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, 1885-04-21

The nuts are inside the scales Of the
cone. In the third year after the tree
flowers the cones come to maturity. It is
oEe OF the handsomest ornamental trees ever
grown, besides the value of the nuts. These,
like almonds, are used for dessert and in
cooking. The trunk of this beautiful confer
rises straight from 90 to 10 feet, without a
branch; then it throws off luxlriant foliages
in a parasol-top shape. The wood is valuable
as timber. This would be a great addition 10
our southern pines, both for its use and
beauty. 1t will not, however, grow in the
northern states. The cold kills it.
, 1885-04-21

TIE VoITAIc Belt Co.. of Marshall,
Mich, offer to send their celebrated
ELEcTBO-VoLTAIc BELT and other
ELECTRIC APPLIANCES on trial for thirty
days, to men lyoung or old affiliated
with nervous debility. loss of vitality and
manhood, and all kindred troubles. Also
for rheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis, and
other diseases. Complete restoration TO
health, yigor and manhood guaranteed.
No risk is incurred rs thirty days trial is
allowed. Write themat once for Illustrated
pamphlet free.
, 1885-04-21


Mndan,e Opossum never leaves her children
at home 10 burn themselves up or get into
mischief when she goes visiting, but, like a
careful mamma, she takes them with her.
You ave heard the expression, "Playing
'possum.n When this animal is caught it
will curl itself up and pretend to be dead
Though knocked about and moved it will
keep perfectly still, as though there was
not IA hreath of life in it. But if you let
it alone, and go away and leave it, the crea-
ture will scamper off to the woods in a hurry.
1t is not very much dead
The opossum looks something like a pig in
the face and in the shape of its body. 1t is
about as high as a large cat, but much
heavier. 1t is covered with long. grayish
fur. You would know one from this do
s~cription II you were to see it. You would
recognize the long, hairless, hooked tail, that
is something like the stiff lash Of a whip.
The flesh Of the animal is good for food.
1t tastes something like young pig. White
people, however, are not fond of it. But to
the negro nothing tastes much better than
nice, fat, baked 'possum.
, 1885-04-21
PERSONAL MENTION.

Boney Earnest is owe from Rawlins.
Homer Walker is in from Horse Greek.
A. b. Conner, of Rawlins, is in town.
A. W. Bruuner, of Laramie, is in the
city.
Il. w. Murphy, cf North Platte, is in
city.
j.. G. Rankin. of Rawlins, is visiting
the city.
Mr.. Grin Miller left yesterday for
Omaha.
James Badding, OF Fremont, Neb., is
in town.
H.. A. Noyes arrived from Horse creek
yesterday.
Mr.. Thomas Bnnson has returned
from Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. |. N. Bard are in from
their ranch.
MI. G. A. Searight arrived from Texas
Sunday evening.
Mr.. N. Robertson arrived from Denver
Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Jones have re-
turned from the east.
Mrs. David Miller and family left for
the east yesterday.
George II. Corner, of Massachusetts,,
is at the Railroad hotel.
DIR. David II. Moore of the University
Of Denver, is in the city.
Prof Samuel Aughey has gone to
western parts of the territory.
Land Officer Inspector Sanbom ar
rived in the city Sunday evening.
Mr.. ]. w. Hammond returned last
evening from a short eastern trip.
Rev. r. Z. Field, pastor of the Presby-
terrain church, went to Colorado yesterday.
Lieut.. Jno. o. Finley, of Washington,
inspector of the signal service, is in the
city on official business.
Mrs. J. +. jenkins and family have
gone to Wisconsin ON a visit with friends.
They will be absent several weeks.
Miss Fast, daughter of Judge A. b.
East, of this city, left yesterday to take
charge of the school at Thomas McGee's.
Mr.. c. NJ. Cooper, who wenS to Wash
ington Territory last fall, has returned to
Cheyenne. He says Wyoming is good
enough country for him.
Rev. II. II. Gross of Denver, Rev.
Daniel Staver of Greeley, Judge Barrett
of Greeley. Rev. G. N. Kellogg Of
Boulder and Mr.. Thompson of Boulder
arrived from Colombo last evening and
will take part in the installation of Mr..
Jennings this evening.
At the Metropolitan hotel NJ +
Warner and wife, Ogden; Lewis Richard
son, Neb. o II Archer, IL II McJustice.
Medicine Bow; Jno S Kerr, Chas G
Hunter, Elk Mountain; D B Budd,
Green River; II ? Hundy, TN Aker,
Fort Collins.
At Dyer's hotel Lewis Richardson,
Clarks, Neb. James Bannister, Indianola;
Fred Mathyas, J A KoOgle, Denver; S
l. Warner, Grand Island; c l. McSheedy;
Denver; w II Henry and wife, Mexico;
VIM Wilson, New York Everett w Nep-
tune, Hillsdale.
At the Inter Ocean: j G Mofitt,
Boulder, p Paverich, Denver; II Woriyer,
NE w Gibbs, London; r NJ Friend,
Milwaukee; Harvey Ackuland, Cincinnati;
X G Head, Trinidad; T II Lawrence,
Las Vegas; VIM Miller, Canada; N S
Bills, Denver.
, 1885-04-21

