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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-13

lust the amount remaining owing anu unpaid to
he parties having respectively fled such claims
for work or material furnished in the construc-
ton of said extension lines of railroad land they
shall file in the State auditors Office COM
pleted statement of the amounts SO ascertained
oy them to be owing and unpaid upon said
claims to the said parties respectively. In
ascertainiDg the amounts SO owing to said
claimants the said officers shall be empowered
to examine witnesses under oath, and the con-
be sufficient for the determine
ton of the amount remaining
owing on any such claim. If it shall be made
To appear to said officers that the road or mate
rails embraced in any such claim were fur
uished by the claimant under contract with any
other OF said claimants, such fact shall be set
forth in such statement. Moreover, after the
amounts remaining unpaid upon said claims
shall have been ascertained, and any of the
lands reserved as herein provided shall have
been patented or otherwise conveyed by the
United States to this State, such lands or so
much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be
sold by the governor at public auction, and the
net proceeds of all such sales be forthwith dis.
tributed ratably by the governor among said
claimants, in proportion to the amounts found
to remain due and owing upon the
respective claims; such notice of the time and
place of sale being first gi-en as the governor
shall consider best calculated 70 inform the
public thereof, which sales ehaM take place
frsm time to time, portions of the lands re-
served as herein provided shall be patented or
otherwise conveyed by the United States to the
State, until the net proceeds of such sales shall
have become sufficient topay said claims in
full, or until all of such lands shall have been
sold.r The section also provides for convey
ance by the governor to the purchaser of the
lands that may be SO sold.
1t also directs how the reserved lands shall
be selected by the governor, and that the $50
lection shall be made from time to time as the
lands are acquired by the United States, until
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
She WOnf0n't DO It.

On pole in front of Little Rock store
parrot is daily exhibited. Its verbal vocabu-
larry consists of ''Poor Poll" and "Come up
here" Rather limited supply, but usually
sufficient to fill the demand. Recently little
girl that lives in the neighborhood stopped on
the sidewalk and looked up at the bird.
"Come up here, said the parrot.
"l'm not going to do it now. replied the
little girl. II told you yesterday that l was
not coming up there"
'Come up here !"
81 won't do it. My ma don't low me to
climb"
.'Come up here!'
'You are just wasting your breath asking
me, for I'm not coming"
''Poor Poll!"
"Pll give you nickel when get one but
yon'll have to come down after it."
''Come up here!''
4 tell You that won't, and If you ask mo
again I'll throw something at you"
The parrot muttersd ont lot of orni-
biological jargon, and the indignant little
girl went away.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
Salt to- Poultry.

We clip the following useful hints: Hens
often have habit of biting and pulling at
their feathers, and greedily eating them un-
til their bodies are almost bare. This prac-
tice, it is believed, is occasioned by want of
salt, as when salted food is given them they
make no attempt to continue the habit. Salt
pork chopped fine and fed twice week, has
been adopted with success, while others put
q tablespoonful of salt with two quarts of
meal or shorts moistened, well mixed, and
feed it twice d week. Fowls like human hu-
man begins, to be healthy, must have certain
allowance of salt
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24

The Increase i'm the Product of Cereals
During The Last Fifteen Years.

