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women are
ent offices in
0.
says he cau make
i America in one season
lurope in six.
Babcock, recently
aed, is supposed to have left an
astate valued at nearly $1,000,000.
praoace or cutting coins in
to facilitate the making of
, is again becoming common in
k Jones,of Nevada, generally
shockingly bad hat. Ho says
e is rich enough to afford the
•'-V
tions in Texas are carried
upon a huge scale. A tract of 150,-
acres was disposed of in a lump
other day. ' j
, .:
A Mrs. Ramsey, of Cannifton, said
been the largest woman in
died last Thursday. She
bed about 500 pounds.
In 1881 tho value of the exports and
ts of London was £198,000,000
in 1882, £201,000,000. Liverpool, in
£195,000,000; in 1882, £203,-
',000." ■
i cattle king says that within ten
r§ Omaha will be the cattle cente*
country. An abbatoir is now
It there that will cover 400
i and will cost $750,000.
SG Bull was recently enter-
by the officers at Fort Snelling.
ee thing* which he most ad
were canned peaches, silver
i and the wife of Colonel Andrews,
okgta man eighty years of age
: married a girl of twelve. He
;hat the disparity in their ages is
JO importance, and, besides, he
I for twenty years yet. The local
er did not tell what the girl said
of the supreme
his family is now on his
i west as far as the Northern
tray will carry him, and
in search for coolness this
: he may extend his journey to
ra, New South Wales, the
y of a new diamond field has
ed, which promises to rival
itly diamond deposits
ea. A considerable number
i diamonds have been discovered
the last few months.
; , Goi-bwik Smith once stated that
• ■ two-thirds of the people at Quebec
Were annexationists, and that there
wove already 500,000 French Canadians
on American soil. That was more
than a dozen years ago, and the desire
and design have not abated.
Tub other day in London two men
who sold a painted sparrow for a can
- ar.y were sentenced to three months
nprisonihent at hard labor, and just
iter ward two women who had beaten
and half-starved three little children
were sentenced to one week's imprifl
ft:
of the
Miss Neal, of Bi
as pastor of n
whfre Grover
Governor Cleveland's educational
facilities and opportvm ities were rather
limited, consisting of a chance to attend
the common schools and an academy
at Clinton, Oneidi co nty, New York,
for a brief period. After leaving the
academy he became a clerk for a year
at one of tho eleemosynary institutions
of New York City; he then returned
of New York City; he then returned
home determined to go west to seek his
fortune, ai:d in May, 1855, with
companion, started for Cleveland, O.
Mr. Cleveland said he was attracted to
that city because.it had his name. On
his way there, he stopped at Buftalo to
visit an uncle, Mr. Lewis F. Allen, who
usad his best endeavors to dissuade his
nephew from going farther. To make
his arguments and entreaties effectual,
he offered G over a clerkship. As
-work was what young Cleveland de
sired, he of course wanted to stay, but
declined to give positive answer until
he consulted his young friend whom
he had promisel to accompany to Ohio.
The young friend promptly acceded to
Mr. Cleveland's staying, saying he ought
not to decline the proffered employ-
ment, Having determined upon the
aw as a profession, it was not long
before he made arrangements to become
a law student in the office of Rogers,
Bowen & Rogers. In 1859, he was ad
mitted to the bar, passing most credit-
ably a rigid examination. He continued
with his preceptors four years, which
gave him really eight years of thorough
study and legal experience. He was
then appointed assistant district attor-
ney for the county of Erie, by C. C
Torrance, which position he filled for a
period of three years. In 1865 he wa£
nominated by the democratic county
convention for district attorney, to sue
ceed Mr. Torrance, but was defeated
by Hon. Lyman K. Bass.
Mr. Cleveland foimed a law copart
nership with the late I. Y. Vanderpool,
January 1, I860, which was continued
until 1869. He then became a member
of the firm of Laning, Cleveland &
Fo'som. Tn November, 1870, Mr.
