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Court at Belfast.

BELFAST, Jan. 10-The Supreme court
before Judge Walton adjourned today after
a ten days session. There were eight
verdicts and one disagreement
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THE WEATHER.

SIGNAL OFFICE, WAR Dept,
WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
Jan. 10, 1889, pm.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jan. Q, 1889.
Indications for next "a hours for New Eng
land are fair weather, colder, westerly
winds diminishing in force.
LOCAL WEATHER REPORT.
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coRNERINc CUBAN ToBAcco.
Operations and Aspirations of an
English Syndicate.

LONDON, Jan. 10.-An English syndicate,
with large capital, has been trying to cor
ner Cuban tobacco for the purpose of buying
out all the Havana cigar makers.
Other English capitalists, having got VIM
of the affair. have bought the two larges'
factories in Havana.
Lowering the Record.
CAIRO, Jan. 10.-The Nile is now lower
than ever before recorded.
Perry Belmont In Madrid.
MADRID, Jan. 1O.-Perry Belmont, the
new American Minister to Spain, arrived
here today.
Fire In Paris.
PARIS, Jan. 10.-A great fire occurred in
the eleventh arrondissement in this city to-
day. The scholastic buildings were de-
stroyed.
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Maximum ther. ....42.O Total prcip... .oS
Minimum ther..
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
(Jan. 10, 1889, 500 P.M.)
Observations taken at the same moment OF time
at all stations q -
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TREASURER BEAL's REPORT.
recommendations as to the Re-
funding of the Public Debt.

AUGUSTA, Jan. 10.-The annual report Of
State Treasurer Geo. l.. Beal, for the year
ending Dec. 81. 1888, has been made public
Receipts.
Cash in the treasury Jan. 1, 1885 312.29s.O3
Total receipts for the year........ 1,087 $500
1Oldl'...-.-... .........'s........S VI o3J,oIo.Jo
Expenditures.
Total expenditures for the year
1855. %
Cash in the treasury Dec. 81, 1888. 272,283.4l
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Lowering the Record.
Perry ReImont In MadrId.

CAIRO, JAN 1O.-The Nile is now lower
than eyer before recorded
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The Fish and Came Committee.
Senate Business.

In the Senate Mr.. Walker Of Knox, intro
duced an act to amend the fortnightly pay
ment law so that the penalty for a violation
should apply to firms, as we'll as persons and
corporations, this provision being omitted by
an oversight two years ago.
An act was presented in the Senate by Mr..
Heath to extend the time for the construc-
OF the Carrabassett q Canadian railroad six
years from the approval of the act.
. The memorial sof the Maine Gettysburg
commission by its executive committee, re-
spectiully represents that the memoriaists
nave Deen unable to fully complete the du-
tles imposed upon them under the provisions
OF the Resolves approved FEBRUARY 25. 1881
Tor want OF sufficient funds, occasioned by
expenses not anticipated and other good and
sufhclent reasons. Therefore the memorial
lists pray that an additional appropriation he
granted to meet the deficiency.
In the House,
Following are among the bills. petitions
and orders introduced in the House TO-DAY /.
BILLS AND PETITIONS.
Petition of the Wyman Brothers To incornorata
the plantation of Bancroft as a town, fO-"'o
Petition of the seiectmen of Brewer 10 incornor.
ate Brewer as a city with accompanying act
Resolves In favor OF Bath Military and Naval
Orphan Asylum, by Mr. Wakefield, of Bath.
Resolve for the preservation of Ex-Governor
Kings monument; by Mr. Wakefield
Petition OF Frank Il. Williams and others for
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-31
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Hints to IfOusekpsDerS.
corn,

