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CATTLE QUEENS.
Smart Women Who Have Be¬
come Rich Raising Stock.
More Than a Thousand Female
Stockgrowers in Colorado.
Women have lots of enterprise, grit
and get up about them, if they are only
given half a chance to do as they would
like to do.
I know it will be astonishing to some,
but it is nevertheless true, says a letter
from Fort Davis, Texas, that Colorado
alone has over one thousand female
stockgrowers who own their herds in
fee and manage their own business to
suit themselves. These ladies are wide
awake and lively and know a good busi¬
ness bargain when they run up against
one, just as well as a horrid man does.
We have in Texas two ladies who are,
perhaps, the largest individual sheep
and stock owners on the continent.
Down in Uvalde County lives the Widow
Callahan, who owns something like 50,
000 sheep in her own right. These are
divided into bands of about 2000 each,
with a “pastora” for every flock and a
“bossero” over the whole business.
Their grade is fine, a cross between the
straight Mexican and the Vermont
merino, and all branded with the lady’s
own particular trade-mark. She em¬
ploys something like forty hands
(mostly Mexican), and her annual clip
of wool is really startling. When the
long trains of wagons start out each
Spring and Fall for market, loaded
down with the widow's wool, it is in¬
deed a sight worth seeing. There was a
genuine cattle queen living southeast of
here, in Neuces County, not long since,
who has since become famous as Mrs.
Rogers, the great herd-owner of South¬
western Texas. This lady is probably
worth a round million of dollars,
and her history has been a
remarkable one. Although able to
buy and sell some of our East¬
ern millionaires and nabobs who ride in
fine carriages behind spunking teams,
yet this lady will not own a carriage of
her own, preferring to ride the free-and
easy style of a cowboy on horseback. It
is hard to believe the fact, when she
goes dashing and galloping over the
prairie after an unruly steer, that Mrs,
Rogers is on the shady side of fifty.
Mrs. Rogers came to Neuces a long time
ago with her husband, who was at that
time a stockman of considerable means.
When he had accumulated a herd of 40,
000 fine cattle, more or less, the gentle¬
man suddenly died. Gifted with rare
business ability, his wife at once took
charge of affairs, did her own buying,
selling and hiring, and in a very short
time had doubled the commercial
strength of her late husband’s herd.
A San Antonio gentleman tcll3 the
following story of his experience with a
prominent cattle queen, who has her
headquarters somewhere in an earthly
paradise in Southwestern Texas, She
was at the time alone in San Antonio
and stopping at one of the first-class ho¬
tels. She gave her name to the hotel
clerk, but requested that it be not placed
upon the register, and that if any news¬
paper men came to see her, or inquired
for her, to say flatly that she was “not
in.”
“I have been awfully persecuted by
those fellows," said she, “and one of
them even had the cheek to surrep¬
titiously obtain my photograph and pub¬
lish a cut of it in the Phi'alelphia
Tims. I won’t see any of them, I tell
you.”
She deposited in the hotel safe a jew¬
elry box containing diamonds, etc.,
valued at about $100,000. Her studded
watch, bracelets, rings, etc., were
sparkling with jewels. She called at
one of the dry-goods establishments and
selected a dress pattern of terra-cotta
silk, style ottoman, with velvet trim
ming to match, at $21 per yard. Her
wardrobe Is as extensive as elegant,
comprising innumerable dresses, silk
wrappers and wraps of all styles and
shades imaginable. After a royal time,
in which she spent more money than a
dozen men would earn in a year, she
boarded a train and sped southward to
the ranch and range she calls home.
Even young girls bom and bred in
the East, who have been matured in
luxury and raised amid all the
softening influence of wealth, when they
strike the free, happy ozone of tho
Western prairies become elated and joy
ful, and loath to return to civilization
and all that civilization offers.
Wholesale Adulteration.
