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egypt and THE NILE.

According to Mr.. John Fowler, for
seven years Consulting Engineer to the
Egyptian Government, the Nile, in an
average year, conveys no less than l.
OCO,O0O,0 100000 tons of water and 65,-
100000 tons of silica, alumina, lime and
other fertilizing soils down to the Med
lterranean. The river begins to rise
about the middle of June, at which
time the discharge averages about $50
tons of water per second, and attains
IN September height of from nine
teen feet to twenty-eight feet, and
d seharge of 1000 to 10000 tons per
second. The cultivated lands in the
provinces of Lower Egypt have an
area of 100000 acres, and to irrigate
this efectually at least 10000, 900 tons
OF water per day would be required, an
amount somewhat exceeding the whole
OF the Low Nile discharge. At present
the irrigation canals are totally made
quate to convey this quantity, and i'm
perfect irrigation and consequent loss
OF crops are the result. In many in
stances couple of men labor for 100
days IN watering by shadoof a single
acre of ground, all of which amount of
labor might be dispensed with if the
barrage of the Nile were completed
and few other works carried out, the
whole Of which would be paid for hand
Somely by slight water rate per acre.
NJ" Fowler does not think that the re-
sou ces Of Egypt have been fully de-
veloped, magnificent as they even now
ar, having reference to the size of the
country.
Except for the work of man, Lower
Egypt for four months in the year
would be simply the bed Of river, and
tor the remaining months mud-bank
Long before the historic period, how
ever, the Nile had been embarked, and
canals, such as the Bahr-Jusef, had
been formed; the first, to keep the
floods of the lands, except in desired
quantities; and the second, to turn off
the inundation waters as soon as the
fertilizing matters in suspension had
heen deposited on the lands. Should
the inhabitants of Egypt neglect at any
ceators, successive floods would quickly
dH~troy the embellishments and wash the
light materials into the canals. Thus
the whole surface of the country would
again re leveled, and the land of Egypt
would revert to its primitive condition
OF being rivers bed for one-third of
tie time and probably a malarious
swamp for the remainder.
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The above sale has been postponed to May 18th,
1888, at the same time and place.
HENRY O'GORMAN, Sheriff.
J. MANNER Attorney for Mortgage.
ST. Paul, April q, 1883.
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BRITISH IGNORANCE OF AMERrcl


I was at a dinner party where the
guests were all Americans, and all Of
them had made a soiourn of longer or
shorter duration in London. The Goa
versation turned on the really cOmiral
ignorance of all things American dis
played by the best-educated English
people, and numerous anecdotes ia H.
lustration of the topic in question were
cited. One of these related to the son
of former United States Minister in
London, Mr.. Edwards Pierrepont ~
some public dinner one of the guests
asked Mr.. Pierrepont, Jr., while his
father was in the act of making a speech,
who the orator was The young gen
tleman made answer that he was the
American Minister as he of the Es-
tablished Church or a Dissenter? was
the next question. But this does not
quite equal the query of the Archbishop
of Canterbury, who asked OF an Ameri-
can visitor to explain to him "the atti-
tude assumed by the United States
toward Dissenters." A General of our
army next told how he had accompa-
MED an English officer of high standing
to visit Newburg, and informed him
that Washington had once had his head
quarters there. (which Washington? ?"
languidly demanded the Briton. Next
came an accomplished young Southern
gentleman, the son of United States
Senator, who described an interview
that he had recently had with an En-
glish lady, who was introduced to him
as a prodigy of intellect and of learning.
"You come from the Southern States,
sir?" she remarked amiably. (Which
of the two DO you come from, Missouri
or Peru?" With great presence Of mind,
my young friend informed her that he
was then residing in Peru, but intended
shortly to remove to Missouri. But !
rather think that the climax was capped
by an English author, who, on being
told by an American lady that she came
from Missouri. said, thoughtfully: "Mis-
souri-let me see-what State is that
in?" Missouri is a State" responded
the lady. "Ah, yes-yes- be sure it
is-it is Mississippi that I was thinking
Of" Fortunately the lady in question
was well used to the peculiar ignorance
of Englishmen and English society in
general respecting our country, and SO
she did not even smile. I myself have
become thoroughly case-hardened on the
subject, so when a charming English
lady, the wife of distinguished Indian
officer, asked me one day if it were no.
very dangerous to walk in the environs
of Philadelphia on account of the rat
tlesnakes, I was enabled to answer her
without moving muscle of my coun-
tenance.
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The above sale has been postponed to May 18th.
1888, at the same time and place
HENRY OGORMAN, Sheriff.
j. MANNER, Attorney for Mortgage.
st. Paul, May 18th, 1888. may 12-Sat-2w
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STATB OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF RAMsEY-ss.
- In Probate Court, Special Term, April 81,
1888.
In the matter of the estate of Wilhelmina
Dorete Metz, deceased:
On reading and filing the petition of Charles
Metz, of said county, representing among other
things that Wilhelmina Dorete Metz, late of said
county, on the Sth day of February, A. D. 1867,
at st. Paul, in said county, died intestate, and
being an inhabitant of this county at the time of
her death, leaving goods chattels and estate within
this county, and that the said petitioner is the son
of said deceased, and praying that administration
of said estate be to him granted;
1t is ordered that said petition be heard before
the Judge of this Courton Monday, the DIST day of
May, A. d. 1888, at ten O'Clock a.. M, at the Pro-
bate Office in said county.
Ordered further, that notice thereof be given to
the heirs of said deceased and to all persons inter
ested by publishing copy of this order for three
successive weeks prior to said day of hearing in the
DAILY GLOBE newspaper printed and published
at Saint Paul, in said county.
BY the Court, WIZ B. M'GR0RTY,
IL. s.. Judge of Probate.
Attest FRANK ROBERT, JR., Clerk.
apr 2S-sat-4w
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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-20
4 Mules Life-Term.

