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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-01-18
ANUNCIOS.

DR., GABRIEL GlNENEZ SANJURJD,
ESpEcALsTA EN- LAS ENERNEDABEs DE- IA VISTA
Ofrece sus servicios, calle de Tetuan,
nhmero Al.
Conaultaa, de 1As de Ia tatds.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1889-01-18

Andnciase que SO proveeran
por concurso varias escueIas ele.
mentales vacantes en- GALES, Sa
linas, Caguas = San German.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
HOW TO DEHoRN.

Mr.. H. M. Scott, of Scott County,
Kan, sends the Prairie Farmer his mode
of dehorning cattle, which is as follows:
ave have taken the horns off our herd
of cattle, and can recommend dehorning
to the readers of the Prairie Farmer
made chute one foot wide at bottom,
faring at the sides to admit the largest
animals; twenty-four feet long, with
stanchion at one end, six inches wide, to
fasten the neck in. Then we put on a
halter to hold the head down, by pole
with short chain with hook on, to
fasten to the halter. We next placed the
end of the pole under the cross pieces of
the stanchion frame and held the head
down on cross piece of 2x4 scantling,
laid under the head and lying on a rest
fastened to the posts at each side. Then
we attached a rope to one of the side
posts, and put it over the animals head,
above the eyes, using two rings on the
rope that come on each side of the head
We passed one end under the jaws, and
drew through the rings and fastened to q
post of the stanchion frame on the Other
side, to keep the head from moving side
ways. Thus the animal was securely con.
fined. Wetting the hair and rubbing il
back out of the way of the saw, thu
operation was then quickly done. Then
by taking off the halter and rope, re
moving the scantling and lifting the stir
rup that holds the movable stanchion, Sc
that it could fall back, the animal walk,
out and the next is placed in the chute
By such an arrangement we took off 10t
/, horns in day. -----------
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
CULTIVATION OF CuRRANrs.

yAs rule currants are not cultivated at
ali They are planted in some out of the
WY place, CT along t2fence where at best
they can be cultivated or hoed only on
one side. They are pruned spasmodically,
or not at all, and soon become tangled
mass of weeds, dead wood, moss covered
trunks, or branches with stunted growth
of shoots on top and the feeblest cluster
of buds on the two-year-old wood At
best such row of currant bushes can
give only poor crop of the smallest
fruit. But after the currant worm at
lacks them and strips off the leaves the
curants wither up and are not worth pick
ing. Currants should have as good cul-
tiyation as corn or potatoes, and this with
coat of manure or a top dressing of
superphosphate and nitrate of soda has a
wonderful effect. The pruning consists
in cutting out the old branches, strip
ping out all the suckers Except two or
three to be left to form new branches),
and in the fall Or spring cutting back the
shorts or suckers about one-half. The
weaker they are the more should they be,
shortened back.
The best way to renovate an old row
of currant bushes is to set out new ones
where you can cultivate on both sides of
the row. Meantime, if you do not wish
to root out the old ones, give them a Sc
we're pruning, and either hoe or fork the
ground to kill the grass and weeds or
cover the Ground thick apouUh with ma
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25

