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The FaSOrIte Breeds OF Swine.

The greater part of the pork grown
in this country is produced in the
states west of Ohior A very large
percentage of the entire hog crop is
marketed in Kansas City, St. Louis
and Chicago. Cities east of those
named receive large numbers of swine
each year, but many of the ANIMALS
SO received have been counted in the
stock yards OF the principal three mar
kets before appearing in places farther
east In these western states the
black breeds of swine are immensely
in the majority. 1t would be unreason-
able to suppose that these breeds,
Berkshires and Poland. Cninas, have
been so almost universally adopted
without good and sufficient cause. In
Kansas City almost ninety.five pei
cent of the swine received for sale are
black; IN Chicago about ninety pei
cent are of that color and IN Cincinnati,
according to L. N. Bonham, an author.
;ty on swine matters, white hog is
almost a curiosity, so seldom does one
appear there. The last issue of the
Kansas City Indicator has an article
on this subject, in which it states tina,
at the Kansas State fair of 1881, there
was one white hog, IS Jersey Reds,
% Essex, $50 Poland Chlnas and sos
Berkshires. At the Iowa State fair oil
the same year there were 2s, dark
hogs and no of the whites. At the
Minneapolis fair IS per cent OF the
swine exhibited were of the dark
breeds.
But it would be folly to rest content
with the dark hogs as they are, sor to
say that no breed other than Berk-
shires and Poland Chinas will come
forward to drive them from the place
they now hold. Indeed, it is to be
hoped that admirers of other breeds
will not give up the fight for the first
place until they shall have al least
worried the blacks thoroughly, if they
do not succeed in wrestling from the
latter the place they nov hold. More
over the world IS leaning that there is
pork and pork, and 1t is quite possible
that the fashion may change so mater
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A BUILDING WITH ONE PICTURE.

One of the sights of Chicago is the
Siege of Paris. The Siege of Paris is
picture, although you might not
think SO when you look at it. 1t is a
picture that has had house built en-
tirely tor itself. As you go out on the
grip cars you come to red brick
building OF large size that looks as if it
were built around gasometer. The
man at the door exacts tax of fifty
cents, which seems large sum for a
look al one picture, but the ticket real
ly gives you a visit to the most inter
esting part Of France while you stay
in there, and half dollar is not dear
for trip to Paris. The illusion inside
is perfect. No one could tell but what
he stood on the roof of the gardeners
cottage, as he is supposed 10 do, and
on looking around he seems not to see
a painting, but the real brilliant French
landscape spread before him. The
gardeners grounds, with tie battered
and broken wall, which are real. can
not be distinguished from the subur.
ban mansion of Worth, the man milli-
ner, which is painted. 1t is impossi.
BILE, even with an opera glass, to detect
where the genuine dirt road of Chicago
soil blends with the road of French
paint which appears on the canvas. 1t
Is all the perfection Of optical illusion.
The great city spreads out in the dist
ance, the river Seine winds naturally
among the suburban villas. The troops
and the dead and wounded are start
llngly real. All this is heightened by
the occasional bursts of sunlight from
the unseen window above. A caropy
is over the spectators heads so that
they cannot see the skylight. The
frames must be of ground glass, for
the direct rays never strikes the pic
ture, but the light and shade chase
each other over the landscape, just as
if the luokers-on saw the real fields
and bills OF the environs of Paris. The
tourists who visit Paris by way of Chi
cago are personally conducted as our
friend Cook would say. A lecturer
stands up and gives an account of the
scenes of which formed the least cpl
sode of the disastrous siege. The pic.
ture was painted in Paris by celebra-
ted artist who had many assistants
some of whom had been in the engage
ment pictured One of them came to
give the finishing touches to the pic
ture and to see to its setting up. The
whole institution, red brick and all,
cost somewhere in the neighborhood
of 100000.
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Advice to Smokers.

