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VOL. XXIII. NO. 12.
The Cartersville Express,
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Address, 8. A. CUNNINGHAM. ’
NEWS AND NOTES.
—Gen. Grant is now visiting Texas.
—The Wisconsin Legislature has ad
journed sine die.
—The new British Artie expedition sails
May next. 9 $9 *j, -1 , |
—Four of Brigham Young’s widows have
remarried.
—There was a severe frost at Little Rock,
Arkansas, the 17th ult.
—On the 19th ult Memphis started 150
negroes for Liberia.
—The Sherman bureau at Washington is
unprofitably busy.
—The taxable property in Augusta,
Georgia, is assessed at $14,000,000.
—There are 73,000 people in Donegal,
Ireland, who need relief.
—Shad fishing is very fine on the Santee
river in South Carolina.
—The oat crop throughout Georgia is
reported to be suffering with rust.
—Twenty newspapers and periodicals are
published in Raleigh, North Carolina.
—ln San Francisco, Dennis Kearney was
on the 16th sentenced to six months im
prisonment and SIOOO fine for riotous and
seditious conduct.
—One hundred and twenty thousand
tons of fertilizers will be sold in Georgia
this season.
—The mayor of Charleston, South Caro
lina, is vigorously pressing the campaign
against the gamblers of that city.
The Connecticut Senate rejected the bill
providing for woman suffrage on the license
question.
—The Lower House of the Kentucky
Legislature refused to give Henry Ward
Beecher permission to speak in its flail.
—Senator Bayard is not a member of
any church. He was baptised a Methodist,
and his family are Episcopalians.
—A bill repealing the law prohibiting
the intermarriage of whites and blacks has
been defeated in the Rhode Island Legis
lature.
—Forty-two mercantile firms in Chicago
have petitioned Congress for the passage of
a uniform bankrupt law.
—St. Louis packed, from November Ist
to March Ist, 577,783 hogs, the average
gross weight being 258 pounds.
—The Virginia Legislature adjourned
without passing the regular appropriation
bills.
—North Carolina has had an increase of
74 postoffices since January 1,1879.
—Strawberries are a drug in the market
at Charleston, South Carolina,, at five cents
r quart.
—The Paterson silk mills of New Jersey
employ ten thousand hands, besides about
three thousand who work at their own
homes. The annual production of these
mills reaches the total of $14,000,000.
—The trustees of the Peabody fund have
determined to withdraw aid from the
schools of the South, as a rule, and to de
vote the interest of the fund to the better
education of teachers.
—The 15,150 shares of stock held by the
city of carleston in the Memphis# Charles
ton railroad have been purchased by
Newell, Duncan & Cos., of Nashville, at the
rate of 381 cents.
—New York parties say that during the
past month some twenty thousand tons of
foreign steel rails have been contracted for
at from $73 to $Bl per ton on wharf at New
York.
—Bayard is the first choice of 78 mem
bers of the South Carolina Legislature, and
the second choice of 21 ; whereas Tilden is
the first choice of but 12 and the second
choice of but 5.
—Bret II .rte has been appointed United
States consul at Glasgow, Scotland*
California Sketches.— We are indebt
ed to the author, Rev. 0. P. Fitzgerald, ed
itor of the Christian Advocate, for a copy
•f his charming little book entitled, “Cali
fornia Sketches.” As the name implies,
the work is made op of incidents—many of
them thrilling, all of them interesting—in
which the writer was either a participant or
an observer daring the many years of his
sojourn in California. To those who are at
all familiar with Western life the pen paint
ings of Dr. Fitzgerald in “ California
Sketches” are strikingly true. We read the
little volume, and we have a broader feel
ing of charity for our fellow-men, and as we
close it, we feel it is good for mankind that
such books are written, and that such men
as its author live amongst us. Had we the
naming of these sketches we would call
them A String of Pearls, from the Golden
Shore.
It is reported in St. Louis that Jay
Gould has been instructed by his Euro
pean correspondents to buy all the rail
roads west of the Mississippi which prom
ise to pay 8 per cent, on investment.
There are in various sections of the
South about forty missionaries going about
making converts to Mormonism. With all
the abuse given them there seems to be a
current favorable to their faith in the back
woods districts.
The Maine beet sugar company has real
ized SIIO,OOO from the product of their
refining sugar factory this season. Their
expenses were $107,000, leaving a net profit
of S3OOO on a plant of over SIOO,OOO for
machinery and buildings.
