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VOL. V.-NO. 5,
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Georgia has 2,517 drinking saloons.
The bonded debt of Louisiana is sll,-
786,850.
The’re are seventy-three saw mills, all
running, in Obeon county, Tenn.
Last year Texas imported corn. This
year she will have millions of bushels
to sell.
Alexander H. Stephens says he
now weighs five 'pounds more than he
ever did before.
A solid lump ol pure silver, weighing
nearly a pound, was found near Mag
nolia, N. C., recently.
The explosion of a bottle of ginger
pop caused an Augusta, Ga., lady to
loose the sight of both eyes.
A steamship from Norfolk to New
York a few days ago carried 20,000
chichens from Southwestern Virginia.
North Carolina has 776 saw-mills,
'with a capital of $1,743,217, employing
3,029 hands, and the products are worth
$2,672,796.
The total consumption of cotton by
North Carolina mills and factories for
the year ending August 31, 1882, was
20,000,000 pounds.
A panther six feet in length was re
cently killed in Buchanan county, Va.
It had for a long time been a terror to
the neighborhood.
During the year of 1881 ninety-six
wildcats were killed in St. Johns county,
Fla., a T jd so far this year seventy-six
have bitten the dust.
The average corn crop in Tennessee is
$0,000,000 bushels, but it will reach
100,000,000 bushels this year. The wheat
crop will reach nearly 12,000,000 bushels.
Mrs. Bozeman, whose age is well au
thentivated to have been 115 years, died
in the Halifax county (N. C.) poor
house last week. She leaves a great
great grandchild forty years old.
The crop of sugar made in Louisana
during the season of 1881-2 amounted
to 159,874,950 pounds, equivalent to
122,982 hogsheads. The production of
molasses amounted to 9,691,104 gallons,
or 206,194 barrels.
An Alabama law, passed by the last
Legislature, prohibits the owners of
sheep killing dogs to permit them to run
at large. The first conviction under the
law was made in Jefferson county re
cently, and the owner of the dog fined
575.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
earns with surprise that the “poor but
! r 'U ( l \oung women of that city are
e uctant to engage as operatives at the
mill for f ear that suc h employ
ment is 'not quite respectable.”
Fifty one counties in Georgia have no
ltPn^ pl saloons. Two others close out
aml°i r 1 Seven have only one each,
‘ n many counties the the sale is
Tho nC , exclusivel y to the county town.
prohibition element is becoming
u ger and more formidable every day
The corn crop for the State of Geor-
estimated by the State Agricult
hood fitment to be in the neighbor
which ei|u “ l to ‘ h «oflSs9,
wohablv he i'“ one be '" parted as
'^i„thel,fe SC ° rnCr ' ,pCVer| '" ,, ‘-
havp 6 . *>t Camden, S. C.,
H er „ r ' JUSt commi tted suicide,
grandfat) grandfatker w *s hanged, her
ther. L W R BUidde ’ her fa '
<ler an 1 ’ K ' B air ’ was tned for mur
sonal n eßCaped ° nly fall * per-
Sho Z oUnter With C»Pt- Haile, a
is now i n ± ° ne of her brothers
out a lisp ', tate peniten tiary, serving
sentence for murder.
metitution^* 1 '? t*- S ome ? a fanatical
LltUe R ° ck - A >k., no
’hat the dis t 0 the Bick ’ no matter
Offering Which they a
died recentlvfo^. the lnmates > a child,
meat, and tL • r , Want of medical treat
core ‘han inhnm Uman mana S erß of this
eflp rt Ulßavei inßt ' tutl °n made no
Prosecuted / , lhey should be
name of the ? lfUl mUrder > aad
thing smacking P refixed b Y some
natnpi «a mi s L " 8 ‘ The Present
true. ° mer ls a ll reports be
The’
in the Staked”^) 0 - ** dwarfed kangaroo
Texa ’- Itsbodv n 7 f Northwestern
lon K; its fore leg '* ab ° Ut eight inches
lnp h and a h alf g . DOt more than an
"hileits hind k tW ° ,ncbef * in length,
Ith -at i l 8 \ a,e all of six inches
about eight inches long,
®l)e On I lon Straits.
completely bare except a tuft of long
hairs at the end, and a ridge of short
hairs on its upper part. The animal is
also a marsupial, the pouch being well
developed. It is a soft blue color. Its
only mode of locomotion is by jumping,
precisely like the kangaroo. It can
jump eight nr ten feet.
