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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-12-04
HER FIRST DINNER.

Mrs. Grant Gives ONE "Reminiscences Of
Her Early Married Life.
Imagine my husband inviting four
or Ave Of the officers to dine with us at
our first dinner says Mrs. General
Grant in the Home Maker for October.
OF course he had to withdraw the invi-
tation. for how did know that Hannah
understood cooking. He was amused
at my real dismay.
81 thought every body knew how to
cook do, he said. and many q savory
mess l have helped to make a. West
Point | have roasted apples, and
sometimes even ventured on roasting .
fowl
when inquired when and how. he
told me, with boyish pleasure. The
potatoes. beef, ETC., we fellows brought
from the mess hall (now Grant halD in
our caps. The apples were usually the
result Of foraging party to old Kings
ley's garden
land the fowl, Ulysses, where did
they come frsm?' asked.
"Oh, usually from Colonel Delafield's
coops.'
AT my expression of horror at this
really dreadful admission, he said:
DO not be alarmed was not adroit
enough to be Of these parties; but did
both help cook and eat those wonderful
suppers.'
$50, of course, he thought any one
could cook. Hannah proved to my great
satisfaction household treasure.
The officers were asked to come the
next day, when l had much pleasure,
though l felt some responsibility in ar
ranging the appointments Of my pretty
table, seeing that all were properly
placed, and remembering with pride
the well-served table OF my fathers
house.
"Well, the officers came. and to my
smiling welcome they said: Then we
can stay to-day, can we? Every thing is
right, is it? And Hannah really knows
how to cook. does she?'
''Only imagine! The Lieutenant had
| told all these men that they could not
/ come to dinner because Mrs. Grant was
not sure that Hannah knew any thing
about cooking, and would like to have q
trial dinner first How they all loved
to tease me ever after when he would
ask any OF them to dine with US! They
would timidly peep in at the door and
ask: is it ali right?' or ''Shall we come
another day?'"
1t is not generally known that
Henry VIII. hanged no fewer than IT,
600 robbers. thieves and vagabonds, and
that good Queen Bess," doubtless at
fected by her royal fathers ferocious
example. was, in the latter part of her
reign, responsible for the slaughter OF
| three or four hundred criminals yearly.
Turning to the year 1896. for example,
we find that in the county OF Somerset
alone forty persons were executed, thir-
ty-five burnt in the hand. and thirty.
seven severely whipped.
NO." said Braggs, Il d ont feel in
suited IL man should call me liar. II
! he does not mean it there is certainly
no harm DONE and If he should mean it.
why feel sorry that he has made such
. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS journal
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-12-04

We are thoroughly convinced, by care
full experiments made by ourselves at
different times, that o cow will yield
enough more milk from the same guam
tity OF food, when grain and dry hay
are fed. to pay for cutting The hay with
q straw cutter and mixing the grain
with it. When the grain ia fed scpar-
ately it passes directly into the second
stomach, while, II mixed with the hay.
it is all remasticated by the chewing Of
the cud. to the satisfaction of the cow
and the profit OF the owner. We know
very we'll that the average diaryman
will not do this. He does, however, .
great many things that do not pay half
as much profit for the labor.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-12-04
FEEDING DAIRY COWS.
Fair Daily Returns Of Food. That A.
Sure to Produce Good Results.

Fair Daily Returns Of Food. That Are
Sure to Produce Good Results.
The milk of the COW contains all the
elements that form the animal body.
We must, therefore, select her food ac-
cordingly. We must also remember
that two-thirds of the food consumed by
fair cow. say II. d. Thatcher & Co.. in
Ohio Farmer, is required to keep her
body in repair. while the remaining
one-third is converted into milk. 1t is
an extra COW whose digestive organs
will properly prepare for the lacteals
double the food required to repair her
own system. 50 that onc-half OF the daily
ration is converted into milk. We
would consider the following fair daily
ration for heifer, fresh for first time:
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-12-04