The echo, that Is, OF multitudes In tho
house l am not preaching an abstraction,
but great reality, Oh friondless young
man, Oh prodigal young man, Obi broken
hearted young man, discouraged young man
wounded young man, commend you 10
Christ this day tho best friend man MAJ,
morning. You have come here for
this blessing, Dospise not that emotion ris-
ing In your soul; II Is dvinely lifted. Look
into tile face OF Christ, Lift one prayer 10
your fathers God, TO your mothers God, and
get the pardoning blessing. Now, while l
speak, you are at the forks OF the road, and
this is the right road, and that is the wrong
road, and see You start on the right road.
One Sabbath morning, at the close Of
my service | saw a gold watch OF the
world renowned and deeply lamented
violinist Ole Bull You remember he djed
in his island homo off the coast of Norway.
That gold watch he had wound up day 9ftr
day through his illness, and then he saadto
his companion; snow ! want to wind this
watch as long as | can, and then when ! en-
gone want you TO keep 1t wound up until 1t
gets to my friend DR.. Doremus, in New
York, and then he winkeep il wound up until
his life is done, and then want the watch to
go to his younger son, my especial favorftes"
The great musician, who more than any
other artist had made the violin speak and
hlnS Nc'p uilu iaubh oaiN Va
| 1t seemed when he drew the bow across the
strings as il all the earth and heaven
tremblod in delighted sympathy-the great
musician in a room looking of upon the So,
and surrounded by his favorite Instruments
of music, closed his eyes in death
| While all the world was mourning
| at his departure, sixteen crowded steam
ers fell into lineof funeral procession tocarty
| mis- pody 10 the man iand. There were rrty
thousand of his countrymen gathered in an
amphitheatre Of the hills waiting to hear the
eulogium, and it was said when the great
orator of the day with stentorian voice be-
gan to speak, the fifty thousand people on the
hillsides burst into tears.
Oh that was tho close Of n life that had
done so much TO make the world happy But
have TO tell you, young man, If you live
right and die right, that was tame scene
compared with that which will greet you
when from the galleries of heaven the one
hundred and forty and four thousand shall
| accord with Christ In crying: "WeD done,
| thou good and faithful servant"
| And the influences that on earth you put In
motion will 20 down from generation to gen.
Grafton, tho Influences you wound up handed
to your children and their influences wound
up and hended TO their children until watch
AMI clock are no more needed to mark tho
progress, because time itself shall be no
| tnnner
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
MASHED POTATOES.

The object in MASKING potatoes is to
separate the starch cells, thereby render
ing the potato less indigestible After
the potatoes are boiled, pour off the water
and place them on back of range to
evaporate all absorbed moisture. Then
press them through strong coarse sieve
twice, or once through the patent masher.l
To quart of potatoes add two ounces of
creaned butter, half teaspoonful of salt
and half pint of rich cream; beat it up
with fork until as light as snowfakes,
and serves. Thus prepared the potato is
a luxury. Do not press them with a fork
or knife, as some vegetable cooks at res
taurants are in the habit of doing. If
they are wanted crusted, place the snowy
dish in the oven few minutes to brown.
-Ne,o York Herald.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
PoT-GRowN STRAWBERRIES.

The so-called pottcd strawberry plants
are grown by roofing runners in small
pots about two inches in diameter These
are filled with rich soil and soon become
filled with a mass of roots. The plants
are shaken out of the pots and wrapped
in moss, and are thus sent safely to much
greater distances than rooted runner
plants taken from the beds. They grow
on when planted without any check, and
when set out in the fall will bear full
crop the next spring. They are usually
sold for twice to four Or five times as
much as runner plants. They are not
ready for distribution until July. A
potted plant set out in July or August
will make several runners which can be
grown in the same way and transplanted
in the fall, and so in the end this is
really the cheapest way to get stock for
fruiting the next season.-M'0 York
Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
POND LILIES FOR THE LAWN.

One of the most beautiful lawn orna-
ments, says a writer in the New York
Tribune, is a tank of white pond lilies
(Nymphea odorata) An excavation is
made in the earth, round, square Or any
geometrical figure to suit the fancy, and
the bottom and sides are walled and
cemented, leaving clear depth of three
feet. Into this is placed foot and a
half of black or dark sediment from the
bottom of some pond or sluggish stream.
The lily roots are laid on this and another
six inches of the same sediment on top;
boards are then covered over all and
weighed down, and the tank filled with
rain water. At the end of two weeks the
weights and boards are removed As
the water evaporates more is added,
keeping the tank full all the time This
should be done about May 1 in the
latitude of New York. When in bloom
it is beauty, pure white blossoms send
ing their delicious fragrance all about.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
FEATHER EATING IN POULTRY.

There is bad fault with some poultry
termed feather eating. / believe that
idleness is one of the principal causes of
that vice, and that poultry should be
kept busy in some way. A short time
ago a friend of mine, who has number
of varieties of fine poultry, asked me to
go down and look at his hens, they were
picking the feathers from each other so
badly. noticed one old hen had picked
at another till the blood ran He wanted
me to see what l could do with them and
I took home half dozen and put them
in place where they were warm and the
sun shone in, and put lot of corn there
and covered it up SO they had to scratch
for it. Then took a mixture of lard
and carbolic acid and tincture of nux,
which you know is not very sweet, and
and with swab went over those chick
ems. One of the hens made peck at the
swab, but she didn't like it. One day |
went out to watch those chickens. They
still had disposition to pitch into each
other, still they would pick a feather out
and drop it and not seem to like it, and
have hope that am going to break up
the habit.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
A Colored Prodigy.

