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The New Era, 1884-01-25, Page 9. January 25 1884, FARM AND OARDEN. Jottings That W111.0 Read With, interest by Rural Readers!, HORSES, HERA AND CATTLE' ROTES. 4 Compiled an Agriculturist.) A Voice Fj�w ;Ise Pam: "You say that my life is a round of toil 2v The stalyvart farmer said, That I scarce can wrest from the • oft•tilled soil My pittance of daily bread? Well, what you tell me in part is true. . I am seldom an idle man, • But I value the blessing -of -rest, as yen, ho have much of it, never can, . " t• surely, I never have worked in vain, , role the spr4ng to the golden fall; • Y The harvest has -ever brought waving grain; Enough and to spare for all. And when in the evening.iresdfrom care, I sit at gay farm -house door, • Hy Wife and little ones waiting there. Oh, what has the millionaire iafore? " My children may neverhave hoarded wealth, Their lives may a4 times be rough; But it in their homeirthey have love and health They will Haft these riches enough. The'only land they will ever own, Is the :and that the Owing right arm And the patient, fearless heart alone Can till to Rierbilo farm. "I have nothing beyond my simple wants • ' And a little for Cloudy daya • But no grim spectre my homestead haunts, Such as silver and gold might raise. Around me are eyed that with sparkling mirth . Or with placid contentment shine - And no wealth•ologged lord upon all the earth Has a lot time blessed than mine," The Best Layers. Prof. COok eays light Brahmile have preyed ewe better layereiii Winter than his brolva Leghorns their, eggs are finer in quality, larger and of rich miler. At the • age,of 6 moothesthe cockerels weigh seveo and eight pounds, and while not 'equal to the gemes;Dorkinge, or the Houdane for. table use, they by no meows disgraoe dinner. From his •ewn expeeienoe. he thinks there is no fowl that equals the light Brahma for the fartner. The brown • Legb ens are portrait non -setters. They are irable layer.% ,except in cold • West , when he finds them inferior to the lightarahmas. The Leghorne mature quickly, and are alniciet useless for table use. . He -oannot Mom:mend the aroWn Leghorn. Euellagge Experiments ea Onelph..• • Peet. Brown's reoent eipealmentse ali the Ontario ExprifitnettelaFarm, • in pre-. serving various green fodders by means of - portable or permanent silos; are amongst the more interesting, valuable and care- fully•conduoted that have come under our notice, and will be studied Witleinteiest by shippers aud breeders of oattlea ble odes three 'experiments Wore made with ordinary airstight barrels, two of which had equare boxes fitted inside Bo as to inure more uniform packing thania • possible in a simple barrel. Tbese barrels were peeked with greet, succulent pasture fodder. A. large tun was • geed fou the • fourth experiment, and '1111ed with, the green grassea and With green oitt foader. After eighty•eix days' enclosure the tin ,was • opened, and the erase fodder found to be juicy and sound in fibre,though it had /bathing, Hi:01r taste and Israeli. The grass in the small berrels was found it be • similar. The green oat bidder preserved in the tun was, ,however, "sound, sweet and as palatable as that from the perthanent silo." The permanent silo, the walla of ,whith had amen Made smooth, Was 'filled with 28 tons of green Mt fodder, poked, and covered with boards and earth. • After 89 days, or on Deo. 31pt, it was opened, and . thefensilage wes Mend to be', to quote Prop Brom, ." one body of sweet, welecolored esti:dales, leaves and beads." Generally the matelisl "has a brown but not (lark tinge, very slightly spoiled by feementation or other form of deoey, and when taken Out actually molls sweet and tastes slightly salty," but acquires a snieil and Mete on exposure. In addition to the. subonsful. iesue of these experiments With tae silo; Mr. Brown secured be eatefully. ;conducted. thefroometer tests the dailyaVariations and. degrees of heat prevailing in various parts of the silo during the fermelitatiot in. pro- gress. The average of the whole maps alter the first week was 68 sa, and of the central parts 87°. That this heat continued, foe three morithe did, net destrey the fodder wilanedeubt be interesting t0. those who. know how heat and moieture combined • very quickly ruin grasses and grains on taa open field. , Home Diaxims. Never allow anyathe Maiekle,Yoar-horse- -tar the litabler The animal only feels.the torment and dose not understand the joke. • Vieions habits are -thus. Madly -brought -de; • Let the horse's litter be dry and cleat underneath as well as on top. , Standing on hot, fermented manure makes the hoofs soft and brings on lameness. , . Change the titter, partially ia thme parts and entirely in otheeti ' every meaning. Brush out and eleao the °tall thoroughly. To procure it good cent on your horse Me plenty