bodied strange conglomeration OF the
classic sciences and fine arts, dished up
in miserably bad English.
Recently this genius had developed
into . poet and he was never seen out
without his scrap book under his arm,
in which he had pasted his own efforts,
written on foolscap in large, round
hand, together with numerous choice
pieces which he had clipped at odd
times from the columns Of the Sunday
papers. As this worthy individual en-
with broad smile, precisely as Armida
had mimicked him a moment before:
Good morning ladies; Mr.. Stephen
Blodger at your service"
The two ladies returned the greeting
and the usual every day questions re-
garding health and the weather having
followed, Mr.. Blodger drew from the
side pocket of loud-pattcrned tourist
jacket which no wore. tablet. and
said: Ladies', / have been sitting in
quiet seclusion upon the sands Swallowed
by . large sun umbrella and my
thoughts. As my eyes wandered across
tho broad expanse Of ocean, the muse
took possession of nv soul and l was ut
once inspired to write an odo to the At
lantic. Here is the first stanza in its
unfinished state:
Atlantic broad and vast expanse
OF soothing boiling foam"
Hero Armida interrupted the reader,
saying: "You. will pardon me, know,
Mr.. Blodger, because you have come
here to court criticism, but do you not
think that 'Seething, boiling foam re-
minds ono rather unpleasantly Of soap
boiling process?"
THAT may be, but we can modify
word painting, Miss Armida. This is
only in the rough" Then he continued:
"Uaon whose bosom white winged ships.
by day and night do roam"
"rhcre," said Mr.. Blodger. as he COM
plctcd tho first stanza. II think that
will work up into some thing very neat,
90: to say beautiful"
Very" said Armida and her mother
In unison; but whether they were in
sarncst or not would have been difficult
TO determine from the manner in which
they gave their assent.
"You did not know that am also a
peel, did your said Armida to Mr..
Blodgcr.
'Indeed did not. But l am really
not surprised that we can add poetry to
-FOUR many accomplishments" he gal
lantly, If awkwardly, responded.
"lyell. can not exactly be called .
poet" was tho reply, "but l occasion
ally indulge in clothing my thoughts in
rhyme. Sometimes really do feel sem
umcntally poctical. and again at other
times / am afraid my crude efforts are
tho result os indigestion or something
equally unpleasant However. ! write
my vorses and leave my friends to judge
u the propelling power"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-12-04

BILE IN THE BALLROOM.
after the innocent Cuban to Mrs Delaro.
and Armida was keeping Percy Lowell
company while he smoked cigar On
tho piazza. The two last named sat
near to an open window OF the ball
room, and, rs they talked, watched tho
couples who were already assembling to
take part in the German that evening.
During the interval which had
elapsed since Percy met Mr.. Wilcox in
San Francisco the Englishman had
grown quite stout and had very much
improved his appearance by cultivating
a beard.
As he sat near to the lovely girl to-
night no one would have remarked that
there was great disparity of age be-
tween them-that is to say the fact
would not have struck . casual observer
very forcibly.
Percy had grown into a handsome,
broad-chested man, and possessed
healthy appearance which denoted that
no had forsaken most OF the foolish
ways Of his youth and was living - .
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-12-04

Other similar kinds Of food that tho
dairyman finds more convenient to OBJ
tain can always be substituted. Good
ensilage from corn. rye, or other sub
stance. will take place of the hay. car
rots, beets and cabbagcs. When the
cow is on good grass it will answer
without other food, but tie moment it
is insufficient to entirely satisfy her,
something must be provided to keep up
the full dow Of milk. for when once she
is allowed to shrink she can not be
brought up again.
We would consider the following
fair daily ration for COW weighing one
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-12-04
CHAPTER VII.

Another fruitless search. Days Of
anxiety passed only to prove in the end
that the new clew was false one. The
amateur detectives had been to New
Orleans, had watched for several days .
man with an iron-gray mustache and
beard resembling Velasquez whom they
found in that city. From New Orleans
they had followed him to Cuba only TO
discover that he was an innocent Cuban
WHO had been out on . protracted spree.
1t was ono more added to the many
disappointments they had already ex-
perienced: SO with sad hearts they left
the Crescent city and returned to join
Mrs. Delaro and her daughter At Long
Branch.
Their presence was never more vel.
come, for the widow was secretly long
ing for q change of scene, while Armida
had openly expressed the same desire.
1t was about an hour after dinner Of
the day on which they returned. Mr..
Wilcox was up in the parlor relating his
useless adventures and fruitless chase
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-12-04

"A woman will cling to man with
snakes in his boots through the most
trying adversely, but II you want to SEQ
hor lose reason and stampede in a hurry
show her mouse snexpeotedly.-Ram's
HorR
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-12-04

NO." said Braggs Il d ont feel in
suited IL a man should call me liar. II
he does not mean it there is certainly
no harm done. and If he should mean it,
why I feel sorry that he has made such
. nisssks."--Indisnapolis journal
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-02
The Jersey jumping Place.

