The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-26

| cOulQ letp as saw 4 was making LII.
audience. uncomfortable. Such remark
as Juliet has found her Romeo and TIN
like were frequently passed around, AM
| L was beginning to think it would be !;
great relief to meeta train going tn
other way on the same track when w
drew uptat Efingham.
| 'Then I made a break and got off thu
train The last thing | heard as TIL
train moved out was: Come back t.
me, dear Jalnesl' haven't beard mucl
else since. Where was Billy2 O, b,
got Off at Teutopoiis. !"
| The Presidents New Seal.
! When Chester A. Arthur was Presi
dent he gotta new flag. Now THAT Gro
| yer Cleveland is President he has got {
new seal.
The central figure Of this interest
ing novelty, we are told. standing ou
in bold relief, is the American spread
eagle, which king Of birds was chosen
as our National emblem because it's at
tributes are so closely analogous to the
characteristics of our Nation
We are sorry the President did moi
improve this opportunity to give the
really distinctive and characteristic
bird of the North American continent
some representation among our ma
tional emblsms.
We mean the wild turkey.
The eagle has honor enough. He
figures on the great seal Of the United
States, on the arms of the Union, and
on the silver dollar. He is no more
American than he is French OF Prus-
sian or Austrian, and, besides, he is
only a useless bird after all. But the
wild turkey is bird after our own
heart true native American, grand
in aspect and magnificent in plumage.
Benjamin Franklin wanted to make
him our representative instead OF the
eagle, and the great printer was right.
The wild turkey is well worthy Of the
distinction. He is not only beautiful,
but brave. A more courageous bird
does not exist. Our cat allows no
eagles to enter the office, but he never
tackles wild turkey.
The best weight Of the wild turkey is
about twenty pounds. In flavor the
wild turkey is much superior to the
domesticated turkey.
The wild turkey ought to have been
represented on President Cleveland's
new seal.-AeW York Sun.
FARM NOTES.
a farmers wife says that mustard
sseo will prevef mold FROM forming in
vinegar.
An ordinary cocoon will reel 1000
yards of fibre, the largest continuous
fibre known.
The experiments made in raising pea
nuts on Long Island, New York, this
year were entirely successful.
The Italian Government has invested
So 100000 in raw silk to help the silk
reelers and throwsters. Raw silk has
advanced 20 per cent in French mar
kets.
The clover seed nudge, an importa-
ton from Europe, is proving annually
a very serious drawback to the clover
crops Of Canada, and is gradually en-
over this country.
Winter is the season for making ma
luTe. The best precautions should be
made for carefully preserving it. A
good way to preserve it in the West is
20 haul it on to stiff soils at once.
The quantity of sumach gathered in
this year was very large. It
S the most valuable tannin plant
fnown. Some poor men have made as
nigh as $500 by gathering the leaves of
/ shrub that received no attention till
low since the close of the War
odhONd oiiOH 70 toS2lcstloll 4Ee5 Nv tiIciiS
n summer. According to the report of |
farmer there, his field of barley grew
hirty- eight inchesin thirty ght days. |
II at the rate of an inch a day. Dakota
hould be admitted as one Of The States
# the Union.
'tPrune in winter for wood and in
ummer for fruit But do not prune
90 much. Just enough to let in suf-
icient light and air to give the leaves
heir fair quota is right. a good rule
s, when you see a limb iriterferingl
With another out with it, whatever the
irne of year When the sap is in full
ow wounds viii heal over quickest.
Cover your strawberry plants as soon
fter freezing weather as possible. Not
hiehly. for the strawberry IS really an
FergTeen. where the conditions are
and the plants must have
ii. The mulch should be thick enough
0 hold snow. say about three inches,
nd should be taken off IN the spring
efore the plants come into active
roWth. Slough hay. because free from
reed seeds, is the best mulch.
So great have been the underw eight
windlings Of bakers in England that
y a late court decision those who ped
le bread in carts are obliged now to
AIRY pair of scales with them. Much
etter is the Turkish plan They tack
he baker up to his shop door by the