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PRIZES

TIE Association offers the following prizes, TO
be awarded at the Kendall County Agricultural
Fair Of 1874, for Colts sired by their Horses:
For the best Colt sired by PANIC, 500 cash and
the service Of the Horse.
For the best Colt sired 10y REVENGE, out of
Thoroughbred Mare, provided there are three en-
tries, 800 cash; the best out of common Mare,
$50 cash; and service Of the Horse.
For the best Colt sired by You've l.IoN, SD in
cash and the service Of the Horse.
For the best Colt sired by IoTS0 SCOTLAND
$40 cash and the service of the Horse.
Members Of ire dissertation mol ailo,red 10 coDa
pete ,t0r The GboP prizes.
Plano. ILL.,. May 1;th lsi3-u
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-03-28

Des Moline, Iowa, paper few days ago,
10 perpetrate a neat joke, published an &C.
count of the finding of immense deposites OF
protoxide of hydrogen on the banks of the
river near that city. Several wise journals
like the Chicago Tribune bit not knowing
that proto1yde of hydrogen, being interpreted
meant ice
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-03-28

In Kansas City, if you call for plate of
Indian cakes, the waiter puts his hand to his
mouth and sings out: "ModOcs for one"
They can beat that in Chicago. for at Ger
tain iashionabl. lunch room the ancient and
honorable name of of pork and beans" is
translated into stars and stripes" and the pc.
etical otT' regales the ears Of his customers
with sam Handwitches for two"
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In describing the recent dcbW Of Il young
lsdy, whose tiiendswent into raptures,overiher
performances, Jones says: They applauded
her when she opened her mouth; they ap.
plauded when she shut it; they applauded
her when she kicked the stool: and believe
they would have applauded had She kicked
The huCketn
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-03-28

Nor REMARKABLE-A Massachusetts, farm
cr says: My cattle Will follow me until
leave the lot, and on the way up TO the barn
yard in the evening stop and call for lock
Of hay"
Smithson says there is nothing at MI re-
markable in that. lie went into IA barn yard
IN the country one day last week, where he
had not the slightest acquaintance with the
cattle, and the old bull not only followed him
till he left the lot but took the gate off the
hinges and raced with him to the house in
the most familiar manner possible. Smith.
con says lie has no doubt that the old fellow
would have called for something if he had
waited little while, but he didn't want to
keep the folks waiting dinner, SO he hung
one tail of his coat and q piece of his pants
on the bulls horns and went into the house
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-03-28

Who is president of the United States ~
askeda Brooklyn schoolmarm. Ben Butler"
shouted the youth to whom the question was
addressed, The teacher sent him to the foot
and looked crosscyed at him, and now his
mates call him 'spoouy."
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A philosophical victim advertiSes as fol.
lows: "lfthc person who took a fancy to my
overcOat was influenced by the inclemency
OF the weather then, contrary to the weather,
cial considerations, am ready to enter INTO
financial negotiations for its return"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-03-28

Who was the meekeSt man" asked a
Sunday school teacher-"Moses." Very we'll
who was the msekcSt woman" Never
was any"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-03-28

Il can always tell water when see il.
remarked TOddyhlossom the other day; 81
looks 50 much like GIN"
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Who hath Woes inquired ore of the pray
ing ladies of an Aurora bartender Il have,
ma'am, said he, my next door ncighbor has
bought his boy base drum and is practicing
the flute"
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Z \ Mississippi negro worked on shares, bu
got muffin, because" said he, Il work fol
de seventh. and we have only made the fifth
crop short"
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When our ancestorswanted ahotrum punch,
they said so without evasion; they did not
call it "kettledrum"
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The attempt to weave zephyr w0rs;eds or
heir,lOOms has proved q failure.
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What will She Invoices" is now the proper
question tn ask of marriageable young ladies
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YOUNG LION

A Canadian French Stallion, : years old, stands
l59l hands high, weighs 1900 lbs.; a jet Black
with very heavy name and tail; forsplendid bone
style and actions, he is acknowledged by compc
tent horsemen to he the best horse OF his class
that was ever raised in Canada
PEDIGREE.-Young Lion, sired by Occur dc
Lion, dam by Black Diamond, Il mare that could
trot in 3.4O, and winner on the turf.
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A bad egg i no; q choice egg, Uu; !; Is
hard 10 beat;
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YOUNG SCOTLAND

