The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, March 22, 1882, Image 4
|| FARM, GIRDED AXD HOUSEHOLD.
:uunse in Horses.
This is caused by an insect. Whitewash
the stable and stalls with lime
and cover the floor also with it, as the
mange insect will live upon the woodwork
for some months, and return to
the horse if not destroyed. Treat as
follows for the disease: Make an ointment
of lard, twelve parts, carbolic
acid, one part, and sulphur, two parts.
Eub these together thoroughly, until it
is -vreil mixed and smooth. "Work some
of 1 his ointment into the affected por.
. tion of the skin twice a day. Give an
ounce of flour of sulphur daily in the
feed, until the perspiration of the horse
cmollc n'irrmerlv r\f if fVion ^ior>nntirmo
it, but continue the use of the ointment
for some time longer, until the
?kin recovers a healthy appearance.
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Experiments in Feedine Hogs.
An Iowa farmer put up thirty OEeyear
old hogs for fattening, acd for the
first twenty days fed them on shelled
corn, of which they ate eighty-three
$ bushels. During this period they gained
827 pounds, or upwards of ten pounds
to the bushel of corn. He then fed the
same hogs for fourteen days on dry com
* meal, during which time they consumed
forty-seven bushels and gained 535
pounds, or ili pounds to me oasnei.
tThe same hogs next fed fourteen days
on corn meal and water mixed, consumed
55? bushels of com, and gained
731 pound?, or 13? pounds of pork to
the bushel. He then fed them fourteen
? days on com meal cooked, and after
ccnsumiDg forty-five bushels of the
; cooked meal the hogs gained 799 pounds,
or very nearly fifteen pounds ol pork to
the bushel of meaL
Experience With Ensilage.
The experience of B. P. Ware is very
favorable to ensilage. Last season he
planted four acres of Blnnt's Prolific, a
Southern corn, some of which grows to
fifteen feet in height, and some will
weigh nine pounds to the stock. He
cultivated with horse-power, and seven
men and two horses were employed in
harvesting; and these were necessary to
keep the cutter running with a sir horsepower
engine (which he ordinarily used
for pumping water). He cut the ensilage
at three-eighths of an inch, and applied
to the silo a pressure of 1000
pounds to a square yard. The silos
were filled with the product of four
acres of corn and three acres of rowen.
In feeding he gave sixty pounds a day,
or two bushels to each cow. His animals
liked it. It increased quantity of
their milk and its quality is excellent.
% - Mr. Ware's silo is thoroughly built of
stone and is cemented, and he believes
this necessary in order to secure the best
results with the least amount cf labor.
?Cultivator.
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Feedlnz Cornstalks.
PA farmer, writing to the American
Agriculturist, says: I have never until
now been able to account for the difK
farent values various people put upon
cornstalks. True, there is a great difference
in different kinds of corn, in
the way it is fed, etc., but after all the
great variation in value is caused by
the dryness. That which is cured
somewhat moist, even if more or less
moldy, is greatly preferred by the cattle
to hard, dry, buttle stuff, which has
lost almost all its flavor and doubtless
a good deal of its nutritive qualities.
Simply sprinkling the portions of stalk
to be fed'next, so that they will have a
% few hours to absorb the water, helps a
great deal, but still it is not at all like
f having naturally moist fodder. If the
water used to soften the stalks is salted
and flavored with a few handfuls of
bran this would make a great difference.
No doubt the best plan to feed corn
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luuuer i? to cat ana steam it, wiin sucn
additions of roots, Dran, etc., as are deg
* sirable. Few can qo this; many, however,
follow what is the next best plan
?to cut the corn fodder and mix it with
. bran; then to pour scalding water in
abundance over the mass and cover it up
with rubber sheets, rubber army blankets,
or place it in a box with a close lid,
so that it will have a good soaking and
"sweating." In whatever way it is fed
it should be cut?the finer the better;
but even if it be cut in foot lengths,
every farmer will find his account for
it. A large part of dry-fed stalks is rejected
and gets into the manure, where
iu is a great nuisance, -first in getting it
out and then in clean culture. Those
of us who cannot afford to cut our corn
fodder fine?to have it "chaffed," as the
English say?can at least be tidy enough
to have it cut in six-inch lengths with
a broad axe or a hatchet.
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P Successful Poultry Raisins.
In raising poultry or stock of any
kind, it should be the aim of every one
to keep it healthy and improve it.
You can do it very easily by adopting
some systematic rules. These may be
summed up in brief, as follows :
1. Construct your house good and
warm, so as to avoid damp floors and
afford a flood of sunlight. Sunshine is
utJiter man mwuiciiie.
2. Provide a dusting and scratching
plac9 where you can bury wheat and
corn, and thus induce the fowls to take
needfnl exercise.
3 Provide yourself with some good
healthy chicken?, none to be over three
or fonr*years old, giving one ccck to
every twelve h?ns.
4. Give plenty of fresh air at all times
of the year, especially in suirmer.
5. Give plenty of fresh water daily,
and never allow the fowls to go thirsty.
v. .ctrcu. uiiciii ojowmaiuy*u ux
three times a day, and scatter the food so
they can't eat too fast or without proper
exercise. Do not feed more than
they will eat up clean, or they will get
tired of that kind of feed.
i?-y r 7. Give them a variety of both dry
and cooked foofi; a mixture of cooked
meal and vegetables is an excellent
thing for their morning meaL
8. Give soft feed in the moiming, and
the whole grain at night, except a little
wheat or cracked corn placed in the
scratching place to give them exercise
during the day.
9. Above ail things keep the henhonse
clean and well ventilated.
10. Do not crowd too many in one
. _ house. If you do, look out for
disease.
11. TTsa earhnlie nowdpr in the dnst
ing bins occasionally to destroy lice.
12. Wash your roosts and bottom of
i?:? laying nests, and whitewash once a
week in summer, and once a month in
winter.
S13. Lat the old and young have as
large a range as possible?the larger i
the better.
14. Don't breed too many kiads of j
fowls at the same time, unless you
are going into the business. Three or
four will give you your hands fall.
15 Introduce new blood into your
stock every year or so, by either baying
a cockerel or sittings of eggs from
somo reliablo breeder.
