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Reariag Calves,

A calf may be reared to make an ex.
cellent COW in the following way:
When it is weanad-and the sooner
this is done the better-and it is taught
to drink milk, it may be fed upon
SKINNED milk warmed to the heat of
the new milk and fed in sufficient guam
tity and no more. 1t is overlooking
which does most harm to calves. The
first month three quarts of milk three
times a day is enough, the second
month four quarts may be given at a
meal, and the third month six quarts
twice a day with drink of water at
noon. After two months it should be
taught to eat q little mixed bran and
corpmeal, and this may be gradually
increased until it gets a pint a day when
4 months old. The milk may be con-
tinued up to 5or 6 months if it is con-
venient, and lately it may be mixed
with an equal part of warm water. A
small quantity of meal should be given
always New York Times.
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Toxic Effect of Insect Powder.

Regarding the method of action of
this powder upon its victims, the fact
should he kept in mind that the lungs
or breathing apparatus of the insect
are very ditferentt to those of the vertc-
brate animal. Instead of lungs, as
we have, set apart in one portion of
the frame, for the definite object of
supplying oxygen to the blood after
the latter has become in need of it,
the insect has a central tube, connect
ed with the air by a ROY of o~rilices on
each side of its body, from which
smaller channels radiate to every part
of its circulation. The animal lung
two systems, as it were, of
circulatlon-the arterial and the VEN
ous. The insect has but Il single cir
culation, and the whole of his blood is
being constantly and fully brought
INTO contact with fresh supplies of air.
Hence the instant and powerful effect
of any toxic substance with which the
air may be impregnated. Thus an in
sect may be almost instantly killed by
the vapor of chloroform, or ether, or
prusslc acid. These facts are power
full arguments for the theory thatit is
the volatile constituents of insect pow
der which are fatal, and not the actual
contact, necessarily, of its particles.
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Prenarinr pntatn Seed.

Long before they are to be planted
the seed potatoes should be taken out
of the dark pits or bins in which they
are necessarily stored during severe
weather. Exposure to light for some
time before planting is very impor-
tant. If the planting is to be early.
the seed should be cut at once and
spread thinly in a light, warn room,
to allow the cut surfaces to harden.
The seed will then be much less liable
to rot if Il cold, wet time comes after
planting. The dampness in the soil
Will find its assaults on the seeds
checked by the dry, calloused surface
over the cut. If the potatoes are not
to be planted until late, cutting the
seed should be delayed until a few
days before planting. 1t is a difficult
matter to keep IL large quantity of cut
potato seed just right for a long time.
II put in heaps, barrels, or bags, some
of it will heat and spoil. If kept very
long exposed to light and air the
moisture will all dry out of the cut
pieces and they will appear like chips.
In a moist soil most of these will grow,
but, should Il dry time come just after
planting, there will be some failures.
But whether to be planted early or
late, seed potatoes should, from this
time on, be exposed to light and air.
The vigorous green shoots which will
be just ready to push out when the
seed is put in tine ground will be so
much gain, instead Of Il detriment, as
are the pale, thin sprouts which push
from potato seed in dark, warm places,
the latter robbing the potato of tho
substance on which the young plants
must first depend before they can put
forth roots for their own support.
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Advice to Young Married People.
The Culver for June.

