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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-08
LIS. GooDsells dry goods tho cheapest.
DIED.

DIED.
W1N2EERIED--On Sunday, February :, 1892, Mt
$3.50 p. H., &C WISzESRED, aged VoyearS
Funeral from his late residence, 1860 Market
street, on Tuesday afternoon at . O'Clock
Friends Of the family respectfully invited 10
attend. lnterment ut Mt. Wood Cemetery
RoSE-On Saturday morning, February c, 1892,
at $50 O'Clock. ROBERT lFIIDEErIE, son Of Ed.
ward L. and Laura ]. Rose, aged year q
months and days,
Funeral services at che residence oihls parents,
No los South Penn street, this morning at II
O'Clock. Friends Of the family Invited In
torment ut Niontrosclpa,
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But will they find Peary?

Whether he likes the candidates or
not the American citizen could not have
failed to be impressed with the array of
distinguished newspaper men who at
tended both the presidential conven-
tons. In these times the most brilliant
editors in the land are proud to go to the
great political conventions and send
home reports of them. Gath and Joe
Howard of course are always present,
and SO are others of the best known
correspondents, shooting off their jour-
nalistic pyrotechnics. Four years ago
it was said of one of the famous cor
respondents at presidential convention
that he was present with six stenog-
raphers, sixty pounds of paper and
an Unreasonable quantity of cheek.
All of them were on hand again this
time, each fully equipped in the manner
described. At present America may
well be proltd of her brilliant newspaper
correspondents. Few of their class in
Europe are equal to them in pluck, wit
and enterprise. Murat Halstead and
Henry Watterson were among the ia
nous editors at the conventions. Final
ly, the Republican convention did honor
to both itself and the country by nomi-
mating newspaper man-Whitelaw
Reid-for vice president.
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The Peary Relief Expedition.

1t is now safe on its way under the
command of Professor Angelo Heilprin,
agent of the Philadelphia Academy of
Natural Sciences. July the party sails
for the Greenland coast in the steam
whaler Kite from St. Johns, N. F..
This is the same vessel that a
year ago conveyed Lieutenant Peary
and his wife and comrades up to Nc
Cormick bay, in latitude n degs. 43 min.
The Kite expects to reach Mccormick
bay by July 25. There it will await
Peary's return from his summer over
land expedition to the northernmost
coast of Greenland. He expected to be
able to go as far north no tho eotli pa1 ..iIo1
W IaIIu, unus Delng within $50 miles of
the north pole itself The farthest north
erly point heretofore gained was reached
by the American Greedy expedition in
1881.
On her way northward the Kite will
search for cairns containing records,
where Peary said he would leave them
in case of abandoning Mccormick bay
before the relief expedition reaches him.
If Peary is not found Immediately the
expedition will cruise along the coast
and search for him till Sept. 1, the
latest date at which it will be safe to re-
main in those far northern waters. In
case the search must be abandoned the
Kite will leave supply stores at suitable
places.
R1,t will fbo1y ErJ Do,,,,o
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One of the most accomplished states
men in Europe is only slightly known to
the world in general, because his Ian
guage is not commonly understood and
because his country is so little. This is
M. Tricoupis, in May chosen for the
sixth time to be prime minister of
Greece. Each time he has been brought
to the front at season of great inan-
cial difficulty for the kingdom, and each
time he has met and conquered.
M. Tricoupis is called by his own peo-
Pile, 1.-THE Englishman," because he was
educated and lived many years in Great
Britain. This has made him cool headed
and deliberate in making up his mind,
as well as answering in his purpose
when once he has decided. He repre-
sents the conservative party of Greece,
while his rival and enemy, Delyannis,
led the Pan-Hellenic party. The Pan
Hellenists are wild to fight and regain
all the ancient territory of the kingdom;
"the Englishman" knows how to wait
and gain by diplomacy what he knows
can never be got by fighting, for Greece
is too weak to whip anybody. She
could give Turkey good tussle, but
that the great powers will not let her
do. So wise M. Tricoupis gets Greece
out of debt, builds good roads, encour-
ages education and trade, and waits. If
the Greeks know enough to let him
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ODDS AND ENDS.