Manufactured only by the California
Fig Syrup Co. San Francisco Cal. is
Natures Own Ture Laxative. This plea
sent liquid fruit remedy may be had Of
Hunt x Whipple druggists. Sample bot
ties free and large bottles at fifty cents or
one dollar. 1t is the most pleasant,
prompt and effective remedy known, 10
cleanse the system, to act on the Liver,
Kidneys and Bowels gently y~etthoroughly;
to dispel Headaches, Colds and Fevers; to
cure Constipation, Indigestion and kind
red ills.
, 1885-04-21

Below is a stanza of poetry. Each of the
divisions Of jumbled letters is a word. Trans
pose them, try TO place them, and when you
finally get them straight, they viii make a
very musical bit of rhyme. After you have
done that find out from what poem by Whit
tier the words are an extract:
Fro weske het doucis dnh kedra eth shill,
Nal vedex het laves twin arinnig,
Adm lal eth wsodo wear ads with STINT,
Mad LA bet brosok palincoming.
, 1885-04-21

.ER OPossuM AND NOuNu oNEs.
49, awhile the little ones ge5 too large
for tA-r pouch. But their wise mother
knows just where to put them then. She re-
members what her mother did with her when
she was an infant. The opossnm has what is
called a prehcnsile tail. 'Prehensiler means
able to take hold OF. The opossum tail is
long, strong and hairless. AT the end it can
curl around and catch hold Of things exactly
as you curve your fingers TO grasp something.
You have seen monkeys swinging by their
tails in cagesi Well, that is the sort Of tail
the opossum has. 1t can swing from branch
to branch Of a tree by its tail. When the
young opossums outgrow their leather cradle
their mother lets them out. She bends her
own long, strong tail up over her back Then
she says TO her children:
Hitch oni'
The little things scamper up on her back.
They curl their own little tnils around her
big one. exactly as a child clings with its
fingers around ones nee. Then away they
go, a Jolly family, Wit a row Of little tails
curled around a hi- one.
, 1885-04-21

While at the breakfast table a little girl
made loud and repeated calls for buttered
toast After disposing Of a liberal quantity
she was told that too much hot buttered
toast would make her Ill. Looking at the
dish for a moment, she thought she saw her
why out Of the difficulty, and exclaimed:
well, give me anozzer piece and send for 70
doctor
, 1885-04-21


