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Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-05
TULIP CLIPPINGS.

The juice of tue tulip in old times was sup posed to be cure for stiff neck.
 The tulip is native of the Levant, Lin n@us says of Cappadocia, and is supposed by some to be the lily of the field spoken of by our Saviour.
 The Turks are said to be especially fond of the tulip, and that the red sort is used as an emblem by which lover makes known his passion for his mistress.
 The tulip was first made known by botan- ical description and figure in 1859 by Conrad Gessner, famous Swiss naturalist, who was born in Zurich, March 26 1516
 Early in the spring the Turks. celebrate what they call the Feast of Tulips, and in olden times ill the sultan's seraglio the day was observed with great pomp and splendor
 Some varieties of the tulip have been sold for more than their weight in gold, single bulbs bringing as much as 3 ,000 florins, kind named "Semper Augustus" bringing that figure.
 For more than 800 years the tulip has been one of the flowers to receive special attention at the hands of the gardener, till now the va rieties are legion and are probably more di- versifed in coloring than any other genus of plant.
 No plant in the vegetable kingdom has had such sensational history as this In less than one hundred years after it's introduction into Europe it formed the basis of a specula , tion known as the tulip mania, which, for it's wildness and for the disastrous result. which followed, can only be compared to the South sea bubble' and the Merino sheer speculation.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-05
Corn Fodder.

use from 300 to 500 bushels of shelled corn on my farm every year, and re- gard the fodder as worth nearly as much as the corn. As soon as the ears are well glazed the corn is cut close to the ground put on dump cart and hauled to a lot near the barn and shocked. I use what is called a corn horse for shocking-a pole from the woods, some sixteen feet long, and through the butt bore two holes and insert legs, raising this end about four feet from the ground. Then bore hole horizontally three or four feet from this end large enough to insert an old hoe CT rake handle, and 1t is ready for use. Set the corn in the four corners made by the pole and this stick and build on the desired size.
 Tie the top, pull out the stick and draw the corn horse out far enough to commence another shock. One man will set up corn rapidly in this way. usu ally make three shocks from two cart loads and have no difficulty in curing. As soon as the corn is cured sufficiently it is shucked out, leaving shucks on stalk and the stalks are stacked and Jeff to be cut by power as wanted during thu winter. l use a cutter with masticatos and my cows are fed twice day wit this cut feed and are always in prim- condition. usually feed hay at noon and give my milch cows four quarts ot wheat bran and four quarts coinmea per day additional. The waste of tht cornstalks makes excellent litter foI stock and absorbs urine like a sponge.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-05
LITERARY LIGHTS.

Rudyard Kipling, the new literary light in the London sky, is a young man of 9. His poem, They're Hanging Danny Deever in the Morning." which has made such sensa- tion, is a British army lyric.
 The late Armand Augustin de Pontmartin was for years the oldest contributor to The Gazette de France, the oldest newspaper in Paris He had been associated with Sainte- Beuve, Blanche, Balzac, George Sand and Zola.
 Marion Crawford has been awarded a prize of LOGO francs by the French academy as an acknowledgment of the merit of his novels, and especially of two of them, 'Zoroaster' and ''Marzio's Crucifix,n which were written in French as well as in English.
 In his new story Count Tolstoi has depicted the conditions of some of the most somber and disquieting problems of married life, and has done so with that vivid, that terribly ear nest realism which Matthew Arnold described as like life rather than literature.
 Emile Zola figures on the ledger of the Pari. publisher Charpentier for ,031 900 volumes sold up to the end of last year. Zoia re- ceives 20, 900 francs for each serial reproduc- tion of one of his novels, and this brings him very large sums iu year. The report that he spends more than he earns Is absurd. He has carefully saved money for years
 Mr. Flower, editor of The Arena, is a tall ish man of strong build and erect and nervou; carriage. A well shaped head crowned with a shock of bushy dark hair, a full face illumi mated by a pair of brilliant and magnetic brown eyes, bristly moustache, square chin and an air indicative of intellectual power are the distinguishing points of his physi ognomy.
 In large, roomy, old fashioned house ot two stories and half, with a broad gallery in front, on beautiful plantation in the sub urbs of Tuskaloosa, lives Samuel MinturI Peck, the young poet of Alabama He i very fond of Horticulture and gives much at tention to it. Mir. Peck is unmarried enC lives alone on this estate, save for the pres ence of some old family servants.
 Benjamin L. Farieon, the novelist, is darl faced, piercing eyed, intensely intelligen looking man of genial manner and Jewist i extraction. He began life as journalist il | New Zealand, where he became proprietor O a newspaper; but having received friendly letter of encouragement from Charles Dick ems, cast the cares of editorship to the winds and returned to England, since when he ha turned out some twenty novels.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-05
STRAY BITS.