[16. In buying birds or eggs, go to
some reliable breeder who has his reputation
at stake. You may have to
pay a little more for birds, but you can
depend on what you get. Culls are
not cheap at any price.
17. Save the best birds for next
year's breeding and send the others to
market. In shipping fancy poultry to
market send it dressed.
WnsMusr Batter.
The reason why the dairymen washes
butter is to remove all foreign matter
and retain all the Gutter with its aroma
unaffected, says the American Cultivator
When the buttermilk is drawn off and
the butter left in the churn the latter
i-3 still surrounded vrith many impurities,
of which particles of buttermilk
tare tie most numerous, aiso particles
of caseine or cheesy matter. This latter
matter is more liable to spoil or become
tainted than the butter itself.
Butter becomes rancid through the action
of the osygen of the atmosphere, |
but caseine becomes putrid; the latter i
is being rapidly produced while the ran-!
cidity of the buster is much slower in j
development. One cf the important
problems of the dairy is whether or not
these impurities?viz, buttermilk ana
caseiiie?can best be removed by wash -
- jfig with waterf There is bp doubt that j
' the buttermilk can be all worked out,
! but caseine cannot be so disposed of,
I since it adheres to the butter and can
! only be removed by water. The best
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j memuu ui reuiuvat its as iuiiuws. jjcauic
j making any attempt to gather the but;
ter, and while it is yet in its granulated
| state, or rather in separate particles,
| say about about the size of a pea, the
j buttermilk should be drawn off and a
I quantity of pure, clean water thrown
i into the churn; then agitate the butter
with the water in the churn, draw off
the water, then add more water; agitate
again, and finally draw off all the water
provided the latter is not milky in appearance.
In other words, continue to
add fresh supplies of clear water, and
continue the agitation and the drawing
off of the milky water until the water
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is periecuy Clear aner me agnawuu,
then the washing has had its proper effect.
The butter -will now require little
working, and the grain is not likely to
be broken; bnt if the buttermilk is to
be worked out and with it the caseine it
is very likely that the grain of the butter
will be broken, and the product will
have a saivy appearance, which, when
cut with a knife, instead of having a
blight, shining appearance, will appear
dull as lard. Those who contend for
working the butter in place of washing
urge, as one reason, that the aroma is
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| wasueu uub a-iiu iuai iuo wiviiug vi mo
butter is removed. This is not so, since
the water removes the impurities of the
butter by its mechanical action and not
by its solubility. Tnere is no doubt if
butter be kept for a length of time in
water its color and aroma would be removed,
but this is not the case in simple
washing and tho butter is cot soaked.
In the operation nothing is taken from
the butter that it would be d isirable to
retain. Washing butter, in its effect,
may be compared with the rinsing of
clothes in the washtub. Much labor is
saved in the washing of butter over the
working of the product; and besides,
through the former process the keeping
qualities of the batter are best secured.
Recipes.
Delicious Breakfast Dish.?For any
family of six take three cups of mashed
potatoes, one half a cup of flour, and
: half a teacup of sweet mils, two wenI
beaten eggs, and a little salt; mix well
! together, shape them small and drop
i then; into hot lard, or rcll them into
little balls and fry them in a wire basket
in boiling lard.
Beef Fuddixg.?Cat np nice roast or
stewed beef into neat pieces; lay in a
buttered dish and pour over a few
spoonsful of cold gravy. Let it soak
in while you prepare a batter of a pint
of milk, three eggs, a cupful flour, a
tablespoonful melted butter, a little
salt. Pour this over your meat. Set in
a quick oven to cook through. Serve
hot.
Lemox Pudding.?One lemon grated,
rind and pulp, one cup of sugar, one
cup of water or sweet milk, four eggs,
three tablespoonfuls of flour. Line a
deep dish with pastry crusts, pour the
custard in, bake thirty minutes. Beat
the whites of three or four eggs to a
stiff froth, sweeten, spread over the top
of the pudding and let it brown slightly.
Potato Surprise.?Scoop out the inside
of a sound, good potato, leaving
the skin attached on one side of the
hole as a lid. Mince up finely the lean
of a juicy mutton chop with a little salt
and pepper, put it. in the potato, pin
lirJ and hafcfi. Before serving
(in the skin) add a little hot gravy if
the mince seems too dry.
Household Hints.
In making a crust of any kind, do
not melt the lard in flour. Melting
will in jure the crust.
To boil potatoes successfully: When
the skin breaks, pour off the water and
let them finish cooking in their own
steam.
Iron or steel immersed in a solution
of carbonate of potash or soda for a few
minutes will not rust for years, not even
when exposed to a damp atmosphere.
To remove old paint, cover with a
wash of threo parts quick stone lime,
; slaked in water to which one part pearl
ash is added. Allow th9 coating to
remain for sixteen hours, when the
paint may be easily scraped oft
All iron ware needs thorough cleaning
every time it is used, and none
more than a gridiron. The bars should
be kept perfectly clean and smooth and
buttered every time they are used if
one desires a steak cooked to perfection.
A thin coat of varnish applied to straw
matting will make it much more durable
and keep the matting looking fresh
and new. White varnish should be
on white matting. Use skim milk for
washing oil cloths, instead of soap and
water.
To clean silver coins for numismatic
collections steep them for ten minutes
in Ik ouiuiiuu ui fltumuimi) Aiiiniuo6
i in water and wipe with a dry toweL
Copper coins may be cleaned by immersing
in pure sweet; oil and wiping
dry with a soft rag.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The original name of the city of
Albany, when founded by the Dutch,
was Beaveiwick.
Paracelsus is said to bavo cured a
leper by keeping him fcr sixty hours in
a bath of hot mud.
Statistics show that there are 03,000
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insane paueors in me unicea orates, or
one to every 777 of population.
Nitrate of soda is a good fertilizer,
but cattle lite it and it is a deadly
poison for them to get much of it.
Pliny tells us that Dcedalus invented
the saw. The earliest saw mill of whicn
we have mention was built at Madeira
in 1420.
An inventor named Cools, who died
recently in Saratoga, used to boast,
when a yonng man, that he was master
of twenty sis trades.
The ancient Paeblos were the only
aboriginal people within the limits of
the United States who possessed the
art of glazing their pottery.