If women should chew and smoke to
bacco, drink liquor, and dissipate generally
as men do, “the devil would foreclose his
mortgage in six months.” In the Tennes
see penitentiary there are 1246 prisoners,
of whom but 37 are females.
Never condemn your neighbor unheard,
however many the accusations preferred
against him ; every story has two ways of
being told, and justice requires that you
should hear the defence as well as the accu
sation, and remember that malignity of
enemies may place you in a similar situa
tion.
The clement attachment for the manu
facture of cotton into yarn, as it leaves the
gin, will not be exhibited at the Nashville
Centennial Exposition as advertised. The
cost would be as great as $5,000, a sum
greater than the owners are willing to incur.
This Clement attachment has been adver
tised by the Southern press far more than'
it should without compensation.
Joe Brown’s Magnificent Giit. —The
Atlanta Christian Index says : Ex-Govern
or Joseph E. Brown has presented to the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at
Louisville, Kentucky, $55,000 for the en
dowment of a professorship. The whole
amount has been paid, and is now in the
hands of James P. Boyce, D.D., chairman
of the faculty.
11l health forces Dr. Standiford to retire
from the presidency of the Louisville &
Great Southern railroad. Mr. H. V. New
comb becomes the victor, and he will also
be the manager of the Nashville & Chatta
nooga railroad. It is expected, Bow, that
amicable relations will be restored between
the L. <& N. road and the Southern Express
Company, the bitterness having been most
prominent from Dr. Standiford.
The Tennessee Hospital for the Insane
has about 375 patients. It is not second to
any institution of the kind in America.
There is a wonderfully exact discipline
maintained throughout the institution. A
visitor to the asylum at Tuscaloosa, Ala
bama, would conclude that Dr. Bryce could
not be equaled in his management of such
an institution ; but, when the two are com
pared, the one at Nashville will be consid
ered best, if seen last. Such institutions
should be maintained with religious zeal.
centennial beer privileges.
The discussion by the Centennial Board
of Directors recently over the privileges
granted the Exposition Committee has
called forth much comment by the tem
perance societies in Tennessee, especially so
that of the Bedford county at Shelbyville,
which sends a formal and earnest petition
tlmt it be excluded from the grounds. This
Society is flourishing, is represented by in
fluential gentlemen, who give a conserva
tive tone to its deliberations—a fact well
illustrated by the able address of G. N.
Tillman, Esq., recently published, and
should have consideration at the hands of
any organization addressed.
There has gone out an erroneous impres
sion on this subject which, in this connec
tion, we note. There is an opinion that
the Centennial commission favors beer
merely for the profit in leasing room, and
the inference follows that the moral tone of
the managers is of a “yielding” character.
Not so by any means. The beer traffic, it
is believed, is a fortunate substitute for
stronger drinks, and was so set forth by a
learned physician, the honored president
of the Board, and an eminently good man,
in a discussion of the subject.
Beer was sold at the National Centennial,
and will be drunk at the Nashville. If it
is not allowed in the building a worse
practice will be inaugurated, by supplying
mixtures at various points near it. Already
beautiful lota have been disgraced by rude
structures erected for that purpose.
Beer is a poison. It racks the brain,
bloats the system, and does incalculable
mischief. True, it serves many persons a#
a tonic, and slakes thirst, but it is infinite
ly better to do without beer or
wine; it is the safe plan, and wt commend
temperance. But temperance should not be
advocated with intemperate zeal. Let not
the idea that beer will be sold at the Cen
tennial obscure the fact that those who per
mit it have arranged for grand Sunday
school gatherings at a point near by, where
there will be nothing of the kind to shock
the propriety of arrangements.
The chancery court of Marshall coun
ty, Miss., recently granted 14 divorces at a
CARTERSYILLE, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1880.
One of the advantages iesulting from
emancipation of slavery in the South to
agriculture, is the diversity of crops. When
Sambo did so much of the plantation work
it Was the custom to raise cotton exclusive
ly over vast areas. A contrary system has
been followed in many sections since the
war. There is, however, much complaint
that the Southern farmer is not planting a
sufficiency of cereals. As Bill Arp says,
“Weare prizing out,” and it may be we
will ultimately give proper diversity to our
Grain Better than Gold.— The grain
crop of California has attained its present
production of 40,000,000 bushels from the
lint attempt to raise wheat for home con
sumption only, less than 30 years ago. The
first bag of flour made in California was in
1853. In 1863 a Mr. Horner raised 22,000,
000 pounds of potatoes, which he sold for
three cents a pound. With a fortune ac
cumulated in this way, he has no reason to
envy Sutter, the discoverer of gold, now
poor in his old age, after having made
thousands of people rich, and fens of thou
sands miserable. Mr, Horner still lives on
his ranch in Alameda county. He went to
the Pacific coast in 1846, but was never a
gold hunter.
