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The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.
Agricultural Notes.

Mr.. ]. A. Bill. Lyme, Conn, tried the
'ten-hour SYSTEM and says his men,
With "Bungtown'' watches and heavy
gold" chains, sat around logs telling
puns when it was seven o'clvck in the
morning. "The next year he ran his
arm himself"
A farmer is mentioned by The Catham
Courier who, upon turning horse into
he field, leads him slong the wire fence
and brings his nose a few times in con
act with the barbs. After that exper-
fence the intelligent animals keep at
2 safe distance, and none have been in
jured.
Unless the house be warm and the
food wholesome and abundant, the hens
will furnish very few eggs. The birds
enjoy the winter sunshine.
Some prefer to sell al their swine and
buy what "hog products" they desire;
out as a rule, it is preferable to kill what
is needed at home, even when not
necessary, as it is on a majority of farms
perhaps. One then knows the health
fulness and quality of what he is eating,
and with q little experience and skill,
larm Strengthening is more economical.
The introduction of pulleys and some
other simple contrivances, enabling one
Or two men to handle and dress a con
siderable number of heavy hogs in d few
hours, has, in recent years, done away
with the dread and much of the impor-
lance of "butchering day."-American
Agriculturist.
Professor S. johnson of the Michigan
Agricultural College has made many ex-
periments with ensilage during the past
lew years. He finds it better to have
several small silos, or divisions, than
one large one; that weighing with
stones, barrels OF earth, ETC., is more sat-
,sfactory than a screw; and the silo is
one Of tie most economical methods of
fodder. Professor johnson finds
three tons of ensllage equal in feeding
value to n ton of hay, and therefore a
fair crop of ensilage means the growing
of an equivalent to six to ten tons of hay
per acre. Ensilage is a cheap substitute
Tor roots-but an expensive crop for the
general farmer.-American Agriculture
isf
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02
Cooking Recipes.

BAKED SWEET AppLEs.-Wash them, do
not pare or core them, set them in the
oven in a baking pan with a little water
N 1t. and bake slowly for several hours.
When done they will be of rich, dark
brown color.
OYSTER OMELET.-Add to half a u of
cream six eggs we'll beaten, season with
pepper and salt, pour into a frying pan,
having first melted in it a tablespoonful
OF butter; drop IN a dozen large oysters
gut in halves or chopped fine with pars-
ley, and fry light brown. Double it
over and serve Immediately.
Pressed Cn1cKEN.-Boil one or two
chickens in a small quantit> of water,
salt to taste, and when thoroughly done,
take all the meat from the bones, hay
ing, removed the skin; chop the light
and dark meat separately and season to
taste. Put a layer of light and dark
meat alternately into q crock, till all the
meat is used, pour over it the liquor in
which it was boiled, and put on it a
small weight. When cold, cut in slices
and serve. Cracker crumbs may be
mixed with thu meat if desired.
BREAKFAST AND Tea WAFFLEs.-One
pint of sifted flour, milk enough TO
make a thin batter, about two.thirds of
a pint. two eggs we'll beaten, a table
spoonful of butter melted and a little
salt. Mix milk and flour first to smooth
paste, add salt and butter, lastly eggs.
Have waffle irons hot as for griddle
cakes; butter Or grease them with pork.
Pour in enough batter to cover iron, put
the cover carefully down upon it, keep
over the fire about half a minute, turn
over quickly, leaving about same time.
Remove: sprinkle lightly with powdered
sugar if desired; keep hot until ready to
serve.
A delicious hard sauce is made of thin
shavings of maple sugar mixed with but
ter. 1t is just the thing for hot pud-
dings.
If cayenne pepper is sprinkled plenti-
fully in the resorts of rats. they will re-
sent the bospitable treatment and will
retire from tine premises.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02

A bill has been introduced into the
senate that will tend to prevent the ex.
tortions of attorneys, if it becomes a law.
1t provides that the regular fee of $40 is
not to be paid until the pension is al
lowed. No other fee is to be allowed ex-
cept in cases where a special contract is
filed in the pension Office and approved
by the commissioner, and tn n it shall
not exceed $25. Extraordinary services
may command an additional fee of $25.
These payments shall be made by the
agent of the pension Office in whose
district the claimant shall live, and PEN
sion attorneys shall make a sworn state
ment of the amount that they have re-
ceived for their services. Any false
statement will subject the offender to a
fine of 81 1000 or imprisonment not ex-
ceeding two years, or both, in the dis
erection of the court.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02

