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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18
PITH AND POINT.

1t is only in New Jersey that the
papers speak of a ''widow woman" All
other States grant the sex without dis
pute.-DetroH Free Press.
The men of Tarshish could not
have made much out of the voyage in
which Jonah accompanied them, for
they were obliged to throw the prophet
overheard.
Glass in Observation-Disclosures
Shame the great bays" Small boy: {:
ssBay of Fundy, Bay of Biscay, Arab
Bey--" Teacher. ''Oh! Pa-shaw. -
N. Y. Post.
Somebody advertised this morning
for a man s'to drive milk" The adver-
tiser must have meant to drive q well.
But perhaps there is little difference
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
If woman desires to become con-
spicuous at the seaside let her appear
in the same dress twice. After this she
will be well enough known to justify u
publisher in bringing out her poems at
his own risk.-PtLck.
Queer epitaphs are numerous, but
one of the queerest is this, taken frop.
stone at Childwell, England:
Here lies me and my three daughters,
Rrought here by using SeidhtZ waters;
II we had stuck to EPSON salts
We wouldn't have been in these here vaults.
Mr.. John II. Goodwin, who was as
sisting in clearing the house, was Sc
verely burned by the ceiling overhead
falling and setting his clothes afire. In
his haste to escape from the house he
fell over a stove, and it seemed almost
certain that he would be burned to
death. As it was he barely escaped
Derry Netcs.
81 suppose when women get their
rights" said the young man in the flaF
hat, ssyou girls will be making love to
the fellows. 1t must be awfully nice to be
made love to, you know" "Yes," re-
piled Angelina, ''only one wants to
choose ones lovers" The next mo-
ment the young man in the fiat hat was
standing alone, feeling fatter than his
fiat hat.
"A young farmer who had been read
ing book which stated that sswoman
is the Sunday of man, )" thought he would
compliment and please his wife by
shouting to her one morning: "Daisy,
you are my Sundayi" Daisy glared at
him Us though she imagined he was
daft, and then quietly said: "Dan, 1
may be your Sunday, but I'm not going
to give you any rest until you buy me a
bonnet that's fit to wear, to church. :"
Dan now keeps his quotations to HIM
self, but he was compelled to get the
headgear.-M. Y. Commercial AdUer-
ttSer.
=" No, SIR" said the shopkeeper, "I
don't think you will do. We want a
man who understands the rules of or
biography, and you have spelled ssitua-
ton in seven different wavs, at least, in
your application" "Well, what o.
thatp Amt that mark of genius2
Doesn't il show versatilityP want you
to understand that amt one o. them
fellers that has to spell word the same
way every time. No, siri If that's
the kind of a man yer want, you'll have
to take somebody else. amt the feller
to pin himself down in that way. Good
mornin', so long" And the versatile
speller walked out, with the jaunty air
of third-rate actor.-N. Y. Mail.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18
Moths.

