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EpitOme Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FiFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.

FlFTY-FlRsT CONGRESS.
TUESDAY, Feb. 4. - In the Senate
several petitions praying for the pass
age Of per diem pension bill were pre-
sented and the Samoan treaty was
ratified. Among the bills introduced
was one to prevent the determination
Of fur-bearing animals in Alaska, and
one allowing New Mexico to frame
constitution and be admitted to the
Union. In the House the bill to relieve
the Treasurer OF the United States from
the amount now charged to him and de-
posted in the several States was re.
ferred by the Speaker to the committee
On ways and means after . long debate
WEDNESDAY. Feb 5.-Bills to pro-
vide q temporary government for the
Territory Of Oklahoma and to aid in the
establishment and the temporary sup
port Of common schools were discussed
in the Senate, and resolution was re-
ported congratulating the people Of the
United States Of Brazil on their adop-
ton Of a arepublican form of government.
In the House the journal was read, but
no business was transacted, large num-
ber Of the members having gone to at
tend the funeral Of Mrs. and Miss Tracy.
THURSDAY, Feb. g. In the Senate
bills were passed authorizing the con-
struction Of railroad, wagon and foot
passenger bridge across the Mississippi
river at Burlington, Ia, and appropriate
ing S75, 600 for the relief Of certain Chip
pewa Indians of the La Pointe agency
In Wisconsin. The bill to provide tenn
porary government for the Territory Of
Oklahoma and the Blair educational bill
were discussed. Adjourned to the 10th.
In the House the new code of rules
were reported, and it was ordered printed
and recommitted. Bills were passed
appropriating $4,000 to reimburse
the seamen who lost their personal eff
fects in the Samoan disaster; to estab-
lish two additional land districts in
Montana, and to increase the pensions
Of totally disabled soldiers and sailors
to $s2 per month. Bills were introduced
directing the Secretary Of the Treasury
to purchase $4.OO0.OOO worth OF silver
bullion per month and to have it coined
Immediately into standard silver dol
lars, and for the survey of ship canal
connecting Lakes Superior and Michi-
gan.
| FRIDAY, Feb THE Senate was
not in session. In the House bills were
passed increasing the pension of GEN
eral Abram Duryea to 500 per month
and authorizing the construction of a
bridge across the Missouri river between
Douglas, or Sarpay County, Nebraska,
and Pottawattonie County, Iowa. Ad-
| iourned to the 10th.
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In the death OF Prudence Crandall
Philleo at Elk Grove, Kan, recently
remarkable woman passed away. She
was Quakeress, and was one OF the
first victims TO the mob spirit against
abolitionists. In 1888, out Of the kind
ness of her heart she opened school
for colored children at Canterbury,
Conn. the mob destroyed her school
house and maltreated her also and she
was finally thrust into Jail and kept
there for long time. For some years
she had lived in Kansas, and about four
years ago the Connecticut Legislature
voted her pension Of $40O year as
partial reparation for the loss sustained.
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HAVANA, Feb. 7.-General Salamanca,
Captain General OF the Island OF Cuba,
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

CHINA advices of the 4th say that q
waterspout Iear Marking caused the
loss Of one hundred live9
THE sum Of $4,000 In specie and
bonds were stolen from the steamer La
Plata on her recent voyage from Buenos
Ayres to Antwerp.
OWNERS of docks, wharves anu ware
houses in London on the 9Th formed q
union to combat the tyranny of the la
borers' unions.
On the 9th Catherine Henzy, aged 1O6
years, died in Kingston, Ont, Of IN.
fiuenza.
BY an explosion in q colliery at Mon
mouthshire, Eng. 800 miners were bur-
led on the 9th, and $50 of them lost their
lives.
On the evening Of the 9th General
Salamanca, Captain-General Of Cuba,
died at Havana. and Minister of War
Chinchilla was on the 7th appointed his
successor
ADvIcEs of the 7th say that 10
bodies had been taken from the coal
mine in Monmouthshire, Eng, in which
an explosion occurred recently, and it
was feared that there were twenty more
dead still in the pit.
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FROM WAsHlNoroN.

