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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
RAILROADS.

WyE all love comfort, especially when trav-
w cling; and what great comfort it Is o
be able to take a sleeping car at your own
home which runs right through to Chicago
without change and lands passengers at the
Entrance Gate TO the Worlds Fair without
change or transfer of any kind. How can this
be accomplished? Why, simply by asking
your local agent for a ticket via the Big Four
Route, which is absolutely the only line run
ming through sleeping cars in connection with
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railway and Queen and Crescent Route direct
TO the Worlds Fair Grounds and landing
passengers convenient to the Worlds Fair
Hotel District. Through Sleeping Car leaves
Macon IL :l5 a. m, Atlanta 2:l0 p. m, Rome
1. So p m, Chattanooga 7:25 p. m, and arrives
Chicago 5:l5 p. IN. ASK for tickets via the
Big Four Route, and for further Information
address D. B. MARTIN,
General Passenger Agent,
Cincinnati
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-12-22

A Western journal remarks that al
most every former has upon his own
premises one of the best superphos-
phate manures known. The elements
are found in the old bones, scattered
carelessly over yard, garden and farm,
and common wood ashes, generally al
lowed to go to waste. If the bones
are gathered, placed under shelter,
thoroughly mixed with three or four
times their bulk of ashes, kept moist
with water enough to make n good
lye and occasionally stirred and mixed,
they will, in few months, become so
tender and fIiable that they may be
pounded into powder and in this state
they form II valuable manure, better
than the average of the commercial
fertilizers that seem so expensive
The ashes, of course, should be mixed
with the bones. The fertilizer thus
made should be applied by the handful
in the hill of corn, and its effects may
be early seen in the deep, rich green
of the growing plant. This may seem
like small business to farmer who
has but little spare time, but it is by
just such economy that our best farms
become so profitable, and it is by lack
of such economy that so many farms
fail to yield even a comfortable living
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-12-22
To Double the Quantity of Manure.

Provide good supply of black
swamp mold or loan from the woods,
within easy reach of your stable, and
place q layer of this one foot thick
under each horse, with litter as usual
on top of the loan or mold Remove
tho droppings of the animals every
day, but let the loan remain for two
weeks, then remove it, mixing 1t with
other manure, and replace with fresh
mold. BY this simple means any farm
er can double not only the quantity
but also the quality of his manure,
and never feel himself one penny the
poorer by the trouble or expense in
Cured, while the fertilizing value of
the ingredients absorbed and saved by
the loan can scarcely be estimated
Josiah Quincy, jr., has been very sue
cessful in keeping cattle in stables the
year through, and feeding them by
means of soiling. The amount of ma
nure thus made has enabled him to
improve the fertility of a poor farm
of 100 acres, so that in 20 years the
hay crop had increased from 20 to 800
tons. The cattle are kept in a we'll
arranged stable, and are let out into
the yard an hour or two mornings
and afternoons, but they generally ap-
pear glad to return to their quarters.
by this process, one acre enables him
to support three or four cows. They
are fed on grass, green oats, corn fod-
der, barley, etc, which are sown at
intervals through the spring and sum-
mer months, to be cut as required; ;
but he remarks that his most valuable
crop Is his manure crop. Each COW
produces three and half cords of
solid, and three cord of liquid manure,
or six and n half cords in all Five to
eight miles from Boston, such manure
is worth from So to $S cord. From
this estimate, he has come to the CON
clusion that a cows manure may be
made as valuable as her milk
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-12-22

