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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05

After to-day the Fashion Bazaar
will be found located in the now
block on North Fifth street, nral
Austin, next our Old stand.
NK~. ELLA =. COHEN.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05

Look 10 our coulter lot, thi- week
Lots Of odds at half price, nud just "a,
good goods n if we had i dozen of
them each,
SANHIn ELn-
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05

Il. Habcr's new clothing depart
mcnt l. ,torkcl with the newest
STYLES. best lifting and best made
clothing IN the city.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05
CONNIE
WACO COTTON MARKET.

WACO Texas. December Market
steady
Receipts to-day. nett til bales, gross. o'y
tnlnl tn AAIn- n p hAlns
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05

ing Joy and happiness To their homes
Red. rosy checks ON our mothers
and haho> makes u forget all uut
SORROWS.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05
GALVESTON COTTON MARKET


GILvE.ros December 4-spot cotton closed
quiet quotations unchanged
GROSS receipts. 6O9l; sales, 79s EIpors.
iI22: shipments cosstwise. o. stock i0l o3i.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05
GENERAL COTTON RECEIPTS

GALvErrOS. December The fOllOwiuV is
ii comparative statement of cotton receipts a
the principal markets to-day aui the same dste
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05
NsW ORLEANS COTTON MARKE1


NV OHLtANs7 Uf0UmNHf I-FUIUfrt NToTF7
iHlI ruled steady closing quiet, but stead g.
RlmL M y InInt InMnr-
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET


NV YoRH. December Futures cIos"
Iuici. hut steady. December + point lower
september point htgher-"thcr- unch"ugri
sales du "a.
.rL..- tuLI.,.1.,.. u q. ihr nnnlnlInnE
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05

Prescriptions ana family recipes are
now in order. Take them 10 W l..
fuckers "Lion Drug store VIII
have the best attention day or night
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05

Dcnnc'- robiuct pholo.. - por ~
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05

WNcO C0HI NlrdsI nOrINrH7I C0Tn'r
Of square Anthracite, Bilumiuou,
and cumberland Goals and coke. Nc
Ali,lcra .pcrialty. JouN FAELEH.
Big display Of hoIida, goods, At
sanger Bro.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05

Who're 70 get n good thing 20 to
the White Elephant and call for good
old Georgia peach brandy.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05

The White Elephant is the place
you are looking for, young msu.
only the best u everything kept.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05
chicago Gram Market.

'ueA1p, december 1.-THE wh.., market
wa ..s.y .IsiIsi to day. ilisg ',iy nr.s.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05

Look nj the new style, aud bar
gains in clothing at b. liaber,
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05

Loving Il swanson will III mp OIL
ce7 aud do all Kinds Of stair work in
the ncatest and most artistic manner.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05

For first class work 90 the Acade-
my Oi Art.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05
american Agrlculturist.l

ASTiCuituilSt'I
The picking and marketing of early fall
fruit is now in order. Special care should
be taken in handling early varieties OF APP
pies and pears; slight bruises lead to speedy
decay. Send only the best fruit to market,
we'll packed, AMI don't waste the rest, but
preserve by drying. The patent driers are
being improved each year, are Of all sizes
and prices and there is now no excuse Tor
wasted fruit, Most pears should be packed
before getting mellow; very few kinds,
like the Rostiezer ripen well on the tree
Where fruit tree has Nc been trained
from the start the best time to note what
pruning is needed is just after the fruit is
picked The cross limbs and shoots will
then make themselves noticeable, AMI can
he cut out, or, if large, marked with Il
string for late fall pruning. Saleable cur
rant Lushes are now ready for
digging and Keeling in, to await
sale or shipment. Make cuttings when
the plants are dug, and set them as soon
as the ground is ready. Blackberry ard
raspberry canes, which have tinishel'fruit-
ins, should be cut away. If the growing
shoots have been properly pinched they
ought now to be very stoc'iy, AMI show
thrifty sidc-shoots. Tie new strawberry
bed should he carefully watched. II any
plant shows feeble growth, taIe 1t out and
replace it with strong one. The secret OF
big berries, and plenty, next season, is Wig
orOuS growth this fall Gave a weekly 81 -
ply of liquid manure, AMI plenty OF water
at all times. if the weather is dry. In MR.
keting choice grapes clip out with the scis-
sors anv defective or bruised berries. Study
the taste and needs of VOur market and
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05