Charleston, s. c., is the home of one
of the most wonderful little algebraists of
the age. He is little boy who is only
thirteen years of age, black as was ever
made of pure African ore, and as uncouth
in some respects as a young Caliban. 1t
was said of him, by gentleman who
knows him well, that he is remarkable
for almost everything but his personal
pulchritude." He is absolutely at home
with x, ' and in all their possibilities.
He knows all about co-efficients and pow
ers and square roots, and he can't be beat
on the binomial theorem. The wonder
of it is that his parents are very humble
people, who wouldn't know a square root
If they fell over it on country highway.
This boy will soon arrive at station
where higher education for infants must
be pushed up a notch two. A great
many of his fellow pupils are naturally
quite Jealous of his reputation at his
school Physically he is something
unique, as described by the Nesos and
Courier. His head, like the earth, is
flattened at the ''poll." Its development
is largely made up of protruding prom
ontory Ia Cape of Good Hoppe and a
backward range of the brain behind the
ears. He dresses in the most careless
manner imaginable. Altogether, he is
little, odd and genius. He is pupil
in one of the colored public schools, and
his teacher is quite proud of his prodigy
in science and anomally in anatomy.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
Fly Wings Make Music.

In his book ''On the Senses, Instincts
and Intelligences of Animals" Sir John
Lubbock records some of his later OBJ
servatious, among which are these:
The slow Tapping of a butterfy's wing
produces no sound, but when the move
ments are rapid noise is produced,
which increases in shrillness with the
number of vibrations. Thus the house,
fly, which produces the sound F, vibrates
its wings 81, 100 times minute, or 1856
times second; and the bee, which makes
sound of A, as many as 26, 400 times,
or 440 times a second. On the contrary,
a tired bee huns on E, and therefore, ac-
cording to theory, vibrates its wings
only $50 times in second.
Marcy has succeeded in confirming
these numbers graphically. He fixed
fly so that the tip of the wing just
touched a cylinder, which was moved by
clockwork. Each stroke Of the wing
caused mark, of course very slight, but
still quite perceptible, and thus showed
that there were actually $50 strokes in
second, agreeing almost exactly with the
number inferred from the note pro-
duced. -.--
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
REMEDY FOR THE WHITE GRUB.

The use of benzine has been found
effectual in France in destroying the
white grubs (the larvae of the May or dor
bug), which often do immense damage,
especially in dry seasons, to lawns, straw
berry plants, Seeding plants and other
nursery stock. Holes are made in the
ground infested with the grubs with one
of the sharp iron dibbles used sometimes
in transplanting small plants, and the
benzine is poured into them. Fifty
grains of benzine are used to the square
yard, and care is taken to insert it above
the plane of the feeding ground of the
grubs. In an experiment recently made
by one of the French forest officers, and
reported at meeting of the National
Agricultural Society, the grubs on twelve
acres were destroyed at cost of only
$500 per acre.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
A NICE DESSERT.

A nice dessert is made with canned
peaches and gelatine as follows: Soak
half package of gelatine in half cup
full of water for two hours. Boil cup
full of water and scant cupful of sugar
fifteen minutes. Mash fine one pint of
canned peaches, rub through sieve and
put them into the syrup; cook five min
utes, stirring constantly. Set the sauce
pan into another containing boiling water
and add the gelatine; stir five minutes or
more till the gelatine is dissolved; then
place the saucepan in dish of ice water
and beat the syrup until it begins to cool;
add the unbeaten whites of eggs end beat
till the mixture begins to harden. When
it will just pour, turn it into mold and
let it harden. Serve with cream and
sugar.-INeu Fork World.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