Caesar was one of the best judges of
pearls that ever lived. He could at
once tell the weight and value of a
pearl when he took it in hand.
It is said that milk, pricked into the
skin in the same way that the ink wae
oriernallv anclied. will chansre the bine
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color of tattoo marks to red and then
cap S3 them to dissappear.
rhe digestive proccss of a mosquito's
stcmach is so slowly performed that
when the insect has dined on a human
being it continues for forty-eight hours
to exhibit blood corpnscle3.
'T/Empire Tsars," M. Anatoie-Leroy
Beaulieu, eays that the weight of a woman's
brain in Slavonic races is greater
than that of a man's, while among the
Germanic people the brain weight of the
sexes is equal.
In a certain species of beetles the effect
of light upon the male and female
is strangely different. "When released
from a box, the male flies invariably for
the light, while the female seeks to
avoid it by burrowing.
General patent laws have been passed
and promulgated in Turkey and Liberia,
in which countries inventors may now,
for the first time, secure their new inventions.
The Turkish patent law is
snbsi *ntially a cony of the French and
German systems.
A Philadelphia optician has just made
an opera-glass which can be converted,
at a moment's notice, into a photographic
camera. It is suggested that
such an instrument might be fonnd usefnl
in obtaining instantaneous pictures
of criminals without their knowledge.
Slavery bore a different character in
the east from that in the west Under
the Jewish law a slave may marry her
master; the Mussulman, if he possess
a pleasing slave, is likely to make him
heir to his fortune, but ic Europe and
Ampri/v* t.hp Rfipmfi trrts Tint, fin PRsilv >a.
moved.
The number of gold-beaters in the
coontrv is not more than 500.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Miss Pei ry'? It air.
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mere is a young woman ai c-nicopee
Falls, Mass., Miss Ida Ferry, who can
boast a head of hair which probably excells
in abundance and length anything
which has ever been on public exhibition.
In these cases the hair rarely
more than touches the ground; but a
full length photograph of Miss Ferry,
just ta?en, shows her hair trailing for !
half a yard along the floor, though she
is of fully average height. But so much
hair is after all a burden, and soon the
photograph will be the only evidence
of it.?Springfield Republican.
Keep Right On.
A certain circuit judge was always sure
ox meeting some cutting or sneering remark
from a self-conceited lawyer when
he came to a certain town in his ronnds.
This was repeated one day at dinner,
when a gentleman present said:
"Jadge, why don't yon squelch that
fellow?" The judge, dropping his knife
and fork, and placing his chin upoD
his hands, and his elbows on the table,
remarked: "Up in our town a widow
woman has a yallur dog that, whenever
the moon shines, goes out upon the
stoop and bark3, and barks away ;
at it all # night." Stopping short, he
quietly resumed eating. After waiting
some time, he was asked: "Well Jadge,
what of the dog and the moon ?"?"Oh,
the moon kept right on," he said.
enema? Instinct.
Women are especially valuable in the
treasury service, many of them rising to
the proficiency of experts. This is especially
true of them as rapid and
accurate counters, as restorers of mutilated
currency, and as counterfeit detectors.
A man will examine a note
systematically, and deduce logically
from the engraving, blurred vignette,
or indistinct signature, that it is a
counterfeit, and be wrong four cases
out of ten. A woman picks up a note,
looks at it in a desultory fashion of her
own, and says: "That's counterfeit."
"Wliy ?" "Because it is," she says
promptly, and she is right in eleven
cases out of twelve. Yet this almost
unerring accuracy is by no means theresuit
of mere instinct, or of hap hazard
chance. It is the sequence of subtle
perception, of fine, keen vision, and of
exquisite sensitiveness of touch. A
naturally quick woman will in time
command a skill in her work which it is
impossible for men to attain.
A Graceful Action.
The kind queen of Belgium showed
the other day what grace a gentle
courtesy adds to womanhood. In the
Rue Eoyale, as a cabman was wait id g on
the stand, seated on his box, a sudden
gust of wind carried off his hat and sent
it dancing along the street, while he,
unable to leave his horse, was gesticulating
frantically to the passers-by, who,
insensible to his appeals, were enjoying
the scene. Just then the queen drove
by in her pony-chaise and, seeing the
poor man's distress, stopped, and
ordered a groom to get down and rnn
after the hat. Her majesty waited till
it wa3 caughtand restored to its owner,
who, now more embarrassed than
before, did not know how to express hi3
gratitude, biie tlien bowed neracKowiedgements
of the awkward attempts he
made to convey his sense of her condescension,
touched her horses, and
drovo off, having given a lesson to the
little crowd cf rather crest-fallen bystanders,
which it is to be _ioped was
not lost upon them.
Mrs. Garfield.
Mrs. Garfield's venerable father, Mr.
Rudolph, writes thus to a friend concerning'his
daughter and her husband :
"She has borne up wonderfully
under the great affliction through
which she has passed the last year.
First, sick herself awhile, and yet
very weak when her husband was
stricken dowrt by the hand of the
assassin ; then the tedious illness until
death closed the terrible scene. But
we have great reason to be thankful to
God she is now apparentlv well and savs
she feels well, and she is as cheerft.l
as any one could expect her to be. Heis
was more than an ordinary loss; he was
always so kind, so affectionate. I never
knew a husband and father more so. In
all the throng of business, pnblic
and private, he never seemed to
lose eight of his family. Some, you
know, have been anxious to know how
the general wa3 exercised in mind in
the immediate view of death. He was
a wonderfnl exhibition of patience ri
affliction? no murmuring, no complaining.
My daughter tells me that she
heard him say nothing about the
miserable assassin, only that he did not
know why he should shoot him. I rather
incline to ask how a man lived tha:a
how he died."
Sober Men.
A great many people cannot understand
why the femal6 portion of the
community prefer sober men. The
matter is simple enough:
1. WivesiLse sober nnsoanas because
they can reason with a sober man.
2. The sober man ia more compan- j
iocable.
3. Sober men have pride, and pride
is a woman's main hold,
4. Sobriety means a comfortable
home,
5. Good clothes for mother and children.
6. A house of your own.
7. Evenings at home instead of in a
barroom.
8. Better health and the enjoyment
of life.
9. An elevated view of life and a
sense of yonr responsibility.
1U. You are a cedit to your ^ire and
children.
