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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-07
81. Anthony Falls.

Minneapolis. 4--The celebration o
the 200th anniversary Of the discovery o
st. Anthony Falls by Father Hennipin
occurred in this city, at the campus o.
the State University. 1t is estimated thai
1900 people were on the campus during
the exercises. Among the notsbles
present were General Sherman, Secretary
Ramsay, Hon. E. b. Wsshburne, ex-
GovernorDavis, Generals Sibley and Glib
son. Gen. Sibley, on the part Of the
State Historical Society, welc med the
visitors, Ex-Governor Davis read his
torieal address, poem was read by A
p. Miller, OF Warrington, and speeches
were made by Secretary Ramsay, Gen.
Sherman and others. Gen. Sherman
said he was glad Father Hennipin did
not discover gold here. There are more
gold fields in The wheat land of Mime
sofa than all the god mines Of the Pacific
Coast,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-07
FrightfuI Brutality.

San Francisco, 5.-Victoria dispatch:
List Saturday q large crowd assembled
at Wellington to celebrate a series OF
athletic sports. During the day Thsveas
Pail, boatswain of the ship Maggie Z.
Seed, created 8 disturbance and was
chained to a post in the stable of tue
Wellington hotel. About pm. the
stable was discovered on fire. A rush
was made to rescue Pail, but before the
chain could be removed tho flames drew
the rescuers back with scorched hands
and faces, and the victim burned alive
before their eyes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-07
WILLIAM BREpEmEYER.
WHITE HOUSE HOTEL.

T'HE PROPRIGTORs TAKE PLEASURE
in announcing to the public that they
have remodelled end re6tted the Hotel.
Inc Dining Rooms are spacious and the best
of Meals will be served night ard day.
Single Meals, soc.
Hot Lunches las per card), 25e.
Room and Board, $3.50 to sc per day,
$40 to SI2 per week.
Beard, 81 per wax
Inc BAR mas oesn removed 20 the north Of
the hotel and four Billiard Tables added for
the socommod alton of guests, acd Is now
open. A. PoDEECH 2 CO.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-07
Black Hills Law.

Deadwood. 3.-The great water cas-
entitled Geo -ge Atchison ct al Us. George
Hearst ct al, virtually the Desmet Us
Homestske, involving the right to The
waters of Whitewcod's Creek, was de.
cided, to-day. by Judge Moody, in favol
of the Homestake Company. This give
them 500 miners inches of water.
The jury in the case of Robert Neill,
county treasurer, charged Win emD-zzlo-
ment, etc., disagreed and were dis.
charged.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-07
The Walk Closed.

Pittsburg, 4.-O'Leary's six-day heel
and-toe twelve-hour- daily pede,trian con-
test closed this evening at IL O'Clock,
Chris. Faber, of Newark, n. j., taking
the first prize and making the be t time
on record by seven miles, score at the
finish: Faber, s63 miles; Walker, 322;
Dsmors, Sl3; Mckee, S06; Siebert, 279;
Dickinson, 259.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-07
AGood Man Gone.

New York, 4-George Ripley, L. L.
D., president OF the IT. i6nne association,
and literary editor of that paper since
1910, died this afternoon. He was the
principal editor of the American
Cycl0pa Tia.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-07
Big BiundeFS.

Denver, 3.-Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
has just accepted an offer made him TO
deliver series Of lectures in California
this summer, and will stop over in Den
yer and LeadVille to deliver his lecture
entitled ''B;g Biunders."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-03-18
How They Get Coffee in Cincinnati.

