The Sully County watchman., October 20, 1883, Image 7

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For Farmers.
jji Eastern editor describes a sec
crop of plover 011 a farm whore
pasturing has been entirely abandon
ed for the last four years.
farmers will quit pasturin
Farmers in New Jersey use goats
to protect tlmr sheep from dogs. Two
goats can drive away a dozen dogs,
and two are about all each farmer
puts with his sheep. As soon as a
dog enters a Held at night the goats
attack him, and their butting propen
tities are too much for the canine,
who finds himself rolling over and
over. A few repetitions of this
treatment cause the dog to leave the
field, limping and yelling. Formerly,
dog entered a sheep-Held at' ing^pools
when a dog entered a sheep-field at
pared with poor layers, is as three or
four to one. Individual hens are
known to produce 250 eggs a year.
Yet 200 is reached so seldom as to be
called a remarkable yield. The
greatest average yield that we have
ever hal ourselves, in a Hock of
twelve hens, was 147 eggs, while the
greatest average in twelve flocks,
numbering in all 200 layers, of various
breeds, was 102 eggs. In the latter
case there were eight different breeds,
and some were old liens and others
were pullets, and many of the num
ber were employed a part of the time
in hatching ami rearing chickens.
A Western newspaper says: "For
the last two years a
mountain sheep have
with Mr. Bailey's flock in Bull Run
Basin, Nevada, and there are now be
tween twenty and thirty half-breed
lambs in the lot. They are mostly
covered with hair, although there i«
some wool interspersed with it. They
carry their heads like the wild sheep,
but are as
easily herded as their half
brothers and sisters of pure domestic
breed. They are of course of no ac
count for shearing, but are said to
make excellent mutton. This is the
only instance of which we have ever
heard of the crossing of the wild and
domestic sheep."'
Tmpie of buck
A correspondent of the Breeder's
Gazette says that his hogs leing much
infested with lice, and hearing that
ago,
is not a louse to be seen on the
i8e&
—Dairymen should demand
equitable recognition from the man-
is a very large expense attending the
exhibition of a dairy of the moyng i
ef the
cows and
dairy products is by no means Mnall.
This"must all be paid for or a chance
—An
excellent
gi^en as follows, in the Rural
turc as the old cow has been, and the
present cow is. There will be a little
Shorthorn for size and beef: some
"Dutch and Ayrshire for milk some
He says if Jersey or Guernsey for cream and a
their till-! good deal of common native stock for
age land entirely and adopt the soil- convenience. But as it has been in the
ing system, their farmers will in ten we don't think the twentieth
years double their present productive
1
capacity. The field of clover was 401 the nineteenth in respect to dairy
per cent, better than any other seen
since harvest, and was better because
it had not been pastured for a number
of years. The corn and other crops
are also good, and the fertility and
productiveness are almost entirely
owing to the soiling system as practic
ed by the owner.
century will improve very much on
the nineteenth
cows.
1
night the slieep would run wildly more or less foul in summertime, and born with sight died but one, a girl,
around and cry piteously. Since the even though abundant in quantity and at present only livecliildren are
goats have been used to guard them and easy of access, has an injurious left, this girl and four blind brothers.
they form in line behind the goat, and i influence on the flavor of dairy pro- named James. Ignatius, George and
seem to enjoy the fun. ducts. Often cows seem to prefer Alfred. They are all smart and hap-
The difference betwen the yield of such liquid even to clear, running py, all are masters of some trade, and
eggs in the most prolific cases, as com-i water, but experience abundantly ail are musical.
layers, is as three or! shows that when milch cows have ac- When in a frolicsome mood each.
fIr.
J. M. Jones, of Tunbridge he took
out his no-horned Jer*y bull, winch
was hitched in the barn with a rope
and chain. The bull took him into
i
close friendship, jammiiighim against
I the barn, hurting him badly, and al
I most breaking his left arm. A.s the
bull had no horns he was a slipiery
fellow to get hold of. Mrs. Jones,
seci,1?1t'ic
been running 'J.
i
given to be paid for it, or dairymen
will not exhibit either their cattle or
their products or work.
—The regular use of salt is indispen
sable to the health of a cow, and con-1
sequentlv to the successful manure
ment of the dairy. Salt is one of the
necessary aliments, and is not requir
ed simply because animals desire it.
