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The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31
Women in Cities.

One of the curious rev elatiOns of the
census is the large increase of females
in cities. New York has nearly $1,000
over 5000, and indeed in all the cities
north of the Potomac and east of the
Miss; ;ssippi there are more women than
men. In the olden times it was the
men who came to the cities. leaving the
women in the hOmesteads; but the
changes in modern industry, but more
especially the growth of manufactures,
have had the effect of emptying coun-
try homes of the women who before
did most of tho making of clothing. In
the times of our forefathers the weaving,
spinning and other employments gave
work to the females of the family in
their rural homes. But with the growth
of manufactures home labor was dis
couraged and employments were to be
found only in the large towns and cit
les. 1t is the more surprising that
women should come in such numbers
to cities, as landladies do not like them,
and prefer patrons of the other sex be-
cause they can pay them better and are
not so much trouble in the household.
But necessity knows no law. Women
are in the field as workers, and to earn
their living they must seek the large
centers of population. The tendency
is not wholesome one, but society in
time will doubtless do what it can to
surround women with guards which
they do not have in their rural homes
DemOresfs Monthly.
The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31
Selection and Sowing Of Seed.

PrOvident farmers not only furnish
themselves with good seed, but taking
time by the fOrelOck, make all neediul
purchases in this line in ample time so
that when the rush and hurry of the
planting season is 1T hand there need be
no delay. BY good seed is meant. or
should mean. not only seed that is fresh
and will readily germinate, but seed
produced from selected seed stock. 1t
is upon the quality and condition of the
seeds sown that the profits of the garden
and field most largely depend.
No farmer can afford to risk sowing
damaged or defective seed; hence the
wisdom of testing seed previous to
planting it. 1t is a comparatively small
matter to do this, as most readers know
The terminating powers of wheat. rye,
oats and barley may be tested by sowing
some seed in garden pOt-saucers or other
unglazed earthen vessels set in water
and covered with moist flannel. Clover
and grass seeds may be tested in the
same way, as indeed may garden seeds.
If the seed germinates irregularly it is a
sign that old and new seeds have been
mixed. If only small per cent. germi-
mates the seed should be. of course. dis
carded. The heaviest seed, other things
being even. is best.
The seed selected, the next cOnsilera-
ton in the cultivation of a crop is the
condition of the soil. The temperature
and moisture of the ground have more
to do with the successes and failures
yearly recorded than is generally acted
upon. Wheat and barley, for instance,
while they will struggle through the
ground at the extreme temperatures of
IL degrees and 100 degrees, Serminate
most quickly-Other conditions being
equal-at about "a degrees. Corn does
best at about 80 degrees, though it will
germinate at from so to lis degrees.
The squash, bean and pea all germinate
readily at about the same temperature
rs thai given for corn. Clover seed Oft
en- fails because sOwn at time of INSULT
cient moisture, while millet, for in
stance, under similar conditions of dry
ness, will secure good catch.
The depth of planting is another i'm
pOrtant point. The size of the seed
should regulate the depth of covering.
Corn must be placed deeper. therefore,
than the small grains, and the small
grains in turn deeper than the grass
seeds. Most farmers understand this,
but all do not vary these respective
depths to suit the different soils into
which the seeds are placed, and yet
moments consideration makes it appar-
ent that a heavy soil which lies close to
the seed admits of slighter covering than
does shifting sandy one. Many inter-
esting experiments have been made from
time to time to test the terminating
powers of seed under different depths of
covering. From experiments showing
the termination of wheat at certain
depths in the ground it appears that
about three-fOurths of the seed planted
will come up at depth of three inches,
and nearly all ut from one to two inches
These and similar facts point to the i'm
portance of planters acquainting them
selves with the requirements of the seed
to be SOwn-N Y. World.
The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31
Opening the Car Window.

