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FARM and HOUSEHOLD.
household miscellany.

Pine shelves, covered with velvet or canton
flannel, are now placed over every door in the
house to hold china and bric-a-brac. The effect
is charming.
Any one who doubts as to the best way to
have clear jelly is assured on strong evidence
and many proofs that to allow the juice to drain
through a flannel bag without squeezing it will
render this matter easy and satisfactory.
An old-fashioned wa1tls weather drink which
might once in a while be given to the children,
is made of one quart of water, one tablespoon
ful OF ginger, four tablespoonfuls Of sugar, and
nearly half a pint Of vinegar.
Dio Lewis says we must give the "old folks
at home" soft foods, savory and well cooked
not heavy masses of butchers meat. To give
old. inactive people butchers meat every day,
he says, is to load their systems with waste
products-with material which is virtually
poisonous; 1t is not probable that any ar
rangement can be made to have Dio Lewis and
the butchers take tea together!
IRON R~UsT-Dissolve half a teaspoonful of
oSalic acid in part of a cupful of boiling water,
DIP the rust spots IN this for a short time, then
rinse IN several waters. AS the acid is a poison,
great care must be used in setting ii aside, and
one must be sure of putting it out of reach Of
the children
Many a woman and child have been sacrificed
to save the carpets and keep ont the flies. Many
a titof illness has resulted from the same cause.
Many q disappointed, cheerless life can be
traced back to sunless rooms as a beginning.
Mnltitudes CT women and children are only
hall living to-day because only half-fed. Sun
SHINE and light and air are as much food for
body and soul as the fruits and grains and veg
etables that we take into our stomachs; and We
cannot get a surfeit of them as food. The more
We have the better.
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Wheat Harvest in California.

California, having, like the tropical
countries, only two seasons, is pecul-
iarly adapted to the culture of wheat in
its interior valleys. The valley of the
San Joaquin with the Sacramento fur
nishes some of the largest wheat fields
in the United States, being rivalled
only by those of the Red River Valley.
The soil is what is called adobe" which
when wet becomes very sticky, and on
drying becomes like stone. Roads al
most impossible in the wet season be.
come in summer as hard and smooth,
as the finest macadamized roads.
Crops other than wheat cannot be
raised except by irrigation. As the
wheat is fully grown by the time the
dry season commences, it is very nice
to have the grain ripened sufficiently
dry for threshing at the time it is cut.
Combined machines for cutting and
threshing wheat at the same time are
increasing in number very fast.
On reaching a gram field ones atten-
ton is drawn to an object which has an
appearance similar to a house of small
size moving by its own power through
the field. which stretches as far as n
can see in all directions. On its near
approach it is found that instead of
moving by its own force it is propelled
by twenty very large mules, which were
hidden behind its huge proportions.
The mules are fastened IN two lines.
ten abreast, to long whitle-trees attach
nH tn a hnavy firp1,ar - +Lo lol -
OF which is the wheels which steers the
machine. As one sits Of top of the ma
chine and looks behind he sees the ears
and backs of the mules, and it seems
much like putting the cart before tile
horse, q habit the people have here.
The pilot sits in front of the wheel
steering, and the sensation to a passen-
ger IS as If at sea, except as the crack
OF the whip warns some laggard mule to
move faster.
Close to the knives stands q man who
raises or lowers them according as the
grain is tall Or not as all that is wanted
is to cut just below the heads. Pass
ing by an endless belt the heads ara
carried to the cylinder or picket; the
grain is threshed, and through a set OF
sieyes is cleaned and sent along by a
set at scoops to the sack-sewer, who
fills the sacks. Then sewing them,
they are ready for market, and sliding
down al inclined plane lie ready for the
wagon, on which they are carried to a
pile of other sacks all ready to be
hauled to market. As the price at pres
ent is very low, only $1.35 per GENITAL,
many farmers will leave the grain in
the fields for many weeks, knowing that
there is no danger of rain. This i'm
munity from wet makes the farmers Cor
as they are called here, ranchers) care
less, and many show the i%nprovident
way at the country by leaving a ma
chine which cost $4,000 without cover
through the winter. As these machines
weigh three or four tons each, their use
is only possible in a country where the
soil bakes hard like a pavement. To
give a minute description of one of these
machines would trespass to much on
your columns, but this may give agener-
al idea.-Stockton, Cal, Correspond
ence of the Hartford Courant.
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Electrical Science.

