The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 14, 1888 Page: 3 of 8
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FACTS FOR FARMERS.
WIRE FOR GRAPE TRELLISES.
In putting up trellises for grape
Tines, wire is much better for stringers
than boards or slats often used. Wire
costs legs, is stronger, and besides can
be easily grasped by tendrils of tbe
young shoots. The trellis also in
Winter is less likely to be racked by
winds, as the wire offers little obstruc-
tion.
EWES THAT LOSE THEIR LAMBS.
It is possible sometimes to make a
ewe -that has lost her lamb own
another and allow it to suckle. If this
cannot be done unless the owe be
•specially valuable on account of its
breed, it is best to fatten it and sell it
to the butcher. A ewe that loses its
lamb one year becomes too fat the
following Summer, and is seldom
worth muoh for breeding thereafter.
USING FROZEN EGGS.
If a frozen egg is thawed out in cold
water and used immediately it is a
little injured. It is at least better then
than it can be again. The freezing of
the egg and cracking tbe shell admit
air, and this very quickly changes tlie
character of the egg. Frozen eggs
left a week or even half that time in a
moderately warm room, lack flavor
and are worth little or nothing.
ASSORTING POTATOES.
Whether potatoes are kept in the
cellar or in pits, if in considerable bulk
they will require considerable care
about this season. Gut them out of
the dark and probably too warm plaoe
Where they liavo been confined, expose
them to light, and if poss.ble keep a
temperature varying from 40Q to 45".
This is especially necessary if the pota-
toes are intended for plauting. If for
use as food avoid exposure to sunlight
FAIIMEHS VS. SPORTSMEN.
Farmers on Long Island are vigor-
ously protesting against a proposed
law to allow sportsnnen to kill robins
on their premises during certain
months in Hie year. The robin is a
groat benefit to farmers, destroying;
many insects and doing no harm ex-
cept taking a few cherries in thoir
season. Aside from this it is the com-
mon mistake of legislators enacting
game laws to suppose that owners of
land have no rights as against sports-
men prowling around their premises.
LOCATION FOR ClIERUY TREES.
The cherry tree is very impatient of
wet. Land can scarcely bo too hard
and dry for it to thrive. It is quite
common to have cherry trees near the
house. This is very well if the soil is
well drained, as it should be around a
dwelling. But if it is the habit of the
women folks to throw washiug water
and other slops at the back door, it
will bo apt to kill cherry trees located
near there. This is often an unexpect-
ed reason why cherry trees in such
laces mysteriously die while others
escape.
THE IDAHO PEAlt.
Undoubtedly the extreme Northwest,
where verv low temperatures prevail,
will bo obliged to originalo varieties of
fruit hardly enough to endure their
climate. A stejS in this direction is
taken in the Idaho pear. It has been
growrf the last twenty years in a lati-
tude 46 ° north, where tho thermome-
ter usuallr touches 20 ° to 30 ° below
zero every Winter, and often even
lower. Tho troe fruited tho fourth
year from seed, and as the fruit is of
good quality it may be desirable for
Eastern orcliardists to try it. In sea-
son it is a little later than the Bartlett.
ALSIKE CLOVER IIAY.
Alsiko is a true clover. It shows
bv analysis the large proportion of
albuminoids that makes clover hay
richer food than that from timothy or
other grasses. It generally grows a
much finer stalk than either tho medi-
um or largo red clover. Hence it is
less apt to be injured and discolored
by heating while in process of curing.
Alsike hay mixed with timothy is be-
coming a favorite in most hay markets.
Alsike 8iioulld always have timothy
seed sown with it.as tho alsike dies out
after the first crop is gathered. Then
the timothy will cover the entire sur-
face and yield a heavy crop, its roots
feeding on those of alsike decaying in
the soil.
STRAIGHT RAIL AND POST FENCES.
Farmers whose old rail fences are
growing poor oan yet keep their fields
well fenced by using posts and stakes
for holding tho rails in place. The
post should bo set below danger of the
frost heaving it out The stake beside
it may bo driven down and bo almost
of anv material. Sometimes an old
rail will be deoaved at one end but tho
remainder will bo good enough to split
into several stakes. The first rail may
be elevated from tho ground either by
wire or by a stone of suitable size.
For large stock the rails need not bo
very close together. Four or five firm-
ly fixed between tho stake and post,
with a barbed wire surmounting the
latter, will be sufficient to turn almost
any horse or cattle.
tests OF JKRSEYS.
At the Briar Cliff Farm, New York,
various butter tests have been made
from timo to time for the purpose of
ascertaining the actual working capac-
ity of the animal tested, and soino ex-
cellent results havo been attained, in
Bomo instances fifteen to twenty-one
pounds of butter per week. The feed has
been tho same as that fed to the n-st
of -the herd in full flow of milk, with
the addition in Winter of eight quarts
cut carrots and six to eight quarts
of wheat bran twice a day. The usual
daily rations in Winter at tlrs farm for
cows in milk consist of two to three
bushels-of hay and corn fodder mixed,
with eight, pounds corn meal, four
pounds wheat nran, two pounds wheat
middlings and two pounds oil meal.