voice before he came in sight, but 1t
was Of no use He comes Gathering
up and nearly rides me down.
"Why the deuce didn't you stop that
deer? Are the dogs gomez Black Ter
ior will never stop. Confusion, man!
were YOU asleep"
"Ilc was as big as an elephant Jack.
/ Here's plenty of blood" said /, trying
to appear cool and pointing to the
7 g"Jund with my gun; he's done for"
/ 1ack sprang to the ground and OK
amincd the signs. "Oh, thunderl you've
shot him too far back and through the
loins; he will take to the river. What
Il track! 1t must be the big buck
shall lose Black Terror. Come ahead
and let's cut him off before he gets
there If we kill our horsesv' And
away he dashed through the wood.
! ] followed as fast rs possible, and
such IL ride as that was! Through vine
matted thickets, over dead trees, leap
! ing at breakneck speed the wide Ia
| goons-away, away we clattcred, foam
| ing through the dense swamp like wild
men possessed of demons.
At length we burst upon open ground
and Jack gave yell that would have
walked the dead. "Too late too late.
the Big Buck, by old Bell Mouth he'll
! take the river"
jacks yell had slightly startled the
! buck. which was making for the river
! along the bank of u wide lagoon. He
! turned sharp and attempted to leap
! the lagoon: he disappears-on we rush
at mad specd-but Jack knows what
he is about, and his horse, too-while
my mare leaps. Plump we land In the
middle of the lagoon, followed by n
roar of laughter from Jack.
Next time shoot further forward,
If you please, old boy!'
But it was no joking matter for me
we had landed in quicksand.
looked around with an expression of
terror at Jack, for felN my mare sink
ing under me.
Catch that limb above you," shout
ed he. "and tie your bride to 1t, or you
will both go under"
There was no time for mincing mat
ters let go my gun, which sunk out
of sight forever. Rising In my saddle.
with a desperate effort l reached the
stout limb of a bending cottonwood
tree, which l dragged down, and to
which | managed to secure my bride
by n strong knot. / succeeded finally
by the aid of the cottonwood in reach
ing the bank, and by this time, when
| looked back, l found that my poor
mare had sunk nearly up to her eyes
/ now looked around, and saw Jack
busy enough between bea ting off the
dogs and attempting to secure the
buck, which had stuck fast also in the
quicksand. He succeeded in throwing
rope about his horns, and when the
driver came up we dragged it out at
our leisure, after having rescued my
poor Celeste which from hanging 50
long by her headstall had grown quite
black in the face.
The buck was q prodlgious animal,
and had several times before been
chased by Jack, when it always took
to the river and had thus lost him sew
eral enc hounds.-Romance.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-12-22
BA8YHOOD.

Heigh.ho! Babyhood Tell me where you
lngcr.
Let's toddle home again, for we have
gone nstray;
Take this eager hand of mine and lead
me by the finger
Back to the lotus lands of the far away.
Turn back the leaves Of life; don't read the
Let's find the pictures and fancy all ia,
rest;
We can all the written pages with Il
Than old Time, the story-teller, at his
Dest.
DER It's vase of perfume, spills 1t on the
breeze,
And the bee and humming bird in ecstasy
From the fairy nugons of the blooming
locust trees.
Turn to the. lane, where we used to "teeter-
Printing little foot palms in the yellow
Laughing at the lazy cattle wading in the
where the rlpples dimple round the but
tercups OF gold;
Where the dusky turtle lies boskng in the
OF the sunny sandbar in the middle tide,
And the ghostly dragon-fly pauses In his
To rest like a blossom where the water
lily died.
Hcigh.ho! Babyhood! Tell me where you
Let's todde home again, for we have
Take this eager hand of mine and lead me
Rack 70 the lotus lands of the far away.
james whitcomb Riley, In the Inquirer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-12-22
French Art in Manipulating Plaster.

1t is stated that French builders who
have carried the art of hardening plas-
ter to where it is used for flooring,
either in place of wood or tile, en-
ploy for this purpose six parts of good
quality Of plaster intimately mixed
with one part of freshly slaked white
lime finely sifted. The mixture as thus
composed is laid down in as quick time
as possible, care being taken that the
trowel is not used upon the surface
for too long n time. After this the
floor Is allowed to become dry and is
subsequently saturated In most thor
ough manner with sulphate of iron or
zinc, the iron giving the strongest sur
face, its resistance to breaking being
found to be twenty times the strength
OF ordinary plaster. 1t appears that
with sulphate of zinc the floor remains
white, while when iron is used it be-
comes the color of rusted iron. But IL
linseed oil, boiled with litharge, be ap-
piled to the surface it becomes of an
attractive mahogany color, this being
especially the case if coat Of copal
varnish is added.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-12-22

