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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
TRANSIT OF VENUS.
Extra ordinary Preparations for its ODserv-
ance by Scientists.
providence Journal.'l

providence Journal
The great importance of the coming tran
sit of the 9th of December, in the estimate
of the men of science, may be seen in the
preparations now being made forts observa-
ton. Forty expeditions to witness it are
already projected, and the number will be
largely increased by those of the United
States. Italy and Austria, which have not
vet been announced. The French Govern
ment will send eight expeditions to the fol-
lowing points, four IN north latitude and
four in south latitude: In the north the
stations chosen are the coast of Florida, I'M
der the charge of Colonel Perrier; Cuba,
under NJ. d. Abbadie; the coast of Mexico,
under NJ. Boquet de la Gryei Martinique,
an island of the French Antilles, under NJ.
Tsserand.
In the south the stations chosen are Santi-
ago in Chile, under NJ. Leclere; Santa Cruz,
river of Patagonia, under Nj. Eleuriais;
Rio Fegro, the northern boundary of Pata-
gonia, under Nj. Perrottn; and Port Desire,
or Chubutt, also in Patagonia, under NJ.
HIATT. The members of al the expeditions
are now preparing for their work at the OBJ
seryatory in Paris, where by means of q
model Venus and model sun, they are
practicing on imaginary traRsits in hopes OF
being able to observe with scientific accuracy
the passage of the real Venus over the real
sun in December. TheyIwill start for their
II
spend the intervening time after arrival in
diligent preparation for the event
The object of the great expenditure OF
| time, labor, money and brains is the hope
that the observers may determine with an
accuracy never before attained the earth'S
distance from the sun. For this is the unit
of celestial measurement, and as long the
doubt concerning its accuracy exists so long
| there is a doubt in the estimate of celestial
distances. But cloudy day will render
months of unremitting labor of no avail. II
| is estimated that the weather at half the
stations will be unfavOrable, but a great
deal may be learned from observations made
at the other half, where the favorable con-
ditions prevail, according to the law of aver
ages. The four southern stations of the
French expeditions are in the south temper
ate zone and the 9Th OF December will be
near their summer solstice, like the 9th OF
June at the north. The localities favored
with a clear sky on this meridian at the
time of the transit will be specially forum
ate, for the short winter days are not hope
| full in their conditions. a transit of Venus
is not glorious phenomenon like tota
solar eclipse 1t is simply the passage of a
| black bali over the suns bright face But
| il is visible all over our western world, anC
no human eye that now looks upward to the
sky will ever again behold its recurrence
1t is the last chance for trying this method
of estimating the suns distance until the adj
vent of the year 2004.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
NEw YORK Dee. 4 1910

