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The Value of Agriculture.

The principal imports to the United
States derived directly from agriculture,
for the last year were: Coffee, $49, $780,
900; hides and skins, $16,4oo,o00; tea,
$15,soo,O0o; raw silk, $6,90o,oo0; bread
stufs, $10,000,00o; manufactures Of cot
ton, $19,00o,000; flax and manufactures
of fax, $15, 400 900; fruit and nuts, $10,-
100000; leather and leather goods, 81
0Oo, 900; silk goods, S21, 300, 900; sugars,
~, 300, 900; tobacco and cigars, $4,000.
600; wines, 81, 900, 900; wool and woolens
$28, 100000. Total, $288,8Oo,00o.
Our exports of the same nature were
Living animals, $1O,0OO,OOO; bread and
breadstuffs, 5000, 7OO,OOO; raw cotton
$1S4, zoe, 900; manufactured cotton, $40.
100000; leather and leather goods, 49,.
100000; oils, $5,300,OOO; tobacco and
manufactures thereof, $4,000, 900; wood
and manufactures thereof, $15,9OO,0O0;
Total 5000, 400,0 900.
The total value of our imports for thu
year was $500, $685. The largest item
is sugar, principally from Cuba. Thi
country takes but little in return. COT
fee is the next in Importance. Thi!
comes principally from Brazil. Ou1
re-export trade is next to nothing. W.
have not the merchant marine, and 81
England reaps the benefits Of the ocea1
carrying trade. Our wealth consist
principally in agricultural products
manufactured products, exported, reall.
forming bat small figure in our aggre
gate export articles. Our domestic ex
ports reach total Of $74s,64s,82s, tn
total value of our agricultural export
reaching about $3.50, 100000. Curious, i
it not, that a country, depending as W
do almost exclusively on agriculture 70
our wealth, should have SO small pro
portion of persons engaged in agricultur
to represent those interests in our stat
and national government
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-25
Who Owns the Land in England.

More than half the soil of the United
Kingdom is nominally owned by some
1900 persons. According to valuable
analysis of the very ill-arranged and in
complete Parliamentary return of the
landowners of the United Kingdom, pub
lished in the Financial Reform almanac
for 1878, 421 persons are the owners of
22,8sO,75 acres, or nearly 100000 acres
more than one-fourth Of the total area of
the United Kingdom. The mind is I'M
able to grasp what such monopoly costs
the country, but certain features of it
stand forth with prominence sufficiently
notable. In a most absolute sense, the
well being Of the entire population of
some S2,0O0,000 souls is placed in the
power of few thousands. For these
thousands the multitude tolls, and it NAV
be on occasion starves. Hence it is that
all through rural England we have con,
tinually before us that most saddening of
all spectacles, two or three families living
in great splendor. and hard by their gates
the miserably poor, the abject slaves Of
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-25
Specific Against Hydrophobia.

DIR. GRzYvAIA, of Krivoe Ozeroe, Po-
dolia, Russia, for whose trustworthiness
Prof. Gubler, of Paris, vouches, declares
that, after series of crucial trials, which
he describes at length, he has found that,
after having had opportunities of treating
at least 100 cases Of men bitten by rabid
dogs, with the Xanthium Spinosuns he
has never, in any one of these cases, failed
to ward off hydrophobia. He gives some
startling examples. During the Crimean
war, family of twelve persons had been
bitten by hydrophobic wolf. Six
them entered his wards in the hospital
Olschanka, government of Podolia, dis
trict Of Balta. They were treated with
infusion Of the leaves of exthanthium, and
all recovered. The six others, who were
treated by the actual cautery and the dai
~ use of genesta tinctoria and other
drugs, died with hydrophobia in the
course of twelve to sixty days. He re-
counts many other facts not less striking.
For an adult, the dose is sixty cent
grammes Of the dry powder, repeated
three times day Children under twelve
take half that quantity. The dose for an
finals is much larger. A herd of thirty
oxen had been bitten by mad wolf
eight had succumbed with symptoms d
hydrophobia. The commissary Of police
came to DR.. Grzyvala, for his "antirabi
powder" He gave three ounces of tn.
powder, with bran, daily to each of tn,
remaining animals; none of them suffered
from the disease, These are examples o
which DR.. Grzyvala says he has hun
bred others.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-25
Pruning Eyerrreens.

