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NEWS GLEANINGS,
The average life of the buffalo gnat
is said to be about fifteen days.
Steel works to cost $400,000 are to be
erected in Batesville, Ark., during this
year.
One man will ship 9,000 cords of tan
bark from the vicinity of Chattanooga
this season.
Mrs'. Tv. G. Coburn, a lady of San
Antonio, Tex., has 40,000 silk worms at
work in her yard.
There arc 990 convict at present in
the North Carolina penitentiary, 128 of
whom are white and 862 are colored.
An orange tree in Orange county, Fla.
measures six feet four inches in cir¬
cumference three feet from tlie ground.
An Atlanta merchant says one-fourth
of the corn coming into Georgia from
the West is in a damaged condition.
The Vicksburg and 8hip Island and
Memphis and Vicksburg railroads have
been sold to R. T. Wilson & Co., of
New York, for $100,000.
A tract of good farming land was
sold in Noxubeo county, Miss., at
Sheriff’s sale a lew days ago for fifteen
and twenty cents an acre.
The Chattanooga Times says the ne
groes of that city! are accumulating
property, and several of them are build
i nghouses to cost from $2,000 to $4,000.
A little boy at Crawford, Va,,
ran his arm through a crack in a hog
pen/where it, became fastened, and be¬
fore help could reach him the flesh was
completely torn from the bones by tbe
hogfs.
Mem phis Avalanche: The buffalo
gnat is worse than high water. A fifty
foot bank is no obstacle to him. With
a grindstone under each wing he flies
over hill and dale and bores the life out
of the $150 mule.
Montezuma (Ga.) Weekly : A man
fromjDrayton aaw several days tells us 1 between of a combat he
ago a rooster
and a crow. The rooster was attacked
in a field while attending to his own le¬
gitimate business. The victory for a
whilt^ seamed doubtful, but, finally the
rooster conquered and left his opponent
in the field dead.
.Near Penfield, Ga., lives two ladies,
whop since the war, started to farming
wiib'onc old blind horse. Now thev
own a good plantation well stocked, all
P**i| bales of or i an( l have eighteen or twenty
cotton on hand. They man
aged for themselves, one attending to
the farm while the other managed the
household affairs.
Carrollton (Ga.) Times: “Mr. John
R. Handley, living near here, has a re
markable razor with a remarkable his¬
tory. It is made line the ordinary rat¬
tler razor, the thick part of the back be¬
ing soiid gold, so pronounced by silvor
oniths. He has been offered $25 for it.
as it is thought that the gold upon it
■Ahirty would amount to fully that much, tlie
making the offer proposing to re¬
turn the razor as before minus tlie
feold. Mr. Handley, who was present
fit the surrender of Gen. Steneman near
Macon, found this remarkable razor in
F e road, whore Gen. Stoneman had
passed, just after the surrender, and it
E thought by some that the razor as
■a
F e property of the Federal General.
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TOPICS OF THE DAT.
The elongated Oscar W. Ilde has
made $25,000 out of his lectures.
The asssurance has gone out that there
will be plenty of peaches in Southern
Indiana.
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri,
is of the opinion that Frank James ig
dead. We feel pretty sure that the
Governor hopes he is, at all events.
To satiate his blood-thirsty appetite,
King Theebaw caused the butchery of
fifty-four persons. It is to be hoped
that this will last him for some time.
Congress is endeavoring to regulate
oleomargarine. It is to bo sincerely
hoped that it will succeed to that degree
that the honest butter-maker may be pro¬
tected.
Senator Mahone, the Virginia Read
justor, readjusted his family affairs the
other day by presenting his wife with a
set of diamonds valued at $40,000. There
is no repudiation about that.
TnE Queen of England does not for¬
get those in death whom she held in
high esteem in life. On the anniversary
of Lord Beacousfield’s death, she sent
two wreathes of immortelles and prim¬
roses to be placed upon his grave.
The year 1882 has so far made rather
a good showing in disastrous events.
Missouri, Kansas and Pennsylvania have
all suffered devastating cyclones, and
there have already been several shocking
calamities.
