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An Odd Judge Of Good Cattle.

One of the very best judges of hogs
and cattle on the hoof-he has no
superior in the whole country-is Thomas
Cole, of Kansa' City, Missouri, who has
grown rich in the business. He bought
for Plankintou. in Milwaukee thirty odd
years ago, and aftcrward for Armour
when he opened packing house in
Chicago. Now he buys for Armour's
house il Kansas City, and invariably
shows great So ,acity. In the old days,
when cattle were driven east on the
roads leading to Chicago, the herders
would send word forward to Plankinton
and Armour that their drivers would be
at Mad son, Jefferson, or some other
station at a given date. This would
give drivers the benefit of two markets :;
if they could not mike a favorable sale
at Milwaukee, they would push on to
Chicago Thomas Cole would cram his
pockets full of bank notes, as much as
800, 900 sometimes, and, with number
of assistants, would intercept the drovers
at some given point. He never kept any
accounts. except in his head, and could
not be persuaded to do so. He would
return with lot of cattle to his employer,
with the words: Here's your cattle,
and here's what's left of your money"
Then he would examine all his pockets
and hand over every dollar he could find.
Sometimes he would di cover, days after
ward, bills that had been tucked care
fully away, and promptly deliver ttem.
Nobody ever doubted his honesty, which
was of the strictest SOFT. Cole has done
a greal deal toward swelling the fortune:
of his employers, and is to day as capa
BILE aud as much of u character aa ever.
Commercial Advertiser.
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Rice.

The word "rice" is evidently of East.
ern origin: Tamil, arisi; Arabic, Grus;
Latin, oryza; italian, riso; French, riz.
1t is only second in importance among
the cereals to wheat, and forms the grain
food of over one-thrd of the human
race.
Its use by the inhabitants of China and
India extends as far back as the earliest
records of either country. A Chinese
classic describes minutely the drainage
and irrigation works constructed by the
Emperor Iu on the Yang-tse-kiang
4,sS6 years ago. It was cultivated in
Egypt fully fifty centuries ago, though
not the principal food of the latter coun-
try. Frequent Biblical references to rice
are found. HerCdotus fully describes it,
as does Pliny in his treatise upon the
food plants of India. While Gibbon con-
siders that it was cultivated in Span at
the time of the Roman occupation, it
ccrta My, as an industry, attained no
prominence in Europe until compara-
lively modern times, and it is generally
believed to Lave been introduced BY the
Moors into Andalusia during the eleventh
century. and to have crossed from Spain
into Italy about century later.
Rice Is grown in nearly every portion
of the globe-in Java, Brazil, Hawaii,
America, Italy, Japan, India, but pIinci-
pally in China and Burmah. The Bur-
mese crop is nearly all exported, the in
babitants subsisting on some cheaper
food, as millet or dourrha; that of China
is principally consumed at home, though
q good deal finds its way into this coun-
try.-Southern BirOunc.
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StOneWall jackson in Battle.

In an article on Stonewall Jackson in
the Southern Bieouac Thomas NJ. Boyd
tells of his appearance on the field OF
battle:
Inever was close to him on the field of
battle but once: that was on the hill not
far from the Henry House, at the first
battle of Manassas. He was extremely
pale, but his eyes glared with unnatural
brilliancy. 1t was on that occasion taat
Colonel Baylor, of Augusta County, rode
hurriedly up to him and said: ''Gene:al,
my men arc armed with:the old fint-lock
musket, and not half of them wi fire. !"
He replied: ''lf you will examine it, Iou
will find that old musket has the hest
bayonet in the world. Use the bayonet,
Colonel" In short while the Federal
troops began to give way, and it is pos
sible that this circumstance turned the
tide of battle. I have seen the state
ment somewhere, that General Bee said
to him: General, they are beating us
back" and jackson s reply was: I'VE
will give them the blyonet, sir" This
may be true. but it is probable that the
remark made to Colonel Bay.or was
afterward claimed to have been made
to General Bee. will never forget the
terrific fl hting that evening about 3
o'clo:k-the roar of the artillery, the
screaming, bursting shells, the rattle of
small arms. The smoke blind,d me-; l
stopped low to see how to lead my en-.
We were almost exhausted, and burning
with thirst. Reauregard galloped by;
this gave us some hope, and we chcered
him and passed on. The federals fought
desperately. At last saw Jackson, and
felt safe for his presence always in
spired his men with confidence. That
evening he was shot through the bridle-
hand. General Imboden approached,
called h 8 attention to the fact, and Bug-
gested surgical aid. Jackson said: 1T
IS mere scratch, SIR" His hand was
bound up with sash, be continuing on
the field until the engagement ceased.
He then repaired to the place wlere
the wounded had been collected. The
surgeons were busy, of course. One Of
them seeing General Jackson, ap-
preached, and offered his assistance.
The General insisted that the surgeon at
tend to those who were more seriously
hurt than himself, saying he preferred
waiting until the private soldiers we're
relieved.
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How the Thistle Travels.

