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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
Enrn Nofes-

No succulent food is more greedily
eaten by pigs at any age than beets.
They may be fed any time from the
first Trimmings during the growing
season to the fully grown roots in
winter. They are especially valuable
as part of the winter food for breed
ing sows, and some beets should always
be saved for that purpose.
A scythe will pull the buckwheat to-
gether in bundles that will need no
binding except slight twist of straw
around the head, setting each bundle
by itself on its butt When dried by
cold weather, the fail on smooth
floor will take out the grain better.
cheaper and nearly as quickly as it
can be done by thrashing machines.
This is the old-fashioned way, and it
is as good as any.
We do not understand why cheese is
not more generally used as food by all
classes. In England it largely takes
the place OF meat, which it supercedes,
not only because OF its cheapness, but
its superiority. The poor quality OF
much cheese offered In market is pr Do
ably the reason for the popular preju-
dice against it. We eat more meet in
this country than any people in Europe,
and cheese ought largely to take its
place.
Sometimes when a very heavy grain
crop has been grown the field is more
easily prepared for wheat seeding by
burning over the stubble. A few fur
rows should be plowed next the fences,
to prevent the fire spreading where not
wanted Dat stubble, however large,
does not burn as easily as that oil
wheat It's stalk is not so firm. In
burning wheat stubble many Hassiau
flies will usually be destroyed, thu
making it safer to SOW wheat after
wheat.
Sometimes after threshing COWS
turned into the barnyard at night,
with access TO n fresh straw stack, will
pick at the chaff and eat enough to di
minish their milk how 1t is this Of
ten, rather than the diminished past
ure, that lessons the milk yield at this
season. We have known farmers tc
put fence around tho stack, so as &c
keep their COWS from injuring them
selves at it, as n simple minded person
is said once to have put fence around
very poor lot to keep his stock from
grazing on It, American Cultivator.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

THE betrothal is announced at Ber-
lin of the duke of Nassau to Princess
Margaret, youngest sister OF Emperor
William of Germany. William Alex
ander, duke OF Nassau, is son of
William August Charles Frederick by
his second marriage 0o the Duchess
Adelaide Marie, daughter of Freder-
lex, prince of Anhalt) and is heir to
the duchy of Luxembourg. He was
born April %, 1852, and is colonel of a
regiment of Austrian dragoons-the
Emperor Francis Joseph No. regi-
ment. Princess Margaret Beatrice
Fedora is the fifth daughter of the
late emperor of Germany, Frederick
III. She was born at potsdam the 22d
of April 1872.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

THE Archduke Albrecht, commander
in-chief of the Austrian army, is the
wealthiest man in Austria-Hungary.
The other day, while on tour of in
spectiou in Hungary, he spent forty
eight hours in a small provincial town.
The bill presented to him amounted
to fI53 rs. 1t was paid without a
murmur, but the next day the officers
of the garrison received strict orders
not to set foot in the hotel in question,
and for the next twelve months no
military band will be allowed to play
in the town. That will probably make
the innkeeper's extortion the dearest
transaction he ever attempted.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
SUPREME COURT WHIST CLUB.
The Senate Poker Team-Frye Without
Bait-The Triangle, Kenna, EdmundS
and HamptOn-Gagland Makes
Cartridge-Beck and Palmer
Special Correspondence.

OpcClal correspondence.
WASHINGTON Work consumes most
Of the statesman's time and he has con-
sequently few recreations and no sports
properly so called. He is too busy to
play. To men who have had to attain
and hold their places, life is "A dread
fully earnest thing and the hard work
which each day entails fills it full.
Neither President Harrison nor Sec
rotary Blaine nor Secretary Window, l
believe, indulge habitually in any
sport. The same is true OF Senators
Hiscock, Hawley, Chandler, Hoar,
Sherman and Ingalls,, with the excep-
ton that Senator H,wley plays bill
lizards worse than he sings. Whenever
Mr.. Ingalls, has an hour he can devote
to amusements, and it is seldom, he
possesses himself of one of the rare
books of the world which he never
found time to read and plunges into
it.
Probably q majority of our lawmak-
ers and law-interpreters play cards,
but few of them are expert or devoted
W dhg game
The supreme court has a select whist
club to which seven members belong
and which meets around" the house
oftenest chosen being that OF Mr. JUS
tice Blatchford near Franklin square.
The club knows all about HOyle and
Pole and the other high muckamucks
of pasteboard and inclines to hold TO
"the rigors of the game" like Thack-
eray's heroine, but it possesses a back
set in Mr. Justice Lamar, who being n
brilliant raconteur and having had eX-
ceptionally interesting personal expert
ence, is often drawn out in CONVERSE
ton by the rear couple in such a way
as to carry CONSERVATION into the
ranks of the enemy.
The senate poker quartette are I'M
derstood to be hard men to tackle
Don Cameron, Hale, Butler and Far
well. They are said to enjoy them
selves and to make about as much as
they lose in the course OF winter.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
Electric Car Brakes.