For a po5t0ilce-any gool-sized card
board box will do for this purpose. The lid
should be Fastened to it, so that when it is
stood up it will open up like a cupboard
door; it must he closed 10y means of n button
and a loop of elastic. In the top of the box,
as it stands up, and in the upper end Of the
door. a slit must be cut out about an inch
wide and from five to six inches long, so as
to allow of the posting of small parcels but
vet not large enough to admit of chlld's
hand, while On the door of the poStofiice
should lie written tho times of the post.
Most children are fond Of writing letters to
one another, and this will, of course, give
rise to q grand manufacture of note paper,
envelopes and postal cards, and they will
call forth all their ingenuity in designing
and coloring monogramS and crests for their
note paper and envelopes. An envelope
must be taken carefully TO pieces to form a
fiat pattern; then those cut from 1t have to
be folded, gummcd togo her, and a touch of
gum put on the tipof the flap; monogram
to correspond with the note paper must be
drawn on it, and finally, they must be done
up in neat packets, say half-dozen in each
1t is wonderful what occupation this postbox
will afford where there ID large party OF
children: of course, n Iostman must be
chosen, and a bag must be made Tor the
letters, and so on.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05

|Iall lore AliltIltun
The newspaper reports on the death of the
valuable COW Princess J, belonging to Mrs.
Shoemaker, stated to be from lung trouble,
brought several gentlemen breeders and 9th
ers interested in the valuable 1--we stocH of the
state TO consult Dr.. Ward, the state veteri-
MARIAN as to the nature of the disease. He
found the entire herd, with the exception of
two bulls and one COW, out at pasture, and
in apparent good health. The bulls looked
splendid. The COW in one of the stables was
suffering from garget and enlarged knee
ionts-a chronic case. The dairyman gave
the doctor FULL particulars Of the cows
death, which was from effects of overtaxa
ton of the system during the late butter
tests, or, in other words, as the doctor putSit,
from making the COW into an extraordinary
milking machine and then trying to return
her to the ordinary dairy cow. Value Ii,
the other noted cow as a butter-maklng
creature, died three weeks ago from the
same cause or causes. DR.. Ward says such
severe tests must at all times under
mine the constitution of robust animals,
and the two splendid creatures were of that
class. Princess made forty pounds
twelve ounces Of butter in seven days.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05

Another way for the farmer tohave some
thing to do, and something to sell in the dull
months is to winterfatten beeveS for sale.
Feed tine product, of tn, farm on the farm.
1t is better to let them walk IF than to
haul them off. The manure will Ce saved
where it is most needed, and returned to
the home soil.
The live agricultural college of Kansas,
at Manhattan in that state, has been
making some useful experiments in the
winter feeding of stock. The trial has
proved one thing conclusively That is,
that corn, grount cob AM all, is far better
for fattening ca tie than the grain alone.
1t keeps the animals digestive organs in
better condition. Every farmer should
have his own corn crushing mill at home on
tie ground. The winter fattening of beeves
l., to be recommended to farmers too far
away from market to grow winter and
early vegetables. There are always ways
to turn an honest penny, winter as well as
summer, for the farmer who has ''gump-
ton" Thank heaven for gunption
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05
COWS AND BIRDS,

The birds hop around upon the grass in
nose, while she Is iii pasture, and hardly
take the trouble to get out of her way. In
wild regions whore the birds have not been
scared away and killed by cruel boys who
are called civilized, the littlc creatures are
So tame that they may be taken in the hand
Will, they sit around the cows nose.
One curious tact | have not yet told you.
The COW bird never builds a ne st of its own
1t is a lazy creature, not at all good
housekeeper. Cow birds do not mate to-
gether, male AMI female, and raise their
family like other feathcred creatures. The
female simply watches around till she
catches some other bird or its
nest Then she slips slyly in and
lays her own egg in the other
birds nest. Strange to say, the rightful
owner does not find out the trick. She
never knows but the COW birds egg is her
own. She sits upon the eggs, her own and
the strangers. But the cowbirds egg
matches first. Then the oldest thing hap
pens. The other silly bird begins to think
her own egg, are bad, and are not going to
hatch at all. So she ceases paying any at
tention to them at all, but sets in and be-
comes a most devoted mother to the young
cowbrd, that isn't any kin to her. 1t is
tough on her own young ones, but the little
cowbird wouldn't get any bringing up at
all if it waSn't for this stepmother
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05
Wire Fences Struck by Lightning.


