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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-03-23

In Offering silver Loaf baking pow
dsr 10 the public, tho manufacturer
sInolv asks q trial with other brands
and 4 willing 70 abide the result.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-02-07
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES "BETrIEs."
q Class of Human Beings That The World
Knows Little About,

Class OF Human Beings That The world
Knows Little About.
Two young men stood in the door
way of cigar store last night ON Clark
Street, near Indiana, when peculiar
looking individual passed by. One Of
them looked at the pedestrian with un-
disguised contempt stamped on every
feature. This was noticed by his cont
panion, and he askedi
know him?'
Il should smile"
''Who is hep
Hes a Betty"
"A what2"
"a Betty"
A curious smile overspread the face of
the unintiated, and after pause he
said: "Well, Eli b.ts. What's a
Betty?a
An incredulous stare from his COM
panion showed plainly that he was un-
prepared for such feeble display of
knowledge.
You don't pretend to say that you
know nothing about Betties?s
I'm honest-really, I'm clear off. y
well! How long have you lived in
Chicago?"
About three months"
where do You stop"
Boarding at hotel.
THAT accounts for it then, / was
going to remark that if you were en-
joying the luxuries of clearinghouse
life you were exceedingly fortunate il
you have been deprived of forming the
acquaintance of a Betty"
"Im all curiosity. Let's have it..
"Are you readyp"
I'm prepared for anything" was the
calm reply.
"Welr'-and he turned and leaned
over as if in the act of divulging State
secret-.'A Betty is the husband of a
clearinghouse landladyr
''Is tpossible?'
Fact"
.sTell me about the creature"
II am incompetent to undertake the
herculean task
TRY and do the best you can. What
he good for?h
Good for! Alas-nothing."
"What does he dop''
Nothing
Are you positive as to thatN
ale is fond of lording it over the
cook and struggles around the kitchen
in an absent-minded way about meal
times. As Il general thing he is quite
devoted to his hard working wife, but
always has an engagement downtown
when there is stove to put up or any
furniture to move"
..What else does he do?'
''Well, he keeps watch on every
bucket of coal the boarders use and
grumbles about their fearful extrava-
gance in that quarter. Sometimes he
eats with the boarders when there is a
vacant chair, and helps himself to the
best on the table, with great success in
causing himself to be disliked by all OF
them. He gets all of his clothes and
spending money from his wife, and
every Monday morning goes out to do
the marketing, but never turns up I'M
| til supper time.
That's queer"
at is very queer and quite strange,
too He keeps watch of the young men,
and gets grand, gloomy and peculiar
if any of them happen TO be thrown out
of employment.
where does he stay about the
housepn
Generally within ear-shot of the din
| ing room, where he can listen to the
conversation. y Chicago Tribune.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-02-07
TYPE-SETTiNG MACHINES.

A New Invention Which Means Mischief
to the Intelligent Compositor.
There are about Congress some of the
best shorthand writers in the world.
writes u Washington correspondent.
Nearly all of them are spectators in q
quiet way, and some of them are quite
rich. Most of them are at present in.
terested in the new type-setting machine
which is being perfected in Baltimore.
Here is machine which is manipu.
lated by a keyboard similar to that OF
the typewriter. Each top of the key
moulds and manufactures new type
out of stereotype metal, so that one link
of work represents solid bar of metal
with raised face of the letters struck
This bar can be sliced like cheese for
the correction of proofs or justifying,
and can be made in such shape that it
can be locked in a cylindrical form so as
to go upon any of the presses where
stereotype plates can go. The beauty
of this work is that the presswork is
done each time from the face of new
type. If it is practicable the machine is
so clean and simple that the work of
type-setting can be done in parler
without any dust or litter.
When these machines are ready to 90
to work the intelligent compositor will
be banished. His place will be taken
by nimble fingered, neatly dressed
young women. The dirt of the great
newspaper establishments of the future
will be swept into the basement where
the presswork is done, while the money
saved by those machines will be de
voted to the establishment and adorn-
ment OF the up stairs part of the publ
cation Office, so that the editorial rooms
of the future will be all that art and
luxury can devise. The editor of the
future will recline upon an easy chair
and softly murmur his editorial musings
in the pink ear of gentle and lovely
maiden, whose fingers will set his
thoughts as fast as uttered, so that as
soon as he has finished proof of them
can be instantly hung up in front of
him for correction. This is the CLOWN,
picture of the work of the editor of the
future given me by one of the steno
graphers interested in the development
of the machine. One of the principal
stenographers of Washington has in
vested the savings of lifetime in this
invention.
Belief in the virtues of this type-set-
ting machine has spread to Congress
siOnal circles. Senator Pendleton and
at least dozen more of his associates
have stock in the enterprise. 1t has
been worked up among the Offices in
about the same way as the Bell tele-
phone stock before it took its great
sweep upward. Through the location
of the Patent Office here and the pres
cnce of large class of patent attor-
neys, nearly everyone in official life has
heard Of some marvellous fortunes being
made in the lottery of Inventions
Pittsbwrgh Dispatch
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-02-07
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1886
The DAIRY.