Cleveland was chosen sherifl of Erie
county; and at the close of that service
became a member of the law firm of
Bass, Cleveland & Bissell. This was
the strongest and brainiest law firm in
Western New York, and at once com-
manded a very lucrative practice. In
1881 Mr. Cleveland was chosen mayor
of Buffalo, but before the expiration of
his term was elected governor of the
Empire State. Mr. Cleveland is one
of a family of nine children —four sons
and ,ilve daughters. His widowed
mother "died at Holland I'atent, New
York, in the summer of 1882. All the
children, except two sons buried at
sea, are living.
Governor Cleveland has a vigorous,
robust constitution. He possesses a
large frame, a ad inclines to corpulency;
has a nervous, sanguine temperament,
light complexion and thin brown hair.
He is slightly bald, but i3 what the
ladies call "a real good looking man,"
though none of them have as yet cap-
tured him for a husband. As governor
he has been Well poised and opposed
to all venal, hasty and extravagant
legislation, and has won the good opin
ion of the great mass of good citizens,
irrespective of party.
upon
' not
. in debate spoke of
. tot of work, and that
hum of industry is not heard
busy season of the year,
d up with the assertion that "our
is are a solitude, our lakes but
wastes of water." A number
of oongreesmen—several of them sen-
ators/and more than half of them
democrats—made up a party to, return
to their homes by the way of the New
York canal. The west was then send-
ing its produce to the east via lake and
canal, and the congressional party
found that the canal trade, if judged
by the number of boats met, wis im-
mense, and it was a standing joke with
the democratic members when a fleet
of boats hove in sight to call Mr, Ew
ing from the cabin of the packet-boat
to look at his "solitude,"
At the lower end of the caaal there
had been a break, and a large number
of boats were usually in sight. Of
course Ihere was fun to see them and
to point them out to tho Ohio member,
but the fun was not on his side nor to
his liking. At Rochester, just as the
packet boat landed, a freight-boat was
discharging cargo, and Mr. Ewing and
the other congressman were lookerson.
By eome accident a hogshead filled
with molasseB had its head burst in,
and the contents poured into the canal.
An Irish laborer standing near to Mr.
Ewing, without knowing who he was,
excclaimed: "Jabers, mon, that must
be solitude swatened." The other con-
gressmen roared with laughter, and
Mr. Ewing was forced to join them.
The democratic members told the joke
and it got intc the newspapers, and it
aided in perpetuating the sobriquet of
"Solitude" on Senator Thomas Ewing.
I tell the tale as it was told and print-
ed at the time.—Co?\ Cincinnati En-
quirer.
"Plug Whisky."
A Pittsburgh man has discovered a
way of making solidified whisky, form-
ing it into pocket plugs just like tobac-
co. Besides that, he says he can also
distill it in liquid form so that it will
be the exact equivalent of two and
three years-old whisky when it comes
out of the still
Maud C. Major, a young
woman not yet out of her "teens," ]
J started a paper out in Norfolk, Dako-
ta. It does not say a word about
fashions, but is full of the doings of
'. tho noble cowboy, and gives particu-
lars about the last shooting match with
'all its gory results.
-• n
le Dest sur-
ppointed to
eqnest, tho
>f dogs with
logs are to bo
'tective virus
pt uninoculat-
•e then to be
nd the results
ction societies
inch people are
e like this.
numerous indus
ice Bismarck ha.-
-ken tho artifici;
drichsruhe undt i
ction. The cnerg.
id into his adminis
elded most encour-
w and savory spe
een introduced ink
Sunshine and ileep.
Sleepless people — and there are
many in America—should court the
sun. The very worst sporific is lauda-
num, and the very best is sunshine.
Therefore it is very plain that poor
sleepers should pass as many hours as
possible in the sunshine, and as few as
possible in the shade. Many women
are martyrs, and yet they do not know
it. They wear veils, carry parasols
and do all they possibly can to keep off
the potent influence which is intended
to give them strength and beauty and
cheerfulness. The women of America
are pale and delicate; thev may be
blooming and strong, and the sunlight
will be a potent influence in this trans-
formation.