A Louisiana Storm. —The storm fell
like a burst of infernal applause. A whiff
like fifty witches flouted up the canvas cur
tain of the gallery and a fierce black cloud,
drawing the moon under its cloak, belched
forth a stream of fire that seemed to flood
the ground ; a peal of thunder followed as
if the sky had fallen in, the house quiver
ed, the great oaks groaned, and every lesser
thing bowed down before the awful blast.
Every lip held its breath for a minute —or
an hour, no one knew —there was a sudden
lull of the wind, and the floods came down.
Have you heard it thunder and rain in
those Louisiana lowlands? Every clap
seems to crack the world. It has rained a
moment; you peer through the black pane
—your house is an island, all the land is
sea. —Scribner for April.
The North American Review for April
has for its leading article a paper entitled
“ McClellan’s Last Service to the Republic,”
which covers the whole period of McClel
lan’s military career, from the flank move
ment to the James to the battle of Antie
tam, It is intended to vindicate the Gen
eral agßinst the charge that he was over
cautious and unnecessarily slow in his
movements, and contains many statements
of an interesting character. Sir Francis
Hincks contributes a paper Cm the “ Rela
tions of Canada with the United States.”
The author’s principal object is to show
that the recently enacted Canadian Tariff is
not an act of retaliation against the United
States for their refusal to establish recipro
cal free trade between the two countries in
products that are natural to both. Canada,
he says, is desirous of renewing the recipro
city treaty, and is ready to concede all reas
onable demands.
FERTILIZERS IN GEORGIA IN 1880,
The Commissioners of agriculture in
Georgia, Mr. J. T. Henderson, has already
inspected 100,000 tons of commercial fertil
izers this year against 80,000 tons last year,
and his inspections will ran to 120,000 tons,
yielding the State an income of $60,000,
while the expenses of the Agricultural De
partment and the cost of inspection will not
reach over $16,000, yielding a net revenue
for the State Treasury of over $40,000.
This is a very handsome result of our in
spection laws, and as the fertilizers cost the
farmer in Georgia no more than it does the
farmer in States where there are no inspec
tion laws and fees, it will thus be seen that
this inspection which secures to the farmers
absolutely and certainly good fertilizers
without extra cost, is a good thing. The
manufacturer in this State pays the cost of
inspection.
The analysis of the various fertilizers is
made by the well known chemist Dr. N. A.
Pratt, so distinguished as the discoverer of
tho phosphate beds of South Carolina.
Only the Commissioner knows the brands
analyzed. He puts the sample in a bottle
and numbers it. The chemist is utterly ig
norant of the brand. He knows nothing
of who made it. In this absolute impar
tiality is obtained. The chemist can bene
fit no one. The analysis of many of the
popular brands this year ran lower than in
the past, and the manufacturers were very
much disgruntled, and complained of Dr.
Pratt to the Commissioners, who very read
ily granted anew analysis by other chem
ists, but in every case he refused to let the
manufacturers know the new chemist. He
selected such men as Prof., Johnson, Prof, i
Goesman, of Massachusetts, Prof. Ghent,
and other reliable and scientific chemists.
In every case Prof. Pratt was confirmed.
The mattufactureres have in their employ
a number of very eminent chemists such
as Liebig and others who are, therefore, in
the interest of their employers, and have
given high analysis. Mr. Henderson, the
Commissioner, felt that it was due to the
State to have disinterested as well as capa
ble chemists. He has in this matter
evinced the highest courage and capacity
for he has been compelled to seem to an
tagonize the wealthy, powerful fertilizer
companies. His sagacity has been con
firmed by the result. It has taken a good
deal of nerve to confront these strong cor
porations, but he has stood firm and won
fight, too, and vindicated bis course.
BILL ARP’S READINGS.
He Tires of Press Gossip—Don't Caro for
“ Scoops”—Joe Brown's Beneficence, etc.