NEW YORK, Dec. 4, 1S4e.
Ny FRIEND-You ask for an hour Ihave now
something.
The loss OF my boy makes a great change in my
feelings plans and prospects. The Joy of my life
was cOmprehended in his and do OF now feel IN
any personal object can strongly move me hence
forth. had thought of buying country place
but II was for him. had begun to love flowers
ana beautiful objects because he liked them.
Now ali that deeply concerns me is the evidence
that we shall live hereafter, aud especially that
we shall live with and know those we loved here.
The rest seems subordinate and trifiing ] mean
10 act my part while life is spared me- but / no
longer c0vet length of days. II felt sure of lden
flying and being with our loved ones In the
world 10 come, would prefer not TO live long.
ly ordered.
l am not often sad. ana suffer little. feel none
OF that eating away Of the heart which afficis my
poor wife, and makes me apprehend thar she will
not live long. She has cried very little and laid
our darling in his coffin after thoroughly washing
MIN, with dry eyes. We had but few hours 10
prepare for our loss. He went to bed as hearty
and happy as ever; at a. m. he wanted to get up,
but went directly back 10 bed, complaining of no
sickness: little past NJ called again. and soon
but we stopped this at 8, and did not feel that
he was in danger tin about D. m. and at 5 he
died. His mother had bought him fiddle the
day before, which delighted him beyond measure.
aud ne was only induced TO lay it up at night by
ms delight at the idea of coming up in the morn
Ing ana surprising me 0y playing on IL before
got up. In the morning at DAYLIGHT was called
to mis- bedside; the next day followed him to mis-
grave! lou can not guess how golden and lovely
his long hair never CUT looked In the coffin.
We have lost four out of five children and have
only az infant left. Our last girl was only six
months old the other two were infants Pickle was
five years old last March. So much grace and wit
and poetry were rarely or never blended In so
young child and to us his form and features
were the perfection of beauty. We can never
have another child. and life can not be long
enough efface, though it will temper, this
sorrow. 4t differs in kind well as degree from
that we have heretofore experienced
For the present my prevailing sentiment is that
OF some adventurous COrtez or PizarrO, who has
burned his ships and mos. of his baggage on an
lnhOspltable shore and feels he can heDcefOrth
advance freely. / do not feel that have hereto.
lore been derelict but hereafter l feel confident
that no fear of personal consequences can deter
me from doing my duty. The road before me
seems h1lly and heavy. and have less strength
than had, but shall swing my pack soon and
face those meet with as bllthe cOuntenance as
ever. Kind regards 10 Mrs. Randall.
Yours. HORACE GREELEY.
p ; i wrote fun Sccount of our disaster to 6
friend, and will le5 you read it sometime if you
wish.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
A Progressive Party.
IN. olson Hernla

II now appears that the principle work OF
the majority in Congress l. 10 unsoat mem
rers of the opposite siGe and seat tn sc Of
their own political kind. Already the Re-
publcaDs have unSeafed five Democrats,
supplying their places with Republicans,
and there are nine more such cases To fol-
low. We are told that the Republican rarity
is a progressive party, and we expect il soon
TO reach condition when this unseating
business will be done in a wholesale manner
on the second day after CONGRESS convenes
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
Clerk OF supreme Court.
[Rockport Democrat

Mr.. Richard Conner. of Spencer, Over
County, will be candidate before the Demo
cratic Convention of this State for the nomi
nation for the Office of Clerk of the Supreme
Court OF Indiana at the next election. Mr.
Conner, who is well known to some of oul
Democrats, is an excellent man, a good
Democrat and well qualified to fill the office
to which he aspires, and if nominated and
elected, as we hope he will be, will make an
acceptable and popular Clerk of the Supreme
Court The delegates to the State Conven.
ton from Spencer County will do the party
OF the State an honor to remember him al
the Convention, as well also confer favor
on Mr.. Corners personal friends in Spencer
County.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
SURPRISING EFFECTS
OF EXTRACT OF CELERY AND
CHAMOMILE
Nervous System and Digestive
Organs,
AS INVARIABLY PRODUCED BY DR.
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Toledo Blade !
UPON THE

They nave been tested time and time sgaIn.
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Let me state just what my Pills are made 10 cure
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weakness, irritation. dependency, melancholy.
and restless, dissatisfied, miserable state Of ind
and body, Undesirable.
These are some ot the symptoms of nervousness
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satisfy yourself that there is cure for YOU aud
Tor So al the very furIhest. that be fully
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70 be, and are guaranteed 10 give satisfaction II
used as directed, and viii cure any case.
Sold by all druggists. Price, 80 cents a box.
Depot lO6 North Eutaw street, Baltimore, Nd.
By mail, two boxes for 81, or six boxes for g. So
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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28

A French physician has been discussing
the causes and cure of old age" When q
man is stricken with old age, the probab H.
ties are that he is incursble-that the disease
will cling to him as long as he lives; butthe
Frenchman will have no difficulty in find
ing preventive, which must be admin.
istered before the patient reaches the age OF
sixty. young man who goes to Texas,
and expresses a free and easy opinion on
one thing and another, is pretty certain to
escape the old age epidemic. Boston Post.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
"uy Tormented Bach {,

is the exclamation of more than one poo
Woodworking man and woman. Do vol
know why itaches? 1t is because your kid
neys are over-tasked and need strengthen
ing, and your system needs to be cleansec
of bad humors. Kidney-Wort is the medi
cine you need. at acts like charm" say,
a well-known physician. II never knew i
to fail" Liquid or dry sold by druggists
Boston Post.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
The Army Worm.