11. People who once despised yon
will now bless you.
12. Yonr words will be ganged as
yon resist the tempter.
13. jloimg men win pat tern a iter
you.
14. You will bo an ornament to society
and the whole town in which you
live.
15. The whole community will take
pride in you and wish they had more
lite you.
16. Your family and friends will appreciate
you.
17. Yonr enemies will admire your
path of sobriety.
18. Scoffers will be disarmed by your
works.
19. Your many qualities will grow
with your years.
F ns-Mcn Notes.
Sleeves made of fine flowers are now i
| on evening dresses.
Moons and large polka spots will be I
cf.vlisli for srsrin!? dresses.
India red foulaids are made tip as j
Mother Hubbard wrappers.
Maiden-hair fern is mixed with orange I
blossoms for brides' dresses.
Embroidery patterns, done in feath- j
ers, appear on new ball dresses.
Small mantles of figured Indian cash-j
mere are worn with black dresses.
Clipped feather rosettes, in pink j
shades, trim newly inported bonnets.
Pare white, without any yellow or
ecru tinge, will be more fashionable
than the creams and ecras.
New moire silks have large satin
flowers on a moire ground or vice versa,
moire flowers on a satin ground.
Gray pink, or ashes of roses, with j
more rose than ashes in the combina- 1
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colors.
The passion flower is a favorite i
design in piinted sateens, and percales j
are used more than silk for fancy cos- i
tnmes.
New French overdresses are looped j
exceedingly high cn the side?, with 1
full drapery in the back, held by wida j
sashes, or gay-colored scarfs.
Some costly antique dresses, made !
in the style of the sixteenth century, |
have lateiy been ordered from Paris by
ladies in New York and Washington.
roze Donneis, wuu cruwiis ui i
colored Turkish plaited plush, arid im?1
mense brims of beaver bordered with
fur trimmiEgs, are conspicaously ngly.
Kid bodices, with bands to trim the
dress of the same material, fans, sandals,
and gloves, all richly * hand-em*
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Droiaerea or nana-pamtea, arc wat
growing in favor in Paris.
Fishes, birds, flower garlands, "lunar"
dots, fern leaves, arabesques, moons,
and odd geometrical acd heraldic figures
are to compose the figure3 upon
some of the new spring dress goods.
A "Wild Horse Kace.
The wildest horse race ever known,
says the Denver, Col., News, took place
on the Denver track on Sept. 10,1860.
The horses were Border Kuffian and
Rocky Mountain Chief, the pnrse
$95,000 in gold. Ruffian was backed
by Tom Hunt, bis owner, and Jim
Harrison, notorions gamblers. Shortly
before, Hunt had murdered a prominent
Mormon, and after a brief trial he
was condemned to hang for his crime.
The scaffold was erected on the outskirts
of Salt Lake, near the overland
road, and the muiderer was to swing
amid all the pomp of a legal execution.
In the excitement attending the preparation
on the morning of the expected
hanging, Harrison entered Ruffian's
stable unobserved and spirited the
racer away. Mounted cn another horse,
and leading Ruffian, Harrison rode to
the gallows unsuspected, slipped two
six-shooters into Hunt's hands, and before
the officials or multitude had re">
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I covered irom meir surprise me oauaws
were charging down the Webber canon
trail at a speed which defied capture.
One of a number of parting rifie shots
killed Harrisoa's horse, and it became
necessary for Iluffian to carry both men.
The Mormons pursued the desperadoes
night and day, but were powerless to
overtake them, so wonderful was the
speed and endurance of the stolen bay.
Not till 100 miles had been covered did
men or beast eat or rest, and on the
morning of the tenth day they arrived
at Denver, 600 miles from the Mormon
capital. These facts once circulated,
Ruffian became the hero of the hour.
In the Denver race the Greer boys,
who owned Chief, backed him. Thousands
of men aid women flocked to the
track. There was long delay, but at
last, amid frenzied clie-ers, the horse?
got a start, Ruffian forging ahead from
the stand. Chief flew the track, went
over a steep embankment, and before
he could recover, the heat was practically
decided in Ruffian's lead. A yell
of disappointment went up from the
multitude, and a rush was made to
| succeeded in escaping the mob un!
harmed, however. More than $100,000
changed hands on that heat.
An even start was obtained in the
second her4 th< two horses passing into
the quarter jh neck and neck. At
the half poic Jlnffiin, in response to
hard whipping, siowly took the lead.
All this time Chief had been given a
free rein, but had been spared the lash.
Chailes Hamilton, a desperado, who
had all his earthly possessions staked
on Chief, stood at the back-stretch pole
as the horses approached, a-navy revolver
in either hand, "L;,y the whip to
that horse or I'll drop vou from the
saddle," he shouted to Eugene Teat:?,
Chief's rider, sighting both of his weapons.
Teats knew that Hamilton
would keep his word unless the order
was obeyed, and, although he was confident
that Chief would win the second
heat without urging, h6 lost no time in
applying the whip. He drew blood at
every stroke, and Chief went under the
wire a winner of the heat by 1UU feet
in 1.42.
Then commenced a riot and tnrmoil'
the like of which was never before or
since seen on a race conrso. Men prilled
their six shooters and fired madly, indiscriminately,
and gold dnst in the
quarrel for stakes was scattered recklessly
in the sand. Ruffian was completely
broken down after this heat,
and the gamblers, appreciating that
they were were beaten, became frantic
with rage. Con Oram and Charles
Switz, who afterwards became noted
prize fighters, stood at the door to the
stand and held the mob at bay nntil the
judges had given their decision. Chief
was ordered on the track, and after
making the half mile, was declared the
winner of the race. The judges had to
be escorted from the track to town bj
! an armed escoitcomoostdof volunteers
I from the winning side.
j Mounted on broncho poniep, with
| pistols and bowie knives drawn, the
: Greer brothers ar d a iparty of friends
| made their way to the $95,000 nugget
I and cut it to the ground. It was loaded
into a wagon and taken to town, a guard
accompanying the precious freight.
There were a large number of people
stabbed and Bhot in the melee, but fortunately
none died from their wounds.
