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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29
PlOWlNG.

The subject OF blowing will always in
terest farmers as long as the world lasts,
tecause all practical farmers know that
good blowing lies at the very foundation
Of successful farming. A man may have
good land, but unless it is properly
plowed and prepared for seed, he will
not be likely to obtain the best crops
which its soil is capable of producing.
AS rule, the poorer the soil, the more
pains must be Saken to pulverize and
make it fine to a certain depth.
A deep, rich soil will usually produce
a fair crop when only hall plowed, but
it will do better when plowed better, 1t
is said that on the fat, virgin prairies OF
the West, a considera bic crop OF corn has
been raised merely by chopping through
the sod with an ak, and placing the seed
in the incision with no other tillage
whatever.
The proper depth to pillow has always
been a subject OF debate, probably be-
cause soils OF different depths and COM
position require different depths of plow-
ing. and one mans experience on one
kind OF soil does not coincide with an
other mans on different kind.
/ The consensus of opinion-and my eX-
perience agrees with it's that a deep
soil will bear deep blowing, and the
crops be the better for it in the long run,
says the Country Gentleman. 1t keeps
a larger amount OF earth aired, warmed
and sweetened, it makes it easier for the
roots OF plants to strike down deeper to
obtain moisture in dry weather, and like
dry sponge it holds more OF the rain
fall and holds it longer. 1t was easy for
DR.. Franklin to believe in blowing deep
while sluggards sleep Had he been a
farmer instead OF a printer, he would
have found thata thin soil requires shall
low blowing, and is nearly ruined by
deep blowing, unless the surface is
coated with good stable manure. The
stereotyped direction OF the farm papers
and the correct one is to deepen a thir
soil gradually by turning up little more
every time it is plowed, and manuring
the surface.
There is no doubt that on some soil:
which are naturally fine and porous, a
good crops can be raised by merely mel
lowing few inches OF the surface, with
out turning it over. This is the genera
practice in India where the average yiel,
OF wheat is nearly as much as it is il
this country.
Mr.. Waldo F. Brown says: at is
fact certainly that oats make bette
yield and withstand drouth better wit
, three inches Of very mellow earth on
. hard foundation" have no doubt tina
, he is correct about the better yield, bu
: think he may be mistaken in regard t
the withstanding OF drough better. H
, also say that he has met men at the il
, stitutes who were sure that a shallow
= fine seed-bed gave best results in cor
culture" l think the soil on thes
l mems farms was good, but not deeE
, and that the subsoil was not very con
= pact.
i Horace Greeley was at first, like D
! Franklin, all advocate OF deep plowin,
: but afterwards modified his opinion an
: favored deep stirring instead OF dee
b turning OF the soil.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29
Bad Air in Theaters,

1t is alleged on scientific authority and
seems quite worthy of belief that the air
of theaters is the worst that is breathed
except in mines, for there are no other
buildings into which people are so closely
crowded for hours at a time. Prisons, bar
racks, schools, factories, hospitals, Offices
places that are occupied constantly or
which, being used in daytime, require
lighting by many windows that do some
service as ventilators-are bad enough, yet
in many mills, with their thousands of OPP
eratives and with chemical fumes and
floating dust in the air, the lungs take in
less impurity than is received at the thea
ter and the concert hall.
That the MILL with its air containing 10
per cent, of impurity, works more harm
than the theater with 30 per cent. of poison
in its atmosphere, both illustrations being
| extreme, is due to the fact that the opera
| tives breathe the 10 per cent. adulteration,
say sixty hours a week, while the theater
gOer, who perhaps attends a performance
| two nights in the seven, takes but six or
seven hours of his mixture Still, lack of
immediate bad results at the play does not
| excuse managers and owners from their
neglect to furnish air for their patrons. &C.
S, Montgomery in Engineering Magazine
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A PkNTheR's JEALOUSY.
A Strange Story from New Mexico Of a
Brute's Vengeance.

