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DARE ATTRACTIONS
IL FOR THE LADIES'
AT Gil. RUPPERI'S, 2OS Sfh stfeef s.sc.
now III store magnificent stock OF now aud ossu
tful Styles Emproidcred Slippers, 81 PIPER Oasas
ana Cushions. handsome designs. Fancy Worsta0
Work and Knitted Goods OF all descriptions. Com
plete outfit fer Infants Fine assortment of Mac
reme Thread and Point Lace TRIMMING Berlin
ZephyTs, German and American Knitting Yarn
Germantown wool, the best quality and good weight
al the lowest prices, and the attractive stock o,
Holiday Goods to be found ia the city. Don't for1ei
the name and paCe. CHI RUPERT.
4O3 9TH street a.so.
70 NO BRANCH STORE nnyS03n
I AIDES WINTER BOOTS.
EERMILYA Is selling Ladies Buttoned BOOTS
Of bis OWL make, at $500.
The best in the city for the money
nov26-tr $40 9Th street, OPP Patent ofncs.
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% Trav,Jers and Hesidents Abroad.

The EVENING STAR viii he found on file az thl
following places, where, also, refreshments 8ns
subscriptions will he received Henry T. Giiliy 4
Co. 449 Strand. Charing Cross, London; Charlie.
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FAMILY SUPPLIES.

- LBS. GOOD CHEESE....-... 1890. Is
- Best " V. BTCkWHEAT, per lb.............
Nice BRIGHT SlklP. Isar Gallon .--............- 10
bottle Fine OLD ,
1 gallon best SWEET q DER.....-............. 20
WESTERN SHOULDER BACON, per h.. 4
BDNEIESS HAMS. erSar cured. per h..
Best STGAk CURED SHOULDERS, per b.. Is
3 rounds beet SUGAR CORS.....-.....-..... Is
aIsor NEW ORLEANS MOLASStS, fancy. 10
RICE FLOUR, - -,-
PRESSED HOPS.
C. S. O'HARE son,
1918 Serentgi SC N.sC.,
isnI0tr Between Nj ana N
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05
Regarding the Canary.

"They call them Canary BIRDS" said an i'm
porter, but they are German birds. The
native canary does not sing. 1t was when the
canary was crossed with the linnet and the
lark and the other song birds of Europe that
the little musician, which we know as the
canary, came to exist. These birds are bred
in Germany. The inhabitants of the Harz
mountains supply the civilized world There
is not cottage in all the region about An
dreasberg and the Broken that is not full of
them. Some of the peasants raise as many as
three hundred in year; but the average is
perhaps, twenty to house. AS much as
$780, 900 goes to the inhabitants of the Harz
mountains for their canary birds every year.
They have bred them for generations, and fairs
are held and prizes are offered to stimulate the
breeders.
"These wickercag the fancier continued,
holding up one slender and simply construct
ed of soft white wood, "are made by the
peasants who breed the birds. The canary
that comes to America is confined to his cage
for space of about three weeks. | send an
order for several thousand birds to my brother
in Germany. He directs number of agents
to collect in the Harz enough birds to fill the
order. The peasant has no general place of
sale. The agents go from cottage to cottage,
buying in one 500 birds, and in another 700,
and SO on. Instructions are given to send
these birds to the port for shipment, to be
there on Friday. On Saturday the ship sails
Men go with the birds to feed them and care
for them. One man can take care of /, $50
birds, and l generally have two men going
each way in the North German ships every
week ~
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05
A Noted Pigeon ROOst,

The celebrated pigeon roost in Scott coun-
ty, Indiana, is this year, as it has been for the
last seventy-five years, the roost of millions
ofpigeons. They fly away in themornng to
their feeding grounds in the woods and fields
of Indiana and Kentucky many of them 60
ing to SO great distance that they do not re-
turn till midnight. The timber on thousands
of acres covered by this roost is broken down
badly, large limbs being snapped off like
reeds by the accumulated weight of the birds
upon them. Throughout the entire night
there is heard the cracking and crashing of
limbs, the hum and furry and drumming of
wings, the explosion of firearms and the CON
fusion and bedlamic thrashing sounds caused
by people beating the birds from the trees
with long poles. Thousands of pigeons are
killed nightly, but all this slaughter seems to
make no dimnution in the vast fiocks that
congregate at this roost This pigeon roost
is historic ground. In 1912 it was the scene
of a massacre, during raid made by bind
of Pottowattamie Indians There was a set
Element in the vicinity with total popula-
ton of thirty persons Only six of the mum.
Der escaped, all the rest being massacred and
scalped The savagcs were pursued but es-
capped across the Muscatine river, and the
pursuers having no boats could not follow
them. This was the last incursion of Indians
made into Southwestern Indiana. In the To-
cal history of the State this savage slaughter
has ever since been designated the Pigeon
ROOst Massacre
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05

