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Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-04-09

The spring drought is beginning to
tell IN Central Texas, but strong hopes
of an early rain are founded on wealth.
or indications for the last few days.
The new suits for the Waco nine ar
rived this morning and arrayed in all
the glory of new attire the boys went
in body to the photograph gallery
and had their photographs taken in .
lgroup.
\ The drill at the art,sian we'll went
through the hard stratum yesterday
and is now in soft slate and going down
rapidly. 1t is thought the water rock
will be struck tomorrow and another
well be added to Waco. ~,
Sanger Bros opening to-day is the
grandest effort ever made by that
; grand firm. Those ladies who miss
} sight Of their show windows will
! regret 1t all their lives, to say nothing
of the great display inside.
The Citizenss Exchange meets TO
night at the Chess Club rooms at e:3(
sharp. All who have promis d t
join the exchange, whether member,
. Of the Chess Club or not, and all who
think there should be a business or
: gsnisation in Waco, are urged to at
tend.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-06-15
Honolulu Library
Reading Room Association.
Cor. Hotel Il Alakea Streets.
Open every Day and Evening.

The Library consists at the presen
time OF over Five Thousand Volumes.
The Reading Room Is supplied witt
about fifty of the leading newspapers
and periodicals.
A Parlor is provided for conversation
and games.
Terms of membership, fifty cents a
month, payable quarterly in advance.
No formality required in joining except
signing the roll.
Strangers from foreign countries and
visitors from the other islands are well
come to the rooms at all times as guests.
This Association having no regular
means OF support except the dues OF
members, II Is expected that residents
of Honolulu who desire to avail them
selves of its privileges, and all who feel
an interest in maintaining an institution
of this kind, will put down their names
and become regular contributors.
A. j. CARTWRIGHT, Pres,
M. M. SCOTT, Vice-President
II. A. PARMELEE, Secretary,
A. l.. SMITH, Treasurer,
O. T. RODGERS, Md,
Chairman Hall and Library Committee.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-06-15
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Real Estate bought, sold and leased.
Taxes Paid and property safely insured
Houses, Cottages, Rooms and offices,
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Fire and Life Insurance effected in hrst-
class In urance Companies.
conveySncing a Specially = Records
searched and correct Abstracts of Title
furnished
Legal Documents and Papers of every
description carefully drawn and hand.
somelyi engrOssed
Copying and IranslatlRg in all languages
in general use in this y ingdOm.
Custom House Business transacted with
accuracy and dispatch.
Loans negotiated at favora bic rates.
Gold, Silver and Certificates bought and
soil a
Advertisements and Subscriptions soil.
cited for publishers.
Skilled and UnskilIed Labor furnished.
ANY Article purchased or snld
Inter. Island Orders will receive parti.
cular attention
To Let, Furnished and UnturnIshed Cot
tages in desirable localities at reasonable
Several Valuable Properties in and
around the city now for sale and lease
on easy terms.
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will receive prompt and faithful atten.
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The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-06-15

EG-All business entrusted to our care
will receive prompt and faithful atten.
ti0n at moderate charges FsbA-s0
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
The PrOper Amount of Slecp.

Insomnia is rightly regarded as one OF
the marks of an overweight or worried
nervous system, and conversely we may
take it that sound sleep lasting for
reasonable period, say, from six to nine
hours in the case of adults, is fair test
of nervous competence. Various acct
dental causes may temporarily interfere
with sleep in the healthy; but still the
rule holds good, and a normal brain re
veals its condition by obedience to this
daily rhythmic variation. Custom can
do much to contract ones natural term OF
sleep, fact of which we are constantly
reminded in these days of high pressure;
but the process is too artificial to be
freely employed. Laborious days with
scanty intervals of rest go far to secure
all the needful conditions of insomnia.
In allotting hours of sleep it is inpossi-
Bile to adopt any maxim or uniform Gus.
TOM The due allowance varies with tn
individual. Age, constitution, sex, fatigue
exercise, each has its share of influence
Young persons aud hard workers naturally
need and should have more sleep than
those who neither grow nor labor. Wo,
men have by common consent been as"
signed q longer period of rest than men,
and this arrangement, in the event OF
their doing hard work, is in strict accord
with their generally lighter physical con
struction and rccurrcnt nfrmities. Abso-
lutte rule there is none, a9d it is of little
moment to fix on exact average allowance
provided the recurrence q sleep be regu-
lar and its amount sufficient for the
needs of a given person, so that fatigue
does not result in such nerve prcs.ration
and irritability as render healthy rest i'm
possible. = london Lnncft
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
sAwDUsr AS BEDDING FOR COWS

