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IIlfjBOIlOUCiir, SIKH Ii A COUNTY, X. M FEBRUARY 20, 10.
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NO. 52.
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COMPENSATION.
) The Lord isxpod Unto the duds,
I or see how nice be looks;
" ' realUe those splendors now
we've ;u about in books.
He ave hlin thnt 'd'e'liirhtful bang,
t'hat oo:uuVatltf and hlrb.
. That aUntle-barrcled eye-glass, too,
UJliat tin his KiigllsU eye.
He save hfm those expansive cuff,
He uve that elbow erook
A oross between a don's hind-let
Aud some old I'Hkiiihii s hook.
! He (tave thoe clothes of latest cut,
Tito pittont leather shoe,
- The, liolivy cane, the icbni irloves.
The socks of gold and blnu.
From crown to pole a perfect fit,
A KmncthtPK hound t phase
The lilies of Hie Hold nro not
Arrayed so nice, us these.
The Lord Is Rood unto the dude,
Ho equalises irH.ni,
Bv ifivinx :ill tlit'Bi" lovely tilings
To tnliu the place of brains. ,
Slctciiatit T-ratcUr.
MODEIIN SI 15 ENS.
Female Cnnvascers and the Bright
Weapons of Their Success.
The female canvasser lost her grip
on a place in mythology by being born
bo recently, lli'.l slio been around
when the wily Ulysses was going about
with those impressionable Greeks on
.yacht.. ,c,rtusiiauLhB..woalil-h.vi - com
manded a good salary in any chorus of
sirens. Coming into existence in the
Anno Domini period, she is perforce
compelled to change her tactics. Sho
does not try to catch a tar, although a
Tartar every now and then falls in her
way, but sets about luring the business
Hum into financial ruin. The female
tanvasser is one of the few things of
contemporaneous interest that were
not created to till a long-felt want. No
ono has ever been known to yearn for
iier coming or to feel that her absence
manufactured a vacuum in his exist
ence. Ihe result is that she lias be-
come an interesting waif hunting for
mi opening, who diffuses herself over
the lair lace, of nature wherever the
shekels are ripest.
The female canvasser is generally in
the book or advertising line. She
Domehow contrives to find something
in both with which she can make appeal
to the sluggish charitable instincts of
humanity. She never seems to bo
working for business, but only for the
lovojf the cause in which she is en
listed, and there is always some ulte
rior person or purpose to be benefitted
by- a stile or subscription.. Upon the
deserving character of this person or
purpose slie always brings her elo-
quence to Bear, it is not the mere
money she seems to want. Her object
appears to bo only tho stimulation of
interest in tho scheme iia rqpwtseiitsk
When sno does take tiie money or its
equivalent and that happens pretty
often she does it as though she were
only performing a subordinate part of
me aonor a duty lor which he ought to
be grateful to her.
The man who contributes to a char
ity or buys a bill of goods from a
, drummer has a vaguo notion that he
has-Ubno a. service for the solicitor.
But the female canvasser never permits
him to harbor any such, idea about her.
He is given to understand that he has
doii only what he should have done
Jong ago, and it was highly improper
for him to wait till she reminded him
of it. That is tho reason every one
feels himself humble and abashed
when a female canvasser looms up in
tho horizon, and feels humbler and
more abashed when sho leaves.
There are two kinds of female can
vassers tho old and the young varie
ties. Their methods are diametrically
' opposite. The one says everything she
can; the other as little as she can. The
former is a born exhorter. She can
get in ruoro vocal work in a given
space than any male agitator of the
organ of speech extant. The young va
riety of canvasser does not run the
campaign that way. Her strong
points are her eyes. Once her tongue
has set forth her business it suspends
mid her eyes begin to issue dividends.
Thereafter all operations are carried on
Irom that quarter.
She finds this the most effective way.
A whole park of artillery would not
hold its own as an instrument of de
struction against the eves of a well
organized canvasser. If she is coldly
received she throws a little warmth and
feeling into her glances. If sho is re
buffed the eyes till. If she is turned
away sho suffuses them with a look of
pleading that would reduce adamant at
a hundred paces. She begs with them,
prays with them, urges with them and
exhorts with them, and as there is no
force known to science that will over
come this mute insistence, humanity
has to yield and the reluctant purse
etrmgs have to loosen.
Cunning business people know this.
They know that a female canvasser is
more fatal than any other engine of
war that can be brought to bear upon
the works with which mankind has
trenched itself against booksellers and
advertisers. So nowadays. they reserve
her for the forlorn hojier work and
launch her against the stoutest pointed
resistance, confident of the result.
A reporter yesterday had.a talk with
one of these long headed people. He
found her in an oilice Which exhaled
more aroma than a-Sixth avenue pbar
macy, and contained more feet of femi
nine artfulness than any known insti
tution outside of a charity lair. The
ladies in it were all canvassers. One
could tell in a twinkling from the flu
ency of the utterances of the more el
derly and the limpid catch-on-fulness
of the eyes of the younger ones. After
tier had each poured a few gallons nt
tncioriy into the boss's ears and varied it
every now and then with little mirth
ful refrains descriptive of how certain
positions were carried and the "loot"
taken, they all got up and went" out.
