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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-29
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A TEXAS man knows himself well
He sat down on hot brapding-iron,
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A CREW from Vassar is suggested for
the next regatta. How all the boats
would hug Vassar
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THE NEW IMPROVED
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The Medal for Progress. !"


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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-05-11
"lonely Tonight, Love"

Husband Travelling. Scene L.
Room In hotsl. Spittoons full OF clgsi
stumps. Bourbon whisky. All handi
equipped for . nights spree. nus'
band In hurry TO Be OIL. writing
home:
DnAnrsr SrsIE: Ny time Is 90 occu
plsd with buslnsss that can hardly
spare q moment to write to you. oh
darling. how miss you, and the only
thing that sustaius me during my alb
ssnco is the thought that every mo.
msnt thus spent IL for the benefit si
my dear wife and children. Take
good care Of yourself, my dear. Feed
the baby on one cows milk. Excuse
haste, etc.
Wife at Homs.-Scene Il.-Parlor.
All the gas liz. Thirteen grass wild
ows; Fred from around the corner,
With his vislin; Jim from across the
way, with hls banjs; Jack. from
above, with his guitar; Sam, from
below, with his flute lots OF fellows
with their instruments. Dancing and
singing. sldsboard covered with nuts.
fruits. cake. cream, wine, whisky, etc.
Wife In a hurry to dance, writing to
husband:
Dean Hunnr: How Lonesome I feel
inyour absence. The hours pass tsdl-
oAsly. Nobody calls on ms, and am
oonsta.tly thinking Of the time when
you VIII b homo and your chserful
oeuutsnancs light up the routine of
every day life. My household duties
keep me constantly employed. am
living ~ economical as possible, know.
Ing that yeur small income will not
admit OF frivolous expense. Bu, now,
dear, I will say good by, or I will be
too late fer the monthly concert of
prayer. Ii haste. yours. stc.-Ee.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-05-11

CAsrLrrox. W., beasts Caleb Quo
tenn Of . citizen who 10 . good beet aud
shoe maker. cabinet maker, upheister.
Or, carpenter aud painter, while, II
need be, no can run q farm. a grist-
MILL, . saw.mlli-anything but gln-
MILL.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-05-11

I've rival lovers "a South Haven,
Mich, recently determined to settle
their prstsnslsa. by shooting at q
mark. Very properly, amer 1t wasde-
cldsd, the young woman refused 10
have anythluk to Do with either oI
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-05-11
CHARLES SUMNER.
sr oLrvrR WENDELL HoIxE..

Once more, 70 sacred tsvsrs,
Your sslsmn dirges SQUAD;
etrew, lsvins hands, the April flowers,
Oacs more 10 deck his mound;
\ nation moafns its dead.
Its sorrowin9 voices enc.
AZ IsrAei's monarch bowed his head
And cried. my sen ! my sent"
Why mourn for hin, Fer him
The welcome angel came
kre yet ale eye with age was dim.
Or bent hls stately frams;.
HIS weapon Was stiii bright,
His shield was liftsd high
To slay the wrong. te save the right
what happier hoar 10 die'
Thou etdsrest all things well;
Thy servants work was doae;
He lived to hear reppression's knell,
The shouts for freedom won.
Harki From the opening skies
The anthems echolng swell
40, mourning land. In up thine syesi
God rsignsth. All 10 weli"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-05-11
TRAVELLING AND FREIsHrIss.

ON AND ArrKR OoroBxR & iss
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-05-11

A aAxnIIso hell has besn sstabllsh-
cd In Cairo, Egypt. Probably they
playmsssiy Phs'ro. 4
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-27

on the other hand, is larger, congregates
in immense numbers. and breeds rapidly,
one male being sufficient to fecundate
MANY females. The life of females is
short, usually not extending beyond the
time required for bringing forth her eggs,
but the male lives much longer. From
this cause the acarus, which moves about
in the skin(t most are females) in search
of male food, or suitable place-as the
burrows of the skin-in which to deposit
her eggs After this she dies. In three
days. or Whereabouts, the eggs are Matched;
and it is circulated, from decisive expert
ments, that from one pregnant female
lcarus, six generations are obtained, and
these numbered one million females, and
five hundred thousand males in ninety
lays. This explains how quickly the
scab of sheep is propagated, and how es-
sential it is to be ObServant of cases where
the affection is known to exist, Pastures,
buildings, yards, sheds, pens, &C., in
which scabby sheep have been placed, re-
tain their contagious properties for some
time.
Sheep affected with the disease do not
usually die in consequence. 1t is too COM
mon to attempt to cure the affection, by
which the prevailing irritation and effect
upon the constitution are somewhat allayed
but shortly SYMPTOMS of different char
acter set in, and death ensues-nOt from
the scab, but from the dressing employed
This fact is not generally understood
Great emaciation ensues as Il result Of
irritation, and the deaths that occur are il
the proportion of ninety-fve per cent
from the remedies, but from the disease
not more than two to five per cent.-C0r
respondent Rural World.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-27
Observation-Disclosures saw good crop