Brute
A strange instance Of jealousy in an ami
NAL is reported from a ranch in the range
northwest Of Silver City, \. NJ. A Next
can named Juan Lopez some years ago
caught a young mountain lion and raised
il as a pet. He had the animal complete
ly under subsection, and it was as docile
with him as a house cat. The lion is now
about years old, and is full grown, but it
has always been accustomed to sleep at
the foot Of the bed of its master, and has
followed him like dog when he went
around the place Lopez had the lion
trained for hunting, and it was always
with him except when he came to town.
1t had never shown any dangerous dispo-
sition when with other people, and would
allow visitors to fondle it.
Lopez recently married, and his bride in
sisted that the lion should be madeto sleep
out of the house, as she was afraid of it.
| Lopez assented to her wishes and built a
| house for his pet near the door of his cabin.
| When he attempted to make the animal
90 in it that night the brute for the first
| time was disposed to rebel against the
wishes of its master and the result was
that it received whipping. 1t went sui
lenly into the box but all night long the
Mexican and his bride could hear its low
growls. Next morning the animal SUNK
into the house and curled up in a corner,
repulsing the caresses of its master. 1t
was sullen all day, but the bride noticed
that it watched her constantly, and she be-
came so nervous that she insisted that her
husband should get rid of the big lion, and
he promised to do so as soon as possible.
| The second night it went to its hut out
side with little opposition, and next morn
ing Lopez started to town to find a pur-
chaser for his pet. He left the animal at
home and told his wife to pay no attention
to it, but 90 about her work as if it was
not in the house. Lopez had no difficulty
in finding "a purchaser for his lion, and
about > o'clock in the evening started home.
He arrived home after dusk, and was sur
prised to find the house dark. AS he en-
tered the place and CROPPED about he STUN
bled over something on the floor Stoop-
ing down he discovered that the object was
woman's body. He quickly struck a
light, and was Mortified at the sight chat
met his gaze.
The young wife had been torn to pieces
by the savage brute. The struggle could
not have been long, as the marks of the
teeth showed that the lion had jumped
} upon her back and broken her neck at the
first bite. 1t then had torn the victim tc
shreds. The animal, after completing his
bloody work, had fled to the mountains
and has not since been seen.
The young husbands grief was so great
that he became insane and had to be con
: fined to prevent him from taking his life
Cor. Chicago Tribune.
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APPLICATION OF MANURES.

Because it is frequently asserted in
print that most farm manures lose a
good portion OF their fertilizing elements
through exposure to the weather, before
they are applied to the lands where
wanted, it has grown TO be customary
with certain class OF farmers to think
that it is scarcely worth their while to
get their regular accumulatons OF ma
nures on to the fields, and as a conse-
quence they are permitted to leach
away into the streams. In this way
their usefulness is lost, not only as fer
tilizers pure and simple, but as aiding in
putting the soils in the best physical
condition for the production of crops as
well. 1t is now quite generally under
stood, but not always clearly enough
borne IN mind, that the productiveness
GLANDS does not necessarily depend upon
their fertility alone. Moisture, light
and heat are the three great elements
that must ever be present in greater or
less degree, and it is TO their faculty OF
aiding in the distribution OF these
through the soils that the coarser ma
nures OF the farm largely owe their value
Ordinarially these manures are thought
OF simply from the standpoint OF theil
fertllizlng values, and upon this basi:
their true worth is easily lost sight OF
When 1t is kept in mind that they per
form a double function at one and the
same time their real value is then in &
fair way to be appreciated and to be made
use of in every day practice. Let the
farmer once thoroughly realize that tht
hundred loads OF manure that he ha:
taken the pains to haul to his fields anC
meadows TO be turned under by tn,
pillow and incorporated into the soil, ha
another value distinct and separate from
that OF its fertilizing materials, and i
furnishes turning point to his enter
prise, and the manures are not left t,
leach themselves away in the yards be
fore being transferred. to the fields, but
they are actually hustled off to the field
betimes, and the fields are to be &C
counted gamers thereby by the exac
amount of fertilizing material that
would have been dissipated by the man
ures in the regular course OF things il
left lying in the yards for an indetinit,
time.
The better crops often realized from
piece OF ground by reason OF change o
crops are not usually to be accounted 10
solely upon the hypothesis OF a rene wee
fertility OF soil. 1t is rather a result o
the better physical condition of the soil
Actual analyses of soils, together will
experiments conduct ted upon them hay
served to demonstra te that the produc
tiveness ola certain soil is far out OF pro
portion to its fertility, owing TO its i'm
proved physical condition brought abou
by an intelligent application OF manures
Reflections OF this sort should move ou
farmers generally to a little NOR,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

There is a maiden within the limits OF
greater Boston who bushes furiously at
the mention of one little word of three let
ters-sir. 1t is a short story. There was
a little entertainment at the academy
where Alice graduated. She attended, OF
course, and was introduced to a charming
young man-an undergraduate. He sug-
gested that we stroll in the Corridors" she
said afterwYSd toher most intimate friend,
land we talked about dances, the pro-
fessors and the same old things. Then he
tried-oh, he must have forgotten himself,
and / won't tell you what he tried to do
wanted to bring him to his senses SIR |
said sternly, drawing myself up to my full
height. Quicker than lightning he
Strengthened himself, and, with twice as
much dignity as | had, said in a tone of
freezing interrogation, Madam | al
most fell through the floor had not
been doing thing, and he knew it, but
blushed and felt as cheap as if had tried
toto put my arm around his waist,"-
Boston Herald
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II. VI. Stanley Claims to Be "a Briton.

