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;1 8 SCHOOL AND CHURCH. --The pope has granted permission to Roman Catholics to reside at the English universities nndcr certain con. ditions. Thirty-three million dollar 1, been raised by the London Missionary society during the hundred years of its existence, and 200,000 heathen have been converted. Each conversion costs --The trustees of the lnte eirl of fn ray, vtho had large public bequests to . . . .... 1 Hiiocaie, nave decided to give 20,000 to the University of Edinburgh to form a fund for the promotion of original re search. William F. Pierce, the new nreai dent of Kenyon college at Oambier, O., Is only 23 years old. He has been a pro fessor in philosophy at Kenyon for the last three years and was graduated in from Amherst. Mrs. Elizabeth Ludlow, the daughter of the well-known New Yorker. Robert Center, who was killed while riding a bicycle on the Western boulevard in New York some months aero, lias iriven his entire estate, valued at $150,000, to emlow m his memory a fund for in struction in music at Columbia college. The great work undertaken by the five universities of Berlin, Munich. Vi enna, Loipsie and (iottingen. the "The saurus linguae I.atinae." w hose cost is to be G.10,000 marks and which is to be finished w ithin 20 years, is already un der way. It is to le in J2 volumes of 1,000 pages each, and is to be a lexicon such as the w orld has not thus far had. A rule of Ihe public schools of Co penhagen requires that each pupil shall take three baths a week in the school building. While the pupils are bathing their clothes are sterilized in a steam oven. When this practice was first in troduced there was no complaint, but in a short time the parents of the chil dren "protested vigorously on the ground that it made th children dis contented with their dirty clothes and caused them to complain constantly of the filth of their dwellings. A SPANISH FETE. One No linger Hear the Onitar and ttia CitfttanetK. Another time we went dewn to a fete in the l'laza Xueva, the squire in front of the governor general's palace at th.; foot of the hill. It was held after dark, which was an inducement for us to go. The waiters, from whom we got all the gossip we ever heard, said that it had something to do with Columbus; it might be the little nffair of the egg, the discovery of America, or his own death, or anything else, for all they knew ot cared. The celebration itself did not help to explain matters. Lanterns hung from every tree in the plaza, Thera was a crowd of water-carriers and don keys, and women, and priests, and chil dren, and soldiers, and men selling big round cakes that looked like undersized New England pies with nothing inside. Kockets were let off at rare intervals, and a band, ail drums iml cymbals, played w ith just such a brazen, barbar ous beating and clashing as the Moors must have made as they marched past to one of their periodical musters in the Vivarambla. That was all, so that, the connection with Columbus was not very obvious. I'.ut the prettiest part of the pageant was on our way back, when, at the top of the Calla de los Gomeres, we saw a group of girls in the gateway, a white barricade against the darkness of the wood. They broke away, dancing as we came, and we followed them up thi steeM-st of the three parting roads in pursuit of a distant sound of music The scene held out promise of the tra ditional Spanish night rttuned to the click of castanets and the thrumming of guitars. I'.ut within the Alhambra's jnclosure we found nothing more ro mantic than a man with an accordion, and a few couples waltzing under the trees. Vor the national dance and song the stranger must go to the show held by guides and gypsies somewhere on the Albnycin; it is supposed to be improper, though it is at the most only stupid, and for this you must pay in pesetas. Hut never once in (irnnnda's open streets and courts, or in those of any other Andalusian town, did we hear the castanets and guitars that piny sc seductively through the Andalusia of ro mance and Murray. That they should still be expected really shows how hard tradition