The word moth was derived from two
Gothic wora5 meaning to gnaw and to
eat. 1t was formally applied TO moth
worms only, but is now also applied to
millers or ''night butterflies" When
we say moths we generally mean the
little wormlike caterpillars that eat
soolen goods. In May or June the
cloths moth miller (TYnea favifrontelkd)
Is of light buff, brown-color, with a
silky luster and a long narrow body. 1t
dies around at night, and every one seen
should be killed If possible. When it
rests it does not fold its wings out
straight, but rather rolls them around
the body. The miller searches for a
good place where plenty of wool is
found and after depositing the eggs 1t
dies. The eggs hatch in about fifteen
days. The larvae begins tognaw little
burrows through the substance in which
they are, covering themselves with its
mall particles. In the fall they cease
eating, make q sort of little cocoon out
of their food, remain dormant all win
tor, and in the following spring change
into pupe before emerging. The good
old plan of house-cleaning in early June,
summing aud beating all wool articles,
and the use of tobacco, camphor and
carbolic acid, are well-known to all
good housekeepers. Furs may be kept
from destruction by placing camphor in
she box and sealing them up by pasting
paper over the crack between the
cover and the box. Dealers pack furs
in common tar roofing paper. One
man recommends petroleum paper for
she same purpose.-AItceB b. Walton, fJs
ZolCa State Register.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Marble slabs for furniture are now
being initiated in glass by an enterpris-
ing firm in Pittsburgh.
The Goldfish Matching experiments
of Professor Baird, conducted at
Gloucester last year, have resulted, it is
said, in large quantities of little Goldfish
being seen off the New Hampshire coast.
I'm Rochester, 500, 900 has been sub
scribed to start q school of instruction in
shoemaking, so that manufacturers can
be independent of the shoemakers'
union, the project being literally the last
educational undertaking.-N. Y. Times.
Governor Hawkins, of Tennessee,
thinks tho prospects of the South as a
manufacturing section are very flatter-
ing, and is especially enthusiastic about
his own State. About S2,000,000 arc
now invested in Tennessee in cotton
factories, aud they are in prosperous
condition, paying large profits.
The enormous demand for paper
for use as writing and printing material
prevents the extended employment of
TdpieT BlrcRe as substitute in buildings
for plaster and wood; but cotton, the
production of which il unlimited, prom
ises to be largely used in this new ca
pacity. Treated with certain chemicals
and compressed it can be made perfectly
fire-proof and rs hard as stone.-ChicD-
% NelOS.
The Government of Victoria, Aus
tralia, has been empowered to expend
the amount of more than S12, 900, 900 in
building additional lines of railway.
Most of the roads will be for the pur-
pose of opening up the agricultural
districts. They will not be costly or
intended to carry fast trains. In all
there will be fifty-six lines built, and
their aggregate length will not exceed
S27 1-2 miles.
Frequently it is important to know
whether there is lead in sstin" paper.
This is the method given for its detec-
ton in leading foreign technical jour-
nal: A drop of concentrated acetic
acid is let fall upon the suspected leaf,
and drop of solution of potassium
iodide is added. If there is lead pres
ent there is formed in two or three min
utes a yellowish spot of lead iodide. DR.
Kopp moistens the leaf to be examined
with sulphuric acid. If the tin is pure
the spot remains white, but if lead is
present there is black spot.
\ Experiments have been made in
England with gas lamp composed OF
two pipes, one of which supplies gas in
the ordinary way and the other air
slightly compressed by the weight of q
column of water. Upon the burner is
cap of fine platinum wire gauze which,
a few seconds after the current of min
gled gas and air has been ignited, gives
forth brilliant incandescent glow like
that of the electric lamp. Arrange
ments have been made for lighting a
number of London thoroughfares with
this light, which, it isasserted, is cheap
er than the ordinary gaslight.-M. y.
Sun.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18
Cheese Making Complicated Process.

Cheese making is more complicated
process than that of butter making. But
ter making is purely mechanical pros
cess, and any one who is willing to take
the trouble to go through the various
processes with precision and scrupulous
neatness can succeed in making good
butter. Cheese making, however, in
wolves both a mechanical and chemical
process. The manual operations requi-
site constitute the mechanical portion of
the process, and the action of the rennet
in forming the eurd and ripening it into
cheese constitutes the chemical part of
the process. Cheese may be spoiled by
faulty management in the conduct of
either the chemical or mechanical part
of the operation. Skill and exactness
must be exercised in all parts of the pro-
cedure- There is no room for guesswork
jim cheese making. A vast amount of
cheese has been ruined by allowing
guessing instead of knowing, to guide
fhe procedure. Formerly it was gener-
ally the practice to judge of the tempera-
ture of the milk for adding the rennet
by inserting the finger in the milk. This
is a very unreliable test. If the hand
was at all times equally warm some de-
gree Of accuracy might be attained even
by this method, but as the hand is con-
stantly varying in its temperature. some
times being warm and at other times
cold. no accuracy is attainable. Milk ut
a certain temperature, as eighty degrees,
would feel as warm to cold hand as
milk of 10 degrees to a warm hand.
Here would be variation of thirty de-
grees, which might pass unnoticed by
the finger test. As temperature is an
important element in the making of
cheese, thermometer should always be
used so as to secure exactness in this
respect Thermometers are used in all
the factories, but some domestic diaries
still dispense with them, and use the
finger to guess at the temperature.
Reynolds, in N. Y. Sun.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18
Fashionable Babies.

