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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28

is really friend, but is usually re
garded as an enemy. 1t performs ex
cellent service in destroying insects ant
vermin.
! Do not allow any of the vegetables tC
seed unless you desire the seed. Mex
season the seed will terminate in places
where they are not wanted and be-
come troublesome.
There is quite a difference between
the hogs that are raised for food and
those intended for soap grease. 1t is
not matter of rejoicing to kill pork
er of a quarter of a ton in weight.
A judicious estimate of the irrigable
lands of Colorado places the number at
100000 acres, which, with ordinary
farming, will produce sufficient food
material for the support OF 100000
people.
Florida is destined some day to be a
leading honey state. The bee pastur-
age is abundant, the honey manufac-
tured of excellent quality, and the eli
mate favorable. The only drawback
at present is inadequate rapid trans
portation.
A splendid method of utilizing the oat
crop for feeding is to cut it when in the
milky condition, just before the grain
ripens. 1t is then bundled, stored in the
barn, and fed to horses by being pass
ed through cutter, straw and grain
together.
An increase of 100000 acres of corn
over last years acreage for the whole
country is reported, the extension hay
ing been greatest in the area west of
the Mississippi, and north of the Mis-
souri,, owing to the settlement and Gull
tivation of new lands.
The rapid growth and dense shade
which buckwheat makes gives it great
value as wheat destroyer. Even this
ties can be kept down by it if the land
is sown as soon after blowing as posi-
Die and the first thistles that appear
are pulled or cut out with hoe.
The Mobile Register makes the re-
mark that lot of designing dead
beats who hang around Washington
city, and live off the government by
their wits, have planned a bureau
of silk culture to receive from Con-
gross an annual appropriation of
S150,O00.
Although ensilage has been tried in
all sections of the country for over three
years, the dispute between its advocates
and those opposed to it grows stronger
every year. There is no necessity for
the warfare, as it's use is certainly not
compulsory on any one.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
Sailing Among Glaciers.

We had already sailed past several
glaciers larger than the Mer-de-Glace,
of Mont Blanc, but they were SO far
away that we got no adequate idea of
their extent. Nor did any of them push
their way into the sea. This glacier to
which our boat was now pointed, came
down into deep water and stretched
back into the mountains until its course
was lost in fields of snow. AS the steam
er checked her speed to keep at safe
distance from the monster, we found
that we had sailed up point-blank
against vertical wall of blue ice one
mile and half long, and 800 feet high
above the water. As if to illustrate the
grand scale and magnitude of every
thing, just as our boat rounded to, a
chip of ice, safely estimated to weigh
800 tons, broke off from the face of
the glacier and fell a distance of 100
feet into the sea. Of course, there fol-
lowed a mighty uproar, and then a
wave that rocked our steamer as do
only the big swells from the Pacific. AS
the tide was ebbing, the mass that had
just fallen into the water foated out
past the boat, forming field of broken
ice several acres in extent.
The upper surface of the glacier was
full of deep assures, and at the water
level there were mysterious caves which
no one dared to explore. Pieces of ice,
large and small, were constantly drop
ing into the sea; and, as the ice-wall
acted as sounding-board, there were
constant volleys of sound as sharp as
that of musketry or artillery demon
strating to our satisfaction that the
butt-end of glacier, where icebergs
are made, is a very noisy place.
Passengers were landed on shore,
and, after climbing along the side mo-
raine to height of some 500 feet, a few
of us found ourselves at point where
we could overlook the stream of ice
and get an idea of its deep assures and
impossible condition. High as we were
there were yet peaks of ice between us
and the water that were still above us,
and we could only see fraction of a
mile inland. Everything was on a scale
that could only be realized by the test
of climbing. Alongside the glacier, in
mid-channel, there were seventy-five
fathoms of water; and, as the steamer
approached shore to land us, the leads
man reported no bottom at twelve
fathoms.
Only last year did the boat make its
first trip to this glacier. Farther up the
bay four or five other glaciers come
down from the Fairweather group of
mountains, but very little is known
about them. We only caught an occa-
sional glimpse of the glaciers, and saw
that, but a small part of the floating ice
in the bay came from the immense res
ervoior of ice that we had visited.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
AGRICULTURAL.
Cause of MIX Feser.

