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The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03
EFFECTS OF POTASH.
A Very Satisfactory Fertilizer When APP
piled to Light Soils.

A Very Satisfactory Fertilizer When APP
piled to Light Soils.
Seventeen farmers, representing
nine counties, reported the profitable
and continued use of either muriate of
potash, kainit or unleached wood
ashes as fertilizer for potatoes, corn,
grass and fruit. Twelve farmers,
representing eight counties, favored
the use of muriate of potash. while
five, having used both muriate and
kainit, were satisfied that kainit gave
the larger returns for the money in
vested. The weight used per acre
ranged, for corn, from so to 200
pounds of muriate and from 800 to 500
pounds of kainit. The crops reported
as being especially benefited were
corn. potatoes, fruit, clover and oats.
Without exception the use of potash,
either alone or as an adjunct to ma
nures, was regarded as highly salts
factory and economical.
These results, gained from expert
ment, and confirmed by practice. while
only positive for the farms and crops
represented, should have significance
for those farmers who have not tested
their soils, because they not only dem
onstrate that soils differing widely
both in formation and previous treat
ment, respond proftably to applica-
tions of potash alone, but also Indicate
a general lack of potash in the soils of
the State, consequently point out the
Importance of soil tests by the farmers
themselves; for when maximum crops
can be secured by the application of
potash alone, it is poor economy to
apply complete fertilizers, costing $40
per ton, in which s. represents the
value of the potash.-Prof. G. H.
Cook
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03
A TERRIBLE DISEASE.
The Ravages of Pulmonary Consumption
in the United States.

Inc hdVaSeS OF pulmonary
in the United States.
Pulmonary consumption is more to
be feared in every community than
any other disease that affects mankind.
Cholera. yellow-fever and smallpox
diseases that paralyze with fright en-
tire countries-are exceedingly limited
in their results in comparison with
the slaughter of consumption. Last
year Florida was panic-stricken from
the havoc of yellow-fever; but during
the same year consumption destroyed
more than twice as many lives in the
little State of New Hampshire, and not
a tremor ran through the body cor
pOrate. The average annual DEATH
rate in this country, from cholera,
yellOw-fever, smallpox, typhoid-fever,
diphtheria and scarlet-fever, all
combined, does not reach the
enormous total of deaths from
consumption. 1t is time that some
determined and systematic effort be
made to lessen this disease which is
now regarded by so many as prevent
able. Among the general sources of
infection there is one, at least, that
should be removed, or, if not wholly
removed, greatly lessened by legal
action, and that is the sale Of tuber-
culous food-products. Such foods,
chiefly in the form of tuberculous meat
and milk, particularly the latter, are
undoubtedly extensively sold to unsus-
pecting consumers; and that the re-
suits are not infrequently lamentable,
no sanitarian doubts. The general
Government has taken no measures
to restrict this abuse, nor have
the individual States. To illustrate: the
New Hampshire State Board of Health
says that very recently complaint was
made to the Board of Cattle Commits
sioners that some disease existed in
herd of thirty cows in a certain town
of the State; and, under the assump-
ton that the disease might be pleuro-
pneumonia, the Government upon
notification, sent competent veter-
mary surgeon to inspect the herd.
The inspector Immediately diagnosed
tuberculosis, had an infected COW
killed, and the post-mortem examina-
ton revealed tubercles in nearly every
organ Of the body, including the udder
The inspector reported that seventy
five per cent. Of the herd was infected
All, or nearly all, the COWS were being
MIXED, and the product being sold
daily to q milk-dealer for distribution
among his customers. The dairyman
ignorant of the character of the dis
ease, was bringing up a baby upon the
milk of a single COW in which the dis
ease had advanced nearly to its fatal
termination. Under the laws of New
Hampshire, neither the Board of Cat
tie Commissioners nor the State Board
of Health has any authority TO deal
with tuberculosis in cattle in way
necessary to restrict its spread among
other herds, or to prevent the dangers
to which it subjects the human family.
Science.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03
THE WINTER PALACE.
Russia's Most Celebrated Structure from
an Artistic Point of View.