Swinburne is Il descendant of Celtic
and Scandinavian stock. Tennyson
seems to have been equally Of Danish
and Plantagenet ancestry, with slight
mixture of French blood. William Nor
ris is descendant of Welsh and Anglo
Danish stock. Robert Bruwning's
great-grandfather, who was of Welsh
Saxon origin, married a creole, while
the poets mother was of German and
Scotch parentage. Rosetti Is 25 per
cent English, and northern blood
mingles with his Italian ancestry. The
commlngling of races In the literary
geniuses of France is more remark
able still. The grandmother of the
senior Dumas was black woman of
st. Domingo. Flaubert had Iroquois
blood in his veins. The father OF Vic
tor Hugo came of the Germans of I.or-
ralne, while his mother was descended
from the Bretons. Greek, French and
Italian blood exists in Zola His father
was an Italian mathematician Ibsen
Is Of German and Scandinavian an
ceYry intermixed with Scotch.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-12-22
pOnltrY Manure.

Fifty fowls will make, in their roost-
Ing house alone, ten hundredWeight
per annum of the best manure in the
world. Hence fifty fowls will make
more than enough manure for an acre
OF land, seven hundredweight of guano
being the usual quantity applied per
acre, and poultry manure being even
richer than guano In ammonia and fer
tllizing salts. No other stock will give
an equal return in this way; and these
figures demand careful attention from
the large farmer. The manure before
using, should be mixed with twice its
bulk of earth, and then allowed to
stand In a heap, covered with a few
inches of earth, till decOmposcd
throughout, when 1t makes the very
best manure which can be had.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-12-22

When | was in Havana / saw two
orders of 5000 cigars each that had
been made up for the Car of Russia
and the Prince of Wales The high.
class foreigner smokes cigars about
double the size that the American does
The cigars made for the Car and the
Prince of Wales We're six inches long
and cost 81 apiece in Havana. The
labor of making each cigar cost %
cents, and on account of the great
care necessary in the selection the
wrappers cost 10 cents apiece. The
wrappers We're the finest leaves from
the Vuelta Abago district, small sec.
ton of property which produces the
finest tobacco in the. world.-Plttsburg
Dispatch.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-12-22
A Cigarette Fiend.

George f. Mills, young man, has
just been committed to an insane asy-
lum at ST. Louis as cigarette maniac.
He repeatedly threatened to kill his
father, mother and sister and had
made two attempts to commit suicide.
His mother says of his Incarceration
MY poor demented son begged pite-
ously not to be taken to the asylum,
but | felt that it was a duty / owed
him and ourselves, and now he Is In
good hands, where, thank God, he can
not get cigarettes to make him crazier."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-12-22
FIa. l..

they are greatly preferable to barrels.
Commence your packing by placing u
layer of rye straw, that has been thor
oughly cleaned from dust, on the bottom
of the box Bend the head of the first
fowl under 1t, as shown in our Illus
tration Qrig. u, and then lay 1t In the
left hand corner, with the head against
the end of the box, with the back up.
Continue to fill this row In the same
manner until completed; then begin
the second row the same way. letting
the head of the bird pass up between
the rump of the two adjoining ones,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-12-22
Not AFFECTED by Hard Times.

The gay and festive train robber is
still plying his trade In the Southwest.
He has felt little of the harlships Of
the panic and tho repeal Of the silver
bill does not affect him.-I3altimore
World.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-12-22
FIG. 3.

which will make it complete and solid
(sce Illustration, Fig. y In packing
the last row, reverse the order, plac-
ing the head against the end Of the
box, letting the feet pass under each
other. Lastly, fill tight with straw, so
that the poultry cannot move This
gives firmness in packing that will
prevent moving during transportation.
Care should be taken to have the box
filed full.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-12-22
POULTRY FOR MARKET.

Directions rs to the Best Method Of
Packing.
All poultry should be thoroughly
cooled and dried before packing, pre-
paratory Tor shipment 10 market For
packing the fowl provide boxes. us
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-12
A Quick-Witted Ambassador.