That night Denver was cue blazing revelry,
one gorgeous orgie. The immense
nngget was cut up into smallei
and more commercial commodities,
j Teats was presented with $5,GOO worth
; of these. The balance of the winnings
j were equally divided among thebrothers,
! and in lees than forty-five hours they
i had squandered all.
The Minister on the Newspapers.
Dr. Thompson, of the Third Presbyterian
church, of Pittsburg, Pa., in a
recent lecture to the young on "What
and How "We Should Read," had this to
say of newspapers:
If you want to be well informed,
you must read the best periodical literature
of the day. Much of the brightest
and most stimulating thought you
Will XI LIU. tUCi C. UIO.UJ TTJLIW
[ affect a literary taste sneer at the newspapers.
Possibly a few can afford to
! do this?those who live in the high
realms of abstract thought or poetry ;
bnt to the practical people, who would
keep abreast of the world's general intelligence,
the newspaper is an absolute
necessity. You will, not be well
educated without it.
I know, indeed, that there is much
time wasted over papers. Many things
that fill them are so partisan, or so unimportant,
or so degrading, as to furnish
no intellectual help. Good newspapers
have engaged upon them, some
of nature's best brain. They cover the
world, net only with their eyes, but
with their reflections. The man who
reads good newspapers will be thereby
nearer the movements of tills great
age than he conld possibly get in any
other way. Mr. Hammerton contrasts
the ignorance of French peasants with
the keen intelligence and the ability
for concerted action of every kind
amftner f.TiA nnnnlA nf thfl United States.
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and finds the 'lifference in the fact that
the latter read the papers and the
former do not. The same writer quotes
the effect of abstaining from newspaper
reading in the case of Comte,
the great French philos6pher, who so
isolated himself from the living world
and its shrewd common sense that, great
thinker that he was, he drifted into the
most absnrd follies. Since art is so
long and life so short, every rofm should
read in the line of his work. B e should
never be so hindered by the glare of
his work as never to increase his horizon
and see the lands that lie beyond
Bat a man's profession or trade must
be to him the largely absorbing thing.
If your calling is worthy you:: pursuit
at all it will tax you to the utmost.
There is no end to the harvest it will
yield ynu if you cultivate it. Therefore
since you cannot read everything,
read toward your aim. Do yon say?
" Topn lmw abonfc ceneral rmltnrfi ?" !
Yon should not be ignorant of the
world's literature, but a good d^al of
general culture is general nonsense.
The German proverb, "If I rest, I
rust," applies to many things, besides
the keys. If water rests it stagnates, j
If the lungs rest, we cease to breathe, j
If the heart rests, we die, and if the j
editor rests, evtn for an hour, the compositors
raise the "devii" for copy.
Notwithstanding all the fuss the
Chinese have made under the pretense
of keeping opium out of the country,
it now turns out that for hundreds of
years the central and western provinces
ux wiiiLiii navo uoibi>atcu vuv Vv
&n enormous extent.
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Spoopendjke and the Oyster,
' 'My dear," queried Mr.Spoopendjke
"did you put thoc,e oysters on the cellar
floor "with the ronid shells down, as
I told yon to ? " '/
"I did most oi! 'em," replied Mrs.
Spoopendjke. "Some of 'em wouldn't
stay that way. They turned right
over."
"Mnst have been extraordinary intelK/vAr>f
Arcf^vc "
X IgtsJJL L \JJ OWAi-J UAUUbMVU |
dyke, eyeing her with suspicion. "Didn't
any of em' stand np and ask for a
morning;paper, did they?"
"You know what I mean," fluttered
Mrs. Spoopendyke. "They tipped over
sideways, so I laid them on the flat
shell."
"That's right," grunted Mr. Spoopendyke.
"You want to give an oyster
his own way, or you'll hurt his feelings.
Suppose you bring up some of those
jp'fted oysters and an oyster knife, and
we'll eai; 'em."
Mrs. Spoopendyke hurried away and
patterec. back wish the feast duly set
out on tea waiter which she placed
before Mr. Spoopendyke with a flourish.
"Now," said she, drawins up her
sewing chair, and resting her elbows
on her knees and her chin on her hands,
"When you get all you want, you may
open mo some."
Mr. Spoopendyke whirled the knife
around bis head and brought it down
with a sharp crack. Then he clipped
away at the end for a moment, and
jabbed it what he supposed was the
opening; The knife slipped and
plowel -he bark of hin thumb,
"Wor't come open, won't ye!" he
snorted, fetching it another lick, and |
jabbing away again. "Haven't completed
^our census of who's out here
working at ye, have ye ? " aud he brought
it another whack. "Fraps ye think
I haven't fully made up my mind
to inquire within, don'i; ye?' and
he rammed the point o:i the knife
at it, knocking the skin off his knuckle.
"That isn't~the way to oi>en ai oyster,"
suggested Mrs. Spooperdyke.
"Look here," roared M". Spoopendyke,
turning fiercely oil his wife.
' Have you got acy private understanding
witn this oyster? Has the oyster
confided in you the particular way in
which he wants to be opened ? "
\f?e- grk/nantrt.
"i.'WU ; gbtllll IliOICU 1U.1&. k_>^-vxjjjt.u.dyke,
"Only I thought?"
"This is no time for thought!" cried Mr.
Spoopendyke, banging away at the edge
of the shelL "This is the moment
for battle, and if I've happened to catch
this oyster during office hours, he's
going to enter into relations with the
undersigned. Come oat, will ye ?' he
yelled, as the knife flew up hi sleeve.
"Maybe ye don't recognize the voice of
Spoopendyke! Come out, ye dod gasted
coward, before ye make an enemy of
me for life!" and he belted away at the
shell with the handle of the knife, and
spattered mud like a dredging machine.
"Let me get you a hammer to crack
him with," recommended Mrs. Spoopendyke,
hovering over her husband in
great purturbation.
"Don't want any hammer!" howled Mr,
Spoopendyke, slamming around with
his knife. ' S'pose I'm going to use
brute force on a dod gasted fish that I
could swallow alive if I could only get
A# 1%-ta V?nriCf<.0 n nan rnnr
] 111JLLL VU.U Ui 4J..LO uvuuwt vj-vm j wc*.* |
{ mea9lv premises!" raved Mr. Spoopendyke,
stabbing at the oyster vindictively, |
and slicing his shirt sleeve clear to the
elbow,, "Come forth and enjoy the
society of Spoopendyke!" and the
worthy gentleman foamed at the month
as he rank back in his chair and contemplated
his stubborn foe with glaring
eyes.