Industry overcomes world Of discon-
tentment.
Try kerosene oil for taking out iron
rust and fruit stains.
Wax candles were first introduced In
the Twelfth century. ..a
1t Is hard to be friend to man who
Is an enemy to himself.
Vinegar in a jug is good thing, but
In people 1t IL nuisance. ..
Smooth off with fine file the rough
pad Of the glass drinking tube,
Queen Victoria writes bold, dignifed
and yet withal Il feminine hsnd.
Digestion, or rather indigestion, has a
marvellous effect upon the heart.
Eighteen of the London theaters are
occupied for divine service on Sunday
evenings.
Horses are so plentiful in Queensland
that n well broken animal can be bought
for five dollars.
The bridge ut Burton, over the Trent,
was formerly the longest bridge in Eng
land, l,5i5 feet.
The revenue collected fror, last years
ascerts to the top of the Eilfel tower
amounted to $4,000.
1t is so much easier for us to think we
are growing in grace than it is for our
neighbors to think so.
A forger in Los Angeles, CAL, was de-
tected by means of small ink spots that
were spattered over his shirt bosom.
In the average brush store Of London
they don't know what whisk broom is,
and it's impossible to tell them what it
is like.
Among new antiseptics from coal tar
'"~'""tives are pyoktanin, methyl vio-
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Electricity seems to be taking hand

Electricity seems to be taking hand
In solving the labor problem. What
1890 -ol-,~ - a:r--+e1, - -a..;4+nd n..
the whole, that it is better for the health
of mankind to work in small numbers
than to be herded together in great fac
tories. In one branch of labor-silk
weaving-electricity has in some degree
brought back the good old days, when
people could spin and weave at home
and do much other work. At St. Etienne.
in France, there are now $4,000 hand
looms in the homes of the weavers who
make silk ribbons; those, too, of the finest
quality. The idea can be adapted to
any industry not requiring heavy and
extensive machinery. The more labor
can thus be diversified and distributed
the happier and more independent the
workers will be. It may be that cleo
tricity is destined to destroy the factory
slavery that is SO much talked against.
If so, then electricity will be a greater
moral reformer than all the preachers
put together. A reform of any kind can
be easily effected if it is shown to pay.
The time is likely to come when the
ocean tides and currents of rivers and
waterfalls will be used to furnish the
electrical motive power everywhere.
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Tho Potato Rot.

The potato rot fungus attacks both
the foliage and the tuber of the plants,
causing in the one case what is called
blight of the vines, and in the other
what is best known as potato rot. The
first appearance on the leaves is seen in
yellow spots and powdery substance
on their surface. These spots soon turn
brown, and finally the whole plant be-
comes infected and dies. If the leaf
spines come in contact with the tubers,
or if the fungus reaches them through
the stems, rotting of the tubers ensues,
provided there is continuance of
warm, moist weather, which seems to
be a condition attending the prevalence
of the disease. In seasons when the at
mosphere is cool the tops are not at
tackled, and if the soil remains cool the
tubers will often escape when the tops
are destroyed.
Unfavorable climatic conditions of
course cannot be prevented, but itshould
be remembered that a loose, light soil
does not promote the decay like one in
which water is held and the air enters
with difficulty: Deeply planted pota-
toes may escape, while tubers idght1y
covered may more readily contract the
disease from the vines. AS a rule pota-
toes should be dug as soon as the vines
show that they have been struck by the
rot AS an applied preventive some of
the experiment stations have reported
favorably on spraying the vines three or
four times with bordeaux mixture. Used
at half strength and with paris green,
beginning with the appearance of the
potato bug, it may be made to serve two
purposes. Early planting and early
harvesting are also in the line of safety
against the potato rot.
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Asparagus for Market.

