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BARBOUR COUNTY INDEX.
IT. L. SHEItPY, Publisher.
MEDICINE LODGE, - KANSAS.
MINOR MENTION,
Oscar "Wilde is writing a book on
the education of children.
Gen. Grant and lira. Grant expect
to pass a lew days at Galena during
June.
Waltiiam, Mass., has set out a
memorial elm to Emerson, and will
erect a tablet.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart has placed a
Garden City cottage at Bishop Little-
john'a disposal.
The Rev. James Freeman Claxke is
expected to arrive at home from Europe
about August 1.
An eastern paper has the temerity
to call Dr. Loring "the Washington
JEithete of Agriculture."
D. Kremelbeho, who died at Balti
more, had been Austrian consul at that
port for twenty-six years.
Charles Bukdett, a dwarf from
Damascus, Md., who has been travel
ing with a circus, died at Pontiac,
Mich.
Agents of the khedive state that he
desires the English and French squad
rons to remain in Egyptian waters for
the present
The Land-leaguers of New York are
securing signatures to a petition to the
president for the speedy recall of Min
ister Lowell.
Father Sorin, founder of Notre
Dame university at South Bend, Ind.,
has returned from his fortieth trip
across the Atlantic.
A Fish-raiser of experience recom
mends digging ponds on the north side
of bluffs, so that the water will be
cooler and bettei shaded.
Lewis B. Frye, the champion bi
cycle rider of the United States, was
thrown from his wheel at Marlboro,
Mass., and fatally injured.
Tin: Colorado potato beetle has put
in an early appearance in Indiana, and
commenced work in gardens where
early varieties wero planted.
There are 70,000 pounds of pepper
mint produced annually in the United
States, und of this amount two-thirds
is produced in Wayne county, New
York.
It is estimated that 1,500,000 sacks
of potatoes have been imported froa
Great Briiain, Germany, Nova Scotia,
and other countries during the past
season.
A Gentleman is cultivating a flve
acro field ot tubeioses in Florida. He
sends the blossoms to New York and
other northern cities packed in cotton
batting.
A. II. Fetticrew was elected mayor
of Lynchburg, Va., and T. J. Jarrett
of Petersburg. Two colored men were
chosen justices of the peace in the lat
ter city.
The steamer Yaquina, lying in the
harbor of Portland, Oregon, was set on
fire by the combustion of its cargo of
lime, and had to be scuttled, causing a
loss of 135,000.
It is reported in New York that the
Baring Brothers, of London, have tak
en a second batch of 15,000,000 in
bonds of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe road.
Hundreds of families in the Old
Town region of Arkansas are menaced
by starvation from the recent overflow.
About one-third of the town of Helena
is under water.
Advices Jrom forty leading points
in tfie noitUwestern grain region repre
sent the acreage of wheat as 30 per
cent less than last year. Tne plant is
healthy, and promises a good yield.
Statistics irora the census bureau
, show that Cuicago is the third city in
the United States in point of manu
factures, its product being nearly
equal to that of St. Louis, Cincinnati,
and Pittabuigh combined.
The priced of cattle at the Chicago
stock-yards are the highest that have
prevailed since 1870. Within two
weeks Texans have advanced 50 cents
per hundred pound?, and native
steers Z 1.
English steam machinery of , the
value ot J,lb has been imported at
New York einco the year openeaV It
is said that the Toledo, Delpbca and
Burlington narrow-guago system or
dercd one hundred locomotives from
foreign builders.
Farmers Boys.
The Wettarn Eomntead.
Technical education, as it is called,
is beginnirg to attract attention in this
country, as It has done for a long time
in the old world. The supremacy of
France, Germany and Switzerland in
the raanufatcures peculiar to those
countries, is largely clue to the schools
and other facilities afforded for instruc
tion in thefciences and arts. The ap
prentice system was in England the
means principally relied upon for keep
ing tip the supply of skilled mechanics,
and in this country the same system
was attempted with poor, results. It
was not suited to the spirit of our in
stitutions, arbitrary masters were re
pugnant to the free, spirit of the west
ern republic, and this impatience of
restraint, which has grown stronger
with each succeeding generation, bids
fair to deprive the country of skilled
artisans, unless some substitute can be
found for the apprentice system.
