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The free press., 1894-08-16
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Insane people have the largest
brains.
1t is said that whales can remain
lnder the surface of the ocean for an
nour and half.
Fruit cannot stand freezing, be-
cause it ruptures the cells of the fruit
and decay takes place.
South American monkeys are the
only lower animals that can recognize
the meaning of picture.
A branch always causes knot in the
tree, and any obstruction of the flow
of sap will usually cause knot also.
A noted botanist is authority for the
statement that among all the leaves OF
meadow, field and forest, there are no
two that are exactly alike.
The sewage of Los Angeles, CAL, is
conveyed sixteen miles out into tho
Pacific ocean and there finds an exit
thirty feet below the surface of the
water.
P..steur, the French scientist, has
shown that fruits and vegetables, when
undergoing even partial decay, cantain
bacteria, which, if taken into the
stomach, may cause disease.
Leuenhoek says that 1000, 600 webs
spun by young spiders when they first
begin to use the spinneret are not, II
twisted together, as great in diameter
as hair from human head.
The French chemist, Berthelot, pre-
diets that hundred years hence food
will consist of pillules of highly con-
centrated nitrogen, fat, starch and
sugar, and meals will be ordered from
chemists.
The most expensive thermometer in
the world is in use at John Hopkins
University, Baltimore. 1t is an abso-
lutely correct instrument, with grada.
tions on the glass 30 fine that 1t is
necessary to use microscope to read
them. 1t is valued at $4,000.
A physician recently lecturing upon
physical exertion declared that if only
twenty minutes day were spent in
physical exercise us IN adjunct to men,
tai education, most people might live
to seventy without days illness, and
perhaps prolong their lives to 100
years.
Those who have tried the expert.
ment affirm that large sponge hung
in the room, If it can be behind a con-
venient screen, and kept constantly
wet, will greatly assist in keeping the
room cold ,or cloth hung In the win
dow over the blind will cool the room
as IL shower had fallen.
The free press., 1894-08-16
over the floating butter in the churn

over the floating butter in the churn
two gallons of cold water, in which
teacup of fine salt has just been dis
solved. Let it stand for moment,
then manipulate with the dash us in
the usual manner i'll completing the
churning, and the chances are the but
ter will be well gathered but in un-
the water containing the salt increases
the density or specific gravity of the
buttermilk, causing the granules to
rise to the surface 1t also hardens
them, removing certain substance
or coating from their surface, allow
ing them to readily unite under pres
sure such as is obtained by the use of
the dash or revolving churn. Butter
gathered by this process is much firm
er, better granulated, and consequent
ly better favored. The only objec-
tion to be offered is the addition of
salt to the buttermilk but for feeding
purposes, if added to the swill or
house slops, no i'll effects to the swine
are ever observed. When fed to hogs
at clover pasture, the action of salt re-
moves all danger from bloat by simply
increasing their desire for drink. =
American Agriculturist.
The free press., 1894-08-16
GATHERING BUTTER.

Oftentimes both the farmers wife
and professional dairymen experience
considerable trouble in gathering the
butter into solid mass, even after it
appears in the churn i'll small granules
and floats about in the buttermilk.
The usual plan is to manipulate with
the dash until the butter can be re-
moved from the churn in more or
less compact form. Thus treated, it
too often presents n greasy appear
ance, and by the time the usual wash
ing and the proper quantity of salt is
well worked in, the granules are
mostly broken, and the result is that
the output is marketed at low price.
Very much of this trouble can be
avoided by simple process, easily
understood, and within the reach of
all. AS soon as the butter
appears and the process of gathering
is about to take place, then, for an
eight pound churning, pour gradually
The free press., 1894-08-16
FlOrida's Palmetto Lnnds.

There are millions of acres of land
in Florida covered with the palmetto
plant, which, before the land can be
cultivated, must be grubbed out and
burned at considerable outlay OF
labor. If the roots of these plantA
could be ground into pulp and manu-.
factured into buckets and other yes.
sells for domestic purposes, the clear.
ing of new land in the south would be
favorably offset by the market value
of the roots. If, in addition to this,
the tannic acid should be extracted
from the pulp and utilized in the tan.
ming process as recent experiments
have demonstrated can be done. PAL
metto land would soon take on new
salue. - Florida Citizen.
The free press., 1894-08-16
Strong Boards, Sandpapered Heads.


you'll have o bald head before
many years." said q barber to GUS
toner yesterday. "Why? Well, it's
IL very easy matter to tell. Now, while
it would be to my interest to sell you
tonics or hair restorers, tell you that
nothing you can use will prevent you
from becoming bald. have learned
from years of wide experience and
keen observation that when man has
an extremely strong beard he will in.
variably lose the hair on his head. II
seems in these cases as If all the
strength of the hair went into the
beard. don't give this as u mere
theory; have proved to my own sat.
isfaction that it is true. 1t might be
put down as rule that the stronger
tho beard the weaker the hair of the
head. l might also say that / find
that tho less stuff you put on your
head, whether it be water, except as
required for shampooing, tonics, hair
restorers, or oil, the better the growth
of your hair will be. l have no faith
in anything to make the hair grow ex.
cept natures tonic, cleanliness, and
you don't want to overdo that -
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The free press., 1894-08-16
Birds in Attack.
eye.

