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[n tramps in a car ramps can’t very [trucks of freight ft thrown ofl* corn- curve. But cx- ^ar trucks allow BIG FARMS. Great Tracts of Land Under Cul tivation in North Dakota. Their Size and Value Dis cussed by Senator Casey. One of the biggest farmers in the United States, and the man who con trols perhaps as large an amount of cultivated land as any man in the United States Senate, ie Senator Casey of North Dakota. The Carrington & Casey Land Company has a large num ber of square miles of Dakota land, and it has 5000 acres under cultiva tion. Senator Casey is the business manger of this tract, and he is one of the broadest-minded farmers in the country. He looks, however, more like a scientitic litterateur than a farmer. When asked the other day to tell something of the big farms in the United States, he replied: “ I suppose the biggest farm in the United States is the Dalrymple farm, which is located in the Red River Valley, and belongs to O.iver Dal- ryinplo. This farm contains 30,000 acres of the richest of Dakota lands. It is well farmed, and its output is very large. The finest farm in the United S;ates is the Graiidin farm, which belongs to E. B. and J. L. Graudin, who came from Tideoutc, Pa., some years ago and bought a large tract of Dakota laud. This farm is in the Red River Valley, about twenty-five miles north of Fargo. It has from 10,000 to 15,000 acres under cultivation, and it has made a profit of 8-180,000 during the last ten years. The lands composing it are now worth from 835 to 850 per acre, and Mr. Grandin has other farms near this. He is one of the best farmers in the country, and has as superinten dent Mr. A. W. Dalrymple, a nephew of Oliver Dalrymple, who owns the big farm. In addition to those farms there are in North Dakota a great number of farms ranging from 1000 to 6000 acres. We have 5000 in one place, and we keep 4000 acres of this uuder cultvatiou.” “How can you manage such a large farm?” “The big Dakota farms are run on business principles,” replied Senator Casey. “Everything is systemati cally arranged, and we know just ex actly what everything costs and what everything is worth to us. A farm like ours, for instance, has its book keeper, its overseer and its employes. We have reports every day from the farm, showing just what has been when wheat will be $1.50 a bushel, and even at this rate it will hardly par to raise it in some parts of the Union.’’ Condensed Medicines for the Army The method of supplying medicines to military organizations is undergo ing a revolution. The medicines are now compressed into tablets, which occupy but little of the space formerly required. Some idea of the perfec tion which this art of compression has been brought may be formed from th e statement that if the contents of the regulation light wooden chest, about twenty-three inches long, fourteen and one-half inches wide and seventeen and three-fourths inches high,in which are packed sixty square bottles, con taining as many different kinds of medicine, were liquified, aud in their customary jars and bottles, they would occupy nearly onc-half the space of a regular freight car. Twentv-flve of the most important medicines, such as quinine, carthartic pills and mixture 8 designed to correct troubles arising from the use of impure water,are con tained in four and two-ounce bottles, while medicines of less importance and demand are carried in half-ounce bot tles; but all of them ai’e in tablet form. Whiskey, brandy, alcohol and castor oil are carried in larger bottles, their ingredients rendering it impos sible to form them into tablets. Cod liver oil is one of the things that can De tabletized. When a certain medi cine, say a cough mixture, is needed in quantities, a bottle holding a gill of the compressed tablets is equiva lent to a gallon of liquid, and should the bottle break in transportation the merits of the tablets are not impaired. One of these lozenges or tablets con tains all the necessary ingredients of a famous linime^and when dissolved in an ounce of distilled water it heal, ing properties are the same as if it were in liquid shape and in a big glass jar. The army medicine chest now in vogue weighs about eighty-five pounds ; complete, and therefore two of ti^L**' can be easily carried by a pack mule- — [Courier Journal. Photos Sent by Wirt-. The transmission of pictures by electricity is one of the latest applica tions of the subtle but extremely use ful fluid, and the principle of this new discovery is somewhat similar to that on which the telephone is based, use being made of varying degrees of light, instead of sound, as in the tele phone. In order to send a picture over a wire it is first photographed on what photographers call a stripping film, composed of gelatine aud bichro mate of potash. After the picture is film the film is wateri by MATTA’S 0FFFENSIVE NOTE Full Text of the Chilean Minister’s Insulting Missive. One of the gravest issues in the contro versy between the United States and Chile has been the Matta note to Chilean Ministers abroad. This was sent by Matta, at that time Foreign Minister to Chile, to the Chil ean Minister at Washington with the sanc tion of the President of Chile, was read in the Chilean Senate, and pu dished in all the Chilean papers. Its text in full Is as fol lows: “Having read the portion of the report of ry of theNav sage of the Pre the Secretary of the Navy and of the mes-, esident of the United States,’ ige I think proper to inform you that the state ments on which both report and message are based are erroneous or deliberately incor rect. With respect to the persons to whom an asylum has been granted, they have never been threatened witn cruel treatment, nor has it been sought to remove them from the legation, nor has their surrender been asked for. Never has the house or the person of the Plenipotentiary.nothwithstanding indis- 1 cretlons and delio-rate provocations been subjected to any offense, as is proved by the eleven notes of September, October and No vember. “With respect to the seamen of the Balti more, there is, moreover, no exactness or sincerity in what is said at Washington., The occurrence took plaoe in a bad neighbor hood of the city, the .Maintop of Valparaiso, and among people who are not models of discretion and temperance. When the po lice and other forces interfered and calmed the tumult, there were already several hun dred people there, and it was ten squares or more from the place where it had begun. “Mr. Egan sent, on the 33th of October, a note that was aggressive in purpose and virulent in language, as is seen oy the copy and the note written in reply on the 27th. “On the 18th the preliminary examination had already been commenced, it had been delayed owing to tue non-appearance of the officers of the Baltimore and owing to undue pretentious and refusals of Mr. Egaa him self. No provocation has ever been accepted or initiated by this department. Its atti tude, while it has ever been one of firmness and prudence, has never been one of aggres siveness, nor will it ever be one of humilia tion, whatever may be or has been said at Washington by those who are interested in justifying their conduct or who are blinded by erroneous views. “The telegrams, notes, and latters which have been sent to you contain the whole truth, in connection with what has taken place in these matters, in which ill will and the consequent words and pretensions have l not emanated from this department. Mr. Tracy and Mr. Harrison have been led into error in respect to oar people and Govern ment; the instructions (recommending) itu- E artiality and friendship have not een complied with, neither now nor before. If no official complaint has been made against the minister and naval officers, it is because the facts, uublic and notorious both in Chile and the United States, could not, although they were well proved, be urged by our confidential agents. Proof of this is furnished by the demands of Balraaceda aud the concessions made iu June aud July, the Thole Itata case, the San Francisco at Quin tero, and the cable companies. The state ment that the North American seamen were attacked iu various localities at the time is deliberately incorrect. “As the preliminary examination is not et concluded, it is not yet known who and ow many the guilty parties are. You no doubt have the note of November 9, written in reply to Minister Egan, in which I request him to furnish testimony which he would not give, although he had said that he had evidence showing who the murderer was and wiio the other guilty parties of the 16th of October were. That and all other notes will be publisned here. You will publish a translation of them in the United States. Deny in the meantime every thing that does not agree with these state ments, being assured of their exactness, as we are of the right, the dignity, and the final success of Chile, notwithstan ling the intrigues which pro-eei from so low (a source) and the threats which came from so high (a source.)” r he FIFTY-SECOND C0NGEESS.