Skilled mechanics are getting scarcer
every day, and employers being unable
to find the skill desired, are often at
their wits' ends for help, and are com.
pelled to employ botches, who do their
work in the most unsatisfactory man
ner. Technical schools seem to be the only
remedy for thb state of things, and
they have already sprung up in several
places at the east. They aim to give
instruction in the practical use of tools
and machinery, and the actual manu
facture of goods is earned on by the
boys, under the supervision of compe
tent mechanics. Step by step they
master the details, until they acquire
the skill necessary for a competent
journeyman. The graduates have no
trouble in finding situations the situa
tions hunt for them.
Now why cannot a similar system be
contrived for farmers' boys? We mean
boys to make farmers of. There are
plenty of schools where farmers' boys
attend, and where they acquire ideas
and habits totally unfitting them for
the noblest, safest and healthiest occu
pation in the world. A system of farm
schools is wanted, where intelligent
farming can be taught in an attractive
manner and at moderate cot As it is,
the farmer's boy learns nothing except
by the hard and disagreeable tasks in
the field, and thereby acquires a dis
gust for the whole business. He learns
little of the why and the wherefore of
his woijc he has no time or opportun
ity for expenmnnts he hears of the
pleasures of city life, or of the great
profits of mining or speculation and
at the first opportunity he shakes the
farm dust from his feet and goes out
into the world to seek hi3 fortune.
In this day and age boys think
they are not content to plod on in the
path their fathers trod, but must know
the reason of things, and if there is any
easier, pleasanter, or more profitable
way, they want to know it. Good prac
tical farmers though their fathers may
be, they are not competent to answer
their questions or satisfy their eager
desires for improvement. The result
is, the boys are lost to the farm.
It is to be hoped that some form of
primary farm schools will be devised
tnat shall combine practice with sci
ence, and illustrate the dry details of
botany, chemistry, philosophy and
physiology by cultivation of gardens.
examination of soils and foods, mak
ing and using tools, and feeding ani
mals.
Heatine bv Sunshine.
Scientific America a.
Professor E. S. Morse, of the Esspt
institute, has devised an ingenious ar
rangement for utilizing the heat in the
sun s raj 3 in warming our houses. His
invention consists of a surface of black
ened slate underclass fixed to the sun
ny siue or siues or a nouse, with vents
in the walls so arranged that the cold
air of a room is let out at the bottom
of the slate, and forced in again at the
top oy tne ascending heated column be
tween the slate and the class. Th
out-door air can be admitted, also, if
uesiraoie. ine thing is so simple and
apparently self-evident . that one only
wonucra mat n nas not always oeen in
use. Its entire practicalness is demon,
strated in the heating of the professor's
study in his college at Salem. The
value or the improvement for daily
warming buildings liko churches and
school-houses, which, when allowpri to
get cold between usinp, consume im
mense quantities of heat before they
are fairly warmed again, is evident.
Of course, some other means of heat
ing must be available when the sun
does not shiae. But in the colder tp.
gions, say in the far northwest, the
sun snines a greater part of the time,
ana cence me saving of artificial heat
would be very larze if the sun liwit
could be "turned on" for eight or ten
nours out or tne twenty-! our.
Sadlv Afflicted.
"My boy was badlv afflirii xrih
rheumatism," said Mr. Barton, of the
great stove tirm of Redway & Barton
Of this city, to One Of our rpnnrtpra
We doctored bim a great deal, but
couid find no cure; I had heard so
mucn or tne efficacy of Sjl Jannh n
that I finally determined to try it.
umues ci tne Oil fully cured
him." Cincinnati Enquirer.
v i cAtiac, ui liocaesier,
Y, has so far granted 273 licenses
01'T9 If j i
for
1 3 (CiU3CU UJb UVU
ants, and has 199 yet to consider.
appli
The local editor nf thA KnrtmftAi.
(Ma?s.) lUjmblican. Mr. J. II. Mabbitt.
B.tja; -ue nave used Su Jacoos Oil in
our family for rhenmatim smd t
it to be a first-clais thing." -Boston
AlCTUUl.