One of the latest tricks played upon
shopkeepers was successfully performed
at Cincinnati grocery the other even
ing. A woman entered and ordered a
pound of the best coffee. She carried a
jar under her arm, and when the
groceryman was about to pour the coffee
in paper bag the customer told him to
dump it into the jar instead. The man
did so, the female leaning over the
counter and still holding the jar under
her arm, with the bottom of the vessel
concealed. When she had received the
coffee the female put her hand in her
pocket, and with a well-feigned express
sion of annoyance cried: 81 do de-
clare, | have left my purse at home!
III just set the jar of coffee down on the
counter here while / run in home and
get the money" She placed the jar on
the counter and went out, but she failed
to return, and when the storekeeper
picked up the jar he was surprised to
find that it did not contain any coffee,
and that the bottom had been knocked
out. 1t then flashed upon his mind that
when he poured the coffee in the jar it
ran through into bag concealed by the
female sharper.
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in the spring as to get in advance OF
their depredations. <1 5.5 a5' =
2. The attempt to save a part of the
crop by preventing the migration of the
bugs from one field to another by fur
rows of kerosene oil. ecfess.. .t.s,,. .ss.
8. The method of destroying the in
sects by burning corn-stalks and other
rubbish in which they are supposed to
hibernate.
4. The prevention of their breeding
to any serious extent by abstaining from
the cultivation of those grains upon
which they chiefly subsist.
DIR. Thomas suggests burning over
the infested fields in the winter as the
best means of destroying them. Rolling
he also suggests. s8 ..s-45.. -.f.
DR.. Thomas concludes by saying that
clean farming is the best under all cir
cumstances, and if adopted as a rule
will tend largely toward preventing the
increase, not only of chinch-bugs, but
of all other injurious insects. He also
believes in diversified farming. Mass
ing crops in immense bodies and Guilt
waiting the same thing year after year
tend to increase the insects that feed on
these crops. aacffsy tsfzs-
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TAKING BOARDERS,

!" 1t was a Scandal the neighbors
said, 'sthat Miss Della should be Obliged
to take boarders, after all she'd been
through; and Heaven knows boarders
didn't help a body to work out her sal
walton. And so much money in the
family, too, taking it by and large.
Wasn't her Uncle Eben, over at Dover,
well to do, and not a chick of his own
to care for, except the boy he had
adopted, who was no credit to himP Il
was odd, now, that man with poor re-
lations should take to a stranger, when
his own flesh and blood was needy; but
sometimes it did seem as if folks had
more feeling for others than for their
own kith and kin. Then there were
cousins in the city, forehanded and fash
lonable, who never were worth row of
pins to Della; and there was her Great
uncle, Johns widow a-larking on the
Continent, a-gambling at Baden-Baden
and trying the waters of every mineral
spring IN the three kingdoms, for no
disease under the sun but old age.
She'd been known to say that her own
folks were too rich already, and probably
she would endow some hospital with her
property" Plainly, wealthy relatives
were of no value to Miss Della. To be
sure, she had never seen her great aunt
since she was child, when her
Uncle John had brought her into
their simple life for month s. visit, with
her French maid and dresses, her Jew
els and fallals, which won the heart of
her little namesake. Since then Uncle
Johns widow had become a sort of
gllded creation, always young and al
ways beautiful; for, though Della had
received little gifts from time to time
across the seas for the last fifteen wears,
she had neither heard nor seen any
thing of the being who had inspired her
imagination, and was quite uncertain if
such person as Mrs. John Rogerson
was in the land of the living. Dead or
alive, she seemed to have made no
material difference in Delia's hum-drum
Life. After having nursed her father
through long illness, Della found that
he had left heavy mortgage on the
homestead, and her mother and her.
self on the highroad to the poor-house,
unless they should bestir themselves.
As her mother was already bed-ridden,
the stirring naturally fell upon Della,
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" Predespern ation."

An old-time Baptist preacher of this
city, who has retired from active gospel
work, but who still keeps a. firm eye on
the faith, has just had little experience
with a colored man that causes him to
think very seriously. f sggs.fs
Meeting the colored man, the preach
er said: " Dave, if you don't bring that
saddle home I'll have you put in jail"
"What saddle is yer furren ter?"
s'The one you stole from me.'' err
"Parson, fore de Lord nebber. stole
yer saddle"
eyes, you did. Isaw you when you
took it off of the yard fence. I believe
I'll have you arrested, any way"
"Look heah, parson, you'se a old
Babtist, isn't yer?'' rs zs.ss..
eyes, and I'll have you sent to the
penitentiary.' Ygq
"Well, SO is /, an now ketch de pints
ez l gin 'em ter yer. Oar is jes' SO
many saddles in dis worl' what is ter be
stole, an dar's jes SO many men what
is ter steal desc saddles. Dis is predes-
pernation. Now, EFF yer saddle happens
ter be one OBJ de predisposed saddles an
I happens ter be one Of de predisposed
men, kin I hep it? Oar was Judus, fer
instance. He couldn't help 'trayin' de
Saviour, kaze de Saviour said, sJudus,
sop in dis dish an go an tray me-
Hit wasn't Judus's. fault, kaze he was
one OBJ de predisposed, so tended from
de foundation OBJ de worl'.''
81 don't want a religious discussion.
Dave. 1t isn't the saddle now that
care so much about; it is that you told
me a lie in saying that you didn't steal
it, as
"Well, den, parson, 'spose takes
back de lie an keeps de saddle?'
ga lie once told always stands. You
have lied to me, you scoundrel, and l
believe it is my duty to have you ar
rested"
"Parson, dar's -jes a certain amount
oh lies ter be tole in dis worl', an eff
is one OBJ de men what is predisposed
ter tell one OBJ desc lies, hits not my
fault, an l can't help HIT s..,e.,
"You go on now and get that saddle
or Ill swear out a warrant for your ar
rest. - . $50
"I'll do de bes' I kin, parson, but
dar's jes certain amount oh stole sad
dies ter be returned in dis worl'. Eff
Use one OBJ de predisposed men. an
b'lieves l is, you'll fine yer saddle hang
in on de yard fence bout shutdown dis
ebenin'. Little Rock (4rk. } Gazette.
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SURPRISE.