Sour milk, or butter milk, make.
good drink for fowls; it increases the
laying qualities of hens.
Cleveland is overrun with bogus
butter, which dealers buy at about
twelve cents per pound. As result
trade in legitimate goods is completely
demoralized.
At Brooklyn milk inspection
nearly all of the seventy-fve carts ex-
amired were found to contain large
quantities of water. and seven were dis
posing of impure milk.
According to the authority of the
Orange County Farmer, some men are
now making the purest and finest of
cheese from peanut oil and cotton-seed
oil. We have not yet laid eyes on these
''purest and finest" but suppose the
Farmer knows what it is talking about
Some day, when these inventions be-
come the standard, somebody will in
troduce the obsolete COW to adulteratc
those goods, when we may sweep to
our revenge. "-Erchange.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-02-07

tie duce was another confederate
When she got the cue for the page and
gave it, she turned to the page on her
lap, her back being turned to the audi
ence, and coolly read it, contents. The
book was kept concealed in secret
pocket of the lounge, and was quietly
returned there before she left the stage.
Before performance of second-sight
Heller would often borrow half dozes.
articles from the audience and put them
in hat: Half an hour later he would
let any one in the audience, when he
fished out an article, ask Miss Heller
what it was. She could always answer.
This seems strange, but it is simple as
any other mystery when it is explained.
Before the performance of second sight
Heller would find occasion to 90 on the
stage, either to bandage Miss Heller's
eyes or something of the sort, and he
would tell her quickly, and in very
low tone of course, the contents of the
hat. She would remember the articles
in the order in which he enumerated
them, and Heller was careful to pick
them out of the hat in the same order.
OF course, he would net allow any
person in the audience to pick them out.
These are the various systems used by
Heller in his second-sight business.
Murder will out, and SO will magicians'
tricks, and these explanations may be
accepted as the truth of the whole
matter Of course there are very many
other details connected with the per-
formance of magic which it is unneces-
sary to 60 into here. They are simply
cumulative. Anybody with an excellent
memory and quickness of perception
can do the most difficult trick with the
aid of another person similarly gifted.
N y Times
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-02-07
A GOOD MIXER.
sue Habits of n Heifer Fix Her Habits as
Mich Cow.

As you train the twig SO will grow
the tree. This principle, applied to the
heifer with her first calf, makes the
good mixer. MANY otherwise good
cows fail to give milk during a long
period, going dry when the calf is only
a few monts old. Such cows may give
a large quantity of milk at the first
flow, and then steadily drop off and at
last be dry for half the year 1t is,
therefore, advisable in training heifer
to be good mich COW. to keep her from
having her Second calf for at least
eighteen months after she calves the
first time. The habits of the heifer
fixes her habits as a mich COW.
Cause her to give milk during a long
period with the first calf, and
the milk habit is produced and
may be kept up during subse-
quent years, The writer has half
Jersey COW that was thus trained. and
she has just given, without calf, fine
Cow of milk for twenty-one months.
She had to be dried up in advance of
calving, which took place twenty-three
months after she calved in January,
1852. During the first twelve months
she gave never less than three gallons a
day, and during the next nine months
she gave on an average two and half
gallons pei day. That is what we call
! very valuable mich COW, and it only
takes care to make fine mixers. While
on this subject, it may be well to give
result of tests lately made at the Maine
Agricultural College farm as to the best
iced to be used for the production Of
milk. The best results were obtained
when COWS were given a ration Of
twenty pounds of hay, three pounds
each of bran, cotton seed and Indian
meal per day. With hay figured at ten
dollars per ton, butter can be made at
: cost Of fifteen cents per pound. The
buttcr could be made little cheaper
upon other grains in the same proper
ton, but it would be at the expense OF
the condition of the animal. = Farm
Field and StockMGu.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-02-07
DEALING IN DEAD HORSES.
Shoes, Fertilizers, Buttons, Glue and La
dies switches Made Dat OF Defunct
Egufnes.

