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The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-02
LITERARY SMALL TALK.

A MOVEMENT has been started to erect Q monumcnJ to James Fenimore i Cooper, the novelist, at Cooperstown, where he lived from 1874 to the day of his death in 1851.
 ] HIR. ". CLARK RUSSELL writes his l fascinating sea stories in the old house at Bath in which, when Bath was the abode Of fashion, Lord Chesterfield wrote his famous letters to his son.
 IN the Peoples Palace of London the ! class Of reading is improving, and ! great demand is mado for technical and scientific works by the borrowers, who are the working classes Of the city.
 TIE poet Browning had marvellous memory. He could always tell tho ex- act place of any quotation or fragment of quotation referred to him, and was ] greatly vcxed whenever he heard his own lines EisqU0tod.
 TuE literary production of Mexico is quite wonderful. Che of her latest bio- graphical lists mentions no less than F, 900 volumes by 3,000 native Mexican authors. The first book printed on this continent was published in Mexico.
 SEVEN thousand persons have been employed in getting out Mir. Stanley's new book and more than six hundred tons of paper have already been used in England. The English edition alone required two hundred and forty tons of paper.
 i NATIVE Indian novelist is the latest reported product Of this ere of culture. lis name is Peak oi Thunder, he lives in the Indian Territory, and his book is said to be q very wolI-vrIJten romance of life and love in his own country. He is now looking for Q publisher to put it out.
 RUDTABD KIPLIYG, whose stories have been much read and much discussed of laso, is q young Indian civilian a5ou5 tWc-tT-ltve rc-~a Of arC. He was c1u- Ca-cl il Lsl.-L1,.G. returned t0 India and has lived il JAe LL-s. ELo has been Q newspaper la27, cal a53u5 two year ago published ''Strange Stories of the Hills"
 When class Of population i5 the most addicted p reading? asks the Fal Mall Budget. Some interesting light i3 thrown on this question by the latea. re- port Of the Birmingham free libraries committee. Among other tables therein given is one showing the occupations of borrowers admitted during 1889. Loc2 are some Of tho figures: Scholars and students. 1.3)2; clorlls and h3okheapcGs, L138: egranl and o-icc boys, 35i: toaoh- CTS, 295; shop assist1ucs, go; jewellers. &15; compositors and printers. 1a.; mill iners and dressma.ers I33 Almost as the bottom como journalists, 6; news agents, 2, and reporters, ?. is tlis be- cause they have ll5rarse Of 4eir own. CT beo2ls2 cle rC9Use aLo i1 news papers lose tle t.s1e fer rea,lae oys.se.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-02
TOLD OF FAMOUS GREAT MEN.

TIE King of Sweden is reported re- ccntly to have remarked: ''I am truly sorry not to be able to spend a half day incognito with Prince Bismarck a5 Friedgichsruhe. Persons whom l esteem end honor so highly a5 I do Prince Bismarck become G0ubly dear to my heart when they step aside from the greater part of mankind"
 PRINCE BIs,IARoK's father was not ovcrioyed, apparently, when the future Chancellor was born. This is the grim announcement he made of the event: 'I have the honor to announce to my friends that yesterday my wife was de- hvercd of son, and I excuse them from offering congratulations. Fordin- and von Bismarck"
 CoUET NICHOLAS PEJACsEvITcu, by whose sudden death Austria has been deprived of her most brilliant cayalrv commander, was, in spite of the loss of lis arm at SadovG, an astonishingly fine hOrseman. During the course Of military m2neuvers," writes a C0rre- spondcnt, ''hc has been seen, while rid ing at a hand-gallop, to hitch his reirs over the pommel of his saddle, get out his tobacco pouch, roll a cigarette with his one hand, and light it."
 ON the evening of tho first days battle of Shiloh, which had been a de- feat, the Guartarmcstcr came to Gener- al Grant and told him that if he was again dcfeatcd on the next day ho could not transport the troops (about sixty-five thousand in numbor). if it was necessary to cross the river. Grant asked him: ''How many can you handler" Ten thousand, replied the quartermaster. Well" said Grant, quietly if We are defeated, you will be able to carry all that are left"
 A YOUNG lady one day requested Moltkc and Bismarck to write a few lines in her album. The marshal took up his pen first anI wrote: "FaIsehood passes away. truth rcmains.-V0n tIoltko. field marshal" After reading what Iol1se had to s2y, Bismarck took the pen and added the following; T know very well ,a2t ruth will prevail in tho next world, but in the meantime a lleld marshal himself would be power less against falseaood il this world Von Bismarck, Chancellor Of the E,n- pire."
 REV. 3IR. WAKEFIELD. a professor in the college at Hiram, O., has secured the home formerly occupied by the Gar fclls as a residence, Among the mem orable things therein is 9 bullet-hcIe in tlc wcinscot in tho library. The story thereof is tl&t, homo on a furlouTh. Garfield was writing late a5 night, when he went to his wife's bed and asked: Crete, are yop cwaEo?" She said she was-a little, anu he told her not to be frightened wleH she heard the report of pistol, for he was going to fire at 8 confounded rat that was worrying him by Eua7ing away at the woodwork ao his foec. lie got the rat located by tho soanj. fred through the board, ana -4--ll, -
The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-02
WONDERS IN WHITE.

