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, 1888-09-18
Fattening the Goose,s Liver.

Little does the over fed sybarite know
what cruelty is often practiced so that
his dainty palate may be sufficiently
tickled. Harper's Bazaar has this to say
concerning pate de foie gras: Every
body knows that the pate de foie gras Of
Strasburg is the best in the world, but
very few of us nave more than a vague
idea Of the methods employed for enlarg-
ing the livers of the geese from which it
is made. Now the liver of the goose SO
trained, if we may use the expression,
is twelve times as large as nature in
tended it to be. In order to obtain this
result the unfortunate geese are sub
jected to torments unknown even to the
early Christians. The first thing done is
to nail the feet of the geese fast to
planks, SO that they may not arrest the
desired tumefaction of the liver by even
the slightest movement. Secondly, their
eyes are put out, that no glimpse of the
world they have left may disturb them.
Finally, they are crammed with nuts, a
delicacy of which they are extremely
fond, but they are not allowed to drink
a drop of water, although they suffer
such tortures from thirst that they utter
piercing cries of agony."-The Epoch.
, 1888-09-18

An authority on laughter says: 1t has
been observed that laughter is indicative
of a particular temper and character, &C
cording to the sound of the vowel that
prevails in exclamation. Persons that
laugh in a broad Latin "A'' are open
hearted, honest people, fond of noisy io-
cundity, but perhaps of voluble mood.
Excessive jerking laughter, however, is
an evidence of vulgarity. Those laugh
ing in a dry "a" are respectable, but
little expansive, and a hard lot of people.
When the Latin 'E" prevails there pre-
walls also a phlegmatic, melancholy tenn
per. Timorous, unsteady people, also
those imbued with malignity, laugh in d
kind of swelling 81" Laughter in 20"
is the utterance of proud, bold, impera-
tive, somewhat bantering people. Be-
ware of those that laugh in ''oo'' (u).
They are traitors, haters, scorners.-New
York Sun.
, 1888-09-18

Ii you suffer with asthma, bronchitis,
or any other disease of the throat or
lungs, nothing can surprise you more
than the rapid improvement that will
follow the use of Santa Able. If you are
troubled with catarrh and have tried other
medicines, you will be unable to express
your amazement at the marvellous and in
Simultaneous curative powers of California
Cat-R-Cure. These remedies are not Sc
cret compounds, but natural productions
OF California. Sold at 81 a package;
three for 81. so and guaranteed by DR.. w,
N. Hunt.
, 1888-09-18

Certain functional diseases of the hand
and arm have been observed in pianists
by Mr.. Vivian Poore. This cramp of
the p~ianists he estimates to be eight
times as common as the cramp of
writers; and he finds especially liable to
it those who practice with the wrist con-
tinually held rigid. The symptoms are
painful stiffness of the shoulder and of
the right arm, less frequently of the left
side, cramps of the little finger and of
the ring finger, sometimes with trem-
bling-this distressing condition often
persisting after exercise with the keys,
and being brought back by the least ex-
ertion of hand o. fingers. Cold, seden-
tary habits, weakness and predisposition
to rheumatism and govt increase the La
bility to it.-Arkansaw Traveller.
, 1888-09-18
AT NIGHT.

At set of sun we felt the breath of night
Come with the salty seaweed up the bay;
We heard the curlews calling, far away;
We saw long lines of foam, and watched the
flight
Of glittering gulls, and trailing snowy white;
The shronded crane few inland; din and gray
The crags rose, as the sun sank with the day,
And like a horn the moon hung DER the height,
STEPPED in her mists, and haloed in her light,
Blurred like a face in oils, or, like some dye,
Her beauty stained the canvas of the sky.
The winds turned seaward, and the stars were
bright,
And when the tide went out-as tides must do
Our hearts went with 1t, and we thought of
you.
Allan Simpson Botsford in Overland Monthly.
, 1888-09-18

lac largest stock of fine brandies, old
whiskies, choice hiqueurs and superine
cigars at George Masten's well known
Mouse, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
%streets.
, 1888-09-18
MEDICAL.
81 AEq a -
DG. Wagner Cs.
sP