Have you ever tried cultivating peanutsl
II not, plant some this year. They will make
an excellent dessert for the farmers table in
winter, roasted fresh, as they must be. More
over, they will grow wherever corn can be
raised They are one OF the chief field crops
in Virginia The peanut is not raised only
to be eaten, as country youths at circuses are
apt to Imagine. Millions of dollars worth
are sold every year for the oil. The nuts con-
tain all the way up TO 40 per cent. of this. 1t
is used as a table oil instead of that of the
olive, and is quite as good The oil is largely
used also in soap making 1t makes a gooi
Illuminating and lubricating oil as well. Per
haps in time peanuts, too. will become one OF
the important export crops Of the Unitel
States. There are no factories that we know
OF at present for pressing out the oil, but there
is no reason why there should not be.
a N CULTURE.
Plant as soon as tina ground is thorouyhlv
warm and dry. and free from frost Just
after corn planting is n good rule. A Iimey
soil is the proper one. II not sufficiently 80
by nature it must be made so by lime fertil-
mrs. A light clayey soil in the limestone
regions is good. The earth must he made
very fine, and free from. clods. This is to
leave room for the nut pods to penetrate the
ground. Throw up small ridges about as
laI Ap1II A1 corn lows fluILen the rluEp
slightly and drop the seed i2 inches apart. A
s'dotter,r as it is called in the south, is used
TO mark the places for the hills. We sbarl
give an illustration of this ''dotterr soon.
The holes for the seed are made only from
one to two inches deep. One seed is dropped
in each hole and covered only to the depth Of
the hole, making the ground even-no deeper
than that. In about two weeks the Young
growths will be visible sufficiently to show
where replanting is necessary. Put two or
three kernels in the hole at replantine.
There are two kinds of peanuts. the red
and white. The white grows upon an erect
stem. aud admits of being cultivated with
the pillow. The red peanut brings the higher
price in market. Il Yields from 30 to 100
bushels TO the acre. The peanuts must be
carefully hulled by hand before being planted.
Cultivation lasts two or three months. The
red peanut, after it has blossomed, throws
out n pod which bends over towards the
| ground and finally buries itself. The earth
is thrown up about this variety; the white is
gwen level cultivation. The soil about the
plants is kept loose and free from weeds.
They are ripe in the hitter part of summer.
Run a furrow along each side of the white
kind, to loosen the roots, before lifting the
plants. The red may be simply pulled ND
like bunch beans. The plants are laid in the
sun for a day, till they wilt. Then they are
stacked. A writer in The Ih1iana Farmer
gives this method of stacking: A pole about
, 1885-04-21

To all who are suffering from errors and
indiscretions OF youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss Of manhood, &c, | will
send a receipt that will sure you, FREE
OF CHARGE. This great remedy was
discovered by a missionary in South
America. Send self addressed envelope
to Rev. Joseph T. Inman, Station D.,
New York
, 1885-04-21

- - Wht fAA - MS why
We want all our young people, boys and
girls both, to read this letter and think about
il. 1t Is written TO The Rural New Yorker:
Dear Uncle Mark have been thinking
about writing to you for a long time, but do
not heve much time l am IS years old; my
lather died a year ago last fall. He took
your paper for many years, and l have con-
tinued 10 take it; / like it very much. Idoa
good part Of the work on a farm Of 20 acres.
We hnve three COWS and a calf, that we are
raising, and two horses; we have a full blood
Devon coy that ! think a great deal of. We
raise a great many strawberries, raspberries,
~currants, peaches, pears and grapes, besides
corn, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, asparagus
and cueumbcrs. have made nearly IS bar
rels OF cucumbe pickles this winter. We
have u good many hens and three good sized
hen houses, two Of which l built myself. Our
hens are white and brown Leghorns; we raise
eggs entirely TO sell l take care of a school
house during the winter, besides making my
pickles and doing farm work, which keeps
me pretty busy. must say good-by now as
my letter is already long. Your affectionate
nephew, II. A. GIDDNGs.
Hartford county, Ct.
, 1885-04-21

And the efficacy of its action
have rendered the famous fruit remedy
Syrup Of Figs immensely popular. 1t
c~leanses and tones up the clogged and ie-
verish system, and dispels headaches, colds
and fevers. Sample bottles free and large
bottles for sale by w. N. Hunt.
, 1885-04-21

Our tailoring department Is now COM
plete with all the late novelties in fine for
eign and domestic fabrics. b. Hellman.
, 1885-04-21

Many Kansas farmers are arranging to use
bay and straw burners, to tax the place OF
stoves for coal aud wood.
, 1885-04-21

The largest stock OF fine brandies, old
whiskies, choice Lquelrs and super6ne
cigars ut George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets.
, 1885-04-21

Whooping cough is greatly relieved and
robbed Of all dangerous consequences when
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is freely
given. Sold by w. ~. Hunt.
, 1885-04-21

First we present an illustration of the
beetle. You will know it by the brown and
white stripes upon its back; two white, three
brown. The learned name Of the creature is
saperda bivittata. The beetle appears in
May and June, and lays its eggs at the foot
of the tree in June. It flies only by night,
In two weeks the worms hatch, and begin
boring into the bark. The laryn, or young
worm, is about an inch long when full
grown, larger at the head than the tail.
, 1885-04-21