A womans glove is to her what a vest
pocket is to a man. But It's more capacious,
and in nnety-nine instances out of hun
dred it is better regulated. A man will carry
5000 worth of small change, four matches,
half dozen toothpicks, short pencil, and
yet not be able to find nickel or match or
q toothpick or pencil or card when he
wants it, Not so with woman. She has
the least bit of a glove, and in that glove she
carries the tiniest hand and a wad of bills and
the memoranda for her intended purchase of
dry goods and car tickets and matinee
checks and may be diminutive powder bag
We have no idea how she does it-hoW
she manages to squeeze those thousand and
one things into that wee space. But she
does it every time, and the glove never looks
the least discomposed or plethoric or ruffied
And when woman wants any article con.
cealed about that glove she doesn't seem to
have the least trouble in the world getting at
it. All that is required is simple turn Of
the wrist, the disappearance Of two fairy fin.
gers, and the desired article is brought to
| light. 1t is wonder that no savant can ex.
plain.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05

PLANTING TREEs.-D. 4 s., writing to
the Practical Farmer makes the following
suggestion on tree planting:
First, dig the holes full large to receive the
roots nicely spread out, from twelve to four.
teen inches deep; throw the top soil and sub
soil on ditterentpies. Then fill in enough of
the top soil to receive the tree about the same
depth it stood in the nursery, no deeper. Be
careful to cut all the bruised roots back to
sound wood, and by alLmeans cut the tops
back, as the sap is all in the tree to make ii
grow, and leaving all on, the sap will soon be
exhausted and large per cent. will die
Put the tree in and fill the balance of top soil
in around the roots, then fill in the subsoil,
and give them good mulch of barnyard ma
nure before dry weather comes. BY this rule
| have nearly all my trees TO grow right along.
Do not accept any trees of your agent, like
the lrishman's pig, which was 'little but old"
but have them thrifty if they are small; also
be careful not to get the roots frosted before
planting, as they will not grow ifthe tree is
ever SO thrifty. The bark on the roots
blackens after being frosted
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05

A correspondent of the Country Gentleman
has used salt as fertilizer for thirty years,
and his experience leads him to the following
conclusions:
1t keeps the land cool and miost.
1t neutralizes drouth
1t exterminates all soil vermin
1t prevents potato rot.
1t glaZes and stiffens straw, preventing
crinkling and rust
1t keeps the ground in such condition that
the berry of all kinds of grain fills plumply
however long-continued the hot and dry
weather may be.
But these results" he says, twill not be OBJ
tanned by using only a handful; it must be
literally applied and until the result is obtain
ed. My practice was to apply two barrels
per acre to all the land plowed, and to make
that application every spring for three conse-
cutive years, when it was seeded for meadow,
so that in "a months l applied six barrels to
each acre. l think this quantity sufficient, as
it produced the results | have stated in my
conclusions, but would double the quantity
rather than use less, for do not think it
would do any harm to the desired crop. No
one should look for the results l have named
who uses less than the quantity stated
Gardens should be sailed very literally, for
by so doing you will have no worm eaten rad
lshes, maggoty onions, club-footed cabbage,
or any other vegetable grown in it injured by
worms, grubs, or any vermin that infest the
soil. Every one who raises asparagus knows
the necessity of using salt abundantly. One
can scarcely use too much. Many who grow
cabbages know its value when applied to the
roots or growing head; but every one does
not know that growing onions may be buried
under salt, leaving only the tops out, and that
the onion will grow thrifty, while all mag.
gots and worms will die or disappear-yet
such is the fact. Salt mixed with wood ashes,
in the proportion of one of salt to four of
ashes, applied at the rate of a handful to the
centre of each hill of corn Immediately after
planting, will supersede the use of scare
crows and coal tar, as no worm or crow will
touch it, besides giving the fertilizing proper
ties of the compound"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05