The international congress of cleo
tricians and exhibition of electrical APP
paratus, which Is to be held in Phila-
delphia from September Q to October
a, under the auspices of the Franklin
Institute Of that city, promises to be a
very interesting affair. It is intended
to bring together every known device to
which electricity is applied, or in the
service Of whichit is agent, andtod discuss
inventions and methods, forces, cur
rents, generators and speciiic and general
application. Under a joint resolution
OF Congress. approved February, 1888,
foreign exhibits will be admitted free
q duty, provided thai, in case any al.
ticle is withdrawn for sale, use or con.
sumption, it shall be subject to tariff
regulations in force at tile date Of entry.
This promises to be the most complete
exhibition Of electrical apparatus ever
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An Old Sea Captains Romance

There is now stopping at the Hotel
Vendome in this city, writes the Boston
correspondent ofthe bingham (Mass.)
Journal, one of the most remarkable
characters connected with New England
commerce since the war of 1912. I re-
fer to Captain Maxwell. Had Marryatt
come across him he would have found a
legitimate subject for a three-volume
novel, which would have made Nudes
fortune. Captain Maxwell is now fully
80 years of age. and is the loving object
of care By a sister. His fortune is i'm
mense, and this word in the proper
vernacular means much. A native of
Maine, he was wed to the life of a sea-
man, and in time he reached the eleva-
ton of master. I knew him forty years
ago, when he was comparatively an old
man, but he was a splendid specimen of
physical perfection, and he must have
been more than that twenty years pre-
vious. There is no romance without q
love story and no love story without q
woman.
The Pattens of Bath were the great
ship-builders of Maine sixty years ago.
Captain Maxwell was in their employ.
The females of the Patten family for
generations had been noted beauties,
but they were as eccentric as beautiful.
Captain Maxwell, in the pride of his
vigorous manhood, made love to one of
these beauties, and was rejected. BY
the way, the marriage ties formed by
the Patten girls were not always of the
~pleasantest kind. One married Jarvis
Slade, of the we'll known firm of
Lawrence, Stone s. Slade. the great dry
goods commission merchants, which
went down in the financial crash of
1S57-5s. Another, and an equal beauty,
married Wildes P. Walker, whose bust
ness and finacial record in Boston and
New York were very well known.
After Captain Maxwell was rejected he
became soured and turned his attention
to ~accumulating wealth. For o long
time he lived in Charlestown, in the
most pennrious manner, till his mind
gave way, and to-day he is a complete
imbecile, a wreck; and yet when he dies
the bank records and the safety vaults
of State street will have to proclaim
him n of the richest, ifnot the richest,
nan in Boston. l have an idea that
his investments are different from most
of the so-called m~illionaires who have
died within twenty years. The shrink
age in most of the reputed wealth of
deceased men is attributable to in
vestments which they could take care
Of, but, left to executors or trustees,
dwindles fearfully. Captain Maxwell's
wealth might belong to the family Of
hereditary monarchs. 1t is so invested
that no financial panic can shake it,
and yet, looking at the Captain Maxwell
Of sixty years ago and the Captain
Maxwell Of to-day, who would accept
the change at the price Of all his ducats !?
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Queer Jots From, Dixie,
From the Piedmont, Co., Press.