Market gardeners appreciate the ad-
vantages of rubber bands when bunch
ing asparagus for market. Professor
Greene, of the Ohio experiment station,
set the tasnion, and favorite way with
him last season was to eli. a -utper
band over an ordinary coffee cup, hold
ing it near tie top of the cup. Then the
cup is filed with the asparagus to be
punched, thrusting the heads of the
shoots downward into the cup. When
the cup is full the rubber band is pulled
over the top of the cup upon the aspara-
gus, the bunch removed from the cup
and another band slipped over the bunch
near the tops. This makes bunch of
about the right size and leaves the top of
the bunch nicely rounded. All that re-
mains to be done is to square the butts
with sharp knife.
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A correspondent in the American
Agriculturist says concerning late tur-
keys:
In the last fifteen years have owned
several turkey hens that have, while
taking care of tn. first early brood, laid
eggs, and then patched second brood
toward the latter part of summer.
think vigorous hens will often do SO if
allowed to sit early. 1t makes the young
turkeys rather late, but with good quar-
ters and good care they can be sold in
February, as they will then be five or
six months old and, taking into account
the higher prices to be obtained at that
season, will generally bring more than
the early ones marketed before the
Christmas holidays. If from lack of
proper care they are not salable in Feb
ruary, they can he kept over, and make
plump, heavy birds for the early winter
market. Some of the heaviest and most
salable turkeys that have ever sent to
market have been such very late broods,
wintered over without extra care. Such
hens will always be in demand by every
buyer who wants Thanksgiving or
Christmas roast, you may be sure; and
the gobblers will not be overlooked.
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Money or q Liyine2

ITO make money is one thing; to make
a living is better" says Edward Ever
EFT Hale at the close of his paper in The
Cosmopolitan entitled, Making Liv-
ing" 1t is sort of sketch story, and
is charming bit of what one might
call realistic fiction. For fiction it is in
one sense, and realism it certainly is in
another.
Mr.. Hale supposes the case of couple
that had to show for seventeen years of
married life six children and an income
from their savings of $500 year. The
older children were fifteen and thirteen,
with their clothes becoming more ex-
pensive and their appetites at the maxi
mum. The father earned 81 900 year
as bookkeeper, the mother economical
little more every year, with the result
that both lost their vim and elasticity of
spirits, both were growing year by year
more anxious and careworn, SO that the
cheerful air each invariably wore in the
others presence became more and more
manufactured sunshine"
At last, at the end of the seventeenth
year, the two heads held family coun-
Gil and decided at one stroke to win or
lose ALL He would resign his book
keepers place, they would rent one of
the little abandoned farms in New Eng
land and see if they could make the
children count in the struggle for liv-
ing, and do better for the children at
the same time. How they came out we
are to be told in the future. DR.. Hale
says the plan they chose is not what
some foolish people suppose it to be-a
panacea. Of all the masses of struggling
humanity that are driven to the wall in
cities, it is his opinion that going to the
country and farming would be advan-
tageous to about two in a hundred.
That is probably a very fair average.
The first thing generally that city peo-
pie who go on farm to better them
selves and country people who go to
the city for like purpose do is to break
themselves financially. They may or
may not succeed finally, according as
they have perseverance and capacity for
learning new things.
But one argument DR.. Hale brings
forward for sending his fictitious family
into the country to make a living is
ahat some Of the very states which are
supposed to contain the largest number
of abandoned farms are the ones in
creasing most rapidly in population, and
that this increase is in the agricultural
districts. DR.. Hale tells the truth, too,
only he does not mention that the rea-
son of it is that general farming has
been largely abandoned, and fruit,
dairy and vegetable farming has taken
its place. By means of these living,
and very happy one, can be made in
New England.
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The national parks around which will
cluster more of historic interest than
any Others are those which were battle
fields, particularly the battlefields Of the
late war. In course Of time it is to be
hoped that all Of the spots where the
great fights took place will be made into
national parks and kept sacred to the
memory of thrilling time. Chicka-
manga battlefield is now rapidly being
changed into the Chickamauga National
park. The aim will be, while making
it beautiful as a park, to retain so far
as can be done the features of the spot
in war time.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-01

David R. Young, of Charleston town.
ship, Chester county, Pa, has horse
who has on every Thursday for some
years taken the marketing to Phoenix
vile. The other day Mr.. Young pur-
chased new horse, and left the old one
in the field hitched to the pillow. Mr..
Young had occasion to go to the house,
and upon his return to the field he found
that the horse was gone. Mr.. Young
managed to trace the course of the horse
by the marks made by the pillow, and
found him on the state road vending
his way to Phenixville.-P Philadelphia
Ledger.
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EREE1 NO.,
l&a49Ss;sF xsE:ED
.sglS'sas,sI22sGhks!KPEN
LATE CABBAGES.
Hints Concerning Transpianting from
Seedbed to Open Field.