Upon pruning eyergreens, Mr.. M. B.
Bateham, secretary Of the Ohio Horticul-
tural society, writes as follows, what ex-
perts know, and what every person who
cultivatcs eyergreens ought to know:
Many people do not understand that
evergreen trees bear pruning as we'll as
most other kinds, and in many cases need
it quite as much. We often see ever
greens quite too tall for their location,
and make a dwelling seem too low by
contrast. Others are too spreading, their
branches obstructing pathway or shut
ting out a good view. Where 1t is desir-
able to check the heighth of such trees
as the Norway spruce, cut off the tip
or leading shoot before it attains the
full heighth desired; then two or three
leaders will probably be developed in a
year or two, and the tree will assume
more dense and dwarfsh form. At the
same time all the side branches
can be shortened as much as is desired.
If done before the growth takes place in
spring, new buds will be formed at the
cuts, and several small branches in the
place of each large one removed Pines
can also be shortened in, but these only
form new shoots at the joints or whorls,
hence its best to cut to one of these. A
better way still, with young pines, is to
go over them in the latter part Of spring,
when the new shoots have just pushed
forth, and are very tender and brittle,
and break off with the fingers that center
shoot in each whorl, and the others also
if the growth needs to he severely check
ed. Hemlock and arbor vitae can be
pruned with knife or shears as closely as
desired, and hedges or screens fall kinds
should be closely clipped every spring
before the new growth begins"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-25
A Royal Fiddler.

Prince William of Prussia, the eldest
son of the crown prince, and the future
emperor, has very great skill in play
ing the violin-a skill which he acquired
by taking lessons in private, without his
fathers knowledge, at Bonn, where he is
student, Not long ago the crown
prince, who likes popular tunes, ordered
Hungarian band now staying at Berlin
to play at one Of his family gatherings.
During pause in the music, Prince
William asked the first violin player to
lend him his violin for moment, and
walking up quietly behind the crown
princess, who was engaged in converse
ton with some ladies, struck up one of
Strauss waltzes. The crown princess
turned round to see where the music
came from, and was equally surprised
and delighted to find that it was her son
playing; playing so nicely, too, that she
and all the ladies applauded. He went
through a variety Of tunes, waltzes,
student songs and quadrilles, and on
leaving off and making his bow was re-
warded, not only with hearty applause
from the princess and ladies present, but
by words Of commendation from the
bandmaster and the crown prince
| Modestly disclaiming any merit for him
self, he returned the violin to its owner
with the words: "Your violin plays very
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Motley and Bismarck at Vienna.

Mr.. Summer was in the habit of telling
with much humor, one amusing incident
in Motley's diplomatic career in Vienna.
After the close of the joint war Of Prussia
and Austria against Denmark on the
question of the duchies, Bismarck came
to Vienna to settle the terms of peace
with the Emperor. He arrived to late to
60 to the office Of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and remembering that his old uni
versity chum, Motley, was the American
minister, he drove directly to his house,
and found Motley Just retiring from q
modest family dinner, with nothing but
the remains Of the dessert on the table.
The old friends cordially joined hands
and hearts; fresh viands were furnished
from Motley's kitchen and fresh Bur
gundy from his cellar, and for hour after
hour the old collegians vent over their
student experiences and frolics at the
University of Berlin, without speaking a
word about politics. After cracking his
last walnut and swallowing his last glass
of wine, Bismarck, long after midnight,
left Motleys house, and sauntered away
to his hotel with an immense internal
satisfaction at the entertainment he had
derived from his first nights experience
at Vienna. But the eyes Of Europe were
all this time on the terrible man of ssblood
and iron" The foreign embassies were
in an uproar. Was it possible
that there was to be an alliance
between Prussia and the United States?
1t was known. that New York was, in re-
spect to its German population, the third
or fourth German city in the world. What
meant this mysterious visit to the Ameri-
can minister-the first visit the dreaded
Prussian statesman had made on entering
Vienna? kilograms flew to London, Par
is, Turin, and St. Petersburg. The inge-
nuity of diplomatists was taxed to ac-
count for what was unaccountable. Sum
ner himself, as chairman of the Senate
Committee Of Foreign Affairs, received
private letters from eminent persons
abroad earnestly inquiring whether the
United States had resolved to depart from
non-interference with the affairs Of Europe
as recommended by the immortal Wash.
ington, etc.-absurd letters, at which
Sumner, who knew Motley's early asso-
Citations with Bismarck, exhibed his teeth
in the most genial and humorous of
smiles. He laughed with Motley over
| the occurrence some years afterward,
when the affair was explained to him just
as he had OWNED it. 1t is a pity that
this one humorous incident in the
whole dreary correspondence of the
American Department of State with its
ministers abroad is not recorded in any
state paper. But it is certain that for q
day or two it seriously disturbed the con.
situations of every cabinet in Europe.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-25