THE Director of the Mint estimates
that on February l there was 81, 132,-
1S5. ia worth of gold and silver coin and
bullion in the United States divided as
follows: Gold coin, 1924, 900, 433; gold
bullion, S66,OSO,9s7; silver coin, s420,-
646.645; silver bullion, 11,557, ,759
EDITOR MITCHELL, of Richmond, read
q paper at the National convention OF
colored men in Washington on the 5th
upon outrages upon colored people in
the South. He said that 3S3 negroes
had been lynched in the South from
1887 to date, and that colored men had
been roasted in North Carolina. A per-
manent organization was formed to be
known as the American Citizens Equal
Rights Association Of the United States
Of America.
In Washington on the 9th the colored
mems convention elected ex-senator
Pinchback president of the National
organization and issued an address to
the people Of the United States asking
justice for the colored race, and declar-
ing that the colored vote in the
South is suppressed by violence or
HCueioilASu uy H@uu, dHu ludt
their children are not afforded the
school facilities to which they are en-
titled. The co.ored voters are urged to
support in the future only such candi-
dates for public Office as are known to
be in favor of justice to the colored
American citizens. All we ask. says the
address in conclusion. is justice. equal
rights ard fair play.
In the United States there were $50
business failures during the seven days
ended on the 7th, against 29l the pre-
vious seven days. The total of failures
in the United States January l to date
is 1857. against 1,S7l in 1889.
SECRETARY TRACY, it was stated on
good authority on the 7th, would not
relinquish his official duties on account
of 10 roeout terri hla af1iction
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THE original post-office box used in
the town Of Pomfret, Conn.,, 100 years
ago is now owned in that town by Ben.
jamin Grosvenor, one Of whose ancestors,
Lemuel Grosvenor, was the first post
master appointed between Hartfod and
Boston. He received his appointment
from President Washington, and held ths
Office until the election of Martin Van
Buren,, whom the inflrmities of age de-
manded his retirement. The box itself is
41s feet in height and feet in length.
There are two apartments ut the top
with Ave drawers underneath, making a
curious relic Of the earliest postal days
and service in Connecticut.
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THE EAST.

q. Cox Il Co.'S stove works near Nor.
ristown, Pa, were destroyed by fire on
the 4th. Loss, 100000.
AT the Metropolitan Opera-Ho in
New York the centennial of the forma-
tion of the United States Supreme Court
was celebrated with public meeting on
the 4th and banquet in the evening.
JOSEPH p. MURPHY, OF Philadelphia,
manufacturer of cotton and wooden
goods. failed on the 4th for $780, 900.
ON the 4th window-glass manufact-
urers met at Pittsburgh, Pa, and
ordered an advance in prices Of s per
cent
THE Hudson river was open to naviga-
tion one hundred miles above New York
ON the 5th.
THE Republicans of the Fourth Penn
sylvania district on the 5th nominated
John E. Reyburn to succeed the late
Congressman William D. Kelley.
On the 5th the American Axe and
Edge Tool Company, comprising all the
edge tool concerns in the country, was
organized at Pittsburgh. Pa, the capital
stock being 81, 100000.
ANDREW CARNEGIE on the 9th offered
free library, to cost not less than ST.
600, 600, to the city of Pittsburgh, Pa.
DEMOCRATS of the Fourth Congress
sional district Of Pennsylvania on the
Tth nominated w. NJ. Ayres for the Con-
gressional vacancy caused by the death
of w. d. Kelley.
PAPER-covERED library publishers
formed trust in New York ON the 7th
with . capital OF $4,000, 600.
A STORM in Pennsylvania on the 7th
did great damage in Fayette and
Westmoreland counties and the Con-
nellsville coke regions, unroofng and
blowing down houses and factories. At
Blairsville the glass works were wrecked
and Charles E. Barr and Mr.. Beraey
were killed. The loss in the coke
region would reach $500, 600.
On the 7th the schooner Minnehaha,
en- route from Philadelphia to Provi-
dence, r. l., was, with her crew of six
men, given up as lost.
In the Connellsville (Pa.) region the
wages of the coke workers were on the
7th advanced from IL to Is per cent
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LATER.


ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 9.-While the
bells were striking last evening the
sound of terrific explosion reverbcrat-
ed throughout the lower town. In an
instant the whole city was lighted by
the glare of q column Of flame that shot
upward from the gas works at Fifth
and John streets. There had been an
explosion of gas in the condensing and
retort house. The noise of the expl0-
sion was deafening. The shock made
the earth tremble. Special Policeman
Hilger, standing at the corner Of Sew
enth and broadway, was lifted of his
feet by it, and windows were broken in
the Schurmeier wagon factory, four
blocks distant. The building in which
the explosion occurred was COM
pletely wrecked. The double
brick walls on the John street front
where the condenser was were hurled
upward and outward, falling In a mass
of fragments on the surrounding
grounds as much as a hundred feet
away. The network Of steel rafters
which supported the metal roof was
wrenched apart, and left hanging in
tangled meshes from the broken col
umns. The two-foot wall which sepa-
rates the condenser from the retort
house in the same building, being the
strongest, did not give way, but the
fire was communicated to the rctOrt
house, and the firemen, who were on
the spot five minutes after the explo-
sion, worked in great danger Of q Sec
ond explosion. The fire was soon ex-
tinguished. The following were found
| in the debris: Killed. Daniel Desmond,
foreman; injured, Martin Curran, James
Salmon, Michael Mahoney, stokers.
Property loss (estimated). $4,000. The
cause Of the explosion is unknown.
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Or all the aliens who took out letters
of naturalization in England last year
only three we're Americans.
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Nominated to Succeed Kelley.

the island were present when he died
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Ed COLLINS of Lake City, Minn., has
begun shipping 600 cars OF ice to Du-
buaue, Ia, and st. Louis, Mo.
AT Marsh's Run, Pa, on the 9Th, q
passenger train ran into All open switch
and crashed into the rear end of .
freight train, demolishing the engine
and large number of cars. Arthur
Emerton, a fireman was killed and sew
eral others were injured.
Four children of Jacob r. Slater near
Kingston, N. Y, were skating on lake
the 9th, when the ice gave way and all
were thrown into the water. Their
cries brought the father and mother to
the scene and in attempting to rescue
the little ones they were precipitated
into the water. The whole family, six
in ali were drowned.
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was ON the 5Ln SAID 10 prevail owing 10
the failure Of crops, and aid was asked
for the suffering people.
THE town Of Burke, Idaho, was on the
5th nearly destroyed by avalanches.
Half the business houses were in ruins
and three men were killed.
MISSOURI Prohibitionists in State con-
vention on the 5th at Sedalia adopted q
platform denouncing the maintenance
of the liquor traffic, the high license
laws Of Missouri and the local option
law. State and National.
THE river front and several streets in
Portland, Ore, were under water on the
5th, caused by the swollen condition of
the Willamette, and merchants were
compelled to suspend business. Through
out the Willamette valley and in
Southern Oregon heavy losses were re-
ported, bridges. houses, fences, mills,
etc. having been swept away.
THE Virginia Legislature defeated .
bill on the 5th to revive the old whip
ping-post law.
LYON CITY, q mining camp in Mon
tana, was completely buried by snow
slide on the 5th, and two miners were
killed and large amount of property
destroyed.
The secretary OF the agricultural de-
partment of Kansas stated on the 9th
that the value Of crops in the State for
1889 was S1O4, ,572. 49S. The value Of live
stock for the same year was S116, l26. 466.
A WRIT OF error was granted by Chief
Justice Shope, Of the Illinois Supreme
Court on the 9th in the case Of Nelden
and Schwab, the imprisoned Chicago
Anarchists, in order that the question
Of the right Of the condemned men to be
personally present in court when the de-
cision of the State Supreme Court was
rendered may be determined.
AT Charlestown A. B. Fleming was on
the 9th inaugurated Governor Of West
Virginia.
OREGON adviccs Of the 9th say that
the floods had washed away fifty houses
in Oregon City, fifteen buildings at
Salem, and caused considerable damage
at other places. The waters were SUBJ
siding.
THE death of Joshua Sexton, founder
of the Urbana Citizen and the Oldest
editor in Ohio, occurred at Urbana on
the 7th, aged SO years. He had been in
the publishing business since 1921.
NEARLY fifty women, representing the
best families in Lathrop, Mo-, visited
two gambling dcns on the 7th and COM
pletely gutted them. emptying out near
ly $1,000 worth of liquor into the street.
MURDEHEKs were hanged as follows
on the 7th: Sam Dill (colored) at jack
sonville, Ala; Lige Moore at Green's
boro. N. G.; John Wilson in Yancy
County, N. c., and Malen Hankey in
Montgomery County, N. C.
FLAMES destroyed the courthouse at
Dallas, Tex, on tine 7th, and most of
the records were destroyed. Loss, $780,
600.
ALL over the Northwest terrible
blizzard prevailed on the 7th. and the
storm was said to be the worst since
1882.
GEORGE LuMMIs, aged % years, of
Hamilton, O., on the 7th made an un-
successful effort to murder Efiie Long
necker, aged IS years, because she re-
jected his suit, and then killed himself.
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A MlO-wINTER CYCLONE.

