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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27
when Man was in Darkne.s,

Man was once in comparative dark
ness when the sun went down. His
primitive habitation was place of rest,
unlighted by the oil which prolongs the
hours of labor, doubles the speed of
progress and shortens life. After ages
of cropping about-feeling for the key
hole on the wrong side of the door, so to
speak-he stumbled on the fact that fat
would make a light. Looking around
for something to hold the fat the skulls
of animals were found useful, and so
the antediluvian discovered the princi-
pie of portable illumination.
From skulls and seashells light pro-
ceeded to vessels of burned clay, dish
like, with wicks of fax, rushes and
other fbers. Many of these primitive
lamps have been found in the ruins of
Pompeii, Herculaneum and elsewhere,
but the invention of the lamp is sup
posed to belong to the ancient East In
dians. Until the beginning of the Nine
tenth century there was little i'm
provement in lamps. The candle kept
humanity in semidarkness, which was
relieved by the introduction of mineral
oil, which stimulated invention and
brought about the lamp of beauty and
utility of the present. = Mechanical
News.
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brand Your Cheese,

Dairy and Food Commissioner Nc
Neal, of Ohio, is making an earnest eff
fort to enforce the provisions Of the new
law relating to the branding of cheese.
At recent conference between the
commission and number of cheese
manufacturers sit was there agreed
that the butter fats An Ohio full cream.
cheese should be in the same ratio to
Ohio standard milk that Minnesota and
New York full cream cheese bears to
the milk produced in those states"
With this understanding Commissioner
McNeal requests the manufacturers to
brand their products according to the
per cent. of fats to total solids in the fol-
lowing standards: Ohio full cream, 40
per cent; Ohio state cheese, 80 per
cent; Ohio standard, 16 per cent; Ohio
SKINNED, all below 16 per cent. The
attorney general OF the state has fur
nished an opinion that the law requires
the branding of cheese according to the.
per cent. of butter fats contained in the!
milk from which the cheese is made, not
according to the per cent. of butter fats
contained in the cheese itself. Further
more, the attorney general is of the opin-
ion that the law requires the branding
of all cheese made in the state whether
sold in or out of the state.-Breeders
HaZette
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lightning plays some queer pranks,"
says travelling correspondent. Il was
travelling through Coles county, Ills,
some weeks ago, and soughtrefuge from
thunderstorm in d farmhouse. The
farmer undertook to build a fire in the
kitchen stove to dry my damp garments.
He was down ON his knees blowing the
Goals vigorously, when there was ter
rife clap of thunder and bolt of blue
fire shot out of the stove into his face.
He fell back as limp as wet newspaper.
The lightning tore all his clothing off,
with the exception of one boot and
trousers leg. There was streak down
through his beard, across his breast and
down his leg, as though made by red
hot poker. I supposed he was as dead
as doornail. His wife picked up
large crock of milk that stood on the
table and dashed it over him, and in less
than three minutes he sat up, surveyed
himself and mournfully remarked,
'Marier, you oughten to treat nae that
er way afore strangers
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Boston Produce Market

BOSTON. Aug. 49, 1s92.-The following arc
to-dav's quotations Of Provisions. Produce. etc.
Pork-Long cuts 90 OO@17 90: short cuts at
90 OO@17 rs; backs at II 10000 90; lean lends
at 20 00t@17 3D.; pork tongues II DO; butt pork
IL 90.
Hams at 121ac; small do 1sc; pressed hams
Lard-Choice at s1ac y ib in tierces and tabs |;
10-fb pals in cs Sc.
Hogs-Choice city dressed at Sc % fb; country
do 6Mc.
Butter-Western extra creamery 24@241ac:
fancy higher: trStS ana extra 1rstS at 20023 /;
extra imitation creamy -s019 G; factory choice
176018c; Northern creamery. choice at -i42bc:
New York ana Vermont dairy, good to choice
22g23c; Eastern creamery. good to choice at
22a24c. The above duotatlons are receivers
prices for strictly wholesale lots.
Ciieese--NOrtnern choice full creams at 91a9
@1Oc; fancy twins 10@10A; far to good at
6@S1ac; Western choice 9@J1ac; fair to gooa
at 6@81sc; sage 91a@10c.
Eggs-Eastern extras at - @22c: VT and N Ell
extras at --922c; Michigan extra at 20@21c;
Western flrsts at zoe; seconds18@19.
Poultry-NOrthern fresh-ktled spring chick
at 131s@I4c; chickens 14@16c; live fowls 10
@1218c.
Beans-New York. hand-sicked pea. at 2 10@
=; marrow pea at 2 90; choice screenspea at
1902 90; hand-picked med at 95 O. ;chOice
yellow eyes, / 3O91 So: California pea beans
2 3O@2 4O hand-picked. 2 6092 60.
Seed-Timothy. 75t01 So: Western red top
l 750$2; clover, 12@121ac; Hungarian. 20@
Hay-Choice. $40 oo@2o 90: fair to to good
II 00@S1S Co., Eastern choice at $17@17 so;
poor to ordinary S13@$16.
Potatoes-Choice Long Islands at S71A@$2
~ Dbl; natives at 81 90.
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FINANCIAL and COMMERCIAL
Quotations Of Staple Products in The
Leading Markets.

