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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
OTHER SHORES.

The prince of Wales will visit Ireland
during the coming summer.
In the bankruptcy court at London a re-
ceiving order was made in the case Of Grace
Hawthorne, the actress.
A crash between the conservative and an
archistic factions among the German turn
ers in Chicago promises to spread to the en-
tire country and disrupt this powerful or
ganization.
A state of siege has been declared at
Buenos Ayres. A force of artillery has
been brought to the capital from Zarate,
and the troops at Palermo are held in readi-
ness for an emergency.
A Bulgarian newspaper says that the
body of Padlewski, charged with the muir
der of Gen. Seliverskoff, in Paris, has been
found, half devoured by wolves, between
Phillip popolis and Kazantik. The body,
the paper says, was identified bydocuments
found in the pockets.
A startling conspiracy has been discover
ed at Buenos Ayres but the details are kept
secret by the police and government Of
ficials. It is known, however, that tho
plot embraced the proposed assassination
Of the principal members of the govern
has followed the discovery of the conspira-
cy.
Advices from Russia state that no such
scenes have been witnessed since the days
of the inquisition as are now going on
there. The agents of the holy synod are
inquiring every where into charges of here
sy against Semites, and the latter are being
arrested and imprisoned and subjected to
brutal treatment to compel them to join
the orthodox faith.
Count Kliest, who has been in prison for
some time past for an attempt at man
slaughter on Herr Albert, proprietor of q
hotel at Berlin, is again in trouble. He
made a savage attack upon his valet and
fractured his skull. Count Kleist has been
rearrested and taken back to prison. He
had uEtil his first escapade been engaged
to the beautiful and wealthy daughter Of
Mayor Thompson ofDetroit, Mich.
Inquiries made at the Vatican show that
the pope's letter to Cardinal Gibbons on the
question of school education in the United
States will be of a pacific nature. The pope
has not yet compiled the letter. The SUBJ
ject was first considered by the pope after
the speech made by Archbishop Ireland be-
fore the educational convention in St. Paul.
and the letter will have direct bearing
upon the address.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
Dairy Hints.

Take care of the little details.
Milk that contains more than four
pounds of butter-fat should be skim
med two pounds to every 100 pounds
of milk, and the surplus made into
butter, says H. P. Carpenter in the
American creamery.
Practical New York dairymen claim
it has taken at least ten and one-half
pounds of milk on the average this
season to make pound of cheese.
This is in excess of ordinary years,
says the American Cultivator.
The dairy world to-day is not so
much in need of new and startling
experiences as of the courage and per-
sistency to carry out what it does
know already. To accomplish sue
cess, we must watch for and try to
meet courageously the great army of
competition that is warning against
us. The successful dairymen has con-
fidence in himself and faith in his cat
tie. He must farm it 365 days in the
yOcOA. OoA 00AA AuCAA tbI0 ltISL
out that the ration that makes one
pound of steer beef will also make
one pound of butter or two pounds OF
cheese. No COW was ever a good dairy
cow that was not born so, but thou
sands of cows that were born so have
been spoiled by poor and unwise
handling.
A poor COW is the most expensive
animal on dairy farm says Jersey
Bulletin, and good COW is the most
profitable. A poor COW will not ex.
coed $50 lbs, Of butter in a year and
the butter will usually be of a poor
quality; q good COW will not fall
below 800 bis, the butter will be
good. Here il difference of two to
one in product; while in cost of keen
there will be found very little, if any
difference. It is all that the poor COW
can do to pay for her keep, while the
good COW doubles her cost. Add to
the cost OF keep the other items, such
as stable room, pasturage and attend
ance, and the difference is still farther
increased. Poor cows keep the dairy
man striving all his life to keep them:
good cows on the contrary, enable
him to lay up money.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

Gruvy. the sheriff's wife, from locking tAs
door. Freddy" Mack, in for highway
robbery, seized the sheriffs wife and held
her till the six criminals got away. He
then threw her aside and made . flying
lean through the window.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