of rubbing and brushing. Plenty of "elbow grease"opens the poresasoftens the skin and promotes the animaategenerel health. . Um the ourry•comb lightly. When used roughly it is it source of great pain. Let le heels be web brushed out eyery * nights irt, if allowed, to cake in; games grease d sore heels. ' ' • a; • Whenever a Lase is washed never leave aim till he is rubbed quite dry. tas will ' probably get a chill it neglected. . • When a horse comes off it journey, the first thing is to walk him about till he is cold if be i3 brought in het. This pee. Vents him from taking cola. • Let his legs be well rubbed by the hand. Nothing so soon removes Armin. f i oleo detects thorns or splinters, soothee the animal and enables }nm tr. feel oomfortale. Let the horse heats some °noise every day; otherwise he will be liable to fever or . bad feet. Let your horse anted loose, if pothible, without being tied gelato the miteger. Pahl and wearinese-TiOrt a-Matinued position induces bad habits aed mums swollen feet and other disorder. Look often at the anitoiti's legs and feet. Disease or wounds in these parts, if at all neglected, mot become clangemus.-learna,_ Field -and Fireside: -------*',4- Core ter sitting Maim 5 It is claimed , hat corn ie the most BM& itio able food for si re. • The requirements -of a sitter diffe- from those ot other hem. Keeping quiet nd without Pouch exercise, not muoh is required to sustain life, and their food shoal be of suoh it nature as to digest Slowly. Far this rearm whole grain is preferred, and 'semis thought to be much the best. Soft food of atiy kind is mon digested, and the hen Weems hungry and either leaves the beet too frequently or else beat:tram very poor. The advantage of corn over other grain hi that it iii more oily Mid hot so likely to stimulate the producition of eggs, and being hoard and eompentiat digests much elovnir than ether sin A Wage* Pthelle. When a piton) tube ireez% eolid do hitt pour on hot Water in the ootnroota Wawl* the hope of thawing. The hot-water tvill stay at the top, and that will be the end of it. But procure a lead tube, or any other kind of pipe, place the lower end: directly on the ioe xn the pump, and with a tunnel • tour bot wet:r in at the top, •The weight of the water in the pipe will drive it foot spinet the Me, the pipe settling as fast as the iqo melte, and the whote will be cleaned oat in an inotedibly short time. • Other Herat afouloge. From fo r aores' of ground' a market gardener at Morrie, 111., during the past season Made a net profit ot 01,800;11ot iooluding the vegetables for hie own family, No femme with a tame stook of oattIe to take care of thopla Mil tit provide a supptY of wateethat ma be used in the barn it very cold or very stormy weather. • Don't feed, your poultry en the ground. It ie not only a wasteful plan, but produ o disease from the amount of filth which wi be swallowed with the food. Use a clean boatatortrougb to place the food: upon. ' Barbed wire oan be used as a lenge against hogs by putting the lower wire foar inches from the ground, and the neat wire a foot or fourteen inches higher. The fence does not need to be high if hop only are to be inclosed. Cow % will drink fotit -atatte-aliT moderate temperature in preference to very cold water whit% is pure. • Their lustinot rebate against taking anything into the etomach which will chill them. Daitymet ehonld • DIREA11$.. PhYstaiariaa TheoratOonoariaing Their Sources PHILOSOPHY OF NIGHT-CAPS. One' of the most prosaic explanatione ever .givet for the ;source of dreams is that whioh aphyeloianahas just put for- ward. He Bays they are caused lay not wea r eg nighli-eape. "When cold weather seta in suddenlyaud is much felt at night, the head which is uncovered bas the blood eupplied to it driven from the surface to the deer parts, notably the brain -the results are light sleep and dreams. The obvious remedy," he continues, "is to wear a nigbtontp as long as the cold weather lastie" Thie reasoning may be, no doubt, sound enough. from a dootor% point of view, but the conclusion is, nevertheless, not one that everybody will agree with at once. • It Is cbvious, of course, that if a man goes to elder on it cold night with the: head uncarvered, he ma;dream of being verareold. • The sleeperraor, iestance, may imagine himself 'to be a Polat bear with his head frozen fast in an iceberg, spg that he is alone Blew, and that his summit is crownea. with perpetuatenow. There is no limit to tae possibilities_ of dreaer mi. He might think he was a snowball, or an ioicle, it pump-et:lout on a December morning, or thenorth pole,em Med hdd- pest mese fora New Zealand, and mistake his remem er this. head for the dome of Si. Paul after %now- • Vety suggestivele the attention paid to • ;Wimp miffing in England and A.meriea. British farmers on an average have three Blimp to every four mires of