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Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-20
THE DIME MUSEUM BARKER.

He is Proud and Vain, But His SOno- rous Voice is Worth Money. From the New York Mail and Express "We have trouble in getting professional barker who is willing to assist generally, J said dime museum proprietor on the Bowe- " to a reporter. ''You see barker is as
 proud of his calling as an actor, and when he gets through talking in front of the mu- scum be doesn't want to do anything else. They call it their act and go through it with the same pride that Wilson Barrett acts the
 character of Claudian. It is no easy matter to bark for museum; it takes training and great deal of it. A man that hasn't got a
 good pair of lungs is not fitted for the posi-
 tion. The rising infection too must be used almost exclusively, for it can be heard bet
 ter. The gateman at railroad depot is mo- where beside professional barker. The former is not so clear and distinct in pro-
 nunciation, and has rising infection of
 the voice for or two syllables, and then 8
 dreadful falling infection, which has the
 general effect of confounding the listener
 But the barker is clear and distinct and the
 passing crowd can catch on te what he is
 saying. I confess that he is mechanical as a
 rule and varies his stereotyped sentences very little in the course of months. All
 barkers are vain and many are as capri cious as prima donnas.
 ''I endeavored to get mine one day to bark for special crowd passing down the street, but he would not do it because it was not his
 regular hour to go on. They are very exact
 ing in their contracts as to how many hours they shall be on duty, and the proprietor
 who gets one to bark outside of his regular tims is 8 genius. They are somewhat inde- pendent because good bankers If a greenhorn goes to bark in front of muse um the people passing guy him fearfully and do the museum more harm than good. But a veteran cannot be rattled, he never suffers from stage fright, and no matter who laughs at him, he talks right along and pays no at tention to anyone. Few bankers ever rise above their condition. A barker once, a barker always. They get very good salaries, as much as some of the minor freaks in the show, but live up to their income. They are fond of big diamonds, and no we'll regu- lated barker has shirt front unless it be brilliantly studded with gems. Their great drawback, besides being vain and too proud to do other work, is their fondness for the cup. When the matinee is the actor goes to a wet grocery and braces up his voice with half dozen cocktails. I once had the temerity to ask barker to personate some freak in the museum, and he became so fuIi- ous he wanted to kill me. I, an artist, be- come freak! he cried in rage. He quit me and I had to bark for two weeks before 1 got another. It is no easy job though, as some imapineo D
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to purchase or not.
ssSUBSTANTIALS.'' 5

ssSUBSTANTIALS."
 In additionto the above Fan cv Goods we would call special attention to our large and care fully selected stock of Linen, Lace and Silk Handkerchiefs. The assortment is large and prices right. We offer some extra values in this department. All handkerchief buyers should examine before selecting else where.
 Immense Stock of Silk Um-
 brellas
 with handles of all the latest shapes and styles. Special bar gains at $2.5o, $3, $3.5o, $4, $4.25 and $5 each. There is nothing more desirable for Christmas Gifts than Silk Um- brellas.
 Gents Travelling Bags, all sizes and qualities, at extremely low prices.
 Ladies', Gents and Children's Kid and Fabric Gloves, Silk Mittens, Wristers, Caps, Silk and Plush Bonnets and Caps, Leggings, Furs of all kinds. An examination of the goods in these departments should not be forgotten in making selec- tions for holiday gifts,
 In our annex we shall offer for the next two weeks Silks and Rhadames, Colored Rhada- mes, Faiele Francaise, Black and Colored Satins, Surahs, ln- dia Silks, Velvets and Pushes, Dress Goods at marked down prices. Please examine the bar gaius at 25c, 37c, 62 1ac and 75c yard.
 Good assortment of Linen Damask Lunch Sets, Towels, Table Covers, Linen Momie Scarfs, etc., in choice patterns and at reasonable prices.
 All our goods are marked 1T plain figures.
 Store will be open evening: until Christmas.
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EUROPE and AMERICA. A Great Surgeon
 AND A
 Noted Physician.