NN's = hSc5 ~. 20
Following are some of the strange tbinos AGAR
or heardof by the editor during a recent y;sit
into the mountains: A man Who has twslva
living children, the Oldest under sixteen yesr rs
a \ man let 2 horse bite an apple form his mouth
OF water that carried the thermometer almns,
10 q 1reezlng point.-A man in Gaddistown
sLuck a small hriar in his wrist and dad in
.nree days from its effects.-Two childran 90
exactly alike that even their parents had 70 y
mark them to tell them apart.EA yannp ,adv
m Gadd'stown with hair nearly six feet y
!engsh.-A Dahlonega young man VIM baa
in two years. f"a"' IL "eiSat
=. \; Gaddis told us of a dog that barted
hlnseii to death.-Am man who has often walhIedJ
e.lghty,fve miles, from sun-up to sunNdnwn "a
a coachwhlp snake that measured nine feot
!oqr inches IN length Justice IS admin;s+sr y
~ Davis district under the shade Of a eisant;a
oaK-lhe mountaineers are very cIever b !,
WI! neither feed or shelter revenue of,icers nv
their stock.-.An old man who tbonnht ill.,, ot
orant was still president of The United stai IT,
and mad never heard of the assassinat;on ~
GarneidmITh houses in Union county are aen
sraiy nnllt Of poplar lumber. A mai Whabas
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experimenting with insecticides,

Experiment carried on during the past sum.
mer at the Michigan Agricultural College upon
tina use of kerosene as an insecticide resulted
IN marked success. A good emulsion was found
to be made from a gallon of water and a quart
of soft soap, brought to a boiling heat and the
vessel containing them being removed from the
fire, a pint of kerosene was thoroughly stirred
in This was found to be a sure remedy for
the apyle-tree bark louise, but for some or most
purposes it will be better diluted. For most
purposes, however, a better emulsion was
found to be made by mixing one part Of kero-
sene oil with five parts Of milk, either sweet or
sour. This mixture was applied to many ten
der plants with no injury TO twiss or foliage.
When used in the proportion Of one to three,
many plants were injured When even more
dilute than one part of oil to five of milk, the
mixture was sufficiently strong to dispatch
most insects. When only half that strength it
destroyed quickly all the apple-tree lice. The
proportion of one to five however, was found
to be always safe and expeditions. 1t killed
the striped cucumber beetles, squash bug,
grape tleas, and many kinds of Larvae. 1t Is
readily applied with a fountain pump or syr-
inge. Prot. Forbes of Illinois, has used ker-
osane with success in destroying chinch bugs.
Western Rural.
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INVENTOR EDrsoE,s WIFE.
Romance Of rhstr Marriage Recalled bv
Her Death,

