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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-22
80 Common Pests.

j. A. Lintner, New York state ento-
mologist, advises for the squash vine
borer wetting the stem at distance Oh
two feet from the base Of the plants with
water containing Paris green at the rate
of half teaspoonful to a gallon. AS
preventive of egg deposit, place in each
hill four or FIVE corn cobs dipped in ,oal
tar, redipping them from time to time in
July and August. For strawberry plants
affected with insects change of soil is
recommended for the young plants, and
the immediate blowing under Of the old
plants as soon as the fruit is off.
The attacks of the striped cucumber
beetle are repealed by planting beans in
each hill with the cucumber seed. Gas,
lime or tobacco dust, applied with bel
lows at least once week, or bettertwice,
is good for woolly aphis. For flea beetle
mix thoroughly one teaspoonfui Paris
green with one quart of flour; this to be
busted on the plants while wet with dew.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-22
r.vw 10 carve u Turkey.

One way is to cut from the breasts
square slices, and proceed in the same
way for all the heshy parts of the bird.
Though this is an easy way for the
carver, it has the drawback of allow
ing all the natural gravy to escape
and to leave the most delicate morsels
chnging to the carcass. Or you may
remove the legs separately, place them
to one side, and then do the same for
the wings, but cut them up in pieces
of suitable size; next cut off the white
meat as close to the carcass as possible,
and, lastly, break up the carcass; a
third way, after the wings have been
removed, is to break the carcass above
the crupper. which remains attached
to the legs and forms sort of hood
vulgarly called the bishops cup.
This is a good way to serve. Carve
when there are only few persons at
the table; if the guests are numerous
the second way is the better one
Cor. Chicago Herald.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-22
Agricultural Briefs.

Popular Gardening is authority for the
statement that no material has been
found SO satisfactory as earth for blanch-
ing celery.
Kerosene in the poultry house viii
keep down vermin.
Roll the lawn early and often.
Mr.. Willard said before a meeting of
the Western New York horticultural
society that after an experience OF i've
or six years with the Early Rivers peach
he believed it had-a hardy fruit bud and
would stand more cold than other va
rieties.
Waldo F. Brown, of Ohio, says: Good
hay is not produced by thin seeding, for
the grasses will grow coarse and rank,
whereas heavy seeding will give fine, soft
hay
Fowls that have o variety OF food do
not need artificial stimulants or pungent
continents to make them lay OF Keep
Ehem In health.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-22
English Rye Grass.

Professor Sanborn is the authority for
the statement that English rye grass,
which in great Britain is the backbone
of the hay crop, has the distinction of
being the only grass methodically i'm
proved by selection. To the English
farmer it is what timothy is to US. The
professor, who has grown English rye
grass for six years, says: mo grass
springs up SO quickly after sowing and
grows so rapidly in the early spring.
Where lawn is to be quickly made this
grass is sown for this purpose, other
lawn grasses being sown with it. On
our soil it yields well and comes well up
to timothy for the first year, but it does
not stand at all well when sown alone,
with me lodging almost as fiat as though
rolled. It Will not winter as well as the
above named grasses"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-22
orc.... rsnstnn Husbands.

