The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, November 08, 1883, Image 4
[Prom th« Milwtakee Bun.l
“H»re you ever boen attiu-kinl
% i4b« plqg ferer ?” naked an old gen-
m Ueman (ho other evening, and, without
f inut|pg4or A reply, went on to relate
^' bia own experience, and to tell the result
«uf hia own olwervationa. “I nevet
knew a young man who, when be had
ed an age between eighteen and
ty-flve, but what he liad the plug
hat ferer' to a greater or leas aeverity.
■ He will anller a great deal, too, l>efnre
it fairly breaks out, and he gets a shiny
tile «a his head. Then ho Buffers se
verely for several days after he gets the
hat, and he is conceited enough to lie-
Here the eyes of the whole world are
upon him. He will wish for the tirst
*lay or two he liadn’t g<J^t, and then
Again he’ll pluck tip grit enough to .wear
it in spite of everything. Next to the
mustache ambition, the plug hat fefet
strikes to the very vitals. The llrst
symptoms of the fever makes its presence
t known by the victim’s visiting some lint
stoce, and tryltag on half a dozen silk
hats, and looking admiringly at himself
in a mirror. He will put it on square,
then cock it over to one side, then hang
it on his lefte oar, and smile with satis
faction at the imago of himself under the
• hat in tfye mirror.
“A young calf under a new shed could
not feel prouder of itself, than the young
.man with goose down on hfe tapper lip,
when he first lieholds his manly brow
in a looking-glass, supporting a shiny
rifehat. It a too overcoming # for ai«.
thing, and in a great many instances it
is more overcoming than becoming.
!'Bot theh they must have ’em, no matter
' about the expense. Finally the hat is
purchased, put in a hat-l>ox, and con
vened to the young man’s room with (life
grfrtest care and fond expectations of
ths ^holiness it will give the wearer in
the near future. For a week, mayl»e,
he will txercise the hat by wearing it in
liis room for a few hours every eveumg.
Fhudly he gets his coumge Jto the proper
pitch, and on am auspicious Sunday
evening starts for church with the hat
nicely setting on the top of his head.
He knew he would attract attention and!
"ifie first street urchin he meets calls at
tention to it by shouting ‘shoot the hat.'
“Now, how did that young heathen
come tft notice anything new or novel in
the hat ? It is easily explained. When
a man wears a plug hat on the street for
the first time he gives himself away by his
I'm-on-dress-parade air. He will walk
as carefully as though trying to balance
a pail of water on his head and expep^f
ing every moment that it will
and douse him. It don’t 1(
new shoe to nttriict^dtentjo,,, but it
- etlfftLff'Spme iu an unusual and
unnatural degree. It takes several pnV
lic appcartuices in the new ping to again
limber up the spine to its normal con
dition. Arriving at church the young
man hesitates for an instant about going
in, but rememlvriug an appointment to
tee a young lady home, he braces up,
ntifHy holds the determined-to-nttroct-
uttention silk hat over hia rigid fore
arm, he mentally swears vengeance
on the usher who prances him
np to the front pew in the center of tlie
church for no other purpose than to call
attention, in his mind, to the new plug-
Eight out of ten tirst-tirne- I-wore-n-plug-
hat young men will 1 teeomc so agitated
that instead of putting the hat on the
Uoor out of the way, will place it on the
seat and forget to remove it when the
tashcr shows some one else in for the sole
purpose, in his mind, of having them
sit on it and wreck it-MtV .-good thing
to have the first plug wrecked in this
The presence of t$je Ooreau Embassy
in New York gives renewed interest to
the country and its rulers. A eorre-
spondeut of the Now York Herald
the following:
Seoul, the capital of Corea, is in the
northwestern part pf the peninsula and
near the Sain, at Hau, River, )>eing
about sixty miles from its month. The
old maf>s put it directly on the river, but
recent visits have proved that a town
which is near it,' and which is on the
river, was fwobably mistaken for Seoul
whan foreigners were not permitted to
ifpproneh near enough to determine its
position. It is about an hour and a half’s
walking distance away from the river.
The capital is a walled city, built at the
foot of a range of hills, and the site was
evidently selected as affording an easy
and natural means for dHeucc, the hills
Wing in the rear and the river in the
front. It is said to contain about six
hundred thousand inhabitants, bat the
walls enclose several times the area oc
cupied by the houses, and after surround
ing the town ascend the hills and form'
a barrier along the topmost ridges. The
city is divided into four nearly equal
fmrts by twp immense streets which tra
verse it at right angles through the cen
ter. Upon these two streets is carried
on the principal business of the place.