Mrs. Mary Stillwell Edison, wife Of
the inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, who
died at pa. NJ. Saturday at Menlo Park
N. j., was twenty-nine years ofage, and
leaves surviving her three children,
The story OF her marriage to MI. Edison
is singularly strange ard romantic one.
When he first formed her acquaintance
he was about twenty-five years of age.
He had just invented the chemical tele-
graph, by means Of which could be
transteansmitted he claimed on a single
wire 5000 words a minute. The tele-
graph, Notwithstanding this, however,
became subseryient to the Morse system.
While working on the chemical tele-
graph he employed several young WON
en- to punch the holes in the paper,
Among them was Miss Mary Stillwell.
One day he was standing behind her
chair examining a telegraph instrument.
Mr.. Edison remarked Miss Still
well, suddenly turning around, 81 can
always tell when you are behind me or
near me-
Glow do you account for thata "
mechanically asked Mr.. Edison, still
absorbed in his work.
II don't know, I am sure, /" she quietly
answered; 'sbut / SEEM to feel when YOU
are near me-"
Miss Stillwell," said Mr.. Edison.
turning round now in his turn, and
looking his interlocutor in the face.
I've been thinking considerably of you
OF lsse, andif you are willing to have
me I'd like to marry you"
You astonish me-" exclaimed Miss
Stillwell. CT never"
II know you never thought I would
be your wooer, interrupted Mr. Edison,
sbnt think over my proposal, Miss
Stillwell, and talk over it with your
mother" Then he added in the same
offhand business-like way, as though
he might be experimenting upon a new
mode of courtship:-Let me know as
early as possible ii you consent to
marry me, and your mother is willing,
we can be married next Teusday.n
This was the extent of Mr.. Edison's
courtship, It is hardly necessary to
add that the highly favored lady laid
the abrupt proposal before her mother.
MA has consented" she told Mr..
Edison the next day.
"That,s all right" said Mr.. Edison
in reply. "We will be married q week
from to-day"
And so it was. The two were mar
ried in a week and a day from the be-
ginning of Mr.. Edison's novel and pre-
cipitate courtship. In connection with
his marriage, however, a story is told
quite as singular, but fully in keeping
with the n already given touching his
courtship. It is said that directly fol-
lowing the marriage he entered his lab
orator in his wedding suit, and hastily
throwing his coat on q bench began
work. +.
"Why, surely you are not going to
work on your wedding night?9 remon-
strated his chief assistant.
Suppose it is ?"he quickly answered,
setting to work with renewed zeal ssthe
Gold and Stock company don't care for
that. They want their instruments to-
morrow, and they've got to have them,
marriage or no marriage so here goes"
The wedding trip Of Mr.. Edison ran
into the mysteries of inventions. His
welded life. however, is said to have
been q singularly happy one.
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many battleiRelds. but never ona Z, hor
! rible and repulsiye % the sirht !,
this same d Of Malvern Hll'
never had 4 nightmare for month,
afterward when all its features we've
not recalled, and the semblance in Tho
dreams could not intensity the horror
OF the waking reality. From the thick.
cts to the foot Of the heights where
McCiiallan's batteries were planted il Il
no e~aaggeration to say that for a mile
and 9 half one might have walked on
dead men without putting foot to earth.
And such dead menl Heads cut of,
limbs Topped, bowels torn out, legs torn
from the trunks. trunks crushed INTO
an undistinguishable mass-a heaped
mp mass ofpounded flesh, that had been
strong, breathing me twelve hours be-
fore: Oil it was horrible! and this es-
pecially where the huge shells Of the
gunboats had exploded among the as
saulting ranks. We crossed the plain,
avoiding stepping on the dead as we'll
AZ we could, and came to the road
where Jackson had fought. Save that
the dead were not lying so thickly Is
on the plain the same feature was OBJ
seryable. the skill with which the fed
aral batteries had been massed. for
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SCRAMBLED EaGs is a nice breakfas

SCRAMBLED EaGs is a nice breakfast
dish for athot summer morning. Peel a
large, firm, fresh tomato and chop it up
small, chopping with a small bit Of deli
cate white onion, put into a hot sauce
pan with plenty Of fresh butter and pep
per and salt to taste. Stir on the fire I'M
til the onion and tomato are thoroughly
cooked, then pour in four we'll beaten
eggs, and stir quickly until the eggs are
nearly set. Stir quickly on a hot dish,
surrounded with little dice Of fried
bread and butter.
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DR.. Edwin, Shipper, acting as the

DR.. Edwin, Shipper, acting as the
representative of his fellow-surgeons in
the navy, has had a beautiful brass
tablet, 81 by d feet cut by a firm N
Philadelphia for erection in the village
church at ~Culpepper; Va. The tablet
bears the following inscription: James
Markham Amber, passed assistant sur.
gean U. S. Navy, died on the banks Of
the Lena river during. the memorable
retreat of the ships company of the O.
S. Arctic steamer Jeanette, in the year
1881. His ems of duty was stronger
than his love of life. In memory Of his
noble example and heroic death this
tablet is erected by the medical oMcers
Of the United States Navy.
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The Bandits Daughter.