Speaking Afar Off.
The successful accomplishment of
aerial navigation would be no greater
marvel than is the telegraph or tele
phone. Even believers in magic in the
ancient world would have been incred-
ulous if told that men could communi-
cate with each other in a few seconds
half around the world; and what would
seem still more incredible, when two
persons could talk to each other 1,200
miles apart. Yet this feat has recently
been accomplished by what is known
as the Hopkins transmitter. An oper-
ator in Cincinnati talked to another In
Baltimore through a wire which was
1,200 miles long! There was no appa
rent loss .by induction, although 14 tel-
egraph wires were alongside in full
operation. In some of the improved
telephone instruments it is not neces-
sary to have the ear at the aperture,
' "" - - "stant speaker can
as the voice u
represent ha
the United States,
the Committees on Chum*,
Buildings, Judiciary, Public
and Naval Affairs. He was
opposed te the plan of reco
and also to the right Of franchise
negroes, on the ground that the fonn
dations of government ought not to be
disturbed during the war or immediate
ly after its close. He was a supporter
of measures necessary to prosecution
of the war. Just before the Democrat-
ic National Convention of 1868 Mr.
Hendricks' name was prominently
mentioned for nomination for the Presi-
dency, and at the convention, whioh
was held in Tammany Hall, New York,
he received 132 votes to 135J cast for
General Hancock. The name of
Horatio Seymour was proposed, when
it was seen that the contest between
Hancock and Hendricks would be a
long one, and the latter was nominated.
In 1860 he was defeated by Henrv L.
Lane for Governor of Indiana, and in
1868 by Conrad Baker, but was suc-
cessful in the race for the Governor-
ship in 1872. At the national Demo-
cratic Convention, held in St. Louis
in 1876, his name was again mention-
ed for the Presidency, but as is known,
Mr. Tilden seoured the place, and Mr.
Hendricks was given second place on
the ticket. Since 1876 Mr. Hendricks
has attended to his law practice.
The Best Filter.
Popular Science Monthly.
The Japanese use a porous sand-
stone, hollowed in the shape of an
egg, through which the water perco-
lates into a reeeptacle underneath;
the Egpytians resort to a similar de-
vice. The Spaniards use a porous
earthen pot. But these, and other
similar contrivances, cannot be thor-
oughly cleansed; after the most thor-
ough rinsing, some impurities will
remain in the pores of the stone.
Spongy iron and carferal are open to
ion
It iapoMd
rofesses the policy ot reeerv-
tox 6m»H holder* by actual
sn *w»y tto people* h»rtt«go
and neorewMnt
Said the inventor to a reporter: "To the same objection; they will answer
make my solidified whisky I must
have the pure alcohol, and that is
where the difficulty comes in. I can
do nothing with the stuff that is in
vogue. When I laid my claims before
the government they sent inspectors
from Pittsburgh out to my place with
alcohol for me to demonstrate my
ideas. They said the alcohol was per-
fectly pure. I have a separator that I
have patented and with it I showed
them what impurities existed in the
stuff they brought. Subsequently I
went to the city myself and tried eveiy-
where to get pure alcohol. Finding
at last a reliable drug store they sold
me nine gallons of what they guaran-
teed pure, unadulterated alcohol. I
took it home, put it in my separator,
and what do you think I found it was
made of? Well, in one gallon of it I
found four ounces of vitrol, two ounces
of essence of cayenne pepper, and God
Only knows what the other fifth in it
was, I don't, and I was a distiller the
most of my. life. In all Pittsburgh I
can't get a drop of pure alcohol. I
offered a Westmoreland county distil-
lery $15 for a gallon ot the pure stuff,
but he refused to make it for me. So
you see my solidified whisky will be tho
pure article, and reform the terrible
adulterations of the present day."