In the first Place-don't smoke. 1,
is dangerous, unhealthy and expen-
sive practice. 1t is very apt to control
you and you will smoke more than is
good for you. Still, if you smoke there
is no use saying Don't smoke for
you will. You think you can stop, but
you can't. Every smoker is sure he
could quit tomorrow if he wanted to.
There is one man in Detroit-a Jour.
nalist on German newspaper-who
frankly admits he can't stop smoking.
He tried it and couldn't. He is hon.
est enough to admit it. He is per-
haps the only man now living who &C.
knowledges that he cannot stop smok.
ing
The best and cheapest wav of smok
ing is the pipe, and the cheaper the
pipe is the better. You throw it away
with more cheertulness and unconcern
Throw PIPE away as often as posi-
Bile. The foulness of it, besides being
offensive, is poisonous.
Cigars are the most expensive and
the most convenient way of smoking.
Use holder and cheap wooden one
that you cab throw away. 1t is bad
to put cigar in your mouth. The
maker of 1t may have had some con.
tagious disease.
There is great outcry against cigar
cites. The outcry is unfounded. 1t
is said the burning CT the rice paper is
bad for you. Bosh. 1t is not kalf as
bad as the tobacco inside. The trouble
with cigarettes is that they may be
made of plcked up secondhand tobac-
co. That is not very pleasant to think
about. In England nearly every man
makes the cigarette he uses, rolling
them up very deity. There are ma
chimes for sale there for IS cents each
that will roll up a cigarette quickly,
and as neatly as those you buy. An
American rarely takes the trouble Of
making his own cirgarettes. Too much
bother, and he hasn't time. A person
is apt to smoke too many cigarettes.
II is curious fact thar man must see
the smoke before he will enjoy smok-
ing. Blind people rarely smoke. II
a man is going against strong wind
that blows the smoke away from him
before he sees it, he is continually I'M
easy and thinks his pipe has gone out.
Smoking in the dark seems to be more
acceptable, as then person sees the
glow OF the cigar or pipe.
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G1oanIng and Crying.

A French surgeon has published a
long dissertation ON the beneficial in
fluence of groaning and crying on the
nervous system.
He contends that groaning and cry
ing are the two grand operations by
which nature allays anguish, and that
he has uniformly observed that those
patients WHO give way 10 their natural
feelings more speedily recover than
those who suppose that it's unworthy a
man to betray such symptoms of COW
ardlce as either to groan or to cry.
That some patients often have great
satisfaction in groanlng and that hys.
terlcai patients often experience great
relief from crying, are facts which no
person will deny.
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a late address by DR.. Aiken. chemist
OF the Highland and Agricultural So.
ciety Of Scotland. Graat care should
be taken to keep their food as near as
possible in its quality to the nourish-
ment obtained before birth. A calf
should not be taken off its mothers
milk before ten days; ard if after that,
they should make Its food hall skim
milk, then as its proper nourishment
viii be SO much lowered, the fat squeez-
ed out Of linseed oil cake will be found
useful in enriching its diet. Oatmeal
porridge or barley meal porridge does
very well after the calf is few weeks
old. He traced on the blackboard
the process OF assimilation of food in
the stomach OF COW or OK and calf.
The paunch of the former was shown
to be much lager than that OF the lat
ter; for the calf received its nourish-
ment ready made in the shape OF milk
or liquid flesh direct into It's stomach.
without the necessity of the paunch,
while there were various processes to
be performed before the cows food
was fit for direct assimilation. A pint
of food at a time was sufficient for a
calf for the purpose of coagulation.
The pint. or even less, should be given
four times day. The milk which the
calf gets from its mother is perfectly
pure. land if there should afterward when
feeding the ca f. be want of cleanli.
ness, then dyspepsia will be caused IN
its stomach and treed mischief. The
skin of the calf should be kept nice
and clean, and the stalls where it is
should be we'll ventilated, but not cold.
Where all these conditions are not at
tended to the calf may not be able to
pull through. The best results are at
talnable by keeping as nearly as posi-
Bile to the arrangements of nature
Prairie Farmer.
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SiIk-Worms.