Tint President recommends Congress
to make a law prohibiting trespass on
Indian territory by white settlers, mak¬
ing the first offense finable in the sum of
$500, and the second, $1,000. We
rawther think the President is reaching
for Captain Payne, of Oklahoma fame.
Capt. Howgate stole $160,000 govern¬
ment funds, and now, that he lias
escaped from prison, Marshal Henry
effers $500 reward for his apprehension.
Five hundred dollars is very clever. If
that is all his earoass is worth, the Cap¬
tain may feel that he is tolerably secure.
Queen Victoria, who went to Men¬
tone, France, for her health, lias re¬
turned suddenly and clandestinely to
England. That seems to be about the
way royalty lias to travel nowadays to
escape any stray bullets that maybe
flying around.
The Bible used in the United States
Senate in swearing in Senators has been
stolen. It has been in use for fifty
three years, and every Senator admitted
in that period was sworn in upon that
Bible, and had kissed it. Somebody
probaby wanted a relic.
The London Spectator has an exalted
opinon of the wonderful strides individ¬
ual possessions are assuming in America.
It says “ that years henoe English for¬
tunes will appear very paltry compared
with American. '' The Spectator had in
its mind’s eye Vanderbilt, Gould and
the fry who are following in their foot¬
steps.
A Chicago firm has hired Mason, the
soldier who tried to assassinate Guiteau,
as a salesman in their store for one year,
at a salary of $1,800, after he is pardon¬
ed from prison. As a salesman, Mason
being inexperienced, would evidently
not be much of a success, but as an ad¬
vertising card, he would probably be
worth $1,800 for a year or two.
There is no doubt but that the people
of tho Pacific States want Chinese immi¬
gration stopped. In voicing this senti
ment, the San Francisco Bulletin says :
The veto is a unique document among our
State papers. It reserves all its tenderness for
tho Six Ohineso companies, and slaps in tbe
face, so to speak, three sovereign States of the
Union. It upholds slavery after a bloody war
waged to destroy it, and puts the “lobby”
above the American Congress.
And now De Lessens is tllo going to flood
to Sahara Desert, from Mediterra
^ ’ rench l Cabinet Council
’
• of his plan. Scientists
approving say
that the great desert is above the sea
level, and this being true, and De
Lesseps being a great man, we suppose
toXiu“ 8 P d hd bu, h ~ - n ™ -
,
oSLTSsrJsr Plenipoteuti^yTnerico “ e v°
ister to the
Secretary of State, proposing a eoncln
sion convention between the two conn
tries for defining the boundaries between
the United States and Mexico, from the
Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean by the
’
erection of dnmhfo monument s.
Teie expense of crowning the Czar at
Moscow will he ten million ronhloa
almost eio-lif ’
° miiiin- million dollars. In t other o
worus, . enough
money to feed and clothe
30,000 peasants for ^a year will be wasted
in gilding the coremnniaa ° r ' m °f 0S nt * » a tottenn S
‘
dvnastv ti Li| e nobility 1 i of , Moscow and
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bt. t> I etersburg have volunteered their
protection to the Imperial family, and
the Czar has accepted the proffer
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It has been decided, and the decision
was a hair-breadth escape_13 to 12_
tliat women can not be educated fnr in ne
metucai proiession nrnfo.omT. at tt Harvard ,_ „ - College.
That Governing Board came pretty
nearly getting tied on women that time.
It is stated that the Faculty does not
obiect ooject to io the tne women women themsf»lvo« themselves, hrttho but the
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY MAY 5, 188?.
time-honored principle of educating men
only must be maintained. That lets the
women out.
England made a great fuss about the
“farce at Washington”—referring to the
tedious trial of Guiteau—and advised
this nation to make short work of the
assassin. Singular indeed is it, that
right on the heels of this farce one
Maclean shoots at the crown head of that
country and is acquitted on the ground
of insanity. Now, it is a question
whether Maclean is as crazy as Guiteau,
and it is self-evident that Guiteau knew
hqwas committing a crime against the
law.
Col. R. G. Ingebsoll has been reply¬
ing, in New York, to Talmage’s assaults
and at his lecture Sunday night, speak¬
ing of his defeat for the Illinois Govern¬
orship, he said:
Illinois They say I was defeated for Governor of
because I wa* an infidel, and that I am
a > infidel because I was defeated. That’* logic.