The distinguished American physician Dr. R. O. Flower, is cousin of that eminent surgeon, scientist and author, Pro. William H. Flower, F. R. S., of London. Prof. Flow CT is one of the Queens surgeons; he is also the director of natural history in the British Museum, an intimate friend of Prof. Huxley, and leading contributor to the Encyclo- pedia Britannica and other standard works. While the professor has been thus present. ing his research in surgery and science in the old world, Dr. R. c. Flower, (much his jun for in years). has been engaged in exhaustive study in the realm of medicine, and com polling the flowers, plants and trees of the earth to yield their virtue for the cure of the sick and dying of this age. The splendid success that has crowned his patient scien- tific study, is witnessed in his wonderful Nerve and Brain Pill, and that king of all tonics and specific cure of dyspepsia and in digestion, his Liver and Stomach Sanative. These great remedies are now for sale by all druggists, and are performing miraculous cures in tens of thousands of cases. They will cure vou
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 Chinese pheasants were introduced into Oregon some years ago, and proved so well adapted to their new environment that they increased and multiplied until they have become so numerous as to be a nuisance by consuming more of the growing crops than the farmers are willing to allow them. But they are good to eat, and they will probably not flourish unchecked much longer.
 The executive committee of the National Protective Association of Liquor Dealers acted wisely in voting to favor a moderate license, and to urge on all legitimate dealers the necessity of respecting the laws, by pay ing licenses, stopping all sales to minors and all Sunday safes, and also if possible by in- ducing municipal authorities to cease grant ing licenses to disorderly establishments.
 The sales of domestic steel rails for the year 1886 exceed 1.350, ,0OO tons. The Iron Age, which has investigated the records and publishes interesting statistics of the subject has been able to trace the sales of 1,22S, ,00( tons, so as to determine in what States the rails are to be laid down. A few sales te contractors, whose disposition of the rails purchased cannot be traced, and the produc tion of rails from imported blooms, are mol included. The 1,229, 900 tons marketed by American mills went 925, 106 tons to north ern and 403, ,S55 to southern States. But o1 the sales to northern States no less thar 420, ,S25 tons went west of the Mississipp river, ,and of the sales to southern States 256, 1caI llzI river.
 An English scientific journal mentions the following as among the inventions which are especially needed at the present time: Maca roni machinery, good red lead pencils, type writers that will work on account books ano record books, indelible stamp cancellins ink, a practical car starter, a good railway car ventilator, better horseshoes, locomotive headlights, an instrument for measuring tht velocity of wind currents, apparatus fol measuring the depth of the without 1 sounding by line. piano lid hinge which shall be flush on the outside, good fluid In dia ink for draughtsmen, 8 good metallic railway tie, an effective cutoff for locomo' tives, a method of alloying copper and iron, and moulding material for iron and brass casting capable of giving mould that can be used over and over again. Here are chances for some of the ingenious residents of Connecticut
 The Hartford Times has found out the oc equations of all the members of the general assembly, and the result is interesting The farmers number four in the Senate and in the House 109, with three others occupied in
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-20
EDITeRzAI NOTES,

Unfortunately the prospect that national bankruptcy bill will be passed at this ses- sion of Congress is not very good. The West and the South have the idea that such measure would be largely in the inter est of eastern capitalists.
 The idea of giving woman share in the management of the public schools continues to find favor An amendment is to be made to the District of Columbia school board bill, now pending in Congress, providing that of the three trustees to be appointed from each school district, one shall be a wo- man.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-20

HARTFORD, Dec. 1S.-John Morgan, 40 years old, and unmarried, a track iaborer employed by the New York and New Eng gland road. was instantly killed near Charter Oak Park this afternoon by the engine at- tached to the pay car of the New England road.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-20
Intelligent Flash.