laud, and ail a condequence their farras are hi it high state of productiveness. In America we keep about oue sheep to every. tbirty-ropr acees. True, much of our country is new and Unsettled, but the faot of Eaglatia's greater 'fertility remains ; .the average . wheat yield being twenty-nine bushels per acreewhile ours is yet only about twelve per aore. • Lime • and kerosene are two articlesM& Fshould be plentifully used aboiit all- t • Lncieed, the fancies that might occur to it man without a oightomp on, end hie head, probably in a draft, are imam merable ; but tbey would all tend in one direction, that of a cold in the head. Of course everybody knows that dreams "go by oontraries,". but this does•not mean thet Bleepers mat their tom* out, of the. bed - Mottles on a frosty night imagine that they are at the stalleancl the iagats crackling ander their feet. There issoothing in such a situation suggestive of the tropics or • abloatioes, or the Great Sahaea. No man dreams of being scalded or roasted when hie extremities are being fro t p atquartera. .These are both excel- thinke he is browsing witla salamanders at lent diainfeetants and are death on vermin.- -the baok of the kitchen fire wh, e s are turning into icicles. Certaanly' not. Dreams, let them be otherwise what they natty, have always a nastification, either as ay interest farmers who have a intim t' o tier goo Lung to isee that all the perohee, bottoms of nests, etre, aria well sprinkled with ocitamon kerosene. . ' .• . • 11. Spheres ef mare - scarcity of bog feed this year to knctw that terious aquyities, or else as the direct oat- en excellent winter Mod f • pont(' of arrioolleotion ph Meal • esore p le a mixture of finely anit clover bay; bolted with potatoes, adding oee•fourth its weight of wheat bran, and enough skimmed or buttermilk tomake that's sloe. Clover, either green Or in hay, is especially good for pigs.. a A . ern ark* i 0 iuneeeie, 's A. correspondent of the Boaten :Rerald Owes an interesting sketch et this career of E. D. Winslow, the Bosten foraer, since his residenee in Buenos Ayres. Oa:his-arrival there he assumed -the name ot W. D. :Low, Ever since fortune. seems . to have upon hiaevery endeavor; and,although Ms .thrinet record is. well knatia--vnahe 'hi treated • as a reputable person, and is regarded as one of the moat mocesifuls men •• of the ; Ahnost :immediately on hishrrival in Buenos Ayres, he BucCeeded in beiraaw- ing Money saffieient to establish. his news- paperethe Reried. 1. Tide has been a success 'from tee siert, Mid -is now pub- tishecl French and Spanish, as well as in, Eeglishe This is• asSuuday paper mi. well as a daily, ,Mod PgrisWinalow's aeligious homuias la is Suuday edition are sMd be as good reading a.ti thelatitude of Beene% • AY' a cia ma ale has b,nome the owner. of . hanamme film& of drives the . beet pair of • "horseszia itt Buenos" Ayrea, which,- by :pile ;way, is a oity of $00,000 •people; -and livedin a honasome quiuta.ontaeoutekirts. ,Ile bas it telephone from 'basibess 'Office to his residence, and does most of his edit - an there. Soon after his arrival hi Buenos Ayres be sumeeded in , marrying 'a young woman and. went to England On his weds' ding , tkip, but temainea there but it short time, for fear of applioatien from the 'United States for • his .extraditiene Sipco he • has been in 'Buenos: Ayres he has been to • Europe twice•onampettant raieekine for the •Governinent . of that country, and be hate the entrecAt the 'President's house,. whom he even fakes the precedence of the Presi- dent's Ministerial itcltiserdewho ate obliged to wait entilshis• business: is .done. befdre they go to :des theirs. He: is so: powerful that he Would have no diffieultY in breaking down any pertain who should , anderteke.to expose or oppose hien, and no one mires to do it. ' He is meniber of the principal club of the pima, andie personally intimate with the Amerbein•minister. His &edit in Beene% Ayeseetnesidtehe.exbeedingly good, Mid proiffitient reerthanteare always ready to lendhina all the monisy that he wade,. • Itiot by Starving Laborers. • A Portland despatch' seas : Several hun- • sired discharged railroini men boarded h passenger:train on Saturday near Pepdleton and demanded to be taken to Pettland free. he officials 'refuseaa and waled on the sheriff ti remove the crowd frum the train. The train, was .on an Indian reseivation,, and the State authorities. were poyeerleaa. • Tim 'Okotvd thee stookapossessionabfethe tffran ana,delia the °facials, Gen. Myles. was telegraphed to and eaderecl two: cona. panies'to the ,mene. a The troops arrived in the eveming, but the' rioter's rarefied t yield.Theeeloundred'retighe came from Peediaton to aseiet :the rioters. The • laborers were discharged an the beginning: Of the week, and . vent their wages 111 whiskey and riotous living. They are new holdieg a meeting. The °Maths arc doing their best to proviae for ahem, as • they are deetitute. Five morealtsoharged men are .expeeted to arrive on Sunday... No serious dieterbance is anticipated, , , Decorated Dill; Pails: Painting on wood is a favorite pastime foe ladies, and articles that at onetime would have been considered only suitable for the dairy or the kitchen money? quite freely decorated and used for aerior romp, tack% for work, ole. -Thue milk pails ate decorated, the inside lined with silk or satin:and the outside painted. First of all cover with oak stain the whole ot the pail, then with oil colors paint spraye of apple bloetern, howthore ot almond Mos. Room boldly upon it. When that is finithed alea fee otudasciry;.