Now I’ll tell you. They asked me whether I
wls an infidel, and I Baid I was ! I was de¬
feated. I preserved my manhood and lost an
office. If everybody were as frank as I wag,
some men new in office would be private citi
Z'JUs. I would rather be what I am than hold
any office in the world and bo a slimy hypo¬
crite.
Mrs. Donnought’s husband left her
in Providence and went fortune hunting
to California four years ago. He sent her
money occasionally, and now, having ac¬
cumulated $20,000, has returned to his
old home. But he finds that his wife
married Thomas Frockletou, in 1879,
and has since had two pairs of twins.
Frockleton says that she told him she
was a widow, and he is willing now to
give her up, but Donnought doesn’t
want her under any circumstances. Thus
between the two she falls through, and
the twins come tumbling after.
SpE 4 kf.ii Keieer has ‘ discharff ‘ ® e 1 a
. .
econct omcial stenographer from the
House, the two men discharged being
the oldest of the corps and the most efli
cient men on the staff. In their places
have been put two others favorites one
nf ' m d t lyac nowe ge is
incompetency, and Ins dismissal asked 1
for by a committee. In asking for an
explanation tlio New York Herald
pointedly says: "Do these discharges
mean that the inquiries of Congressional
mmniiifpfli. committees into alleged iniquitous tran- ,
sactions like those 01 blnpherd shall be
rendered nugatory and void by incom
plete xnd defective records?” Keifer
perhaps can answer.
The JohnF. Slater Fund of $1,000,000
for the education of the colored people
of the South seems to have excited
wrath in the bosom of a Malden (Mass.)
editor, who charges that Mr. Siater ac¬
cumulated the money as proprietor of
cotton factories in Connecticut and Mas¬
sachusetts, which have been notorious
for presenting some of tbe worst features
of “ long hours, poor pay, and thieving
truck stores.” The aforesaid Muldeu
editor says it should be stated thus :
‘‘Tho cotton operatives of Connecticut and
Massachusetts have given one million dollars
to educate the negro, aud Mr. Slater gets the
credit of it.”
It may barely be possible that this is
“conscience money” that Mr. Slater has
given. If so, good enough.
Anotheb blowing up of rocks at Hell
will take plaoe as soon as the ar
rangements now being made by General
Newton are completed. Thie titne the
““ Ke three toes
as great as tliat of 1876. Eleven acres
of the reef known as Flood Rock are
being ™ at a ^th o, atty or
sixty feet, and when this work is com
pleted, two years hence or so, the whole
reef will be broken up with one scat
tered charge of dynamite. About sewen
an res are already completed. Halletts
Rock, broken up in 1876, has been
fished out and carried away until there
is now a twenty-six foot channel at low
water, where six years ago was one of
the barriers of navigation.
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_ It ... believed , „ that ,
is even newspaper
correspondents are occasionally capable
of exaggeration. At all events they are
now telling of a boy in Paris who has a
telescopic ~'"Vr eye. One eye is rosmf,l as large as a
French pea. Up to a r few months ”“ ago
oc ^ red - eye became telescopic
“
he oould see the rin and moons of )
j it d th vl discovered satel !
M Th 11 dlSCOvered . i
1 l hat the smnller e J e wa3 microscopic, ? a !
drop 1 of water appearing to him through j
It as a world of life. The oculists, micro
scopists, and astronomers of Paris
said to be in a state of ^ great excitement
°ver me doj.
The report of the majority ... of the
Committee appointed to audit the ex
penses of the illness and death of the
late President allows Dr Bliss $25 poM,’ 000
Drs ,'X nml TTnmlHrvn «1 -1 nan
’ ’ ’
T> a™’, . oynton anct ._usan
n T-ason, §10,000 each. The mininority,
ln tlleir re P° rt » 8a J:
! eral We do not object to the payment by the gea
| government of the funeral expenses of the
’T ho ,™ ls stricken down in the
■
) occupying that public station the’reoommaidation Oni^ofeiecnyn
to the report grows out of
f ? r 010 P a y ment for the attend services of the
physicians and surgeon* who the l*te
President We are perfectly willing to con¬
cede that a liberal compensation should be al¬
lowed the physicians and surgeons, a compensa¬
tion in excess even of what it was possible for
any of those medical attendants to have earned
in their ordinary practice during that time.