At Pittsburg the new power house Of the
Du Quesne Traction company burned.
Loss $10O, 900, with no insurance.
Mrs. MCLEAN of Pittsburg and her grand
daughter, Margary Brown, were the only
persons who lost their lives by the steam
boat accident near Cincinnati.
A natural gas explosion in Pittsburg in
jured Samuel and William Hazlett, Mrs.
Samuel Hazlett James Fletcher, o. Nc
Laughlin and Mrs. Eliza White. Fletcher
may die.
Thompson & Johnson's elevator and
-four warehouse, at Fisher, Mimi, were
destroyed by fire with 1850 bushels Of
wheat, and 1000 barrels Of flour. Loss,
$27,O 900; insurance $4,000. The fire is sup
posed to have been incendiary.
At the old Loutmine near Denver a snow
slide took away the boarding house and
six men. Three were rescued and three
persisted in the slide. The names of those
killed are: Billy Kohler, Tom Kendall and
William Kerns.
A mixed passenger and freight train on
the Chester & Lenoir railroad jumped the
track near Newton, N. c. Fireman J.
Hoag, II. M. Morrow and w. w. Ross
were killed and four others seriously in
jured.
At Martins Ferry, Ohio, an explosion of
natural gas occurred in the house of Will
lam Kuntz, by which nine persons were
terribly burned, two of them fatally. The
fatally burned were Mrs. William Kuntz
and Edna Graves, aged IA.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
Sir John in tho Field.

Macdonald was rendered the nomination of
the Liberal Conservative association Of
Kingston for the house OF commons before
q very large audience here tonight and &C
cepted it,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
Mulberry Tree Pests.

The Italians have been making
very interesting fight agaist an insect
which has threatened their very i'm
portant and extensive silk industry,
by it's attacks upon the mulberry tree.
This insect was described by Targioni
Tozzetti, in 1885, as Diaspis penta-
COMA. It occurs upon a number of
different trees, among them the paper
mulberry, the spindle tree, the peach,
the cherry, laurel, and certain willows,
as well as upon the cultivated white
mulberry, and it would seem that it's
taste for the latter tree is one recently
acquired, judging from the late date
at which, the habit has attracted at
tention. The energetic Director of the
chronological Experiment Station at
Florence investigated the pest in 1885,
and recommended the use of mechani-
cal means at the time of Matching of
the young, viz, the scrubbing of the
trunks and larger branches with stiff
brushes and subsequent application
Of a mixture of soap and water with
1 or 5 per cent of kerosene.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
FARM AND FIELD.
USEFUL INFORMATION FOR RU-
RAJ READERS.

Business by System In Farming
Benefits from Drainage Care OF
the Carrla9e--Timber and Crude
OiI--Farm Hints--Datry Hints.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
shortened as they must be in time and
the farmer is forced to use ready cash
more extensively he will be better of
in every regard"
Timber and Crude Oil.

Ihave been interested in the study
of preserving boards, fence posts, shin
giles, etc., with crude oil, says cor
respondent in Albany Cultivator, and
believed that this oil added to their
durability. In the Fall OF 1887 l
saturated my barn roof, freshly laid
with hemlock shingles, with the oil. 1t
did splendidly Unfolding them to place
and not letting them warp and
split; neither did they water-soak
in three or four days rain; but l fear
they will give out in two years
more, for on recent examination find
the wood soft, of no firmness, In a
state of dry rot. On raising shingle
with the point of my knife to look un-
der, it broke square of at the butt OF
the one above. Then going where
stored the oil found two sticks four
inches thick on which the barrels had
lain four years thoroughly soaked
with oil, rotted and mashed to the
ground under the barrels, while those
three feet away were comparatively
sound. Then 1 made it my business
to see gentleman who had followed
the crude oil tank-building business
for many years and said. "How is it
you are taking out the timber frame
in these tanks so often?" He replied,
"Oh. the oil rots them out every three
or four years, being soaked In 1T so
much of the time" Then, again, three
years is the average life Of 14-inch
square timber used as a mud sill for
an oil derrick, where oil is spattered
freely on and about it daily. Also
there are many wagons about this
country with hubs ruined from theu use
of crude oil on them.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
Protecting Peach Trees.