X p?clU election ia Xnl,0., the oth
day, re-mitel tn favor ot electric light
mjority of lis. ' . .
J IVhat'Ails You? 1 '
Is It a disordered fiver giving you a yel
low km o. costive bowels; or do your kid
ney rtt of e to prrform their functions ? If
8vi take a few doses of Kidney-Wort and
n jure jy 11 restore each organ ready for
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Letter In San Francisco Poet.
Lst week I saw the singular state
ment made by a newspaper correspond
ent that Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is
somewhat over the medium in height.
Now, the truth of the matter is that
Dr. Holmes is quite under middle
height; he is confessedly short. And
I never see him that I am not reminded
of what Sydney Smith once said when
speaking of small-sized men. "Why,
there's , who will be arrested
some day for indecent exposure; his
body is not large enough to cover his
intellect" Yet the very smallness of
the man renders him more attractive
in his brisk way of getting about
Here one minute and there the next,
there is an absolute fascination about
Prof. Holmes, and I have several times
regretted that I am not a student in
the Harvard Medical school, where, as
professor of anatomy, the doctor lect
ures four times a week. Such rich
stories as some of those boys have
brought over to me I
A young lady who sat next me at
dinner the other day asked in a sort of
awe-struck tone, as though she had
suspicions of her idolized statue being
after all somewhat faulty and irregu
lar, "Is it true that Dr. Holmes is
brusque and rude to people whom he
meets?'' And I told her no; I did not
think it was exactly true. The poet
has. of course, a world-witle reputation.
and, unlike Whittier and Longfellow,
who are as modest and gifted, Holmes
shows a self consciousness that is dis
tressing. We are always willing to
bow down before genius, but we do
not want to have the talent and its
accompaniments thrust in our faces.
Holmes can be genial and full of good
humor at times, and is so, but he has
an unfortunate voice, a harsh perhaps
dictatorial style, that has made more
than one gentle woman say to me "I
wish I had never seen Holmes, for my
illusion is destroyed." 4,What business
have young scribblers to send me their
verses and ask my opinion of the
stuff?" be asked one day. "They have
no more right to ask me that than they
have to stop me on the street, run out
their tongues, and ask what is the
matter with their stomachs and what
they shall take as a remedy." And
then again, on another day, he made
the remark. "Everybody that writes
a book must needs send me a copy
It's very good. of them, of course, but
they re not all successful attempts at
book-makiDg, and moat of tbem are
relegated to my hospital for sick books
upstairs."
Once a young writer sent from Cali
fornia a sample of his poetry, and asked
Holmes if it was worth while for him
to keep on writing. The doctor was
struck by something decidedly original
in the style of the writer, and wrote
back that he should keep on, by all
means. A long while afterward a gen
tleman called at the home of Trof.
Holmes, in Boston, and asked his host
if he remembered the incident Holmes
replied. "I do, indeed." "Well," said
his visitor, "I am the man," and it was
Bret Harte. The autocrat (as nolmes
is generally called in Boston) was some
what remarkably favored in the way
of school and college companions It
II. Dana, the author of Two Years
Before the Mast," and who recently
died in Rome, was one of his ochoo
mates and Margaret Fuller, too, wal
a companion, and Holmes told me of
her, that in those days, although she
was tall and very awkward in her ap
pearance, Margaret Fuller even then
was a girl of precocious intelligence.
In college, Judge B. It. Curtis, Chief
Justice BiL'elow, Prof. Benjamin
Pierce, Itev. James Freeman Clark and
other men of note were members of his
class.
What a mine of recollections the po
et must have at his command. It
seems to me that if he has kept a diary
we may expect a rich treat one of these
days. And this reminds me that I
oace said to a celebrated actress, who
is, to say the least, not young and girl
ish enough to make an acceptable Juli
et, and is quite too much troubled by
embonpoint to be longer a graceful
impersonator I said to this actress:
"How delightful it must be for you to
look back over your past successes, and
think of how many audiences you have
entertained." "Yes," was the reply,
"it will be. I have not yet reached the
point where it is necessary to look
back. He shows it now in his poems
that carry a tinge of sadness the sad
ness of old age. And yet he is a3 live
ly as ever; gets over the same ground,
and about as rapidly as he used to do.