Mich cows require warm stabling
through the winter and complete protec-
ton from storms and cold winds to pre-
vent them from rapidly shrinking in
their milk. After COW has eaten her
feed either in the morning or at night,
she feels comfortable and wants to lie
down. As mich COWS should be kept up
in this way while the weather is cold, it
is very important that they should have
plenty of bedding to cover the stable
floor and keep them clean. For this pur-
pose, says writer in the New York
World, 81 don't know of anything better
than sawdust, wherever it can be had
for the hauling from the mill or at cheap
price per load. A good thick coating of
it in cows stall will last good many
days if the manure dropped on it is re-
moved early in the morning or before it
has been tracked around much Dry
sawdust not only makes a soft bed for
the COW, but is also an excellent absorb
ant Of liquids. By removing the small
portions detiled every day and supplying
tuelr plaCe Will HeW, loa't Vi sdWuuSt
may be made to last quito a long time.
It does not become foul and soiled as
easily as straw, and where it is used the
udder does not need washing s, fire.
quently, but can be kept clean with a
coarse brush The sawdust that is
thrown out ON the manure heap soon be-
comes good fertilizer, and it will also
help to loosen up hard clay soil. If l
had straw in great plenty that l wanted
to make into manure, might use it for
the COW stable instead of sawdust, bat ]
think the animals can be kept cleaner
and with less work on the latter"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
WHY THE HENS DON'T LAY.

The Farm and Garden says the time is
not far distant when farmers and poultry
breeders will wonder why hens don't
lay. If they have one breed, then that
particular breed will be blamed and
another one tried, only to find the same
existing conditions of management.
Now is the time to make such arrange
mcnts as will go far toward insuring a
liberal supply of fresh eggs during the
winter, when eggs are scarce and high.
The first step toward this is to see that
your poultry house is not only clean and
free from dampness, but that it is made
tight-wind and rain profound that
proper precautions are observed for ven
tilation. One of the very best things to
make the house storm tight is tarred felt
ing, which is also obnoxious to lice and
mites, though !. more substantial outside
covering can be made by first painting
the building thoroughly, and then be-
fore the paint dries, putting coarse, close
woven bagging or canvas over the whole,
lacking it well in place. The bagging
can be treated to two or three coats of
good rubber paint and the thing is done.
A warm, comfortable house goes far
toward insuring winter eggs, and when
to this be added, in the start, good,
early hatched and vigorous birds and
plenty of suitable food, there need be no
reason for asking why the hens don't
lay They naturally will not furnish
as liberal supply in winter as in sum-
mcr, but they will furnish none at all if
left to shift for themselves.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
Got Tired, Like the Rest.

Among the early American settlers there
was an impression that the Indians had
no intelligence Or craft in their relations
with the white men. The latter soon
found, however, that this was not the
case. Some of the farmers attempted to
make farm servants of the Indians, but
discovered that they had propensity to
''get tired' so soon after they began
work that their services were of little
value. One day farmer was visited by
a stalwart Indian, who said:
'sMe want work"
"No, no." said the farmer-''you will
get tired"
mo, no. said the Indian-"me never
get tircdW
The farmer, taking his word for it, set
the Indian to work, and went away abe >
some other business. Toward noon he
returned to the place, and found the In
dian sound asleep under tree.
"Look here-look here!" shouted the
farmer, shaking the Indian, violently
''you told me that you never got tired,
and yet here you are stretched out on the
groundw
light" said the Indian, rubbing his
eyes and slowly clambering to his feet
eff me not lie down, me get tired like
the rest -
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
A Good Memory.