A section gang were working on the
marsh west of Jersey City the other
day when a n. Y. san man, who had
been sniping, came along and called
the attention of the boss 10 some sim
gular looking spots beside the road
bed, and asked the cause. These spots
looked Is if the end of 4 heavy beam
had struck the earth, and here and
there was ragged furTow in the dirt.
And you don't know what them
spots is,' exclaimed the boss, as he
looked up and down the track.
Il do not"
We'll you'll find them for half a
mile each way from this, but this is
the fayorite spot. All of those were
made between dark aud daylight last
night
but how?"
by tramps jumping off of freight
trains. Back there is where the whis-
tie blows fer Jersey City. About here
IS where she s!ackeRs up 10 four miles
an hour. Then the tramps begin to
leave the bumpers. They jump straight
out and come down with a squash. and
, though they leave big hole in the
soft ground they receive no hurt. I've
seen ten leave the train right here.
Blessed good thing for dead beats that
the Lord put this marsh so close 10
town. ii we had clay ground here
there'd be need of big hospital, too :"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-02
The Directory-Slot Business.

| wish to heaven the thing had never
been invented" a Chestnut street
druggist feryently calculated yesterday.
I'm make bet of five to one in dol
lars that the next woman who comes in
here will not have a cent in her clothes.
and that she will ask us to change a
bill so that she can get cent to drop
in the slot and bring out the city di.
rectory. 1t seemed he continued
with Il plaintiye tone to his voice lat
first that the idea of slot machine in
which you drop & copper and have the
directory showed under your nose would
he very welcome to US. We thought
that it would relieve us of the expense
of subscribing for the book and of the
trouble caused to our clerks by an
swering every demand for it. But the
result is not what we anticipated Nine
women out of every ten who come into
the shop and one man out of every ten
are seized with an intense desire to pull
the lever and see the book come out. y
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-02
What Water Costs.

From an article on "The New Crotor
Aqueduct, by Charles Barnard in the
Century, we quote the following; 81,
Is a curious commentary on the de.
mands of modern civilization to OBJ
serve the effect of building this dam
The million people in the city need
reserve of drinking water, and
twenty-one families must move out OF
their quiet rural homes and see theil
hearths sink deep under water. The
entire area to be taken for q reservoir
is 1,471 acres. Twenty-one dwellings.
three saw and grist mills, a sash and
blind factory and carriage factory
must be torn down and removed. A
mile and a quarter of railroad track
must be relaid, and six miles OF
country roads must be abandoned. A
road twenty-threc miles long will ex-
tend around the two lakes, and a Dor.
der or safety margin three hundred
feet wide will be cleared all around the
edge to prevent any contamination of
the water. This safety border Will in
clude a carriage road. and all the rest
will be laid down to grass. As the
dam rises, the water will spread wider
and wider over fields, farms, and
roads. Every tree will be cut down
and carried away. Every building will
be carted off, and the cellars burned
out and filed with clean soil to prevent
any possibility of injury to the water.
Fortunately there is no cemetery within
the limits of the land taken for the
reservoir. Had there been one it
would have been completely removed
before the water should cover the
ground. Fifty-eight persons and cor
porations, holding one hundred and
eleven parcels of land, will be dis
possessed in order to clear the land for
the two lakes and the dams roads, and
safety borders"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-02
FIECTRTC BITTERS

This remedy is becoming SD well
known and SO popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bittsrs sing the same song Of
raise A purer medicine does not exist
md it is guaranteed to do all that is
claimed Electric Bitters will cure all
diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will
remove Pimples. Boils, Salt Rheum aud
rther affections caused by impure blood
VIII drive MaIarial from the system and
prevent as well as cure all Malaria fevers
For cure of Headache, Constipation, aud
Indigestion try Electric Bi,te,s-Eot,r
sati- faction guaranteed or money r..
nrded. Pfice soc and 81. per bottle st
II Hiurichs
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-02
TRAPS NOT ALL IGNORANT.
One Taught Schooiboys Algebra ard An
other Played Classic Music.


