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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARfi AND GARDEN.
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FOREST LEAVES AS MANURE.
If ii farmer’s time is valuable he can
not spare much of it to gather leaves
merely for their manurial value. If bed
ding is scarce it may be well to gather
them as an absorbent in stables, but to
merely rot down into leaf mold, leaves
are worth more where they lie in the for
est than any where else. There they
serve as a mulch and protection to the
soil they cover.— American Cultivator.
THE STRAWBERRY BED.
When a strawberry bed is very weedy
and matted, plow it up. When a bed
has been neglected until it is so very
weedy that you can hardly find the
plants, it will not pay to clean it up.
Prevention is much better than cure!
The strawberry needs attention, and most
people recognize the fact. Once in a
while, however, a strawberry bed is neg
lected until it is worthless, and when
that is the case, better plow it up and
start anew, with a determination to give
the crop such attention in the future as
it needs. It is of no sort of use to ex
pect that we can obtain good results un
less we attend to its wants.— Green's
Fruit Grower.
Horses get too much hay.
When a boy on a farm, says a writer
in Colman's Rural World , I remember it
was a standing rule to rake down a little
hay into the horses’ rack every time any
■one went into the stable. The”result was
the horses would keep their grinders
going nearly all the time, and become
pot-bellied, unsightly animals. Horses
fed iu this way become mere machines,
or hay cutters, the nutrition of the hay
is not assimilated, and a large portion of
it hr wasted. By such stuffing, every
organ in the body is interfered with, and
when put on the road Or to work on the
farm a horse so fed cannot move with any
"comfort untii relieved of the superabund
ance of feed. The disease known as
heaves is generally due to over-driving
when the stomach is full of hay. Bulk
in feeding is necessary, but when the food
is nearly all bulk an extreme has been
reached, and it is time to change. Hay
should be fed with as much care as grain
is fed. Different horses require differ
ent qualities, and in feeding anew horse
it becomes a matter of experiment until
his wants are,ascertained.
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PIGS ON DAIRY FARMS.
f ’There is no other food on which young
pigs thrive so well as on skimmed milk
and Indian meal. Pigs are also very
fond of whey, and do well on it provi
ded they have a liberal allowance of In
dian meal fed with it. To keep pigs on
whey alone is a great waste of food and
time. On skimmed milk, and the run of
clover pasture, a well-bred, young pig
"will grow rapidly; but even in this case
* little corn meal could be fed with very
decided economy and advantage. The
®il and starch of the corn restore to the
akimmea ihflk the fat-forming material
'which has been removed in the butter,
and, in effect, converts it into new milk
again. But it is very desirable that the
awal should be cooked by pouring upon
boiling water, and stirring it carefully
until it is made into “pudding.” In the
dairy there is usually much hot water
thrown away, which might be used for
this purpose, without cost, and with lit
;tle labor.
On farms where much grain is grown,
and only a few cows are kept, it is usual
ly not profitable to keep a large stock of
pigs. The common mistake made, how
ever, is not in keeping too many, but in
not feeding them liberally. Asa rule,
the pigs are kept on short allowance until
they are shut up to fatten, after the corn
is ripe, although there can be no doubt
that a bushel of corn, fed to pigs while
in clover during the summer, will pro
duce double or treble as much pork as a
bushel new corn fed in cold weather, in
the autumn, when the pigs have nothing
but corn. A few fall pigs can be kept
in the yards during the winter to good
advantage, especially if the cattle are fed
grain. But it is a great mistake to stint
young pigs through the winter, although
it must be confessed that it is a very
common one. Young pigs should be kept
gro wing rapidly through the winter and !
spring months.— Prarie Fanner.
; TICKS ON SHEEP.
The English mutton herds of sheep
and their grades and crosses are much
more liable to be troubled by ticks than
Merinos, says Joseph Harris in the Ameri
can Agriculturist. Every English farmer
dips his sheep two or three times a year
to kill ticks. Scores of preparations are
sold for this purpose, and men go round
from farm to farm with a convenient ap
paratus for dipping the sheep, and do the
■work at so much a head.