An imported Clydcsdalc, a beautiful Brown, -four
years old, stands ~ hands high, weighs 1905
lbs. when in good flesh, has great bone and good
action, and for draft stallion has no superior in
this country or any other,
PEDIGREE.-YOung Scotland sired by Old
Scotland; his DAM a pure Clydcsdale mare.
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The Terms are as follows:

PANIC.-$lOO to insure. $15 for the season
$50 for single lean.
REVENGE %i0O to insure Thoroughbred
mares $50 to insure common bred mares.
YOUNG LION.-S25 to insure.
YOUNG SCOTLAND.-Si0 To Insure.
Pasture FURNISHED for Mares from adis!dnct. AZ
cidentS ami SfTayiRg az OtcncrS' risk.
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PANIC
REVENGE

Thoroughbred, Golden Sorrol. l6 hands high
for breeding and form he has not al equal in this
country.
PEDIGHEE-Eeyenge By imported Monarch. Isl dam,
sir Charles Sd dam, Reality by SIR Archy; thdtm by i'm
Marx Anthony 1th dam by imported Janus: Sth dam by
imported Monkey 9th dam by Imported silver Eye 10th
dam by Spankcr
Fashion the celebrated Race Mare of her
winning 81 out OF 81 races % OF which were four mile raC
The she lost she ont OF condition. being beaten H.
much slower time than the sOwcst she made IN her winning
races (See the pedigree of Revenge and Fashion IN 8race
american stu Book, y. 3SS)
Monarch by imported Priam, bred by His Majesty King
william Nv, at Hampton Court, and imported by Col WADE
Hampton, of south Carolina list dam, Imported Dephine
by Whlskers % dam, My Lady, By Gomns 81 dam the
Coonels dam by DeDhnc; 4h dam Triple Cydet, by King
Fergus 5th dam, sylvia 10y Young Marske; 9Th dam Fer
ret BY brother to sylvia IN dam by Reguus; Sh dam
by Lord Mortens Arabian on dam by MlXbcy; 10Th dam
BY MusO Bay Barb 18th dandy Bay Bolton; 18th dam by
Coneyskin; 3h dam by Iutons Grey Barb; itn dam by
Bycriy's Turk; 18Th dam by Buster.
Monarch many races and never lost heat
(See BTHCe'S il,e,ilIH sud Book, p. 3d.
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While we guarantee as Good Work as
any city iobbers, we challenge a compar-
ison OF .P-icestwith aEyIotaer establish
LaentS
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-08-08
Animal EStheticS.

A WRITER in Land and Water gives
some curious instances of the scnsibility
Of ducks to colors and musical sounds.
He once had in his garden border of
China asters of the most brilliant colors.
The ducks would congregate round these
and lie there for hours. They never
pecked at them, as they found snails or
slugs among them. They appeared sim
ply gazing at them, as if attracted by
the gay colors. Another time he had a
largo clump of very brilliant violet
flowers, which by their brightness shonc
out from the rest of the border. This
clump was like magnet to the ducks
some Of them were always around it.
One evening the writer had party of
friends. It was summer time, and the
doors of the sitting-room were open to
the lawn. One of the company
commenced playing on the piano.
No sooner was there pause in the
music than two ducks, which had by
some means got into the room, rose from
under chair and waddled all over the
apartment, quacking loudly. On the
music commencing the ducks crouched
down, perfectly silent while it con-
tinued. The experiment was made sew
eral times with the same result. That it
was not surprise or fear which induced
this behavior was afterward proved, for
on subsequent occasions the same ducks
would, upon hearing the piano, leave the
held anil come into the room to listen.
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An Alligator Allegation.