The expression, electric brake, is
now often heard, and requires word
OF explanation. There are various
forms of so called electric brakes which
are practicable, and even efficient
working devices. In none of them,
however, does electricity furnish the
power by which the brakes are applied;
it merely puts in operation some other
power. In one type Of electric brake
the active braking force is taken from
an axle of each car. A small friction
drum is made fast to the axle. An
other friction drum hung from the body
OF the car swings near the axle. If,
when the car is in motion, these drums
are brought in contact, that one which
hangs from the car takes motion from
the other, and may be m lde TO wind u
chain on its shaft. Winding in this
chain pulls on the brake levers pre-
cisely as if it had been wound on the
shaft of the hand brake. The solo
function of electricity in this form Of
brake is to bring the friction drums
together. In French brake which
has been used eXperimentally for some
years with much success an electric
current, controlled by the engine driver,
energies an electric magnet which
forms part of the swinging frame, in
which the loose friction pulley is
carried. This electro magnet being
vitalized, is attracted toward the axle,
thus bringing the friction drums in
contact. In an American brake lately
exhibited on a long freight train a
smaller electro magnet is used, but the
same end is accomplished by multiply
ing the power by the Intervention of n
lever and wheel. The ether type of
so called electric brake is that in which
the motive power is compressed air,
and the function of the electric device
is simply to manipulate the valves
under each car, by which the air is let
into the brake cylinder or allowed to
escape. thus putting on or releasing
the brakes. All of these devices have
this advantage. that. whatever the
length OF the train, the application of
the brakes is simultaneous on all the
wheels, and stops can be made from
high speed with little shock. III. G..
Prout in Scribner's Magazine.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
FARM and HOUSEHOLD.
Narrowing wheat

A good many farmers have not the
nerve to harrow their wheat in the
spring any more than tn ey have to run
a harrow broadcast over the corn-held
after the crop is up. Next spring is a
good time for those who are timid on
this point to gain some wisdom by
personal experience. II you have
never tried narrowing your wheat,
try some OF it next spring and insti-
tute a comparison by comparing re-
suits OF one kind of treatment with
the 9th err.
With hardly an exception in the
whole line Of agricultural products, uni
versal experience has proven that Gull
tivation is essential to the best possible
results. General analogy would be
sufficient of itself to suggest the bene-
fetal results of tillage applied to
wheat, but the matter has not been
left TO analogical Inference. Many ex-
periments have been made by thor
oughly cultivating the crop, when SO
planted. as TO make it possible and
with wonderful results as 10 increase
of product; but in addition 70 that,
the practice of giving wheat thor
ough narrowing in the spring has
come to be quite general in many
localities. The best narrowing for
the purpose will probably be a
smoothing one, but any harrow not
having too large teeth will answer.
OF course few plants will be
jerked out by the roots, but the SIN IL
ness of the number of such will be re-
markable. The loss by this will not
begin TO offset the gain made by loosen
ing the soil, so as TO give the roots a
chance 10 penetrate the greatest possi-
BILE distance. Then, too, the benefit
from preserving moisture in the soil,
by this loOsening of the surface, may
be great in case of drouth about the
time the grain begins to fill. The
packing process by the continual fall
of rains for seven months makes the
wheat field a pretty solid surface by
the time the plant begins fairly to
grow in the spring In addition 10
the good it does the wheat, this har-
rowing also very greatly aids in get
ting "a good catch of clover or grass
seed Where the fields are seeded
down narrowing for this purpose alone
more than pays for the trouble. 1t is
always best, if possible TO time the har-
rowing just before rain and the
ground should be just right when it is
done.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
Slams King.