Tho reporter quailed as they filed
past him. He thought of Amazons
going to war and trembled for the
store-keepers and office clerks upon
whom all those resources of rhetoric
and optics would soon be brought to
bear. Then he accosted the gentleman
who owned aud operated the line of I
female canvassers antf asked where ha
got most of his recruits.
"From the very best kind of people,"
said the manager of this aggregation
of tongues and eyes. "No one else
would do. You will find that all those
ladies are people of culture. Many of
them are highly educated. Some have
been brought up in affluence. How do
they come to canvass, you ask? That
is easily told. There is no country in
the world that witnesses so many vicis
situdes of fortune as this, and none
where a woman has so many ways of
earning an independence. Your woman
of spirit does not sit down and snivel
when she finds herself without means,
or look to her relatives for a precarious
living, which is often yielded pretty re
luctantly. She buckles on the armor
Hnd starts out to tight her own battles.
Thank goodness, our American women
are not hedged in by tho restraints tht
are somewhere imposed on theSex.
They can do business with business
people, without detriment to thei? wom
anhood. "They can go about with nearly all
tho feeedom of a man without suffering
social outlawry. They know this and
they act upon it. There are hundreds
of women who could not earn their
salt at sewing, embroidering, teaching
or music. They have brains and tact,
though, and they use them. They be
come canvassers, and often great deal
belter ones than the men. There cer
tainly is nothing reprehensible in their
calling at a purely business place on a
matter of "Business. "It iTocsnof "dero
gate from their ladylike qualities an
iota. In fact, the more womanly they
are the better they succeed. There is
as much buncombe about woman stick
ing to her 'sphere' as there is about her
getting into the other se's, and there
is not a sensible man on the top of the
earth but (sympathizes with a woman
who is boldly making her way in the
avenues of legitimate business, and ad
mires her, too, for it."
"But all your canvassers are not en
dowed with these advantages?"
Certainly not. There are different
kinds of qualities needed for success in
this business as in any other. Perhaps
there is a field for a greater variety, be
cause there is so many different kinds
of people to appeal to. There are op
portunities for energetic women who
are not gifted mentally to get along if
they make the most of their advan
tages., Any business man who engages
them should have tact enough to dis
criminate and assign each to a class of
people to which she is adapted."
"Do most of the ladies make their
livings in this way?"
"Why, there are numbers who have
no need to go into the business at all.
They are quite comfortably situated.
Some ofthem, indeed, belong tofamilies
that are quite well to do. What makes
them canvas,, then, you ark Because
they are like all women; they want
some luxuries that are costly, and they
have the courage to start out and
;aruthjm "faciei-'' tlrn eMctTfifWtnefr
husbaiuls, or brothers or fathers.
It is only a little while
ago a lady canin here who was very
well connected and tool; a canvassing
route. She had seen some costly jew
elry thnt took her eye and she made up
her mind to possess it. She succeeded,
too, I can toll yon, She worked like a
beaver and turned in a list of patrons
that fairly dazzled mo. In less than
no time she had her coveted ornament.
Then she stopped, and I was sorry for.
it, I can tell you. I hope the next
thing she takes a fancy to may bo a bit
more valuable. There is money in such
a woman."
"Do not sensitive women fear re
buff?" "That's where they have the best of
the men. No one but a brute will bo
harsh to nn honest, woman, They
need never fear insult from gentlemen.
and very soon they come to know that, j
If they meet with a refusal it is general- '
ly a courteous one. The men do not ,
sometimes fare so well."
But is there no trouble found in get- '
ting at many people they wish to ;
solicit?" I
Oh, of course. Some men when
they see a woman coming in guess her ,
business and say they are out. That is ;
an old trick, and funny complications
often arise from it. One of our ladies,
who twice failed to find a down-town
merchant, left a note for him stating
her business, but not giving her name.
Ho read the note, ami, not knowingtTie
sex of the writer, thought ho would
kill off one canvasser. So ho wrote a
letter. I've got it here." j
A sheet of paper was laid before tho !
reporter. Upon it w as: i
"1.00k here, old Phanirhfjrh, if yon come
monkevlna around here any more there wilt
bo business for the Coroner. I won't have
any thnifrto do with your old prospeetu. j
And don't fail to recollect it. If you mltiet
your bald beaded presence and rum-soddeu
countenance on thce,piMHiiif anv more we
will fire ou. lletfitiitber HluitP Theio is no
appropriation' fe!r ornckers and" ruiu in th'S
euibl shment tor old croukers of your kind.
Bo long!"
"The wflice-boy handefl it to the can
vasser when she called," the gentleman
continued. "Shu U.a pretty girl, with
a face like a summer day end eyes that
do damage at long range. She never
wilted, but thanked the bov and called
again on the proprietor. He received
her with effusion when he saw her,
and then she laid his missive before
him and said she had notified the Cor
oner and was ready for him to lire her.