A few days ago a party of five or six
schoolboys, on their way home, stop
! ped in front of the home of one of their
number The conversation went from
one study to another until it reached
the subject of algebra; here it stopped;
one of the boys declared himself una
bic TO perform difficult problem in
quadratics which had been assigned
to him. His companions tried to help
him, but after all hands had failed it
was given up as bad job, says a writer
in the y. Y. Sun.
An old and besotted-iooking individ-
ual who was shoyeling coal few doors
away had been watching the boys for
some time with look of amusement
on his grimy face. After each one had
tried and failed he slowly laid down
his shovel, picked up a piece of coal,
and, walking quietly up to the boys,
requested permission to look at the
problem. After good deal of laugh
inc it was shown to him. and without
saying a word he quietly set to work,
and in few moments had correctly
completed the example, writing it out
on the pavement with the bit of coal.
The;boys, looked on in wonderment, and
could hardly believe their eyes, but
were not slow TO take advantage of the
state Of affairs, and in few moments
transferred to paper.
The coai-heayer in the meantime had
resumed his work, which was soon
completed and the last seen of him he
was disappearing in the side door of a
saloon.
On another OCCASION party of four
men and one woman were seated in
the parlor of hotel not far from this
city. Adjoining the parlor was the
bedroom. Leaning against the bar.
leisurcly drinking, We're several coun-
trymen. At one Of the tables sat
tramp half asleep. His arm was curled
up, forminga support for his shaggy
head, which was covered with latter
cd SLOUGH hat OF ancient manufacture.
Suddenly, through the half-open door,
there came the sound of music; the
loungers stopped drinking for mo-
ment, but almost Immediately resumed
their occupation. Nobody noticed the
tramp. At the first sound he had rails
ed his head from the table, and his
eyes seemed glued to the door through
which the music came. As it proceed
ed he rose and tottered toward it, but
Just as he entered the room the music
stopped. All eyes turned on the tramp,
who was making straight for the piano,
which he reached a moment later.
Lightly running his dirty fingers over
the keys suddenly he began to play
Mendelssohn's wedding March" For
nearly half an hour the tramp sat thus,
playing nothing but the choicest CLASH
cal music, with touch and execution
that was itself a marvel. The listeners
sat astonished and in silence that was
not broken until the tramp, rising
from the piano took up his hat, and
going through the bar-room to the
door, disappeared down the muddy
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-02
HE SWEARS OFF.
How His Wife Induced Him to Give Up
the Practice of Smoking.

A Young benedict in this CITY. saws
the Kansas City Times, tells a good
joke on himself which illustrates the
influence a wife has over her husband,
provided she can reach his pocket-book,
The young husband is in charge of
department of one of the larger retail
Main street stores, and before many
months hopes to become a member of
the firm. He is addicted to smoking.
and in moment of weakness confessed
to his wife that his cigars cost him 81
day. do YOU smoke 10-cent CT
gars?" she asked. He replied in the af-
tirmative, and the young bride, who
had ideas of her own regarding econo-
my, asked if he wonld not give her in
the evening when he returned home 10
cents for every cigar he had smoked
during the day for pin money. She
explained that her idea was to break
him of smoking. and as he acknowl-
edged he wanted to quit, but did not
have the courage to do SO, he readily
consented to the proposition.
Il was as good as my word for one
month"; he said the otherevening, land
kept faithful account of the number
of cigars | smoked each day. Some
times it would be nine, but more often
er it was dozen. When the month
had passed my wife informed ME that
1 had given her $50. That made $64 /
had spent for cigars and my salary was.
only $3.50 month. saw it would not
do. | had numerous consultations
with my friends before getting married
as to whether young man could af-
ford to marry on salary of 81, 800
year and had been told that he could
if he wasn't too eXtravagant in his no.
tions. There were only two things to
do. quit smoking or tell story every
night when | got home. - would
hardly give me time to put on my
smoking jacket before she would ask:
Now, how many todayPn Her tone
expressed SO much confidence that l
would have to Tess up, and at last l
told her that, with her permission, l
would swear off. She readily consent
ed, and | haven't smoked cigar
since"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-02
Reading Indiana Character

