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KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
The art of lace mak ing is raised to a
dignity which shows no sign of diminish¬
ing, when flounces take three years to
complete. One of the attractions of one
of the large dry goods houses in New
York city is a bridal veil costing $100 a
yard. It represents lace-making raised
to a fine art.
Turoff, the most popular clown in
Russia, recently dropped the old relia¬
ble ones about mothers-in-law, old maids
and boarding house fare long enough to
work in a joke on the Chief of Police.
"When last heard of the clown was on
his way to Siberia, to take a course of
calisthenics in the salt mines there.
A Boston cheese dealer says that adul¬
terated cheese, when fresh and well
made, cannot be distinguished from a
good skim milk cheese, It is made
largely in Western factories, and is com¬
posed of stearin, oleo oil, cotton seed,
and skim milk. The cream is first ex¬
tracted from the milk, and then it is
sought to return fats of a cheaper quality.
A considerable quantity of rancid butter
is also used.
Demonstrating the value of the fish¬
eries as a training school for American
seamen, the Boston Journal says: “It is
generally estimated that from 70 to
78 per cent, of New England fishermen
are American citizens, and if this be so
it is plain that Yankees are about as
numerous on our fishing vessels as aliens
on the vessels in our merchant service.
This is not a mere surmise. It is demon¬
strated by figures. During 1880 of the
seamen shipped in ports of the United
States for foreign and coastwise voyages
63 per cent, were foreigners and 37 per
cent. Americans. Here in the port of
Boston native seamen constituted only
15 per cent, of those reported by the
Shipping Commissioner. At Bath, where
the business done was altogether coast¬
wise, twe-thirds of the men were foreign¬
ers and but one-third American. In the
regular naval service native seamen are
estimated to number from oue-fourth of
the crews of some ships to barely one
tenth ol the crews of others. It appears
to be a lamentable fact that New Eng¬
land fishermen are the only large class
of thorough-going Yankee sailors left
to us.”
“This is ‘white hat year,’ a? we call
the Presidential year,’’said a State street
hatter to a Chicago Herald man, “and
the manufacturers and dealers are pre¬
paring for the abnormal demand—the
former by turning out immense quanti¬
ties of cheap white hats, and the latter
by getting in their orders for stock early.
White hats as a political badge were first
worn in the Greeley campaign, The
editor candidate set the fashion himself,
but his generally rusty looking tile wasn’t
exactly imitated. The well-to-do
among his followers wore a white silk
plug, a good many brushing the fur the
wrong way. This hat was as expensive
as it was eccentric. It cost from $5 to
$9. The sale of white hats each Presi
dential year thereafter showed a steady
ihcrease. In the last campaign enor¬
mous numbers were sold. YV’by, I fitted
out three big clubs in one day. It is the
members of the organizations that are
formed, chiefly, who wear white hats.
Still a good many individuals who will
not join political clubs take this method
of showing fealty to their party. I
notice that a big white hat trade affects
%he fall trade. Why? Because many
of the white hats, when the leaves begin
to fall, go into the dyer’s pot, and, as
black ones, are made to last until
Christmas.”
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Hints on Corn Planting.
worried In corn-planting by time the faT-mer is
blackbirds pull many pests. Crows and
up the sproutin" seed
and if this is truly done in pursuit of
nefarious cutworms and pestilent "rubs
the damage is in no way mollified or les
seued. Squ rrels and chipmunks dig up
the seed and cutworms sever die tender
sprouts. It is useless and unreasonable
to complain when simple and effective
precautions are ignored and neo-lected
teed stirred in just sufficient hot water
in which a tablespoon of tar has been
mixed by agitation to coat each grain
with a linn of the tar will not be attacked
by crows, or cutworms, or squirrels We
have steeped the seed in a solution of
hastening saltpet: e in hot water, with the result of
the germination by two days
and chief (bus lessening the danger of mis’
few drops by these pests, and by adding a
of carbolic acid to the quart
of solution the odor of the seed becomes
too offensive for all the com
mon planting pests combined, The custom
of corn in the South,
singly in the and the ,
feet rows, rows three
d apart, 110 undoubtedly decreases the
7 le the / - South _ f average yield of this crop
m is less than half of that of the
New England States, and 15 or 20
bushels •zrtzrxfrzrzsrss of grain per acre is considered
S5"tat?taI-Md°»o®Td in proportion,
and thus the prevailing
method ping three in the seeds Southern States of drop”
at every three feet in
the rows might be adopted by the South¬
ern farmers with advantage. While -it
is not always safe to counsel changes in
the common practice, yet the writer,
after four years’ actual experience in
farming in the South, has proved . satis
tactorily by his own s ecess in trebling
the ordinary yield of the crops that im
provement in methods is quite possible,
Sw* ntn’ino- thmker^intin'w Dberal ba j now ran- '
cleaner and ‘j’ r
longer-continued ublvatlou an d the
entire freedom f >
South as to enrich the farmers in a few
years .—New York Times.