--lintrathaliatetioa, ana loop dome thick oord through' the square handles M ataa• eithet bide, bringing it mem the top 60 as to form a, lose handle; finish the mine aaa with knotted en& ottassels. An ebonized a",:a pail With brilliant Maxechal Neil roses is beautiful If artistically painted. iaria: Rev, Dr, King,' Who was minister of 0aP8 'actual. To say, therefore, that amen with oneaand Of his body cold could dream of kinythiag but the. coldness'of 11 18 &libel upou those phantasies whiolia as Byron says, "do divide our being"; and taineests 11 the myriad-forentratarunons, humorous, beautiful and awful, in h night.oap is an outrage against some of 'our 'moth' clelight- ful superstitious.' A night-cap is not an article of mystery. --Kci one can fill it with romance or wonder a it has no capacity for', such properties. Put Olympus in to night -ops and the divinities are'dethroned at once. Thirea of aunces awful eyes geeing out hem under a trill, or *Minerva's pleand 'filmset in plaited muslita -.With Venus, of murk all things are possible, and even a night-os,p might be,00me her ; , but imagiee the foam•born Aphrodite iu such•head-- dress I Greece would have cracked he two with latighter at the thought 'of her with tepee tied under her Obi. Net when we oorae to dress the .gefls up is the result less disastrous to reverence. Mara, With his head in a bandana, is almost impossible to the moat vivid irnaguntion • and Apollo's golden ourisaassaok at least would have had. to be provided. Amd Jupiter in a . if or ons 'ng r's •as en ey 11- er, 86 - by n's id d, n, ta asa d. ox7 er, n- on -a de as ate. t� he It n. or to 8. g,. Ps. 9 • e ,borders eir impiety. , Nee dignity is lackiig do either. geniality humor Make geed the defeot.' s The "b net ael nult " is arianoonoprobaisitg tb and 9,grim. It adds a terror to the buegal aaMoaticine, and on Mre. Cauclle'asheactis sinister ees the. 'enakes Meg:use. . Wh the frills are stiff they inenthel. When ah are limp they waggle in a ridioultMe ma ner.. They . meek the periods of • h upbraiding epee& With • coitobalailae''g tures and 1111 up the patties: With a state eloqueboo all. their .own. Caen it Ma bead the .riighteciapa is the: outward a 1/•isible sign of . defeneeless, barealegge and altogether 'preposterous °Maine , Whenever Leech wanted glee it laugh i kemest Faint he drew a night-oapped m it o window, 9,nd all the rest was euggeste Whether it was burglars or fire, it was i possible to; sympathize With the suffer for nem:emit of anguish on the counte :Once could Mtrieve the ridicule oast up it by the niahtoap. Now dreams 'hi/ye solemn dignity of their own, and ta trio, theta all back to •suolia• source. seems incongruous as to suggest that poetry Mel to lotglair. Nor does it Mem befitting attribute to this ludicroos, head-dress e power 'of: ettiriguishing, the bretta requires more. potent " agendiesete-quiete -that-greet Magician -at Hermes' red Paospero's wand. Shall We stop it do from dreaming a by verepping . i -head? Will it give over chasing &Min lend oats; its nose Reel its. busy pew cease tesitchingin eager pursuit, or Revel° be silent, if we tie it night dap (MAO tt Babies are never 'Without snob aoverin ij yet they dream as often se they elee Aaaia, there no reason for.supposin the-, Cyrus, in Persiaahad a coldaheitil whe he -areareell'116-arienaldly, that he thrie gasped. the sun ; or -Nero, in :Italy, ••whe the manner of his ..awful death.grevi tt out of the derk before -his. eleaping.vision -WeriaKniies, or Caosaa, or Augustus; wer Sophoolea, or Hannibal, of ohs,. of th groat dreamers of Antiquity, living th sunniest be lends and Bleeping. virtliallyi tho open air, suffering from 9 ohill either extremity when • they. foreeaw i 'slumber the fate of empires, andprejuaged asleep, tbe results Of battles ? It would b it pity if we had to. think so, 'for there i much in dreams that appeals to otirlape, instinet for the marvellous, iii-friie-do no wish to have them all mothered under a night cap, s • •• That in fairy tales heroes 9,nd heroines hitve oapiavalnoh endow thein with super, natural powers everybody khowe, • but at eitch cede the articles have