| A writer in the International Recieao SAYS
| that in fifteen years the production of whea,
and barley in the United States has trebled,
| corn, cotton, and tobacco more than doubled
| oats increased nearly 140, 1000, 900, bushels.
potatoes nearly doubled, and hay increased
more than one-third. He gives the figures
for the chief crops in 1865 and 1879, accord.
ing to which the production of wheat has in.
| creased from 148, $50. 900 bushels in the
former year to 448, 756, 900 in the latter ;
corn, from 704, 427, 900 to ,544 1916, 900; oats,
from 225, 252, 600 to 364, 253, 600; rye, from
10, 544, 900 to 90, GAG, ,000; barley, from H.
391, 900 to 40. 184, 900; potatoes, from 1O1,-
632, 900 to 1S1, 1863 900; hay, from $685.
600 tors to 35,649, 900; tobacco, from 1885,
$4,000 pounds to 384, ,059, 900, and cotton
from 2, 229, 900 bales to 100000. The re-
markable increase in the production of GER
eals has been largely owing to the settlement
and development of the Western and North
western States. Within the present genera
tion the center of corn production has shift
ed from the South to the West, and of wheat
production from the Middle States to the Far
West. In 1849 So per cent, and in 1859 SO
per cent. of the corn crop of the country
was produced in the Southern States. In
1877 S59, 600, 900 bushels were grown in Ohio
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas,
and Nebraska, while the production of all
the rest of the Union amounted to 49,, $685.
900 bushels. The increase of the tobacco
crop has been chiefly in the South, where the
production has increased 100000, 900 from
1870 to 1878. During the same period the
yield of cotton increased from 3,012, 900
bales to 5,216, ,600 This increase was mainly
in Arkansas and Texas, the crop of the form
er State swelling from III, 900, 900 pounds in
1870 to 31S, S,0O0,O 900 in 1878, and that of the
latter State from 157, ,OO0, 600 in 1870 to near
ly SOC, ,OO0,0 900 in 1878. According to the
writer already cited, only about 8 per cent.
of our entire grain crop exported. including
"a rs per cent of the wheat. and $40 per
cent. of the corn produced. Thus, the total
exports of all cereals increased from SO, ,OO0,-
900 bushels in 1868 to 189, 900, 600 in 1878.
About per cent. of the national product was
exported in 1868, and nearly II per cent. in
1873. In addition to this, the exploration of
live stock, into which corn enters more or
less, has increased tenfold within the past
two years.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
Justice Bradley.

Of Justice Bradley it is related that he was
the eldest of eleven children brought up on
scanty farm in New York. He inherited an
affection for mathematics, and conquered
algebra at home without a teacher, in the in
tervals of coal burning. When sixteen years
old, the Troy Times says he met in Albany
good natured man who manifested an interest
in the bright. faced plainly-clad boy. He as
ked him, as men will, what he intended to
make himself in life. The boy answered with
grave simplicity that he hadn't made up his
mind yet whether he would be President OF
the United States or Judge of the Supreme
Court The gentleman, not not able to wholly
conceal his amused surprise at such towering
ambition lurking under such homely Jacket
drew him out still further, and got him-to
read aloud to him. He read with such mar
velous appreciations and judgment that his
unknown friend told him to 60 on to New
Yorr to hunt employment, but to bend al. his
energies to get thorough education. The
young man listened to his advice, and got 3.
school to teach, studying during vacation.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
Compelling the Young to Rise Early.

A country correspondent asserts that it Is
sin and shame TO compel tender youth to
roll out of bed long before day just because
there is work 10 he done. There will be work
for him to do when he has grown to man
hood, and even on to old age. If he is driven
like slave to an early task bis life will be
shortened and his sum total of usefulness and
happiness cut short Farmers are careful not
to begin to put their young horses to hard
work until their hone has well formed and
their joints well knit by maturing age. They
are afraid IL they work the colts hard they
will he stiff or strained. have puffed joints
and be less useful animals. We bespeak the
same tender consideration for the boys. 1t is
no evidence that the boy is lazy because ne is
hard to wake ont of a sound sleep. IL is
rather evidence that he is yielding to the de-
mands of nature.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
7~@zV ~
About Eggs.
fRoz. in Chicago Tribune |

boz, in Chicago Trbune.l
know most every recipe for keeping eggs
says put them on the small end, but my ex-
perience is opposed to that theory. say
place the eggs upon the large end. My reas-
on is, the egg resting on its small end the
yolk settles, enlsrging the cavity occupied
by the air cell, and, as matter of course, the
shell. being porous, admits air to fill the va
cuum, and spoils the egg; whereas, if the egg
rests on the large end, the yolk rests upon
the air chamber, but not with weight enough
to expel the air nor to form an airchamber
at the small end. But, supposing the air
was pressed out of the shell, cannot see
why the egg should spoil for that reason. l
have kept eggs for months piled in dry
wooden powder keg, one upon another, with
no other backing of any kind between them
placed carefully upon the large end, while
eggs packed in the same manner upon the
small end spoiled in as many weeks. Try it
and see If I am not right. Another thing,
keep eggs where flies can't speck them. Ask
any produce merchant, and l think he will
tell you that flies will spoil eggs quicker than
almost anything else.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
Deaths DOiDgs.