Siam, little sparsely populated
country in the distant south long re-
fused allegiance to our great land, like
q praying mantis pushing back an ad-
van cling chariot with his little claws.
But now for 200 years she has been
submissive to the behests OF him who
sits on the dragon Throne. In the
eighth moon of this year a new ruler
will be crowned as King and take to
consort a Queen, with dazzling pomp.
A merchant OF Ch'ao-chow Flu,
Kuangtung. long n resident in Siam
and loaded with favors by the King,
was lately commissioned to proceed to
Canton to buy rosewood cabinets, silk
embroideries, ETC., TO the value of 10,
600 taels. This Chinese merchant has
presented the King with couple OF
boards, containing each fourteen char.
acters beautifully carved, praising the
King as one OF those virtuous princes
whom the Son OF Heaven views with
special favor HUI Pao.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

ELMIRA has peculiar case of love
and marriage between school princi-
pal and one of her former pupils.
Miss Hannah Rhodes was 45 years old
when she approached the matrimo-
NAL altar She had been teacher in
the public schools of that city before
bar husband, Thomas +. Connolly,
was born. He is about % years old,
and when youngster he not unfre-
quently felt the effects OF vigorous
punishment at the hands Of his pres
emit spouse.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
The Household.

TRAVELLING LUNCH.-Chop tos sther
sardines, ham ana few pickles; mix
with mustard, pepper, catsup, salt and
vinegar; spread between buttered
bread. This is TO be cut crosswise, like
jelly cake.
TOMATO SALAD.-TalSe nearly ripe
tomatoes, slice in dish and set on ice
TO get hard and firm, then just before
using chop large onion fine, and
sprinkle over them, and add salt, vine
gar an d pepper TO taste.
BREAD FOR Sour. Cut slices of stale
bread in small squares, throw them in
boiling lard and fry till brown. Skim
out, drain and put in a soup turFen be-
fore serving the soup. For oyster
soup, crackers crisped in the oven are
nice.
CHEESE SCALLoP. Soak one cup OF
dry breadcrumbs in fresh milk; beat
into IL three eggs. and add one table.
spoon of butter and half-pound of
grated cheese; strew upon the top stiff
ed breadcrumbs, and bake in the oven
u delicate brown.
Corn PUDDING. Two cups OF corn
boiled and cut from the ear. one pint
of milk. two eggs. salt to taste. Beat
the eggs until very light; add the other
ingredients; put the mixture in a but
tered pudding dish and bake about
forty minutes.
APPLE TAPIoCA PUDDING. Soak
over night one cup of tapioca in six
cups OF water. Next morning add one
cup OF sugar, one egg and beat well to-
gether Then pare, core and chop
fine six or more apples, and stir with
the tapioca in u pudding dish, and
bake slowly.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
A Noisy Man.
Although noisy man may be
A nuisance worth abusi ng
j rather like the fellow. He
Is. somhow. so amusing.

Although.a noisy man may be
A nuisance worth abusi ng
i rather like the fellow. He
Is. somhow, so amusing.
It's fun to hear the end ess flow
OF senseiess sound he's dropping
And think that he is wound to go
Forever without stopping.
While others writhe in pain beca use
He's making them so tired
/ watch the motion of his Jaws
And wonder If they re wired.
Though he is called WINDY bag"
And other names as funny
1t : worth, | Tn nix, TO hear hi N brag
About one cen OF money.
While people hate his vain conceit
And think he isn't witty
And sadly snub min on the street
| feel for him pity.
Born without brains he cannot see
Himself as others see him:
Besides he's very good to be
a freak in some mu-see- cum.
Because / pity him, in such
A proper place Il shove him
For, while like him-rather much
/ cannot say 1 love him.
Still, though he's s!ich nuisance cool
That, gladly, we'd destroy him,
He doesnt mean to be. Tho TOOL
Imagines we enjoy him.
H. & Dodge.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
BnchelOr RnttnnS.