What is the longest term of mules
life? The writer once knew a mule
whose age was satisfactorily proved to
to be fOrty-tive years, and at that age
the animal was turned out into the
woods to die late in the fall in Northern
Michigan, on the completion of rail
road job on which it had been work
ing. In the spring the mule was fonnd
at farmers gate in very fair condi.
ton, having browsed around in the
woods all the winter. 1t was taken in
and was able to do light work around
the farm for some years longer. What
its later history has been is not known
Perhaps it still lives. This mule story
ant koebbe, stationed at Mount Yer.
non Barracks, Alabama, has reported
to the War Department, that a white
mule which has been ut that post for
forty-tive years, is about to be sold,
and the officers asked permission to
buy him and keep him at their own ex-
pense. The petition went through the
regular channels, and General Sherman
submitted the case to the Secretary OF
War with the following report:
| have seen that mule, and whether
true or false, the soldiers believe it was
left at Big Spring, where Mount Yer
non Barracks now are, at the time
General Jac&son's army camped there.
about 1Sl9-20. Tradition SAYS it was
once sorrel. but now it is white from
age. The Quartermaster' Department
will be charged with ingratitude if that
mule is sold or the care of maintaining
it thrown on the charitable officers OF
the post. | advise it to be kept in the
department, fed and maintained till
death. l think that mule was at Fort
Morgan, Mobile Point, when 1 was
there in 1872
The Secretary of War thereupon
made the following order:
LET this mule be kept and well cared
for as long as he lives"
No doubt this mule was once owned
by General Washington. But, strange
as the story may be, it does not answer
the question above propounded.-M. Y.
Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-20
Feeding Pigs for Fattening.