From November to May the exportation of cut flowers from the little town of Cannes. on the south coast of France, reaches the sum of $713, ,S65.
 The number of birds seen in the vicinity of Philadelphia since the first day of January last by the Delaware Valley Ornithological club had recently reached 112 species.
 Never touch a vine that has three fingered leaves; that Is, leaves divided into three parts. Vines that show Ave fingered leaves may be handled with safety. Poison ivy has three fingers.
 A summer cottage built by Now York millionaire is of hemlock logs hewn on three sides with the bark left On the fourth side. A veranda Is constructed on three sides of the building of hemlock logs in the rough.
 The bolo flower, discovered by Dr. Schaden- berg growing upon volcanic mountain in one of the Philippine islands, is perhaps the largest flower in existence, being about three feet in diameter and twenty-tw pounds in weight
 A modification of Edison's photograph Is said to have been devised by painter in Milan. It costs under $20 and the wax cylin- ders are reproduced in zinc by the galvano plastic process at a cost of Ave cents each, selling price.
 An engineer on thsIron Mountain road has perfected an automatic bell ringer on his To- comotive, and now, when running in corpo- ration limits, or whenever the bell must be rung, he just jerks spring and the bell is kept going by steam power till he turns of the steam.
 An extraordinary feat in telephoning was recently accomplished between St. Peters burg and Cologne, a distance of 2,465 miles Conversation was kept up, notwithstanding a rather high induction. The Russian engineers propose to converse by telephone over dis tance of 4,685 miles.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-05
THEATRICAL NOTES.

Modjesin goes to Europe next year, and will not act in this country until 1892.
 Minnie Palmer has purchased the Ameri- can and Canadian rights to ''The Fools Mate, Y a London success.
 The latest London 'catch word" is II know that man" an expression which plays an i'm portant part in Sydney Grundy's comedy, "A Pair of Spectaces."
 Scanlan has introduced song into "Myles Aroon" which promises to become as much the craze as "Peek-a-Boo." The refrain is "See There, There She Goes" and the actor swings little girl in his arms while singing
 At the San Carlos theatre. in Lisbon, they have a curious custom of giving every year during the last days of the carnival an opera in which all the male characters are played by women. This year the opera was "The Barber of Seville and all the parts except that of Figaro were taken by women.
 Mir. William J. Davis the manager of the Haymarket theatre in Chicago, has recently secured a fno lot of rare old playbills, for which he must have paid round price. Among the number are half a dozen Paga- mini bills, Mrs. Jordan, several Keans sev- eral Kembles and programme of the per formance for the benefit of the theatrical fund in London 100 years ago.
 The late John Maclean of London, al though spoken of as one of the veterans of the stage, was only 55 years old, having been born in London in 1855 He was the Mir Gib- son in the original production of Tine Tick et-of Leave Man' at tue London Olympic il 1892 When Mary Anderson produced Tins Winters Tale in New York city he was the Camille. He was an extremely popular man in his profession
 Schiller's William Tell" was recently per formed for the Tooth time at the Vienna Burg theatre. Enthusiasts desiring to make sure of their seats began to gather at the entrance to the theatre as early as 10 o'clock in the morning. The cast included all the most ia nous singers in Austria many consenting tc accept small parts in order to add to the per | lection of the production. The opera wa | first given in Vienna in 1927.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-05
FINES FOR JAPANESE DUELs.