The King is a young man of thirty-
tw<>. and it is only since the summer of
1K82 that he has actually been at the
head of the State. Unlike most Eastern
potentates he has but one wife, but at
the same time he msy have ua 'many ns'
ho chooses. It is stated that there is
no limit to the royal enreubines, but
that as the Queen keeps a sharp look-out
upon her royal master tin y lend a life
of leisure and idleness. As all the court
dresses, embroideries and many other
fancy articles are said to be made in
the palace, it is but lair to presume that
1111*80 women find something with which
to occupy themselves.
One of the most curious circumstances
in regard to the King « that .he has no
name. He is simply known as “The
King,” amt not until he dies is a name
given him. He has the power to name
his successor to the throne, and that
Kiiccchsor need not of necessity the
next of blood. He is ne»ej ^eu hisby
l>eople, and only^tostfre* the palace pre
cincts twice R year, and then for the pur
pose of ..performing religious ceremonies
temple some half a mile away. In
^ stature he is below the medium height;
lias a handsome, pleasant face, jet black
hair, u light mustache and imperial of
the same color, a white complexion,
beautiful teeth, and, the most noticeable
of all, dancing black eyes that seem to
Ik* overflowing with merriment.
His state dress is of crimson satin,
heavily embroidered with golden drag
ons, and the dress of tho nobles at court
is of a dork green with a square piece of
embroidery on the breast and on the
back representing flying storks. He is
always accompanied by two immense
eunuchs, who are also nobles. Up to
the time of the presentation of General
Foote, the American Envoy, in May last,
the Kmir had seen lint one other for
eigner, Mr. Von Mollendorff. Minister
of Customs. It is the latter’s iutetatiou,
ns a gradual introduction of new ideas
will permit, to have the King appear iu
public among the people. He is already
prepared for it, but it. is
People sometimes wonder at the sharp
answers often given them by the officials
of a railroad ticket office. If they should
stand for years behind a window aelling
tickets to people from all grades of so
ciety and from every nation in the vrorld,
they would find it a severe task to keep
their good nature protof against the fool
ish questions they would so often have
to answer. A ticket seller at the Union
Depot, Troy, N. Y.. remarked that after
thirty years in a ticket office he won
dered that he was able to return a polite
answer to any question. He related an
incident that occurred at the depot An
old lady came to the window and pur
chased a ticket for Saratoga, after which
she removed her lionnet, took out her
knitting, and seated herself iu the wait
ing room. Soon a voice called out:
“All aboard for Saratoga aud the
but the old lady didn’* ' r . Lean while
the waiting room liad l>een deserted, and
the traiG wfcs nt>out to start. Still the
lady plied her needle in the most
unconcerned manner. Surprised at this,
the official in the ticket office asked her
if she wasn’t going to Saratoga. “Qh,
yes,” said the old lady, “I’ve Inwglit my
ticket,” “But the train is about"-to
start,” said tho ticket man. “Well. I’ve
got u good sent,” was the answer to the
astonished official. She had never
traveled before, and the hncried explana
tion of the ticket man came too late for
her to caffch the train.
How Bananas
are. Raised.
whether the people are quite ready for
snch an innovation upon their old estab
lished customs. . . .
wrecked, but it is generally done by
some kind friend who sneaks np behind,
jams it down over your ears, and is
away before you fatrly undbrflTani'Tn
brick block hasn't tumbled onto you.
A plug hat is probably the most dressy
hat, but heavens ] how a man suffers,
when the fever first fully develops itsell
to a head. 4 ’
Just as .the story was finished a young
man with akin-tight pants, tooth-picl
shoes, arms curved so as to make hi?
body look as though it was in a paren
thesis, with a pipe-stem cane in tin
fingers of his right hand, while a shiny,
latest style of plug hat was on his head,
passed. “Poor fellow,” remark* d the
old man as he passed into the hotel, “if
he only had brains enough to coverTlio
point of a cambric needle his hat would
lie quite becoming. They all get the
fever though, regardless of brains.”
£ldebly and obnoxious snitor, w in
was the first to arrive and evidently
means to be the last to go—“I have for
gotten most of my mathematic*, but at
your age, sir, I was devoted to them.”
Impatient young lover—“Ah d then you
probably are familiar with the/rule ot
three.” E. 8.—“Tho rule of 7 three?”
“Yes, that two is company and three is
—one more." * /*.