But the sums recommended to be paid by the
majority of the committee are excessive.' We
are of opinion there was no extraordinary med¬
ical skill exhibited in tbe treatment of the case,
and nothing calling for an extraordinary al¬
lowance for professional services, but while
willing to be liberal we could not consent to the
manner of payment wanton recommended, nor to the
extravagance and lavishment of the
public funds.
There are a great many private citi¬
zens who hold about that same view.
Railroad sociability.
railroad "Speaking about tbe sociability oi
travelers,” said the man with
the crutches and watch pocket over his
eye, “I never got so well acquainted
with the passengers on a train, as I did
the other day on the Milwaukee and St. j
Paul Kailroad. We were going at the ,
rate another of about thirty miles an hour, and
train from the other direction
telescoped us. We were all thrown into
each other’s society, and brought into
immediate social contact, so to speak.
“ I went over and sat in the lap of a
eorpulent lady from Manitoba, and a
girl from Chicago jumped over nine
seats and sat down on the plug hat of a
preacher from La Crosse, with so mueli
timid, gitlish enthusiasm, that it shoved
his liat down over liis shoulders.
“Everybody seemed to lay aside the
usual cool reserve of strangers, and we
made ourselves entirely at home.
oilcloth "A shy valise, young left man with an emaciated
his own seat, and
went over and sat down on a lunch
basket where a bridal couple seemed to
be wrestling with their first picnic. Do
you suppose that reticent young man
would have done such a thing on ordi
nary occasions ? Do you think if he had
been at a celebration at home that he
would ha-e risen impetuously and gone
wliere those people were eating by them
selves, and sat down on the cranberry
jelly of should a total stranger ?
"I rather think not.
“ Why, one old man, who probably at
Feme led the class meeting, and who was
as dignified as Koscoe Conkling's father,
was eating a piece of custard pie, when
we met the other train, and he left
his own seat and went over to the front
en; l of the car and shot that piece of
°ustard pie into the ear of a beautiful
widow from traveling Iowa.
"People somehow forget the
austerity ..equaintanoes of their home lives, and form
that sometimes last
through life. ”—Laramie Boomerang.
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It Tf Is universally 11 acknowledged , , . , , by all ..
scientific observers that Die rainfall of
a country diminishes rapidly as its for
ests are cut down. In Australia there
seems to be an exception to this rule.
In New South Wales, according to the
Journals Society there, and Proceedings about of the Royal
one-half of the tim
m
diminution of the rainfall might Certainly liave
been expected, but this has
not been the case; indeed, statistics
rather indicate the reverse. The prin
InsilffiTohime i of water i 1 Tto? The expen
ence of Mr. Abbott, with ' nng-barking
esnecSlT especially significant. This operation
(for improvement of grazing capacity)
basalt. For twenty fc/SgHaSS previously
these creeks dry years
holding water were for few watercourses, iftar’nij only
and few places a days
ma in winter. But soon
ader ring-bar King they became, and
have continued, permanent streams,
XihK&er “ hSte” lluj Tw plol
portion ot the ralntnl,, formerly go tin
up bv the gnm-tiees and evaporated,
® reeks andriv '
Do to ^tion^on A,mtr.h| the Xm-tf» rainfall from “ftln those of
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Old Time Reformejrs.
It is to general opinion of the reform
ers of our day that they, or at most their
i. m “ edla t« Predecessors, were first in the
aud a 1 was darknesa before,
ult womencould women couia 'vot^fo vote m 1 ’New* JNew Jerbey Jersey
seventy or eighty years ago throws some
T h f. suspicion
appeal apjeal ^ to Mston nistory. TxSSjSLS, a luaseacnusetts .
woman has discovered that Abigail
Adams, wife of John Adams, and gener
ad y hls wisest counselor, as far back as
1 7J 4 to ^ im m behalf of vvoman s
^ te ndance^n th?fi^CoistSutionalCon'
asked lum to remember the ladies m the
S^^iSe hit upZtL Snce much used
had all been conferred on all by the God
of nation3 ” These are old authorites
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according to the American standard oi
Zenobir, antiquity, saying but we nothing think Semiramis and
of‘note, of other ancient
women must have held very
much the same idea of the equality oil
the sexes. If no utterances of theirs to:
this effect are extant, their careers, can
s tiH be studied, and "actions speak
louder than words.”