dies. "Am I, then, come into Spain to hear hunistrums and hurdy gurdies'.'" ISeekford asked indignantly a hundred years ago. Tnt every new traveler goes to the country, sure that for him. at least, there will be the sweet strumming and mad fandango a!l the long southern night under the stars. Elizabeth liohins lenell. in Century. Worked the Other Way. "Madam." lie said in a gentle, sooth ing voice, which only the man who has something to sell can successfully as sume. "I have here an article of soap which "Don't want any soap," she replied flatly. ' "But your younger brother there must get a great many grease spots on his clothes. Now, if you would provide some of that soap " "When you allude to my younge. brother, I supjose you mean that loy who is standing over by the fence?" "Certainly." "Well, he isn't my younger brother. He's my son, and what's more, he's the youngest of four, and what's more than that, I reid the papers, and if you thin' you can flatter me by pretending thar I look youthful, you're wrong. I don't need any soap, and my time's precious ." Detroit Free Press. Perverse Old Man. "Sir," he said, "I cannot live without your daughter." "Then," her cruel father retorted, get out of here and never let me see your face again. My daughter never baked a loaf of bread, never made a dress, and she can't operate a typewrit er. If you want somebody to support you. put an 'ad' in tUc papers." -Clere-land Leader. AGRICULTURAL HINTS. WALOENSIAN FARMERS. Quite a Colony of Them lu I.ornVaC In Burke County, N. C. In the summer of lb'J'i some 20 fam ilies came over from sunny Italy and settled in the western part of North Carolina. They were the advance guard of the colony which to-day numbers about 2U0 persons. There would be little to attract at tention to this settlement if it were not the only one of the kind in America. The colonists are Waldenses; that is to say, they are descendants of a re ligious sect that was driven by perse cution into the Piedmont mountains of northern Italy. Here they were safe and secluded, and here they were free to follow- their peculiar forms of wor ship. In their mountain retreat at home the Waldensians have followed the or tlinary pursuits of agriculture. Living by themselves and f-hut off from the outside world, these people were con tent to farm after the fashion of their forefathers. The result was, their methods of farming were rather rude and primitive. When the Waldensians came to this country they brought with them their old-fashioned ideas and methods. Many of the colonists had never seen a plow or a mower and re:i(K-r until they ar rived in North Carolina. Of course. our modern methods of intensive farm ing and rotation of crops were beyond their knowledge. The colony is located in Iiurke county, X. C, almut eight miles from Mnrgunt'jwn. the county seat. The village is called Yaldese, and is laid out into streets and building lots. The first thing the colonists did was to build a church and sehoolhouse. Kecently they have showed consider able enterprise in starting a hosiery mill, in which most of the young people are employed. The property of the col onists consists of several thousand acres. This has been divided into small farms, each family receiving from 50 to CO acres. At the same time each house holder is obliged to assume his shaft? of the debt which the colony still owes. WALDEXSIAXS AT WORK. Thus far, the colonists have been too busy at clearing the lands and building houses to make much of a showing, ll will be several years before the results of their work and industry are fully seen. Already they have set out quite a number of fruit trees and vines. Many of them are familiar with grape growing in Italy, and they will soon learn the methods of successful viticul ture in this country. They are giving up using their old and clumsy implements, and to-day they handle the plow as skillfully as the native farmers. As our illustration shows, the women and children lend a hand and work in the fields. The ma jority of the people are young and in the prime of life: that is, they are under the age of 40. The women are strong, thrifty and make