We otier no apology for devoting SO much time
ahd attention to his much neglected class of
ity is too wretched to merit the sympathy and
pest services of the profession to which we be-
tQhg, as many are Innocent sufferers, and that
the physician who devotes himself
to relieving the afflicted and saving
them from worse than death, is no less a
Phllhnthrophist and n benefactor to his race
nan the surgeon or physician who by close ap-
phcation excels IN any other b anch of his pro-
tession. And, fortunately for humanity the dav
Is dawning, when the false philanthropy that
condemned the victims of folly or crime. like
the iepers under the Jewish law, to die upcared
Tor has passed away.
YOUNG MEN
Who may be suffering from the efectso Youth.
Iul Iollles or lndiscretions, will do well to avail
themselves OF this the greatest boon ever laid
AT the alter OF suffering humanity. DR.. WAC
NEF will guarantee to forfeit five hundred dol
lars for every case of seminal weakness or pri-
undertakes and fails to cure.
MIDDLE-AGED MEN.
There are many men of the age of 30 to so who
are troubled with too frequent excavations OF
the bladder often accompanied by a slight
smarting or burning sensation and a weaken.
ing OF the system in n manner the patient cam
not account for. On examining the urinary de
posits n ropy sediment will often be found, and
sometimes small particles OF albumen viii an
pear, or the color will be of akin or milkish
nue., again changing to a dark and turbid APP
Pearance. There are many men who die OF
TINS difficulty ignorant of the cause, which IL
the second stage of seminal weakness. DR..
wagner viii guarantee a cure in all such
cases ana "A healthy restoration of the genito-
urinary organ. Consultation free. Thorough
examination and advice. $500.
See the Doctors additional advertisement in
the Daily Denver News and Tribune-Republi-
car.
All communication should be addressed
DIR. CINE & co.
lil4 Larimere street. Address, Box Z7s3, Den
yer, Colorado.
Cut this out and take along
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Florida promises to become large
producer of opium. Sixteen plants
will produce an ounce, and an acre of
peoples will yield $1,000 worth of
opium.
"A New York art dealer has in
vented novel picture frame. 1t is of
broad oak, with real bars half an inch
thick, colored to look like iron, set
across it from side to side. Imitation
hinges on one side and very real
looking paddock on the other increases
the resemblance to the barred door of
cage. With the picture of the head
of a lion Or other beast behind it the
effect is very startling, if not strictly
artistic.
1t would be mistake to suppose
that meteorological eccentricity is Pc
culiar to this day and generation. The
weather was just as erratic long before
the Signal Service was dreamed of. In
the Buffalo Weekly Republican of June
"a, 1S41, appears this paragraph: 1.-The
night before last we stood by good
fire and it was comfortable. Yesterday
we stood by a good thermometer and it
was decidedly uncomfortable, being at
SO. "-Bufalo Courier.
A Berlin merchant who advertised
for a wife lately received 277 answers.
Of these, 81 were widows varying in
age from twenty-five to fifty-two; AZ of
them had no children, and p possessed
fortunes entirely under their own con-
troi of from $500 to$20,000 Four ladies
who had been separated from their
husbands also wrote to express desire
to try their luck at marriage for a
second time-one of them for third
time. Of the remaining 1856 only 2
gave their age as over thirty; Is OF
them professed to be just turned six
teen. Seventy-one photographs were
inclosed, and 81 of them are said to
represent remarkably pretty girls.
-Ugliness or repelling habits are
generally no bar to lady's feeling
when her pet animal is concerned.
Some have been known to share their
bed with an iguana, which is the most
repulsive-looking reptile in Brazil. It
is well known that Byron, among the
pets who accompanied him in his
travels, possessed bear; and Edmund
Keene kept South American lion as
his constant companion. More extra
ordinary pets might be quoted, such as
young wolves, leopards, jackals and
snakes. Even frogs, lizards and hedge
hogs have been petted by men of re-
pute. Wolsey bestowed his affection
on familiar old carp, Cowper on
hares, and Sir John Lubbock wooed
the SAVIOR of a Syrian wasp.
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Cremation and Crime.

