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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10
Work for Busy Fingers,

Preserve the wings and tail-feathers
of turkeys, hens and partridges until
you have quite box or basket full.
Then, on some stormy day, when no
callers will be likely to bother you, take
large needle, thread it with twine and
string on this quantity of feathers of
about equal length, piercing through
the quilts perhaps a half inch from the
end; make the strings longer or shorter
according as you wish small or large
brush. Keep the prettiest feathers on
separate twines for outsides. Now, if
you have ohm " or an Alex
ander" in the family, have him pro-
cure you some straight, round sticks of
different lengths-the rounds of broken
chairs work in handily-and if there is
not "John" you may be able to find
such sticks almost anywhere in the
country, and having dish of glue
prepared quite thick, smear with it one
end of your handle; now tack one end
of the string of feathers firmly on and
bring it once around the handle, first
pushing the quilts up snug together.
Hold tightly, brush the first layer of
quilts with the glue, bringing another
layer around as before; brush the sec
ond layer with glue, and thus continue
until your brush is nearly large enough,
when you can tie on the pretty feathers
and finish the brush part Then glue a
strip of black or any preferred color of
cambria or silesia over the quilts, gath
ering it neatly around the handle, where
it may be secured with bright braid or
ribbon. The handle may be painted in
stripes or papered with shiny paper,
and braid loop tackled on to hang it
up by, and your work is done. You
can in this way make brushes that are
just as good as those sold in furniture
stores, and make enough in day to
last year at cost not worth naming:
and | can assure you that some of our
city cousins and housewives are often
pleased with gift of two or three of
these neat brushes. Don't fail to try
these homemade articles, for you will all
be more than pleased with their durable
utility. Would not this sort of work be
particularly adapted to the little people
who want TO make present for
mamma, and isn't it quite possible that
a number of these pretty brushes might
be made and sold, and thus add to the
little store of savings for Christmas
which we know many of our boys and
| girls like to make? Instead of lacking
a loop of braid at the top to hang the
buster by, why not insert a small
screw-eye?-Cottdge Hearth,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10
The Detroit Exposition.

Detroit, Mich, holds great inter-
national exposition September II to
y, and our friend, 7. L. Lyon, presi-
dent of the Michigan State Horticul-
tural Society, writes to US that his So
ciety has undertaken to conduct the
horticultural department. President
Lyon says: " 1t is our earnest purpose
to make this department, in an impor-
tant sense, international, and TO that
end we especially desire to secure
characteristic exhibits of the horticul
tural products of the different states,
and especially of their fruits, for which
liberal premiums are offered. Lists
will be ready for distribution very soon.
Please allow me to bespeak, on your
part, an interest on this behalf, and
that you will bring it to the notice of
others in your region likely to become
interested therein" We hope that
our leading fruit-growers, especially
those of the Champlain valley, will
feel an interest in this matter and be
willing to take a hand in exhibiting
samples of their products along with
those of the other states. Any help
that we can give will be sAeerfully rem.
dered
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10

the silk is required for half-yard glass
If the doors are very high the curtains
need not go but yard up. White scrim,
with edging of torchon lace, is pretty,
inexpensive and has a fresh, clean look
when new that is very pleasing. Not
bingham laces are no longer used. The
favorite front window curtains are of
embroidered null or Swiss, and are
placed both inside and outside the win.
dow-shade. Those next the glass reach
only to the window-sill, where they are
fastened back, but the inside ones hang
full from the top of the window to the
floor. A CHEEKY, home-like appearance
is given house by curtains of this de-
scription, and they are preferred by the
wealthiest people. - Josie X. Purdy,
Brooklyn, ". Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10
Connecticut Agricultural Report.