 Flash, the fine pointer dog belonging to Dr. c. A. Packard of Bath, in following his masters carriage through a crowded street, had the toe of his forefoot caught under 8 wheel The claw after this began to grow out and the wound became exceedingly pain ful. One day the doctor examined the wound and said to the dog in business-like way:
 sWell, Flash, I think you'll be obliged to have that claw cut off.
 Flash looked up knowingly and wagged his tail. A day or two later the wound had become worse and Flash came lmping into his masters office, laid his paw upon his lap and submitted to painful operation with out twinga.
 Not long afterward Dr. Packard was sur- prised to see Flash come into his office one day with small black cur following him. Flash rushed up to the doctor and back to the cur, and kept up this movement for some time. At last the doctor examined the strange dog and found that he had been wounded and was still bleeding. He dressed the wound and the dog went away.
 In some way, which human beings would find it hard to understand, Flash had induced the wounded dog to come to the doctors of- flee and have his hurt attended to.
 Something About women,s Work. IGail Hamilton in the New York world.l As matter of fact even in this favored country, where men pay to women, as wo- men, not ladies or bellies of beauties, an ex- traordinary deference, the mass of wives work as hard as the mass of husbands. Their spiritual superiority is signifed chiefly in this-that the women work for love, the men for money. The spiritual advance made by man is seen chiefly in this. that so | much of the money he earns goes to the ministry of refinement, ettueation, embel- lishment, to the wife and children whom he loves But the woman sees no money for her toll. Her sufficient, her ample reward is in husband, content, happy, growing in graces; in children bounding to gracious ma turity. The unmarried woman works for necessity, for love of her dependent ones, for love of some beautiful or beneicent profes- sion, for sweet mercy and charity to the ig- norant, for horror of dependence upon those on whom she has no claim-seldom for busi- ness, ambition or material accumulation. The woman who fails in her business is not necessarily the woman who sinks beneath the toll of the kitchen or who picks her life out with the needle, or who cannot make both ends meet in dry goods establishment or 8 milliner's shop. Such a woman fails Tn mans business, not in her own. The wo- man who makes real failure, failure in her own business, is the uuloved woman, the ungracious woman, the grasping, the selfish, the oppressive, the unsympathizing, the cen serious, the untruthful, the woman who is a center of discomfort, source of anxiety, an object of avoidance, instead of being that gentle, eonsoling, considerate, motherly magnet which draws into itself all human want and wee and bliss and aspiration.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-21
Farm Experiments.


Whatever may be the value of investi-
tions at the public experiment stations
of the several states instituting them
they are no less valuable on the farm
Experiment stations may demonstrate
generally, but each farmer to receive the
best results of these experiments must
also Investigate for himself.
Here is case in point. An expert
ment station investigating the values of
perhaps twenty varieties of wheat, gives
the several values of these varieties in
that special climate and in that soil. 1t
does not follow that these varieties stated
to do best there will do so in another To-
cality even though the soil may be sim
liar so far as the farmer may be able to
judge. But the probability is they will
do SO aside from the liability to freeze
out, rust, or the occurrence of other dis
ease. Experiments by the farmer may
easily decide this.
How to do this most economically it is
we'll to know. The cheapest and best
means we have found, where small pack
ages are received for experiment., is to
lay out the land selected into regular
plots, with spaces between for separation,
one from the other. Sow the seeds in
regular drills one foot or more apart. For
wheat or rye the seed may be dropped
four TO SIX inches apart, for barley some
what thicker, and for oats, say three
inches apart. The plots may easily be
kept clean, and a careful record being
kept, fair determination of the several
values of the varieties may be arrived at.
But one seasons experiment does not
satisfy absolutely. AS soon as a yield is
oh 10 10
drill by machine, cultivate in the ordi-
nary manner. Thus, in few years, the
value Of the variety may be fairly deter
mined, in accordance with varying sea
sons. In the meantime very little will
have been lost in conducting the expert
ments, and each farmer will have gotten
varieties best adapted to his climate and
situation.
In the same manner the farmer may
experiment in relation to the application
of fertilizers for special crops, or thick
or thin, early or late seeding, or methods
of seeding, methods of cultivation, winter
protection, ETC., etc. In examing var1e-
ties with view of forming an opinion as
to comparative values, the habit growth
appearance of the plant and the grain
must be taken into careful consideration
The time of seeding will also be neces-
sary record, especially since earliness in
ripening is one of the most important
values in a variety of grain. If these
points are carefully written down they
will form a most valuable record in de-
| termining the actual value of a grain or
plant after several years cultivation, IN
| der which its average value one year
with another may be correctly estimated
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-21
Sowing Glover After Rye.
NaE ENGLAND Ear1nnar-