Some Queer Dishes,
What about worms, for instance ? I
do not mean the common earthworm,
of yvhose agricultural efforts Mr Darwin
descants in so learned, and interesting
away. The earthworm, as far as lam
aware, is not used as a staple article of
food in any part of the world, but mere
ly as a resource among certain tribes of
Indians in time of famine, and is no
more to be classed as an ordinary arti
cle of diet with them than leather or
canvas soaked in grease is with qs; al
though both these, as well as other curi
ous things, have often been had recourse
to by cast away sailors in the attempt to
satisfy the cravings of hunger. The an
nelid I refer to is a marine species, and
is looked upon as a great luxury by all
the natives of the South Sea Islands.' 11
lives in the coral reefs, and from the
middle of October to the end of Novem
ber comes to the surface at sunrise in
immense numbers; and great is the
commotion and excitement among the
people on the first appearance of the
little stranger. Its arrival is always
heralded by feasts; and during the
Balolo or worm-month, all the natives
wax fat and lusty on this their favorite
article of food. The worm is curiously
punctual in its appearance, almost to a
day; and the months in which it ap
pears are respectively called the little
and big Balolo months. From early
dawn on the expected day, scouts are
placed on the hills and rocks command
ing a view of the reefs; and no sooner
does the long-expected shoal appear
than all the wooden drums in the neigh
boring villages are sounded, and the
entire population, big and little, young
and old, sound and lame, rush to the
beach; and while the able-bodied ones
help to launch the canoes, the remain
der set to work to dig and heat the
ovens, or to discuss the chances of a
good oi' bad worm season.
Fleets of canoes swarming with people,
all armed with nets, at once put off,
and scoop up the worms in huge quan
tities; they are then taken ashore and
handed over to the cooks, who, after
adding a certain quantity of cocoa-nut
milk, specially prepared for the pur
{>ose, tie them up in young banana
eaves, which have been previously
passed over the fire to toughen them,
and then bake them for some time in
an oven, when they are ready for con
sumption, and are" often sent round as
presents to friends, just as game is
among ourselves.
Dr. Stradling mentions white ants,
but does not appear to have tasted
them; allow me to tell him that
they are “dear little things” when prop
erly fried in their own fat; plump,
sweet, and satisfying; but curiously un
like ants in appearance. They are gen
erally much esteemed as food by the na
tives of most of the countries in which
they are found.
Porpoise and whale are also edible. I
have tried both, and found porpoise
liver excellent, and not to be distin
guished from that of pig. Os the flesh,
however, I can hardly speak so highly,
as it requires both good cooking and a
long abstinence from fresh meat to
make it at all palatable. Our ancestors,
however, were of a different opinion, as
in olden times it was highly esteemed,
and we generally find the “porpuss”
figuring as a distinguished dish in most
of the great banquets of middle ages.
But if the flesh of the porpoise is coarse
and indifferent, that of his big cousin
the whale is still more so; and the only
time I tasted it I found the meat ex
ceedingly coarse and tough, as well as
permeated with a nauseous taste and
smell of train-oil. The tongue, however,
is said to be much better, but it never
has come under my observation. Whale’s
milk is by no means to be despised.
Shark, the full-grown fish, is detesta
ble—tough, and of a terribly rank smell.
It is rarely eaten by white men except
under pressure of extreme necessity;
but the natives of the South Seas view
it in a different light, and look upon the
monster as a special luxury. Moreover,
a New Zealand Maori knows no greater
treat than a shark that has been kept
until high enough to be unapproachable
within twenty yards of any one but a
native. But with a young shark of the
brown variety the case is different, and
I well remember, during a five months’
residence at Opara, having many a good
meal of fried cutlets cut from young
sharks about four feet long; and at last
we came to look upon it as the best fish
there. In taste and appearance it re
minded one more of sturgeon than any
thing else. It likewise resembled the
latter fish in having gristle instead of
bones; and was much superior both in
firmness and flavor to the British dog
fish, which I afterward tried.—CAam
bers' Journal.
—There has been discovered in the
sandstone rock at the Nevada State
Prison what is considered a great
“find.” It is the marks of the sandaled
foot of a human being, and the marks of
the track of a mammoth in the same
piece of sandstone, or upon the same
level, showing that man and mammoth
lived not only in the same age, but in
the same year, and, perhaps, in the
same day. These marks were found in
the sandstone quarry at a depth of sis- ;
teen feet, on which is supposed to have i
been, at the time the marks were made, '
the border of a lake, where the man |
went fishing and the mammoth to drink.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Philadelphia claims to have 5,00 C
laudanum drinkers.