GIVING A PIG MEDIcINE.-At a recent
meeting of an English farmers club, Prof
Mcbride spoke of the difficulty of administer
ing medicine to a pig He said To dose a
pig which you are sure to choke ifyou at
tempt to make him drink while squealing
halter him as you would for execution, and
tic the rope end to a stake He will pull
back until the rope is tightly strained When
he has ceased his uproar and begins to reflect
approach him, and between the back part Of
his jaws insert an old shoe, from which you
have cut the toe leather. This he will at
once begin to suck and chew. Through it
pour medicine, and he will swallow any
quantity you please
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05
Mr. Mechi, the agriculturist. denlores

MIR. Mechi the agriculturist, deplores the
agricultural loss involved in river pollution,
and recalls the words of Liebig "The sewers
of Rome engulfed in the course of centuries
the prosperity of the Roman farmer, and
when the fields of the latter would no longer
yield the means of feeding her population, the
same sewer devoured the wealth of Sicily,
Sardinia, and the fertile lands on the coast of
Africa" He adds. Large towns, like bot
tions of fertility of the greatest countries.
Mr.. Mechi estimates that it takes the annual
produce of 10000 acres to feed London for
one day,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05

RETURN POSTAL Cause.-The two cent
postal card is coming, and will soon be in
general circulation in the United States. 1t
has two stamps, one on each end, and spaces
for two messages. The sender, who desires
information valuable to himself, occupies one
ofthe spaces and the return correspondent
the other One stamp is cancelled at the of.
flee from which it is sent, and the other al
the return office. 1t will be found very
convenient arrangement
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05

"A sea captain trading to the African
coast was invited to meet committee of a So
ciety for the evangelization of Africa
Among numerous questions touching the
habits and religion of the African races, he
was asked: do the subjects of the King OF
he replied, "Yes, and every other thing they
can lay their hands on"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05
Ear1irrrs' Column.
"Speed the PiOaU.'

I'VE would be pleased to have, every week, for
this column, articles of practical nature from
the farmers of the county,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05

He looked as wise as an owl, did he.
His tricks were well adjusted,
He declined to advertise, you see,
And in year he busted.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05
2nettcal.
LITTLE MISS SNOWFLAKE.

LITTLE MISS SNOWFLAKE.
Little Miss Snowflake came to town
All dressed up in her brand new gown,
And nobody looked as fresh and fair
As little Miss Snowflake, declare!
Out of fieecy cloud she stepped,
Where all the rest of her family kept
As close together as bees can swarm,
In readiness for a big snow-storm.
But little Miss Snowflake couldn't wait,
And she wanted to come in greater state,
For she thought that her beauty would meier be
known
If she came in crowd-so she came alone.
All alone from the great blue sky
Where cloudy vessels went scudding by,
With sails all set, on their way to meet
The largest ships OF snowy fleet.
She was very tired but couldn't stop
On tall church spire or chimney top;
All the way from her bright abode
Down to the dust of a country road !
There she rested all out of breath,
And there she speedily met her death,
And nobody could exactly tell
The spot where little Miss Snowflake fell.
GOODBYE, SWEET DAY.
Goodbye, sweet day, goodbye!
have so loved thee but cannot hold thee,
Departing like dream, the shadows fold thee;
Slowly thy perfect beauty fades away:
Goodbye, sweet day!
Goodbye sweet day, goodbye!
Dear were thy golden hours of tranquil splen-
Sadly thou yieldest to the evening tender,
Who were so fair from thy first morning ray
Goodbye, sweet day!
Goodbye, sweet day, goodbye!
Thy glow and charm, thy smiles and tones and
chances
Vanish at last, and solemn night advances.
All, couldst thou yet a little longer stay!
Goodbye sweet day
Goodbye, sweet day, good-bye!
All thy rich gifts my grateful heart remembers,
The while watch thy sunsets smoldering en-
berS
Die in the west beneath the twilight gray
Goodbye, sweet day!
-iScri6Her for December.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05

eB"We are prepared to furnish goods in our
line as cheap as any other House in town. All
goods delivered, free of charge, to Hotel and De-
pot. nov23-1y
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05
Points about Flowing.

