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Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08
FAT AND LEAN.
Some Practical Hints About FatteninR
Hogs.

Some Practical Hints About FatteninR
Hogs.
We hearmOre and more about making
a streak oY fat and a streak of lean in
our pork. The sensible idea is becom-
ing more prevalent that the great Jumps
of fat which we make and market are
not justwhat the people want. Indeed
thousands who would use pork if it bad
streak.of lean and streak of fat can
not use fat pork, and there can be no
doubt that all who do use it would be
better off if it was less fat. Yet we do
not sympathize at all with the notion
that fat pork is necessarily injurious in
marked degree.
We believe that it can be shown that
pork-eaters are as healthy and long
lived as beef-eaters. Still, leaner pork
would be more palatable and more
healthful. How is it to be produced?
Some of the experiment stations have
been doing something in that line, but
they claim that their experiments have
been to degree unsatisfactory. Well,
it can not be expected that our present
hog can be made over in a minute or a
day or a year. It is the nature of the
hog to take on fat. Give it fat-forming
food and it will convert it into fat. But
there is no special secret in creating
leaner pork. We may never get the
streak of fat and streak of lean laid out
with mathematical precision, and there
never may be any ''streaks" at all in
some hogs.
But the prevailing system of feeding
can not create lean in streaks or other
wise. Lean is simply muscle. Make
muscle and you make lean meat Now
we all know how to make muscle. 1t is
made by maintaining the health of the
hog and by feeding muscle-forming
foods. If we; feed in that line and breed
from hogs thus fed we shall in time have
leaner pork. If double the quantity OF
muscle is created that the average hol
now has there will be double the guam
tity of lean meat. But re must give
the muscle time to develop We can not
expect that two years. growth of muscle
can be made in nine months.-Westeru
Rural.
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Forceps for Numbering Labels.

The little device for numbering zinc
Or lead labels is sent out by a German
firm as the best and simplest of it's kind,
and costing only about $3.50. 1t is
small enough to be carried in ones
pocket, and has sufficient purchase to be
easily worked. Any number from to
:9999 can be pressed into label with a
single impression. The number ready
for impression is also indicated by
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

Fig. 1.-Dodder vine and SUE, anu eacn
flowers upon alfalfa. caps ule bears
Fig. "A. Head Of f1ow- fro,,, +u,o ~ four
ers-natural size. B. An AAoAiA WV
Individual flower: c. Two perfect seeds. 1t
Gelea capsule. u: SEED SEED. is evident, there
ing scale-like appendages fore, that in the
branch represented there would have
been produced from 2,4O0 to 4,s0e vital
seeds. As these are hardy and ger
inmate readily, it is hardly necessary to
answer more explicitly the question:
sis it bad to spread?' If one little
spray will produce so many seeds, what
number would a plant or a patch of
plants produce? The seeds (D) are of
good size, and often escape the fan and
sieve in preparing clover seeds for mar
ket, and it is possible the plant in'ques-
tion was sown with the alfalfa Destroy
it. Do not let it ripenS its seeds. The
plant will not injure cattle, but would
be of little benefit as feed.
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

Fowls in confined runs need extra at
tention or they get out of condition and
cease to lay, the ground becomes tainted,
and they feed on food defiled by their
own excrement, which naturally pro.
duces loss of health and condition.
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FORCEe6 FOR PRINTING METAL LABELS

same number appearing on top betwee1.
two OF the dies, and the operator is thus
enabled to avoid ala mistakes. 10
avoid the necessity of setting the whole
machinery for single figures (from Q to
9. these figures appear a second time,
and Independently, on the handles, az
appearing in illustration, and impress
sions of them can be taken rapidly
without changing the wheel.-Popular
Gardening.
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Syrup of Figs,

rroduced from the laxative and nutritious
medicinal virtues Of plants known to be
most beneficial to the human system, acts
gently, on the kidneys, liver and bowels, ef-
ec!ually cleansing the system, dispelling
,olos and headaches, and curing habitual
constipation, .-..-.,.l.
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08
FARM AND GARDEN.
A TROUBLESOME WEED.