From* the Dixie Farmer:
It seems to me we Dare all reading too
much. I don't wonder that so many folks
go crazy. I’m most crazy now. The pa
pers are so full of suicides and patricides
and fratricides and husbancides and wify
cides and infantcides and other murders
and robberies and burglaries and terrible
things that I’ve lost confidence in human
nature. Sometimes I think I wont read
’em, but the editors put great big head
lines at the top that excites my curiosity
and the first thing I know I am perusing
the bloody devilment, and it makes me feel
bad for an hour. I never could bear to
read a story that dident end well, but noth
ing ends well now a days. Most everything
in the newspapers is either horrible or sad.
If it aint on the bloody line its a sensation
of some sort, a railroad boom or a woman
scandal in Washington, or a fool puzzle
that is taking the country like an epidemic.
Big things and little things fill up the news
papers. The public appetite craves high
seasoned vittels with a top dressing of froth
and sylabub, and so the editors think they
must give it to em. If Mr. Lesseps takes
dinner at a hotel the telegraph sends it all
over the country. Just so when Mr. Tilden
rides out in the park, or Gen. Grant smokes
a cigar, or Judge Lochrane goes to Chicago.
The railroad combinations have been hash
ed aod rehashed, digested and undigested,
agreed to and disagreed to, that a common
mortal like myself don’t know anything
about em. I thought I did understand
something at first, but the newspapers have
tangled it all up so Ive quit. Im not going to
try to keep up with it any more. I dontoare
whether they combine or go it alone, for its
all the same to me. Nothing that I want
em to carry will come any cheaper. A
friend at Pulaski wanted to give me a Berk
shire pig, but I couldent nigh take him and
pay the freight. These great big long
through lines may do very well for the rail
roads and St. Louis and Liverpool, but Ive
yet to see how they affect a poor farmer liv
ing five miles from Cartersville. If Joe
Brown dont do something for me nobody
wont, and it looks like he has turned mis
sionary and is sending all his money to the
heathens away up at Louisville. I see he
has given fifty thousand dollars to a Bap
tist college up there, which I reckon is all
right, for he knows better than I do which
region of the country needs the most bapti
zin. I hope now that there is some chance
for Watterson, though the general opinion
is its too late. I hope, also, that our ex-
Govemor has put a heap bigger pile away
for some bigger thing in Georgia—some
thing grand and cosmopolitan—something
that all the people of his State could honor
and cherish, and that would take in not
only the Baptists and Methodists and Epis
copalians, but let us poor Presbyterian sin
ners have a showing likewise.
But I wasent allocding to your paper in
my broken remarks. That sort of litera
ture does a mah good. Its healthy. Its
like bacon and greens, or old ham or roast
beef. I can take up one of these daily pa
pers and read it all through and get excited
and theh begin to ruminate over it, and
perhaps there isent a paragraph that will
do a man any good to remember. But I
never read a number of yours without find
ing something that instructs me, and will be
of advantage in time to come. Your last
issue had an article from a good man, a
lover of his race, upon the subject of aspar
agus, which I enjoyed. Now it aint one
farmer in a hundred over here that knows
anything about asparagus. When my good
nabor Freeman bought his place he plow
ed it all up and throwed the pesky roots
away —said lie thought it was some pisen
ous wild 1 herb that was about to take his
garden. Ive got a good bed of it just com
ing into use this spring, and Ive been cut
ting it away down under the ground like
other people, but I found out long ago that
the white part wasent good, and never
would cook tender, so I just cut all that off
before it goes in the pot and throw it away.
Why I cut it under the ground to get the
tough white part and then throw it away
after I get it, I dont know, and would like
for somebody to tell me. But I dont know
anything about that new fashioned arti
choke Mr. P. writes about. Ive got them
growing, and they were sent to me as the
Burr artichoke-something very nice, but
we dont know what to do with it. I dug
down to find some roots like the kind I
used to grabble when I was a boy and my
mother used to pickle em, but they wasent
there. I wish Mr. P. or somebody would
let us know what part of it to cook, and
how to do it. My opinion is, the world is
full of good things that we dont know any
thing about. Forty years ago we boys used
to dig up something in the swamps we call
ed angelica, and about twenty years after
wards I found out it was celery. My
mother had a bush of tomatoes in the gar
den, but she wouldent let us children touch
em for fear they would pisen us. Byard
Taylor writ a book about his travels in
Russia, and he says the young shoots of the
common cat-tail is used as food all over
that country, and is as good as asparagus,
and tastes very much like it. I wish some
body would try it first, for Im sorter afraid
to experiment with these things. They
might be good for a Russian, hue kill a
white man in two minutes. Cat tails look
like they ought to be good for something.