During a visif 10 one of the suburbs
OF Boston a.few facts came 10 my no.
tice which I thought might strike
some Of your readers rs rather odd.
Surely wonan's rights prevail here TO
q great extent, at least in one dilcc-
tion-that is, as regards the weekly
washing. l called on Il lady one after
noon and she complained of beral
'1sotired." Her husband, she sud, had
had the grip and lad done the wash
ing the night before, but he really was
too i'll to hang out the clothes, and she
had done it that morning, and was To-
tally used up. was SO surprised that
suppose must have shown my feel
ings.
finally said it was the first time |
had heard of the men doing such
things; that is, American men. But
she informed me that great number
of men in the place did the washing,
and other work, too, which l had al
ways considered belonged to woman 5
domain. This is how it was managed:
The husband did the washing in the
evening, and if the weather was at all
dubious in the morning would 60 to
work as usual. But if, in the course of
the morning, it should clear off he
would ask for little time off, and
rush home and hang out the clothes.
And no one seemed to think it either
funny or odd.
The wife can outwalk any woman |
know; and was always ready for a
days shopping in Boston, which is so
wearing to most ladies.
"But them she said erred was
sure to get home by little after and
have nice hot cup of coffee ready,
and an oyster stew, or something else
nice and warm, knowing I would como
home cold and hungry" And that
man was not considered first class
fool, either, strange as it may seem. |
thought the twenty-sixth verse Of the
fourth chapter of Esdras very appro-
pirate to him. am not interested in
any laundry, but will mention that
it only costs thirty-six cents per dozen
here to have clothes done up very
nicely. One lady informed me that
her sister said it was such trial to her
to go over tho clothes, and if they
were not clean throw them back in the
tub for her husband to rub again.
don't think I could ever get up parti,
Gle of respect for man like that.
These are not the only cases in this
place that / know of, as one lady in
formed me that not only her husband
did the washing on their street, but
there was only one man who did not.
Cor. Hartford Times.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-22
Tact In Managing the BOYS.

A quaint story is told about Master
Tommy Anderson, an old time peda-
gogue. Once he taught a school in
Pennington where the boys had driven
out several teachers. He found that
the chief conspirator was good look
ing, grown up girl, bright, saucy and
proud. The schoolmaster wore his
hair in cue, as was the fashion in
those days. When ne was doing q
sum" with his head down, she tossed
his cue back and forth as if it were
a toy, much to the amusement of the
scholars. Uncle Tommy said nothing,
out kept up quite a thinking. H
knew if he called out the guilty girl
and punished her the big boys would
rise and carry him out. Soho adopted
unusual tactics in conducting his
campaign.
He found a lot of long hair hanging
up in barn. From this he selected
and smoothed out a bunch resembling
cue, and tied it up nicely with a rib
bon. Taking this to the school room
early the next morning, he suspended
it from the peg where the girl always
hung her cloak and hood, then he
commenced to set copies as usual.
When she came in and spied the curl
Gus continuance she looked surprised
and puzzled Quoth Master Tommy
in mild tone of voice, Miss, have
brought that bunch of hair for you to
use as q plaything instead of my cue. !"
The proud spirited girl was Inundated
before the whole school and could not
help crying. Uncle Tommy had won
the victory by stratagem rather than
by force OF arms and had no further
difficulty with his misunderstanding
ton Chronicle.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-22
]. WILKES BOOTHS TRUNKS.
They wero Picked Up from Wrecked
Vessel Relo1y Quebec md Sold.

They wero Picked Up from Wrecked
Vessel Below Quebec and Sold.
Thomas Casey, atypical Irishman Of
80 years or more, stood in front of the
Opera housein Detroit, Mich, intently
studying the show bill that bore the
name of Edwin Booth, who was play
ing an engagement there. He asked a
man who was standing near him if Ed
win Booth was any relation to j.
Wilkes Booth. Being assured that he
was, Mr.. Casey repaired to the hotel to
tell Mr.. Booth the following cemarka-
bic story:
In June, 1865, while Mr.. Casey was
an auctioneer in Quebec, schooner
called the Emma loaded at Montreal
with oil FOR Nassau In the cargo
were seven large trunks marked ~.
w. B., Nassau, to be called for" The
schooner passed Quebec, but short
distance below that city storm struck
her and she was wrecked The crew
and officers were never seen, but the
derelict was picked up by some Quebec
sailors, who claimed salvage.
The goods recovered were put into
the admiralty court to be sold, and
Thomas Casey was the auctioneer to
whom the sale was intrusted. He
opened the seven trunks and found
them filed with rich velvet suits,
jeweled daggers, armors, helmets,
plumes and various other theatrical &C
cessorieS. Old letters bearing the nd
dress of u. Wilkes Booth" and hun
dreds of tickets with the initials ~.
w. B." were also found.
The goods were much damaged by
water. For some of them there was
no call, and Mr.. Casey kept them.
The sailors realized $500, and $500 was
deposited to the credit of j. Wilkes
Booth or his heirs. Mr.. Casey had
never heard of J. Wilkes Booth.
Away down in Quebec he took but lit
tie interest in the affairs that were
then interesting the American mind,
and he made no effort to find the
owner, who, he then supposed, was
drowned on the Emma, Ifor had he
any interest in inquiring for Booths
relatives. In the lapse of time the af-
fair escaped his memory and he did
not think of itagain. Casey's endeav-
or to see Edwin Booth was futile.
The fact that the trunks were con-
signed to Nassau leads to the belief
that J. Wilkes Booth evidently hoped
to escape to the Bahama islands and
there resume his profession, believing,
no doubt, that his offense would be
considered q political one and that he
would be safe in foreign country.
Casey is a resident of Montreal
Cor New York Times.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-22
A, Extraor.,inary Beard.