’
r tse . ot . A Opmm . in . Amenca. . .
it is estimated that the number of
opium consumers in this country has
doubled in tlie last four years, and that
they now use 5,000,000 grains a year,
The import of opium last year was 140
per cent, in excess of that in 1876, and
that year the import was 70 per cent. 1
greater than in 1867. all Physicians, drug- ‘
gists and traders report that the use
of opium is largely on the increase, par
ticularly among victims women, who supply
four-fifths of the of opium. This
increa.se is not due to a disuse of aleo
holic intoxicants, but is largely attribut
ed to the growing use of the hypodermic '*L
syringe. ■
Forestry Statistics.
In Borne cantons of Switzerland there
is a law forbidding the destruction of a
tree without planting another to take its
place. This law is an outgrowth scientifically of
necessity. It has been increase in violent
demonstrated that the
storms, inundations, and landslides in
Switzerland, scattering death and de
struction on all sides, is due to deforest*
ing the mountains.
Gradually the timber has disappeared high
until little remains, except on the
slopes of the mountains, and that little
is of inferior size and quality. Unless
the process is arrested, the mountains of
Switzerland will present as bald an ap
pearance as those Alps which divide
France from Italy; and nothing more
desolate and dreary outside the steppes j
of Asia, or the desert of Africa, presents j
itself to the eye of the traveler.
Switzerland, compared with the area
of the United States, is but a speck, but !
if we liavg more acreage and wider j
stretches of timbered lands, we are also i
consuming A glance them at the more series rapidly. of forestry bulle- J j
tins issued by the Census Bureau is suffi- ;
cient to alarm one for the future timber j
supplies of the United States. The j
maps show the original extent of the -
forest lands and remorseless the afta de- of j j
muled by the ax
the lumberman. Take Michigan, the 1
great pine State of the Northwest. More
than three-fourtlis of the land, including
the upper peninsula, has been stripped
of its timber. A few statistics will show
that the amount of white pine remaining
on the Saginaw and its tributaries, and
in the basins of streams flowing into
Lakes Huron and Michigan, is estimated
at 29,000,000,000 feet, board measure,
In the single year ending with May,
1880, 4,068,773,000 feet were cut. At
this rate the supply will be exhausted in
less thau eight years. Of the same tim
ber on the peninsula there were 6,000,
000,000 remaining, in round numbers,
and of this 328,438,000 feet out in one
year. Prom Menominee and Delta
counties the merchantable pine, says the
Bulletin, lias been almost entirely re
moved. The destruction of the hard
woods has been on the same exhaustive
scale.
The maps show that along every navi
gable stream, and on the rivers of the
lakes, the timber has all been cut away,
and each year the lumbermen have to
go back further into the interior for their
supplies, and the cost is increased by
the greater difficulty in getting the tim*
ber to market.
Wisconsin has only 6,100,000,000 feet
remaining of white pine. In the census
year 540,997,000 feet were cut. How
long before Wisconsin will cease to
furnish a supply ot this valuable timber ?
She lias still 3,840,000 acres of hard
wood forest; but the ravages in that are
hardly less than in the pine lands.
Minnesota still has 17,200,000,000 feet
of pine, and some 6,775,000,000 of mixed
pine and hard wood to boast of, but the
cut riMsf.a&’SyaSE during the census year was 115,777,
&S” po " Mtone ^*’* reso ”“ s,riI1
encourage’thereplanti^? In short unless something is foSto done to S
pine and hard wsod it will not be twenty
years before there will be a timber
|' amin ® ? la ? d ’ pricesso ex
travagaut as to put an end to building in
wood and to the use of wood as fuel.