Some of the newspapers. commenting
upon the resignation of United States
Circuit judge McCrary, speak of the in
sufficiency of the salary-which is Sc, 900
per annum-urge that such positions
should pay as much or more than a for.
tunate lawyer could make in his profess
sional practice, or as much as a rpo
ton would pay. To this a contemporary
answers that the theory of our inslitu-
tons is simplicity in public positions.
AS the masses of the people can never
be rich, it was the design of the fathers
ofour system that the distance between
the high and the low in the scale of for
tune should never be a great gulf which
neither side should see across. Imbued
with this idea, men of liberality and
without even a tinge Of the vulgar dem
agogue in their characters, opposed the
doubling of the presidents salary, and
yet condemn the universal tendency to
Increase official emoluments. When the
disparity between the pay of our repub-
lean officials of monarchical and aristo-
cratic Europe is pointed out the fact is
at once admitted and the argument ar.
swered by recalling the purposes for
which We instituted a different system.
Official life in the United States cannot
be what it is abroad, and it is a peryer-
sica ofthe ideas Of the founders of orr
popular system to attempt to make it 30
Comparisons between the order OF
things IN our own and that under any
other form of government are not oppo.
site, and therefore cannot be i~nstruc-
tive.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02
Roads That Need Reforming.

Major Hugh T. Brooks remarks that
the cost of bad roads can never be sum-
med up till we are able to compute the
value of time, life, health and happi-
ness. Part of his tale of "frishtful
losses" traceable to this source, we
quote from Rural Home:
"Here are farmers going ten miles to
market with forty bushels of wheat
when they might draw eighty with more
ease if the roads were suitably graded
and prepared-half the day thrown
away. A well broken team will move
several tons on a road level smooth and
hard. Here is a valuable young horse,
stuck in the mud; indiscreetly urged he
takes issue with his driver and passes
into the category of 'balky' animals.
Here is a span of horses jaded, spawned
and windbroken by drawing loads over
steep. slippery and miry places. Here
are people overtaken by storms drag
ging slowly along through mud and
mlre, immensely uncomfortable. Here
are lnvallds who started out for health
delayed and damaged by the rough and
rutty ways. Here are persons going on
moonless midnights to minister 10 the
sick and dying, themselves in Imminent
danger from the protuberances, pits and
precipices that line the roadsides."
And here, in conclusion, are the writ.
er's views as to what we ought to do
about it,"
eve should secure a good grade,
either by passing around the hills which
can often be done without much in.
crease of distance, or by carting them
into the valleys. A steep hill on a lead
ing road, compelling teamsters to load
light, generation alter generation, costs
grade it down. Soft ground should be
%turnpiked, the road-bed raised high,
with deep little bitches It the sides, hay:
ing q free outlet for water, and no scrap.
ing in of sod, clay and muck afterward
Small stones and very coarse gravel al
least a foot thick we'll rounded up and
covered with a little fine gravel make q
good roadhed, and nothing else will
After putting the road into proper
shape, don't tolerate ruts, but hoe back
the gravel every few days till the road
is smooth and well-settled."
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02
Tennyson as a Money-Maker.
London Correspondence of the Philadel
phia Press.