tended to increase; •and'uot extieguish, 'their hotel. lectiritl'activity. In Myth, again,alreams Were a directs gift tem the gos. True dreams came down to mortality by the gate ethorn, tied .fallablous ones, by the gate of ivory. There was • no queetion about nightcaps. Calpurni Otter th Mon of her day, had bet hair and fore. tisbound vehen the Dm% 'herself ping over Cmsat's death Wounds, and herine de. Medici was othyined With ny tiete of lam and ribbon when she amed that Patin, tlien all gayety, was dents? struck into mourning by the her buthand's death. In the isixtecnith ary ladies Of rank always wote night-, , very niervellouri AO see sa yet Mer- it° de, deakime that " (teary al incident "aof _he.; hael.aahappy or was . preiiiigertO het by a dreem." °paver way, therefore, lize look at the outtien hetweendreaMs and bold heads,' connectiOn fietifid to break first test. That the night-cat:lie gn lent thing to wear in Order to keep the head warm is; no doubt, Mend ithough ; but he would be a verY Bengal/1e peezion who it*a Gretifriars' UP. Church, Gleagow, frota eg4u„ear 1888 to 1855, died on Thursday last, at hie aSsa" reeidentse in St. John's Weoli, London, id •••,aalta, his 771h year. Dr. Xing was taarried to a 'as ' sister of Sir Williana Thotneen, and is sur. 4913,14 vieed by hie widow, two daughters mitt a ""e Bon. Jae was an ' eloquent ',rata:doer, the author of several eoolesiaaticaltindraligiotie works, ana took a prominent part in advo. g the abolition 01 sltsvery. - peoted, to emape the destiny of sleep by bandaging up his ears at night. Alt rooms, probably, would feel more comforts be on it frosty niglot if they put wreathing over their beads, but the chance° are that there would not be one dreamer the les. During the day we areal! citizens of Loudon alike, bat at night we disponi° each hate hie ()W11 dream muntry. No one elti2 show us she way or help us to make the company we travel with. Our own fautdee do as they will with tea ---Bend some broorastioking up in the sky, others groping with the gnomes down ire the middle of the earth. We meet the personages of the Most cliete.nt part with the htenost unconcern, 'and. wander with them familiarly into the farthest future. The incidents of the day, or sounds hearcl,or peneations felt during bleep, shape and twist oar fentastio thoughts without may coutrol frora our own brains. Bub a night•osai more,or less would make little difference. Hail we got accustoMed to it we should dream probably of nightnaps. Mountains Would be settling down 801 117 but firmly on ladies' ; a thoiniand fathoms of ocean would be gently prem. Mg their heade-into that betel* there which, the Fuegians admire so much. Sea- eerpents would tie themselves in endless bows under their chins; ' they would mother end strangle time after time. The ex that wears red woollen caps would, put- ing the appendage on for the first time, go o bed with a lingerieg • recolleotiun of muggiees, and pass the Meat in piratical dventuree and struggles with coastguards.tnen over contraband chests; and when be braih first discovered the mammal warmth, both would start up awakea-those rota their throttling with anagondas, these cone their conflicts With corsairs, -and xthange mutual apprehensions of the ouse being on -fire, or oonjectures as o • the reason Of the hotness of the oom. For if an unwonted chill oan ahe up dream in one direction, the doctor ust himself admit that an unacoul• omed Warmth a tvill make us dreant itt nothea. The brain..is not to heellea_mee,..._ y the Mere unloading of the blead.vesseis• f our cerebral ergate. We•raust eaorifice other ways to propitiate Morpheus, "the sbioner of dreams," who, nigiatnap or to ight-oap, melds bur sleeping fancies ace ording to hie will.-Londen Tete:4mph. SIONTIMAT. NOT VENICE. Eh, lock 'Real Life MON Oat a Deft- , • Bidden Debtor. A Montreal taped says : Satuklay a dry'goode merchant of OM city caused the' little householsi.. effects of it, poor honest Man to be sold out by a bailiff fora debt of - about 113, theffefendant at the time being on his death -bed, aye, even cl Aol_tam. -effectseof-amptdatitarli one of Ins' legs. This retentions creditor was asked by the neighbore to have mercy, but the.merchant Shylock. would not hear .of mercy. .The bailiff, a •kind•hearted man, begged his principal to allow hire to put over the sale onabe plea that the case was one of peonliar .headahip deserving the Ilindest considera- tion. The sale was proceeded with, how- ever, and realized ail told 135: But thanks to a noble -hearted citizen, who, learning that his dying neighborswas being,scild out, method to the sale, purchased and paid cash down for every article, nothing was removed. Shylook, ru,bbing his•hands, was rejoicing' that he had succeeded . so much better than his. anoient brother, Bines his pound of flesh was aotuallY in „his bailiffs , pocket, when, lo another, Daniel crane to judgitent appears In the person of-balliff No. • 2, arrned with a writ, stamped 1' Concordia Salus," from Mr. ' Assistant City Attorney Ceyle's offiCe. The writ ranks first and seizes the proceeds • of the Shylook's laugb is suspended pro tem.; he commences to figure up; there is yet, said he; enough for me. "Not quite, friend," said a gentlemanly -looking young man, steppiegforward, "1 seize tbe balance left for the .landlork Behold the Writ 1" The merchant, it is sead, is urging his owe creditors to give him an mctension of time for the pay,noent of his debts. ' . • • . " Charlatan." The origin• of the word ." charlatan "18 given by it German paper as followe " the olden time, when the doctors, sitting -he their studies; weighed the ille of their :fellow -man and searched the depth of nature for remedies; they were not itt. the habit of liding, about ; their homes were hospitals, a,nd they did not leave their patient:. • At that thne a genius of a, doc- tor, who knew ixiore about calculating for biraself than medieinel made 'his 'appear - :awe in Paris. His name was laden. Be •proeured it small, emaberse waggon (char), upon whioh lie packed his remedies for all poisible affections. With those he drove through the streets of Paris, crying out his Wares and looking for patiette. -•Ife was the 'first driving .dootor, and eoonssabeoatne_ -renovvned. Whenevee be canoe along, the population greetecl him with, ' Vella le char, de Litton.' ..This was soon abbreviated to • Charlatan,' which at thattime denoted is driving debtor." ' Setae Fast Train.Bannialg. , The • train OM makes th d run of- 012 s miles between New York and Chicago:in 25a hours' makes only seven stops; but there are so many bxidgea to incise Ana Villages. to -peek tbrough that the speedis nmessarily relaxed aeriftep as °nee eviny ten mules-1185the average for the entire eun tniaht be much' higher than 85.20 miles an hour. Its areateet (speed is on the run between New York and Philadelpbie; hero the -lowest mile' is made in two Mho- utes and the fastest in Afty-seven seconds. Many a toile ie made in sixty seacinds. The l000niotive on which Mr, Aegus of the. American Machinist, made the trip froin Jersey City to Broad street weighs 74' tons, and draws a train weighing 200 tetnaa and on descendina grades when the great Mae:bine was doing mile a =Muth, the driving wheels Made 258a revolutions it minute._ • ° glow lifevvis ' • TWO rieli 'Polerax' landlords weed each to isolate two hens, two ducks, and two gethe from the poultry yard and ellow them to multiply for fifteen yew. ' Superfluoue male and moitned female birds could be sold, bat -the total sale was not to exceed 10 p%r gent: of the whole flock at the close of -g-teo years.' At the end of that term the possessor Of the largest flock w,as to get the • enialler frock and 10,000 rublep in cash, to 'be ' distributed among tharitable instita- tions. 'Upon settling the bet, it short time ape the ' Meer had 1,800 hen, 580 ducks, ahd 276 geese, a total of 2,698 birds.' The winner, had 1,084 Ilene,. 965 duoka, Ana 896 gem°, O total of 0,844 Mules • . The neat of learning -The bench. A good prophet -100 poi dent. Lady Mary Nisbet Hamilton, of Biel and Dirletota died at Biel Mese, on .Saturday Week, She was the eldest &mall - tot of the eleventh nari of Elgin and Kin- eardine, and married the late Right lion, Robundae, who took the Brits ;nab:idiot Nisbet Hamilton. Her ladyship, Who was in her 82nd year, leaves .an only thild, Miss Constehoe allebet Ilamiltinnwho euemeas to the eetatee, • • MELIGION AND LOVE. Enniance of the lBellevIlle Cony AloiTor. Among those who moaredfiorn tholou hog Immaculate Conception C Belleville, last Saturday nigba, wag very pretty young lady, an orphau fr one of the interior *village% of Illinois, w is now lying in one of the wards of the Elizabeth alegialtatealietlevilles-recover frora Injuries she inietained ie jump front a thira•Mory window. Altbaggla moderate oirournatames, her beauty amiable dieposition have won for her nut ardent admirers, and among them seve wealthy young men, who have Stied her beta. All of these levees, with t exoeption of one, the eon of one -of. • wealthiest mere:barite in Emit • St. Lou were unsuccessful in their suite,. and ev he, in pressing Ws *Inas, encounter obstaciles whioh for a time threatened prevent bins from leading her to the alt While she was abating the !tint& or t young man in question;.- ih Ea 81. Louis, he met her and madly in love with her a,nd she recipr °Med. He was about to propose mania when his father, learning she wits it Pr teetant, objected to th , saying th any son of his who married any other th 15 OathOlie girl vi•ould be disinherited. T unhappy lover called on the young lady an I e Ms before hoe. She said that she had no objections to becoming a Oetholio. One branch of the Christian Cauroli waa about ais good as the other, anyway, rale thought, The lover was happy again. 