In Summer tlio cows are turned out to
pasture, which is supplemented by some
JS soiling crop, principally corn fodder,
and four to eight quarts of wheat brau.
DELAYING FRUIT BLOSSOMING.
Who never danger is feared of troes
putting forth their blossoms too early,
the evil may easily bo averted.
While the ground is frozen or covered
With snow draw manure, or even straw,
and spread as far as the tree roots ex-
tend. Tho more snow is covered the
better tho effect will bo. Whenever
tho season is too long for fruit, ripen-
ing is too early to keep well, this plan
is especially recommended. The ef-
fect of the' mulch extends long after
the ice and "now have thawed. The
ground under it is cool and moist antfl
mid-summer or later, as mulch checks
evaporation. Iu this way late-ripening
varlties of apples may be grown so as
keep several weeks longer than they
would without this precaution. It is
an especially'good plan for pears, as a
cool, moist "soil without much manure
is promotive of healthful growth and
fruitfulness. A nmleh of straw ap-
plied now will keep down grass, and
do away with the need of plowing un*
der pear treos.
WINTERING MULES.
It is a mvstory to many who son tfcn
hundreds of mules on the Erie Canal
where those animals go to when tho
season of navigation closes. Farmers
near the line of the canal might pos-
sibly answer this conundrum. Board-
ing canal mules is only a fairly profit-
able business. Tho mule is less fastid-
ious about his diet than is tho horse.
He also requires less oaro. Tho usual
way is to turn them loose in tho barn-
yard, with no other stock, let them
have n run at tho straw stack and give
hay once a dav, occasionally varied by
cornstalks. If the boating season has
been poor the hay is often omitted,
and on this deficient feed there is
nccessitv for a special bargain as to
who shall be responsible for losses.'
Sometimes the mule is kept for $1 or,
$1.25 a week. At this low rate tbe|
boat owner does not expect to get;
back his full number in the Spring.
Tho canal mule in the Fall is usually
badly run down, and needs good feed
to bring him up. Towards Spring, if
the boat business promises to open
well, the mule is bfetter fed, and
gradually put into condition for another
season's hard work and harder usage.
Possibly the mule can endure this
treatment better than a horse; but
every mercifully minded man will ro-
joico to see insensate steam power
supersede both horses and mules in
propelling boats on the canal.—Ameri-
can Cultivator.
Woke Up the Wrong Man.
A few nights ago Levi D. Stevens,
aged 75, was married to Mrs. Amanda
Stevens, aged 16, widow of tho bride-
groom's brother. A largo party of
young men went to tho residence of tho
brido and groom, and with tin horns,
pans, horse fiddles, and-other discord-
ant implements, began to givo tho
couple a serenade. After it had lasted
half an hour tho bride groom told his
seronaders that he appreciated the sere
nade, but unless they wont away within
ten m nutes, ho would come out and
chastise them. 'Hie band agreed to the
old gentleman's remarks and warning
with a howl of derision, and began to
play.
Promptly on the expiration the ton
minutes' grace tho groom came forth.
Ho seized tbe leader of tho band, jerk-
ed from his hand tho tin horn ho was
performing on, and planted his fist be-
tween the leader's eyes, I'lie leader
went down staved down. Then tho
blissful bridegroom, as described by one
of the seronaders, who early in the
game took a fence, swept tho tin horn
right and left and two moro of tho sero-
naders went, down like reeds boforo tho
wild wind. But tho tin horn was ruin-
ed. Then tho bridegroom's dander
rose. Ho cluthod a youth who had
some local reputation as knocker-out
and doer-up, but who on this occasion
was developing surprising talont as a
horse-fiddle virtuoso. He ."cinched this
youth and raised him clear off the
ground and hurled him bodily against a
surprised but previously noisv- young
man who had boon throwing his soul
on the evening air through tho medium
of a large stick and a tin horn.
Bv this timo the band was satisfied
that tho slumbering lion in tho 75-yoar-
old groom was really roused, and there
were not points enough iu tho compass
to indicate tho directions that they took
to escape the old man's displeasure.
One unfortunate fugitive was not speedy
enough, and ho was grasped by tho col-
lar as tho fence he yearned for was yet
just beyond his grasp. The bridegroom
saved that living minstrel tho trouble of
climbing tho fence. Ho tossed li.ru
over it.—St Louis Dispatch.
Tho Way to Fall Down.
"The special providenco that seems
to hover over drunken men and chil-
dren has something of an explana-
tion, said a well known and eminent
medical man to a reporter, "in the fact
of tho main cause of tho breakage of
bonos from falls being from a resist-
ance of tho tendons moro often than
from tho violence of tho shock incident
to tho actual fall. A child or an intox-
icated porson will rarely endeavor with
any great effort to recover their bal-
ance when they slip or topple over.