FERN, Field and Fire jde
Milk fever is said to be caused by the
sealing up of the uterine vessels, after
separation of the fetus, with blood
clots, and their subsequent absorption
and Interference with circulation; but
this view is not sustained by experience
and post mortem examination. Itsome-
times occurs before calving, and hence
before blood clots have been formed,
and is very uncommon in connection
with first or second calvings in aged
animals, and in those that have been
out of health or had difficult labors.
The conditions under which milk fever
exists, or is caused, are various. The
disease is seldom observed in the COW
before the age of five years. 1t is more
frequently found to attack animals in a
plethoric condition. 1t more frequent
ly affects the pure breeds than others,
and is also more fatal with them. 1t
seldom occurs subsequent to three days
before calving, but always occurs, as. a
rule, after calving, and previous at
tacks, favor its recurrence. Although
the eve is sometimes afflicted with
the disease, and also the SOW, and the
mare occasionally, it is more prevalent
with the cow than any other class of
animals.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
POPULAR sc, eNCE.

The heart of Greenland whale is
three feet in diameter.
The net profits of the Suez canal for
1888 reached 100000 francs.
The comb of the bee is hung verti-
cally; that of the wasp is horizontal.
The skeleton of the carrion crow
weighs, when dry, only twenty-three
grains,
The human skull contains fewer
bones than the skull of most animals
excepting birds.
The crocodile is said to swallow
stones sometimes, like birds, to aid the
gastric mill.
The amount of coal shipped from
Wales to foreign and British ports re-
Gently in one week was 27S,378 tons.
The large, prominent eyes of the bril-
liant dragon flies or devils darning-
needles are each furnished with $4,000
polished lenses.
Pigeons have double crop. In the
crop of the common fowl vegetable food
is detained sixteen hours, or twice as
long as animal food.
The intestines measure $50 feet in
length in full-grown OK, while they
are but three times the length of the
body in the lion and six times in man.
1t is difficult to drown an insect, as
the water cannot enter the pores of the
skin; but if drop of oil be applied to
the abdomen it falls dead at once, be-
ing suffocated.
The number of flowers produced by
the palm is astonishing, no less than
1000 having been counted in spathe
of the date, and POI, 900 in one of
species of Alfonsia.
Continued observations made since
the year 1875 at the Meudon Observa-
tory have confirmed the conclusion
that the rings of Saturn are extreme
ly variable, and do not retain fixed
form.
Solutions of choral should be kept
in dark glass bottles. Sunlight de-
composes it into chloroform. The
change is not easily perceived, and has
caused number of accidents in the
past five years.
An ordinary SPIDERS thread, just Wis
ible to the naked eye, is the union of
1000 or more fine and delicate threads
of silk. These primary threads are
drawn out and united by the hind legs
of the spider.
Professor F. A. Forel, of Morges, who
has for many years recorded his OBJ
servations on the Mer de Glaze, re-
ports that the glaciers of Mont Blanc
are advancing again, after long pc
Rod of decrease.
An electric horse chronometer has
been invented. The movement is con-
trolled by current opened and closed
by the breaking of an almost microsco-
pic copper wire stretched across the
track. 1t is said to record to the 1900
of second.
Jurubeba. drug that is quite popu-
lar in Brazil, has been recently intro
duced into the United States. 1t be-
longs to the Solanum or tomato family,
and is said to possess all the virtues
and none of the vices of mercury. DR..
Carvalho, of Rio de Janeiro, and DR..
De Champs, of Paris, call it ''the vege-
table mercury"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
FARM NOTES.