A PAIR of white robins with pink eyes have been captured at West Goshen, Pa.
 4 QUEER ,wbite and red robin aston ishes the fishermen Of Quonochoutaug, F. 1. It has built it's nest in a shaGgy reach of pasture near the laundering ocean breakwater. The birds body is of 8 snowy white, even to the tip of it's tail, except it's breast, which is of g rosy red.
 AN Allegheny County boy recently captured white flying squirrel He saw the squirrel running up @ tree, climbed after it, pounded on the tree near it's hole and caught it in his hands when it jumped out. An albino in the squirrel family is not often seen, but this IS Q perfect specimen, milk white and with pink eyes.
 J. PRICE, of Savannah, has Q curiosity in the shape of young mocking-bird entirely white. Price purchased the bird from 8 negro traPper on the Waters Road, who brought 1t into town Tues day. From the appearance Of the birds bill 1t can not be over six weeks old. A mocking bird, as i5 has all the marks of the species except the color, and has the peculiar chirp of the young mooking bird. 4 white mocking bird is great rarity.
 WHILE Sims Powell was sitting in his library at his house at Prospect Hill, Parl1ersburg. one evening recently, he heard Q noise as of the rattle of wings against window. On laying down his paper and looking up, much to his as- tonishment, he saw @ beautiful snow white owl perchcd upon the back of Q chair and blinking at the light. MT. Powell captured the bird and will keep it as Q acuriosity. Itissn white and is Q beautiful specimen of the strix niyia, and is the only specimen of the kind ever seen in this section of the country. Itis believed by sono to be member of species found in the extreme north, CT Arctic circle.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-02
PICKED UP HERE AID ItiERE.


 l. Bradford County. Florida, is hoI- low stump from which comes . noise similar to that of boiling kettle.
 IE Cowlitz Counsy, Washington. which has been settled for forty years and has 1000 inhabitants, is a section covering several townships that has never been troddon by the foot of a white man. It is dense, unpenetrated wilderness.
 4 LADY of Bremen, Me, has parrot and also a eat named Shag. She has taught the parrot to spell cat, cat, dog, dog, and q few such words, and the other day Polly electrified the household by spelling very loudly and plainly ''c-a-t' and then pronouncing 1t "ohag." Porhaps Polly can't think.
 TIE tower Of the Philadelphia city hall is now 335 feet high, yet or the top Of that 8,GoG tons of iron and bronze are to be placed. There is to be a clock tower, tho dials of which are to be twcn ty-5even feet in diameter, sur mounted by statue Of William Penn thirty-scven feet high, and there will be numerous statues.
 THE little English sparrows have learned 3 new dodge since electric lights replaced gas in the New York city parks. When the current is turned off at dawn the bottoms of the globes are filled with hundreds Of insects which have been attracted by the light and killed. The sparrows come around after the globe has cooled of, slide down the carbons and deYour the in- sects.
 4 LITTLE two-year-old girl of Brook lyn, while playing on the second floor, managed in some way to fall cut of the window, and would no doubt have been severely injured but for the fact that she pulled two pillows with her that were on the sill. She turned over in the fall ard struck with both pillows under meath her. After a short cry she got up and resumed her game, this time, how ever, in the street.
 IT may be news to some men who smoke perfectos and Manuel Garcias at 20 cents apiece to learn that the list price of the better brands of Cuban stock runs up to $300 1000. This means that they are 8o cents apiece at whole sale. Now, with the duties paid and the profits expected On an article of this kind, they could not be sold for = straight, CT about 23, 09J Q box. These cigars are bought by the royal facli- lies of Europe. There's not much mar ket in America for cigars costing 8 each.
 TIE most remarkable hotel in the world is in California, on the road be- tween Santa Cruz and San Jose. It is Q well-lnoun fact that California possess es the largest trees in the world; and a shrewd Yankee hotel-keeper has con- ceived the idea of using group of these mammoth5, thus saving himself the cost oi building or rent. The hollow trunk of one tree, whose circumference is about twonty-two yards, is arranged as a raccption-rooTa, and &he surrounding garden. sheltered by thick roof Of spreading Branches, serves as dining room and smol1ing-room. A number Of other smaller hollow trunks make com fortable bedrooms, furnished in the most approved style; and some trees ct 6 little distance are occupied by the hotel staff
The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-02
MIDST FLOWERS AND FOLIAGE