W ! neednotdwe11 on effect of de '
forestry on climate and temperature,
This has been repeatedly done in these
XetsIS Sease “4Su SSS’lndlSfa! devaXthig
“ violent in suchlen hSriSuM and stoms
a n LZdTold bloreZ. We have md
if we do not jirofit by the warning ex
ample we deserve to be punished for
ducIi a crime against nature. —Cincinnati
Commercial -
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Yonr books say that cats are
turnal in their habits,” and this state
ment will not hurt you, for it is true. It
difference of taste accounts for the guer
r iU a warfare which is waged against
them night after night and year after
which you sometimes find in the back
yard tells in the morning and which the cook
you are meteorites. Nothing has
^ d ®v B ^ ^ a “ d
ons are limited to such hand projectiles -
as inspire respect or terror. The old
stone-throwing machines of the Greeks
S? this ??“»“ kind of ”<" combat, 6 “fetolly and were devised hence for
called catapults. Every adult cat has
had more costly articles thrown at
it than any opera singer that ever lived ;
for, when a man’s state of mind becomes
such tliat ^ ? ets oufc b ® d \° se rv e \ us
, f ,
it be a coal scuttle, an ivory-backed
Txtha^e. lle llves enou S h —
Hindoo girls,‘sa^ Barnes Ga
*ette, are taught to think of marriage
almost as soon at they can talk; indeed,
they are often contracted in marriage at
6 years of age, and go to live with their
husbands at 12 or 13. Before this, at the
age of 5 they are taught to propitiate
tlie gods in order to secure a good bus
band, and their little minds are distracted
by the idea of what a model husband
ought to be. The orthodox conception
is a husband like the god Siva, who was
holy, austere, advanced in years, and
faithful and devoted to one wife, the
goddess Doorga. Good little girls revolt
a t the idea of a husband marrying a
second wife while the first is alive, and
will consequently confess their eaxiety
to marry a faithful spouse like Siva ; and
thev learn from their elders against to utter rival the j I
most vindictive curses a
wife. But for all that, Kirshna is
the idol of Hindoo women, and he was
anything but faithful to one wife. He
not only kicked over milk pans, and ran I
away with the clothes of milkmaids
when they went to bathe, but he danced
an d flirted with other men’s wives, ;
eloped with royal damsels, aud married
an infinite number of beautiful women.
Silos and Ensilage.
The new system of preserving and
feeding _ ensilage is one of such simplicity
that doubting minds are incredulous as
to possible the results. If the building of a
silo and subsequent process of filling
with ensilage were some wonderful
secret, perhaps _______
or a new discovery pro
tected by a series of patents—if the use
of the system were permitted only under
the payment of heavy royalties—there
is a class of skeptical minds who fatten on
uncertain quantities, and who have but
little faith in any practice which is
within the reach of persons of ordinary
intelligence and common sense. It is
difficult for many minds to realize the
facts claimed for ensilage, or to explain
to themselves why such results should
be secured fey processes so simple and
by apportions so economical. Yet proof
demonstration—is within the
reach of every inquiring mind, or of
every expend enterprising farmer who is willing
to $50 for commencing experi
ments upon his own farm,
It is the. most singular fact that the
doubting minds are those who have had
no practical experience on the subject,
but whose conservatism is on parade.
It is equally surprising that no intelli
gent, practical attempt at silo building
or ensilage feeding lias resulted in fail
tainments ure, although men of all classes and at
have experimented with the
new system. It would be reasonable to
expect many failures among so many
beginners of varying capacities, were
there anything intricate or uncertain in
the process and its auxiliaries. No
authority in this country is competent
to pronounce positively upon the future
success or failure of this new system ;
it is for the interest of no one to urge or
induce the adoption of the system by
any enriched unwilling farmer, and no one is to
be by the muntiplication of
silos, except, perhaps, the individual
will owners.. await Many a conservative fanner
the report of his more enter
prising neighbor, build, who has built, or is in¬
tending to a silo, yet it is quite
certain that before many years, every
one will have ample opportunity to
judge, in the most careful manner, the
merits and drawbacks of the system of
ensilage,
Grave doubts have been expressed by
some authorities of repute as to the
effect of feeding ensilage upon the but
ter product. Though many accounts of
successful butter making have been
recorded yet our self-imposed critics
have wisely disaster shaken their heads as if
expecting without being able to
trace the cause or advise the core,
The value and disirability of ensilage
is capable of practical demonstration,
and the intelligent farmer who desires to
make ins business profitable will not fail
to investigate for himself a simple pro
cess which will enable him to add
largely live to the capacity of his farm in
feeding stock and thus enriching his
so il.—American Cultivator.
