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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-11-30
Home-Made Mince-Nesl

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Our homemade Mlnce-Meat IL now
rea9y. We especially recommend IL 10
persons wanting Mince-Meat made By the
old fashioned family recipe
X. l.. CHRISTIAN e. co.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-11-30
AEE the TEAMS.

-t -oose-ceclng" given by the
.. tt- Trinity. Georgetown, and
states Naval Academy foot
BIAS caused great demonstra-
the students wearing the
.i uaVy-hlue." Under the
.nchiug of Johnny Poe. who
-l4lk in the Princeton teams
tle Tigers have gone from
victory. il is true they have
.r.--onc with Georgetown and
.Hl The naval Cadets-but at
tfie the 'Narsities gave them
"f"p that &c will be some time
NI D. in shape TO tackle the
rlr.IN
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-11-30
WI OF the 'VARsITIEs.

l.~ better known as the Ala
captain OF the Tigers. He
az 20 pounds. and stands
il his "Adamic slippers"
.r tts team OF 81. and is one
-ht-quards IN America.
H.-ie. or Ike" f. the sec
colonel Thomas b. Massie. Of
.r,. twelfth Virginia Cavalry.
tre plucky stock. He Is a
.. b A. and NJ. College. class
plays ief, guard. weighs rs
feet tail. He played on
hip team Of the South"
... as he hasn't been absent
same during the two sea-
.. H.i be called the invinci-
tat cut his hair since July,
"ions-haired giant" In
renIe as a lamb, but ON
s u.s. fierce as a royal Ben
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-11-30

NORFOLK PEANUT MARKET
reported for the Dlspateho
NORFOLK, VA, November D-MaIhet
duh. business light generally. ana rev
transactions reported; prime, zVzhc.' TX
ira prime, 2laa25sc.: fancy, 2sc.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

planet crossing the sun on March &c,
1859. He was visited by the celebrated
astronomer, Leverrie, who first deter
mined the irregularity of Mercury in
its orbit, and having become satisfied
with the commences of the doctors
observations congratulated him and
honored him as the dis soverer OF "Vul-
cam" which name was assigned to the
supposed new planet. Since then,
however, 1t has been 7 city thoroughly
determined that what the doctor saw
was a speck on his eyeglasses or a sun
spot, for Vulcan failed to reappear on
the suns disc at any Of the times which
had carefully been computed by Lever
rier.
Very interesting things take place
just before and during a total eclipse
of the sun. If you did not know that
an eclipse was about to occur you would
not notice any in ;rease in darkness
until the greater part of the sun had
been obscured. This is because the sun
is so very bright that even a small frac-
ton of the disc left uncovered is capa-
bic of giving us all the illumination we
need When the sun is most obscured
the shadows begin to have a peculiar
looN-as ii they were cast by lime light.
The light shining through the inter
stices of leaves, instead of forming a
little circle on the earth, as it does
under ordinary circumstances, makes a
little crescent-an image of the partly
covered sun.
The darkness now begins to be APP
preciated and increases rapidly. Ami
mails are greatly puzzled, and fowls
quit scratching the barnyard and go to
roost under the impression that night
has set in. 1t grows slightly colder
and in some instances it has been OBJ
served that dew appeared on the grass.
Since the moon always moves toward
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
What n Comma Cost.

Let us not overlook the trifles In
mental, spiritual and temporal life
they make and unmake, advance and
retard, carry forward to success or
drag down To failure. AS an example
Of what the insignificant may be
worth in dollars and cents, the New
England Grocer cites the instance of
what a comma once cost our govern
ment: Possibly the smallest, and APP
parently the most insignificant of all
blunders was the most expensive one
of the kind ever made. 1t occurred In
a tariff bill more than twenty years
ago. There was q section enumer-
ating what articles should be adj
mitted free of duty. Among the
many articles specified were ''all for
eign fruit-plants, etc, meaning plants
imported for transplanting, propaga-
ton or experiment. The enrolling
clerk, in copying the bill, accidentally
changed the hyphen in the compound
word "fruit-plants," TO a comma,
making IL read, 'all foreign fruit,
plants" etc The consequence was
that for year--until Congress could
remedy the blunder--all the oranges,
lemons, bananas, gry pes and other
foreign fruits were admitted free of
duty. This little mistake, which the
most careful man might easily have
made, cost the government about
81. OOO, 900.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07