Usage orange should be pruned three
times during the summer.
Coal tar is one of the best materials
known for hardening garden walks.
The peach crop of Delaware is esti-
mated to reach 100000 baskets, the
largest since 1875.
The English wheat crop is estimated
at S0,00O,OOO bushels, Spring grains
and hay will be deficient.
Enterprising gardeners are deliberat-
ing in regard to heating the soil by
means of hot pipes placed under the
ground.
The growing tobacco crop is the
largest ever planted in this country.
Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky
planted more than ever before.
The New Zealand wheat crop is
6,183, 17S bushels, an average of %!
bushels per acre. The supply availa-
BILE for export is estimated at 100000
bushels.
The common garden or garter snake
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28

government, and we now wonder how
they ever got along without them.
The demand for stamps Is now so
general that clerks in houses engaged
in foreign commerce carefully remove
them from all letters, and this affords
a large supply. The foreign corres-
pondence of the Herald is sufficiently
large to form an item in the stamp
trade. The same statement applies to
all the great journals, and in fact as
soon as any Office boy gets hold of a
foreign letter he strips the stamp off
and carries it to some dealer. Among
the greatest varieties are the PHILIPPINE
and Peruvian stamps, while on the
other hand the Porto Rico stamp is
very cheap. Madeira and British Gui-
nea, however, are high, and the law of
supply and demand prevail in this as in
all other commodities. AS soon as q
stamp becomes rare the maniac collec-
tor increases his bids until fabulous
prices are obtained. There are num-
Der of stamp dealers, the most extern
sive being the Scott establishment in
Broadway. Mr. Scott is a native of
London, but has been in this country a
quarter of a century. He issues an in
ternational postage album, which gives
samples of very extensive range, the
price being $3.50. Some may think this
large sum to invest in such volume,
but there are as many purchasers as the
supply will permit. There is an all
sufficient abundance of common stamps
for which they pay cents per 100 and
sell the same quantity for 10 cents.
German stamps are very abundant Ow-
ing to the immense amount of CORES
pOndence with that country. Hence,
they are very cheap, and the quotation
at present is l cent per hundred. Scott
sells 600 assorted stamps for 80, but as
soon as one gets into the varieties fancy
prices must be expected. Scott has
customers who are ready to pay almost
anything that may be asked for the
fancies. He operates boldly when he
sees good opening, and hence when
the Madeira stamp was issued he sent
orders for all that could be obtained
from the authorities. He also ordered
at one time 5000 worth of Porto Rico
stamps. One of his patrons is men,
Der of the princely Vanderbilt family,
whose collection has already cost S10,-
600. These facts show the immense
extent which this speciality has reached
and also those fanciful prices which
are the result of SO widespread a ma
MIA. Stamp collectors are found in all
large cities, and one of the most liberal
of this class is Bostonian, whose col
lection fully rivals that of Vanderbilt.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
New Mexican Wonders.
New Orleans T mes Democrat.

