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THE PEOPLE'S OKE DOLLAR TUESDAY AND FRIDAY VISITOR. AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GAR D EX. Box Stalls for Horses. The stable for the horse should be of good size. The narrow dimensions of many of the stalls are a positive cruelty to horses. They are built too narrow to enable the horse to extend his limbs when convenient. He is compelled, when in a recumbent position, to double his limbs up under him, and his les are thus kept cramped, when they should be completely at rest. Box-stalls permit the animal to choose its position and change it at pleasure. Comfort is essential to health, .and it is evident that the animal can not be comfortable "when closely tied in a narrow stall. The stalls should be kept clean, and the floor daily sprinkled with -some good absorbent, gypsum, to absorb the foul odors continually arising. Absorbents are not generally used freely enough about stables. Besides having pure air for the animal to breathe, a stable that is stored full of hay and gTain ought to be kept well ventilated, and kept clean, that the impurities of the air may not penetrate these. All food should be kept as pure as possible. Cleanliness about the stable is just as important to the health of the horse, as cleanliness about the house is important to the health of the family. American Agriculturist. Summer Fallowing. The practice of summer fallowing, now so prevalent in many Xorthwcstern sections, is claimed by many to actually add to the richness of the land. This is supposed to be so because larger crops are grown upon lands so treated. "Are not these larger crops due," asks the Minne sota Farmer, "rather to the fact that con stant stirring lias so pulverized the ground that it is placed in a mechanical condition suitable for the grain sown on it to more completely absorb the elements required for their growth, and, there fore, while producing larger crops the sooner exhausted I Summer fallowing without manure will eventually become a broken reed for the farmer to lean upon. A judicious rotation is far preferable. Some intelligent farmers claim that ttsy have thoroughly tried summer fallowing to get rid of weeds, and that as a means to accomplish that purpose it is a fiat failure. The plan has its merits, but at best it must have the important objec tion urged against it that one year's crop is unavoidably lost while the interest on the investment, the taxes and time go right on without a let up. Still, it has been a practice in old agricultural coun tries for hundreds of years, and has done good service." Farm and Garden Notes. Manure is the farmers' savings bank. Beware of lice on fowls at this season. Catnip is regarded as a valuable plant for bees. Avoid feeding too much corn to grow ing pigs. Sift the cinders out before using coal ashes for the chickens' dust-box. Pretty country homes are becoming more common than they used to be. There is a growing determination on the part of farmers not to wash the wool on sheep. Farmers complain that the English sparrow destroys the buds of fruit trees and bushes. Those who feed bran to horses largely are most in favor of it, according to F. D. Coburn. Colonel F. D. Curtis suggests that "more 'come bossv,' and less 'get around there,' will till the pail." The horse that works in the long, hot days wants a dry shoulder and a clean collar, says Stephen Powers. The willow, elm and poplar figure among the most troublesome of trees for filling up drains with their roots. Cut out the canes of raspberries that have borne fruit this year and stake up the canes for bearing next season. Sawdust and lime make a very tough, firm, enduring plaster, which can be used to much advantage in patching walls, Hues, etc. The farmer who leaves expensive im plements exposed to the weather is usual ly one who finds that "there is no money in farming." An expression of opinions at a recent meeting 4of farmers developed the fact that most of them inclined to cut hay when in full bloom. On rich land it always pays to sow clover with orchard grass, as they ripen about the same time, and the orchard grass will hold the clover up. This is an old rule. A crop of fodder corn is not only a useful resource in time of drouth, but, as the American Dairyman suggests, "ex cellent for ridding the ground of many troublesome kinds of weeds." One part corn meal, two parts bran, two parts of fground oats, one part ground meat, one part of middlings, a little bone meal and salt scalded and fed early in the morning, is reported a good egg-producing food. Mr. S. M. Palmer says: "When one of your team horses is more tender