Shoes, Fertilizers, Buttons, Glue and La
dies Switches Made Oat of Defunct
Eguines.
A crowd had gathered on a South
side street corner where horse with a
broken leg had been shot. As the
owner stood ruefully surveying his loss,
fat, dark-complexioned man elbowed
his way up and said, as he smiled
grimly:
Say, mister, I'll cart that horse
away ii you will give it to me. Is it a
bargainP'
The owner pondered moment,
looked around at the crowd and re-
marked:
1.-The animal is no use to me, and |
CUES you can have it, but I'm blessed il
| know what you want with it. You
can have it if you will tell me-"
"All right. You see dead horse
represents considerable money to me,
and when can get one, l am going to
drop onto it every time. I'll haul the
animal out to my place, where ! will
skin it and tan the hide, or else sell it
raw to one of the tanneries. 1t will
then 90 to some boot and shoe firm, who
will proceed to make it up into shoes.
The leather, being soft and waterproof,
makes up nicely aud commands fancy
price.
"Shoes made of cordovan, as the
leather is called, are considered the
proper thing by swells and sell well.
The tail, when it is long and bushy, can
be made into a nice horse-brush or
switch for ladies. To make a nice
switch. l take out the. bone from the
tail and tack the skin onto a handle,
and there we have it, all ready for use
as soon as it gets dry"
but, what do you do with the re-
mainder of the body-the bones and
fiesh?"
20, they come in handy. ] raise
lots of hunting dogs OF course. if l
were to buy beef for them it would cost
me a small fortune. When get or buy
dead horses save some of the meat,
feeding the dogs on that. They thrive
on it, and it don't cost me much.
1.-The hoofs sell to some glue factory,
where they are boiled down and made
into glue. Do make use of the bones?
OF course Il do. Sometimes ! grind
them up and sell them as fertilizers.
Ground bone is the stuff to spread on
your garden if you want to raise good
crops. When l am busy and want to
dispose of them ] sell them to some
button-factory. They make buttons,
large and small, out of bones. ! have
seen some knife handles made from
bone, but it cracks easily and is not
..sad much RuftOnc are more generally
made from horse-bones than anything
else in that line.
''Now, if you want any meat for your
cats let me know, and l will supply
you," but the former possessor Of the
horse did not seem to relish the idea of
MS cats being fed on horsefesh. and
declined the honor with thanks. Mil
toaukee Sentinel.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-02-07
THE HORSE.
low Carson New Blacksmith Strives
to Make 1t Pleasan for Him.

low a Carson (Nev.) Blacksmith Strives
to Make 1t Pleasan for Him.
Mr.. Torreyson, the blacksmith of this
city, is noted for his kindness toward
animals. He has just built road cart,
now on exhibition at his blacksmith
shop, which is destined to revolut. onize
travelling by road and SO materially
tighten the labors of that noble animal
the horse. The idea is to occasionally
give the horse chance to ride in the
cart as the driver The idea was first
suggested to Mr.. Torreyson by seeing a
turtle move along the road carrying his
shell with him. The vehicle made bv
Mr.. Torreyson has four high wheels
and the place between them arched, so
that the horse is hitched under the
wagon between the wheels, his head
projecting a little beyond the front
wheels and his tail just barely clearing
the hind wheels. The driver sits Just
over the horses neck, and the Others in
The horse is SO fastened that the pulling
is distributed over his body and does
not all come on his neck and shoulders.
In this position he is greatly protected
from the sun and storm, and thereby
enabled to make long journeys with
less fatigue.
But the principal part of the inven-
ton lies in bellyband about four feet
wide passing under the horse. When
you reach the top OF. q long hill, down
which horse would have to 90 slowly
as he held back the load, you simply
turn crank and it lifts the horse off
his feet several inches from the ground,
and the vehicle then runs down the hill
Of its own momentum. 1t is provided
with steering apparatus and brake,
that the vehicle may be steered and its
velocity regulated.
Several times during the day the
tired horse has chance to ride and is
very much rested. Also when the horse
attempts to run away you wind up the
crank and he is lifted off the ground
perfectly helpless. Carson fNev.j Ap-
peal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-02-07
PuNosNT PARAGRAPHS.