Hints Concerning Transplanting from
Seeded to Open Field.
Late cabbages are such as mature dur
ing the months of September, October
and November, the seed for which is
kown in the open ground in May or
June. AS the ground used for late cab
bage only yields one crop, unless manure
is cheap and abundant, it will not often
pay to use it in the profnsion required for
early cabbages. 1t is usual to manure
in the hill, rs is done for early crops, if
with stable manure, but when that is
not attainable, some concentrated fer
tilizer, such as bone dust or guano
should be used, giving a good handful
for each hill, but being careful of course
to mix it well with the soil for about
nine or ten inches deep and wide. In
this way about 800 pounds per acre will
be needed, when 5000 or 1000 plants are
set on an acre. In our practice we find
nothing better than pure bone dust and
guano mixed together.
In transplanting cabbages from the
seedbed to the open tiel in summer, the
WOIh 10 usually uoue III " uTy anu not
season-end of June or July-and here
again we give the oft repeated warning
of the absolute necessity of having every
plant properly firmed. If the planting
is well done with the dibber, 1t may be
enough, but it is often not well done,
and as a measure of safety it is always
best to turn back on the rows after
planting and press alongside of each
plant with the foot. This is quickly
done, and besides it rests the planter, SO
that he can start on the next row with
greater vigor.
The cultivation of late cabbages is in
all respects similar to that of early, ex-
cept as it is usually planted alone; the
work of cultivation is done entirely by
the horse cultivator, the rows and plants
In the rows being, according to the kind,
from twenty-four to thirty inches apart.
There are great number of kinds Of
fered in the different seed lists, but ex-
perienced cultivators confine themselves
to but very few kinds, says Henderson
in his Gardening for Profit, from
which the foregoing cultural notes were
cleaned,
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Three sons and three dauphters n

Three sons and three daughters con-
stituted the family of Mr.. and Mrs
James &. Blaine when Mr.. Blaine went
to Washington as President Harrison's
secretary of state. The fathers favorite
children, it was said, were Walker
Blaine, who became assistant secretary
OF state, and Mrs. Alice Coppinger. Jan.
10, 1890, Walker Blaine, his fathers
pride and hope, died. In few weeks
Mrs. Coppinger died too. The death of
Emmons Blaine, the son who still was
comfort to his parents, leaves only three
of the six that filled out the family cir
Gle three years ago. The living are,
Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Miss Harriet
Blaine, soon to be married to Mr.. Beale,
and lanes G. Blaine, Jr. Mr.. and Mrs.
Blaine have indeed been sorely stricken.
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PROFITS OF CORN GROWING,
The Experience of Different Cuitivator
GIYes WIlelN III ninrnni ResnIis

The Experience of Different Cuitivators
Gives Widely different Results
Some cultivators find that growing corn
scarcely pays expenses, while others re-
gard it as one of the most profitable
farm crops, Those who are the most
successful and who make the most money
by it are not satisfied with less than sixty
shelled bushels to the acre, while more
frequency seventy-fve is the standard
quantity, Thirty bushels to the acre
would give rather scant returns for much
profit. AS manure is an essential for
success, the wide variation in the price
and quality would make material diff
ference in the cost of the crop. A well
drained, mellow soil would be moro
cheaply worked than hard and stony
one, and the best labor saving nipple.
ments would reduce the hard work done
by hand. A vast difference would occur
between timely horse hoeing and neg.
Letting cultivation few days, or long
enough to give dense growth Of weeds.
increasing the work tenfold and smoth-
ering the young plants, The greatest
contrast would occur between such neg
lected treatment and the timely use of
the smoothing harrow, which by passing
broadcast and rapidly over the whole
field every five days, would keep the land
continually clean and mellow, and i'm
part great vigor to the young crop. Esti-
mates of the value and profits of a good
crop will greatly vary, but the following
may be taken as fair one, says Country
Gentleman, authority for the foregoing.
As manure Is all essential, 20 good loads
would be necessary, costing, when deliv-
cred and spread, 50 cents each. .....,.... $40
Flowing and narrowing till well mellowed,
varying with teams, tools, laborers...... 8
Marking and planting, with one horse,.... |
Horse cultivation, at least three times.... 9
Cutting up, husking and delivering. ...... Q
Rent Of land, say............
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Six Years. Parliam ents.