Birds display great skill and cum
ming in the chase, the attack and in
guarding themselves from injury dur
ing the struggle forsuprernacy. The Sec
rotary bird is the inveterate enemy
and untiring pursuer of the snake
All sorts, even the most venomous, he
hunts with zest that is ut once inter
esting and amusing The snake fees
from his foe, who follows, Watching
every opportunity for II blow. When
the reptile turns, the bird uses one Of
its wings MS shield and strikes with
his foot. The snake buries his fangs
in the wing, but leaves the poison in
the pumage, and the bird escapes un.
hurt Repeated blows from the power.
full claw confuse and disable the snake,
and at last it falls to be at once dis
patched by thrusts of the sharp beak
into its head. The bird then tosses
it's victim into the air, and, catching
II ms il falls, swallows it.-New York
Ledger.
The free press., 1894-08-16
The Even.SOng.

=, most is warm, and now
'. i've is the bird on bough;
! lhe primrose shyly opes'
Watching for its sister stars,
"a eocks adown the slopes
,sr toward the pasture bars.
mat tbickening shadows throng
hall be our even-song'
Into youth, with night above,
Valcome are the wings of love;
into age, when shades grow deep,
Welcome are the wings OF sleep.
me brooding ear receives
,lsncbters from the leaves;
be breeze is like breath
:, seas from shores of spice,
ao heart within us saith,
n arc nigh to paradise.
that discord were u wrong,
hall be our even-song
Into ago, when shades grow deep,
Welcome are the wings OF sleep;
Into youth, with night above,
Welcome are the wings of love.
c,,xroN ScoLLARD, in Harper's Bazaar.
The free press., 1894-08-16
CULTIvATING MELONS AND CUCUMBERs.

To prepare the grounds for melons
and cucumbers, have it finely broken
and well enriched. Have hills about
live feet apart each way and plant
runners are pinched back at the third
Joint, and if the lateral runners are
checked in the same way, the vines
will be more fruitful. Two or three
plants should be left in each hill. To
keep insects away, dust with tobacco
dust. American Farmer.
The free press., 1894-08-16
POPLARVI1LE MISS, THURSDAY AUGUST 49, 1894
Toward night, Just before the train

Toward night, just before the train
reinforced by another engine, pulled
out, he held out his hand ut parting,
saying with smile:
But that line in Virgil-who was
right, Nollie?"
She laughed, and then sighed lit
tie, saying:
"We were both wrong"
"But we are both right now, are we
not?" he asked
For answer she put her hand in his.
The free press., 1894-08-16
FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
THE LoNaEvITYAoF THE HORSE.

