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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-12-07

AT the annual meeting OF SuHraSlsUs Ill Mlhne-
apolis, Minnesota, in November, Miss Susan b.
Anthony said: ''When ! was in Kansas found
woman superintendent of schools with man as
sistant. The woman received $1,000 and the man
$500. wept for joy. But that was a rare ex-
ception."
"MAYoR GRANT OF New York CITY, says the
New York Tribune, "has done number OF things
which have won the heartest approval from the
general public" Then that journal felicitously
continues, "Let him add to the list by committing
himself decisively in favor of the policy OF ap-
pointing women on the Board of Education
Now while New York is gracefully excusng her
self for not owning sufficiently large grass-plot
upon which to erect the great Exposition build
ings, and 50 proposes to build them in the direc-
ton of the sky, and while Chicago is vigorously
blowing herself away through her fog-horn, let St.
Louis plainly state the FACTS, and appeal to the
common sense of congressman If this is done
as it should be st. Louis is sure to win.
The latest journalistic effort among women is
"Kate Fields Washington national independ-
ent review, to appear at Washington d. g., jan
uary 1st, $780, and edited by Miss Kate Field.
Miss Field believes that ''men and women are
eternally equal and eternally different" If Miss
Field succeeds, through her journal, in impressing
this great truth upon the minds of men, she will
have forever exploded that time-wornand fallacious
theory, that men are better able to represent
woman in legislation than woman could represent
herself, and also have proven herself one of the
greatest women of her age.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-12-07

THE New York Herald gives lengthy account
of new Ladies' Club which has recently been
founded in that CITY, suitable house having been
leased on Lexington Avenue, between twenty
eighth and Twenty ninth streets The principal
object of the club is to provide place where
Young ladies or married women will be able TO
spend night, surrounded with all the comforts OF
home, when they come to the city on a shopping
exnedition and are unable to return home in the
evening owing to the distance they live from the
citv. This feature alone is sufficient to warrant
the success of the club, as it fills long felt want
1t is also purposed, to make the club the head
quarters for ladies engaged in shopping. Here
they may send their bundles, make appointments
with their friends, or in case they bring their chill
dren to town, they may leave them here in the safe
charge of their nurses. A restaurant will also be
opened, so that ladies will at all times be enabled
To secure their meals at moderate rates. A men,
her will also be allowed to introduce friends to The
restaurant.
No wine will be served. The club will be for
the exclusive use of members. 1t is also pur-
posed to give readings and Rotations at least once
a week and oftener if they prove successful Al
though the club is solely for the use of the genter
SEX man will not be entirely excluded. Every
Saturday afternoon four o'clock tea will be served
when gentlemen introduced by member will be
allowed to cross the sacrad precincts of the club.
1t is purposed to make these affairs most enjoyable
and there is no doubt but what the men, out OF
mere curiosity, will flock there in shoals any way
for the first few teas.
1t is expected that almost the entire membership
of the club will consist of ladies who live out OF
town. The membership will not be limited to the
older married ladies' but also young girls will be
allowed to join.
In o late number of the Womans Cycle, Mr..
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1889-03-02
A Human PincushiOn.

Louis j. Beck, a human pincushion,
recently gave an exhibition to a large
audience in the office of New York
paper. He used two-inch needles, which
he passed through his ears, cheeks,
tongue, arms and legs. He then filed
his breast with the needles. He shoves
them into the very bone. The most re-
markable thing about the performance
is that little, if any, blood appears after
the missions. Beck is % years old and
was born in Newark, N. ]. He was for
merly butcher. His father is one of
the largest wholesale butchers of New
ark. The pincushion was finely attired
in dark red costume and light leather
slippers. He says that reputable physi-
clans who have examined him say that
he suffers from paralysis of the nerves.
He has lost several needles while giving
exhibitions, but they have all worked
themselves out at different parts of his
body,
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1889-03-02
Farm and Garden Notes.

