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,Tanultry 8, 1892
T HE
BRUSSELS POST,
AGRICULTURAL, GRRICULTURi1A.L, Owner and oneallira1,111011 do Lite labor with
two Isamu,
On the other form about thirty cons are
Fernier BroWn'11 Letter, itt milk, all the hey isjbought at about $14
1sT Fn1NInls roe ile rgll, to $15 per ton, and it mixed grain in fed cono-
So 70 00 got o baby darter, now, posed of highly nitrogsnona feeding 'Ann's,
Air buntlre for a name, Tho nulitpeys for the grain aud labor an
An' yo eek 'sr plain ale father hie n small margin ever, The farm le o small
Advice about thesano, 01.0 and is given up to the cultivetiir of
Ye think Loyola f 1003300, genian erupts entirely, Tho oamor'a rstinlate
Is pont the nearest right; of inco1(1018 41011 t ten cents worth of mal1nro
An' believe yell needle all Rost sound per hairnet daily, or $3 it day, Tho 10111)010
On cut a tootle tette, from these cows in therefore the primary
0 Sarah whores yeti Ronne gone to-- 101tsidenti0n of tide dairy,
Sense eke yon' Mother Nadi 111ave etl(Ieavere4 to enforce the p1llnaty
She never bed high-flown ldcos 1 need of buying 1(1 the cheapest possible form
She'd sentiments instead, the n000ssarylant food to maintain the
We oefiea our darter "Sarah,"dear, fertility of the farm. With the same luvest•
For 'LWO4 my 13,0Lhere name, mart in land, anl,nnle, labor and tools, land
13ut some ('0'00 dropped the Ic droll It oo managed will give an increased yield of
It atria seance quits the sane, /adder with whioh to pfoduee more milk
121$n,soundln' names to plenty 'muff ithout adding to the expanse of attendance,
J( or them as thinks Its smart hauling or otherwise.
To lot the dear old ne1n00 die out
'11101. wo 011 know by heart. ROW S11A1A, (1RASS on MAINTAINED 'I
They called John's mother Liddy Ann; Tho question now presorts itself, how
Yor 1110t110(30 111.1(10 uu0Jano-- shall grass be maintained without too often
In all the novel books ye've road bred tug the seal for needing. Ju relaying
Yo'1l 11nd no sweeter name. prase land, what crop shall We plant and
Who, loaned her "Jitney" tho nest time, how long shall the Drop before reseeding
Ono night 1on66, years ago, On general prinoiples 1t is perhaps best to
The tender mato of thot word lay down therule that all land should bo
Set heart and brain aglow. r0000ded to grass after two years of hood
011, choose a name ler better cause crops. My own preference is corn on sod
Than jest Its sound is nice, followei by a root crop. This permits of
And when yor gal's a woman grown thorough cleaning of land that can bo easily
ldho'll thank ye fee yeti 011oi00. worked and yields live of the most usaf111
I'll draw my letter to a oloeo Drops to a dairymen. Vaeletty of plants is
I3utjest add this one line nature's favorite combination for sustaining
allot no Loyola Imofrra animals when grass is the exclusive food.
TYiti pal u cent n mine. In winter we can hardly have too great a
-- variety of fodder with wheat to mix our
grain substances. The more varied au ani -
Cattle Foods, mal diet the more agreeable ; and agroo-
Inevery system of foaming well kept food. How mu011 0010, at factor Itvhan lt digestion
kn dt,ohow
grass land and a large proportion of the shall it be planted, and what disposition
cultivated area maintained ing rase
shall bo made (1f it when harvested are
1have formed the foundation of animal
questions which each must salvo for himself
industry.Inremuoh as we mist all have after folly considering his circumstances.
grilse land for hay, it is important to con-
sider how much land we should use, and ---
what quantity and quality of herbage wo The Dare of Farm Tools and Vehicles.
should produce. A waste whioh on many harms roaches
I have never known a 0uc0000fu1 farmer goodly proportions in theeouree ofthe year
who could not manage well his grass lands. is the caroleso manner which prevails in
The conclusion was forced on us that every caring for costly implements and farm
cattle ratan who has acheved distinction as , taohinery, Ride through the country in
a cultivator won it by learning how to grow the buoy season (arta often the came may
for the least amount of money what is ad- bo said in winter also,) and see how careless
milted to bo the costliest ingredient of an the farmer is about housing them when not
animal's ration. In a mixed ration it is in actual use,
usual to figure the cost of hay at the ruling It is by no means an uncommon sight to
rices in towns and cities, and to value it see the entire array of farming tools, plows,
Mr what we get out of it in comparison with harrows, cultivators, drill, mower, hay rake,
the yields of such concentrated feeds as todder and binder, as well as one or more
new process linseed meal, cottonseed moat, wagons, and as likely as not a buggy or two
bran and other cattle foods. Tho value of scattered around the yard and fields where
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the 'revered components of these substances they were last in use.