Whittier said to me once; "No, I can
not go out to dinners and receptions
now. Longfellow and Emerson do
nor, either; but Holmes. Oh, Holmes
will never be an old man. He couldn't
if he tried, but will be young as long
as ne lives r l et the poet says :
"Old age, the greybeard, well Indeed I
kcow Mm,
Shrunk, tottering, bent of aches and ills
tne prey;
In f ermun, story, fable. pfcture. Doem
Ott bavrt I mtt him from my earliest
cay."
A Scene on the Towpath.
Home fitntlne'
Beneath the night's bespangled, arch
they were strolling along unconscious
of ought save the intermitting fancies
or their twain hearts. Suddenly they
paused and, gazing at a ruddy star that
Hashed like a great ruby in the firma
ment he said: DiomedesI what
rufescent orb is that which winks
with bloody e'en from yonder dome?"
"That Andromeda," spake her courtier
knight, 44 is Mars, the wad of gore beg
pardon, I mean the god of war " "Ah,
yes! and looks he not like some gaunt
Achilles, armored for conquest, bidding
defiance to the hosts of Hades?" He
dotb, Andromeda, he doth! Or like
some grim avenger furling a hoe I
mean hurling a foe to, the death T
Another artesian well has Just been
completed In San Francisco, which yields
52300 gallons of cold, clear, and excellent
drinking water per twenty-four hours.
DESTRUCTIVE GEESE.
Forty Riflemen Employed by a Cali
fornia Farmer to Defend His Wheat
Fields. ,
San Frandaco CaU.
Various methods have been devised
of exterminating wild geese without
avail, until geese-herding has be
come a profession as distinct as
herding or trapping. In the early
winter the geese appear in thegraln
counties in myriads, traveling about in
vast flocks. Their hunger is insatiable
and the new wheat is rapidly destroyed.
Dr. H. J. GlenD, whose ranch in Colusa
county covers most of the arable land
in that county, numbering some 75,000
acres, or nearly twelve square miles,
expends about $10,000 a year in heard
ing his geese. Be recently purchased
in this city for the present season be
tween 12.000 and $3,000 worth of
catridges, about 260,000 in number, of
44-calibre. He has constantly in his
employ, while his wheat; is growing,
about forty men, all of them mounted
and nearly all armed with Henry rifles
and field classes, who" natrol his
property during the day and on all
moonlight nights.
These men are regularly organized
into a patrol guard. They discover
with their glasses the flocks of geese.
which at a distance of from 300 to 400
yards look like a white blanket spread
over the green wheat, and they there
upon plant a bullet right in the middle
of the flock. This unexpected visita
tion sets the flock on the wing, and the
geese herder follows them up, keeps
planting bullets among them until they
rise to a gTeat height, and, disgusted.
leave the vicinity. Few geese are
killed, the object being to keep them on
the wing and consequently off the
wheat fields. Those that are killed are
carried off and shorn of their feathers,
but the revenue from them amounts to
little. On Dr. Glenn's ranch about
8,000 cartridges are used in a day.
which represents about 20,000 geese
daily put to flight
Oftentimes a thick fog blows in, and
this appears to be a favorite time for
the geese, and they devour the wheat
with great energy. The herders, then,
fearful of shooting each other, are
almost baffled, but when the fog rises
the flock? are put to flight and for hours
thereafter the air is filled with feathers
and geese, and Glenn's ranch resounds
with the clatter of rifles and the
frightened cries of the persecuted
fowls. To pay his men, buy ammu
nition and maintain horses costs Dr.
Glenn some $10,000 per annum, but it
save3 hi3 wheat which yields $100,000,
as without the geese herders half
would be destroyed. The herders be
come very expert in their bu3ine3s,
and are generally good shots and capital
horsemen.
Stories of Birds and Beasts.
A Columbus, Georgia, chicken thief
had two trained dogs that entered a
poultry-house, caught the fowls by the
neck, killed them carefully, and
brought them singly to their master.
An Augusta, Georgia, dog, after
howling with pain more than a week,
made his master understand what was
the matter, and a whole row of de-j
cayed teeth were extracted from the
dogs mouth. The animal endured the
operation with entire serenitj.
