has a heavy growth of green stuff, and the summer proves sufficiently moist. The rule is that a rotten sod furnishes the most plant food and is the most easily prepared for a crop and tilled. A stiff, timothy sod turned over in the spring cannot be put into good shape for potatoes. It will not rot rapidly enough during the summer to meet the demands of the growing crop and is disappointing. Of course a clover sod is always better for potatoes anyway, but we have gotten big yields off a timothy sod. Clover turned under in April will lie only partially rotted all summer in the bottom of a furrow. Experience teaches that the rotting of a sod during the warm spells of winter is beneficial to this crop. Some doubtless practice fall plowing. To others we would say: If your fields will not wash, and if a heavy sod is to be turned for potatoes or corn, try the experiment of turning half of it this fall or winter. You will thus hasten the planting and at the same time test this matter for yourself. We belii. v that you will like the practice, get better yields in most years, and thank us for undertaking it.

Teach the young horse entire sub mission to the restraint of the harness, for this very restraint is likelj to be one source of fright when th colt imagines he sees impending boc'ily danger. Hence we see youn horses kick themselves loose from anything to which they may be hitched; nor are they relieved from the fright until they shed the har ness. Hanger from this source can be averted more conveniently and effectively on the farm than anywhere else, and the young horse that is made accustomed while vet hi the hands of his owner to the usual sources of disturbance will go into market materially enhanced in value. Those city dealers who are enabled to get top prices are those whe recommend only such horses to their customers that are evidently trustworthy, not only under ordinary circumstances, but also under the exciting conditions that arise in a populous and noisy city. Gie the colt to understand he must do what is required of him, nc matter how long it takes to do this. If he is boing driven and stops, say whoa, and let him stand. Get out go forward, feel of the harness as though adjusting it, and if he is checked up. loosen the check, get in again, turn him a little to the right or to the left and get him in motion again, not permitting him to realize exactly how :.t was done. It is an important secret, the making the act of going agreeable.

THE OTHER SIDE.

It is the fashion of a majority of people to rail at men of great wealth as common enemies of the mass of mankind, and to bewail a social system that produces multi-millionaires and tramps and paupers in numbers so disproportionate. To people ac- , customed to this line of thought any statement calculated to controvert such ideas will seem preposterous and far-fetched. To their minds there is but one possible conclusion to be reached and that is that the millionaire has acquired his wealth by wrongfully taking from others their just dues, either by fraudulent means inaugurated by his own craft and baneful enterprise, or by skill- ; fui adaptation of his business life to ' modern conditions, gambling cus

toms or governmental laws. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, at New York, recently, in a public address, discussed the matter from a different standpuint. Taking a broad view, he held that the millionaire is a benefit to his country, or rather that he ip the

THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK. From the weekly market letter of Clapp & Co., bankers, of New York, we gather that a spirit of hopeful confidence is prevalent in all lines of business in the great metropolis. The American's traditional belief in his country's future has again thrust aside the depression of the past summer, and sunlight is breaking from the threatening clouds that have so long darkened the financial sky. There is an increased disposition to invest in good securities, and this fact alone is considered a reliable sign of an improving market. Exports, as is always the case at this season, have fallen off since Nov. 1. Southern exports have also fallen off. The receipts of larger hogs have been more liberal than wa9 anticipated. There has been packed at New York, up to Nov. 23, a total of 730,000 hogs, against 810,000 at the same date last season. The receipts of wheat from July 1 to Nov, 25 were 34,000,000 bushels of winter wheat and 68.009,000 bushels of spring wheat, against 62,000,000 bushels of winter wheat and 98,000,000 bushels of spring wheat for the year previous. England's flour market is depressed by burdensome supplies from thd United States, added to unprecedented shipments from Russia and India. Tue estimated output of corn in sixteen leading corn States is placed at 142,833,000 bushels. On this basis it is held that prices have reached the lowest possible point and are more likely to advance t'mn decline. An advance is looked for in oats, the visible supply the world over being comparatively small. California is shipping barley to China and Europe on a large scale

Handling a Colt. Discipline should begin in the stable when the colt is tied in his stall, says Dr. Sprague Then he is under the best possible conditions for being familiarized with the harness and other trappings, while tied with a halter. There is no better way to get the confidence of the colt than to associate feed with any duty required of him. This is one important means of success employed by those who train horses for trick performances, as they make it a rule to carry lumps of s-ugar in their pocket as a ready reward when the horse under training obeys the word of command. Whoever is to drill the colt will find that he can better gain his confidence if he is the one to feed him as well as to put him in harness. If the best disciplinarian, or perhaps it will be best to say the best educator, can not consistently be the feeder, then it will be well "that he make the acquaintance of the colt while in the stall, and . make his acquaintance agreeable.