determines for us the relative value of hay. Through sun, wind and rale, there they
Catania ted by any process of reckoning we stand, Mete victims of their owner's care.
must acknowledge that hay is costly; we lees regard for his own interests ; for with
can not argue against the hay crop because such usage choir days of usefulness are being
{ it is costly. The lesson suggested is rather shortened at 1t rapid fate.
( reduction of cost, and such a management Implements made entirely of iron or steel,
of grass as to enable us to grow the largest if well painted, perhaps stand such treat•
yields per tore at the least oast, molt with lose damage than those of wood,
Next to a careful selection of send of but no matter what material they are con -
known vitality and proper variety, the strudel of there is always mare or less to
preparation of the seed bed and its them depreciate their valve in the action of the
ough treatment aro of paramount Inver- weather upon them. Paint will crank and
tense. The assumption thab grass Drops cleave off, rust oat and spread, while wood -
will take care of themselves is too common work is especially susceptibletodepreciating
among ue. There is no essential difference influences.
between the food wants of the plants which A farmer of my aoquaintance who is al.
' compoe0 our grosses and the nutritive re. ways complaining about his tools breaking
quiremonts of the tillage crops. When we down and wearing out 80 quickly, and who
harvest good crops of oats, corn or potatoes is constantly grumbling because it costs so
it is because we have fertilized them goner. much to run a farm, does not pretend to
ously, The law of life which so closely shelter an implomenb from spring to fall,
connects oflioientnutrition with large milk, and late at that, in faob not until winter it -
egg and meat yields in animals is the same self has set in does he take time to run
for plants. If the grass atop could have 00 thein under a shed somewhere, whence they
email attention s1) the corn and potatoes it emerge in the spring with loose tires, rusted
would yield as liberally in proportion. bolts, paentless woodwork, and having a
O(ITROO1NODS PLANTS. GRAIN RATIONS. general air Of decrepitude not at all in keep.
A greet deal has been said during the lug with the length of time rano they left
past two years, of the need of growing more the wareroom of the dealer bright with paint
nitrogenous plante. This advice has been and guiltless of rust.
urged as an argument for lessening the out- Another man left his eighty dollar grain
lay for such purchased feeding staffs as we drill in the field where he used it last,
the entire summer until seedinh
buy from %sateen growers, whetherin the throe g g
form of bran or corn meal. I don't think time in the fall with tate cover up. Is it to
the time is near when it will be economical ho wondered 0t that it would not work, and
to stop buying cotton seed meal or linseed a number of dollars had to be expended
meal. These twosubatenees form the very upon it in repairs. Why will not these
cheapest soarcee of nitrogen purohasableby farmers realize that they are simply throw -
farmers: The largest and most prosperous ing their money away when they fail td take
milk producers in our state are the men who oars of a costly tool t
tt0emontliberally and intelligently mixtures "But," says one, "I have no convenient
of these two substances. I would therefore place to put them. It takes a great deal of
start out with this rule for seeding, A mix• time in the course of the summer to stop
tura of cotton seed and linseed meals in and put away every tool you have been us.
equal weights ; that these foods should form ing se soon as it is unhitched from."
from three to four tenths by weight of a if you have no convenient place you should
mixture of other grains, as bran, oat tend, have one, and can well Mord to build one
corn or cob meal, end middlings ; that the if your farming is on a scale to necessitate
cottonseed and linseed fed to cows should buying such implements. A suitable shed
x equal one-eighth of the weight of milk. can be built with vary little outlay of money
r. Thus a cow giving 24 pounds of milk that will answer every purpose.
daily should have with other grain three Posts set in the ground, if first well coot -
pounds of these two. Another giving ed with coal -tar, will last for years, and the
40 pounds daily should be able to eat siding and roof can be of inferior grade ot
five pounds of this grain. A now prodtto• lumber if necessary. I think it is safe to
ing that quantify of milk, if not more than say that tools usually found on a good sized
1214 percent of dry (natter, produoea five farm will depredate in value at least
pounds of dry food. No beef animal ever twentyfivedollen inaeiuglo season simply
produced suoh a yield of dry meat. Tito by needless exposure to the woabhar, This
income and expenditure is a liberal one, sum will surely pub up a shed where they
may be protected.
