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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-07
THE DEMOCRATIC HOPE.

In the wards reviewed above
the Democrats feel quite sanguine
and in the other wards they have possibly q
fighting show. In the Fifth ward Thomas
Downs was nominated through very ques-
honaole means, and many Of the Republican
leaders are thoroughly disguised by the
political chicauery adopted, and declare that
they will oppose Mr.. Downs election to-day.
The troubles Of the Second ward have been
pretty nearly settled by the Republicans
and they claim that they will carry the ward
by big majority
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-07
MINNEAPOLIS.
SITUATIONS WANTED.

SITUATION wanted by No. brick burner and
~ setter. six years experience. Address Brick
maker, Globe Office
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-07
The Water supplu.

Number Of permits. II; value.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02

was annually ploughed and piled up in
the center of the track. And lest drivers
might choose to pass on the smooth sod
by the roadside, that was ploughed too
just above, ON the hill, was plenty of
hard earth and gravel which could have
been placed below by few rods haul
ing, greatly to the benefit of both parts
of the road, but it was never thought
of.
Another instance shows the disregard
of distance and grade. A much used
road near Madison, travelled from the
earliest settlement of the county, over
forty years, ran diagonally to the sec
tion lines forming the hypothenuse of
triangle. The owner of the farm
through which it PASSED requested the
board to change it so as to combine a
little poor land into one piece, and they
did so, relaying the road over the Sec
tion line, and over high hill, at great
expense to the town. So now, all
teams no matter how heavily loaded,
are cruelty compelled to climb that hill
taking the two sides of the triangle in
stead of the old easy level and short
cut.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
Suffering Camels.

A correspondent of The London
Standard writing from Gakdul says:
The marches of Stewart and the going
to and fro of conveys, during which
many of the Camels were occasionally
four and six days without water and
food, except the dry, reed-hke sabas
grass growing upon the desert, told
fatally upon hundreds of the poor
brutes. The stamina was gone out
of the survivors, and protracted rest
was necessary, with good feeding for
all of them. The situation admitted
of neither, and with huge Gaping
wounds and terrible sores from packs
and girths, the wretched animals con-
tinued to be driven out. An awful
effiuvia, noxious as pest-house, ex-
hailed from the wounds of the misera-
BILE animals, and has latterly filled
the air whenever a camel convoy
marches. say nothing of the stencil
from the countless dead victims which
line the route from Abu Kru to Korti.
Even as write the odor from hum
dreds of these lying outside the en-
trance to Gakdul makes the approach
to this place u sort of running the
gauntlet of smells insuferable.,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
Eggs Under a Hen.

The number of eggs that should go
under hen depends upon the season.
Those set in January or February
should not have more than seven, while
in May the number for the same hens
might be increased to thirteen, or for
Cochin, even to fifteen, if the eggs be
of the same breed. We have to con-
slider not only how many chickens the
hen can hatch, but also how
many she can well protect after
they have reached size twice as
large as the size of the eggs. Many
early chickens are lost every year be-
cause of insufficient protection from the
mother during the first few months.
Such as are not fairly covered in cold
weather, even if they do not die, will in
most cases be puny little things that
will never add profits to the growers
purse. Better hatch and raise but five
or six early chicks to hen, and have
them healthy and strong, than twice as
many poor little things. In April
eleven eggs to hen will answer very
well, provided she be we'll feathered.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
Ammonia for Plants.

Last year was induced to try an ex-
pertinent in chrysanshemum growing,
and for this purpose purchased one
pound of sulphate of ammonia, which I
bottled and corked, as ammonia evapo-
rates very rapidly. I then selected
four plants from my collection, putting
them by themselves, gave them tea
spoonful of ANN onia in gallon of wa
ter twice week. In fortnight's time
the result was most striking for though
I watered the others with liquid cow
manure, they looked lean when COM
pared with the ammonia watered plants
whose leaves turned to very dark
green, which they carried to the
edge of the dots until the flowers were
cut. As matter of course the flowers
were splendid. The ammonia used is
rather expensive as bought it from a
chemists shop. This year I intend get
ting agricultural ammonia, which is
much cheaper. I have also tried it on
Strawberries, with the same satisfactory
result, the crop being nearly double
that of the others. It is very powerful
and requires to be used with caution.-
London Garden.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02