Fob thk puhposb op transmitting
mo«ey by mail in snudi sums the new
l>o6tal notes which carim into use on the
first of the month, will be found much
convenient than postal money
orders, the purchase and payment of
which is attended with" a great deal of
No written application is made
fgr {fee notes. They are bought at the
window like postage stamps, and the
t to whom they are payable is not
1 to identify himself. They sat
“keg-felt want” for safe and
eccvenjfent method of sending money by
The Queen’s household is entirely
way, because tho first hat has got to be separate from that of the King, as, owing
to the customs of the country, she is
surrounded by women and can only be
seen by Vomcn. She has never been
seen by a foreigner, but is described us
lw*ing very beautiful. Before the arrival
of the wife of the American Minister in
Seoul,the Queen had expressed an
ardent desire to'see her, but as yet she
a vulgar man become* ric h and
governs society, a great fuss
if hi* daughter marries her
ooschman, although society said
girfs mother married
eortse tbu lather was
then sod had not struck hia
is very unreasonable,
lias not done so, although she sent eight
of her ladies iu waiting to make a formal
call soon offer Mrs. Foote reached there.
So closely were they guarded wad con
cealed that no one at the Legation save
Mrs. Foote sow thrm. It is said that
Co reap ladies, are.averst* -ttftalling, ow
ing to the 4&ot that they clo not wish
their calls returned, because iu that case
foreigners might see the low position
they occupy in tho social scale and the
degraded condition of their lives. In a
word, the Coreau wife, whether of high
or low degree, merely occupies the posi
tion of housekeeper aud maid of all
work, having no social position what-
<ver.
Although the Coreau women exhibit a
great cnri<*ity to see foreigners, andean
lie continually seen peering from behind
doors and shook odes, the soldiers keep
an ever watchful eye an them and drive
them back to a safe distance On the
ride to Seoul one is often reminded that
bright eyes are watching him from be
hind the trees or bushes as he passes
along the roed, but woe betide them if
they are discovered by the soldiers, for
they have no hesitation in pursuing
them with the bamboo.
The costume of the men is particular
ly adapted to a life of idleness. The
headdress consists of three parts—first,
the band which goes about the head, be
ing stretched as "tightly as possible
across the forehead and secured to but
tons or rings just behind the eats; then
the inner hat of horsehair, which is
merely a receptacle for the hair and top-
knot, agd, Anally, the outer hat of fine
bamboo, whisk resembles somewhat in
width of brim the «ld fashioned Quaker
As everybody kuows who has eaten n
banana, the pulp is seedless. The plants
are propogated from other plants, so that
the stock is not likely to run- out The
plant requires for vigorous growth a deep
rich soil, abundantly watered.’ With
these conditions present there is said to
be no risk of a crop in the hot regions
where alone the fruit is produced. Niue
mouths after a cutting lias been planted
a purple bud appears in the centre of the
enfolding leaves that shoot out from the
head of the parent stein. The stem efii
which the bud appears grows rapidly
above the main stalk. As the bud in-
questionable-I creases in weight the stem bends down-
yard by a graceful curve, on the ex
tremity of which this bud continues to
groy till, the purple blossoms falling off,
liftlc shoots appp^i iis tbe enibryo fmft.
Each fruit has a yellow blossom at its
outward extremity. At the end of from
three to four mouths ihe-fnut has grown
to maturity* and is picked long enough
before it is “dead ripe” to preserve it in
marketable condition. From the roots
of the parent stalk other thoota appear,
which are trimmed out or left to grow,
as the cultivator may deem beak A
single stalk, therefore. Ixan only
bunch or crop as its life work. Span
iards have a religions reverence for the
banana, believing it to be the fruit of
which Adam partook.
This fruit has long been regarded aa
extremely nutritions. It is recommended
almvo all others for invalids who are nu-
nble to swallow hardier food. An esti
mate by Hnmboldt claims that 44,000
pounds of bananas can be produced or
the soil that would be required for 1,000
pounds of potatoes, and that the same
area that would be reqaired to raise wheat
enough for one man would produce
enough bananas to feed twenty-five men.
la the
Tala*.
An African diamond, neighing in tbs
rough 126 carats, has recently been
brought to this country, and was taken
from the Custom House by a large jew
•fry and diamond importing firm in
Maiden lane. Appraiser O. A. Stevens
of the Oustom House said:
,, "The stone passed through my offloe,
but as it wea uncut, and therefore free
of duty, I cannot speak ot tta ralue. In
deed, the value of such stones while in
the rough could scarcely be estimated.
The gem ia of yellow hue. It is a risk
to purchase stones in the rough, and if I
were a dealer Iwould not like to invest
much in so larfe a stone while uncut.
It will lose perhaps one-half in catting,
and it may perhaps turn ont full of black
spots or feathers, or it may not be hard
and brilliant, as a fine stone.ahould be;
and then again its color ia against its
having any high commercial value.
“I decline, of course, to mention Hie
name of the firm in the city to whom
the stone was consigned,” he continued.
