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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03

Public Nuisance is creature of our
democratic system Of government He
was born years ago, and has lived to 9
green old age. And what is worse, there
is little prospect of his immediate death.
You have seen him. He is everywhere.
He is as ubiquitous as the fool. Per.
haps you have been walking along the
stseet on a cool summer evening, looking
at the big white stars and listening to the
melody of stringed instruments, when
you heard splash upon the sidcw ak,
aad, looking upward, beheld . white
face at a window.
You saw Public Nuisance.
He had just emptied his face of .
mouthful of tobacco juice. The world
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
IN THE RESTAURANT.

that you are looking badly this morning
and ought to be doing something for
yourself. He always has pleasant word
to say about your new hat, and likes tc
say these things:
Don't you look Mt me in that tone of voice.
If YOU hit me and find it out it will 60 hard
with you.
Oh. It is out of sight.
Cheese it.
Say. got another cigar in your pocket
Hot enough for you?
Come again when you can't stay so long.
just before he goes TO bed Public
Nuisance opens the window with a
crash and coughs boisterously into the
night. SO that everybody in the neigh
borhood will know that he has reached
home.
The fellow is all around town. Doubt.
less you meet him at least three times Q
day in one place or another. He is .
character, after all, and nobody knows
just how we would get along if he were
to be taken away from us.-CAicago
Herald.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
THE PET DOG NUISANCE.

f. his cuspidore. He expectorates every.
where and anywhere. In some coun.
tries Public Nuisance would be dragged
to police station for his play fulness, but
here, in good old America, ne is permit
ted to hoist his feet into the window of
his boarding house. business office or
Ork shop and squirt tobacco juice
wherever he chooses.
You can tell when Public Nuisance is
travelling with you on a train. He is al
ways one of the last men out of bed in
the sleeping car. The first thing he does
is to take drink of whisky out of the
glass standing at the hydrant. Then he
fills one of the bowls with water, per-
forms his ablutions, and walks away
leaving the water in soilcd condition,
where he had drawn it. Leaving the
steam cars you find him travelling over
the street railways. with his feet stretched
across the aisle and his pungent Quicken
heimer breath rolling blithesomely over
his shoulder and into your face Some
times he sings in the cars and cracks
Jokes taken from the stone age Then
he laughs heartily and calls out the
names Of streets half a mile beyond.
Public Nuisance makes his home in the
Car. He is there most of the time, and
sometimes he stands ON the last step of
the platform, and you have to trample
over him to get into the van. At other
times he sucks cigarette on the front
platform and blows a gust of glue house
smoke through his nostrils. as he tells
you that the weather is hot and full of
humidity.
Then again you meet him on the
street. He always turns to the left, and
whistles annie Rooney" through his
teeth. Sometimes he carries an umbrella
at an angle. which permits it's point to
poke you in the neck. and at other times
he goes along merrily shocking bananas
and casting the husks upon the side
walk. Public Nuisance is at tbs theatre
cow and then. He comes late. walks
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
THE BEAUTIFUL DOG STAR.

It is difficult to conceive that this
beautiful star is a globe much larger
than our own sun. says Chambers
Journal, yet it is fact that Sirius is
sun many times more mighty than
our own. That SPLENDID star, which
even to our most powerful telescopes
appears as mere point of light, is in
reality globe emitting so enormous a
quantity Of light and heat that were it
to take the place of our sun every
creature on this earth would be con-
sumed by its burning rays.
Sirius shining. with far greater luster
than any other star. it was natural that
astronomers should have regarded this
as being the nearest of all the fixed
stars, but recent investigation on the
distances of the stars has shown that
the nearest to us is Alpha Centauri, a
star belonging to the southern ATTITUDES,
though it is probable that Sirius is about
fourth on the list in order of distance.
For though there are about fifteen
or twenty stars whose distances have
been conjectured the astronomer knows
that in reality all of them save three or
four lie at distances too great to be
measured by any instruments we have
at present.
Astronomers agree in fixing the dis
lance of the nearest star at %, 100000
600, 900 miles, and it is certain that the
distance of Sirius is more than three,
and less than six times that of Alpha
Centauri, most likely shout five times;
so that we are probably not far from
the truth if we set the distance of Sirius
at about 100, 000 900, O00,O0 of miles.
What vast distance is this which sep
arates us from that bright star! Words
and figures of themselves fail to cor.
vey to our minds any adequate ide:
of its true character.
10 take common example of illus.
trating such enormous distances: 1t
is calculated that the ball from an Arm
strong 1O0-pounder quits the gun with
the speed of about 400 yards per sec
ond. Now, if this velocity could be
kept up it would require no fewer than
100, 600. 600 years before the ball could
reach Sirius. Again, take the swiftest
form of velocity of which we have any
knowledge, light, which travels at the
rate of nearly 200, 600 miles per second,
or about II, O0O.O0 miles minute, yet
the distance Of Sirius is so vast that it
would take nearly twenty years for its
light to reach us; SO that if Sirius was
suddenly to become extinct we should
no be acquainted with the fact till
twenty years hence.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
An Aztec City.