these opposites will fa1E out by the way
a great many times, and eharm the 9TH
er back again, and by-and- by they will
be agreed as to the place they will go to,
and the road they will go by, and both
become reconclled. The. man Will be
nobler and larger for being associated
with so much humanity unlike himself,
and she will be nobler woman for hav-
ing manhood beside her that seeks to
correct her DEFICIENCIES and supply her
with what she lacks, if the diversity be
not too great, and if there be real gener-
osity and love in their hearts to begin
with. The old bridegroom, having a
much shorter journey to make, must as
sociate himself with one like himself.
A perfect and complete marriage is, per-
haps, as rare as personal beauty. Men
and women are married fractionally,
now small fraction then large frac-
ton. Very few are married totally,
and then only, think, after some forty
or fifty years of gradual approach and
experiment. Such large and sweet
fruit is complete marriage that it
needs very long summer to ripen it
and then long winter to. mellow and
season. But real, happy marriage of
love and Judgment between noble
man and woman is one of the things so
very handsome that if the sun were, as
the Greek poets tabled, god, he might
stop the world in order to feast his eyes
with such spectacle.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
Dairying VS.. Wheat Growing.

The farmers of Iowa were among the
first to break away from the one crop
system, and to diversity their grain
growing with dairying. There are now
400 creameries or cheese factories in that
State, and their patrons find the indus
wheat at 60 to 70 cents bushel on land
that is worth from $15 to 800 per acre.
The st. Louis Republican reports
that the farmers in northern Missou-
ri have begun to turn their atten-
ton in the same direction, and
says that if one-half the money and
labor expended last year in raising Mis-
souri's crop or 35,000,OOO bushels of
wheat had been given to dairying, the
net result would have been double. It
argues that "the markets of the world
are glutted with wheat, but the more
butter and cheese produced, the more
there is consumed-the demand keep
ing pace with and even outstripping
the supply" There is commonly
market for good dairy products at re-
munerative prices, but it is doubtful if
the average profits have been greater
than those gained from wheat, taking a
period of ten years together. The pro-
duction of good butter is not altogeth-
er matter of disposition. Much de-
pends upon the pasturage, the
water, and climatic conditions. The
dairying belt is as restricted as the wheat
belt, taking the whole country togeth-
er. The sections adapted to it can
make the industry profitable. It is
doubtful if the other sections can do so.
The older settled portions of the West
are experiencing from the cheap and
virgin fields in the Northwest the stress
of the competition by which they forced
the farmers Of the Eastern and Middle
States to abandon grain growing as
reliance, and diversity their produc-
tions. History is repeating itself in
compelling them to adopt similar
policy.-Boston Herald.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
Butter-Making a Wastefu1 Business.

Next to milk butter is by far the
largest product of the dairy, and the
costliest and most wasteful of intrinsic
value in its production. Twenty
pounds of milk-the average weight ac-
quired for making pound of butter
would sustain mans life well nigh
half month, while the butter weuld
supply bodily waste for hardly half q
day. The life sustaining matter in the
form of caseine and albumen in the
milk for pound of butter, would be
just about equal to ten pounds of meat,
all of which is sacrificed as q direct
human food, and is only indirectly util-
lied as a by product, to be fed
to animals and after sacrificing
-tenths of its ife-supporting abil-
ity, will return one-tenth In new
form fit for human use-all for one
pound of butter which is little else than
luxury, and not an indispensable one.
It is but pound of hydrocarbon, an
effective equivalent for which science
at profit can replace for ten cents.
When thousands of the laboring poor
in our towns and cities, in whose veins
a kindred blood is flowing, are pinched
and suffering for the want of just such
food, to keep soul and body together,
is it Christian work to occasion so
large sacrifice of useful food for q
little luxury? No one will say nay, fer
we call do it t"--Professor L. B. Arnold.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
London StenOgraphers.