It is necessary to health and life, and
no doubt thousands of animals die
from common disorders for want of
New-j
Yorker: "The large flow of milk of
i
our cows is not iiatura
In a state of nature, animals gives
only sufficient milk to nourish their
young. This illustrates one of the
great truths of ethics and physics
that nature allows no waste
did not make butter and cheese, so
nature did not provide milk for that
purpose. Nor is it hardly correct to
say that this large flow is produced by
breeding. It is continued by breeding,
but continued by man's continual ask
in*1 sqeezing for more. It follows
that a cow's flow of milk may be in- .i
creased by this tender manipulation an alligator, having-a |ei-feetl form
of the teats. Squee/.ingaiways brings ed tail about^ five feet in lenglh,
its own reward. Incomplete milking
decreases the flow, 'dries up' the cow,
not because milk is left in the udder,
but because nature soon learns how
much is asked for, and gives no more.
In milking, squeeze long that the pail
may be full."
-•-"The coining cow" is causing a
good deal of s|eculation us toner
race, lineage and capacity. It is very
improbable that this anxiously ex
pected animal will be much different
from the past cow, or from any par
ticular bleed or kind. Mankind vary
so much in their tasteu, and one man
ia so particularly averse to doing what
another may do, that things will al
ways be a.s much mixed in regard to
cows a.s to styles of houses and wag
ons, or to the way of managing farms.
So that it is probable that the coming
cow will
be
aa much mixed in
the to­
fight, got a pitchfork and
to
and he succeeded in
defending himself until Mr. Jones
came home, half an hour later. This
is the same bull that Fred. Marks, of
Bethel, had the dance with altout a
year ago also the one Jones drives in
harness.
Another paper mentions the killing
of a hired man by a Hoi
stein bull in
New Jersey. It won do to trust to a
bull at any moment and the common
but wrong idea that polled cattle are
harmless and good natured won't do
"to tie to." An English paper re
cently mentioned the fact that the
polled cattle at an agricultural fair
were more unruly and savage, ami did
more mischief than all the horned an
imals put together. No stranger
,, I should ever attempt to handle a bull,
coal-ail would lix them, he deterinm- though the beast may have the rep
ed to try it. So he took his coal-o:l
utatiou'
can, and while the hogs were feed- docility.
ing he poured a stream of the oil on
them from the top of their heads to —Them is considerable confusion
the root
ticularl
nuinero
to see
places
the hogs, ^but there was enough coai-1 the Jersey and the other from the
oil ruhlted off on the posts to kill the Alderney Islands. The butter record
lice and nits on them. He applied it °f the one is about the same as
some few weeks
,or iamblike gentleness and
and to-day there other. The name Jersey is most
prem-
monly that of all cattle coining from
the Channel Islands."
If Mr. Evans wili excuse us, we
will set him right where he is wrong.
rpi„„.„ There are no Alderney Iflands. There
an
agements of agricultural fairs Thut th
Jersev Gm.nisev,
i-* jew,
Jcrs(iy is a( )OUl
their care at the fair. af a i
and the labor involved preparing
th
com­
chann,.1 Isl.,ntis (.onslsting
or
Aldernev. and
n UUIIU1
iaP}fo enough to
dav"s'ranTbh'from'sliore
Gu(,ni!rov a fore„oon's
AWepilt.v u
American fanner while Sark might
have no likeness to the Jerseys, differ
in color, form, style, and size of car
cass. But all have the special charac
teristic of giving very rich milk,
which seems to {K»int to a common
it It is an antiseptic as well a.s sup- origin. Then* are very few Alderney
plies the necessary acid for digestion cattle in America, and each of these
of the food, and' t« a large extent it islands is very jealous of fhft reputa
may lie truly said that indigestion of
the fotnl, and consequently imnerfect
nutrition, is the cause of the largest
projMirtion of diseases and deaths. A
certain quantity of salt should be giv
en daily with the food, precisely aa
we take it ourselves.
tion of its own cattle.
Human Monstrosities.
lintitituiih•!is News.
Perhaps the greatest living curiosi
ties now in existence in this country
lesson for milkers is will pass through this city
F01R BLIND BROTHERS.
Happy *nd I'srful Life at
Slranmrl]'AtHlrtrd Family.