The present parliament was summoned
on Aug. 5, 1886, and therefore is nearly
Six years old. There are instances on
record during the present century of
parliaments which have a longer record,
but not many. Earl Grey was prime
minister for six years and two months
about seventy years ago, and Lord Pal
merston for six years and week about
a quarter of century since. The prob
abilities are that this parliament will
not have six years life.-London Let
ter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-01

A great astronomical event will occur
Aug. 5. That night Mars will be only
35,000,OO0 miles away from the earth.
Only once in fifteen years do the two
planets come as close together as this.
In the past fifteen years the improve
ment in telescopes has been so great Mt
bur end of the line that important dis
Eoveries may be looked for.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-01

Buckwheat is a crop IL
ton might profitably be
many regions where it '
waited to considerable ext
has now become quite a r,
are some decided advanta
walton, among which, say
Farm, is the fact that it "
ing yield on rather poor
a good crop for green ma
be used as a starter for
hausted lands where it We
to procure a catch of clov
crops turned under won
foundation for u strong,
rye or clover. AS it m
it may often be used as a
to fill the gap where son
failed. Seed should be s
OF about three pecls an
crop is in the neighbo
bushels. Besides being
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-01

"Hoch! hochw Hurrah! hurrah!
That was the cry that greeted Prince
Bismarck ON his arrival at Vienna from
Dresden, and his Vienna reception was
SO warm and enthusiastic that it drew
tears from the eyes of even the man Of
blood and iron. Oh, yes! This is all
very we'll But will those who comment
SO much on this proof of affection for
the aged statesman note that it was not
in Germany at all, but in Austria, where
the affection stopped over most effu-
siyely.
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Agricultural Bre

The Texas Farm and R
under present conditions
the best average weight t,
Good shorts. with brai
corn, make a good milk
sows that are sucking pi.
The best ensilage corr
only by planting in such l
par,,ait thorough cultivat
development of each stalk
Queen bees may now /
in America, Australia ant
The white pearl cue
claimed. is entirely distin
of growth. setting the CT
close around the stem ;
these early; then afterw
continue to run and bear f
out the season.
1t has been demonstrate,
ity, as a means of imbedd
comb foundation, is both p
economical.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-01

Congress has authorized President
Harrison to issue proclamation recon-
nending the observance of the 40Oth
anniversary Of our discovery as gen.
eral holiday. OF course everybody will
observe it anyhow, but it gives the cele-
bration an additional eclat to go off with
if it obtains presidents proclamation
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Deafness Cannot be Cured

Deafness Cannot be Cured
BY local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way TO cure deafness.
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed condi-
ton of the mucous lining of the Eustach-
ian Tube. When this tube gets infiamed
you have rumblins sound or imperfect
hearing, and when it is entirely closed
deafness is the result, and unless the
inflammation can be taken out and this tube
restored to normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forevei niue eases cut
of ten are chuscd b. catarih. which is
nothing but an infamed condition of the
mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot bc ,ured by Halls CatarIh
Cure. Send for circulars, free
F. ]. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
H-Sold by druggists, 75c.
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THE
Nothing is worth much If we get it
too easy,

1t was unique, the olectioneering for
Harrison by the Wyoming women dele
gates at Minneapolis, Whenever oppor-
tunity offered, one of them, Mrs The
rosa jenkins, exhibited the pen with
which President Harrison signed the
bill admitting Wyoming to statehood,