Stocks and Bonds-Money Easy Sterling
Exchange Quiet and Easier Government
Bonds Dull and Observation-Disclosures Dull
and steady-stocks Closed Quiet and
Heavy.
At New York. yesterday, money was easy,
ranging from 11a921a pr cent. ;last loan "a pr
cent, closing at 2. Prime mercantile paper was
quoted at 4@54a per cent. Sterling Exchange
was quiet and easier with actual business in
bankers bills a61s for 6o-day bills and4 87s4
for Edemand; posted rates at s7@4 ss1a.
Commercial bills were = GA 1914. Gov
eminent bonds were dull and steady. Railroads
were quiet dull and generally steadier
After ~ o'clock trading in Reading, New
England and leading Railroad stocks rapidly
fell off, and most intense dullness marked later
dealings but firm temper still prevailed.
Liquidation in Sugar, was resumed with vigor
and transactions in that stock were very heavy,
the price was forced off to lila, loss of IA
from the opening, the market closing quiet and
heavy at about first prices.
transactions at the Stock Exchange aggre-
gated 256, 800 shares.
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at COOS 90.Cornmeal dull ooas 10. wheat
-receiptS I. 567 700 hush :exnnrtS 4R 1h6hush:

at 6o@3 9o.Cornmeal dull Dogs 10. Wheat
-TecelptS PSF 700 bush exports AZ, 265bush;
sales Ss ooo6ush dull and lower closed steady;
No 2 Red at 79M store and eley. S014@80Ac
atioat, soM @s1 he o b; No 5 Red at 75s4c
No Northern at S5@851sc; No hard at 90@
s o. & Ss;a Narshern At so@soe No CHI
No Spring at 76is@76s4c. Rye is quiet and
weaker. dull; Western at 64@6Sc. Corn-re-
celpts 33 600 bush; exports 22,9o9 bush; sales
620621ac af1oat. Oats-receiptS 1875, $50 bush;
exports $40 bush; sales $4,000 bush; dull and
steady mo 3 at do White At 41c No 2 at
at 39940lac; do White and White State at 42@
Ate; No 2 Chicago at 396sc. Coffee-Rio firm
er and quiet; No z at 14s4 @14Mc. Sugar
active 4 and i'f rm No 'ti at 4a41sc No at 4Mc
No 8 at 3M@4e; No 8 at 3s4 a2zs c; No 10
at 1l.1s9s ls.1s; No II az ~ 33 ;s 5sssAtc
off A at 4 81 ea4tac; Mould A at - ;a4M c;
4ssc aa cut loaf s-isa5 SIC crushed at sig
as 5-16c: powdered 5@51sc; graduated ~ g
no sales united &C Provisiens-Pork dull and
easy; Beet dull and easy; beef hams quiet;
tierced beef dull; cut meats dull; middlss quiet
and easier; Lard is duh and steady; Western
steam closed 05; city steam 40a7 so. re-
fined quiet: Continent 8 20; S at 80. But
ter dull and steady State dairy 18ia22c ;do crm
@241sc; dolfactory at 1l@17c; Elgin 231a@
"a. Cheese is weaker; demand light; State at
ia csc; fancy colored 9A do White 9Hsc.
Freights to Liverpool, grain per steam ID.
CHICAGO. Aug.26. l892.-The Flour market
is weaker: recession of 10c ON export lines.
Wheat weak and lower: No 2 Spring at 7514c;
No 2 Red 75Mc. Corn weak and lower; No 2
at sic. Oats slow and easier; No 2 at "a $50
3414c; do White &c. No Rye at 62Iac mo
Barley at 63c. No Flaxseed al ! 02@1 ON.
Provisions mess pork lower 10 37Ha9lo %:
Lard at higher At 20 Short rib sides ac At o 80
short clear sides 9Of6D7 9b.
Receipts-FIour. 5000 bbls: wheat. 37S 900
bush; corn. $50: 900 bush: oats. ~ 900 push;
rye. %, 900 bush; barley. 1000 bush.
