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The Portland daily press., 1892-06-11
GEORGE BROWN.
forwards.

One of Browns wonderful feats is Jump
ing over five chairs and table. He also
accomplishes the feat of jumping into
three barrels and out of them, the barrels
being placed three feet apart. Another
wonderful feat is jumping from the top
of two bottles over table, landing on
two other bottles, and then over three
chairs.
Browns champion feat Is standing on a
chair and jumping over onto another
chair until he has cleared six chairs. The
latter are placed five feet apart and the
distance covered is thirty-six feet. Brown
also does the brick jump from one brick
to another, placed four feet apart, until
he has jumped on six bricks, the latter
being placed on end. Besides being a
trick jumper Brown has made his name
famous as G general all-round athlete. He
has compete II athletic games in all
parts of the ed States with various
success.
The following is Browns record: He
defeated j. G. Medway July 4, 1890, at the
Sixty-ninth Regiment games, in stand
ing jumps; distance jumped, Brown first,
3S it. 9 in; Medway, Sc IT. 10 in.; also
won the running hop, step and jump with
jump of A it, in. in the first trial. At
Cheltenham Beach, Chicago, July 4, 1891,
defeated Dick Douse in the running hop,
step and jump with jump of 45 it. 10 in;
running long jump, Brown first, 81 #. 9
in.; Douse second, 80 #. 8 in. At Paw
tucket, r. l., August 20, 1891, beat T.
Hunt in the running high jump, Brown
first, 5 it. II in; Hunt second, 8 #. in.
At the New York Caledonian games,
Sentember a. 1891 beat VIM Henderson
in the running hop, step and jump "A #.
in; Henderson second, a #. in; long
jump, Brown, 20 IT.; Henderson, 10 IT.;
running high jump tied at height of 5
IT. Z in.; hitch and kick, Brown, 8 it. 8
In; Henderson, 8 it. 6 in. standing high
jump, Brown, 5 IT,; Scott, It. 10 in.
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Dairy and Creamery.

Don't overwork the wooden butter
ladle, and thus you will not run so much
risk of overworlzing the butter and
breaking its delicate fat globules into
grease.
Milk begins to sour from the bottom
and sides Of vessel; therefore set the
milk pans in very cold water for the
cream to rise.
Once more allow us to say that milk
must never be allowed to clabber before
the cream is SKINNED. If you let it do
so you lose a heavy percentage of the
cream.
It is specks of clabbered milk that
cause the white specks to appear in
butter.
A syndicate of cheese factories in
Canada employed an instructor in cheese
making for two years at their establish
ment, and the result was that they car
ried off prize after prize at the fairs and
their cheese got good name, which the
Bible tells us is more to be desired than
great riches, only in this case it brought
the riches too.
A worshiper of Jersey cattle says that
the Jersey breeders of America have
bought and are using today more Bab-
cock and other milk testers than are
employed by all the other breeders Of
dairy cattle combined. Is this true?
Cows bred now will still como in in
time to make the butter churn easily
late next winter and early in the spring.
1t has been found that rich milk yields
it's cream more readily than thin milk.
In a single drop of cream soured or
ripened till it is fit for churning there
are millions Of bacteria. These are nee
essary to ripen the cream. In truth,
science is beginning to discover that
about everything, and we ourselves even,
are made Of bacteria. There are good
and bad bacteria, just as there are good
and bad people.
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CHAMPION TRICK JUMPER.
George Brown Holds that Title for
America.

Very Nimble ON HIS Feet-some Re-
markabie Jump. - His Wonderful
Record-scmething About jumping
Now n Popular Sport.
Jumping in America has OF late years
become quite popular sport. Years ago
jumping contests were seldom arranged
and few followed this special branch OF
athletics. Probably the first champion
jumper OF any note in America was Nor
man Bort1es. He Hourished in the sixties.
Borties was fair jumper for the times as
the game was not well patronlzed, but
Bob Way, OF Olean, N. Y, defeated him
by jumping u feet 61s inches in a broad
jump. Bob Way was one OF the most
wonderful jumpers America ever had dur
ing the time he remained champion. At
Chicago, in 1865, he made record OF II
feet SA inches, which stood as the best
performance on record until Ed. Searles,
OF Sing Sing, N. Y, succeeded in defeat
ing Way and beating all jumping records,
covering 10 feet 5A inches in broad
jump. Searles was phenomenal jumper,
and he made his record in contest for
the championship with A. V. Looms.
The latter jumped 13 feet inches and
fell, while Searles covered IS feet5% inches.
Searles was the champion until he died.
After Searles died jumpers sprang up in
all parts of the country, and George W.
Hamilton came out as the champion, and
covered "a feet 51s inches in single
standing broad jump, which is to-day
the best record in the world.
One of the best jumpers in this country
to-day, and who boasts of being the
champion trick jumper of America, is
George Brown. He was born in Brooklyn,
N. Y, and since he has followed jumping
he has met the best jumpers of the coun-
try. He accomplishes numerous wonder
full feats at what is known as trick Jump
ing. He cannot only jump long distances
level, but clear obstacles backwards and
forwards
The Portland daily press., 1892-06-11
ENGLIsH PRIZE SHROPSHIRE.