cincinnati Commercial
Half mile, half a mile,
Half mile onward,
All in the valley of Grain
Crawled the SIX billion six hundred.
Forward the worm brigade!
Charge for your grub, each said:
Into the valley OF Grain
Crawled six billion six hundred.
Forward the worm brigadel
Was there vermicule dismayo o.
Not tho the crawler knew
Some one had blunder d;
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but TO eat or die
Into the valley Of Greia
Crawla d six billion six hundred.
Barley to right of them,
Barley to left Of them,
Barley in front of them,
Grew-though II thunder'd;
Feasting-how the barley fell
Boldly they crawled aud well,
Up on the stalks OF grain
Up on the grain pell- nell,
Crawled six billion six hundred.
When can their iuster (0 fade?
Oh. the squirming charge they MADE!
4 All old Changers wondered.
! r EN- e-m-b-e the charge they madel
R-e-m-e-m-O e-r the worm brigade,
Ignoble six billion six hundred more or less.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28

you know, il he can't get full-she simply
can't do it"
subsequently learned from hotel clerk
in this city, who was formerly at the Cont
mental, that this statement regarding Miss
Dlckinson's experiment with LIQUOR was
true, and that it came very near being the
cause, at one time, of very unjust accusa-
tions against her character
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28

Gray hairs prevented, dandruff removed,
the scalp cleansed and the hair made to grow
thick by the use of Halls Vegetable Sicilian
Hair Remover.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
Some Good DOn'ts.

Don't get in debt when you can not see
your way out again. When you owe, pay
sb fast as you can, and promptly.
Don't enlarge your farm, when half of
what you now own is rot cultivated.
Don't borrow if you own more land than
you can till we'll. III you are in debt or
Need funds to make necessary improve
|ments, sell part of your farm and use the
kmoney TO pay your debts, and make i'm
provements Systematically as your means
Iperrnit.
Don't borrow money to build a snowy
house when a less pretentious one would
pswer better, and never lend money when
have undrained or poorly-tilled land to
prove.
Don't speculate with otherpeoples money,
even your own, unless you see clearly
you will make profit, and even then
hot do it 10 the neglect of your farming.
Don't mortgage your farm for money to
goods. Very few men can enter the
rcantile business without training for it
thout becoming bankrupt.
Don't buy fancy stock at fabulous prices
the spur of the moment, or without know
e why you want it, and how you are to
axe the investment profitable.
Don't keep poor stock when you can keep
Dd at the same expense, and with four
bes the profit.
Don't change your kind of farming, be-
use what you raise this year is low-priced;
chances to one your crop will be up
xt year, and that which is up now will
en- be down.
Don't try to grow crops to which your
rm is not well adapted.
III you have a good location do not sell
but expecting to better it because you are
Inferred good price.
Don't exchange farms often, for by so
ping, you can execute no definite system
{6f improvement.
Don't begin to improve till you have a
keneral plan of what you wish to do; to do
would be like commencing to get out
mbers for house before you know its
myth and breadth.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
Corn Planting.