Culture of Beans.
There are two or three counties in
Western New York where beaus are
grown to an enormous extent and the
farmers have become rich bv their sale.
There seems to be no special reason why
this crop should have been adopted in
this section. We have millions of acres
of similar soil and climate where beans
are seldom grown. If leguminous crops
get their nitrogen from the atmosphere,
the -farms where beans arc grown so
largely and the vines fed out to sheep
that ought to be very rich. We do not learn
such is the case. In fact, it is
claimed by some that beans prove to be
an bean exhausting crop, and that the old
growers formerly. are not making as much
money as
Beans are at the present ^ time brought
from Europe in bags right in to the heart
of the bean-growing section of Western
New York, where they are put in barrels
and shipped as “New York State beans.”
From this it is evident that our bean
growers have an established reputation
which the dealers are not slow to utilize.
It also indicates that beans can be
grown in other places. We have known
many farmers undertake to raise beans
for the first time who made a failure of
it. They generaly plant when beans are
high, and anticipating large profits put
in twice as many acres as they are able
take care of. Beans must be kept
clean. But too much hoeing and culti¬
words, vating does not suit them, In other
we need clean land to start with,
or we must plant on sod turned over with
planting. a “jointer” plow immediately before
On such laud the beans get a
good growth before the weeds start, and
but little hoeing and cultivating are
necessary. The
Western beau-planter commonly used in
New York is drawn by one
horse. It makes two rows at a time,
twenty-nine inches apart, and drops five
or six beans in the hills about fifteen or
eighteecn inches apart. The machine
covers the beaus, and the whole work is
done at one operation. If there are hard
clay spots which the machine does not
cover with completely, the work must be done
the a hoe, putting two in ches of fine soil
on beans. Instead of using a bean
plantei beans many good farmers put in the
with an ordinary grain drill, sow
ing three rows lit a time^ twenty-eight
inches apart, and dropping two inches
apart in the rows. They claim a larger
yield, but it is, possibly, a little more
work to keep them clean, and certainly
more work to pull them than when
planted in hills.
Beans are a profitable crop, and it
? eems a pity that we should ever have to
import them from Europe. But let us
a ” llia ur 8° a! W of 011,1 readers who may
l llaQ t the™ for the first time to select
" 00fl clean land ’ plow carefully, and
harrow ;md ro11 till the surface is as mel
lo v as a S arden - The advantage of
t! ! ovou 3 h harrowing is not always apple
CJided ;.
Cultivate . , between t the frequently,
rows
but not t0 ° dee P' with a tine-toothed
steal horse hoe that wi!1 ki!1 every weed
a ? d leave tJ 7 e surface smooth and fine,
• Uan y of om " corn cultivators are too
c ? arso and leave the laud too rough, so
tilac dnea out in ll0t weather, and
S rowth of the ’ ,eans ls checked. The
5 '; ,le ln regard to planting is to put in
, beaus as soon as possible after is
corn
planted.— , American Agriculturist.
Farm and Garden Notes.
There is now a market for quills
P lucked from the turkey.
Low wagons with wide tires make
easier work in hauling out manure.
The ouly way to learn farming or any
other trade is to serve an apprenticeship v
to it.
For fertilizing purposes there is no
zz n ' mK °«***«
lon long that that will wdl can at*™ starve ted.log it
80 * 00 on corn com vo„ you * d. to
death. -
Now give the best of care to the
sheep if you expect to sell the lambs at
a profit.
An acre of corn-fodder well manured
will furnish ensilage enough to keep two
cows a year.
Gather the droppings around under
the roosts every two or three days if vou
would have your poultry free from the
scourge of scaly legs.
In very hot summers, quince bushes,
grapevines, and many other plants given
greatly t0 Ioot weakened ver - v superficially are destoyed or
by having their shallow
For growing cucumbers, squashes or
other similar plants, put old sawdust or
rotten wood about them. Those who
av ® ne ; e r tled cucumbers on stron S.
, bush ? s * akes , bk e P ea stlck ?’ Wl11 be
>
sur P nsed 1° no *- e kow , they enjoy it.
Whatever is done in the small fruit
bne , It is a safe and wise rule to put out
cared no m01 '° plants does than can be properly
l and Buy f?r. plants, It not them, pay to prepare
- set and leave
th m to be choked with weeds. •
Many people can safely drink sour
milk, while their stomachs are too weak
to is digest that which is still sweet. This
true of animals. The calf put upon a
diet of slightly soured milk*may scour,
but it is usually not from the sourness of
the milk, but from its lower tempera
ture. A pailful or half full of cold, sour
milk chills the digestive organs, and
diarrhoea is the only way in which the
stomach can dispose of its incubus,
The Richest Alan Who Ever Lived.