Flora and Fauna of the Desert.
jrssxzszs »»;*
f s . ^e almost the only botanical con
“Xw , on tht'deS
SakS’tlhs familv the most eccentric of ThVfiSt nlants
regffin its home.
to be seen coming from the East is of the
variety most familiar to Eastern hot
houses shaned like mittens noon ex
tended human hands, shines thumblesa, and
ho-dered variltv with sham tWesert^ A S eom
mon^ in of a
^rs of the Chinese »?>*• alphabet ? Sr* f East ! el of ;
1°“ var ^ t£tkes to ltseIf a
. £&%%"£££ 1 hrSXSuch
a stag-horn and bearing its vine
burden upon each terminal point.
The most singular variety of the cactus
grows Lring near Tucson l.^ied where htdmle.l a grove num
sevend plants
largest »Sh“.
telegraph pole the specimens
attaming nearly two feet in circumfer
generally putting forth two shoots like
tlie elbows and connecting links of a
s tove-pipe. It bears upon its upper end
probably found in no other plant. The
trunk is covered with regular rows of
war ts and spines.
The Spanish bayonet its occupies share of thou
sands of acres and has ec
centricities. When young its long
tough if bayonets ejme point in every tuit direction
„ precious Later with
in its worthless stump all but
those pointing upward band and in its downward middle
giving’it fall off leaving a
the appearance of a small bun
die of straw tied up and ready for the
harvest wagon. Individuals of the
a t the top a pleasing cluster of small
Great Expectations.
_
ity. A San Francisco professor thinks
the time is comiug when svyamps and
sewers will be deprived of lightnmg, their unwhole
someness by strokes of or in
other words, by electric currents which
will kill the germs and spores which
communicate disease to the human svs
tern. This is based upon the germ
theory malarial of disease, which is to the effect
that and other fonl air conta
gions are due to animalculsa, or infusoria,
which multiply in the victim’s body
after inoculation. But would it not be
a miracle if all atmospheres were ren
dered wholesome by electrical discharg
es? The electric light ha« made one
change in cities which may J?,*l to im -
portant results. It has enabled build
mgs and other public works to be con
structed at night as well as day. Labor*
ers are shifts, employed eight and twelve
b° u f and edifices are completed
ln less than half the time required
wfa en only day work could be employed.
In summer laborers prefer to work at
night. Scientists tell us as yet we only
dind Y appreciate the marvelous changes
thatwnl be wrougnt by electncitv in ^ I
Imman condition B,-J*emorctJ’aMonthly.
$1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 18 ,
historical.
The Christians of Egypt burnt buttei
instead of oil in their lamps, in the third
century.
The first admiral of England was
Richard de Lucy, appointed by Henry
III. in 1223.
It was not till after tlie ninth century
that copyists began to leave spaces be
tween words in writing.
The revenues of the 190 abbeys which
were dissolved at the Reformation
amounted to over £2,000,000.
ships Caligula, not satisfied with building
of cedar with sterns inlaid with
gems, had a pearl collar made for his
favorite horse.
Bx a statute of George 1., buttons
covered with cloth were prohibited, that
the manufacture of metal buttons might
be encouraged,
According to contemporary author¬
ities, from 50,000 to 100,600 persons
during were put to death in the Netherlands
the reign of Charles V., on ac
count of their religious opinions.
Until the seventeenth century neither
glass nor soap were manufactured in
Scotland. In 1620 the art of tanning
leather was introduced there, and paper
was first made about the middle of the
eighteenth century.
The influence of John Knox in promot¬
ing the Reformation was greater than
that of any one man, though his sanction
of the murder of Archbishop Beaton, to¬
gether with various other cruelties, le Bve
a stain on his memory.