It was furthere learned that a man
could carry a plug of this whisky in
his pocket, and when thirsty can pull
it out, dissolve off a chip of it in a
tumbler of watter, or else take a ehew
as he would of tobacco. It would be
especially valuable over the present
liquid, as it would save leakage. Dur-
ing battles tho whisky u sudby the armies
for medicine or stimulants has been
lost at the time when needed most,
by the barrels or vessels being riddled
with bullets. The boxes about solid
whisky might be shattered, but during
or af ter the battle the cakes of alcohol
could easily be gathered up uninjured.
The lierins or Disease.
The allusion to India suggests the
cholera. Dr. Koch, at the head of a
commission of young German doctors,
has been studying the dreaded pesti-
lence in tho swamp-lands of India
where it originates. He has really
found tho cholera germ, and the Ger-
man government has given him 100,000
marks as a reward for his dangerous
labors. It is believed that this discov-
ery will furnish a solution of the prob-
lem of how to prevent the further
ravages of Asiatic cholera. Physicians
may not be able to cure the disease,
but they will know how to kill its seeds,
and so prevent its propagation. Even
the cure of those sick of the cholera
will no longer be an entirely hopeless
task, as M. Pasteur,* he eminent French
savant, has shown that by inoculation
nearly all the diseases destructive of
animal life can be robbed of their ter-
rors. He has cured by this means car-
buncle in sheep, the cholera in hens,
phylloxera in grapes, and last, but by
no means least, hydrophobia in human
beings. He has found, by passing the
easily be heard in nny part of a large j virus of rabios, through rabbits
"ir .,1 V in Mli■<I-u,-w. n ma.r- i mnnlravw thai !
'Ariel," in Shakespeare's inar-1 monkeys, that he can
J.I mt %< i .= .. SSI ■ ttaitsit.
"p.rfiinj ;; g: :w; >•: >i,-. . ■ jii If
This gjlj,; -ffficas&i rt
well for a short time, but soon become
contaminated by pollution retained in
their pores. Sponge cloth and felt,
unless cleansed every day or two with
hot water, will do more harm than
good, and the average servant girl
will not clean them or any other filter
unless under the eye of the mistress
The various forms of filters that
are screwed to the faucet have only to
be hastily examined to be discarded,
as there is not sufficient filtering ma-
terial in them to be of much utility,
and they very soon become foul and
offensive. Buck says:
"There is no material known which
can be introduced into the small space
of tap a filter and accomplish any real
purification of the water which passes
through at.the ordinary rate of flow. "
The various complicated closed fil-
ters, filled with any material which
cannot be removed for cleansing
condemn themselves. No amount of
pumping water through them at dif
erent angles, which is at all likely to
be used, can cleanse them of the im-
purities that adhere to the mass, and
in the pores of the filtering material
used. Parkes, in his Manual of Prac-
tical Hygeine, says:
"Filters, where the material is ce-
mented up and oannot be removed,
ought to be abandoned altogether."
The various metal filters in which
the water comes in contact with me-
tallic surfaces, either iron, lead,tinned
iron, or zinc are objectionable from
their appreciable influence upon the
water retaiuod in them for any con-
siderable time. Pure block-tin is the
least objectionable of any of the met
ale.
The aim of most filters is to remove
impurities from the water speedily
as rapidly as it escapes from the fau
cet. Experiment shows that effective
filtration cannot be accomplished in
this way, as the water does not re
mein long enough in contact with the
filtering material used, to become
purified of much that might be re
moved by. slow filtration or peroola
tion through tho same appliance. Of
all the filtering materials mentioned
it seems to me that sand and ekarooa!
are tho two that accomplish the best
results; and of these, vegetable char
coal is the best.
A Highly Elevated Uuilroad.
Scientific American.
The Pike's Peak railway, which will
be in operation next year, will bo the
most notable piece of track in the
world. It will mount 2,000 feet high
er than the Lima & Oroya railway in
Peru. It ia now in operation to a point
over twelve thousand feet above the
sea level. Tho entire thirty mileB of
its length will be a succession of com-
plicated curves and grades, with
no piece of straight track longer than
I The
ItbM
ml
, , BMW ■ m
Ot ill our farm# between the two M»a.