11 was decided that she should enter the Catholic Convent at Belleville, 'When she informed her guardian that sho had determined to ,okiange her faith and spend the remainder of .the year in the Imam:elate Conception Cattivetils, that individual, who happened to he an un- compromising • Protestant, refitted to furnieh the money neoespery. for her ex- penses l.vhile at the institutioo. She einforited her lover of bin predicament, whereuponhe volunteered to pay her tation She objected to this •arrongemeut fireabut wail finally prevailed upon to allow thoymg man to foot her bills with the understand- ing th e would become his wife ins mediately after she. had graduated. :Sh accordingly entered the convent &boa three naonths ago and tent:tined thee° up•t th t' as aturday night's fire. Alter the -had jumped frotarthe third story of the burning Wilding it young man picked her up and oarriea her to his honie in Belle. ville;Wbere he. Watobea over:her and did h BIL I as compared with last year, The numbers, Latest From Irelialltell, ent adr. As M. Porter, Attorney•General for sIreland, has beep sworn in Ile Meter of the Rolls before,the Lord Chaeoellor, a ottatafrrl irvegti.tiornte trill: tlYarPetiniBheIdrealalia. ' hu flile5wIl°9•rd agcrraeese, kr editl it Idle °kr ei Dade: of fl6b.a0r0e0 OM ing of live stook are as follows ; Horses. 470,- ieg 000 ; sheep, 8,219 OK and cattle, 4,851,000. an A. horrible murder has been committed in nd• Lisburn, (Jaunty Antrim, A Man named ny Doherty, while in me insane conditien, Val shot his sister -inlay dead and wounded - for hia veil°. Doherty went out With a loaded he gun, whith he aimed at two girls who were he passing on the road, to tbe factory,a4ais:- es, wife suoceeded, in ailretting kis aim, Vllt en was bereed hurt, in the ' etruggle. Re. eo loading his gun he heed at be suaterah• to law, ceasing instantaneous death. He is ar„ now in custody. - . he Lord Devon's Irish estate, Wilichehe is et about -to dispose of to his tenants; are ell located in the soetbwestern portioil of 0-• Limeriok county. The flourishing market go town of Newcastle West, whit% is part of o- the. property, Mends about the centre of 44 estat, which coot vf euveral thou- als Barad. Acres of first-cless teaming land. The he ' average yearly rent hes been in the neigha d" 00 of about 18 per acre, and Lord Devonn income from the unreortgaged portions must have been about 050,000. Muth has beenaid by the Epglish press about the enoramus salary attached to the , office of the Irish Chancellorship R40,060, with a peneion of li20,030 911 retirement, wholly irrespective of duratiori of tenure). • It is 010,000 a year more than that of the English Chancellor, whose duties as Chan. cellar are twice ' as arduous, and he only receives 130,009 es Chancellor, his other 120,000 being for bis 'duties ea Speaker of the House of Lords. Besides living in, Dublin is at least10 per cent. elieaper than in Louden.. . . . , . The public school teachers of Ireland are having -an' unpleasant experience it their convention at Dublim The other day the hall where they met was t y it MO and twoaattaealejege•teiverieseverelrhur e Tay there was an uproar in the con- s vention itself. The delegates front pleter , 0 moused the 15resident of "pandering. o traitors," bemuse he omitted the toast.to Lora -Lieutenant Spencer at it recent ban- quet. After a stormy discussion the dim • satisfied delegates handed up a written protest and left the hall. .• An agitation is now 'on footin Ireland . . aiming at an improvement of the gondition -ofetate-atationirt-Lithool feathees, who are' at present receiving sue% naiaerable Mier- ies, that, aa a. Parliamentary rep_ort,says, , it is it puzzle how .they earl live deoently or •respeotably. A a consequence, young.men • of talents shut the prefession of teaching, • and it is becoming. it difficult problem to fill • the schools with instructors. The • Chief Seoretary has promised to introduce t ' a' bill which will add about 13 to the • eatery of every teaober, but .this will prove.altegather insuffioiept. The press of the county iii smonaing the teachers in this agitation,. . • o restore her to mat:dominoes sequently removed to the hospital, Where the young rnitnahince-- oalled-on-herquite frequently. It. is said that he has fallen desperately in Jove with. her. The.yeung lady *ears !von one of her &Veil a•n engagetnent ring, placed there by her East Oa Louis -lover, but her latest victim entertains hopes of being able to gain her hand. She still rernatne tul to the youngonan who placed her in the oonvent, however, and for that reason as S000 as she recovers from her injuries a wedding ire high life is likely to take place iri East St. Louis. The friende of her rescuer extend to him their eympathy.