PAAS AANSas
I have heard repeatedly, of late that,
Tennyson would have no means to sup
port his new rank. He should not find
it difficult. If he be as unsociable and
inhospitable as a baron as he has been
as plain Alfred Tennyson. his sustain
ment of the title need not be expensive.
The common opinion that he is only too
we'll TODD is neo For a literary
man he is very rich. No author IN
America has ever begun to make so
much money as he. His poetry has
brought him, 1t is estimated, ESQ, 900 or
100000, at least, and the sum has been
put as high as sl00, 900 and, 9l2O, 900.
Being a careful, not to say close, mana
ger, he has so invested his earnings as
to have a property worth at present
recently, a house in town. where he
spends very little time; he has a
beautiful place at Farringford, Isle of
Wight, and another country-seat at AID
worth in Surrey. For a poet he is very
practical, driving very sharp bargains
with his publishers, holding out for the
last shilling.
No banker or broker in Lombardist,
conducts his affairs more shrewdly. He
has frequently changed his publishers,
who, to secure him, are obliged to give,
him the most generous terms. The
firm with which he now deals pays
him extraordinary prices for the excll1.
sive right to issue his complete works;
but he would demand more if he had
any chance of getting it. Apublisher
| who has in the past done much business
with HIM, says he ought to be called
Moses Tennyson, and that, if he had not
turned poet, he would have made a
brilliant pawnbroker.
1t is not strange that he attaches great
value to his writings, for he takes I'M
wearied and endless pains with them.
His is the toll of composition produced
by brain sweat. 1t is an agony of labor
which nothing but supreme self-love or
superlative literary ambition would en-
able him to endure. He often spends
hours on a single line, and has been
known to devote a whole week to one
short poem. 1t is more than fifty-four
years since he won the Chancellor's
medal at Cambridge for ~''Timbuctoo," a
piece of blank verse, and he has been
wreaking himself ever since on express
ion. In that time he has done work
enough to wear out a score of ordinary
men; but he has ever been sustained by
a robust constitution, abundant exercise,
and a degree Of vanity that passes ali
understanding. If genius be, as some
declare, unlimited capacity for work,
Tennyson is a genius of the highest or:
der. For a generation he has been
stimulated by a great reputation, which
has not been eclipsed for more than for.
ty years. 10 this may be added his love
of gain; for he is sure of reaping a large
r%ecompense on every bit of writing
whatever its quality.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02

The wicked newspapers are making
a good deal of fun over the itemized ex-
penses of the United States Senate late
ly published. From the accounts of the
sergeant-at-arms, it appears that each
senator averaged, deducting Sundays
and adjournments, over three quarts of
mineral water a day during parts of the
months of July and August, 1882. The
consumption of Apollinaris in these
months was also tremendous, the bills
for this beverage %aggregating $406. so.
During the same months the ice bills
were $l007, and the enormous total of
2Ol 900 pounds is reported as consumed,
or nearly 5000 pounds for each senator,
deducting Sundays and adjournments.
for the months of July, and August.
Seventeen hundred two-grain %quinine
pills we're furnished for senators, who
must have had attacks of malaria, aud
preferred not to call in a doctor. This
is ridiculous enough to one who does
not understand that a large portion of
the Apollinaris, ice bills, quinine, &C.,
stands for fine wines and cigars, which
could not be named without a still
greater scandal.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02
ABABY GIANT.
Over Seven Feet in Height, and Still
Growing.

GROWING.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
Some two weeks ago the crowd of
loiterers who infes- the foot of Market
street were struck dumb with amaze
ment at the sight of colossal individual
emerging from the ferry gate. Before
anyone of the crowd had recovered
from his establishment the giant walked
quietly towards the next slip and got on
board the Petaluma boat. The crowd
hung around the landing for some time
waiting for the rest of the circus, but
we're disappointed, and it was soon as.
certained that tine Goliah was all alone.
Speculation was rife as to who or what
he was. His height was v~ariously est.
mated at from eight to twelve feet. A
federal officer stated positively, that it
was Chang, the Chinese giant, who had
slipped in at some way port in disguise
go as to beat the restriction act. An Ex-
amlner reporter solved the mystery yes
terday. AT q Sansome street hotel he
discovered the mammoth, or as he
giant. Ills name is Thomas Robinson.
and he is but II years old. His height
is seven feet in his stockings, and he is
still growing. He was born in East Cam
ada, and has always worked on a farm.
He never rode on a railway until he
left home, some two months ago. His
parents are Irish his father being near
ly six feet high. He states that he never
attracted any attention at home, be-
cause nearly all the men there are six
feet or ever. He had no idea he was q
wonder until he reached Chicago, where
he attracted considerable attention.
His weight is 200 pounus, and
he would be taller If he
did not turn up 80 much at the feet,
which are of immense proportions. In
answer to a question as to what size Of
boots he wore he replied good natr,red-
ly,, 81 don't know exactly; the shoe
maker at Omaha said the next size va
the boot-box." He has a pleasant face,
blue eyes, and is apparently very intel.
gent. His arms are sfimmense length.
but the hands are comparatively small.
On bang asked to take something" he
called for soda-Water, saying that he did
not like whisky, because he might get
into a quarrel ana fall on some ore.
suggestion thrown out by the bar. keeper
thai the train to meet Sullivan called
forth the remark, well, l amt SO pad
with the gloves as You may think" He
has had many offers to join travelling
shows, but he says he would prefer to
work on a farm.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02
Decorative Notes.