The Kansas Experiment Station
finds that young peach trees are most
satisfactorily protected during Winter
by bending and covering with hay or
something similar. The last covering
was applied the last of November and
all was taken offApril Sd. The cost
of pntting down was about 20 cents
per tree, and the fruit yield was large
in quantity and excellent in quality,
Tying up the tops and covering with
evergreens was found Improbable.
Benefits from Drainage.
By removing surplus waterfr the
soil away is made for the air to aid in
decomposing the organic substances,
which become the food in the plants,
and ingredients that are hurtful to
plant growth, and which cannot other
wise be removed, are carried off by
rain. Not only does the removal of
extra moisture make the land drier,
but it allows the soil to have the full
benefit of the suns heat, rendering it
warm and congenial to plant growth
and ready to benefit by the least
shower of rain, and at the same time
raising the tempture of the surround
ing atmosphere. Draining also makes
the soil of stiff or tenacious nature
more friable and better prepared to
receive the fibrous rootlets OF plants,
and by the action of the atmosphere
hard pans or crusts are broken and
pulverised, SO that the roots may
enter them, result that could not
otherwise be obtained without sub
soiling or trenching.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
Farm Hints,

The fact has recently been mention
ed that the red Dutch currant retains
it's position as favorite in the mark
ct.
When you buy a new fork, shovel or
hoe, oil the wood we'll with lnseed oil,
especially where the iron and wood
meets.
Better go twice than to overload the
team. This overlooking is a most
fruitful cause of unsoundness. When
loaded, stop often. 1t pays.
The hen that sits on the roost or
fence, or stands on one leg in the snow
all day, is not winter layer. Let
the flock have q space on the ground
covered with litter and keep them in
state of activity.
It is not only on the poor land that
sheep can be made profitable but on
the rich as we'll. In either ease good
care must be given SO as to keep the
largest number of sheep in propo1 ton
to the acreage.
LILO OCoU S1OW CAA VI WOOA NCOAA OAAAy No
secured by giving the sheep sufficient
feed during the winter, to keep in a
good thrifty condition, and under
present conditions sheep can be made
to pay.
Cottonseed meal and bran are the
cheapest of all food for stock, consid-
ering their nutritive value as COM
pared with other materials. These
foods are cheap if simply brought on
the farm for their value as manure
alone, and especially on lands def
Gent in nitrogen and phosphates.
A sieve is a very necessary article
about a poultry yard. The pail of
ashes may seem to be fine enough to
please the daintiest hen, but sift them
and you will be surprised to see how
many sharp cinders you will obtain,
enough to discourage any hen in her
attempt to use the dust box. Throw
the cinders in a pile by themselves.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27

0OSln6SS system III dFmlnR
"If q merchant" saysJ. F. johnson
in Farm and Implement News, "should
conduct his business as carelessly as
some farmers manage their farms,
failure would certainly follow.
"It has been difficult to make farming
pay Of late years, but it cannot be de-
MED that many .>agriculturists have
been getting rich, nevertheless. What
is needed most in agriculture in this
country is thorough business system.
The farmer must learn to watch tho
markets and raise the crops that are
most in demand. Few of them do
this. They plant SO much wheat and
50 much corn regardless of the prob
able demand, and then sell as soon
as the grain can be gotten ready.
'It is claimed that tho farmer can
not afford to hold his product for an
advance as he must have money.
This is true in the main, but the saw
ings effected in a few years by careful
system and a rigid economy will put
him in q position to follow the flutua-
tions of themarket. When credits are
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-02-27
Care Of the Carriage,