Next to dogs (says Saratoga corre-
spondent) in Importance come the ba-
bies and their maids. These are q de-
cided feature on the porches of the
great hotels. Some of the nurse-maids
have, on their white caps, two long
streamers of gay striped sash ribbon,
reaching nearly to the ground behind;
others will have square of diaphanous
yelling pinned over their nurse caps from
The front. In one way or another the
maids attire must minister to the whim
or the pomp of the mistress.
One particular girl-baby at the States,
rejoicing in the name of Catalina, is car
ried about on a pillow resting in her
nurses arms, the pillow and the baby's
dress being stiff with costly embroidery
on a sheer white groundwork, dis
played one day over pink foundation,
another day over q blue or lavender,
and the maids dress will be of chintz or
gingham of exactly the same shade.
Thus baby, pillow and nurse form q
symphony in blue, or pink, or purple,
as the case may be. This is called the
ssprize baby of the States, and the
Union has one nearly as fine. I don't
know why am sorry for such pampered
babies, but 1 am. Said Emerson: :
"When l think how 1 am sparing my
boy all that made me-the barefooted
chambers and the stern denials of pow
erty--I know / am making a mistake !;
but" he added, after a pause, "I can
not help it."
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18
HOME AND FARM.

Stoves may be kept looking nicely
for some time by rubbing them thor
oughly with newspaper every morning.
Over 5000 new farms were started
on Government lands in Minnesota and
Dakota during the year ended June so,
1SS2.-Chica0o Journal.
Save labor by sowing more grass
seed. Have more grass than can be
eaten in summer, so that there will be
plenty in fall, winter, and spring. Have
grass at all times when there is no snow
to cover 1t. The cheapest beef and but
ter are made from feed gathered by the
cattle themselves. Scarce corn has
taught many the value of grass for sum-.
mering hogs this season.-Janles Wilson,
Professor Cook suggests as prac.
teal remedy for the grapevine hopper,
that, so soon as these pests become dor.
maut in winter the leaves under the
vines be raked up and burned. This il
best done on a cold day and before the
Sines arc laid down for the winter. The
theory is that the hoppers can not re-
sist dampness and collect under the fall
len leaves for protection.-DstrOh Post.
Cold Pie for Picnic: Boil chicken
or rabbit and cut the flesh as thin as
aroni, the same quantity of ParmeSan
cheese, grated, little finely-chopped
parsley, half pint of cream, some pep
per and salt. Line basin with a good
paste sprinkled with vermiceli, bake an
hour, and serve with ortvithout brown
sauce. Cold poultry or game may he
used instead of something purposely
cooked.-BoSt0n Transcript.
"A foreign paper claims that n full
feed of hay TO horses, following the
feeding of concentrated food, is waste
full, for the reason that it crowds the
first out of the stomach before proper
digestion has been accomplished. Aud
so, in order to secure best results, hay
should be fed at first and the conre1-
trated food afterward, which leaves it to
become fully digested, with no danger
of being crowded away or out of the
performance of its desired purpose.
Canary seed is scarce-the supply
in the United States will barely last fif-
teen months, and no more can be gath
cred for a year. Abroad, too, the sup
ply is scanty. England is shipping
canary seed to Spain-sending Goals to
Newcastle-and Spain and Southern
France are calling upon Smyrna and the
Levant. Switzerland, too, is short, and
Italy has no surplus. The owners Of
canary birds should therefore be eco
nomical in feeding their pets.-ChicG9o
Times.
"A pretty and cheap work-basket
may be made of heavy pasteborrd
box. Sew some stout cloth around it to
keep 1t firm and in place, then cover it
with any material that you have, silk,
velvet, or worsted goods, or better aud
more serviceable, dark-colored drilling.
This cover may be shirrei, plated or
put on straight. The lining may be of
any bright color that will harmonic
with the outside. For handle use
piece of pasteboard one inch wide, sup
norted by an old hoop; cover this with
the material used for the outside and
sew it to each side of the box. Pockets
should be put in each end, and a little
box for buttons made stationary is very
convenient. There should also be loop
for scissors, and pin-cushion and
needle-book. k.-St. Louis Globe.
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CuItivating the Black Walnut.