TIE ION6EVITY OF THE HUKSE.
The longevity of the horse depends
almost entirely ON the intelligent care
and feeding given to him. If he has to
tax his reserve stock of vitality to do
extra work, or because of insufficient
feed, his life is shortened Just so
much. Overwork tells rapidly and is
both costly and cruel. Horses can be
made more valuable by little care in
teaching them. Put on moderate
load and try giving few lessons. =
American Farmer.
The free press., 1894-08-16
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND dARDEN NOTES.
A good way to chokea valuable COW
is to feed her uncut vegetables.
No dead or dying limbs should be
permitted to remain on tho fruit
trees.
The principal cause of chickens dy-
ing in the shell is too rapid evapora-
ton during incubation.
Poultry, fruit and bees are claimed
as "three crops" that can be grown at
the same time and on the same loca-
ton.
In pasture where there are no trees
few posts should be set to furnish
rubbing places for stock They would
not be as liable to injure the fences by
rubbing.
There is no fodder crop in the world
that will produce SO much with as little
expense as corn. 1t is easily cultivated,
and will keep more stock to the acre
than anything else.
1t can hardly be considered good
management that makes it necessary
to feed the hogs before daylight or
after dark. They need to see we'll t,,
eat to the best advantage.
A poultryman of experience has con-
cluded that the best breed is the one
you have tested and tried as the best
adapted to your section and for your
purpose, There is no bost breed
otherwise.
The Indiana Experiment Station ex-
perimented with different amounts OF
seed oats to the acre-from four pecks
to twelve pecks per acre. The land on
which eight pecks to the acre was
sowed made the lnrgest yield.
Some people invest 800 or less in
the poultry business and are dis
appointed if it does not pay fifty or
100 or 200 per cent. If poultry
would pay at that rate all money
loaners would go into the business.
The farmer who centres his hopes in
grass and cattle will have a much more
even and satisfactory course before
him than the one who depends mainly
on grain. For one thing, he does not
find it so difficult to keep his land up.
1t is said that the best way to test
cabbage seed is to drop some on hot
stove. If the seeds burst and pop
(llke popcorn) they may be considered
of good quality, and those in the pack
age will germinato and produce good
plants
The bull ought to be trained to
work. He can do as much plowing or
drawing of manure as horse. He is
better for use than the horse on the
cultivator, if properly trained, and the
exercise will make him surer stock
getter, and do much to keep him gem
tie.
Wood ashes have never yet been
known to hurt pasture. If you can
procure them cheaply SOW at least fif.
teen bushels per acre aud with them
about 100 pounds of ground bone.
This will give the grass an early start
in the spring and its effect will be seen
for years.
The humane treatment OF the live
stock is matter of first consideration
for every farmer. Regard to the
profit alone should lean to it If moth.
ing elso does The approach OF sum-
mer is an especially fitting time for
their needs and for max
ing them comfortable.
The free press., 1894-08-16
Romance Warmed Over

| Romance warmed UVer.
No Youthful romance warmed over
middle age, I thank you, "said Mrs.
Ia Hunt, with decision to her
\, Edith DAILY. They were gath
\ chrysanthomums at Mapleton,
| Hunts pleasant homestead, where
niece from the west was visiting
Why, auntie, l thought youthful
Inces were the best kind" said
young girl, shyly. (She had
Cn hand herself.)
Ts dearie, 80 they are at your
lying a bright blossom against
irl's flushed face. "You remem-
said warmed over.
Vel, auntie, l don't any objec-
10 having it warmed over if it
all it should have been at first"
urged. 'I'm sure mamma
es l do-that Major Townley
fine man and would make you
|ndid husband.
], dear, that is undoubted-she
SO herself. 1 think it is a
iracy among my friends" said
asrly lady, playfully.
th buried her chin rehectively
elbow mass of bloom, while her
BOXED over it into her aunt's
fesh and not uncomely face.
don't want to be inquisitive,
but oh, l would so like to
what separated you long ago."
Be suddenly.
Hunt started a little, then
afraid it would only spoil the
&c for you," she replied, "the
stances were SO prosaic. Yet
little things Of life that go to
p the important whole. Maj
wiley and l were schoolmates
were young, and 1 cannot re-
When we were not attached to
ptner. We graduated at the
me at the town academy, where
ahttle tincture of latin. It is
sllttle learning is a danger
lag' Certainly it was in our
after We left school we kept
studies together. One even
got into q discussion about
line OF Virgil. We could not
oout the translation, and we
wise enough to argue the mat
'ong and too warmly. Neither
'anlt Of being in the wrong.
'ut was that unkind words
'ten' and our engagement was
oA You must remember that
00sn young-I only eighteen
'yet twenty-one."
'n was in the right2" asked
'Know, dear. I didn't even
matter up. l think we were
~ but We would not nc
\ ssi,so we took separate rouds,
'e are both middle-aged and
Nud l, at least, am a little
ior the major, I have not
for years."
fuat had been a widow for
d > and the gentleman in ques-
!. '0s' Ills wife couple of years
i 'nat mutual friends, know
:. iosmer romance, had been,
: !. : little to otiicious in their
4 'ucct a reconciliation. They
A' time brings wisdom, and
y SDlnable that in the light of
4 years they had lamented the
! " OF youth which had barred
satisfactory explanation.
:. !. " 9AsA' "a later, one dreary De-
\. y 'nere was storm very
3 ~. " blizzard raging in the
\, @'es. The air was laden
/, ! 'hat seemed armed with
l Varied by the gale with
The free press., 1894-08-16

He-That fellow over there cheated
ma out of cool million.
She-How could he?
Wouldn't let me marry his
daughter. Kate Fields Washington.
The free press., 1894-08-16

Over 100 instances are on record
where human bodies, after burial, re-
main uncorrupted for many years.
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The morning call., 1894-07-02