If cremation becomes popular it will be
great boon for prisoners and other MUIR
deres who dispose of their victims in such
manner as to leave no outward indication
of crime having been committed. 1t
frequently happens that several weeks,
and perhaps months, elapse before sus
picion is fastened upon the murderer. and
then it is necessary to exhume the remains
and hold post-mortem and inquest in
order to prove the cause of death. In case
of cremation this would be impossible In
the Maxwell case, for instance, the little
chloroformer would in all probability have
escaped had it not been possible to disprove
his testimony, that he was treating Preller
for disease which rendered an operation
necessary, by exhuming the remains and
making an examination. The theory was
a plausible one and would have had great
weight with the iury.-St. Louis Globe Demo.
erat
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Corn and Pea Hay.

A severe drought has existed i'm
nessee, injuring the meadows .rsa
dicating a short hay crop. Corn !, '
and cow peas are suggested bv N
1o'ter as a substitute for grass hsv /
is said that corn or sorghum foos !,
winter use by stock is better than 4.
othy, and can be raised at four doll
per ton. In Tennessee it NAV be 81.
in June or as late as July 10, broade,s
two or three bushels to the ii.
On rich land it may be sown uea,,,
as thick as wheat. Corn Fl,
grow as large as a mans A..
and many stalks will bear puhh;,
1t is proposed as an Improvement !.
the above that bushel of corn s,a
half bushel of peas be sown tocetb..
to the acre on good ground. The con
stalks afford support to the pea yipss
that will grow erect with such bah
The crop should be harvested bv 4.
mower after the tassel dies. The tn
should be shocked as soon as cut. u,
farmers in ATTITUDES north of Teuua.
see try the plan proposed at diffenM
dates between this and the middle Il
July and note the results.-,ToaraaI NJ
agriculture.
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Fruit Going to Waste.

Never in the history of the State wu
there so abundant a crop of fruit d
every variety. Peaches, apples, pean
plums, grapes, Strawberries, raspbs.
ries and blackberries every when
The majority of our people, how
ever, are in the same fix the Texw
man was the year of the great mast
HE had no hogs to eat the
acorns; if he just had the hogs be would
be rich" Only a few evaporators and
fewer canneries. Thousands Of dol.
lars worth of fruit will rot on Ia
ground. Why did we not prepare 10
save this fruit before it was too lsia
We knew six weeks ago it was con.
ing. 1t was then safe.-Ark. Farma
and StockDaan.
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SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
Hints for Sheep Farmers.

Some men like to raise sheep, and
usually such succeed better than 9TH
ers.
A sheep that is full of good, sweet
food, and is otherwise comfortable,
will grow wool and lay on flesh every
hour in the three hundred and sixty
five days and six hours of the year, and
such sheep seldom have grub in the
head-especially Merino sheep-nor
any other kind of disease.
A thin, poverty stricken sheep
always keeps it's owner hating sheep,
complaining of low prices, wanting a
dog law, a higher tariff ON wool, want
ing to know what is good for this and
for that disease; or he thinks some new
disease has appeared in his flock. He
always thinks he has had bad luck.
Poverty is, indeed, hard ON sheep. 1t
is an embargo against all improve
ment Good breeding helps good feed
ing, and without good feeding all good
breeding is a failure. The poorest
scrubs come from well-bred sheep
neglected.
The best mutton of England comes
from the black faces of the mountains
of Wales. When taken to the agri-
cultural lands and fed on the farm, the
rich, juicy qualities are gone. The
native mountain grasses give the NUT
ton its highest claims of excellence.
".
in this country. A friend sent some
mutton chops to our hotel last week,
to be prepared expressly as test of
North Carolina mountain sheep, fat
tened on chestnuts. 1t was most de-
licious eating. There was simply no
comparison with the common mutton.
Some farms and some farmers are
suited to raising sheep for mutton
and some are not Farms and farmers
must be alike suited to the business or
there will be failure. To raise wool
rs some do, there may be short sup
| ply of food and water occasionally,
which spoils the animal, and hinders
that symmetrical development SO es-
sential to good butchers sheep.
| Some sheep, as with cattle, are
suited to one purpose better than an
other. Therefore it is important to
decide these purposes and the fitness
of each breed to those ends we wish
to attain. Some regions are suited to
one purpose and not to another. Kan
sas, for instance, has been choice
wool-growing country. Now it is a
good place to feed and fatten sheep.
The arid regions may profitably send
sheep to the grain-growing sections to
be fitted for the market. Thus the
cheap corn, oats and hay can be fed
on the farms at a better profit
than crowded upon the market.
The manure will be profit in
keeping up the fertility of the soil.
Lands are too high in some grain-rais-
ing sections to keep as pastures, and
the uncertainty of prices of grain
would favor the feeding of sheep in
stead of hogs, which are more liable
to disease, or even cattle, since the
profits of feeding sheep are more GER
tain, if not so large.
High-priced sheep do not always
give the best per cent. ON the invest
ment.
Large carcasses are not most accept
able to the butcher, for the reason that
quality, to the consumer, is most i'm
portant.-Faran and Ftreside.
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Chufas.