Unconstitutional saw good crop
of melons on poor soil? Overcrowding the
plants and starvation has more to dowith
the failures than all other conditions COM
bined, at least in climates where this fruit
ever succeeds. AS an instance ofwhat
melon vine will do if it has a chance, we
may relate one in our own experience;
watermelon vine appeared few years
since in one corner of our garden, prob
ably, from an accidentally sown seed. The
soil where it appeared was quite rich,
being the site of an old hot-bed. We
had this vine hoed and cleared the ground
about it so that it could have fair chance
to make its way, which it did to the extent
of about a square rod, giving us fourteen
melons, the smallest weighing about twen-
ty pounds, the largest nearly thirty, and
all the product of single seed! There
are certainly no secrets about such melon
culture; the rich soil and free use of the
hoe did it, and nothing else. If the soil
is naturally too heavy, it is not an expen-
sive job to pillow up ridges or make large
hills and even add little sand, or light
leaf mold or compost, at planting time. A
liberal application of wood ashes to the
hills during growth. will also be beneficial.
The same system may be adopted for all
kinds of vines, such as cucumbers,
squashes, and pumpkins .-Rural Neoo
Yorker
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-27
IF it. Have MT I mother, and havn't
AIarr and have Mt little .Ioe2

of it. Have MT I mother, and havn't [
Mary, and have MT little Joe?
With this thought stepped to the back
window and looked out. Surely enough
there sat the little fellow, and, he was
blowing bubbles! And, if you'll believe
me, the little girl next door was leaning
out of the window watching him! Just
then, Mary came in-I mean just now, for
the fact is I'm writing about this very day.
And Mary and / both think it isn't such
very dreadful thing, after all, to lose few
hundred dollars, for 1 have my clerkship
vet, and I'm determined never to speculate
with my savings again. No, I'm going to
be steady, faithful, Woodworking fellow,
and Mary and mother and joe and are
going to be just as comfortable and happy
as chippy birds-and--
You see, 1 am blowing this new bubble
so slowly and cautiously in the sunlight
that / know it will be safe. And right in
the heart of it l see Mary-Mary who has
looked brightly up at me from every bub-
BILE that have ever blown in my life
Joel S. Stacy, IN ST. Nicholas for May.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-27
On Parasitic Diseases of Sheep.

Scab is purely of local nature and due
in its first stage to an insect which attach
es itself to the skin, and in the move
ments necessary for the purposes of its
life produces violent irritation, destruc-
ton OF animal tissue, suppuration or
formation OF matter, ending in u suisse
quent lncrustation over the affected parts
1t is due to the last circumstance that the
term scab has arisen-an abbreviation of
the more scientific and technical term
ScGbteS. 1t is also known by the names of
shabs, ray, or rubbers. In man the ana
logue of this disease is termed Itch -
IN the horse and lower animals generally.
1t is known as mango" In all these it
is purely contagious, and propagated only
thereby. 1t Is never capable Of arising
spontaneously, and never is, or can be,
influenced by atmospheric causes, latitude,
altitude, or humidity, or dryness of the
season. Whenever supposition arises
which favors the idea that such agencies
produce effects which vary the origin and
progress of contagious diseases, it can be
based only upon a deficient knowledge of
the nature of these maladies
There must be some means by which
the cause is transmitted, or the disease
cannot appear. Condition may be the
reverse of health, but that alone does not
create a certainty by which scab can be
contracted. Poverty and i'll health can
never insure it, but such may enable the
animal to take the affection more readily.
The insect, commonly called an acarus,
which gives rise to the scab, may be con-
veyed by men and dogs from one farm to
another, but neither the man or doc
which conveys it will suffer but in a very
slight manner themselves. 1t is essential
for the proper development of such afec-
tons, that the insect conveyed is the one
proper to the animal. Thus the variety
which infests the horse may be conveyed
by dogs, cats, or the human subject. II
may create some slight amount of irrta-
ton upon each, and eventually be taken
to the sheep on the same farm, or to
others at "a distance. There are three
varieties of the scab or mango acarus.
The first are called scarcoptec, that bur.
row in the skin; the second dermatodects
that simply bite, and hold on to the skin.
and the third, symbiotes, which live to-
gether in large numbers, but do not pierce
further than the cuticle, or outer skin.
These animals bear great resemblance
each other, their points of difference being
in size, as well as form, and number Of
suckers The male is much smaller than
the female, and does not occ sion the
same amount Oh desli ucl.on. The female
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-27
agricultural.
Prospects of the Wheat Crop.