ern sheep districts at present because Of
its hardness. In Canada litfis also pop
ular. The Shrepshire's best point is
probably that it yields alarge quantity of
good mutton. But itswoolly merits are
worth counting on as well. The aver
age weight of a,Aeece Of the improved
Shropshire is seven pounds of long, not
overtime wool, which pays very we'll
In the second picture is unique ami
mai Of the sheep family.
1t is an illustration Of a black faced
mountain ram Of breed akin to the
black faced Scotch sheep, the oldest
breed in Scotland. The Scotch sheep
The Portland daily press., 1892-06-11

our experience that one seldom sees on
the colts from perfectly sound and
strongly bred stations from the Shire
OF Clyde breeds any blemishes Like side
bones, spavins or other troubles that
cause lameness. We have never had
any unsatisfactory colts from the above
mentioned treatment Of the breeding
question. Oneis perfectly safe in breed
ing mares to perfectly sound stations
with properly shaped feet and leg bones.
Of course the mares must not have
blemishes from such causes as ringbone,
sidebone, spavins or other Like blem-
ishes and we would never advise breed
ing mare that has the heaves.
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breeding from Crippled mares.


In answer to question from The
Rural New Yorker on this subject j. s.
Crosby writes from Greenfield, Mich:
In my numbering operations in this
state find it quite difficult to get such
draft horses as need. We imported
from Canada and sent directly to the
woods about forty head of grade mares,
Shires and Clydes. They had been bred
in Canada and were Zalf, three-quarter
and seven-eighth bloods, etc. All pur-
chased and brought here were as good
specimens as we could find in Canada,
and cost from $175 to S24O per head
there. We put them in the woods at
work at the heavy business of lumber
ing.
When we have used them two or three
years, if they become injured or debili-
tated, we send them to our farm and put
them on grass until they are in perfect
health, although not sufficiently strong
for the heavy work in the woods. They
are then bred to the stallion and used
about the farm for light work until
about four months before foaling time,
when they are again turned loose and
allowed to run until they drop their
foals. They require no treatment ex-
cept run at the grass and little con-
dition powder as tonic.
We have found that it is almost i'm
possible to get mare with the heaves
in foal. If a mare is injured in the legs
or If she has flesh wounds or other in
juries that prevent her from doing hard
work, she may be in just as good a
shape to breed as though she did not
have these wounds OF injuries. It is
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POULTRY HOUSE.

side of the windows with wire s-inch
screws. The roof is of planed boards,
with groove worked on both sides of
the joint and strip nailed on the top of
the joint, also grooved, which makes it
perfectly dry.
The door is in the front between the
windows. The outlets for the chickens
are in the ends and have slide door to
close them up. I have my henhouse
divided into two parts by lath parti-
ton. The door works from right to left,
SO that when so into one part the door
closes up.the other half. The strips over
the joints on the outside are two inches
wide and beveled off on the edges, and
fit into the piece at the top of the coop
and the bottom, forming panels.-H. C.
Schenck IN Poultry World.
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How to Manage Learned Names.

We recollect asking an old Scotch
gardener whether he did not find it diff
fcult to teach his apprentices the long,
learned names. ~ do that" he replied;
"and-fac'-I dinna see hoo could
teach them without my memoria tech
MICA" Asked to give an example of it
he pointed to a tree. "See there said
he, lyons what they ca Cryptomeria
japonica. Moo, l says to the lads. when
ye want to mind the name.o' that tree,
think o OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
to-her. '"-London Spectator.
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POULTRY WEIGHTS
American Poultry Associations Standard
Of Weights for Each Breed.