Though Of British birth and parentage,
have spent the greater part Of my life in
travel and exploration in foreign lands,
and when returned two years ago to live
in England | was a naturalized citizen of
the United States, but in all my wander
ings have seen no power so great and so
beneticent as the British empire, and felt
that my birthright of English citizenship
was a privilege | could no longer forego.
therefore resumed the allegiance of my
birth, and resolved that if ever | could
serve England again in any way there
should be no barrier to overcome. Ny one
mastering desire is for the maintenance,
the spread, the dignity, the usefulness of
the British empire. | believe that we
Englishmen are working out the greatest
destiny which any race has ever fulfilled,
but we must go on or we shall go back
H. VI. Stanley's Address.
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A Longer Sitting Than the Senate's.

A correspondent writes: With respect
TO your article on long sittings and long
speeches, will you allow me to point out
that the longest sitting in the house of
commons was three hours longer than the
30 hour sitting of the American senator 1t
was in 1881 when the house met on the 3lst
of January, at in the afternoon, and con-
tinued sitting all that night, all day on
Tuesday, the LIST of February, and all Tues
day night, till the speaker closed the de-
bate at $3.50 on Wednesday morning The
house had then sat Al hours. london
News
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Foreigners in China,

According to the report of the inspector
general of customs at Shanghai, there
were in China in 1890, l,l53 citizens of the
United States, 3,3l1 British, 64S Germans,
$50 French, Al Dutch, 81 Danish, 304 Span.
ish, l55 Swedes and Norwegians, 1871 Rus
slams, G5 Austrians, 2s Belgians, "a ItaI.
ians, SIS japanese, 6l0 Portuguese and .
Brazllians-a total of s,0Sl. Thus it an.
pears that there are only about 5000 for.
eigners in China altogether, and there are
nearly three times as many British as
United States citizens. Washington Star
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His Heart Moved.

"Were you ever shot in the war, colonel'"
asked the young woman Of the warrior,
after listening To some Of his blood cur
ding "reminiscences of the late unpleasant
ness
"Once only. \ bullet struck me right
here, - putting his hand directly over his
heart.
Dear me-" she cried. "Why didn't it
kill your That is where your heart is, -
True" returned the colonel, lit is
where my heart is now, but at the time
was shot, fortunately enough. my heart
was in my mouth. Harper Magazine
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29
NEVADA.
SCHUBERT.

oh, winter snow shall whirl and drift,
And spring shall kiss the mead and mere;
And summer days may follow swift
Where all the lilies lean and lift,
Till autumn shadows chill and scar.
Oh, far beyond the lambert west
The moon shall mask her shining eye;
But thou, blithe soul, forever blest.
Shalt glad the world with thy bequest
The songs that live and shall not die,
The theater's gilded, shallow glare,
The hum of jeweled vacancy,
The tinsel pageant's fret and blare,
The buskined stride, the tragic stare,
Are not, oh, happy heart, for thee.
But thine the hearth and thine the fire,
And thine the comrade, pipe and bowl,
The child, the wife, the hearts desire,
The strings Of Gods great human Tyre,
Are thine, thou singer of the soul.
w. ]. Henderson In New York Times.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29
The Noon Made of Butter.

All English speaking people refer to the
moon as she and the sun as "he" In
Hindoo mythology, however, the " goddess
of night" is male deity, supposed to be
the son of the patriarch Atri. young
man who was transferred to the realms of
space because he was too good to associate
with other human beings. The Malays,
Siamese and several classes and castles of
the Chinese speak of the moon as the great
milk curd or butter ball which arose from
the primeval sea of milk when it was
churned by the gods to procure the much
priced beverage of immortality.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

SO far rs this country is concerned, we
can declare war only by bill passed by
both houses of congress and approved by
the president. That would take some
time; but ms soon ms the bill was a law we
could begin hostilities. OF course all other
countries do not require such parliament
AIRY preliminaries to a declaration of war;
so that a country could declare war by
actually beginning hostilities.-New York
Sun.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

The migration of birds is due to instinct.
But this instinct may be easily overcome
and suppressed. On the roof of the city
hall in Donauwoerth (Bavaria) a couple of
storks have nest which they have not
left for three years. The first time they
remained because there was a young bird
too weak to fly south. The parent birds
were not willing to leave their little one
and stopped to feed it. They liked the
winter and have sta in their nest ever
since, having reared young every year, all
of whom left when the cold season came
and the rest Of the storks departed for the
south. But the old couple remain and do
not seem to have any worse health for be
ing exposed to the cold northerly winters
on a nigh house t0p.-Boston Advertiser
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Nome but the Brave. Etc.