The attention of the public is being
called to the increasing demand and
decreasing supply of that valuable tim
Der, black walnut, and farmers in local
tiles where this growth is indigenous to
the soil are being urged to plant and
cultivate it.
Mr.. W. II. Ragan, Secretary of the
Indiana Horticultural Society, in paper
read before the annual convention, gave,
among other arguments in favor of black
walnut, the following: "It is a worthy
variety for artificial groves and timber
belts; it is comparatively free from the
attacks of depredating insects; it grows
rapidly and bears nuts at an early age,
and it stands without peer for furniture
and.interior decorations.
Regarding the planting and culture
of the black walnut, Mr.. Ragan said: /:
''Prepare your ground by breaking and
narrowing in the fall. Furrow it off
each wav as you would for corn, except
that the rows shoald be about seven feet
apart. Take the nuts fresh from the
trees, il is not necessary that they should
be hulled, placing two nuts in each
crossing. This is to insure getting q
good stand. The nuts should be covered
very shallow, just enough earth to hide
them. In the spring the land should be
furrowed off midway between the rows
of nuts, and the spaces planted with
corn or potatoes. Cultivate as you
would corn crop, by cross blowing,
being careful to give the young trees a
fair chance and good clean culture.
The second spring thin out your plants
to one tree to the hill. II there are
spaces entirely missing they may be
filed by transplanting from the hills
containing duplicates. The second and
perhaps the third year it will pay to
cultivate corn between the rows, after
which the trees should be regularly cul-
tivated until they fully occupy the ground
so as to keep down by their shade all
weeds and grass.
"The period at which cultivation may
be discontinued can not be definitely
stated, as much will depend on the char
acter of the seasons and quality of the
soil. OF course seven feet each way will
be too close for permanent trees, but as
they will protect each other when small
and make much better growth it is
preferable to have them closely planted.
When they begin to crowd, the alternate
tree in each row may be removed. The
trees thus removed will be of sufficient
size to be useful in various ways on the
turn. A second thinning will in few
years be necessary, taking the alternate
Tree the other way. Your permanent
trees will now stand fourteen feet apart
each way, sufficient distance for a
number of years, though not for large
trees, but the thinnings will always pay
large per cent. on the value of the
ground occupied. IN. Y. World.
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THE DAIRY.

lit Is said that the oleomargarine fac
tories of New York have producing ca
pacity of 116, ,000, 900 pounds; the dairy
butter factories Ill, 600, 900 pounds.
Must delicious creamery butter be sup
planted by this uncertain mixture?
The feed for milk depends some
what on the purpose for which you de-
sign your milk If you were going to
make butter you would find little profit
in adding wheat bran to your ration, and
If you were going to sell your milk the
Indian meal would be one of the least
profitable articles that you could en-
ploy, because the quantity would be less
increased by dollars worth of meal
than it would be by a dollars worth of
bran or q dollars worth of cotton seed
meaL-T S. Gold.
"A few years ago the farmers wife
could put up her butter white, yellow or
mixed, as it pleased her best, and in any
shape that came most convenient to her,
for sale or exchange at the grocers.
That day, however, has passed, and the
farmer hopes to keep abreast with the
times. He must study up the new de-
vices for making, coloring and packing
or printing his butter, and present it to
the grocer in the most acceptable form,
wide-awake neighbor.
The last milk drawn from COW at
each milking. is much the richest part
of the mess. The reason is the same
that the top of pan of milk which has
stood awhile, is the richest part of it.
The cream being the lightest part of the
milk, rises or remains at the top of the
udder, while the heavier, watery por-
tions settle at the bottom similarly,
though not as perfectly, as when set in
pan. This richer portion of the milk
being of greater consistency, settles to
the bottom of the udder but slowly as the
milk is drawn of.
The next ensilage congress will be
held in New York, January "a, 1888, and
continue four days. The object in max
ing this early announcement is, that
farmers with practical knowledge and
experience with ensilage may be pre-
pared with written statement of their
various operations, which shall include
the actual measurement and weights as
they apply to land cultivated, manures,
fertilizers, and seed used, and product
per acre; the cost for labor, teams and
power per ton of ensilage, and the COM
parative gain or loss in weight or product
of milk and butter as compared to the
feeding of hay or other dried fodder.
The Winterset, Iowa. Cbroniele,
says: ''ParadoNical as it may seem the
more creameries, the less butter in the
home market and the higher the price.
The complsint is general all over the
State. The reason is obvious. The
cream is bought up and our people will
not pay the price that the creamery but
ter commands and it goes out of the
country. But, strange still is the fact
that since the advent of oleomargarine,
butter commands a higher price than
ever before. Sinceits advent, dairymen
must make good butter or it will not sell
at all. With good butter, the demand
doubles and trebles. Nothing goes as
fast from the table as good butter, and
poor butter is good slayer"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18
Nine Physicians Outdone.