The twenty-second annual Report of
the Secretary of the Connecticut Board
of Agriculture has reached us, with its
usual prompttude, from the hands of
our good and honored friend, Secretary
7. S. Gold, TO whose kindness we have
been under annual and continuous OBJ
legation for every issue. Good from
the first, it has become yearly richer
and fuller in sound agricultural teach
ings. The advantages of selecting
frst-rate man for such position, and
then keeping him there, are clearly man
ifested in this invaluable series of vol
umes. Connecticut was not the first
nor the second New England State to
assume official relationship with its ag-
ricultural interests; but beginning as
third in order, it very soon became first
in rank of excellence. This was due,
in great measure no doubt, to the
rich aid which has been given by the
faculty of the Shelf cid Scientific School
of New Haven, in which agricultural
chemistry has long been made spe-
cialty in the hands of that world known
teacher and writer, Professor S. w.
Johnson, who is also at the head of the
State Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion-the first, we believe, in the order
of time, in this country, and easily the
first in the practical excellence of its
work. The report of this station is
bound in one volume with that of Sec
rotary Gold-the latter taking $40 pages
and the former 104-both well packed
with solid information of the soundest
and most practical character.
The station is actively engaged in
field experiments on sufficiently
large scale to insure such practical re-
suits as will prove useful to every
| farmer who will give them the attention
they deserve. The question of com.
mercial fertilizers, and their value for
each crop, is undergoing careful sitting
IL 10 oSSOLhihS NOiy pam Ihdo 'iiOSC
manures are now used in too hap
hazard way, and few farmers really
know how to apply them to the best ad-
vantage and with the least waste. We
referred to this subject recently, in
speaking of our use of burnt bones,
and we are continually impressed more
and more with the fact that the mod.
ern farmer must understand some.
thing of agricultural chemistry before
he can farm with any assurance OF
profit under present conditions. AS
one farmer who has been assisting in
these experiments wisely remarks
"To be successful we should not use
the wrong fertilizers in the place of the
right ones. They cost so much VIZ
can not afford it. The old maxim
Know myself, should be extended by
the farmer something like this: Know
thyself and understand thy farm ,
what it needs, and how most econom
ically to supply those needs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10

ing. This abandonment of the farms for
the cities is merely temporary. Every
kind of city occupation is to-day more
overdone and overcrowded than farm
ing. The big and growing cities of the
West are more and more consuming
the products of western farms, which
are themselves decreasing in product
iveness. There never was better
time for bright, energetic young men
"chock full of days. works." to take
hold of the plow, and run it for all that
it is worth right here in New England,
than no,o, NOW, NOW
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10
Vestibule and Window Curtains.

Housekeepers pay great deal of at
tention nowadays to their vestibule
and window curtains. The soft India
silks in the new yellows, blues or Grim
sons are favored for vestibule doors in
preference to the dotted null, scrim or
lace. They lend a charming light to
the hall and do not soil so easily as
the white goods. In selecting the silk,
which will cost from sixty cents to one
dollar yard, get color that will har-
monte with hall carpet and furniture.
The semi-tones of color are considered
the most artistic. Allow three inches
top and bottom for the hem and open
ing for the little brass or wooden rod
which holds the silk in place. Use
sewing silk of the same color, and after
hemming top and bottom stitch her.
ring bone across. The full width of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10

ELECTRIC BITTERs. This remedy is
becoming so well known and 80 popu-
lar as to need no special mention. All
who have used Electric Bitters sing
the same song of praise. A purer
medicine does not exist and it is guar
anteed to do all that is claimed. Elec-
trio Bitters will cure all diseases of the
liver and kidneys, will remove pimples,
boils, salt-rheum and other affections
caused by impure blood. Will drive
malaria from the system and prevent,
as well as cure, all malarial fevers,
For cure of headache, constipation and
indigestion try Electric Bitters. En-
tire satisfaction guaranteed or money
refunded. Price fifty cents and 81 per
bottle at any drugstore.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10

THE New England States all approx
mate seven dozen eggs per hen per an
mum, the Middle and some of the
Western States about five dozen, and
other states, including all the Southern
States except Kentucky and Tennessee,
range from three to three and half
dozen eggs, and the two Southern
States excepted about four and half
dozen. Maine has the highest number
seven and half dozen per hen.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10