He didn't do it, you can bet. Ho was
clean floored. When he read the Icttei
over it somehow seemed to him a trifk
strained and inappropriate. He stam
mered an apology and surrendered
right off. " We keep that paper, and
she brings it with bcr when she goes
After him nowndnys. It always fetefip
For he doesn't want the joke to gefbttf,
and a subscription is the prJoe.aof hei
c;i " . . . . : '
"Do male canvass
stri object to female
competitors?"
"Oh, that Is theirown lookout,- Who
ever does the best work commands the
best salary. And I can teil you the
ladies do'not get left. They are no
slouches at this business." N. Y.
Herald.
A soldier, W. P. Moore, was
robbed of eighteen dollars and fifty
cents many years ago while stationed
at Liberty, Mo. He was. a week or so
ago, the recipient of ovef ;-ixty-one
dollars, sent him anonymously, to pay
the principal aud iuterest SI. Limit
I'vsU
"MEXICAN PETER."
Hew He Defended Himself Wheu Accused
of Turkey Stealing.
"Mexican Peter," is something of a
celebrity in his native county. He won
his sobriquet, if not his laurels, when
serving as a body-servant to his young
master, "Marse John," during the
Mexican war. Now, our hero is not
free from some of the failings of his
race, and the shrines of pious Mexicans,
with their gold and silver ornaments,
did prove a most special pitfall and
temptation to poor Peter. In vain did
"Marse John" instill into the African
mind lessons of higher morality, with a
wholesome blending of the terrors of
the law when coming in tho garb of
strict military discipline; the fact re
mained the same: in the time of temp
tation Peter hud to be closely watched.
When the war was over "Marse John"
went to Washington, and Peter was
sent home to "ole niarster." For a fif
short hours after his home coining ho
stepped a hero, with many tales of the
marvelous to tell. Having some sus
picion of how matters stood, "ole.mars
ter," with a sly twinkle, said: " "Now,
Peter, what did you bring back from
jour travels to show us?"
This was touching a tepsfer spot, and
Feter's countenance fj'll as he said: "I
'clare, ole nraStr-r.Mars John didn't
hab no conseiece bout dat thing at ail.
Much as dar wuz to git, all I could
fetch homo wuz wun lil silber gord "
dispiayiligwilh a mixture of pride and
melancholy ji little image of some saint
that might or"hiight not have been of
the precious metal.
Time riilhid Mi, and the proclama
tion emancipated Peter trom "Mars
John's" conscience, andar various sun
dry times he profited by his liberty of
action, and finally found himself in
limbo for unlawfully possessing him
self of a neighbor's turkey, and was
tried in the court where "Marse John"'
was a practicing attorney, and
"Marse Peyton," another mem
ber of the family," the grave and
dignitied Judge. The evidence was
overpowering, and to plead "not
guilty" impossible, so Peter could
only request to be "'lowed to splain
how he got in do trouble." Antici
pating a treat, the request was granted,
and solemnly the court awaited the de
fense. Not without a certain dignity,
the old man arose, mid tho explanation
began: "Geiitiunn, I won't say 1 'aint
got into dig trouble, 'cause. 1 sholy is,
and hit troubling mo 'nough; but in
justice 1 nuts' tell how it all cum upon
me. Fust, sum blame lay at de door
ob Marse John, lie good man, good
as gole; but he wun contrackted, not
say wun stingy, farmer. He got do
ole thrashin-machine he had 'fore de
war, what leave mos' ob de wheat in
do straw, and dat fack 'tiee ole Mis'
Simpkins' turkeys to "cum dar, an'
scratch in de straw an' eat. Now dey
come dar an' do dat so long tell dey
jes shine, and, gentmun, when a tuekey
slune, he fat, hu l loon at rtem shining
tuekeys so long tell I 'gin to feel
mor'lly bound to have one, an' I got
one. Now dat's do fust reason, but
chicfliest dis trouble come to me 'cause
ole Mr. Simpkins wa'nl no gentmun.
Ef I had been dealing will a gentmun,
things ud 'a bin dilliint; but he wuz
pore white folks, an' ez I only knowed
de. ways of gentmun, I wa'nt no matrn
for him. 1 does know a gentmun.
Diun t mo au Marse John here an
.Marsc Peyton dar all come outde same
estate, and who ever fetch do word !ei
wa'nt gentmun? Well, me an' de ole
'oman an' de chillun had jes dun eat
dat tuekey, an', to sabe de seand'l ob
do thing, I had pit all de feathers an'
bones in de Dutch oven my Dutch
oven Mis' Sally gib mo when 1 hear
somebody knock at de door. 1 went
to de door, an' dar stan' ole Mr. Simp
kins! Now some pore white folks is
w us dan p'inter dogs, dey so peersome.
Mr. Simpkins come in; hu look round,
an' walk straight to my Dutch oven
Mis' Sally gib me. He peep in; he
find de feathers anones, pull .uui. all
out, an' jes laff ruost euitlandish! Wuz
dot a gentmun? Now de cote knows
all, an I couldn't set, here quiet tell
dey did-" H m needless to say the
ruling of the "cote" was not very
severe. ZJVirpcr'a Magazine.