“It came from Paris. I had a eat dia
mond weighing about twenty-six carats
pass through my hands the other day
of exceptional brillianoe and purity,
which would be worth, perhaps, $50,000;
but allowing that the big Cape stone of
125 carats cutting to a sixty-carat stcoe,
1)0 cause of its hue, it would not bo worth
much more than a tenth of that
amount.” -y
This diamond is said to be the largest
ever imported. The firm will not aay
how much was paid for it, nor ita prob
able value. It has been sept to Boston
for shaping and polishing. The Kohi
Noor weighed before recutting ' 186
ouratav it* present weight being 102}
carats. A number of experts have ex
amined the atone, but are not certain aa
to its character. While there has been
no diminution in the high prices de
manded and tcadily obt^ine^ for dia-,
mouifs of the finest quality, a very con
siderable fall in the market value of
ordinary. * 4 r**v* occurred about six
Jivw.ths ago. A- syndicate of London
dealers tried to effect a corner in the
market and some African dealers made a
simibr attempt at the same time. An
over-supply and consequent tumble in
prices was cansed by the latter bringing
over more diamonds than the London
combination could buy.
, These stones have since been bought
up, chiefly by dealers in Amsterdam and
elsewhere, who are able to hold them
fora rise, and consequently there has
been a rapid advance again in prices,
which is still in progress. This reaction
has been aided by the collapse, for the
present at least, of the Kimberley Mine
in South Africa, which has not only
caved in, but *8 involved insomuch liti
gation that it will not be workeilproba-
bly for the next two years. This fact
has given a fresh stimulus to diamond
digging in Brazil, where, it is reported,
* new mice has been discovered.
( la.Bvwr*
#*rtkr st, Umm
that was. It may be mentioned that
some of these hate are very expensive,
sad can be made toooet as high at $60.
The enter gemmate oomaiat of e pair ol
_ baggy trooaco stock into padded stock-
turning Bp Ue nose ig the toga, the latter so large that they gxv* the
v the appearance of one auffering
It Didn’t Cease OC
v*
./
The members of a colored Methodist
church in Wmson, N. 0., projected an
excursion to Columbia, S. C. Not be
ing able to raise the money otherwise,
the officer* of the church mortgaged the
church building for eight hundred dol
lars, receiving, however, only six hun
dred dollars in cash. The contract
price of the train was twelve hundred
dollars. As soon as the Richmond and
that six hundred dollars of the amount
had been deposited in the bank to the
credit of the railroad, the train was dis
patched from Riohmond and arrived in
Winson on time. The trustees scratched
around industriously for several hours
trying to raise the six hundred dollars,
and finally failed. The railroad agent
pocketed the deposit, and the train
•teamed back to Richmond amid the
lamehtattoos of those who bad purchased
tickets and •applied themselves with
grub for a three-day*’ trip. The inter*
hat, though not *e large »the erownm j eating legal queatioirBow arises
validity of the mortgage, and thk matter
is already in the court*. Tba church
Igwysm hold^s* %a contract is umu>
am ; that the wximmwns era not ig the
line of serving God, and tba
declares that “de mortgage am co’<
no way, bees,
Only s Short Yarn.
A friend writes as follow* to the New
Orleans Timet of Mrs. Kate 8. McDow
ell, better known as “Sherwood Bonner,”
author of the “Dialect Tales,” who re
cently died:
“It is scarcely more than a year ago
that Sherwood Bonner stood beside lay
desk on enchantress, smiling at me with
vivid brightness, aud talking gayly of
trivial things. It is no^Tno betrayal of
her confidence to tell why she had sought
a friend. She had come to New Orleans
for medical advice, at the urgent solici
tation of frfrndft, but having no lean of
her own. That day a surgical ternary
had concurred in an opinion that was
her death warrant. She had demanded
of them the whole truth, and their bit
ter answer had been that one little year
of life wn* all that remained to her.
She heard the cruel decree with Socratic
courage and dignity, and bore herself
with calmness. Then she arose and
girded herself for what was to come, and
unflinchingly faced her tragedy,
intention of elaborating and completing
some literary task newly begun, seem*
to have failed of accomplishment. She
said rhe had outlined some work which
held the results of much close observa
tion, and that she intended to conse
crate a part of her one year of life to the
task of patting it into lasting shape,
that it might stand as a witness of what
she bad hoped to da But tho grip of
disease grow tighter, and her wonderful
vitality surrendered.”
The PopalatieB of this a.
European statisticians are gradually
reducing their estimates of the population
of Chino. It used to be put at over
400,000,000. Behm and Wagner reduce
their estimate for China and Corea from
434,500,000 to 379,500,000. Peterson
reduces his estimate by 75,000,000, mak
ing the present total 350,000,000. Dr.