Investigation in England reveals ths
fact that nearly every article of food is
robbed of its purity, as will be seen by
the following:—
Bottled fruits are at times colored
green by the addition of copper in the
form of the sulphate (“bluestone"). A
knife blade immersed in the juice of the
fruit in question will rapidly become
coated with a bright deposit of metallic
copper. The French have a simple and
harmless plan of giving an apparent
green color to their preserved fruits and
olives. The bottles are made of bright
green glass. Sauces, potted meats and
fish are constantly adulterated—i. e.,
colored by means of Armenian bole.
This is done partly from custom, but
chiefly to conceal the dirty appearance
of the pastes and sauces, The British
public will have its anchovy sauce red.
The uncolored sauce is unsalable, though
far superior to the red abomination, the
filth being removed from the former,
while in the latter it is merely concealed
by the Armenian bole. Jams are adul¬
terated by the admixture of inferior
fruits. For instance, gooseberries are
often added to raspberry jam. Marma¬
lades frequently contain apple
pulp, or even turnips, Col
oriug matter and artificial flavor¬
ings are freely used. Au ingenious in¬
dustry goes on largely in London, which
is wholly unsuspected by the public.
Raspberries, oranges and other fruits are
purchased by the wholesale chemists
and the juice extracted. Then the pulp
is bought at a low price by the manufac¬
turers of cheap jams for flavoring and
placed upon the market as “fine new
season jam" or marmalade. Mustard
and coffee are, as a rule, preferred by
the consumer in an adulterated state.
Many people object to the color of gen¬
uine mustard, and consider that the ad
dition of chiccory imparts an agreeable
flavor to their coffee. Spices—Pepper
used to be extensively adulterated.
Most people have heard of the “Ameri¬
can “nutmegs made of wood,” but the
artificial peppercorn is a British inven¬
tion. Whole pepper has now become
the fashion, and the artificial peppercorn
will doubtless soon come to the front
again. Spices sold in a powder form
arc naturally largely adulterated. The
business of the drug grinders offer
large temptations to the adulterator.—
Saturday Review.
Two Eminent Parrots.
Conductors on the Fourth & Eighth
Streets railroad have been annoyed a
great deal by a shrill whistle just after
their cars pass Fourth and Morris streets.
The conductor of a yellow car deter¬
mined to ascertain from whence it pro¬
ceeded. Two nights ago he jumped
from the platform when lie heard the
whistle, but there was apparently no one
in sight who could have produced it.
lie had returned to his car when a loud
“Ha! ha!" sounded, and the mysterious
whistler was detected in a big Brazilian
parrot that hung in front of a saloon.
Mr. Samuel II. Black of New Castle,
Del., is the owner of a quaint old parrot
which is in a fair way of attaining a na¬
tional reputation. Some three weeks
ago the parrot died, at least there were
all the signs of mortality, and the owner
was next to inconsolable for his loss, for
the bird, beside being a great pet, was a
gifted talker. As a forlorn hope, it was
suggested that electricity be tried as a
possible means of resuscitating Polly.
The experiment was tried, and to the
amazement of all, the bird “came to life
again.”
It is undoubtedly alive, and able to
eat, sleep and so on, but the power of
speech is lacking. Whether the electric
current eliminated from the bird’s bump
of memory th& language it had acquired,
or whether its muteness be attributed to
paralysis of the organs of speech, does
not appear. —Philadelphia Record.
Enormous Eggs.
The dinoruis of New Zealand, and
the epyornis of Madagascar, were among
the existing birds until so recent a peri
od that it has sometimes been doubted
whether they are yet extinct. Joly
states that the height of the latter was
about 16 feet, while its eggs were equal
in capacity to 6 ostrich eggs, to 148
hens’ eggs, or to 50,000 hummingbirds’
eggs. One of the eggs measured at
Toulouse was 20 inches long and 9
inches wide, with a shell from 1 to 2
lines thick; and it could contain nearly
2 gallons of water. A still larger speci
men has been described by Saint-Hill
aire. An egg of the dinorais measuring
10 and 7 inches is recorded.— Trenton
(W. J.) American.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
France, Austria and Germany have
adopted smokeless gunpowder for their
armies.
William K. Cavett, a workingman in
Pittsburg, has patented a new submarine
ram that will pierce the side of the heav¬
iest ironclad.
