Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-08
Thiu~s Talked About.

Every sheep raiser makes his own luck, according to the care end attention he gives his flock, says Rural Home.
 Prominent fruit growers find that tlGnned peaches are of Q superior size and excellence and sell much better than the unthinned ones.
 Prominent commission merchants rec onmend that the Le Conte pears be shipped so green that they will keep two weeks and not mellow up till the retail dealer gets them.
 An English farmer says: My twenty five years experimentation with potash on Norfolk soils warrants me i'll advising its application to roots ill preference to any crop ill the ordinary rotation"
 Henry Stewart thinks quicklime is as indispensable in dairy as ice. It is ex- ceedingly absorptive of moisture, taking up one-third of it's weight and falling slowly to a fine, dry powder, without any appearance of moisture.
 Professor Beal asserts in The American Agrieulturist that there is probably no more beneficial wild animal living in America than the skunk, which does ap untold amount of good in digging up and deyOuring the common grubworm, the larve of lachnosterna fusca, pest to all grass lands and curse in strawberry beds.
 The International dairy show Is to be held at Chicago at the time of the fat stock show, Nov. 1925.
 Milton married unfortunately, and ms wife's temper was not unlike that of Mrs. Wesley's, the wife of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism-
 John Howard, the philanthropist, married, out of gratitude, lady twenty years his senior. She died in a few years, and he mar ried again, this time for love.
 Lady beaconsield was thirty years older than DiSrael, but the great premier did not realize any difference in age, so remarkably suited were they to each other
 The poet Browning has recently stated the fact that Elizabeth Barrett wes six years older than himself at the time of their mar riage, she being 40, he 34 years
 Samuel Johnson at 21 married a woman of | 4S They lived together twenty-two years. and when she died Johnson refused to be con soled He never married again. l George Eliot married Mir. Lewes, al though his first wife was living and he had but a limited divorce from her Soon after Lewes died she married John Walter Gross, who Was much younger than she was.
 Baroness Burdett Coutts forfeited her in terest in Coutts bank by marrying William Ashmead Bartlett. He is an American by birth, and ct the time of his marriage was 3l years of age and his bride was CT, and the richest woman in the world.
 A most unequal marriage which turned out happily, was that of Charles, second Duke of Richmond and Sarah Cadogan, which was a bargain to cancel gambling debt between their parents, Lady Sarah being co-hsiress The duke was 13, the bride was 13
 A marriage that was unequal as to years was that of Mohammed and his wife. The latt r was twenty years older than the former but the union was a congenial one, as tbe prophet had predicted it would be- He out lived his wife and mourned her loss until he died.
 The present Bonaparte family have made some strange matches. Prince Pierre married Mile Riffln, a poor sewing woman. Three times the marriage ceremony was performed and each time at different place, so as tC baf1e Napoleon III, who had it twice an nuled.
 The Princess Louise of England married her social inferior and gentleman younger than herself. Lord Lorne, it is claimed, hac royal blood in his veins, but the Duke O Argyle his father, made no such pretensions though the house of Argyle is the most aris tocratic in England.
 The beautiful widow, Fitzherbert, wh' became the wife of George ", whel Prince of Wales, was g years of age whel she was secretly married to him. The in equality of this marriage was in the differ ence of station and not of ages, the husband being a prince of the blood and the wife subject. -- ------- .----