Hence no special resisting force is ex'
orcised and they sink into a collapsed
heap without serious injury. When an
adult in possession of h;s sound senses
undertakes, with endless contortions
and gyrations, to save himself from
going down, ho draws every muscle
and sinew taut, and if tlio wrcncli is too
severe the bone breaks. Thoro is no
way of definitely proving it, but it if
asscrtod, and 1 believe with some show
of truth, that some, at least, of the
fractures resulting from falls, especial-
ly from a height, happen before the
actual shock with tho substance one
falls on occurs. It's strange, but 1
guess it is the truth."—Philadelphia
Call.
America's Vigorous Old Hen.
The death of the Emperor of Germany at
the age of 91, aud that of T. J. Potter,
Seneral M annuel of tbe Union Pacific Rail-
road, at the age of 48, which occurred Dear
tbe same time, will doubtless furnlah a text
for some sermonizing by tho press, In which
au attempt will be made to show that while
Americans, at tbe outset, may possess their
full share of physical vigor, they still lack the
"staying powers" of other races. Buch a de-
duction would obviously be unjust for several
reasons. The duties of uo apbere of human
endeavor, it observed rigidly, conscientiously
and persistently, as they were by Mr. Potter,
are more destructive to mental and physical
streugth than are those of the vocation In
which that gentleman labored. It is safe to
aay that he did more exacting, severe aud ex-
haustive mental work every Uuv of his active
life than William did, ordinarily, 1n a month.
Potter's age, too, at his death was somewhat
below tbe average attainment Iu his profes-
sion, while the Kaiser's was fur above thut
which Is reached by the average monarch or
statesuiau in Europe.
If a comparison be made between tbe
statesmen, literary men and scientists of the
Old aud New World it will be found that the
consplclous men of this country are by no
meaus below the general level in the scale of
longevity. At death Wellington wus 83, Pal-
morstou 81 aud Brougham UJ. All of these,
who were the oldest of Hrltlan's public men,
led exceedingly active lives during most of
their manhood years. They may fairly be
matched among deceased Amcrlcaus, how-
ever, both In activity aud in duration of life
by John Qulucy Adams, Lewis Cass aud
Keverd.v Jobusou. Adams literally "died In
harness" at 81, while Cans at the time of his
death was 84. Johnson's death, which oc-
curred when be was 80, was the result of lu-
xuries received by a severe fall rather than of
old age. Among other active Amerlan states-
men who passed the Psalmist's term of years
were Henry Clav, 75; James Buchanan and
John J. Crittenden, each 77; Francis P. Blair,
86, and Joslah Quincr, 92. All of these men,
except Clay, who died thirty-six years ago,
departed within a comparatively recent
period
Of the living European statesmen,Gladstone
is 79, Grevy 75, and Bismarck 73. Among
the members of the United States Senate are
Justiu S. iMorrlii aud H. B. Payne, each aged
78, whilo living in retirement and In vlgorons
mental aud phvslcal health Hannibal Ham-
lin, Hamilton Fish, Jefferson Davis and Simon
Cameron, each ol whom was active for many
years during the most exciting period of our
political life. Hatuliu is 79, Kisli and Davis
arc each 80, and Cameron Is 89. Glancing
over the other professions, it will bo noted
that, within rccent years, Henrv C. Carey
died at the ago of 86, 8. 1. B. Morse at 81,
William Cullfn Br.vaut at 84. Caleb Cashing
and Ralph Waldo Emerson each at 79, Asa
Gray at 77, Ilenrv Ward Becclier at 74, aud
Richard llcnry Dana at 9-i. David Dudley
Field, aged 83, John Ericsson, aged 85, and
George Bancroft, aged 88, are still alive, aud
give promise to eudure at least a decade
more.
Activity In the United States, whether in
politics or In auy of the other largo und con-
spicuous fields of endeuvor, demands a more
exhaustive expenditure of vital force than
these occupations do in other countries. The
cause of this Is undoubtedly inherited, to
some extent, In our social system. It is prob-
ably iiiieimilicd, too. by tbe headlong haste of
the people, as a class, to acquire wealth, or
political or social distinction. But even with
all these adverse ;influences it can readily be
shown that the American type ot manhood is
as vigorous and lasting as any which civil!/,a-
tiou bus evolved in any country on the globe.
—<S'f. Louis (Jlobe-JDemocrat.
A HORRIBLE DESERT SCENE.
Floating Arms and Lsgs nml liinclc-
Itobed Priests In tlio lilue Kther.
"Whoop up the romping spooks out east of
Bsrstow," enfd John Carson, au Atlantic and
Piicille railroad man, to a Nan Francisco J'.x-
(imtiier reporter yesterday. "I saw you had
(ometblng In The Examiner several weeks ago
Hbout the mirage on the Mojave desert, and
myriads of people that were seen In boats
about there. Well, they're thickening up.