Il Causes Two Deaths and Destroys MucA
Property In Pennsylvants A Blizzard
Raging In the west-Great suffering In
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Introducing a Queen.

The following query was recently
answered in The American Bee Jour
nal:
"In dividing for increase will it be
advisable to introduce a queen into the
queenless portion Of the artificial swarm
Immediately after dividing, or would it
be better to wait few days before Civ
ing them queen% Messrs. Cook, Vial
Ion, Dadant, Dibbern, Doolittle, Mason,
Pond and Mahin all expressed u prefer
ence for introducing a queen at once
when practicable. R. L. Taylor said:
''For introducing virgin queens would
have the colonies queenless seven days.
Introduce laying queens at once in
cage" Mrs. Harrison said: ''{ntroduce
the first night after dividing" James
Heddon said: ''All depends. No one
can lay down a rule for introducing
queens. Everything depends upon the
Immediate condition and circumstances
The editor answered: Introduce a lay
ing queen in a cage at once, so that each
part Of the divided colony may have a
good queen, and may continue to build
up by increasing numbers. F."
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The Pivot of Successful Farming.

Professor Kedzie, Of the Michigan
Agricultural college, says: The most
economical general manure for the farm
is yard and stable manure. It is COM
plete manure, containing all the ele-
ments necessary for plant growth and in
available form. Special and commercial
fertilizers may be used to supplement
the barnyard manure or for special
crops and conditions, but they must
hold a secondary position. l do not de-
cry commercial fertilizers, for they are
Of great value when properly. used, but
I am very firm in my belief that for a
general purpose manure they cannot
economically replace barnyard manure
Used judiciously to reinforce barnyard
manure they may well be used on GER
tain crops and on certain kinds of soils,
but used Unfortunately in general
farming the result has generally been
unsatisfactory. 1t is for special farm
ing and for the fruit grower and market
gardener that the commercial fertilizers
promise the best results at present.
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The New Kite Track.

Independence, Ia. Kankakec, Ills,
and White River Junction, VT, are as
yet the only places where tracks of the
shape shown in the cut exist, though
there will be a number constructed an
other season. The cut is taken from The
Horse Breeder, and the large loop of the
s represents the track, the judges stand
being on one side and the grand stand
on the other The small loop is for
scoring and finishing A straightaway
course for about third of Il mile then
a turn very gradual in its curve and of
about third of mile, then stretch of
another third home. Here they go away
on about level, rise trife, we should
say, on the turn, and after leaving the
turn descend grade of about ten or
twelve inches, giving very fast home
stretch.
There is this about the ''kite'' track,
continues the authority quoted. A per-
son watching the progress of a heat is
practically in ignorance as to the posi-
ton of the contestants at the quarter
and after they turn into the stretch I'M
til within the distance flag. Even then
it is hard to tell leading horse when the
race is close. They are safer, however,
can be trotted faster and are adaptable
where in many places the regulation
track could not be built. For instance,
in the state of Vermont there is not an
other mile track, and with her billy sur
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Keep the Soil Mellow.