Shipments-FlOur 10000 bbIs ;wneat, 212 600
bush; corn 100000 bush; oats 10000 bush:
rye. 1000 bush; barley, 1000 bush.
ST. LOUIS. Aug. 26, 1S92.-TFlourhe mar
keI is quiet and unchanged. Wheatis higher;
No Red at 7O1AD7O1ac. Corn scarce and
better; No 2 at 47As CAT Aac. Oats higher No 2
at SPA @321ac. Rye firm at Gle. Provisions
lower and dull; pork jobbing IL 90. Lard at
35@7 40. Dry salt meats-loose shoulders at
90; longs and ribs 10; short at So; boxed
lots ! &c more. Bacon--shouldefS at Z 70; longs
and ribs s 10; shorts at 8 90.
Sugar cured Hams IL 50@12 3d.
Receipts-Flour. 5000 bbls; wheat. 234O00
bush; corn 10000 bush: oats. $4,000 bush;
rye, S, 900: barley 10000 BUSH @s
Shipments-Flour. 5000 bbls wheat 46 900
bush; corn, 10000 BUSH; oats 5000 bush;
rye. 10000 bush; barley. 5000 bnsh
DETROIT.Aug 26. 1892.-Wheat- No1 White
at 76Ac; No 2 Red at 7614c; weak and lower
Cern-NO at 521sc. Oats-No White 3614;
No Mixed at 33Hac. Rye-No at 64e.
Receipts-Fiour, -bbIs: wheat. SO, 900 bush;
corn, 1000 bush; oats, 5000 bush.
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SIGNALS LILY FI,AGG.


seys would not thrive, has produced the
most remarkable Jersey butter cow in
America, if not in the world. The other
great butter COWS must surrender the
bell to Signals Lily Flagg, of Huns
vile, Ala.
A writer in The Rural New Yorker
says:
The Jersey COW Signals Lily Flagg,
81 ,035, has just completed a full years
test, which puts her at the head of dairy
cows. In one year, ending May 81, 1892.
she made LOAF pounds 81 ounces Of
we'll worked butter from slightly over
10000 pounds of milk. The best days
performance was so pounds ounces of
milk. The best months record was 1856
pounds Of milk, making 11S pounds 10
ounces of butter. The best weeks test
was 81 pounds 1917 ounces of butter. The
COW is described as follows:
She is years old, grayish fawn
color, dark shadings on fore legs, star in
forehead, white belly and switch, horns
incurving and of medium size and rich
ness, small bone, long lean face. thin
withers, deep TANKS, body good length
and of wedge form. rather heavy, coarse
tail, only fair sselvage" escutcheon,
udder large and capacious, milking out
clean, teats good size, milk veins very
large and tortuous; estimated weight of
COW, $50 Mounds.
Her pedigree is not 'fashionable;" it
is hard to tell to what family she be-
longs. Her feed consisted of oats and
corn ground together with bran and oil
meal. She ate thirty-two quarts per
day of this, with pasture in summer and
hay and ensilage in winter.
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Domestic Markets.

NEW YORK. Aug. 2e. 1ss2.--The Flour mark
eu-recelpts 40. 21S packages ;exports 1856 bbls
and AS, 9OS sacks; sales $500 BIB; dull irregu-
lar and generally weak.
Flour quotations--low extras at 20O@3 90;
Guy mills extra 25t94 So: city mills patents
3.o0 fair to fancy at 8 oO@4 90 patents at 10
GA 60 Minnesota clear OO93 55; straights
do at 4594 So; do patents 4 a594 50; dorye
ne at suofbern 10 Weak
quiet at 2oa4 so. Rye Flour quiet and steady
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A GREAT COW.
Signals Lily Flagg, the Worlds Newly
Crowned Butter Queen.