In winter time, you kuow, they always get
thicker. For eight months now 1 huvo been
running tbe huudrcd mile division out east of
Burstow. The spooks used to loom up about
every other day. Now we sco them nearly ail
the time. They're the ghoulest, lot of things,
loo, 1 ever did sec. Tliey appear in all sorts
of shape?. At first they were a tolerably re-
spectable lot of ghosts, clud In white, with
faces and hands that looked very much like
apparitions as shown in pictures, only they
appeared and disappeared, (loiitlnir horizontal-
ly and iu every other position in the air, and
always stand about a quarter of a mile away
from us. Now you cau get within an eighth
ot a mile, and sonic of them are trigged out
like iudians, with leathers In their hair, and
sometimes with a streak of red arouud their
bodies.
The scientists say that the increase in the
phenomena fs owing to the peculiar atmos-
pheric changes at this time of the year.
Whether it is or not, 1 know they would have
a very hard time convincing the people of it
who travel over our line. A woman last week,
who was from Illinois, fainted dead away
when she got a glimpse of them sailing on ail
Imaginary lake. Lakes and green trees ap-
pear without number now on the Colorado
desert. Fringing these lakes with a circle of
green and with tiie strange characters lloatlng
about on them, a queer sight is presented.
You can never get nearer thin uu eighth of a
mile to these lakes.
' There rose up In front of the engine last
Saturday, however," said Mr. Carson, ' the
strangest conglomeration of figures that f pre-
sume mortal eyes ever beheld. Ever see pict-
ures of Dante's Inferno as Illustrated by
Dorel It was something like that, the
weirdest, awlulest sight, un admixture of
floating anus, legs and pieces of shrouds.
Three or four white-faced women, us many
gray-bearded men, and a solemn-vlsoged
priest In black robes floated in the blue either
with tbe muss. Sol Anderson, our engineer,
was the most scared man you ever saw. He
put on every pound of steam lie had, and we
went tearing over the desert like mad. Wells,
Fargo's agent, I thought, would have died.
Lucky for us that the awful mirage hovered
bv the engine and tender, else we should have
had a howling lunatic asylum aboard the
train. Do you suppose 1 could bave convinced
them thut these thinirs were not genuine? Not
much. Fuct is, I bud ail 1 could do to hold
my own self level. Every time I looked ut
tlicm I said: 'My God 1 those tt.tnirs ure real!
There can't be anything so.clearly represent-
ed as that und not be genuine 1'' Well, they
hovered thcro for lull twenty minutes, and
i then disappeared like a flash. Beyond were
nothing but our green-fringed lakes.
"The desert Just now Is unusually hard and
parched. The sun shines clear and warm. If
the apparitions thicken I don't know -Ahut we
will do with our people, Some of them are
likely to go raving mud."
Mushroom Defectives.
■'Did you ever notice, when any big
mdrder or mystery springs up, what a
lot of umatuer detectives pop up?" .ask-
ed ex-Chief of Detectives Kelly the oth-
er day. "They come fr jm everywhere
— 'mushroom detectives'—I call them,
becauso they spring up in a n'glit
Why, when Wake Oainea' body was
found In Edington tbe place was over-
in with them, taking plaster casts of
h*s footprints and drawing maps of tho
pond and bridge. One fellow dug up
a whole plot of sod, which had a foot-
print on it and carried it off in a bag.
No doubt but ho intended tojinvito
everybody to call and see if it fitted
their foot. —'Philadelphia Press.
Rulers of Nations.
The following table, compiled by The Globe-
JJrmocrat, shows the ages of the monarchs
and Presidents of the principal countries of
tho world, and the year of their accession to
power, including#!! the list Emperor William,
of Germany. The names are arranired ac-
cording to age:
Acces-
sion
1801
1849
1 SAI
J8U7
1831
1848
1848
1872
1874
1885
1F87
1881
1878
1867
1875
.09
S3
60
..59
Age.
William I„ of Germany 91
William 111.j of the Netherlands,71
Christian IX , of Denmark 70
Victoria, of England
Peter II., of Brazil
Nasser eil Deen, of Persia...
Francis Joseph, of Austria..
Oscar II., of Sweden 59
David Kalaknua. of Hawaii.,... .53
drover Cleveland, President U. 8.51
Marie F. Carnot, Pres. France...49
Alexander III., of Russia 44
Humbert, of Italy 44
Mutsuhito, of Japan. 37
Kuang fill, of China 17
Alpbonsn XIII., of Spain (rules by
Itcgcutl 2
The Strike Epidemic.
The strike fever, which Is subsiding among
tbe railway engineers, Is spreading; Into the
building trades. The painters are down with
It, and unmistakable symptoms appear among
the carpeuters. Tbe painters waut 37J4 cents
au hour, and they want to work only eight
hours a day, and they claim tbat until tbe em-
ployers agree that they maj work eight hours a
day for87)tf cents an hour they will lork no
hours and earn nothing. It Is 13 per day of
eight hours or nothing and no hours, But,
according to oue of their uuiuber, there Is a
string to that. He says that if a man has a
house be wants painted the men will paint It
but thev will not work for the "bosses" uulest
tbelr terms are accepted. He further says
that the man who wants a house painted can
get better work for half tbe money by dealing
directly with' the men, because tbe bosses
realize a profit equal to the wages they pay,
iu addition to the profit they make on inferior
material This Is one of those stateineuts
which are classed as "important it true." It
is also surprising, If true, that mou pivflOO
for a job that tbev could have done, and bet-
ter done, for $50 if they were to ileal directly
with the men. People are not supposed to do
business tbat way very long if they know it.