Four tenths of the wheat harvest in the
Uuited States is fall-sown. The SPRING
wheat territory includes practically, the
six Eastern States, four Northwestern, and
those of the Pacific coast. The former
are of little importance in production and
the latter are not properly included in
either list, sowing being continued from
fall to spring in California and in winter
and spring in Oregon. The four states,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebras-
ka, now produce 10000, 900 bushels, OF
about one fourth of the crop.
The present returns include the larger
portion of the winter wheat area They
represent the crop as more generally
promising than ut this period for several
years past. The influence of sudden alter
ations of temperature, and of cold and
drying winds, during the month past, has
been almost the only drawback to the
uniformity of vitality and higher condi-
ton of the wheat-plant in every section of
the country. The winter has been so re-
markedly mild at the South, with almost
entire absence of injurious changes Of tenn
perature, that the returns from Virginia
to Texas are nearly unanimous in ascrib-
ing either average vigor or luXuriant
growth to the wheat-area. In about one
fourth of the counties in the Ohio Valley
an unpromising appearance is reported,
while majority represent in various
terms a condition above an average. From
Missouri and Kansas still fewer unfa vora-
BILE returns have been received.
Though the wheat-prOduct of the New
England States is little more than u peck
to each inhabitant, of which but one
twelfth is fall-sown, winter-wheat is some
times grown in Aroostook, the most
northern point in Maine, and is common
to obtain on new lands there Il Weld 81
per cent, higher than the usual average
for the whole country. About half the
winter wheat of New England is grown
in Connecticut, where the proportion OF
spring wheat is only one to twenty. The
small area sown has been less effectually
covered with snow than usual having
been bare much of the winter, even il
Maine and New Hampshire, with Occa
sional thaws, and has suffered injury in
consequence.
From Virginia the reports are very
favorable, the accounts fail to show al
average condition. Wheat-growers gen
orally are delighted with the prospect
Comparisons are frequently made with
former crops, and some declare the croI
finer at this season than in any Apri
since 1860.
The cotton states cultivate wheat spar
ingly, and only in counties which produc,
little or no cotton. Throughout the entir,
area the promising appearance of CROWN.
wheat is remarkable. We have neve
been able to report such uniformity OF
high condition, and only once. in 1871
anything approaching it. Scarcely Il reall
marked exception is reported
The returns from almost every county
in the West and Northwest are favorable
such expressions as 1.-The best in ten years,
" the best in twenty years, - never bet
ter " being quite common. From til
Report Of the Department Of Agricultur
for May.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-27

STRAWBERRY CULTURE.-lIOW to grow
strawberries properly for home use, is
question that has never yet been entirely
settled to the satisfaction of every one
We believe, however, that most persons
prefer growing them in beds, with the
runners kept off by constant cutting, and
then mulch the surface of the soil to pre-
serve fair amount of moisture. In form
ing beds there also exists great diversity
Of opinion in relation to the distance apart
to set plants. | believe in plenty of room
when extra fine fruit us we'll as plenty of
it is required. l am aware that some
English gardeners, for the purpose of secur-
ING exhibition fruit, set their plants two
feet apart in the rows three feet apart.
Others again advocate planting them one
foot apart, with two feet between the rows
and after one crop of fruit has been gather
ed, remove each alternate plant in the row,
thus leaving Il space of two feet each way
between the plants. OF course no careful,
neat gardener would think of allowing his
runners to cucumber the ground for the
purpose of securing large amount of little
imperfect berries. Such course is ALWAYS
attended with positive loss, and is indica-
tive of SlOVenllnesS. When grown us
have suggested, say two feet apart each
way, or ut the most, two feet by eighteen
| inches, and then carefully cultivated, and
enriched every year beautifully, believe
most kinds will live and be profitable for
| six or eight years. | know the Triumphe
de Gand in heavy soils will, and the guam
tity of fruit will annually increase as the
plants get older. An excellent plan to
apply the manure, is to spread it over the
surface literally in the autumn, and in tho
spring, fork it under, covering ut once
with the mulchin5 material.-Pennsylra-
MAN.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-27
Clicked Cattle Cured.