With murmurs low, upon the rivers brink,
The restless, aimless waters idly beat;
The grazing cattle droop their heads to
= drink,
The ripples flowing gently DER their feet;
The haZy stiffness and the summer air
Make life tender dream, devoid of care.
All changed and cherries in the wintry
20 wind -
That sweeps from shore to shore in sullen
mood
The river rests, in ghostly shroud confined,
Ana clustering breezes sing requiem
rude.
The slow herds, shivering in the fallen snow,
Scatter its powdered paleness as they go.
And thus in life, winter cold and drear
Fast follows on the summers joyous
bloom;
And while we wait, and idly wander here,
I1me's tocsin sounds some dreaded day of
doom;
And starting up, with pleasure laden mind,
we. see the smiling summer far behind!
H. H. Rinsloto, in Good Company.
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The Chinch Bug.

DIR. Cyrus Thomas, President of the
Illinois University, at Carbonate. and
member of the United States Entomo-
logical Commission, has completed
a valuable paper on the chinch bug, its
history, characteristics and habits, and
the means of destroying it or counter
acting its injuries. He says the chinch
bug is PROFESSIONALLY the most formula
BILE insect which the farmers within the
wheat-producing area of the United
States have to contend.
The locusts of the West are the only
creatures of this class whose multipli-
cation causes more sweeping destruc-
ton than that of this diminutiye and
seemingly insignificant insect. The
loss from this insect in Illinois alone in
1850 was estimated at $4,000, 900, an
average of $40 to every man, woman
and child then living in the State. It
attained the maximum of development
in the summer of 1864, in the extensive
wheat and corn fields of the Valley of
the Mississippi, and in that single year
three-fourths of the wheat and one-half
OF the corn crops were destroyed
throughout many extensive districts,
comprising almost the entire Northwest,
with an estimated loss of more than
100000, 900 in currency.
The center of their severest rayages
IS IN a belt in Illinois about on a line
with the junction of Iowa and Missouri,
and taking in a corresponding part of
Southern Iowa and Nebraska and of
Northern Missouri and Kansas. The
loss by chinch bugs in the State of I'LL
nois in 1871 was upwards of SIC, SOC, 900.
and taking an equal amount in Iowa and
Missouri, and again an equal amount in
Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska and Wiscon-
sin, the loss in these States alone from
this one species of insect was upwards
of $50, 000,O 900.
As the species appears to have a
maximum of development about eyery
five years, the foregoing estimates, DR..
Thomas thinks, render it probable that
the annual loss to the Nation by its op-
erations averages $4,000, 900. The in
sect first appeared in Illinois in 1910; in
1S47 in Iowa, in 1847 in Indiana. in
Wisconsin in 1854, and in 1871 over the
entire Northwest. Of the natural agen-
cies which assist in their destruction.
DR.. Thomas says that the chinch bug
has no such relentless enemies as those
that pursue the army-worm, plant-lice,
etc. There are a few insects that prev
upon them, but not sufficiently numer-
GUS to make any material impression
on the vast hordes of these invaders of
our grain fields. The most efficient of
these aids mentioned are the Herpector
Cinctus, or banded bug, and the frog.
Professor Ross expresses the belief that
the destruction of the frog by draining
their natural haunts, is one reason why
the chinch-bug multiplies as rapidly as
it does in some seasons, and DR.. Fitch
is mentioned as suggesting the idea of
sprinkling. The artificial remedies
given by DR.. LIE Baron, State Entomolo-
gist of Illinois, and quoted by DR..
Thomas, are:
l. The plan of sowing grain so early
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THE GOLDEN ISLES.