The carpenters also waut the eight-hour
day, but they demand only 35 cents an hour.
They have not yet struck, but they have sent
In their demand to the Master Carpeuters'
association, and It Is understood that they
propose to strike unless they get what they
demand without strlklnir.
Here, as in tbe case of the Burlington engi-
neers, we have a case of striking for a dead
level. There are carpenters and curpenters,
from the mau who never served a day's ap-
prenticeship, whose "kit" consists of a saw,
a hammer, and a hatchet, and who cau't even
make a respectable ben-coop, to the carpenter
who Is a thorough workman, and who can lav
out and build stairs for a house iu the lutest
style of dude architecture. A large propor-
tion of the carpenters of to-day are uot masters
of the trade at all—they are the merest smat-
tcrcrs and uovices. It is not so very differeut
with painters. Where Is I lie sense of striking
to place all tlies-1, trood, bad, aud iudeflereut,
on the sumc level na to wages) Good me-
chanics who go Into this sort of thing do not
do themselves justice, in fact, tliey do them-
selves and their families Injustice. Under
freedom of coutract these things will be ad-
justed far more justly aud advantageously,
even to fairly good workmen, than tliey can
he liy the arbitrary methods of the strike so-
cieties.
It is not forgotten that the strike disease
broke out among trades in Chlcairo a year ago.
Its outbreak again now suggests the dlsgrce-
able question whether the malady has be-
come regularly Intermittent, and whether we
are to look for Its recurrence every spring.
Vast injury was Inflicted upon the Interests
of the city iust year; Is It to be so this year
and every year hereafter) This Is an Import-
ant question for the men who obey the orders
of the strike commanders, as well as for Ihe
community at lurire. If tliey are going to per-
mit themselves to be ordered into idleness for
weeks ami even months during the best part
of the year they will be much the worso off for
It In the long run, and It will be but a poor
consolation to lhem to.know that they have
made other people worse oft.
This continual conflict between employers
and employes is most deplorable. It Inflicts
losses and keeps up a needless irritation which
is bad In the extreme for all concerned. Per-
haps the worst fcuture of It Is so futal to self-
reliance, enterprise, ami Individuality and in-
dependence of character. The irrievunces of
workinginen are certainly uot such as to de-
mand the desperate and dreadful remedies
resorted lo. Looking at the ordinary rewards
of Independent effort, it is Impossible to con-
clude that strikes generally cau be justified on
tho ground that wages are too low or the
hours of labor too long. Wbat the strikers
get beyond a fair share comes out of those
who must needs work not eight but twelve
and even sixteen hours a day.—Chicago
Timet.
A BLOW AT PROHIBITION.
Common Carriers Can Not Ho Pre-
vented from Carrying Mqlor Into
Town, No Matter Wlint the Stato
Laws May He.
Tho decision of the United States supremo
court on Monday in the case of Bowman
against the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
way company, Involving the constitutionality
of the prohibitory liquor law of Iowa estab-
lishes a point of moro importance than ap-
pears on the surface of tho opinion. Tho
case strikes at tho root of tho Iowa pro-
hibitory law, und the decision will be received
In Iowa and other states with
prohibition laws with unusual Interest.
Tbe Iowa law prohibits the Intro-
duction of Honor into the state us well as Its
salo therein. ltallroads as common carrlors
are particularly enjoined from bringing liquor
from other states. Bowman Is a brewer ut Mar-
shulltown, Iowa, anil In order to test the ques-
tion whether the Iowa law preventing the rail-
roads from delivering liquor would be upheld
In the court, ho ordered u quantity of liquor
hi Chicago, which was delivered to the Chica-
go and Northwestern railway. That company
declined to receive and transport It.
Bowinun thereupon began suit for $5,00(1
a'jaiiiHt the company. The case came to trial
before Judge Blodgett In tho United States
district court about fourteen months aire. Tho
railway pleaded the prohibitory law of Iowa
as an excuse for Its refusul, but Blum &
Blum who were Bowman's attorneys, then
und subsequently In the supreme court, at-
tacked the law as unconstitutional anil void
upon the ground that It was an uttcinpt to
regulate Interstate commerce. .ludge
Blodgett decided In favor of the company,
holding that the law was valid, hilt Bow-
man's attorneys tonic the case to the United
Stales supreme court, with Ihe result that the
lowu law Is declared uiiconstltlonal anil void.