Philip Hensen, planter, residing
near Corinth, Miss, is believed to be
the possessor Of the longest beard in
the world. He is man of unusual
stature, standing nearly 81 feet in his
his stockings; this Notwithstanding,
ais beard reaches the ground when he
is standing erect. A German residing
in Chicago a few years ago boosted OF
his 60 inches of beard, but Hensen
goes him several better, having many
Threads in his beard which measure
over 20 inches. This remarkable
growth is but fourteen years old. ST
Louis Republic.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-22

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Commercial Bank, Roanoke, va.
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City Bank, Richmond, Va.
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General banking business are equal TO
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-22
Zion Hayo Hobbies.

A New York doctor says that you
can make man believe that his liver
ia out of order when you can't make
him believe that there is a hereafter
for his soul. The human liver is dosed
ninety-nine times where it needs 1t
hut once.-Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
Eints on a Variety of Subjects of Interest
to Lady Readers.

to Lady Readers.
Blazers, cutaway jackets and dartless
open bodices Of every description ale 70
rage all summer, and natty shirA walSts
and fancy blouses and waistcoats accom-.
panying these, are in every possible
style, and made of nearly every sort OF
material. Some of white silk are tucked
horizontally, perpendicularly and di.
agonally-into most striking and grace.
full forms, all of which are very chic and
novel. Others are thorn-stitched, silk.
embroidered, beaded, braided, GALLON.
trimmed, or they are laid in soft folds
and crossed in front over deeply pointed
neck piece or plastron, made of some
particularly rich and elegant material.
Less expensive blouses and shirts are
made of cream-white clairette and other
sheer woods which can be cleaned when
soiled. These have deep plat just in
front fastened with shirt studs, with
tucks each side of the plat. Striped
and polka-dotted washing silks also
make serviceable and pretty blouse
fronts and waistcoats. The stiffiy
starched English shirt, with shield
shaped bosom, made of plain or fancy
percale, is supplemented by four-in-
hand scarf, a belt and buckle, or q soft
Turkish or tennis scarf at the waist.
''Beaconsfeld bonnets" is the title
applied TO some of the beautiful prim-
rose-trimmed models sent out this year.
lighthouses and hedges in England have
been rified to decorate the homes and
nd nf cd nf md
field.
1t is gratifying thing to know that
although the tendency both here and
abroad is decidedly towards lengthening
the skirt of street gowns, there are not
few leaders of fashion who are taking
most decided stand against the inno-
walton. Why any stylish, sensible, ar
tistic or even tidy woman should ever
wish to give up neat, graceful and
ladylike mode of wearing the skirt of
her street gown, for one that is wholly
tho reverse in each of these respects, is
past comprehension. A lady well known
for her elegant and fashionable style of
gowning last week quietly requested
her dressmaker to remove the dress
ShiI U ohO was hIIllS upOl4 hol' anu WIFI
her own hands pinned up the hem of
the over-lengthened skirt There"
she said decidedly, thus far and no
further. My skirt is now happy
medium between the demi-train and a
'bloomer,' and / will not have it a hair
breadth longer. 1t clears the ground
all around, and every street dress of
mine shall as long as live to wear one"
And the dressmaker quietly said
Amen and went on with her fitting
n Y Post
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14