The Culver for June.
"Drive gently over the stonesln
This piece of advice, which is frequent
ly given to inexperienced whips, may
be respectfully suggested to the newly
married. There are stony places on
the road to happiness, which. if not
carefully driven over. may upset the do
nestle coach. The first rock ahead
which should be marked Dangerous"
is the first year O. married life. Here.
especially, is the first step that costs:
as a rule, the first year either mars or
makes o marriage. During this period
errors may be committed which will
cast a shadow over every year that fol-
lows.
On awakening from sleep We feel put
out and rather cross. May not the
young husband and wife experience
feelings not entirely different when
they awake to reality from the.
dreams of courtship and the fasination
of the honeymoon? Everything must
once more be contemplated at the ordi.
nary manner of the world. once more
with subdued feelings spoken of. con.
sidered, and settled. For the first
time, husband and wife see each other
as they actually are. Each bring GER
tain pecularities into the married stat o
to which the other has to grow accns-
toned. They have now no longer to
live for themselves, but for each other,
and the lesson is not learned in a mo-
ment. In all things indifferent the hus-
band and wife must be willing to Weld,
however new it may be to them, how
ever different from what they them
selves thought. Self must be sacrificed
IN order thereby to gain the help of
another beloved existence. A lady
once asked DIR. johnson how in his
Dictionary he came to define pastern
the knee of o horse; he Immediately
answered, Ignorance, madame, pure
Ignorance" This is simply the expla-
nation of many an accident that takes
place at the commencement Of the mat
rimonial journey. The young couple
have not yet learned the dangerous
places of the road, and, as o conse-
quence, they drive carelessly over them.
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Horses Butcnered in France.

The curious liberation of the French
for horsetiesh as an article of food
would probably disappear before a
large importation of American beef.
Meantime, the tifty-eisht horse butch
ers in Paris have distributed to the
population of that city 9,271 horses,
asses and mules during the past year.,
against 6,865 of these animals slaught-
cred in 1889,
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IT is a significant fact that tie
eastern colleges which favor scien-
tific education instead of CLASH
steal have received the greatest
gain in the number of pupils. The
Institute of Technology and Cornell
University are particular illustrations of
this tendency, the former reporting 100
more students than they had last year,
and the entering class of the latter beng
larger than at Yale, and according to
reports about equal to that at Harvard.
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Like Wit,

Captain" said the Colonel, adj,
dressing his friend, II borrowed FIVE
dollars of you some time ago and now
to return the amount"
'Ah, my dear colonel, this REIN,
bursement is like wit Unexpseted.
you know"
.Isay,' continued the colonel, at0
return the amount would afford me
much pleasure, hMt as such q thing is
quite impossible. and as l am on the
financial stretohers I'd like to- strike
YOU for another fye.-ArkaHsaU
1raDeler.
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Defacing Bank Notes,

"a bank cashier has unusual op-
portunities for studying one curious
popularity of many people, viz: de
facing coins and bank notes." said a
local member of that happy guild.
Personal vanity is the motive in al
o every instance that such deface-
ment is made" continued the cashier.
See here. look at this pile of notes
I've keptfor fun" The cashier showed
a bunch of them, whose combined
value excited his visitors cupidity.
There were, indeed, funny specimens.
One of the bills bore, in exceedingly
fine writing, the following indorse-
ment:
o stranger, mayst not thou my Ill fate share,
And part with this, won r ghteousiy
In poker. Nay. sooner grin and bear
All taunts and g;bes. For thus wilt thou
Escape the ruinous state
Of thine respectfully. Jack Slade.
In the corner of another bill there
was executed in India ink, paled by
the touch Of many fingers, a
pia scattering the bright. broad pieces,
and under it Il pursy little man wear
ing a faint resemblance to Phil Ar
mour was gathering them INTO his lap.
an. Masters had written around it:
beware of the fate of the granger
who dallied at the b. of Il. and was
vanquished in a brief tussle!!"
Names in red. blue, green and black
ink were written in all parts of bills,
sometimes across the foreheads of the
faces printed in the body of the notes,
many having some epigrammatic
sentence tackled on it. With coins it
was similar. Names were engraved,
written out in ink; dates and initials
cut into the metal. Some of them
were irretrievably mutilated, as for
instance a so gold piece. the eagle of
which had its wings clipped so as to
make it look more like a plucked crow.
II think" said the informant, that
just about n IN every four bills is
marked in some way, and one in every
ten ins."-Ihtladelphia Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-05
A Real Tough Man.
New York Sun.