See that all colonies are in hives thai
are rain proof; leaky hives cause much
of the loss in 'wintering bees.
Churn and cream should be at a temper
allure Of fifty-six degrees to tifty-eight de-
greesin summer, sixty degrees in winter.
A regular system of rotation with live
stock on the farm may prove as judi
cious and commendable as crop rota-
ton.
Four different kinds of food are es-
sential to promote health and strength.
These are flesh, grain, vegetables and
fruit
No farmers family is too poor to keep
a pig, unless, indeed, it be so shiftless
and improvident as to keep instead one
or more dogs.
Tincture of assafetida is said to keep
rabbits from attacking trees. 1t may
be mixed up with clay and water and, APP
piled with brush.
An ingenious farmer and his boys can
put together variety of simple tools
and conveniences for farm use in these
comparatively leisure days.
All fertilizers should be in as fine con-
dition as possible, for upon the degree of
fineness depends to great extent the
solubility of the ingredients.
The peach or plum tree, when planted
the coming spring, should be put in the
poultry yard. 1t will be partially pro-
tccted from insects and will grow
rapidly.
Some foods, like wheat bran, cotton
seed meal, etc., return value in manure
nearly equivalent to their cost and are
! often among the very best that can be
selected for stock.
Bees emit glutinous fluid from theil
feet to enable them to adhere to q
smooth surface; this is what causes thu
combs to become dark if allowed to re
main on the hive long after being sealed
The disposition of swine is to pile VI
in cold weather, and the warmer we cal
keep it underneath them the less liabl
: they are to do this, and unless they cal
be prevented from doing it to great ex
tent, disease is much more liable Il
} break out among them.
Salt is an acrid poison to pigs whe
given in excess. 1t causes profuse diar
rhea with blood; after death the bowel
will be found infamed and bloody an
the stomach covered with red patches
) Drinking brine poured out of old mea
barrels will cause death in pigs in twer
ty-four hours.
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1889-03-02
Washington.

The President has signed the Nicaragua
Canal bill.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland wore
entertained at dinner by Secretary and
Mrs Villas
Hon, EDWARD PHELPS, United States
Minister to England, called at the White
House and had an interview with the Psesi-
deDA
ar House adopted the conference rekort
q flls Direct Tax bill by a vote OF yeas =.
nays S. It was then taken to the SefAto,
signed, and five minutes afterward semi 70
the PRESIDENT.
THE President has sent to Congress all ne
correspondence which has taken place be-
tween this Government and Great Britain in
regard to the dismissal of Lord SaclI lille
West as Minister of Great Britain t6Ithe
United States. ~
SECRETARY BAYARD has received a cable
gram from Minister Hubbard. at Japan, an
nouncing that treaty of amity, commerce
and navigation between the United States
and Japan had been signed by the represen-
tatives of the Governments.
I THE President has vetoed the House bill
to quiet title of settlers on the Des Moines
River lands in Iowa.
On. d. WILLARD BLISS, who attended
President Garfield during his illness, died a
few days ago a6 his residence in Washing
ton.
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Cleveland gave their
last reception to the public. 1t was the most
brilliant Of the winters series The White
hous, was handsomely decked with flowers.
The news of the signing by the President
of the bill making four new States was re-
ceived in those states with satisfaction A
telegram from Helena says that all Montana
is celebrating, and Dakota is really beside
herself with delight. From every hamH1t
large enough to have telegraph Office come
dispatches expressive of state OF jubilation
bordering on insanity.
| GENERAL HARRISON has rented a pew in
the Presbyterian Church Of the Covenant.
Mr.. Blaine will also worship there.
DR.. FRANCIS WHARTON, Solicitor of the
State Department, and prominent author
OF legal works, is dead in his sixty-ninth
year.
CONSUL GENERAL WALLER, at London
England, has sent his resignation to the
State Department, to take effect immodi-
atey on the appointment of his successor
The President has nominated ]. Lee
Tucker. of New York, to be Deputy Fifth
AuG>lor OF the Treasury, vice Alfred Il
Lewis, removed, and James G. Perry, Of
North Carolina, to be an Assistant Surgeon
in the Marine Hospital service.
the Chinese Minister and suite have
arrived at Washington from Havana, Cuba
BENTON ]. HALL, Commissioner OF
Patents, has rendered a decision in thu
matter of the petitions of Gray an[
McDonough to reopen the Bell telephone
interferences. The Commissioner refuses t
reopen the interferences and reafirms the
award OF priority to Bell.
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1889-03-02
EnnRinn-

