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Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
The Fruit Garden.

While we would have farmers plant entrants, strawberries, and other small fruits, in the old-fashioned way in the vegetable garden, rather than not have them at all, it is so much better to ap- propriate separate place for them, that we advise all to do so: Select the best soil, and all the better if not far from the house, as the bushes will be better guarded and tended, and be the more convenient for pic king.
 B1AoKBERR1Es should be set out very early. Six feet apart each way is good distance. Set stake six feet high to each. See that plants that are to bear this year are well tied to their stakes.
 CURRANTs.- new bushes are to be set, let them be four feet apart. If old bushes were not pruned last fall, do it at once. before the leaves start. Thin out the old wood, and shorten back the growth of last season at least third. By manuring, the size of the fruit may be much increased.
 RRtEs.-Tender kinds, that were covered last fall, should be lifted and tied to stakes or horizontal wire, when the winter is settled. Plant 8 new bed very early.
 STRAWBERRIES new beds are to be made, do it as soon as the ground can be worked. Give generous manuring, and work it in deeply and thoroughly AS a general rule, the best distance for the rows is three feet apart, with the plants foot apart in the row. The Bid we'll and Manchester are among the lead ing recent varieties. Sharpless and Charles Downing are well-tested and ex- cellent. The catalogues give many others. Old beds that were covered should have the straw removed just over the plants, to expose them to the sun and air, leaving the mulch on the ground until after the fruit is gathered. GRAPE V1NEs.-f any were left un- pruned last fall, attend to them at once. If cuttings were made and placed in the cellar, it is a good plan to bury them lower end up, in place exposed to the south, covering them with about six inches of earth. By the time the ground gets warm, they will usually be calloused, when they may be set right end up in trenches, placing them six inches apart, with the upper bud just at the surface. An easy way to multiply the grape. is tc layer cane of last seasons growth open trench six inches deep, and lay down the cane in the bottom of the trench, using pegs to hold it in place When the eyes start add little soil, anc as the shoots grow, gradually fill up the trench. In the fall each shoot will be { good vine.
 GRAPES IN PLENTY should be found o1 every farm. Barns, sheds, and othel buildings will afford support for the vines. Plant some good sorts this spring wherever there is a place.-Anoericar gricultetrist for March.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
FIGHTING BOB INGERsOLL.
A Lively Scene Between Col. InRersoll and
 Counselor Merrick.

During the cross-examination of Rer- dell in the Star Route trial in Washing ton. Colonel Ingersol sharply asked the witness (who was examining 8 written paper):
 els that Peek's signature?"
 s'It is" replied Rerdell.
 'sPass the paper back" said Ingersoll. eff you looked at it long enough you might change your mind.
 MT. Merrick called MT. Ingersoll to account for interrupting the witness in the middle of his answer. Colonel h. gersoll denied that he had done so, and charged Merrick with improper interrup- tion. Merrick said he would interrupt without regard to the wishes of counsel. Ingersoll replied: ..a
 ssI do not want the regard of counsel. I would consider his regard as an in- sult."
 Thereupon MT. Merrick turned quick ly toward Colonel Ingerson and shouted:
 ''I never give my regards to a puppy. ,
 Colonel Ingersoll picked up an ink stand and retorted:
 "You are dirty dogw
 After vigorous pounding, Judge Wylie brought the men to order. Merrick said he had been pressed beyond the limits of human endurance but the judge re- piled that Merrick's language was mex cusable under any provocation. MT. Merrick expressed his regret. The Court thought the remark should be re. tracted.
 | MT. Merrick said he would retract by direction of the Court, but pleaded ir extenuation the provocation given, an6 hoped the other counsel would be asked to retract
 MT. Ingersoll deprecated the bad feel ing that had been exhibited. But he wanted it understood that no man could abuse him without resistance on hit part. Said he:
 "I would do it at the day of judgmen if were assailed by God ] would de fend myself with my little puny power.
 But no man was small enough or httl' enough for him to oppress or abuse ; n' man should come more than halfway il ill an offer of compromise.
 Finally the matter was peacefully set tied, and the remarks were ordered to b stricken from the record.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
Pruning.

In a recent French work on the philos- ophy of pruning, the following rule IS given: "The system is based on the fact that, as wood is formed by descending sap alone, wound made on tree can
 only become covered with healthy new wood when its entire surface is brought into connection with the leaves by means of the layer of young and growing cells formed between the wood and the bark. To make this connection it Is necessary to prune in such manner that no por-
 ton of the amputated or dead branch shall be left on the trunk. The cut
 should always be made close to and per fectly even with the outline of the trunk without regard to the wound thus made.
 This is the essential rule in all pruning,
 and on its observance the success of the operation depends"
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
An Exception.