A very sandy soil will absorb very
little moisture from the air. The finer
the sand the more it will absorb. Clay
soils will absorb more moisture than
sandy soils; what is known as garden
mold more than clay soil, while u soil
rich in humus will absorb more than
any of the others. Soils are microscopic
according to their porousness, and it is
we'll to bear in mind that the. power to
absorb water vapor is the same, to d.
certain extent, as the power to absorb
other gases which assist in plant growth.
To keep the soil mellow is the evident
lesson from these facts, says Rural New
Yorker, not necessarily because a mellow
top soil acts as II mulch, but because it
collects gases and vapors which. in q
dry period, serve to feed and invigorate
the plant.
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White Specks in Butter.

There are many elaborate and semi
scientific ways of accounting for white
specks in the butter. When the cream
is skinned off more or less milk is taken
with it. This milk is full of caseine that
always and readily curdles, one of the
causes Of the specks. All the trouble,
according to The Dairy World, usually
comes from allowing the cream to be-
come too old and sour before it is churn-
ed. Badly kept dairy utensils may &C.
complish the same result. The remedy
lies in the direction Of quicker work and
making the butter from sweetor cream.
White specks arc one Of the penalties for
being a sour butter crank.
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THE FLORIDA HOTEL RED BOOK
State Guide!

The most complete, thorough and handsomely
gotten up publication ever attempted for the
State.
This work is now being compiled and is entire
ly out of the line of publications issued hereto
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ter published before. 800 pages, pocket
size, small, clear type, morocco binding, published
annually, and the only work giving complete
list OF hotels, lines OF travel postofices, indus
tries, counties and officers, State officers and
courts, State military, divisions, companies and
tions of every kind. Ready for delivery. October
1, 1890. Orders received now Price by mail. 55c
postpaid. Address, 'H Otel Red Book and State
Guide, Box 1852, st. Augustine, Fla. 32-tf
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gloved hands and alert eye accomplishes
more than could a score of old time hand
reapers. knowledge has been substi-
tuted for human muscle, or, more ac-
curately speaking, the maximum Of the
former and the minimum of the latter
have joined their forces and everybody
is benefited by the union. Agriculture
has become science. The man with a
cultivator has discovered that q straight
corn row is shorter than crooked one;
that the time to kill weeds is before they
grow, and that horse power and steel
are more effective instruments of culture
than bent knees and finger nails.
Professor Roberts, Of Cornell univer-
sity, commenting on the foregoing says
in The American Garden that as he
stood for the first time on the prairies of
the west and saw gang of six sulky
plows come sweeping straight away
down six mile corn rows, and realized
that every "bout" meant five acres cult
waited, he could but look back to the
time when a boy was given one of those
hoes which were never sharp, and was
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VICTORY.
ed, often producing two monstrosities.
Now the head and hand are trained
simultaneously; thousand added COM
forts appear, innocent pleasures spring
up and the forces of nature are chained
to our chariot wheels But the end is
not yet; energy in the soil and the plant
never yet Utilized awaits discovery and
the unfolding of the laws which gov
ern it.
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BENT KNEES AND FINGER NAILS
set to digging in that checker board gar
den, or in that inverted, clayey, I'M
drained blue grass sod, where family
of ten boys could find constant employ
ment for two months. Then the gardens
were square. Now the garden of the
thinking man is long and narrow, and
everything is planted in straight, long
rows.
Then few opportunities were open for
acquiring that knowledge and training
which lead to mastery; now all doors
are open to those who will. Then one
mans head and another's hand were train
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Southern Cultivator is authority for
the statement that finely powdered air
Stacked lime freely busted on the walls
and floors Of the poultry house is the
best preventive of roup, and better than
whitewash for disinfecting the premises.
Tt also assists in drying the interior, by
absorbing moisture, and lump of lime
in the drinking water will also be of adj
vantage.
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To ascertain the approximate weight
of haystack an English, authority says:
Multiply the length oftthe stack by it's
breadth, and multiply the result by it's
height, all in feet; divide the product by
twenty-seven, which will give the num-
Der Of cubic yards; this multiply by six,
if new hay; if oldish, by eight or nine,
and the product will be the weight in
stones, In measuring the height deduct
two-thirds Is Of # tho dia3ancedn feet from
the caves to the top
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''KITE" TRACK AT WHITE RIVER JUNCTION.
face it is extremely difficult to find a
central location on which to construct q
full length oval track.
The kite" track here depicted is the
one opened at White River Junction in
September, on the occasion of the Yer
mont state fair.