Quick wit often saves life. A
historic incident illustrative of this
was that in which Halton, one of the
officers Of Charlemagne's household,
played the leading role. Upon one
occasion Halton, according to the
story as it comes to US, went on an
embassy to- the Byzantine court, where
he was invited by the Greek Emperor
to dine, and placed by him in the
midst of his mobiles There was an
established law among the Greeks
that no one at the Princes table
should turn over the body of any an
imal that was served up, but that
they should eat of the part that was
uppermost On this occasion a fresh
water fish was brought up, garnished
with various sauces, and the ambas-
sador, who knew nothing of the Gus.
toms of the country, unfortunately
turned the fish over upon which the
courticrs filled with Indignation, arose,
and addressing the Emperor, said:
g. ''Do not suffer yourself,O Emperor,
to be.treated with a disrespect that
was never shown to any of your an
cestors. Command that this stranger,
who has broken your laws, be instantly
put to death"
The Emperor answered, turning
to Halton and signing, II cannot re-
fuse the request of my lords, but ask
of me any other boon but that of your
life and l will grant it,"
Halton reflected for a moment, and
then said, II will only ask of you a
small favor; grant that all those who
saw me turn the fish over may have
their eyes put out"
The Emperor, astonishel at the
strangcness OF this request, vowed
that he had not seen it done, and had
only pronounced the word of Others.
The Empress also was perfectly
positive that she had seen nothing OF
it, and the mobiles made the same
declaration. The result was that as
no one had seen the offence, Halton
could not be punished for it.-Harp
er's Young People.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-12
Don't Brag.

There is no more childish trick
than the too common one of Boosting.
One encounters it everywhere, par
ticularly where ones antecedents are
not realized by the listeners. Older
people indulge in it more than their
children, who seem to have a keener
sense-in this way-of the ridiculous.
and women are far more prone to it
than men. This is, however, be-
cause they care more for the pomps
and vanities of this world than do
men in general. III a man has a
weakness for fine things. for swell
society and acquaintance he is pretty
sure to allow his folly to creep out in
the GRIN of brag. Such folks should
serve as object lessons for their fell
lows In that sense they are of use
in the world.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-12
Wales Most Popular Daughter.

OF the three daughters Of the
Prince Of Wales by far the cleverest
and the one possessed of the largest
amount of savoir faire is Princess
Victoria now %, who has long been
her mothers right hand and who
carries on half her correspondence
and supp les by quickest and shrewd-
est tact her mothers want of hear
ing. She is hearty, Jolly, merry, and
full of aplomb. and there is no doubt
that if she and her younger sister
were suddenly thrown on their own
resources the two young ladies would
soon make their way in the world,
the elder OF the two leading. The
Duchess Of Fife, on the contrary is of
a sentimental and dreamy character
and more fond of novel reading than
of the practical work of housekee ping.
All three of the Wales girls are very
like the type of the royal house of
Guelph. especially their eyes and fore
heads, and the two Youngest are very
similar in character and disposition
also. The Duchess of Fife cares moth.
ing for display and state, and would
be quite content to be free from the
etiquette of a court.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-12
Florida Dry Rot.

A writer in Harper's Young People
tells this story Of an experience in IN
old Florida house: Some rooms in
Florida have carpet on the floor, but
most don't. My room didn't have
any, Of course sat down on the
side OF the bed to pull off my shoes,
and heard something break l
thought it was the side piece of the
bedstead. 'lt's the climate" said l
to myself; "it's made me so fat that
Pm breaking the furniture" held
the lamp down and looked, but the
bed was all right, so l sat down
again, and the minute ! touched the
bedstcad the cracking began again
$50 it," said l, land We'll see what
will happen. The cracking changed
into crash, and bang went one leg
of the bedstead right through the
floor. In those houses the floor above
is the ceiling of the room below, so
part of my bedstead stuck through
into the parlOr, and thew picked the
castor OFF the parlor floor. 1t was dry
rot, that was all. In that climate
the dry rot works away at the inside
Of board, and eats it all away but
little crust on the outside; so the
board looks perfectly sound when it
has no strength at all, and as soon as
any weight is put on it it breaks
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-12
A Living Net.