Grain feeding early in the morning
is not advisable.
Only keep strong vigorous ewes for
breeders; plan to market the rest.
II feed is ground at all for sheep,
take pains to have it ground very fine.
In fattening sheep, increase the
grain ration up to full consumption
Fattening sheep, should not only
be kept very quiet but perfectly dry.
In the management of sheep, few
things pay better than to keep the
wool free from burrs.
Beyond the first ewes marked de-
terioration in the fleece is the result il
the crossing is continued.
If the eve refuses to allow the
lamb to suck, try catching and hold
ing her few times until the lamb
gets its fill.
One advantage in having a supply
of roots is that they will to a consid-
cradle extent take the place of grass
or pasturage.
While bells may be IL partial pro-
lection against dogs, the hardened
sheep killer will pay little or no at
tention TO them.
II for any reason some Of the sheep
do not seem TO thrive as we'll as the
rest it will be good plan to separate
them out and give them a little ex-
ira feed.
1t would seem that so long as there
is not sufficient wool or choice NUT
ton grown TO supply the demand,
sheep raising ought to be made
profitable.
An exact ration can not readily be
given to sheep as usually large ones
eat more than the smaller ones, while
something must be allowed for pecu-
liarities of breeds.
Lambs, woods. mutton and manure
are the four cardinal points in sheep
raising. Profit is not in the total
amount derived but tho excess after
the cost is deducted.
Southdown rams are good for cross
ing on the small native ewes for NUT
ton sheep. The ewes for this cross
should be bred to Oxford or Shrop-
shire rams TO secure a good size.
Where any considerable number OF
sheep is kept better results will be
secured II each grade can be kept
separate. The lambs the old and
weak sheep. the breeding ewes and
the wethers, by keeping in separate
lots, each grade viii have q more
equal chance.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
ID usehnId ncIns.

Tins may be secured with little
trouble if kerosene and powdered
lime, whiting or wood ashes be used.
To stop vomiting, drink very hot
water, or toast bread, turn on
brandy, CRATE on nutmeg, and apply
it warm to the chest.
If the throat is very sore, wiring a
cloth out Of cold salt water, and bind
it on the throat when going to bed;
cover it with dry towel.
Dampen your duster slightly be-
fore wiping off woodwork and mar
BILE. Use a cloth as we'll as feather
buster if you would be thorough.
To prevent the hair from coming
out, take one pint of bay rum and half
an ounce of quinine; mix and apply
to the scalp twice a day with a
wooden cloth, rubbing it in we'll.
There is great medicinal virtue in
onions, eaten raw at the very begin
ming Of an attack of cold or malaria.
They have decided tendency to
check it, and act advantageously in
kidney and stomach troubles.
Salt and beeswax will mako rusty
1at-irons smooth and clean. When
the irons are hot first rub with bees
wax tied up in a cloth, then in a
paper well sprinkled with salt. If
they are only rough rub with salt.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

the east the western horizon will be
he first 10 be obscIred. BY watching
c retully at the proper time the OBJ
server will see the shadow coming
along like n wild, rollicking tornado.
IL advances with almost terrifying
rapidly, il is the tip end of the shadow
of the moon, and the swift motion
will afford some idea of the immense
velocity OF the moon In its orbit. The
sudden change from light to dark
causes "frlnges," so-called, TO appear
on various objects. These fringes are
supposed TO be an optical illusion, due
to irregular atmospheric refraction of
the light coming from the indefinitely
n rrow strip of the SUMS limb on the
po.nt of disappearing.
The darkness, however, is not in
tense. AS soon as the disk is obscured
the cor ona and prominences make
their appearance, and the light from
these is equal TO that of three or four
full moons. And since the moons
shadow where it strikes the earth is
never more than few hundred miles
IN diameter. large quantity of light
is refracted into the eclipsed region
from the surrounding air, where the
sun is shining briPhtlv.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
Make uanures Active.