Whoever shall defame a person for not ac cepting challenge for duel shall be pun ished under the provisions of the penal code for the crime of defamation.
 Whoever commits murder or inhicts bodily injury on another in duel shall be punished under the provisions of the penal code appli- cable to that offense under ordinary circum- stances.
 Whoever shall let or place at the disposal of duelists any place with full knowledge of the circumstances under which it is to be used shall be liable to the same penalty as dueiing.
 Whoever shall have engaged in a duel shall be punShed with imprisonment with hard labor for a period of not less than two and not more than five years, together with line of from S20 to s200.
 Whoever sends or accepts challenge for a duel shall be punished with imprisonment with hard labor for a period of not less than six months and not mere than two years, to- gether with fine of from sloto S1Oo.-Lon- don Times
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-05
cHRYsANTHEMUM NOTES.

Chrysanthemum leaves smell like chamo- mile, but their flowers are generally almost odorless.
 The first chrysanthemums seen at any hor- ticultural exhibition in the United States were in Boston in 1880, when sixteen yarie- ties were shown.
 There is no better place for chrysanthe- nuns in bloom than cool greenhouse; the flowers open perfectly, they last so long and their color is pure.
 With Americans the chrysanthemum is strictly an ornamental plant; in Japan, how ever, there is kind-Ryorigiku,w with yellow 1owers-which is eaten.
 It is not well to shorten back the Japanese sorts after the middle of July, the Chinese sorts after the end of July or the pompones after the middle of August.
 The chrysanthehum is the national badge of Japan, and nowhere else has its cultiva- ton reached such perfection or are its finer varieties more zealously guarded.
 Mir Yoshida, a nuIseryman of Tokio, states in The Bulletin d d'Arboriculture that chrysan- themum shows in Japan date from A D 9O0, having been organized by the Emperor Ouda
 The beautiful but pernicious white weed of the hay fields is a true chrysanthemuIn, namely, C. Leucanthemum, and since a year or two gardeners have secured a semi-double variety of it.
 The first regular chry ysanthemum exhibition held in England was at Norwich, Nov. 9, 1929, when practically the same varieties were shown there as were exhibited the fol lowing year in Boston.
 The different types of chrysanthemums are known as Japanese, Chinese and Pompone, and they are again subdivided into large aud small lowered forms, incurved and redexed forms and anemone centered forms of all three.
 Chrysanthemums easily raised from seed as are China asters, feverfus, CT Indian pinks. Sow the seeds in pots or shallow boxes filled with light soil and stand it in the win dow of warm room or in a hotbed or green house, as one would tomato plants.
 In 179O chrysanthemums found their way into England. Between 1796 and 1898 new varieties were imported from China into Eng land, and from that time on the stream ot Chinese, anemone lowered and pompone sorts, began to swell to massive proportions
 In 1865 over GOO varieties of chryanthe nuns were cultivated in Europe In 1SS> Dr. II. T. " haicOtl, OA DOstoh, haSS., AaC himself grown about GOO sorts, but now the number of varieties has reached into the thousands, and is advancing by hundred: every year.
 The advent of the oriental chrysanthemun into European gardens is imperfectly known but Jakob Breyne, botanist and merchant of Dantzig, in one of his works published il 1889, tells us that the Chinese chrysanthemun was then in cultivation in some of the cele brated gardens of Holland.
 To give chrysanthemums the best justice plant them in rich loamy ground in an open but sheltered part of the garden, and givt them plenty room, say, let them be three fee apart Manure the ground broadcast rathel than in the hill, and there is nothing bettel than well routed barnyard manure New Vorl, Sun
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-05
FOWL DISEASE REMEDIES.