Parasitic Plant for Which Farmers
Should BE on the Lookout.
Mr.. A. R. Birasill, Colorado, sends us,
says Farm and Fireside, sprig of alfalfa
covered with delicate vine bearing a
profusion of white flowers, accompanied
with note as follows: ''Please tell me
what the inclosed vine is. We found
one little bunch of it growing in our
alfalfa of last years sowing. Is it bad
to spread? Will it hurt stock to eat it?"
The plant referred to is species Of
dodder (cuscuta), and belongs to the
natural order convolvulacem. 1t is a
parasitic plant and is only nourished by
it's terrestrial roots until it becomes as
tablished upon the host plant, after
which it's connection with the earth is
broken, and it feeds upon the juices OF
the host plant.
That the readers of Farm and Fireside
may get an intelligent idea of the plant
and its flowers, we have made drawing
Fro g of the snrio ro.
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

The science of mating for best results,
not only in fine points but yigor and
fertility, requires careful study and
practical observation. Study your stock,
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

oregon, the Paradise of Farmers.
MILO, equitable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass, stock country
N tne world. Full information free. Address
oregon lmmigrationB Board, Portland, Oregon
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

BEST place to hold the Worlds Fair
. right around the waist.-Boston Herald
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

WHEN you truly and devotedly love q
glrl who is US rich as she is pretty, it's hard
| to take no for an ansWer.-EpOch
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

ARE as small as homeopathic pellets, and
as easy to take as sugar. Everybody likes
them. Carter Little Liver Pills. Try them.
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

BRONCHITIS is cured by frequent small
doses OF Piso's Cure for CONSUMPTION.
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

1T IS interesting to note how poker Is per-
neatlng our best society. When one lady
goes to see another she calls.-Merchant
Traveller.
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

1T takes good deal Of sand to perpetrate
some sugar frauds.-HutchiusOn (Kan.
News.
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

WHEN lightning strikes it admits Of no
Free Press.
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

POCKET pin-cushion free to smokers of
'Tansilps Punch" &C. Cigar.
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

"A GRAND JURY never goes behind the re-
turns in finding it's counts.-N O. Picayune.
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CURE Fl s !

When say cure do not mean merely to stop them
for time and then have them return again. mean
radical cure. have made the disease Of FITS, EPI
LEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS lifelong study. war
others have failed reason for not receiving
Send at for treatise and Free .ottle Of
my infallibe remedy Give Express and Post Office.
Il. G. ROOT. NJ. c.. 1873 Pearl Street, New York.
p1rNANE PAPEn svssy tine you vr,ts
Mower County transcript., 1890-01-08

OF Cne Sprlg re-
ceived Gig. ~
and also a de-
tailed sketch of
the flower and
lits parts Gig. q.
The vine is very
slender, almost
threadlike, and
the minute flow
ers Gig. 2, ~
are produced in
heads of a dozen
or more along the
vine, as repre-
Sented at A, Fig.
2. Fig. I repre-
sents over one
hundred heads Of
flowers, a bout
half of which are
indie a ted, t b e
others being in
the rear and not
shown. If each
of these heads
contained twelve
flowers, which il
q modest esti
mate, the spray
would number
1900 flowers. A
c, Fig. 2, is shown
a capsule will
two styles. Eacf
flower has . cap
4 sule, and eacf
caps u l 9 b 9 ar'
:, from two TO fou,
J. perfect seeds. /
l. is evident, there
. fore, that in tn
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ADJUSTMENTS.