The following is a sure cure for tet
ret or salt rheum: Take some good
strong vinegar, put into 1T enough gun
powder to make il as thick as cream,and
apply this mixture frequently or hold
the afflicted parts in it.
WHEN ammonia water has been drank,
vinegar and water should be given
freely and on he instant. This may be
followed by copious acid drinks, lemon
ade, orange juice. etc. generous dose
of sweet oil viii also be useful; ice
freely employed will somewhat control
the Inflammation, and opium viii be
needed to subdue the pain.
You can wash out the chamois leath-
ers that are apt to get stiff and hard and
soiled Make solution of weak soda
and warm water, rub plenty of soft soap
into the leather. and allow it TO remain
in soak for two hours, then rub 1t we'll
in until it is quite clean. AfterWard
rinse it we'll in weak solution COM
posed of warm water, soda, and yellow
soap. 1t must not be rinsed in water
only, for then it would be so hard when
dry as to be unfit for use. 1t is the
small quantity of soap LETT in the
leather that allows the finer PARTICLES
of the leather to separate and become
soft like silk. After rinsing wiring 1t
we'll in q rough towel and dry quickly,
then pull it about and brush it we'll, and
it will become softer and better than
most new leather.
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Murderous Blows in "SIugging. -

Notwithstanding the adroit pleading:
of special writer's or sporting topics,
the general public has not become con
WINGED that the progress of athletics
has refined away the positive danger
to life and limb that was formerly con-
coded to be an element in fistic en-
counters The other day q San Fran
cisco prize-fghter fell dead lii the ring
during the fourth round of a boxing
contest. On the same day another
boxer lost a battle on account of u
broken arm: and similar instances OF
personal injury or fatal disaster has
cropped out in the newspaper reports
of boxing exhibitions or glove contests
for several years past. What Is the
matter with boxers? Has humanity
grown less tough, or have the means
and methods of attack become more
dangerous or deadly?
1t viii scarcely be claimed by any
body that the modern athlete IS not
made of stuff as hard and enduring as
any human material hitherto known.
Great though the muscular giants of
the past undoubtedly were, they rer-
formed no feats of strength which the
athletes Of the present time have not
cqualed or surpassed. The methods
of training have improved with the iu
crease in hygienic and physiological
Knowledge, and The athlete, whether
he be runner, oarSman, wrestler. or
boxer, now enters into competitive trials
Of strength ard skill with the CON
sciOusness that nothing more could be
Z - IL.
work in hand The modern boxer can
resist the effects Of severe pounding
no less stoutlv than the pugili5t Of
fifty years ago. Yet the casualties in
boxing contests have greatly Increased
during that period of time.
It is possible that the change thus
noted, which has been caused by the
substitution of murderous tricks aud
devices of attack for the mere brute
force that was once paramount in fstic
exhibitions, may work out its own re
form; but the prospect for this IS re-
tlattcring. SFarrirg contests and
glove fights viii take place as long as
people OF Celtic ard Anglo-t$axon blood
exist The love for such exhibitions Is
a race characteristic. But II is a com
paratlVely new thlHg TO witness one
pugilist aiming at the temple or the
jugular vein, another pounding away
at the heart Of an antagonist, and still
another smashing his adversary per
sistently over the kidneys 1t is by the
introduction of blows such as these
which We're tabooed under an older or
der OF things. that he manly art OF
self-defeuse" has been made an adjunct
Of needless slaughter Philadelphia
Record
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THE PoULrRY-YARD.