* ♦ «
Patents for car couplers arc issued at
the average of one a day.
A Southern paper calls courage the
temporary paralysis of discretion.
Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwau
kee and Louisville, are all holding expo
sitions.
It is stated that the free ice distrib
uted by New York philanthropists has
caused much sickness.
It is stated that the State coffers of
Italy now contain 550,000,000 of coin
laid up toward the abolition of the forced
paper currency.
An Illinois woman gave a tramp a
bogus quarter to get rid of him, and he
made it cost her an arrest and fifty dol
lars in cash before he was satisfied.
The Postmaster General has decided
that a stamp cut in pieces and thereafter
affixed to mail matter is not good, though
the stamp has never been canceled.
The South will make 7,000,000 gallons
of cotton seed oil this year, and you will
buy some of it put up in nice shape and
labeled olive oil from Italy.
Liszt, the great composer, is always
surrounded by women, who cling to him
like lovesick maidens. He kisses both
hands and cheek whenever he takes a
fancy.
Owing to the opposition of the rela
tives of the late Charles Dickens, the
collection of his earlier plays and poems,
announced for publication in London, is
to be suppressed.
It is related that a young gentleman
connected with the English Foreign
Office the other day went to a telegraph
office and asked to see the original of . a
telegram which had arrived from Egypt.
Morse, who invented the telegraph,
and Bell, the inventor of the telephone,
both had deaf mute wives, which leads
a wag to observe: “Just see what a
man can do when everything is quiet.”
The richest man in Mexico is an Irish
man named Patricio Milmo, who owns a
400,000 acre farm, and is reputed to be
worth $10,000,000. When he went to
Mexico he had not a dollar. He got his
start by a fortunate marriage.
Czar Alexander HI. evidently ex
pects to survive his coronation. He is
adding to the seventeen palaces of his
father a new one at Peterhoff, overlook
ing the Gulf of Finland. Its founda
tions are to be completed this fall at a
cost of $300,000.
Etienne, the well known French au
thority on the subject, has issued his
estimates of the harvests of the world for
1882. His report is, on the whole, de
cidedly favorable, indicating no serious
deficiency in crops in any quarter of the
world, and a general abundance through
out Europe and America.
The Mormon priesthood has been cir
culating a secret circular in Utah, giving
instructions to their people directly
opposite to the law rulings of the Com
missioners. One of the circulars has
been unearthed. They also decide to
have three Bishops sit with the Precinct
Registrars and oversee registration. The
Gentiles are much incensed at the inter
ference.
A report is current that 300 of Gari
baldi’s old comrades have banded them
selves together with the determination
of taking his body from its present rest
ing place, and of causing it to bo
cremated according to the desire
expressed in his will. Whether the
report, which is believed in Italy, be true
or not is not yet known ; but it has been
thought advisable that a guard should be
placed near his grave.
Emory Thomas sent to Mary Brown,
at Jackson, Michigan, silk for a dress as
a present. He wished to marry her and
she was inclined to consent; but when
she learned that the silk was part of the
booty of a burglary, she became the
principal witness against the wooer, and
he was sent to prison for seven years.
But they have become reconciled, and a
few days ago the prison chaplain joined
them in wedlock.
The well known German newspaper,
Algemeine Zeitung, of Augsburg, was
originally started at Tubingen, in the
year 1798, by the great publisher Corta,
and two of its earliest contributors were
[ Goethe and Schiller. Among the foreign
correspondent** have figured some of the
most gifted and eminent Germans of our
age Heinrich Heine, for instance, was
for several years its representative in
Paris.
Thurlow Weed, in a recent letter on
civil service reform, complains tlqit the
“academies and colleges contribute a
very large contingent to the army of of
fice seekers. ” Mr. Weed expresses the
belief that there is too much “liberal
education” in this country, which pro
duces idleness and office beggars—-men
who resort to office seeking as a means
of living, and who get to hating hard
work.
The mother-in-law of the late Nathan
iel Adams, her daughter, her daughter’s
daughter, her daughter’s daughter’s
daughter, and her daughter’s daughter’s
daughter’s daughter are all living at his
late residence in the Roxbury district of
Boston, Massachusetts. Thus there are
five generations of women in continuous
line living under the same roof, they
being Mrs. Hendley, Mrs. Adams, Mrs.