An error quite prevalent among farm
ers and others in feeding and fattening
pigs, which often leads to disappointing
results, is the notion that the PIC thriveS
best and fa:tenS fastest upon the most
concentrated food and does not require
bulk in its food to promote health. All
are aware that corn, or corn meal alone,
with water is not q wholesome ration
for the OK or horse, but think that the
pig is so differently constituted that
bulk in food is not essential. A greater
error could hardly be conceived. In
the natural wild state the pig. as well as
the horse and OK, is accustomed to
bulky, less concentrated food, which
seems to have been forgotten, and he
is piled with concentrated food from
weaving age till slaughtered, except in
perhaps certain cases where economy
or parsimony is studied. From these
exceptional cases lessons ought to have
been learned that there is a better way
of feeding than giving only the most
concentrated food. | have seen pigs
fed, some on only meal with water. and
Others with meal mixed with other and
bulky food, and have invariably found
the latter the most healthy and always
ready to eat when their food was of
fered and no waste occurred. Where
the pigs were fed with meal alone and
drink. the pigs after awhile seemed to
become clOyed and ate less heartily,
ofton wasting much of their feed.
Theory indicates, to my mind, that
meal fed alone goes into the stomach
in the state of dough, so that the gastric
Juice cannot penetrate the mass to per
form its office properly, while the more
bulky substance mixed with the meal
acts as diviSor. permitting the gastric
Juice to pass through and digest il
rapidly Clear meal being so slowly
digested, lying so long in the stomach.
- creates disturbances and fever in the
system. while the pigs fed with more
bulky food are always healthy, lively
and ready for their food. Pigs fed on
meal alone are less evenly thrifty. a.
they, after eating well for time. viii
stop and fast awhile. They apparently
recover. and then eat again. but never
with the seeming relish of those fed
with the more bulky food. This easily
accounts for the fact that corn and cob
meal are said bv some to equal corn
meal alone for feeding and fattening
purposes
When we consult the chemist he tells
us what analysis decides; but when we
compare actual results we find that
there is something that chemistry fails
to reveal. We find it thus in many of
our farm operations. Science, while
throwing much light on our everyday
occupations. must have the aid of eX-
nariaDca tO demonstrate OprfpctlV The
two never clash, but assist each other.
Actual experience demonstrates that
corn and cob meal is superior in feed
ing value to whole corn; not that the
same weight of each contains the same
nutriment, but that there is some factor
which lies below the surface, and that
factor think is explained in the fore
going.-C0r. Country Gentleman.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-20
Bacteria in Mountain Air.

That alcoholic liquors are destructive
to mind and body, that the water we
drink is never free from contamination.
and that much of our food is danger
OUsly adulterated, are truths with which
we have all become familiar. 1t was a
consolation in the midst of so much i'm
purity to reflect that in the mountains, if
we could only get to them, we could at
least breathe pure air. But this also is
vanity. Bacilli bacteria meet US at every
turn; and there are microbes even in
mountain air. Children, after seeing at
scientific lecture, the monsters con-
tanned in drop from the filter, have
been known for some time afterwards to
hold water in adherence, and to refuse
under all circumstances to drink it: and
after reading the report of Prof. Freu-
denreich, of Berne, and DR.. MIGUEL.
chief of the MontsouriS Observatory, on
atmospheric air, the timid may almost
be afraid to breathe. The air of large
towns is simply unfit for human con-
sumption, and though reluctant assent
is given to Prof. Tyndall's general con-
clusion that the air at great heights is
for the most part of Il high degree of
purity, this does not alter the fact that
bacteria aye always present in noun
tain air" Nevertheless there are de-
grees in atmospheric purity. Very good
air, indeed. can be found at from two
thousand to four thousand metres above
the level of the sea: and the air on the
surface of a Swiss lake contains bacteria
only in the proportion of SO to 500
,ubic metres. The air of the land near
! lake is three times more impure than
hat Of the lake itself; the air of a room
n the same locality thirty times more
IMPURE; the air of Montsouris, near
Paris. $50 times more impure, and the
lir of the Rue Rivoli hoo more impure.
Although not pure in an absolute scien-
life sense, the atmosphere of tlN Swiss
mountains is after all little better than
hat OF Paris. st. james Gazette.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-20
The Great Canal.