Brewery; Cal BottIing Co; Brewery; c NJ
volkman 6 Co; Smiths Cash store
Per Pomona-A. Paadni: Schilling d Co; A
Crosby: Amer Press Assn: buckingham. Hecht &
Stevens; kedington & Co.. w Fuller q Co.. Cal
Saw Works; Brigham, Hoppe & Co; Captain =
Brown; Dodge, Sweeney Co; Getz Bros il Co; E
L Allen; Dairymen's Union; Hills Bros: Dr J r
Wheaton. Breon a. CO.. Christy IL Wise; 4 l. Hunt;
K r stevens & Co; Enterprise Brewery: Consum-
ers' Ice Co: HUMBOLDT Mineral Water Co; p
Gregory; Holt Bros: de la MOntanya: John +
English; Crowley; Van Drake d Taylor; j H
Newbauer; Western Mfg Co: Jno PennelI
Per Gipsy-Herman Joost: Dutard; whitman
& Mfg Co; Brown Adams; Cowell q Co: NJ
Stein; Dodge, Sweeney & Co: Taylor & Spots
wood: American Union Fish Co: J w Gale & Co;
Dalrymen's Union: Wheaton Breon & Co: Enter
westphal: Brigham. Hoppe Co. Kron Tanning
Co; Wellman. Peek Co; NJ T Freitas q Co; Tay-
for Paper Co; TIllmann Il Bende; Agard S Co; A
Fink: Mau Sadler Co: Knox u Co; Ames s,
Harris Van Winkle; j Newbauer
Per Bonita-Jones & Co: Smiths Cash Store.
II stevens 4 Co: Lowry & Stellar; s Levy & Co ;
Goodali, Perkins 81 Co: Dutard: Neand Brew
ing Co; Roth. Blum & Co: Steinhagen & Co: A
Palfes; w Price IL Co: Changers Business Assn
South San Francisco Packing and Provision Co:
Lind; Getz Bros Il Co; Dairymen's Union: Dodge,
Sweeney Co; Wheaton, Breon & Co: Santa Cruz
Island Co; Moore, Ferguson Co; Sherry, AviIla
& co.
Per Baodorille-Preston & McKinnon: worden
d Little; Nj Detels; Hume & Hart: NJ Volk-
man: Dodge. Sweeney Il Co: smith Il Co: Gee
Stebbins; E Whitney & Co: CoghilI & Cohen:
Miller Sloss ~ Scott: w w Montague Co: Duff
& Co; Dairymen's Union Smiths Cash Store; w
Lenfesty: Timann d Bendel; Winter & Co; X
terprise Brewery; Golden Cats Lumber 90; Har-
ris d. Jones.
The morning call., 1894-07-02
WRITING A BOOK.
Dick Mcdonald at Work
in His Cell.
In the Event Of His Death He Wants
the World to Know the Truth
About His Life.

Dick Mcdonald Is writing book. By the
dim daylight that steals into the prison as if 1t
loathed the place and by the DINNER candle
light that falls over his bent shoulders when
the day is done he writes and writes and writes
ana II his life is spared Ii will not be long be-
fore the author pens the last page.
1t is an interesting story that the retired
banker is writing in the dismal old prison on
Broadway, for il is the story Of his life-its
vicssitudes, trials successes and failures.
Nothing that ever appeared in the California
Magazine during its iridisceni career will equal
IL In Interest, for IL Is a true story. Dick says
1t is. and he ought TO know.
The author was playing checkers with his
wife in The office OF the chief jaier yesterday
afternoon, and neglected his king row long
enough TO say something about his book to a
reporter.
II will show 1t to you." Then, after reflect
ing a moment, latter l have consulted my
lawyer.
ii want the people to know my side of all
that has been said and written about me ana
the bank. They do not know 1t now aud l want
to have it prepared so that IL anything hap
pens to me / will be set right. II is possible
mat the story will never be published. If Ger.
tain people would tell the truth and make the
restitution they are able to make do not know
why 1t should be published, but as l said will
have it ready so that If sickness Or we'll IL any
thing happens, the world will know the
truth"
The author declined to say anything further
about his book or the persons who might tell
the truth and make restitution. He won the
game of checkers and af Ell brief conversation
with his visitor returned TO his cell and began
another chapter of the narrative that will set
him right If anything happens.
The morning call., 1894-07-02
VAN BERGEN'S CRUELTY.
Reasons That Caused His Wife to
Sue for a Divorce.