Before you lay the button on the
cloth, put the thread through so that
the knot will be on the right side.
That leaves it under the button, and
prevents it from being worn or ironed
away, and thus b eginning the loosen
ing process. Then, before you begin
sewing, Ivy large pin across the but
ton so that all your threads will 90 over
the pin. After you have finished filling
the holes with thread draw out the pin
and wind your thread round and round
beneath the button. That makes a
compact stem, to sustain the possible
pulling and wear Of the buttonhole.
1t is no evaporation to say that my
buttons never come off. and I'm sure
yours won't il you use my method OF
sewing. Youths Companion.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

LORD TENNYsoN was one evening
dining at court with little grandchild.
1t so happened that near the end OF
the meal there was a plate near the
queen with single piece OF bread up
on it, which her majesty reached over
and helped herself to, when the child
pointed her finger at her and to the
horror of all present who expected
nothing less than instant decapitation
for the daring infant. said: piggy
piggy-pig" The queen with great
dignity and tact said "Quite right,
my child; nobody except a queen
should ever take the last piece Of bread
on the plate" Telling the anecdote to
a witty Irish woman she holly replied
''Why didn't she say nobody but a
queen or pig?"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

DIR. BRowN-SEoUARD is an American.
His father, Capt. Edward Brown Of
the American navy, was a Philadel-
phian, and married on the island Of
Mauritus French woman named
Sequard. He and his defendants took
the name of Brown-Sequad. The dis
tinguished scientist, whose elixir of
South is making sensation, was their
eldest child. He was educated in
France, but was afterward professor
at Harvard, and practiced medicine in
New York city for some years subse-
quent to 1873. He married twice, his
first wife being Miss Fletcher of Boston,
a relative of Daniel Webster.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

SENATOR FRYE DOSING A ZIMMERMAN.
The senator who kills the most fish
and small game during year is, l sup
pose, Frye of Maine. He has cabin
in the woods on the Rangely Hills Of
Aroostook, and he generally goes there
every year as soon as he can get away
from Washington and stays till the
tocsin sounds again. While he is
there Mrs. Prye is there roughing it
and doing the cooking. In speaking
of this outing once, the senator said to
me: "When ] get up there where it is
cool, with plenty of hunting and plenty
OF finding, too, by the way, with every
thing of the freshest and the cooking
done TO dot, it comes about as near
heaven as l ever expect to see"
Senator Frye tells some good stories
about officiating as doctor up there.
Being distant from settlement he
carries drugs with him, and OCCASION
ally lumberman will come twenty or
thirty miles to get "fxed up"
Frye Is distinguished for being the
only man in the United States senate
who never takes any bait when he goes
fishing. | do not, of course, mean
that he carries no bait for the fish, but
only that he consumes none himself.
To see him sit motionless by the hour,
with no bottle to raise to his parched
| lips has often caused amazement aud
anxious solicitude TO his companions,
Senators Kenna, Edmunds and Wade
Hampton. "Do you suppose he is still
aliveP" they inquire of each other as
the hot sun declines.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
Animal Life I'm the Gulf Stream.

The surface waters in the Gulf
Stream TEEN with minute life of all
kinds. There the young Of larger an
imals exist, microscopic in size. and
adult animals which never grow large
enough to be plainly visible to the
naked eye occur in immense quantities.
BY dragging fine silk net behind the
vessel, these minute forms are easily
taken, and when placed in glass dishes
millions uncounted are secn swimming
backward and forward. When looked
at through microscope we see young
jelly fishes, the young OF barnacles,
crabs and shrimps, beside the adult
microscopic species. which are very
abundant. The toothless whale finds
in these his only food. Rushing
through the water with mouth wide
open, by means of his whalebone
strainers the minute forms are sepa-
rated from the water. Swallowing
those obtained after short period OF
straining, he repeats the operation.
The abundance of this kind of life can
be judged from the fact that nearly all
kinds of whales exist exclusively upon
these animals. most OF them so small
that they are not noticed on the sur
face. Ralph S. Tarr. in Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

WARREN HUMEs, the oldest guide
and the most experienced hunter in the
Adirondacks, makes an estimate that
will be interesting to sportSmen. He
claims that there are today no less than
$4,000 deer and 5000 bears in those
regions Mr.. Humes has hunted there
for the last forty-fve years, and during
that time has killed over 1000 deer
and more than 200 bears.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
Smokeless Powder.