ing strange animals; curious stuffed
birds, which peered down from high
shelves and were laced together by cob
webs laden with dust, while many other
objects strewn about told of the trade of
the taXidermist.
"Yes," said the old man ia reply tony
questions, 81 am mermad-maler, and
l flatter myself that l have produced
some of the most artistic nermaids ever
placed upon the market. Why, SIR"
continued the speaker, warming up I'M
der the recollection of his triumphs, 81
produced one that fooled even the doc
tors. You see, mermaids have been
made as long as any thing. The Chi
nese manufactured chem centuries ago,
and SO we'll that large number of peo-
pie believed in them; and if the work is
fairly done the production is one OF the
best cards show can have.
zone day a man came to me, and I
knew the moment l saw him that he
was Snowman. He said he had mer-
maids, but that on the last trip man
had offered to wager him five hundred
dollars that he would not dare to allow
the mermaid to be cut open; so he
wanted something that would bear in
spection and he ready for such a con-
tingency. l told him could do it, and
received the order to go ahead.
"Generally in cheap work l stuffed the
skins with cotton or something of the
kind and let them go, but in this case
went to work on scientific principles. |
took the skin of monkey and separated
it at tie waist; then allowed it to dry as
q mummy would, all of which l helped
along by the application Of heat. / now
took a fish, common in the China Sea-
one that would not be familiar-and
treated it in a similar way, and finally
joined them together. fastened scales
upon the monkey portion and carefully
graded them up among the hairs, then
introduced some hairs down upon the
fish portion. Barnacles were fastened
here and there and great cut was left
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
The Drink Evil in Africa.

Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt, the
around-the-worldW w. c. T. U. mission
airy, now in Africa, writing from Bar u
ana, Congo Free State, in a letter ad-
dressed to the late Mrs. Margaret
Bright Lucas, of London, and published
in the British Woman's Temperance
Journal, says: 81 have heard that from
all whom l have met which makes me
the more earnest to do something to-
ward stopping this fearful tide of drink,
more fearful than one can imagine un-
til one has really seen, as l have done,
the steamers full of the vilest spirits,
much of which is simply alcohol dis
titled from the cheapest substances that
will produce it, brought out in this form
to be reduced with water, favored with
anise-seed, and so sold at an enormous
profit. Missionaries have told me that
whole villages-men, women and chill
dren-are often drunk, and that they
have been obliged to give up preaching
places after the people had begun to send
for the drink. l saw one caravan-that
is, large company of men-go out of a
traders premises with drink and moth
ing but drink"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14

open up and down the abdomen, through
which any one could readily see the ribs;
and the joining of the vertebre.
''The face had been given an agonized
look, the hands were clenched, and, all
in all, it was one of the most disagreea-
BILE sights ever saw-even though Ibid
produce it.
Eyes, it gave complete satisfaction.
When they exhibited it cloth was
thrown over the body, and when the
question was raised the proprietor would
say that he would leave it to commit.
tee of medical men, thus being confident
of obtaining some notoriety. In one
case number of provincial dotas-s
were completely deceived, and signed a
paper rctracting certain statements
which they had made to the effect that
the mermaid was a sham"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
DRESSES FOR SUMNER.
Charming r'abrics and Garnitures That
VIII BE Worn Everywhere.