'Unlucky George Taylor's got another bad
clip, said an employee of the Central railroad at
the Forty -second-street depot yesterday. "He's
freight brakeman. and has been on the road
three years. In that time he has been banged
around and battered up enough to have killed
any else. Yesterday he was knocked off his
car by striking bridge near Albany, and he
was found insensible on the track with
broken collar bone, three broken
ribs, dislocated hip, and covered
with bad bruises. Only three days ago he
struck bridge near Poughkeepsie, and had his
head laid open for three inches: 1t isn't more
than two weeks ago that he had two fingers
taken off while coupling cars, and the same day
he was caught between the bumpers and
squeezed so badly that he had to lay up for
three days.
''Once he was in caboose that was run into
by another train, and he was covered so COM
pleteiy up in the wreck that it was an hour be-
fore they got to him. He was scraped and cut
and bruised from head to foot, and had broken
arm, besides having pine splinter eight inches
long showed clear through his thigh. He has
been hurt by explosions, collisions, run-offs,
couplings, bridges, and every other sort of acct
dent that car happen 90 a railroader."
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county. 1t is clever study of architecture and
color, with reedy pool in the foreground. and
the parish church and village nesting among
the trees in the distance. The scene is emf
nently English.
Several American friends" said Parton,
scame to see the picture and without exception
every one of them pitched upon the bridge to
wonder at. In America, away in the country,
that bridge would have been a wooden one, and
some of the planks would have been loose. And
my American friends were full of surprise at the
massiveness and beauty of the structure, consid-
ering it is merely country bridge over pool y
But this solid building is very characteristic of
England.
.sDedham is a very old-fashioned place, ehg'
eyes. it is the village where General Sher-
mans ancestors are buried-the village that he
visired, you know, soon after the war"
THE subject of paper in Harper's or the
Century,
YES and stayed at the old inn where Sher-
man stayed, and talked to the landlady, the old
hostess who was mentioned in the article. A
fine old lady. Are you an American she asked
me. Yes said. DO you know an American
gentleman named Sherman | think he was
general L said / guessed he was indeed a gen.
eral, and that knew all about him, whereupon
she would talk of nothing else, and nobody
else. He was very happy here she said.
very he would roam about the place and come
in and lie on this sofa'-pointing to very com
Portable old bench-'and then he would get
up and go out again, and leave his money lying
ali about. and, OH he was the incest gentleman
ever saw or hope to see. suspect he was very
happy in this oldworld village, his ancestral
home, coming here he did just after the
turmoil and horrors of great war, and reallz-
ing, as he would here to the very full, what
peace means"
Mr.. G. III. Boughton has a fine residence on
Campden Hill. His studio is a welllighted
room with gallery at one end He was at work
when | called, on the most ambitious of his re-
cent pictures. The subject is Milton and Mar
vel, and the work illustrates the later days Of
the poets life. He informed me that he was
painting the same subject for America, though
his American picture will not deal with Marvel
1t will be simply Milton and his young wife re-
ceiving visitors, and entirely out-of-door pic
ture. The artist shows me pencil sketch of a
mantel-piece designed for pictures, bric-a brac
and books, which he has been doing the library
of New York house. We then discuss several
notable paintings in the studio and he directs
my attention to portraits of Milton and Marvel,
published in the Memoirs of Thomas Hollis" a
large quarto volume originally intended for pri-
vate circulation. He has consulted the book for
his Milton picture. While we are all admiring
the engravings he calls my attention to the pref
ace of the work which says that Thomas Hollis
was the son of London merchant who assisted
to endow Harvard University We agree that
he was a fine old Englishman, and that Harvard
is worthy of its founders JOSEPH HATToN.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-05
Fame Purely Local.