A sparrow fell to the ground from
the ivy that clings to the walls of
Christ church, New Brunswick, New
Jersey, and was found to be sick and
crippled. Its little companions swarmed
about it, expressing intense anxiety,
and tried to lift the bird by catching
its wings in their beaks, but failed.
Presently one of'the birds brought a
twig about four inches long, and the
sick bird caught it in the middle. The
others caught the ends, and, flying
away, carried the invalid triumphantly
back to the ivy.
The force of habit is illustrated in
the following little incident A gentle
man who U3ed to be connected with
the Louisville Courier-Journal came to
western Texas last year, and went into
the sheep business. Last week he was
arrested for shearing sheep that did
not belong to him. He could not
shake off his old habit of clipping with
out giviEg credit As soon as he got a
pair of shears in his hands he had to
steal something.
They used to have strange names
for their strong drinks in o.'den times
in "Merrie England." Bacon writes
that "reading makes a full man." If
whisky straight was called "reading,"
we suppose that toddies and cocktails
were masqueraded under the names of
writing and ciphering. Even to this
day, in local option towns, people cy
pher the liquid consolation that maketb
glad the heart of man, and cause him
to be filled for being drunk and down.
The Man Who Gives Advice.
The man who gives advice i3 the
most numerous m?n in this star
spangled and star-route country. He
is to be found in the brown-stone pal
aces of the rich and in the log -cabin
home of the poor. Silver and gold he
may be destitute of, but in the matter
of advice he is a bloated capitalist; a
cornucopia replete with sage counsel ;
an exhorter dropsical with wise sug
gestions; a Magnus-Apollo plethoric
with oracular admonitions.
In the bestowal of advice he is the
most generous of men, is prodigal to a
fault and will deal his advice out in
large chunks ungrudgingly to those
who ask for it and he is equally liberal
to those who do not ask for it, and do
not want it He will force it on those
who have advice of their own to spare,
and who really do not need any of his.
He sometimes sends whole cords of it
by mail to those of his friends whom
he cannot reach otherwise. ' The more
he gives away the more he seems to
have n hand. His apparently waste
ful prodigality only seems to increase
his stock. He keeps on hand a large
and . well assorted stock" of advice
which ho Is prepared to dispose "of,
wholesale or retail, in lots to suit, and
regardless of cost; city delivery free.
A good deal of his stock is shop-worn
and second-hand, but he flatters him
self that he is passing it off for new,
while his victims cannot growl as the
thing is free. There are few subjects
on which he cannot offer advice of
some kind or other. It may not be
suitable, but as he does not use any of
it himself he can afford to squander it
whenever opportunity presents itself.
He is always "long" on advice, and
acts as if all 4his acquaintances were
"short" He begins his drivel by such
phrases as: "If I may be allowed to
suggest;" "Take my word for it;" "If
you take my advice;" etc, etc There
is no matter too ponderous for him to
offer advice on. He will tell you how
to cure a cold or run a saw-mill; how
to pare a corn or plant onions ; and
how to clean spotted gloves or harmo
nize the party. Very often when' he
has a job lot of really good advice on
hand, he will give it away, utterly ob
livious of the fact that he needs it
himself.
One of the "finest opportunities the
man who gives advice ever has, is when
a milk-man's horse balks on the street
His advice in such cases is abundant
in quantity and variety. He will stand
on the sidewalk with his hands in his
pockets, and suggest putting sand in
the horse's ears, tying a knot in his
tail, backing him round the block,
reading one of Oscar Wilde's poems to
him; and will continue to give such
inclement advice until the milk-man
becomes exasperated and swaps some
advice with him, advising him to go
home and attend to his own busi
ness. That is a class of advice that
he cannot take, for the reason that men
of his stamp seldom have got any
business.
The man who gives advice, unless he
gives it by request, is a nuisance and
should be suppressed by law.
Another Story of Custer's Death.
Rochester Democrat.
The case of Sebastian Beck, whose
career among the Sioux Indians was
noted in this journal, has been fully
investigated at the county poor office by
Overseer McGonegal. During the
recounting of his wanderings, the old
man gave a reporter from this journal
a clearer insight into the battle of the
"Little Big Horn" than he before had.
