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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-11-27
LlsToF PATENTS.

List Of Patents granted to citizens oil
Missouri, for ths week ending Tuesday
Nov. II, 1885, compiled from the
official records of the United States
Office expressly for the Weekly Graphic
by w. A. Redmond, solicitor ofpatents
NO. 637 + Street, N. W.. Washington,
D. e.. OF whom Information may be
had.
No $780, $50 II Binder, 81 Louis. keg
washing mt chine.
No 33o,6S6 w Edenborn. st. Louis,
baro wire machine.
No 330,573 G s Ferris. Mexico, wash
ing maching.
No 330,691 W N Graves, st. Louis,
clay cutter and pulverizef.
No 330,697 W E Harris, st. Louis,
brass .or rolling mill.
No $50 $50 G Heisler, st. Louis, in
candesant electric lamp.
| No 33o,s34 AR Hyson, ST. Louis.
safe edge scoop.
No 33J,71O w Johnston, lathrop,
harness paa Press.
| No 330612 j O'Brien & s J Weaver
st. Louis, teed water heater.
| No 33o,727 d F Oliver, Huntsville
hay rake.
No $50 $40 7 Putty, Jr.. st. Louis
plug tobocco machine.
! No 330.s50 7 Putz, .Jr., st. Louis
plug tobacco machine.
No 330,514 Il B Balls, Montrose
com olned roller and cultlvator.
No $685. W II Stewart, Boorvillt
check row attachment for corn planter
No 330,S56 L p Summers, Peculiar
grain bag filler, welgher aud register
No 330,752 J B Taylor. La Monte
device Tor removing wagon bodies.
, No $50, ,439 G A Thompson. Wash
ineton, Broom.
330.64S E c Washburn, Neyada
T combined gate roller and hinge.
No 330655 5 J Weaver. st. Loui
feed water heater.
!, No 33O,S59 NJ Werpee, st. Loui
failwaY signal
No 330.s60 VI WerpeI, st. Loui
railway signal.
No 330,951 M Werpel. St. Lou.
j. valve.
t No 330,S62 VI Werpel. St. Louis, ma
chinery for operating railway switch
r eS.
r Freddy hal eli repeated, tol
e he must not ask people for none
One day he met Mr.. Williams, WI
could never resist an appeal from II
small boy. Mr. Williams" said Fredd
i, do you ever give FIVE centses to lit
boys what don't ask for eng He g
q he MONEY Detroit Post.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-11-27

A contented mind-heart-sunshine-
takes a glory out Of gloom, and can
turn the most untoward events so that
they will prove faith spring of un.
mea sured joy.
KIR KSVILLE MARKET
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-11-27

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The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-14

artistic stagnation consequent thereon, which have for some time past impeded the progress of the great theatre in Paris, Musical development in Eagland has been duly and fally chroaicled h the 7isses. and it will he sufficient here to recall the most striking events of the past year to tAs memory of our readers. That period marked another step in the downward career of Italian opera in this countEj. The season at Covent Garden opened in q somewhat hopeful manner,
 Mr Gye, acting upon the principle sue cesseNiiy carried out by M, MauSel, seemed deeernlned to enlist foreign lal- ens in the cause ot English art, and an nounced an Italian version ot "ColombA" as one of his two novelties. The work,
 however, had to be withdrawn on account of the principal artists being unable to
 learn their parts in time. M. Reycrss "Sigurd," an interesting, albeit very un- equal work, was produced in due course
 and with fair success. It was, however
 unable to rouse the interest oi the public
 in an institution which for a long time
 has depended upon the services of few
 highly accomplished and enormously paid artists. and at the end of the season the finances of the Royal Italian Opera Company were found 10 be in anything
 but satisfactory state. A mote stt,k. ing illustration of the value of tho ''star' system could not we'll bc desired than the
 fact that Covent Garden Theatre, the
 chief stronghold of that system, has been turned into q circus.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-14
Reading Aloud,
lNinete enth Century,