Russia's Most Celebrated Structure from
Artistic Point of View.
The initiative of the Russians in art
and in civilization is limited. Hitherto
they have displayed greater aptitude
for copying than for original concep-
ton, and even for their copies they
have had recourse to Western artists,
particularly to Italian architects like
Quarenghi, Rossi and Count Rastrelli.
The last is responsible both for the
outside and the inside of the Winter
Palace. This enormous structure was
begun in 1892, finished in 1862,
partly burned in 1887, but re-
built in 1889 from the original
drawings. 1t is a broad rectangular
block, four stories or about 80 feet
high, with a frontage 455 feet in length
and a breadth of $50 feet, one facade
parallel with the Neva, another look
ing toward the Admiralty, the third
facing the vast Alexander Palace, and
the fourth (blind) facade backing up
to the adjoining Hermitage Place,
with which it communicates by means
of a covered bridge. The proportions
of this palace are not cOmmendable;
the style of architecture is very bonn
bastic rocco; the decoration is over
charged with statues, caryatides,
flOwer-pots, grenades, and trumpery
accessories; the cheap stucco sur
face of its facades - mercilessly
broken up by pilasters, water
spouts, and windows, so that the eye
nowhere finds repose-is washed with
a brownish red terra-cotta color
picked out with a lighter tone of vel
low. The iron roof is painted red.
The outside of this palace is abso-
lutely without charm or merit of any
kind; its only claim to notice is its
immensely, which, by-theway, accord
ing to Russian notions, is a very con-
siderable claim. The interior is a
saddening example of the bad taste
which seems to characterize crowned
heads of all nations, whether the Rus
sian Car. the Turkish Sultan, the
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03
The Supreme Court Justices.

The Justices of the Supreme Court
have ''chums" among themselves.
Chief-Justice Fuller and Judge Harlan
are almost always together and are
daily seen walking TO and from the
Capitol. Judge Gray and the late
Judge Matthews were inseparable and
their intimacy, it is said, led to the
engagement of Judge Gray TO Miss
Matthews. Judge Field and Judge
Bradley are very close friends and are
at each others houses frequently.
Judge Blatchford and Judge Lamar
walk or drive in company every pleas
ant afternoon. There could not be
two men more dissimilar. Judge
Blatchford is practical business man,
was for years an active practitioner at
the bar of his State and afterwards
Circuit Judge. Judge Lamar is what
might be termed a theOrist. He de-
lights in the study of literature and
craftsmanship. Although a member
of the bar, it has been years since he
has engaged in practice or turned any
special attention to the law, save to
give an occasional lecture upon it be-
fore the University of Mississippi.
But probably this dissimifarity makes
them the more cOngenial; the one sup
plies what is lacking in the other.
Judge Miller, in his walks or drives
"goes it alone" but he is the friend of
every Justice, and his society is gladly
welcomed by any of them at all times
--WaShinptOn Post
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

German Emperor or the British SOW
ereign. The ornamentation is for the
most part in rampageous rocaille
style, bright FURNISHED gold on white
wash or white imitation marble. Our
pen absolutely refuses to describe the
sham splendor of the imperial apart
ments, with their modern French
polished furniture and vile wood
carving, their massive screens glazed
with purple glass, their wall-hangings
of yellow and white, or rose and
green satin. The malachite room,
the Pompeiian room, the Maui
rescue bathroom, likewise failed
to transport us with admira-
ton. The corner that pleased us
best was Peter the Greats throne
room, whose walls were hung with soft
red velvet embroidered with golden
eagles. The ST. Georges Hall,
parallelogram, 40 feet by 60 feet,
adorned with Corinthian columns of
real white marble with gilt basis and
capitals, is also fine room, perhaps
the finest in the whole palace. The
White Hall. the Golden Hall, and the
Nicholas Hall are chillingly white
show rooms, which require the anima-
ton of the court ceremonies and balls
and the glitter of lights and diamonds
in order to give them a picturesque
interest. Finally we may notice the
state entrance to the palace from the
Neva Quay, called the Ambassadors
Stairs, of white Carrara marble, and
the vestibule, richly decorated and
gilded with Renaissance ornaments
and statuary. The staircase and the
st. Georges Hall are the only two
parts of the Winter Palace that present
an aspect of real grandeur and
majesty. -Theodore Child, in Harper's
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03
BRAVE BAND-MASTERS.
What Becomes of Regimental Musicians
in Times of War.

