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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1879-10-03
MECHANIC.

We canuot but concur 10 the opinion
Of cur muc'i, more efficient journalists
that ripe fruits should b, eaten without
fear of evil results. 1t is the unripe,
the withered and dccayed. thet poisons
the health Of the little ones and carries
d sease to them and death. In coun-
try like this that we possess. wherein
fruits are so abundant aud so cheap,
the withercd peach, the decayed plum,
the rotten pear and the half grown ap'
pie should not be so coveted by the
pas ing child, as we too often see il
demonstrated by them at the garden
fence. Give them fruit as nature pre-
pares it, but forbid it to them wher
nature has discarded it to tho flies ant
worm. She has a XII ID Of fruit foo(
for all.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1879-10-03

PoLITIoAL.-Tbe Bob Ingersoll po-
litical party have plank in their plat
form which would have all church
property assessed and taxed and all
homcseads Of the value Of 81 900 and
under exempt from taxation.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1879-10-03

IIEALTnFuLNEss. When we CON-
pare the health statistics of our beaus
tiful country of Northern Idaho with
those of the older portions Of the
Union and observe their long black
death lis. from yellow fever and other
morbil diseases, VIC cannot evade the
consolation that our northern homes
refreshed with mountain air and beau
tilted with mountain scenery, are quite
as lovely in the comparison with the
marble cities of the South with theil
fertile valleys, over which is breathec
bv nature an atmosphere impregnatee
during nine months of the year will
| the aoisoned arrows OF death.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1879-10-03

Coon There has recently been sent
to the United States from Europe S10,.
600 900 10 gold with which to purchase
wheat. 1t used to be the other way.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1879-10-03
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
OF KiPAExO.

The Judges of the LIST 2rd and 30 dis-
triets assemble at the capital on the first
Monday in January in each year, and con-
stitute the Supreme Court Of the Territory,
with the Judge of the End district as Ch'ei
Justice, aud A. L. Richardson as CLERK.
The Judicial Districts and the times and
places of holding Courts in each are desig'
mated by the Supreme Court when in ses'
sion nd are liable to change each year.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-08
A Drunken Beer.

Man is reproached or commended, ac-
cordlng to taste, as the only animal that
gets drunk. But how about the deere 1t
is stated by an authority that the deer-at
any rate, the French deer-for all his
amiable qualities, gets tight. But only at
himself with avidity" upon certain tender
shoots containing a juice which ferments
in his stomach and intoxicates him
to such an extent that he strays from
his usual haunts nd..'follows his nose" /"
Thus it came to pass that q deer TN
liquor was discovered by a peasant, also
"in liquor" lying dead drunk" in a
ditch on the road to the village of Queue
en-Brie. The peasant, delighted at the
godsend, tied the deer's legs together
with a handkerchief, and, having
hoisted the animal on his shout
ders, prepared to carry him off.
The deer reused from his drunken
sleep by this treatment, became SO trouble
some that the peasant, who was of an in
ventive turn, took off his blouse, passed it
over the deer's head, and imprOvised
by means of it a sort OF straightjacket.
which paralyzed the beasts movements
He had Just finished these intelligent pro-
ceedings when he perceived two gen.
darmes who, without more ado, requested
to be furnished with his name and ad-
dress. in view of legal proceedings. In
the meanwhile, the deer, whose feet had
united, scampered off. little embarrassed
by the blouse, to his doe and family, whose
CONSERVATION at his strange appearance
may be readily imagined. He probably
had bad time of it when he reached his
own quarters, while the peasant had to
reckon with the legal authorities. Thus
we see how a deer, as well as a man: got
into trouble through drink.-[Pall Mall
Gazette.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-08

Last Thursday evening, about dark, Mr..
and Mrs. George Campbell and Dick Man
non were sitting on the porch of the Soda
Springs Hotel, at Soda Springs on the
Sacramento river, while Mr.. Campbelrs
little boy, aged about 8 years, WAS across
the road, about fifty or sixty feet distant,
amusing himself by cutting bushes with
a little hatchet. Those on the porch were
startled and horrified by observing pan
ther spring upon the child, and at the
time supposed he was dangerously injured
which would have been the case, no doubt
had not the child screamed and those on
the porch shouted excitedly, which pre-
vented the panther from making deadly
spring. as he was evidently watching and
fearing the parties on the porch. As it
was the panther seized the child by the
chin, one of the tusks of the upper jaw
cutting his lip, and one in the lower jaw
cutting his neck, while the paw of the
beast struck and scratched him in the
breast the shouting and rushing toward
the child by those on the porch caused
the panther to make tracks up the noun
tain speedily, and, after picking up the
child and examining the wounds indicted
Mannon returned to the house for his gun,
and, following it up the mountain. soon
dispatched the panther, a hungry, lean
looking customer measuring five feet from
tip to tip Yreka (Cal} Journal.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-08
l,rackers and a,heese.