He was poor but nervy, and she was
beautiful and rich.
Will you marry me'" he asked plumply
Why she exclaimed, chow abrupt Won
are, You won't give me time"
i can't do it," he snapped. This is n
cash transaction"
And 50 they were married and lived
happily to good old age.-Detroit Free
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

Dentists are great users of costly met
ais. Besides gold for stoppings. two-sev
enths of the worlds consumption of plat
mum is employed by them in making the
wires by which the artificial teeth ar.
firmly fastened to plate.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

Now that the great Kanawha is both
slack water and toll free the coal operators
there are quietly at work preparing to mine
and ship by river about 80 per cent more
coal than has ever come out before. They
are not publishing the fact to river shippers
on other streams however.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29
Keen Ii LIN All the Year.

Many man who appreciates the good a
little outdoor exercise does him in the
summer neglects it in the winter. Thus
he quickly eNhausts the extra physical
force he acquired during warm weather,
and yet wonders why on earth he takes
cold SO quickly when exposed to a
draft.-New York Herald.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

Two expressmen in Spokane had a dis
pute over dime, which resulted in a
fight. Two hours later each paid in the
police court fine and costs amounting TO
sl1, and the question of who owned the
dime wasn't settled either.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29
Do Diamonds Breels

hues assures us that diamonds breed,
ana that certain princess of the house of
Luxembourg had two which had family
IN the course Of a reasonable time The
same interesting assertion is also made by
eoethius.-Paris Figaro.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

American life companies have already
paid SIPS, 100000 in matured endowments
10 over $1,000 persons, who have Thus
found themselves enriched and made mora
Independent as unproductive years came
into yiew.-Dayid n. Holway in Arena
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when Parchment Was Fret vr.,

parchment is thought to have been first
used about the Third century, b. Z. 1t
was superior in many ways to every other
material. Even at the present day the use
Oh parchment for documents of Importance
World. e" AoiN
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

Do not make the mistake OF planting
your fruit trees too close. For apples
give not less than thirty feet each way,
and for some OF the larger growing sorts
forty is better. Pears and cherries
should have twenty feet. Ii you wish
to economic space you may cultivate
some small fruit between the trees for a
few wears,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

Elsie heard her mother say that the new
hired man spoke broken English. When
her brother came home from school. she
said. "Oh, Jack, the new man is a broken
Englishman, and he can't talk plain"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

The heirs of Dumas, pere, are still en-
!oylng an income of about s. 900 year
from the sale of his novels, of which he
wrote about 300. Two or three furnish
most of the revenue.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

There y this singularity about photo
graphs-a pretty picture is invariably "the
perfect image of her." while poor picture
doesn't look bit like her."
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

A man has great advantage of woman
IL his face is ugly, he can turn out his whis-
kers and hide it.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

! The national capitol and the grounds rep.
resent a cash outlay of about ~, 600 600
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

Blue grass is the king OF grasses for
pasture. For sowing the ground should
be thoroughly pulverized and about
twelve pounds per acre sown. 1t may
be sown either in spring or fall.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

An orchardist says: l would not take
as gift peach tree OF more than one
years growth from the bud. Ii was
planting seedlings would set them al
oze year old from the seed. l would
sooner pay thirty cents each for peal
trees one year old from the graft or bud
than twenty cents for two-year-old tree
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-29

Glasgow BARRIERS have denounced lady
shavers.
, 1894-10-09

Dies finb einiee Ser &rauf6eiteu, mel,
DIE onrh Oa8 &arl8baber 6pruoelials
turtrt lperoen. Daiielbe lift in @trts
ltdfett oa8 perOantpfte, per0idtete, funs
3entrirte Wofier ser SpruoelqueIe. @eit
Sabrbnnoerten 9enieBt &arl8bao ben
QSeltrlt 9e9en alle &ranfbeiten o6en
on9e9ebener 2Irt OaS idneuit uirfenoe,
ouf Die 0ouer furirenOe, natGrli6e
9eilnttttel 5u ~liefern.
Wtan bite fi6 Dor 0eada6mrnqen,
DIE al8 roer6eiierte8" (''improved") 0oer
rfitnitltbe8" &arl8baoer @ols, oa8 nlr
aus 9ep0bnlident @ei0lisz Yuloer unO
@lanberial5 beltebt, BON 9erpiIIenloien
9dnolern auf ben tpo6ler,uor6enen 9lu5
oe5 dd)ten @rttfel8 lin p%erfauft wer6en.
Wtan iiber3euge ftfL mir oaS Gdte, irts
portlrte &arl8baOer Gpru0eliala nit Dem
Ste9el Oer @taOt &arl8ba0 1u0 Der @iqs
nattr bon r@t8ner & Mem0el{on
90, G9entett, Stem Oort", auf ieoer
Slafdle, 81 erbalten.