Wolcott, Mrs. Colby, and little Miss
Colby. Mrs. Hendley is ninety-five
years of age, and the infant a few weeks
only.
This is the way that Miss Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps characterizes the State of
Maine in her novel, “Doctor Zay,” in
the Atlantic: “We allers do hev every
thing wus here than other folks,” said a
passenger on the Bangor mail coach.
“Freeze and prohibition, mud and fu
sion. We have got one of the constitu
tions that takes things,likemy boy. He’s
had the measles, ’n the chickenpox, and
the mumps, and the nettle rash, and fell
in love with his schoolmarm, ’n got re
ligion, and lost the prize for elocootin’—
all in one darned year.”
This story of strange practice is told
of a Kansas lawyer: The law requires
that a person must be twenty-one years
old before he can pre-empt land. When
one comes to ask if he can evade this
law and have his boys, who lack some
years of being twenty-one, “prove up”
some land, the attorney smiles serenely
and says: “Os course; certainly; it is
the easiest thing in the world!” And
when the time comes to make out the
papers the attorney marks with a piece
of chalk on the floor, “twenty-one years
old.” He places the affiant on the floor
standing on these words, and has him
swear that he is “over twenty-one years
old.” _
Saxon Houses and Tenements.
As the halls and stairways are used in
common by the entire community of the
house, of course no carpetings are laid
upon them. In the higher class of
houses, and in the villas of the wealthy,
the hallways are laid with squares of
marble and granite, of different colors,
and the steps are built usually of one or
the other of these stones. But in the
tenements of the working people only
common flag-stones are used, and these
are so soft, that it requires only a few
years to wear them in the middle of the
steps until they are sometimes scarcely
a half-inch thick.
On entering one of these large houses
Hie first impression is unfavorable,
everything appearing so dreary, so
lonely and bo desolate. The wide stone
stairway, the broad corridors and the
bare walls have nothing about them to
remind you that you are in a dwelling
house. All the doors leading to the
corridors and landings are closed and
generally locked, for they have a spe
cies of sneak-thief in Saxony fully as
expert and fully as accomplished in the
art of noiselessly removing portable
property as his American brethren. The
ground floor is sometimes occupied by
a barber, a toy-dealer, a “ buch-handler,”
or a baker. 'Whether it is so occupied
or not, it is not popular for residence
purposes. Ihe second story is the most
sought after, and its apartments or ten
ements command the highest rent.
It is not an unusual thing to find peo
ple of the best society occupying the
second floor; people of less importance
socially, but nevertheless respectable,
occupying the third floor; people still
lower down in the social scale being on
the fourth floor, and working people of
the third degree living on the fifth floor.
Thus you may find in one house a mer
chant and his family, a factory superin
tendent and his family, a mechanic and
iiis family, and a laborer and his fami- i
lv. The poorer he is the more steps he i
must climb, unless he is a small trades- j
man and rents a couple of rooms on the
ground floor— Chemnitz Cor. Chicago
News.
Vanity of Highwaymen.—A Galves
veston lady was reading a newspaper ac
count of a stage robbery that recently
took place west of San Antonio and was
very indignant on reading that besides
robbing the passengers they had opened
the mail and read the letters, among
them, possibly, a letter the lady herself
had written to a friend. “You needn’t
! be alarmed.” remarked the lady's hus
band, “I dare say they did not read a
word in any of those letters, as those fel
lows don’t know B. from. bull s foot.
“Why, then, did they make out that
they read them ?” “Oh, they made out
they could read so as to make a favorable
impression on the passengers. Gal
■ veston News.
A Chicago physician — perhaps tin >
alarmist ."• b,, ’''7i‘“Lw:rlf , a
! in that city is a form miner oi a /
! Bcou'ge next summer.
Caught by Themselves.
There is a slang phrase now current
which aptly expresses the fatality at
tending the testimony of criminals in
court. They are almost sure to “give
themselves away,” that is, to really
convict themselves while they are try
ing to prove their innocence. In a
court in Paris recently, two cobblers
were charged with stealing fifteen francs
frqm their master's till, The men had
asked for some money from their em
ployer, but he had refused and had gone
off for the day with his family. So they
stole the fifteen francs and themselves
started ol! for a holiday’.
“Where d-d you spend your holi
day?” asked the Police Justice.
“We took no holiday. We worked
as usual,” said the first cobbler.
‘ ‘ Come, that won' t do. The facts are
all against you, although, to be sure, no
one saw you take the money from the
bag,” said the Police Justice.