ARE farmers reading people? Well,
all we can say in reply is that when we
were publishing the Vermont Farmer,
with $500 subscribers, we advertised a
select list of the best agricultural books,
and averaged to sell less than one book
month.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10
A Miracle.


wish could see a miracle"
Twas maiden May who spoke,
While over her sweet dimpled face
look of longing broke
Next morning came ringing voice,
As day began to break
Come quick, my child, the miracle,
The miracle-awakel
The night was slowly vanishing,
Across the meadows lay
The fringes of her mystic robe,
Touched by the rose of day.
Through dim and fragrant distances
The mornings earliest word
Rang out from tents of greenery,
And passed from bird to bird
with shining dew the drowsy flowers
And grasses were empearled;
A wondrous miracle indeed
The Weakening of the world.
Mary Frances Butts, in Cottage Hearth
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10

THOUSANDS of bottles of patent
medicines are swallowed by home
keeping women who had much better
have spent the same money in car-fare
and in sight seeing, To get away from
herself is the main wish of the nervous,
tired-out woman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10

A COUNTRY where the education is
mostly literary can never come fully to
the front as an industrial nation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10
Gbe 8ouseboIo.

Contributions to this department may be sent
either to DR. T. II. HosKINs, Newport, VT, or d.
rectly to THE wATcHMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10

MATTRESSES should be turned and
pillows beaten and aired at least twice
a week
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

according to Uhland's Woch en-
schrift, is that the observed temper
atures, while steadily increasing
with the depths, show smaller
ratio of increase in the lower strait.
A Birmingham man has invent d
metal that can hardly be distiu-
guished from gold. 1t is like the
precious metal in all its best points,
can be hammered and drawn equally
well, and presents a good wearing
surface. 1t is not compound, and
gains its gold color from the action
of a chemical. The inventor has
placed samples of his discovery on
the market and expects to begin its
manufacture soon. 1t can be made
for sixty cents a pound and may be
used extensively in the manufac-
ture of cheap iewelry.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19
nREGnN rARHAGE-

Oregon will beat the world on
vegetables. There is at the present
time in the garden of Newberg
House a cabbage plant two years old
that has produced FIVE well de-
veloped heads of cabbage and the
sixth head is in the course of de-
velopment at this writing. In this
garden there are about 100 cabbage
plants Mr.. O. G. Wright, manager
Of the house informs Us, has sup
piled the hotel with cabbage for the
last year with the exception Of one
week, when he Lad to buy, and
cabbage is now going to waste.
When Il head is cut off the stub will
Immediately send out shoot, upon
which another head will develope.
In this sane garden at the present
time there ale new potatoes as large
as walnuts upon vines that came Up
about Sept. ls'. There are also pea
vines in full bloom. Tomato vines
with green tomatoes, raddish plants
in full bloom, with the busy bees
humming among them, gathering
sweet honey to supply the needs of
the people of the blizzard-stricken
regions of the East. Who can beat
this outside OF Oregon?-Newberg
Graphic.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19
TOOK THE WRONG MEDICINE.

Robert Stewart, Of Petaluma, recently had
queer experience. He writes:
"Carbuncles and boils afflicted my face and
neck for weeks. Finally procured bottle
OF one of the leading sarsaparillas. To my
surprise it made matters worse. This made
me lose faith in Sarsaparillas, but seeing a
statement that joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla
dried up boils and face eruptions instead of
forcing more out, as the potash sarsaparillas
do, bought bottle The effect was astonish-
ing. The carbuncles and boils began to dry
up, and in two weeks my face was as well and
smooth as ever. My brother also took bottle
with the same benefit. ROBERT STEWART,
Petaluma, CAL"
Explanatory Note.-The mineral, Iodide of
Potash, which is the basis of nearly all other
sarsaparillas, attacks the blood direct, hence
forces impurities through the skin, creating
more boils and pimples. Joys Vegetable
Sarsaparilla acts .oppositely. Its vegetable
alternatives stimulate the various secretivc
organs. and thus eliminate all impurities
through the natural channels, hence dries up
pimples and skin eruptions at once. The
above testimonial is case in pointl
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