In regard to the work on the great
canal across the isthmus of Panama, and
the progress that is being made there,
the New Orleans Times Democrat has
the following: The total length of the
canal is seventy-four kilometres from
the Atlantic to its mouth in the Pacific,
at the islands Naos and Flamenco. 1t
is divided into twelve sections, the most
important OF which are those of Colon,
Gorgona, Obispo, EmperadOr, Culebra
and ParaisO. These united sections
employ daily thirty steam eXcavators,
forty locomotives and eight hundred tip
wagons. There are 9O,0OO,OO0 cubic
metres to be excavated. The grand
cutting, about two-thirds of which has
already been excavatad, is the cutting
between Obispo and Paraiso. The force
employed upon the work is upward of
10000 men. and the excavation up to
the 10Th of October amounted to more
than 100000 cubic metres. During
these latter months of the bad season
the excavations have amounted to about
100000 metres per month. This figure
VIII be quintupled during the fine sea-
son. which commences in December.
and the next year mostly al the neces-
Sary machinery Will be at work, and the
excavations will amount to 10000
metres per month. The working force
viii be augmented. and will form 4 total
OF 1000 men. AtCOlOn the port works
are nearly complete. The terre plein,
with the breakwater. destined to lessen
the effect of the heavy seas at the en-
trance of the canal, is finished. An
entire town has appeared there, with Il
collection of workshops, warehouses and
connecting railways for the reception
and distribution of the material. The
earth for the terre plein was taken from
Monkey hill. where great cutting has
been specially opened with the object of
filling up the lagoonS at the bottom of
the bay of Colon to improve the sanitary
condition. The first of the 120-hOrSe
power machines between Colon and
Gatan, a distance of niue kilometres, is
in full blast and is able tu excavate the
enormous quantity of 5000 metres per
diem, TO be paid at the rate of one franc
per fifty cubic metres. The Pacific
opening between the mouth of the Rio
Grande and Paraiso is contracted for by
the Franco-American Trading Com
pany. The first machine of the Ameri-
can system will commence work in
few days, and will be supplemented by
others, which will be necessary to finish
this part of the canal in two years as a
maximum from Gatan to Bahia Soldado.
On the Atlantic side, the company are
working two machines, furnishing a
minimum of 1000 cubic metres per diem
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-20
How Drainage Helps.

Experiment has shown that for the
best welfare of crops Il soil should not
be more than from one-tenth to one
third full of water; that is to say, most
of the larger spaces between the solid
particles are empty of anything except
air. This healthy condition sometimes
comes about of itself. when an open
subsoil lets the surplus water run away
freely from the surface; but usually ar
tificial drainage l. necessary to secure
it. One of the most marked good eff
fleets of this undertakings, whether
natural or artificial. is the improve
ment in the temperature of the soil. If
this surplus water cannot pass off below
in due time. it must be evapOrated into
the air, ut the inevitable cost of a
great quantity of heat which would
otherwise have served to warm the soil:
a wet soil, like wet person coming out
of bath. is cold.
The less heat soil must lose in this
way, the greater will be its reserve
stock. useful not only for the produc-
ton of crops, but also for their protec-
ton against cold. The suns rays do
not warm the air as they pass through
it; they warm the soil and the rocks;
these then throw out or radiate this alb
sorbed heat into the air and warm it.
The lateness of frost in any locality
depends therefore not little on the re-
serve supply of heat in the soil; and
this again depends largely on the free
dom of the soil from surplus water
during the heated season; well-drained
and properly dry soil will not only give
larger and better crop than an I'M
drained and wet soil, but its crops will
not suffer the harm from early frosts
that may ruin the harvest of undrained
Selds.--N. Y. Tribusse,
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FARM AND FIRESIDE.

"A man who has no love for horses
or sheep had better leave them alone
Troy (N.K) Times.
Apply, soft soap with little salt
added four or five times a week and
rub well, is an old horseman's remedy
for sweeney.-Erchange.
"A pudding sauce without butter is
made by scalding a tea-cupful of sweet
milk, then adding a soffee-cup of pow
dered sugar which you have wet with
the yolks of two fresh eggs. When the
sauce is thick as custard. take it from
the fire. When it is cool, add flavoring
and the whites of the two eggs, which
you have beaten to a stiff froth.-N. y.
Times.
Flannel Cakes: One cupful of In
man meal. two of -four, three of boil
ing milk, quarter of a cupful of liquid
yeast, one teaspOonful of salt, one
tablespoonful of sugar, two of butter.
Have the milk boiling and pour it on
the meal and butter. When cool add
the flour, salt, sugar and yeast. which
has been dissolved in four tablespoon
fulS Of cold water. Let the mixture
rise over night and fry on a hot griddle.
N y Herald.
"A new fancy in the crazy quilt line is
to have in the exact center of the quilt
a block of plain satin with the initials.
in monogram or otherwise. of the owner
of the quilt. Another new departure is
to have each block the embodiment of
an idea, or ut least to have each block
develop method in madness. For ex-
ample, let one have KensingtOn work
in outline patterns only, another needle
work of different kind, or applique, or
painting. The foundation of these
blocks must necessarily be OF plain
cOlors in silks, satin or velvet.-BostOn
Post.
As windgalls are of frequent occur
renee and often seem a bugbear in the
eyes of some, we give the following
from the Veterinary Journal, which is
good authority on the different treat
ments of the diseases of horses. 1t
says: ''WindgallS may be removed by
4 strong decoction of white-oak bark
and alum. They may be reduced by
blistering from subsequent contraction
of the skin. As they often appear on
colts and do no injury unless attended
with Inflammation, it might probably
be policy to let them alone"
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Delicate and Feeble Ladies.