in the mouth, and especially if a little the slower, make his lines'two or three inches longer than the faster hoisc and they will travel much evener." To have a good turnip patch the preparation of the laud should begin early. Xo crop grown requires more thorough fixing of the soil or heavier manuring. The turnip feeds voraciously, and seldom is enough manure used. It is claimed that corn, clover and other crops are now generally allowed to pass the succulent stage and coma nearly to maturity before putting them in the silo. The advantages arc that they con tain more nutriment and the smaller per cent, of water allows the heating to reach a higher point. Dwarf peas seldom afford more than one picking, though they come early. The fall varieties require more labor (and sticking), but they afford several crops, and do not ripen all the pods at the same time. Seed for a late supply may be planted even as late as now, but the crop will not be heavy. Young turkeys do not thrive in con finement. Wandering about seems neces sary for their development. Damp is fatal to them. They should be kept fastened up till the early dew is off, and then allowed to roam. Chopped green food, especially onion top?, mixed with soaked bread, etc., will make them thrive. In applying any liquid mixture to de stroy insects, like the kerosene and soap mixture for plant lice, or Buhach and water for the cabbage caterpillar, Prof. A. J. Cook urges that the liquid be thrown on with much force, so that it will scatter everywhere. It is not the amount of poison, but the thorough dis tribution, that should engage attention. Procure new crop turnip seed and have the ground fine. The rows may be wide apart, so as to allow of working with the cultivator. The ground should be as fine as an ash-heap. Drop the seed in small clusters, about six inches apart in the rows, as the insects will often de stroy young turnips. If too thick when up they can be thinned out. Too much fine, well-rotted manure cannot be used T on turnips. Do not put turnips on ground. occupied by corn the previous year. Trials or a Consul. A young fellow, writes an attache to an American consulate in England, un mistakably a Bowery boy, swaggered in and demanded to be sent home, I found he had no claim, and denied him. lie was persistent, and finally insolent, and told me he knew the ropes well; that he was too fly for me; that he knew "de Government give me $300 a year to send de boys home, and I didn't send 'em to swag de tin." I called the bouncer, a necessary appendage to a seaport con sulate, for whom the Government ought to make an appropriation, and had him thrown out. But he was the avant garde of an army. Within two hours five fellows, one after another, and, with cun ning effrontery, or insolence, according to their natures, informed me that they knew all about it; that the fewer I sent to the States, the more money I made, and that I had better not carry it too far. This was getting interesting, and the next applicant for part of the hoard that I was robbing the poor of was closely questioned. After a long and searching inquiry I found that an old sailor whom I had the day before refused a sixpence for beer was buttonholing every old cast away and beach comer on the quays and saying : 'Go to the Yankee Consul if you want a soft berth. He gets a lot of money to send poor fellows to the States, and he's pocketing most of it ; but if you shove him hard enough lie s oouna 10 send you." This was an ingenious venge ance, wasn't it? And it gave me trouble for months. Indeed, after a year a "Boston boy," as he, with visible swelling, informed me, seemed utterly heart-broken that he had been misin formed in the streets about his chances of getting home. He earnestly begged a shilling to get some supper, which I gave him. He left me, and, as I acci dentally noticed through the window, joined a particularly indurated old shell back. So I followed them, and, as I supposed, they sought the first bar. I went after them and quietly demanded my shilling back, under pain of prosecu tion for 'obtaining money under false pretenses"; but the Boston boy noncha lantly informed me that he was being treated bv the other fellow, and that my shilling was safe in his pocket, where it should remain. While I was hunting a policeman he got away. The World's Largest Cities. The following information, says the Pall Mall Gazette, is often inquired for, and,- as it . may be useful in many cases for reference, we have complied a table of the largest cities of the world, with their populations as stated by the latest authorities. In the absence of any official census the Chinese cities have simply to be estimated, and of course must be ac cepted as an approximation only. We have not given any city whose population is below 500,000, "though there are many we could enumerate which closely ap proach that figure. It will be seen that in the thirtv-fivc cities tabulated below there are 32,510,319 souls, or nearly the population of the British Isles, a fact -which cannot be grasped in a moment by any ordinary intellect: Aitehi, Japan Bangkok, Siam Brooklyn, X. Y Berlin. Prussia Calcutta, India Canton, China Changchoofoo, China Chicago. Ill pc-fontiTinnlp TlirkPV 1,332,050 500,000 771,000 1,122.330 706,20s 1,500,000 1,000,000 . . . . 