INEXPLICABLE. t ...
TU9 QnestlAn'. l'klolt ' Puzzles a Hebrew
'. f ' l)eale''ln Cheap Clothing.
' '"Now, Shakey, mino sohn," said a
dealer in cheap clothing to his eldest
born,, "I nitist righd away by Buffalo
goi, valid I leaves der sdore and der
beezness in you handts. Dot vos a fine
shance for you, mine sohn."
Jake promised to endeavor to make
a good use of the chance.
"Und, Shake, my sohn, vile I was
avay you migtid do a good sdrnke of
beezness h
eyi
Cold vedder is eoiniir
on, und you must mark up all dergoots
in der sdore. Den sdart a big bank
rupt sale, und make believe you sells
does gouts feefty per cent oonder cost
hey? Tell dose peoples dot der old
mau wan ninned away to shwindle his
greditors und does greditors stepped in
und vant to gif dose goots avay almost
-hey?"
When the old man returned from
Buffalo he was surprised to find the
store locked up, and was yet more sur
prised when ho learned that his hope
ful son had sold off everything and
cleared out with the entire assets of the
establishment.
"How dot poy cfer learnt to bo so
dishonest," sadly observed the old man,
".is .bu)C,.ji-vii f ortn'Uiilrr make
Wet. " hriW 7V(rw'-r 'T-'Ttrinr.
He was onb stray waif of a yel
low dovjwjftatfio' aucoatry to boasV of.
buV.stirtfe'sHl upon the wooden scatty
-one of our city parks with lfltle
child's tiny arm lovingly entwined
about his ugly thick neck, and a sweet,
cooing voice saying in his ear, "I love
you, little doggie, he was a proud as
any prize setter in the land. "Is that
vour doc. little bov?" "asked a uolice-
SnAI, as be passed" the happy couple.
"No, he doesn t belong to me, only
I'm acquainted with him," answered
the-affectior:n"rV'.frietjd of tho little
tramp dog. Boston Home .lj4J4.
At least four incorporated towns In
Colorado are at an altitude of over nine
Ikg jsand feet above the ea.
MINT EMPLOYES.
A Mute Girl Who Made r.rsons Paint hj
ftuditenly Npenkilig.
"Anna Dickinson was the greatest
talker ever employed in the mint of
j late years," said an old employe mt
i that institution to a reporter. "But,"
lie continued, "there was a dumb girl
here before the war who could out-talk
, with the lingers any woman' tongue
I 3n the face of the earth."
j The old employe was in a reminiscent
; mood. He said: "The name of the
dumb girl was liebeooa Davis. She
j was a really beautiful woman and was
I sonscious of it, as most pretty women
re. Mie was employed in Ui mint m,
1854, '65, '6ti. 'Becky,' as everybody
spoke of her, was liked by all. Her
sister, a Mrs. Tompkins, kept a well
known confectionery in those days on
Chestnut street, between F.Ioventh and
Twelfth, where Birch's store is now
located. 'Becky,' while entirely dumb,
was not deaf. You could talk to her
and she talked back with her beauti
fully expressive eyes, her head or her
lingers. She was about twenty-live
years of age when she was first em
ployed, of tine figure, graceful in every
movement, full of life and always good
natured. She was at work in the ad
justing room. One day in the winter
of 18.00 she created a consternation in
the mint that almost amounted to a
panic. While at work at her seat en
gaged in masiipulatisig tbu-brij . i'trl
eagles, she turned her pretty face
around to the girl next to her and ex
claimed loudly: 'Oh, I believe 1 can
speak!' Her companion to whom aha
spoke fainted outright, and so did tho
young lady on her left. Tho
women in the room lelt thoirilaces
and ran to the assistance of the two
prostrate girls. 'Beekv began to chat
ter like a magpie and almost f.liieil
u m li .,.' I. L i I. '
uciseil. u t .sjieeeu iirtii euiUM m ner
so sudden thai she could not realize it
any more than her astounded room
mates, to whom she had been making
signs for years. She remained in tho
mint some veers niter that, and her
case attracted tho attention of tho
Greatest medical schuUista of the day
Rebecca was a Unman Catholic in re
liffion, and in 18;H .-he entered aeon
vent near this oily. I do not know
whether she is jiving vet or not, but
she certainly scared the girls on that
day.
"Anna Dickinson was employed here
during the war. She could talk on any
subject and gossip with anybody. Her
political discussions with the other
employes, male and female, were
numerous and led to frequent reports
against her. Somebody went to Di
rector Tolloek about her denunciations.