Five dollars per annum and proper
care will keep a farmers pleasure
wagon looking as we'll as that of the
millionaire, says N. Y. Tribune. Apply
paint once year and varnish twice.
These can be purchased ready mixed
for use, and the farmer can put them
ON himself. As soon as the vehicle
returns home muddy, wash the mud
off by throwing water upon it, and
then use a sponge softly. One who
washes a carriage with q cloth always
scratches and mars the varnish. Mud
suffered to dry on, acts as sponge
and absorbes the oil from the varnish,
leaving the vehicle spotted and dingy.
Some wash carriages with soapy or
hot water. These have about the
same effect. Keep the wagon under
cover and away from escaping am
monia; if kept in a stable or near a
manure-pile ammonia will destroy the
varnish; it has been knowa to do this
in one night. Standing in the fierce
rays of the sun when no breeze is stir
ring is always bad. A feather buster
is necessary adjunctto the carriage
house, and should be used every time
the vehicle returns from dusty drive.
Dust allowed to remain on the varnish
soon adheres and makes it look gray.
A canvas cover will keep off dust and
filth and scratches of fowls.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-10-21
Various Uses Of One Tree.

One Of the strangest of trees is the tia
palm, found abundantly ON the banks of
the Amazon and other South American
rivers. In the swampy regions, which
cover immense areas, the Its palm fur
nishes food, drink, clothing and COM
Portable homes for the natives.
The Indians that inhabit these swampy
districts make tolerable wine from the
sap Of the palm, and they distill strong
er stimulant by crushing and ferment-
ing the young fruits. The food is de-
rived from the soft inner bark of the
stems, an6is substance that in taste
and appearance closely resembles sage.
The soft and fbrous bark is used for
GARMENTS and for making strings, ropes,
hammocks and the like.
In times of high water, often lasting
two or three months, the natives make
foorings in the trees with the bark ropes
and live there in comfort and content
ment,-Philadelphia Times.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-10-21

The marble capitol building at Hart
ford is 300 feet long. and the engineers
declare that it is three inches longer ir
summer than in winter
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-10-21

Colonel Theodore A. Dodge makes tn,
startling statement that every shot
from big gun consumes 81 ,000." A
this rate war has become very expen
sive luxury.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-10-21

CARPETINGS, OIL CLOTHS AND
FURNITURE.
Choice patterns of Carpets at old
prices.
IL more SIS Real Oak Chamber
Suits, size enlarged, finish improved,
beveled mirror, surprise to every
body. A fine line of more elabo-
rate suits, $22, $25, $50 to $44.
Easy Bed Springs, comfortable Mat
tresses. Prime Geese Feathers, at
reduced prices, as the crops are large.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-10-21
The Devils KneiI.

Among the famous bells of Dewsburg,
Yorkshire, England, is one known as
BLACK Tom of Soothill," which was
presented to the church in expiation of a
murder. "Black Tom" is always rung
on Christmas eve. Its solemn tolling as
it strikes the first tap at exactly mid
night is known all over Yorkshire as the
devils knell." it being the notion that
when Christ was born the devil died.
st. Louis Republic.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-10-21
Autumn Weight Jackets!
Autumn Weight Coats

The new styles suggest comfort,
grace and elegance of good wearing
material, honestly made, as though
you'd left your measure.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-10-21
Hard Work Made Maekay Rich.

John w. Mackay was born in the
humblest circumstances In Dublin, Ire
land, some fifty-five years ago. Coming
to this country very early in life, no
worked for time on board ship. Dur
ing the years that followed In whatever
occupation he engaged he labored indus
triously and faithfully. He saved his
money and watched his opportunity,
which so very few people do. He is now
twenty times millionaire. - Henry
Clews in Ladies' Home Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-10-21
GRAND DEPOT.
SEPT.
DILIGENTLY ON The ALERT.

We've been faithfully at work,
occupying much of our quiet season,
garnering a harvest of fabrics for
Autumn and Winter. A complete
stock, excelling former years, from
the fact that fabrics are constantly
being improved. An age of I'M
provements, a season of prosperity
now reigns.
BEDFORD CORDS,
VICTORIA CLOTHS,
HENRIETTAS,
SERGES,
cASHME RES
in the new autumn shades. with
highest art finish, the fruit of old
masters skilled in French dyeing
also,
PREASTLEY'S BLACK AND GREY
MOURNING NOVELTIES.
FaiRe silks, Gro Grain Silks, Surah
Silks, .Slk Vetpets, Silk Pushes,
Six Brocades, Brannockb@ns,
Armenians, Corinthians.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-10-21

The father of fretful baby consolec
himself with thinking that after all he
shouldn't know how to get along with.
out it-in fact, that it was ga crying ne.
cessity."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-05
The News Condensed.