The farmer who leaves everything
to nature need not complain If she
sometimes works so slowly that he
gets little benefit from her until too
late TO meet his taxes and other ex-
penses. All the original fertility Of
the soil is the accumulation of ages
of decaying vegetable matter. One
generation by active cropping can
deplete this stock of fertility. When
it is gone the ia mer himself must
make more. He also must apply it.
These are not tho slow processes of
nature. Having begun to deviate it
should seem that good farming re-
quires further deviation on the same
lines. For this reason manures be-
fore being applied ought generally to
be decomposed. There is as good
reason for this as there is for any
other of the common deviations from
natures method s. American Guilt
VatOr
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
Growing Onions.

This is one crop that must be
planted at the first opportunity in the
spring, if the best results are secured.
The seed should be secured, the ma
nure applied and everything as far as
possible be made ready SO that as
soon as the soil is in condition to
work, the planting can be done.
This is one crop that it is very essen
tial that the soil be prepared in the
very best condition before planting,
and for this reason there is no adj
vantage in attempting to work the
soil wet Onions is one crop that it
is difficult to have the soil too rich or
too finely prepared. Onions, too, will
stand fresh, strong manures, but
there is no advantage in working the
soil deep. They grow near the sur
face, and the fertilizers must be ap-
piled and kept near the surface.
The objections to using fresh,
coarse manure from the stables is
that they most invariably contain
more or less weed seeds. that il is
undesirable with onions. as they will
greatly increase the labor of properly
preparing and cultivating the soil.
Poultry manure makes good fertil-
izer for the onion bed as does also
wood ashes. Either of these can be
applied as a top dressing, preparing
the soil in good filth all ready for
the seed, and then scatter evenly
over the surface and work in with q
good rake. This can be done either
just before or just after the seed Is
sown. One advantage with ashes is
that they help materially in keeping
down weeds
The seed must DO good; they
should be over year old. A good
plan is TO test by putting in water;
the good seed will sink to the bot
tom. A seed drill will SOW the seed
much more evenly than is possible by
hand. Care should be taken to have
In straight rows. as this will mater
tally lessen the work of cultivating.
Use plenty of seed, as IL is easier to
thin out after the plants get up we'll
than to replant. Onions may readily
be transplanted If necessary, so that
II desired the extra plants can be
used.
The cultivation must begin as soon
rs the weeds start up. One of the
essentials is giving clean cultivation.
and the best way OF doing this econ
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
Censorshin of tho stncc.

The strict censorship of the Italian
stage after the fall OF Rome is
graphically described by Salvini.
The words God, " "redeemer," ma
DONNA" angel" saint" "pontiff, I"
"purple," "monsignor, priest were
forbidden. Religion" republic, "
unity" French" "jesuit, Tar
tuffe," foreigner, patriot" were
equally in the index. The colors
green, white and rod were prohibited,
yellow and black and yellow and
white were also forbidden. Flowers
thrown on the stage must not show
any Of these colors prominently, and
if it CHANGED that one actress had
white and green in her dress, another
who wore red ribbons must not come
near her.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
Chinese Inns.

A word must be said about Chinese
inns. No one who has ever stayed at
one of these caravansaries is likely to
forget his experience, says writer in
christian at Work" They are all
built on the same plaza large court
yard, around the four sides of which
are built rows of small rooms, the res
taurant and office being in front. The
buildings are built of sun-dried bricks,
and are usually in the last stages of
dilapidation. Each small room con-
tains a brick bed, in which a fire can
be lighted for warmth in winter. There
is no furniture but rough chair and
perhaps a table, while the windows are
nothing but frames covered with paper.
The average Chinese inn is usually
a menagerie and geological garden
combined. In the yard can be
seen and heard mules, donkeys,
dogs, cats, fowls of all kinds, pigs
and camels, while in the rooms where
the weary traveller is supposed to
find rest there is also a rich variety.
The scorpion, and at times a small
variety of the centipede, often take
singing measures to repel any at
tempts at friendship. The chief glory,
however, of the inn is the waiter.
This important functionary in China
has that patronizing air which distin-
guishes his confreres of the profession
in other countries. The inevitable
napkin always accompanies him. With
it in summer he mops his sweating
brow or bare shoulders, while in win
ter wrapped around his head it pro-
tects him from rain and wind. At all
seasons of the year it is the only article
he has with which to clean table and
plates or chop-sticks. Chinese land
lords are reasonable in their charges,
which to some degree offsets the I'M
pleasantness of living in their inns.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
AMERICAN MUMMieS.
The Remains of Four ToItecs, Who Died
500 Years Ago In Mexico.