fsHPERoR FRANCIS JOSEPH, of Austria, has
SUMMONED the heir presumptive, Archduke
FrGu7, to Pesth to introduce him to the lead
ing political men and members Of the aristo-
cracy.
THE Cologne Gazette tBismarck's organ,
says that Germany will demand OF the
United States Government that it arrest ami
punish Klein, the American whom Germany
charges with having led the Mataafaites in
Samoa at the time of the repulse of the Ger
mans in December last.
MN. FREYcINET and Meline have under
taken to form Cabinet for President Car
not of France
THE Duke Of Newcastle has been married
in London to Miss Candy, a famous English
beauty.
A TERRIBLE famine prevails in the south
ern portion Of Corea.
The Sultan of Morocco has coded piece
of the coast near the Algerian frontier to the
Germans, who will use it for naval station
JAMES Q, FLOOD, the California million
aire, died at Heidelberg, Germ any, o
Brights disease. The remains will be EN-
balmed and will rest till May in the church
yard chapel there, when they will be trans
ferred to San Francisco.
PLANTER MoDEsTA RUIZ, who was cap.
tured by bandits in the Remedies district,
Cuba, has been released on the payment of a
ransom of $4,000.
THE British Parliament has reassembled
The Queens opening speech asked for in
creased supplies for defensive purposes
FOURTEEN streets, containing 1000 houses
with temples. Schools and hospitals, in Shid
snoki, Janan, were recently burned to the
ground. At Yokosuki fire Quilted 500 housei
and burned three men to death. On this
same day ten houses at Joctio and fifteen al
TOXIC were burned
CHILL has passed q law excluding Chimes,
immigrants from the Republic. But all othel
classes of immigrants find q warm welcome
GABRIEL DUMoNT, who was Riel's lieu.
tenant in the bloody half-breed rebellion
has been pardoned by the Canadian Govern
ment,a and IS now on his way 30 his old stamp
ing ground.
FRINGE RUPERT, the eldest son of Prime,
Ludwig OF Bavaria, the heir to the Bavariau
throne, is insane.
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1889-03-02
The PestIrerous Grass bird.

There IS a little bird, common about
the fields and gardens, that Is q worst
pest than the sparrow, crow and black
bird combined. 1t is commonly called
the grass bird. 1t is dark brown or
dun color on the back, with white
breast and belly. 1t eats clover and
grass seed, and those farmers who SOW
these seeds on the ground without cover
ing them will look in vain for the young
plants. These small birds come in flocks
Of sometimes hundred or hundreds,
and lighting on the fields are unnoticed,
while each one will pick up the seed
from square yard Of ground. It is
easily calculated how soon hundred of
these birds will clear an acre of land of
seeds; forty eight visits will do 1t with
out leaving one need. No wonder there
are poor catches of seed, especially Of
timothy, sown in the fall, when these
pests have whole winter TO work in or
swarm on the ground in the spring The
only safety from this loss is to cover the
seed by the harrow aud put it safe in
the ground, where it ought to be put by
every good farmer. If these birds are
needed to teach farmers a good lesson,
that grass and clover seed should be
sown in the most careful manner and not
scattered upon the snow or the bare hard
surface of the ground, they will not have
lived in vain.--Neio York. Times.
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1889-03-02