The greatest desideratum in winter is
green food, and it is very hard to pro-
cure. 4 good substitute, says the POHi-
try Keeper, can be had in clover. This
is stepped over night in hot water, and
by morning it viii be swollen and soft.
A decOction will also have been made
by stepping the clover III the water, and
this is likewise valuable, rs it contains
that portion of the clover most easily
extracted. The clover should first be
passed through hay cutter and cVt into
very short lengths, as short rs half an
inch. if possible. Totake a view Of the
matter of feeding may well consider
the purposes in view. Eggs, of course,
are what We are striving for, and We
must feed for them. Corn viii not do
as ii is too fatening, and hens cannot
lay on food rich in carbon but deficient
in nitrogen and pEosphates. 1t is an
utter impossibility for hens to lay when
fed corn and nothing else. True, they
do lay on most farms, more or less on q
corn diet, but they pick up food by for
aging. What is intended here to imply
is that fowls, if deprived of liberty, and
fed on corn alone, cannot produce eggs,
because complete egg material viii not
be present. Even when running at
large they do not lay we'll on corn, nor
Will they give satisfaction. An egg
contains a quantity of carbon, which is
stored up in the yolk, but the white Is
composed almost exclusively of albu
men, q nitrogeuous compound, also
there is stored in the egg phosphorus in
the shape OF phosphate, acid, and other
combinations, all of which materials
serve to furnish flesh, bone, and feath-
ers for the chick, should It undergo the
process of incubation. As corn fur
- a. Z. n
cess of such food produces fat, and this
interferes with the laying qualities by
inducing disease of the organs of pro-
duction. TO obviate this We should give
a variety of food, and nothing is so con-
ducive to health and laying as clover,
Glover is rich in nitrogen, in the shape
of vegetable albumen and II is al
most necessary in winter. To return.
however, to the preparation of the food
in winter: First, we have the clover in
its decoction. For every dozen hens
there should be added to the clover tea
handful of linseed meal, which is an
addition of nitrogen, (already IN the
clover a teaspoonful of red pepper.
half a cup of powdered charcoal. and
enough salt to season. The whole
should be thickened with a mixture of
one part bran and two parts corn meal
until thick enough to throw to the
fowls. If we viii look over the ingre-
dients we Will notice that the lime, salt,
and charcoal are very cheap substances,
considering the small quantity Of each
used, and outside of giving q little
trouble, make good food at q small
cost. 1t is a complete food because it
contains all that is wanted to induce
laying. This food should be fed early
in the morning, and the fowls will rel
ish it. Nothing else should be given
until late in the evening, when the
food should be whole grains, such as a
mixture of two parts of wheat, or good
screenings, one part oats, and ono part
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THE DAIRY.
Dairy Notes,

| DON'T neglect the incoming COWS.
II your cows are not paying for their
| board, turn them off.
| WHAT kind of a bull have you at the
head OF your dairy herd?
/ IL hot weather the churning should
| be done about the time some butter
makers set the cream away to sour.
! II you have heifers that are milking
| from their first calves, let them be fresh
mixers again year from October. 1t
| Will pay you.
Ii you intend to build up dairy herd
it Will pay you to feed your young heif-
ers something besides corn-give them
some oats. You viii reap the good of it
In their progress as well as in chUrn.
OUR own experience has been that
heifers coming in at two or Whereabouts,
who were not fresh again for year or
more did as we'll as those which came in
Mt three or thereabOuts, and were fresh
again inside of a year.
The importation of dairy breeds of
cattle has been much better sustained in
the last few years, than that of the beef
breeds. Expectations of all kinds have
fallen of, but of the latter more largely
than of the former.
IN starting what might be called an
ordinary dairy herd, one should begin
! with heifers or young COWS of moderate
size and good quality, with shapely
bags, and on these should be put we'll
| bred bull from a good milking strain.
DEALER who handlesa great deal of
fine butter remarked the other dav: Il
have just had to stop taking the butter
Of a man who really makes a very pala-
table article, but who Will persist in
churning but once a week. When this
butter comes in it seems all right; but
after day or two it becomes rancid.
JASON JONES says: I'VE long ago
came to the conclusion that good cows
are born; that feed would not make q
good mixer out of a naturally poor COW.
or make butter proftably from blue
mixer. ct many POOR COW would
make less loss if fed. The same care
and feed given to a common COW" as is
given to "blooded cow" would often
make her an "uncommonly good cow"
Try it before you lay all the blame of
no money in COWS" to your common
cows" If You can get nothing but
blue milk, or but little, give the COW
some corn and beef her or sell IS a
Gamer Don't foCl with a COW that
runs You in debt every month you keep
her.
If you carry milk to factory or ship
10 market it Will pay you to cool it at
once Is soon as drawn from the cows. 1t
don't make man feel very good to have
his milk rejected because it is Off
after he has spent time cooling it. But
he did not do it soon enough.
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can be used, therefore, to give to other
families of the horse the qualities for
which he Is noted and which thew lack
And nearly every breed of any promi
nence owes something to the thorough
bred. The French CoacLer is nearly
thoroughbred, as his pedigrees pub
lished by the importers couclusivaIv
show. The Cleveland Bay derives his
best qualities from the same source.
The truly American horse, the Morgan.
is largely thoroughbred in its origin,
and when We come to the American trot
ter, consider how much he owes to
fountain to which the others are som
indebted. Take out Messenger, Dion.
and Trustee, all imported English thor
oughbreds, and where would the Amer
lean trotter stand? Take the trottine
families of to-day, Hambletonians'
Clays, Memhrinos, Golddusts, Pilots,
and Morgans, and does anyone be-
lieve 1t possible that they would be what
they are to-day without the help of the
thoroughbred? 1t is the source to which
to look for the highest speed and cour
age, the most intelligence and the long
est lived of all the families of the
horse.
The system of breeding which has
made the thoroug hbred what he is. is
being followed by the breeders of the
American trotting horse, with the added
advantage, through the extension Of the
art of printing, of having the records of
their work erishablypreserved. The
trotter is every day getting nearer to the
Thoroughbred in its ability to impart its
special qualities to its progeny, and
when it has reached that point it will
have got close to its ultimate limit Yes,
we like the thoroughbred, and we have
never yet seen class of horses which
his blood did not improve, whether it
was intended for the carriage, the plow
or the road. Why should we not admire
him?"
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Balloons in Mexico.