SlSnais Lily Flagg, the Worlds newly
Crowned Butter Queen.
We have the pleasure of laying before
our dairy and creamery column readers
portrait of the new butter queen, Sig
nails Lily Flagg. The picture is repro
duced from The Breeders Gazette. On
the last day of her test, May 81, Lily's
milk yielded 4 pounds 1919 ounces of
butter. The cow is of Frankfort (Ky.)
ancestry, but was born and reared in
Alabama. 1t is little curious that the
south, where an idea obtained that Jer-
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Foreign Markets.
(By Telegraph,)

LONDON, Aug. 2e, 1s92-Consols 971sd tor
money and 81 n d for The account
LIVERPOOL Aug. &c. 1S92.-Ouotations-
Winter wheat IS 11sd96s glad; Spring wheat
at 6s edges Sd. Mixed American corn at
as lid.
LIVERPOOL. Aug 26. 1s92.-The Cotton
market is steady: middling 3 5-16d; sales 1000
bales: speculation and export 1000 b...es.
ECheese 46s Cd for white.
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Cotton Markets.
(By Telegraph.)

NEW YORK. Aug. 26. 1892.--The Cotton
market is quiet and unchanged ;sales J. a5bales;
good ordinary uplands at 4s4 C; do Gulf at
51sc; good ordinary stained at 414c; middling
uplands 71sc do Gulf 71ac; do stained 7L.c.
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 2e. 1892.--The Cotton
market is dull; mddling 10.
CHARLESTON. Aug. 20, 1S92.-The Cotton
market is nominal; mlddling 71sc.
+ SAVANNAH Aug. 20 1892.-The Cotton
market is quiet ;mludling GA
MOBILE. Aug. 26. 1892.-The Cotton market
is nominal; mlGdling &c.
MEMPHIS. Aug. 2e, 1s92.-The Cotton mar
ket is steady; middlings &c.
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Retail Grocers' Sugar Rates.
Portland rnarket-cut loaf Va ;confectioners'
&c; pulyerized, &c; powdered, Sc; granulated,
SC; coffee crushed, 3M G; yellow, &c.
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MARINE NEWS
PORT OF PORTLAND.

FRIDAY, Aug 20.
Arrived.
Sch Sea Bird. Wallace, New York-clay to
Portland Stoneware Go.
Sch D Paige Sullivan for Philadelphia.
Sch Good Templar, Simmons, Friendship.
erel to L Fernald s. Co. and Webb & Shepard.
Sch Newcomb, Allen, Deer Isle for Bos-
ton,
Sch Harvester, Smith, Vinalhaven for Boston,
Sch VIM II Archer, Ellsworth for New York.
Sch j G. Craig, McAdamS, Bank Quero with
10000 lbs mixed fish, and cid for Gloucester.
mackerel. Lost foretopmast 25th in gale.
Sch Laura Belle shore, with 300 bbIs mack
erel; Geo w Pierce, lao do; Wasp, 80 do.
Cleared.
Barque Stewart, Blake, Bangor to load
Sch Grace Davis, Mcvane, Bevis. CIV
se5 hsbt Mcfarland, Montgomery s|o n KenneDeo
Sch Lone Star, Pettigrew, Bluehill j
Blake"
Sch Ella Brown. Kent, Machias and New
Sch Louisa Frances, Thorndike, Belfast
KenSell 6 Tabor. \
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
SACO, Aug 26-Ar, sch Clara A Phinney, FIN
Philadelphia.
ROCKPORT, Aug 25-Sld sch Henry With
ington, Study, Baltimore
EXCHANGE DISPATCHES.
Ar at Southampton Aug "a, barque Alice,
from Perth Amboy.
Ar at Rio Janerio July 18th, ship Cora, Ray,
New York.
Sid finn Curacao Aug Is, sch Geo Dudley,
Wilson, Fernandina.
Memoranda.
Boston, Aug 25-Ship sintram, of Portland,
Capt Woodsde, is nearly due from Portland, o,
with cargo of Oregon spars.
Domestic Ports.
NEW YORK-Ar 10Th, sch J H Wainwright
and Ethel, Bangor; Grace Webster, from Somes
Sound; Carrie g Ware. Hillsboro; Charles II
Trlckey Mlllbridge; Emma, Kennebec. \ |
Also ar 10Th, schs Edna s. Emma, Richardson
Georgetown, SC; Frank Herbert Sprague, fin |
Norfolk; Winner, Frye, Apple River, Ms; Car
well; Mary o Olys, do; A McNichols, Maehias;
Eva :Adelf, Bangor; Capt John, do; Richard |
Fletcher, Bath; RingIeader, Thomastoni Veto, |
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Bees Work at NIGHT.