A knowledge of shorthand is fast be-
coming an essential in the mercantile
service of London. Without it young
man, however capable in other re-
spects, stands at a serious disad-
vantage; with it he commands an
ampler salary, and occupies an i'm
mensely superior position in the great
race. 1t is astonishing, nevertheless,
that of the many thousand who make,
the art an object of study, SO few are
really competent and trustworthy
writer's. Speed is beyond all cavil the.
sole and guiding disideratum of the.
art; but where we have one man quail
flied to follow every syllable artic-
ulated by such a notoriously, ''easy"
speaker as the premier, there are
crowds who, though approaching the
task with .Nevery confidence" would
discover that they had net enough of
that wholesome commodity, backed
up by a modicum of ability, to carry
them through. If. as is insisted, the
average rate of public speaking is 12O
words per minute (and this is under
the mark), two thirds of that figure
about represent the record of the
fourth estate. Verbatim reporting is
manifestly on the decline, chiefly by
reason of its not being required ex-
cept for private and official purposes,
and to some extent on account of
forsenic incapacity. It is allowed that
shorthand, whatever it's perfection as
an art, has not kept in the front in the
matter of speed.-AU the Year Round.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
Spring Suits.

Harper's Bazaar says: The general
designs for spring suits is that of short
basques, with long drapexy and plain
lower skirts, and this suggestion is Civ.
en- alike in dresses of one fabric or fol
combinations of two materials. The
upper part of the dress will be of plain
goods, with figured stuffs for the
trimming and for the lower skirt. The
short plain basque of bison, serge, OF
of camel's hair, will be inIaid with vel.
the velvet forms a short curved OF
pointed plastron, while in other dresses
it extends to the waist line like vest
in front, and this is repeated in the
middle forms of the back. Revers OF
bretelles of the wool goods edge the
inlaid velvet, and these revers are some.
times covered with braid. Polka
basques for the house are very
similar in shape to the jackets
used over them for the street; they ex-
tend plainly over the hips, but are quite
short, reaching only three or four in
ches below the waist line in the back,
where they are shortest, lying smoothly
on the tournure without pleats. Very
narrow vests are preferred when velvet
is used, especially if it is of contrast
ing color. The deep pointed aprons
are now made of separate breadth OF
cloth and disappear entirely on the
sides next the belt, leaving in view all
the underskirt, which may be of a velvet
or of the plain cloth stitched in clusters,
or tucked, Or else braided. The straight
full back drapery may hang plain its
entire length. or is may be laid in large
pleats, or, if it must be more bouffant,
It is pleated in single puff, and these
p1eats are cleary defined, both in the
puff and in the cloth which falls below
to the foot.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02

and grams are mairly carbon. Meas,
flesh of all kinds, abound in nitrogen.
Food which has most nitrogen is most
nutritious" Butter has eighty-three
per cent. of carbon and no nitrogen; an
egg has NO carbon and twenty per
cent. Of nitrogen. Milk contains
two parts warmth and one Of
strength. Bread contains one part
Of nitrogen and eight of carbon.
It is thus seen that in reference to eat
ing, carbon which is charcoal fuel
and warmth are one and the same thing !;
petre-gives flesh or muscle, which are
one and the same thing in substance
with strength. 1t is also seen that most
articles of food have more carbon or
warmth than nitrogen or strength,
showing that it takes more to keep us
warm than to keep us strong. A seden
tary person requires, in round numbers,
about one pound of food day, while
hard working man requires two pounds; !;
this pounds of food gives out power
enough-as steam in an engine gives out
power-So raise man of average weight
eleven miles high. But calling the two.
pounds 5 900 grains, only 300 grains of it
are nitrogen, the remainder that is. six
teen times more of warmth is required
than of strength producing food. One
practical result is, that as the world be-
comes more thickly populated, the
necessity increases of economizing food !;
of adapting it to the various needs Of
the system as modified by age, sex, &C.
cupation and season. Persons living in
doors should not eat more than half as
mach as those who work hard. Less
warming food should be eaten in hot
weather than in cold. If we eat an ex-
cess of warming food in hot weather,we
have to work it out of the system at a
great expenditure of strength; and until
it is worked off we feel full and fevsrish
and oppressed; on the other hand. in
winter we require an additional quantity
of warming food, hence our instincts
lead to eat heartily of pork, and buck
wheat cakes, and butter, and molasses,
which are almost purely carbon In
warm weather we need cooling food, and
Providence sends us in profusion the
fruits, and the berries, and the green
things, which have no carbon at all and
while our appetite for them is ravenous
the very idea of fatty food is nauseating.
Halls Journal of Health.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
Farming Notes.