The railway company Is held to bo llabel to
Brewer Bowman for Its refusal to deliver his
whisky, but a more Important result Is the
declaration In the decision that railroads can
carry liquor Into Iowa.
"The effect," suld Blum A Blum, attorneys
for Bowman, Is to render nugatory the pro-
hibitory law. The attorney general stated
before Judge Blodgett thut. It would be Im-
possible to maintain prohibition in Iowa if
the authorities were denied the power to pre-
vent tho shipment, of liquors Into the state."
—C'hlcai/o 'limes. <
Tlio Breakwater at Lewes.
In view of tho disastrous shipping news from
Lewes a few words about the breakwater arc
In order. There are three great breakwutors
In the world—at Cherbourg, In France, at
1'lvmoutb, In Kngland, and at Lewes, Del.
At Dover, Kngland, and Portlnnd, Kngland,
are bIbo sea walls of great strength. As to
the Delaware breakwater the first step taken
by congress In the matter was In 1828, when a
commission was appointed to fix Upon a har-
bor. Ill tbelr report made Feb. 2, 1829, they
selected (.'ape llenlopen as the slto of tbe
breakwater. In accordance with their report
two walls were built—the breakwater proper
and tbe Icebreaker. The former Is 2,558 feet
Ion if at tho low-water line, and Is on a course
north-northwest drawn troin u pitch of the
cape. The Icebreaker Is 1.38ft feet long at the
low-wutter line on u course west by south half
south. Trap roek and gr 'eii stone were used.
The work wus begun In i s-i'.land Ihe last stone
was laid in 1809. More than 20,000 vessels un
nually use the artificial harbor thus formed,
—Philadelphia Time*.
1886
Lincoln on Champagne.
When Mr. Lincoln made his visit to Gen.
Grant's camp at City Point, Va., In 1VSI, he
was mot by the general an l Ills Btaff, und up-
on being asked how he was, said: "Iain not
feeling very well. I got pretty badly shaken
up on the bay coming down, mid am not al-
together over It. yet." ' Let rue send for a
bottle of champagne for you Mr. President,"
said one of the Maff officers, "that Is the best
remedy I know of for seasickness." "No, no,
my yoqfig friend," said Mr. Lincoln; "I've
teen many a man In mv time senrlck ashore
from drinking that very article."- Jtichmond
Itchy lout Herald.
DOMESTIC HINTS.
VINEGAR CANDY.
Throe cups of sugar, hail * onp of
water, two-thirds cup of vinegar. Boil,
without stirring, till brittle.
BROILED SARDINES.
Take large sardines, wipe, roil in
flour and broil. Serve on toast, with
slices of lemon foe garnish and relish.
WHITE C*KK.
Two cups of sugar, two cups of flour,
one cup of corn starch, one cup of but-
ter, whites of live eggs, one teaspoon-
ful cream tartar, one-fourth of a tea-
jpoonful of soda.
COOKIES.
Four eggs, 1} cups sugar, one table-
spoonful good vinegar, one tablespoon
soda. Flour to taste. Beat butter and
sugar together, add the beaten eggs,
vinegar and the dissolved soda.
BAKED MACARONI.
Cook the maoaroni tender in broth,
atid take tw.ee its weight in minoed
chicken or moat, adding two woll-
beaton eggs, three ouncos of butter,
cayonno pepper and salt to taste. Mix
tho ingredieuts well, put them in a deep
d sh aud bake until it light brown crust
is formed upon tho top.
CHARLOTTE RUS8E.
Line tbe ihsido of a plain round mold
with savoy biscuits,cutting and placing
them nt tlio bottom to form a rosette,
standing them upright and close to-
gether; fill with any flavored cream,
but omitting tho fruits, placo the mold
In ico; let it remain till ready to servo,
turn over on a dish, and remove the
mold.
BOAST PIGEONS
Piok, draw and truss them, keeping
on the feet; obop the liver with some
parsley, add crumbs of bread, pepper,
salt and a little butter; put this dress-
ing insido; slit one of tho legs and slip
the other through it; skewer and roast
for half an hour; baste them well with
buttor. Serve with bread sauce.
Fisn CHOWDER.
Take any large iish, and out It in
thin slices, lay soma slices of fat bacon
at the bottom of tho pot. and then a
layer of fish, onions, cracker dust, rod
and black pepper, salt and butter;
thon more layers until you have usod
all tho Iish. Cover tho whole with
vvatOi- and cook until done.
LYONNAISE POTATOES.
Slice a quart of cold boiled ones. Fry
to a nice yellow a tablespoonful of
onion chopped fine In three table-
spoonfuls of butter; add to this the
potatoes and a tablespoonful of minced
parsley, seasoning with salt and pep-
per to taste. iStir carefully so as
not to break tho potatoes, until they
are well browned, when they uro done.
Bervo hot.
LIGHT PASTE FOR CHEESE CAKE8.