Another forgotten Toltec or Aztec
city has been discovered in Mexico. 1t
is located among the mountains of the
state of Vera Cruz. and does not seem
to have ever been visited in modern
times except by Indians. Some of the
buildings are four and five stories
high. and the cornices aud windows
are skillfully worked out. The build
ings are frescoed in colors that appear
as bright as if just put ON. Many in
scribed slabs of stone are found.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
Dairy Notes.


AS rule black COWS give the riches,
milk; a yellow skinned COW gives the
best colored butter; cow with the
largest belly gives the most milk; and
the quietest cow in the field is the best
behaved when in the stable.
A horse requires one ounce day of
salt for the renovation of the digestive
fluids which are secreted in large
quantities. An OK or COW needs two
ounces daily. and sheep one-quarter
OF an ounce. Illuminating animals re-
quire more salt because of the large
consumption of saliva during the pro-
cess of ruminatiOn.
BY a regular and general system of
wedding out the poor COWS and breed
ing only the best, the value of the
80. 700, 900 cows in the United States
could he easily doubled within years.
This increased value based on the
profit obtained from them, would
amount to no less than $500, 1000, 900,
and would add to the yearly increse
of farmers and diaries not less than
$3.50, 600. 600 yearly.
1t is a wrong notion that cows must
necessarily calve in the spring. This
is habit of wild animals, and as ma
ture makes few mistakes, the habit is
based on the abundance of food during
the summer for the support of the
calves. But we have changed all that
by domes tication, and if cows are
wanted for a winter dairy. they may
be kept back until December or Janu-
airy, to be bred then without risk Of
tcilura
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03

THE BACK-sLAPP1NG NUISANCE.
with biscuits, and there Is pie on rno
seats and greasy paper bags in the path
way.
Once in while you put on your black
suit OF clothes and walk in the early
morning sunshine. The birds are sing.
ing, the sky is blue rs turquoise, and
you are almost effervescent in your Joy.
Then comes Public Nuisance from the
mouth of an alley and dumps a box of
ashes where the dust is sure to blow
upon you. He never fails He is al.
ways there. A black suit of clothes
never escaped the fiend with the ash
box. The fellow is seen in other phases
and in other places. He is always tell
ing you what to do for the ringworm on
your face and how to cure the sore
throat you are Juggling around with
you in flannel band. He had a ring
worm and killed it in twenty minutes.
and, as far as sore throat goes, he took
the everlasting stitches out of one by the
little remedy which he is always ready
to give you.
Out at the base ball game Public Nuis-
ance howls at the umpire and swea,s his
collar down before your eyes, He is
Intimately acquainted with all of the
players, and talks lightly and continuous
~ about Kelly, and Stovey, and Magin-
mis-, and Mulcahey. He is always TAX
ing issue with the visiting captain. and,
now and then, adds zest to the game BY
rising in his seat and shaking his fist at
the object of his displeasure. Public
Nuisance. it will be seen, is in all walks
of life. He is driving load of brick in
front of street car when you want to
catch train; he puffs a cigar in the
elevator and always gets of at the top
story in the building, and he is running
through crowd to get upon a bridge
that Is swinging. In the hotels he ia
always standing beside the desk, scan
ming the names of guests as fast as they
are registered. And, then again, he
comes up behind you on the street. and
playfully bangs his hand upon your
back. He has been known to get drunk
and upset ash barrels and yank night
bells just for the fun of the thing, and
at other times he takes considerable com.
fort in whipping carpet where the
wind will catch the dirt and blow it into
your houses. He is asking for chew
of tobacco. or wants to sell you new
tangled lamp burner. or is telling you
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
Egg-EatinG Hens.

