The Press., 1896-07-23

tainty the boundary line of the disputed territory and holds that the line laid down by Great Britain is forgery. The dispute now seems to be In fair way to- ward peaceful settlement.
 Ex-President Harrison will take an ac- tive part in the political campaign. He expects to speak number of times, and will deal with the silver question as fully as he Is able. Few men in the country are better equipped to discuss it with in- telligence and lucidity, and it is to be hoped that the Generals engagements on the stump may be as numerous as his time and strength will permit.
 A Rome, N. Y., farmer has discovered that the army worm is killed when it comes in contact with salt. To confine the worms when they are operating he is putting a windrow of salt around the field, or to protect growing crop that is not infested he will run a line of salt around that. From experiments he
 
 he Is confident that when the worms un- dertake to crawl over the row of salt enough salt will adhere to the worms to destroy them. The result of the expert ment will be communicated to the public.
 The news of the death of Ex-Governor William E. Russell, of Cambridge, Mass, last Thursday night, was received with surprise and regret. He died last week of heart disease, at St. Adelaide, Que. where he was camping with friends, who found him dead in his bed the next morn ing. He was in his fortieth year, and had bright future before him. He was one of the leaders in the work for sound money at the recent convention at Chica- go. He was one of the most accomplished and brilliant young men of New England, and 1t was his ability, noble character and impartiality which won for him the election as governor of Massachusetts on the democratic ticket three successive years.
 The trustees of Storrs Agricultural col lege met at the Capitol last Thursday. There were present Trustees E. Stevens Henry, Rockville; Henry 0. Miles, treas urer, Milford; T. s. Gold, secretary, Cornwall; Josiah M. Hubbard, Middle town; Dr. Andrew Hyde, Norwich; w. A. Hammond, Putnam; also Prof. B. F. Rooms, Prof. c. s. Phelps, and Henry s, Patterson of the faculty. It was decided 10 erect a new dairy building at cost oi $1, 900 to $1,2OO, and buildings for poul- try raising, to cost $4OO. The details oi the dedication of the new girls domitory in the latter part of August were left to the faculty. Resolutions regarding the death of Ex-Lieutenant-G Governor Hyde, of Stafford, for many years trustee of the college, were adopted.
 The ravages of the army worm con- tinues in many localities, and many farm CTS are working day and night harvesting their grain and hay. Prof. Jenkins of the Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station was seen Saturday morning rela- tive to his experiments looking toward discovering some means of effectually combating the army worm. He and Dr. Sturgis have been working on this line several days. Dr. Sturgls said that if farmers take the proper precautions be- fore the worms enter 8 field there will be but little damage. The pests will not cross a stone wall, which is the most common method used here for dividing fields, but will enter a lot by the gate. Taking advantage of this, if deep trench is dug around the gate so that the worms fall into 1t, and they ale then sprayed with kerosene and burned, it will be found as effective as any method. Again, if the vegetation in the corner of the field in which the worms are found to be ap- preaching, is thoroughly sprayed with paris green, 1t will be found to check their progress. Dr. Sturgis said he was conducting experiments with various dis eases common to vegetable feeding worms, and hopes to soon discover one which may be effectua.l
 The Philadelphia Ledger says: "An almost incredible but true story is told of skilled mechanic, with enough intelli- gence to earn B2O per week, who has an idea that the ratio 16 to 1 means that he could, under free coinage, get 16 silver dollars for gold dollar. He sent a re- quest last week to the cashier of the shop in which he was employed that he should hereafter be paid one-half his salary in gold. Asked what he wanted the gold for, he replied that, being single man, he could live on half his earning, and he had made Hp his mind to save the other half in gOlh. so that, in the event of thr election nf Bryan as president, he cOul.I get $ICO for each $1O in gold ho had say.sl"
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