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CURIOUS FACTS.
A cubit is two feet.
“Cluck!” is the restaurant name for a
fresh egg.
Measure 209 feet on each side and you
will have a square acre within an inch.
William Geqrge, of Long Pine, Neb.,
has just died of glanders caught from a
favorite horse.
Burlington, N. J,, proudly claims
more widows to the square yard than any
other city in these United States.
during According to one estimate Indian corn
thirty-six growth draws trom the soil
times its own weight of water.
The first slave . labor within the pres¬
ent limits of the United States was that
employed tine, at the founding of St. Augus¬
Fla., in 1565.
A homing pigeon released at Liberty,
Va., reached its home in West Philadel¬
phia, a distance of 2951 miles, within
five hours and nine minutes.
The second church bell brought to this
continent still rings at the First Congre¬
gational Church at Hartford, Conn. The
first church bell brought to this country
rang in Virginia.
Daniel Freeman took the first home¬
stead pre-empted in the United States
January 1, ls63. The land is five miles
west of Beatrice, Neb., and Mr. Free¬
man still lives on it.
Nut culture is beginning to attract
more attention in Georgia. One man
has more than one thousand pecan trees
planted and as many English walnuts
now just coming into bearing.
Small amounts of the old postal cur¬
rency continue to be offered for redemp¬
tion at the New York Sub-Treasury.- The
amount still unredeemed is $15,090,000,
but most of it is doubtless worn out or
destroyed.
A farmer in Gratiot County, Mich.,
plowed up a fifty-pound camion ball the
other day. There is no record of any
battle vicinity, having aud been fought in that
the people are wondering
where the big cannon ball came from.
Peter Buckman, a young lad - in St.
Cloud, Minn., breaks a bone every time
he falls. His bones are so brittle as to
snap under the slightest blow, and al¬
though only six years old he has sus¬
tained sixteen fractures of the arms and
legs.
The gem yield of North Carolina was
enriched a fortnight ago by the discov¬
ery of l wo splendid emeralds at the Hid
denite Mines. One of the crystais weighs
seventy carats and the other eighty, and
they will yield several hundred dollars’
worth of jewels.
The story runs that kissing was in¬
troduced into England by Kowena, the
daughter which of Hengist, the Saxon. At a
banquet was given by the British
monarch in honor of his allies the prin¬
cess, after pressing the brimming beaker
to delighted her lips, saluted and with astonished and
Vortigern a little kiss,
after the manner of her own people.
A direct descendant of Paulding, one
of the scouts who who arrested Andre,
the British spy, when he attempted to
pass the picket under the name of An¬
derson, has in his possession the through origi¬
nal pass given to pass when Andre
the American lines, Benedict
Arnold had resolved to pass West Point
into the hands of the enemy. The pass
is signed by Arnold, as Major-General
and countersigned by General Gage.
Colors used in sealing-wax are said to
express a certain significance. White is
used for weddings; black, drab and
purple for mourning; lavender is con¬
dolence; dinner invitations are sealed
w.th chocolate color; blue denotes con¬
stancy; green expresses hatred; vermil¬
ion signifies business; ruby or cardinal
denotes themo3t ardent love; light ruby
or rose is affectionate remembrance; pale
green is innocence; yellow indicates
jealousy; yellowish green /signifies grief
and disappointment; dark brown, mel¬
ancholy and reserve.
Sea Birds’ Drinking Water.
A 11 old sea captain thinks ho has a
good answer for the question: “Where
do sea birds obtain fresh drinking
water?” He says that he has often seen
birds far from land that could furnish
water flying around and under storm
cloud*, fell drinking and the drops of water as
they chattering like ducks in a
pond on a hot day. They will smell a
rain-squall with tremendous 100 miles away and fly for if
speed.
It is said to be English to never wash
strawberries, but to roll them carefully
iu a towel until ‘ -the grit disappears.’’
About Cotton.
The cotton crop being somewhat
backward this year, plowing may and
should be continued longer Than usual.