mTaRYT1IING DEPENDS ON moll FEEDING. Look at the way soma farmers use their
Everything depends on this mode of high buggies and wagons. Once in a while one
feeding of animals with special reference to is found who keeps his carriage painted,
the value of manurial re0idnoa. This i0 the but the majority run then the year round
key nope of feeding cm two of the most in- without oven painting the folloee. Cause-
toreating farms in a cerbaie county. On qua ntly every year, along in July and Aug -
one farm, about fou tons of hay to them.° est, when the weather is hot and the roads
j aro grown and no succulent food of any kind. dusty, the tires b000tno loose and have to
On tho other no hay is grown but tato be reset); the bolts get loose and begin to
animals are kept to make manure to feed rade, the paint cleaves off (the mud o1 the
garden crops designed for the city market. buggy keeps the paint proteotod most of
In tho human and in all animal life we the time) and the buggy which cost seventy.
rightly roped the oornplexion-ate t000h, five or to hundred dollars becomes a "rattle -
odor and general tone or appear0nee=as trap," With carriage point seventy-five
the beat expression of health. In plants we cents a can, enough to paint it two "Date,
do not attach enough importauee to shade no one should lot a carriage go longer than
of color, touch, tone, and general appear- a year without painting. A portion emcee -
snot, and yet all three foatares are power. tented to tae use of a paint brush can make
folly affected for good or ill by the amount a buggy look very well oven if it is not
of nutrition they obtain (luring their striped,
growth. Ever ono knows thee is n great How
many Manners ever paint the farm
practical value in a lusciously rte orMIge 1Year after oar It weave its coat
�' gwagon 1 t y
a mellow, richly smelted pear' i11 thecolof reset until the
e flush andP , w mud, Tiros do net and
rip delicate aroma of an app�lo, wheels aro ruined When half tho Dost of nob•'
apart from their aesthetic feabures, Cali tang onoe would boy paint e001,g • to go
ny one calculate the value of those things over rho whole wagon, thereby protecting
promoting digestion We all adopt a0
P R P il, to thab the tiros would not, 00 Innen•
true the proposition thab digestion governs hot to the felow. will
nutrition and bbab unless8 keep I to from I
wo digest what keep thou from becoming dried oat and
wo eat we got no nutriment from oar food. shrunken with tho heat, bat paint applied
Two EXAMPLES, every few months is better:
r.Cltoso two instances of diverse farming
ilingtrote principles of moulting which de. A Sure Sign'
termitl0 how animals shall bo fed and what Clara --I stn sore George loves mo and
forme of ferbilityy shell bo bought. Tho one wi11 melte me his wife.
farmer Ilea Concluded that as mills is 1,i0 psi. Jennie -Hos Ile proposed ?
naryproduct hay i0 the boot and cheapest Ho has not oxaotly ;imposed, bub I
food he can grow on the farm for foundation know ho is gohlg to, Vlore is one dung
fodder. Who 0ha11(say that the nuteitIvo that (mimeos me of it.
value of moth hays is not 1011010 greater than " What's that 1 "
the ordinary arttel0 and judging 14 on the "Hie autipthy to dear mamma,"
basis of colorA tenderness of fibro, scent and
flavor, it aught to bo reckoned the boat in "She has gavel np Spir'tuxIlam eine() she
our town, On this farm I have soon the ata married." "Because her h,,,ha"d objected
Drop ltteronae d enol improved by the us0 of to it, 1 ennead'?" "Yee : ;.,r w14ne001' Rho
1lnsood and cottonseed mode 1 &bettttwenty watt to a tu,bie.rappillg i e• ,,«gum to get
to twonGy-ene omits ate milked, and rho messages from his, ret wit.."
WHO HOLDS THE ()ABEL
Tloe lvortd's 011111011104gm
Lose that forty ,year's age the Amorioan
lnillienalrs woo e,>nxidortd moth a rare bird
that a popular poet of the period devoted e
lengthy poen, to it description of hie char.
a¢teri0tie0, let 110% there are more then
icon millionaires in the United Staten, and
the lean worth from $10,0,;0,001 to $90,(00,.