|
in Times of War.
The majority of people imagine that
every band accompanies its regiment
wherever it goes for the purpose of
keeping up the good spirits Of the
soldiers, of supplying tolerable har-
mOnY for the better digesting of the
officers dinners, and in the case of
actual conflict to inspire the men with
enthusiasm and incite them to acts of
heroism compared with which Tyr
t8us-with his flutes and verses in
| flaming the ardor of the Spartans, so
that they cut in pieces the whole army
of the hitherto uncOnquerable Mes
sinians-is quite outrivaled. Nothing
of the sort Our fine regimental bands
are not taken to the battlefield, and
to suppose that Tommy Atkins eX-
pires to the strains of ''Men of Har
lech," or Bonnie Dundee" is to per-
petuate fallacy which many an old
widow with a scapegrace son could
dispel. What real fighting would be
to full orchestral accompaniment [
can not Judge, but it would certainly
be no iugloriOus end to blare a tuba in
the face of an enemy until an obstru-
ent ball choked its funnel or created a
vacuum in the neighboring bass drum!
1t is the trumpeters and buglers of
the cavalry, and the buglers drum
mers and fifers of the infantry only who
go on active service in musical capaci-
ty, and then the bandsmen and band
sergeant are deputed to the ranks,
their instruments being returned into
stores for safe custody until the piping
times of peace. The trumpet major
and trumpeters of the cavalry, and the
drummers, buglers and fifers of the in
fantry join their respective troops, re-
tanning their instrumental duties in the
field, but the other bandsmen are
trained as stretcher bearers and to as
sist the medical staff generally in the
care of the wounded. If circumstances
warrant it both cavalry and infantry mu-
sicians are liable to be called upon for
ordinary soldiers duties, and they are so
trained when at home. Occasionally
even the bandmaster goes on active
service Though more often he has to
remain at home instructing backward
men and boys unable to bear arms),
and the case of the bandmaster Of the
Twenty South Wales Borderers,
who was killed at Isandula, as well as
the promotion of the bandmaster of
the Sixty-fifth york and Lancaster)
regiment are recent instances of this.
The latter, Mr.. +. H. Mahony, was
appointed Quarter-Master in this regi-
ment and was mentioned in dispatches
and promoted honorary Captain for
his distinguished conduct at the bat
ties of FL Teb and Tamai. The bands
of the Guards and other stationary
regiments are never ordered away for
active service, either in the ranks or
as bandsmen, which may, or may not,
be a reason why men are so anxious to
get into these particular bands
National Review
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03
HOME AND FARM.

Make your halfway % pdrG OF your
house, and have it bright and inviting
to visitor.
"A diversity of crops distributes
work, receipts and expenses more even
ly through the year and through the
years.
Insecticides should be used before
the damage to fruit is done. 1t is too
late after the insect has found retreat
in the fruit.
Making work a drudgery causes
more trouble in country homes than is
at first thought realized. Every one
should endeavOr to do what she is best
6tted for.
If you wish to knit wooden yarn
that has been raveled, you can straight
en- it in this way: Wind it tightly
around clean board, wet it thorough
ly, and let it dry before taking it of
the board.
TO stop the bleeding of horse or
other stock from a snag or wound, says
a correspondent of the National Stock
man, make an application of dry horse
manure and it will stop the bleeding
every time.
1t is cheaper and more economical
to hoe the corn than to allow grass
around the stalks. Even when corn is
cultivated in check rows it is some
times impossible to get all the grass
out except by the use of the hoe, es-
pecially if the corn is planted on old
sod land.
If the season is very rainy and the
grass watery, calves should not be al
lowed to eat unlimited quantities of it;
let them rather be restrained a little
and receive some fine, sweet hay and
dry bran. Neither should they be al
lowed to lie outdoors in long cold
rains, either day or night.
-Pie-plant: Wash we'll, and cut in
half-inch pieces Sprinkle over it a
small spoonful of saleratus, and pour
on sufficient boiling water to cover it.
Let stand one minute, stir well, and
drain in a cOlander. Have ready a
thick strip, made of granulated sugar,
pour in the well-drained pie plant, and
boil slowly till it is tender, but not
broken.
Whenever ground that is heavily
covered with green growth is plowed
under it will pay to broadcast at least
ten bushels of lime per acre over the
ground. Lime assists in decomposing
the plants that are turned under, and
acts on the soil in manner to induce
it to yield up greater proportion of
nutrition for the support of the next
crop.
Strawberry Dumplings: Put one
pint of sifted flour into bowl, rub in
to it two ounces of butter, add a tea
spoonful of salt, a heaping teaspoonful
of baking powder and sufficient milk
to mOisten, about one gill, mix quick
ly, take out on a board and roll out in
to a sheet a quarter of an inch in
thickness, cut into cakes with round
biscuit cutter, put about three straw
berries in each cake, fold them over
neatly and steam about twenty min
utes.
To have pasture we'll stocked with
grass the pasture should be divided in
to two sections, which allows the grass
to grow in one while the cattle are
grazing on the other. When grass is
kept too close, and constantly tram
pied by the animals, it is liable to be
killed should drought come. By al
ternating stock on pastures the grass
will grow better and the animals Sc
cure more food with less labor.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03
The Australian Lyre-Bird.