He expostulated with her and finally
dismissed her. Some years afterward,
when sho became famous as a lecturer.
she came here and spoke to a large
audience at the Academy of Music
Her friend. Judge Kelley, was to in
troduee her to the audience, but he had
not arrived, and the audience was
growing impatient. There were
several distinguished gentlemen on the
stage, one of whom was ex-Governor
Pollock. He was finally prevailed upon
to introduce his former employe in the
mint, which he did in a eloquent
manner. When ho had finished Miss
Anna looked daggers at him and did
not stir from her seat. Judge Kelley
came in a few minutes afterward, ond
she was again presented to the audi
ence. So you see she got even with
Mr. Pollock for dismissing her by
publicly rebuking him. She was a
great girl and smart as a whip.
"There goes a person who has been
here longer than I have," said the
veteran, as he pointed toward n lady
of about ;2 years of age, around whose
face lingered traces of former bounty,
mid whose figure was still shapely and
erect. "She came hero a young miss
of ten years, thirty-two years ago, and
is now the chief adjuster. During the
time of her employment she was mar
ried to a gentleman a few moments
bcfm'i) he died, who had courted her
for some years. She is really Mho,
Mint,' and knows more about Ike busi
ness than all the rest of us put to
gether.'' l'ltiladilphia Times.
ANGLO-SAXON GROWTH.
rtnptd fnrrese of the Cermanlc, and De.
crease of the f..atln, Karen.
The Latin rsces, that is, Franco, Italy
anil Spain, have ceased to be whatever
any one of them may be destined yet
to become, again, the mighty factors in
the world's progress which of old they
were. They minister exquisitely to the
comfort, the luxury, the culture and
the pieturesqueness of life; but the Rpt
itude for. foreign commerce which they
show is comparatively slight, and in
the colonizing business of humanity
tiiey only play a subordinate part.
Moreover, their population, when com
pared with tho population of the Anglo-Saxon
and tho Teutonic races, is
diminishing. Thus, in a period a little
than 100 years, from 17H8 to 188.r. the
aggregate populations of F'rance, Spain
and Italy have only increased from
51, 000,000 to Sa.fiOO.OOO. .On the other
band, the populations of Germany and
England during this period have each
trebled. Germany in 178S had a popu
lation of about, lA.ilOO.OOO; in 188.5 it had
increased to 4n,000.o00. Great Britain
in the same wav had in 1788 a popula
tion of 12,000,000; in 1885 the figure was
36.000,000. Another country largely,
but not exclusively, populated by the
Anglo-Saxon race America has in
less than a hundred years increased
r.earlv thirteen times that is, from less
than 4,000,000 in 17!t0 to nearly 60,000,1
O0O in 188-"). Filially, it must not bo
forgotten that Canada, Australia, South
Africa, bs well as other British depend
encies, collectively, contain a popula
tion of some 10,000,000, chiefly of Anglo-Saxons,
and there is every reason
to believe that the development and in
crease of this population will be rapid.
If)rtmMly iieview.
A man named Conly, living in ont
of our North western Ohio counties, and
aged seventy ytars, won one thousund
iollais the other day by walking seven
miles in less than seventy minules. It
wnuld seem as u the time were not far
d'stant when there won't be any fur
ther use for young men whatever.
btH'Juiriaint ixaminer.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Prof. Landmark. Chief Director
of the Norwegian Fisheries, asserts
that salmon sometimes jump perpen
dicularly sixteen feet.
Scorpion, spiders and various m
sects have been observed to remain
motionless it any person mowssirongiy
upon them in a vertical direction.
Canon Farrar came to this country
for a rest ami took away twenty-live
thousand dollars. Ho will take the
rest on his net visit. I'hiladiljMn
Vail.
A burglar in Weld, Me., was de
tected by a snowball from the heel of
his boot, which corresponded precisely
with a similar snowball found in tho
t'ore after the robbery.
The New Orleans Creoles make a
sle-ping draught of lettuce leaves
boiled to form a tea. The lettuce-leaf
tea is administered in large quantities
Deiore. going to ecu 10 cui e sieepicss-
X. V. Times.
A New York negro pleaded not
gtii'ty to a charge of highway robbery
with such fervor that be might have
escaped had he not pulled out the wim
plainant's handkerchief to mop his
perspiring brow. AT. Y. lleruhi.
To stop a runaway horse tho Rus
sians have a light cord with a slip
noose in it about the horse's throat,
with the cord rnnninjj through the sad
dle ring and ovrt- too dasher, at hand
for the driver to pull upon at the home's
lirst attempt to run: A little choking
stops him.
A iniiioloh ihe head waters of the
Columbia Kivcr, in British Columbia,
has found, so he alleges, a deserted
niinlnir Itiwn n hero tint billiard tables
Mfl-8"uvl in the saloons and letters are
lying m the post-ottieo bearing u:ue oi
18.it), Not a soul has been near tho
place for years. Chicago Times.
--Somo twenty colonies have been
established in the Santa Fe district of
the Argentine liopuhlic. Their terri
tory occupies ninety-five square leagues,
ant the get tiers number 1,869 families.
During the last thirty years the district
has irrown through colonization until
it has a population of 110,000 soils.