000 10 so 00ta11011 that hie pronenee exoitea
little, 11aoy, comment, Today that nation
possesses not only the j, reatooG number of
rich mon but also the r'iola:et, of any on the
globe. A list of America's ton td011os3 men,
with the sums they arc worth, would be
made up about au follows :-1Yilliam Wal-
dorf Astor, $150,000,000 ;.1 ay Could, $100,-
000,000; John D. Rockefeller, $00,000,000 ;
Cornelius Vanderbilt, $00,000,000 ; William
K. Vanderbilt, $80,0(10,000 ; John Jacob
Astor, $70,000,000; Henry M, Flaggor,
$00,000,000;Jo11111. Blair, $50,000,000; Le.
land Stanford, $50,000,000 ; 001110 P. Hunt-
ington, $50,0011,000. The fortunes of these
ten men foot up the stupendous total of
$700,000,000, a sum Oho vastness of which
BAFFLES HUMAN COMPREHENSION.
The origin of those greet fortunes furnishes
abundant food for thought. Tho wealth of
the two Asters is due to the rise in the
value of the immense holdingoof real e0late
in this airy, 0000ro,l by 1118 founder of their
house, The fortunes of the two Vander -
bilis were made in the construction and
operation of railroads, and have greatly
euh0nued in value since they cane to them
by inheritance, Tito methods by which .fay
(iould's wealth was enquired are too well
known to impel recital, The fortunes of
Rockefeller and Flogger worn made iu the
oil trade, and those of Blair, Stanford, and
Huntington iu the construction and opera -
Ron of railroads.
Besides those alreadythere r
named e e 1)o
over titres score of babel hods and estates
in the United States worth above $10, 000,-
000 each.
Tho richest eau in all the Central Amer -
loan States, is John James Magee, a quiet,
prosaic men of middle age, whose career
has been as romantic as that of Monte Cris.
to. In 1870 Magee was British Vioe-Con-
sul at San Jose, and spent his spare time in
the collection of insects. lu same way he
offended the authorities, aud Jose C ouznl00,
Commandant() ab San Joao, ordered Mageo
to appear before him. Magee son() word
that he would appear in a short time.
This angered the Commandantswho waste
his oups aud ugly, and when Magee finally
appeared with the military escort that had
been gent for him Gonzales ordered 75
lashes laid on his bare back. This order
was obeyed, and then Gonzales shouted --
"Give him twenty-five more for luck."
When Magee, after careful nursing, recover-
ed, through the British Minister he at once
coinmunioatod to Great Britain the story
of the indignities he had reooived. lu re.
sponse the Guatemalan, Governmeub was
ordered to pay Magee $1,000 for each and
every lash he had received. The Guate-
malans promptly complied with his demand.
Magee was paid 100,000 in gold, and Gam
•rales was imprisionod for a term of years.
With the money which Magee got Ile be-
came interested in many profitable enter-
prises. Magee'a fortune is estimated at
$10,000,000, all due to 100 lathes on tho
back.
The richest e00 in South America until
his death four years ago was Gen. Jose B.
Gonzalez, of the Argentine Republic. He
was the lase descendant of Gonzalez Men-
doza, the great churchman, in whose castle
Columbus performed his famous egg trick.
Expelled fronthe Argentine Republic with
his father when he was a child, his career
was awandering and chequered one, until
he finally settled in Texas, where ho made
15,000,000in the operation of coal and ohalk
mines he had discovered. Ile died suddenly
in New Orleans in 1888, three days after his
marriage to a young and
1(F:ITiTIFUT, WOMAN.
After his burial his clothes were examined,
and papers wore found in proof of his heir-
ship to the great " Gonzalez estate," located
in and about Buenos Ayree, making the
stupendous total of $50,000,000.
The richest person fa Chili is a woman,
Donna Isadore Cousins, She inherited oat -
tie, married mines, and, now 0 widow, has
gone into about every money -producing en.
torpriso in which Chili has engaged. She
ow00 0100e real estate In Santiago and Val-
paraiso than any other parson; furnishes
the capital for manufacturing enterprises ;
has started art potteries and built a rail-
road, and owns and conducts two lines of
steamships. ,She is owner of aboub four-fifths
of the coal mines of Lota, a small seaport
in the south-east part of Chili. Her stables
contain fifty or more thoroughbred English
racers. She is worth at least $60,000,000.