the soil, whose sole hope in life is too
often the work house that famous device
against revolution, paid for by the middle
class and the pauper's grave. Our land
owners have not merely burdened the
land with their game preserves; they have
tied it up, and actively consplred to pre-
vent its due cultivation. Instead Of rising
to the true necessities Of the case, they
cling to their game, make penal enact
ments about it, and struggle to augment
the intensity Of the evil which it is to the
people, as if the very existence Of the
country depended upon hares and rabbits
In his absolute supremacy the land owner
.overridcs all justice, takes precedence of
all ordinary creditors on his helpless ten
ants estates, and controls the system of
cultivation, often in utter disregard Of
private rights OF Pr1va!e 1logment, and
reversion of every improvement which
the tenant may make on the land.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-25
fresh, is excellent. Dissolve In not too
sharp vinegar two tablespo onfuls Of white
sugar. Chop enough mint too fill a tabl-
spoon, and mix it, It may be used either
hot or cold, but it is much better hot.
Bedding Plants.

The season is not far off when bedding
plants may be planted outside where they
are to bloom during the summer. and
early autumn. Most people make q mis-
take in planting out too early. North Of
latitude AZ degrees the first of June is
early enough. There is nothing gained by
haste, but much may be lost. It must be-
remembered that all those plants, besides
being naturally tender, are made more so
by the forced conditions in which florists
grow them. Hence, when exposed to
chilling winds they are long time in re-
covering. sE
Geraniums, verbenas, petunias, coleus,
acharanthus, Observation-Disclosures, fuch-
sias, carnations and all this class of
tender plants may be ordered at any time
in May. The sooner the better; but keep
them IN the pots somewhere where they
may be protected, and give them such air
as they can stand until both the days and
nights are permanently warm. Then set
them out in we'll prepared, sheltered
place, and they will give constant salts
faction until frost comes.
Such plants as are intended to be
transferred to the house in the autumn
are better plunged in pots in the beds.
For ordinary sized plants use inch pots,
filed with good compost, composed of
one-quarter sharp sand, one quarter
Thoroughly rotted COW manure and one
half thoroughly rotted sods from the pas
ture or fence corners. If this cannot be
had, use good garden soil. Plunge the
pots to the rim, pressing the earth well
about them SO no vacancies occur. Ex-
ira care however, must be taken in wa
tering such beds, and it will be well to
give them weak liquid manure water
/ once in two weeks as they may seem to
need it in addition to the regular water
ings. In watering give a thorough
drenching from fine rose watering pot
SO the earth will be thoroughly moistened
to the bottom of the pots, but when the
liquid manure is given pour in gently
from the nose of the can. A little care
bestowed in the cultivation of plants and
flowers is not labor in vain. We were
constituted with love of the beautiful
Why not exercise the faculty given uss
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-25
THE SIREN ISLE.

Evenings purple glory slept
Upon peak and cliff and stream,
And the voiceless wavelet crept
10 the shore with lingering g'eam.
High above the cedar grove,
Hcspcr led the starry world,
Shedding the sweet light of love
On land in Iumber fllricd.
I'wilight's weird and mystic veil
Lay on wave and rock and lea.
When We dropt with viewlesS san
luto the enchanted sea.
Knew we then the Siren shore
With its fntal melodies;
But the wind no whisper bore
Ger the dark seductive seas.
Gazcd we through the gathering shade
Fcay- bound, rs if on the grave;
But the Siren sister-maids
Saw we not beyond the wave
It was we'll no whisper broke
On the silence over all,
That no magic music woke
Weary spirits to enthral.
So We, shrouded in half-light,
Rested silent on the oar, ...-.
Till the eben CULTS of night
One bright belt of beauty bor2,
Brother Mariners" cried,
Let us fly the treacherous track,
Ere the spell be on the tide,
And the death-song lure us back
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-25
How the Lobster Casts its Shell.