As to the relative merits of mutton
sheep and Merinos, much may be said.
But that is not our purpose at this time;
what we wish to say now is, if you are
keeping any open-wooled sheep of any
kind and have not dipped them this fall,
do not let another week pass without
doing so. It is cruel to the sheep and a
great loss to you. We once visited a far
mer in Maine, who had given up Merinos
and was keeping grade Cotswold’s. “I
feed them well,” he said, “but they do
not seem to thrive. It does not pay to
keep Merinos for wool alone, and then
grade Cotswolds are not going to prove
profitable. I think I shall have to give
up sheep altogether and keep more
cows.” This was in winter. We caught
one of the sheep and on opening the
fleece found it literally alive and black
with ticks. We have" found many such
instances elsewhere. Before winte' sets
in sheep should be dipped twice, once to
kill all the ticks, and again, two or three
weeks later. to kill the ycung ticks hatched
out from the eggs laid previous to the
first dipping. This will effectually cure
the evil. The ticks are easily killed.
A favorite dip is made from tobacco stems
or cheap tobacco. Wo have for man^
years used a dip made of a pound of soap
and a pint of crude carbolic acid to fifty
gallon of water. The only point to be
it- f “ 40 k( *P mixture well
~D l? S o. l ! T e the soap in a gallon
‘“'A® °* “Omng water and add the
arbolie acid and stir thoroughly. Then
mix with water and the proportion named
? D °ve In dipping let some trusty man
have hold of the head of the sheep and
see that none of the mixture gets into the
mouth, or nostrils, cr eyes. Each sheep
should be held in the dip not less than
half a minute.
A- dip that will probably be more con
veniently made is a mixture of soap and
kerosene and a gallon of milk. Put them
m a churn and chum rapidly for ten or
fifteen minutes. If the milk is boiling
hot when put in the churn with the kero
sene it will be all the better. When
| thoroughly churned put two gallons of
the emulsion in the dipping tub or barrel
with twenty gallons of water, stir it up,
| and commence dipping the sheep. The
j reserved gallon of emulsion will be needed
to make more dip to keep the tub or bar
rel full enough to cover the sheep. In
our own trials we used soap instead of
milk. Boil a gallon of water, and put in
it a pound of soap, and stir till it is dis
solved. Then add two gallons of kero
sene and churn as before, or, if you have
a good syringe or force pump, churn it
with that for ten minutes, or till all the
| oil is “cut,” and the emulsion is com
plete. It is not improbable that with so
much soap as above recommended the dip
may need to be a little stronger—say one
gallon of the emulsion to eight gallons of
water. We like to use plenty of soap to
avoid any possible injury to the wool. A
pound of white hellebore powder to each
two gallons of soap and kerosene emul
sion makes a dip that finishes the ticks in
a few minutes. The dip without the
hellebore will do the work. You will
find no live ticks the next morning, and
there is some reason to believe that it
will kill the eggs also. But it is always
safer and better to give a second dipping
in two or three weeks, and be sure you
dip every sheep in the flock.
It may be thought that we should tell
how much dip will be needed for a given
number of sheep. It is not easy to do so.
It requires almost as much dip for one
sheep as for a dozen. You will need to
have the tub or barrel full enough to
cover the sheep. Much will depend on the
size of the sheep and the size of the tub
or barrel. You will probably have at
least twenty gallons to start with. How
much more will be required to replenish
the dip will depend on how much care
you bestow on squeezing out the dip from
the fleece when the sheep is taken out.
Kerosene is cheap, and it is better to
have too much dip than too little, for if
you get short some of the last sheep will
not be thoroughly dipped.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Make a specialty of some one branch
of farming and you will succeed.
The size of the farm has little to do
with the financial condition of the farmer.
All root crops liable to injury from the
frost should be gathered without de
lay.
This is the time to ditch, drain, re
pair buildings and make improvements
generally.
Many years of experience show that
with ordinary, good and well cultivated
soil, the best crops of potatoes are ob
tained by flat culture.
A well fed calf in autumn, having full
flesh, is worth two others of the same
age poorly fed and of such stunted growth,
from which recovery is next to impos
sible.