Dew on growing vegetables is said to
he produced by the condensation of the
transpired moisture from the plant on
Us own leaves.
Some of the cures at a European re
sort are mineral water cure, grape cure,
whey cure, cold water cure, massage
cure, pine-needles baths, Russian, Rom
an, Irish, mud, steam and electric baths,
All ills are met by “cures."
A great flume has been completed at
gan 1>ieg0) C aL It extends fifty miles
from the western slope of Cuyamaca
Mountain, where there is a reservoir
containing a four years’ supply of water
at au e ) CYa ti onL of 4500 feet, The cost
was $900,000.
Salt water is affecting the gas wells of
Findlay, O., to a large extent, more
noticeably in the famous “Karg,” which
at times cannot bo used for several days.
After a period of rest, however, the
disturbing element seemingly disap¬
pears, but under high pressure upon the
well returns again.
A mineral that resembles coal has been
found on a farm at Southwest Harbor,
Me. It burns briskly till nearly half re¬
duced, and when burning is as soft aud
ductile a3 putty. When burned out the
substance is black jet and as hard as
flint. Rubbed with a woolen cloth it
will give a brilliant polish.
The first application of electricity to
the turning of draw bridges has been
made in Bridgeport, x Conn, An iron
draw in that city weighing 300 tons is
to be operated hereafter by an electric
motor of seven and a half horse power,
the force being transmitted from the
Bridgeport light plant half a mile away.
It takes five men to turn the bridge by
hand.
A Pennsylvania botanical society has
received a rose of Jericho from Persia,
of which species of flower, it is said,
that wh#n«dry weather is prevalent it
wraps itself into a ball, and is to all ap¬
pearances dead. The wind blows it
from the stalk, and it goes bounding
along until it reaches a moist spot, where
it unfolds its leaves, drops its seeds and
a garden of roses soon appears.
Professor Joseph Le Conte declares
that for every grade of culture, whether
of the individual or of the race, theie is
a corresponding grade of hand-work
necessary for the best brain-culture. In
the child of pre-school age, and in the
savage and in palaeolithic man, it is the
simple use of the hand, or assisted by
rude implements; in the school boy or
girl, as also in the next higher grade of
races, it is by the use of these finer in¬
struments which we call tools; and in
the university, as in the most civilized
races, it is by the use of scientific in¬
struments and machines
A new mole-like mammal, found in
South Australia, is described by E. C.
Stirling, of the university at Adelaide.
It is a ground-borrowing animal, out¬
wardly somewhat like the Cape mole,
but differing from it in many respects.
It is about five inches long, has no visi¬
ble eyes, but a small pigment spot to be
seen on reflecting the skin, where the
eye should be; no external ears, but the
ear-openings distinct and covered with
fur; the fore-limbs short, resembling
those of the mole, with the hands folded
so that only two of the nails are visible
in the natural position; and the hinder
limbs also short, with the soles turned
outward. The animal had never been
seen by any of the aborigines, except by
one old woman once.
“Pig Iron” is a Pun.
“Pig Iron." This is a mere play
upon the word sow. When iron is
melted it runs off into’ a channel called
a sow, the lateral branches of which are
called pigs. Here the iron cools and is
called pig iron. Sow has nothing to do
with swine, but is from the Saxon
sawan, to scatter. Having sow for tho
parent channel it required no great ef
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A Hungry Faster.
\ isitor (at the museum): Where is
the “fasting man,” boss?
Keeper (absent-mindedly): He's just
gone out for supper; he will be back in
a minute —New York Sun.
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A little child, tired of play, had pillowed his head on a rail and fallen
asleep. The train was almost upon him when a passing stranger rushed forward
and saved him from a horrible death. Perhaps you are asleep on the track, too.
You are, if you are neglecting the hacking cough, the hectic flush, the loss of
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or both. If one is
to the other is sure to result. The
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of their friends. Miss Olyiner is a
daughter of the late Dr. Clymer, of the
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In 18831 contracted Wood Poison
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