 if you ask eight people out of ten now, they will tell you that they hate being read to. And why? Because from their childhood they have been unused to it, or used only to such monotonous drone as robbed even the Arabian Nights " of halt their charm. The husband al the end of hard days work, returns home to pass the evening absorbed in his book. or dozing over the fire, while the wife takes up her novel, or knits in silence. If he read to her, or if he could tolerate her reading to him, there would be commit nifty of thought, interchange of ideas and such discussion as the fusion of two minds into any common channel cannot fail to produce. And 1t is often the same when the circle is wider. have known large family pass hours between dinner and bedtime, each one with his book or work, afraid to speak above his breath, because " it would disturb papa" Is this cheerful, or wise, CT conducive to that close union in a household which is a bond of strength through life, which the world can neither give nor take away? Icannot blame them, for they all read abominably; and it is enough to ho'~ Cu11sSa tuC lHui@tlOuS Ot tdtHky prayers, gasped and mumbled by the head Of the family, to feel that listening to such delivery for any length oi time would exasperate one beyond endurance. But 1t was not always so. In the last century-eyen as late as fifty years ago reading aloud was regarded as an accom- plishmeDt worthy the cultivation of those (espe cislly those who live in the country) with pretensiops to taste and it vas, consequently, far ..o.c f.eS:.=..l, Ecned enlivening the domestic circle. There were feser books, few means of locomo- tion, fewer pleasures Of winter nights outside the four walls of the country par Tor. The game of cribbzge, or the som ata on the spinnea, did not occupy the en- tire evening after six o'clock dinner and Shakespeare and Milton weze more fa- miiiar to the young generation ol those days than they are now-mainly, feel because they were accus- toned to hear them read aloud. The ear, habstuated to listen, is cffen . more safe conduit to the memory In youth than the isattentive eye which rapidly siims a
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-14

Mrs. Tattler (who has been describing at length the virtues of her numerous childrenl And this Is my son, the canon,
 Holworthy Becoming trlae boredl leo An, yes, have always heard that there were grea, many big guns In your family. Harvard kambsos,
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-14

The difference between youth and old age Is often of great sighs.-- HhifeAail 7imfs,
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-14

Nothing as good as Browns Iron Tonic
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-14

Browns Iron Tonic for child1en.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-14

 nov in terror of Mehetabel, whom he no longer recognized.
 As Mehetabel sat in solitary watchful- ness over the fortunes of the Delaneys and the early twilight began to dim the scene, there was a knock at the door. Mehetabel opened it, and Father Law renee O'Toole entered, saying "The blessing of God rest on all in this house! p Father OToole was like Dr. Bascom, short and stout; he had high forehead, gentle blue eyes, rosy gills, and mouth as tender as woman's. Indeed, as the two stood there eyeing each other for an instant, an observer would have noted a strangely close similarity in outline and expression of the lower faces of Meheta- bel and Father O'Toole; the same soft curves and warm tints, and the same deep sympathy were evinced by both.
 !" l am Father Lawrence O'Toole, Miss Petfisrew. Perhaps you recognize me- l have seen you often."
 Up to this moment Meheeabei had re- garded Roman Catholic priest as the embodiment of all craft, guile, hypocrisy and grasping ambition to hold and rule the world. But this night new forces wrought in her heart. A deep and tender charity, such as she had never dreamed al of the divine social instincts which her barren life had never found a place for, which yet had shaped her lips before they saw the day with the infinite love and tenderness the fervid heart of Mehet- able Parsons held thirty years before for Daxius ne1tigTew, avoke and msved their angelic pinions in her breast that day. And q Mehetabsi looked down into
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-14

oln~A v AOoAc, HI ndIoiy duulOle voice.
 "But my sin was so horrible 1" said Mehetabel in a sobbing whisper. "They never did me any harm. wanted to kill them just because they lived in the same world lived imp
 "Bnt why, daughter?-Tei me all make your heart free of its sin by con- fessing. know you repent. Confess, that your repentance may be complete" !"
 " l hated them because the railroad company beat me, and because they lived where could see them, and be- cause they kept goat" said Mehetabel with convulsive agitation, but still in a whisper, broken and hardly ineligible " and when shook poor little Terrence for picking the entrants, wanted to kill him. o, am the most wicked woman that ever lived P
 "What more? Tell me alI."
 "And when Mir Delaney came up to the house, and struck him, was sorry I did not kill him. How could God .s. me live!'
 Mehetabel put her face in her hands, and her hands on the little stand at the bedside, and her broad shoulders heaved ard trembled with her silent agony.
 Suddenly her ear, for days watchful of every sound from Teddy's lips, noticed that he was still. Hastily rising, she bent over the little wasted form which lay motionless and wan on the bed. He is deadi He is deadi have killed him P whispered MehetabeI in an agony, as Father O'Toole bent iow over the boys face.
 No, no,n said the priest, < he is sleep- ing. feel his bseath; he is not dead- he viii hve-C0d will spare his lie to
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-11
ADVANTAGES OF MIXED FARMING.
Gannirn GeNiemdR.