Good blowing is of the first Importance in
the art of tillage, but the time or season for
blowing is question about which every far
mer or cultivator of the soil should be able to
form an intelligent opinion for himselfas to
what he ought to do in the matter. He should
be the one who ought to know the require
ment of his own soil and situation.
Many good farmers advocate fall or winter
blowing. Very likely with them it NAV
prove the time, but take some other location
and individual and it might prove far other
wise. For instance, take land that is unpro-
tected by snow and exposed to sweeping
winds or flowing water, as is often found the
case in some localities, and fall blowing will
be found work of supererogation, and Of
ten worse, for instead of a benefit it results in
loss and damage; for where land is expos
ed to high winds much fertility is blown away,
or, If not carried away, the soil is so com
pacted that it requires more time and labor
to work it the following spring than it would
not to have had it fall-plowed. Deep freez-
ing OF an unprotected soil is not that which
benefits as the results of frost in the SOIL
Let the ground become well and deeply froz-
en-, and then good covering of snow COM
ing and lying on all winter and the full ben
efits of frost in the soil result, and the con-
tlnuous covering of snow protects from fur
ther freezing and also assists the internal heat
of the earth in thawing out what frost is in
the ground already, and instead of compact
ing, the effect is to leave a loose and porous
fine soil. For subduing many kinds of growth
fall blowing is the poorest time to effect the
purpose for it often results in making extra
labor above spring blowing; and it often
happens that worms and insects, instead of
being destroyed by fall blowing, &C., work
very much more destruction than when the
ground is left for spring blowing.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05

The HISTORY OF WnEAT.-It is difficult in
the present day to realize the fact that wheat
was at one time unknown to America; vet
prior to the discovery of this continent by
Columbus there was no cereal in America ap-
preaching in nature to the wheat plant 1t
was not, says the american Miller, until 1880
that wheat found its way into Mexico and
then only by chance. A slave of Cortez
found few grains of wheat in parcel of
rice, and showing them to his master he was
ordered to plant them. The result showed
that wheat would thrive well in Mexican soil,
and to-day one of the finest wheat valleys in
the world is near the Mexican capital. From
Mexico the cereal found its way to Peru
Marie D'Escobar, wife of Don Diego dc
Chauves, carried few grains to Lima which
were planted, the entire product being used
for seed for several successive crops. At Qui-
to, Ecuador, a monk of the order of Saint
Francis, by the name of Fray .Jodosi Bixi,
introduced the new cereal and 1t is said that
the jar which contained the seed is still pre-
served by the monks of Quito. Wheat was
introduced in the present limits of the United
States contemporaneously with the English
and the Dutch.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-12-05
Salt as q Fertilizer.

A correspondent of the Country Gentleman
has used salt as fertilizer for thirty years,
and his experience leads him to the following
conclusions
1t keeps the land cool and miost.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-03-02
SUNDAY, MARCH .. 1879.

OUR kilograms announce that il
has been decided in a full Cabinet
meeting that the President should
veto the Anti-Chinese bill. In res
gard to this bill Mr.. Hayes has
been placed in a very delicate posi-,
sioD. On the one hand the &C,
lion Of Congress, and the voice OF
She whole Western slope urged him
70 sign it; and on the other, petit
-;oDs from all over the United
States, begging him that he would
not lend his name to a violation Of
. high treaty obligation with for
sign country, urged him to veto it.
On the one hand was the national
honor involved and on the other,
he cries Of the working-man, who
were unable to compete with Chinese
cheap labor, we're heard.
This question will undoubtedly
cause much trouble in the fusure,
and VIII take high craftsmanship to
deal with If.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-03-02
TMMIGRATION SOCIETIES.

We have received from the Roane
County Immigration Society a copy
Of the circular they are sending out
all over the land, wherever it is
probable that men are seeking new
homes. The subject matter of this
circular, while it is primarily intend
cd to set forth the especial desirable
ness of their own county, as home
for immigrants, will apply to every
county in East Tennessee. In a
former issue the CHRONICLE has
commended these gentlemen on
;heir enterprise in this matter, yet
the good they have organized to
to perform can not be too highly
praised
Gods sun never shone on
a fairer land for a home than Ease
Tennessee and with all our advant,
ages it is only a question of united
whether We bring a stream of
solid, hard-working Cit
DIST or not. The
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-03-02
SSHH~ E,~.