“It wasn’t a bag; it was a pine box.
Ah!” (to the other cobbler) “what are
you tramplingon my feet for?” said the
second cobbler.
“How do you know it was a pine
box?” asked the Justice.
“ Why, I’ve seen the master take mon
ey from it more than two hundred
times,” answered the second cobbler.
“1 only brought it home the night be
fore. I iiad always used an iron box.
So he couldn’t have seen this two hun
dred times,” said the master.
“Well, when 1 said two hundred,
perhaps 1 stretched it a little. 1 saw it
at least once that day,” said the second
cobbler.
“What day?” asked the Justice.
“Why, the day that we took the fif
teen —Oh, stop trampling on my feet!”
said the second cobbler.
“So you acknowledge taking the fif
teen francs?” said the Justice.
“He means the fifteen pairs of slip
pers we made that day,” said the first
cobbler.
“So you worked all day?” said the
Justice.
“Yes, except that towards evening
we were tired and went out to Mont
martre and took supper,” said the first
cobbler. •
“Butyou told your master you had
no money. How did you go without
money?” asked the Justice.
“ We borrowed three francs,” said the
first cobbler.
“Yes, and when we were arrested,
they found no money in our pockets.
If we had taken the fifteen francs,
there would have been some left, for we
only spent seven francs,” said the sec
ond cobbler.
“Ifyou only borrowed three, how
did you spend seven?” asked the Jus
tice.
“We got credit,” answered the first
cobbler.
“ Yes, we got credit for nine francs,”
said the second cobbler.
“I think you’ve satisfied us of your
guilt. That will do. You shall have a
sentence of four months,” concluded the
Justice. — Youth's Companion
Sleepers’ Discomforts in Germany.
One of the first complaints heard
from Americans on arriving in Ger
many is against the beds, for German
beds, as a rule, are short—so very short
that a man who is unfortunate enough
to measure six feet has to double him
self up between the head and foot board,
like the letter Ain the alphabet. The
misery of this uncomfortable position
would, not be necessary were the beds
of a decent width, for with a wide bed,
even if it was not of sufficient length,
he could lay “cornering,” or he could
turn over on his side and double up
without projecting his knees and his
feet into the cold air outside of the mat
tress. German beds, almost without ex
ception, are single—yes, very single—
so much so that the occupant if he at
tempts to deviate an inch or two from a
horizontal position finds himself sprawl
ing on the floor. The sheets, bed-blank
ets, etp., are made just to fit the beds
and are never wide enough to “tuck
in.” They are seldom lut an inch or
two wider than the mattress, and it re
quires the skill and experience of
an acrobat, especially with a foreign
er, to keep the bed-clothes evenly
balanced over him. And then the
grumblers grumble at the pillows, which
they declare are either too large or too
small, too hard or too soft, and that the
onlv people who know how io make
comfortable pillows, and who have
them, are the Americans. Many of the
hotels and boarding-houses here adopt
the French pillow, which is about half
the size of the mattress and stuffed out
so hard and plump that the only bene
fit the tired traveler gets from it is to
have it serve as a rest for his back while
he sleeps in a sitting position. The
majority of pillows, however, found in
Germany are made wedge-shaped, of
the same material as the mattress, and
come to a point near the center of the
bed. On these, the sleeper, if he sleeps,
rests on an inclined plane, and looks
like a body on one of the narrow planks
in the morgue at Paris, with a sheet
thrown over it. I think it would be
difficult to find a bed in this country that
would measure over five feet ten, or six
feet at most between the head and foot
board, and as for a wide double bed
there is probably none in all Germany,
without it may be the one I saw at the
museum in Munich, which is said to
have belonged to some King or baron of
olden time. Dresden Cor. Spring field \
(Mais.) Ueoublican. /
.Senior a«k» a
found question. tf ia t ton wise ,
' ‘ { ‘’" l •'l",'
Mon could not eneu - o/ UB
[ Buppoee that» •
Hunk. ”
TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR,
. _ PITH AND POINT.
—An honest man is the noblest pur
suit of woman.— Hartford Times.
—Little colored boys are coming into
fashion as pages in Paris. And, by the
way, they are not the first black pages
in the history of PAvis.—Norristown
Herald.
—Anxious Ma’ma: “Come now, Rol
lo, you have played too hard; sit down
here by ma’ma and rest yourself."