a writer in Land and Water says the
ideas OF the ancients upon the subject
of the origin of silk were rather vague,
some supposing it to be the entra,ls
of spider, which iattened for years
upon paste, at length burst. bringing
forth its silken treasure; others that 1t
was spun by hideous horned grub in
hard nests of clay-ideas which were
not dispelled till the sixth century,
when the first silk-worms reached Con.
stantlnople, introduced and cultivated,
ike other benefits, by the wandering
monks. From thence they were soon
imported into Italy, which for a long
period renamed the headquarters OF
the European silk trade, until Henry
". of France, seeing that mulberry
trees were as plentiful in his southern
provinces as in Italy, introduced silk.
worm culture with great success
Kirkby mentions the following enter.
esting extract from the Courier de Ly.
ons, 1870, as showing the extraordi.
nary quantity of silk there annually
consumed at that period: Raw silk
annually consumed there. one million
of kilogrammes, equal to APOSTLE
lbs. English, on which the waste in
manufacturing is S per cent. As four
cocoons produce one graine (graln) Of
silk, four thousand millions of cocoons
are annually consumed, making the
number of caterpillars reared Gnclud
ing the average allowance for cater
pillars dying, bad cocoons and those
kept for eggs. 4,292,4oo.ooo. The
length of the silk of one cocoon aver
ages 500 metres Q,526 feet Englisi0
so that the length of the total quantit,
of silk spun at Lyons is 6. soc, ooo, 900,
600 Tor SIX and half trillion.) of En-
glish feet, equal to fourteen times thu
mean radius of the earth's orbit, O.
s,494 times the radius OF the moon
orbit, or 5a,5o5 times the equatoria
circumference of the arth, or aoo, 900
times the circumference of the moon.
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The Red sunsets still Visible.

Mr.. Garrett P. Serves, the lecturer
on astronomy, and Secretary OF the
American Astronomical Society. says
people generally haze no idea what
surprising phenomena these red sun
sets or sun CLOVIS really are. Even
yet they may be seen IN clear weather,
though less distinctly than last winter.
There is an accompanying phenome-
non which you may behold any fair
day surrounding the sun. When the
sun goes behind small cloud or the
edge of building you will see whit
ish halo around it, which is often bor-
dered with pink or salmon color. 1t
is a mistake to assume, as many do,
that either the red sunsets or this
halo around the sun are common ap-
pearances which have always existed
IN the sky. They made their first
appearance in these ATTITUDES about a
year ago, and, as Prot. Archibald has
pointed out, while the sunset glows
have diminished in intensity, the haloes
have remained unchanged and are just
as distinct to-day as they were ten or
twelve months ago. Moreover, they
have seen all over the world, and 1t of
course becomes necessary, In attempt
ing to account for them, to find some
cause capable of affecting the atmos-
phere OF the whole earth. At the Mon
treal meeting of the British Associa-
ton which has just closed, a report
was made in benalf of committee in
England, which has been gathering
evidence from every quarter of the
earth about the red sunsets. This re-
port showed that those phenomena
were not visible before the Krakatoa
eruption, and that they were first seen
in the neighborhood Of that island,
from which they seemed to spread In
all directions until the morning and
evening skies over the whole earth
were aflame with the marvellous light.
The inference is that fine dust thrown
from the Krakatoa volcano into the
higher regions OF the atmosphere was
borne by air currents around the whole
planet, and that the reflection of the
suns rays from this dust caused the
glowing skies and other strange phe-
nomena that were subsequently wit
messed in every country of the globe.
But men of science are not entirely
satisfied with this theory-TBoston
Herald.
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AS to pipes, they are classsd BY a
noted French physician as follows: i.
Soft ear.hen pipe. 2. Meerschaum.
3. Hard earthen pipe, white or color
ed. 4. Wooden pipe. S. Porcelain
pipe. 6. Metallic pipe.
The white earthen pipe, porous and
permeable to. liquids, is put first, be-
cause tits a good absorber Of nicotine;
the metallic pipe is put last because
it allows all the noxious product form
ed during the combustion Of the tobac-
CO to reach the mouth OF the smoker.
The meerschaum, which Immediately
follows the clay pipe. deserves IFS place
only on condition that 1t is not too old
lift is seasoned 1t is as bad as wood.
en- porcelain pipe. Finally, brethren
do not smoke.
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ass,ien.l Cattle Trail.