Eugland'a richest men aro, of course, her
great landed proprietors. The Duke of
Westminster, the greatest lauded proprio -
tor of London, is, without doubt, the rich-
est man in England. Iiia fortune in teal
end personal property does not fall below
$80,000,000. Many of the great fortunes of
England have boon mode in trade and manu-
factures,
Ono of the mosb conspicuous of England's
rich men, by reason of the rapidity with
which his wealth has boon aquired, is Col.
John T. North, the nitrate ,ting. North is
a Yorkshire man, now about 50 years of ago,
and his father was asmalt merohant, dealing
in coals. After serving apprenticeship to a
firm of locomotive and plough makers, ho
became an engineer, and at the age of 25
went to Chili m that capacity, settling later
in Porn. Hero his keen business abilities
began to show themselves, and ab once rem
ogulsing the conn eroial value of nitrate of
soda, he began to buy, eel!, and ship it.
This event on for 20 yearn. At length his
fortune had grown into the Millions. Ho
(100(10 over 150 square utiles of initiate fields,
which contain
11TILLIONS OF TONS.
Ho bailtatoamore, railroads, std vast works,
employing thousands of mel, Nob content
with operations in Chili and Poru, ho has
h roots t brick
acquired aur, developed the a u
yned0 in Belgium, and amitrole industries
Blighted, Hie residence at Elbham, in
Kent, is a alaao. Ho owns a ratting stable,
yachts, aud a fine gallery of paintings, And
0uo11 is Gila rise of the coal mordent's bare•
foot boy, Who le 11ow worth $40,000,000.
'1'Ito richest family in Europe, and foe
Mina matter in the world, is the lemons
house of Itothaohild. Tho interests of the
lmuso, founded by the humble moneylender
of Frank fort-on'tho•IMnin,aro now scattered
all over the globe, tend i11 is probable that
talo nggreg.al:c wealth of all tine branches of
talo (firm, inohcding the possessions of tiro
various members of their families, oxonocle
$1,000,000,000.
Ono of alta most conspioumta of the
world's Holiest, (11un, by reason of hie prince.
ly oharitio0, is Berne Maurice de 1lirsob,
of Vienna, Pada, and Landoll, In tato last
ten years ho has given $.10,000,000 for the
lemefit of the poor of the Hebrew roan, and
to ettll the pposee000r of a Memel fortune.
1 Baron 11.irsalu's origin Woo ahno0a, es humble
1 110 that of the Rthsehilds, The French
mfB[onaire is to bo sought for only in Faris,
but he or she is to he found there in great
11111nbers,
Many of thememmotit lortunesof Prance
are in repo po000801on of women.
The lo'avieet owner of Elwell s00tu•itlo0
ie a %0'1111(, 11(11m. Furtado Keine, who le
worth ;$0,000,(100, She 10 010 of ).ho nohi.
eat 001nn1 iu Paris, and hag reeeivea the
ribbon of the Legion of .11on0ur for her
many rets of cllarity. The 1Tallet brothers,
the hankers, aro oath worth from two to four
Millions, and the same ie true of Baron
Hettinger, Eagene, l'oroirn, l(eury Hecht,
Ratan Ccuoto Nissan and Com
media and Barone lerlo0g011 and Meech,
The Parisians worth shove a million are
TOO NUMEROUS 1(10 OOt'NT,
The Spaniards 00 %nation, are compara-
tively poor, but they 1.00, ore not without
their multi-mnlionairo0. Tha richest Span.
lard is the 'Hake of Medina -Cecil, who 10
worth sumo $30,000,000, King Humbert's
rieheot subject is Prince Torlonia, whose in -
coma is said to be $2,000 a day, Germany
has more very rich men than ie is generally
credited with, 30 moa province of Freesia
alone there are six great nobles worth mere
than $20,000,000 oath.
The richest man in the dual Empire of
Austro•Hungary is the Emperor Francis
Joseph himself, whose private fortune fa
more than fifm0an millions. among the
rfaltest of his subjsats aro Duke Esztorhazy,
CottntKarol,yi, Coen 1Palf'y, CountFestet-
i0)1, Count Andrassy, and Harkanyi, the
banker, none of whom is worth less than
four millions.
In Russia the Cone's annual income from
his private O8tatos exceeds $10,000,000, and
the Nobel brothers, the Standard oil mon of
Russia, aro worth from six to eight millions
apiooe, while the fortune of the Domidoffs
mounts up lobo scores of millions.