A LABoRER named Joseph Brogan, at Up
son, Wis, killed his wife and two children,
aged five and seven years respectively, and
then committed suicide with dull razor.
WHILE Harry Brown, John Williams, and
a third man. name unknown, were crossing
the Kanawha, at Rush Run, W. Va, the
boat was overturned and all were drowned,
LATE returns indicated the election 81
Charles =. Booker, Democrat, and r. PaC.
Wilson, Democrat, for the Fiftieth and Fifty-i
first Congresses respectively, to succeed the
late James N. Burnes, of Missouri.
CHINESE coolies are being constantly
struggled from British Columbia into the
United States by way of coast steamers from
Port Townsend, Washington Territory.
OSCAR EVANS, bark contractor, shot and
killed James Kirby, and mortaly wounded
A. L. Hoke, near Romney, w. Va. About
week ago Hoke horsewhipped Evans.
The highest price ever paid for a horse in
America was given a few days since, when
the trotting stallion Bell Boy was sold for
$4,000 at auction at Lexington, KY.
The long deadlock in the West Virginia
Legislature has been broken by the re.elec-
ton Of James e. Kenna as United States
Senator.
A HEAVY snow storm has ragged all over
Georgia, More than six and a half inches of
snow fell in Atlanta. 1t is the heaviest fall
of snow within the recollection of people
there.
Two children were eaten by wolves while
returning from school in Minnesota.
TUNNEL No. II on the Cincinnati Southern
Road, near Sunburnt, Tenn, is On fire, and
in property sense it is the greatest catas-
trophe any railroad ever suffered. The Off
GERS Of the road placed the loss at from S40n.,
| 900 to $600,000 Coal seams were ahlfk
| which promised to burn for months. In3
tunnel is l20 feet long.
COUNTY TREASURER JAMES NJ. LOVE, of
Circleville, Ohio, has absconded and is de.
feulter in the sum of $4,000.
GOVERNOR WILSON and General Goff, each
of whom claims to have been elected Gov
ernor of West Virginia, effected an under.
standing to the effect that the former should
hold over as Governor and the latter qualify
as such on March 4. The case was then tc
be taken to the Supreme Court for decision.
HEAVY snow storms and very colo
weather are reported from the South and
the West
ID. H. SMITH, a colored man who had beer
shipping hands to Arkansas, was lynched by
white men at Artesia, Miss.
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1889-03-02
The Care of Fowls.

The raising of fowls is now so COM
mon by persons who are without farm
conyeniences or buildings that the hem
house is necessity and its proper con-
struction and adaptability to the wants of
the flock, and especially as an aid to egg
production, are matters deserving of
consideration. For amateurs or persons
keeping fowls in villages on small
plots the best results will be obtained
from limited numbers; say from dozen
to 25 hens with one to two males. All
the liberty should be allowed
that the premises will admit.
The central point is the hen
house as roosting, laying and Matching
place, with small inclosed run attached
which belongs exclusively to them and
where they can always go when not in
the house, but out of this little yard
they should be allowed to run for short
periods whenever it is practicable. If
let out for only an hour just before roost-
ing time, in the house yard or garden,
it will always be benefit to them, and
little watchfulness for short time will
prevent them from doing mischief.
The dimensions of Sx10 feet will fur
nish ample room for two dozen fowls if
fitted up with properly arranged roosting
poles (of which part should be low for
heavy fowls and sufficient supply OF
nest boxes. The building should be
just high enough for getting around in
comfortably, and should face the south
and that front should be of glass dowr
to within eighteen inches of the floor
Here the nest boxes should be placed
out of the direct sunlight. and should b,
as secluded us they can well he, In thi
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1889-03-02
TRAGEDIES ON THE RAIL.
Railway Casualties in Various
Parts of the Country.
California Bandits Rob a Train and
Commit Murder.

The Coroner held an inquest over the body
Of Charles r. Gabert, who was killed in the
train robbery near Pixley, Cal, the
other evening. He was native Of West
Virginia, aged twenty years, and was in
stantly killed Testimony given by P. T. Fol-
ger, engineer and c. j. Alder, fireman,
showed that when leaving Pixley
two masked men boarded the engine
with shotguns and ordered the engineer
TO pull out. They fired q shot when two
miles out and ordered the engineer
to slow down. The engineer and fireman
were taken tack by the robbers to the ex-
press car, and bomb was thrown under the
car. The explosion nearly turned the car
over. The messenger came out when Or
dered.
One Of the robbers entered the car, while
the other held the fireman, engineer and
| messenger under cover Meanwhile Brake-
man Gabert came up on one side OF
the car and Bentley came up on
the other side , to see the
preaching, one robber exclaimed: "Stop,''
and fired. Gabert received heavy load OF
buckshot in the heart and head, killing him
| instantly
The robbers then reached under the car
and fired at the other man. Bentley
| was struck by several shot in the
| abdomen and right arm. The robbers
then marched the three men upon the
engine and backed away into the darkness.
| 1t was thought that the affair was not the
| work OF professionals, as it was needlessly
| murderous The robbers secured only $500.
Armed parties were securing the country in
search of the robbers
| A dispatch received from Bakersfield says
that the robbers had been overtaken by the
/ officers who went in pursuit, and that one oil
the former was killed and one captured alive
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1889-03-02
Cost orKeepine n Horse.