The death of young wife has brought the
foundation of Hudson River palace to the
ground The beresved husband on his return
to Cornwall gave orders for the immediate
cessation of operatsions on the new residence
in process of construction, the discharge OK
of all employed on the work, the destruction
the walls already up, and the filling up, OF
the extensive cellar which had been walled
out for the front and back of building. The
walls of the rear part of the structure had
reached the second story, but no bricks
had been laid on the front walls. Il is est-
mated that the mason work of the hullding
as il stood, had already cost $4,000: AS
soon as the walls are raZed the cellar will he
filed no and the site turned over and plowed
into field. The probable cost of the man
sion would have been fully 500. 600. The
mans exhibited one of the finest largest ana
most commodious privatel residences 10 me
country.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
Poultry on the Farm.

J TO keep poultry on the farm is economl.
cal When farmer keeps herd OF COWS,
| flock of sheep, together with horses and
hogs, there is always room on the farm for a
good stock of poultry. Even when all the
cows, sheep and hogs are kept tina! snere is
room for, there is still room for poultry. 1t
is almost necessity for every family to keep
| pig, in order that the refuse and house slops
may be utilized; it is in the same sense that
| poultry are valaable-they are the scavangers
of the farm There is no class of fowls that
require very much room on the farm. Still
they do require room and attendance, and it
is possible to keep them in such shiftless
manner that they will be found Improbable
All kinds of poultry may be kept, provided
they may have the run OF the barn. yard; but
they must be kept in such a manner as to
prevent their ravages in garden and grain
fields. Turkeys, ducks, geese and hens may
be kept all summer without using one square
yard of room available for any other purpose.
Care should be observed in providing for
ducks and geese, that they may not have the
privilege-for such they will deem it-of
fouling the water required for stock, or max
ing themselves nuisance in any other man
ner
Young chickens and turkeys will require
some care for the first few weeks of their
existence; after that they may be trusted to
care for themselves to a great extent. Poul-
try may be raised and flock of hens kept,
producing eggs all summer, without the
outlay of one dollar for grain. Sour milk
from the dairy is very good for young poul-
try, and there are many other articles of re-
fuse on the farm that can be protitably used
for the maintenance of fowls. Now. why is
it that farmers do not indulge in the luxuries
of fresh eggs daily during summer, and also
of fresh poultry more than they do? |
know that it is too often the case that all the
eggs produced on the farm are sold for gro
ceries and other small items of household ex-
penses. know that too often all the poul-
try are sold to the butcher, and that some
times the farmer does not taste fresh egg
or chicken during the entire year. This is
unwise With little care sufficient eggs can
be produced not only to make profitable
item in the farmers income. but also to en-
able him to crafty his taste fog fresh eggs as
well. Poultry may be produced as cheaply
as any other class of meat.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
SKIN GRATING.
Successful. Result of an Extraordinary
Operation.
[FrOm the Boston Globe.l