The Extraordinarily Magnificent
Mnstrels" performed last night to a
crowded house at the Metropolitan Theater.
The opening part is gorgeous affair. The
scene discloses first full-stage scarlet
plush curtain, richly trimmed, behind
which the company is heard singing. This
drapery opening, discloses twenty-five of
the troupe in rich parti-colored costumes,
suggestive of the Venetian Carnival. Back
of them heavy old gold plush curtain
parts and dlscloses g handsome view in
Venice. As each singer is announced by
the jnterlocutcr, who wears the robes of q
Doge OF Venice, gondola with a Japanese
boy as gondOlier passes across the scene,
bearing Inc singers name upon the sail
There are eight end men, and subsequently
the old-time favorites, Willis 2. Sweatnam
and Billy Rice are added. There are seven
singers, and four of them sing ballads with
chorus accompanying. There are eight in
strumentaists in the orchestra. The olio
or second part introduces Rice and Sweat
nam in comic scene; drill corps as an
Gent Egyptian soldiers; fine male quar-
tet; i've superior song, dance and aero
batic men; Frazer and Bunnell in laugh
able musical specislties; Sweatnam in a
characteristic monologue, and the Sugimoto
Royal japanese troupe of jugglers, bal
ancers and rope-welkers. In this troupe
are eight men and boys and two women.
Their performances are level with the best
of the order. The entertainment as q
whole is good, at times brilliant, and in its
musical features is thoroughly pleasing,
without developing remarkable vocal pow
ers in any one of the performers. Howard,
O'keete and Nankiville are the leading
and al ar,-;on l1a I'D
entertaining. Shaw is falsetto tenor of
| very high register and distinct enunciation.
Mr.. O'Keefe, however, in his solo won the
honors distinctly as the most sympa-
thetic vocalist. AS for Sweatnam aud
Rice, they have all their oldtime jollity.
readiness and personal magnetism. One
noticeable and com mendable omission was
the cutting out of the entertainment of the
minstrel farce, which so generally closes
similar entertainments, and which so rarely
have any merit of wit or humor. 1t was
noticeable also, that, with single exception,
the anecdotes, puns and conundrums of the
end men were new and devoid of ancient
flavor. The entertainment will berepeatei
| this evening. The applause of the audi
ence last night was the sincerest and heart
lest that has been given any minstrel troupe
here in long time.
In the Cleveland Haverly Minstrel enter
tainment last night one of the tenors Mr..
Nankiville, sang a new ballad, "Only q
Picture" that won instant recognition as O
charming production, full of human sym-
patty in words and music The song is by
Julian Holmes, New York journalist
the music is by Henry F. Smith. If there
is any literary accomplishment the men of
the press have not it would be interesting
to learn of it. They have made play
writing an avocation, have given us poems
of world wide repute, and Mr.. Holmes
proves that some of them are skilled as
song writers also.
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FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
A Chance for Inventors and Scientists tc
Receive Preminms

A Chance for Inventors and Scientists to
Receive Premiums.
The California Museum Association,
having its place of business in the E. B.
Croker Art Gallery in this city, announces
that $500 has been pledged to i. by re-
sponsible citizen, TO be awarded according
to these terms. Full and detailed speci6-
cations will be forwarded by the Associa-
ton on application, as elsewhere an
nounced:
Two hundred and fifty dollars for SIM
pie, practicable, safe and inexpensive de-
vice for denoting the quality and bygenic
condition of the air in a room.
As simple, safe and cheap as q thermom-
eter, and like it as accurate in determining
by degrees the condition of the air, differ
ing, however, in this: While thermom-
eter indicates the degrees of heat and cold,
this device Is TO indicate the quality and
degree OF the air truthtully, indicating that
the air tested is healthful or dangerous to
human life. Time and conditions same as
in others, only that in place of the COM
mite of three mechanics there will be three
chemists.
Two hundred and fifty dollars for a
working model, working six consecutive
hours, producing no less than three horse
power; the power to be obtained by the
| rising and falling of the ocean tide water.
Place of trial, San Francisco or vicinity,
or within ten miles of that city. and time
of trial the first week in April. 1891.
Notice for competition by contestent to
be given to the committee on OF before
February l, 1891. The judges are to be
Directors of the California Museum Asso.
citation, together with three competent me.
cnanical experts to be selected By the Di.
| rectors. The day and hour fixed for trial
| is to be the time for determining the value
of the experiment and device. The device
to be original in principle, practicable and
more economical than any known motor
power.
inventors to retain all their rights tc
their invention.
Many devices have been developed fol
| utilizing the rise and fall of the tides TO oh
tain motive power. That of Read, some
fifty years ago, called for filling and dis
charging system of tanks. But the gen
| tleman placing the offer with the Associa
ton believes better device can be in
vented, and that it is now possible to apply
tidal power for production of at least small
cheap motive power that will prove o.
| great value to the race.
Whether an inexpensive instrument Is
possible to denote the insalubrity of the at
mosphere in a room is novel question
Many scientists think it is not to bs
| achieved, but the offer is made to stimulate
| research and the possible discovery o.
| means to the end suggested.
The Association has consented to act il
the matter, and elsewhere officially an.
nounces the premiums. Like announce
ment is to be made in several mechanical
and scientific journals of the East.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-30