New OrleoLS i mes democrat
Mr.. Paul Langhammer, the energetic
commissioner from New Mexico, arriv-
ed in the city yesterday to see the loca-
ton on the grounds which will be al
lotted to him for the extraordinary ex-
hibit he intends to make of his terri
toi rs resources.
In an interview Mr.. Langhammer
said: II don't wish to boast; so l will
limit myself to simply saying that we
shall surprise YOU"
"Tell us one of your surprises
"Well, what do you sayt to two petri-
fed trees over twenty-five feet high?
That's not so bad, is it? But we can
beat those with living things out in New
Mexico. We shall show you one pota-
to that would feed an Irish family for a
whole day."
''How many pounds will it weight"
"Only five. We are rather small on
potatoes as yet, but we will send you
you beets from fifteen to twenty pounds
apiece. Still, they are not equal to our
cabbages, which weigh from thirty to
forty pounds.
'.Rather tough. are they not?''
1CS, luCluCu W DC Sos ~ lldtu Ill
Jemez bet another last October that he
could not fire pistol ball through one
OF his cabbage heads, and he won the
bet, for the ball lacked three inches of
going Though"
''N hat else will you show?"
"Well, / can promise you cactus,
from the smallest variety nesting
$4,000 feet up in the snow to the larg-
est on the Mexican l;ne."
"And what else?"
Professor Langhammer laughed
quietly, and answered.: 81 have been
at work, as you know, for five months,
and besides stirring up my people to
such an enthusiasm that l now have to
cut them down in the amount of exhi-
bits they offer, have succeeded in col
lecting a very decent menagerie. have
three bears, one cinnamon and one
| black; two wildcats, one coyote (prai-
RE WOLF, two swifts CHATS a cross be-
tween the wolf ard fo1-very rare, in
deed), one red fox, two antelopes, four
deer and two beavers. | have given
orders to some of my Indians for two
wild sheep and two elks. Besides these
l have four golden eagles, two old and
two young, and seventeen owls that
look wiser than any collection of con-
gressmen you ever saw. This menag-
erie the territory of New Mexico will
formally present to the city of New Or
leans at the close of the great exposi-
ton as the nucleus to start a geological
garden. Yes, sir; New Mexico has now
only population of $4,000, but she is
coming in for the gloi.y as well as the
| Benefits
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
RARE STAMPS.
The Md,siO for Collecting Postage Stamps
He,U TG,ey are Obtained.

The Manic for Collecting Postage Stamps
He,U Is,ey are Obtained.
New York Sun.
The announcement that $500 had
been paid for cancelled Brattleboro'
postal stamp calls our attention to a
mania which has gradually increased
until it has reached an extent which is
really extraordinary. Some may in
quire what leads people 70 collect pos
tai stamps. The only reply is found in
another question, what leads people to
collect anything? The TACT is, that a
disposition 10 make collections OF some
kind has always been feature in our
race. One OF the strangest of these
collections, which in one instance at
least became mania, is mentioned in
the life of Tom Moore. While through
England he met a man who collected
haDgmen's ropes, and who had 200,
each ticketed with the name of the vic
tim. The postal-stamp mania is of
modern date, but it has during a brief
period reached such an extent that it
is impossible to foresee any limit to
prices.
Formerly payment of postage was
made in money and was marked with
pen and ink; at present, however, 200
governments use stamps. In 1S4O the
latter were adopted in the British post
Office, and seven years late- our own
government made a similar change.
The example thus set on both sides of
the Atlantic was gradually followed
until the use of stamps has become uni
versal. The mania for collecting them
soon began, though at first it was very
limited. 1t grew like all other forms
of mania until it became regular traf-
fic and was reduced to a system. The
vulue of rare stamps is now generally
fixed, and they are collected in all parts
of the world. The highest price ever
paid Tor a postage stamp is $500. The
one referred to was issued on the French
island OF Re Union. The original cost
of this stamp was Is centimes and thir-
ty centimes 6 cents and cents), and
the immense advance is solely due to
their rarity and the fact that they are
necessary to complete collection of
foreign stamps. There is not one for
sale at any price. The next highest is
the Brattleboro' stamp, which is men
toned in the paragraph above referred
to as having been sold at $500. This
statement is evidently incorrect, and
perhaps its author has one of these
stamps for sale, and therefore takes
this method to bull the market. The
best quotation that can obtain for the
Brattleboro' stamp is 800, which GER
tainly seems high enough when the first
q
gin of the Brattleboro' stamp, as L am
Informed, is as follows: In 1916 the
postmaster of that place had some
stamps made in order to obviate the ne
cessity of using the pen. 1t was merely
a private convenience, and its sole i'm
portance is due to the fact that it is the
first stamp ever used in America. The
first New Haven stamps are also of
high value for similar reason. The
next year stamps were ordered by the
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28