MMFUrorcza.
a preference for tree mentation*: tt
and tried to legalize a control of atate
election* by federal troops, tt professes a desire to
elevate labor; It haa subjected American working-
men to Hie competition of tho convict and imported
contract labor. It professes gratitude to all who
were disabled or died In war leaving widows and
orphana; It left to a Democratic botise of represen-
tatives the first effort to equali*e both bounties and
pensions. It proffers a pledge to correct the irreg-
ularities of our tarifft it created and has contlnnod
them. Its own tariff commission confessed the
neeJ of more th«i 20 per cent, redaction; its con-
gress gave a reduction of less than 4 per cent It
professes the protccUon of American manufactures s
it has subjected them to an unceas ns 1 looi 1 of man-
ufactured goods and a hopeless competition with
manufacturing nations, not one of which taxes raw
materials It professes to protect all American in-
dusirles; it h is impoverished many to subeidfM a
few. It professes the protection of American la-
bor; it ha< depleted the returns of American narlciU-
lure, an industry followed by halt our peoplo. It
professes the equality of all men liefore the law, at •
teniptiDg to fix the stataB ot colored citizens; tho
acts of its congress were overset by the decision of
its courts, It1 'accepts anew the duty of leading iu
ti e work of proaress and reform." It's cauglu crim-
inals are permitted to escape through contrived de-
lays or actual connivance iu the prosecution. Hon.
ejcombed with corruption, outbreaking exposur.«
no longer shook its moral sense. Its honest mem-
bers, its Independent journals no longer maintain a
successful contest for authority in its counsels or a
veto upon bad nominations.
That change is necessary Is proved by an existing
fnrplus of more than $10,000,000 which hasyeirly
been colleoted from a suffering people. Unn-.essary
taxation is uvjunt taxation We denounce the He-
publican party for having failed to relievo tho peo-
ple from c lushing war taxes which have paralyzed
buiiuess, orippied'industry and deprived labor of
employment and of jast reward. The Democracy
pledges itself te purify the administrnUon from cor-
ruption, to restore economy, to revive re'pect for
law, and to reduce taxation to the lowest limit con-
sistent with due regard to the i reservation of the
faith of the nation to creditors and pensioners,
knowing full well, however, that legislation affect-
ing the occupations of the people should be cau-
tious and conservative in method, not in advance
of poblio opinion, but responsive to its demand.
TA1UFF REVISION.
The Democratic party is pledged to revise the
tariff in a spirit of fairness to all Interests. But in
making a reductton.in taxes it is not proposed to
injure any domestic industries, but rather to pro-
mote their healthy growth. From the foundation
of this government taxes collected at the custom
house have been tte chief source of federal revenue:
such they must continue to be: moreover many in-
dustries have come to rely upon legislaUon for suc-
cessful continuance, so that any change of law must
be at every step regardful of the labor and capiial
thus involved. The process of reform muBt be
subject In the cx"cation to this plain dictate of Jus-
tire. All taxation shall be limited to the require-
ments of economical government. Hie necessary
redaction iu taxes can and must be effected with-
out depriving American labor of the ability to
compete successfully with foreign labor and with-
out imposing lower rates of duty than will be ample
to cover any increased coBt of production which
may exist in consequence of the higher rate of
wages prevailing in this country. Sufficient reve-
nue to pay all the expenses of tho federal govern-
ment economically adfclr istered, including pen-
sions,' interest and capital of the public debt, can be
pot under our present system of taxation from ens
tom-honse taxes mi fewer imported articles, b aring
heaviest on articles of luxury and bearing lightest
on articles of necessity. Wo, therefore, denounce
the abnsrs of the existing tariff and subject to
the preceding limitations. We demand that tcde-ai
taxation shall be exclusively for public purposes,
and shall not exceed the needs of the government,
economically administered.