In speaking of the wealth of some of
the ancients, says a writer to the New
Orleans Times-Democrat, you class
Tiberius as the wealthiest at $118,125,
000, find give that of Croeus, the Lydian,
at about $8,000,000. Y r ou have not
mentioned one wealthier than them all,
who was possessed Pythius, son of Aty, the Lydian,
who in silver and gold $24,-
5l(j,0u0, which added to his possession
of land and slaves at a proportionate
value would swell his wealth to about
$500,000,000. I mean his gold at the
Doric value of $5.22; if reckoned at the
value of the stater siebus it would give
him in coin $0,036,000, and with slaves
and wealth in proportion, a wealth of
over $120,000,000. This man Pythius,
without touching his silver and gold,
entertained at the city of Celsnae the
army of Xerxes, over 5,000,000 strong,
in his invasion in Greece, and on a pre¬
vious occasion made King Darius,
Xerxes’ father, a magificent present—a
golden plane tree and vine; This Pythius,
then, was the wealthiest man in the
world, and it is doubtful if there has
been any one before or since to equal
him.
If Taw-breakers were choosers magis¬
trates would be men of few words and
short sentences.
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The friendship of the artful is mere
self interest, .......
FACE TO FACE.
If my face could only promise that its color
would remain,
If my heart were only certain it would hide
the moment’s pain,
I would meet you and would greet you in the
old familiar tone.
And naught should ever show you the wrong
that you have done.
If my trembling hand were steady, if my
smiles had not all fled,
If my eyes spoke not so plainly of the tears
they often shed,
I would meet you and would greet yon at the
old sweet trysting place,
And perchance you’d deem me happy if you
meet me face to face.
If the melody of springtide awoke no wild
refrain,
If the autumn’s golden burden awoke no
living pain,
I would meet thee, and would greet thee, as
years ago we met,
Before our hearts were shipwrecked, on the
ocean of regret.
If my woman’s soul were stronger, if my
heart were not so true,
I should long have ceased remembering the
love I had for you;
But I dare not meet or greet thee, in the old
familiar way,
Until we meet in heaven, when tears have
passed away.
—Temple Bar.
PITH AND POINT.
Noted down—Eider.
To the point—A wasp’s sting.
Faithful to the end—A dog’s tail.
“How is the earth divided?” “Bye
earthquakes, ma’am.”
To young men: It is better to be fast
asleep than fast awake.
On the road to recovery—overtaking
the thief who borrowed your watch.
If a young man feels that his life is a
blank, he should try to fill it out and
haveit sworn to.
‘ ‘I will and devise, ” says the millionaire
and when he is dead and his heirs devise
ways to circumvent his will.
A Sam is always a him, but a hymn is (
not while always a Psalm. This ought to help,
away the Te Deum of a
afternoon .—New York Sun.
Social Stranger (offering a Bridgeport;
Victoria)—“Have- a cigar, friend?”
Churlish Stranger—“Thanks, no; I'
never disinfect.”— Tid-Bits.
Hushed is the conversation’s sound !
Of sages and of gawks.
And there is silence deep, profound,
When money talks.
—Boston Courier.
he Said the invited watchman, when about dusk
was to drink a cup of coffee, ;
“No, thank you; coffee keeps me awake
all night.” Then he saw flis blunder,,
looked very embarrassed, and tried to
explain, but it was no use.
“A good many new business houses
marked are going up on Broadway, I see,” re¬
Broadway a stranger to his neighbor in a
car the other day.” “Y"es,”
said the other with a sigh, “ours went
up the other day.”— Siftings.
Aliss Greatbraiu (of Boston)—“So
brother George has got married?”
Omaha Man—“Yes; it was an elopement;
that is probably why the family were
not notified.” “Is his wife a woman of
intellect?” “No, indeed; pretty as a
picture and sweet as a-peach .”—Omaha
World.
There was a sign upon a fence—
The sign was “ Paint.”
And Sinner everybody and saint. that went by,
Put out a finger, touched the fence
And onward sped.
And as they wiped their finger tips
“It is,” they said.
—New Yorh Sun.
An Ancient Sculpture Unearthed.
The excavations of Athens have re¬
sulted in bringing to light the head of ,a
man of heroic size, carved in porous
stone. It was found on the Acropolis,
at the southeast angle of the Parthenon.
The hair and beard are (as usual) painted
blue and the face red. What is remark¬
able, however, is that the pupils of the
delineated eyes are not with only the painted chisel. in, but also
This head,
which forms one of the most ancient
sculptures ever found upon the Acropolis,
will attract considerable attention both
from the style of workmauship and the
material of which it is made. It appears
to be the head of a triton, the rest of
the body, in the form of a serpent, end¬
ing in the tail of a fish, having be&n
found a Brooklyn few days before near tlie same
place.— Eagle.