THAT alligators swallow their young l
have ocular demonstration in single
case, and have the universal tradition of
negroes and whites in this region of
Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas that
such is their habit. In the winter of
1884 was engaged making survey on
the banks of the Homochitto Lake. The
day was warm and sunny, and, as l
halted near the margin Of a pond partly
dried up to pick some shells, l started a
litter of young alligators that scampered
off, yclping like puppies, and retreating
some twenty yards to the bank of Lake
Homochitto. I saw them reach their
refuge in the mouth of a five-foot alligator
She evidently held open her mouth to
receive them, as, in single file, they
passed in beyond my observation. The
dam then turned slowly round, and slid
down beneath the water, passing into a
large opening in the bank beneath the
root of an ash tree. Dou] tless this
refuge is temporary, and the young arc
released at their own or the mothers
pleasure.-Popular Science NJ ntAly 70,
august.
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The Doom of England.

Now, let us face boldly and state in
the plainest language what the industrial
decadence of our country, whether it
will come sooner or later, will mean
when it begins. Statistics are unneces-
sary here; they cannot be precise, and
might give rise to useless controversy on
details) 1t will mean that we shall lose
one foreign market after another; that
we shall gradually cease to manufacture
for other manufacturing countries; then
that those countries, after supplying
themselves, will meet us and beat US in
neutral markets; finally, that we shall
be reduced to the supply of our own de-
mand. This will be a terrible reverse
a momentous and, it may be, misera-
BILE change. 1t must involve a vast and
grave metamorphosis; it may, but it need
not, involve ruin. The extent and depth
Of suffering we shall have to undergo
during the sad progress and the weary
struggle will depend upon how soon and
how distinctly we recognize the coming
| revolution and how wisely and cour-
ageously we meet it. The great, ulti-
| mate, naked fact we have to look at is
this: The home demand for our iron,
cotton, WOODEN goods, ETC., may be about
one-third of the whole; we manufacture
mainly for foreign consumption. About
one third of all our productive industry
is all that we can hope ultimately to
keep going. Two-thirds of our artisan
population, therefore, must cease to be
or to remain. That vast proportion of
our imports which is now paid for by our
millions of exports will have to be fore
gone, or to be purchased by other funds.
10 speak broadly, the population of
these islands, which is now maintained
by agriculture, commerce and manufac-
lures, will have to be maintained by ag-
riculture and commerce almost alone.
We shall, therefore, only be able to
support 20000,000 people, instead of
~, 10000 as at present. England will
become second HQlland-greater, rich.
er, more powerful than the first. But
she may be a prosperous and happy Hol-
land still, if she only sees her destiny in
a great nation should.-Conte,nporo Re-
vsew
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It has no more relationship to the cur
rant jelly which she has stored in her
cupboard than butyric acid has with
truth. In fact, it has no connection, not
even OF the most distant kind, with cur.
rants at all.
Jellies and canned fruits constitute one
of the most grossly adulterated branches
of the manufacturers business. They
are made principally at the East, although
there are some manufactures in the West.
But by far the greater proportion of the
sold in tumblers are manufac,
tured by a few firms who carry
on extensive works in New York, Phil
adelphia and other Eastern points. The
business has grown to immense proper
tons. 1t is today so large that the sup.
ply of fruit is altogether Inadequate to
meet the demand.
The result is that there has been a gen
eral resort on the part of jelly manu-.
facturers to processes of adulteration
In this case, unfortunately, the articles
used are not always harmless. They are
often very deleterious, always most of.
fensive. In jellies, calves feet glue is
the principal thing used, which, sweet
ened with sugar and colored by aniline
dyes, is passed of upon the innocent pub
Tic as being the very fruit itself. Oh
course the very general adulteratior
enables the manufacturer to sell tum
bier of currant jelly to the purchaser al
far less than would have to he paid il
nothing but the Simon pure" article was
used. But the advantage thus obtained
by the consumer of cheap article is ONT
not worth possessing. 1t would be fal
better to pay the price necessary to Sc
cure the pure currant jelly than to be de
frauded by paying less sum for fou
compound, consisting principally of glue
with some dangerous chemical prepare
ton thrown in to give the glue the neces
sary color. But the race of fools is i'm
mortal" and the genealogy of knave'
stretches back to the flood, and will con
| tinue unto the coming of the millennium
The value Of currant and other frui
jellies consists principally in the citric
melic and tartaric acids that they con
tain. The artificial jellies are altogethel
innocent of any of these acids. They arr
simply glue.-Chicogo Times.
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Weights and Measures .