Rollo, after forty-eight seconds of sit
ting: “Me must go play some more,
now; me’s tired resting.”
—Prepared for the Primer: See the
honest driver. He is stopping at his
home. Will he leave a tub of the coal?
Yes, he will leave a tub of the coat
Then he will drive on and supply the
man who bought the coal.- -Courier-
Journal.
—To be masculine in dress and con
duct is the highest ambition of many
young women who left the school of
propriety too soon. If they have any
matrimonial aspirations the sooner they
dress and act like other women the
better.— Burlington Hawkeye.
—“Any children?” asked a landlord
of a gentleman seeking a tenement on
Cherry street. “Yes, three.” “No use
talking, then; I want tenants without
children." “But mine are not fat
enough to kill,” mildly remarked the
gentleman, as he turned on his heel,—
Waterbury American.
—A gentleman in thia city was going
out the other day with a little nephew
and his baby sister, Grace, when he
hesitated and remarked that he thought
it was going to rain. Little Georgia
did not like this, and said he would bet
that it wouldn’t rain. “How much
will you bet?” asked his uncle. “Well,"
said Georgia, thinking a moment, “I’ll
bet 25 cents.” “Put up your money,”
said his uncle. But at this moment
baby Grace discovered several drops of
rain, and drawing attention to them
said gravely: “I fink oo better put up
oo umbrellar.” — Detroit Tree Press.
—A Conundrum: “Ha, come hither,
pretty one Canst tell me why a water
melon is like unto a book?” ft was the
voice of the noble Sir Grabland, and, at
the sound of his words, the lady Stiletto,
his well-beloved niece, raised her ceru
lean orbs (blue eyes) from the crochet
work that lay entangled in her fairy
like fingers. “Nay, me lord,” she an
swered in her piccoloest tones; “give
me an easier one." Like a swollen
river chafing its rugged shores, or a vol
cano getting ready for a matinee, a
great limpid laugh gurgled through the
anatomy of Sir Grabland as he replied:
“Because, me dear niece, it is never
read until it is opened.”— Boston Tran
script.
USEFUL AM) SUGGESTIVE.
—Th« real old harvest apple of our
grandfather’s days is to be found no
more.
—The farmer who leaves his plow to
rot in the fields all winter is usually the
one who finds most fault with the con
dition of the country. —A5 Y. Herald.
—The Gardener's Monthly says: “Let
the laundry folk on every wash day
pour the boiling-hot soap-suds about
the roots of peach trees. This will de
stroy the insidious little fungus wh"’
produces the ‘yellows’ and oth
eases, ami finish the larva? of ot , p imbo
which are injurious to the trees.’manage the
ic llrHt year,
Red ants are said to like J* place
ter even than-sugar; for this
the red ants are troublesome incipal o nice amt
or store-room, set a plate w< comity of Hal),
with lard in the room. k \ ( K. Wil
covered with them, and L Snmnier
of them; put the plate back, -ir names, place
on doing so until they are extef'^r*’' 1 °
—N. 1. Post. shares, resi-
-MarbleCake: (Light-) Ori«- resi .
sugar, half a cup each of buttei -
milk, whites of three eggs, two cup# *
flour, one and a half teaspoonful of bak
ing powder. (Dark.) Half a cup each
of brown sugar and molasses, one fourth
cup each of butter and milk, two cups
of flour, the yelks of three eggs, one
and a half teaspoonful of baking pow
der, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon,
cloves and allspice.
—A correspondent of the Queensland
er supplies that paper with the follow
ing on the subject of potato-growing:
“ 1 tried an experiment with potatoes
this autumn, as seed was scarce. I took
cuttings of potato tops and planted them
in the wet weather, and they took root
and bore a better crop than the original
root. Some of the seed potatoes were
growing strong before 1 set them, so I
slipped off the superfluous shoots and
planted them, with very good results;
and any one with a small supply of good
seed may largely increase it by this
simple method.”
—One objection to a large farm, of
sufficient capacity to meet the wants of
a great farmer, is that it concentrates
all the crops and all the manure at one
point. In harvest time short hauling of
hay and grain saves valuable time, and,
when manure is to be drawn, short dis
tances to the fields from the heaps or
sheds very much lessens cost. It is
better to divide on large farms and nave
two or more separate points of concen
tration in distribution, and thereby save
great cost to teamwork. And, too, it
£ verv wise to divide the farm buiMm?
' X to no have them nil burn at one tire.
These uro general consideration* *
y. Tribune.
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