Happer, missionary, believes this can safe
ly be reduced another 50,000,000. Mr.
Hipgisley, acting Commissioner of Cus
toms, thinks 250,000,000 more nearly
than. mmm The losses
Mohammedan rebel-
rowers who practice the plan of
making tits most of the summer season
by regular feeding testify to the decided
advantage of this system. In very cold
weather, unless the hogs can he wef
Her piteh of hoaeer and kept at a temperature ot
sumption,and who proposed to go to the
(ions, aud by the famine and peatOenee
which swept the province* of Chili,
Shantung, Shansi, BheUai, and Honan
are variously «*tfm«ted at from sixty-
one to elghty-one million.
Yum ago, when David Crockett was
a member of Congress and bad returned
home at the close of tba first rrr—.
wvenl of bis neighbors gathered around
him one day sad ssksd quattfeas about
Washington. “What time dbthey dine
UUm that la
'left*
[Front tl»Dstroii Vlns Pr**a.)
“If Clarence Da Melville Bangs am
preaant *4d us to-qight, I should like to
spoke to him,” said Brother Gardner aa
the meeting opened. (
Brother Bungs was on the bade row
with a looking-glass in his hands and a
new brand of hair-oil on hia hair. He
rose np with a scrape and a bow, madea
great spread of a blue silk handkerchief,
and finally stood before the President’*
desk.
“Brudder Bung*,” resumed the old
man, “I reckon you am de purtiest
member of de Lime-Kiln Club. You
puts ile on yea* haY, wax on jet mous
tache, an’ de perfume on yer elother
reminds me of de wild roses of Yarginny.
Yea, you am de purtiest an’ sweetest one
of de lot.”
“Yes, sail, repaea tae urotaer, wniie
his face betrayed the fact that he was
tickled half to death.
“But—by de way, Brudder Bungs,
what am your present bizness ?”
-'Tie out of a job jiat now, ash.”
“When you work how much do you
aim?”
“As high as seben dollars a week,
sah." - /
“Jist so. Am dat suit o' clothes all
'paid fur?” -
“No, sah."
“An’ yon am how many weeks behind
on yer board ?”
“Not ober six, sah.”
“An’ you owe dia lodge $3 dues?*
“Yes, sah.”
“An’ you owe members here aa much
as $20 fur borrowed money."
“Ize borrowed some, aril.”
“Brudder Bnngs r I’ze had some ’ape-
rieuoe wid purty men, an’ I nebber seed
one yet who wasn’t a fraud on do word
manhood. When** man sots out te be
purty all de boss sense leaves his head.
No man' kin labor and be purty too. He
darfor' "tot* wm* rifibc. & freria fill
board, bis tailor, his shoemaker, an’ all
hiafriends. He looks killin’, an’ smells
like a cologne .factory, but he doan’ pay
up. Ebery smile beats somebody oijter
twenty-five cents, an’ ebery giggle costs
somebody half a dollar. Tze had my
eye on you for some time.”
“Yes’ sah."
“Six months ago you hod steady work,
good pay, respectable clothes an’ was
outer debt. You aot out to be purty;
an’ to-day you wouldn’t sell fur ’nufi to
pay yer debts. You smell awful nice,
but yon owe a twenty-six-dollar board
bill Your h’ar curls beautifully, butde
tailor am whistling far his money fur dat
suit. Your form am elegant, but you
has borrowed money until no one will
lend you anoder cent. You smile like a
buttercup an’ raise yer hat like a Ches
terfield, but yer butes ain’t paid fur 1”
“Ize gwine to squar’ up, sah."
‘Maybe you is, Brudder Bungs, but it
am too late, so far os dia dab am eon-
sarned. Secretary 1”
“Yea, sah,”
— “Scratch de name of Brudder Clarence
de Melville Bongs off de roll!"
“She’s dun scratched, sah.”
“Janitor!”
“Yes, sah.”
“Escort dis pusson to de alley doah !
He am too party to remain heah wid us~
He am gwine out owin’ us fur dues,' an’—
wall, nebber mind.”