| IvY-LEAvED geraniums are ideal plants for the well-kept hanging basket. l FLOWER beds are to please the eye; i but they will fail in this so long as weeds show in them.
 CAN not you see the insect that does the mischief? It may be night feeder; watch for it by Candlo light.
 IF allowed to form in heavy masses nasturtiums lose the most artistic and pleasing effects; thin them out.
 UMBRELLA wires make capital sup ports for weak plants and have this ad- vantage over tho usual wooden stake in that they are practically invisible.
 You may not know it, but the common hop makes Q most desirable ornamental climber. It's growth is rapid and the dark green foliage strikingly handsome. BLOOD manure is excellent for pot plants that are strong growers and grass feeders as cLrysanthemums, geraniums, fuchsias and roses, and is best applied when the plants have thor. oughly appropriated the soil in the pots and need some stimulant. Be careful not to wash the fertilizer cut of the pots when watering.
 Is YOUR otherwise pretty lawn dis figured by any aged specimen of trees, fast-decaying and becoming unsigh5ly? Then, let me suggest a remedy: Plant some vines or rose bushes around it's base and train them over it. You will be well repaid for your trouble and glad that you did not have it cut down and removed as you had intended.
 WHEN you say flower bed or plan of g flower garden or lawn is beautiful think twice about it. Is it beautiful? If so you can say why. If you decide at last that you are mistaken, that it is only monstrosity or vagary, then you will have learned something. Much of the fancy garden work is unnatural and corrupting to good taste. As rule you will find that real lover of nature has no pattern bed on his lawns, and no sheared everrrCCnS.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-02
FOOLISH BUT FASHIONABLE.

WATERMELON for breakfast is quoted IS the new gastronomic fad. IT is q fashionable affectation to put a pinch of salt into the breakfast cup of ,offee.
 NOBODY who pretends to be fashion lble in these days will venture to eat berries in public with any thing but a fork.
 MANY New York people who have a taste for ice cream arc trying tho fad of eating Boston brown bread with their cream.
 SAEDIEE sandwiches are served ct the i've o'clock teas at Newport, and we read that the proper way to eat them is with fork.
 TIE "individuaI castor" is Q product of the present season. It is to be placed before each guest at public dinners, and it is rapidly acquiring popularity.
 AT a recent swell entertainment the rooms were cooled by crystal pyramids of ice, tue frozen, fiutcd columns buried deep down in beds Of moss and Wreathed with ivy.
 FASHIONABLE entertainments have been enormously extravagant in London this season Several have cost between 80, 600 and 240, ,0c0. The flowers for Q bachelor party cost S5,030.
 FRoG legs arc best stewed in cream ard not fried, according to one of the cooks of a celebrated Baltimore club, where they know all that worth know ing about cuisine and gastronOmy.
 MRS. LABoUcHERE, wife of the fam ous journalist, has invented a anew social entertainment called: "A morning garden party" At each of these fetes fairy play is performed by @ troupe of children.
 VEGETABLE or fruit sandwiches are recommended as new delicacies for picnics. The newest dainty sandwich is made of nasturtium leaf, sprinkled with little salt, ana set between two round slices of biscuit and butter.
 Ar breakfast given by Ward Me Allister to Newport fashionables, the scene being a platform in Q shady grove, the table presented 8 pleasing appearance. Most noticeable were six sheaves of Scotch wheat standing about four feet high, tied with sashes of scarlet ribbon. h the tops of these nestled scarlet dahlias.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-02
PRACTICAL SIDE OF SCIENCE.