He said that upon the night of the
charge Sitting Bull expected Custer and
had massed all hi 3 forces and had a
band of 3,000 warriors, of which he
was one. The plan of their battle was
as follows: The Indians fenced in a
large corral with saplings, and within
built fires. Upon the saplings they
hung their blankets, and within they
fixed billets of wood to represent them
selves as seated about the fires. They
then went into the mountains surround
ing the spot and waited until Custer
and his company should be attracted
to the trap they had devised. They
were successful for the general saw the
light, reconnoitered and thought his
chance had come. He opened fire up
on the Indians. This was the signal.
With one fell swoop 3,000 painted dev
ils rushed down upon him from the
mountain sides. In a moment the lit
tle band of 300 men were surrounded
and the unequal battle commenced, j
Beck said that Custer showed no fear,
but rode into the fight with ejes and I
sabre flashing and never raised it but
that he left upon some redskin's face
his bloody and ragged-edged trade
mark. But at last he too fell pierced
by seven shots. His last words were:
"I am alone; I have done my best; the
boys are all gone and I will go with
them."
Salt for the Throat.
Th? Household,
In these days when diseases of the
throat are so universally prevalent,
and in so many cases fatal, we feel it
our duty to say a word in behalf of a
most effectual, if not positive, cure for
sore throat. For many years past
indeed, we may say duiing the whole
of a life of more than forty years, we
have been subject to a dry hackiag
cough, which is not only distressing to
ourself, but to our friends and those
with whom we are brought into busi
ness contact Last fall we were in
duced to try what virtue there was in
common salt We commenced by
using it three times a day, morning,
noon and night We dissolved a large
tablespoonful of pure table salt in
about half a small tumblerful of water.
With this we gargled the throat most
thoroughly just before meal time.
The result has been that during the
entire winter w were not only free
from coughs and colds, but the dry
hacking cough had entirely disap
peared. We attribute these satisfac
tory results solely to the use of salt
gargle, and most cordially recommend
a trial of it to those who are subject to
diseases of the throat Many persons
who have never tried the salt gargle
have the impression that It is unpleas
ant but after a few days' U3e no person
who loves a nice clean mouth, and a
first-rate sharpener of the appetite, will
abandon it
Thi Cold Spring.
EeooIlecdn y EoL Miller.
There is no occasion to be alarmed
at the continued cold weather. There
have been many worse years. Even
we, a young man, can remember sev
eral. In 1851, May was so cold that it
was called "the blighted May," In imita
tion of a previous May that some people
recollected. On the 15th of June, 1857,
there was a brisk snow storm in this
part of the country. My, 1858, was
colder than this one. There was a
heavy frost on the night of the 20tb.
We believe it was the same year that
frost killed the already headed out
wheat It has been said by observers
that cold, backward springs make the
best seasons for crops.
The people of E&ston, Pa., have nearly
enough money subscribed to build and fi
up a silk mill.
ITEMS OF INDUSTRY.
The consul at Buenos Ayres reporta
that a new starch-mtll has been estab
lished near Buenos Ayres, under the
supervision of Robinson & Son, of Os
wego, N. T. The machinery wa3
made in Oswego. The mills have a
capacity sufficient to supply the mark
ets of this country. Heretofore all
the starch used there has been im
ported. Cut-worms can be cheated out of de
stroying cabbage and other plants
by surrounding each plant with,
an oak, . hickory, or some other
strong leaf set deep enough tc
prevent blowing away. Anothei
remedy, said to be effectual, is ta
put saw-dust about the roots and satu
rate with gas-tar water. The saw d ust
will retain the scent of the tor and
drive away cut-worms and other in
sects, A Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar
company has been incorporated at San
Francisco, with a capital stock of $10,
000,000, for the acquisition, construc
tion, and the maintenance of reservoirs,
ditches, pipes, flumes, aqueducts, and
other works necessary or proper for the
purpose of irrigating lands cn the var
ious islands of Hawaiian kingdom, and
or sugar-cane, and the . manufacture,
purcnase ana saie or sugar.