INTEBNAL BEVENCE. -
Tho system of direct taxation known as the
"internal revenue" iB a war tax. and so long as the
law continues the money, derived therefrom
Bbould be dovoted to the relief of the people from
the remaining burdens of the war and bo made a
fluid to defray the expense of the care and com-
fort of worthy soldiers disabled in line of duty in
the wars of the republic and for the payment of
such pensions ns congress may, from time to
time, grant to such soldiers, a like fund for tlio
Mid && onnnul
and adventurous
n
sailors himnj already been provided, and any
6urpluB should be paid into tho treasury.
We favor an amendment of the continental
nolicv based upon more intimate commercial and
political relations with the fifteen sister repub-
licB-of North, Central and South Amenoa-bnt
entnnalinff alliances with none. We believe in
honest, money, all the gold and silver coinage of
the constitution and a circulating medium con-
vertible into suoti monoy without loss.
EQUALITY TO ALL,
Assorting the equality of all men bofora th#
law, we hold that, it is the duty of thegovernmen'
in its dealma with th- people, to mete out oqua)
and exact justice to ail citizens of whatever race
color, or persuasion, religions or political. Wo
helievo in u free ballot and a fair count, and we
recall to tho memorj of ihe peoplo the noble
struggle of the democrats in the Forty-fifth and
Forty-sixth congresses, by which a reluctant re-
publican opposition ,«»s compelled to assent to
legislation making everywhere illegal the pres.
enco of troops at the polls as the conclusive proof
that a democratic administration will proservo
liberty and order.
The selection of federal oUlcers for tho terri-
tories should be restricted to citizens previously
resident therein.
We oppose sumptuary laws which vex the citi-
zens and interfere with individual liberty.
We favor honest civil sorvico reform and the
compensation of United States officers by fixed
salaries; the separation of church and state and
tho diffusion of fret, education by common
schools, so that every child in the land may be
taught the right sand duties of citizenship.
While wo furorall legislation whioh will lead to
the equal distribution of property to the preven-
tion of monopoly and to the strict enforcement
of individual rights against corporate abuse, we
hold that the welfare ot sooiety depends upon u
sciupulous regard for tho rights of property as
defined by law.
LABOR AND LAND.
We believe that, labor is boat rewarded where it
is froestanrl inost enlightened. It should there-
fore bo fostered and cherished. We favor tho
repeal of all laws restricting the free action of
labor and tlio enactment of laws by wh ich labor
organizations may be incorporated, and of all
such legislation as will tend to enlighten the peo-
plo as to the true relations ot oapital and labor;
believe that the publio lands ought as far as
possible, to be kept to homesteads for actual
settlers; that all unearned lands heretofore im-
SrovidentJy granted to railroad corporations by
10 action of tho republican party should be re-
stored t« the publio domain, and that no more
grants of laud shall be made to corporations or
bo allowed to fall into the ownership of alien ab-
sentees.
Wo are opposed to all propositions whioh. upon
any pretext, will con»ert tne general government
into a machine tor collecting taxes to be dis-
erfbuted among the states or tho citizens thereof
POBEION policy.
In ro-affirming the declaration of tho demo-
cratic platform of 1886, that "the liberal priuci.
pies embodied by Jefferson in tho Declaration of
Independence and sanctioned it the constitution,
winch makes oufs the land of liberty and tlio
asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have
ever been cardinal principles in tho democratic
faith," we nevertlioleae do not sanction the im-
portation of foreign labor or the admission of
servile races, unfitted by habits of training,
nHil «
, or for
of peace, that Bepublican
ive managed to surrender to Great
with our commerce, the oonti
of the world. Instead ot the
an party's British policy, we
of the American Democracy, aa
Instead ot ths Republican party's discredited
scheme and false pretence of friendship for
American labor, expressed t
we demand in behalf of the democracy freedom
for American labor by reducing taxes, to tho
end that these United States may compete with
unhindered powers for the primacy among na-
tions in all the arts of peace and fruits of lib.
erty.
TILDEN.