THE governor of Mississippi is
sill after John l.. Sulllvan's scalp
He Is determined to bring the master
ringster To justice, even though he
bankrupts the state. He does not
propose to have any fighting on the
soil Of that state unless he has n
hand In ii. BY the way he used
To be somewhat of n slugger him
self, He whipped Judge Phillips
In flsto set-to during the war in
Southern Alabama; and while he
was considered "bully" in the
same sense that Sullivan now is,
Perhaps his persisted determina-
tion TO bring sullivan TO justice for
his overt act is based upon "pro-
fessional' prejudice.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

Some startl NJ ana laiulu. facts
were brought to light at "A conference
of the Societies for the Promotion OF
Morality held last month in Berlin.
In paper on the housing of the
poor in Berlin it was stated that
half O of t! e dwellings consisted OF
one room, to which in some rare
cases q small cupbOard-like one is
attached. In one Of these rooms
are often found sleeping from ten to
fifteen persons, old and young; one
hundred thousand men and more
sleep in cellars and attics, In one
house as many rs 2000 persons are
to be found herded together. The
number of illegitimate births in
Berlin is IS per cent. or double the
number in London. The prices
paid for rooms are very high, and
one consequence of this is that very
many of the $4,000 prostitutes in
Berlin are received into families as
lodgers, with a view to the lessen
ing of the rental. There are the
ladies of the house, and both parents
and children shun them; and the
latter, seeing the idle life these
dodgers live and the beautiful clothes
they wear, soon learn to enter on
the same awful course. Pail Mall
Gazette.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19
A SAFE INVESTMENT.

Is one which is guaranteed to bring
YOU satisfactory results, or in case
of failure return of purchase price.
On this safe plan you can buy from
our advertised druggist bottle of
Dr. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption. 1t is guaranteed to bring
relief in every case, when used for
any affection of throat, lungs or
chest, such as consumption, infian-
nation Of lungs. bronchitis, asthma,
whooping caugh, Group, etc. 1t is
pleasant and agreeable to taste, per-
tectly safe and can always be de-
pended upon. Trial bottles free at
Daniel j. Fry's drug store.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

Quo has been counting up and
finds that she has thirty-one differ
ent laws made for the benefit of the
public which are practically in
operative. 1t is the same in all
other states, and no city pretends to
enforce one-half its ordinances.
There are five law-breakers to one
law-abider, and still the good work
goes on and on.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

WELLS, New, Nov. ia bar of
bullion valued at between $4,000 and
$4,000, shipped from Cherry creek to
Wellman, Peck & Co., at San Fran
cisco, was lost out of the stage last
evening between here and Lamp
mans station, in Clover valley, four
teen miles south. Searchers were
out all night and to-day. and found
the mail sacks that were lost W ith it,
but no trace of the bullion.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

THE season of the year has ar
rived when building operations in
the east are almost entirely sus-
pended, for bricks cannot be laid in
freezing weather, the frost entering
the mortar aud causing the walls To
bulge when thawing time comes.
And In nearly all the eastern aud
northern part Of the country there
will be freezing weather now for
several months. While building
operations there have been brought
10 a standstill Salem contractors are
pushing their work as energetically
ms II II were still August, In this
favored climate there will he no
CESSATION In tins direction AL winter
and the city's past and continuous
growth will 30 ON with no abate.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

OVER Que million people, and over
375, 900 square miles Of domain, have
been admitted into the Union this
month. In no other year of the
American republic has so many
states, since the original thirteen,
come i'm as have been admitted dur
ing the first eleven days of Novem-
ber, 1889,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

THOUSANDS of dead cattle and
sheep are buried in the snow drifts
in New Mexico, and the depths of
snow on the level is twenty inches,
while many drifts are piled up seven
feet high. Railroad trains have
been blocked ten days In this sec
tion SO great II distance further
north, ii is rare thing to have the
ground covered at all.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