Catarrh readily yields to few applications of chlorinated soda, injected into the nostrils.
 Apoplexy generally cures itself by killing the bird before the poulterer knows of the attack.
 Lice on chickens may be destroyed by greas- ing chicks and hens on the heads and under their wings with lard or sweet oil.
 Gapes are readily relieved by spirits of tur- pentine put in the trachea, on the tip of Q feather. One or two drops will destroy the worms.
 Chicken cholera may be very often pre- vented by thorough cleanliness, variety of diet, free range and fresh water strongly inpregnated with alum.
 Dysentery should be treated with liberal doses of salts Feed on dry food, giving but small quantities of drinking water, liberally impregnated with alum.
 The following is a remedy for roup: One heaping teaspoonful of black pepper, one great spoonful of molasses, half a cup of sweet milk, well shaken in a bottle, and given in two teaspoonful doses. s.-American Poultry Yard.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-05
CHINESE RuRlAL RITES.

After the funeral the elaborate dishes that have been borne to the grave are carried back, aud the mourner's feast upon them.
 All the mourners are dressed entirely in white, and they assemble about the coffin and in turn prostrate themselves before it, band of music playing meanwhile.
 Immediately upon the decease of person in China priest is called, whose prayers are supposed to free the departed spirit from the necessity of going to hell and to secure his admittance to paradise.
 Immediately after the coffin, in separate sedan, is borne the ancestral tablet of the de- ceased with the offering of food. Different figures, banners and tablets are also carried, according to the means and rank of the fam fly.
 The coffin is a very solid, substantial case. The corpse, when put into it, is laid in a bed of lime or cotton, or is covered with quick lime, and the edges of the lid are closed with mortar in the groove, so that no odor can escape
 The body is arrayed in the most costly gar ments that the family can afford. In one hand is placed fan and in the other prayer written on piece of paper, which is a letter of recommendation to open the gates of heaven.
 In the funeral procession the coffin takes the lead, borne on an unwieldy bier carried by a large number of men, A man goes be- fore the procession and scatters paper money to buy the good will of any stray, tricky spir- its that may be proving about.
 When the day of burial arrives, which is if a satisfactory place for the tomb has been found-the nearest lucky day to the third seventh day after death, the friends assemble at the house, and an offering of cooked pro visions is laid out near the coffin.
 The nature of the site for burial is regarded as having an important influence on the pros perity of the living, the people fearing ill luck, disease and accident if the dead are not satisfied with the site of their graves The selection of propitious sites is made by geo mancers, a class of quacks who pretend to supernatural wisdom.
 Bodies are in some instances kept in or about the house for many years, and incense I is burned before them morning and evening. | They are kept on trestles in the entrance hall, l or sometimes in chamber set apart. This occurs when tue family cannot afford funeral expenses-which are considerable-or when Q ocky place of burial cannot be found.
 When the grave is reached the coffin is let down, and lime is abundantly mixed with the ! earth thrown in upon it. Crackers are then fired, libations are poured out, prayers are recited and finally paper molds of houses, clothes, horses, money and everything that the dead man can possibly want in the land of shadows are burned.-New York Star.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-05
Arigona Enterprise.
FLORENCE, JULY ,, 1890
THE TRAMP SIGNAL CODE.