Chicks raised in brooders really dou
ble their age. We have chicks now in
our brooder that are so far advanced at
three weeks of age as those six weeks
old, in care of the hen. But if you are
raising stock to keep, don’t feed so heavy.
If you find your chicks droopy, look
out for lice. You may not think you
have them, but you will find, by care
fully looking, the large head louse.
Grease the head sparingly with an oint
ment composed of two-thirds lard and
one-third coal oil.
There are “big profits” in ducks, be
cause they are brought to a marketable
age quicker than a chick, and frequently
you can get more for them. Their feath
ers are marketable at a fair price; little
is given for the best chicken feathers.
They are worthy your attention.
You know that if cows eat cabbage,
onions, or other strong smelling and pun
gent foods, they will make the milk have
that flavor. Now, it stands to reason that
water that has become impregnated with
manure wash, frog spittle or slime, will
have the same effect upon the milk. Keep
them away from it.
If the fruit trees are split by frost, a
good plan is to heat grafting wax, spread
it over a piece of muslin, and place over
the wound, tying in place with strips of
the same material wrapped around the
trees. The strip covered with the wax
should be sufficiently large entirely to
cover the wound.
The great object of cultivation aside
from killing the weeds, is to keep the
soil open, so that it can absorb whatever
is needed from the atmosphere to nour
ish the corn. The soil when kept in
this condition will get a portion of
moisture in the dryest season, will get
also much needed ammonia and the
plants are thus greatly helped.
It is quite an item to Mve the poultry
gentle, and especially the hens. If the
hens are tame they will make much better
and safer mothers than if wild or uncon
trolable. A little pains should be taken
to make them gentle before they are set
on eggs, as it may be necessary to handle
more or less before the chickens will be
able to take care of themselves.
The windmill is an implement that
cost* very little compared with the advan
tages derived. Water pumped into a
tack can be conducted to the barnyard
or to the pasture through pipes, thus
saving the expense of pumps and the la
bor of pumping. Where there is no run
ning water troughs can be arranged for
itock and may be kept full without dif
ficulty.
WOMAN’S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
my lady.
My lady is not fair, but a clear light
Shines in her eyes from morning until night.
My lady is not learned, but she knows
The way to every heart; straight there she
goes.
Though neither fair nor learned, she is one
To love and love, and never to hare done.
—New England Magazine.
A PRIMA DONNA’S PRESENTS.
Theresa Malten, the prima donna at
the Bayreuth performances, has received
a beautiful bracelet, set with diamonds
and sapphires, from the German Em
peror. The present was sent through
the German Embassy, and was accompa
nied by the most flattering assurance of
the Emperor’s appreciation of the prima
donna's performance in Bayreuth. Frau
lieu Malten has also received from the
Prince Regent the Bavarian Rauten
crown in diamonds, with turquoises,
showing the Bavarian colors, as an orna
ment for the corsage. Frau Cosimi
Wagner presented the prima donna with
a gold hairpin, with diamonds, in the
form of a dove.— New York Star.
LIMERICK LACE REVIVAL.
Miss Foster, the adopted daughter of
the late Irish Chief Secretary, has nearly
succeeded in reviving the manufacture of
Limerick lace, as an important Irish in
dustry which has been long neglected.
Miss Foster, since her marriage with Mr.
Robert Vere O’Brien, has lived near
Limerick, and she recently turned her
attention to reviving the lace industry,
which now bids fair to resume its wonted
activity. Assisted by a committee she
has opened a training school for girls, the
pupils of which are making rapid progress
in the art. All the necessary material has
been supplied to the girls, who, in ad
dition to their ordinary training, receive
lessons at the local School of Art in con
aection with South Kensington.— New
York Herald.
STYLES IN HAIR DRESSING.
A style cf hair-dressing as opposite as
possible from the soft, graceful, fluffy
mass of hair so long favored is affected
by a number of fashionable young women,
ft consists of a number of moist, flat
rings of hair flattened down upon the
forehead, these called “Spanish love
locks.” There are those who, for a ca
price, have adopted this style of coiffure,
as the “Spanish” mode with them has
Certainly not proved a success. The
pretty rolls of hair above the locks, run
through with a Spanish comb or jeweled
pin, are graceful, but the plastering
process above the forehead is hideous.