Of late years farmers have found it ex-
ceedingly difficult to get a satisfactory
seeding of clover after rye; those who
have succeeded in obtaining a "gOod
catch" are few and far between; hence
hundreds of bushels of clover seed are
annually thrown away; proving dead
loss to the farmer. Such a failure is
often perplexing and damaging. The
field must be Immediately cropped again
or some way devised for starting a new
sowing of clover, or else allow the land
to go seeded only with timothy.
In this section, at least, the custom of
sowing clover on rye ground in the
spring has peen practiced SO long and
universally that it has become fixed
rule, and one which until recently had
few or no exceptions. Some advocate
sowing early, while the ground is crack
ed by light freeze; others hold that the
best time for sowing is when the rye is
large enough to shade the ground and to
keep it moist; others still go over the
growing grain with light harrow and
thus cover the clover seed. All of these
methods may sometimes give good re-
suits, but on the other hand they often
prove utter failures, especially if the
early spring be dry.
One of my neighbors, practical farm
er, has so far departed from the old rule
of spring sowing as to SOW his clover in
in the fall, at the same time he sows his
rye, covering it with his feeder, or drill
tee same depth as the rye. Last year
he seeded a part of field in the fall and
the remainder of the same field in the
spring. The fall sowing grew thick and
strong; foot high and blossomed out
the first season, while that sowed in the
spring came up scattering, and seemed
almost a year behind the other in point
of size. Other farmers in this vicinity
have adopted this plan of fall sowing
and with uniformly good success.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-21

Is the only one used in England. When
soiling animals they are confined in a
yard and the food brought to them. but
with sheep the English mode is to con
fine them on small plots, CHANGING the
fences, which are movable, as frequently
as may be desirable. The result is that
the sheep heavily manure each small plot
and so benefit the land as greatly to in
CT ease the crops grown thereon a suc-
ceeding season. The practice is one that
has perhaps done more than anything
else to elevate British agriculture. In
fact, the sheep are claimed to Weld a
large profit from the increased fertility
of the land alone, without estimating the
value of the wool, lambs and mutton. al
though there is also profit from these
sources.
1t does not pay to keep sheep in this
country in the same manner as is done in
England Ii we make speciality of wool
nor can we secure profit from the hurd-
ling system (moveable fence) with the
breeds of sheep at present in use on
nearly all the farms, as they are lacking
IN size and quality. We have been accus-
toned to keeping sheep in large focks.
leaving them to secure the greater nor
ton OF their subsistence by picking up
what could be obtained from short pas
lures and hill sides. The mutton breed
of sheep cannot exist under such condi-
t10ns, and put to use in this country have
seldom given satisfaction, as they are not
adapted to American methods The
large mutton breeds, individuals of which
have reached over 400 pounds. live weight
requires plenty of food, and can not be
turned out on the commons They are
intended to grow fast and reach heavy
weights, and must be fed and managed
with that object IN view. They cannot
compete with the merinos where large
hOcks are compelled to forage.
But with all the care and attention re-
qu1red the large mutton breeds are pro-
fitable, and the English farmer pays high
rents and makes money by raising such
sheep. He considers the wool merely a
factor in assisting to pay expenses, and
does not look upon it as the principal
source of profit in sheep. The early
lambs and heavy marbled carcasses bring
good prices, and not only pay for the
labor and care required, but yield large
profits on the capital invested, in
Guiding the land, while the most impor-
tant of all is that upon the land where
they are hurdled Cor soiled) is spread and
trodden In large amount of rich nitro
geneous manure, which affords a second
profit the succeeding year. 1t may be a
long time before the English methods
are adopted in this country, but as land
becomes more valuable necessity will
force the system upon us.