There was no need to poet the Jani
tor. Every one couldjpicture him aia he
cleared a apace to swing hia right leg,
audit anybody doubted that Clarence
de Melville Buugs was -“lifted” into the
alley he had only to listen to the labored
of the Janitor as he returned
In traveling from aheep-ranch to sheep-
raneh fat the northern country, says
Frank Wilkeson in a letter to the New
York Sun, the attention of the travelei
ia attraoted by large tanka that stand at
almost every sheep corral. These tanka
generally made of boards, tightly
fitted. A slatted gangway leads up to
one end, aud another away from the
other. These tanka are dipping troughs,
and they are necessary adjuncts to suc
cessful sheep raising throughout the
pastoral region. The scab prevails cm
the highland pastures. It ia the only
serious disease that troubles th^. sheep
that toed on the high, dry pastures of
the West. The scab is a most serious
dia ease if not treated promptly. The
parasitea burrow under the skin. The
wool covering the neck and on the upper
shoulders and back falls off The afflicted
animals grow weaker day by -day, and
finally dia The manifestations of the
disease are shedding of the wool, the
polling of the wool by the afflicted ani
mals, that bite it out-aud drop it on the
ground, and in bad cases by a persistent
and violent scratching of the irritated
parts. I have seen a scabby sheep ntond
by a poet and rub its back by the hour.
The remedy for ucri> is to wash the sheep
in a solution of poisonous water. This
•olution ia sometimes made of cheap to
bacco, another of sulphur and lime, and
others simply arsenical solutions. No
matter what they are composed of, the
fact is that no flocks of any are free
from the disease. Many sheep owners
loudly assert that their flocks are clean;
but no one believes them. The sheep
are generally dipped immediately after
■hearing, and again iu the fall if it ia
necessary. It sometimes happens that
a flock becomes so badly diseased in the
winter that it ia absolutely necessary to
dip them to save the clip of wool. The
danger attending the dipping of full-
ooated sheep in the middle of w inter, in a
country where Arctic storms are liable
to sweep out of the north without any
notice, can be easily seen. The anxious
sheep owner waits for a fair, mild day.
HeraAnes tne we.u of ' , *
then deyotired by anxiety until the sheep
are dry. A vision of a flock ef •beep
inclosed in a layer of frozen wool, stand
like gray atones over the prairie, de
stroys his appetite for pork and broad nt
dinner time/ If, when the sheep are
wet, the mercury modestly retires into
the bulb, the loss of sheep is spall
ing. The scab~is ever present iu the
flocks, and so long a* the sheep are
grazed on tho open prairie I do not see
how the disease can be eradicated. One
infected shefep, escaping from a diseased
flock and entering a clean tlock, would
infect the entire flock. Under proper
management the disease w not dreaded
in the West It is token as a matter ot
course, and the expense of dipping is
aa, regularly colcul u^d in the estimated
expenses of keeping a flock as salt
would be in Ohio. Properly handled,
the lose resulting from scab is trifling;
improperly treated, entire flocks disap
pear from the ranges. Tho fact of the
scab being* among the far Western sheep
keeps many people from using mutton
as food. I should look with a cold eye
on mutton that I knew came from any
"of -the Rocky Mountain or adjacent
ranges. It may be that the parasites do
not injure the flesh for food; but the
idea of eating scabby mutton is revolt
ing. - ,
Iks Oei
filsaasA
Bfrt.
tram goat in the feet; above these a
cotton jacket, and over ell e robe ot
gown whisk resembles e lady’s morning
wrapper as much ee anything else, al
though ft might easily be mistaken for n
nightshirt.- ,
This outride wrap ia tied about the
waist, end the Ooresn i* dressed, except
•* to the articles that he earrics with
him. Frst of all cornea the pipe, end
this is an article that no ttip* Coreau j*
ever without. Next he has attached to
his girdle his chow knife and chop sticks
and two bags. In one of these he car
ries his tobsoeo, and the other contain*
his poeketbook, if he has one, and sev
eral articles for the toilet. He may also
carry an oil paper cover for his hat, in
case it should rain. If he owns a watch
t hat is also carried stilus girdle in a fob.
Nearly all of the bettm-class wear glasses
of some sort, and these being very large
and set in tortoise shell frames of cor
responding dimensions, they add an
other dutinguahiug mark when in their
box and attacked to the t>elt The
United States steamer Despatch,
now at New York, has been placed at
i lie disposal of the Coreau Embassy by
direction of the Secretary of the Navy.
The Coreau law provides for the pnnish-
mc-nt by death of any foreigner enter
ing the government territory, bnt
die of the happy results of the re
cent treaty Will be to accord special
rights and privileges to Americans.
She Had Never Traveled Before.
seat
A Little Mistake.
A pretty young woman in Topeka got
an anonymous note the other day, signed.
“Admirer.”! The ifriter protected his
ardent affection, and requested the
young lady to meet him at a certain
corner that night. She handed the note
to her mother, who was roused to a high
in the value of live stock Illinois
•tends ahead of all the other States, ba*
fug put down at $182,437,762. Iowa
domes ‘ next with $124,715,103, New
York is third with $117,868,283, and
Ohio fourth with $103,707,730.