Til; tell yon what to do!" exclaimed
Mrs. Spoopendyke, radiant with a profound
idea. "Crack him in the door!"
"That's the scheme!" grinned Mr,
Spoopendyke, with horrible contortion,
of visage. "Fetch me the door. Set
that door right before me on a plate.
This oyster is going to stay here. If
yon think this oyster is going to enjoy
a:ay ch ange of climate until he strikes
the tropic3 of Spoopendyke, you don't
know the domestic habits of shell fish.
Loose your hold!" squealed Mr. Spoopendyke,
returning to the charge, and
fetching the bivalve a prodigious whack.
"Come into the outer world where all is
gay and beaatifni. Come out and let me
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introduce yon to my wne; ana m.r.
Spoopendyke laid the oyster cn the
arm of his chair, and slugged him
remorfielessly. .
"Ws.itP squealed Mrs. Spoopendyke,
"here'ij one with his mouth open!"
and she pointed cautiously at a gaping
oyster who had evidently taken down
the shutters to see what the row wa3
about.
"Don't care a dod gasted nickel with
a hole in it!" protested Mr. Spoopendyke,
thoronghly impatient. "Here's
one that's going to open his mouth, or
the resurrection will find him still
wrestling with the ostenisble head of
this family. Ow!"and Mr. Spoopen
dyke, 'aaving rammed the knife into the |
palm of his hand, slammed the oyster j
against the chimney-piece, where it
n A cfr\/-tarl o^ATTn/^ fVjCK !
w?3 oiiaub^icu) auu uauwu u^vuuvi
room wriggling with wrath and agony.
' Never mind the oysters, dear," cried
Mrs. Spoopendyke, following him
around and trying to disengage his
wounded hand from his armpit.
' Who's minding 'emV roared Mr.
Spoopendyke, standing on one leg and
bending up double. "I tell ye that
when I start lo inflict discipline on a
nairow-headed oyster that woirt either
accept an invitation or send regrets,
he's going to mind me ! Where is the
oyster?. Show me the oyster! Arraign
the oyster!"
"Upon my word, you have opened
him," giggled Mrs. Spoopendyke, placing
the smashed bivalve between the
tip of her thumb and fore-finger.
"Won't have him!" sniffed Mr.
I Spoopendyke, eyeing ihe broken shell
; and firing his defeated enemy into a
i oratA "Tf T r.an'fc aa into the front
door of an oyster, I'm not going down
the scuttle! That all comes of laying
'em on the flat shell," he continued,
suddenly recollecting that his wife was
to blame for the whole business. "Now
you take the rest of 'em down and lay
"em as I told you to."
"Yes, dear.''
"And another time you want oysters,
you sit around in the cellar, and when
they open their mouths, you put sticks
in. You hear?"
"Yes, dear."
And Mrs. Spoopendyke took the bivalves
back, resolving that the next time
they were in demand they would crawl
out of their shells and walk upstairs arm
:in arm before she would have any hand
in the mutilation of her poor dear suffering
husband by bringing them up
j herself ?Brookhjn Eagle.
I Popular Names cf Cities.
The following are the popular names
given to leading cities in the United
.'States:
Athens of America Boston, Mass.
The Hub Boston, Mags.
Puritan City Boston, Maes.
City of Brotherly Lo7e Philadelphia, Fa.
Quaker City *. Philadelphia, Pa.
City of Churches Brooklyn, N. Y.
City of Elms New HavcD, Conn.
City of Magnificent Distances. Wasbington.D.C.
City of Tiocks Nashville, Tenn.
City of Spindles Lowell, Mass.
City of the Straits Detroit, Mich.
Crescent City New Orleans, I,a.
Gotham...." New York City.
Empire City New York City.
Floor City Rochester, N. ?.
Forest Ci:y Cleveland, 0.
Cream City Milwaukee, Wis.
Garden City Chicago, 111.
Gate City Keokuk, Iowa.
Iron City Tittsburg. Pa.
Smoky Ciiy I'Jtsburg, Pa.
Monumental City; Baltimore, Md.
Mound City St. Louis, Mo.
The "Future Great" St. Louis, Mo.
Queen Cicy ; Cincinnati, 0. i
Porkopolis ; Cincinnati, 0. '
Queen City of the Lakes Buffalo, N. Y.
Railroad City Indianapolis, Ind 1
Zenith City Duluth, Minn
Fails City Minneapolis, Minn
The Grain City Toledo, 0
The Silver City Denver, Col
The Golden Gate S-in Francisco, Cal
'Frisco , r San Francisco, Cal
The Saline City Syracuse, X. Y
O.ae of the drawbacks of married life is sickness
of the little,' ones. For :i Cold or Cough
you cannot lind a! better remedy than Dr. Bull's
rVvnrrV. Qmmn XT*j,mllr oil nhvPlCLaJlS DrCSCnb?
u.p. * j r? ~ * I
it, ac4 ao fa^oiljr should ^ without it. 1
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POPULAR SCIENCE.
"What reasons had. been advanced by ,
Mr. Eo worth to establish his hypothe- ,
sis that the mammoth had suddenly dis- !
appeared from Siberia do not appear to
be sufficient. Mr. C. Eeid says that the
mammaliferous deposits cannot have
been formed all at ODce, as there are !
numerous sheets of clear ice presenting
strata which must have been successive- i
ly frozen.
Before one can safely say that milk ;
has been adulterated, it is necessary to
tf>ke into account the percentage of fat
as well as that of solids not fat. Mr.
B. Dyer has made analysis of the milk
of cows, stall fed and at grass, showing
that tLe milk of the former is +he richer,
and that an individual eov *ell fed ;
can frequently give milk yielding an
average of 8.7 per cent, solids, not
fat.
Du Caux endeavors to maintain that
the herring is not a migratory fish, and
that it does not move far away from the
spot where it is spawned, whether that
be in deep water over a sand bank, or
near ?hore. He says the herrings
spawii dt least twice a year, and that
the spawn reaches maturity, not only
at the botton of the sea, but near the
surface. Few old fishermen will be
found to agree with him.