good wives. The men are active, vigorous, industrious nml used to hard work. They should make good citizens. American Agri culturist. VALUABLE POINTERS. If They Are Followed Horse llreeding I. Kouml to He I'rolitahlo. To those of our readers who share our faith that horse breeding will pay in tin. future, says Wallace, we give several pointers. Dcn't breed any mares under any circumstances that have a disease that may be transmitted by inheritance, as for example, spavin, or any other de fect of a bony strueturc.Don't breed any small mart s to draft horses; the result will bea misfit and wiil sell at about beef prices. Don't breed except with a def inite purpose in view. If you wish to breed heavy draft horses, use 1X"0 pound mrircs: if express horses weigh ingabout l.fiOO potinds.tise aelive.shape Jy, spirited mares weighing l,4')i) pounds. Select the best sire in the neighborhood or county for the purpose you have in view and breed only for a definite purpose. If for drafts, u.-e draft material: if for coach horses, u o coach blood. There is not much of it in the country, but there is some, and as po:;d a show as any will be had by using th? large standard bred horses. Begin practicing for the next year's colt by taking the proper care of this year's coif, no matter how it may be bred. Don't let it tag nlong after the mare in the corn field, hut Ie.ivc it at home in a good, dark stable, or better still in a pasture lot with a shed to inn into and something nice to eat in a good clean box in the corner, and in a place wher? the chickens don't roost over it. Give It a small grain ration up until weaning time and let the grain be oats. It is oats that put lione and good form in a horse, or for that matter in a boy. If the.ie suggestions are followed, the breeding of horses gives as much promise in these duil times as any thing else on the farm. He careful in selection when buying trees. One variety w ill briny profit, an other will cause you loss. Foresight is better than hindsight. With nearly all small fruits now it Is a good time to go over the rows and if any places are bare fill them with thrifty plants. PASTURE FOR PIGS. Kesnlta of Careful Experiments Extend. ing Over Fonr Tears. Exercise, good air and sunshine play a much greater part in pig raising than most people commonly supise. It in for this reason that the western prac tice ot relying quite largely on grazing for the nourishment of swine is so suc cessful. This has never been so clearly demon strated as by a series of pig feeding tests extending over four years, made by Mr. A. A. Mills, of Utah. We give the results below: 1. Pigs allowed to run at large over 18 acres of good pasture and fed a full ration of grain made the most rapid growth and required the least grain for one jmiind of gain. 2. Pigs confined in movable pens in the pasture grew more slowly than those running loose, and required an increase of 20 per cent, of grain to make one pound of growth. 3. Pigs at pasture, fed under three different conditions, gained 92.5 cent, more and ate but two per cent more than the pigs getting grass and other wise similarly fed, but confined in pens. The grain required to produce one pound of gain was increased 40 percent, with those in pens over those in pas ture. 4. Pigs fed but part rations of grain at pasture made satisfactory gains. Those at, pasture getting the three fourths grain ration gained more than those fed a full grain ration and grass, either in the yard or in the pens. 5. Pigs pastured without grain made aiMuit the same growth for three sea sons in succession, this averaging .3(5 of a )ound a day. C. As nearly as can be judged, exer cise alone increased the gain 22 jier cent., and 4hc amount eaten but 1.5 per cent., but decreased the amount re quired for one pound gain 22 per cent. 7. Grass when cut and fed green to pigs, whether fed in pens or yards, or with full or part grain rations, or with out grain, proved to be of very little value. 8. Pigs confined in pens and fed on grass alone, mostly lucerne, for Ul days, lost over a quarter of a pound per day. !). The average of the pigs fed on grass gained a little more than thot-e without the grass, but not enough to pay for the extra feed in the grass. 