WnshiiiKton (V.r Now York Sun
The four blind musical brothers of
Union town reads more like the cap
tion of a tale in the "Arabian Nights"
than a simple statement of facts. A
1 u i
walk »*ouey-
decent dairv farm for an ?luse
aud heads from the hips up, are jer
fectly formed, while from the hips
down thev present the apnearance of
gether with the hind feet and legs of
the 'gator. They crawl around on
their hands and feet, converse intelli
gently and seem to enjoy life very
much. They live part of the time in
the water, which they enjoy very
much, using their tails while swim
ming the same a.s the alligator to pro
jK'l their bodies. Thev are healthy,
good-looking and
well
dren,
1
on
their
way to Cincinnati and Louis\ille.
About two years ago I harles lx»wts ways of curing some of them,how
but artificial.
discovered, about fiften miles below
St. Augustine, a family of white per
sons, consisting of John McDonald,
his wife and five children. Two of
tlie children he found U be half hu-
Calves man and half alligator.
These children are now nine years
of agu and have never been known to ironies within the reach of every apia
exceed ten miles from their home,aud rist on however large or small a scale.
consequently have never been placed This mode of pr»wedure iby starving)
on exhibition. Their bodies, arms has never vet failed when properly /^Y^10!1
developed chil­
and outside of their love for the
water their general mode of living is
the same as that of any other human
being.
This ia preferred creditorahip: We
fail for $500,tKH). A. is the preferred
creditor for f'JaO.tHlO. Between A and
ourselves is a private understanding.
Between ourselves and the other
creditors it is only a public under
standing.
A
have, however, been living in a
suburb of Washington. Uniontown
is a little settlement that has grown
up across the east branch of the Poto
mac. within easy reach of the Navy
yard. It is a sleepy, tumble-down
village, whose chief claim to aristo
cracv is the nomenclature of the
—The value of pure water for the
stock, cannot be overestimated. A
number of careful experiments made
by M. Dancel, and given to the French
Academy of Science, go to show that
the amount of milk obtained is approx
imately proportioned to the quantity
of water drank,
milk can be
able extent
value by indi
an abundant
deed. M. Dancel maintains that a cow
that does not commonly drink as much
as twenty-seven quarts of water a day
is necessarily a poor milker, while a
cow that drinks as kiuch as fifty quarts teen children, every other one of
daily is sure to be an excellent milker, whom, in regular progression, had
Stagnant water, and that from stand- been born blind. Of this numerous
ing pools and small ponds, is always and singular progeny all who were
family
into the village from Baltimore of
the common name of Smith, but of a
very extraordinary family make-up.
There were or had been twelve or fif-
cess to such pools i first-class article in turn will play on the family fiddle|on this the bees would cluster, thus
of butter or cheese cannot be made while the others dance. One of the ^curing11 free circulation ofair. The
from the milk, which is sometimes brothers is quite an accomplished temperature of the place
ound to be absolutely unwholesome, musican. and supports himself by giv-
The Orange County (N. Y.) Farmer ing lessons on the piano. The others
ives the following account: "As play merely for recreation. Two are
red. Ross had occasion to go to broom makers by trade, ami makes a
broom which is famous through the
neighborhood for its excellence.
The remaining brother is a cabinet
maker, with a special knack at cof
fins.
The oldest of the brothers has a
high reputation in Uniontown. Not
only can he make the best broom in
all that region, and make the violin
sing, but he is endowed with a won
derfully acute sense of touch. It is
said, for instance, that he can tell a
$5 from a $10 bill by feeling the two
notes.
One of the brothers is married and
has a large family. The sister
wife of an early carpenter. They all,
live together with their widowed
mother, and seem to be a happy and
affectionate household. Recently
they have moved from the settlement
some live miles into the country, but
they frequent the village still to
sell their brooms or provide a cof
flk,
v.iwi.-ii style of frarxe in the spricg." for said
watched the matter
aml
be too near the water all around to the place to secure the most surplus,
make a safe place to sleep on. The **xd he, honey brings money
cattle coming from these islands are
all essentially different the Aldernevs
being most like the Jerseys, but, like
their dwelling place, considerably
smaller in every way. The Guernseys
,.am satisfied that the
sI, u'e
directly over the brood is
it is a matter with me of dollars and
cents, I do not keep bees for the fun
of tne thing, and if I can only raise
them simply to see them come
through the winter all right, I do not
care to bother with them. I do not
raise bees to sell, I am no dealer ill
bee-keeper's supplies, neither have I
any government bonds to clip. I
must work for my living and if I can
not make the bees pay, I must give
them up for something else. But I
am candid to say. on an average of
seven years my bees have paid me
well, a.s well as anything else on my
place, and I have quite a large farm
and rely on mixed farming altogeth
er"
Foul Brood.