''How do you manage to remember
the owners of all those hats?" asked re-
porter of a porter standing in front of a
hotel dining hall the other day.
elbow do l remember them2" he re-
pcated, by way of reply. "Why, it's as
easy as learning your A B Cs. Look at
that rack there. Probably there are fifty
hats on it, and if | can't pick out the
right one the very minute the guest comes
out I'm ne good at all. It's all in the
memory. You see, every hat has some
peculiar mark about it. Maybe the lin
ing is peculiar color, or there is hole
in it, or one of a thousand things, by
which it could be picked out among the
rest. A man comes up and hands me his
hat. The first thing | do is to take q
good look at his face and next at his hat
Both of them are fixed in my memory by
somc striking popularity, and l wouldn',
forget the man or the hat if | was sound
asleep. My position depends on my abil.
ity to recognize and remember the odd
and striking in men and their belong
ings. "-IdiaRdpolis journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
NEW HOUSES.

There is too great haste in occupying
a house after its completion. In many
places there is such demand for dwell
ings, and often business apartments, that
as soon MS finished they s:o occupieu-
This is especially true of small dwellings.
There is more danger in this than is sup
posed. There is no health in dampness
and mould under any circumstances, and
in living apartments where tendency is
toward poor ventilation, dampness of
newly finished houses contribute largely
to i'll health. In the town of Basic,
Switzerland, regulation has been adopt
ed which prevents newly built houses
from being occupied until four months
after completion. Under many circum-
stances, so long time as above specified
is not necessary, but it is often well to
err on the side of safety. The size of
the houses, its location, surroundings,
the material used and the state of the
weather enter into consideration of the
time necessary in which building should
become sufficiently dry for occupancy
Sanitary Neacs.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
CHICKEN PIE.

There are many ways of making
chicken pie, but this is good one: Cut
up as for fricasse a pair of tender chick
ems weighing from six to eight pounds.
Put them over the fire with a quarter of
pound of salt pork, cut in very thin
strips, and add boiling water to scarcely
cover; simmer slowly until tender. Re
move all the nicer pieces, the breasts of
which make four pieces from each chick
en-, the first and second joints each cut
into two. Leave the backs, the tips of
the wings and the necks to simmer an
other hour, adding a minced onion and
some parsley. Line a very large earthen
pudding dish with good paste; lay in
the pieces of chicken, strain over it the
gravy, which you have thickened slight
ly, put on the top crust and bake until
the crust is done. When taken from the
oven pour in slowly some of the reserved
gravy through the hole made in the top
of the paste. Of course, all the larger
bones are to be removed when the chick
en- is laid in the paste, and each layer
must be seasoned with salt. pepper and
minced parsley. 1t is good either hot
or cold, and the day after the dinner you
will have chance to sample in the latter
state.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
THE PLow EXPENSE.

1t is common mistake to suppose that
the chief reason for digging or blowing
of the land is to separate its particles.
On the contrary, we are obliged to add to
the labor of loosening up the soil that of
accompanying it with harrows, rollers,
trampling, or other means, before we can
safely entrust seeds or plants to it for a
summers growth. 1t is saying by
posthole diggers that all the firm soil
taken out can be packed in again, with
room to spare. This is accounted for by
the wormholes, rootmoulds, ETC., com
mon in virgin ground. No doubt the
blowing and crushing facilitate expan-
sion of roots and help to protect them
from open airspaces and from lack of
moisture during dry weather, but no
healthier, handsomer growth is obtained
by it than we often see on surface never
worked at all, if the natural mulch keeps
all competing growth far enough away,
and at the same time prevents the land
from drying out.-Mew York Tribune.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
TAKING CARE OF SEEDS.