715,000 700,00 J Fnochoo. China VCt'YZZ j - YkiV (llasc-ow. Scotland. . . Hang-Chow-foo, China... Hang-Tcheon, China Han-Kow, China King-te-Chianr, China .... Liverpool. EnSland London, England Madrid, Spain Moscow, Ilussia - New York, N. Y Paris. France Pekalonga, Java Fekin. China Philadelphia, Penn St. Petersburg, Russia Sartama, Japan Sian, China. ... St. Louis, Mo Tat-Seen-Loo, China Tien-Tsin, China Tokio, Japan Tschautehau-fu, China Tsin-Tchoo. China . 000,003 , 800,000 . 600.000 . 500,000 . 573,000 .3,!l.w,S10 . 5 HV.HX) . Oil. '.'74 .1,400.C4V . 50.VH . $00,XK) . 850,000 . TW.'.HH . Hi,747 .1,000,000 . 500,000 . 500,000 . 950,000 . 9S7,S57 .1,000,000 . 800,000 Vienna. Austria. 72G,105 V ienna, Austria o,vVwi Woo-chac-, China WU,WO WISE WORDS. Speaking without thinking 13 shootiDg without aiming. if you speak what you will, ycu shall hear what you dislike. Impose not a burden on others which you cannot bear yourself. The more important an animal is to be the lower is its start. 3Ian, the noblest of alL is born lowest. Gayety is to good humor as perfume to vegetable fragrance ; the one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and re vives them. Conversation is the music of the mind, an intellectual orchestra, where all the instruments should bear a part, but where none should play together. A man who hath no virtue in himsell ever envicth virtue in others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and whe wanteth the one will prey upon the other. It is the part of wisdom to enjoy what we have, rather than to make life miser able by pining for things beyond our reach. The poorest among us are in possession of luxuries denied to kings a few centuries ago. Clydesdale Horses. The Clydesdales have long been recog nized as a leading and very valuable race of heavy draucrht-horses, but they were never bred to such a high degree oi ex cellence as at present. The old type oi Clydesdale, while massive and strong limbed, was somewhat 44 light-waisted. But skillful and judicious breeding has produced an animal which may well hi regarded as a model for a heavy draught horse. They possess sloping shoulders, good limbs, Veil ' 'feathered'' around the fetlocks, well -sprung ribs, deep barrel chest, and muscular quarters. The exten sive importation of these horses into the United States has added an important element to the horse stock of the AVest, where they are highly appreciated. Great care is used, both in the land of their ori gin and in this country, to preserve the purity of the breed, and encourage breed ing to the highest type. The stud-books of Great Britain and of America are con ducted with the greatest care, to guard against the registry of any but pure bred animals. The respective associations ol Clydesdale breeders in both countries of fer liberal premiums for annual competi tive exhibitions. In this and other re spects both associations have always shown a broad and liberal spirit of enterprise. American Agriculturist. Remarkable Canary Bird. Perhaps the most remarkable canarj bird in the city of New York died from au apoplectic tit last week. . It was whal is called an educated "tune bird." Ii sang "Life let us cherish," by Mozart, sc well that it" was a genuine pleasure to listen to it. This bird belonged to Mr. Iloff, who has a large barber shop in Union Square. There are at present two more "tune birds" in this city, one be longing to Mrs. Beckwith and the othei to Mr. Kolston of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, but neither one of these can sing so well as could the little song ster that died last week. About three years ago Mr. Iloff was offered five hun dred dollars for it by a Spaniard con nected with the Legation at Washing ton, who wanted to present it to the present Queen Begent of Spain, Maris Christina. Mr. Iloff declined to sell it for five hundred dollars, whereupon he was asked how much he would take. He rprkliorl that he would not name ani amount, inasmuch as he had made up his mind to keep