Make up your minds that you will
farm little better this year than ever
before, and begin now. You who do
not need these hints may not think they
mean you, but there are enough who do
need them.
Get your early potatoes up where
they will warm and get ready to sprout
when planting time comes.
A Minnesota farmer raises sunfow-
ers for chicken feed and fuel. An acre
of the plants produces seed enough to
pay the cost of production as food for
his chickens, while the stalks and seed
less heads make abundant fuel for six
months use.
The state of California has about 17O,-
900 acres in vineyard. The total wine
product is now about IA, 900 900 of gal
Ions for the state. This will increase
in two years to $4,000, 900. The soil
and climate are peculiarly adapted to
grape growing and the finer favored
varieties are hardy. Forty thousand
people find employment and the state
received last year for the crop sold near
ly $5,O0O,0O0.
March is one of the most important
months of the year for stock farmers.
The effects of the long winter will show
on the weaker animals by this time.
Lice will breed ON cattle and ticks on
sheep very fast these warm days, and
must be killed. Lose no time about
this. It costs too much to feed such
pests, beside the suffering of the animals
Remember that these little jobs are
often neglected because they "can be
done any time,' and these same things
make the difference between profit and
loss.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
Some Questions in Everyday Life.

From the Ladies' Home Journal
What is ones social duty? Often we
hear one friend ask this question of an
other. Is ones social done by accept
ing and giving invitations. What do
we bind ourselves to in accepting
the hospitality of a friend or ac-
quaintance? Is our duty by her done
when we have entered the portal of
our hostess and have given her greet
ing? Do we owe anything to her
guests? If we are man, do we do our
duty when we neglect speaking to the la
dies whom we know? If we see chance
when we can be of service to our hos
tess in making things pleasant and
agreeable for her, is not that our duty
to be ready and happy TO do her bid
ding or even to anticipate it? If we are
a woman our power to do more than to
make ourselves as agreeable as we may
is limited. We can then only be kind,
generous and considerate of other wo-
men as it comes in our way. We can
not seek the opportunities of being
polite and making the happiness of
those about us as men can. Selfishness,
alas that we see so much of it where
there is the least excuse for it.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
How French Women Dress.

The chief point to note about the
dress of Partisan woman. observes the
fashionable Philadelphia Telegraph, no
matter what her station in life may be,
is its appropriateness. She does not
wear as costly garments usually as the
American of the same social class, but
they are always thoroughly suitable to
her position and to the occasion on
which they are to be worn. A French
shopping in velvet costume nor to- a
jacket and cashmere gown. She never
goes out on foot in superb and snowy
apparel, or appears at a ball in dark
silk made high in the neck and with
long sleeves. Etiquette forbids her re-
ceiving even the most intimate of her
gentlemen friends in her morning dress
though this rule has been relaxed of
late in favor of the very suberb morn
ing toilets of brocade and satin and
lace which have been concocted for
morning wear by the leading Partisan
dressmakers. These, however, are
simply reception toilets for morning in
stead of for afternoon wear. If she
desires to go out on foot she dons the
simplest ct costumes in dark cloth or
cashmere. Her visiting costume may
be as magnificent as her purse or her
desires may make it, and the same may
be said of the dress Ill which she re-
ceives callers on her eat home" day.
Her theater bonnet is much more
snowy and dressy than her visiting
one. For street wear she dons a
bonnet in very dark velvet or felt. In
the matter of gloves and chassure she is
always irreproachable. For evening
dress the satin slippers and silk stock
ings precisely match the toilet with
which they are to be worn. There was
an attempt made at one time to intro
duce the wearing of scarlet hose and
black slippers with white evening
dresses, but it proved total failure.
Neither we're black slippers and stock
ings ever worn in Paris with white or
pale tinted ball dresses. That fashion
was not French, it was possibly Eng
lish, and unfortunately it was Ameri-
can.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
A Perfect Marriage.