This t« a subject on which much lias
been said ami written and there
seems to be a great many and varied
ever, are rather difficult, and not
within the reach of every bee-keeper,
as well as being slightly costly.
I purpose setting forth in the fol
lowing the most easy and cheap, as
well a.s the surest method that has yet
come under my notice, and one that
there is no brood or where on« does
one is desirous of saving it. irst,
smoke and drum the bees until they
haveall gorged themselves with honey
ojM-ration
drummed sufficiently, shake the bees
into a clean hive or box, over which
place a wire-cloth cover, care being
taken that none escape, as one lee
escaping and entering another hive
would, in all probability, spread the
disease, as it is by the depositing of
the disease honev in the ceils of clean
colonies that tKs disease is generallv
amily of this singular description!
i l- •_ contracted. To prevent the spreading
prevent tne spreading
of the disease, the operation sliould be
performed either early in the morning
or late in the evening, when no bees
are flying or if the work is done dur
ing the day, it should be beneath a I
a wire tent, or in some other place of!
confinement, where there is no chance
of any of the bees from the affected
When all the bees have leen secured
in the hive or box covered by the wire
cloth, carry it to a cool, dark place,
and there lay it on its side and why?
First, because when in a dark, cool
place the bees will cluster and rvmain
more quiet than when subjected to
light and heat and secondly, when
clustering in the top of the hive, and
were the hive or box to be placed on
its proper bottom they would all clus
ter on the wire cloth, and thus prevent
a proper ventilation, which would
cause suffocation whereas, by placing
the hive or box on its side, the other
side would then become the top: and
i
A Standard Frame.
The Indiana Farmer gives the fol
lowing on the subject of the general
adoption of a standard frame.
While in attendance at the State
fair, we made it u point to inquire of
our many bee-keeping friends and vis
itors, their opinions as to the different
•allies, and what
the standard
in America,
xceptions the de
farorof the Langstroth,
ere inclined to
frame was bet
ter to winter in for careless bee-keep
ers who never made any pretentions
to preparing their bees for winter.
One gentleman from near Bloom
ington, 111., said "he worked about75
colonies, in two apiaries, had tried
both styles of frames extensively and
was decidedly in favor of the Langs
troth frame, and proposed to change
all his remaining colonies to that
ed
"I work my bees exclusively for
A
temperature of the place where the
starving takes place should be from
50 to 55 never above (0°, and a cel
lar would therefore be the best place
in hot weather.
They should then be left alone, per
fectly' quiet, from 80 to 12" hours, or "fiersolf tin
until the bees are noticed crawling idiot?"
around the bottom of the box or hive i ma'am
in a starving condition, and a few of
them are dead: then put them in a
clear luye with clean comb or foun-
in it, and if there is not, the bees!
should be fed honey or sugar svrup,
as also should thev be fed when foun- i
dation is used, ami remove them to a
place one or two miles distant, where
let them remain until the whole yard
is cleansed, when thev may be return
is the
t? their original stands in the old
been queenless some days previously,
when they will «?o almost as well with
out one.
Now, in the second case, when* ono
desires to save the brood, proceed aa
in the former instance, with the smok
ing and drumming and trasferring of
the bees and queen to the hive or box
for starvation, ouly sufficient being
left in the diseased nive to nurse the
brood.
BASK-BALL.
Tfceduunplouithip Hetord.
Speaking of the record for the sea
son, American Sports says: Boston's
total of {.'aiues won is placet! at t»:5,
which includes the game of Aug. 1 at
Cleveland. As that game has not
been declared a drawn game by any
decided bv the Lea*.* Directors, P1',™"-
in
Boston's total of HI!an» won lias H.
ton won with.'IS in IMS. six
1
ss
carried out and I have tried^ it ii. i taM.shi.ient of the
many cases in our country. I
I shall give the process, first where
1,
right
clubs
witll 5ti in IS*!, eight
won with
Tie Little Widow Brfggs.
l»»-troit
The
yard. \V hue the bees are starving, -j.
scald the hives and frames from which
1
the affected colonies have been taken
extract the honey from the combs,
which may be boiled aud fed back to
them again render the combs into
wax and the wax. manufactured into
foundation, and place it in the scald
ed frames, for use in the scalded
hive, into which put tV.e bees, afwr
their allotted time of starving has ex
pired.