The richest elan in South Africa, and tho
wealthiest
diamond minor in the world, is
B. lr, Barneto, of Kimberley. He is worth
six millions, all of it made since 1875, in
which year he settled in Kimberley. How
Qua, a merchant of Canton, is the richest
man iu China. He is said to be worth
$0,000,000. Ho owns aures of houses in
the most crowded portions of Canton, along
with extensive rioo plantations and tote par-
dons, and sports diamonds and pearls by the
cnpfal. Australia vies with the United
Status in the number of newlymade mil.
lionaires. The wealthiest of the lot is James
Tyson, of Queensland, who made hie money
in sheep and cattle. He is worth $25,000,-
000, and is as eccentric as he is rich..
The Look in the Horseshoe.
Everybody knows that almost all our ex-
isting superstitions date book for their
origin do heathen times, though they have
often been slightly or superficially Ckris,
tianized at later periods so as to bring them
into harmony with the general body of pub -
lie opinion. I think it probable, therefore,
that when the horaeahoe aoperetition first
%rose people apeoially selected the horseshoe
as the best available bit of iron to repel the
attask0 of trolls or fairies, witches or war.
locks and other evil influences, because it
had itself a certain inherent sanctity of its
own derived from ata connection with a se-
ared animal.
And later, I believe, this very same
sanctity might help the superstition to per -
shit, even after the religion of Christ had
partially ousted the religion of Woden and
Thnnor, For we know that Christianity
made very slow programa indeed among the
mass of peop'e in England for many years ;
that heathen practices continued to he per.
formed in secret by a large number of the
population • and that many usages eeoontial•
ly heathen ltold-theirplace to this day with
our agricultural classes.
Now, no class world be more likely to re-
tain such beliefs and praticea than the class
that has to deal most with horses and
stables -a class who still flinty believe in
all sorts of heathenish buckles and unluok.
les.
It 0eeine probable, therefore, that in
many cases the horseshoe was set up, not
only to frighten away the evil aye,
ghosts and trolls, fairies and witches, but
also, to some extent, to curry favor with
the good old gods by what was in many
leapt a denial of allegiance to the new
ones.
It was as touch as to say to the little
folk, on oto hand, "Don't come near;
'Ware iron ; we're under Thos's protection,
and able to hurt you 1" and on the other
hand, to Thor, " We're still your men;;
we've never abjured you ; take good care of
us I" If this were not the true meaning of
the horaeahoe, I think wo should have load
a crucifix or the sign of the cross in its
place, whioh is the ordinary and recognized
Cllriatian way of protecting one's self
against the sttaeks of evil spirits.
Jupiter's Fifth moon.
The new satellite is so close to the surface
of Jupiter that the diffioulty of its detection
is greatly enhanced by the fact that it is so
frequently hidden by the great globe. Only
for conperattvely a small part of each rev-
olution does the little body appear well
away from the margin of the planet,. When
moat remote it will bo at a disbanoo of 36
seconds from the edge, that is, about two-
thirds the diameter of Jupiter. Then six
hour's later it will be at a similar distance
on the opposite side of its orbit. It is often
difficult to observe one of the large satellites
when in the act of transit across the planet's
disc, et) that we hardly oan be surprised
that the transits of an object whioh is melt
an extremely small Mention of their size
should not bo perceived, Of course there le
a notable difference bobween the case of a
transit of a satellite over its primary and
that of a planet, liko Venus or Mercury, in
front of rho sun's disc, In the latter naso
tike planet appears as a black spot against
the brilliant baolcgrotnd. In foot, it may
bo membered that an unsuccessful searolt
for au intra -Mercurial planet has aotnally
boen conducted tnthe manner thussuggested
by seeing if it could not be observed during
the progreoo of the transit, But the ease is
very different when a antelllte of Jupiter
transits over the face of the planet. The
lustre of the satellite, arising asitdoes from
sunbeams 0(11y, is equal to the lustre of the
face of the planet, except in so for AS ane•
qualities in bhe to truism reflecting powers of
the two bodies may suffice to cause a differ.
enoe. The shadow of the new satellite on
the globe of the pleneb, though, No doubt,
it would be an extremely 0ma11pp0int, would
still nevertheless be iutonaely blade in com-
parison with the surrounding surface, and,
therefore, i b might be expected that it ought
to be comparatively easy to see when gull.
dent optical power was available.
Ono of Life's Paifuree.