Those languid, tireS)me sensations causing
you TO feel scarcely able 10 De on your Ieet'
that constant drain that IS taxing from your
system all its former elasticity; driving the
bloom from your cheeks; that continual strain
upon your vital forces, rendering you irrita-
BILE and fretful, can easily be removed by the
use of that marvellous remedy, HOP Buffers
Irregularities and distractions OF your system
are relieved at once, while the special cause OK
periodical pain are permanently removed
None receive so much benefit, and none are
so profoundly grateful and show such an in
terest in recommending Hop Buffers as women
Feels Young Again.
"My,mother was afflicted long time with
Neuralgia and a dull, heavy, inactive eondl-
ton of the whole system; headache, nervous
prostratjou. and was almost helpless. No ply
sicians or medicines did her any good. Three
months ago she began to use Hop Bitters with
such good effect that she seems and feels
young again, although over seventy years old
We think there is no other medicine Mt to use
in the family'-A lady, in Providence
BRADFoRD, Pa, May S, 1875.
1t has cured me of several diseases, such as
nervousness, sickness at the stomach. month
" troubles, etc. have not seen sick day in
a year, since | took Hop Bitters- All my
ncighbOrs use them. MRS. FANNIE GREEN
$1,000 Lost tour of Europe that cost me
S5,Oj0 done me less good than one bottle or
Hop Bitters; they also cured my wife OF hf-
teen years nervous weakness, sleeplessness
and dyspepsia." r. NJ, Auburn. y. Y.
High Authority.
Hop Bitters is not, in any sense. an alcoholic
beverage or liquor, and could not be sold for
use except TO persons DESTROYS of obtaining q
medicinal bitters.
GREEN B. RAUH, Z. S. Com. Inter Rev.
SOUTH BLOOMINGvTLLE, o., May L, a.
SIRs-I have been suffering ten years and
tried your Hop Bitters and IT done me more
good than all the doctors
Miss :. s. BOONE.
Baby Saved!
We are so thankful to say that our nursing
baby was permanently cured of a dangerous
and protracted constipation and irregularity
of the bowels by the use of Hop Bitters oy us
mother, which at the same time restored her
TO perfect health and strength.-The Parents,
Rochester. n. Y.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-20

If you feel dull, drowsy, debilitated, have
sallow color of skin, or yellowiSh-brown
spots on face or body, frequent headache
or dizziness, bad taste in mouth, internal
heat or chills aIternated with hot fushes,
low spirits and gloomy forebodings, irreg-
ular appetite. and tongue coated, you are
suffering from torpid liver" or "bilious-
ness" In many cases of oliver complaint"
only part of these symptoms are expert
enced. AS a remedy for ali such cases DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has
no equal, as it effects perfect and radical
cures. At all drug stores.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-20
Butter BuYers

everywhere are refusing to take white,
lardy looking butter except at grease
prices Consumers want nothing but gilt
edged butter, and buyers therefore recon-
mend their patrons to keep uniform color
Butter Color made by Wells, Richardson
& Co., Burlington, Vt. 1t is the only color
that can be relied on to never injure the
butter, and to always give the perfect color.
Sold by druggists and merchants.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-20

Time and money will be saved by keeping
Kidney-Wort in the house. 1t is an invalu.
able remedy for all disorders Of the Kid.
neys, Liver and Bowels and for all diseases
arising from Instructions of these organs.
1t has cured many obstinate cases after
hundreds of dollars had been paid to ply
sicians without obtaining relief. 1t cures
Constipation, Piles, Biliousness and al
kindred disorders. Keep it by you.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-20

BIEBER, CAL--Mr. Thomas P. Ford, edi-
tor of the Mountain Tribune, of this place,
publishes that the great pain-cure, st.
Jacobs Oil, has worked wonders in his
Family and that he would not be without
it. He states that among all the people S..
Jacobs Oil is the most popular medicine
ever introduced.