There is hardly a feature of the toilet
which so quickly and materially affects
the looks as the arrangement of
the hair, especially above the brow.—
New York Pott.
THE SIGItER EDUCATION OF WOMEN.
Mrs. Christine Ladd Franklin, who
was made a fellow of Johns Hopkins
University for her mathematical achieve
ments, takes a deep interest in the plan
of the collegiate alumna; to maintain,
each year at least, one young woman,
already a graduate Of an American college
belonging to the association and who
gives promise of following in the foot
steps of Darwin and Huxley, at a foreign
university. The scheme is in part Mrs.
Franklin’s Own, and its object is to lend
some assistance in the settlement of the
vexed question, will women ever add an
important discovery to the world’s stock
of knowledge by establishing a fellow
ship for the support of young women
likely to become capable of original re
search while they obtain the best prepara
tion possible for working alongside the
world’s scholars. Mrs. Franklin’s idea
is to get hold of just the right young
women with scientific proclivities and
back them during from one to three
years’ study in Europe. Women, she
says, have demonstated that they are
better physically and mentally for going
to school. They have proved wonder
fully receptive. Will even a handful
ever show themselves investigators? If
they do not, she thinks it ought not to
be for lack of money to obtain the neces
sary preliminary training. With Mrs.
Franklin at the head of a committee, the
collegiate alumnae are now engaged in
raising funds before declaring the fellow
ship open for competition.— New York
Star.
a sire’s pretty room.
Here is the description of a room just
completed by a fashionable decorator in
New York city in the house of a wealthy
man who will have his only daughter
home from school this winter and ready
to take her place in society. The house
hold arrangements are being made largely
with a view to her pleasure and conveni
ence, and when she arrives she will find
this pleasant surprise that has been pre
pared without her knowledge, though the
decorator has been at work on it for two
months. She is a pretty girl, with a fresh
pink and white skin, big hazel eyes and
very dark hair, and after the decorator
had caught a glimpse of her he decided
that the room should be done in pink; so
the walls are covered with a French paper
that is a shade between cream and rose,
and above this is a frieze of a paper with
the pale brown and green orchids on a
pii?K ground, The ceiling is cream color,
sprinkled with silver stars, and the
picture moulding is silvered. All the
paint in the room is white enamel paint,
and the hangings at the windows and in
the arch of the alcove containing the bed
are of cream-colored China silk, with a
pattern of large interwoven rings of pale
green and brown. The bed seen between
the curtains is of silver-plated brass and
has a spread of heavy pink silk louder
lace and a huge pair of raffled and laced
pillows. The fire-p’-ace is in the corner
and has silver andirons, shovel and hongs,
being iuelosed with cream-colored tiles,
which have pink figures on them, taken
from the poems of one of the first of-the
great female poets, Mother Goose. a 4^l
around the edge is a border of deep red
terracotta, and the mantlepiece is white
and silver in the colonial style.— New
York World.
AN EMPRESS IN THE KITCHEN.
The Empress of Austria is the best
royal housekeeper in Europe. She is as
thoroughly acquainted with the details
of the imperial Austrian kitchen as her
husband is with the details of the impe
rial Austrian Government. She superin
tends the household affairs of the big pal
ace at the Austrian capital with the great
est care. She receives personally, reads
and acts upon reports from cooks, butlers,
keepers of the plate and keepers of the
linen. . Cooking devices which have be
come inconvenient or antiquated aro
abolished only at her command.
New methods of preparing or
serving food are adopted only at her sug
gestion. Changes in the personnel of the
establishment are made for the most part
only in obedience to her orders. Conse
quently a person can cat, drink, sleep
and be served better in her house than in
any other in Europe.
The kitchen in which the food for the
bluest blood of Austria is cooked is a
huge room with all the arrangements at
each end for preparing fish, fowl, and
beast for the table. Fifty chickens can
be cooked at once on one of the big,
whirling spits. Against the side walls
from floor to ceiling stand scores upon
scores of chafing dishes. In these dishes,
all of which are self-warming, the
meats are carried to the carving-room
whence they are returned to the kitchen
ready to be served. The boiling and
baking, and frying and carrying and cut
ting occupy a small regiment of servants.