Great caution should be exercised to
see that thecjueen is placed in the hive any one between here and Indiana
or box in which the bees are to starve, who wants a headache that will last
unless in the case where the colony has
all
iiu ii o.st pnutu i* im man persou
or box, the operations will le the same
as heretofore described. The remain
ing brood ami beef, if weak, should
then lie doubled up aud otherwise
strengthened as much as possibk
when hatched
same process as the
od. if properly carried out, will inva
riably prove successful. It was ray
intention to have referred to the vari
ous causes of the disease but I find
tin
le
tin
th
Ami
issue of Feb. 15, some further expla
nations may be found regarding this
method of ciu iug foul brood by star
vation.
Prom,
Free
A span of ponies attached to an
I emigrant wagon containing a women
and three children and various house
hold goods halted on Grand River
avenue yesterday to have a black
smith set a shoe for one of the horses.
As the woman seemed to be alone, orj
at least had no man in sightt the
smith asked:
"Old man sickt"
"No, sir I buried him up the coun
try a year ago.''
"Then are you a widow?"
"I reckon I am, and my name ta
Briggs."
'Which way are you jogging.'"'
"Going south-west—may be into
Indiana/'
"Got sick of Micliigen continued
the smith aa he pared away at the
hoof.
"Well, the state is good enough."
she slowly answered. "Some mighty
.\VeU when
at
aIHj
datum if comb, there should be hone} pocket you can call me an idiot. No
I repelled em
in her work.
competent aull...riv, it must staiul us '1,'1"- H". .uiibiti.m is dress^
won lv the Host.'.ns until olh.-r«ise1
blK'
Chicago won
%Vl".i
est Iiuniber
t«7) in 1880.
K
BosUm ure t\H OIliy ciubs
not care to save it: and secondly, maintained their membership in the
where there /s broml the hive. and ieHl,lu.
sjuro
UU(| are the
t|eiK.ei
aud it is important that they be all g^nJing second and Chicago third.
well tillfd, otherwise that portion of
them whose sacs are not full will not Stranger Thau Tram.
live the time that ther othe portion Newport Ky.. Journal.
would be required to starve, to affect There's a man in town whose right
the cure hence the necessity of hav- leg is about an inch longer than his
ing their sacs filled evenly. They (left one. It came from his sitting so
should not I* allowed to settle down much with the right leg thrown over
again after having gorged themselves tJie left, which stretched the right one
the
when once commenced
After they have been smoked and
ami
should Ik" carried through without the trying to stretch the left leg and
loss of any time, as a short space only shorten the right one by trying to
would require to t-lap*e. if left (plict, wear the left over the right, but he
before some of them would replace can't do it, as in less than a minute
their honey in the cells again, when after he throws tho left one over the
the work of smoking, etc., would have right, the former slides off and the
to be related. latter crawls up on to it again. He
w
V'
clubs,
T..-.:
ill
Chicago ''Vr
is.s:l.
eight clubs,
"t'l«
that have
its formation in 187t$,
,m|v
t.lu|,s tliut
t]K. cliainpionship
hav0
woa
excepting Provi-
which won it in 1S7:. Boston
shortened the loft, lie is now
ill doubUeitf be a cripple for life.
i
fineer and. good scliools'and tolerable
weather, but I had to pet outjof where
i
I was. I lost a pound a week right 1
along for the last three weeks."
"Ague r"
"Humph! I'd like to see the
upset us:
wasn't cold
marriage! It wasn't a month before I
had three of em. Why. it wasn't
six months before their tracks were
as thick around my house as cat trails
on the snow!"
"Had your pick, eh?"
"Pi k: I could hare married any
body from my hired man up to a chap
who owned a section of land and
four sawmills. Tliey came singly and
in droves. They came by day and by
night."
"And you—you-—?"
"Say. you!'' she exclaimed as she
'do I look like an
I'd like to see the ague
flint W three chil-
^ie head of a second husband
giye up the *oo in cash in my
"And they got?
"They had to. Susan, hand me
that second husband repeller. It's
in the back end of the wagon."
girl hunted around and fished
up a hickory club four fvet long, and
1 it out for inspection
t,|e woman^0'
"There's hairs of six different colors
sticking in the splinters, and these
bloodstains are the puru quill. You
can judge whether ther sat there and
made love, or tore clown the front
fence in their hurry to reach the
woods."