| [From the Boston Globel
The medical fraternity of Danielsonville
Conn, and, in fact throughout the whole Of
Windham county, are greatly interested in
| the experiment of skin grating, which has
| been going on there for the past twelve
| months, and which has proved gratifying
success. On the 31st of December, 1878,
Jesse, an eleven year old son of Dir. Edwin
Morgan, an influential citizen of Canterbury,
an adjacent village, fell into a shallow val
containing a solution of potash in boiling
water. He struck on both feet, the LIQUID
coming nearly mp to his hips, and instantly
the skin of the legs commenced to peel off,
With remarkable presence of mind the lad
leaped to the floor, where he lay unconscious
for some time. 1t was found that the flesh
on both legs had been so horribly and thor
oughly boiled that no cells remained for a
new skin to form growth upon. The boy 5
life was one of excruciating agony for months.
The scared members began to turn under the
body, and actually clicked" or knit to the back
of the thigh: Last April, young physician,
George j. Ross, of that town, finding that
his older brethren had given the case up as
incurabie, and one which must speedily re-
suit in death, determined to attempt The saliva
ton Of the lads life by skin-grafting He
was "pished and poohed at" to use his own
words, by the old heads of the profession
without mercy, but the boys parents implor-
ed him to undertake the operation, and he
was finally induced to try it. Over 1000
gratis were used, the mother Of the lad, q
noble-hearted Irish coachman in the family,
the lad himself, and many of the neighbors
submitting portions of their cuticle for the
operation. A prevailing desire was manifest
to have the child live without becoming a
cripple. Hundreds of visitors focked to see
the patient, and implored DR.. Ross to try q
piece of their skins in the operation. The
pieces of flesh were pulled off with the for
ceps, and were about three times the size of
the head of pin. The process of grating
is similar to that employed in horticulture.
One of the limbs looked as though pitted with
smallpox. The CRAFTS grow fastest in the
spring months. One of them is put on q
muscle, where it sinks in and deposits cell,
after which the head sloughs off. Although
the work is not yet complete, the legs are
nearly restored to their normal and natural
functions, and the child can walk a short dis
tance without crutch, but is still very weak
from exhaustion and emaciation.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
Garfield and Arthur.

In person, General Garfield is six feet high,
broad-shouldered and strongly built. He has
an unusually large head, that seems to bethree-
fourths forehead, light brown hair and beard,
large, light blue eyes, a prominent nose and
full cheeks. He dresses plainly, is fond of
broad brimmed slouch hats and stout boots,
eats heartily, cares nothing for luxurious lv-
ing. is thorougly temperate in all respects
save in that of brain-work, and is devoted to
his wife and children and very fond of his
country home. Among men, he is gen.
ial, approachable, companiCnable and re-
markably good, entertaining talker. On the
stump Garfield is one of the very best orators
in the Republican party. He has good voice,
an air of evident sincerity, great clearness
and vigor of statement, and way of knitting
his arguments together so as to make a
speech deepen it's impression on the heaTer
until the climax is reached.
General Chester A. Arthur. of New \ ork.
nominated for Vice President of the United
States by the Republican National Conven-
tion, is man of large experience in public
affairs, unwsvering Republicanism, strong
convictions, and high personal character. His
military record is good, and his civil career
creditable His services have been freely CIV
en- at all times to secure the success OF the
Republican party in the Empire state, and as
an organizer and director of campaigns, he has
been notably strong. The party owes great
deal to his intelligent and energetic work in
its behalf in that great State. General Arthur
is in the prime of life, active, vigorous, able
and honest; and his name will add strength
to the ticket, making New York much less of
a doubtful State than it is sometimes sup
posed TO be.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
Sweetening Acid Fruit.

The President of the Michigan State Board
of Health has taken occasion to call attention
to the bad practice, common in the house
hold, of adding large quantities of sugar to
acid fruits, and then cooking the same. As
the fruit acids, by this process, convert much
of the cane sugar into grape sugar-giucose
the consequence is that the mass becomes
soured instead of sweetened. The proper
plan, he points out, is to reduce the fruit
which is treated to the proper consistency by
cooking, and then add the sugar, when much
less will suffice to sweeten it.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
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Sheep Notes.

1t is truly said that one hundred Merino
sheep will do better together than twenty
Cotswolds. The quickest way to make the
most money in sheep is on common ewes
with thoroughbred rams. Select when you
buy, and especially select when you sell,
if you would continue in the sheep business
and make money. Sell the sheep which are
slowest and dullest to come when they are
called. Give your sheep plenty of water,
winter and summer. If they do not drink, it
it is simply because they do not need it but
sheep often need water when they cannot
get it.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
Helena, Montana, Thursday, June "A, 1880.
Future OF the Republic.
From the London Telegraph.1 !