IN the East there is certainly much
more friendly feeling between rival Jour-
mails than in this State. There is manifest
in journalism at the East very little of that
petty Jealousy and narrowness of conduct
that is, unfortunately, too common in the
Pacific States. For instance, it is nothing
uncommon for the New York Times, TliJ-
une, World, Sun, Star, Post and similar
leading journals to speak of each other in
terms OF commentator add encourage
ment and to commend each the enterprise
of the other. In short, there does not APP
pear to be that Discrimination to credit a
neighbor with success or with progressive
spirit in Journalism that obtains on this
coast. For instance, when have any one
of our San Francisco contemporaries ever
spoken Of another as the Philadelphia
Record speaks of its competitor, the
Ledger
Yesterday the readers Of the P,ibiie Ledger
were treated TO the unwonted spectacle oil a
huge n-page Jfd9tF, something which, how
ever, is likely to become familiar enough la the
futurs. IL is but simple justice TO add that the
reading contents of the ten pages were no less
choice in quality than generous in quantity.
Here if one journal has bit Of news
ahead of the Others it is so rare that it is
not remembered to find any of the others
giving the paper credit for it or quoting
from it. In short, the journalism Of the
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Edward Christy came down from Folsom yes.
terday.
Mrs L. Rose, of Bggs, Butte county, is visit
ing friends here.
DR.. C. G. Spencer. of Georgetown, FL Dorado
county, is spending few days in this city.
Governor Waterman is recovering from an at
tack of bronchitis. and will be at his office by
Monday. Miss Lou Waterman is also recover
ing from an attack of typhoid fever.
Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday: F.
Ray and wife, Salt Lake; Miss Smith, Loomis;
]. E Manlove, Redding; Edward Christy, Fol-
som; d. d. Trahern, Stockton; W. A. Shep-
hard, Fresno: George w. Hack, San Fran
cisco; John Fairchild, Modoc; Z. Z. Berry,
Wheatland.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yesterday:
j. A. Hudson, w. Schmidt New York; b.
Hutchins, Boston; C. N. jenkins, Marysville;
A. II. Wilson. Charles s. Harris, A. r. Smith,
w. II. Worswick, San Francisco: w. A. Pearls,
GAINESVILLE, O.; o. H. Bolles, Chicago: W. Black,
New York; Il. E. Wright, F. W. Thompson, Sam
Jones. II. w. Curry, K. b. Randolph, San Fran
cisco; w. s. Cleveland and thirty-six members
of minstrel troupe.
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BISMARCK refused a Dukedom preferred
by the Emperor. 1t may be interesting
to know just what It was that he refused.
The little Duchy of Lauenberg was held
by the French in 1906, but in 1918, after
the battle of Leipsic, it fell to Hanover.
Two years later it was ceded to Prussia,
and shortly after was transferred to the
control of Denmark. In 1864 Denmark
ceded it TO Prussia and Austria. A few
years after that Prussia purchased the in
terest of Austria for million and half
dollars. In 1876 it was incorporated as a
part of the Kingdom of Prussia. In none
OF these disposals of the territory and its
revenues were its people ever consulted
In royal estimation their consent was OF
no sort of concern; they attached to the
soil and went with it, no matter how often
the proprietorship changed hands politi-
cally. 1t yields handsome revenue to
the Prussian crown, and it was, therefore,
gift with money in it when Bismarck
refused it.
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Two of the most famous capitals of
Europe are now united by rail- But one
Is still famous seat of government, while
the other is famous as a capital only by
tradition. The new line of rail in Central
Asia unites St. Petersburg and Samarcand.
The latter was the seat of Government at
one time of the empire over which Tanner
lane ruled. His famous summer palace
still stands, as also his mosque and recep-
ton room, and the celebrated blue stone on
which his throne was placed is still shown.
About 1870 Tamerlane made it the most
magnificent city of Central Asia, world
known for its luxury and its immense
wealth, its noble marble and crystal pal
aces, and its wonderful gardens. 1t then
had no less than forty colleges, and its
commerce was unsurpassed in the world
while it had scarcely peer in manufact-
ures. The ruins Of its glories are to this
day the finest in Asia, and tell the story of
its one time grandeur. 1t is now Russian
property, and while it has a fine trade, its
population has declined to less than thirty
thousand. The new road gives Russia
strategic advantages of immense value.
since she now has her front within two
hundred miles of the citadel of Herat. the
gateway Of India. Russia proposes, how
ever, to restore the commerce Of Samar-
cand, and while modern conditions will
limit her ability in that direction, she will
be able to make it a far more important
seat of trade than it has been since the era
of Tamerlane. Russia has the art of win
ming foreign tribes to her, and it is said
that the nomadic groups about Samarcand
are now as devoted to her as if Russian
born. With her new Asian railway, her
enlisted Asian friends, her armed strength
and her advanced position in Central Asia,
Russia is a serious menace to the domino
ton of the British in India. 1t is no
wonder that the British press dislike to
speak of this Central Asian line. and that
they are disinclined to join in vituperation
against Russia for her Siberian barbarities.
The threat on the India frontier is too
plain to be mistaken, and England does not
propose to provoke it into something
worse,
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Arbor Day in suffer District,