"By George!" whispered the
smith, after a long inspection. "Well,
1 guess you don't want to marry."
"K'rect, sir. If you have any old
widowers in this town, or if vou know
winter without any letting
w lu spoke
as possible and joan
out put Jirough the ju jjgure. She always attends
he others. Thisimeth- ^us i
»P.
just put'em up to began to ask me if
my heart don't yearn for lore, and my
soul rattle around for some one to
call me darling!"
Twu Kinds of iris.
Boston Courier.
"What we nt&l said a gentleman
in private conversation, "is a concen-
With those placed in the clean hive! S*16 direction. The
A
|)lain and she cares not for gaUies.
&he has uo ruinous diversions of in
terest to prevent her fiemjattending to
the matters of first importance.
"On the other hand."' he continued
"we have off and on in our embroid
ery room, a pretty girl who will nev
er amount to anything. Her idea'sof
life are misshapen. She is a clever
enough embroideress, but she works
half-heartedly, and only when she
feels inclined'. She won't undertake
this piece and she savs she can't do
,,s
1,1
hcr,
been equaled but om-e since the for- but a «tyle very fur above her con
Illationof the Wile .1. 1SC0. that be-!
Mlooks*-'"
ing by Chicago in 1SJS0, when »!7
games were won out of a total of
lx all the clubs. Ill l.-rii, with ci«hti 'llr speech to see what she can pick
cfubs contesting. Chicago won with MP J!1"* '"'I'"'"' herself he remit
a total of -.' in ls~, live clubs, Bos- I tl»- P"Jr S'H
c|nl,,.
Boston won with 41 in l«7!. eight, J1"'
hl,u ,sc otl s
1
»lr»"! -liii..dcd iwpirati.m.
le|.. iuleut prosperity. Bydevot-
lo
l!":
so that after a rain the water will
drain off quickly. If there exist no
natural obstructions it is well to plow
a field crosswise of furrows of the
year before, as it tends to a more even
depth of tillage.
A gcxxl way to plow a square, or
quadrangular field, to is begin in the
center tak« for instance a held of 80
rods long by 20 wide, commence nine
rods from the end and ten rods from
either side, run the furrow to the same
point at the further end of the piece,
back furrow until the plowed strip is
two rods wide, then plow «i back fur
row from each corner of the plowed
land to the corresjionding corner of
the field then plow around the cen
ter plowed strip until the field is fin
ished. By this mode of plowing, no
plowed land will be tramped on, and
when you get done the field has no
dead furrows and but one back fur
row, the corner furrows will be level
with the rest of the land.
There are but few really good plow
men—men who take pride in plowing
a field well. Now let everyone who
holds a plow try to see how nicely he
can have his plowed field look, and he
will be surprised with the amount of
job well,
tofore poorly
done. How much letter a field looks
(and is where the furrows are straight
and of even width, than where they
are as crooked as a rail fence, and are
from ten to sixteen inches in width.
In this respect the sulky plow is far
ahead of any hand plow, as, when it
is set, it will run a furrow of equal
depth and width, without variation
from one end of a furrow to the other.
w
1
,n be
surprised with tl
No, sir! My husbind tli«ire is in do.n
before I had an offer of
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tration of energy, and application of obtained here, and it was sent back to
is a manufacturer
of art furniture, and it was by inert*
accident that he took as an illustra
tion the forewoman in the embroidery
room. "She is a stout
with
uess
German-Amer-|near
a heavy face and a
I have known her ever
since she was a young girl doing em- fun.n
broidery for an up-tow n hrm. W e
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Big Diamonds.
New Y.'ik
A jewler in Maiden Lane held up
between his thumb and forefinger
yesterday afternoon a rough yellow
stone as large as a hickory-nut. "That
is the biggest diamond ever brought
i to this Country," lie said. "It weigh*
125 carats, according to the design.
It is an African stone. Our house
bought it in the Lonkon market. The
weight of the famous Kohinoor is
102i carats. Before cutting it weigh
IKt»." The stone in the jeweler's
hand was almost an inch square and
three quarters of an inch through. It
ran up to a sharp point on one side
and on the other was dome-shaped.
The jewler said the shape was perfect
i for cutting. There was a blue streak
in the centre. This was said to be no
imperfection. When the stone was cut,
the jewler added, it would be much
lighter in color. The diamond is bet
ter calculated for a crown than for a
I personal ornament. It might be
worn by a lady in the hair, as a
medallion at the throat, or in a bi-ace
let. It will be sent to Boston to be
cut. The art of diamond-cutting is
said to have been brought to y.s great
perfection in this country as in Am
sterdam. The stone after cutting will
be worth about#100.000.