May be a man feels happy and proud
and flattered and envied and blessed
among men when he sees pretty girl
trying to raise window on n railway
car, and he jumps up and gets in ahead
of the other boys and says: ..AllOw me?"
Oh, so courteOusly, and she says: '.Oh, if
you please: would be so glad" and the
other male passengers turn green with
envy, and he leans over the back of the
seat and tackles the window in a knowing
way with one hand, if peradventure he
may toss it airily with a simple turn of
the wrist, but it kind of holds on, and
he takes hold with both hands, but it
sort of doesn't let go to any alarming
extent. and then he pounds it with his
fist, but it only seems 10 settle a '.leetle"
closer into the place. and then he comes
around and she gets out of the seat to
give him fair chance, and he grapples
that window and bows up his back and
tugs, and pulls, and sweats, and grunts,
and strains, and his hat falls off, and
his suspender buttons fetch loose, and
his vest buckle parts, and his face gets
red. and his feet slip, and people laugh,
and irreverent young men in remote
seats grunt and grOan every time he
lifts and cry out: "Now then, all to-
gether," as if in mockery, and he bursts
his collar at the forward button. and the
pretty young lady, vexedat having been
made so conspicuous. says, in her icieSt
manner: "Oh, never mind. thank you.
1t doesn't make any difference" and
then calmly goes away and sits down in
another seat, and that wearied man
gathers himself together and reads q
book upside dOwn-Oh doesn't he feel
good. just? May he he isn't happy, but
YOU think he ISM don't be fool enough
~ e ,tcnd any of your sympathy. He
doesn't wanI it-Ba.i .iinyton HaUkeye.
The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31
The New Comet.

At present the comet is about one
hundred and sixty millions of miles
from the earth, and its distance from us
will probably not be less than eighty
millions at any time, though further
calculations will be necessary to settle
that point. But though it will not ap-
proach us SO nearly as other comets
have done, it may be expected to make
q fine display for a few days in the
early part of June. Only ten comets
have hitherto been known to approach
the sun SO nearly as this in all probable
ity will. 1t is to be regretted. however,
that its greatest brilliancy will occur at
time when it will be invisible to us,
and seen only in the Southern Hemis-
phere. In this respect it will resemble
the great comet of 1880. The present
extraordinary intensity of its light
which comes to us from the enormous
distance of 160, 100000 miles, proves
that it has plenty of material for future
display, and it will probably show
long and nearly straight tail of enor-
nous dimensions to our antipOdes.
How much of the same sort it will give
us is still somewhat problematical. and
can only be decided on the basis of
further observations.
1t is now invisible to the naked eye,
and by small telescope, though it is
readily seen. yet owing to its smallness
it can hardly be distinguished from the
stars which surround it. After passing
its perihelion it will probably become
visible in the Northern hemisphere. 1t
now appears in the constellation of the
Lyre, near Vega. 1t will pass to the
westward of that star, and will continue
on its journey up into Cepheus, when in
May it will make an abrupt turn and 90
plunging i'm toward the sun.
The elements of the orbit of the new
comet are: Perihelion passage, June
l5; perihelion place, 40 degrees, 35
minutes; longitude of node, 2O6 degrees,
40 minutes; inclination, "a degrees, AZ
minutes; periheliOn distance, 10000, 900
miles. motion direct.
This comet appears to have no ana
lOGue in the past, as no comet is known
with elements sufficiently resembling
these to constitute reasonable belief in
identity. The elements of the comet of
1897 somewhat resemble those of the
present comet, but the periheliOn dis
tance of the former is computed to be
seven times as great as that OF the lat
ter. Two weeks of further observation
will serve to remove many uncertainties
which now exist As to the future of this
comet, and these observations will un-
guestiOnably be awaited with the great
est interest. t.-Atbany Cor. N. Y. Herald.
The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Baptist ministerial army in the
United States numbers 16,5li, beside
the licentiateS.
"A man in Knox County. Maine.
who wanted to vote against projected
high school. wrote his ballot 'Know."
Omaha is to have a Young Mems
Christian Association. Steps have been
taken by some leading citizens toward
organizing one.
The number of white and colored
pupils attending the public schools at
Danville, Va, is the same-37O each.
1 he average attendance is one point in
favor of the white pupils.
In Springfield, ILL.,. the young men
of the Christian Association hold serv-
ices in the Jail every Sunday afternoon
for the benefit Of the prisoners. These
brethren are sure of their audience rain
or shine.
President Cheney, of Bates College.
Maine. has published an appeal for an
addition of 100000 to the colleges
present endowment of $l5O.OO0. The
women of the country are asked to raise
$50, 900 for the endowment of chair.
"A young couple in Trousdale
County prOfessed religion on the same
day in the same church, were baptized
in the same creek, in the same hour, by
the same minister, and were united in
marriage before changing their baptis-
NAL clOthes.-Nashville (Tenn.) Ban
ner.
General James M. Coale, who died
at Frederick, Md, a few days ago, left
$4,000 each to the following institu-
tiOns: Georgetown College, George
town. ID. c.; st. Johns Literary Soci-
ETY.. Baltimore; St. Mary's Industrial
School for Boys, Baltimore, and the
Little Sisters of the Poor, Baltimore;
besides smaller bequests of from $4,000
to $1,000 to other schools and charities.
N. Y. Independent.
AT meeting of Baptist ministers at
Philadelphia. a resolution was adopted
protesting in the name of Christianity
against the arrest of Godfrey Hubert. a
Baptist pastor at Skiem, Norway, who
was recently sentenced by the courts
there to pay fine of $50 for baptizinga
convert, both of whose parents were
members of his church. 1t was resolved
to request the Secretary of State to in
struct the American Minister to Sweden
and Norway to inquire into the case
Chicago News.
The Lee Avenue Baptist Church,
Brooklyn, whose pastor, the Rev. j.
Hyatt Smith, now a member of Con-
gress, recently resigned after thirteen
years service, has dissolved under its
former name. and new church has
been formed under the name of the
South Baptist Church. The Rev. N. B.
Thompson is now pastor. As the church
editice has been sold for an academy of
music, a site for new church is being
looked for. Services will be held in the
old structure for six months.-N. T.
Sun.
"A restless young preacher with a
congregation of working people, in a
manufacturing town, wrote to Prof.
Phelps desiring his help to better posi-
ton, and remarked: Il am throwing
myself away in this shoe town." Prof
Phelps wrote to the young man that he
could not make better throw. If BY
throwing himself away on these people,
whom he considered unworthy Of his
superior talent, he could lift them up
intellectually and spiritually. he was
doing work which would be worth the
sacrifice. Chicago Heraid.
The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31
WIT AND WISDOM.
words admit Of no defense,