Many stories are related of Jim Hen
bricks when he was a resident of st. Paul,
MINI. On one occasion he leased the bar
room in u certain hotel, in anticipation of
a great run of business through the instru-
mentality of state fair that was held in
that city. The influx of visitors was be-
yond all expectation. The hotel was filed
to overfiowing. The face of Hendricks
glowed with pleasure as he thought of the
wealth in store for him and how the gelt
of the susceptible and thirsty countrymen
would flow into his Golfers. He made ex-
ira efforts in their behalf. The bar fix
lures and glassware received a cleaning
and polishing to which they had for a
lengthy period been strangers. Every.
thing sparkled, even the paste pin on Hen.
drick's Immaculate linen caught the con-
tagion and threw out the effulgent rays
of headlight on locomotive Both him
self and assistant engineer were arrayed in
gorgeous apparel, said to have been sc.
lected from the wardrobes of Frank Park.
er and Frank Hodges room. Extra salt
was added to the free lunch in order not to
impair the thirst of the hoosiers, and
nothing was left undone that is usually
done by public house proprietors on state
occasions.
On the first day of the fair the hotel was
crowded from morn till night, and they
kept Hendricks busy, but not after his
liking.
The multitude only wanted free lunch
and water The salt had not lost its fiavo1
but it had the opposite effect from wha
had been anticipated. The frontiersmen
instead of asking for 'oil of joY," anG
mirth-provoking elixirs, clsmmored fo
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-08
Lightning Farmine-AstOnish Re-
suits OF Recent Electrical Expert

ments.
The latest scientific intelligence from
France brings accounts of some extraordi
nary experiments now under consideration
of the French sapdnts. NJ. Grandeau, of
the School of Forestry, Paris, reports the
following among numerous equally aston
ishing results: In April last he took two
tobacco plants. each weighing about fifty
grains, and having four leaves. They
were both planted in boxes containing
mold of identical quality and placed side
by side in a position favorable to their
growth. They were permitted free circu-
fation of air, light and water. One was
supplied with "lightning-rod" OF cleo
trio conductor, and the other left free to
the influence of atmospheric electricity.
The plants were left to themselves until
the middle of August. That under the in
fluence of electricity attained height of
three feet five inches, and weighed about
A, 900 grains; the other measured two
feet four inches, and weighed about 22 600
grains, about one-half. This is only one
of the many results obtained. If electri-
city is to become factor in farming, as IL
is already one in mechanics, we may ex-
pect to see some wonderful and substantial
revelations, perhaps exceeding the tele-
phone and its allied wonders. Instead of
carefully conducting ligbtning into the
ground, we may have by an ingenious sys-
tenn of network distributors whole farms
fertilized by lightning IN a shocking man.
ner. Professor PObin thinks the scheme
altogether practicable, and says that in a
few years every farmer will be using these
lightning fertilizers.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-08
The Flirt at the Theatre.

She sat in the front row of the parquette
circle the other night, and, when she
wasn't flirting with the gentlemen whose
faces she could SEE, she was discussing the
people en- the stage. She was beautiful
blonde, with dark brown eyes, and her
face attracted much attention. A fair,
white skin; rosy, dimpled cheeks; lips
like the cherries that grow nearest the
sun, in the top of the tree pearly teeth, the
regular rows of which showed themselves
whenever she chose to let her musical
laugh be heard (Which was often)s and a
pretty-shaped head, crowned with a wealth
of golden hair and the cunningest of hats
She talked aloud and even made up faces
at the gentlemen who stared at her Or.
dinarily such a character, even though a
female beauty, would have been unpleas.
ant at the theatre, but somehow every.
body seemed pleased with the lady. II T.
G.'s glass did not deceive hin, she was
about four years old The only portion OF
the play she seemed to understand and ap
preciate was a love-making scene.
When the laughter that followed the
exit of the lovers in the play had subslded
said in perfectly audible voice:
"Della. ats dess'e way cousin George
tissed oO'e uver day"
The star was much disconnected to hear
a roar of laughter from a portion of the
audience Just as she made her tragic en-.
trance on the next scene; but the tribula
tion was Insignificant by comparison with
that of a certain couple, who will hence
forth leave the 'slittle fiirt" at home when
they go to the play.-[Detroit Free Press
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-08
Forced Cucumbers.