ooo hears ago III mcAlco'
The best and rarest OF the curosities
at the California stats mining bureaus
museum are to be on exhibition at
the mechanics fair, and among them
are many things which have been
seen by comparatively few. Some
valuable new features are also to be
included. according to the San Fran
cisco Examiner.
There is the American mummy
family, surprising in interest the
Egyptian mummies, because the
bodies themselves. in remarkable
preservation, are shown, and the be-
holder doesn't have to exercise his
imagination on discolored cloth and
painted wood. The American num-
mics are Toltecs, the race that pre-
coded the Aztecs and once inhabited
Mexico. and, as near as can be sclen-
tifically Gale ulated, they died 400
years before Columbus discovered the
land in which they were buried. The
family consists Of four, a man woman
and two children. All will be shown
in the sitting pos lures exactly as they
were found.
The bodies were discovered in a
cave high up in the mountains OF
New Mexico, about 200 miles from
Deming. They had been placed there
fully so years ago, probably for pro-
lection against some enemy, and the
entrance of the cave had been sealed
with sun-dried adobe bricks and
natural rocks, comented together
with adobe plaster. The mummified
bodies of the male and female were
found seated side by side, faced to-
ward the East, as an ancient burial
! custom. A 7-year-old boy was at the
right OF the father, and girl of
| probably years was at tho left of
the mother. No embalming process
had been used, and the patrification
was entirely due TO tho drying action
in that high and air-tight cave. The
skeletons were wonderfully we'll pre-
served and the muscles, nerves and
tendOns, with the various internal
organs, all remain. The skin OF the
faces may even be seen, and on the
! head OF the woman is yet her splen-
did growth of fine dark brown hair.
The clothing remains. though not in
tact. The mans garments were OF
some rough material that looked like
dried grass plated. The woman was
dressed in woven cloth and true to
her sex, she had the larger child
cad in finer fabric, while about
the baby was a robe OF fur. Eight
centuries have passed and the Toltecs
are going to the mechanics fair.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
Tho Draft Horse for tho Farmer.

The draft horse is the best horse
for the farmer for several reasons,
says the National Stockman. He does
the work on the farm most satisfac-
torily and with less expense ana
worry. He sells for a higher average
price than any other breed and sells
more readily. The farmer can al
ways find ready sale for good sized
and well put up draft horse or colt
IT costs less To raise and get him
ready for market. The draft horse
will pay for his keep after he is two
years old and by the time he is old
enough for the city market he is
fully broken and the farmer has lost
no time, but has been going right
along, and doing his work with a
team that has been growing into
money and will sell at better profit
and more readily than a team of any
other breed under the sun.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

The meekness with which the pas
sengers in crowded street car will
allow themselves to be shut up
tightly in a car without chance Of
vent lation except the occasional
opening of door is one of the mar
wells of public travel. 1t is often the
case that fifty or sixty people are
thus penned up, and no one asks for
or attempts to secure q supply Of
pure air. no matter how vitiated the
airihside may have become. A delay
OF two or three minutes arouses
everybody in the car, and there is q
general eagerness to ascertain the
cause, but. cubic yards of impure air
will be inhaled by each one without
O murmur. Such conditions are
breeders of disease, and ought to be
carefully avoided.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
& strange SnicIdn.

An extraordinary case OF suicide ia
reported in the Berlin papers. A l6-
year-old boy, feeling himself humili-
ated by a severe reprimand that had
been administered by his parents,
seated himself in a chair, and after
loading revolver handed it TO his
brother, lad Of years, and COM
PEELED him to do the shooting. The
little fellow fired but one shot, kill
ing his brother instantly.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
Coal in the United states.