As the main object of cultivation during
July was to encourage plant growth, or
development of weed, so the object is
now to promote the growth and maturity
of the squares and young bolls. The
plants are now, or should be, covered
with abundant foliage, and the processof
assimilation of the sap and the develop¬
ment of the embryo fruit will go on ra¬
pidly without much perceptible increase
in the size of the plants. The same vege¬
tative functions, however, are in full
force, being only partially diverted from
the formation of leaves and branches to
the perfection of the fruit, and tbe same
necessity for keeping exists, though in less degree,
the surface soil in an open
and porous condition. Cultivation should
of now, as a rule, be limited to one furrow
a wide plow or cultivator, run in each
middle. In spite of all efforts to culti¬
vate on a level, the stalks are now stand¬
ing on the comb more or less elevated
ridge or bed, and examination will show
that this bed is full of the rootlets of the
plants. It is not good practice to plunge
a plow into the sides of tile bed and tear
it away to the depth of three or four
inches, as will be (he case where two
furrows are put in. It is best to run but
one the implement furrow, right in the middle, having
will so set or adjusted that it
cut to a uniform depth from side to
side of not greater than one inch. Deep
heretofore. plowing must be avoided now if not
It will be better not to plow
the crop; any more than to tear and mu¬
tilate the roots at this critical period. No
point has been more delinitely settled, by
scientific experimenters as well as profes¬
sional practical farmers, than that deep
of plowing in the later stag, s of the growth
any annual plant, is irretrievably ruin
oils. It will inevitably eau-e the plant
to throw off the greater patt of its forms
and young fruit and to start into vigor¬
ous but belated growth. Taking
average of the middle line of the cotton
belt, it may be assumed that all forms or
squares that make their first appearance
after the middle of August will be too
l ate to mature into perfect bolls before a
killing frost occurs; therefore all further
increase in the size of the plants and the
number of new squares after that date
involves a useless waste of energy and
should not lie encouraged.— Atlanta, Ga .,
Southern Cultivator.
Fine Harness Oil.
The following is the government re
oeipe for harness oil; One gallon, neats
foot oil, two pounds bnyberry tallow,
two pounds beeswax. Put the above in
a pan over a moderate fire. When thor¬
oughly dissolved, add two quarts of cas¬
tor oil; then while on the fire stir in one
ounce of lamp-black. Mix well, and
strain through a fine cloth to remove
sediment; let it cool and keep it in tin
cans.
The Methodist Episcopal Church,
given during the past twenty-three years, has
more than $3,000,000 to church ex¬
tension and aided over 0,000 churches.
Tile Rest Temt of Success Is Success.
Tested and proved by over twenty-five years’
use in all pai ts of the world, Allcock’s Por¬
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highest medical ar.d chemical au horities.and
millions of grateful patients who havo been
cured of distressing ailments voluntarily tes¬
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Allcock's Porous Plasters are purely
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and quick iu their action, and absolutely
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Beware of imitations,and do not be deceived
by misrepresentation.
Ask lor Allcock's, and let, no explanation
or solicitation induce you to accept a sub¬
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The present crop prospects indicate that
there will be few small potatoes this year.
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The oldest paper in the world is the Capital
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It seems that the discovery of a sure cure
H. for A. baldness, Fechter, claimed of New Haven, to have Conn., been made is by
ine. Some has accomplished genu¬
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pr ice^J testimonials rfXseANa’l to man- set
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Is incompetent to communicate the inexpress¬
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years by tile proprietors.
Don't go to any fair that will tolerate insti¬
tutions you would not separately patronize.
Conventional “ iUonon ” Resolutions.
Whereas, The IU non Route (L. N. A. & O.
Ky Co.). es res to make it known to the world
at large that it forms the double connecting
nnk of Pullman tourist travel between the
winter cities of Florida a d the summer re¬
sorts of the Northwest; and
Whereas, sed, Its eleg “rapid transit” system is un«
surpa its int P.,11 nan Buffet bleeper
and Chair car service between Chicago and
equal Louisville, ed; Indianapolis and Cincinnati un¬
and
then IVhcreas, be Its rates are as low as the lowest;
it
trip Resolved, That in the event of starting on a
Cormick, it is good policy to eon nit wit i h. O. Mc¬
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Dearborn St.. Chicago, for full particul ,rs. (In
any event send for a Tourist Guide, enclose 4c.
P'stage.)
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Word to the Nervous
You are painfully aware
that you have nerves? Then
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boy has as many as you, but
he doesn’t know it. That is
the difference between “sick"
and “ well.”
Why don’t you cure your¬
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Paine’s Celery Compound
will do it. Pay your drug¬
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Why not you ?
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