Wherever civilized man goes, there the
thistle accompanies him as matter Of
course in his various wanderings. Il
adapts itself to all earthly environments.
Close up to the Arctic Circle you find it
defying the indigenous reindeer with its
prickly wings; under an equator. al sky
you may observe it accommodating itself
most complacently with sardonic smile
to tropical existence, and battling with
the prickly cactuses and the thorny
acacias, to the manner born, for its fair
share of the dry and arid uplands. Even
nettles are nowhere in competition with
it; in spite of its valuable and irritating
sting, the nettle has not the Elasticity
and adaptibility of constitution that
mark the stout and sturdy thistle tribe.
Garnered and harvested yearly with the
farmers corn, its seeds have been gratu-
itously distributed by It's enemy, man, in
all climates; and. when once it gains the
slightest foothold, its winged down en-.
abIes it to diffuse itself ad irs1fni-
tam through the virgin soil of
vet unconQuered and unthistly
continents. A field of thistle, in Eng
land itself is q beautiful sight for the en-
thusiastic botanist (who has usually
low opinion of the agricultural INTEREST,";
but in the fresh and fallow earth of New
Zealand they attain yet more prodig-
ious and portentous sta 'ure, that might
we'll strike awe and d;smay into the
stout heart of Pcrksh:re farmer.
The fact is, tn, thistle is one of those
bellicose plants which specially lay them
selves out, in the struggle for existence,
for the occupation of soils where they are
compelled to defend their leaves and
stems from the con tJnt attacks of the
larger herbivorcs. Cn open plains and
wide steppes mach b:owsed over in the
wild state by deer or buffalo, and in the
degenerate civilized condition by more
prosaic COWS and dorkeys, one may al;
ways note that only the prickliest and
most defensive plants have any chance OF
gaining livelihood.-PopuLar Science
Monthlv, .....
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TALKING IN THEIR SLEEP,

'You think am dead"
The appletree said,
"Because have never leaf to show
Because stoop,
And my branches droop,
And the dull gray moses over me grow!
But I'm all alive in trunk and shoot;
The buds of next May
fold away
But pity the withered grass at my root"
"You think am dead"
The quick grass said,
"Becaase have parted with stem and blade
But under the ground
| am safe and sound
With the SHOWS thick blanket over me laid
I'm all alive, and ready to shoot,
Should the Spring of the year
Come dancing here
But pity the flower without branch or root.
''You think am dead"
A soft voit e aid,
Because not branch or root own!
Inever have died
But close hide
In plumy seed that the wind has sown.
Patient wait through the long winter hours
You will see me again
I shall laugh at you, then,
Out OF the eyes of hundred flowers"
Edith II. Thomas, in st. Nicholas.
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Bushes and Weeds on the Farm.