The trial OF smoleless powder by
the field artillery of the Twelfth Saxon
corps recently in its maneuvers before
the king of Saxony at Zeithain-Roderau
was perhaps the most conclusive yet
attempted. After several hours OF
cannonading the air over the battle
ground was perfectly clear. Not even
puff of smoke showed itself The
Berliner VolSszeitung, by the way.
says that the new powder requires
bronze cannon end that all the steel
guns will have TO go.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE has decided
TO set apart portion of his autumn
holiday for the preparation of work
TO be entitled "Six Months Residence
Mt the Court of the Crown Prince and
the German Emperor" The work will
be complete, as Sir Morell took notes
of every conversation in which he took
part or at which he was present but it
will not be published during the life
time of the Empress Frederick.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
Improving the Farm.

The best and shortest way to i'm
prove n farm is to reduce the stock,
pillow your fallows in winter so that
the soil will be warm and dry and the
subsoil decomposed early in the
spring. Harrow well and then SOW
ten or twelve quarts OF grass seed to
the acre when you put in your oats.
If all take, your chance is good for
obtaining from five to ten acres of
oats and Il field seeded down TO grass.
Then prepare as many acres for rye
sowing, provided your | nd is not
good enough for wheat and the two
crops will give you all the straw you
need and the corn-held, with usual
good luck, will produce enough TO fat
stock. At the end of the season you
will have the produce from fifteen or
twenty acres of land, represented in
oats, corn and potatoes and as many
acres sown with rye and wheat.
Keep just stock enough to eat up the
produce in grain and hay. and after
gathering your next years crops of
hay and gram, covering say fifty acres
OF your farm of 100 acres, you may
think OF adding as many head of cattle
as your farm will sustain without pur-
chasing very heavily of foreign sup
plies. BY the end OF the fourth year
you are ready TO put In a crop of
wheat and save blowing up your bot
tom meadow, you have re-seeded the
whole farm and are now ready TO en-
large your dairy-aDd at the expira-
tion of ten years your land ought to be
IN Il condition TO double your crops
and the number of your cattle. This
is rotation. -Praetical Farmer.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
asked Gen. Hampton last winter

4 asked Gen. Hampton last winter
about his fishing comrades.
II suppose the best all-round fish
erman in the senate is Mr.. Kenna of
West Virginia" he said. There is
no nonsense about him. He is not a
dude. He goes in to catch fish. Dress
ed in rough jean trousers, a flannel
shirt, SLOUGH hat and high boots, well
CREASED, he rows his own boat and at
tends to his own bait. With his tall,
robust figure and young handsome
face. he looks the rustic Apollo. And
Keuna is probably the best rifle shot In
the senate He is II great man after
deer and bear, and for years has kept
pack of beagles with which he an
nually scours the TANKS Of tie Allegha-
niesn
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

FRANK JONES, the big ale brewer
OF Portsmouth. N. H., and the richest
man In the state, is largely interested
in the suit to annul the Bell telephone
patent. He represented his district in
congress from 1877 to 1879, and was
mentioned as Cleveland's possible Sec
rotary of the navy.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

THE late Mr.. Thaw of Pittsburg,
Pa, had $1.0C0,00 invested in the In
man steamship line, $S,500,000 in a
1O,OO0-acre farm, any 100000 in
Pennsylvania railroad stock. He also
had large amount of money invested
I'm other securities. 1t is said OF him
that he spent 100000 year in
charity
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

BY the way. these last three form n
noted piscatorial triangle. At least once
during every session of congress they
creep off up to Point of Rocks to fish
and shoot ducks. mo talking" Is the
rule which governs these occasions.
Sometimes Frye goes along, and some
times Senator German of Maryland,
who claims the privileges OF host.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

NINE. DEJERINE KLUMPKE, an Amer
lean wife of a Frenchman, has won the
degree of "doctoresse" from the Paris
Faculty of Medicine with high honors.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

CHAUNNCf NJ. DEPEw's annual in.
come is said to reach the sum of $685..
900.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
SPORTS OF STATESMEN.

How the Peoples Lawmakess Be-
guile their Leisure Hours.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17

THE largest private library in Wash
hgton is that of George Bancroft the
historian. 1t contains II, 900 volumes.