Noise hab cher been dcceibin' De
hoss-hy makes mo- fuss den de yallcr-
Jacket, but he don't hurt ha'fso bad. -
Arkansas 7raUeler.
Among the most blessed Of all con-
trivances OF nature is that which pre-
vents man from being disturbed by
his own snoring.
An exchange says: "lViIl the COM
ing woman work." If she marries
titled foreign adventurer she will either
have to work or starve to death. Nor
risto,on Herald.
The newly-discovered great fresh
water lake in Canada is supposed to
have been formed by the water squeezed
out Of stocks during the past twenty
months.
AS young lady of Siverlyvillc was
singing my Hearts in the Highlands, ,
few evenings ago, her brother re-
marked that there would be more peace
in the family If her voice were there also.
oil CITY Derrick.
A scientific magazine says that an
air on violin viii sometimes set
whole flock of geese wild with delight.
Some of these scientific publications will
yet awaken the wrath Of nusic-loving
people, Darlington Hasokcye.
Only step from the sublime to the
ridiculous. Brown-s'What wonder
full thing is man! His form how ma
jestic! his faculties how grandr' Smith
-''And how admirably his legs are
adapted for wearing trouscrs!' Boston
Posi-.
No" said the dying punster, with
grim smile: mo, don't object to
flowers, but don't have any violets,
please. | shouldn't care to have my
grave violeted, you know" 1t was i'm
mediately agreed that it was best that
he should go. Boston transcript.
"A good jam: Place one finger in
the crack of a door. Shut the door
slowly but firmly, and keep itsclosed
for at least ten seconds. Then open the
door and remove the finger, and add
plenty of spicy interiections. Neveruse
your own finger If you can avoid it. ~
Western Rurai.
"A correspondent sends as an Illus
tration Of English as she is spoke in
Japan card which was handed him
ON his arrival in Yokohama. 1t reads:
.Reeke, Washerman Repairs effected
and buttons renewed Should any
clothes, etc., be lost will pay at cost
of value. No. Ichome Ishikawar
Machi. Yokohama
Say, conductor, don't be stinRy
about it. Introduce me to that woman
vou were just talking to so lovingly.
Certainly; step right over. Mrs. Dob
bins, this is Mr.. Stebbins, and the con-
ductor went his way. 20, Mrs. Dob
bins, delighted to know you. Widow,
suppose? Let me warn you against
making the acquaintance OF this con-
luctor; he'll deceive you" @, bless
5ou. Mr.. Stebbins. I expect that; he's
My husband. IN Y. Herald.
The bore-summer:
As he passed along the street
When the heat,
Like a dnmc
Filled the atmosphere with h0zes-.
Hot as 6laxeev
He'd excloim.
The bore -winter:
He accosts us when the breexes
Almost fre01a us
Arctic days
Ind, with GOODNESS that amaxee s
"Cold rs blazesp
Now he says.
Boston Saiwday EvsHtno Qdop1ok
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-02-07
A SINGING BEACH.
Musical Stones and Sands in the Bed OF
the Susquehanna River.