To encourage our farmer friends who may
think that corn planting time has come and
Gone, we quote the following letter from an
exchange. Ii Is written from Gambler,
Ohio, to the Cincinnati Commercial:
AS the question of late corn planting is Of great
kerest remember many years ago, think In
sfS the season being very cold and backward. a
lumber of farmers o; the SciOtO Valley were dis
Kissing the quest on at the store OF Bennett BIO
lers, when Mr.. George Renick, the pioneer OF the
corn aud cattle trade of the valley, came along
and his opinion solicited his answer was.
81 finished planting one season on the Fourth OF
July, and had as good crop as ever raised"
A. d.
Some say plant your corn even now. The
chances are that it will mature. Vennor
prophesies dry fall.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28

Fevers and intermittents of all kinds are
speedily relieved and entirely cured by using
WrigLt's Indian Vegetable Pills.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28

instead of green 1t is blanched, and
therefore it is tender" is the reasoning
which seems to guide them. They seem to
as cciate it with celery, the green portions
OF which are worthless. The strangest part
is that they do not learn, while eating it.
that the white part of asparagus is worth
less, and that the green portion is all
they eat. The asparagus grows from the tip
the same as other plants. A mark made at
the surface of the ground on given shoot
will show that that part of the stem remains
where il is, and is never carried up as the
shoot increases in height. Ii is plain, there
fore, that the deeper underground we cut
the shoots off the older, harder, more stringy
woody is the stem, and that the nearer we
cut to the tips of the shoot
the younger and more tender it
is. We do not wish to imply that the
shoots are tough because they are white.
The absence of color is merely owing to the
exclusion of the rays of the sun, without
which the coloriDg principle, be IL green or
purple, can not develop. If the shoots were
hilled up as they grow, blanching would
render them more tender. This is practiced
in France, but not in our country TO any
extent. 1t adds too much to the cost of
production in labor and care.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
MR.. GREELY's GREAT SORROW.

A Hitherto Unpublished Letter on the
Death of His Son.
To the Editor of the New York Tribune:
SIR-On looking over and arranging the
correspondence of my father, accidentally
came upon the enclosed letter, which re-
opens sad but interesting page in the life
OF Horace Greeley. Ii tells its own story,
and needs no commentary from me.
Yours, s. S. RANDALL.
NEW YORK. May "a, 1852.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
The Rnckwheat Cron.

Buckwheat is the latest grain crop of the
season, and is usually sown from the last OF
June to the middle of July. 1t is frequent
ly sown as filling crop, that is, on ground
where some other crop has failed. 1t makes
an excellent cleansing cropon foul or rough
land, especially upon rich soil where II
maks a rank growth and smothers out all
other plants. Buckwheat is used to some
extent as a green manure to be turned for
wheat or rye. The buckwheat plant is a
deep feeder, and has the power of obtaining
the food elements when present only in
small quantities in the soil. Light sandy
soil, deficient in vegetable matter, can be
brought up to good state of cultivation by
first growing buckwheat as green manure
crop, followed by clover, which is afterward
turned under. Though buckwheat will
grow on comparatively poor soil, it makes
good use of a light dressing of barn-yard
manure or some quick acting fertilizer. A
hundred pounds of Peruvian gunao, or an
equal weight of fish scrap, will greatly raise
the yield of a buckwheat crop on poor soil,
and prove profitable investment for the
outlay.
The harvesting of buckwheat is quite diff
ferent from that of other grains. The grain
shells or drops from the straw very read
ily and must therefore be gathered with
especial care. 1t is best to cut it with a
cradle and leave it in the swarth until the
next morning, when il should be rolled and
set on end while it is moist with the dew.
After standing for few daysit is ready to be
threshed The straw has no special value as
fodder, bI : should be used litter and
absorbent of liquid manure. The grain
makes an excellent food for poultry, and
when its flour is in the form of cakes, it is
highly priced, especially in cold weather.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
OUR FARM FRIENDS.
Ne Corn PlantiDg-SOme Good Don'ts
How Much Land for Each.
on Wheat-Buck
Wheat-A Few Facts About
Ensilage.

anning Fruits and Vegetables, Farm and
4 Workshop Notes, Etc.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
White VS.. Green Asparagus.
lRuraI New Yorker

Zone of the queerest things in connection
It'll the benighted tastes of city people is
<et they select punches of white asparagus
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
How Much Land for Each.