We learn that there have been many cases
of stock being killed lately by electricity in
pastures by the lightning striking wire
fences. Electricity runs along fences some
times 100 reds, and where cattle o.. horses
are standing near the fence they are killed
We learn from an officer of an insurance
company that not long since six head Of
cattle were killed, which, from the position
in which they were found lying, none of
them could have been nearer than ten feet
from the fence, anil some fifteen feet
From the fact that the fence posts OPP
posite the cattle and for forty rods on
either side were split and shattered,
showed they were killed by heavy dis
charge of electricity. We do not know
any thing about the operations Of this subtle
fluid.
There are, however, various cases on record
where stock has been killed by electricity
running along the fence when they were
standing several feet distant. There Is
abundant opportunity for the electricity to
descend to the grount on every post but
owing to the better conducting power OF
the wire, it continues along the fence. Why
it should leap from the fence to stock ten or
fifteen feet away. will take a scientist toex-
PLAIN. But the fact il beyo dispute. II
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05
Things to DO and to Know.

Florida is the melon patch of the world
Clos, confinement is very injurious to
young bulls. 1t stunts their development
and makes them ugly tempered
The Farm Economist says a whole fruit
farm is not as dangerous in cholera sea
son as one unclean back yard.
Hog cholera ras been in England for over
twenty years, yet it is stated that it has
lately broken cut there for the first TIM
The best butter is advancing:in price at
last The poorest ought to be given away
for soap grease by the SLOUGH who makes it.
0There are 900 kinds of pears, 1,5OO sorts
of apples, $50 plums, more than $50 varie-
ties of gCoSeberries and about l2j straw
berries.
Now is the time when the farmer who
sowed corn to cut up the green stalks for
feed for his cows is glad of it. Give one
feed of il a day.
A tomato vine at Plant City, Fla,
covered a spot seventy-two feet in circum-
ference, and bore all last winter without in
jury by cod.
The Poultry World thinks there is one
thing that nature does not supply, and
which civilization has rendered necessary
to fowls IL is charcoal A charred ear OF
corn will make the hens happy.
Baking is most excellent way Of cooking
green corn. All its sweetness is thus pre-
served. The husks are not removed til
cooked; then strip them back and cut of
the butt with a strong knife, as the hssi
will make it difficult to break
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05

The old theory of earthquakes and vol
canoes is that they are caused by the squirt
ing out and stopping over at times OF an M
terror molten mass which Is tounl at greater
or less distances below the thick crust OF the
earth's cool outer surface. late writer
says the theory that he interior OF the earth
is composed of melted redhot mass mus
be abandoned. The new idea is that there
are three parts to the carth's substance.
First, in the center Is great, solid nucleus.
About this is a ring OF sem .-iluld matter
which forms viscid or sticky mass. Gu
side OF this is solid earth crust. Inc ring OF
layer OF vscid substance is thus compresse
between two solids. 1t slips around slowly
as the earth moves. The motion OF this III
ternal viscid layer causes upheaval or de-
preston in the earth'S surface, according Il
different p )rtiCns are more or less yielding.
Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are
accoun, Ell for on the thery of electrical dis
turbances. IL is well known that electrical
currents are constantly passing and repass-
ing through the earUn crust. Every tele-
graph operator knows that he cannot tee-
aph from one city to anoUher unless the
ends of his wire are connected with the
earth" That there are good and bad con
ductors of electricity Is no less well known.
If the current meets resistance IN the shape
of a bad conductor, it Is oDstructed III us
free passage, and melt' metals, causes
things to take fire, and plays havoc genar-
ally In Ike manner, lii the earth are min-
erals of different conducting power
Let US suppose, now,' says certain
writer, that a strong current Of electricity
passin. through the earth along a vein Of
mineral meets with the resistance Offered
by body whose capacity for conducting is
less, it naturally follows thai great heat is
developed the surrounding material b.
comes iucandescent or NETS, the earoh crus
expands and CRACKS the water from the sur
face penetrates to the de pths, is decomposed
into oxygen and hydrogen by the cleo
tricitv, and in other places reunitel 10y ex
posion the gases find vent through the
crater of the volcano ami tbs lava follows
propelled by the hydraulic pressure resting
upon it"
This writer suggests that if lightning rod.
were driven down into the earth to sutfi
Gent depth in earthquaAe regions, the accu.
mulateI electricity might pass harmlesSly
off into tine ar. But now deep would it be
necessary to go:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05
FARM zGARD|EN
Looking Ahead.