Two of the assassins of Capo d’lstria,
President of Greece, were sentenced to
be immured in brick walls, built around
them up to their chins, and to be sup¬
plied with food, in this species of torture,
till they died, in Ootober, 1831.
Ferdinand and Isabella issued a decree
expelling fused from Spain every Jew who re¬
Christians, to deny his faith. To make them
nate. them, or, failing the in that, to extermi
was business of the In¬
quisition, established in the same reign.
Neither Columbus nor Cook ever dis¬
covered more degraded and brutish be¬
ings than were the aboriginal inhabitants
of Greece. When Solomon was in all
his unity glory and the Hebrew nation in its
and greatness, the Greeks were
divided into more clans than are our
North America Indians.
A Southern Case of Witchcraft.
“If the town of Saleip, in Massachu
eetts,” said Bob Billingsby, “ thinks she
has had the onliest witches in this coun¬
is try, all I got to say about it is that she
Brother simply McGraw mistaken. Now, old there Sister was old
and Hut¬
ton—”
Bob’s story, in short, was thus : Old
Brother McGraw and old Sister Hutton
Brother were members McGraw of Philip’s Bridge Church.
was a consistent mem¬
ber, but old Sister Hutton, to say the
truth, was regarded somewhat" as a
heathen, and even addicted to witch¬
craft. A calf of Brother McGraw’s, of
uncommon promise, dwindled in spite of
uncommon the good pains, persuaded and finally in died, his and
man, mind
that sister, his had neighbor, bewitched althongh it, a spiritual in
set out his
wrath for her house, and, taking her bt
the hand, gave her a violent wrench.
Sister Hutton reported the case to the
church, and, at the conference one Sat¬
urday, Brother McGraw, being far mildly
remonstrated with, went so as to say
that he would have to think about it.
The moderator blandly suggested to him
to withdraw for a few moments, retire
into the woods, reflect and pray over
the matter. He did so. On returning,
the moderator and the brethren were
gratified to observe the calm regret that
was visible upon his countenance. This
moderator was a man of power, both as
to intellect and character. dialogue It was Silas
Mercer. Then this ensued:
Mr. Mercer—“Well, Brother Mc¬
Graw, I see you’ve returned, and I think
you’ve come to a just conclusion in the
matter about which you have been re¬
flecting. looked ” inquiringly the aged
He at
brother, and the aged brother answered
his inquiring look with meek silence,
“ I think you feel sorry, Brother Mc¬
Graw,” suggested Mr. 31, in a kindly,
leading “Yes, tone. Moderator,” answered the
Brer
aged brother, “ wery sorry; I’m wery
sorry.” graffness in his
Yet there was some
tone which led the moderator to doubt
the nature of his regret.
“Brother McGraw,” said he, “will
you let the church know what sort of
sorrow it is you feel ? ?” Is it a godly sor¬
row, Brother McGraw
Then the aged brother lifted high the his
head, looked the moderator full in
face, and answered: “ Brer Moderator,
I’m sorry—I’m sorry—-that I didn’t
break her neck. ”— Editor's Drawer, in
Harpers Magazine .
w- Am™, «*,*.
The more I think about the elephants,
knowing, sc very bke
also know just when th ^ U^t use
it. Deacon Green teUa me tl a kee D p «s
and trainers of etephanteoftenlieiown buge fGlovvs
on the ground and let tm'
step right over them ; and that tney leel
perfectly safe in doing so, because they
know the elephants will pick their way
carefully over the postrate them, lorms, still never less
so much as touching Yetthemightycrea
treading on them.
tures can brnsh a man out of existence
as easily as a man can brush away a flv.
And what delicate tastes they have—de
lighted, I’m told, with strawberries,
gum-drops, or any little dainty of that
kind. They are fond of bright colors,
too, and travelers tell wonderful tales of
seeing elephants gather flowers with the
greatest care, and smell them, apparently
with the keenest pleasure. the flowers after
It is true thev eat
ward, butdear me! I’ve seen girls do the
same thing! Many a time I’ve watched
a little lady pluck a wild rose, look at it
a moment, sigh “how lovely!” then .
open her pretty lips and swallow t o
petals one shouldn’t by one. elephant? ?
Why St. Nicholas. an
tht-Pulpit, *