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George Witt eloped from Wrightsviilc, 111.,
ami next day his deserted wife went off
similarly with a married neighbor.
California raises great quantities of mustard
seed, but cannot succeed in refining it, so the
bulk goes to England, and returns as Durham
mustard.
The London Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals has made an appeal to
people who are leaving town to make due
provision for the support of their eats during
their absence.
The men of an opera company organized
for a New England tour are to parade on the
day of the entertainment through the streets
ofeach town visited, wearing fanciful costumes
and singing songs with a bell accompani
ment. 1
An English inspector, in his report on an
accident to a train which occurred on the
London and Southwestern Railway, mentions
the faet that the engine had run a total dis
tance of 329,577 miles, of which 39,103 miles
were run since it was last repaired.
Guiteau has a special jailer, who attends
to him only. No other person sees or speaks
to him, but as he is fed separately he gets a
little better rations than the messes in prison,
lie has great confidence in District Attorney
Corkhill, and may apply to him to defend
him.
A Berlin manufacturer is laboring under
the impression that he is God, and has been
travelling two million miles on the comet for
the purpose of dealing out punishment to the
world. It is said that there have been a
number of cases of lunacy in Germany of
which the comet has been the cause.
At Leeds Assizes Justice Kay recently
sentenced a woollen manufacturer of Batly,
who had been found guilty of manslaughter
and recommended to mercy, to a year's im
prisonment. The prisoner had bought a
second-hand boiler and worked it without hav
ing it properly examined ; it exploded, and
sixteen persons were killed.
Gould has evidently determined to make
St. Lcuis his Western capital. lie followed
tip the purchase of the leading railroads
centreing there with that of the big bridge,
the tunnel and the union depot. He has just
concluded the purchase of a large share of
the stock of the National Stock Yards, situated
just opposite St. Louis on the Illinois side of
the river. The yards are well connected with
the railroads belonging to the system, which
converges at the bridge. It is believed that
Gould is determined to develop the cattle
trade of St. Louis just as he has developed its
grain trade.
The great comfort of Guiteau’s life in jail
is his autobiography, which lie is preparing,
and which, he believes, will astonish the world,
aud win that name for him which he has been
anxious to obtain, even at the risk of his life.
The work, as prepared, will constitute a very
bulky volume. It is said that a number of
publishing firms are willing and anxious to
publish it; and that one of them offered
Guiteau SI,OOO, and guaranteed him $50,000
more, if he was given the copyright. Of course
the assassin’s vanity is inflated at this offer,
and he begins to believe himself after all that
great man he has always flattered himself he
was.
The United States Consul General at
Shanghai has furnished the State Department
with some figures about labor in China.
Chinese labor is certainly cheap, according
to this report. The average pay of skilled
labor is : For a master, $3 per week ; for a
workman, $1.50, and for ayoungsteror woman,
50 cents. The farm laborer works seven days
in the week and gets from 10 to 15 cents a
day, and the coolie, boatmen, carrier, or
wheelbarrowmen, often only 5 cents. The
cost of living is correspondingly cheap. A
laborer does not spend over $2 a year for
clothing, while his boarding is dear at sl2 a
year. By hard, incessant work he can hope
to lay by $2 a year.
The liow of Italian immigration to this
country is comparatively small, and one
reason is that South America has proved a
more attractive region for them. The Argentine
Republic already contains 500,000 Italians,
and they constitute more than one-half of the
population of Buenos Ayres. They latel}*
opened and carried on successfully an in
dustrial exhibition, in which the raw and
manufactured products of the country and
the machinery and mechanical inventions
chiefly used by the Italian residents were
brought together. The results were astonish
ing to the native Spaniards. The Italians
seem likely at no distant day to become the
dominant people of the South American re
public, as the English-speaking races are of
the United States.
Indians arc like a great many white men
in sometimes losing their courage after get
ting on the ground for a duel. Slitlip Bob
and Square Sam, young braves of the Santee
Sioux, were so equall}* attractive in the eyes
of Sal Molly, their chief’s daughter, that she
would not choose between them. She prom
ised, however, to accept the survivor of a
duel, and it was agreed that the fight should
be a deadly one with stone-headed war clubs.
The meeting was ceremonious in a high de
gree, and it*was only after lengthy prelimi
naries that the two warriors, mounted on
ponies, armed with the murderous clubs, and
hideous in war paint, faced each other for the
encounter. They circled around for an hour,
harmlessly whooping and gesticulating, then
they came together, whacked away wildly
awhile, but injured nothing except the ponies ;
and, finally, Sam accepted Bob’s offer of five
horses and a gun to relinquish his claim on
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I From the Atlanta Constitution.
Ensilage.
Dr. John M. Bailey, proprietor of “ Win
ning Farm” Billerica, Massachusetts, is in tlsc
city for the purpose of arranging for a
thorough and full exhibition of the system of
ensilage at the International Cotton Exposi
tion. This promises to be one of the most
interesting and beneficial exhibits which the
Exposition will afford, and will doubtless at
tract many agriculturists.
