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THE BARNESY! LEE < i.VZETTE.
VOL. 16.
New Needlework.
The artistic works ot the Japanese i
only of late made familiar to us by
means of exhibitions and gtlie like,
have on account ot'tlieir novelty and ,
peculiarity an especial attraction for j
the spectator. For instance, tlie j
Japanese applique embroidery shows |
the highest completion, and now
that it has become marketable is!
sphere of use for various purposes is ;
considerably enlarged. Used with
other embroidery or paintings this
applique is excellent lor decorative
purposes, such tt3 ornamenting tire
and wall screens, cushions, borders.
Wonderful dowers, birds and insects
in dazzling well shaded colors some*
times a faithful copy of nature, oth
erwise most fantastical, form a char
ming combination. The separate j
pieces of embroidery are worked o
ver cardboard ami secured on squar
es. We select one of the smaller ones,
with all sorts of animals on it , for
our illustration. A piece of silk
laid over it and an orguial cover of
stuff like paper, the well-known
style of which with its Japanese col
ors is quite a study, protects the em
broidery from the air and dust
Thesequares|mav now be purchased in
largo shops. It has now become so
general to have table linen with a
colored border, that especially for
company, one can scarcely imagine
a hansotnely ar-ranged table with
out this agreeable ornament,
Although the interwoven red and
blue borders suffice for daily use, we
see for grand occasions table cloths
and napkins adorned with the most
artistic needlework, which since
all possible tones have been produc
ed m fast colored cotton, often dis
play a most varia,gated arrangement
In houses where the plain white, lu;-
en from Lho“ grandmother's stores is
still in use, modern aste is brought
to hear in the long, narrow crumb
clothes laid over the large table cloth
But sometimes the care tid house
wife likes to have i lie ornamental
border on the tea and coffee cloth
and napkins produced by her own in
dustry.
The embroidery is done with last
colored blue cotton in tambour stitch
The cloth has a licmstivlicd holder
about one and onc'half inches broad
this is Mowed by a narrow row of
embroidery rather more than an
inch deep, then conn s a space, and
after that another row of embroidery
six indies broad, B-ih these bar.
dor rows arc executed in renaissance
style. The shields in the four corn
ers of the cloth arc extended to be
alternately filled up with the date
and the owner's initials. Trie nap
kins have the same narrow border
but only the shields in two oposite
corners.
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Every farmer should plant a few
fruit trees every year. An orcherd
1 should be treated as a crop, not as
a permanent establishment.lt should
b(i cultivated under the same con
ditions, too, if it is expected to yield
a profitable return. A small orchard
well kept is like a little farm well
tilled; indeed, it is a part and par
cel of such a little farm. The orchard
should be given the whole possession
of the soil, and it should have its
regular manuring, as other crops
have. Young trees especially require
this and regular cultivation us well.
It is supposed thatlfruit trees oe
quire many years to come into bcar
* ing. This is true if they suffer neg
lect and have to exert all their
strength to live. It is only the sur
plus vigor over that needed to
maintain an existence that is ex
pended in fruit. In this respect a
fruit tree and a cow are precisely
alike. If a farmer should treat his
cows as some treat their orchards
there would be very little milk or
butter or cheese on that farm. But if
the orchard is treated as well as
the cows are it will thrive and yield
as much or more profit as any other
part of the farm, acr#for acre.
Fish culture has been practiced in
’ England for about 300 years, and in
Western Europe still earlier. The
Romans practiced it, and even fed
the fish on the dead gladiators kill
ed in the so-called sports. The Chi
nese have also made use of this in
dustry for many ceuturies. The arti
ficial hatchiug of fish from spawn
was first made use of by a French
monk, and published in 1420. It was
however, first used industrially in
Germany in 1763.
I will swap harness for corn.
RG Matthews.
BARNESVILLE, GA., SEPTEMBER 11, 1884.
Future of Ajfrioult' ire •
The Nashville American records
: the successful trial near that city
j of a gang plow drawn by a traction
j eng me. The ground in which the
| plowing was done was hilly, and was
extremely dry and hard, so much
jso that it was impossible to plow
’ with horse power. The 71x10 ti ac
tion engine drew a gang of six plows
eac i cutting a furrow fourteen iiicli
s wide. A half acre of land was bro
ken well in an hour. The experi
ment was pronounced a great tuc
ee.- .