Eating eggs from the nest is not so
much a habit as d craving for seine
particular food which the hens need.
Horses and cows will frequently gnaw
and suck an old bone as if they found
it sweet and delicious Stock dealers
will tell you that this is due to their
natural craving for some element of
food which is not contained in their
ordinary diet. They seek to remedy
the fault by giving them more salt. or
food with more mineral elements in it.
The egg-eating hens are likewise suf-
fering from the lack of some important
mineral element which their system
needs. The egg shells contain this
very element. At the same time, it
will be noticed that the hens lay very
few eggs. and those which they do lay
have very thin shells.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
The Household.

Whole cloves, it is said, will ex-
terminate the moth.
Excellent sandwiches can be made
of pate de fol gras and brown bread.
Fruit picked just at maturity will
keep much better than when picked
sooner or later.
To beat the white of eggs stiff with
ease they should be cold, with a very
small pinch of salt added.
Lunch baskets to be used in tray
cling should have a cheap cotton lin.
ing to protect the lunch from dust.
When acid of any kind gets on the
clothing spirits of ammonia will kill it.
Apply chloroform to restore the color.
Cold ham may be so carved as to at
tract or repel. and there is real art in
carving the slices in the most artistic
manner.
Brown Bread. of a Gun
OF molasses. two cups sour milk. one
cup sweet milk. two teaspoonfuls of
soda, one OF salt, one cup -four, four
cups cornmeal. Steam three hours
and brown few minutes in the oven.
Delicate Pie. Whites of TWO eggs.
four tablespoonful cream, one large
spoonful -four, one cup white sugar,
one cup cold water; flavor with lemon.
Line pie plate with pastry, pour in
the mixture and bake at once.
Washington Cake.-One pound OF
brown sugar, one cup of -four, one
half pound of butter two pounds of
stoned rasins, four eggs, two teaspoon
fuls of soda, dissolve in half-cup of
hot water: one-half pint of molasses,
two grated nutmegs.
Molasses Cookies. cup of but
ter, two cups of molasses, one tea
spoonful ginger. sufficient flour to
make stiff batter, not dough. Mold
with the hands into small cakes, and
bake in steady rather than quick
oven, as they are apt to burn.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
THE FARM AND HOME.
POINTERS OF INTEREST TO
THE AcRIcULTURlsr.
he Food Of the Cow and Its Efect On Milk
Use Your Brains - Well - Yelr
Muscle in Farm Wofk-Houss.
hold Notes.

Effect Of Foods ON the Quality Of Milk.
There can be no doubt that the feed
Ing OF cow may be such as to affect
very much the quality of the milk. In
all my experience and careful expert
ments In feeding COWS for milk and
butter product with measures scales
and weights, and analysis Of milk to
secure accurate conclusions, have
never yet met with a cow whose milk
has not been considerably affected by
feeding. If COW is fed on potatoes
or turnips with thin slops of buck
wheat bran, ripe timothy or red top
hay, the milk may be SO much reduced
in quality that a cow good for one
pound of butter per day and milk
bearing Is per cent of solids, will soon
fall of to half pound of butter and
milk of 10 or II per cent of solids.
Again there are foods that will increase
the quantity of milk but at the same
time reduce the quality, and others
which will have precisely the opposite
result It is the fashion to abuse the
COW for this fault of the owner and
feeder, and some mischief has been
done by the mistakes of the so-called
scientific people, who have insisted
that the food can have no effect upon
the proportionate quantity of tho
butter in the milk. Such statement
Is eagerly accepted by careless dairy
men as relief from all trouble in
regard to feeding, and has mis-
chievous tendency to encourage loose
and careless management of dairies.-
Country Gentleman.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03

A co 'ored boy eleven years of age
living in New Orleans, is a musical
prodigy. Technically the boy knows
no difficulties, and there seems no eff.
feet. no combination. too intricate OF
complicated for him to overcome with
perfect ease.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
A Cute Trick.