Tho illustration shows on the left this
worm, on the right the pupa, or the insect in
the chrysalis state, just before it bursts into
the fly. The apple-tree borer lives a little
over three years. 1t is a long-lived creature.
Three years of this mischievous existence are
spent boring apple trees. The first summer
you peel of the dead bark Of the tree you
will find 1t and the outer wood Of the trunk
pierced with holes that seem to DO fun of
sawdust. h sawdust-like substance marks
the borcr, wherever found. The worm does
not attain its full growth till the end of the
third summer. At the beginning OF the fourth
summer it comes out a beetle, lays its eggs
and dies. Half a dozen worms in the bark
of a tree will girdle it. They bore around
and around, and finally penetrate the solid
wood. Reading of this pest, one under
stands what a pity it is that the pretty wood
pecker birds have been killed off.
REMEDIES.
1t is absurd to plug up tho holes where he
has already come out. Brush the trees in
May with soft soap thinned with water.
Brush the trunks thoroughly, from the Lase
several feet up. The creature usually stays
about the base. A oak Of hard soap in the
crotch Of the tree, where it will be washed
down by the rains, Is recommended by Mrs.
Treat. The borer hates soap, like a tramp.
In the fall examine the bark, cut through
where the holes are and pick the worms out,
il possible. II not, pour boiling water into
the upper end Of the burrow. IL will soak
through the sawdust cuttings and Kill the
worms.
, 1885-04-21
THE FARMER

In zeArrh Of a new home, where he can So
cure better returns for his labor, should re-
member hat the Wabash IL the most direct
ruute 10 Arkansas, Texas. Kansas, Nebraska,
tn.l All points South, West and Northwest,
me thst round land-cxplorcrs' tickets
~ very low rates are always on sale at the
ticket oiBcea. Descriptive advertising mat.
Ter Of Arknnaas and Texas sent free 70 all
hr 'lscanfs by addrcssing the General Pas
rEuerr Agent.
, 1885-04-21

Schnftler wagons, and a full line of hanl-
ware at Arp 4 conway's.
, 1885-04-21
OHIO INDIANA MICHIGAN
WABASH
ROUTE /!
THE TOURIST

Has long since chosen the wabash a. tho
fayoriie route TO all the summer resorts Of
the East, North and West, and winter re
aorts of the South, a. the Company has foi
years provided better accommodations ana
lIurc attractions than any OF its competitors
lie had AT reduced rates ut all principal
, 1885-04-21

ILLINOIS !CVlA MISSOURI
G. NJ. HAMPSON.
Commercial Agent. Denver. Colo.
, 1885-04-21

It Is not generally known that there is a
variety OF the pine family that baars edible
nuts OF excellent flavor, yet such is the tact
The tree is shown in our illustration.
, 1885-04-21
THE INVALID

VIII Col the Wabash the most convenient
F.4ia. - all the noted health resorts Of
flniaofe. Hissouri. Arkansas and Texas, and
tkAc The e. trnsIve through car system and
ehrcriar accommodations OF this popular
Inc wlii add greatly 10 his comfort While en-
r ute Pamphlet descriptive OF the many
celebrated mineral springs OF the West and
..uufh senf free 90 apnIcafiou.
, 1885-04-21
THE CAPITALIST

Can get the Information necessary TO secure
fafs aud profitable investments in agricul-
turu. stock raising. mining. numbering, or
any - the many iuyitlng fields throughout
The : 'util and West, BY addressing the IN
der.isn.d-
J.. CHANDLER,
Co sral f=sssa5sr E-dr~-st Iesut. 81. Lsai-. He
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nance. or for Or against the Jones bill.
Their wishes are not to be consulted. We
do not believe that a majority of the good
people of Sacramento favor the ordinance
which has brought such shame upon the
capital city and made its name a mockery
and by-word from one end of the State to
the other But if ninety-nine one-hun-
dredths of the good people Of Sacramento
favored the ordinance, it would only
demonstrate that ninety-nine kundrdths
of our citizens were ready to openly violate
law of their own making, and say to
their sons, at is true the law prohibits
this thing, and you should obey the laws,
for upon them is based the substructure of
our sovereignty as free people, but never
theless, as a composite body made up OF
law-abiding people, this city, Of which you
are a part, is very properly breaking a
State law" We trust the Legislature Will
pass the Jones bill That legislator has
done nothing more than his duty in intro
ducing it. If the houses refuse to make il
the law of the land, let them be consistent
and repeal the laws making gambling and
the keeping of banking games an ofense.
1t were far better to do that than to wink
at the subterfuge by which Sacramento, as
municipal corporation, violates a State
law. Let tie LeqisLatare do is dMtg.
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NEWS OF THE MORNING

