The sun., 1893-07-27
sUNBEz1rS.

The latest social novelty In the South engraved
announcements of the advent Of infsntis addition,
to families.
An example OF the mutation Of fortune occurred
several days ago when the Supervisors Of sonoma
made special order placing Jonquin Csrrillo the
poor list at $40 month He was once one OF she rc
| est men in California
| At Bath. Me-. A sewat Co have in process Of
construction the rst merchant ship built ia
the state She 10 300 feet long and will be Of 276o
register tons. when this ship 10 launched next fsll
| the keel for her sister ship will be laid.
Mrs Harriet Strong of whittier Cal. last year i'm.
ported panpas grass from South America her ranch
| and raised 5000. 900 pumea These make handsome
decorations one million OF these were sent to tn.
worlds Fair She has exported over $50 900 TO Europe
| There Is man In Cincinnati employed by minis
ter to wander about tho town and report to him queer
| incidents that he may md. These are then weavsd
| into the preachers sermon lie 10 able to speak OF
surprising phases OF lfs and his wonder
| how he gets time to do 30 much.
William Mckenzie OF Farloch Mountain, b 10 the
| oldest person In the Maritime Provnces He IL nos
IoS years old. and married and had children when
| the battle Of Waterloo was fought He is in good
health rehds without the aid OF glasses and recently
walked ten miles to attend circua
The mosquitoes have ade raid on Maryland this
summer in unusually largo swarms especially in the
vicinity of Drums Point. r. W. Dixon. who both
cred by them. told that II he would burn tobacco
stems in the house they would leave. and he tried it
mosquitoes out but the entire family for he burned
down the house.
Tho citizens Of ssndovsL Ill. will not allow any
negro TO live in their town. Several weeks ago
strange negroes were employed by new carpenter
who not acquainted with the color line law Of the
place. but It did not take him long to learn It when
seventy five OF the best people" OF the town waited
upon him and threatened to lynch tho negroes they
did not leave at once
The members Of the Alliance Of Lafayetts county,
raj III this Va
will make subtreasury at home. store with corn
hay oats fodder pork. potatoes. peas. cabbage tuY
nips. onions, beets. rice. parsnps, molasses pndeu
and then II wo have any time left We will put In
bales OF cotton. Then will have 4 sub treas
ury that will be Of some benefit to us.
A farmer away down in Somerset county. Md,
nnds q at his straw 10 worth than his wheat He
produced $50 bushels of wheat 83 about
bushels to tho acre. which at the price ruling when
tho calculation made indicated for the crop .
value Of S12 per His straw weighed .wo tons per
and worth 50 per ton. or S16 per The
aggregate value Of the grain $<o3i Of tho straw
S52s.
"A chemist. who owns nno farm on Long Island
and has been experimenting in butter making says
that the average farmer throws away In buttermik
half Of the heathrui solids in milk especially he
uses the old way OF churnng. By the use Of small
quantity of black pepsin double the amount of butter
be made. A teaspoonful Of pepsin added to each
gallon OF cream will combine in the form Of butter
much that 10 thrown away in buttermilk.
-Bayard Tayor's home Of Cedarcroft Just sold. lies
in OF tho loveest agricultural regions of tho ATTAIN.
tic coast 1t hero that Sidney Lanier wrote some
OF his best poems Mr. Taylor himself had become SO
much \ man OF tho world that he what at
outs with tho somewhat narrow Quaker community in
which his homo was. but he had strong local attach.
ments and It was pleasant thing tn SEQ him strdng
about tho pretty village of kennett Square his iron.
gray beard and rudy face known to all whom he met
Occupants OF a country house near Morristown N.
j. have discovered in the Rarret many interesting let
tiers of the Revolutionary period. Some OF them were
to a young man in tho West Indies. Tho
writer begs the young to send him nrstrate
rum in order that he may have appropriate refresh
ment for Gen. Washington and other officers OF the
Iatriot army. his frequent visitors He speaks with
much enthusiasm OF Washington. Tho letters describe
. drive to New York. and among other things clear
up tragic mystery OF that time
Delaware is now in her apple braa ady season. and
the product promises to be unusually large Nearly all
the distillinE 10 done in the southern counties
and there will be four times much apple brandy as
peach brandy distilled TIE apple brandy OF Delaware
Is an innocentooking but strong and fiery product
with the virtue OF absolute purity sofens and mel
lows with age. and there a few gallons of ancient
applejack slowed away in the cupboards of rural
,onnoisseurs that would win the approval Of all who
hold good and wholesome liquor in respect
-lbberts Gore is the place in Maine where taxes
lre unknown. Only six families reside there-forty
persons In all The Gore comprises 300 bounded
BY Waldo. Knox. and Lincoln counties and by some
mistake was omitted by tho engineers whom these
counties wero laid out Having no connection with
my county. and never having been organized as q
own plantation. the residents Of tho Gore neither
,ay taxes nor vote. They build their own roads, how
and send their children schools nearest by
'y special provision OF the statutes the paupes Of
he Gore are cared for by the Oldest adjoining town.
'aermo but there have been only three paupers in
he last forty years.