Gust Keep, of Princeton, committed
suicide at Winona, MINI.
Mrs William Borgie, an early settler
of Rome, jefferson County, aged 90
years, enjoys the distinction of being
the oldest person living in that town.
Daniel Bagley, a farmer of the town
of Brunswick, shot at a man who was
stealing from his corn crib. The thief
fed, leaving traces of blood behind.
Robert Meredith, of Center, has re-
turned from a trip around the world
began year ago. He started with
SIS and came back with s..
William IL. Dwyer, ON trial at West
Superior for the killing of E. " Mundy
on the LIST of last September, was ac-
quilted of the charge.
While coasting at Kaukauna Arthur
Hoberg, aged 8, broke through the thin
ice and was swept along under it dis
tance of 100 feet, when he was rescued.
The two children of Ira Johnson, of
Monticello, were burned to death in
their blazing home during tn. absence
of their parents,
]. E. Hegg, of Lake Geneva, has been
elected president of the Wisconsin edi-
torial association.
The Fred Miller brewing company's
warehouse and ice-house at Ashland
were partially destroyed by fire.
Joseph Remington was arrested at
La Crosse for the murder of T. j. Fleet
at Arthur, n. ID. He made full con-
fession.
The rolls show LAS Winnebago In
dams in Wisconsin, an increa se of
twenty in the last year.
The land excitement has subsidized at
Ashland. The last of the homesteaders
filed their papers, and every acre was
taken up.
Thomas Maloney, of Chippewa Falls,
mistook bottle of aconite for whisky
and drank part of the contents He
died in a short time
William McDermott while cutting
timber near Wilson was caught by
falling tree and instantly killed.
John Schneider, accompanied by his
daughter. attempted to cross a swollen
stream in sleigh near Dickeyville, and
the woman was drowned.
Aaron Middleton, Of Madison, was
sent to the state prison for a year for
larceny by Judge Keyes. He stole mon
ey t. buy musical instruments for the
Salvation army.
Early Slovenian while shoveling
cinders off the track in front of the
Wisconsin Central ticket Office at Wau-
kesha was struck by an engine and
killed. He leaves a widow and one
child
The viii of Capt William Macloon.
of GAINESVILLE, directs his executors to
purchase a perpetual scholarship in Be-
lott college for the use of any deserv-
ing young man without means of OBJ
tanning an education.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-05

It's sometimes said patent medicines
are for the ignorant. The doctors foster
this idea. The people," we're told.
"are mostly ignorant when it comes to
medical science" Suppose they are.
What sick man needs is not know
ledge. but a cure. andthe medicine that
cures is the medicine for the sick. DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures
the .'do believes and the don't belle
YES There's no hesi;ance about it, no
''if'' nor possibly" 1t says-"I can
cuIe you. only Go as direct" Perhaps
it fails occasionally. The makers hear of
it when it does. because they never keep
the money when the medicine fails to do
good. Suppose the doctors went on that
principle. eve begth doctors pardon.
1t wouldn't do
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-05
The Terrible Indian War!

Now in progress, excites universal atten-
ton, and history of the thrilling events
connected with it will be eagerly sought
after. The enterprising publishers, S.
5. SCRANTON & Co., Hartford, Conn,
have in preparation and will issue as
soon as possible after the decisive battle,
work of about 500 pages, by w. Flet.
cher johnson, author of "Johastos01
Flood" giving graphic sketch of Sit
ting Ball, The Medicine Nan, and the
leading chiefs. and complete richly
illustrated history of the whole terrific
struggle.
Agents should write at once to the
publishers, who give liberal terms and
pay freight