Mrs, Hiram Daly -And so you've got
your old nook book 1 1 thought you told
mo she was married about three months ago
and had gnno to housekeeping,
Mrs. Riverside hives -Sha has given up
housekeeping, a"1 has come book to
Mrs, lliram Daly --What was the matter?
Mrs, Riverside Rivas -•-She couldn't got
a girl,
'Wats. M
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
7
MAUNA. LDA IN ERUPTION.
Pretidnnt Eliot, of Harvard lfniversity,---
ix a mem her of the Cremation yor l,.).y, in JoiOavy Earthquakes Attend the Erililant
1100tne, and 11,c thinks that the fl,.; •els of Jllilnlination•
the urgaurauion are good, fro do, not in.---
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tend, however, to direct that itis 0,011 11101, 1
Lai 007041118 shall be in;inerated.
Governor McKinley's brother, Abate He-
Kinley, is interested in a veru is vention
whioh he thinks may have a medley in.
iluone0 perhaps than the Governor r.t Ohio
can exert. Itis really a typowritieg elec-
tric ntauhine. Its operation in something
like that of the ptoker. It will if it prove
successful, do away with the necessity of re.
coiving telegraph operators, a sendiute oppera•
tor being eulhciont, and the n000Ith10 doing
the rest of the work.
Tho yotmgost great-grandmother of whom
we )lave recant record le ,lire, C. 11, Lted-
man, of St. Louis. When she was 52 y ears
ol(1, per grandchild, Mrs. A. N. Vette, of
Kansas City, became a mother at the ago
of 16,
Some of the perils of employment in pow-
der mills are avoided by oonstrneting the
edifices of brink mado of plaster of
Paris and cork. When an explosion femurs,
they offer little resistance, aud aro easily
shattered in atoms.
If three, oto flue, or more men, are 1u11e0p
in a room, and ono of thein is drunk, the
flies will gather upon the tipsy man, and
avoid the ethers, The remote is, rheet the
insects ravel in the odor of alcol, J, aud
somettme0 get drunk on it.
It has been noticed, as a remarkable
fact, that year after year the rivers of Russia
become shallower. The Vorokle, 100 ranee
long, once an important tributary of the
Dnoipor, and often compared with the Had.
son, has completely dried up.
•
A Home for the Dying" n„o was established
in London, seven years ago, by a Scotch
lady. It began with ten beds. The insti-
tution has proved such a greab success that
arrangements aro in progress to vastly in-
crease the accommodations.
Six brothers in a family named Frost,
at Kansas City, are respectively named
Winter Frost, Jack Trost, White Frost,
Cold Frost, Early Frost, and Snow frost.
Fancy what a chilling reception they could
give a visitor whom they raid not like.
Tho musquitoes of Yucatan aro the
largest in the world, and ton tines inure
voracious than even the Jersey mosquito.
Until a fele years ago they were unknown
in Mexico, but were brought there by ships
from the United States, and have prospered
to an alarming extent in tho land of their
adoption.
A crowd of girls blocked a sidewalk in
New York city. Harry Gilfoil, an actor,
1
wishing to pass, pretended to Irick an imag•
inary clog, and imitated a series of yelps.
The girls screamed and scattered, and one
of theft fainted. The actor was arrested
for cruelty to animals, as it was thought
that he had really kinked a dog. The officer
said he saw him kink the pup. The actor
went through the performance again before 0
the police captain, and was discharged.
It• is noted in New York that there is a
surprising number of "Americans•' return- 0
ing from Europe just now, "Americans"
that seem to be at tome in every language
but •English. One ship arrived about ten a
days ago with over 000 steerage passougere 1
on board, all of whom were either Amer. e
Man citizens, or tourists. There can be no c
mistake about this, because the steamship t
company had certificates to that effect,
sworn to by the Europeans agents. So of s
course the passengers nest all have been 0
what they were said to bo. Had it not
been for the immigration trouble the United t
States anthoritioa might still be ignorant of
how many poor American citizens have been
wandering in foreign parts. No one knows f
wily they have all been rushing bone so
fast (in the steerage) since the Nation has
deoidod against immigration.
Flames From the Great (Titter Visible
Nlxty Miles Moly-•lsostructtors or the
Neighboring O')Jlaws and Ptnittutlorta
10 FearetL
A San I'rnnciaco despatch says ;-Manna.