ELECTRICALLY deposited copper is so ductile that it can be drawn down until it resembles the finest hair, and this, too, without annealing.
 REGENT experiments has proved that aluminium is particularly well adapted for treatment in the drawing press, one of its chief advantages being that it can be worked with very little anneal- ing.
 A COMBINATION fuel, consisting Of coal and petroleum, has been tried for firing the boilers of an Italian man-of-war, with the result that her normal speed of fifteen knots was increased to seventeen knots.
 MUSTARD oil is being manufactured in Germany for lubricating purposes. It is said to be unaffected by cold above a temperature of about fifteen degrees Fahrenheit, and does not readily be- come rancid or form fatty acids likely to attack metal.
 BY adding the special ferments ob- tained from certain wines, NJ. Jacquo- min, from malt and from pure solutions, has obtained fermented liquors having the special bouquet of the wines in question. He has similarly produced cider from barley,
 ONE method of producing an artificial fuel consists in grinding corn stalks and coarse prairie grass, moiStcning them with water, reducing them to coarse pulp, and then subjecting the mass to heavy pressure, compressing them into blocks Of convenient size. these, when thoroughly dry, are said to furnish more heat than ordinary bitumi- nous coal.
 RAILWAY collisions, from tho ina- bility to stop the locomotive, are likely to be made impossible when the electric light is substituted for the oil lamps now in use, Recent experiments prove that the electric headlight casts light from half to three-quarters of a mile ahead. A train going at thcrata of sixty miles an hour can thus be stopped in time to prevent any accident.
 A BoSToN paper in comparing horse power with electric-power in the opera tion of strect-c2r lines says: The added pull upon the electric motor for the starting of q strcet-c2r amounts 10 twen- ty-five or thirty horsepower on a level track, and on an upgrade to start uses upsiXty or seventy horsepower. let the electric motors start. of course, more promptly and surely than horses, This shows that cruel temporary oversrain of horses must be employed every time they are made to start up ear.
 THAT tho ccmmcrolal practica5ility of solidifying petroleum, upon which doubt was cast some time ago, is established, is proved by the exhibition of Prof. Millefleurs. before meeting of Paris ian scientists, of several bricks of petro- leum, which he has produced by al original process. The btjc,s were hard enough to be handled V. Ict5 ilcon- veEience, yet so-t euou-i
 a stout knife. They nnr, touched wi;h liz
 MillelleurS claim .. .....-.z- plosive and inexpensive.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-02
IN TIME OF PEACE.

THE Russian Government has insc ordered four new ironclads put Cn the stocks.
 THE regents of Servia. distrusting the regular army, arc bEsily arming the re- serves with sa,000 rifles, prosecuted by Russia, and will not allow ez-King Milan to visit the military camps.
 BY attaching an electric motor to 8 gatling gun, it Exclaimed to be possible to discharge 1000 sho $ per minute, the heating of the barrels offering the only limit to the rapidity of firing.
 IT has been found that in the long run no powder is satisfactory for quick firing guns that is not absolutely safe from explosion by detonation, and that the only satisfactory and safe system of quick firing is by electricity.
 IN some of the enduring tests of the Maxim gun in Germany 3f,0O0 rounds were fired from a single barrel, 29,0J0 rounds of cartridges with steel-covered bullets being fired from single barrel before the riiing was materially in jured.
 
 peror Wilhelm is wedding old men out of the German army is shown by statis- tics: At the end of 1884 there were 3,948 officers of the Prussian contingent in retirement; to-day there are 4,G72. Generals of infantry and cavalry have been remorselessly mown down.
 A TRIAL has been made at Civita Vecchia of nautical ball invented by Signor BalsameIlo. It is seven feet in diameter, and can hold four persons. When closed it sinks, and is steered end propelled under water by rudder and screw. It has windows and grapplcrs, and, besides fishing up things, it may be used for destructive purposes in time of war.
 IT is proposed to use the electric motor extensively in military operations in England. One of the latest ideas in carrying on active warfare is to build a railway at the scene of hostilimes for the transportation of ordnance. It is highly desirable that the trains used for this purpose which are armor-plated and armed with gatling guns, should be as rapid and inconspicuous as possible.
 TIE pneumatic dynamite gun, which has been making for the British Govern ment,is finished, and was subjected to a range test The conditions of the contract, which called for a gun that should hurl 200-pound shell to dis tance of $500 yards, were exceeded, since the gun propelled a 520-pound ten inch sub-caliber projectile distance of 4,0OS yards. Many more experiments must be made before the weapon will be delivered. There can be little doubt that they will be successfully done.
 A FRENCHMAN has developed a new explosive for military purposes. It is condensed liquefied gas. Three hun dred drops of this compound are con- tained in small steel receptacle under the rife barrel, and each time the trig- ger is pulled one drop falls into the breech behind the bullet. Contact with the air causes this drop to volatilize in- simultaneously with an expansive force far exceeding that of gunpowder, which expells the bullet with terrible velocity, accompanied by neither noise or smoke.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-02
LEST III FUN.