The poet sits and smiles,
He knows the golden isles,
He never hopes to win their cliffs, their mar
Reefs where their green sea raves,
The coldness of their caves
Their feldspars full of light their rosy coral
lines.
All these he oft has sought,
- Led by his travelling thought,
Their glorious distance hides no inward charm
from him; s.s-...
He would not have their day
.5s To common light decay,
He loves their mystery best, and bids their
s.-y They solace all his pains,
They animate his strains,
Within their radiant glow he soon forgetS the
world;
They battle his torrid moons
In the soft light of moons,
They leave his lingering evenings tenderly
empearled.
.e As one who walks all day
Along a dusty way,
May turn aside to plunge in some sequestered
And SO may straight forget
His WEAKNESS and fret,
So seeks the poets heart those islands blue
and cool.
Content to know them there
Hung in the shining air,
He Trims no foolish sail to win the hopeless
coast;
His vision is enough
To feed his soul with love,
And he who grasps too much may even him
self be lost.
He knows that, if he waits,
One day the well worn gates
OF life will ope and send him westward DER
the wave;
Then will he reach ere night
The isles of his delight,
But they must float until they anchor in the
grave.
w 5+fE ts-ss rs Edmund ~ GOsse
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MY LOSS.

Day after day. while at my window sitting,
see the children at their play near by;
Like butterflies in summer gardens fitting,
They hover round beneath my watchful eye
The little girls, with flushed and merry faces,
Glance at me slyly for my answering
smile,
And tempt me with their most alluring graces
To put sad thoughts away while they be-
guile.
Blonde hair and brown in soft confusion
blending,
Black eyes and blue upturned to meet my
Roses, both white and pink, their contrast
lending,
To add new beauty to the 'wildering maze.
But when they, one by one, tired out with
Steal slowly homeward through the sunset
light,
Memory goes back beyond the dark years,
Among the days of yore that seem so
bright.
1 turn my head, a radiant, golden splendor
Shines from the west across the pictured
wall,
And glorifies face diyinely tender.
With bronze brown hair waved round it, fall
on fall;
With violet eyes so winsome in their sweet
That mine grow smiling in spite of grief and
pain,
With curved lips, the seal of loves complete
ness;
All, Heaven! could but press them once
again.
In vain watch and wait. she will come only
When night has cast her spell on sea and
shore;
Then when 1 Sleep and dream, no longer
lonely,
She comes to feed my hungry heart once
more.
IT'S then and only then that behold her;
Her dear; voice floats around me soft and
low;
IT'S then, and only then, my arms enfold her,
The little girl lost so long ago.
Boston TRANSCRIPT.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-03-18
Lighting a Cigar with q viii.

Wills have before now undergone
strange adventures, and the story Of :
Wills wanderings must be a subjectd
interest, and therefore one upon whleas
fiction may be founded. But these tSi@
have generally been based upon 20
supposition that those concerned una6
the will have done something to maze
way with the document. In the Cou1
of Probate recently, however, we CAM
upon a state of facts far more wonde1u
than has ever yet appeared in the psgs
of a novel. The President OF thst COM
is accustomed to the yagaries q fesg
tors and to the wonderful way IN wlsa
relations will dispute over the dlspul,oxs;
But, as rule, when a will is leftln lega
custody and produced for probate "
lawyer, there is little or nothing y
said against its being admitted. y
case tried recently it seems, noWevma'
that serious question arose upon sp
although it was produced from
custody. And it is still more culs1
when we reflect that every thing -
rspired to prove that no mistake w
ever ought to have occurred. Y
case of Thomas Sale, deceased, apP1
ton was made for probate OF 2 mu'lTTs =.
will to be made to the WldoW. =.
testator was, it appears, . Dausa
clerk. who left his will In the nsnl
his solicitor; and this neglect y sus ~,
can be called, gave rise to the appnsc. 800
For the solicitor proved that 80 -.
to clear out his papers, the VIII y vi
ton was somehow thrown w. ~,
office floor and forgotten. Wmia ssr
and amidst heap ofunregarded Rsri
the solicitors clerk tore It IN nan Z
used a portion with which TO nE, IN
cigar. He had of course, no ids a. y 1
value of the paper when ne 70 ~ M
and he would not have imaeina tI
such a thing had happened unless r ~
been recalled to his recollection. n
it came to proving the viii be ~ ..rtir
to swear that he had so used IN
of this sacred document as 70 sn01 1.ue
otherwise it was intact. 81 :. n
Hammer thought this was suiac ~. 4
dence that the mutilation nan 81 ~ 1
counted for, and he accordingly 3!
probate of the will offered unus n
most peculiar circumstance 100
certainly curious case, for 'no so6t
that where a will is left with me q
tor who drew it, is looked upon,,labI
II should be a lesson to lawyers 80
not to light their cigars with ! s Z. 81 q
that may accidentally fall upon ~ r. ~
and so save their clients IRON ~ nj
which in this case was involvsa a.;,.s
quite enough anxiety for r ED VI
have to find the wills OF deee aitsu n
sons, hidden away, as they , I III
without their having to spech srs W
the possibilities of what may a IA sIr
pened TO them in the Office - s. III
tors by whom they were a g;,,ss.
don Letter to Phitadetphsa is''
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AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