This department has been run to very
poor purpose if it has not helped to make
plain the immense advantage to the farmer
of varying his crops, SO that II one thing
fails on him something else will DO there
to take its place. He should never put all
his eggs into one basket, as has often been
said.
There are things to be commended, es-
pccially TO the farmer living near towns and
cities Some OF them are poultry, frult,
butter, milk cream and vegetables. IL a
man has suitable grounds for gardening
nothing will pan out better than early yege'
tables. Lettuce caulihower and cabbage
are substantials, and can be depended on
every time. But to get the earliest they
must b. planted in the fall and wintered
over in cold frames. This process Is not
difficult, is easily learned, and will furnish
paying occupation to the idle farm hand In
winter.
From the 10th to the 9th of September is
the time to SOW the seed IN the open ground.
Spinach, sprouts and kale for greens
should be sown at the same time. Near a
largo city an acre of kale will bring some
times as much as 500.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05

United States Agricultural Commissioner
Colman has out his report for August The
long stretch of heat we have had this sum
mer has been accompanied with rains, and
therefore been good for corn. The prospect
Tor thaC great crop has not been letter since
1880 In some parts of the country, notably
in Illinois and North Carolina, the crop
promises to be the largest ever known.
As to wheat-we, the less said about
wheat the better There will be enough 10
bread this great country, with not much to
send over to the subjects of the etlete de,-
potisms, and the price will be very high
when nobody has any to sell. The prospect
for spring wheat has fallen Off since July.
There will be better crop of oats than
there was last year. Cotton promises to be
the best in ten years, except in 1880.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05

A chemist OF Brest fas resulrected an old
idea about tho disposal of the dead. He
merely rubs the corpse with plum.ago, sus-
ponds it i'll an electric copper bath, and lol a
fine coating of copper is deposited all over
it. TIE corpse, it is sa d, bsing thus wholly
shut off from air will be thoroughly pre-
served and remain forever. Fruits AMI
flowers have been preserved intact in this
way. Bunches of grapes treated with the
copper bath are used as decorations for the
ceilings and triezework OF dining rooms, and
the effect is extremely artistic. Lilies have
been immersed in the bath and delicately
coated with dusky, shining metal.
By this method a corpse becomes con-
verted into copper statue A man might
electroplate his deceased mother in-law, and
have her always near him. A husband
might leave it in his will that he should be
thus copper-coated and set up as a bronzs
statue in his family library. Then. if his
widow wishes to marry again, he will be on
the spot as an awful warning and example.
Persons who cannot afford to electroplate
their dead with copper may use zinc. Poor
relations may be disposed of in this way.
Zinc is good enough for them.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05

be stock stood along tho fence, which u
often the case, Is Is almost certainly fatal.
A way might be easily and cheaply fixed
for the electricity to descend to the earth by
a wire running down the side of the posts
deep into the damp earth, and in this way
secure the safety of stock. Wire is going to
be used for fences, and devices should be in
vented for making fence more safe Tor
stock. If cattle were in close lot or corral,
with wire fence, and it were struck all OF
the stock would stand a chance of being
killed. A few dollars spent in aids to con-
duct the electricity to the earth would be
cheaper than paying insurance premiums to
insure stock. With such an Instrument as
lightning rod peddlers carry with them to
make holes to put down their rods, the com
mon fence wire could easily be put down
ten feet, which would be good conductor,
and save the lives of valuable stock. Let
farmers who have valuable stock incloseu
by wire fence think of these ideas.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05