At Tetuila, one of the islands of
Oceania. M. Aylic Marin witnessed
peculiar method of fishing. The
scene. as he describes it, is pictur-
esque and interesting. The costume
Of the natives Of Tetuila is a kind of
short tunic OF sea-weed or leaves.
They powder their hair white with
chalk, and wear wreaths Of gardenias
or red hibiscus on their heads ard
around their neckS The warriors,
unlike the men OF peace, powder their
hair red. AS their locks are very
long they have quite terrible ap-
pearance.
At signal all the inhabitants Of
the village assembled on the sea.
shore. There were about 200 per.
sons They plunged into the water.
each carrying a bunch of cocoa palm.
At given distance from the shore
they turned toward it, and formed a
compact half circle, each one holding
his palm branch perpendicularly in
the water, thus forming Il kind Of
seine. The leader of the PARTY gave
a signal, and this living net ap-
preached the shore gradually, in per.
feet order, driving before it multi
tude of fishes. Surrounded by this
living wall, and caught in the cocoa
palm branches, many of the fishes
were cast on the sand by the waves
and Others we're killed with sticks
The women gathered up the fishes
in baskets. Some were at once taken
to the cabin of the chief of the vii
lege, and some were cooked for NJ.
Marin over hot Goals, and given to
him without seasoning, but with
bananas and cocoa milk to complete
the meal.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-12
A Fresh Translation.

The small boy had been irritating
his father with many vexatious ques-
tions about psalm he was studying
for Sunday-school next day.
"Father, what does 'SeIah' mean, I"
was the latest
shut up!" said paterfamiiias.
The boy said nothing, but in Sun
day-school the psalm was under dis
cuSSion.
''Who knows what the word 'Selah'
means?" asked the young superin-
tendent.
The small boys hands went up
and he was halfway out of his seat.
No one else raised a hand.
'.Well," said the superintendent
''Shut up" sail the small boy.
And, seeing the look on the teachers
face, added, lit is; asked papa, and
he said shut up!'"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-12
GIANTS AMONG THE PLANETS,
Mighty Jupiter. Whose Diameter Is Eleven
| Times That Of the Earth.

Mighty Jupiter. Whose Diameter Is Eleven
Times That Of the Earth.
Our most eminent astronomers do
not pretend to give us exact reckoa-
1ngs on the great floating worlds out.
SIDE VI our own solar system, but with
In that monstrous aggregation every
tnlng has been redu ed TO certainty.
The kingpin OF this solar system is
jupiter, mighty Jupiter, the colos.
sal giant of the sun-kissed worlds"
his diameter is about SO, 900 Of our
miles. being about eleven times that
OF our own globe; the circumference
275, 900 miles at the equator, which
would give the giant a volume ex-
ceeding that OF the earth /, pa times.
were 1T possible, says the St Louis
Republic, to bring the earth and
Jupiter so close together that the
distance separating them would be
no greater than that which now sep
arates the earth fsom the moon
about 2lO. 600 miles-what a wonder
full sight would be in store for the
residents of our little globe. The
world OF Jupiter would appear to
have diameter forty times larger
than that of our usual mighty at
tendant. and the surface of his disk
would occupy space greater than
that of 1900 full moons. And this
giant OF planets is removed from the
sun by a distance Of 496, 900, 900 miles;
has an orbit of more than ]. 900, OOO,.
OOO miles in extent, and makes a cir
Gu t of its celestial track once every
1882. days. Thus it will be seen that
year on Jupiter is equal to eleven
years ten months and seventeen DAYS
on our globe. The immensely Of the
world OF Jupiter and its orbit may be
approximately measured by this COM
parison: In order to complete it's
orbit in the time given above it must
speed around the sun with velocity
of 700, 600 miles day, or little
more than eight miles per second.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-12
"A Lover of Tobacco.

1t is said that the camel is lover
Of tobacco. Let any one smoke pipe
or cigar in the camel compound, said
he. and the camel will followed the
smoker about, place his nose close to
the burning tobacco, inhale the
fumes with prolonged sniff, swallow
the smoke, then throwing his head
up. with mouth agape and eyes up-
turned showing the bloodshot whites,
will grunt a sigh of ecstacy that
would make the fortune of a low
comedian in love scene. On the
whole however, 1t is well that you
should not teach your pet camel how
to smoke, as the habit is an expensive
one.