-Immodest words admit of no defense,
For want of decency Is want OF sense.
-EGri 1f R1secOmmOn.
Nothing makes so much noise as a
ricketv wagon with nothing in it, unless
it be man who insists on talking when
he has nothing to say.-N Y. Herald.
Eli Perkins cut open Florida alli-
gator and found pine knots in its stom-
ach. That's nothing. An alligator is
not obliged to make a diet of Of rocks
and gravelbanks all the year round
Detroit Free Press.
An oriental traveller says: 81 have
seen a heavy man fired several yards
into a dense crowd by the kick of a
camel. and picked up insensible." The
American mule used to 60 to school to
the camel.-COnrier-Journal.
The meanest man on record sent
through a post-office presided over by .
woman, q postal-card on which was
written: Dear Jack: Here's the de-
tails of that scandal" And then the
rest was in Greek. Boston Post.
"A Philadelphia editor bears the
name of Comet He should have no
difficulty in providing a tale for his
paper. but it is hoped he will not get
out of his orbit, and pitch into the Sun
or the World. -Norristoun Herald.
"A lazy young man complained that
he was overworked in his business, to
which the father replied: IL suspect,
George, that overwOrk is not your
trouble, but that it is that YOU need
working over.-Home Treasure
Old Mrs. Skittleworth don't know
why people will make counterfeit
money. She says she 81 tried to pass a
bad half dollar dozen times the other
day, but nobody would have it," and
she thinks it waste of time to make
such stuff.
"A Philadelphia man told post
master from rural village that his
pOst-Office clerk was "nO gentleman"
and the postmaster got as mad rs hor-
net and came very near getting himself
arrested for assault and battery before
he reflected that his clerk was lady.
My brodders," said a. waggish
colored man to a crowd. "in all inflic-
ton, in all OBJ your troubles dar is one
place you can always find sympathy"
"Whar? WHARF shouted several. I'm
de dictionary" he replied, rolling his
eyes skyward.-N Y. independent.
1t requires no great stretch of con-
science to explain why we have had such
a vast excess Of weather-suche extremes
of heat and cold. wet and dryness-this
year. as compared with previous years.
Formerly a large part of the apprO-
priatiOn for the weather bu.eau was
embezzled; now it is all expended for
weather. Hence the superfluity.-Th he
Household
"A leading citizen of Dallas. ono of
the most intelligent property owners in
the town, was reading . news spaper in
the Texas Sittisys Office, when he came
across the paragraph: 1.-The admission
of Dakota is q foregone conclusion at
Washington" whereupon he said: II
can't keep up with the run of the Wash
ington scandals. there are SO many of
them. What did Dakota admit?"-TeI-
Is Siftinqs.
The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31
An Old Farmers Narrow Escape from
Freezing.