-1 St. Louis Republican. • • Little of the.Juice Please ' It wana at Mrs.Shripilion Hendrieks' fable, and DunaleY :*as evidently mad about something. • . • a " There they. are," he -whispered to young Brown, "Abe. same old cumbed• peaches that we have had..every.night six Months." a • • .• • Peesently,, 'the landlady, asked; ".Will • you have eeme of the peaohes; Mrs -Lain. ley?" • • a , ' ' Neaa he replied,- as thortly an • he dared, being two Weeks in arr.earii; "I • never eat peaches,. except in the natural .state." . . " But these are 'brandied peaches," said Mrs: Hendrieks • "some theI haveaust pet down." Darnley sew 'hils" mistake 'and Mitered. " No," he firially decided,' " wont take any peaceteis, but .370.11 'might give „ines a little of the aniceiteaelleciny Argus. A: fashionable artiole-a•Woman. , . . • . W.HO IS UNACQUAINTED. WITH THE CEOCRAPHY or ..THIS COUNTY, WILL ' libly,i''N,......... illo e video . . -s iea Fo i on 1.1: n• LP (1:74/1: nal? ' A.. V' . ...s..,......„., , ....._,_..mit....m.........0SEeaBlioYi...... ...1..,,,..i9EX:114,....1:7N: THIS_.1111AP, THAT TL.,...1_.io‘,. - ._..._,,• ' - 14 1 -1:157.- 0,—,,,, m. 5:1.ilje:o. .F. tory . . I,. IT:ier80 • `---N- . R' T.4, 4.1"21---•., 0 .,,,. • N -s,„ at.45. .sne stsAis!f'r,' ...g. 1- • ' :44;."":: 4).11e..1•4 ,104::::, . Ita•1:6‘ *fag ie. e.,. .. •,A. •.• • X.int "'ilVZ.2 '1 -s r e du Cblek 4,• •04,, 0,,e 4,,,,. ae seal, • ta ale. deaLat.teate,...:•14a. $1 '• '.• % -0 *, -: v11,Q,A<, 1r ' ;V 0 1,••.? j‘lAsigl>'‘ tArt-:›.0 , 0 . I,T.i.,,, 1., 1 4.... ., - - t1.6, .. A Popular Scotch Ballad. • . •The ballad " Auld Roble Gray" woe written by Lady Alone Lindsay to an -old • Scotch tune 'oitlled "The bridgergoin grat when the sun- geed doon." .Auld Robin Gray was bier father's headsman. • When Lady Ante was writing. 118 *;:nota and_ piling . distresses niahaz --Tee, she told -her young sister that Ely had sena Jamie to, sea; meide the mothersick, and broken the father's arna,but wanted a fourth calamity. "Steal the bow, Sister Attie," said, the littler Elizabeth, and so • "the goo was Mama awa'." • , .•. ' .• • ' a ' EdwardAdams, of -Richmond, Mp., 12 • years of age, went huntipg-with twe'doge, end some hours later one cat the anixnIn returned home and . barked and 'whined. until ?dr. Adarair followed hird, to the 'spot ' where the boy lay dead, with his gun by , his side and the other dog watching hina. .The gun was disoherged while the boy Was climbing a fence. ' llnuga "'• 0° •..Lan• •frf1 41! 'CHICAGO./ ROCK. • ISLAND .86 PAcIFIC Rrir,5 .. • •.• tieing the Croat Central Line, affords to travelers, by reason Of ite unrivaled geo- .graphIcal posltton,-the--shortest and best route between , the East, 'Northeast and Southeast, and theVest, Northwest and SonthWeat..' . . ' It Id literally and strictly true, that Its .connectIons ere- ell of 'the artneleal lines- • ii reau•netween the Atlantic hnd the ?pallid. ' ay its main ilne and bianahes It reaches. ChiCago, Joliet, -Peoria; Ottawa, , -- LaBelle, comsat), Moline and Rock Island, in Minolti ;' Davenport,. Muscatine,. Washington, Itholme, aCiimivitie, Oskamosa, Fh!rseici, Dee 'molnes0•westr-LibertY, lowalCIty,'Atiantic Avoca, Audubon, Harlan, outiirie-oenter-aricl' Council Bitiffs,, , . in Iowa; canon): Trenton, Cameron and Kansete city, in Missouri, and LeaVen-. ' , • Worth -arid Atelileort. In Kansas, and the. inindreds of cities, villages and tOwns intermediate. The ' ' ' ."CREAT: OCK ISLA D ROUTEoP' . . , . - . _ ' ne It to familiarly . called, offers to travelers all the advantages and comforts incident tes a smeoth track, 'safe bridged; UniOn Demote- at all connecting points, Fest Express Trains,•eomposeci of COMMODIOUS, WELL VENTILATED, WELL HEATED, FINELY UPHOLSTERED and EI.ECIANY DAY- COACHES ; a line Of the MOST MACNIFICENT NORTON REOLININO CHAIR CARS ever bullt ;- PULLIVIAN*8 latest designed arid handsomest PALACE satlEPING OARS, and DINING OARS that are acknowledged by prose and people to be the FINEST RUN UPON ANY ROAD IN THE COUNTRY, and In which superior Mealatire served to traVelers at the low rate of SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS EACH. THREE TRAINS each way between CHICASIO, and the MISSOURI RIVER:, • vitt the fanitens TWO 'TRAINS each way hetWeen CHICAGO and MINNEAPOLIS ahd ST. PAUL, . ALBERT. LEA. ROUTE.. , •. . ' A NOW and Efireet Line, 'via aeneeri end Kankakee, hes reeently 'been nee., between NeWport News, Richmond, Oirminnuti. Indlanapolle end La ' Fayette. and Council Bluffs, SG Patil, Minneapolis and intermediate points. • • . All Through Passehgers carried on Past .expiess Trains. • POP Mere detailed InfOrMation, see Maps and Folders, whinh may be obtained, af. Well ati 'Tickets, et all principal Ticket offices In the United States and Canada,. of coo Vloe-Preet & Citehol Manager, --. . Clamot 'Mot qft, Pastsr As% 11. CABLE, — e. Sr. IfLI cHiqAco.