We were just in the middle of
Tramp, tramp" when a long, clear
whistle, with a crack like a pistol
shot at the end, stopped us short. Sit
ting down on the roadside we listened,
and soon the whistle began again; then
followed the most exquisite mimicry of
many of the songsters of the wood,
varied by sounds resembling the clear
tones of distant bell, the rattle of
rickety wagon, raspings and gratings
ones back, whispers, means, cries
and laughter. j clearly distinguished
the coarse laugh of the giant king
fisher, the cooling of the dove, the call
of the black and white shike, the song
of the rusty backed thrush, the scream
of the hawk, and the hOarse screech-
ing of the cockatOo. Sometimes the
song. with a volume like q large organ
if the musicians must be within a
stones throw, then again it died away
to the faintest whisper. There was q
mellow richness in parts that reminded
me of the liquid notes of the clario-
net We sat spellbound until the
song had ceased. / have heard most
of our American songsters, and some
of them are very fine, with voices rich
and mellow, but the mocking-bird
himself can not compare with this
prince of songsters, the Australian
lyre-bird Sherman +. Denton.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03
BEAUTY OF LILAC-BLIGHT
An Excellent Illustration of MyceIiaI Webs
and Threads.

An Excellent Illustration of MyceIiaI Webs
and Threads.
To begin, let us revert to the lilac
bush, whose whitened leaves NAV
readily afford illustration of mycelial
webs and threads. By September, if
not sooner, the entire foliage will have
taken on its peculiar whiteness as if
thickly busted with chalk or -four
On certain leaves, however, appear
suspicious-looking dark-brown specks
or grains, very small, but plainly visi-
BILE to the naked eye. Removing some
of these granules to the microscope,
we find the field filed with tiny sculpt-
ured spheres ornamented with pro-
fusion of long, interlocking filaments,
starting out like so many extended
radii of each sphere. A gentle pressure
ON the cOver-glass breaks the sphere and
forthwith a dozen tiny sacs appear,
each packed with transparent oval
indicated spores, just such spores and
quite such sacs as appeared in the
fPuiting surface of the morel, and we
are ready with the botanist to call the
granules fruit. Who could have
guessed the contents of that sphere?
But look again at those radiating or
namental filaments. Trace to its distal
end a single ray, and see the grapnels
by which the fertile glObule we have
studied holds fast to the surface of its
host through storm and flood. Notice
the elegant curves, the symmetrical
branching, fit model for the artist in
arabesque or filigree! What more
beautiful or more efficiently suggest
ive!-Prof. T. II. Mcbride, in Popular
Science Monthly.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03
Sound Reasons for Apnroval.

There are several cogent reasons why the
medical profession recommend and the pub
lie prefer Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
above the ordinary cathartIcs. 1t does not
drench and weaken the bowels, but assists
rather than forces nature to act; it is botan-
ic and safe; it's action is never preceded by
an internal earthquake like that produced
by drastic purgative. For thirty-five
years past it has been household remedy
for liver, stomach and kidney troubles,
malaria and rheumatism.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

THE most potent remedies for the cure of
disease have been discovered by accident.
The first dose of DIR. Shallenberger's Anti
dote for Malaria was given, as an expert
ment, to an old lady almost dying from the
effects of Malaria, on whom Quinine acted
as a poison. One dose cured her; and
single dose has cured thousands since 1t
is the only known Antidote for the poison
of Malaria. Sold by Druggists.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

APHAsIA, or the loss of the use of words, is
a peculiar and unusual disease, and the
patient, while knowing the name of the OBJ
ject he wishes to call, can not recall the
word until some one does the same within
his hearing, and moment later it is for
gotten again. Frequently it is followed by
a loss of speech altogether.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