| Bees work at night in the hive and
build comb as perfectly as if an electric
light shone there all the time. It has
often been asked why they prefer to
work in the dark. Every one knows that
honey is liquid without any solid
sugar in it. After standing it gradually
assumes a crystalline appearance, or
graduates and ultimately becomes a
solid mass. This is caused by the &C.
ton of light. Hence we see why the
bees are SO careful to obscure the glass
windows which are placed in their
hives. The existence of the young de-
ponds on the liquidity of the saccharine
food presented to them, and if light
were allowed access to this, it would in
all probability prove fatal to the in
mates of the hive.-Exchange
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THE DAILY PRESS
Can always be found at the periodical

Can always be found at the periodical
stores of:
John Chisholm, 100 Congress street
T. 8 Whitehall, d93 /" :.
W. F. Goold. 405 (" 8
n G; Fessenden, 4s4 " :"
w. III. Jewett. 504 e.
G. DaSilva, 221 Spring street.
]. ]. Beardworth. 81 India street.
p. I'll. Erskine. 43 Middle street.
J. w. Peterson, Exchange street
j. H. Hernandy, 125 Commercial! streeg.
A. G, Todd s. Co., Cor. Commercial ana fark
6. c. Perry, Cor. Commercial and India Sts
WA Golden, 7e Exchange street
Hams Periodical Store, 100 bracke1' s'reet
J. w Robinson So Green sueet.
T. M. Glendening Long island.
F. L. Bracket Peaks Island.
Also at the newstands in the Falmouth.
Preble and City hotels, and Grand Trunk and
Union Depots 1t can also be obtained of CHS
holm Bros agents on all trains of the Maine
Central Grand Trunk and Portland & Roches-
ter railroads and of agents on all of the Boston
The PRESS can also be found at the following
places outside of the city:
Alfred-J. M. Akers.
Auburn G. Haskell.
Bath-John O. Shaw.
Bethel-G. r. Wiley.
Biddeford-A. N. Burnham.
w. u. baTQSley.
Bridgton-U. H. Caswel.
Brunswick-F. P Shaw.
Camden--Fred Lewis
Cumberland Mills-H. G.. Starr.
behring's. s. Morrill,
Fairfeld-E. II. Evans.
Farmington-H. P. White g. Co.
Freeport-W. A. Mitchell.
Fryeburg-F. I; Mark.
n HIS. NJ. Leavitt.
Kennebunk-J. H. Otis
Kennebunkport-C. E. Miller.
Lewiston-R. W. Bnekman.
j. M. Fernald.
I4imerick-S. A. Grant.
Mechanic Fails--Merrill g. Denning.
Norway-F. P. Stone.
q Kimball s Williamson.
Old Orchard-Geo. E. Fogg.
Richmond-Geo. E. Ames.
Northumberland News Go.
A: J. Huston.
w. II. Hyde
g r. H. Burnham
Saco-H B. Hendricks & Co.
g H. D. Davis.
Sanford--F. H. Wingate.
Skowhegan-Bixby& Buck.
South Portland-J. F. Norman.
South Paris-F. A. Shurtleff.
South Windham-J. W. Read.
South Paris-A M. Gerry.
Springvale-C. H. Pierce.
Thomaston-E. Walsh.
Vinal Haven-A. b. Vinal.
Waldoboro-Geo. Bliss.
Wateryile-W. d. Spalding.
Westbrook-W B. Boothby.
West Falmouth. S. Noyes
WoodferdS-H. j. Allen.
Yarmouth-Chas. Blake.
Persons having any difficulty in obtaining
papers at any of these places will confer favor
by reporting the matter to this office at once.
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Chicago Cattle Market.