For many years after the cattle OF
Texas began to find sale in the North
their owners could drive their stock al
win over any part OF the broad plans
extending from the seventh degree OF
10 igitude 10 the Rocky mountains
Grass, water, and passage were free.
Since that time the farmer has steadily
and resistlessly moved westward, driv-
ing the cattlemen before hun, until
now fences, and laws, and determin-
ed resident cattle owners, armed with
Winchesters meet him at every town.
The dead line of Kansas has been
moved father west, time after time,
until soon, if no stop be made to this
curtailment of privileges for the South
ern cattle, all State and Territorial
lines viii become headlines during the
fros,less months, ard so far as the
cattle from the Cult Coas. are concern.
ed.
There was a time when the chief
sale for Texas cattle was found in the
live stock markets Of the States, for
immediate slaughter but now the
stockmen OF the country north and
west Of the Indian Territory are the
chief buyers. They take the thin
young cattle of Texas to their fresh and
cool ranges. there to grow and fattea
for year or more. and then to be sent
TO market. But the fencing in OF pas
lures and watering places. and the re-
iursal Of railroads to carry the Gulf
stock to the plains. where they may,
and doubtless will, cause immense
losses OF cattle. has stopped the traffic
most effectually. This has caused the
revival of the demand for the setting
aside. by he general Government. of a
strip Of land extending from Texas
northward, as far at least as Nebraska,
for a national cattle trail, to be opened
for the driving of Texas cattle at all
seasons. 1t is not unlikely that. by
consent of the States interested, such
a measure could be carried out, but
may it not be worth while to first in
quire whether better plan cannot be
devised 1t Is thought desirable that
the Texas cattle should reach the
Northern ranges long enough before
cold weather begins to give them time
TO become, IN measure at least, &C
climated and the fashion has been to
start the stock on the trail as soon in
the spring as grass has grown enough
to keep the cattle alive on the way. Is
it not possible that the Gulf cattle,
which Tebas papers and other inter-
esteI parties declare do not infec,
nosthern cattle with a fatal poison,
might he held on the uplands of Texas
and the Indian Territory for a season
and he moved north early in the spring
before hard frosts have ceased Would
it not be well to Try the plan of bring.
ing the Texas cattle north for slaught,
er, at the great packing and shipping
points, like Chicago late in autumn
when the cattle are in their best con.
dition, and frost would prevent mfec.
ton.
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are torn down, bags containing silver
dollars come to light. and when tramps
along railroad lines find diamond rings
by the back load. Every such incident
is true-positiyely true, and anyone
doubling the fact will be shown a bag
of gold watches brought up from the
bottom Of Lake Erie on schooner's
anchor.
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PROF. GUnMETTE'S
French Kidney Pads
WHICH CURES BY ABSORPTION

WHICH CURES BY ABSORPTION
Ask our druggist for Prof. Gullmeite's French
Kidney Fad. and take 80 her. If he hrs not got
1t, send S2tr and yOu will receive. the Pia by
Turn mall. -
TESTIMONIALS FROM THE PEOPLE.
JUDGE Dt,e,ls..N-AN Tayv,r Tolo,,o o,,;o
says: zone u Prof. Guimeilcs French kinney
Pads cured Of LHnihaeu tu ;hree week>1 time.
Ny hifi hcen given upily The best doctors as
incur able During ali this time suffered untold
agony aud paid out large su.ns Of money.
GEORGE VETTER, j. =. Toledo. o.. says:
ney Disease. and often had 20 ABOUT crutelles
WAS entirely aud permanently cCrrd after wear
Ing Prof. Gniimctt,' 5 French Kidney Pad four
weeks.
SQUIRE y. c. SCOTT, Sylvunia. o. saws:
IL halye been greet suiiertr for Is years with
time was Ia Ge 20 yet out q; - =: look barrels OF
medicine bur they only Temporary relief,
woret wgoi Prof. Gu!llnctte's Kidney Pads siI
weeks, and now know lni entirely cured. -
MRS. HELEN JEROME, Toledo, o.. says:
'toT years have been confined, q great part Of
weak knees. ! wore OF Guilmeite's Kidney
PadS and was cured In month. -
III. IL GREEN, Wholesale GrDcer. Ftndlay, a.,
writes, Have suffered for25 years with l5me back
and III three weeks was permanently cured by
wearing ono OF Prof. Guilmette's French Kidney
Pads
Il. f KEEsLlSG, VI. D.. Druggist. Loganspor,
writes:
~ wore one OF the first ones we had and reeeIv-
Ell more benefit from IL than any thing ever used.
In fact the Fads give better general satisfaction than
any Kidney remedy we ever sold.''
Kay * Shoemaker. Druggist, Hannibal NO.,
W are Workin up lively trade In your Pads,
anu are hearing OF good results IRON every day
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TILE INVALID