Yesterday a representative of the Constitu
tion spent an hour in conversation with Dr.
Bailey, and was made acquainted with the
details of this system of curing forage crops.
Dr. Bailey said :
“It is proposed to make a thorough exhi
bition of the system of ensilage at the Inter
national Cotton Exposition, for if t here is one
thing that interests the cotton planter more
than any other, it is to devise some way by
means of which his mules may be fed for less
than by the present manner. A mule fed
upon northern hay and corn costs almost as
much for keeping as an average hand does
for wages and rations. This is entirely
wrong, and must be obviated before such a
degree of prosperitj r can be enjoj-ed by cat
ton planters as the natural advantages of the
cotton belt entitles them to. Many of the
most luxuriant growing forage plants have
their home in tiie south, but their very luxu
riant habit of growth has heretofore rendered
it almost impossible to cure them. The sj's
tem of ensilage opens a cheap and certain
way for their full utilization.”
“ Who is making the exhibit of the system
at the Exposition—the Exposition company
or private individuals?”
“ The Exposition company is having it
done for the benefit of the agricultural vis
itors. I have been engaged to superintend
the matter, and on Monday will begin the
construction of two silos at the Exposition
grounds. They will be of sufficient size to
hold from 20 to 25 tons each, and will be
filled with various kinds of forage, including
corn, fodder, sugar cane, millet and most best
of all, pea vines ; the tops and second-growth
of the cotton plant itself will also be pre
served. The leaves and stalks of the cotton
plant are rich in nutritive matter, and if by
the process of ensilaging the cotton plant can
be made to furnish the means of subsistence
for the teams working it, a valuable and un
expected attribute will be accorded the king
of plants.”
“llow arc these silos constructed?”
“ A silo is a cistern or vat, air and water
tight on the bottom and sides, with an open
top, and is built of masonry or concrete. It
may be of any shape, with perpendicular
sides.”
“ And you put the forage crops into this
while in a green state and cover it over ?”
“Yes; you fill it with any kind of forage
crops, such as corn, sorgho, rye, oats, millet,
Hungarian grass, clover, pea and bean vines,
and any kind of grasses. As for cotton, in
seasons of extreme drouth, like the present,
the late rains cause a luxuriant growth of
stalk and leaf, which, however, excepting in
the extreme south, matures no bolls. It is
this growth which will be experimented with
at the Exposition. One of the silos will be
constructed of brick and cement; in short, it
will be a “ model” silo, adopted to all sec
tions, soils and climates. The other will be
constructed in the most economical manner,
showing how every farmer or planter who is
not afraid of a little work can have a silo and
enjoy the advantages of this new dispensa
tion.”
“ When is the best time to prepare the
grasses and other crops for the silos ?”
“Ensilage can be preserved from fall until
the following summer.”
“ Has jour experience with the system
proven satisfactory on your farm at Bille
rica ?”
“ Entirely. I feed twelve horses, ten milk
cows and a large herd of swine upon ensilage
which was packed in silos in June, 1880 —the
ensilage being now over fifteen months old.
After being packed in the proper manner in
the silos, it may be kept an indefinite period.
That which is not used one season may be
kept over for the next.”
“You think then it will prove of real ben
efit to the planting population of the south ?”
“ Undoubtedly, and ever}'where else that it
is used. It promises to reduce the cost of
keeping a mule to about 12 cents per day
while at work and to less than 4 cents per
day when idle.”
“Is there a great nutritive value in ensi
lage ?”
“ Yes, and it is proven by the fact that my
cows, fed upon it during the winter, brought,
me very fine, large, strong calves—upon their
feet and sucking almost as soon as dropped.
My Vermont Merino ewes sheared upon an
average 9 pounds of wool. They also brought
fine, strong, vigorous lambs, which weighed,
when born, from 6to pounds each. Some
of the Merino ewes bore twins weighing 17 j
pounds. My Cotswold ewes did equally well,
bringing lambs weighing from 10 to 15|
pounds each when born. Some of my Cots
wold ewes sheared as high as 16 pounds of
wool. The whole flock averaged 11 pounds
7 ounces. M}* Oxford Downs averaged over
12 pounds of wool each. This convinces me
that no food could be better for sheep.”
“ Do cattle thrive upon it?”
“ Yes. Young calves particularly grow
much more rapidly during the winter when
fed upon ensilage and oat meal than when
allowed to run upon the very best pastures
in summer. Colts can also be brought to
D
maturity in two-thirds of the time required to
raise them if fed upon corn, millet and clover
or field peas ensilaged together instead of
summer pasturing and the usual winter
The Home Doctor.
Bad cooking is responsible for a large
amount of ill-health, and so is rapid eat ing.