At Trieste, on tire Adriatic, they
say the wind is so stable and enduring
liiatyou might accept a bill on it, end
George Augustus- JSula says the breezes
of Wellington, New South Wales, have
such steady habits und are so strong
that he frequently uses them as a desk
on which to draw a draft on London.
Massachusetts registered over six
thousand insane persons in her asylums
and hospitals during 1883 an increase
of two hundred over the previous year.
The annual cost to tho State ot this
form of relief exceeds 1,01X1,000, not
reckoning tho $.li0,000 of interest, on
the value of buildings, etc. Boston
Herald.
The telegraph system of the Brit
ish Islands, under control of the post
ollice, now amounts to one hundred
and fifty-six thousand miles, and em
ploys seventeen thousand instruments.
The standard rate is twelve words for
a sixpence, address included. Press
messages alone now average one mil
lion words a day.
"Sir," said the wanderer, as he
entered tho sanctum, "I come to ask
vour assistance. 1 h.ivn lost mv ri"lit
leg." "Advertise for it," said the)
busy editor, without looking up from
the paper. "Special rates in lost and
wanted column, and half money re
funded if article advertised for is not
recovered. N. Y. tilar.
Tite blind Mr. Fawcctt, lato Post
master-General of Great Britain, was
nn enthusiastic angler. "He performed
if anything belter than tho seeing,"
says his biographer, "whether because
lio waited more patiently to strike until
he felt his fish, or because ho was morn
docile in following the directions of
his skilled companions. He had great
success in catching salmon and trout,
and in trolling for pike in the winter."
One of his trophies was a twenty-pound
salmon.
A great deal is being said about
hydrophobia that would be better un
said, and the dog will bo charged with
tho killing much (lencr than lie
should be. The work of old rusty
nails, whose wounds have healed
months ago, and the many other pro
ducers of tetanus will all be laid at the
kennel door of innocent "old dog
I'ray." In till the United States, with
its lifty-two millions of people, there
have not been in the entire year over
twenty-live deaths from hyurophouia
by the agency of three million dogs.
Uiictigo iwer ttccan.
It was only two months ago flint
Mrs, Sharpe's hired girl left her to get
married, und yesterday Mrs. Sharpo
was much surprised to receive a call
from her former lady of the kitchen.
I want to come liek to work for yez
agin, said the latter, with an air of
resignation. "Why, Bridget, what's
the matter? I thought you were going
to get married?" "An', please ma'uin,
so 1 irid. lint, you see, John he struck:
luck in the lottery, and sq we hired a
cook. An' now, please ma'am, I'd
like to come back an' be boss once
more." Boston Post.
There is an allusion of local Inter
est in a book of verses recently printed
in London, tlio verses are by tho late
William Maguire, who, whatever may
be said of his poetry, wits an expert
rhymster. One jingle goes:
Why do you cry, mv sweet Mrs. Flanagan.
When you will soon have your own dear
man apaln;
Whom the drat wind will bring borne from
the Oelaware,
Urimful of suveruins and such other yellow
ware?
R driven Into nome pnrt to the wt nf vm
(A ID that tullit happen, dear, to the best
III US),
Where he is sipblng-, sobhlnir and chattering
Mht and day lou of his own doar Cath
erine. Distinctly Philadelphia street cries,
collected by a local reporter, contain.
qrue melodious calls. Besides the
piusic of iht r'ag'Mtfn 'aiAF oyster man,
thefe is beard the negro patriarch sing
ing, "Hominy man, come out to-dav,
selling sweet bominee! nominee!"
And the watermelon vendor ays:
"Here's your ripe watermelons. Try
'cm before you buy 'cm! All red." A
curious cry is: "Peppery pot, all
smoking hot!" and another humorous
cry is, "Crabs a-walkin', crabs a-talk-iii,
crabs a-bitin', crabs a-lightin',
f.-esh cmVJ, cr-t-r-aVa!" Diiiaddphia
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
. . Of Jay Gould's partners. Connor
i4 said to bo worth two million and
Morosinl three million dollars.
Senators Blair and F'rye are said
to bo tho only members of the Lpper
House of Congress who are teetotalers.
if. r. Post.
Pennsylvania has only four living
ex-Governors: James P.dlock, Au-
j drew G. Cuitin, John F. Hartrauft aud
Henry M. Hoy t.
I A real live Polish Prince, Pont
I towskt by name, is keeping bachelor'
hall on a farm of thoroughbred horns
. near Athens, Ga.
I Mrs. Deborah Powers, of Tray, N.
y., is ninety-five years old and at the
bend of the" banking firm of D. Fewer
Si Sons. Troy Time.
Chaiiff. the Chinese slant, recently
I. ,,.....,t.'-i;.,i l,,.ut,l .l.tllai-a hr an
I ln.fol.llinil !,.,..( nio.it , an Austra-
liau gold mine. Pittsburgh Post.
A Chinese laundryman in St. Louis
named Jue Jim wa recently received
into the Pilgrim Congregational
Church. Five of his countrymen wit
nessed tho ceremony,
Miss Mary Dickens, a grand
daughter of tho graat Charles Dickens,
is playing on the provincial stage in
Kngland, and her playing is spoken of
by the press in terms of praise.