Forcing cucumbers in hotbeds Is done
in very large quantities in April and May,
after the glass is no longer needed for
early lettuce, field plants, etc. A few very
skillful gardeners start cucumbers in Feb.
ruary and March in hotbeds, but il Is a
hard thing to do.
The hotbed for cucumbers in April is
made very differently from the common
hot-bed. A trench only fifteen inches
way between the planks, and partly filled
with eight or ten inches of hot manure
An inch or so of loan is drawn over the
manure, and the cucumber plants set
directly over the "heat," one hill to each
sash. The glass is kept on until June 10
when it is taken off, and the plant pulled
up, giving the cucumbers entire possession
of the land.
1t is usual TO water hot-bed cucumberz
by a trench outside the bed, which is filled
with water every evening in dry weather.
The soakage of water through the soil
will give the roots abundant water without
the trouble of lifting the sashes. They
need a great deal of water to do well in
dry weather.
1t is perhaps hardly necessary to add
that cucumbers are moRgctOus plants, by
which is meant that there are two sorts of
flowers, one bearing poll,il only. and un-
less friendly breeze, or bee, some
other agency carries the pollen from one
flower to the other, they both perish fruit
lessly For this reason cucumber growers
always provide themselves with few
swarms of bees, and are paid for their
trouble by a bountiful growth of cucum-
bers; to say nothing of delicious plate
of honey once in a while.
Cucumbers we'll tended are wonderfully
productive; it is not uncommon for them
to yield forty or fifty to the hill, and even
greater number, There is no more prof
liable way in which glass halls can be
used late in spring than by the cultiva-
tion of cucumbers.-[Ame Guilt
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-08
spare the Children.

An indignant parent lately complained
of the severe tasks which school children
are compelled to accomplish. The COM
plant is well-founded. Whether educa-
ton or mere discipline is the object Of at
tendance at school, neither justifies the
physical constralnt and mental exertion to
which hundreds of thousands of children
are subjected every day. Few soldiers are
as severely taxed en- the drill ground as
many children are in our show schools
and others which aspire to high reputa-
tons for order; but, as if this cruel train
ing were not destructive enough of health
and spirit. the custom grows more and
more. popular with teachers to make school
hours ;merely the time for reciting the
lessons to be studied at home. After six
hours spent in the schoOl-room and from
four to six in study at home, how much
time and inclination has a child for recita-
tions Parents should remember that they
have rightfulIy voice upon the course Of
studies to be followed by their children,
and should refuse to allow home to be
turned into a schooi-room unless they are
themselves going to Officiate as teachers
and save their children from double re-
straint and double duty.-[New York
Herald
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-08
THE HATOHING SEASON.


How to Take Care OF Little Chicks
April and May, months in which the
greatest number of hens are set, are upon
us. As hens come off with their broods, 6
scitable coop ought to be provided. The
time to make those coOps is now, before
the hurry of the Matching season, and when
they will serve double purpose. The
mode of setting hen will go far towards
the result. Build your coop 30x30, with
posts fifteen inches high, and a double
roof. Finish one end with Stats, one inch
wide, and three inches apart; the Other
finish with a slide door large enough to
admit a hen. Now. with a barrel, you are
ready for work. Place the barrel on its
side, and sink it four inches in the ground
filling the same with earth level with the
ground outside-on which form the nest
with chaff and short hay-on which place
eggs, II to 13, in April: Is in May or June
Place the coop as above, with the slide
door in front of the barrel. In the coop
she has dusting and feeding-yard, from
which she cannot escape, and in which
she is not molested in any way; is pre-
vented from deserting her nest, and the
moment she matches the rear door can be
closed, and coop and brood removed to
their rearing grounds. This mode of set
ting secures most heat and being literally
nested on the ground, the results are uni
formly good. BY placing one of Living.
stones carbolic nest eggs with each sitting
the brood comes off absolutely free from
lice.
If your chicks are too early to secure
grass before they are six weeks old, green
oats or winter rye should be grown in
frames, to be cut when two inches high,
for them daily to carry them along till the
fresh grass comes. There are many cold,
raw days in these two months. and while
it is necessary to give the chicks and hen
an occasional run, be sure they are not ex-
posed on these cold clustering days; and
if they have been liberated in a warm
morning, and change in the weather
has taken place, remember many an exhi.
bition has been won by just the proper
care for just that one day, when you have
taken pains to keep the coop with its back
to the wind, and the brood are kept warm
by the foresight.
With the above care, and colonizing the
chicks of equal age together, and not
one field, secures more uniform dock-the
highest degree of excellence. Get your
BTahmas and Cochins out in March and
April, Plymouth Rocks in April and May,
and your Leghorns in May and June for
breeding stock. But for breeding stock
you can extend the time six weeks longer
May and June being the best two months
or the two in which we secure the greatest
perfection of physical developments. Dur
ing the time from when the frost leaves
the ground till frost comes and destroys
insect life, little or no meat need be fed
but from October till May meat food in
some form is necessary.-[1. X. Felch, in
Farmers Journal for April.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-08
Got.