A little gum arabic imparts gloss to
ordinary starch.
Wash all marble daily with ammonia
and water instead of soapsuds.
To prevent door from creaking apply
little stove polish to the hinges.
To clean steel, rub the article with a
piece of wash leather dipped in kerosene.
Sweep and dust once week the rooms
which do not daily receive this attention.
Put salt in the water to prevent black
calicoes from fading when they are
washed.
Young veal may be told by the bone in
the outlet If it is very small the veal is
not good.
Egg shells crushed and shaken in q
glass bottle half filed with water will
clean it quickly.
Paint made with turpentine is better
protector for iron work than when mixed
with linseed oil.
A wineglass of strong borax water in Q
pint Of raw starch will make collars anG
cuffs stiff and glossy.
A good egg has clean, healthy look
ing shell, while bad one has dull
porous looking shell.
Kerosene is unexcelled in starch t.
give polish; also to polish glass. 1t vii
make your windows shine like silver.
Cake is baked when fine splinter O
wood will pass through without any o
the cake adhering, and not until then.
When not too bad, nasal catarrh ma,
be relieved by shutting tepid salt waite
through the nose, two or three times
day.
A few drops of lard or sweet oil rubbed
on the surface of mustard plaster vii
always prevent it from blistering tn
skin.
Horseradish root grated and moistene'
with vinegar, put in bag and applies
to the seat of pain, will cure or reliev
neuralgia.
Two apples kept in cake box vii
keep moderately rich cake moist a grea
length of time, if the apples are renewe
when withered.
To clean ornaments of alabaster, dis
solve borax in boiling water and appl
with cloth or soft brush rinse CAREFUL
and dry in the sun.
Oil of peppermint is a strong di'
infectant and germicide; and it is sal
that one part in hundred thousand {
water kills reaches.
There is nothing that will so prompt
, cut short congestion of the lungs, Sol
/ throat or rheumatism as hot water whe
, applied promptly and thoroughly
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.


Melbourne, Australia, is to have temper
ance hospital.
4 Kansas Judge has decided that Jamaica
ginger is intoxicating.
Of 26S arrests in Dane County, Wis, in
1885, POS were for causes directly chargeable
to liquor.
The Queen of Madagascar has presented
Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt with one hun
dred dollars as an expression OF her interest
in the temperance cause.
A chain of dry towns" from Bristol,
Tenn, to Roanoke City, Va, distance OF
$50 miles, has just been completed by pro-
hibition triumph in Abingdon, Va.
The Illinois Central Railway Company has
given notice that it will no longer ship liquors
into the interior of Iowa from Dubuque, and
that the goods will not be carried in disguise.
John G. Whittier, in recent letter, writes
'Of the right and duty of prohibition have
never doubted, but we can only have 1t Ell.
fectual when the people are made to see and
feel its necessity"
Doctor R. W. Richardson has published q
second lecture on 1.-THE Storage of Life; or,
Health and Length of Days" He says alco-
hol reduces by one-fourth standard length
of life otherwise easily attainable,
The Commissioner General of the Uniteo
States Exhibit at the Worlds Exposition. to
be held at Paris this year, says that no bar
or restaurant for the sale of liquor will be
allowed in the United States section
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
FAvoRITE PIES.

Put in pan on the stove lump Oh
butter the size of an egg; thoroughly mix
with it when hot observation-disclosures
full of -four; add gradually cup of boil
ing water, being careful to form no
humps; beat "A cup of sugar with three
eggs till light, and add to the first mix
ture when it has sufficiently cooled SO as
not to scald the eggs; flavor with vanilla
or nutmeg and spread in your pie tin that
has previously had its crust laid on, and
bake quickly with no upper crust; if de-
sired the white of one egg can be re-
served and used for frosting.
After filling your tin with under crust
spread your thinly sliced apples in even
ly, cover with upper crust and bake !;
while baking take enough sugar to
sweeten nicely, and with tablespoonful
of butter, mix thoroughly till it creams !,
add grated nutmeg, and as soon as the
pie is baked, with a thin, sharp knife
carefully separate the two crusts, and lay
ing the upper crust aside, spread the fla
vored butter and sugar evenly over the
apples and replace the upper crust
Detroit Free Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25

interfere as long as no open deed Of
violence had been traced directly to him.
Whether his name was really John Cor,
don, or how much of the story he told
concerning himself was true, will prob
ably never be known, Certain, 1t Il
however, that as Manuel Sperros, the re-
nowncd bandit, he had acquired repu'
tation which was somewhat more than
local, and to my surprise, / found on my
arrival at Pachuca later on, where the
news of his singular death had preceded
me, that for the time being l was re-
garded as somewhat of hero, when in
truth there was no good reason for it.
But had saved the company's money al
the same, and received thanks therefor
nothing else.-The Aryosy.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
SERGEANT JASPER,