The American is mistaken iu iis
as.-erlion that this was the first
| steam plow used south ot the Ohio
river. Steam plows have
been in use for several years in
Louisiana and Mississippi, and per
haps in other States of the South.
The plows, however, are drawn by
means of wire ropes attached to
engines at tho ends of the rows.
Perhaps this was the first instance
of a steam plow being used in the
South where the gang of plows was
attached direct to the engine.]
It sums that this experiment creat
a good deal of excitement on the sub
ject of plowing by steam in Tennes
see. There is no doubt that it is
both practicable and advisable,
where the ground is free of stumps
and stones and fuel can bo obtained
without much cost. A steam plow
complete, however, requires tho out
. lay of enough money to buy a
-and few farmers comparative
ly will be found willing to put from
s 1,000 to £2,000 in an iu vestment of
this kirn!. The negro and mule arc
likely to maiutaiu tlfeir supremacy
on the farms of the South for a long
time to come.
Atlanta (''.institution: The fann
ers w!io borrow money under iron
clad mortgages which will be fore
closed by the federal court, where
every technicality will bo decided
against them, will not have much
time for “snapping fingers’’ at any
body. The man who loves his wife
and children will not put it in the
power of any foreign corporation
to turn them out of house and homo
without recourse to the laws of the
s'ate of Georgia, The gentlemanly
agent who approaches you is out
working for his ten per cent, corn
mission. When the evil day comes
be will be engaged elsewhere.
A farmer of Cass Township,
Huntington County, Pa.,wanted to
borrow a gun from a neighbor for
the purpose of killing some crows
in his field of corn which wens eat
ing the grain. His neighbor declined
to loan the gun, for he thought the
crows useful. In order to satisfy his
curiosity, he shot one of them, open
ed his craw and found in it twenty
one cut worms and four grains of
corn.
Special dispatch from Colorado re
ports a remarkably horrible fire iu a
circus train oil a branch of the Un
ion Pacific Railroad upon the prairie
north o{ Denver. It was limited to a
calersing, which was fitted with
sleeping bunks for sixty men, and
few of that number escaped unharm
ed.
The night before a picnic boil
some eggs nntil they are very hard;
then drop them into a can or jar in
which you have some pickled beets.
In the morning the eggs will be pink
and will be delicately flavored. If
possible carry them in a caq with
i the yinegar still on them.
Two Virginia woodchoppers killed j
j a rattlesnake with a quid of tobacco
, One held his bond with a forked
| stick close to the ground keeping iis \
body constrained with his foot,while !
his comrade forced the tobacco into
the month of the snake. They then
released it. it instanily became con
vulsed and died in a short time.
Dr. Salmon, chief of the Bureau
of Animal Industry, has submitted
a report to the Commissioner of Ag- I
rienlcuiv rein'dvo to h;s investigation i
of plouro-jiui".nnouin among cattle |
in illin m.i. ,Ie has found eight eases!
in tlii* vi< inily of (.'hir.igo, two cases
near Stelling, four esses near Peoria
one ease near Springfield, two eases
near Virginia, undone case near!
Jacksonville. A number of reported
cases have not yet been traced Dr. j
Salmon farther says:- -it is impos-I
sible for me. to get experienced men |
to assist me without taking them:
away from my work in New. York
and Brooklyn, and this I do not
want to do until 1 see it, is absolute
ly necessary. Men who have had no
experience with pieuro-pneuuwnia j
would lie useless.
“Illinois has good lav,sand a State |
veterinarian, and the govenor will |
issue a proclamation on tho subject
and direct the infected herds and
slaughter of diseased animals. I
shall soon direct my attention to
other States. lowa, Missouri and
Kentucky have received animals
from infected herds.
A Large c >grogation gathered in
a school 1 1 - . ..o flour Eaton, lad., last
Sunday, witness the marriage of
Miss A ae l’oore, and Joseph
Thom son. At the appointed hour*
the lady drove up in a carriage with
a former lover, followed soon after
by Tompson with tho preacher.