The excessive moisture of the summer
with seed production. A great deal of
the seed will prove infertile if collected,
and one should be very careful in select
ing, either for home use or for the market
the seeds of flowers, fruits or grains.
Excessive wet or drought are the two
chief difficulties to be encountered in
seed growing; but fortunately for the
ordinary farmer and gardener he does not
have to make his own collection of seeds
Reliable seedsmen can be found now,
where the best seeds can be procured.
Still, every cultivator of the soil saves a
few seeds of some choice variety of
plants, and Others depend upon their own
seeds for nearly all of their crops. 1t
should be remembered by those that it
takes long summer to enable most plants
to perfect their seed crop, and short
summer of inclement weather will often
make all the labor involved abortive. A
week or two of very wet weather will
rob most seeds of their fertility and make
them unfit for planting. In gathering
the seeds this year a close examination
of the seeds and pods should be made.
All pods that have become unduly en-
larged by the wet should be rejected
Those that have damp moulds or black,
decaying spots on their under side should
likewise be pulled of and destroyed
Shriveled pods arc also unsuitable. II
the pod appears all right outside the seed
inside is generally good; but after long
wet spell of weather the seeds in perfect
pods are sometimes worthless. So much
moisture has been absorbed by the pods
that the seeds become bloated and in
fertile. When the water cvaporates they
will either shrivcl up or begin to decay.
Such season as this every pod should
be burst oper on one end and the seeds
inside inspected. II they are soaked with
water, little mouldy, or full of tiny
black spots it is useless to save them.
Accept only those that are perfectly
sound 1t usually takes two or three
years to recover from the effects of one
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
TimbuctOO.

Timbuctoo has now been seen again by
a European-and, so far as known, only
for the fifsh time. DIR. Oscar Lentz has
just returned from successful explora-
ton. The population of Timbuctoo is a
congeries of motley and diverse elements,
the better and most effective constituent
being formed by the Morocco Arabs, who,
however, in consequence of marriage,
generation on generation with negresses,
are gown to be mostly of dark COM
plexion. Another element consists of the
numerous descendants of the old Sonrhay
negroes and the negro slaves drawn from
the remotest parts of the Soudan. Other
elements are the wild, warlike Tuariks,
of Berber stock, harsh in speech and in
solent in demeanor, their faces hidden
under htham (bue cloth through which
only the eyes peer, their bodies jingling
with armor, sword, sabre aud lance
Domestic Monthly.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
A POISONOUS PRACTICE.

If housekeepers everywhere would start
and maintain crusade against the sale
of undrawn poultry in the markets or by
farmers it would work most wholesome
hygienic reform, says Good Housekeeping.
1t is vicious paactice, an abuse, in fact,
that people have endured as they have
many other abuses, because there is'no
remedy except in concerted action or
legislation. 1t is impossible to keep I'M
drawn poultry even few hours without
the beginning of putrefaction from the
effect of the gases from the undigested
food in the "crop" and intestines. The
longer it is kept the more of the poison
goes into the flesh, and, in the majority
of cases, the poultry that reaches the
kitchen from the market is actually unfit
for food. Housekeepers could well af-
ford to pay larger price to have the
poultry dressed Immediately upon being
killed-they pay for much weight that
is thrown away, as it is, beside having
left mass of poisoned flesh. 1t is urged
that some people prefer the flavor of un-
dressed poultry, but that fact only makes
the matter more alarming, since it indi-
Gates that we are cultivating taste for
putrid meat.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
1t Rained Ink.

Writing from Grahamstown, South
Africa, Mr. L. A. Eddie gives an account
of some extraordinary showers that fell
there on August IA last. A storm com
menced at midday and lasted till late the
next morning. At intervals during this
period heavy showers of rain fell, after
which large areas were found to be
covered with water as black as ink. Two
theories are put forward to account for
the observed facts, one attributing it to
dust in the air from recent volcanic
eruption, while the other considers the
phenomena to be due to the passage of
the earth through the meteoric stream,
the dust of which suspended in the atmos-
phere was carried down by the rain, and,
being essentially iron, formed on being
mixed with the organic acids of the soil
true ink The Book Keeper.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
RECIPES.