Parties who came in from down the
Bozeman road yesterday morning were
startled to find wagon and team be-
longing to Mr.. Filson, of Beaver Creek.
standing in the prairie about four miles
from town, the owner not being in
sight. The horses had been unhitched
from the wagon. and it was evident
that they had been there the greater
part of the night. 1t was known that
Mr.. Filson started for Helena with q
load of oats in the afternoon, and it was
surmised that in the storm he had got
off the road, and in the endeavor to find
had wandered away from his team
and lost his way and probably his life.
The night had been severely cold and
the storm binding. 1t appears. how
ever, that in this they were partially
wrong. as on reaching town Mr.. Filson
was found comfortably ensconced at
one of the hotels. He had left home
the previous day with about 2.5OO
pounds of oats in his wagon, and on
reaching Voolfolk hill his team refused
to pull. There was fierce storm blow
ing. and rather than spend time in a
vain effort to start the horses, he took
the oats, sack by sack, and carried them
up the hill.
After reloading the wagon, he started
on again, but his team soon got into q
snOw-drift and could 60 no farther. He
then unhitched the horses. snd, getting
onto one of them and leading the other.
again started for town. Again the
horses got into deep snow drift and
MIR. FilsOn was unable to make them
move. He was now becoming benumbed
with cold and also became very sleepy,
a dangerous sign. He resolved to 90
back to his wagon and pass the night in
it, as he had left some blankets there.
Fortunately for him, he was unable to
find the wagon; we say fortunately,
for the reason that if he had succeeded
in finding it there is small doubt but
that he would have frozen to death dur
ing the night. Finally in despair he
turned toward town. becoming more
sleepy and numb every moment.
After a struggle of two or three hours,
which only the greatest exertion of will
power enabled him to sustain, he
reached the lower end of Rodney street.
Here overstrained nature gave up, and
the despairing man fell to the ground,
WuCIC uC lay III al olIllOSt tsuCOuSClOuS
condition. He knew that he was freez-
ing to death, but was unable to longer |
fight of the overpowering desire for
sleep. Strange visions appeared before
him and strange sounds rang in his ears.
At one moment thousands of sleighs |
with their jingling bells seemed to pass
round and over him. He seemed to
hear music and songs in the distance,
and bright, many-colored lights shone
before him. Providentially at about
this time two men passed along the road.
and, although believing him to be drunk.
they rubbed him, got him on to his feet
and managed to get him to hotel. Mr..
Filson. who is seventy-fOur years old.
has now entirely recovered from the ef-
fects of his unpleasant adventure; but it
may be truthfully said that he does not
banker for any more experience in freez-
ing to death.-HeIen0 IN. IT, Ipde-
pendent.
The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31
WHAT THE CIRCUS DID.

We were a quiet and sober set
Lirtl; accustomed to noise and fret
Decent and modest at work or play,
And oh ! SO proper in every way.
Before We went to the GrcuDl
Nobody ever had seen us go
At al too fast, or at all too slow:
No matter how gaily we talked or sang,
We never had used a word of slang
Before we went 10 the Circus!
We went 10 church, or We went to school,
By the very most orthodox kind of ruio;
For we were people of Dutch aescent,
And rather phlegmatic in temperament
Until We went To the Circus!
Alas and alas, it's woeful sight
The way we are changed at the time writel
Father is swaying against the breeze,
Hung by the toes from a high trapeze,
Trying to copy the Circus!
The bovs on their heads, with feet i'm ar,
Are riding wild horses on each high chair;
Or down on their tacAs on the sidewalk brick
Are balancing tubs for q juggling trick:
And got themselves up for an Indian race,
As they saw them do at the Circus!
Mother high up on the table stands,
Swinging the baby with both her hands,
Swinging the baby with many rub
And brandishiHg MIN like an Indian club;
While baby himself, in a terrible fright,
Eowls like "A Zulu from morn I'LL night,
Since We went to the Circus!
Alas and alas! can only say,
i wish in the night, wish in the day,
/ wish with my heart | wish with my head,
! wish with nv ears which are nearly dead,
/ wish with n sort of mute despair,
/ wish with SHREK that would rend the air,
We never had gone to the Circus!
TiIe A,pIJ.p
The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31