A CORRESPONDENT of the Ruroz Mem
Yorker says the imperial gallon (English)
holds ten pounds of water, the United
States gallon holds $3.50 pounds, and the
New York gallon holds exactly eight
pounds. 1t is a well-understood fact
that the Constitution of the United
States provides that Congress anu Con
gress alone shall have power to regulate
the weights and measures used in this
country. Congress has enacted that the
gallon used in these United States shall
contain exactly 231 cubic inches or 1854
pounds of water, and when the State of
New York passed a law providing for a
gallon that would hold exactly eight
pounds of water the wiseacres at ALBANY
exceeded their power and the law was
unconstitutional and consequently null
and void. There is but one standard
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-08-08
Natures Fly.Traps.

AS the season for flies comes on, the
drug stores will put out their papers for
destroying these friends of man, and the
groceries will display their various traps
lot the same purpose. Brown paper that
Kills the fly mechanically, by sticking up
his legs and exhausting him in fruitless
efforts to escape; lead-colored paper that
treacherously allures, intoxicates and
polsons; green wire traps, filled with
plugging swarms awaiting immersion
into tub or a holocaust at the kitchen
stove, will tempt the money out of the
pockets Of afflicted housekeepers. All
these contrivances are dull and brutal
things. They are either grossly treacher-
Gus or wholesale traps Of no interest at
all rs pieces of mechanism.
The genius of nature has ordained that
every species of animal shall lie proved
upon and destroyed by sont instructive
enemy But for the posr fly, or winged
insect, she has provided double class of
enemies. On them prey not only in.
Vulnerable species of animals, but also
an abundant variety of vegetable growths
Ichneumons, toads, birds and spiders
butcher the gentle little fly. for food
While innumerable animals, from mere
angry passions, attack and destroy them.
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Scientific Men.

SCIENTIFIC men hinder scientific prog
ress because they fail to apply their
knowledge to practical use. They are
known to the world as learned men but
their knowledge is of little more use than
the Yankee side-hill pillow was to the Vir-
glnia planter whom l met in Lynchburg
Va, under the following circumstances =:
sat in the store of Yankee agricu,-
tural implement dealer one hot July day.
A tall, swarthy, intelligent-looking gen
tlcman, on horse back, rode up to the
door. He was followed by four mule
team, attached to a heavy, covered Vir-
ginia wagon, driven by colored man.
"Good afternoon, Col. -" said the
dealer
"Good evening"" was the response,
with an accent indicating irritation.
What brings you to town so soon
again?" asked the dealer, who evidently
feared something wrong, as he had sold
the planter pillow day or two before
Well, sir, I've brought that pillow
back" was the reply.
Brought the pillow back! Why, what
ais it? That was one of my best plows-
perfect in every respect"
"Well, SIR" said the planter, with a
freezing dignity, "you remember there
was a small piece of iron attached to
that pillow with string?"
Yes" was the response.
"Well, sir, I'll be dog goned if either
! or my old man could find place where
it would fit! We tried it every way and
could do nothing with it, and so there it
is in the wagon. I reckon you had bet
ter take it back or give me another
The planter had hauled it twenty miles
in an empty wagon, with four-mule
team
"Why," said the dealer land you may
imagine there was broad smile upor
his face), "thnt acas an extra point for yoa
to use uhen the one moao on the piow 1ae
ao07n out"
The planter, graduate of the Univer
slty OF Virginia, and really sensible
man, soso the point, and allowed he was 8
fool. He knew he had pillow, but he
did not know how to use it; so men OF
science have the implements of useful
ness, but too generally fail to use and te
teach others how to use them; and what
ever is useless is valueless; and for tina
which is valueless there are no seekers
Cor: Rura1 Neao Yorker
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Very Peculiar Jellies.