It seems very strange thing, says
correspondent of the Country Gentleman,
that our farmers should allow so many
bushes, shrubs and weeds growing along
the public highways and in other con-
spicuous places on their farms. What
bad effect it has on the appearance of
mans farm! So small an expense would
be required in removing them all. Can
it be that some farmers want their farms
to revert to wids2 They all the time re-
ceive no pro It from them, but they have
to pay taxes on them. I cannot see why
it is that farmers sometimes increase the
acreage of their nd. They do not see
the extent of land which might, with
large profits, be brought under control,
and produce more on small area with
less labor, and without extra taxes and
cost.
Farmers are careless, and try to do
great deal without doing it well. If
they had only considered it in time they
would have ben the first to exclaim
against the folly of refraining from do
ing a thing which could be done so
easily, and which was of so much impor-
tame.
All will agree with me when I say
that if the highway is simply moved
every year clear up to the fence, no
weeds will grow up there as a general
thing, but grass, on the other hand,
will take their place, and cause as bene-
ficlal supply as any part of the farm.
Every one knows too well for me to ex-
press it, that weeds and bushes cannot
live where they are regularly moved
every year. Every one who has any sense
of propriety will be struck with the folly
of so moving field that when the cen
trail part is cut for harvest, streak will
be left along the fence viii h is not
moved. Let me say to every farmer who
has not mown up to his fences fully this
year, or who has bushes and coarse
weeds growing along them, which are in
consequence of that space not having
been mown in years back, to do so this
year: NOW every one of those weeds
and bushes, and do not fail to do this
every year, and in few years he will
have no bushes along his fence, and
every inch of his farm will pay and look
better.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
A good cause fears no Judge.

II
Ask thy purse what thou shouldst buy.
No man is good unless he is good unto
all.
II is difficult to combine patience with
grief.
Creditors have better memories than
debtors.
A good man even in death makes no
mistake.
Real merit of any kind cannot long be
concealed.
When your superior entrcats you you
partly rule.
In this world a man must be either anvil
or hammer.
When the Judge is merciful the law is
disregarded.
1t is hard to refuse when superior
asks Il favor.
Never trouble trouble, till trouble
troubles you.
1t is happy thing for us that this is
really all we have to concern ourselves
about-what to do next.
Go not for every grief to the physician,
for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor Tor
every thir, t to the pot.
Give what you have. TO -ome one it
may be better than you dare to think.
The best characters have mixture of
intirmities, and the worst have some re.
deeming virtues.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

Some photographs of q recent thunder
storm in France are said to indicate that
the normal form of lightning discharges
between the clouds and the earth is that
Of an irregular spiral.
The London Lancet and other Euro
pean medical journals are presenting
Professor Buisson's treatment for hydro
phobia as more efficac.ous than Pasteur's.
It is asserted that Beisson's method ef.
fects cures even after rabies have been
developed. "
Gas locomotives are in successful ope-
ration at Melbourne, Australia. A six
horse power engine is supplied with res.
ervoirs, sixteen inches wide and SIX fees
long, containing gas compressed to rep
resent $50 cubic feet, sufficient for tlf-
teen-mile run.
Attention is again turned toward Ant
arctic explorations. through an address
by Baron Won Muller, who points out
that by establishing an outpost at Auck-
land or Macquarle Island, and an expe--
dition aided by steam and electric bal
looms, the problems connected with Polar
exploration could, in oil probability, be
solved. There seems u chance that the
Australian Government will undertake
the task.
One pound of coal. according to re-
cent Franklin Institute tests, will yield
an amount of light averaging $50 can-
dies with the electric arc light (about go
per cent. of this if 81 IS shades are used
twenty candles with incandescent lamps,
and fourteen to seven cen candles with
gas. In this estimate it is assumed that
steam coal is burned under good boiler
for the electric lights, and that the gas
is obtained from bituminous coal. :
The recent voyage of the electric
launch Volta across the British Channel,
from Dover to Calais and back, is re-
garded as scientific success far in ad-
vance of what was expected. The Volta
is built of galvanized steel plates, and
her deck is neal ly on a level with the
water. Below the deck are placed the
electric accumulators. These are little
square boxes about eight by twelve
inches, and are wedsed closely together
to prevent shifting.
An account is given in the Reoue
Sc centifgue of an Italian method of pre-
serving bodies in a soft and flexible
state for several months, and by this
means enabling them to be dissected
without any danger to the preparator or
the anatomist. To this end they are
placed in some sort of receptacle or
other, and covered with layer of the
thickest and purcst honey that can be
obtained. If it be desired to preserve
an entire cadaver by this simple and in
expensive proc IS, the plan pursued is to
begin by carefully filling the encephalic.
thoracic, and abdominal cavities with a
sufficient quantity of tannin. This pro.
cess, when conducted with care, is
stated to give remarkable results, q
corpse thus prepared appearing for sew
eral months to be asleep. In sense,
the alcoholic fermentation that occurs
under these circumstances serves it as
food while preserving its softness and
fexibility to degree strongly resembling
that of real life When the fermenta
tion ceases, hardening of the parts oc-
ours, and renders the artistic forms of
the bodY, still more marked.
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Farm and Garden Notes.