Tho Cincinnati Industrial Exposi
Exposition of 1881 lost $40, ,922. "a.
Among the veins of New York City
are 3S6 miles of sewer, 512 of water
mains, S85 OF gas pipes, and about {
miles of electric tubing.
The large manufactures of heavy
gloves at JOhnstOwn, Fulton County, n.
Y, have had scarcely any call for their
goods this season, owing to the wsrm
weather.
There were 1,756 races run during
the season of 1881. and the amount OF
money that changed hands was o987..
284, of which $811. .935 was won in the
United States,
Three years ago firm in Texas in
vested $33,O in cattle; q few weeks
ago this stock and its increase was sold
at SIS per head, and the sale amounted
to more than $4,000.
"A lead pencil should never be wet.
1t hardens the lead and ruins the pencil.
This fact is known to newspaper men
and stenographers. But nearly every
one else does wet pencil before using it.
The long-sought-for specific against
hydrophObia, it is said, has been discov-
cred in CambOdia in the shape of the
bark Of q tree, the effect of which is
very similar to that of strychnine.--In-
diGndpolis Sentinel.
Jay Gould's total wealth is esti-
mated at over SEC, zoo, 900, of which
$40, ,OOO.O 600 is invested in railroad and
telegraph stocks, and $4,000. 900 in
bonds. He and Vanderbilt could by
and-by afford to spool their issue" "
and pay off the National debt.-M Y.
Sun.
The Alder gulch. in Montana, has
been steadily producing placer gold for
twenty years, and is now worked out as
high as water can be carried on its
sides. The amount of gold taken out
is estimated at over $50, 100000. More
than dozen gold-bearing quartz claims
are now being worked at the head of the
gulch. Chicago Times.
The great activity in business cir
cles is made manifest by the fact that
the outward, bound mails from New
York City are unprecedentedly large.
Recently 991,O letters and circulars.
and 1.2l9,OO0 newspapers and circulars
were dispatched from that city. neces-
stating 152 wagon-trips from the post
Office to the railroad depots.- Chicago
Journal
The AstOrs pay taxes in New York
on $11, 500, 900 worth of property; w.
H. Vanderbilt on 50, $50. 900; A. T.
Stewards widow on IS. 25O. 900; Amos
r. Emo. S4.OOO.OOO; j. G. Bennett, ST.
100000, and so on. The bulk of their
wealth. however, consists of securities.
which are not included in the personal
estate taxable in New York.
If the growth of cities be a criterion
of prosperity, Italy is advancing rapidly.
The new census returns show that Ma
Piles has q population of 4S9, 334, an in
crease of 10000 since 1871; Milan. 321,-
600; Rome, 800, 292; Palermo, pa, ,955;
Genoa. 179, 49l; Florence. 168. 900; Ven
ice. 13O, O,69S; Bo!ogne. 122. 1884; Messina,
10000; Catanie, lOl, 900; LeghOrn. 97,-
6l5; Ferrare, 77,0O8; Padua, 72.174; Ve-
roma, 81. .74l; Lucca, 68. 116; Alessandria,
1854; Brescia, 60, $50; Bari, 60, ,576; Ra-
VIENNA, &C, ,3O6.
The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31
The Girl's Beau.

A DR.. Sprague. of New York, was
told by his Ofiice-boy that several men
were going to rob his house last Tues
day night. Pretending to 90 out, he
came back and locked himself into his
room where he kept his cash-box. Pres
emily his hired girl admitted three men
into the house. They burst the door
open and went straight for the cash-box.
He fired ut them and they turned and
ran. The girl made q confession impli-
eating three men, who were arrested.
One of them had been visiting her for
two years, and introduced his brother
and another man to her. The brother
proposed robbing her employer and
sharing the money with her. The Of
tice-boy. who told them where the cash
box was, was to have his share also.
When they whistled she let them in.
Woman-like she insists that her lover
was not one of the burglars, but the doc.
tor insists that there were three Of fthem.
Detroit Free Press.
The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31
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The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31

hH0a week in your own town. s.
xhhOutft free. No risk. Every
OOOthing new. Capital not re-
quired. We will furnish you
everything. Many are making fortunes
Ladies make as much as men, and bO
and girls make great pay. Reader, #!
YOU want business at which you can
make great pay all the time you work,
write for particulars to III. HALLErr 4
Co., Portland, Maine. Aan-y
The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31

People who complain of high prices
At the opera may feel a sort Of resign
ment when they learn that % seat was
the price across the water at Monte Car
10 to hear Marie Van Zandt, the Ameri
can prima donna, sing in ''Dinorah."
n. L HsEald.
The Columbus journal., 1882-05-31

Tho slbatross, the largest of sea
birds. flies with the velocity Of 100 miles
aa hsur.