SLIPPER BAGs-Large bags to place slip
pers in for parties, or to carry ruobers
or waterproof to opera CT theater, are
made Of gay, brown or stone color with
a monogram embroidered, braided OF
outlined in the center.
COMB CAsEs-Cases for brushes, combs
and sponges are not hard to make, and
useful in protecting them from dust
Brush broom cases ornamented with ap.
plique work, or with a monogram
worked in silk, or with a burch of flow.
ers are very pretty.
WINDOW CuRrAINs-Very pretty and
inexpensive curtains can be made Of!
cheese cloth, and the materials REQUIRED
lor an ordinary-sized window cost only
$3.50. They can be made wi h or with
out a border, and are pretty either
way.
Should the border not be used, turn
a hem three inches wide down the
front, and across the bottom of the
curtain. This should be caught down
with herring-bone stitch in goId.colored
silk.
The curtain is then embroidered owe
with rings, double rings may be called,
executed in chain stitch with embroid.
cry silk.
In each set of rings there should be
one Of gold silk, the other of different
color, such as gold and blue, gold and
cardinal, gold and green. Brown will
also contrast prettily with gold. Crewels
may be used instead of silk, although in
that case the embroidery will present a
heavier appearance.
They can be hung on poles or cor.
nices, which ever may be most conven.
used.
with a border of darned work, and, for
design, sprays of autumn leaves can be
arranged with good effect, embroiderins
each spray with different colored silks,
cardinal, gold, brown and green. Draw
the stitches from point to stem Of the
leaf, and then darn back and forth
through the silk stitches only from side
to side Of each leaf, as in darning stock
ing, but do not let the st tches sew
through the material. Then outline
each leaf round the edge with the same
color in chain stitch. This shows each
LEST in solid color on the light ground.
A straight line of herring-bone stitch
on the inside of the border, dividing
it from the groundwork OF
the curtain. gives q pretty
finish. They have somewhat the ap.
pearance of the Madras curtains now sc
much used. and as the work is not at all
difficult, one feels we'll repaid when the
pretty drapery is hung at the windows
CATcHALLs.-Pretty catchal!s are made
of paper fans, with the rivet which
holds the sticks together withdrawn and
a cord substituted. The fan is drawn
together and one stick Tapped upon the
other and fastened, thus making a cone.
shaped receptacle. A co%rnucopia o.
coarse, strong paper is fitted into this,
the sticks form bows in front. A ribbon
loop is attached by which to suspend
the catchall.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02

Presidential eiectioneering work at
Washington is daily exhibited to the
public in the vast number of campaign
lies early Matched and flying through
the air. Some of them are mildly called
'canards" and become partially discred-
ltsd, while the majority are calculated
for summer use in the rural districts,
Unsuspecting readers will be astonished
to learn that a lot of unprincipled Boz
hemians are already employed and at
work in the coming campaign currency
for M side or the other, and that this
business is tolerated by men who as
sumo to be respected.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02
About Sailing the Soil.

Common salt spread upon the ground
has the effect of aiding in the solution of
mineral matters used in stiffening the
stems of plants. If there is already a
suficiency of such matters in solution in
the soil, IN application of salt will do no
good. Salt is most eficacious in mucky
act ef o diqsctiy m as food + for is r n9t su ep4sSssI1 to
plants. II it t. does tSau anything my ing tpWard ins.
creasing grain crops, 1t does SO by wav
Of stlfening the straw and keeping it
from lodging. 1t is a cheap product.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02
A NOVEL.