Fame is purely local There is no such thing
universal celebrity When the hostler begged
the bishop to shake hands with the bruiser in
the stableyard, (''he'll let yer") the worthy man
simply gave expression to the relative opinions
regarding prelates and prize-fghters held in his
circle. When Victor Hugo witnessed marriage
at marie recently the registrar nearly brought
on an apoplectic fit by mildly asking the
''maitre" whether he spelled his name
with or without st." He was
unconscious of the existence of the
poet couple of pious pilgrims from
New England once visited the house of Cullen
Bryant, reverentially examining every hole and
corner, greatly to the delight of the poet, but
went away very wrathful when they discovered
that they had mistaken the place. They wanted
to see the home of Billy Bryant. the negro
minstrel None of the farmers close to Tenny-
sons house could tell an American tourist any
thing more about him than that they 'heerd as
ow he wrote poetry books for the Queen"
When the pedestrian asked the rustic for
Shakspeare's house. he was asked who he was
and so little do the Norwich inn keepers appre-
cate the fame of Sir Thomas Browne that when
a recent visitor inquired for the house said to be
his, he was referred to the local directory,
which contains the names of all the resident
gentry"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-05
Why, Buy the Rat.
Washing tOn Letter

Mr. James Wadsworth is connoisseur in all
that makes moneyed New York happy, and when
a friend wished an especially good rat terrier he
went at once to Mr. Billy Travers, the expert,
to be posted. He listened gravely, and took him
to well-known dog fancier, picked out
a dog and thought his work over,
But his friend insisted on testing the
dogs capacity before taking him home,
and off they went to a rat pit, where amidst
much enthusiasm. the little animal disposed of
many rodents At last, however, one old gray
back tackled the dog and-thrashed him. The
new master fairly tore his hair and was loud in
Traverse and angrily demanding what he should
do now.
..D-d d-doq' stammered Travers, with the ex-
element of the fight still on him; why, bb-bbuy
the rat 70
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-05
THE YOUNG MANS CANE.
Fashion Running to Thicker Sticks and Dark
Woods with Buck Horn Handles.

Philadelphia Times.
Among the things that interest young mems
fancy IL the spring time are canes. Almost CO.
temporary with the Easter bonnet, and often
before, the spruce young man in almost every
station of life brings out his cane On fair Sun
days and in the middle of the day, on Chestnut
street. during the promenade hours nine out of
every ten young men of fashionable pretentions
may be seen stalking or toying with cane gen.
orally with big horn silver handle. There
is decided change in the style of
canes this season. The very swell cane is thicker
than ever-fully twice as thick as the cane in
vogue year or two ago, and the tendency is
toward dark woods. Malacca is quite the rage,
and more canes sold made of that wood than
any other. A later thing, however, is to have
canes of the natural wood, without the bark
stripped off. These are now popular in London
and New York and are likely to be so in Phil
adelphia.
Small round hammered silver heads are much
in demand and upon these the fashionable young
man usually has his monogram and address
engraved, but later thing is the buck
horn handle, partially blazed in places,
with the handle usually notched in
front and often extending into what is known in
London as "crutch." The crutch cane will be
the dude cane of the season and the 'swell" way
of carrying it is under the arm, with handle be-
hind and the point projecting downward.
Leading jewelers. who deal IL high price canes
say that an unusual demand has sprung up
among fashionable young men for gold headed
canes, which are no longer in demand for old
gentlemen, such presentations having very
much gone out Of fashion. Some of these gold
headed canes have dainty handles, deliberately
chased.
Among the men who sell canes on the street
corners and in the hotels, now so numerous, and
in the cane stores as well, the style of cane
mostly sold is of natural wood, all one piece,
with crook, or what is known 'pistof'
handle. A general knock-around cane, much
sought after but very scarce is the true Irish
blackthorn with the thorns smoothed off.
A curious fact but little known is that dagger
and sword-canes have come into use to a most
extraordinary extent and some eff the fashion
able young men carry them. good many
young men also affect canes that have very
small photographs inside the handle that can be
seen when held to the light
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-05
What an Tighty-T0n Gun Costs.