At least, the little bird is great friends
with the cow, and the COW does not seem to
mind it. Perhaps she knows of what use it
is to her This little creature is found in
both the Americas, North and South,
wherever there are herds of cattle. When
our western plains were covered with droves
of buffalo, early settlers observed that these
were followed 10y swarmS Of little, dark, mud
colored BIRDS The colonlstS named them
buffalo birds But tho bison herds disap-
peared before civilization. Their places were
taken by vast herds of cattle that belonged
to ranchmen. After that the hockS OF birds
changed their quarters aud gave their
company TO the ranchmen's animals. Then
they were called cowb,rdS.
The br,ght-eyel, pert liStlo creature is Of
inestlmab.e value 10 the COW. 1t skips all
over her and perches sauclly upon her
horns, her head or her back. If you watch
you will see it packiug induStriouSly into
her body near the backbone. There is an
insect called the wayble which burrows into
the poor cows flesh, through the hide, and
causes her great torture. Wherever you
feel lump under the cows skin, there one
of these painful MARBLES is imbcdded. They
are also called Evolves" Wen, the cow
bird pecks into the lump with its sharp lit
tie b,ll, digs "a the insect and eats it. 1t
also detours tire ga flies an ether pests
that tormalt cattle in hot weather.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05
Eraud i'm Finding Irvine,

The high price of MANILA, from viii oh
binding twin) is made, has induced manu-.
facturers to seek cheaper substitutes Sisal
is the one most commonly used. 1t does not
make so slnootl a Irvine as MANILA, and
though it costs a little less per pound is
really dearest in the end, as it has IA heavier
body and does not go As many hundred feet
to the pound. The cheaper Irvine we have
also found much more liable to tangle OF
break in the binder, and little loss of time
of men and teams far outweighs the gair
from saving few cents In the price Of
Irvine used ON a field.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05
lNr,, -
Il IL Z. -.


The cut shows two Of the lest varieties of
cabbage for this purpose. Fig. l is the
Early Jersey Wakefield. Fig. Is Hender-
sons Early SUNNI r cabbage. This comes
about ten DAYS later than the Wakefield. 1t
should be sown about ten days later than
that.
Lettuce, kale, caulhower and cabbage
are all hardy, or nearly So They will live
in the open ground all winter If covered
with leaves, litter, or coarse manure. Let
tucs NAV also be brought to perfe ction
under cold frame sashes alone. IL will then
be ready for use in February and March.
But the main early crop should be wintered
over in the cold frame and planted out just
as soon as the ground is tit to work III
March--the first week in tnat month, usually.
Set the lants between the rows of cabbage
plants. PUTTING them out at the same time.
HE lettuce will mature in half the time the
cab! ace does and all be cut off and out of
The way The Butter and Curled Sllesia
are recommended by Peter Henderson as the
best early lettuce. The crop will be marketed
by the 1st of June.
A snug little income may be thus derived
from these four-lettuce, Eal,, caulitlower
and cab age in the spring and early sum
mer the very time when the farmers funds
run low. lis food is apt to run low about
that time, too The fresh green vegetab es
named will be a godsend along with his
steady dle0 of hog and homlny or beans and
dried apples.
Next week we shall give some directions
Tor making cold frames.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-05
st. Methodist


Pm in love with fair little maiden
With her eyes, with her lips, with bel
hands,
With her dozens OF dear little dimplcs;
And although she's petite
On her sweet little feet,
IT'S wonder to Inc how she stands.
And she loves me, this dear little maiden;
And her hands and her eyes, and her lips
And her dimple-, ali giving me welcome
In sweet, artlcsS way
Have their say, every day,
As to meet me she lovingly trips
Will she wed me, this sweet little maidenf
Bless you, no! That she will never do.
But, when have tod you the reason,
haven't fear
Twill appear to you queer;
For I'm thirty-Yhile she's only two!