TIE wide-awake farmer is not an exclus-
i've w~hestgrower, though there are many
such. With q good mixed system of farm
ipg We can raise beef cattle here very much
cheaper and also bring in q bigger gross
sun at 2 years old with present prices OF
beef than Mr.. Geddes figures out on page
9G0. We can certainly put him through
the first two ard q quarter years OF his HE
in very good shape for SIS, including inter
est OH his first cost. Then suppose we feed
leo bushels Of corn al, say $25-we should
also make at least 400 or 500 pounds oflive
pork with the same corn-and we ought to
have a prime export steer weighing even
at a moderate estimate, 1900 pounds, at,
say 50 cents at home, or $50. Such a steer
would spend the first FIVE or six months
with his mother. His FIRST winter would be
scent partly on the green wheat field and
partly by the straw stack. BE would get
plenty Of good corn fodder, and say four
bushels of corn and four OF oats at 70
cents during the winter. His pasture the
next summcr would cost 30 cents per
month. The following winter he would
run in the cornsialk fields and get plenty OF
straw, hay and corn fodder, and a little
corn, and would cost not to exceed S. for
FIVE months.
His pasture till August lst would be 30
cents per month, when he would get green
corn stalks and all in the pasture til 0cto-
Der. and then be ysrded, and get all the
sbelled corn aud wheat straw he could eat
till the following May. Then, if he Is q
grade Of any Of the beef breeds, be win GER
tainly weigh at least L.600 poupdA
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-11
WINTER roP-DREssINe FOR TREES.
Cepntry Gentleman.


The practice of top-dressing the ground
about Young trees, both for protection from
cold and for enriching the land by washing,
which was formerly so rare, has now be-
come widely adopted by cultivators. But
the fault still prevails of applying too small
a circle of anure Writers often recon-
mend extending the top-dreSsing circle as
far out as the spread OF the branchesi but
this is not half enough. The many exam
nations we have made show that the roots
always extend from each side of the trunk
or stem to q distance at least equal to the
height Of the tree. forming a circle OF roots
he Lis meter of which is twice as great as
the height of the tree. We have on a for.
MGR occasion alluded TO this subject; but to
show The insuficiency of the common prac-
tice, We have measured a number Of trees
with the spread of their tops, with the fol-
loving results: Ayoung peach tree, ] feet
high, Lad a head 4 feet in diameter, or with
branches extending two feet away from the
center stem. The common rule would di-
rect that q circle OF manure be applied 4
feet in diameter, while the real extent OF the
roots reach a circle twice the height, or
fourteen feet, the area Of which, as figures
show, is at least twelve times as great az the
four feet circle. An older peach tree was
twelve feet high with q seven foot head.
Tie roots occupy o circle twenty-four feet
10 diameter, which is eleven times as great
IS tie seven foot circle Of the branches. An
erect cherry tree was fifteen feet high, with
a head nine feet in diameter, in which the
srea Of the roots was eleven times as great
al The area indicated by the spread OF the
branches. Topdressing, therefore, to be Of
much use, must extend over a broad sur
face.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-11
Famous Three Bottle Elem.

The reign Of George III. Of England was
the most openly dissoluie period in the his,
tory Of Great Britain. Cabinet ministers
slept under the wine table, the head OF the
Church was swollen with excessive drink,
and he Duke of Grafton, accompanied by
women OF the most disreputable character,
visited the theatre, Haunting their handker.
chiefs wet with vile perfume in the faces of
honest people. 1t is related By George Otto
Trevelyan that one day the King remarked
10 one Of his fayorites:
"They tell me, Sir John, that you are fond
Oft glass of wine"
"Your informers have done me great in
justice" replied Sir John. "They should
have said a bottle"
lt,was then that govt sttained its highest
degree of perfection. A mar who did not
wear o split shoe was only under protest ad-
mitted into the circles Of polite society. Sir
Philip Francis, upon awakening at night
and finding himself sober, would immedi-
stelY get out of bed and proceed to get
drunk again. Lord Weymouth, after
spending q fortune and becoming utterly
worthless, was appointed Secretary of State
in recognition Of his abilities as a drunkard.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-11
Count Pahlen, the whist Player.