A large house in Maiden bme a
short time ago sold a remarkably
brilliant diamond in the Ixindon mar
ket far $0,000. It weighed 154 carats.
Its value was in its fineness. Its his
tory was kiwwn for loo years. It was
said to have belonged to the Khedive
It was brought from Ixm-
of Egypt.
don. but the price asked could not be
apurchaser
there
Hew Uid it tome There I
While a party of hunters were scour
ing the woods along Painter Creek,
Yazoo City, Miss., they started a
big buck and succeeded in capturing
it after two hours' chase. Firmly im
paled on one of the prongs of his right
was found a human skun, sup.
to
used to send her extia pieces to uo, entered the cavity occupied in
dress is extremely
««h no jMsphij.
v
J10 fl,e
sei in the street but she at her
dress and manners, and even listens
]'as
V1
clubs. Providence won with 55°i„ boiue that inight In- olfennl licr and
IfiWI. eight clubs. Uncap, won with
cultivated sci,^
b'htteswhich n.ake it unlikeU at
1
l,."s
""PrjKluctlve cl.au-
S-'"'1
Boston won with IS Since the and unhappy, hlie is not hiiiKing
chaniniouthip
Chicago lost the smallest number of V™?" "Pl'ears. and tries to gam
bas made herself
h"»' ,v'"'k
usejess
•ll'l"''S' '.,ut*1
I'llicago uisi uie smaurai iiuuimi ,. ,uiun-tuKniT tvn mmn "J.t
games (14) in lS7t» and won the great-1 admiration and
Chicago and ?ona,|.v- when what we want from her
(and
•nonniLKi hut a good!
is not pretty manners,
piece of embroidery."
Plowing.
be that of a negro. The prong
... ion is that the animal was wounded
anj
i
brought to bay by the negro, and
had killed the latter in a conflict
the latter in a
which ensued, the prong entering the
eye and piercing the brain. The body
of the deer showed signs of old
wounds. He was about as large as a
two-year-old calf. The antlers, with
the skull on them, were hung up in a
country store, where they are daily
examined by hundreds of curious vis
itors.
Stone Differences.
An object lesson in the tran»muta
jtion of virtues is conveyed in this par
'agraph from an exchange: "Tenny
son can take a worthless sheet of pa
per and by writing a poem on it
make it worth That's genius.
Vanderbilt can write a few woids on
a sheet and make it worth 1)00,(HH).
That's capital. The I'nited States can
take an ounce and a quarter of gold
and stamp upon it an eagle bird' and
twenty dollars. That's money. Tfie
mechanic can take the material worth
$.*, and make it into a watch worth
$100. That's skill. The merchant
can take an article worth 25 cents
ami sell it for $1. That's business.
A lady can purchase a very comfort
able bonnet for $10, but she prefers
to pay *100. That's foolishness. Tin®
ditch-digger works ten hours a daytw
shovels out threw or four tons of
carth
for That's labor."
The Next (Question.
Chicago Tribune.
Western Farm. r, In Scotland they have narrow, open
There is no work on the farm that ditches, which they call sheep-drains,
it pays to do well any more than i A man was riding a donkey one day
plowing. The furrows should be of across a sheep pasture, but when the
even depth and width from begin- animal came to the sheep-drain lift
ning to end, and be of such width as would not go over it. So the man
the plow will easily turn over, not cut rode him back a short distance,
and cover. When a plow strikes a turned him around and applied tlM?
stone, back the team up and start the I whip thinking, of course, that the
plow as near the stone as passible, not donkey, when going at tin top of liia
(as 1 have seen done) let it run along speed, would jump the drain before
without stopping the team until it lie knew it- But not so. When thft
runs into tne ground again, leaving donkey got to the draiu he stopped
an unplowed strip, which makes a hole all of a sudden, and the man went over
in the field that will not be by any Mr. Neddy's head. No sooner had
subsequent work filled up satisfactor
ily. l*aud that water is liable to stand
on should lie plowed in narrow strips,
rur ing from the low-land to the
hig-_-jmd. with clean dead furrows,
he touched the ground than he got
up, and. liMikinghis beast straight in
the face said, "Verra wet 1 pitched:
but then hoo are ye going to get ewer
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