Adirondack Murray says that
while a Yaie Miideni lie lived four
months-on a i!it;t --which-cost him fifty-
six cents a week Indian meal and wa
ter, not enough naal aud too much
water.
S-il Abrams, who Is reported to be
one of the richest men in Oregon, used
to lead a horse, packed with notions,
whicii he sold to people between Ore
gon City and Silverlun at un early day.
Chicago Herald.
Pope I.i'o is said to have an income
of one million five In mired thousand
dollars annually, and' it is stated on
the authority of Monsignor Capel that
the Pope's personal expenses are lim
ited to two dollurs and fifty cents a
day.
Prince Paul Eslerhazy, according
to a European journal, with his bound
less estates, Tr.insylvaiilaii forests and
other sources of wealth, would prob
ably go beyond the late Mr. Mr. Van
dcrbilt by a trifle of twenty or thirty
million dollars or so.
The na.ivo who carried fitun tho
field Ihe body of the Napoleonic Princo
Imperial when ho lost his life fighting
in South Africa was presented with a
diamond ring and pensioned by tho
Empress Eugenie, lie came to Massa
chusetts ami was lost sight of, but the
ring was found last week in a Boston
pawn-shop.
Leopold von Uanke, now more
than ninety, presents the anomaly of a
man who has never taken any exercise
and vet is in perfect physical health.
The German historian has almost lived
in his library, working for fifteen hours
a day, and he has laid out more work
which ho hopes to eomplute before his
one hundredth birthday.
"A LITTLE NONSENSE,"
Which is the stronger, an apple or
a pear? An apple; It drew a pair out
oi the garden of Eden. Prairie, farmer.
Dishonest railway managers profit
by watering their stock. But every
honest farmer waters his stock. CAi
catjo Mail.
Very Sad: "Aw, Algernon, sick?"
"Co'd." "Ilow'dy'eateh'l?" "Lifted
my hut rawlhah suddenly t' one o' the
girls, y' know." Vhieaijo News.
"Got anything new this beastly
weather?" asked otio citizen of another.
1 "Yes, said the interrogated, with tt fresh
I frown on his corrugated visage. "Neu
ralgia." Vhieuqo Ltdger.
I Farmer: That is a voracious pig; I
gave him n pailful of slop which he
! drank nil no. and I nicked him tin and
put him in the bucket, and tho blamed
thing didn't fill it half full! Albany '
JoMivil.
The scholarly people give a philo
sophical reason for speaking of steam
boats, lire engines, etc., tu she. The
Lowell Citizen says tho fire engine is
called sho because all tho men turn and
look at it when it passes along the
street.
"I didn't see you at church Christ
mas Day." "1 wus there, though. I
have a new pew away back under tho
gallery." -"You are unfortunate."
"Not at all. I consider myself very
lucky. I can't bear the choir at all.
Philadelphia Call.
At a party a young lady began a
song, "The autumn days have come,
ten thousand leaves are falling." She
began too high. "Ten thousand," she
screamed out, then stopped. "Start
her at five thousand," cried out an auc
tioneer presen."Ar. Y. Mail.
A Captain eninmandrtig one 'of ther
British ironclads, being at a grand bull
that had been given to the officers of
the "ileer.fwas accepted by. a beautiful
partner, who, m the nliwt ilulicato man
ner possible, hinted to him the propri
ety of putting on a pair of gloves.
"Oh," was tho elegant reply, "never
mind mc, nm'am. 1 shall wash my
hands when I have done dancing."
Exchange.
In Malta persons aro forbidden to
conio to the opera "in short sleeves or
with naked feet." We can understand
why there should be an objection to
short sleeves, but why should bare feet
be excluded? Some" of these option,
of CiiqueUu aiu Uuk. algjUI'd for l1y'
thing. A society young' nraH uWt
want to stay away from the opera sim
ply because his only pair of boots are
at tho shoemaker's getting half-sbled.
Norristown Herald. .
-A torn KxeftgS Said Judge
Noonan, of San Antonio, to a convicted
qjalefaetor? "It has been proven that
yd burglarized a house, stole a ham,
and fVrged another man's4nanie to a
note." "May be so " "You have also
been sailing under tho falso names of
Smith, McMullen, Goodrich and Per
kins while'oii were committing your
criine.""tVell, Judge, you didn't
poet me to allow my own honest namr
to bo mentioned in connection with
such villainies anddraggitd through the
mire." TetftfitHidngt. ;
DAIRY.
- Mr. O. W. Hoffman, In New TorV
7Vi6e, is confident that with a herd
of thirty cows it would pay to have a
man devote his entiro tiniu in winter to
preparing food, currying and looking
out for their welfare in various way.
Lack of uniform quality in butter
results from churning at improper tem
peratures, "salving" by trying to work
out the buttermilk instead of washing
it out with weak brine, and churning
cream so sour that the acids have de
stroyed part of tho liner butter-oils.