It is now an established fact that
the peach does well budded on 4 th&
Miner plum. W. F. neikes, of Hunts
ville, Ala., is growing heavy stocks of
the peach propagated in this way. and -says:
"This stock makes handsome
fibrous roots on our soil, and carries its
size up well to the peach, completing a
perfect unien. The wood of the peach
on plum is more solid, sturdy and hardy
than on peach, as any one will be-,
lleve who has grown the apricot on tha
different stocks."
In 1881 there were 143 silk-weaving:
establishments, having 18,858 looms in
operation, in France, and in Switzer
land in 1880 there were 86 silk manu
facturers, having 2,650 power-looms
and 25,000 hand-looms. The Swiss
figures for 1872 were: Manufacturers,
79; power-looms, 1,150: hand-looms.
26,560. The ribbon production in
Basiein 1572 was estimated at 57,000,
000 francs, in 1876 at 52,000,000 f ranc3,
in 1878 at 39,00u,000 francs, and in
1880 at 33,000,000 francs.
Mississippi has something over 30,
000,000 acres of land -much of them
the richest known to man. Less tkan
5,000,000 acres are cultivated. This isr
however, an increase of several hun
dred thousand acres over the number
in 1870, and nearly equal to that under
cultivation in 1860. There are now
75,000 farms, as compared with 68,000
ten years ago, and 42,000 twenty years
ago. The number of acres comprised
in the plantations is nearly three times
that actually farmed i. e., there aro
14.000,000 owned, and, but 5,000,000
cultivated.
Some new and valuable kinds of
cinchona have receutly been brought
to notice in India. One of these is the
Calisaya verde, which is a very large
tree wholly devoid of any red color on
the leaves, and habitually growing far
down the valleys, and even in the
Diams. Each tree of this kind is said
to furnish from COO Vbs. to 700 fi3 annu
ally, which, if it be the case, would
make it the most profitable one to cul
tivate. The great feature of the.
Calisaya verde, however, that it grows
at a lower elevation than most other
cinchona trees. The seeds of this
plant are now on sale in London.
The United States consul at Prescott
reports that 11,200,000 worth of eggs
were imported the past year from
Canada to the United States free of
duty. He recommends that a duty of
1 cent per dozen be laid on eggs, and
asserts that this duty would pay the
expenses of the customs district of
Oswegatcbie and CnampHin. N. Y
and the district of Vermont He also
suggests that a duty of $1 a ton on
straw, 4 cents each on railroad ties, 6
cents on fence posts, and that the duty
on hay be $ 1 a ton, hop poles cent
each instead of 20 per cent, and iron
ore 80 cents per ton instead of 20 per
cent He adds that butter and pota
toes can be sent into this country at a
profit under the present tariff.
The manner of milking in the chan
nel islands, the home of the Je: sey cow,
or more properly, perhaps, the Alder
ney, is peculiar, and has the merit of
cleanliness, at least Milking and
straining the milk are done at one
operation. The milkmaid, with her
tin pail, liceu strainer, and sea-shell
proceeds to the pasture. Seating her
self beside the cow, she thus completes
her arrangements: The strainer is se
curely tied over the narrow-mouthed
bucket, and placing the large shallow
shell on the strainer she vigorously
directs the streanss into the shell.
Overflowing the shallow brim the milk
passes through the strainer into the re
ceptacle beneath, the 'shell being used
simply to prevent wearing a hole in the
linen strainer.
The London Grocer says: One of the
most curious facts in the history of
coffee and chicory during the past ten
years is the great decline in the manu
facture of home dried chicory. The
trade is now nearly extinct In 1871
there were 15,666 cwts charged, the
duty amounting to -$18,995; at that
time the duty was 1 4s. sd per cwt
In 1873, when the duty was reduced to
12s. Id. the rate of production had de
clined to 9.131 cwt, the duty derived
being but $5 566. Five years later, in
1878, the quantity dried had declined
to 4 375 cwts.; and in 1881 it had still
further fallen to 2,365, the duty being
only a little ovei 2,000. Since 1875
the factories scattered over the country,
have ceased to exist, the small output
since that year being confined to the
Yorkshire district alone.
The Connellsville, Pa coke region cot
era an area of about forty miles wide