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tic' ttlrklp itessenger. Published Weekly -AT St Martinsville, L a. -BY EASTIN A IIENVEU U. In 1887 over 47,000,000 messages were handled by the Western Union Telegraph Co., and these were sent by ess than one million people. The whole of the telegraphing in the United State is done by less than twoper cent. of the population. Of the total number of . students In theGerman universities, 5791 are study lag theology, 5769 law, 6650 medicine and 8785 science or letters. One thous and six hundred and forty-four of the students are foreigners. The English element is conspicuous. America is eim well represented. The geographical center of the United States is Kasnm. The point midway between the eastern aend western ex tremities of the United States, including Aluka, is said to be in the PaciB ocean, a few miles west of Sna Francisco. The mater of population is a few miles I northeast of Cincinnati , Professor Kircho,thegreat Berlin st. t tistician, to decide a bet, recently stated s that the Chinme was the meet popular language in the world. It is spoken by t 400,000,000 persons: Hindostani by up. ward of 100,000,000; English by more than 100,000,000; Russian by more than 000,oo000; German by 8,000,000; Speanih by i~00, 000, and Frenkh by only 4o,oo,000ooo. Mr. George Pay, a wealthy anglish. mea, who has lived for several years at Gumnajusta, Mexico, is now erecting pi in the smbrb of that city a magnificent ti palace on which he expects to expend ' 66,000,000. The building will be not lb Iess than 100 feet high, and it will be fo serrounded by immense gardens that tb will recall the famed hanging gardens g of Babylon, and to which access will be gi gained by a gigantic elevator. at In The University of Pennsylvanla will n i break ground soon for a handsome Ul- e brary building which will cost $150,- fo 000. Of this amount $120,000 has al- fr ready been raised, and the trustees ex- trc pect soon to raise the remaining $30,- a 000 for the building and $150,000 addi- in tional for an endowment. A move- rk meat is alas underway to erect an En alumni hall,to contain a large auditorium he for the use of the students. an, Ina radius of 12 miles square about he Leavenworth, Kan., there are 09,160 th acres of coal land, which will produce the from the vein now worked 80.000 bush els per acre, and from the area of 18 yie mile 7,872.800,000 bushels ean be co' mined, and the lowest average profit so over all expenses can be placed at two and a half cents per bushel, which would produce $184, 320,000-a sum al most beyond comprehension and belief. Ch dui The most heavily-insured man in the mu Unitel States is Dr. David Hostetter, one of Pittsburg, the aggregate of whose we Policies reaches $800,000. He IntenedI ye ,to add $200,000 more to make the sum the $1,000,000, but his prolonged illness wh has prevented any further steps in that brb direction. The three other most heavi ly insured men in the United State are of smihton histon, of Phihlldephis, 0,- e 900; George K. Anderron, of Chicargo, e $0,o0o, u4 P. Lorllard, of New mii Jersey, P810,000. po Sieknaess insurnce is meeting with eigI some favor in Lelpiipc and other German wl cities. The law authorising the opera- the tins of such companies permits the in. Th surenrace to all classes of hend-workers ieng except clerks and salesmen, but these cn may be included by local mathority. Is e The action of this law is very noticeable sly in the taxn for maintaining the sick poor, maa it having decreased 21,673 marks in is I Hamburg in one year. The total num- The ber insured under the law is 4,294,178, and or 91.7 per 1000 of the population. me --- - - -- cos The Pennsylvania railroad employs a ten female 'chaperon," Mrs. H. F. Bender of Philadelphia. It is her duty to look after unprotected ladies who go apon tourist trips. She posts herself before- thl had about the route and makes herself mat us.eful as an importer of information. fue 8he goes through a train and introduces kin4 herslf to the ladies, and then tells them its 1 where she can be found if wanted. She per scertains the best places for them to will stop in at the towns visited, where the soil mest views are. etc. Dr. sa the nget areronibr. tr. Ps FAl ALD GABDE . anes. foer L.Smes. One of the best practical farmers in central New York, Jonathan Talcott of Rome, says that the best ration for young lambs has not yet been found out, but one, of which lambs are very fond is composed of equal parts of corn ion and oat meal, linseed-meal and wheat bran. This will probably be considered he bymany a rich feed; if so, theyas re ted duce the corn and linseed-meal, sad so at. make lem fattening food. He prefers the corn and oats ground for young iambs, to whole grain. After they be In come large, and for grows sheep, whole ly grain is preferred for his feeding, as i the sheep grind their grain very elect. e- ally themselves, thus saving the trouble he of getting it ground. mh s hest.