JELL1Es, generally, are frauds. They
may be described, indeed, as base, double
frauds. They are not what they seem,
either in size of tumbler or in quality of
article. They look beautiful and tempt
ing, and accomplish that peculiar feat of
making ones mouth water as speedily as
anything. Every lady visitor to a res
taurant looks with envy at the clear,
bright color of the jellies that occupy the
post of honor on the top of the pickle
bottles in the windows of the establish
ment. If she be a visitor from the country
she generally insists that her husband
shall carry home sample, to be tested
on the first opportunity. Woman-like
she "learns," with Goldsmith's heroine,
too late that men betray" Her beauti-
full currant jelly is villainous mixture.
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gallon in the State of New York and
that gallon is the United States gallon.
Before leaving this subject it may be
we'll to allude to the laws passed in the
different States, declaring that the bushel
shall contain so many pounds of different
kinds of grain. 1t is a serious question
whether these laws are constitutional.
We have no doubt that when q contract
is made for so many bushels of grain the
courts would enforce the delivery of SO
many measures each of which should
contain 2,15O.42 cubic inches. The def
milton "Illinois bushel" or "Iowa bush
el' would not affect this decision. ILL
nois, Iowa and other States have no
right to adopt bushel which differs
from that of the United States.
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Horses and COWS switch them with their
tails; indeed, this seems to be the pre-
disposing cause of switchy tails; dogs
snap at them; men slap at them.
We will not suggest SO obnoxious or
impracticable a scheme as substituting
these animals for the chemical and
mechanical traps men have invented.
An animate horse-tail will hardly do to
brush flies away from the table, and toads,
however innocent in their MAYNARD
habits, are terror to the women and
children. Spiders might be left to spin
their webs were it not for that conven-
tionalism of the ladies which links a
reputation for neatness with the draw
ings of a broom periodically over ceilings
and down the angles of the room.
But the vegetable world can furnish us
with tiy-traps at once ornamental and
effective, ingenious and capricious. In
these days, when herbariums are affected
by housekeepers, why could not a win
dow be filled with curious and active
plant which will work infinite delight for
the observer? The way to do this thing
is to secure a Window-box which will
hold water. In this put SOME MOSES
gathered from peat-bogs or marshes, sat-
urate them we'll with water, and plant out
the common pitcher-plant and the sun
dews of our Atlantic coast. The first of
these plants is only mechanical trap.
Its pitcher is filled nearly with water,
which the flies try to drink, when they
fall in and drown Naturalists tell us
that these leaves are sometimes so filled
with drowned flies as to furnish rich
nutriment to the plant
The sundews are an ingenious and ami
mated predatory flower. They know as
much as a puppy four weeks old. They
can't be fooled. They will eat animal
food, but they are not like the silly, sen
sitive plant that shuts up at every touch
Mrs. Treat tells us that her sundcws
knew the difference between a piece OF
meat and piece of chalk. One they
will shut down upon and the other they
will not touch. This plant spreads out
its leaves, which are covered with little
fine bristlcs. On their edge they exude
| a delicious nectar, which the silly little
fly is fond Of. AS soon as he puts his
proboscis in the nectar, up comes the
spires and fastens him down. Then the
leaf curls over him and begins to digest
him. This is cruel, but far more com
Portable than for the flies to bite and di
gest us-p3ursdence (R, ~ Journal.
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W1LHoFT's FEVER ANDsAGUE ToN1C.-This
medicine is used by construction companies
for the benefit of their employees, when en-
gagged in malarial districts The highest tes-
timonials have been given by contractors and
by the Presidents of some Of the leading rail-
roads In the South and West When men are
congregated in large numbers in the neigh
will prove valuable addition to the stock of
medicines, and will amply reward the compa-
ny in the saving of time, labor and money.
We recommend it to all. WHEELoCK, FINLAY
Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS,
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Not Quite So Fast, Mr.. Jones!-A horse
doctor In Philadelphia was caught changing the cele
DRAFTED Mexican Mustang iniment into other bottles
and using 1t as his own recipe. Honesty is always the
best policy. These medicine men like to follow up
such fellows. 1t cured the lame horse all the same;
but damaged the Doctors reputation, and benefited
the proprietor in proportion. We have heard Of SO
many Rheumatic persons and lame horses being cured
by the Mustang Hniment that we advise every house.
Keeper lveryman and planter to invest In scot.
500 bottle against accident Beware Of counterfefts
1t is wrapped in steel engraving, signed &c. W.
Westbrook, Chemist