Count Pablen, who died recently at
Cannes at the age of Sc, was formerly well
known in English society, and was q con-
slant guest at Devonshire House, the Royal
Cottage, and at Lady Jerseys for nearly
twenty years after he first came to this coan-
try with The Emperor Alexander in 1914.
He afterward went to Paris, where his
brother was Ambassador for many years2
and thence to Italy, and while residing at
Venice in 1898 he was summoned back to
Russia by the Emperor Nicholas. But he
did not long remain in his native country,
and on his second visit to England he was
again a persona grsta at Stafford House,
Deyonshire House. and other "Mont Blancs''
Of the social struggle. The Count was at
one time a renowned whist player. and once,
when passing through Berlin on his way to
Rnssis, be won 100000 from Prince John
Lehrenstein at q single sitting. he was
on most intimate terms with Talleyrand,
Pozzo di Borgo, and Montrond.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
fARm NoTEs.


Russia ia sending fresh beet in refrigsra-
tor carr, to England
Iowa estimates her potato crop for this
year at Is, 0oO.0 900 bushels.
A fair ration Of turnips for a~fnlly-grown
COW or for ten sheep is q peck per day.
English capitalists are said to have In
vested 5000, 900 in Montana stock ranches
within q year.
New Zealand's contribution of frozen
mutton to Great Britain will this year
amount to 500, 600 carcasses.
Eggs packed in well dried ashes, and so
as not to touch each other, have been kept
perfectly sweet for twelve months.
The Missouri corn crop was 3S.7 bushels
per acre, aggregating 209.s67.594 bushels.
the largest crop ever produced BY that
State.
For sheep it seldom pays TO grind grain.
For young stock grain may often be profrs-
bly, cooked. Potatoes may often be cooked
and fed to young stock to advantage.
Mix, either fresh or sour, butter,milk,
skinned milk, mixed with meal, or in any
other form, Is Just the thing Tor fowls. IL
will pay better to give waste milk to fowls
than to pigs.
Any ailing fowl should be at ono re-
moved from the flock to comfortable. quiet
quarters, and specially treated with medi-
cines and food. A fowl is worth saving,
but is often neglected to get well or die.
In an experiment made by the Duke OF
Bedford, in England, 10 determine the com
p~aratiye values OF alfalfa, clover and timo-
thy bay, the following result was obtained:
Alfalfa. Clover. Timothy.
Weight Of hay ....--.2s,sIl I2,25l 1891
Weight II rutrlment7, tS9, 1914 4,SS9
From which it appears that an acre Of
alfalfa is worth more han an acre Of timo-
thy and an acre of clover BY 2076 pouads
Of nuiiiment.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-11
SMALL FARMS THE BEST.
Colorado Fdrmr.

Small farms pay the best" said Ne. D.
X. Emery, OF Longmont, to the Farmer q
day or two since. Il know it TO be q fact,
because I've had experience with both large
and small. In Colorado a nan is very apt
TO get the land fever, and the result is he
has more land than his means will allow
him TO cultivate, or fit be grazing land he
he's no money 10 buy stock with; his pur-
chase is of no use TO him, and, unless by
some extraordinary stroke Of good fortune,
he remains poor to the end of his days.
"Now the man who owns but forty acres
determines to get as much out of this land
az possible, and to this end fertilizes it, sees
that it is irrigated properly, and gets in
most cases as much as his neighbor who
farms eighty. The natural reasoning then
is that small farms as a rule yield the largest
profits. Another reason why they pay IS,
that whoever ownsa small farm generally
bss poultry, swine, etc. As the farm does
not take all his time, he sees the hens, tho
chickens and the turkeys have proper care.
He has a few cows and a small dairy
Which, as be is not obliged to be working
be land all the time, receive the attention
needed. The butter and cheese from this
dairy are always well made and invariably
bring the highest prices and meet with q
ready sale. The eggs and poultry also sell
we'll, tie former being fresh and the latter
fat and plump, as only well cared for poultry
can be
Son the forty acres cum be grown a lib
cral supply of vegetables, and there is am
pie time to give them, too, the necessary at
%iention. A little of everything is found on
this farm, o perfect exemplifcation Of
mixed farming. , / have often heard people
say ofpoultry on a farm, as an instance OF
how small things are regarded, 'Pshawl
Chickens are q nuisance Yet | knew q
family in Colorado which this anne nuis-
ance furnished largely with their subsis-
tence for one while.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-11
The squaw of Fact aud Fancy.