"THE legend E Pluribus Unum, which
has appeared on different United States
coins, was never authorized to be so placed
by law" said numismatist. at was first
used in that way in 1875. There was no
private one at Newburgh, N. Y, and the
motto of the United States was first placed
on q copper coin struck at that mint. Few
collections have specimens of this coin.
They are valuable.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

A GREAT many of our early coins, before
there was any legal authority for National
coinage here, were made In En- gland. The
State of Kentucky had some peculiar copper
coins which were minted in Ensland in 1871
and bore the National motto. The United
States mint was established in 1892.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

A MAN in Westchester County has pet
cat which he has taught to play "Home,
Sweet Home" by walking up and down the
keys of the piano. The cat also sits on the
rocker of the cradle and rocks the baby of
the house to sleep every night.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

A TENNILLE (Ga.) gentleman caught
number of fish and threw them, with an eel,
IN the grass. Later he prepared to string
tail through the gill of each fish and tied the
end into hard knot, thus converting itself
into genuine fish string.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

DON'T you rant to sdUe money, clothes,
time and labor? All can be saved if you
will try Dobbns' Electric Soap. We say
'try," knowing if you try it once, you will
always use it. Have your grocer order.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

"A Connecticut woman sued her
neighbor for damages Tor putting up
fly screens. She claims that the flies
which can not get into the neighbours
house on this account will come into
hers, and she will thereby have double
the usual number.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

Solano, used in carrying trains across the
straits of Carquinez, between Belnicia and
Porta Costa. 1t is AGO feet long, and has
capacity of forty-eight freight cars and two
locomotives.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

"A CASTLE (N. W chap wrote a
proposal of marriage and then put the
letter in his pocket where it remained
for eight months. 1t was then sent by
mail, reaching the girl several months
after her marriage to another man.
The young woman packed up and
eloped with the delinquent proposer
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

A SUBSCRIPTION bar is to be opened in
Berlin where, for $50, one can drink for
whole year, and where monthly subscrip
tiOnS will be sold
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

The largest egg warehouse in the
United Kingdom is at West Hartle-
pool, on the northeast coast. Last
year there were imported at this place
10000 tons Of eggs, or about 204,00R
600 of single eggs.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

IT is no longer necessary to take blue pills
to rouse the liver to action. Carter's Little
Liver Pills are much better Dom tforgetthis.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

THE Indiana Supreme Court lately decid-
ed that shaving on Sunday is not a work of
necessity.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

A CHINESE leper was discovered IN the
Sacramento Jail recently. He had been
sent there from Folsom for refusing to pay
poll tax.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

AMONG the degrees conferred by Prince
ton College at its recent commencement
was that of Doctor of Laws upon President
Harrison
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

KING HUMBERT, of Italy, squandered
more than $780, 900 during his four days
visit to Berlin.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

WILL be found an excellent remedy for
sick headache. Carter's Little Liver Pills.
Thousands of letters from people who have
used them prove this fact Try them.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

BEAUTY marred by bad complexion may
be restored by Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, so cents.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

IT has been found necessary to turn the
City Hall at Walla Walla, W. T., into tenn
porary home for immigrants, the rush into
the Territory is so great.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03
Our Girls
Kitty Is witty,
Nettie Is pretty,
Lutte is cute and smalls
Irene Is a queen,
Annette is a pet,
Nell ia the belle of the ball;
Diantha Is wealthy,
Bertha is healthy,
And hoolfh - tho hast Of all

Perfect health keeps her rosy and ra-
diant, beautiful and blooming, sensible and
sweet. 1t is secured by wholesome habits
and the use Of DR.. Plerce's Favorite Pre-
scription. Bertha takes it, and she also
"takes the cake" The only guaranteed cure
for those distressing ailments peculiar to
women. Satisfaction or your money re-
turned
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

IT is announced that two prominent in
surance companies lost $4,000 by the
deaths from the flood in Conemaugh Valley
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

For Constipation or Sick Headache, use
DR., Pierce's Pellets; Purely Vegetable. One
a dose.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

The cultivation of pineapples is rapidly
extending to Southern Florida. One grower
will have LOG, 600 pines to ship this season.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-08-03

READY-MADE underclothing can be bought
to-day for about the price of making it
twenty years ago.