"No," said the teacher of the third division in the intermediate school, 'you cannot add together units which are not of the same class or degree. For in- stance, you cannot add together four apples and six peaches, for the result would be neither ten apples nor ten peaches. Nor can you add together three horses and two men, for the result would still be the same number of each, and not five horses or five men,"
 "Well," said the smart boy of the class, who, somehow, in spite of his shrewdness, generally got nothing but low marks, "you can add together one hundred horses and one hundred men, anyhow"
 'Ah, can you. indeed ?" responded the teacher, sarcastically. "Will you. then | tell us the result of such an effort?"
 cit will be one company of cavalry, responded the smart boy, and the teacher had for once to admit that there might be an exception to the rule.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
A City's Saloons.

There are over 10000 rumshops in the city of New York :; one to every 125 in habitants one to every 25 families There are 1, 100 bakers, 2,O00 butchers, 4,O00 grocers. Of these 10000 rum shops 5000 are licensed, and moderate estimate gives the illicit shops and places where rum-which is the comprehensive term for drinks of all kinds-is sold at 1,OOO The statistics show that there are 4,319 hotels of all grades; that there are also 3, 722 places where ale and beer only are sold that there are 534 shops, drug stores and others where liquor can be had, which, with the estimated illicit 1000, gives total of 1O,O75. Various shops and stores where bread, meat and groceries can be procured foot up 2, 1926. In other words, there are more rumshops than food shops in the great city of New York by 2,749.
 The Herold gives the maps of sections of the city. The first map shows that section bounded by Broome, Division, Norfolk and the Bowery, in which there are 175 lager beer saloons and seventy-siz rumshops. On one block, between East Houston and Stanton streets, there are seventeen houses, of which eleven are gin mills. On one block between Bayar6 and Division streets there are fourteen houses, in eight of which liquor is sold On Cherry street, between James anc Oliver, there are ten houses, in nine O which are saloons. On the block be- tween Catherine and Oliver there art eight houses. six of which are devoted tt the sale of whisky. On James street between Batavia and North Chambers of the eight houses four are rumshops and on Chatham street, between Roose welt and James, there are eight houses in four of which liquor is sold.
 A PAIR of slippers-Orange and banan
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
"Well. that was one of those little

i "Well. that was one of those little courtesies that casts ray of sunshine into the troubled life of fellow traveller in this vale of tears, and which does not cost anything" -
 "The mischief it didn't cost anything borrowed two dollars from hlm on the strength of it."-Teras Siftings. THE NEW INVENTION.
 "What's your pa inventedP" asked the grocer of the lad boy.
 "Well, sir, pa has struck fortune, II he can make the thing work. lie mas got an idea about coal stoves thai Will bring him in several million dollars, ] he gets royalty of $5 on every COB stove in the world. His idea IS to have A coal stove on casters with the p1pe made to telescope out and m, and ruoOer hose for one joint, so you can pull the hose all around the. room and warm any particular place. We'll, sir, to hear pa tell about it, you would think it would revolutionize the country, and maybe n will be when he gets it perfected, but he came near burning the house up, ana scared us all half to death this morning, and burned his shirt off, and he is all covered with cotton and sweet oil, ana he smiles like salad dressing. You see he had pipe made and some casters put on our coal stove, and he tied rope to the hearth of the stove, and had me put in some kindling wood and coal last night. so he could draw the stove up to the bed and light the fire without get ting up.
 "Ma told him he would put his foot in it, and he told her to let him run the stove business. He said it took man with brains to run patent right, ana ma she pulled the clothes over her head and let pa do the fire act. She has been building the fires for twenty years, and thought she would let pa see how good it was. We'll, pa pulled the stove to the bed and touched off the kindhng-wood. I guess maybe I got bundle of kindling- wood that the hired girl had put kerosene on, cause it blazed up awful and smoked, and the blaze bursted out the doors and windows of the stove, and pa yelled fire, and jumped out of bed and rushed in and he was the scartest man you ever see, and you'd died to see how he kicked when I threw pail of water on his legs and put his shirt out. Ma dlo not get burned, but she was pretty wet, and she told pa she would pay $5 royalty on that stove and take the casters oil and let it remain stationary. Pa says he will make it work if he burns the house | down. ."-.Peck'S Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
BURIED AT SEA.