With profound regret we have been apprised by
the venerable statesman, through whose person
was struck that blow at the vital principle of re-
publicsfucqaieseence in the will of the majority)
that lie cannot permit us egain to place in his
hands the leadership of the Democratic hosts,
for the reason that the achievement of reform
in the administration of the federal govemmeht
is an undertaking now too heavy for Mb age
and failing strength. Kejoioing that hie life ha?
been prolonged until the goneral judgment of
our fellow countrymen is united in the wish that
wrong wore righted in his person, for tho De-
mocracy of the United States we offer to him in
ail withdrawal from public cares not only onr
respectful sympathy and esteem, but also that
Dest homage of fret men, the pledge of our devo-
tion to th" pr inciples and the cause now insepar-
able fn tlio history of this country from the la-
bora and the name of Samuel J. Tilden, With
Jiis statement of the'hopes, principles and pur-
poses of tho Democratio party, the great issue of
reform and chango in administration is submit-
ted to the people in calm confidence that the
popular voice will pronounce in favor of new
men, and new and more favorable conditions for
the growth of industry, the extension of trade,
the employment and due reward of labor and ot
capital, and the general welfare of tha whole
country.
case of a i
the fires may 1.
by the electric
trivanco<
from a battery
nite the fuel as soon i
tor falls to the da
The secretar
nev Marine
ter or
sfcUmite
mce tho
under
visible
hancos,,
protect
ka front
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—Hearne has an artesian well 600
eet deep.
; —Ed Lntz, aged 12 years, was
drowned in the Trinity river at Fort
Worth.
—This season's oat crop is suid to be
is largest ever grown in Corawanc'ie
county.
—Water can be obtained in abundance
in Tom Gret n county by digging 20 or
30 feet.
—Judge E F Hall, of Laredo has'a
lemon tree covered with large fruit. It
is ten feet high and only three years old.
—A sulphur (spring on the Carrington
farm fourteen miles from Austin,which
has been dry many years, has recently
broken out afresh.
—Wheat is tbre -bing from eighteen
to twenty-three bushels to the acre in
Coleman county, and oats from fifty to
seventy-five bushels.
—15,000 alligator hides, and 125
pounds of teeth have been marketed
at Sabine Pass during the last thirty
days
—Harry W Davis, of Jasper killed a
horned owl a few days ago that meas-
ured four feet, four iuches from tip to
tip of its wings.
—It has been estimated that the
prairie dog in Northern Texasconsunies
annually $100,000,000. Au exchange
suggests that the dog be killed for its
pelt, which maRes a good quality of
"kid" gloves.
—Palestine News: J W Normington,
Leo Winner and Herman Schmidt
were on Wash lake fishing. Norming-
ton got his hook fastened in some
brash, and stripped to go in and "get
it out. The first step he made he got
beyond his depth, and not being a swim-
mer, sank. The brave Winner boy,
though unable to swim, plunged in to
his assistance and went under. Schmidt,
a young Geiman twenty-four years
old, went in after them. Parties across
the lake came to their rescue as soon
as possible. AU three were floating
with their faces down, when Elmer
Grundy and Paul Shepherd went in
and rescued Normington; and before
they could return to the water, the
other two had sunk. A young man
named West swam across the lake and
recovered the bodies of Herman
Schmidt ami Leo Winner by diving.
Normington was revived, after a long
time, but both Winner and Scmidt were
dead.
It is a relief to turn from tho daz-
zling jdare of the political landscape
and cTOtemplate the springing up in
the west of a true gastronomic reform.