Boiled Codfish-Soak in a pan of
water over night, and simmer two or
three hours, or until we'll done. Serve
with drawn butter, with hard boiled egg
chopped fine and stirred in; also garnish
the fish with slices of hard boiled egg
laid on it OF around the edge.
Minced Veal-Take an earthen dish,
and put in it layer of breadcrumbs;
over this place pieces of butter, then a
layer of minced cold veal, with salt and
pepper, then more crumbs, butter, veal,
salt and pepper. When the dish isfull,
with layer of crumbs for the top, pour
over it an egg, beaten well, and mixed in
half cup of milk. Bake until brown.
flashed Meat-Take the trimmings of
cold boiled or roasted ham; chop fine
and spread on delicate slices of toast,
buttered, and place in the oven for about
three minutes; beat up six eggs with half
cup of milk, put into a saucepan, add
pepper, salt and two ounces of butter,
and stir till it begins to thicken; remove
from the fire, stir a little, then spread on
the ham and serve.
Fried Chicken-Put equal quantities
of butter and lard in hot frying pan.
If the chicken has been previously cooked
it will need no more salt. Dredge in
flour, and fry it to nice brown in each
side. Make dressing by putting two
tablespoonfuls of -four into the hot fat
and stirring until brown; then add one
pint of sweet milk, salt and pepper to
taste. Serve in gravy boat.
Fried Raw Potatoes-Pare and slice
thinly into cold water some medium
sized potatoes, drain in colander and
put into frying pan in which is two
tablespoons melted butter or clarified
drippings, or half of each; cover closely
ten minutes, removing only to stir them
from the bottom to keep from burning;
cook another ten minutes, stirring until
lightly Drowned. Sweet potatoes may be
prepared in the same way.
Saratoga Chips-Thinly peel and slice
on slaw cutter over pan OF cold water
four large potatoes, using new when in
season; salt the water and let stand while
breakfast is preparing; take handfuls of
the potatoes at time, drain and dry them
on napkin; separate the slices and drop
handful at time in boiling lard, with
out contact with each other; stir with a
fork until light brown or crisp, as de-
sired; skim out, drain well and serve in
an open dish. Are very good cold as
we'll.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
His Lofty Ambition.

A thug who was recently Imprisoned
in India, having been caught almost in
the actual commission of murder, CON-
planned bitterly to an English Officer at
having been deprived of the opportunity
to fulfil his asnbition. lie had begun
life with the fixed determination to kill
an even thousand human beings, and at
the time of his capture WIS in fair way
TO carry out this design He had already
killed 700 persons. and if the authorities
would have let him alone for quite
little while longer hc would have reached
the 1000 mark. lie was willing to agree
to give himself up again II he were al
lowed to go free long enough to hag the
additional 300 needed. and 10 thoueht
it great hardship that so reasonable re.
quest should be refused -Spa Fsaacisc,
CIsoaicle.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
FALLING LEAVES.

They are dropping, slowly dropping
Embsrs from the flaming trees
All their radiance and splendor,
Kindled by the sunshine tender,
To the earth they now surrender
And the hayward breeze.
They are coming, softly coming
Amber, amethyst and pearl
With the ties of nature riven,
Tempest tossed and madly driven;
Flashing ustre back to heaven
In their giddy whirl.
They are flitting-gayly fitting
Fledglings Of autumnal light
From their lofty perches straying,
With each passing zephyr playing,
Bough and bush the course delaying
OF their final fight.
They are hovering-gently lowering
Over vale and rugged steep;
Covering DER the bloom-lit spaces
Which the early frost defaces,
Mantling tenderly the places
Where our loved ones sleep.
Yes, they're falling-sadly falling
Russell, crimson, gold and gray
Beauteous millions headlong flying,
With the winds discordant signing,
At our feet ignobly lying,
Waiting dread decay.
They are teaching-fitly teaching
That which gladdens-that which grieves
There is naught of earth abiding;
But, behind all nature hiding,
Is a hand our footsteps guiding
And the falling leaves.
~ w. Rand, IN Springfield Union.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05

bad season for seed production, for q
good deal Of poor seed will be put on
the market the following spring. Too
much oarefulness in this direction cannot
be taken; not simply by the gardeners,
but by the seed growers as well, Seed
may be scarce and dear next spring; but
that is all the more reason why only the
best. should be purchascd.-Farm and
Garden.