A New York State cow-feeder says
that wheat-bran and middlings have
given him the best results.
Rye, if sown now, will grow, and as it
is hardy, will furnish early green food
before the grass makes its appearance IN
the spring.
One of the best supplementary feeds
with corn-fodder is wheat-bran. 1t IS
even better in the winter as a supple
mentary food for COWS.
If every farmer who cuts down tree
will plant young one in its place the
result will be constant supply of timber
and fuel as we'll as profit.
Sell all young cattle that you do not
intend to keep over winter that are IN
good condition. They will soon cost too
much to keep if you have not q proper
place and proper feed for them.
The natural lie of sheep is shorter
than that of any other domestic animal.
Five or six years is the limit of practical
usefulness, though valuable breeding
ewes may be kept one or two years longer
by careful treatment.
1t is cheaper to clean out the poultry
house every day than to allow the drop
pings to accumulate. for the reason that
it requires but short time for the VIOLA
tile elements of the manure to escape.
What is saved by not frequently clean
ing the house, as labor, is lost in the de-
probation of the droppings.
It is a singular fact that gypsum or
plaster of paris is so little used. The
cheapest of all mineral fertilizers, and
the one best adapted to clover, its use
rarely extends far beyond the locality
where it is dug and ground. There its
cheapness insures a large use by neigh
boring farmers, who find it very profit
able
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Ahea1 OF the Egyptians.

"Talk about Egyptian embalming."
said Chicago undertaken. "Why, it
don't compare with what we do nova
days. Those old Egyptions didn't know
what art was in the profession of under
taking. There is too much nonsense
atioat about the lost art of embalming as
practiHed by the Egyptians. In the first
place their climate is of o kind to pre-
serve dead animal tissue whether it is
embalmed or not. 1t is very dry in
Egypt and the temperature is even. The
boasted mummies of Egypt are simply
dried up specimens of skin and bones.
To day we can embalm body so that it
will preserve the fullness and hue of life
and it will never dry up at all. If the
modern process of embalming had been
know to the Egyptians of several thou
sand years ago, those old Kings who
were laid away in the pyramids for US
moderns to look at, instead of presenting
the appearance of tanned leather, would
haze the kingly dignity of form and fea-
ture which was theirs when their bodies
were laid away for the last long sleep"
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Bird Stories.
f.amon Vejar of Pomona, CAL,

i.amon Vejar of Pomona, CAL, killed
four-legged quail.
Sailors caught seagull in the English
channel while it was floating asleep on
the water.
A large eagle few down in a street in
New Haven, Conn, and got into fight
with dog. 1t was captured by a
policeman.
Wine-growers of Sonoma County, Cali
fornia, placed poisoned wheat in their
vineyards and thus killed vast numbers
of quail.
D. H. Owing, living near Sturgeon,
Mo-, caught twenty-three owls and
hawks in steel-trap on tree near his
hen-house in six months.
Millions of guils are found about the
mouth of the St. Croix River, and fur
nish profitable sport for Indians, who
sell their plumage for millinery and
decorative purposes.
A turkey cock in Americus, Ca, left
his mates and lived with a flock of
guinea hens. His devotion carried him
so far that he hatched out a nest Of
guinea eggs and provided for the little
chicks.
One of the results of the reckless kill
ing o. herons, storks, egrets, and other
birds of South Florida is an increase in
the number of snakes about the lakes
and ponds. The great blue heron Is a
famous snake catcher.
The japanese tumbler is a singular
bird, which has habit of jumping from
its perch, turning somersault in the
air, and then coming down right side
up on its perch again. 1t performs this
trick dozens of times in succession. The
bird is somewhat larger than canary.
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Cat's Ewes and MOOnstOnes.