The Zoo,ogicaz gives the pith of an ar
ticlc on this subject published by Mr.. w.
A. Lloyd in the London Field, in about
the following words: ''The lobster, feeling
the time Of exuviation approach, seeks
q retreat where it may be safe during the
period of soft helplessness, which lasts
two or three days after exuviation.
This place it usually selects below
some overhanging rock, and if there
is a protection on each side, so much
the better. If thee is a good bed of
sand and single (assthere should beg six
OR eight inches thick, the lobster por-
ceeos to excavate this away behind, and
with its anterior limbs pushes it up in
front, and makes Il kind Of defensive
earthwork. In this operation it is aided
by an occasional motion Of its false feet
in driving away a current Of sand east
ward, below its tail, the head then being
turned inward, toward the hinder part
of the little cave thus formed, into which
the lobster never allo any other creature
to enter. When the moment arrives for
casting the shell, the animal falls over on
its side, rapture is made in the mem
brane uniting the posterior of the cephalo-
thorax with the anterior ring Of the
abdomen, and presently a part of the
Holsters new coat may be seen between
the two. The rent is made by the lobster
suddenly and strongly bending its tail in
wardly towards it's head. In few min
utcs the whole of the tail or abdomen is
outside of the old shell, and the two may
be seen side by side. Then the exuvia-
ton of the front half of the lobster goes
on, all at once, legs and head-appendagcs
and body together, and the last portion
but one seen Of the animal in its fresh
covering are the tips of the large ante
rior limbs, which as before mentioned,
arc for a few moments little misshapen
Last of all appear the long tentacles.
During this whole process, which takes
up about quarter Of an hour, the lower
edges Of the Cephalo- thorax become a
little separated from each other latterly,
to the extent of about one inch in large
specimen, and this appears to be for the
purpose Of allowing more room below
than would otherwise be possible for the
extrication Of the limbs. As soon as the
old she'll is quite detached, and the ami
NAL is in its normal position, and reste6
few minutes, it pushes the cast-of shell
over the earthwork of sand and single
outside the den, and then sometimes bur
les it. After solicitation Of the shell, il
three or four days, the shell or ANNA
never increases till the next moult
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-25
Good Horses-Poor Roads.

Now that we have got the country so
we'll railroaded, is it not time to put
some work, money and "gumption'' into
the building Of our highways upon i'm
proved principles, so that we may have
permanent, smooth level tracks upon
which to draw our loads and drive our
nice horses and carriages? We are de-
cidedly of the opinion that our farming
towns will find smooth dry roads, with
moderate grades, worth as much to them
in money, to say nothing of pleasure and
comfort, as the railroad connections for
which they have been SO anxious, and for
which many of them have been SO pro-
fusely taxed. No country in the world
has such good driving horses as ours, but
save in our village streets, no country In
Christendom has SO few places where
they can be driven at good pace with
comfort and safety. And village street
is the "wropgest'' place of all for rapid
driving.
But in order to have good roads, We
must employ men to plan and superin-
tend them, who understand the business.
This ought not to be extremely costly at
this time. Our scientific schools and
colleges have of late turned out good
many graduates in their civil engineering
courses far more than have been able to
find employment. They ought to be able
and willing and doubtless are, to show
about home their skill in their business
at moderate compression. Give them q
chance to do this, and it will encourage
others to take up the study. There ought
to be, and would be if they could find
business, a competent road builder upon
scientific principles in every town in the
country. And they ought to he, and
would be content to serve their fellow
citizens at price equivalent to what is
paid minister or teacher in the same
community. The work now expended to
a poor advantage for want of skillful di-
rection upon highways, would, when
properly "bossed," make them as good
again. The saving in the wear and tea1
of vehicles and teams, the larger loads
that could be carried and the quicker
| trips that could be made, would very
much more than pay the cost of skilled
direction. Let the farmers think of this
It is worth while. It will lead to the
most needed and most profitable improve
mcnt that can be made for the pleasure
comfort and profit of country living.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-25
Home, Sweet Home.