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from, o,o. ,h, saa
poas a, anchor IN tha sunshine tvohv two
"a a.. hr e.
From Fort Mon,tr;o. came nm ors,oor 10 tho
s,,n,,nors tho,, naa 90.
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,,s raona,.ts lo,,~ ava Low,
or.r which ,ho ,,atr;ot hannar, e.rroa ia.
sanoo 20 tha soa
Admiral Sir Peter Barker looked toward the
fort and laughed;
I'VE can break down their defenses with the
weakest OF our craft
what care for wooden breastworks OF pal
metto' OF OF pme'
bid the ships prepare Tor acuohi iet the
BRISTOL iead the inner
And from noondav until sunset smoke Of
battle sonsbt the sky.
From the land and from the water groans
and curses rose ON HIGH.
While in Charleston. stricken Charleston.
oueenly town beside the SEA.
For their loved ones their defenders, wives
and mothers bent the knee,
Mid the fiercest of the conflict, crash of shot
and shrek of she'll
Suddenly the Flagstaff parted and Fort Moult-
rie's banner fell.
Who will raise the fallen banners In the
trenches there IL lies
ANU 'ne man VINO ventures 'ni'ner ior MS
"aiins surely uies'
ee'se''n' 'aSpei' oniiu Vi siois' "noi' .he
worio VIII hoe forget,
oaushe ,ne raiiiiner Oh MS canhon' sPrahs
upon 'ne parapee'
t'aised 'he soleo ana ragged banner, ma the
With as careful toucb and tepder ne II ware
n thing of life.
flashed IL to the cannon hammer nroud,v
soppbt his most again.
While above him and around him few the
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
COVERING SEED.

ire are certain principles governing
the termination of seeds and the after
growth of the plants, and not only is it
of great Importance to the farmer to
understand these, but attention to them
is also Of vital moment to the plant itself
Seed must be terminated in the dark
until the young roots are sufficiently
formed to begin to feed, because, if ex-
posed to the light they grow of green
color, which does not belong to roots, but
only to the upper parts of the plant
those parts which grow in the light
Roots having great epidermis cannot
feed, because the green color is prelim-
mary to the formation of bark, which
is meant to exclude moisture and not to
absorb it. When seed are sown broad
cast over the field, and then covered so
lightly as to allow the suns rays to reach
them, instead of forming healthy roots,
capable of imbibing nourishments from
the soil, they become incapable of feed
ing because the mouths of the roots have
grown up sealed, as it were, by the
change to an incipient bark, which, if the
exposure to light continues, finally be-
come perfect bark, by which their
whole character is changed.
Crops grown from seeds scantly covered
suffer from starvation at the moment of
termination, which is continued by
natural circumstances so long or so far
into the life Of the plant as to obstruct
-
sequences are feeble plant, having its
growing period thrown into the season
for filling up, and finally its ripening
season thrown into so late part of the
year as to compel it to produce weak,
shrunken and immature grain at time
beyond its natural time of harvest.
Shallow covering stunts the plant and its
produce, owing to an excess of light at
termination.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25

Smells are fried IN French style,
according to Miss Corson, as follows
Carefully wipe two pounds of cleaned
smelts with dry cloth; dip them in
milk, then roll in finely powdered cracker
crumbs, next in an egg beaten with a
saltspoonful of salt and quarter of a
saltspoonful of pepper, and then again
in cracker crumbs; fry them in enough
smoking hot fat to cover them, until they
are golden brown. Take them from the
fat with skinner, lay them on napkin
or piece of paper to absorb all fat,
and serve them laid in rows with few
quarters of lemon on the side of the
dish.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-25
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
MAKING MAyoNNAIsE.

In making mayonnaise stir the yelk OF
the egg at least minute before begin.
ming to add oil. The oil must be added
drop. by drop, one drop to every one or
two circuits of the spoon. When the
mayonnaise becomes quite thick use few
drops of vinegar to thin it, then more oil
until sufficient sauce be made, The
vinegar should be very strong. When
made, the sauce should be kept cold.