 IE an Intelligence 0Goe-Agont (to cmalo aPplicanU-"Are you married )r siDIle?" Applicant (llushing)- "Naythur, mum; O'im engaged"
 HUsBAND-''Thank Heaven! our cook will soon be bald" Wife-''? ? ?' Husband-"She can not lavish her hair in the soup in this way long, you know"
 VIsTToR-''Uhat are you painting?" Artist (sarcastically)-"Can't you see?" Visitor (sweetly)-''Yes, 1 see it is Q flower. Have you decided what to call it yet?"
 SERvAxr-"Yis, sorr, Mrs. Jones is in. Whats yer name, sorr?" Visitor ''Prof. Vandenspinkenheimer." Serv- ant-"Och. Sure. ye'd better go right in and take 1t wid ye.'
 SUsPIcIoNs verified-Augustu But, Clara, ice-oream at one dollar Q plate is pretty expensive" Clara (haugbtily)- ''That is enough, sir. l do not believe you are plumber at all"
 DRUG CLEEE-''This hair-dressing is made of pure bear grease" Brown ''How can it be pure when it is scented?" Drug Clerk-''It is-er- made from the cinnamon bear"
 "RErURE my best thanks to your master. John, and tell him I am much fattered by his kind present of the game" ''Yessir-an' supposin' master asks what you guy mo for myself vhat'll tell him, sir?'
 ''THERE," said Mrs. Knobs, as her daughter ceased from torturing one of the high-numbered ''ops." of Beetho- ven, ''that's what 1 call finished per formance, Mr. Jones'" And AIr. Jones nodded, and said: 'Thank Heavenr'
 FLossY-'I don't care, I think Jack Townsley is real ueanp' Annette "Why, Flossy?" Flossy-''He wrote to me from Florida saying he had shot an alligator seven feet long, and said when he shot another he would have pair of slippers made for me-"
 THEY Were Enemies-Gus De Whim- per-"That's a good joke. Id0n't know when I have laughed so much over any thing. Where did you get it?" Dc Sim per-''It's one of Thompson's jokes. De Whimper-''Is that one of that frauds jokes? Well, if l had known that I wouldn't have laUghcd.'
 4 GENTLEMAN having engaged q brick layer to make some repairs in his eel lar ordered the ale to be removed be- fore the bricklayer commenced his work. "0h, I'm not afraid of barrel of ale, sir said tho man. ''I presume not, said the gentleman, but 1 think barrel of ale would run at your ap- proGch."
 SLANGY Mistress-'You needn't bring all that water down again, Mary. When you've scrubbed the bedroom floors, just throw it out of the window, but look out where it goes" Later on. ''Well, Mary, did you look out where you threw that water?" ''Yos, mum, looked out directly. I soused it all over Rev. Dr. Mild"
 A GENTLEMAN's Diary to his Wife's Temper-MCnday-A thick fog-no- see ing through it. Tuesday-Gloomy and very chilly, unreasonable weather. Wednesday-Frosty, at times sharp. ThursGay-Bitter cold in the morning, red sunset, with flying colors, portend- ing hard weather. Friday-Stormi in the morning, with peals of thunder, air clear afterwards. Saturday-GIeams of sunshine, with partial thaw, frost again at night. Sunday-A light southwestern in the morning, calm and pleasant at dinner time, hurricane and earthquake
The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-02
A, II. PRATT.

Ear marks Crop right, unGerbit left. AZTEC LAND AND CATTLE co
 (LINTED.) Post office, Holbrook Arizona. Range, Apeche and YavaPai counties, Old cattle branded F zsE Also in various other on left side and hip - brands and marks. |z < on both sides kert ID. Horse Brands: szs sSi right or left shoulder. iS
 tc5 right thigh
The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-02
R. c. BLASGiNGAME.

Post Ofice Woodruff Arizona. .arge-Milky-HOl and Little Colorado River.
 Cattle branded Q on left Jaw and OJ on left side.
 old brand ClJ on left side not kept up. Ear mark WallOWfork left; under-bit and crop right
 Horse brand OIJon Jeff hip.
 Vent QO in same place,