The Suffer District School Miss Susie
Leonard, teacher appropriately celebrated
Arbor Day with an excellent entertain
ment. Many relatives and friends of the
pupils were present, and the spacious
schoolroom was tastefully decorated with
evergreens and flowers. Among the mot
tos, "Arbor Day" and Welcome were
noticed. The following were some of the
Rotations: Voice of the Grass" concert
Rotations, 'Woodman, Spare that Tree
Ivy Green" (song), Under the Willow"
The Mission of Flowers" "Lillie's Ball"
Autumn Woods" The Flowers" (song),
The Old Mountain Tree" The Light
Brigade" concert Rotations, (song). Chill
dren of the Tree" At the conclusion of
the exercises trees and flowers were
planted.
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A BILL is pending before Congress to
grant to all clerks in Postoffices of the
first, second and third class fifteen days
leave of absence, on full pay, in each year
and substitute clerks enough are to be
employed to enable this idea to be carried
out. Such measure is deserving OF
hearty support. There is no class of men
whose routine duty is more onerous than
that of Postoffice clerks, and none of whom
the public expect such exact and unfailing
service. To give them the holidays con-
templated will render the service more
efficient, command for the places the talent
they should have, and thus the public
will become the chief beneficiary.
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TESTIMoNIAI.

TINE FOLLOWING IS LETTER FROM
Mrs. George Stoneman, wife of Hon. George
Stoneman, Ex-Governor OF the State of Cali
fornia:
GRAND AVE, Los ANGELES, CAL.
August Is, 1889.
Mr.. COOPER: Your letter received this morn
ing, and l am happy to oblige you by testifying
to the excellence of the Mathushek Grand sold
me some four years ago. 1t has been in constant
use, and, think, instead of deteriorating and
becoming thin, 1t has softened aud deepeped in
tone. II required a little tuning through the
first year. have frequently recommended the
piano, and consider that its merits are equal to
those of the best in the United States, The
singing quality of this piano is particularly
suited for yocalistS, and, while agreeable in a
small room, It can, by its brilliaucy and power
I'LL a large auditorium effectively Yours ETC.
mr21mSu MRS. GEORGE SLOVENIAN
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THE city of Louisville announces that
it will not need assistance to care for the
sufferers by the cyclone. The city is rich,
and public-spirited citizenship is charac-
teristic of it. 1t is gratifying to know that
the people of the Kentucky metropolis
feel able TO raise all the funds needed for
the necessities created by the storm. Other
and smaller places, however, that have
been seriously injured must be assisted,
and to that duty the rich West is fully
equal, If it should appear, however, that
aid is needed from the country generally,
and which there is no reason to anticipate
will be the case, California will not be
found wanting in sympathetic manifesto
tions Of a substantial order.
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I O. !

on AND AFTER April. 1, 1890, THE
~ Union Ice Company will supply PURE
MOUNTAIN ICE st the following rates for the
season; Families, ne cent per pound hotels:
restaurants and saloons, halfcent per pound;
ton lots, IS per ton.
UNION ICE COMPANY,
CHAS. sELLINGER, Agent. mrSo-tfSSu
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The death of Count Peter Alexandra.
vich Valouieff at St. Petersburg removes
one of the last survivors of the Liberal
statesmen who surrounded the Emperor
Alexander III. As Minister of the Inte-
rior it was Count Nalouieff who put into
practice the liberal reforms, the manu-
mission of the serfs, the establishment of
local seli-government, of municipal insti-
tutions and other important innovations.