Mural New Yorker.
Tho question was asked by the
Southern Live Slock Journal what the
relative values were of hay and bran.
The Elmira Farmer' Club seem to rata
them about equal when both cost fif
teen dollars per ton. This is a good
standard to figure from, ami is proba
bly correct,
An analysis of but for and milk re
cently made" in the District of Colum
bia, disclosed the fact that, of tho twenty-five
samples of the former examined,
twenty were adulterated. The milk
was found, it is said, to bo composed of
sheep's "brains, c'.iidk and water.
Farm, Field and StoshiHim.
The United .sVues DMrymin says
that it Is a provision of nature thnt tlio
cow looks out for herself before sho
does for her stupid owner, and o will
not give rich milk until after sho has
recuperated from tho effects of semi
slarvatioii. " She wants some meat -on-her
bonus before she will put much intit
the pail. The farmer had better take)
the fit out of his granary than keep it
out of the pail.
Tho American Dairyman dues not
think much of Gmmon's theory of
judging cows, saying, if you waut to
get a good, profitable animal, you had
better first see that she gives a largo
mess of rich milk, and then, having
first secured Ibis point, indulge your
fancy for soft hair,daiiilruir, qimls and
yellow grease in the skin, lopg horns,
slim tails, smooth hoofs, big belly veins
mid all the other fancies that fashion
loves to revel in.
Speaking of the rude forms of but-tcr-niaking
practiced in some couiitrie.
Dr. Davenport states that in Brazil
they fill a hide Willi milk, nnd It is
tightly closed and then lustily shaken
by nn athletic native at either end, or
it is dragged about upon the ground
after a galloping horse until the butter
comes. In Chili, tho filled hiiKi is
phv ed upon a donkey's back, and ha is
trotted ubout until the butter comes.
In Morocco, a filled goatskin is rolled
about and kneaded by women until the
amo effect is produced. Indiana
tinel.
For tho feeding of flaxseed to cows
the National Live Stock Journal recom
mend the grinding of one bushel of
flaxseed with fifteen bushels of oats or
oats and coi n. If tho flaxseed is boiled,
one pint of seed boiled will bo enough
to mix in the feed lo. two cows, wo
have often noted tho excellent effect
especially during winter, of an occa
sional feed to cow of a small quantity
of ground flaxseed. Care must bo
taken, however, not to create too groat
laxity of the bowels.
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COST OF BUTTER.
What It Costs to 1'riMluc. One round ot
Uood nutter.
The question is often asked what
docs it cost to keep to make a pound
of butter? It is very difficult to answer
the query clearly, for so many things
aro to bo considered. Of cotirso it costs
less per pound with a cow that make
throe pounds a day than with one that
only makes one pound. To stippmt
the bodies of three otic-pound cows
costs, in an avorago way, three times
ns much as It would to support thebody
of a three-pound cow, So that tho
butter from the throe cows cost three
times as much as that produced from
the one cow. There is this encourage
ment always ahead of the intelligent
and progressive dairyman. By virtue
of his Intelligence in Improving his
cows, his management and Ids methods
of manufacture, ho makes butter
cheaper" than the ignorant dairyman,
and then by virtue of his intelligence
ho sells It for more money. Yet in faco
of all these advantages thousands of
farmers prefer the hardest and most
costly way.
Prof. Henry, of tho Wisconsin Exper
imental Station, states that when cow
are fed on clover ensihigo at $3.00 a
ton and meal, butter costs 1 1 Jc. per lb.
from tho Lit h of May to tho 15th of
June, not counting the value of the
buttermilk and skim milk, whicii, at
present prices of pork, is worth 2i)c.
per 100 pounds. This would bring the
real cost of butter to 7o. per lb. In
making this statement wo wish the pro
fessor would give us tho number of
pounds per day the cow made whose
butter is figured at the above cost. All
sorts of opinions aro held by farmers as
to the cost of butter and but vory few
know accurately what tho real cost is.
Hoard' t Dairyman.
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No Presing of Buffer.
Many suppose that when It conies to
salting the butter, it should be pressed
Into a compact form, spread out in a
thin sheet, and have the salt sprinkled
over it. Then they rolled tho sheet info
a cylinder, then flattened out into a
thin sheet again, more salt sprinkled
on, and again rolled into a solid cylin
der. After the salt is all rolled in, by
this process, the lover is hrought to
bear anil the buttim worked until the salt,
la supposed to be evenly incorporated.
Then many set the butter aside, for
twelve to twenty-four hours, when it is
again worked, to get out any white
steaks that may appear. It is better to
sfirthK salt into the butter, while the r :
latter is still in the granular form.
Most leading dairymen of the West
omit the "second working," and pack
their butter directly into the tub, thus "
saving labor, avoiding injury to what
is called the "grain" of tho butter, and
saving salt by retaining in tho butter
all that is put In. With either a first or
second workin?. it is uossible to work
out a large amount of tho brine, tJius
leaving the butter too fresh, utile. an
extra amount of salt is put in, Yum
Farmer,
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