Charming Fabrics and Garnitures That
VIII BE Worn Everywhere.
The lovely fabrics of silk, wool and
cotton, which are woven with special
reference to summer uses, are so numer-
Gus and SO various that the veracious
chronicler of Madame La Nodes die
tates is dismayed at the idea of review
ing them.
In dainty all-wool and silk-and- wool
fabrics, there are exquisite tints of
artistic green's, heliotrope, old-rose, soft
dove and cleaning silver grays, which
are made up for evening wear in various
simple styles and ornamented with rib
bons arranged in all the fanciful ways
Imaginable. Among these materials are
HenriettaS, summer cashmere, yelling
and albatross, which may be made up
alone or in combination with silk or
MORE or surah, either figured or plain.
Figured challies are favorite materi-
ais for summer wear, and are usually
made with rather full skirt trimmed
with many rows of narrow velvet-ribbon,
and with draped waists also trimmed
with ribbon.
For morning wear, zephyr ginghams
in pink-and-white, blue-and-white, hell
trope-and-white, check mixtures, and
all varieties of fancy br oxen plaids are
made up in easy washing styles for
country wear, and in something resem-
bling the tailor-made dresses, for the
sea-shore. Lovely creations of colored
lawn and lace, remotely resembling tea
gowns, will be worn at watering-places,
with fairy-like parasols to match; but it
is little too early to see them in all
their varieties. The simple hem
stitched white lawns with deep en-
broideries make pretty summer dresses
for all day-wear, and fat, wide sash of
ribbon is all they need to make them
quite dressy.
Summer church dresses are of black
fish-net draped over surah, or of grena-
dine, surah, or silk-and-wool mixture.
Jet is very much used again. and pretty
capes with high shoulder-puffs and deep
VS. reaching to the waist, back and
front, are deeply fringed with jet beads,
as we'll as covered with them. These
are pretty compilations to almost all
simmer toilets.
Very stylish dresses for the promen-
ade are the French pattern-robes en-
broidered in Vandylled points around
the skirt, or that portion of the material
which is to be made up into the skirt,
and an embroidery to match for the
corsage, often in the shape of Figaro
jacket. These robes are in fine qualities
of wool in all the fashionable colors, in
ginghams, Chamberys and mulls, and
usually are accompanied with a parasol
and fan to match.-Demorests Family
MaraZine
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
In Youth Prepare for Ago.

One of the best friends | ever had died
of delirium tremens at sixty years of
age, though he had not since twenty
one years of age-before which he had
been issipated-touched Intoxicating
liquor until that particular carousal
that took him off. Not feeling we'll in
street on hot summer day, he stepped
into a drug store, justa you and would
have DONE and asked for dose of some-
thing to make him feel better. And
there was alcohol in the dose, and that
one drop aroused the old appetite, and
he entered the first liquor store, and
stayed there, until thoroughly under the
power, he entered his home raving
maniac, his wife and daughters fleeing
from his presence, until he was taken
to the city hospital to die. The combus-
tible material of early habit had lain
quiet nearly forty years, and that one
spark ignited the confagration. Re-
member that wall may be one hundred
feet high, and yet DETECTION one foot
from the foundation affects the entire
structure. And if you live hundred
years, and do right the last eighty years,
you may nevertheless do something at
twenty years OF age that will damage
all your earthly existence. A man be-
fore thirty years of age may commit
enough sin to last him lifetime.-Tal-
mage, in n. Y, Observer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14

Ut was in the sleeping-car, and they
thought that every one else was asleep.
Probably every one had been, but they
woke me.
When I was enough awake to know
what W as going on, l heard her:
"Well, don't care. i think you're
real mean. All want"
eyes," broke in he, "all you want is
the last word, same as you always have,
amt it?"
eyes; and I'll have it, tool" spitefully.
"You won'tr'
"See if l don't"
GAIL right"
GAIL right it is"
"Have to mock every word I say,
don't you?"
"Heavens! no! You never say any
thing worth repeating"
"Why do you echo me, then?"
81 don't!"
"You do!'
81 don'tw
"Shut up!''
81 won't!'
"Ugh" And there was noise like a
man tumbling into his berth.
Then we heard, rather softly, as if talk
ing to herself: 81 said I'd have the last
word, and did. Ugh don't count, cause
don't believe it is word. Harper 8
Bazaar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
Didn't Paw.

A lecturer that had for several
minutes harangued his audience on the
beauties of politeness, was interrupted
by man who arose and said:
That's all very we'll, cap-mighty
fine talkin' an all that, but in this town
politeness don't pay"
"You are mistaken, SIR" the lecturer
answered.; ''politeness pays in any and
oil towns"
mo, you are wrong" the interrupteI
persisted, sit don't pay here. I'll tell
you why. For some time have been
eating at lunch-counter round yonder,
and noticed that every man sat up to
the counter with his hat on, and as
wasn't brought up that way, concluded
to take my hat off, and did So"
well, but did any one object? the
lecturer asked.
''Oh, no, there was no objection, but
you see, some fellow stole my hat.
Arkansaw Traveller.