Considerable interest is now felt in
ballooning, and the lovers of ae" nautics
are evidently determind thi something
shall be done to increase the
usefulness of this department of science.
The balloon society formed in England
some months ago is now followed by a
similar association in Berlin which intends
to hold an aeronautical exhibition
at some time dnring 1882. Among the
plans proposed to the British Balloon
society is that of a balloon to be kept
under control by means of compressed
gas. The gas would be stored in a
suitable tank under pressure, and the
balloon would be reduced in tize or enlarged
at pleasure by admitting or withdrawing
gas?which might be effected
by simply turning d crank. The balloon
would of course fail when reduced
in 6ize, and rise as it became expanded,
bo lhat ballast and waste of gas would
be rendered unnecessary. Improyement
in another direction is still sought
by aeronauts who are striving to travel
considerable distances in predetermined
courses. Little success has attended
these efforts.
Worms have no eyes, and are measurably
indifferent to light; yet they can
distinguish night from day, and are
quicklv affected bv a stroncr light, and
after some time by a moderate light
shining continoxisly upon them. They
do not much mind a moderate radiant
heat, but are sensitive to cold. They
bave no sense of hearing, but are extremely
sensitive to vibrations in any
solid object. Worms in pots, which
had paid no attention to the sound of
piano, when placed on the piano instantly
drew into their holes when the notes
were struck. Their whole body is sensitive
to contact, as of a puff of air.
Their sense of smell is feeble, but responds
fairly well to the odor of the
cabbage and onion or whatever they
like, as was shown to Mr. Darwin by
some very interesting experiments.
Thftv are* omnivorous, and swallow
enormous quanities of earth, out of
which they extract any digestible matter
which it may contain, consnme decayed
and fresh leaves and vegetable matter,
and raw, roasted, and decayed meat,
but like raw fat best.
Whalebone.
Aside from its oil-yielding properties,
the whale also serves man's needs
by famishing him with whalebone.
This was once an important article of
commerce, but the supply and demand
have for many years been diminishing.
The fact is the whale does not live "in
the North Sea" as much as he once did,
and the decline in the New Bedford oil
business is reflected in a measure in the
whalebone industry. As the supply
fell off substitutes for the article were
discovered. Steel takes the place of
whalebone in umbrella manufactures,
and the latter now finds its chief uses
in the making of whip.3 and corsets.
The preliminary preparation of
whalebone is about as follows: When
the raw bone is received the hair is
first cut from the slabs. These are
then soaked in water until they become
soft, after which all the gum which
adheres to them is removed by scraping.
They now go to a steam box,
where a 'workman straightens them
with a knife. After polishing they are
ready to be worked up into various
forms. There are certain places where
ic is probablo that no known material
answers as well as whalebone, and it is
said that a fortune awaits the inventor
who devises an efficient substitute for
it. Experiments, looking to this end,
have been made with rawhide.
Since the decadence of the hoopskirt
fever the price of whalebone has
declined very materially, but the price
was at its zenith in the last century,
mu? ?;i ?>-2 unn ?
ALIO ?J U IvJil iOllLlCllJ UUIUIJJCU. tt
ton for whalebone, but since 1763 it
has never commanded such high fignres.
In 1818 the price was ?450; in 1834,
from $530 to $545; and in 1841 it ranged
between $1,080 for Sonthern to $3,550
for Northern bone. We learn that in
the upper jaw of the whale are thin,
parallel laminae, varjing in size from
three to twelve feet in length, and that
these are what are known as "whalebone."
Ihe quality which commands
the highest price is above six feet
in length, and is called "size bone." It
is said that the Greenland whale furnishes
the best bone. From the mouth
of these huge creatures from 2,000 tu
3,000 pounds are often taken.
Tlie Largest Land Owners in the World.
The immense tract of land set aside
by the State of Texas to pay for the
erection of a new State House has been
transferred by the State to Abner Taylor,
Hon. C. B. Farwell and John V.
Farwell, of Chicago, and A. C. Babcock,
of Canton, Tils., who will furnish the
necessary funds for erecting the
building. . This domain is larger than
the State of Connecticut, and five times
larger than Rhode Island. It is the
northwest corner of the State, and the
survey extends south a distance of 197
miles with an average width of 27
miles. Two railwavs are alreadv nro
jected through this section of the
State. The transfer of these lards is
probably the largest sale ever made to
private individuals, and the pnrchasers
are the largest land-owners in the
world.
He I)iJ Xot Mincc Matters.
A representative of the Lynn (Mass.)
Item, in a late ramble throughout that city,
gathered, among other scraps of interest and
information, the following: The first place
visited by the reporter was the fruit store of
Mr. J. Levett, No. 67 Market street, in
response to a rumor that the proprietor had
been cured of the rheumatism by the great
remedy. Mr. Levett not being in, the reporter
had a talk with his son. Mr. Levett
stated that his father had been cured of an
exceedingly bad attack of rheumatism by
the St. Jacobs Oil. He had the disease in
his right arm and shoulder, which became
perfectly helpless after being afiected a few
hours, flis pain was so great that he could
not rest in comfort or at tend to business with
any degree of satisfaction. Afttr enduring
this sort of thing for some time he purchased
a bottle of the Great German Remedy
and began to apply it. He did not
mince matters at all, but just used the Oil
for all it was worth. After pursuing this
mode of treatment for three dava the pain
was banished and his father was in a perfectly
healthy condition. He has never
6ince felt any rheumatic pain.
It is calculated the daily papers of
the United States issue 1,051,200,000
copies yearly, and the other periodicals
bring the total up to 2,000,000,000
copies per annum.
Horace B. Dick, E-q , associate editor of
the Delaware Count? Republican, Chester,
lJa., was cured by St. Jacobs Oil of very
severe injuries resulting from a fall. His
arm appeared to be paralyzed, but the Oil
cured him.?Philadelphia Ledger.
Postal cards that have been spoiled i
while in the hands of private parties
cannot be redeemed at th9 postoffices ip j
the United States, j
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A Man with Three Legs.
A very singular case of malformation
was exhibited to the students of Good
Samaritan hospital, in Cincinnati,
recently. It was a man named George
Lippert, who has three legs. He was
born in Bavaria, is thirty-three years
old, and the third leg commences at
tut) LLip ILL Liic il&LiU OiUO crx uuv wu;.