The cost Of keeping horse by most
persons is mere guess work instead of
careful figures. Mr.. ]. H. Andre, with q
view to enlightening the uninitiated, gave
recently in Rural Home the following es-
Inmates: If one purchases good horse
four years of age for $3.50, it is good
bargain. A top buggy will cost 1925,
cutter s25, harness $50, robe $40, blank
cts 50, comb and brush 50, whip 80,
which am cunts figure 1897. Now if we
take all into consideration, these will
last, on an average, ten years. Perhaps
the wagon might last longer, but itwould
need repairing in that time; on the whole,
ten years is a long average, as horse
might be worthless in five years.
If it costs 1887 for ten years, it would
be at the rate of 1870 per year, and
the interest on the whole outlay at per
cent. would be s2o.22. Add to this
. at least four tons of hay, which has
averaged in the past ten years $12 pei
ton, S4S; one ton of straw for bedding,
81; 80 bushels of oats at IS cents PEI
bushel, $31. so; shoeing, $5,and it would
be cheap job to care for horse, wasl
wagons, ETC., for 81 per week, which
would bring the price to $50 per year, o
the sum total of $197 AZ for the year a
moderate figures. And yet we fine
thousands who keep horse and hav,
no real business for it, and do not keel
COW, when the cost of keeping hors
will keep two cows, and yet they do no
see how they can keep COW.
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1889-03-02
Tho Bodies Wore Burned On.

I A serious accident occurred to train from
Bangor TO St. Johns, near Boyds Mills, two
miles east of Kingman, Me. The following
were killed;
John English Campbell, mail clerk; Henry
Goodman, fireman; w. d. Mudgett, rail
way postal clerk.
1t Is reported that the bodies were burned
in the wreck. j. Angel, engineer, was seri.
ously injured, but no passengers are reported
as seriously injured.
The cars had Sewell heaters in them, but
they caught fire from the locomotive imme-
diately after leaving the track. The mail,
baggage and parlor cars were burned, together
with the express mail matter and baggage.
A wrecldng-train, with physicians on board
went to the scene of the disaster The
Maine Central people are doing everything
possible for the injured passengers.
The latest accounts said the accident wa,
caused by the drawing of the rail spikes BY
the frost. One body had been recovered
supposed to be that of Goodman. When thu
engine was derailed it plunged along the sid
of the track for quite a distance tearing NJ
the sleepers and cutting down telegraph
poles, thereby severing all means Of tele
graphic Communication.
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1889-03-02
Morse Farming yieissitudes.

AS the greater part of the corn and
pasture land in Norway issituated on the
hill and mountain sides, its cultivation
is necessarily arduous and expensive; and
for every five years the farmers generally
count upon one bad year, sometimes two,
Either too much rain spoils the crops OF
early frost-nights destroy the corn and
potatoes. But the people do not lose
heart; they try again. When they have
forests of fishery, they make good their
losses from these sources, or they carry
on more extensive sheep and cattle
farming by means of their great mountain
pastures than the farm otherwise could
support. The Norwegian peasants live
frugally, but Notwithstanding this,
their farms are generally mortgaged.
They cannot compete with the great
corn-producing countries, especially since
America has begun to supply the markets
Of the world with Its enormous production
of corn and pork. Many are now trying
to confine themselves to sheep and cattle
farming only, but the change movies
much expense, and the character of the
people does not dispose them to easily
relinquish the labor of tilling the soil;
it is the noblest- Harper's Magazine.