In New York yesterday Government bonds
were quoted at 12l5s for As of 1907 1121a for as;
sterling, 81 64G4 S71%; 1O3 for SIS; silver bars,
1918.
Silver in London, 4g7sd; consols, 90 1850; 5
per cent United States bonds, extended, 105; Is,
12434; AS. 11514.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at S41&GS6 cents.
The middle Comstocks opened in San Francis
co yesterday morning with a further advance
which in the cases of Chollar and Hale x Nor
cross was marked; but on the regular cell prices
were lower, and the general market closed
weaker.
Thomas Lyons accidentally shot and danger
ously wounded himself at Newcastle, Placer
county.
Khartoum was captured by the Arabian reb-
els January Goth, and General Gordon is pris-
oner in the hands of the yictors.
Particulars of the massacre of Colonel Stewart
and party on the Nile some time ago are given
in a dispatch from London this morning.
A passenger train, upon which was the Prince
of Wales collided at Avignon, France, yester-
day, with freight train, but no one was hurt.
The sunrise gun" at Fort Douglass, Utah,
blew off Corporal Walter S. Dunn's hand yester-
day.
The polygamist prosecutions at Salt Lake con
tinue.
crazy man on Shaw Island, in the San Juan
archipelago, killed one of party who tried to
> capture him, when the others set fire to his
cabin, the lunatic perishing in the flames.
The two children who were lost in the Cas-
cade range, Oregon, have been found, nearly
frozen to death.
Mrs. Clement Toche was shockingly burned
near Livermore, Alameda county, last evening,
while kindling fire with coal oil.
Three European steamships are overdue at
New York and much anxiety is felt for their
safety.
a blacksmith of Stockton, Md. has fallen
heir to an earldom in England and an estate
valued at 100000.
Most of Chinatown in Columbia, Tuolumne
county, was burned Wednesday evening.
An agreement has been arrived at between
France and the African International Assoca.
ton.
sparring match Will take place in Toronto
Ont, on the 23d inst., between Mitchell and
Scholes.
The Illinois Republican Senatorial caucus las
night nominated General Logan for United
States Senator by reclamation.
At Camp Thomas, ~ 7, sunday night, Frank
Tarbell shot and seriously wounded Thomas
Pickett.
Thirty thousand people attended the World.
Fair in New Orleans yesterday
Mrs Bonham, her son and daughter, wert
found murdered near Radical City, Ks, yester
day morning.
a New York newspaper man has become Chic
of the Teton tribe of Indians.
a cooking main of nine battles took place
near New York last night, on which over IS 00t
changed hands.
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PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Napa county is to have an agricultural
fair society.
Tombstone has organized 4 iirst-class
dramatic organization.
Scarlet fever is playing sad havoc among
the little ones in Chico.
\ new county named Sierra Bonita i,
being organized in Arizona.
The citizens of San Juan, San Benito
county, are considering the proposition OF
disincorporating the town.
The school at Nina was closed January
18th on account of the prevalence of scar
let fever among the children.
Santa Crnz county prisoners live in clo-
yer, the Board of Supervisors of that coun-
ty allowing forty cents per diem for their
feed
The Chinese in the vicinity of Redding,
Shasta county, are making good wages now
with rocker, pick and pan, in the surface
diggings.
The Truckee Repubiicap says that place
is almost deserted on account of the alb
sence of laboring men, who are at work Sc
curing the ice crop.
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IRRIGATION.


The friends OF the irrigation movement
have very wisely put into the district-or-
ganization bill this proviso: Provided
that nothing in this Act shall be construed
as granting State authority to iniuriously
diminish the flow of water in the naviga.
bic streams But the same provision
should be placed in Senate Bill 2l0, which
amends the Civil Code and declares against
riparian rights to the extent of the pur.
poses Of irrigation. There can be 10 OBJ
lection to placing the provision in that
bill, since it has been agreed To in the
other. 1t Is a safe provision, narrows Nc
opportunity of the irrigators and will
conserve the interests of the people whc
regard with jealousy any probable assault
upon nayigable streams, the integrity OF
which are Of such vital importance to the
State