Pryne declared that he had first heard
the tune "Home, Sweet Home" from the
lips of a Sicilian peasant girl, who sang
it artlessly as she sold some sort Of italian
wares, and touched his fine ear by the
purity of her voice. 1t is pleasant to
think he did not crib from an old opera,
but had certain proprietorship in the
air, as we'll as the words, Of the most pop
ular song extant The 'shome" he was
thinking Of, as he traced the deathlcss
lyric in some London rookery, was un-
doubtedly Easthampton. A few years
later he expanded its opening words in a
magazine description Of his native town.
'Many an eye wearied with the glare for
eign grandeur he wrote Democratic Re
oieao, February, 1885,, twill, ere long, lul1
village" The stenciled expressions Of
"foreign grandeur" and "eyes wearied
with the glare,'' what are they but repeti.
tons of the opening of both stanzas- the
| pleasures and palaces" Of stanza one
''the exile from home pleasure dazzles
in vain," of stanza two? Easthampton il
what supplies the sentiment the type
the foil, the contrast of the song. East
hampton still exists, just as he knew it
like avignette perpetuated in electro type
The stavern-sign in the centre of the road
is gone, though, which he described
swinging between the two posts, !" "whil,
the geese strut with slow and measured
stateliness to their repose.' The geese
still parade down the grassy street, get
ting between the visitors legs every min
ute, and are as obtrusive as they are il
Payne's letters and descriptions. Yet
it is an unromantic discovery, but Their
cannot be doubt of it-"the birds sing
ing sweetly," of Payne's ballad, "tha
came at my CALL" were ganders, and thei
sweetness was a hiss. From the age o
13, when he left the ample hearth Of hi
father house here, the hymnist of Home
was homeless that is, until the theatrica
structure of his latter months arose a
the command Of the Afrites. and he la
down to die in his Arabian Night
i palace, hungering for the thatch, 18th
sooty Chimney throat of this deliciou
cot.'' "Thatched" cottages, by the way
were to be found in Easthampton whe
PAYNE was youth.
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A Glimpse at the Empress Eugene
49,, and Her Son.

A letter from Olive Logan to the Gin
cinnai Enquirer gives the following
glimpse of the Empress Eugene and the
prince: 81 went to Waterloo station to
see the last Of young Louis Napoleon,
who is off to the cape to have look at
the Zulus. He was accompanied by Eu-
genie as far as Southampton It really
gave me pang to behold this once-peer-
less beauty, to whom was presented in
the days Of her utmost splendor, both of
fortune and of fame. Her appearance
was so pathic that it made the tears
spring to my eyes. She was attired in a
style which we ladies understand as half
mourning, and carried in her beautifully
modelled hand large bouquet of early
spring violets, the chosen emblem of the
Napoleonic dynasty, and the odorous
harbinger for us all Of lovely days to
come anon. Her hair is still the beauti-
full blonde so inseparably connected with
her name, and this is something that
puzzles me, unless except the explana-
ton which has been given by some OBJ
servers-that she wears wig. Ger
tainly there is not a thread of gray visible.
Otherwise she was aged indeed She
looked positively haggard, pale as a
ghost, her dropping, fatigued eyes encir-
cled with the blue rings Of care and anx-
iety. Her faded appearance formed a
great contrast with that Of her son, a
/ rosebud ola young fellow, in the first
blush of joyous youth-up to anything
you like, you know-and evidently just
bubbling over with pleasurable excite.
ment at the thought of going out to the
seat of war with numbers Of the greatest
'swclls' in the British army. One has
only to see these two relics of the impe
rial shipwreck to fully understand what s
fearful sacrifice it must be to Eugene
to give up her boy, even for the shor
period of four months, which is supposed
to be the length of his stay in Africa
She is the French mother to the very let
ter; quite different being from an Eng
fish or an American maternal parent
She has no snn0froid with him; her eye
are necessarily upon him; idolatary i
legible in every glance. Since her de
parture her condition, 1 hear, has Abeel
really alarming. Tears, sobs and faintin!
fits have succeeded each other almost I'm
interruptedly, while cries of oh my son
my dear son. have rung the hearts of he
listening attendants"