the little fellow as long a? he lived. Xew York Epoch. The Heart After Decapitation. Dr. Charcot, the famous hypnotizer, has recently had a chance of examining immediately after decapitation one ol the four per cent, of French murderers who get executed. Thanks to the as sistance of the police, his examination commenced two seconds after the knife of the guillotine had fallen; and the head even then had ceased to give any signs of life, though muscular movement continued in the neighborhood of the jaw until the sixth second. But the beating of the heart, caused by the in flux of blood, actually continued foi sixty minutes. The conclusion finally arrived at was that the death of the guillotined man had not been caused bj asphyxia. The violent irritation of the nerves of the neck, it was decided, had reacted upon the heart and death fol lowed the shock. London Figaro. A Clever Oriole. An observing correspondent. Mr. G. B. M., sends me a letter about mj friends, the orioles, or rather about one of these birds that had a keen eye tc business. "It is curious," says Mr. G. B. M., "what a variety of materials Bal timore orioles will use in the construc tion of their nests. In the lawn of one of the prettiest homes in the State ol Maryland a pair of orioles selected a tree in which to build. It was a large fir tree, about forty-five feet from the house. The lad v of the house was sewingbyone of the windows opposite this tree early one beautiful summer morning, and, on I .einir called away to some other room, he placed her spool of cotton on the window sill. "When she returned she found the spool was gone, and on look ing for it. 'discovered it on the floor of the porch, which was just outside of the window. She found that a considerable length of the cotton was unwound, and looking for the end of it she traced it r.p to the nest of the oriole,- and f-aw the bird busily wcavingjt into the nest. The lady placed the spool in the window, and it was shown as a curiosity to nil who visited the house. I was one whr was so fortunate as to see this curious proof of !bird ingenuity." St. A ichsAas NEYS AND .NOTES FOU WOM EN. J The old-fashioned sandal is re-cstab- lished in favor for ladies wear. The rage for two colors extends even to passementerie ornamentation for dresses and mantles. A novelty which is likely to prove in- ' valuable for wearing during outdoor pur- j suits is mittens of light calf leather. j A new silk glove is long enough to go over the sleeve, and so trimmed with bows as to appear as if fastened by them. Children's dresses are longer-waistcd than last season, being made down to the waist line and sometimes slightly be low. A much favored ornament of the mo ment consists of necklaces of passemen terie composed of several graduated rows. The long rcdingote polonaise is much favored for all costumes for walking and morning wear, and many variations of it are seen. Homespun costumes usually have a decoration of hussar braid and buttons extending from the top to the edge of the skirt. Coarse homespun clothes are still worn, the newest showing broad stripes of colored fluffy dots on their fawn-colored or neutral-tinted grounds. Broche costumes are made with pique waistcoats, which may be of any shade from pure white to the darkest orange embroidered with colored spots. It is becoming customary to make the trains of wedding gowns separate from the skirt, so that it may be removed when the dress is afterward worn at balls. The Princess Mampour, of Ismail, is a very extravagant young potentate. She is up to her jeweled ears in debt, and ct she thinks nothing of paying $o00 foi a pug. The once ugly waterproof has devel oped into an elegant garment in wool or silk of fashionable pattern and color, and is a very desirable addition to a lady's wardrobe. "When belles travel they more and more take to what may be called aggressive costumes. Enveloping cloaks are made of pronounced plaid, and sometimes a skull cap is worn to match. Mrs. Stephen Morlcy, a Montreal woman of wealth, kept over 200 cats in her house. The board of health raided her, and she lost her pets. Now she is 6uing the board for damages. Skirts made of fancy stuffs, with which different overdresses may be worn, are fashionable. The draperies are usually arranged high, leaving the skirt the con spicuous feature of the costume. In scarfs nearly every style now seems to be worn, including China crepe, India silk and cashmere, plain and embroid ered. However, the Spanish lace scarf still continues not only staple, but the favorite. For silk and wool combination dresses contrasts of color are again seen, with fine, soft camel's hair for the