Theodore Parker writes Young peo-
pie marry their opposites IN tempera-
ment and character, and such marriages
are generally good ones. They do it in :
stinctively. The young man does not
say. my black eyes require to be wed
with blue, and my over-vehemence re-
quires to be little modified with some
what OF dullness and reserve" When
these opposites come together to be we'd
they do not know it, but each thinks the
other just like himself. Old people
never marry their opposites, they
marry their sim1lars, and from calcuIa-
ton. Each of these two arrangements
is very proper. In their long journeys
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
The Business Gait.

A good walking gait for horse is
best. Few farmers think of this; most
of them want the colt to be trotter.
The trotter craze has been an awful
curse to the country. It makes me sick
to think of it. How many young men
have gone to the bad on account of 1t :;
and what good does it all do? The
horses of to-day are not the equals in
endurance of those of the fathers. The
horses of earlier days did more and
harder work, lived longer and kept
sounder than ours. They trot faster
now, but what of that? It is virtue, if
it is, which makes vice. Teach the colt
to walk, to start on walk, and to keep
on walking till it is hidden to go faster !;
such colt will make pleasant driver
and last longer, and will be worth a
great deal more to sensible man.
Break the colt before it is harnessed
to any vehicle. It will make a safer
and more easily managed animal. l
have such horse, and the other day
he saved the team because he would
not run away with his mate. He walked,
and turned in at home all right, with a
big load of coal. The driver careless1y
left them without tying, and 1t was
cold. A fast-walking horse will go
further and faster than one broken to
go by spurts, and do it easier, and last
longer. When working horse is
pushed to trot it will walk every
chance it gets and walks slow to get its
breath and rest. A driving horse with
light draft can trot with more ease,
but good walker on long heat will
make the time much sooner than one
could uppose.-Franklin D. Curtis,
kirkby Homestead, N. Y.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
A New Story of Gen. GRAFT.

The Cleveland Leader prints the fol.
lowing extract from the manuscript
notes of Col. A. Fl. Markland, who was
at the head of the army postal service
during the war:
"The first time that General Grant
left Cutpepper Courthouse, wA,e his
headquarters then were, for Washing
ton city the quartermaster made up q
special train to accommodate the sick
and such as might have leave of ab-
sence, the road being taxed to its ut
most capacicy to bring forward supplies,
One passenger car in the train was re-
served for General Grant and such Of
fcers as might accompany him. Only
two OF three officers were with him, and
they did not attract any special atten-
tion as they passed into the car. The
General was always the plainest and
least ostentatious man in the army. All
the cars of the train except the one
reserved for General Grant were soon
crowded, and many soldiers were stand
ing on the platform of the station. Gen.
eral Grant was sitting alone on the side
OF the car next to the platform and near
the door, when soldier came to the
door, and was told by the guard that
he could not come into that car. Gen
eral Grant asked the guard what the
man wanted, and was told that he want
ed to go to Washington. The General
then asked why he was not permitted
to come into the car and was answered
that this car is a special car for Cen
eral Grant and his staff The General
quickly replied, Let HIM come in. I
only occupy one seat in this car This
was the first intimation the guard had
that General Grant and his staff were
in the car. The General then asked
what the other men were doing who
were standing on the platform, and be-
ing told that they wanted to go to
Washington, he said, Let all who can
crowd in get in The car was soon
filed, one private soldier taking seat
beside the General and engaging him in
conversation nearly all the way to
Alexandria, not knowing with whom he
was talking"