Twenty-five male cooks, in white clothes,
dress, spit, season and stuff the meats.
As many female cooks prepare the vege
tables, the puddings, and the salads. A
dozen or more boys hurry the birds, fish
and joints from the kitchen to the carv
ing room, where long lines of carvers
slice and joint everything laid before
them.
The kitchen utensils fill a big room
opening into the kitchen. This room is
the ideal of German housewives. The
high walls are covered with pans, kettles,
griddles, and covers, which shine as only
German hands and German muscle could
make them shine. There are soup tureens
in which a big boy might be drowned,
kettles in which twins could play house,
and pans which would hold half a dozen
little Hanses or Gretchens. In short,
about every culinary utensil on the walls
is of the heroic size, suggestive rather of
the Missouri barbecue than of the feasts
of crowned heads and diplomats at one of
the first of courts.
For days before the great court festivals
the whole Austrian court kitchen staff,
from the “head court cooking master”
down to the youngest scullion, work like
mad. The chefs hold repeated consulta
tions in their council chamber, often de
bating hour after hour with all the earnest
ness of a Parliament or Congress concern
ing the best methods of preparing fowls,
Sauces, cakes, and scups. The menu, as
selected by the chefs, is submitted to the
master of the provision department, sd
that he may immediately order from the
city whatever the cellars of the castle
lack.
The Austrian court dinners are famous
on the Continent. The delicacies which
result from the protracted meetings in the
council chamber of the chefs are often so
fine that favored guests not infrequently
observe the old German fashion of taking#
choice bit home to their friends in the
name of the Empress and with her best
wishes. All that remains of a court feast, or
dinner, is sent to the Viennese hospitals.
On the days just after the banquet the Em
press is very busy looking over the re
ports and inventories of the frau head
keeper of the napkins, and the fraulein
head keeper of the tablecloths, and the
herr head guardian of the imperial china,
and a dozen other like functionaries with
jointed titles. She reviews all these com
munications with conscientious care, and
ordet-s with strict attention to minute de
tails the replacement of all that has been
lost, broken, or defaced.
FASHION NOTES.
Numbered with novelties are the
plaited skirts.
Velvet muffs will be carried this winter
to match bonnets.
All fall sleeves are set with the head
above the shoulder.
Light otter promises to be the fashion
able fur for dress trimming.
Braiding is most effective done in
corners, points, yokes or bretelles.
The waistcoat of a jacket is usually of
a contrasting shade of cloth, braided.
Cloths of old rose contrasted with moas
green or wood brown make beautiful cos
tumes.
Several purple shades of cloth for outer
garments are shown as novelties by ladies’
tailors.
Black, with Boulanger red, and taa
with Eiffel rouge, are the latest combina
tions from Paris.
Short mantles and talmas are made with
high shoulder gores that are turned
square at the elbow to form sling
sleeves-
In the shops where a specialty is made
of mourning toilets the brooch or buckle
used on the basque is purple, white or
black enamel.
The refinement which distinguishes the
new woolens is also characteristic of the
fashionable colors, which are mostly half
shades of green, gray, blue or terra
cotta, and exquisite tints of fawn and
brown.
Some of the black silk stockinette
jersevj are made with vests, deep collars
with revers, and turn-back cuffs, formed
of openwork silk passementerie and
crooheted silk stars finely interwoven with
cut jet.
Fashion has decreed that ladies in
kfondoa’s best society mast appear at
afternoon teas, lunches, kettledrums and
other afternoon entertainments with
arms bare, as well as in the evening. The
long gloves will be drawn off, and no
bracelets will be worn, but the fingeri
will glitter jrith Costly rwgs. _
POPULAR SCIENCE.
During the last ten years an oculist of
Cronstadt, Russia, is said to have treated
thirty cases of photo-electric ophthal
mia, anew disease duo to the action of
the electric light on the eyes.