Beat the white of one egg to a stiff
froth; mix with it as much water as
will make three-fourths of a uound
{leaving out a little for dredging) of
flour into a stiff paste. Roll it very
thin; lay tho third part of half a pound
Df butter upon It in small bits. Dredge
it with some of the flour left over and
roll up tight; roll it out aguin; put on
tiio samo amount of buttor, and so ou
till all bo worked up.
CIIAUTUEUSE CAKIC OK VARIEGATED
FRUITS.
Lino a cbarlotto mold very tastefully
with various kinds of fruits (such as
itoned chorf-ios, strawberries, piecos of
peaches, apricots, olc.,) by dipning
them into jelly, forming sonio designs
it the bottoms of tho mould, and build-
ing thorn iu rovorso rows up tho sidos.
having tho mold previous placed in ico;
tvlion well sot, terminate as in the
strawberry charlotte.
BLANC MANGE.
To ono quart of milk add one ounce
f isinglass, a quarter of a pound of
mgar, a quarter of an ounce of cinna-
mon, a little grated nutmeg, half of the
poel of a lemon aud a bay leaf. Simmer
ver a slow fire, stirring till tho isin-
glass is dissolvod, pass it through a
napkin into a basin and pour Into a
mold. This can bo made any color or
tlavor that will not curdle the milk; llio
milk of bitter almonds may bo addod
!o flavor it
In Silken Hose.
In silken hoso and powdered hair,
And gay pumps twinkling at the too,
lie hud no vulgar flesh to spare
In silken hose I
His cheeks wero like Moore's laggard rose;
And though be breathed i'arlslun air,
Insidious wrinkles wero his woes.
Time planned for htm no sudden snare.
But probing age—Ills worst of foes—
Laid all his Imperfections bare
In silken hose I
—Century.
CURRENT EVENTS.
Beta croquettes are tbe latest Boston**
Inspiration.
M. Diets, of Brussells, has Invented a
harp with a keyboard like a piano's.
An advertisement for a fool to a New
York paper brought nearly 10,000 answers.
Oberlln College has receutly come Into
possession of about 9113,000 from dona-
tions.
Al'aterson (N. J.) woman who Is missing
sad Is supposed to have eloped, took along
ber three children.
Aphorism by Mrs. Gruady: Better a three-
year-old suit paid for than a constant change
at clothes at the tailor's expense.
James Red path has at last turued bis foot*
steps from death's door and is on his feet
sgaln, but very weak aud tottering.
At Stone Mouutalu Us., a maiden lady of
Bfty years attempted to poison herself oa
hearing that the man she loved was insrrled
to another.
Beuator Palmer has Introduced a bill to
pension Mr. Cozaens, of St. Louis, mother of
Phoebe Cozaeus, the lawyer. «Mrs. Coaaena
waa an army nurse durlug the war and paid
ill her own expeuses.
When the daughter of Sir Donald Smith,
Df the Canadian Pacific It nil road Company,
was married In Montreal tho other day, her
father testified his approval by presenting ber
with a check for $2,000,000.
The contract for the Peter Cooper monu-
ment In New York has been awarded to St
(laudens, who began bis art work In Coopar
Institute. The monument will cost about
188,000, and tbe money Is in tho bank.
Now Orleana contains the largest electrle
light plant In the world. Tbo power Is furn-
ished by two engines with a capacity of 1,!W0
horse power. There are 1,900 arc lamps la
ase In that city operated by the planL
A mau who was at a New Jersey watering
place last season sweara that while be waa
tsleep within afoot of the window, a musqulto
Inserted its bill through a wire screen and
punctured him to the depth of one Inch.
A stranger sat down beside a St Louis
woman In a street car, aud whispered to ber
to watch the young man on her right, who
was a pickpocket While she watched as
llrected the stranger on her left stole ber
purse.
In a cemetery In Prance one reads: "Here
lies Gabrlelle, my adored wife. She waa an
ingei. Never shall I be consoled for her
loss." On tbe same stone: "Here ilea Hen-
rietta, my second wife. She was . alao an
ingel.
Henry Surlngton was killed by raiders la
Brownsville, Ala.. In tbe aprlng of 18ft.
His body waa properly burled, but three
limes since It bas been washed from Its grave
by spring freshets, much to the alarm of the
luperstltloua of the place.
Had It not been for a selsmoscope, tbe
tartbquake reported In Nashua, N. H., the
other night would have slipped oil unob-
lervcd. This Instrument Is self-registering;
snd Is so delicate that It records what would
not be perceptible to tho senses.
Ujurlng the first twenty years of the United
States Supreme Court It had very little
business. Pivm 1830 to 1851 tbe cases Sub-
mitted to It averaged only about thirty-five a
year. After 1800 the'u'pckets became crowded,
and now a new caso Is' ordinarily not heard
for live years. V
A cow-camp cook near CBejuCane was told
that bo had drawn 113,000 In a lottery, fl
colohratlug his good fortune he spent all the
money he had saved for a year. Aftar tbe
carousal was ovor he discovered that It was
all a Joke, and proccudcd to niako a desporato
attempt to commit suicide.