The young lady who wore the costume Of
P~ocohontas at the iremau's masquerade
last Thursday evening, and in pink hosiery
and kid slippers, took the prize as the
most realistically costumed lady present,
ufy have been entitled to it in the minds
of the Judges, but popular opinion seems
TO think otherwise. At any rate, she was
not dressed like any Indian maiden
We we're ever intimate with. To those
Who are not familiar with the early
DAYS cfthis country the Indian maiden ap.
resrs beautiful in her simplicity, wearing
he fringed garments of her tribe, as she
sla;.ds outlined against the glorious sky
dressed in q coronet of eagles feathers and
q rcd health corset trimmed with bead
work. Shall we, then, with ruthless hand
Sbsaer this beautiful picture which was
represented so faithfully by the young lady
The other evening? Shall we portray the
real Indian maiden, as we have seen her in
NIL Ter uppoetic nature, clothed in q pair of
eolGSr trousers, a horse blanket, with q
necklace of the false teeth of the paleface,
and her coarse, unkempt hair hanging over
her smoky features ard clinging to her warty,
boLy neck. No, no. Far bs it from us to de-
stroy the lovely vision Of copper colored
sIatc and smoke-tauned beauty, which the
soft dude of the efete East has erected in
he rescued chambers of fancy. Let her
dwell there as the plampfimbed princess of
q brsve people. Let her adorn the dormer
widow Of his memory, proud, beautiful,
gr$Id, gaudy and peculiar, as she was ar
reyi d at last Thursdays masquerade. We
Sill spare this ideal Indian maiden with a
.6ce comb and gold carriers. Let her live
in tie memory of those who saw her the
other evening, just as she was then, while
JIG true Indian maiden eats the iricasseed
locust Of the plains and wears the plug hat
AZ nrogress
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-11

Olga DaviiTs wedding was one of the
most brilliant social successes Of that To-
bolsk season. Dsvidof pers surpassed him
self il the costumes of his e~xoties, the mag
ni6cenee Of his presents. thereckless sbund.
ance Of his Veuve Cieguot. Madame
Dayidcf successfully caught the Governor
and the General, and the English traveller
iron India via the Himalsyss. The Baron
looked as gorgeous as he was handsome in
his bali Russian, half Tartar uniform and
bis Oriental display Of pearls and diamonds.
Olga herself was the prettisst and most
blushipg bride ever seen in Tobolsk, a sim
pie English girl, fresh from the prophecies
Of the LaurelS at Chaplain, among that
e~uriops, mixed, cosmopolitan society of
semfeiyilized SiberisnS Catholic Poles aud
orthodox Raeishs
As soon as the wedding vas fairly over
the bride and bridegroom started of by
toross to make their way across the south
ern plateau to the Baron's village.
IL Was long and dreary drive, that we'd
ding tour, in q jOling carriage over Siber-
ian roads, resting at wsyside posting-houseS,
bad enough while they were still on the
main line Of the Imperial mails but degen-
Grating into true Central Asian caravan
ssires when once they had got OF
the beaten track into the Wild
p~eighborhood Of the Bsron's vii.
lsse. Nevertheless Olga Dayiiof bore
up against the troubles and discomforts Of
the journey with q brave heart, for was not
the Baron always by her side; and who
could be kinder, or gentler.o or more thought
Cal then her Bariat huSbandG Yes, it Was
a long ami hard journey, up among those
border mountains Of the Chinese and The
~ frontier; bnt Olga felt at home at last
when after three weeks Of incessans jolting,
they arrived at the Buriss mountain strong
hold. under cover Of tho night; and Maj
led her s~traig&way to her swn pretty little
E~ufopesB bcudoir, which he had prepared
for Ger beforehand It immense expenses
ard trouble il his apnnd village
Tie mouent HEY entered, Olga saw a
trettT faIe room. papered spdcarpated ia
~ 4 fssksa Nth 4 snail piano over in
corner. 5 If1ap b9Enias brighuy on the