A correspondent says that chufas are
the same as the ordinary nut-grass of
the South! Has he ever seen the two
plants? The common nut-grass is a
native of the South, we believe. At
AL events, it has been growing here
since the time when the memory of
man runneth not to the contrary. 1t
has been known on the South Atlantic
coast for the past hundred years, GER
tainly, and has gradually extended, or
been carried, into the interior. 1t is
rightly feared as one of the greatest
pests in the shape of grass that a farm
er can have on his place, as it actually
operates to depreciate the value of the
land by really taking possession of it.
When it has once taken possession
of tract of land, we do not believe
that there is any practical means of
getting rid of it. The roots ramify in
every direction, and with the small
knots, or nuts, extend very deep. Now
chufas and nut grass, while somewhat
similar in appearance and manner of
growth, are really very different
things. The nuts are certainly three
or four times as large as those on nut
grass, and the roots do not take pos
session of the land Or work it any in
jury, and are easily eradicated when
ever their eradication is desired. We
have planted them considerably, and
have never had any cause for dissatis
faction with them. They are indi-
genous to Spain, and have been
grown in the South for
many years, and we have never
heard before that they were introduced
by the Department of Agriculture.
They are well known to be very ex-
celent food for the purpose of fatten-
ing hogs, being so prolific that one
acre is capable OF keeping twenty hogs
fat for month. We do not personal
ly like the fat or flesh made by chufas
as both are apt to be soft and Habbv.
but this may be only matter of taste
and many farmers in the South would
not agree with us in this opinion. In
any event, even If this be a general re-
suit, it may be rectifed by penning the
hogs and feeding them for ten DAYS
on corn. 1t is the custom tn
plant the nuts in drills, opened
about two and half feet apart. drop
ping them ten inches apart in the drills.
While growing they are cultivated
regularly, as corn or any other crop
until midsummer, when they shade
the rows SO that no other weed mr.
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HERE AND THERE.

Ewes that have weaned their lambs
may be fattened very easily II giya
two meals a day of grain with plenty
of grass in the pasture.
"A fruit-grower who draped plum
tree with mosquito net to keepd
the curculio, obtained twenty-iEo
quarts of fine fruit. Another covered
. single branch with equal success
keep squashes and pumpkins away
from the cantaloupes and waternelOn.
In fact, it is best to grow no pumpklM
on a farm where melons are raised, rs
the bees carry pollen from one plmI
to another.
About the surest remedy for hs
hordes of army worms that devasaia
meadows and grain fields is to dlta
against their progress and mash then
as they accumulate IN the ditch.
"A fruit tree that is kept heaiAJ
and in good condition is far less labs
to the attacks of insects than one which
has been allowed to suffer from neglecs
just as healthy animal is better aas
to Withstand disease than q feeble one
Keep both animals and trees In gca
condition by care and iudicious tesf
ing.
If any one in the world has rgB'
to have choice berries, vegetables
fruit upon his table it is the farlr9'
Carelessness is generally the reason
why many do not. They aio cheage'
far better and much more wholesohs
than the strong bacon and coarse cls'
too often found upon the tables q w
tillers of the soil.
A writer in the Mirror and fc'hs
en- declares that farmers are governs
too much by acres and not enough
bushels. They decide to plant 50 man
acres, and they make their manure y
over it, and it is apt to be pretty w
The rule should be to put on al w
manure the crop can use, ana wy
when the manure is gone.
Don't forget to give your breeoie
stock, cattle, hogs, mares and eols
plenty of salt. The grass is, IN e0p
sequence of so much rain, very -
terry and stock need more salt s1s'
usual
The copious rains have causea y.
grass to grow very rapidly, ana I.
pastures as we'll as the range are MY
The grass is long, tender ana luz
RANT. The visible effect is rat Cas-
and hogs. Stock of all kind LOOK se's
Many a good apple orchard 9
been injured because few worlh,'s
wild cherry trees were permiIleu
grow and provide headquarters iof :
caterpillar In every commune
where the authorizes have enterP''
enough to demand the destrucnOp
weeds, the roadmaster should be hia~
TO destroy all wild cherry trees.
If you have cut your first crop
clover, put on about one hilnu'es Z,
pounds of gypsum to the acre.
early in the morning while the e.
on, or just after a shower OF ram
scatter broadcast. 1t will nearlh
not quite, double the second crop.
Make hole about six M
square in the lot fence. near the hosssl
place small trough inside, ana Z.
all the spare skim or buttermilK y
young pigs; also all the kitchen vi
and scraps of cold victuals. EnoH
wasted about nearly every ia1I
kitchen to raise meat for the tape
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LIFE IN JAMAICA.
Something About the Manners and Gus
toms of Its People.