II got on horseback within ten minutes
after / got your letter. When got TO Can
terbury l got a chaise for town, but got
wet through before l got to Canterbury,
and have got such cold as l shall not
be able to get rid of in hurry. l got to
the Treasury about noon, but first of all
got shaved and dressed. 1 soon got into
the secret of getting memorial before the
board, but could not get an answer then.
However, got intelligence from the mes
senger that l could most likely get an
answer the next morning. As soon as
got back to my inn got my supper and
got to bed. When got up in the morn.
ing l got my breakfast, and then got my
self dressed that might get out in time to
get an answer to my memorial. As soon
as got it l got into the chaise, and got to
Canterbury by three, and about tea time
got home. Ihave got nothing more to say
and so adieu."
The above Professor Hart, in his "Com
position and Rhetoric" quotes from IN
English publication.-[Giaphic.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-08

The great ice bridge which has provid-
ed a winter attraction for Niagara has dis
appeared. A correspondent Of the Buffalo
Courier giving parting description of it
says: at is strange, but fact, that most
Of the bridge was snow, and nothing but
the cold weather that we have had kept it
together so long. 1t is estimated that about
eighteen thousand people have crossed
this bridge. On Sunday, February 9, over
one thousand passed over 1t, excursion
trains having brought thepeople here over
the Central and Erie railways. Mr.. Con-
voy, the well known guide, was the first to
cross the ice bridge on December 80: The
last to cross was a boy accompanied bv q
dog Wednesday afternoon, the 18th instant.
Although there has been a great many
dangerous places about the Falls during
the winter, and so many thousands of peo-
pie have gazed upon the granl sights and
superb scenery, it is pleasant to know that
not \ single accident has occurred. 1t will
not be surprising if we have another ice
bridge this spring, when the ice comes
down from the lakes. May 8, 1877, an ice
bridge formed just below the American
falls, while grass was being cut in Pros
pect Park. People crossed the bridge at
that time for two or three days; it broke
and went down the river on the 14th."
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-08

Curious to relate, there is no country
where life-saving associations are more
popular, or where they receive more cor
dial support, than China, In the year
1928 q number of merchants and other in
fluential persons established a Humane
Society in the Celestial Empire, supported
by voluntary contributions The boats
used by the society are about thirty-five
feet long by seven broad. They are f1atbot-
toned, with square bows, very strongly
built, with low sides, so that q compare
lively small part of the craft is above wa
ter. In shape they resemble the ordinary
Chinese boat, SO frequently described, but
are much broader in proportion to their
length, and have a smaller house or cabin
on deck than is usual IN vessels of the
same size. They labor under the same
disadvantages as all other native craft in
being unable to beat against headwind,
on account of their flat bottoms. In for
mer years they were well supplied with
water-tight life-belts, made of bamboo,
and covered with oil paper and varnish
they seldom carry them now, the bOatmen
saying that "every one can SWIM" On
the Yang-tze each boat is manned by a
cockswain and four men; on the Han, by
a cOckswain and three men. To encour-
age the crews of the boats, 500 cash, or
about nne and a half dollars, are given for
every life saved under ordinary circum-
stances. In very bad weather, or during
stormy nights. larger sums are given, esti-
mated with regard to the danger supposed
to have been incurred. Formerly, owing
to the exaggerated respect entertained by
the Chinese for the dead, the rate for the
recovery of dead bodies was higher than
that for the living; but this was afterward
altered on account of the very general
suspicion that the employees of the society
drowned their subjects before taking them
out of the water. In order to stimulate
the people generally in the practice of hu-
name acts, similar rewards are given to
any person rescuing bona fide drowning
human beings.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-08
rilmore Was Ahead.

A writer in the Chicago Tribune tells
story at the expense of Thurlow Weed,
the once celebrated political wire-puller.
He went from Albany, where he then re-
sided, down to New York, in 1856, and OBJ
tanned from the Seward men fund TO en-
able him to defeat Fillmore. Having
dread of investigations. he placed ten
thousand dollars in an Albany bank to the
credit of his partner, to be drawn cut as It
might be needed. A feE days afterwards
the partner dropped dead on the street,
and the bank paid over the money. with
the other sums deposited by him, to his
widow. This was not agreeable to Mr..
Weed, but his disgust was increased when
a co,.ple of years later, Mr.. Fillmore
wooed and married the w1dow-and the
ten thousand dollars.