In the City of Mexico, the income
from tho taxation Of liquors ana the II
cense on saloons is very large indeed.
Every liquor and pulque shop pays a
monthly license. Pulque IS the com
mon or cheap beverage OF the hot counc
tIy, corresponding to the matt beer OF
the United States. 1t is purely vegeta-
bic, being extracted from the maguey
plant, a species Of the cactus century
pl7nt.) In addition to the license fees on
saloons, an octroi, or entry tax, IS col
lected on all pUlque coming within the
city limits. For the fiscal year Just end
ed, this gate tax amounted to the sum
of $560, Coo, or more than 81 800 day.
This is from the pulque alone-the beer
OF Mexico-wh ich IS retailed for / cent
for an ordinary glass, or 3 cents for
large schooner. Add to this the tax on
alcoholic beverages, and also the license
fees paid by each saloon, of which there
are tEousands and some idea may be
formed OF what the city realizes annual
y from the liquor traffic. The City OF
Mexico has a population that possibly
does not exceed go, GOO, yet the amount
paid into The city treasury by liquor
dealers alone cannot fall short OF soUO,-
60 a year. The pulque shops open at 4
o'clock in the morning and close at .
O'Clock in the afternoon, and not one OF
them has 9 back door
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TIE STOCK RANCH.
, he thoroughbred,

A Michigan exchange, in writing of
this horse says: Let us look at the
thoroughbred apart from his qualities
as race horse. In form he is a model
OF strength aud allied with beauty. His
courage is equal to any emergency, and
his gameness will make him struggle to
the death. His bone is the densest and
hardest given to any breed, his tendons
and muscles the strongest and most
elastic. He is bred so as to make him
the most prepotent of all domestic ami
mails. There Is no one conversant with
tie various breeds of horses who will
not ackno wladge the thoroug hbredt to be
possessed OF these qualities to greater
degree than any other family of the
horse. And here is where his true use
tuiness lies. The qualities bred IN him
for century and a half lie has the
power of imparting to his progeny to a
wonderful degree. To the fourth gem
erctIon his blood viii assert itself. He
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-31