American Poultry Associations Standard
Of Weights for Each Breed.
The American Poultry association,
which is composed of breeders from
nearly every state in the Union, and
which in its annual conventions legis-
lates for the interests CT its members,
has not only fixed a scale Of points
which describes all the breeds, but also
attaches to each breed certain mini
mun weight. This weight may be ex-
ceeded, hut any bird not reaching the
weight fixed for the breed is severely
cut off for the defect. 1t may be inter
esting to sozsae Of our readers to know
how much each cock, hen, cockersl and
pullet should weigh. A cock and hen
are birds ever one year old. A cockerel
and pullet are birds under that age.
Bronze and Narragansett turkeys
should weigh as follows: Cock, 80
pounds; hen, % pounds; coclrerel, %
pounds; pullet, IA pounds. Buff, slate
and black turkeys-cock, 81 pounds;
cockerel, Is; hen, IS; pullet, 1s. White
turkeys-ceck, "a pounds; hen, 10; cock
erel, 1s; pullet, 10.
OF geese there are seven varieties.
The Toulouse and Embaen weigh as
follows: Gander, 25 pounds; goose, 2S;
young gander, 90; young goose, Is. The
African gander weighs 20 pounds; the
goose, 1s; young gander, 16, and young
goose, ID. The brown and white China
and the Canada goose are about four
pounds less than the African, and the
Egyptian about four pounds less than
the Canada.
The largest ducks are the celored and
white Muscovys. The drake weighs 10
pounds, the dnck8, young drake and
young duck 2. Next come the Rouen
and Aylesbury daaclrs, the drake weigh
ing pounds, The duck 8, the young
drake s. and young duck z. The Pekin
and Cayuga breeds are pound Less,
and the white crested ducks are pound
less than the Pekins.
Among chickens the Light Brahma
comes first, the cock weighing 1e pounds;
hen, 911S; cockerel, 10, and puIet, 8. All
the Cochins and the dark Brahmas
weigh alike, the cock being II pounds;
hen, 81; cockerel, 9, and pullet, Z. The
Plymouth Rock cock weighs 91s pounds;
cockerel, s; hen, 711s, and puflet, 61z.
Wyandotte cocks weigh s1s pounds;
cockerel, TX; hens, 61a, and punet,
81. Minorca cocks weigh s pounds;
cockerel, 615; hens, 61a, and pullets,
81. Java cocks weigh 10 pounds;
cockerels, s11s; hens, 8, and pullets, 81.
Langshsn cocks weigh 81 pounds;
cockerels, 8; hens, Z, and puHets, 6. A
colored Dorking cock weighs 911S pounds;
cockerel, s; hen, ~, and pullet, 6. The
silver gray DorRing is about pound
less, and the white Dorking about half
pound less than the silver gray.
Leghorns, Hanburgs, Black Spanish
and the ornamental breeds have no
weight fixed. A Red Cap cock weighs
~ pounds and hen pound less. The
French breeds weigh as follows: La
Fleche cock, S1s pounds; Crevecoeur
cock, s pounds; Houdan cock, z pounds,
the hens weighing about pound less.
Bantans are the opposite in weights,
the smaller the bird the more valuable.
There are also disqualifying weights,
which are much lower for all the breeds,
and which are intended to prevent very
small specimens from being exhibited
at the shows at any time.-New Hamp-
shire Mirror.
The Portland daily press., 1892-06-11

Miss Petrolia Bullion-Hogge from the
west)-Of course you know, baron, that
my father is not in the remotest degree
nobleman:
He-Say no more, beautiful one. A
man who will give his daughter mil
lion dollar dowry is noble enough for
me.-Life.
The beard can be easily colored brown or
black by Buckingham's Dye.
His Private Opinion.
O'Reilly (being entertained by the cook, who
produces bottle of olives)-Vou'n excuse me
Norah, but it's me privit apinyun that these
plums is shpoiled
Norafl-Shure, thin is not plums; thin is
olives, and they kim from Shpain.
OReilly-Be hivins! thin they must have kim
In the shteerage.-Judge.
Ayers sarsaparilla, being highly concen-
trated Alternative, only small doses are required.
A Business Young Man.
Young Drestbeef (of Chicago)-Will you
marry me, Miss Fosdick?
Miss Fosdick-Really, Mr.. Drestbeef, this is
so sudden. You must give me time to con-
sider
Young Drestbeef-Very well. will let you
have an option on me for one week.-Judge.
Ayers Pills are palatable. safe for children,
and more effective than any other cathartic.
A Woman's Advice.
my dear, let me advise you never to take a
banker for husband"
"Why not?'
Because, just fancy, my own husband, every
time he pays me my monthly allowance taken
off the discount" nt."-Exchange.
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5000 CA. .EE .