In the matter of miloh oow* New York
takes the lead, with 1,437,855; Illinois
next, with 865,913; Iowa, 854,187;
Pennsylvania, 854,156; Ohio, 767,048;
•nd Texas, 606,176.
In sheep Ohio excels with 4,902,486,
followed by California, with 4,152,349;
Texas, 2,411,633, and Michigan, 2,-
189.889. . . , ..
For hogs Iowa takes the cake at the
formidable figures of 6,034,818; Illinois
close behind with 5,170,206; Missouri,
4,553,123; Ohio, 3,141,333, and Indiana,
8,186,413.
New York make* the most butter,
111,922,423 pounds; Pennsylvania next,
79,336,012[ then Illinois. 63,657.943;
Iowa, 55,481,958; Ohio, 67,834^563.
New York excels in cheesemaking,
8,362,590 founds against 2,170,245 of
Olfio. In 1860, however, New York
prodacod 48,548,389 pounds of ohCOSC,
showing an immense falling off in the
business. _
Illinois has the most farms, 255,741;
New York, 241,058; Missouri, 215,575;
Ohio, 247,189; Pennsylvania, 213,542.
’ New York raises the largest quantity
of potatoes, 33,644,807 bushels; Penn
sylvania, 16,294,81; ^Ohio, 12,719,215;
Illinois, 10,365,707, and Michigan 10,-
924,111. \ . /
Illinois carries off tho palm for its
number of horses, 1,023,082; Ohio,
736,478; Texas, 805,606; New York,
610,358; Iowa, 792,322; Missonri, 667,-
.776, and Pennsylvania, 533,587.
Now York produces 231,965,533 gal-
ions of milk, which is more than all the
other States put together; Pennsylvania,
36,540,510, and Ohio, 40,801,537. New
York has 42,739 manufacturing estab
lishments, with $514,246,575 capital,
. employing 500,000hands; Pennsylvania, ,
31,232 establishments, with $474,510,993
V
Fattening Swine.
It is generally conceded that there
should be no standstill penod iu the cor
rect system of feeding, but that growth
ought to begin with young pigs and 1«
steadily and continuously increased nuti!
the animal is ready for the butcher’s
block. While everybody nearly accepts
the “no standstill” system as correct ii.
theory, most farmers in reality keep
their pigs during the summer months
on very poor and meagre rations, waiting
until cold weather to begin feeding with
* view to fattening.
Gr
people, such as we have hers, dine at L
The big one* dine at 8; weBepresenta-
«•****;
“Old Hickory?” ex-
“well, he don’t
appointed trysting place herself. She
waa on time clothed in her daughter’s
dress and veil A fashionably dressed
young man was there before her. He
was leaning against the fenoe,. and oc
casionally looking down the street, as if
expecting somebody. Without wasting
any time on preliminaries, the fond
mother seized the young man in an un
relenting clutch, and lashed him merci
lessly with a “black-snake” whip which
she drew from the folds of her dress.
What might have happened had a police
man not arrived cannot be guessed.
Explanations followed, and it was soon
made plain that the mother had terribly
whipped an innocent man who had mere
ly pansedfdr a momant to wait for a friend
to join him from a neighboring drug store.
The real letter writer arrived on the scene
before the whipping was over, but wisely
disappeared before the situation vma
cleared up.
A private nr thb 17th U. 8. Infantry
In giving some details of kfr inthe^army
relates an incident that ia somewhat
•musing, if not ludicrous. To illustrate,
he says: “My company waa on skir
mish drill one afternoon (in which near
ly all the movements are done in double-
quick time), and as the captain
•bout to dismiss ns, his wife
the parade grand, and walking np to
the captain said: 'Please trot them
uonnd again, they make the baby
laugh.’"
A Mown*.—The largest oow in
America, so termed by th* Western press,
belongs to J6btl Pratt of Chase county,
Kansas. She is three yean old sad
rrighs 8,000 pound*
ANroriRU TOUft
oo*
of" thirty-eight
ohildsaB. The
between thie lady and ha*
about sixty degrees, what the
eats, goes to keep np the heat, and the,
food fails to produce the same amount ol
fat it would in warm weather. There
remains no question bnt that it pays to-
provide warm, comfortable bouses for
swine during the winter season iu rigor-
oos climates.
The excessive -fat gained by excessive
feeding of fat : prodncing food is objected
to by many consumers, who prefer a
larger proportion ot lean with the fat.
Thd Live Stock Journal says on this
subject that the hog is naturally a grass
and root-eating animal, bnt in its domes
tication, being fed almost wholly in this
country upon concentrated food, has
come ttte habit of depositing this excess
of tot. If young pigs are kept upon
food that will grow tho muscles and
bones and develop a rangy frame they
will, in toe opinion of the authority re
ferred to, possess so much muscle when
half-grown that 4 moderate length of
time in fattening, even on corn, will not
pile on an exeeesiye amount of fat.