M. Cornu,the French scientist,believes
that the light of shooting stars cannot be
due to comoustion or heat, as supposed,
but it is a phenomenon of static electric
ity developed by simple friction.
In a recent issue of a Russian medical
journal, a contributor emphatically calls
attention to the common sunflowers as an
excellent and cheap substitute for quinine
in the treatment of malarial fevers of all
possible forms.
The German Government propose
forming a botanical garden in the Cam
eroons, for the purpose of determining
what plants, medicinal or commercial,
are the best for cultivation in the planta
tions of Germany’s African colonies.
It is said to have been demonstrated at
the Paris Exposition that, by a combina
tion of compressed air and water, it
will be possible to drive a train on
slides over vi hundred miles au hour.
There is no smoko, no noise and scarcely
any perceptible motion.
Narrow chested recruits of the Prus
sian army are to be measured monthly,
and those whose chests are not widened
by drill are to be discharged as predis
posed to consumption. All are to be
considered narrow chested whose chests
are less in circumference than half the
length of their bodies.
The new and ingenious process brought
forward in London for the production of
aluminum steel is likely, it is claimed, to
supercede all other methods. It consists
simply in melting pig iron in contact
with clay and a certain flux, the result
being a sonorous, incorrodible alloy,
containing 1.75 per cent, of alluminum.
In observations on eighty-two male
and twenty-eight female convicts Dr.
Fradenigo, of Italy, has found them more
liable to ear diseases than law-abiding
citizens, but has detected no constant
relation between the obtuseness of touch,
taste and smell so common in convicts
and the sharpness of vision credited
them.
Dr. Yon Duhring has reported a case
in which tuberculosis was transmitted by
the earrings of a girl who died from con
sumption to another girl. Shortly after
the second girl commenced to wear the
earrings an ulcer, containing tubercle
bacilli, formed on her left ear and she
subsequently developed pulmonary con
sumption.
An official report states that in Eng
land and Wales 546 pci-sons were killed
by lightning during the twenty-nine
years from 1852 to 1880. The inhab
itants of rural districts are found to suf
fer more from lightning than those of
towns, while vicinity to the west and
south coasts reduces the chances of injury
by lightning, and distance from the
coast and high land seems to increase
them.
Anew ice machine of great capacity
has recently been devised, in which the
sulphurous anhydride hitherto . employed
for this purpose is replaced by a mixture
of sulphurous and carbonic anhydride
alone. The inventor of this arrange
ment explains the matter on the basis of
the theory that some kind of molecular
action, or rather reaction, occurs bet ween
the two gases when liquefied, in conse
quence of which the pressure exerted by
the gas is much smaller than would be
expected.
By comparing modern skulls with
those of the same race in an old mon
astery in the Kedrou Valley, Dr. Dight,
of the American College of Beirut, Syria,
has shown that thirteen centuries have
added two inches to the circumference
and three and a half cubic inches to the
capacity of the Caucasian skull. The
brain is developed in the part* presiding
over the moral and intellectual functions,
growing higher and longer, without in
crease of the lower portions, Which give
breadth to the head and in which the sel
fish propensities are centred.
A. Queer Rustic Vehicle.
On the last day of the Exposition Pro
fessor A; B. Morris drove from Esses
Centre to the Exposition. Me rode in
one of the strangest buggies that ever
was seen on the streets of Detroit'. The
Professor made it during his odd hours
for the past t.wo or three months. It
was made entirely of second growth hick
ory, and most of the hickory had the
bark left on,the smooth bark being upon
the shafts and smaller parts of the bug
gy, and coarse hickory bark on the hub.
The rig was ornamented by many twisted
hickory switches, bent in all sorts of
queer shapes and loops. The rest of the
buggy was made with hickory with the
bark off, and the whole affair was var
nished nicely, and the effect of the smooth
hickory and the hickory with fhe bark ou
was Very pretty; There was not a scrap
of leather or of iron, or anything nbout
the buggy, except a few nails that had
been driven here and there. Even the
tires were hickory hoops.— Detroit Free
Frett,
The Champion Sleep Walker.