- Cen.. It s nosmall job shelling O or 800 bushels of corn, whatever method is ad dopted. Perhaps for economy in labor Ssand ease the old way of trampling it ' out by hors is as good for large lots S as any. The hand shellers require two b Smen to work them to advantage, one to Sturn and mnother to place the ears. One hundred bushels a day is a pretty good a work, and no time must be lost at that these short days. Still a hand sheller saves a good deal over the slower pro- it case of shelling with the naked hand. SIn shelling corn for poultry it is better a y to shell and feed one ear at a tie, giv- f ing the fowls a chance to eat more slowly, but this can be managed by feeding slowly, even though the corn is all shelled before the feedig begins.- tai [American Cultivator. po Advse. to Puedery ease.s. t People who keep fowls are advised to provide them with plenty of lime for the supply of material for shells of the us eggs. This is indispensable, for the P * lime for the shells must come from the fm food. Where lime abounds in the soil this material may be provided in the gravel which is ground up in the birds@ l gizzards. But failing this supply, l abundant material should be provided in the form of bones, either fresh sad finely broken or burned. For some years past the writer has provided the e fowls with broken fresh bones procured b from the butcher, with some little des trouble in sffording this provision. For of I a year past the bones have been burned wh in the kitchen range and the ashes ear- b tied out where the hens can get at them. le Every morning a large number of the hens go directly to the heap of ashes and diligently pick out the fragments of ical bone ash, and during the whole day the mil heap is visited from time to time by o the hens. No soft eggs are lad, and at the present time one lock of 28 hes and yield an average of 12 eggs daily. Of or course the fowls are well fed, but get no twi sort of coddling. -[New York Times, v1i Oeowetn S ?oeat melrm. a Young ducks grow twice as fast a son chicks and it is not unusual for the witl ducklings of the large breeds to gain as neis much as three-quarters of a pound in yeai one week after they are six weeks old. set I We kept an account with a fock of ben, young Pekin ducks last year and had are them to weigh four and a half pounds ovea when ten weeks old, with several to twic bring down the scales at five pounds. this Each young duck consumed two pounds tar of mixd ground grain per week on a the average from date of hatching until they f were four weeks old, when the WeLy the iallowance of o61 wsu thtq Sa half ponds per ducklnA The coat per t pound of ducL whe tan ta weeks old was eight cents. Some of them were sold when weighing four ponds enh, and the the cost was thirty-two cents per duck. ther They were fat and in prime order, bring- died inag twenty cents per pound or eighty bur cents The high prices for young ducks bej is only fora few weeks in the year, u- but ally about the let of June, but the de- reIs mand each year for choice young ducks some is increasing and prices will be btter. wit The ducks mentioned above were fed De and forced for the purpose of experi- le ment, in order to determine the relative mak cost and ratio of growth to the age of 10, ten weeks.--[New York herald. cil - . valu neow Pla)er Aes. em eas. It has been satisfactorily ascertained thae on soils destituto of vegetable mis matter plaster has but little or no in flunence unless accompanied by some kind of decomposable material, so that proll its beneficial effects are best secured by tripl pursuing such a system of happing as I will accumulate vegetable in the anal soil Pure plaster is composed of thir- to A ty-three per cent. of lime, forty-six per A cent of sulphuric acid ad twenty-one Iaresi per cent. of water, and is more or less sun befdcll to crope as the soil is more or nes less defcient iaone or more of these elements. Its inuenace on plants is seen most plainly in the large increase in of foliage and stalk as distinguished of from the formation of seed, for and, therefore, its effects are more visi and ble on the different varieties of clover. A crop of two tons of clover contains Or about tweonty-five pounds of sulphate of lime, whilst a crop of twenty-five red bushels of wheat, straw and all, con r tains but seven pounds, and fifty bushels so of corn contain less than one pound. 