Musical Stones and Sands in the Bed OF
the susquehanna River.
Halfway down this lovely and lonely
island passage we plunged in, as have
many times said and we had no sooner
struck bottom than Mr. Butler uttered
a strange shout and threw up his hands.
/ was startled till / looked at his face;
and then was puzzled beyond measure
by his motions and expressions. With
his hands above his head he seemed to
be dancing on the bottom of the river.
and with every step he gave shout OF
pleasure. While / looked at him, as
tonished, / began to feel the infection
of his strange conduct. A thrill like
soft music ran through me, and seemed
to Jingle in my ears and under my
tongue; and every movement l made
brought repetition of the inexpressible
sound, for sound it was. that seemed
to run all through me like a musical
echo.
What is itp'' cried at length. This
is wonderful
at is musical beach--a singing
beach, answered Sigourney. And !
should say it was the finest in the
worldr' And then he said for by
strange chance he knew something
about such a queer thing-'1 believe
there are only two or three singing
beaches known in the whole world; and
this certainly must be the BEST
You may be sure we fingered over
that mellifuous swim. We pushed the
boats ashore, and went in for the wierd
sweet music of the stream. 1t was
enough to make one howl with sheer
sensuous enjoyment. As we pushed
or scraped the pebbly bottom with our
feet we felt or heard, | hardly know
which, rich resonance passing through
us, clear and sweet as the soft note of
distant cow-bells. The slightest dis
placement of the gravel brought it up,
as if it had just escaped from The earth.
When we had tried it hundred and
thousand times, it occurred to us that
neither could hear the note caused by
the other-we only heard the sound of
our own feet. Again the tenacious
memory of my friend found an explana-
ton. He remembered that divers can
only talk under water by placing their
heads on the bottom:
Another discovery here: You can't
get your head to the bottom of four
foot stream, unless you catch hold of a
stone on the bottom, and pull yourself
down. You can dive and get your
hands and feet or knees down; but not
your chin. We are both good SWIM
mers, and we tried in vain. While un-
der water on the dive, or crawling
along the bottom on hands and knees,
the river was drear and silent sluice
At last we got our chins on the bottom,
each on stone, and we heard it--oh:
we heard some melodious discord, such
mixture of near aud remote echo-like
sweetness as can only be imagined in
dreams The river became as full OF
musicas it was of wafer, and the mex
pressible fusion of notes played through
our senses like intoxication. Sigourney
was twenty or thirty feet from me, and
in deeper water; but every sweep he
gave the pebbles sounded TO me Ike a
thousand cow-bells melted into liquid
harmony. Never, until we go to the
same spot again, shall we hear such
strange. suppressed elm music. John
Boyle O. Reilly, 81 Oufsng.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-02-07
THE FESTIVE COWBOY.


The capture of railway I ain by a
gang of cowboys the other day in Ari-
IONA or New Mexico is the latest exploit
of that interesting class of our fellow
citizens. No one was killed, which is q
wonder. Perhaps it was had day for
killing. For shooting it was evidently
good, for we are told that the cowboys
were careful to fire through every
window and at regular intervals through
the roof of the coach, which must have
been very entertaining for the lady
passengers. The question arises, can
not the troops whom we maintain IN
Arizona manage to keep these turbulent
spirits in little better order? Is it in
evitable that man who herds cattle
shall be a savage of the lowest type,
and if it be, can not these savages be
taught by severe lessons to curb their
savage instincts? 1t is evidently a great
injury to Arizona and New Mexico that
such class should go rampaging round
with impunity.
There is tendency in certain class
of cheap literature to make a popular
hero out of the cowboy. Much mischief
is done by misdirecting the minds of the
young. Boys can be found who think
it grand to carry knife in their boot
and a revolver in their belt, to swear
and swagger and drink and brighten
quiet people. 1t doesn't occur to them
that these are traits of the savage, not
the gentleman; that they covet a dis
tinction in which the Apache will be
their superior. Brutality is never adj
mirable; even pirates have claimed to
be the mildest hammered men who ever
scuttled ship or cut throat There is
no earthly reason why a man who herds
cattle should lower himself in his habits
and manners below the level of the
beasts he tends If the fashion has set
in this direction, it is time it were
changed and if the change costs the
lives of some cowboys, so much the
verse for the cowboys.
People would be glad to hear of a
smart correction being administered to
these scoundrels who are so free with
their revolvers. An officer who turned
loose on them and taught them a lesson
that would be remembered for years,
would earn the gratitude of the coun-
try. This nation is strong enough and
its arm ought to be long enough to
reach disturbers of the peace in Arizona
and New Mexico as well as in Ohio or
New York. Even in so semi-har5arous
country as Russia such outrages as
the cowboys are fond of committing
would be followed by thorough investi-
CATION and punishment. A company OF
mounted infantry started on the trail of
the criminals ought TO be able to run
them to earth and no one would COM
plain of any extra severity displayed by
the troops when they caught them. We
must stop savagery at any cost.-San
Ey.dncisco Chronicle