From his room to the deck they brought him
 dressed
 For his funeral rites at his own request With his boots and gloves and garments on, And nought but his breathing spirit gone; For he wished that child might come and la, An unstartled hand upon his clay Then they wrapped his corpse in the tarry
 sheet,
 To the dead as Araby's spices sweet, And prepared him to seek the depths below, Where the waves never beat, nor tempests
 blow.
 No steeds with tbeir nodding plumes were there, No sabled hearse and no coffined bier, To bear with pomp and parade away The dead to sleep with his kindred clay; But the little group, silent few, His comrades mixed with the hardy crew, Stood thoughtful around till prayer was said, Ger the corpse of the deaf, unconscious dead, Then they bore his remains to thevessel,s side. And committed them safe to the dark blue
 tide. One sudden plunge, and the scene is o'er; The sea rolled on as it rolled before. In that classical sea whose azure vies With the green of it's shores and the blue of
 it's skies, In some pearly cave, in some coral cell, Oh the dead shall sleep as sweetly and well, As if shrined in the pomp of Parian tombs Where the East and the South breathe their
 rich perfumes. Nor forgotten shall be the humblest one, Though he sleep in the watery waste alone, When the trump of the angel sounds with
 dread,
 And the sea, with the earth, gives up it's dead
 NATHANIEL H. CARTER
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
OUR PRISON OUTRAGES.
A Term fin State Prison Means Mental RNins
IFrom the New York Si1n.l

[From the New York Sun.
 The investigation now going on into the management of Sing Sing prison shows anew the barbarism of our prison system. Our prisons, as they are al present conducted, are institutions fol | destroying the manhood of the criminals they confine.
 Physically and morally the convicts are debased by their prison life. They are treated, not like men, but as If they belonged to 8 different species from the rest of humanity, and had no rights, nc passions, no susceptibilities, which de- ! served consideration.
 Coarse and cruel men ale made their keepers. They are compelled to live in an atmosphere which undermines their health. The Sing Sing prison physician testified before the Assembly Committee that "there was no really wholesome air in the prison when occupied" Cleanli- ness is not tolerated either in the prison CTS or their attendants. That is, be- cause men are convicts they are treated like hogs.
 It is not surprising, therefore, to be told that convicts are generally short lived men. They go from the prison with their physical constitutions under mined, pallid, dispirited, broken down men, unfit to engage in the competitions of life along with people who have not been subjected to the hardships of life of penal confinement.
 They cannot work with society, and therefore they make war against society. They may have got into prison because of chance crime, but they come out of it to enter on criminal life as 8 profes- sion, and the only one they have any chance in. Their treatment has tended to take the manhood out of them, and they are not only made outlaws of during their brief intervals of freedom by the opinion of society, but they also feel themselves debased. They have lost all sense of dignity and of pride; all self respect.
 The Sing Sing physician instanced the case of one prisoner. Frank White, he said, came to Sing Sing poor lad and a physically healthy one. Perhaps he was equal to the average of young fellows in good qualities, and very likely was better than the run. It was not long before, by close association with older couvicts in g narrow cell, hardly large enough flor g single human being, he was debasee morally and ruined physically. "A term there for youths,' said the phy. sician, "meant mental and physica. ruin" i That is, under our barbarous prison system, we make our county jails, ou1 penitentiaries, and our State prisons nurseries of crime, institutions for the graduation of men and women in whom every natural impulse toward what is de- cent and honorable is stifed and replaced by the base desires of natures morally and physically degraded. -
 Leaving out the Christian view of suct an outrage against humanity, perpetra ted in the name of the people, can civil ized society afford to go on manufactur ing criminals in this way? Our jails penitentiaries, prisons and poorhouse are disgrace to us, and an ever presen | danoer to the State
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07

We shall not attempt to make any deductions from these comparative figures, which, perhaps, can hardly be relied on implicitly. Even the honestest and most truthful people are not always to be trusted to give their age accurately, and more people are ignorant as to what their exact age is than is commonly sup posed, we have no doubt. It is very re- markable that the number of individuals of 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70 is invariably much greater than the number one year younger or ons year older.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
"Thank God! See my work. I think

l hOoOAAAJ
 could now do without you."
 "You do not love me, Eliza" I cried
 "Not love you-my sister! I loved my husband was shot. I loved my only child; in the agony of my grief because his father was killed--from my breast he sucked poison and died. After them I love you best" Then for the first time she burst into paroxysm of tears. ''It is because I love you-that l might be your death." As she wrung my hand she felt the ring on my finger. of with it. Your wore your mittens at the Police office If they had seen it 1 Quick, let me hide it. She took off my shoe, and hid the ring in my stocking. ''Should you ever marry, sell the ring, or the stone in it, and you will not be portionless. Now, off with you. have made bundle for you. The rest of your things you will give me. Here is photograph of yours--you will let me keep it? have been happier here with you than for years" She took me by the hand, gave me one long kiss, closed the door on me, and never saw her more.
 My trip home was without single in- cident. My dear mother comforted me. Still, there was some vague feeling of dread. My mind wandered, all l could do, toward my room companion. Pick ing up a newspaper when at home, some two weeks after my arrival, read in the telegraphic dispatches:
 ST, PETERSBURG, Dec. 23.-An arrest of great importance has been made. One of the chief actors in the Nihilistic plots, Russian Princess, was taken, but only after she had killed one of the Police. Disguised as sewing machine woman she had hitherto bafded the Po- lice
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
The Census Report.
STATISTICS ABOUT THE AGES OF MALES AND FEMALES.