Yotir article on how to cut and plant
Irish potatoes edified me, and I am just
now in that business. I planted a few in
January and they are nearly a foot high.
I always risk the frost with a small plant
ing of vegetables and if they are not kill
ed I have something to brag about. If they
are killed its no great loss and I say noth
ing about it. Ido love to brag. Yours,
Bill Arp.
Cartersville, Ga,, March 27, 1880.
—
GEORGIA FARM NOTES.
The oat crop in Warren county is im
proving, and will be up to the average of
past years.
Blight is affecting the oat crop in Clay
county.
—Brevity is the greatness of eloquence.—
Cicero.
Rust in oats has appeared in Berrien,
Baker, and Sumner counties.
Farming operations are well advanced
in Walton county.
We saw Mr. Ben Lockett, the largest far
mer in Georgia, and he says he has corn
knee high. He planted two weeks ea-lier
this year than usual.
Less guano has been sold rA'Wacon than
last year. This is not the rule generally.
There has been a large general increase of
the sale of guano over the State.
Peach trees are in general bloom all ovi r
Georgia.
In Whitfield county the winter has not
been cold enough to kill the old cotton
stalks, and they are begining to sprout
from the old roots.
The Glynn County Agricultural Society
has elected as officers for this year, John B.
Habersham, President; T. W. Lamb, J. K.
Nightengale, R. M. Tison, A. W. Smith, T.
W. Dexter, Vice Presidents; J. M. Dexter,
Secretary ; and M. Michelson, Treasurer.
The Society resolved to hold a fair this
spring, and invited the stockholders of the
Glynn County Agricultural Society to sub
scribe in cash the amount of their stock
certificates for a fund for said fair, to be re
turned to them if the fair paid its own ex
penses. A committee of T. W. Lamb, M.
J. Colson, and J. M. Dexter was appointed
to get up a premium list.
Brunswick is wisely taking steps to get
up a city park.
Mercer county is complaining of rust in
the wheat crop. It is observable in this
county that the peach trees are blooming
from the lower limbs upward, instead of
from the top downward.
Schley county has rust in the oats.
The Thomasville Enterprise gives a de
scription of the fine farm of 11. B. Ains
worth, of Thomas county, Orchards,
vineyards, and fish ponds are started.
Large pens of stable manure and cotton
seed and stable manure are composted.
Everything on the farm is manure. Fences
have been renewed. The farm is in su
perb condition.
Household Recipes.
Cracker Pudding.— Pour one qnart
boiling milk over six soft crackers, let
stand until very soft, add three or four
eggs, one cup raisins, one-fourth spoon salt,
sweeten, flavor or spice, bake.
Rice Puddiug. —Boil a teacup of rice
until soft. (Boil slowly in cold water and
stir often.) To one cup boiled rice add
one and one half cups milk, two eggs, au
ger to taste, flavor, and raisins, if desired ;
bake slowly.
Bread Pudding. One cup bread
crumbs, two cups milk, one-half cup su
gar, a few bits of butter, one or two eggs,
a little nutmeg; bake slowly one hour.
Any kind of fruit may be added, but it’s
very good without.
Plain Lemon Pie.— Make the follow
ing mixture: one cup sugar, one table
spoon butter, one egg beaten light; take
two heaping teaspoons corn starch, dis
solved in a little cold water, stir it into one
teacup of boiling water, and cook a little,
take from the fire, and add the butter and
sugar well beaten, then the egg; when
cool, add the grated rind and juice of one
lemon ; bake with one crust which may be
made of butter, suet, or cream, with a tri
fle of soda in it.
Custard Pie. —Two eggs beaten well,
three heaping tablespoons sugar, one and
one-half cups milk, with as much cream in
it as you can afford ; flavor with anything
preferred. Make a crust of medium thick
ness, and brush with beaten egg ; while
baking watch closely, and if it commences
to boil or bubble leave the oven door open.
If baked slowly enough, it will be smooth
like jelly, if too fast, it will he curdy and
watery.
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How to Avoid Bad Husbands.
Never marry for wealth. A woman’s
life consiateth not in the things she pos
sesses.
Never marry a fop, who struts about
dandy-iike in his gloves and ruffles, with a
silver-headed cane, and rings upon his
fingers. Beware! There is a trap.