A good-looking woman about 80
years old was going up Monroe avenue
the other day when a masher stepped
out of a doorway and began following
her. She paid no attention to him nm.
til he was close behind her, aud then
the parasol which she had been carry
ing closed in her hand was suddenly
elevated to her right shoulder and the
end OF the handle caught the mashe,
over the eye and raked him clear
down to his chin. He uttered a gruni
and gave jump. and as the dozen
people who saw the trick applauded the
act the woman sailed along with a biz
OF smile at the corners of her mouth.
while her victim hunted for a retiref
spot to estimate damages. Dctro;s
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
A Power for Good.

''When we came 20 the town."
writes Georgia editor; lit was little
more than a water tank. but now the
very best whisky in the country is
sold here. and there are ten moon.
light stills in active operation in the
county. A newspaper is q power for
good in any community"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
Uphill Work.

In the days of Columbus learned
mon boldly asserted that if a ship
should reach India she would never
get back again. because the rotundity
of the globe would present q kind Of
mountain, up which it would be i'm
possible to sail even with the most
favorable wind.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
THE NUISANCE AT THE THEATRE.

THE NUISANCE AT THE THEATRE.
upon the feet Of all the people in the
aisle. and as the play goes on repeats in
. loud voice to his friend the words of
the comedian on the stage. Then when
the curtain falls he stumbles over the
same row of feet in his pilgrimage to the
saloon, and later on comes back tramp.
Ing over laps and legs, like a man wad-
Ing through weeds. After the show is
over Public Nuisance stands in the en-
trance to the play house and ogles the
women 40 they pass him. Sometimes .
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03

big stous nan bats him over the head
with cane or IN umbrella, but that il
all tho good 1t does. You can't crack
the skull OF Public Nuisance with any
such weapons 40 those. Tho better wav
to do !. II to get HIM into chancery and
use a AZ. on him.
Public Nuisance eats. That Is, he
puts both feet in the trough. and makes
Q noise that sounds like person rafting
Q set OF castsnets. He never uses Z
bridge to reach the bread or butter, but
gleefully climbs up into his chair and
stretches half Of his length across the
table in his effort to seize the food.
Sometimes he turns round aud coughs
hoarsely into your coffee. Then, when
he has bad his fl. he has been known to
employ his fingers in systematic search
among his teeth for vagrant bits of food.
Public Nuisance sometimes feeds in the
public parks. You can tell when he las
been there. The grass is always flecked
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03

kind Of celery 10 good for the busy
farmer, whore he wishes to raise Z
little for homo use. and cannot spare
much slime to handle it They do not
bleach naturally, until cold weather
comes on. and then the stalks become
beautifully white aud tender looking.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03

"A rich Italian has purchased the
Villa Zirio. at San Reno, in which the
Emperor Frederick was ill so lonc he.
fore he went to Berlin to be crowned
and has closed it vigorously against al
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-10-03
EVERY ONE KNOWS HIM
HIS NAME IS MR.. PUBLIC NUISANCE
AND LIVES EVERYWHERE,

1 Character Whose Wearisome Presonce
but Few Persons Have Managed to
Avoid.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-25
THE ANARCHISTS.
Rain Prevents Very Destructive Elk
plosiOn of Dynamite.

Rain Prevents a Very Destructive Ex-
plosion of Dynamite.
CHICAGO, May 24th.-The night of May
4, 1885, the date of the Anarchist riot was
recalled to mind this morning with a start
ling viviGness by the discovery of unmis-
taxable traces of an attempt to blow up the
Haymarket monument and surrounding
buildings with gigantic charge OF dyna.
mite.
A policeman passing the monument saw
at its base what appeared to be a roll of
black cloth tied with small rope. He
picked it up, and the supposed rope
crumbled in his fingers as though charred
by fire. Tied up in the piece of black cloth
four inches in diameter. The vessel was
evidently full of some substance, and
weighed about ten pounds. Several pieces
of burnt fuse were found lying beside it.
The fuse was broken in dozen pieces and
had evidently been soaked with kerosene
On step approaching the base of the
statue was found an unlighted piece of
fuse, to one end of which was attached a
small dynamite cap. This, tried with fire,
flashed readily.
The charge of dynamite, according to the
police, was enough to blow up several
blocks. the machine was evidently placed
there this morning early, and the rain ex-
tinguished the burning fuse.
The contents of the can were submitted
to an expert, who finds that it consisted of
fifty per cent. nitro-glycerine, enough to
cause great destruction. 1t is certain that
the rain alone prevented an explosion.
Chief of Police Marsh declines to saw
anything about Anarchist movements, but
it is known that the old groups have been
reformed and are meeting again secretly,
and that Herr Most, of New York, has been
sending them circulars urging them to or
ganize and prepare to strike another blow
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-25
The Kid and the Cherub.