The statistics of the ages of the population as given by census report of 1880, are very interesting, and will probably surprise most readers. They are not aware, we imagine, that the largest number of inhabitants of the United States of single age were those most important members of the family who had not yet completed their first year. Of these there were LAY ,9S3, while of men who had just reached 2l, the total was only 99S,964. The follow ing table gives the totals at ages sar,arated by five years
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07

WHAT IT WAS Coop FOR. - A corre- spondent in Cape Cod referring to the advice recently given by "Young Farmer in a city paper as to planting pines on poor land, says that he owns about hundred acres of land of which some was so poor that it yielded nothing but poverty weed. In 1858 he con- menced planting pine seed, planting more or less for ten years, and now ne has about eighteen acres of quite valu- able woodland which was worthless be. fore being thus planted.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
,eparated by five years :

It will be seen that while the numbers above decrease pretty steadily as age ad- vances by steps of ten years, there were more men and women of 40 years than of 35, and of 50 years than of 45, and tbe number of those who had reached 60 was over 63, ,O0O more than the number who were 55. But the following table /, .. o,ro,, ,,,oro st,ikinp differences
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07

WH1pp1Na.-In some of the factories in Toronto, Canada, young girls are whipped for disobedience and neglect of work, and society of ladies has been formed for their protection.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
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Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07

A PAIR of slippers Orange and banans skins.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-09-19

conducted by Miss Dickinson, an estl-
mable English lady. The garden about
it-indeed the whole structure and sur
roundings indicate European ideas
and comforts. Il is the finest struct-
ure in Nazareth, and from It's half sub
urban height overlooks the city Il is
built of limestone but it's ground floors
are of marble imported from Naples
And this is not an extravaganza, for the
limestone of Nazareth is said TO crum-
bic more easily than the JurG lime rock
of Bethlehem and this, too accounts
in part for the fresh appearance of
Nazareth, and also indicates that traces
Of the old city are not to be expected.
Perhaps it is best that memorials of our
Lord should be confined to those He set
apart, and to the grand old hills, wales,
flowers and streams of this wonderful
land We were permitted to meet the
black-eyed little orphan Syrian girls in
their Sabbath-schoOl room, and see with
our eyes and hear with our ears the
evidences of the good work being done.
-EdWa75 z. fngersoii, D. D., IN Church
Union
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-09-19
HON to De TruIy Happy.

One of my neighbors in town and
church is an old lady whose dress is Of
a style belonging to no period Of fash
ion. l wonder, sometimes, if for forty
years the cost of it has exceeded as
many dollars. Her step is light as a
girls, her manner bright aud chcery,
and over her otherwise hOmely face
spreads the glow of a heart at peace
with God. Her youth was spent in a
struggle for daily bread, and scarcely
was this pressure removed before she
was called upon to mourn the loss of
first one and then another loved MEM
Der of hey family, until she has out
lived every relative. Her home is plain,
almost bare of the luxuries considered
as indispensable to comfort, yet there
is not one from whom | so much enjoy
a visit rs this solitary woman, ever so
warm in greeting, so cheerlully COM
paniOnable.
There 10 50 much heart-ease about
you, l once said 10 her, "that iB re-
treshes me to meet you. Why, you are
the youngest and happiest person ]
have seen to-slay!'
"Oh, yes" she replied, smiliBgly,
nave al"pHcO glowing Olu' lOl O9CA
day brings ms nearer the possession OF
endless youth, in my better home. And
how can be sad in this beautiful world
where my Heavenly Father has placed
me?'
"StiIl you have had your full share
Of trials and sorrows"
Eyes, have surely passed through
the valley of Baca, but by the grace ot
God ! have been able to make it well
But, my friend" she continued, %
have been happy only since | ceased tC
strain after what was beyond my reach
and resolved no longer to hug to ny
bosom my griefs and disappointnents
but to take them all so God, and leav,
them with Him. content to be what HI
wishes, and only that. Chrjstia'
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