IL to assist me in office work and help boom a
Foot Remedy for sore and tender feet. Nothing
like it in the market t,s Everybody wants It.
Profit $50 per day, clear Of expenses, guaran-
teed Now advertised in 100000 papers to APP
pear. Address DEXTER" care of Portland
Daily Press. ju3-d1W
The Portland daily press., 1892-06-11
BLACK FACED MOUNTAIN RAM,

BLACK FACED MOUNTAIN RAM.
are the hardest domestic breed in the
world, also the most intelligent and cum
ming. The phrase, "as silly as Sheep"
does not apply to them. Their mutton
is Of choice flavor, and they can take
care of themselves almost equal to a
Texas steer. The fleece, while very
long, is light in weight and rather coarse
in texture.
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If A delivers {, 600 rounds of milk to

If A delivers 5000 pounds of milk to
the creamery in thirty days, containing
300 pounds Of butter fat, and B delivers
$4,000 pounds Of milk during the same
time, containing 400 pounds of butter
fat, what do honor, truth and justice
require in the apportionment Of divi-
dends?-Hoard's Dairyman.
If, IN spite of the best care and treat
ment, milk cow persistently declines
in health and flesh, it is a sign she has
some allment and her milk is unfit for
use.
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Weight and Yield of Eggs.

Geese four to the pound, 20 per annum.
Bantams, sixteen to the pound, 60 per
annun.
Houdans, eight to the pound, 30 per
annrn.
Grineas, eleven to the pound, 60 per
annum.
Turkeys, five to the pound, so to 60 per
annum.
Ducks, five to six per pound, 80 to 60
per annum.
Polish, nine to the pound, 15o per an
mum.
Plymouth Rocks, eight to the pound,
100 per annum.
Dark Brahmas, eight to the pound,
and about 70 per annum.
La Fleche, seven to the pound, 130 per
annum.
Crevecmurs, seven to the pound, $50
per annum.
Hamburgs, nine to the pound, $50 per
annum.
Game fowls, nine to the pound, 13o per
annum.
Dominiques, nine to the pound, 1so per
annum.
Black Spanish, seven to the pound, 13o
per annum.
Leghorns, nine to the pound, 100 to 200
per annum.
Black, white and buff Cochins, eight
to the pound, 100 or less per annum.
The eggs of the modern, improved
breeds of fowls have gained one-third in
weight, as compared with eggs formerly
had.
Light Brahmas and partridge Cochins'
eggs, seven to the pound. They lay so
to 100 per annum or even more, accord
ing to the treatment and keeping. Fan
cierS' Journal.
The Portland daily press., 1892-06-11
PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE

Many persons are afflicted with skin erup-
tons, boils or ulcers.-BRANDRETH's PILLS
taken freely will in short time effect com,
plete cure of all such troubles. Ulcers of long
standing have been cured by them. Carbuncles
have been checked in their incipiency by them
The worst fever sores, bed sores and the like
have been driven from the skin by them. Only
begin in time and few of BRANDRETH's PILLS
will prevent many sickness.
BRANDETHs PILLS are purely vegetable,
absolutely harmless and safe to itake at any
time
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The Example Soon Supplied.

Prefessor-Please give an example OF
actions speaking louder than words.
Adlet-When a man calls for soda wa
ter and accompanies his order with a
wink, sir.-Jliry.
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Fowls in and rhiexes Ont.

This little building was made strong
and fitted to keep fowls in and thieves
or marauders out. 1t is 10 feet long,
feet wide, feet high on the front and
81 on the rear. 1t has two sashes swung
on the inside and five iron rods sunk two
inches in oak and fastened ON the out
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SHEEP PORTRAITS

Varieties Of Sheep Differ as Widely as
Races of Men.
Here are two pictures Of breeds of
sheep which are strikingly different.
The first illustration shows a Shrop-
shire ram that took first prize at the
Royal society exhibition of 1891. The
Shropshire finds much favor in the west
The Portland daily press., 1892-06-11
Too Many Cooks.