Our 2xperloient Station. There are several chief reasons why the work done at our experiment stations is not of great value to the farmers, says the Rural New Yorker. Unfortunately, the majority o! station workers are at the mercy ol a lot of politicians so far as the per manencv of their positions sro. Any one on the "inside" knows that this is so. The experiments of Sir J. R. Lawes are often spoken of as object lessens of what our station workers should do. These experiments are the results of many years of careful work. They are valuable chiefly because they give the average of many trials. How many men at our American stations can start such work with any hope of being permitted to carry it out? Positions in most of our stations are too insecure. People demand im mediate results, and are not satisfied to wait for the slow working out of some important problem. This fact has led -some of our investigators into the bad habit of starting out to prove a certain thing by experiment, and thus give all their operations a slight bias toward the desired result. This is popular but not accurate, and it leads to much conflict of authorities. There ought to be some change in the manner of conducting our experiment stations, or the whole thing will fall into disrepute. Great Kxpeetations, Chicago Tribune. Six or seven bootblacks were shooting craps on the sidewalk in front of a business house the other evening when the manager of the establishment came along. ltBoys," he said, "this will never do. You'll have to move away from here." "Please den't break up de game jist now, mister1 pleaded the business-like urchin with the muffler about his neck. "Dere's only one kid wot ain't broke!"

The Social Whirl in Arizona. Prescott Morning Courier, Arizona is coming to the front in society matters. We scarcely recover from our astonishment at the startling details of the Moqui snake dance when the Navajo corn dance is flung before the bewildered public, and as it gasps for breath the scent of the Tucson social onion fills its nostrils, while quickly following its mouth is filled with Prescott's pumpkin pie party, with outside districts vet to hear from.

OUR PLEASURE CLUB,

Brogan Thim keepers at the Zoo in the park beyant do kape on iur sooltingthe Oirish. Hogan Have they been givinr more ave de bastes Oirish names? Brogan No, they dar'sn'tdo thot; but I heard one ave thim say that the bears hibernate in the cowld weather. Castleton I hear you are engaged to Miss Biggeroile, the giriyou went horseback with so nsveh last summer How on earth did you manage it? Summit I couldn't help it, old man. We were thrown together uo much.

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a cracker?1 but she didn't seesn to understand me." "Well, you see, Polly was brought up in 'Boston. If you had said, 'Does Polly desire to masticate a biscuit?' you would probably hav had a different result." TflE WIRE GOT CROSSED.

Jenkins Hello, is that Snipfit. the tailor's? ' (Hears a voice sav, "Yes ') ' Well, this is Jenkins. Sav! Why in the devil don't you send down those trousers of mine? Are y wearing them youself ?" Mrs, Nuwife John, I'm sure I hear hurglars down stairs. v John What would you do If you were in my place? Mrs. Nuwife Do? Why tell them about the baby's new tooth, of :oursc. ''Ramble tells me he has to hump himself to get down to business now. Has h; moved out of the city?' "No, he has bought a wheel." Ttu Mpns of the present hard time We sev in various ways. For even ihe weekfc of the month Are ru lining with ahcrter Uy. 1 'Biggs is getting a better salary than ever, and vet is deeper in debt."

That's because his wife buy

everything at a bargain.

THE CASTLE OF CIIAPULTEPEC-TKE WHITE UCUSE OP MEXICO.

"What makes you think this w Webster's second wife." uOh, he is so indulgent to her." "In what way?" ; VVhy. he allows her to select hi handkerchiefs and ties;" r. Teacher Now, Carl, if I should tell you to draw a map what would be the first thing you would do? Carl Ask you if I couldn't g home. "la then? pretty good shooting round here now?1' ' Not to-day, but you ought to been here when the bank was robbed. "Can I kiss you?" he aked the Boston girl after his proposal had boon accepted 1 do not know whether you can cr not.1' she replied critically. He hesitated a moment. ' May I kiss you?" he murmured "That's different," she responded and he gathered them in. Hostess I suppose yon are observing Lent this year, Mr. Hoi ioway ? , Hollowav Yes; I'm sorry to' say my only form of dissipation in Lent is dining, and dinners are always so dull. Merchant - Do you think I could seli much liquor among those tribes were I to take it there? Traveler 0: no. They are very little civilised as vet. "Sorry I've no better quarters to invite you all to, Mrs. Quiverfull!1 4 Ah, you should marry Captain Sparks! If yoq'd get a better half, you d have better quaaters. George Anyone would know that wo were engaged. Ethel How should thev kaow that? George Our fights often reach the dignity of engagements. Dusty Rhodes Say, dere's a story In de paper about a trian what killed all his folks, because dey wanted him to go to work. Weary Haggles Pat was terriblel Dusty Rhodes Ye-es; dey ought er have kuowed better. 14 What! Smolng. Fred? Thought vour doctor told you it would kill you?" "So he did. and I quit. But at the end of the week I wanted to die, so I'm smoking again' The Harpers aro said to have oa hand more than 150,000 worth of ac cepted manuscripts. He (gazing at her jewoHess ear during a temporary lull in the conversation) Why! did you never have your ears bared? She IN' ever up to the present time. Muley Hansen. Emperor of Morocco, is lord of life as well as lord of death to the people of his African dominion. "I'am the King of kings, 1 am the Prince of Paradise; then obey me without a murmur m toy camels do' runs the magaifloent pretensions of this, ruler, m