The widow oF Charles Dickens L rs
ported dangerously i'll.
TIE amount Of gold and silver 4
the Treasury or t:e United ,'ja'e- Is
| SIGS 45.7eJ.
Ea- peror William i. sgaiu j: dispas
Ell, This time with 81 cough aud an a.
fecli"n o! .lc laFynx.
GuHave Dore, The famous French
engra var, a been made an eff 'rT u
the Legion Of Honor.
Ex,MIuis, er, +. B. Wash aurne, l. il.
Texas for his health. lie deiiverrj L.
lecture ia San Antonio, recently
Senator MorrelI, OF VermoH', says e
knows one mal who viii receive
| SIS 600 uuder the new Pension Law.
NJ. CIGrvi'le, author OF msny vau~
deyiIle5 and faTces, died III Paris, f, b.
ruayy n. His NJ pst otsd production
is d" Ia File de Madame Augof."
L. Eng ana the other day, cannon
was LOAF, i with two hundred pouUds
Of guupo wder and ton of metal, and
yet the authorities are mad because il
buEstsd.
A mae member of Church choir in
Philadelphia has been dismiss, Il be-
cause he sang in "Pinaf3re" H. .hta-
ter. II was an Ep scopaIian CuUrch
that did it.
Ex-Gov. Seymour is said 80 have
written to a frieud that he will neither
be dis par:y's candidate for Governor
a.! New York this year, nor for PTesi-
dent next year.
The New YORK Tribune suggests
that If Massachusetts, is disgusted at
the prospect OF another Butler raid, it
should reflec upon the fact that with
out the General the politics of the old
commonwealth would be so dreadfulIy
decent az 10 be stupid.
foundations in tho south of France
have rendered hundreds Of people
homeless and dependent upon charity.
a tempest in Spain lasted four days,
with less of life, and great damage.
Several villages aud farms in Navarro
and Austria were destroyed.
The Cincinnati Commercial CORE
spOndents have interviewed leading
Democrats in Ohio and Indiana, and
it appears that Thurman is, in the
former State, tue first choice for the
and HendTick in Indians;
but in both States Ti'deu is the second
choice.
The Stapleiop, New York, Gazette |
saws: General Grant is known to be
a warm and decided friend Of the Adj
ministratiou, and the Secretary of the
treasury is known TO have declared |
months ago that General Grant is the |
strongest aud most probable candidate !
Tor 1850, and the Republicans in the |
Legislature If his own Stste Of Ohio |
have just indicated the same prefer |
encs."
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-03-02

GOULD 30. Congress be arrested
and punished for passing bal bills
suggests the Baltimore american
We hope this precedent will not
be started. It's true that Congress
does pass some bad laws occasion
ally, and that they can not be
harmed. We admit that. Suppose
they we're to institute this sort Of
business, where, oh wherc, would
our Legislators be, for the rest Of
their natural days! In mercy 5
name pause before its too late /. In
this world, their bodies in the peni
Tertiary in the next, their souls in
-. Oh, it's too bad.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-03-02

pure air from our jagged moun-
tain tops contains the very essence
of health and renders our climate
one of the most salubrious in the
world. Tie best Of lands can be
purchased here as cheap as anywhere
in the country, land suitably
for growing anything. On the
mountain and hiIl-sides, grapes and
fruit of the most luscious character
can be raised. Our railroads bring
the Southern States, our natural
market, within our reach, and every
thing produced can be easily sold.
In the bosom Of the earth, awaiting
only the magic wand of capital to
lure it from its hiding place, lies an
an untold and incalculable wealth of
minerals. Coal and iron are found
in sufficient quantities to supply the
demand of the whole world
for ages. Our large forests
furnish cheap lumber in the
greatest profusiOn. Our navigable
streams form a perfect net work and
aid the railroads in transporting our
products.
Our people are orderly and law
abiding, and welcome people of
every nationality who desire to
unite their futures with us. Our
public school system, which is every
day increasing in its power for use
fulness, offers the means of educa-
ton for the poorest child. Churches
Of all denominations are found.
The Roane County Society is the
pioneer one, we trust, in trumpet
ing these facts to the world, and we
hope soon to be able to chronicle the
factthat societies are being organized
in every county in East Tennessee
to follow in their footsteps and
profit by their laudable example.