A moon. a sky,
A mountain high,
A lane;
Some trees, some grass,
A youth, a lass,
A cane,
A smile, and sighs,
And dropping eyes,
Alack!
An arm, a wrist
A squeeze in haste,
A smack,
A church, an isle,
Some folks in style,
Aside;
A vow, a band,
A bridegroom, and
A bride,
A tenement,
Top foo cheap rent,
Not all;
Ten children gay,
Who love to play,
And bawl.
New York Mercur,
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02

Gov. Robinson of Massachusetts, rec
ommends the enactment Of an insolv.
ency law which will afford debtors who
owe less than 500 the same privilege of
q discharge from their debts which debt
ors in larger amounts enjoy. Gov.
Robinson spoke az a political economist
as well..a as a humane mar when he said:
ut is always wise and salutary to devise
legislation of such a character as will
reach the humblest and poorest citizen,
who has no voice but his W to present
his reeds,no power ia combination with
others to emphasize his opinions" The
garnishee process in Massachusetts is
often a terror to honest but poor people,
and i IS to be deprived of some of its
terrors by weekly parments instead of
monthly.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02

costing only about S. a ton to produce it
in bulk at the works. and ought to be
bought for q fair profit and freight add.
ed. Whenever salt is needed it often
pays many times its cost, but there is so
much land on which it ooes no good
any large extent without first determine
ing, in a small way, whether it will be
useful or not. AS its usefulness depends
wholly upon the condition OF the soil, no
specific value can he fixed for it in adj.
vance of using it, as there can for barn
yard manures and the commercial fer.
t~ilizers, nor can it be used as substi-
tute for any of the real fertilizers or for
land plaster. 1t is most freqently used
for. sowing on wheat in the spring,
which it sometimes greatly benefits and
sometimes not at all. Its specific action
is most marked upon the beet family
Professor L. B. Arnold.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02

The accumulation Of unclaimed prop
erty in the dead letter Office has become
go rapid that yearly sales are necessary,
and n will begin January u. The
printed catalogue contains 1900 lots.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02
Walks Between Farm Buildings.

The grounds about most f~arm-houses
Gre poorly supplied with walks. Some.
times there is no way to approach the
house from the street or.g from tae
house to the we'll or farm buildings, ex-
cept to travel over ground that is COW
cred with turf. Du,iEg a large portion
of the year, and especially in the winter.
1T is necessary to pass through mud or
snow. AS a consequence damp feet are
among the penalties attached to passing
out of the house during unpleasant
weather. OF course, it is very difficult
to keep the floors of q dwelling clean
when the occupants are obliged to walk
through mud every time they 90 out.
There should be good walks leading
of the house, and to the we'll
and the various out-buildings.
They not only promote comfort but save
a large amount of work in taking care OF
the house. Very good and serviceable
walks may be made by mailing plank to
scantlings placed on edge. The walks
may be from two to three feet wide, &C.
cordipg to the width of the planks.
Walks constructed in this manner are
easily kept free from snow, as they may
na swept Oft as often as is necessary.
The only objection to them is the diff.
Guilty in driving across them. The diff.
Guilty may be ohviated by raising the
drive way for teams or by placing In
clined planks or timbers against the
sides of the walks. Good walks may al.
SO be made of flat stone or gravel con.
lined between pieces of timber. 10 pre-.
vent the timbers from spreading they
should be fastened together ut suitable
dis ances by means OF crass-pieces. The
gravel should be clean and the surface
OF the walk She uld be slightly rounded
so as to carry off water.-Chicago Times
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02

Without any notable or sudden change
IN the business situation, there is a
faint revival of confidence and hope for
the future, that may grow into some-
thing more substantial if there are no
aenseless panics inaugurated by the win
Ter failures, which are simply the weed.
ing out of weak concerns, that would
not have existed a great length of time
under any circumstances.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02

The amazing beauty of the sunsets
continues to be a fruitful topic of inter.
est throughout the wide world but as
yet nobody has offered a satisfactory so.
luton of the phenomenon. Mean.
while the western sky is glorious with
colors almost as vivid as those ola rain
DOW, and occasionally, the blending of
tints is marvellous.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02

The fire insurance people had a hard
time of it last year on account of the
vast losses by 6re-butt the life insurance
interest, not only escaped trouble, but
actually was more successful than in any
year of its previous history. There
were not only no failures among the
legitimate old-line companies last year,
but business with nearly all of them was
considerably in excess ofthat ever before
done. The total amount of new policies
written during 1883 is computed to be
over $S0,00O,0O0 more than was ever
issued before in a similar space of time.
The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02

In India the remarkable sunsets oil
November created superstitious fear, and
numbers of holy men went about preach.
ing impending disaster.