'sWhy are you 80 naughty?" asked
Bobby's father.
II dunno" answered Bobby. 81 guess
it's cause I've got so many aunts and
uncles to mind. ."-Harper's Young Peo-
,,la
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Not Equal to That.
Patient-I guess I am about well, amt 1
Doctor?
Doctor-AlmOst.
Patient-What's my bill?
Doctor-You are not quite strong enough for
that yet.-Detroit Free Press
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This will Be aaHot Campaign. Y on
want the PREss.4 cents month.
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The UNION MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY Y is apurely
mutual company, owned by It's mem
bers, managed by its members, and
solely in the interest ofits members.
The Portland daily press., 1892-06-11

DEMOvAL OF wRECK-U. S. Engineer
EG Office, 537 Congress street, Portland,
Maine, June 2, 1892. Notice is hereby given
to all persons interested in the wreck Of the
schooner Isabel Alberto" and the cargo there
Dor, Maine, that unless said wreck shall be re-
moved by July 13, 1892, the United States will
proceed to remove it in accordance with law.
Sealed proposals. in triplicate. will be received
at this Office until 8 p. M, on Wednesday, July
IS, 1892, for the removal of the above named
wreck. The attention OF bidders is invited to
1885, and February %, 1887, Vol. 23. p. 332,
and Vol. "a, p. Ala, Statutes-at- Large. For
specifications, forms of bid, and information,
Colonel of Engineers. je1o,11,13,14jy11,12
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-02-03
A German Sfankee."

A full fiedged German, bearing the
odd name of August III. Yankee, OBJ
tained his last naturalization papers
from the Clerk of the United States
District Court, Boston, the other day,
and is now an American citizen. Mr..
Yankees occupation is that of farIn-
er, and he lives in Dover, Mass. He
was born in Wotschihous, Germany,
in 1868, being now 81 years of age.
He offered no explanation as to the
origin of his name.
The word Yankee, as almost every
body knows, is said to have originated
with the Indians, who used to call the
English settler the Yengeese, or Yam
geese, as they could not master the
correct pronunciation of the word.
Whether some of the ancestors Of this
young man came over to America with
the Hessian troops in the time of the
Revolution and on their return adopted
the name Yankee is not known. 1t is
thought, however, that this may have
been very possible by more than one
of the officers of the court.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-02-03

hoped TO be the favored one, as, after
each girl passed out, some aGmirins
swain was sure soon to follow.
None of the country youth dared
follow stately Mary Peck, and the Ell.
vious tongues whispered, "She'll moi
meet anyone; she holds her head toe
high"
On the back door step Mary stood
half shivering with the cold night air
half with superstitious thrill.
Slowly she wound the ball after
throwing it, softly repeating the
rhymes as told by Betty. For awhil,
the line was slack as if lying along the
ground, then it became bit NOR,
taut, and soon she was sure there wa,
some unknown attachment at the othe,
end of the line.
When she saw figure actually com.
ing toward her in the darkness, sh,
nearly lost her self-possession; but hel
pride came to her aid; she would MOI
scream and make herself an object OF
ridicule before those youths; she fell
so much superior to them, that it would
have been the last thing she could have
endured. The light from a window
suddenly flashed upon the advancing
figure. 1t was the brown-beardeC
stranger, who at that moment claspeC
her in his arms, kissed her lips raptur-
ously, released her gently and disap
peared like dream in lie darkness!
1t was some moments ere she had re
covered sufficiently to re-enter the
hnnSn yx-It na1,
except for rich, deep flush rot at al
an ordinary color with her.
Here she had need of all the self
possession years in society had giver
her, for in her absence two guests haC
arrived. Mabel was already chatting
freely with Roland Holland aud JacJ
Staples!
Why prolong the story? The enc
was the usual one; the new acquaint
ance soon ripened into an old; The ac
quaintances became friends and in time
lovers. Then came the quiet wedding
at grandpa's; the short bridal tour, and
the prosaic settling down as house
keepers in two small flats in New
York, where in domestic contentment
they dwelt ever after, in as great de.
gree of continuous harmony as falls to
the average families.
Grandma made this domestic peace
possible, by persistently insisting tEai
both girls should take daily practical
lessons in her kitchen; that the period
of courtship should commence in learn.
ing the art of household economies.
The girls sometimes rebelled, fancying
that things would manage to go or
somehow without all that troub e.
But grandma had her way, knowing
that young man with a moderate in
come has double need of competent
home keeper.
"Pa" never made second fortune,
but drifted from Mabel's to Mary's,
and haunted Wall street with othe-
ghosts of "better days"