Pigs fattened in Canada partly npou
barley, bnt largely upon peas—a highly
nitrogenous food, yielding a large pro
portion of muscle—produce more lean
meat than do swine fattened almost
wholly upon corn—an excessively starchy
and fattening food.
A Wbxck.—The uncovering of an an
cient wreck on the Herring Cove Beach,
Maine, ty the washing away of the sand
that has of late yean covered it, revives
■peculation. It is known to have been
there more that a century, and ia be
lieved to be twice that age. The model
ia obeolete, and there is no, iron in its
fastenings.
4'
capital, employing 350,000 hands; Mas
sachusetts, 14,352 establishment*, with
$303,806,185 capital, employing 330,000
hands; Ohio, 20,699 establishments,
with $188,939,614 capital, employing
182,000 hands.
There were 91,997 insane people in the
United State* in 1880—65,651 native^
26,346 foreign. Of these 14,111 belonged
to New York, 8 304 to Pennsylvania, *_
5,134 to Illinois, 5,127 to Massachusetts,
7,286 to Olvio, 3,530 to Indiana, 8,310 to
Missonri, 2,405 to New Jersey, 4 to
Wyoming and 16 to Idaho.
Pennsylvania has one public school
more thai New York. Her figures are
18,616; New York, 18,615. The former
spends for education $7,126,827 and the
latter $11,035,511. Ohio has 16,473
public schools and spends $11,085,315^
Iliinois, 15,203 schools, spending $9,850,-
011; Indiana, 11,623 schools, costing
$7,267,700; lows, 12,635 schools, $6,288,-
167; Massachusetts, 6,604 schools, 81,■*
696 612, and California, 3,446 schools,
$3,525,527. Wyoming, where woman
suffrage prevails,, has the fewest schools—
55, at a cost of $36,161. The total num
ber of pupils in the New York schools
were 1.027,938, and in tho Pennsylvania-.
950,300.
It is estimated that in 7,500 of the
9,000 lamrooms of—Philadelphia free
luncheon is provided. The quality
of
the food varies according to the location
of the barroom, from the soup made of a
half-picked beef bone, a few scraps of
fat aud lean meat, a small measure of
potatoes, turnips, and tomatoes, and two
gallons of Schuylkill .water, to the
spread consisting ot Boston baked bean*,
boiled and baked macaroni, broiled reed
birds in season, choice breakfast bacon,
"and a variety of other dainties that
would probably cost from forty to sixty
^ents were the patron to got the same ~
thing in a regular restaurant. H The
daiiy cost of providing the luncheon
first described is only a few cents, while
toe barkeepers who go to the .other ex
treme expend about ten dollars a day for
food which is free to their customers.
The hotels generally refrain from in
fringing on the domain of the dining
room by
barroom any food more tempting than
stale crackers and dried-up cheese.
The Children.
.It has been particularly noticed that
the danghters of the Princess of Wales
are always dressed with great neatness,
and with a charming simplicity,. As the
London papers remark, “It would be
well if the mothers of many of the other
children, and what Lord Beaoonsfleld —
termed nnfledged girls, who are con
stantly seen about, were to imitate the
Princess in this respect and array their
offspring in a qniet style, which wonld
be more in accordance with their years
than the gaudy costumes which their
distempered fancies lead them to think
beooroing.” The same remark in an in
tensified form applies to our mothers and
children.
Thb bio timber raft that was towed
from 3t. John’s, N. B., to New York by
two tugs was 800 feet long and 30 feet
wide. Itdrawterer eight feet of wriwr. .
It is divided into eleven cargoes, or sec
tions, of about 500 sixty-five-feet spiling
logs each. The cargoes are crib* into
which the Iqgs were rolled and atored.
Over and around the sections great chains
were wound. Between each cargo there
is a wide space to allow free working of
toe raft ins rough sea. The cargoes
weigh about 250 tons each, and it wonld
have coat about $25,000 to bring them
to New York city by ■•n»ng vessel*, a*
the host* engaged in thk kind of trans
portation demanded extrit pay on account
of toe riae of too raft. Captain Flifr
•aid that the plan of tug towing will be
“If you zttexfipt ti generally employed next Mason, and,
*quea*e way solid body, ft will always he thinks, vflT eventually succeed tbs
lerisipreasorei” Clasa (biles and sailing vessel trade, bat vassal owner*
oitM example* of exception whieb ‘ say that the trip k dangerous, and oos
prove the rule. ] toet raft will discourage toe work.