A swINDLER sold II Clinton coun-
ty, Michigan farmer n recipe for
making his wheat weigh twice as
much rs it ought to, who signed II
contract to divide the money gained
by the extra weight with the scien-
tific swindler. The contract"
eventually turned up as a promissory
note and the farmer paid $500 for it.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

Great Britain, Sir Lowthian Bell
says, saves 100000 tons of coal Il
year by utilizing the gases which
once escaped from furnaces. AS the
pig iron made in this country for
1850 will be within 10 per cent. as
much as that made in Great Britain
the saving here must be S,600,000
tons, or 10 per cent, of the anthra,
cite output. Iet this is a mere lriile
to the saving which will be made
when the Stag is used rs 4 fertilizer,
the waste products of coking saved
and all the combustion of coal car
ried on SO as TO utilize the waste
products of our wasteful way of
using coal 10 make heat aud steam.
The deepest bore hole In the world,
AT different times for u num-
ber OF places, is, according 10 the
latest accounts, at Schladebach, n
small German village near Leipsio,
IL measures IL, ISL meters, or about
'1S5 feet. The time expended in
boring To this depth amounted 10
tx years, at cost of $4,000. A
'eculiar experience encountered in
with this and other deep
loles In different parts of Germany,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19


An infallible remedy for the cure of
coughs, asthma, catarrh, bronchitis,
whooping coughs and affections of
the throat and lungs. The success
and immense demand for this pop
ular preparation for the last thirty
years is unparalleled. Large size 81,
small so cents. For sale by all drug
glsts.
A recent clever invention is the
taXanom, II little lantern-like appa-
ratus which, ingeniously placed at
the back Of a cab, measures the ex-
act distance travelled by 1t. II Is
now being tried at Berlin, under
police inspection, and is said to
answer exceedingly well.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

M. de Susini, a Corsican d1ctor,
has, it is asserted, constructed mo
tive apparatus or propeller of twenty
horse power, which is worked bv
sulphuric ether, a result which the
doctor anticipates will realize saw
ing of 65 per cent of the combustible
material at present employed for
setting machinery in motion.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

OWING to the spread of foot and
mouth diseases among the cattle IN
Germany, the chief milk establish
ments In Berlin are now forced by
law to boil their milk before selling
it to the public.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

ment, out rather with increasing
rapidity during the season that the
ice and frost king holds full sway in
less favored sections.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

Miss Proctor, of Lima, o., has
patented process by which it is
claimed that 10000 cubic feet of illu-
minating gas can be extracted from
one barrel of Lima oil.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

LESS interest than usual was taken
this year in the Lord Mayor'sparade
in London. But the fact is easily
accounted for. The pee pie of that
city knew that Barnums show was
soon to give his unrivaled street
pageant when there would be some
thing worth seeing.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

A NEW process for COMPRISING
coal dust into books has Just been
invented and will he tried by the
READING railroad.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19
Bueklen's Arnlca Salye.

The best salve in the world for
cuts, bruises, sores. ulcers, salt
rheum, fever sores, letter chapped
hands, chilblains, corns aud all skin
eruptions, and positively cures piles
or no pay required. Ii is guaranteed
10 give perfect satisfaction, or money
refunded. Price 25 cents per box.
For sale by Daniel j. Fry, drug
glst.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

THIS season has been remarkably
cold in some sections Of The cpun-
try, AMI the autumn Of 1889 will be
long remembers hy many po.'ti-
clans as an extremely cold fall.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

ST. LOUIS has had slight shock
of earthquake, and the press of that
city is using the fact as another rea.
son why the worlds fair or 1892
should be held there.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19

THE jaw-yous information is
given by Hastings Nebraska paper
that chewing aum factory is to bi'
started i'm that place.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-11-19
----N NOVEMBER lG
TUESDAY.

PEKIN, China, is to have the e'ec
trio light, and Pittsburg company
is to supply it.