When, in 1916, the thirteen North Amer
ican colonies put forth that Declaration of
independence which preluded the birth of a
nation, the combined white population inhab-
iting them did not exceed $500, 900 souls
Yet they had the courage to throw down the
gage of battle to power with which," in
Daniel Webster's words, "for purposes of
foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in
the height of her glory, was not to be COM
pared; q power which has dotted over the
surface of the whole globe with her possess
sions and military posts, whose morning drum
beat, following the sun and keeping company
with the hours, circles the earth with one
continuous and unbroken strain of martial
airs of England" Fourteen years later came,
in 1890, the first census of population taken
in the United States and it was found that
within the borders of the young nation there
were not quite 10000 souls. At the ex-
piration of ten years it appeared, upon taking
the second census, that the population was
little more than 5,025, 900, having increased
since 1890 and 1900 at the rate of IS per cent.
In short time the tenth census of what has
been mighty people will be taken, and we
risk little in saying that, in Joseph Hume's
phrase, ''the tottle of the whole will show a
population of at least so, 600, 900, especially if
the immigrants who are now pouring into the
United States in vast numbers are not omitted
from the calculation. In other words. the
population of the great Republic in 1880 will
be their population in 1776 multiplied by
twenty, and were it likely that the same ratio
of increase could be maintained for another
century, the mind of man would sink before
the effort of imagining what it is possible for
the monster republic to be in 1880. However
hnunH1Qcc tho nf tho Nnrfh
ican continent may be, it can hardly be ex-
Dected that the second centenary of the United
States will be celebrated by 1000, 600, 900 hu-
man beings, and yet such would be the result
of multiplying 100000 900 by twenty. Any
how, it is certain that century hence no
such assemblage of men speaking the same
language and amenable to the same general
of feeling, habit, and education,
will ever have been gathered together upon
the earth rs will then probably occupy the
great Western Continent
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24
MAIDEN AND WEATHERCOCK.
IN HENRY ". LONGFELLOW.
ALDEN.

MAIDEN.
. ONcathcrcOck, on the village spire,
" IN your golden feathers all on fire,
zen me, what can You see froryour perch
Above here, over the tower OF the church!
WEATHER COCK.
csn see the roofs. and the streets below,
aa1 the people moving to and fro;
mld beyond, without either roof or street,
Inc great salt sea and the tishermans Heel.
can see ship come sailing in
htyOud The headlands and harbor OF Lynn,
And young man standing on the deck,
Win silllcn kerChief around his neck.
Now he is pressing II 10 his lips,
ana now he s kissing his finger ups:
ana now he il lifting and waving his haho-
Aud blowing the kisses toward the land.
MAIDEN.
ASh that is the ship from over the sea
~ mai Is bringing my lover back to ME!
rnrringing my lover 20 fond and trne,
Who does not change with the wind. like you.
wEATHERCoCK.
IL change with all the winds that blow,
A. only because they made me 90;
And people would think IL wondFous strange
u !, Weathercock, thould not change!
VSpretty Maiden, 20 fine and fair.
WI WI your dreamy eyes and golden hair,
Nmhen you and your lover meet to-day.
lou will thank Inc for looking some other way.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-24

AS an illustration of the striking intelli-
gence of the autrhropoid, the life of Mafuka,
who lived some time at Dresden, is among
the most instructive of pe-biographies.
Knowing how to unlock her cage. she
stole and hid the key for future use. With a
carpenters brad awl she bored holes through
her own table. When pouring drink from a
ing into her cup she would carefully stop
off short of overflling the latter. Her death
had an almost human pathos. She threw her
arms around the neck of the director
of the garden. kissed him. and putting
her hands in his, lay down and died.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-05
FARGO.

Everybody busy, either chopping or
hewing ties or teaming on the roads.
Enoch has gone. Our Shepard has
left us. He went away quickly and
we know not whittier, cen without
telling us goodbye.
Rev. John Watson delivered ser.
mon here last Sabbath. All are well
pleased that his health again allows
him to come and address us. He left
an appointment for Feb. 18th at 2:30
P. M. Come.
Warren Sargent is visiting his uncle
in Iowa.
A. b. Chapln's house caught fire
Monday but prompt and copious sup
ply of aqua was administered, thereby
averting serious catastrophe.
Lutte Green proposes to give dance
at his house Friday evening, Feb. 6,
to which all are invited.
Rev. VIM. II. Robey writes that he
is having a severe time with his can
Ger.
Sylvester Eastman has exchanged
his horse team for Samuel Huddles-
tons large yoke of cattle and bonus.
He intends fattenins them for beef.