Mexican Letter in San Francisco Chronicle.
Mexican brigands are waking up to
the fact that their occupation is gone.
Rapid travel lays bare lives and meth
DDS that distance and inaccessibility
have hitherto enveloped in a veil of ro-
nance. Yet the old atmosphere still
fingers protectingly about a few, which
accounts for the fact that Charcho ell
Poto. the notorious bandit, who was
captured at Querotaro the other day,
was made prisoner, while the less IA
nous ruffians were all shot. He has
as many friends in Mexico as the James
boys in Missouri, and has escaped the
clutches of the law and bafied pursuit
again and again, until he won the name
of "the Mysterious Man." has been I'M
prisoned in the past and made daring
escapes, as he will probably do in the
future. One of the secrets of his pop
ularity is that his code of honor allows
no Mexican to suffer at his hands;
while he has robbed fortunes from un-
fortunate travellers, he has always
spared his own c~ountrymen, and
has especially delighted in prey
ing upon Spaniards. His
methods have often been original and
fearless, yetheh has often played the COM
mon roll of g~arroter and burglar. The
one tender pulsation in the black heart
of this ruthless robber beats in unwaver-
ing faithfulness and idolatrous love for
his daughter, a beautiful girl eighteen
years of age, whom he is educating
in Brussels, who is ignorant of the true
character of her bandit father, and up
on whom he lavishes almost all the
money that comes into his hands by his
system of ssforced loans"
More romantic than Churchoel Poto
is the little / can gather about a gang
of wreckers who were pursued and shot
less than q month ago in the State Of
Durango. The leader of the band was
well known to the Mexican puplic by
sight and through q record of daring
deeds and bloody crimes. Young and
boyishin appearance; handsome, dash
ing, and SO brave and beloved by the en-
fire clan Of eighteen brigands that the
identity of this chief was never betrayed
nor suspected. The other day, the
rurales tracked them down, sent eight
bullets through the captains heart and
destroyed the whole band, not leaving
one to tell the story, which all will long
to hear, as I did when I learned that
the handsome bandit boy was only a bit
of successful masquerading, for when
the riddled sombrero was removed and
the bullet burnt blanket thrown aside,
a shapely form was revealed, and the
astonished soldiers learned that the
leader Of their foe had been a woman.
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The hard lot Of some clergymen is il.

The hard lot of some clergymen is il
Illustrated by a statement in the Troy
On. " Times. Rev. Mr.. Chesney, pas
tor Of the Methodist Church at West
Amsterdam, n. Y, was to have received
a salary of $500 year. II is alleged
that since February l he has been given
only $15 and his family is dependent
upon the charity Of the neighbors. He
has several times called upon his parish
oners for the salary due him without
success. The receipts of a donation
recently held for his benefit were not
given him as a present but applied as
his salary. The presiding Elder has
notified the church that unless the pas
tors salary was paid he wculd be With
drawn
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displayed together, and to afford abun.
dant opportunity for study by electri-
clans. The President is authorized by
. resolution OF Congress to appoint q
number Of experts in electrical science
to represent the Government at the ex-
Aibition.
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work them effectively. Both AZ III
wings Herarefusad IL militarv n~arIanca
toward the river. ana were protects
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partial enfiladinR Are on An axsanlt
inn force. III fact. the nnsitionT tat,
IN M by the federal army u.s.,
natural fortress "a ii snaaE
When. q above stated. battle wa.
Joined 81 the rirht Kamnar,s hr;rads
~ moved up to be within supporting
distance 81 the fighting line, and here
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woods through which onlyan occasional
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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-05-24
THE NEW BANKING FIRM.

The banking firm Of Donnell,
Clark & Larabie, in Butte and Deel
Lodge, is dissolved and the business
is now being conducted by Clark &
Larabje of the new firm. The gen
tIemen composing it are well known
to the business men of the Territory
and more intimately by those on the
West Side. Hon. w. A. Clark, the
senior member, is recognized as one OF
the safest and most far-seeingfinancier
in the West. By we'll considered in.
vestmenls, careful management, and
strict attention to business he has &C
quired a fortune reaching into the
millions, and what is quite as valua-
BILE to him, he has gained an envia-
BILE reputation for integrity Of char
acter and business acumen. Still
in years, full of energy and
possessed Of large experience in f.
nancial matters, he has a future be-
fore him full of promise and rich in
all the elements Of success. MI. S.
o'"0S IA DO0A Jug As0 Al aaov we1a
known to the business men of the
and regarded by them as
cool-headed, shrewd, and safe
inahcier who can be depended upon
every financial emergency. The
lew firm has the full confidence o
he communities in which their
are established and will COM
nand the patronage bestowed upon
he old one.