One afternoon a number of us were
sitting on the verandah of the tavern
in town in Indiana, says writer in
the New York Sun, when a farmer
drove up with some bags of apples to
sell. 1t was plain enough to all that
he was drinking man, and after look
ing him over the major said:
Human nature, when under the in
tluence of liquor, is queer thing"
Yes replied two or three, as in
duty bound.
Some men, as they come under the
influence, break down and weep, while
! others become ugly and want to fight
l can read that mans character like
a book. Get him half drunk and
he would fall to weeping"
II don't know about that replied
one of the crowd. He might be in
clined to raise a row.
Beg pardon, but / never yet made
a mistake, said the major.
Il think you have in this case" pro-
tested the other.
Il will prove, sir, that have not"
The farmer was already in the bar
room and had just taken drink when
the major entered had n little talk on
agricultural matters, and invited him
to drink again.
Thanks. Don't keer # | do was
the answer, as he poured out and
swallowed four fingers of old rye.
He began to feel it right off, and
commenced Dragging and boasting.
He forgot his errand entirely, and.
after wrangling with the landlord for a
quarter of an hour, getting drunken all
the while, he came out on the verandah
looking as ugly as a bear with sore feet.
Where in blazes is that red-headed,
lop-shouldered old scarecrow who was
asking me about corn?" he demanded.
I'm the individual" replied the
major.
''Oh, you are! Then l kin lick YOU
with my ears pinned back! Say, you
insulted mer'
''Oh, no, sir"
Yes, you did, and I'm going to lick
youm
With that he grabbed the major,
chair and all, and flung both over the
railing to the ground, and was going
after them to drive our man into the
ground when prevented. 1t took a
constable and two citizens to arrest
him, and when he had sobered up a
little he tore out one wall of the town
lookup and went home whooping like
an Indian.
How is it, Major?" was asked of the
character reader as we got him to bed
and rubbed liniment on his back and
shoulders
We'll, boys" he family replied, Il
don't believe | was mistaken in the
man, but the landlord must have given
him the wrong stuff. l thought at the
time that it smelled like chain lightning
playing circus in an old hay-mow, and
now | believe it was. Do YOU find any
broken ribs stick;nu ont pn
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-02
Russian Female Telegraphers.

The Russian ukase forbids female
telegraphers from marrying any per-
sons except male teiegraphists has been
revoked. and uow they NAV marry
''any man of responsibility" after hav-
ing obtained official permission.
IS CONSUMPTION INCURABLE
Read the following: Mr. c. Fl. Morris
Newark, Ark, says: Was down with
'Abscess of Lungs, and friends and ply
sicians pronounce me an IncnrahIe Con
sumptive Began taking DIR Kings
New Discovery for Consumption. am
now on nv third bottle, aud able to over
see the work on my farm. 1t is the fin
est medicine ever made.
Jessie Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio,
says: Had it not been for DR. King 3
New Discovery for Consumption I
would have died of Lung Troubles.
Was given up by doctors. Am now in
best of health" Try ii. Sample bottles
free at 81 Hinrichs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-02

The market gardens near Boston
have profitable record that cannot
be surpassed by western farms. A
little hot house of cucumbers produc-
ed 500 cucumbers Gay, and earned
most OF the season about three hun
dred dollars week.
A company las been formed in
GioverSville with II capital stock of
$4,000 for t. e purchase and sale of
eggs. separating tic yolk from the
white, and preparing the same for
commercial purposes. and driving eggs
for domestic and culinary uses.
More onions were raised in this
couutry last year than ever before in n
season. They We're such n drug in
several states at farmers auied thou
sands of sushcls ont To The woods and
dung them ont. That's tie enc vege-
table that the canncries don't take hold
of.