In the House Of Commons, last night Mr.
Brand said: Zone Of the guns of her Maiesty's
ship Infexible is unserviceable in the its present
condition, but it is repairable 1t is muzzle-
loader 1t has steel tube with outer coils of
wrought iron. 1t has an enlarged powder cham
Der. 1t was manufactured at the Royal gun
fired after being mounted in position on board
ship believe in 1880. 1t has fired eighty-six
rounds up to date. 1t is proposed to replace this
gun by the reserve ION loan to Shoeburyness for
an experiment. against armor plates) The re-
serve gun is of the same design. There are six
of these guns in use-four in the Infiexible two
in Dover Turret-and beyond this there are two
reserve guns. To refine the damaged gun will
not cost more than f400.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-05
Laying Away Her Darling.

+
A strange sight, even for Tucson. was pre-
sented on the streets yesterday afternoon--a
woman carrying child's coffin on her shoulder,
followed by lot of little girls. The coffin, iudg
ing from its size was evidently empty. other
wise she could not have marched along with it as
she did. Later along the scene was reversed,
and the coffin was carried by four little girls,
followed by several women 1t is no uncommon
sight to see a coffin borne to the grave on the
shoulders of man, but a woman with coffin
on her shoulders is a novel sight even here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-05
The Lady and the Dog.

Among the passengers on train No. - on
Leslie, the celebrated publisher of Leslie's illus
trated periodicals.. She was on her way home
from New Orleans, accompanied by her business
manager and lady travelling companion. Mrs.
Leslie's chief companion, however, was hand
some dog, which she fondled and caressed with
motherly love and affection When she sat
down to dinner at Eornellsville, she carried the
dog to the table in her arms, and frequently fed
it from her own plate with her knife and fork.
When it became too forward and thrust its nose
into the gravy on her plate she would tap it
gently on the nose with her fork, and then use
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~.



From Fitzjohns avenue along the Finchley
road tpast the houses of Charles Wyndham, the
comedian. and of Beatty Kingston, the we'll
known special Of the Telegraph, and translator
Of Buschs book on Bismarck, walked into the
heart of the st. Johns wood district and called
upon Ernest Parton, the American landscape
artist He has returned from New York. Mr..
Quartley. the American marine painter, has
been occupying his studio during his
absence, and done there some very
excellent work, which has gone across
the Atlantic for exhibition on your side
m. Quartley is, / hear, trying TO finish picture
aor the English exhibition. hope he viii sue
eeed The Tile Club. of New York, know his
capacity he has. has done some ID, delightful studies
me, among other works. lovely realization Of a
bit of the English country of Surrey.
sit 10 q study made In Dedham in Essex. y
he said II took the sketches to America and
worke4 on the pictures in New York.
The rilief object in the landscape is a massive
I'D hE1sk bridge. which joins Essex to the next
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-05

II took ordinary edition of the plays and
set to work to see if could find any arithmeti-
cal relation between these significant words. I
toiled for months at the task, but l was forced
to give it up in despair. l remembered then
having read somewhere that the paging of the
folio of 1923 was very curious and irregular. I
said to myself could the cipher hold any relation
to this paginga l know that ordinarily the pag.
ing of book was the work of the printer and
that as rule, it was accurate. If that accur-
acy had been departed from, there was some
reason for it, With some difficulty procured a
copy of the fac-simile of the folio of 1923, pub
lished by Lionel Booth. An exact copy of the
original in every detail, made, l think, by tho
photo-lithographic process, I turned to
the paging. 1t is indeed, most curious
The book, instead of being con
tinuously PACED from beginning to
end, is divided into three parts, comedies, histo
RES and tragedies, and each of these subdivis-
ions is separately PACED. This is not all. Page
fortysi of the second part. the beginning of the
first part of Henry w. is followed by page fifty
nine evidently intended to throw the cipher
hunter off the track by leading him to believe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-05
Exclusively for the Elite,

PhlIadelphia PreSS.
The lady's maid of the period is expected to
wear black Or dark blue cashmere dress of ex-
IRENE nattiness and severity, white lawn apron,
tucked across the bottom and edged with en-
broidery and large bow on top of her head,
matching the color of the dress.