California has organized an anti-pie
society. From the Pacific coast is
sounded the battle note of an artny of
sanitarians. Many of thorn doubtless
recall a kind father or tender mother
long since banished from this world by
an over doee of mince pie. Some may
have wandered over the granite hill of
New fln^and and wept over its feeble
inhabitants, the victims of tho pie
habit, and others have probably shud-
dered as tliey saw on the restaurant
signs of «ur great cities -the advertise-
ments ot custard, apple, Washington,
Mariboro, and rhubarb pies. The word
me has long been lsnown to be au ab-
breviation forpizen, (archaic:poison),
and the reformers strike at the root of
the evil by petitioning the state legisla-
ture for a law that will prohibit the
manufacture and sale of pie as "an in-
digestible article of food, detrimental
; alike to health and morals."
the United Kingdom have invited con
tributions for establishing onKie south
coast of England a laboratory similar
to the Zoological Station of Naples and
the American Laboratories of Newport
and Chesapeake, the institution beinar
intended for the use of natoralii ra wish-
ing to investigate marine life, animal
and vegetable, and to study the prions
conditions affecting the weuaro of
British food-fishes and mtmusks It is
thought that $50,000 will be required
to establish the laboratory, and that an
income of $7,600 a year will be neces-
sary to maintain it.
Prof. Lockyer, F. R. A. S., who has
just returned to England from a visit to
the observatories of the continent, ex-
presses the belief that in the future all
astronomical observations will be made
photographically, tho success of Mr.
Common in photographing the nebula
of Orion with the aid of his great tele-
scope having proven that the most
minute details may be thus pictured.
He imagines the existence, m 100 or
1,000 years hence, of rooms filled with
pholographs accurately showing every
part of the heavens from the north (
pole to the south, and he urges that
the work of obtaining such a complete
photographic chart of the celewtial
bodies should commence at once.
From observations extending-over a
period of eighteen years, it appears
that an unusually heavy or late fall of
snow in the northwestern Himalayas
is followed by a season of drought in
northwestern and western India, and
vice versa, dry northwest—or land-
winds being produced during the sum-
mer months as an effcct of the presence
of unmelted snow in the mountains.
During the spring of 1888 it became evi-
dent that the outer ranges of tho Hima-
layas contained an unusual quantity
of" snow, and on June 2d a warning
forecast of a dry summer was pub-
lished. This forecast is shown to have
been justified by the event, the rainfall
in July and August over a large portion
of India having been much below
average.
At Querataro, Mexico, a hole in tho
wall has been found in one of the build-
ings occupied by the famous Chuoho E.-
Roto, and in it a considerable amount
of jewelry, money, and curious burg-
lars tools, different from those ordinar-
ily used by men in this craft.
The new Troy, N. Y., direct* -y con-
tains the names of one Kus ,' threo
Fibbs, one Shout, one Coward, one
Blowover, and four Surprise, the
most remarkable of which it thatol
two persons named Silence «■ ,e is a
woman.
A correspondent of The Fmil Re-
corder says he has boiled leaves and
stems of tomato plants un-M the juice
ts all extracted, and finds th , liquor
deadly to caterpillars, lice, an i many
other enemies of vegetation. It does
not injure the growth of plants, and
its odor remains for a lo»g time to dis-
gust insect marauders.
The electric light has proved a great
blessing to the people of Sacramento,
Cal. 1< or several nights after the elec-
tric lights were put up the sidewalks
under the street-lamps were nightly
covered with large black beetles." At-
tracted by the light they would as-
semble in large numbers, and, coming
in contact with the electricity, they
would drop dead on the walk. For
several days past but few of the beetles
have been seen, and it is thought that
their tribe in that vicinity will soon bo
exterminated.
The Chilian newspapers contain some
curious statistics concerning the occu-
pation of Lima by their country's
troops. They estimate at nine thou-
sand the number of children born there
of Peruvian mothers and Chilian Sol-
diers during thirty-three months, and,
as a great part of the troops ha va gone
homo alrejidy, and in many cast s taken,
these motaers and children along witlx
them by permission of the Chiiiau gov-
ernment, and the occupation is to cease
altogether in August, they coin pttte the
accession to the population of Chili
from this source at fourteen thousand,
An English writer says tha nitrate
of soda applied in liquid ford should
contain about one pound o'
twelve gallons of water. It » s a
rful stimulant to pot-pi-: itti-
a luxuriant appear.au< <> tn tlio
oliage, an-^ is particular!} buuenclHl
to dahlias and chrjsantheniitae. The
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