waists and drapery over a silk skirt of Ottoman, Bengaline, faille Francaise or any good repped silk. Miss Annie Thomas, of Billings, Mon tana, is the busiest woman in that busy territory. She conducts a G,000-acre ranch, looks after valuable timber prop erty and has an interest in two paying mines near Butte City. Very elegant looking costumes have plain but ample draperies, which are ar tistically fastened here and there with agraffes of old silver. These pretty orna ments are also seen upon the crowns and brims of stringless bonnets and large hats. London photographers encourage the idea of American women being presented at court. Every woman immediately has her picture taken in court costume to send home to her dear 500 friends. The photographers are growing rich under this new dispensation. The wife of the Viceroy Li, of China, recently paid a visit to the foreign hos pital for women at Tien-Tsin and showed much sympathy with the poor patients. She ordered her attendants to distribute money to all alike. The incident is re garded as noteworthy, as Chinese digni taries heretofore have paid little heed to charity. It is estimated that there are 3,000,000 workingwomen in England, about one half of whom are in domestic employ ment. Further, that half the working class families of the land are maintained by the work of women's hands at ridic ulously low wages. The Jiritiah Weekly suggests that jubilee year is a good time to make some efforts looking to a better ment of their condition. A dainty flower parasol of real blos soms was lately presented to the Czarina bv the officers of a Russian corps on regimental fete day. Pale pink roses formed the centre of the parasol, with a border of deep red blooms, while sprays of lillies of the valley hung all around the edge in a graceful fringe. The arms of the regiment were embroidered on a white satin ribbon knotted around the ivory handle of the parasol. The latest fancy in hair dressing is the coiffure a la vrai Grequc. not high on the head, but drawn in a close coil, rolled under something like a French twist on the back of the head, brushed off the temples and forehead, with only a few light curly tresses falling from under a riviere of jewels, or a Greek fillet that just touches the top of the forehead and de-cribes a straight line to the back of the. head. The whole effect is very clos?, and no additional hair is required. A paper beer bottle is to be the next achievement in the bottle line. Ink, paints, oils and certain acids have for some time past been put in paper bottles, as being safer from breakage aid freez ing than those made of glass. A qq QF ASSASSINS. Sixtj Person Murtlcrctl ant! Plun dered In Scrri. A ganj of murderers has just been arrestM at Pirct, in Scrvia, Their victims during the) past two year numtxr sixt y. Disruis! as peiAiarrrHts the assassins preteniel to arrwt travelers for various offences, and then rv4bxl and killed them. A deputy of th Prefect of Fi rot wa the first person arrested for complicity la Um crimes. It is believed that political motives led to the commission of - ome of the mur ders. Two French newspaper men and Prince, Alexander's groom were among the victims. An official committee of inquiry has been dis patched to Pirot. Happy Thouirht, "It Is too bad," eaid the managing editor to the funny man ; "here is a man in the counting-room desiring to put in a big advertisement, and the editor in chief and the publisher are both at the beach." "Well, can't you manage that your self?" "Well, not very well. Somebody is -wanted to swear to the circulation." "Oh, I see." "Unfortunate, isn't it?" "I should sav so. What's to be done?" "Can't you swear to it?" "Why, man, they won't accept mo.' "Misery! Will I do?" "You! Absurd." "Too bad I Oh, by the way, is the religious editor here?" "tiracions goodness, ves! Why didn't I think of it before? lle'll bo accepted without a murmur." Tho thing is done at once. Ronton Courier. "Fool Kush In Where Angel Fear ( ( Trend." Po impetuous youth is often (riven to folly and indiscretions; and, as a result, nervous mental and organic debility follow, memory is impaired, self-confidence is lacking; at niht ban dreams occur, premature old ace wems eettinpc in, ruin is in the track. In mnfMence.you can, and should write to nr. it. . rierce, oi nm falo, N. Y., the author of a treatise, ftr the ben efit of that class of patients, and des.-ritx? your symptoms and sufferings, lie can cure you at vour home, and will send you full particulars by mail. According to records kept for many years London fogs are becoming less frequent every year. 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