Some SO years ago | had COW choked
with small potato. When | discovered
her she was badly bloated and in great
pain | had some bound volumes of the
old Geqesee Farmer. | referred to them.
and under the head of cattle | found a de-
scription Of probang made thus: Take
= piece of tough hickory, elm or white
oak, 5 feet long, l t inches at ore end, Ia
per to 3-S inch at the small end, make it
round and smooth. Take piece of fine
grained hard wood, turn it to the shape
and size of a hens egg, n little longer at
the small end, cut Oft the large end to the
size of the diameter, make it a little con-
cave, bore 3-S hole lengthwise, insert
the handle, bore a small hole through the
ball and handle, insert small wire rivet
to keep it in place. Not having such a
thing on hand picked up a green beech
whip-stOck, fastened ball of tow on the
end, had Il man hold tie COW by the horn
with one hand and the other by the nose,
put common plow clevis or stirrup from
u saddle between her Jaws, have man
hold it in place with one hand and her
tongue with the other. Insert the probang
in her throat, plunge it down four or five
feet, and the obstruction was removed, but
the COW was so badly bloated she could
hardly stand. took a sharp pointed jack
knife put my thumb and forelinger about
two inches from the point, placed my mid
die finger on the point of the hip-bone on
the off side, and spanned off horizontal
with the backbone to the place my thumb
reached, about six inches, plunged in the
knife and gust of wind followed In two
minutes the cow went to eating hay and
was well. Since that time have not been
without probang. l have used it often
and lent it to neighbors, always with good
success, except once, when they only run
it down about three feet. Such an instru-
ment, made of tough timber, well oiled
with boiled oil, will last lifetime and re-
tain its elasticity. There is no danger of
injuring the animal, let her struggle and
twist round rs she may.-B. B0,cen, Erie
Co., N. Y.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-27
the farm homestead is

GEEsE.-Where the farm homestead is
adapted for geese, where there is proper
restraint on the swine, there is nothing
pays better for keeping on the farm than a
gander and three geese Some have as
many us four or five geese with one gan
der, and the feathers from the young ones
when killed are valuable without cruelty
picking the live ones. When there is com
Portable coop, with choice of nests and
nothing to disturb them, geese will gener-
ally raise ten goslings each on an aver
age; but if brought to fresh place in the
spring or gander or geese are changed,
they seldom do well the first season. They
are very long-lived, and will last any farm
er's time on farm. Some people are
Ignorant of the habits of domesticated
geese and suppose they will only breed in
pairs; others think the picking alive to be
very economical, whereas the poor miser
able wretches never do much else than
supply few feathers, while those who
have fine heavy breed and manage them
so Us to sell the young ones fat at the right
season make h1n-isome income without
stripping them living.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-27
PrecOci0uS Children.

PrecOcitv in children is to be deplored,
not encouraged. A dull, sleepy child of
ten makes the best man. The business of
childhood is to grow, rather than shrivel
up in school and die. Colts put into hIr-
ness, or kept under saddle before they get
their growth. make poor or Indifferent
horses. Half our college graduates. who
smoke tobacco and commit other indis-
cretions while pursuing their studies, are
" shelved," being used up and good for
nothing before thirty years. Would not Il
little physiological training be more use
full than so much Greek, Latin and Rheto-
ric? Precocious boys and girls should
not be kept in school, but out of doors-in
the garden. on the farm, in the play
ground--rolling hoops, flying kites, riding
horses, climbing hills-all in moderation,
and if properly fed, clothed and trained,
they will learn enough later in life. They
should also sleep abundantly. Children
grow most when they sleep best. If the
human race is to be perpetuated, some
attention must be paid to the laws of
health. To become parents of robust
children--of children with enough vitality
to keep the lamp of life burning into old
age---requires fright living" on their
part. Children are affected by the physi
cal and mental conditions of their parents.
Stock here, as elsewhere, is an important
consideration. Blood tells" We NAV
improve or impair the quality of our
blood by the way we live, the habits we
form, the pursuits we follow, and by oar
very thoughts. But enough. Sensible
parents will have sensible, not precocious
children; take proper care of them and
fhay will live and narnatuotp tho family v
name and be blessing to their parents,
the state, the nation and the race. Silly,
foolish. fashionable, dissipated, ignorant
and ambitious pas" and "mas :"
"shalI not live out half their days
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-27

AGRICULTURAL MISTAKES.-The farm
ING class, like our manufacturers. some
times fall into the error of over production
An instance of this kind is illustrated in
the cultivation of tobacco in New England
IA crop that Il few years ago was mainly
produced in the southern states In the
Connecticut Valley, in Massachusetts and
Connecticut, the light loamy soil is genial
to tobacco, which is highly priced for the
manufacture of segars. For Il number of
years, before its cultivation became very
extensive, it was II remunerative crop.
often returning from q thousand to fifteen
hundred dollars per acre. This great profit
induced the farmers to extend its culture,
so that for two OF three years past it has
been the chief crop in the Valley of the
Connecticut. The fever also extended
into the back counties, and the result is,
an over production-which greatly reduced
prices for superior quality, and no sale
for the inferior grades.
In the state of New York, in some half
dozen counties, broom-corn has been Il
leading and profitable crop; but of late
years the farmers there have committed a
like error with the tobacco cultivators of
New England-overdone the business. In
some counties along the Mohawk River,
it is said the old farmers have two Years
stock on hand. much of which is mil
dewed and unstable. Like the cultiva-
tors of tobacco in New England. the New
York farmers have held on " for former
prices. and in holding on have lost the
sale of their two years stock of broom
corn Voonsocket (R. ~ Patriot.