VIII ind the Wabash the most convenient
I Tnute TO all the noted health resort Of
LIMOS. missouri. Arkansas and Texas. and
.nat the extensive through car system and
,,'u ip accommodations of this popular
800 IA goo greatly 20 his comfort while en-
e soIJ fanph!et descriptive of the many
celebrated mineral springs OF the West AMI
South sent free nm a,,nt,.5.sc --e "SSs anu
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They sat in the cleaning. She was
was thinking thatit was about the time
O. year to make soft-soap, and he was
figuring on whether he could afford to
buy forty-acre tract of land in the sub.
urbs. When he had decided that he
could be kindly said:
My little rosebud, won't you get me
that old trunk which one of the hired
girls left in the attic over a year
ago g
Not this eve she sweetly replied
i gave that to man two weeks ago
for hauling away those ashes.
Ashes Gone Two weeks p he
whispered, while every button on his
vest danced a jig under the suppress
ed excitement.
You betn
'Frendless! Fooless! You have
knocked me into the middle of 80 years
ago! That trunk contained all my
small change, amounting to some
$4,000, and utter poverty and DESC
late ruin stare US in the face. Here
We will both drink OF the the poisoned
chalice and die together
And they died.
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THE FARMER

In search OF new home, where he can Sc
cure better returns for his labor. SHOULD re-.
member that the Wabash is the most fI,rcc,
route TO Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Sep-aska-
anu All points South, West and Sorthyyest'
anu that round-trip iand-explorers' tickets
~ very low rates are always on sale at the
yer OF Arkansas and Texas sent free 10 an
applicants by addressing the General Pas
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Rearing Calves

The following suggestions on the
proper method of treating The young
calf the Prairie Farmer condenses from
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This is also the season when the
poor but honest farmer plows up jugs
containing $40, 900 in gold coin; when
folks clean out wells and find dead
loads of silyerware when old houses
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WABASH
R0U ! E!
THE TOURIST

Has long since chosen the Wabash IA tho
fayorite route to all the summer resorts Of
the East, North and West, and winter re-.
sorts of the South, as the Company ma Tor
years provided better accommodations and
more attractions than any OF its eonuatitors
TOR this class OF travel Tourist Iickpts ca,
os mad at reduced rates at al PRINCIPAL
Offices OF the Company. FAN'Pai
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Got a fire in the parlor stove, Ell q
he queried as he backed up to it and
spread his coat.tall apart.
yes Samuel, the evenings are get
ting chilly
Yes. fire feels rayther good.
l was a-thlnking that after I'd fed the
hogs you'n l void
Here he stopped and began to jump
up and down and tear his hair and
damage his hat, after a minute he pull
ed the stove over and rushed for water
to quench the fire.
Mercy sakes alive but are you
mad g
'Hanner-oh Hammer dowse her
out, dowse he. Call tor the police
police
Samuel Collins have you gone
crazy g
Crazy! Never You back.action,
double jointed, duplex idiot. but had
hidden $1,000 IN greenbacks in that
stove and you've kindled a fire on top
of it. We are knocked out-gone up
busted to blazes, and l go to the barn
to cut my throaAwith a razor'
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THE CAPITAIrsr

Can get the information necessary 10 secure
s sa.e ana profitable investments in asrieuI-
ANY OF the many inviting fields tsranssoYr
s ess sonsd and West, by addressing the IN.
F. CHANDLER,
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PROF. GUILMMETTE'S
FRENCH
KIDNEY PADS

Have alt cady been sold In flis country sndin
France: every ! which has given IeTfes' sails
faction. ami has performed cures every time when
used accor,Ii ng 10 directions.
Wenow say to the afflicted and doubting one
that will pay the above reward for single esc
OF
LAME BACK
That this Pad fails TO cure This treat Rem
edy will Positively and Permanently cure Lnnlba-
90, Lame Bark. sciatica, Gravel. Diabetes. Drop
sy, Brighls Disease Of the Kidneys, lDcontn-
ence and Retention OF the Urine, inflammation OF
the Kidneys. Catarrh of the bladder, High rOl0red
Urine, Pain in the Ba-k. Side Loius. Nrryuu.
Weakness. and In fact all disorders of the Bladder
amt Urinary Organs whether by private disease or
otherwise.
LADIES, II you arc suffering fIOm Female
Weakness, LegcOrrhOea. or any disease Of the Kid
neys, Bladder. OF Urinary Organs.
YOU CAN BE CURED
nj