Something About the Manners and Gus
toms of Its People.
The climate of Jamaica surprised me,
for though very hot in the sun, it is so
tempered by the land and sea breeze that
in the houses the thermometer rarely
rises above ninety-five degrees; some
times in the winter season sinking as
low as sixty-ive. 1t much resembles
the summer climate of Virginia, though
much damper, to which fact is due a
great deal of the malaria and the terri
BILE rheumatic fever which prevails. In
the rainy season the dampness pours in
through the 'jeal6usies," of which the
sides of the rooms are principally
built, and which rarely close tightly.
The books on the tables mould, ones
shoes become covered with mildew,
and kid gloves are soon too spotted to
wear, unless kept in closely stoppered
bottle.
The houses are without means of be-
Ing warmed in any way, as they are
built without chimneys or e-places.
This is general rule, though / believe
in the parish of St. Anne's on the north
side of the Island, where there is a
good deal of rainfall, some few houses
are built with chimney, and one room
has fireplace. The kitchen, which
is always an outside cabin, is also
minus q chimney; an elevated sort al
range or hob is built out into the fiooA,
on which the cooking is done, sorpti-
times by means of charcoal, but oftensr
with brushwood and smaller sticks, the
smoke escaping through hole in the
roof.
There is generally an old-fashioned
brick oven outside for baking bread,
but it is seldom used, as few families
now bake their own bread. They buy
it If near or in village from bakers
cart which makes it's rounds in the
country from the nearest store where
it can be procured fresh twice week.
Many households do without the article
altogether, or only get enough to serve
with ''early morning Coffee" a small
bit of toast being put with each cup.
They use in its place some of the SUBJ
stltutes which are classed under the
one generic term, ''bread kind" These
consist of boiled or baked yam, roasted
breadfruit, potatoes, rice, cooked I'M
ripe plantains, ''bammee" and "cas-
sava cakes" both of which are breads
made from the grated manioc root
from which tapioca is also prepared.
Wheat is not raised in Jamaica, and
the price of the imported -four of
very ordinary grade is fourteen dollars
per barrel. Owing to the ravages of
insects and mould it keeps badly. The
meals are arranged as in France, early
coffee in your bedroom at six; at eleven
a. m, second breakfast" meal like
their ''dejeuner a la fourchette,n much
resembling lunch, and at which there
is no tea or coffee, consisting prin-
cipally of ''curries" and 'sdevils," with
fruit, vegetables and bread kind.
Dinner is the next meal, at six o'clock.
This is a meal of several courses,
usually beginning with the inevitable
Jamaica ''pepper-pot, or turtle soup,
and winding up with delicious pine
apples, oranges or mangoes. After
dinner, coffee is served in the drawing
room, and some few English families
keep up the custom of afternoon tea
N. r. Observer
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grass can grow. In the fall, whs, =,
tops have been killed by fross - Y y
hogs are turned upon them. ana !, y
and the turkeys scratch aud rTso. dot !. ny
up and thrive upon them. Tb.a 'a
quire good land, and do not amo,,.. =
much on poor soil. On good lana =
yield per acre is very large. and i y
certainly afford very useful tooS y
hogs and poultry. P. f. in p. "
and Ftreside. wa
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WHEN you do any thing from a clear
Judgment it ought to be done; never shrink
from being seen TO do it, even though the
world should misunderstood it.-Epictetas.