It is generally considered pretty
difficult task to outdo a physician, hut
the following will conclusively prove
where nine where completely outdone.
Mrs. Helen Pharyis, 33l Dayton ST.,
Chicago, H., was treated f, + Consump-
ton bv hine physicians, and all
pronounced her case Incur able. Seven
bottles of DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption completely cured her.
Doubling ones, please drop her a pos
tai and convince yourselves. Trial bot
ties free at Houghton's Drug Store.
Large size Sl.00. Oily
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Do Not be Decieved.

In these times of qnack medicine adj
vertisments every rywhere,i it is truly graf
flying to find one remedy that is worthy
of praise and which really does as
recommended. Electric Bitters we know
as being a true and reliable remedy
and one that will do as recC amended.
They invariably cure Stomach and Liv-
er Complaints, Diseases of the Kidney
and Urinary difficulties. We know
whereof we speak, and readily say, give
them a trial. Sold ut fifty cents a bot
tie by j. w. Houghton. 9-1y
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The Flavor Of Butter.

Those who desire to produce choice
favored butter would profit by consider
ing the kind of food upon which their
COWS are kept. If COWS are allowed
green alfalfa only, the butter will carry
that peculiar flavor which is characters
tic of this plant. The same may be said
of bottom or swamp grass, or wild feed
in which malva or mustard predominates.
Green corn, wheat, barley or oats past
lured single viii produce a good quality
of butter, but the flavor, even with these,
may be improved by judicious mixing
iof other articles of diet with them
1t needs no argument TO establish the
fact that butter will partake of the flavor
of the food upon which the COW is fed.
Now, then, by giving the COW two or
three different kinds of food, any one of
which would, if fed singly, give to the
butter its own characteristic flavor, an
article is produced which for flavor is
unsurpassed. This blending of fiayors is
mot a theory emanating from an excited
Imagination, but the facts have
been established by those careful
butter makers who aim to excel,
and never tire of investigating and Civ
ing to the fraternity the methods by
which their own popular brands have be-
come so well known. This blending of
lfjayors in butter is ON the same principle
Ibv which the union OF the seven primary
coIors gives us pure white. the mixingof
wines, liquors. teas, etc, gives us su-
per-ior article for each class. While we
have thus far only argued in favor OF
variety of foods, we have not pointed
ont those most desirable, which we will
now proceed to do.
In connection with some one of the
green feeds spoken of above, chopped
Straw mixed with ground barley, oats,
corn or mixed mill-feed. given once or
or twice a day, is very desirable III
Ground feed is found to be too expensive,
Green pasture during the day, with dry,
welI-cured hay or corn stalks at night,
win produce fine nutty favored butter.
Indeed. If both ground feed and hay,
wheat harley, oats or alfalfa even, pro-
v,ded the COW does not eat green alfalfa
during the day, can not be had, then
brino your cows from the alfalfa field or
Wild pasture at night and give each a
larpe armful of green corn fodder, raised
especially for this purpose. In TACT any
method You may adopt of which you can
Give YOUR cows the benefit OF TWO or
three kinds of food during every twenty
four hours. will be rewarded by qualty
80 butter much improved in flavor, and
=, most cases in color and texture
SENT 7ropic California.
- N@rreH
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ALWAYS Do.
Special Telegram.

SpeClai leleETam.
Union Pier, Mich.-Your agent was
here last winter and sold MS some of DR..
B'Xter's Mandrake Bitters. We sold
them and they gave extraordinary satis-
faction. WOnld like more of them, there
fore please write us the price hy the
quantity. II. NJ. GOODWIN & Co.
As sure remedy for Sick Headache,
Sour Stomach, Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Constipation, Torpid Liver, Billioasness
etc., no me eiiciue is equal TO DIR. b. X
ter,s Mandrake Bitters.