Few persons chew their food perfectly fine
before swallowing it. They have, so they
think, not time to cat as they should, and so
they swallow something and go about their
work. A writer says : Three digestions are
known to physiologists—mouth digestion,
stomach digestion, bowel digestion. To make
the first complete, the food should be ground
fine bj ? the teeth and mixed with the saliva
and nothing else; then, and not till then, it
is ready to be introduced into the stomach,
and go through the second process. The
stomach is a patient, long-suffering organ,
but it cannot alwajas do the work of the teeth
and its own too, and when from sheer inability
to meet the unjust demands forced on it,
dyspepsia with all its annoying train takes
possession, the hapless victim can only mourn
over his unwise haste and repent of his omis
sions when it may be too late to repair them.
Children, especially, need to be instructed as
to the necessity of thorough- mastication of
their food, and the habit formed in them of
chewing it fine and taking ample time to eat.
It is an old German adage that “ more
people dig their own graves with their teeth
than with spades,” and verily it would seem
so, if wo could look at the immense number
of dyspeptics, rheumatic and goutj r in
dividuals, creeping through life in pain and
wretchedness. Yet it is impossible to induce
even thinking people to control their appe
tites, and to eat such things and at such times
as nature shows them is necessarj' and right.
Dr. Hall declares unhesitatingly that it is
wrong to eat without an appetite ; for it shows
that there is no gastric juice in the stomach,
and that nature does not need food, and not
needing it, there being no fluid to receive and
act upon it, it remains there only to petrify,
the very thought of which should be sufficient
to deter any man from eating without an
appetite to the remainder of his life. If a
tonic is taken to whet the appetite, it is a
mistaken course, for its only result is to
cause one to eat when already an amount has
been eaten beyond what the gastric juice is
able to prepare. The object to be obtained
is a large supply of gastric juice ; whatever
fails to accomplish that essonthd object, fails
to have any toward the cure of
dyspeptic diseases. r fhe formation ofgastric
juice is directly proportioned to the wear and
tear of the system, which it is to be the means
of supplying, and this wear and tear can only
take place as the result of exercise. The
efficient remedy for dyspeptics is work—out.
door work —beneficial and successful in di.
rect proportion as it is agreeable, interesting
and profitable.
It is generally supposed that solids are
more favorable to the health than liquids,
which may not be wholly true. While solids
absolutely demand considerable chewing, that
they may be swallowed decently, most of our
liquids and semi-liquids are swallowed about
as the anacondo disposes of its prey. The
first step in the digestive process is chewing,
but that act is made a necessary means of
causing the saliva to flow freely from the
glands of the mouth, that this saliva—a
solvent needed in a perfect division
and preparation of the food for assimilation
—may perform its office work. Insalivation
cannot be secured by hasty swallowing. It
follows, therefore, that soups and the like
must remain for a time in the mouth, that their
stimulus may cause a free flow of this solvent,
by which only it can be combined with the
food. If not so combined, either the digestion
must be imperfect or the organs of digestion
must be overtaxed, performing their own
labors and that of the mouth. If the smoker
and cliewcr destroy a part of this saliva, may
not the result be the same as when one
swallows soups, etc., rapidly, without insaliva
tion ?
It 'l3 true that there arc some liquids—like
the fruit juices, beef tea, crust coffee, etc.,
demanding no digestion, and } T et it is safe to
insalivate all passing in the stomach.— Dr.
J. 11. Ilunuford.
Recipes.
Milk Sour.—Wash, pare, slice, and parboil
one pound of potatoes, pour away the water:
skin'and scald two onions, chop them ; place
the potatoes, onions, one tcaspoonful of salt,
and half a teaspoonful of pepper in a stew
pan, with one quart of cold water, bring to a
boil, and boil till quite soft (about half an
hour); crush the potatoes and onions with a
spoon till smooth ; add one quart of new milk
andoneounceofcrushcd sago ; stir continually
till it boils, then boil for ten minutes. This
soup ma}* be made richer b}* adding one
ounce of butter or dripping to the quart of
cold water ; also b}* putting a yelk of an egg,
well beaten, into the tureen, and mixing the
cooked soup slowl}* with it. The soup must
be off the boil, or the egg will curdle.
Beef. —Beef having a tende 1103* to be tough
can be made very palatable by stewing gently
for two hours with pepper and salt, taking
out about a pint of liquor when half done,
and letting the rest boil into the meat. Brown
the meat in the pot. After taking up make
a gravy of the pint of liquor saved.
By omitting all shortening—that is, both
butter and lard—from any good fried cake
recipe, and using in place of it a cup of sweet
milk, the cakes will be light and almost
entirely free from grease. Take care to have
the lard in which they are fried very hot.
To cook a duck satisfactoril}* boil it first,
until tender ; this can be determined by trying
the wing, as that is always a tough part of a
fowl. When tender take it out, rinse it in
clean water, stuff and put it in the oven for
about throe-quarters of an hour, basting it
often.
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