A sensational suit for divorce has been in
stituted by Alice Van Bergen against her hus-
band, William Van Bergen, a well known
wholesale liquor merchant.
Mrs. Van Bergen alleges that since the date
Of her marriage, November 20, 1890, she has
scarcely known what II is to pass a happy day.
She has been the victim of her husbands iu.
cessant cruelty. Her husband has not only
abused her in words. but he has repeatedly
struck her, and made her llf very mserabl
One night In November, 1891, IL Is alleged,
Van Bergen entered his Wife'S room In the
PlrasantOn ana burned her arm with lighted
cigar as she lay asleep. Then, again. Will the
unhappy couple were keeping house at Sausa-
Ito IN 1898 Van Bergen several times ordered
MS VIE TO pack up her trars and return TO her
mother. He beat her and abused her repeat
! edly while at Sausaito.
lhty returned TO the Plpasanion In the fall
| ol 1893 and Van Bergen resumed his il-lreat-
meht OF his wife. She complains that he
Khocked her down, tore her hair, turned her
! out OF her own room and took keen pleasure in
grossly insulting her in the presence of their
| lllenas. he made no secret of the fact that he
nateo her, and even told as much 10 the SER
| wants III the house.
Mrs. Van Bergen says she repeatedly asked
neT HusDaud IOr some eXI lanation OF all this
lll-treatment, but his sole answer wac that no
did not like her and wanted IN get rid of bar
Finally, In December last she left her hnsband
and has since resided with her mother on pine
street va i"o
In addition to Il divorce, Mrs. Van Reroan
asks Tor reasonable allowance as alin,nnv
She gives her husbands income at $500 and
asks the court TO fix amony consistent win
her husbands means and her social position.
The morning call., 1894-07-02
:RUSSELL's DYED MUSTACHE
1t Made Him Look Like an Italian
- Brigand.


Mrs, Eva B, Russell has filed very de-
termined answer to the cross-complain t
. filed by her husband, John b. Russell, in
the divorce proceedings Instituted by her.
Mrs. Russell denies her husbands
charges of cruelty. She denies that she
ever few into paToxsysms ofrage from time
to time. that she ever used abusive
language TO her husbands sons or that she
ever deliberately set herself to vex and
annoy him. Nor did she ever threaten to
shoot HIN or keep a loaded pistol in her
bureau for that purpose. Mrs. Russell
further denies that she was ever addicted
. TO the use Of intoxicating liquors and she
never STAYED away from home owing to
- her suffering from the effects Of intoxica-
.: tinn;
=. But tits in reference TO the charges of hair
dAeiug That Mrs. Russell wakes eloquent Her
huspdnO having accused her OF being in reality
aDIuhete ana OF bleaching her hair by means
OF chemleals until 1t reached canary or straw
color, she efnDhatically gives him the le Nay,
more. She has something to say on this point
with reference TO her husband
Mrs. RusseI accuses her husband of dyetDe
his mustacne. SIZE says he uses mixture for
tuat purpose 1.-THE color OF stove blackiDp of the
consistency of mucIlage ana OF a verv ohnoyfouS
and dlsagreeaDle odor." She also SAWS thai
he has repeatedly sOiled her face by ktssing her
WithIbis dyed mustache.
Further she states: "Defendan.s mustacbe
is naturally OF brickish-reddish color and
when allowed By defendant TO retain n naturaI
.:auburn hue harmoniZes and matches yerv
nicely with his complexion; but the babitnai
use: of fhe said dye upon bis mustaehr has
given him a very unnatural, bugandish and
Italian appearance, thereby greatly humiIiat-
ing. shamng and embarrassing the plantiH"
With this and the statement that her husband
:. Is aman "Oi low, vulgar and brutal Instincts
does Mrs Russell answer her husbands cross
complaint.
The morning call., 1894-07-02
LAID THE CORNERSTONE.
Ceremonies at the New Verein
Eintracht BuiIdinp.

The cornerstone OF the new Verein Eintracht
building was laid yesterday at Twelfth and
Folsom streets before large gathering OF men,
bers and other spectators.
A procession Of Eintracht men formed at 316
Post street, the present home of the Verein,
ana marched down Powell street TO Market to
Mission, and out TO where the handsome struct-
ure, now in course of erection, is situated at
Folsom and Twelfth streets.
Shortly after the procession arrived at the
building. appropriate exercises began. Grand
Marshal Winters dismissed the Iarade and the
crowd gathered around a temporary platform.
A. EnIZmann was president of the day. He
delivered an orati0n In which he reviewed the
history Of the yerein. and stated there is no
superior German organization In San Fran
cisco T. w. MenZer read poem written for
rbe.occasion. eX-PTesident tfeund delivered a
short address and The Verein singing section
sang at intervals.
President EnZm M laid the cornerstone In
which were placed copies of The daily papers,
coins OF the realm, medals, pictures OF San
Francisco and the fair. and constitutions of the
UnlLed States and the Vefein.
The morning call., 1894-07-02
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