s'Here is something for the lover OF
fine Jewels" said Mr.. Ed. Smith, himself
q connoisseur in gems, and he opened
small velvet box about the size of thin.
BILE and displayed something that shone
like moonlight.
..That is Just what it is, condensed
moonlight, said Mr.. Smith. "Thcre is
the opaline glory without the color and
the shifting light. 1t is the cold, pale
brillancy of moonshine, and has never
before been worked. 1t is the Ceylon
moonstone or moonlight quartz"
The stone was set in lady's brooch.
of small oval size. The faces OF two
children were carved in the moon-tone,
which VS. surrounded by circle OF
diamonds.
"We prize it very highly, as it is the
coming gen." continued Mr.. Smith. 1T
cannot be initiated any more than moon-
light can. The water has re,rltied the
rare brillancy of tropical moon held in
its depths. 1t took centuries to solidfy
it, but only a moment to imprlson that
glory of whitencss. 1t gives the arbi-
trary belle of the present new fashion.
It is much more pellucid than opal, which
is water, petrifed with inultitudes of in.
finitesimal fish in it, which are developed
by microscopical power. There are no
fish in the moonstone. The shifting
colors of the opal are caused by the ex-
pansion of the fish under heat"
.'And not by any adverse fate 2"
"Certainly not. The superstition set
forth by Sir Walter Scott in annie
of Geiernstein' is very charming, but does
not coincide with facts. The moon
stone and the cat's.eye will be the lead.
ing styles in gems for gentlemen's wear
this season. And the ladies will wear
the moonstone as substitute for their
favorite pearls, which it surpasses in
beauty."-Detroit Free Press.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Grow From the Best Seed.

The kind of tubers to use for seed po-
tatoes is discussed by correspondent of
the New York 1ribune, who says that
possibly large crop of fine-sizcd pota-
toes may be grown from small tubers in
rich, mellow soil, but the principle is all
wrong. The potato is q subterraneous
branch, with buds analogous to those
above ground, and on this account some
writers argue that the matter of size is un-
important. Every right-minded nursery
man knows how necessary it is to in
crease his stock of plants from sound,
healthy specimens only, and the most
vigorous, well.ripened shoots are in
variably selected. The forthcoming
generation depends in great degree upon
this act, as is frequently demonstrated
by the transmission of diseases which or
dinarily are not handed down through
the means of seeds. The potato cutting,
as it were, even if taken from a poor
little tub,r, will by liberal use of manure
and thorough culture produce some
largo specimens; but will the crop be so
uniformly large rs if large tubers were
used2 Reason says no. The large tuber5
will give very much better average in
the long run. n.-Anaeriean Rural Home.
Ensilage Made from Apple Pomace.
An interesting experiment conducted
at the Massachusetts, station and report
ed on by Professor Goessmann, was of
ensilage made from apple pomace. The
pomace which served for the prepara-
ton of the apple ensilage was taken
from cider mill neAr Amherst the lat
ter part of October, and consisted of the
clear press refuse of o mixture of differ
ent kinds Of apples.
Two casks OF a capacity of from fifty
to sixty gallons each were used for the
experiment.. These were painted inside
with black tar varnish to render them
air and water tight. The pomace was
stamped down solid, and subsequently
covered with tar paper, which was held
down by a layer of sand several inches
in thickness, and some large stones. The
ca ks, thus filled, were kept in corner
on the barn floor until the following
May, when they were opened to examine
their contents. The material was found
throughout apparently as fresh as when
pit up; neither mouldy nor rotten, nor
even discolored on its surface. 1t had a
pleasant, fruit-likc acid odor and taste,
and contained but traces of ammonia
compounds. One hundred parts of the
fresh apple ensilage required O.744 parts
of sodium hydroxide for the naturaliza-
tion of its free organic acids, which
1 IL L.,
Of corn ensilage. The ensilage OF apple
swine, and IS, if not superior, at least
,ual, pound for pound, N feeding value
to the apple pomace, which served for
it's production. The heterogeneous con-
stituents had increased at the expense of
the saccharine constituents; the latter
had been destroyed at higher rate by
fermentation than the former.-New
York World.