Her golden curls, caressing her white,
soft neck, her bright eyes, sparkling and
laughing in their blue depths, her broad
brimmed, blue-ribboned hat, made her an
object of attention, small mite as she
was, as she battered down Adams street
yesterday afternoon, hand clasped tightly
in the palm of her brothers. They were
both wee mites of things, but looked happy
in the warm sun, and glad that spring was
come with its mild breezes and general
absence of weather bureau features
As they battered on, the brother sud-
denly stopped, and with an important
wave of his hand pointed cut to his sister
a slot weighing machine.
"Do you know what that is ?" he asked,
in manner which plainly indicated that
he thought the question entirely superfiu-
Gus, and only asked it that his wider,
broader knowledge might be all the more
strikingly noticeable when his sisters ig-
norance should be demonstrated.
The little girl looked an admiring in
quiry at her brother and then followed
his hand. Presently those blue eyes were
fastened on the weighing machine.
A moments gaze and then she said:
"Why, that looks like the old kitchen
clock in the second reader"
"Naw tain't." said the boy, "that haint
no clock. l know what it is-any kid
does but girls don't Kids knows more
than girls"
There was more admiration in those big
blue eyes as they looked up into the won
derful face of the brother.
"What is it ?" she softly said.
"Why, don't you know? that's weigh
ing machine. You drop penny up there
in that hole, and see how much you
weigh"
eCan do it"
"Naw, tell you. You hain't got enough
money, an besides I've only got one
penny"
The little ones face clouded with disap-
pointment. A chubby little thumb went
up in perplexity and rested moment be-
tween the two soft red lips. But Just for a
moment, for soon she raised her head and
said:
81 know what we'll do"
"What ?"
"Why, we'll both get on and see how
much we weigh, and then we'll divide it
up-then we both can be weighed for a
penny"
"That's So" said the lad, and hand in
hand they mounted the platform,
were weighed together, and then,
dividing the weight, they went on home
ward happy.-Ioledo Blade.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-25
NOT A COWARD.
A Very Pointed Letter to Go~ernor.Gen-
eral Smith.

A Very Pointed Letter to G0Ternor.G Gem
eral Smith.
SAN DIEGO, May 24th.-Colonel M, A.
Ferrer. an officer on the retired list of the
Mexican army. who resides in this city, has
issued the following challenge to editor
Smith. of the Erening Sun, occasioned by
the remarks made by the latter in the col
umns of his paper in reference to the
Mexicans:
SAN DIEGO, May %, 1890.
As Mexican who has shed his blood in the
defense of his country, and who has witnessed
the innumerable acts of Mexican bravery and
patriotism, cannot allow to 60 unnotieed the
gross insult contained in the item in last nights
San wherein editor Smith refers to the Mexican
as one who is invincible in peace and invisible
in war. What low and base expression! The
scoundrel who uttered it dare not cross the line
into Mexican territory. 1t shows plainly his
alliance with the flibusters / have offered
the immediate services of myself and one hun
dred volunteers to Governor Torres of Lower
California, to protect Mexico from filibusters
from here. II this filibusterng Goyernor-Gen-
eral Smith will cross into Mexican soil | will
fight him with pistols swords or fists, whatever
he might choose. to determine whether a Next
can is coward, as he has publicly charged
Yours truly, MANUEL A j. FERRBR,
El-Colonel Eleventh Regiment: Cavalry, of Du-
range, Mexico.
Governor General Smith left for Los An
geles yesterday. and has not been heard
from