The sign of a triangle minus the lower line on gatepost means "that the inmates of the house are good for food.n
 A rudely drawn circle with a slight mark in the center and dot on the right side de- notes that "the lady has given recently"
 In another sign the order have gone to the Egyptian language for the word certainty" :" which consists of the figure of a triangle
 A rude sign resembling somewhat the fig ure of a diamond reminds the tramp that he may count on regular good feed" at the house where it is seen.
 A house marked with the figure of re- versed triangle with dot on the right hand lower corner reminds the tramp that his game is 'spoilt, so he never wastes time at such house.
 The sign of a circle with a cross in the center always causes certain amount of trepidation, for it signifies dangerous" and all callers have to keep sharp lookout for q dog or gamekeeper with gun.
 The tramp's hope is revived when the figure of circle with horizontal line drawn through its center and dot in the right hand lower corner meets his eye, because he may then confidently expect that the lady twill give again"
 A straight line with dot on the right side means doubtful. But if the line is crossed, the tramps know that i've shall get some thing" If the crossing Is repeated the out lookis still better and there Is chance of getting something good
 The sign of rudely drawn half circle care fully scratched upon the gate post outside a trim looking country house tells the tramp that the occupants twill buy if you have what they want, and be consequently takes a minute or two to arrange bis box of needles without points, buttons without eyes, and tapes which will break at even the sight of a thread.
 The next sign to be noticed Is staggerer and it is really good one. The four sides Oi the square denote prison, and the dot il the center of the square represents the poor tramp inside who is warning his pals outside against calling at that house, for if they dc they too may find themselves in the ''jug. The dot on the outside of the square repre- sents the tramp on the outside.
 Religious folk are favored with three signs which mean religious" "more religion anc "most religions They consist of three rudely drawn circles, the first having a dot in ir center, the second a horizontal line drawl right through the center and the third has cross in the center Whenever the travelling cadger comes across these signs he imme diately pitches up a hymn tune and as invari ably talfs about the dear wife he has recently lost or the children he has left ill at home - New York Herald.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-05
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Miss Jean Ingelow receives so many re- quests for her autograph that she is physi- cally unable to respond to them all.
 Miss Josephine Simon, the young singer adopted by Mir. and Mrs Gladstone as a protege, is an Oakland lCal.) girl, who took her first honors in the musical circles of the Pacific coast.
 Mrs Philip H. Welch the widow of the late humorist, whose death year ago called forth so deep an expression of sympathy. has taken charge of a childrens department in the Saturday issue of the Brooklyn Standard Union.
 Mr and Mrs D. c. Boomer, of Council Bluffs, la, recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. Mrs. Boomer has been for years prominent advocate of woman's rights and was the originator of the famous "Bloomer costumen
 Miss Susie NJ. Best, the latest addition to the school of popular poets is a young Gin cinnati school teacher. She was born near Dublin, Ireland, in the year 1862, and through her mother traces her talent to the same fam fly heredity as James Montgomery, the poet
 Mrs. Sutherland Edwards has finished a novel entitled "The Secret of the Princess, ,'' in which she has endeavored to supply a truthful and not unfavorable picture of town and country life in Russia in the period im- mediately preceding the emancipation of the serfs.
 Miss Louise Meyer, of New Orleans, the new southern writer and magazinist, is only Is years old. She is of medium height, with dark hair, regular features, dark, lustrous eyes, full of light and expression, and pretty olive skin. Her face is that of the ideal Rachel in sweetness of contour and pureness Of mold, added to which is a subtle, e4I1i1st melancholy shade of dreaminess
 Bridget Doody, probably the oldest woman in the United States, recently celebrated her 18th birthday at her home in Mineral Point, Wis. She was born in county Wexford, Ire land, according to all authenticated copy of her baptismal record, April ?, 1772, and ha; been a resident of Galena and Wisconsin for period of sixty years. She is in apparen, good health and in the possession of all heI faculties to wonderful degree.
 Mir Field quotes characteristic anecdote related by Mrs. Isaac Henderson, wife of the novelist; "On our voyage to Europe, soml l years ago, we met, among other fellow pas l sengers, a very wealthy gentleman iron Boston. One day he asked me: Well, madam and what does your husband do for a living With sincere pride 1 answered: My husband ] is an author An author, ehP said tn i CrRsus. One of those men who write books i ehi Well, l suppose they have their uses D