10. With the pigs confined in the hog house pens, the grass proved beneficial, while with those in the yard it proved detrimental, the latter requiring more grain to make a pound of pork w ith the grass than without it. 11. Pasturing either with full or with part grain rations appeared to be by far the cheapest and best way of making pork. GOOD BUTTER COW. What She Should Look I.Ike and How Sht S.iould Act. The good milch cow should have a large muzzl-1, slim neck and yellow skin. She should have a long face, wide be tween the eyes, alert and expressive, and placed a long way between the horns. Her breathing should be regu lar and strong, indicative of stronglung power. The back and abdomen should be strong, the udded wide where it joins the body, and the tea! be squarely placed; the tail slim. She should be wedge-shaped, slim in front and wide behind, with large body, which is nec essary to the consumption, assimila tion and manufacturing into milk of a large quantity of food. The jerfect udder, in size and form with the teats to match, and large ab dominal proportions, are almost cer tain indicat'ons of good dairy qualities. A slim neck is also supposed to be al most an infallible sign of a good dairy cow. A lx-efy-looking cow rarely proves a good dairy animal. There is too strong a tendency to convert the food into meat rather than into mill:. Of course it w ill occasionally happen that looks are deceptive, so that the best test is the milk pail and the churn. St. Louis Ki'pu'ulic. SAFE FODDER RACK. So Constructed That Karh Animal Must Keep Its Own I'lace. When the pasture begins to get short, the stoclt must have extra feed, and a feed rack for the pasture or barnyard is necessary. The illustration shows such a rack built against a fence, which has one important feature. At the or dinary feed rack the strongest and most belligerent of the stock will course; along the length of the rack and drive off the weaker. With the one herewith illustrated all such difficulties are avoided, as each animal must keep hi? own place. Orange Judd Farmer. Shear Sheep at Seventy-Seven. In this section the field of woman'i usefulness is widening, and the old no tion that her place is in the kitchen is leing dispelled. This country has a col ored woman who is a brick and stone mason by trade and is an expert in that line. The country comes to the front again with another new woman. She is Mrs. Khoda Cox, of the Panola section. A few days since she wanted her sheep sheared, and, finding no man who would do the work, went to the sheep sheds and performed the work herself. The job was neatly done, and the 15 sheep were soon separated from their fleece. Mrs. Cox is 77 years old and active, hale and hearty. Richmond Dispatch. Applying a little water and often is a bad principle in watering plants. If water is needed apply thoroughly. LITTLE LAUGHS. "For turning out engaged couples yon can't beat it." "What do you mean? A summer escort?" "No, a hammock," Yonkers Statesman. Customer "Gimme some beef with plenty of fat, potatoes and spinach." Waiter "G rover Cleveland, Pingree and Feffer!" Indianapolis Journal. George "How do you like it, Cora?" Cora "It's perfectly lovely. But what do they have all these policemen at the game for? O, I know; it is to keep the men from stealing bases." Somerville Journal. Mistress (to servant looking for a place) "Why don't you show your book of references?" Servant "Be cause I do not wish to reflect on the character of the employers who change their servants every fortnight." Fliegende Blatter. rie "And did you call at Monte Carlo while you were at Nice?" She "No; papa called on him, I believe, but from his disappointed appearance when he returned to the hotel, I think Mr. Carlo must have been out." Public Opinion. Poor Collateral. Charlie De Broke "I suppose. Miss Boxy, that you arc aware that for some time my heart has not been in my possession." Miss Eo.vy "Why, Mr. De Broke, I had no idea that you could borrow money on that." Harlem Life. TALKS WITH GIRLS. It is not good form to introduce