Twilight passed, the moon rose as he
wont on. He had no eyes now for the
imposing grandeur of the scene; his
soliloquy had turned his thoughts upon
his mission up here, upon those he had
left behind the previous day with tear
full farewells, and upon the doubtful
and troubled future A great fragment
of rock fell from cliff near the road
into deep chasm, a eatamount
screeched from a tree near by, and the
combined noises echoed and reverberat-
ed among the mountains; but the rider
hardly noticed them.
IL was. perhaps, two hours after moon
rise that he turned off through narrow
detile which led to a small level almost
covered with trees. There was small
house, hardly more than hut, and
shed behind it.
This is the place. he said.
He rode mp to the door and gave a
loud "Hulioa!" A very small panel was
showed aside, and the rider was con-
scious of being inspected from within.
who is it?" was demanded.
Brandon-from Knoxville" was
the reply.
The door was unbolted and flung open,
and a middle-aged woman, clad in a
coarse cotton gown, with three or four
somewhat ragged children at her heels,
rushed out. The horseman had seen
her before and had before observed the
ngcring traces of feminine beauty in
her face, almost obliterated now by care
and sorrow and the hard life of these
mountains.
She came straight up to the saddle
and offered her hand. Her faded eyes
shonc with qualification.
Why Mr. Brandon, is it really you?"
Il thought | knew you when l looked
through the peep-hole; but it's so long
since you've been up this way not since
the war began, have you?-that l feared
we'd never see you again. We've heard
from you once in a while, though, and
about all we know of what's going on
ut Knoxville and beyond is the views
you've managed to send us. But come
get off, and come in. Dan, take the
horse and put him in the shed. Wally
won't be back til! morning, but he'll be
glad enough to see you then.
TTo BE CONTINUED
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If you have n pure bred boar, the
quality of the common sows upon which
he is crossed viii do much toward CIV
ing quality to the offspring.
II you have a well-fenced apple or
chard and a lot of hogs, it Will be policy
and profitable to put the two together,
so that the hogs can harvest the wind
falls. Try it and see.
A FARMER of Oqle County, Ill, writes:
We have way of sailing our stock
which we consider preferable to the
half barrels placed il the pasture, or
more than one reason. We use the rool
salt kept by dealers, as we usually have
cattle and horses in three places, we buy
three Jumps" weighing from twenty to
thirty pounds each, and place them in
different pastures, usually in the salt
troughs we used to put the barrel-salt
in, when we used it. Rain does not
waste it, it is not expensive. and We
think it is just the thing" 1t costs us
here sixty cents an hundred pou nds.-
Farm, Fteh and StOckmdn
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PanctUatpd jokes.

If brevity is the soul of w.t. how Is
this z Wheeling Journal
1t is without a l.-Ne,C York Enter
prj e.
DO YOU expect anybody to g" that ?
Philadelphia Sunday Mirror.
Those are the worst jokes of the -
Washi2gtO13 Post.
My 80, you're pointed as a +, aren't
You ?-BlIrli1lgtO1l Enterprise.
We - the opportunity to say that
these are real ? ? that you fellows
propound.-GOM.
Well, they offer us Sous sort of
amusement at best, and - our spirits
greatly Leydted Rdillcay Journal.
If You were in this ! of country, we
would grasp your Ia Meridian Re
cOrder.
An editor is an his reputation with
such puns.- TFeIcOme
Much ado about 0.-DerOU Free
Press.
Unfortunately, these T r take all
our --,Sunddy National.
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Reflections Of Il Cat.

The incest bed is pan of rising
bread
The old maid is the cats good Samari-
tan.
If it wasn't for the rat I would be an
outcast.
| think I have pretty nose when it
amt scratched.
The oven was about the hottest place
| was ever in.
/ am blamed for great many things
the girl breaks
In all my experience I never saw a
cat hit with a bootiack.
Every cat that gets on our back
fence doesn't come to see me.
When people go to sit down they
never see | am asleep in the chair.
When L can't get the ribbon off my
neck / try TO drag it in the dirt.
If hadn't the talons the small bow
would find no fun in pulling my tail.