When tin* expectant lover told Miss
Poore to alight she coolly told him
she had changed her mind and drove
off. Thompson gave chase and au
exciting race, witnessed by the whole
v nig", ensued, hut too girl was deaf
<> Thompson's appeals to her to ful
fill It- r pi-omisn, and young Looh
iiivar eei. .ul.oT his bride lntriumph
it was unfortunate ter Butler, but
for!i : ■ for the country, that Gen
e; .. liail 'i- appeared in New York
.- ry on fS.itm-iiay (ceiling, to open
Is-grand i’l'n ini: n!-d campaign,
f-1 ini the 'U afnuig advaneo shouts
f tooting organs and paid bogs ■>'
mr commit! ie;. the country w..
peeling an immense outponrui; I
twenty or U>irly thousand Labor \ >-
ter idu tier and bis opening i
cai. i..ecu; out when But e-.-
del Hi :• ii :nself to not over one
thousand hoarers, in the city that I
is paraded as the hot-bed of Butler— j
ism, the receding tide of the Butler j
boom, if there ever was a. Butler j
tide, must be manifest to all.
'1 he New York Herald styles its
advertising pages a “business baro— I
meter,” and declares that business
is “picking up’’because it printed
fifteen columns more advertising |
last Sunday than the Sunday be
fore, and predicts the coining busi
ness season will be better than the
last.
The total mileage of new railroad
laid in this country up to Avgust!
loth, was 1,905, against 2,943 miles 1
for same time last year. The greatest j
mileage ever laid was in 1883, when j
5,783 miles went down. In 1870 bob i
007 miles were built.
An attempt was made in Jersey :
City to organize a Blaine and Logan 1
campaign club, ut as most or the j
persons present were in favor of ;
Cleveland and Hendricks it was dec -
ded that important business necessi- j
tate an adjournment of the meet- :
ing.
I
At the last name has ;
been secured to the agreement which j
establishes the whiskey poo], by ]
which distillers arc not permitted ;
to go beyond forty percent of their
capacity until the expiration of one
year.
A man committed suicide at Can
terbury because his physician told
him he had Asiatic cholera. He cut
his throat in preference to dying in
Ihe agony of the plague. It is be-
I iieved that the physician was deceiv- j
j ed by a badjease of cholera morbus, j
Admirable Courbat lias orders to !
! attack Canton in case the Chinese I
should r fuse to reopen negotiations j
The extreme Left of the French
Chamber treaton to appeal to the !
country on the subject of the war. 1
• IlMled) Racing,Wis.^
THE RACINE ROAD CART
) AND<
The Mitchell Farm and Spring* Wagons.
ITSEND FOR CATALOGUE.
E. VAIN WINKLE & CO.,
MAN IJFACTI UIOUS OF
fF '"
wm, Cofidensers, Cotton Pm,
A K SAW MILLS.
Itmatiml Coitoi Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 1881.
Saw Gin and Self Feeder exhibited by E.
Van Winkle & Cos., awarded for best sample,
best general results in ginning, and best con
structed machine, the first prize, SIOO or
Gold Medal.
Judges:—B. S. Ricks, Miss.; T. W.
Smede, Miss.; W. E. Barrrows, Conn.
H. I. Kimball, Director-General.
SEND~FOR~ PRICES.
aprß E. Van Winkle & Cos., Atlanta, Ga
GORDON INSTITUTE,
Fall Term Begins Aug- 18th,‘1884.
BAIiNESVILLE Ga., Aug. Ist. 18M.
Tlis liberality of tlie city Council of Barnesvllle enabled me to offer to tlioso desiring to ed
ucate their sons and daughters tho lowest rates of tuition Known in the State, making Gordon
I institute practically a free school. . _ _
Resident and non-resident pupils are admitted upon the same low terms: *5.00 for the hall
I term,ami sT.oo for the Spring term.will pay tuition and Incidentals.We desire your patronago and
I influence,
i
Music and A.rt Department
I are In charge of tlie same teachers a8 heretofore, and low rates are made'ln them. Now la tin.
Lime to educate your children at the best School In tlie State. Board, per week In be the fam
ilies. Apply to
C. E. LAMBDIN,
Presldent.aorden. Institute.
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