Never marry a niggardly, close-fisted,
mean, sordid wretch, who saves every pen
ny, or spends it grudgingly. Take care
lest he stint you to death.
Never marry a stranger, whose character
is not known or tested. Some girls jump
into the fire not knowing.
Never marry a man who treats his
mother or sister unkindly or indifferently.
Such treatment is a sure indication of a
mean and wicked man.
Never on any account marry a gambler,
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
a profane person, or one who in the least
speaks lightly of God or of religion. Such
a man will never make a good husband.
Finally, never marry a man who ii in
the least addicted to the u.>e of ardent
spirits. Depend upon it, you are better off
alone than you would be tied to a nnn
whose breath is polluted, and who is being
destroyed by alcohol.
Health Hints. —ln cold weather many
people suffer severely from taking sudden
colds; everybody has found that they can
face a wind, with comparative safety; but
if the wind come on the back, a cold is the
sudden consequence. We advise peo
ple who are a part of the time in the house,
and a part of the time exposed to the cold,
to have thick woolen cloth, six or eight
inches in width, sewed to the lining of the
vest so as to cover the spine. Generally,
the undershirt is double in front, then the
linen bosom is three double, the vest pad
ded and made three or four thicknesses; the
coat with its lappels and buckram is heavy,
and the overcoat is padded and buttoned
across the chest again. While the back is
not one-fourth part as warmly clad; the
shirt back is thin, the back of the vest thin
muslin, and but one thickness; the coat
and overcoat are much thinner behind than
before. In the share cold months of De
cember and January, especially when dry,
there is not so likelv to he trouble with
colds as in the irregular weather of the
other winter months.
Feeding Horses.
A great diversity of opinion pre
vails as to the best methods of feed
ing horses, and mistakes are fre
quently made by neglecting to give
suitable attention to the matter.
We have known farmers who were
accustomed to throw a lock of hay
to their horses several times during
the forenoon or afternoon, and when
not at work the horses would be
kept eating nearly the whole day,
consuming much more hay on such
days than they would require when
at work. This practice cannot fail
to injure a horse seriously, if con
tinued any length of time. Horses
are frequently injured by overfeed
ing. A horse should no more have
all the hay he can ,eat than a child
should have all the bread or fruit
he can eat. Regularity and moder
ation are as important in the one
case as in the other. Driven hor
ses are sometimes fed on cut straw
and meal without any hay, or very
little. This is a good food for hor
seß, as has been proved in many in
stances. Some believe that six or
eight quarts of meal, per day, with
fifteen to twenty pounds of good
hay, is enough for almost any
horse, and better than more. Of
course a horse that works all the
time needs more food than one that
does but little. Some horses con
sume and seem to need more food
than others doing the same work.
The hay should be cut, or mostly
so, and fed with meal, wet. Cracked
corn to be fed with oats a part of
the time is recommended by some.
Smoky hay is specially liable to in
duce a cough, and should be care
fully avoided. If horses are fed
mostly on hay it should be of good
quality, well cured and fed in mod
erate quantities three times a day.
But it is the opinion of those best
acquainted with horses, that they
can be kept in good condition
cheaper by feeding some grain than
by giving them hay alone, and if
horses are in constant use grain in
some form is a necessity. —Record
and Farmer.
Uses of Paper.
A complete list of articles made
of paper would be a very curious
one, and almost every day it be
comes more so. Among other
things exhibited last year at the
Belin Exhibition were paper buck
ets, “bronzes,” urns, asphalt roofing,
water-cans, carpets, shirts, whole
suits of clothes, jewelry, materials
for garden walks, window curtains,
lanterns, and pocket-handkerchiefs.
The most striking of the many ob
jects exhibited in this material was
perhaps a fire-stove with a cheerful
fire burning in it. Wo have from
time to time noted the announce
ments of newly-invented railway
carriages and carriage wheels, chim
ney-pots, flour barrels, cottage
walls, roofing tiles, and bricks and
dies for stamping, all made of pa
per. A material capable of so
many uses, so very diversified in
character, is obviously destined to
play a very important part in our
manufacturing future. Articles of
this kind, which have just now per
haps the greatest interest, and
which are among the latest novel
ties in this way, are paper blankets.
Attention has frequently been
ealled to the value of Ordinary
sheets of paper as a substitute for
bed-clothes, or, at least, as an addi
tion to bed-clothes.
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