look at them, but stifie every feeling OF
love for the beautiful, If she would be
called model farmers wife. For the
dishes are waiting and churning is to
be done; duty before pleasure. The
day is growing hot and her hands are
so tired, and her head, oh, how it
aches! If she could just battle her
head at the dripping fountain, SO cool,
and clear, at the old homestead, where
the bees used to hum and skim over
the abundant clover blooms. Her
heart is hungering for beauties, SUBJ
lime and glorious. But she must get
dinner and bake her bread; for TIE men
are wanting their dinner just on time
and plenty of it. The dishes washed,
the churning done, the rooms tidied
and dinner over, she sits down to sew,
though her head aches; till supper
time draws nigh. For her husband
must have change of linen these hot
days, and her children must look as
well as others. So she mends and
darns, for no true mother can neglect
her children. The husband comes
from the field after the flies are driven
out, and the room darkened, and
thinks what an easy time the women
have in the cool house; nothing to do
but work in the shade. But what of
her future life, when she starts over
life's hill towards the sunset land.
Will these same children for whom she
tolls SO willingly now, in turn care for
her, when the eye is paling with age,
and the hair is blossoming for the win
ter of lifep
And when the strife and weary toll
are over, and she lies at rest, with
hands crossed over once tbrobbing bos-
ON, will not the fairest crown of all
be given to the weary farmers wife?
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
President Wa3hington's Accounts.
Washington Post.


A copy of George Washington's sun
dries account during his eight years as
president. from 1879 to 1896, has just
been brought to light by Mr.. H. NJ.
Zimmerman, of No. 40 Ninth street
northwest. Among other curious items
in the account, which are written in
Washington's own handwriting, are:
1.-TWO dogs, weight 35 pounds, from
Farmer BaSset, to guard the presi-
dents house, ''13 patent lamps to
illuminate the presidents premises
"damask curtains for the state dining
room;'' "a massive desk for the presi-
dents Office, 9121 10s." Besides
these items the account includes vari-
Gus amounts loaned by President
Washington TO different parties, be-
sides amounts paid for at least 100
looking glasses and French mirrors. A
Franklin stove'' for Mrs. Martha
Washington's room cost "a and a
French painting for the main parlor
cost Els.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
Ho,c to Rear Silk Horns.

The Kansas Industrialist gives in
structions for the rearing Of silk worms
in small way. The larva thrive on
Usage orange leaves, and the writer be-
lieves the product is nearly or quite as
good if they be fed on the white null
berry. The eggs should be kept in a
cool place-a cellar is good-until the
young hedge leaves start, when, if they
are brought into the temperature of an
ordinary living room, the larva will
soon appear. They are not inclined to
travel, and may be kept on a paste
board box lid, or even on newspaper,
from the time they come out small,
black worms, until they are two and a
half inches long, and are ready to open
their cocoons. Lest refuse from their
feeding should become moldy, and
therefore damp, the worms must be
placed upon new and clean paper. 1t
must be remembered that the young
larva are extremely tender, and must
be handled with the utmost care. They
can, however, be successfully transfer
red by letting them become quite hun
CRY and supplying them with good,
fresh leaves on the young branches; the
worms will crawl upon these, and may
be readily transferred. In no case
should wet leaves be fed, whether from
dew or rain; all drops of water should
be shaken off the leaves. They should
be fed three times day; indeed, it will
be found that the better the worms are
fed, and the drier and warmer they are
kept, the faster they will grow, the
larger they will become, and the soon
er they will mature and spin their CO.
cOOnS
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
Wife on the Farm.

During these hot days, if there be
any class of persons who claim our
sympathy it is the wife and mother
who is faithfully performing her duty
during the busy days. Mrs. Gale truly
pictures the wife on the farm:
How pleasant these cool mornings
are for an extra nap, after the heat and
worry of the night. But the farmers
wife must be up with the birds while
the dewdrops are sparkling and the
eastern sky is aglow with its roseate
hues, glinting the clouds with the COM
ing sunbeams.
But she must turn from all these
beauties her soul loves to contemplate,
for the men are wanting an early
breakfast, so she must not linger to