0 , And while it is universally considered that plaster, on proper kinds of soil ad b n right condition, is beneficial to all kle kinds of the clover family, yet that it increases the yield of wheat, corn, rye, or oats is not so generally conceded. W Liebig elaimed--and we have great g faith in his opinion-that the chief ben eft of plater to land was that it ab. sorbed ammonia from the atmosphere and fied it in the soil. Others hold that, besides this quality, it dislate grates the compound silicates in the or soil, tting free the potash and mage dal-two essential constituents of plant Sgrowth-and by rendering them sol ble and active in the soil, thus furnishes plants with four of their very emential constituoets, viz: Sulphur, lime, pot ash and magnesia Tht there is a great difference i the quality of plaster is known to all observant farmers, and it has been found that the kind which, in grinding, emits the strong eat smell of sulphuric acid has the best effect n vegetation; and Swhilst it itcannot be denied that some 7 plaster, in som seasons at least, has little or no perceptible efect on vege tation, yet,when pure, it is almost as powerful in its effects as the best of manures, and when incorporated with or strewn over the manure pile at once stops its strong, pungent smell by ] uniting with the ammonia, and thus e preserving the strength of the manure. The great danger, however, to the farmer in purchasing plaster is the bes liability of having an impure article i- ha posed upon him, and therefore he cam- " not be too particular in satisfying him. self in this respect.-[Baltimore Sun. I min Rmss and iend AnG.eaU. A man inan adjacent city, says a o i central New Yorker in the Tribune, has 1 become rich by gathering and utilizing t dead animals. He has a standing offer of $1 to any person who informs him i where he can find a dead equine or as l bovine of full growth, within ten miles, "th He is known to everybody as "the bone CI oi man." Farmers will not take the the, trouble to reduce the bones with chem. witi icals, but they can grind them in a bone- °e! mill and feed them to fowls or sow them on the land. If neither of these, then ho they would be rewarded by cracking anad placing them under any vines, trees or shubbery they may plant. I have twice put cracked, bones under grape " vines when setting, and they made his rapid and remarkable growth, but the rate of increase could not be told for ma none were planted at the same time I we without this adjunct. But near a neighboring village about twenty-five years ago a row of sugar maples were " set by the roadside and bones placed tans beneath three of them. These three Iha are now, and have been for over twenty years, more than twice the size of those not treated in this manner. These facts should lead farmers-each of whom comums in girL th i families an av.rage of two pigs 41"J and a beef inimald per year-to see that th bones are not thrown away. O.c *e asuionally a nalmal dies; if il summer, t it is buried so deeply in some out-of-the way place that no good ever comes of C it; if in winter, it is dragged off into the woods ad suffered to go to decay there. A better way--unless the animal died of some contagious disease-is to S bury the carcass in the horse manure dear heap. The heat oftbhst soon rote all am but the bones, and when the manure is removed the bones should be stored in a some safe place for future use, together 8S with all others that can be picked up. Dead animals and bones are worth at least $20 a ton for plant food. This makes a carcass of 1000 pounds worth $10, and that is cheaper than commer- lo ciai fertilizr can be bought for of equal bett rarm und OGadre Noese. "I Water, green food and meat, fowls ! must have to prosper. I The Sussex sheep are said to be very Iwa prolific, frequently producing twin, ad s ho triplets. C Many America Merino sheep' are an nually shipped to Spain,. ad not a few - to Australia. bo A mortgage a the home makes the the fireside gloomy, for it .shuts outthe you? senahise of prosperity and fredsrted- j raa TilE JOKER'S BUDGET. ed WHAT THE HUMOROUS WRIT ad, ERS HAVE TO SAY. r* IWormn Chestnuts-Truth Is Mighty Las -A Happy Thought-A True Sol of d ier--Dreadthlly Sad. WOesN CucNTNVT . BlG "May I venture to tell the ol old d. ry, i Maude," he said trea d . l, d. old, yet ever new, story Id "'brdon me, Mr. Sampsom, If I ams e1 you in." interrpted the put, gmntl y, Nt "b .tome~ the story you wih to tll. w"AA sheetnt?" "Yes, Mr. eampso, ra slready en at gaged; bt I will a sister-" "It is't as wormy a that ens," mur mured Mr. 8ampson, feeling for his aL-tN. Y. & em. re Id . * Pap-Bes caeful, now. Inll ask mam ma, and if she sas didn't ask her Ill whip you as li=& stary. Did yemsk mammam? Three-year-old-Truly, papa, I asked her. (A ppase.) She said I coulda, have it.