The production of bituminous coal
in the United States is now double
that of anthracite. In 1892 there
were 10, 100000 tons OF bituminous
coal mined, against 52,00),00O tons
of anthracite. The area of produc-
tion OF soft coal is ten times greater
than the area of production OF hard
coal. In the form of coke, bitumin-
Gus coal is constantly encroaching
upon the field OF anthracite produc-
tinr
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

gins to lap over the bright disc of the
sun--a complete record of the pheno-
mena may be made. This may then be
studied at leisure. Moreover. n photo
graph reveals facts which would re-
main obscure under ordinary vision.
In the Egyptian eclipse of 1ss2 a little
comet was discovered close TO the sun
in the Photographic plates which had
not been visible to the naked eye. IL
Ia thought that possibly some addi-
tional planets between Mercury and
the sun may be discovered by means of
photography at the next eclipse.
Mercury, as far as known, is the near
est planet to the sun, but many astro-
nomers have conteuded that there must
be others on account of certain pertur
bations In Mercury's orbit, and that
these planets are so near the sun that
their identities are lost in the brilliant
light Some persons have thought
that they have actually seen such
planet. DR.. Lescarbauit, n country
physician living eighty miles from
Paris, announced that he had seen n
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

omically is to commence early. A
good sharpI steel rake is one of the
best as we'll as one of the most econ
omical implements to use. After the
plants make a sufficient growt the
cultivator can be used, taking care of
course to run as close as possible
to the plants. Shallow, level, but
thorough cultivation is what is
needed. and the more thoroughly this
is given the better will be the growth
and yield.-Journal of Agriculture.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
The Remnnnts OF a species.

On Silver Heights, near Winnipeg,
a few buf7aloes are kept. remnants OF
the enormous herds that rolled like o
brown tide from the Texas plains to
the Saskatchewan. The experiment
is being tried of producing race Of
hardy stock 10y breeding the buffaloes
with cattle. The offspring resembles
the COW rather than the bison, but
has somewhat shaggy coat and an
i'll temper.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
Not We'll FIavored.

The London Graphic has a portrait
and sketch of Potari, Maori canni-
bal. who is 80 years old and still has
a good set of natural teeth. He has
not eaten white man since 1916.
He speaks well of white folks, but
for steady diet prefers Maori, as
the whites. or "palSehas, have "a
salty and hitter flavor"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

The monkey language enthusiast,
Garner, claims that he has a chin
panzee that can say in Maori dialect
"Good day, stranger" a gorilla that
can repeat about twenty Fiiian words,
and an ourang that can say "donner
and bitten" Professor Garner says
in monkey language "kukcha" is
water, rain, cold, or anything not
agreeable; "gbOsku" food or act of
eating, etc. What "wipe off your
chin" or 'pull down your vest" or
"going to wear hoop-skirts?" or
talking through your hat" or
"what's trumpsP" etc, does not APP
pear as yet. That will all como IN
Lime, of course.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

The invention of methods OF
making paper from wood pulp has
perhaps done more than any other
one thing to cheaper newspapers, and
thus diffuse popular information.
The invention is due to poor weaver
in Saxony, who in 1874 got the hint
from> watching wasps make their
cells from paper manufactured from
wood pulp by themselves. After
working for years to perfect his in
vention lack of means compelled him
TO sell it for tribe. Last year,
however, the European manufacture
ers who have grown wealthy by using
his idea sent him $500. Several
Americans have been made million
aires by this invention. Some of
them ought to remember the man
who made il possible for them TO ac-
cumulate their millions. 1t would
be strange though if they did.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

WHATEVER wrecks of reputation
may be- strewn along the course of the
Panama canal scandal it is evident
that the French people do not propose
to open the doors to sedition, anarchy
or despotism because of the proved
dereliction of a few public men. The
strong and overwhelming vote of
confidence in the government which
PASSED the senate recently is a
death blow to the hopes of agitators
who are seeking to displace the exist
ing order of things at Paris.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

Mr.. Fitts-There is no getting out
OF it We must get divorce. Shall
| apply for it. or you?
Mrs. Fitts-A divorceo
Mr.. Fitts-That is what / said.
No less than twenty Of the people
who gave us presents when we were
wed are TO be married this month.
1t is either divorce or ruin to us.