VEGETBLEs to exhibit at fairs should
be sown early, and should be grown as
large as possible. Size, not quality,
draws the premiums. J..
SMUT in oats may be prevented by
sleeping the seed in strong salt water, or
a solution of four ounces of 'sblue-stone"
(sulphate of copper) in one gallon OF
water.
KEEPING cattle on hay or straw alone
is little like living on bread or potatoes,
or meat alone, with nothing except that
one dish. Feed some roots as well as
hay or shorts. Ha m
Soor from chimney where wood is
used for fuel is an excellent fertilizer for
pot-plants. Put into pail and pour
hot water upon it; then water the plants
with this every few days. a
THE actual difference between deep
and shallow setting, in the amount of
cream secured, is too small to be per-
ceived by the most careful tests. The
matter is really one Of convenience
merely. afE -
To destroy pin-worms in horses, give
an injection of salt and water two or
three days in succession, then admins
ter ball consisting of half an ounce of
aloes and one dram of calomel.
A SOUTHERN farmer relieves chok-
ing animal by dashing cold water into
its ear. This causes the animal to shake
it's head violently and the muscular
action dislodges the obstruction.
A CORRESPONDENT at Keene, N. H.,
recommends boiled potatoes as remedy
for diarrhea in cattle. He says that
three pecks day, fed warm, cured in
two days an OK of his that was badly
affected in that way.
SUMMARIZED water is regarded as a
fruitful source of cholera, diarrhma and
other diseases in chickens. Be this as
it may, cool fresh water should always
be supplied. Stagnant water contain
ing organic life is especially to be
avoided.
THE natural color of cheese is a vel
lowish white. English Stilton repre-
sents it. If the cream is allowed to
reach too high temperature in the
churn, even with June milk, the butter
will be white. The same effect is
reached by heating the curds. Thus it
will be seen that all yellow cheeses are
colored artifcially. esse.s.
A VERY successful poultry man feeds
his young broods at this time of year on
bread wetted with milk that has been
scalded. This is excellent feed for the
chicks, and when one can get the bread
baked there is none better. Stale bread
is as good as, or better, than fresh, and
enough may be baked at once to last for
a week. For chicken feed Graham
bread is better thanor binary bread, and
is cheaper.
MANY farmers who keep horses do
not think it profitable to feed much grain,
and frequently feed poor hay. As a
consequence of such management the
animals are not worth much for labor.
When the occasion arises for putting
horses thus fed at hard work they are
found out Of condition and unable to
perform a reasonable task while in the
spring they require extra feeding for a
few weeks, Or else the work must go on
with horses unfit for the business. It is
far better to give the horses little grain
during the winter, when, should an
emergency ;srise, they are equal to the
occasion.
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IT was written, "Her dainty feet were
incased in shoes that might have been
taken for fairy boots" but the compos-
itor made it read, "Her dirty feet were
incased in shoes that might have been
taken for ferry-boats," and he is no
longer dweller in Cincinnati, but a
fugitive in the land. CHICAGO Tribune.
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A GOOD method of increasing the
availability of bone-dust is to mix it with
barnyard manure and let both ferment
together in heap.