Young Mr. Hollenbeck was in Jamul
the other evening, says the San Diego
(Col.) Union, and attended a party there.
After enjoying a dance and the society
of the good people of the neighborhood,
he went to bed and to sleep. Mr. Hollen
beck, Sr., lives in the city, aud about 9
o’clock in the morning was in his corral
looking after some cattle. He was sur
prised to see his son enter the place, and
he asked him: “What did you leave
Jamul for, aud how did you get here?”
The young man paid no attention to the
question whatever. His father repeated
it and becoming alarmed at his son’s
strange manner, grasped him by the arm
and shook him. The young man slowly
came to himself, or rather swoke, for he
was sound asleep and had no idea what
ever that he was in San Piego. He had
got up in his sleep, walked the fifteen or
twenty miles to this city, fording the
Sweetwater River, and had made his way
straight to his father’s house.
Burning at the Stake.
“Burning at the stake is the most
runful and horrible manner of death
ever witnessed,” said a traveling man
to a Chicago Herald writer. “I am
forty-five years old, and the burning I
saw took place at noon one day, about
the middle of July, 1859, at Marshall,
Mo., eighty-four miles from Kansas
City. The victim was a colored man
named John, who b longed to Giles
Kiser, a farmer. On the evening of
May 13 John had murdered young Ben
jamin Hinton at his st-amboat wood
yard on the Missouri River, between
Laynesville and Miama. John murder
ed'young Hinton for his money, and ob
tained $52, some of which he distributed
among other colored men. Judge Hicks,
of Independence, then Judge of the
Sixth District, granted a motion for a
special term of court to try John and
two other colored criminals.' This was
in the forenoon. When the court ad
journed for a nooning the j eople, impa
tient at the law’s delay, burst upon the
Sheriff as he was conveying the prison
ers from the court room to the jail, took
them from the officers, and there in the
sight of hundreds hanged the other two
and chained John to a walnut tree and
burned him to death. He lived about
six or eight minu'es after the flames
wrung the first cry of agony from hit
iipß. Then the inhalation of the blazing
fire suffocated him. His face, arms and
breast were scorched frightfully, and the
lower portion of h s bodv was a charred,
shapeless mass. Judge hicks was so in
dignant at this outrage that lie resigned
from the bench. No trouble to tunas
concerned ever resulted frem the case.
Oriental Beggars.
Beggary throughout the East is a
thriving profession. There.are guilds ol
beggars, besides the numerous commu
nities of dervishes, who are semi-religious
mendicants. Many families have been
beggnrs for generations, and rm
mendicants from choice. Some of these
professional beggarsure actually wealthy,
Four-und-twenty years ago the writer
well remembers a case. The Chief Beg*
gar (the title was not conferred in deri
sion) gave his daughter in marriage to a
substantial fnrraer. The girl’s dowrj
consisted of two freehold houses, the
rooms of which were entirely filled with
dry pieces of bread, and the sale of thesa
begged crusts subsequently realized a
considerable sum, beiug disposed of as
food for cattle. In the east there is nq
organized chanty, but Mussulmen arq
exceedingly charitable, many giving
away a fith and even a third of their in
come.
The Wife of Columbus.
While at Lisbon, Columbus was apeus
tomed to attend service,says Washington
Irving, at the chapel of the convent o(
All Saints. There he became acquainted
with a lady of rank, named Dona Felipa,
who resided at the convent. She wa
the daughter of Bartollommeo Monis dq
Pallestrello, or Perestrello, an Italian
cavalier, lately deceased, who had been
one of the most distinguished navigators
under Prince Henry of Portugal, and
had colonized and governed the Island
of Porto Santo. The acquaintance soon
ripened into attachment and ended in
marriage. It appears, adds Irving, to
hate been a match of mere affection as
the lady had little or no fortune.
According to the New York Commer
cial Advert-tier, since 1800 more than 00,-
000 bodies have been buried in the Pot
ter’s Field on Hart’s Island. There are
no single interments. The bodies are
placed in trenches, dug in regular rows,
forty-five feet long, fourteen feet wide,
and ten feet deep. Each of these pits
will hold one hundred and fifty bodies.
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