-l Pabelplis Call. P "A.D sZArT! DnAws ws ws £ sIMoas h Brown never ean never make up his mind-a chronic hesitator, in fact. "He's a good fellow," said a friend of his the other day, "but he always waits so ong that instead of taking the bll by thehorns he's lucky if he gets hold 1v of the last hair in his tail."--uge. A Tre SOLDaIER. di "Yes, gentlemen," said the Colonel, "the true soldier is never averse to dis cipline. No matter how objectionable a orders from a superior officer may be, they must be obeyed promptly and witout question. The true soldier "Pa," said the Colonel's little boy, opening the door. "ma says to come es home right away." "Gentlemen," aaid the Colonel, let "good-day."-S-n.Si VERT CONSWDEATE. "Well, John," said old man Jordan to hisoung frnd, "you bhave just mar- ter edA, I hear." "Yes, sir," he answered with a spring morning smile; "just a month ago, and dre I want on to goupto dinner with me ne "Have you got a cook i" "No." "Well, my boy, s'pose we go to a res- we taumrant this tune. You must remember I had a young wifeoueemyselL.="-Tas AN APT ANSwam. "Who was the wisest mn r" asked the Snday school tteacher. "Solod , pen pty replied a sittle girL "And who was the holiest f" "Moses." "Masies! What make you think sot" "Beause I often hear pat speaking e'sa b oevanry. t 'Holy Mime- Ymourrum. ow him this e(taking a brk ook out her,George, let me look atit "Mamma," said a Counsetiot avenue tgirl etu ed from a visit to bet"ter ad richer at is tha the milk yeu get in the eity; but I think yeoum "I don't think I am," replied the mother. "Well, I know you are, for they used to war the cows twice every day while I was at Aunt Ann's." The poor mother went ustairs ad "Sir," mid the landlord of a vacant house 8eoad street after a stranger the had looked it over, "ean gave meo not Certally, mr. ust wait bee tea he miutaes m my via wiii be along." _r&rea Pr ae e bce WWmaeD NEmBBORS rs. Goisip-Iathat boose IT e a family last week. "Nice folks?" "Ni.et They're the trashiest it, of people; live from hand to ol- Ibuy things bythe cent, guess" "i me!" "True as Prm sitng here. r e in a does times to borrowthias tbey was out of 'ema every time." Ad 'er&L i5- DavmON or LºAon. SAlittlegirl threewas told te eradle md keep the bby ib her mother was aooking. - v rwiliglyi; oeked therdleý, tllh baby,.l andid al thash but it was o no use-the baby not b quieted. At last her gaveot, d he ealled to her Pa pity's ae, mamms, come asc mone, ad let me de . rar , moawr. Groae (to boy)-What are you then if a oustoamer asks if we put ia oar mgar o ea truthfully myt Yoa ild, James, u aeq more businessm pmee at, i ng run, truth aays pays.-. war at moon. Prno pe v Byer-tYou're sure Beal Estate Agent-Not a s-sign 4 Prospective Buyer-No hille a4 fever ,. eal Estate Aget-Aian't b-b e: noe in t-t-t (excuse me) twent year Prospective yer-Look mrg freak what makes you tremble soI Re Estate Agent (as another wareJ t shakes poases over him)--I was a-sei were a g away without b4b Lady- like yor pictures so mm m,. Wand woulddearly l veto bem arti. a iWons't you te me the secret how to Artivly-Mose wilinly madam. Teom rhave nly to selet the righ colors eat, put them on the right l "Oh, thanks, awfully. I shall i home now and commence right away. "Idest him; I never could him," id ayounj irl. _o ukn o hat Ioo a mt I ci i i 'the little tin moll l.' Oh. dIar , not to hi face, but in my diary. ' where I take ll my revenges and have everything at uwith e aebo d-in A PLLOW FUELrNG. Burglar-If you make a move you're a dead man. Tell me where your wealth is. "Wealth I haven't a cent." "You lie. I know that you drew d8 out of the bank yesterday." "Yes, but I went to a church fair last eyen." t"Is taso? Well, here's $10 I es let you have to help you ou"-Neyr . State Jeurta, DEAmDFU.LL sAD. "What an more depressing than a terrible drem. e "I will tell you what is more depre g. I to hve ae pleasant,delightful dream and wake up to and that i t nothing but a dream." "Have you ever been there t" "Jaust the other night. I'll never fg- the anguish that I felt when I "What did youe dream?" "Tht room ent was paid amoth in advamnmos. -Arca, Sdat. ,Journal N - She-Yoa oght to be ashamed of ~ourelf, John, fshooting ach a dnear He-I thoauts you woud like it ser your hat. e-Ohwhatagood idea! That was very thoeghtful of youyJohn.-LIk. uaomar.u roeaznRr. Dear Priend-That gentleman wha boarde at your house aseem to be very attetiv oto y my dear. Sweet Girl-H. is, sad I-I lovehie, butch,whtariskl am running. We "Yes; it nearly breaks my heart when the thought comes tome thet e may not love me for myself aloe, tbut-hbos boot" healagagifae Wmarsh1 . "He-ha owes mother three mosth board!"