CHICAGO. Aug. 20. 1s92.-The Cattle market
Receipts l2.0oo;- shipments 1000; steady;
prime native stock 25@5 55: good to change
at 1904 e5 ;othersS 7694 IS; Texans at 40
@2 rs rangers 2 5092 IS; COWS =.
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Railroad Receipts.

ssPORTLAND. Aug. 90.
Receipts by Maine Central R. R.-For Port
and. 81 ears miscellaneous merchandise; for
connecting roads 142 cars.
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! Professor Thury, a French veterinary
surgeon, declares that sex can be con
trolled perfectly in the breeding OF ami
mails. His theory is that when the mat
ing takes place at the beginning OF heat
in tho female the offspring will be
female, at the end Of the heat. q male.
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SMITH, HoY1 & CO.,
Bankers ( Stock Brokers,
ar n. a. n.... Az.
Is Congress ST., Boston, Mass.

Stocks, Bonds, Grain and Oil bought
and sold for cash or carried on moderate
margin. Some new ideas will be found
in our circular, which are greatly to
the advantage of our customers. Buy.
ing and selling the same stock is one Of
them. Inquiries given careful atten-
tiOn.
Send for circular.
jl26 TuTh&Snrm7thp1
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Portland Wholesale Market.


PORTLAND, Aug. %, 1892.
The following are to-days quotations of Grain,
prouisians Prodnca. ETC.:
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New York Mining Stocks.
lBy Telegraph.)
New York Stock and Money Market.
(By Telegraph.

NEW YORK. Aug. 90. 1892.
The following are to-day closing quotauons
of Government securities:
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One cup sugar. one-half cup butter,
one egg, one-half cup milk, one-half
teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream of
tartar, three cups of -four, and vanilla
favoring. Drop from a teaspoon into
buttered pans and bake in quick oven.
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Memoranda,


Boston, Aug 25-Ship sintram, of Portland
Capt Woodsde, is nearly due from Portland, o.
with cargo of Oregon Spars
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TRAP FOR CARPET BEETLES.

TRAP FOR CARPET BEETLES.
recently found simple way to check
the increase of the buffalo carpet beetle.
This insect does it's damage in the i'm.
mature or larval state, being then the
ugly hairy worm which most housekeep-
ers call the ''carpet-bug''. These hairy
larvae become full grown in this condi-
ton at various times during the Fall,
Winter and Spring, and concealing them
selves in a crack or erevice change to
what's called the pupa or chrysalis state.
They are then quiescent, and take no
food. They remain in it a short time
1.-TWO or three weeks), and then again
change into small, dark-colored beetles,
less than quarter of an inch long, hav-
ing on the back spots and stripes of
while and red. These beetles fly out of
the windows in Spring, and, as have
lately noticed, flock in great numbers to
the early crocuses and tulips of the gar
dens. They prefer, especially, the light
colored varieties, being found in a tulip
bed under observation almost exclusively
on the white and yellow flowers. From
this small bed, containing less than fonr
dozen tulips, we gathered in week
more than 100 beetles. The little crea-
lures seek the flowers to feed on the
pollne, and are easily seen and destroyed.
This offers simple method of checking
increase of a vexatious pest, and is a
measure which city and village house.
keepers cannot afford to neglect.
Clarence M. Weed, in Tribune.
BURBERRY BISCUIT.
Burberry biscuit are especially nice
for picnic tea. One quart of flower
should be measured, after being sifted.
Add to it three heaping teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, one teaspoonful of salt,
and one tablespoonful of sugar. and sift
it over again. Rub into this -four one
tablesp oonful of butter. Mix with less
than two cupfuls of milk. Zone must
use judgement here, as some flour re-
quires more moisture than others, to
mix suitably Then add one cupful of
berries, after Touring them. Flour a
board lightly, place the dough on it, and
press it out to three-fourths of an inch
in thickness, but handle it as little as
possible. Cut in shape with a biscuit
cutter, place in a buttered pan, and bake
in hot oven from twelve to fifteen
minutes.-Good Housekeeping.
VANILLA CAKES.
One cup sugar. one-half cup butter,
one egg, one-half cup milk, one-half
teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream of
tartar, three cups of -four, and vanilla
davoring. Drop from a teaspoon into
buttered pans and bake in quick oven.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-27

No 1. 80
No 3. ..28I
No 10. 20
8 OZ .1zI
10 OF. 40
Gunpowder-Shot.
Blasting g 50@4 0o!
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Drop shot,25 lbs. i 5ol
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