There Is a big fellow called "Long Heel"
Jones down In Georgia who weighs 340 pounds,
and Is one mass of bouo and muscle. Oue Of
his favorite feats Is to knock in the head ot a
wblsky barrel with his list, anil then lift np
tho barrel and put M to his lips. Ho can lift
an ordinary horse wltfl case.
By the caving of the river liauks at Gayoso,
Mo., tho ruins of what mny have beeu a
prehistoric city havo belli exposed to view.
There are two circles, sixty ami thirty feot la
diameter, tho center of each containing a
carved and dccorated altar, the whole being
In a good state of preservation.
Mr. Gladstone itiss always numbered among
bis stanchcst supporters the Non-conformlsta
ministers of England, and ho lias ever been
ready to acknowledge tho value of such sup-
port A meeting curly In Muy has been
arranged for blm to address such ministers as
sympathize with his policy.
Mr. Vandcrbllt wishes the machinery of hfa
yacht lubricated with castor oil, so be oald
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Umlcsirublfl Immigrants.
A writer in The Andover ll.vicw calls
,ill/on to the fact lliut there is murk-
I . deterioration in llio class of immi-
grants from Europe to this country.
Duco wo got tho best—educated men,
skilled laborers, with sullicont monoy to
start lifo with. Now wo get tho lumo,
tho halt, the blind the dcoropit, and im-
becile in a proportion larger than over
before. This writer says that '!of tbe
92.000 porsons in Ainurican insane asy-
lums in 1880 there was ouo in GG2 of tho
native-born population of the
country and one in 'J&4 of the foreign.
U1 the 67,0(57 paupors in our poor-houses
tlrero was in 986 of tho native-born and
nno in 291 of tbo foreign. Of tho 60,-
criminals in our prisons, jails, and
work-houses there was ono in 98.'J of
tlio native born and ono in 618 of tbo
foreign. Of the 89.001 persons con viet-
R'l of crime In New York stato in 1880
those of foreign birth wero proportion-
Alely to their number in tiiestute three
limes as many as those of native birth."
Why Jie's a Bachelor
"Well, for my purl," said Fendcrson,
"I don't think much of your smart
women. If other men want to marry
•.hem it's no affair of mine; but none of
tho mi for mo, thank you. I don't waut
it wife that knows moro than I do."
"And ho," remarked Fogg, "you re-
main single.1'—Motion Transcript.
Reporter joreathlcssly) — "Have a great
leoop here. Biggest kind of a scandal." "Is
it very disrcputablel" "Worst thing I ever
besrd of." '•We1 this Is Tbursdsy. Let's
lee—hold It over <: Sunday Issue."—AV
iratka UlaU Jv \ _aM
\
|ii,000 for a lot of It when be touchcil at 1'al
ermo hound for figypt The discipline on his
ship Is as rigid as au old man-of-war, and his
order that all woodwork shall be dally burn-
ished with chamois skin makes bis crew tired.
In order to guard against grave robbers •
man In Indiana burled Ills daughter In a
casket which contained two pounds of dyna-
mite. The other day his wlfo died and great
dllllculty was experienced in employing meu
to dig the new grave beside that of the
duughtcr for fear of an accidental explosion,
aud many pcoolc refrained from attending
tho services In the churchyard for the same
reason.
Watch dials are now made by photography
at a mere fraction of tbelr former cost. They
sll used to bo painted by hand. Now 100 are
made In tho time formerly required to produce
one, and each of the 100 Is better thun the one
would have been. The Waltham Watch Com-
pany paid $2,000 for tbo process. By It thej
can turn out, for ten cents each, dials tbat
in tho old way of making would cost 91
apiece.
A curious Oriental | manner of determining
land tenuro relates to small pieces of State
lands situated betwoeu the boundaries ot vil-
lages in Asia Minor. One of the villages,
standing upon the steps of a mosque, calls
out at the top of his voico the point beyond
which his voice cannot be heard being tbe
limits of the village property. At the neigh-
boring village tho same |>crforuiance is gone
through, und the laud between belongs to tho
Stato.
Gen. Sheridan, It Is said, used bat four
horses in ull of his campaigning. Tho ani-
mal Buchanan ftend Immortalized was a large
black gelding, which was presented to Slierl-
dau at Kicnzl, Miss., by tho ofilcers of tbo
Hl?coml Michigan Cavalry, of which ho was
then Colonel. Tills lio(se was ridden In tbe
raid nround Klchmond, and wus In the fight
at Yellow Tavern, where "Jeb" Stewart fell.
He was In tho battle of Five Forks, and
carried Khcrldan to Appomattox on
tho surrender. After tho surrender
he went to Texas with tho Gen<
oral, served through that campaign, saw
service In Kansas during tho Indian war ot
180S-U, and then was given a psdded stall la
tbe Gcnoral's stable at Chicago, where he
lived In luxury until be died seven yesrs ago.
After bis death bo was staffed and to-day
stands ss tbe most Interesting object le IM
military museum on Governor's Island,
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