It is doubled up and Lippert sits on it.
There are six toes on this foot. The
lee which is used for locomotion on the
right side has a foot with but one toe
on it, and is a sort of club-foot. The
most perfect leg on the right side is
the one that is bent up, the other one
on the same side being shrunken and
has but one bone in it. The man has
wonderful control over the six toes that
are on the extra leg, being able to move
and work them about with the ease and
pliability of fingers. When a young
boy Lippert commenced to bend the
leg up so as to hide it from the gaze of
the boys of the village where h* Mved,
as they were in the habit of ridiculing
him on account of his deformity. He
is a man of more than ordinary education,
being able to speak several languages.
Herbert Spencer says it is "an
illusion" to think "that at each moment
the ego is something more than the
aggregate of feelings and ideas actual
and nascent which then exists." There
1 1? ? ? +i,,w
are mom club wncu ncwwowutcij imuA
that this is so. One of these moments
is when the gas-man presents his quarterly
bill. At such a time the ego
does seem something more than the
aggregate of feelings. Several dollars
and a-half more, at least.?Norristcvu
Berald.
"The Great Revivals.
[Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle.]
"While Mr. Beecher and Dr. Talmage art
making special efforts this spring to save the
souls of the people, the Great German Bemedy
is supplementing the good work by preserving
and restoring health. The two influences are
widely different, yet strangely alike. It is one
of those rare occasions where the spiritual and
physical meet on common ground, both operating
differently^ yet each working toward the
accomplishment of the same purpose, viz., the
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uappmess ox mannma. xnua morauzeu me
reporter after visiting the great Brooklyn revivals
and subsequently interviewing several
citizens of New York npon tbe work of the
Great German Remedy. Calling npon Mr.
John S. Krem, agent for the New York and
Baltimore Transportation line, pier 7, North
river, the reporter asked that gentleman if he
or any of the employes of the company had
been using the St. Jacobs Oil this season. Mr.
Krem promptly answered that the Great German
Remedy was well known by those doing
business at the pier. He had used the Oil, and
had recommended it to several of the men, and
it had never failed to perform all that was
needed. He was attacked with lumbago this
winter and ?Apin<? tliA manv words
spoken by the citizens of New York in favor of
the St Jacobs Oil, he concluded to give it a
triaL It acted like a charm, subduing his
trouble with almoat magic celerity. He had
not anticipated such rapid restoration, and
confessed that the wonderful action of the great
healer surprised him. He had never found
such quick relief in all his previous experience,
and, since using the Oil, he has never had occasion
to employ the services of any liniment for
the reason that it had radically cured him of
all rheumatic pain. The gratilying action of
the St. Jacobs Oil in his own case gave him
unlimited confidence in its great curative
power, and he freely advised the mon in the
employ of the company to use it whenever thoy
had occasion to need a liniment. It had given
relief in several instances to the employes.
The most pronounced instance of its power
was in the case of a commander of one of the
company's barges, Captain Samuel Jarrett,
who was severely afflicted with rheumatism.
Captain Jarrett had suffered considerably with
the rheumatism, and complained that he could
not secure relief, He was told to try St
Jacobs Oil. The captain applied the Great
German Remedy and fonnd relief. He was
tlien in Baltimore in his vesseL Mr. Erem
also stated tbe janitress of the rooms he occupied
was also healed by St. Jacob's OiL The
woman is subject to rheumatism of a severe
typo. She did not seem to get relief from any
of the remedies she was using, so he gave her
a bottle of the German Remedy. She used it,
and afterward said it had relieved her, and she
was loud in its praise. Mr. Krem said that
his experience with the St. Jacobs Oil justified
him in pronouncing it a superb remedy, and he
emphatically recommended its employment by
his friends and acquaintances.
The tax record books of New York "city show
the valuation of personal property to be $258,982,720,
and of real estate, $1,039,200,136.
* Catarrh of the Bladdrr.
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passages, diseased discharges, cured by Buchupaiba.
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The Science of Life, or Self-Preservation, a
medical work for every man?young, middleaged
or old. 125 invvluablo prescriptions.
D.. Ailvinsstein Sara
fn hifl recent lecture on skin diseases: All
skin and scalp diseases must have internal
treatment. Vegeteje ha& met with wonderful
success ia scalp and skin diseases. I hav
never found a remedy so effectual."
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Weakness of Generative Organs, SI?all druRjrists.
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~~THE MAKKETS.
9
xew york.
BeefCattlo?Prime, live weight 10 @ 10
Calves?Poor to Prime Veals... 69%
Sheep 6/4 @ "
Lambs 7 @ 8
Hogs?Live 6%@ 1%
Dressed, city 8%@ 8%
Flour?Ex. State, good to fancy 5 90 @ 8 0 J .
Western, good to choice 5 20 @ 8 75
Wheat-No. 2 Red, new 1 31%@ 1 33
No. 1 White, new 1 2'jys@ 1 29%
Rye?State 81 @ S7
Barley?Two-rowed State 90 @ 97
Corn?UngradedWesternMixed 65%@ 69
Southern Yellow 71%@ 71%
Oats?White State 52 @ 58
Mixed Western 47 @ 52
Hay?Prime Timothy 90 @ 95
Straw?No. 1, Rye 75 @ 80
Hops?State, 1881 25 @ 26
Pork?Mess, new, for export...17 75 @18 00
Lard?City Steam 10 60 @10 75
Relined 1105 @1100
T>a+ lnv.v? /"Vr./1/? e.Z/tT* 71/
i vmwiouiu?vi uuu # # ? # v. 4-LV / J
Refined 8%@ 8 %
Butter?State Creamery 85 @ 42
Dairy 37 @ 40
Western Im. Creamery 35 @ 40
Factory 16 @ 34
CLf^ese?State Factory 9 @ 12%
Skims 2 @ 7
Western 9 @ 12%
Eggs?State and Penn 25 @ 25
Potatoes?Early Rose, State, bbl 3 25 @3 50
BUFFALO.
Steers?Extra 6 00 @ 6 25
Lambs?Western 5 50 @ 6 50
Sheep?Western 5 75 @ G 00
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