The recent census gives the total area of
be United States mot reckoning Alaska) at
RO26 600 squaremi of which 50 900 square
lies are occupied by water-lakes, rivers
kys, etc.-leaving 100000 square miles of
nd, or L 500 500 900 acres. The total popu-
tion is SO, 155. 7S3. This land evenly
v1ded, would give to every man, woman
pd child 37A acres, and an onion
,atch by rods over. If we divide the
Dpulation into families of six persons each
,mily could be allotted 227 acres. Allow
ing one-quarter of the land to be mountain
ridges, sandy and stony tracts, and other
bad lands" there would still be left the
regulation quarter section" (160 acres) for
each family. But the census figures now
being made up are for June, $780, Since
then over 100000 people from foreign
lands have come TO stay" as Amer
lean citizens, and the natural in
crease has been considerable;
the total increase from 1870 to 1850 was
her cent. per annum. So we have now
March 1, 1882 nearly "a, 100000 inhabi.
: tants. As the acreage of land does not ex-
pand, there are now less than SO acres each,
sor not 152 acres per family, and the average
amount is rapidly decreasing. No cause for
alarm, however. With the best culture
one acre will supply plenty of food for one
person. and at this rate we can allow more
than 400 600 O00 acres for waste land and still
khave an acre each left for the estimated en-
re population of the globe, which is some
hat over ], 400 O00,O 00 This is a great
untry. Thanks for the iron sinews of the
300 miles of railway lines and telegraph
les, and the speaking tubes of the Postal
partment, We are, as a people, brought
% one closely united family, occupying
hcle Sans great farm.
Rust on Wheat.
The yellow or Orange-eolored dust that
Orms on the leaves and stems of wheat
hortly before reaping time, is caused by a
pinute fungus. The fungus plant attacks
Inc wheat few weeks before it makes its
appearance, and fills the interior substance
II the leaves and stems with fine threads.
hese threads act as roots, by means of which
the fungus, or rust-plant, obtains its nour-
fhment from the substance of the growing
heat-plant. There is no remedy
the rust after 1t has once
appeared upon the surface of the
Rwheat. The most effective preventive is
blue vitriol or blue stone (sul phate of cop
per-. two or three ounces of this salt to a
bushel of wheat. The wheat is soaked in
the brine for a short time before sowing.
There has been much energy expended in
the endeAyor e find some variety of wheat
that is rust-proof. Preseason Brewer, who
has charge of the grain statistics in the late
census. finds many districts where variety
u wheat has sprung up that for a year or so
almost rust-proof, but afterward it be-
BONES infested the same as other sorts. As
precaut:on burn the stubble, thus destroy
pg many spores that would otherwise
rminate and continue the pest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-12-09
Notes on NeedleWOrk.

Holiday gifts are already the subject OF
thought among those who believe that the
handiwork of the giver adds to the value
of the token, whatever its intrinsic worth
may be. The novelties for the season are
not yet displayed, and there is nothing
new in methods of works, except in i'm
ported goods. Among these is shown
raised embroidery, an effect produced by
padding or underlying the separate parts
of the design under the satin. The out
line is i'm COUGHING stitch
A pretty gift for gentleman is an en-
broidered hat-band, which is laid diagon-
ally across inside of the crown, the ends
being fastened under the lining For this
use satin ribbon. The appropriate design
is OF course the initial or monogram.
A handsome toilet-set is of cream tinted
satin. The mats are quite large squares
made over stiff foundation edged with a
n triple box-plated ruching and Spanish
lace. a delicately painted spray of forget
me-nots ornamenting one corner of each.
The cushion has also the ruching of ribbon
and frilling of lace, the cluster of flowers
covering most of the top.
Arrasene seems to be the favorite ma
terial tor embroidery, and certainly pro-
duces most pleasing effect. a hand
some mantle drapery of bronze plush is
ornamented with large sprays of love-lies-
bleeding in silk arrasene. Another OF
dark terra-cotta plush has the star flower
in half conventionalized design.