eithet Latin or French phrases in general con versation. It is courteous to invite to an enter tainment one's friends who are in mourning, for itshows that they are not forgotten. General reading, that is, of the maga zines and newspapers, will tend to broaden your mind and furnish you with topics for conversation. It is not considered in good taste to ask for a photograph. If one wishes a Triend to have a photograph it will either be sent or given. When a plate is sent back for a sec ond helping of meat the knife and fork should be laid slightly to one side of it so that they may not fall off. A lady who is married to a phvsieian does not assume his professional title, consequently while he is "Dr. James Brown" she is simply "Mrs. James Brown;" and when they are addressed together they are "Dr. and Mrs. James Brown." Ladies Home Journal. LITERARY LITTER. Uannis Tavlor, the United States minister to Spain, will go to Oxford to obtain maierir.l for the completion of his work on "The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution." Mile. Taine, only child of the his torian, has been married in Paris to M. Paul Dubois, son of the late director of the school of fine arts. She was brought up as a Trotestant, but was married in a Bomnn Catholic church. An expurgated edition of "Tom Jones" is in course of preparation by Mrs. J. M. Fielding, the wife of the nov elist's grandson, and will soon be pub lished in London. A biographical sketch of Fielding will accompany the story. Saddest of all sights is genius in the clutch of a syndicate. Mr. McClure has secured the serial rights of Kip ling's new story, the scene of which io laid on the deck of a Gloucester fish erman. The price is said to have been about $12,000, or 24 cents a word. No body has yet secured the bookrights. AMERICAN WHEAT. Wheat threshing costs little in Flori da, 72 cents per acre. Wheat land in New York commands ?1.5G per acre for rent. The cost of harvesting wheat in Con necticut is S2.S3 per acre. In North Dakota wheat land is said to rent at $1.63 per acre. There are in this country 34,000,000 acres annually sown in wheat. In Massachusetts farming land for wheat is rented at $4.0S per acre. Wheat raising in Massachusetts is a luxury, costing $23.82 per acre. The labor of preparing an acre of wheat land in North Dakota is $1.C9. The rent of wheat land in South Caro lina is estimated at $2.40 an acre- MAKKtTS. Nkw YoiiK.Jiine 29 mi (v.TTr.rc -N":itive Slcers . ...J 3 DO M 5 COT P1M-.M lililiins St 74 j r'Uri: Wimi-r Wheat 2 6 " 4 i sr. ! WIIKAT-No. I Hard :i f l' i L'OltX -No. I Wi t OAT?-Xo.3 ... 2i POUlt-old Mess .. 8 01 w 9 w ST. LOUIS. fOTTOK MUKllinif i 7 ltKKVKS ieers.... S7i V, 4 3) Cos and Heifers. 2 10 to :t io CALVES , 4 12 ,!, ' U HOtiS Fair tc Select 2 in 3 3S SHEF-P Fair to Choice 3 If) (tt 4 IW FLOCK Patents Sal (I 3 .5 Funey to Extra do. 2 :t0 4 3 I.? WHEAT No. 2 Ke.l Winter.. W 'S Sii CUKN Xo. 2 Mixed 44 2n'.4 OAT-S-Xo. i IS t& l'if RYE Xo.2 3. us, 31 TOUACCO Lu'S 3 l ( 8 IM Leaf Hurley 4 au dr. 12 tw 1IAV ricarTimotliy ! 4 12 1JCTTKK Choice Dairy. 8 . 11 Ei itiS Fresh m 7 POKlv Standard Mess (Sew). 7 15 S 7 17(4 UAC'UN clear Kiu ii S L.VUU Prime bteam d 3i CHICAGO CATTLE Shipping 3 90 H I 40 HOGS Fair to Choice 3 uu it 3 hO SHEEP Fairto Choice 3 50 '( 4 24 FLOliK-Winter Patents 3 VI 4fl 3 6J Spring PaleubL. .... 3 2i lfl 3 WHEAT Xo. a spring (0 & Xo.2 Red U u 60 COUNT No. 2 2?!4i 27 OATS No. 2 ' I PUUK Hkss (now i 7!4 7 t'2',4 Kansas err. CATTLE Shipping Steers.... 3 no HOGS All Grades 3 00 WHEAT No 3 Hed. uATS No. 2 COitX X0..2... 22 4 30 3 30 63 16 NEW ORLEANS FLOtJK Hieh Grade... CORN-Xo. 2 OATS Western HAY Choice 3 30 3 00 37 2. It M 7 374 4 . 2 i-4.fi 15 do is PORK Old Mess BACON Sides COTTON Middling LOUISVILLE. WHEAT No. 2 Red CORN No. 2 Mixed OATS Xo.2 Mixed- PORK New Mess. BACON-ClearRih COTTON Middling .... t .... a .... u 64 t 18 50 17 a 25 (ft 4i .... it An Appeal for Aulatanoe. The man who Is charitable to himself will listen to the mute appeal for assistance made by tils stomach, or bis liver, in the shape of divers dyspeptic qualms a"d un easy sensations in the regions of the glands that secretes bis bile. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, my dear sir. or madam as the case may be is what you require. Hasten to use, if you are troubled with heartburn, wind in the stomach, or note that your skin or the whites of your eyes are taking a sal low hue. Ajfoxo the Bohemians. "Where do you dine to-nightl-' "I do not dine and you?'1 "Nor do L" "Verv good. Let us dine to gether." Courier des Estai Cnis. ' The Modern Mother Has found that her little ones are improved more bv the pleasant Hymn of Figs, when in need of the laxative effect of a gentle remedy than bv any other, and that it is more acceptable to them. Children enjoy it and it benefits them. The true remedy. Syrup of Figs, is manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Company only. Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more renuilv and more deeply when we behold them in per sons in authority. Juvenal. Fits stopped free and permanently cured. No tits after first day's use or Dr. Kline's (ireut Nerve Res orer. Free $2 trial bottle & treatise. Da. Kline, 933 Arch st I'hila ,Pa. Bifkin "Every one that rides in a Fifth avemio stago pitches into them." iSuifUin "Yes, aud out of tbeni." Harlem Life. It is positively hurtful to use ointment for skin diseases. Use Glenn's Sulphur Soap. Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, 5oe. Goon, the more communicated, the more abundant grows. Milton. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c. Monet is like manure, of verv little use except to be spread. Bacon. ' S Ayer's Argument. I fSp If there is any reason why you should use any sarsaparilla, there is every reason why you should use Ayer's. When you take sarsaparilla j-ou take it to cure disease ; you want to be cured as quickly as possible and as cheaply as possible. That is why you should use Ayer's: it cures quickly and cheaply and it cures to stay. Many people write us : "I would sooner have one bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla than three of any other kind." A druggist writes that " one bottle of Ayer's will give more benefit than six of any other kind." If one bottle of Ayer's will do the work of three it must have the strength of three at the cost of one. There's the point in a nutshell. It pays every way to use Ayer's Sarsaparilla. The Governor of to the Governor "BATTLE AX" is the most tofcacco, of the best quality, for the least money. Large quantities reduce the cost of manufacture, the result coinc to the con sumer in the shape less money, than was RECEIVERS' gfllEM'OH PACIFIC BY. CO. LANDS 030,000 ACRES FARM LANDS; 4,000,000 ACRES GRAZING LANDS IN KANSAS, NEBRASKA, COLORADO, WYOMING, UTAH. IXCTallOX B1TKI fhp Baaemkmi FAKE GFrIDEO t rarraa.ru, REDUCED PRICES-IO YEARS TIME ONE-TENTH DOWN. 8. A- 1H A TT f BTBR. LUd COXXXMIONXB. OMAHA, 19 JUJJ. una OS WHtK Ail USi r; . Taavuooa. Vm 22a222222EE c m ami una ojnn F-9 to tlma Hod I? low Bate Esennlons Soath. On the first and third Tuesday of each toonth till October about huU-ratos for round trip will be made to points in the South by the Louisville & Nash ville Railroad. Aslt your ticket agent about it, and if he cannot sell you excur sion tickets write to C. P. Atmore. Gen eral Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky.. or Geo. B. Horner, 1). P. A., St. Louis, Mo. "Brr, waiter, if this is spring chicken, where is its wishbone?" Waiter (equal to the Oixjasioo) "It was too young to wish, sir." Detroit Free Press. We have not been without Piso's Cure for Consumption for 20 years. Lizzie Feb bel, Camp St., Harrisburg, Pa,, May 4, '94. Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky. Saadi. FIND THE ONLY ORICINAL DESIGNS PUBLISHED h This Country L'Art de-LaMi And all the most re liable Information on. the question ot dress. Order of your News dealer or send SS Cent B-U, tor MCma. THE MORSE-BROUGHTON CO., Bet. fits Ire. and Broadway, N EW YORK. North Carolina said of South Carolina of a larger piece, for ever before possible. STOPPED: HEART BURN, YUCATAN. A. N. E.. ft 1611. WHEX WRIT ISO TO HTUTIUU iw mte tkat yM Mw th advartUe- wa sai. pvtr BRESSMUiS m I' i,1 ( )