Loa, the groat vndc000 of Hawaii., is In erup-
tion again after twelve years' quiet, and
threatens the destruction of the villages of
Hilo and Waiakea at its eastern base and
extens1ve plantations of cocoa nuts and
cane. L. A. Thornton, a member of the
Hawaiian Legislature, and late Minister of
the interior, who has arrived here brings
the news of the overflow.
It was contained in a letter to him from
Hilo, and was brought to Honolulu by
steamer and handed to him just before
the Australia sailed. The steamer Hall had
left Kau on ;Hominy, Deo, 5. For five days
previous the illuminations had been on a
grand scale. The whole coluatry had been
shaken by earthquakes. Even in the neigh.
boring district of Ileu there were heavy
earthquakes, aud Mauna Loa for a distance
of more than sixty miles threw aweird light
over the ocean and e0unt(y round about.
The earthquakes began on Friday morn-
ing, Deo, 2, and inoreased in force until
evening, when flames burst ffon alumna
Loa, and grew in volume:from that time on.
The ramble of the crater was terrifying. It
was feared that t1,e village of Hilo, under
the mountain, and the neigitborieg town of
Waiakea might be destroyed, stn that the
valuable plantations surrounding theft
would be covered with lava.
It is not improbable that rho destruction
of both towns has alreadytaken t en place. The
must intense action was going on within the
walls of the crater. 'rho crater is eine and
a half miles in circumference and S00 feet
deep. It is it terrible volcano when in
action, and has two or three times pre-
viously sent rivers of lava almost to the vil-
lage of Hilo. The lost eruption was the
worst, and the town at that time narrowly
escaped.
The earthquo.kes in Kau, when the Hall
sailed, had injured several buildings, and in
and about Nide the Mauna Loa convulsions
had probably done much more damage.
"Those who have bean living in the
vicinity of Mauna Loa,"saiiMr. Thurston,
"have for some time been expecting ono of
the periodical outbreaks and flows.
"It may have ruined the country, but
nobody as yet can tell with certainty. Each
eucceeding outbreak has conte closer to
the towns of Hilo and Waiakea. Hilo
s thirty-five miles away to the East. In
1852, the lava rose to a height of 701 feet
over the crater, continued to flow for twen-
ty days, and came within ten miles of Hilo.
"In 1802 the side of the mountain slid
off three miles in as many minutes, over-
whelmed a village and buried thirty-three
people and 900 cattle, besides opening fig-
ures twenty miles in length. Lava was
thrown up 1,000 feet, and rooks weighing
an much as 100 tons apiece were tossed up
o numerously that they seemed a lot of
balls in the air.
"In 1880 the lava rose 800 feet. Pale -
hair, a fine glass spun by the wind from the
ava, fell in the streets of Hilo. The flow'
topped, but speedily started again, and
ontinned for nine months over the old lava_
rack toward Hilo.
"Its doedly flow stopped in the very out-
kirts of the town, and withm half a mile
t the harbor. If it had continued a few
days longer it would pave overwhelmed hire
own, buried the sugar plantations of
Waiakea, and destroyed tho harbor front.
The lava stream was from twelve to thirty
eet in height."
Are Girls Slangier Than Boys. ?
A writer status that girls usa more slang
-especially if they are grown up -than
boys do. Girle, it is affirmed, talk much
more than boys, so that their stock of un-
couth words is in more frequent use. It is
also larger. If a boy were n mine of slang
his taolternity would keep it concealed from
all but a Nov of his chane. His inventions
are confined to a small circle, and his op-
portunities of borrowing are corresponding-
ly diminished. Not so with the girl. The
loquacity of her associates, eided by her
ovn, gpreade and multiplies slang with the
greatest rapidity. She is more sociable. At
school she ie thick" with a dozen and
gathers in all the dozen know. And be-
sides, says the same authority, girls aro so
reckless in the use of language that they
give a slangy character to good English.
With the girl at the period of gigglehood
every good thing is "perfectly" so She
"never floes this and she "always" does
that. She sometimes " feels hateful," but
it is oftener sono one also who is "perfect-
ly horrid." Nearly everything's " awful."
Such are some of the charges this obomin-
ablo person brings against the sweet young
creatures. Another authority flatly con•
tradiots them all aud says the boy is the sunt
of all villainies. The words he prefers, it
is asserted, are so tinged with profanity
thab he cannot use them at ,tome, and it ie
thus only that he gets his reputation for
freedom from slang, Who can settle the
dispute ? We are of opinion that injustice
is done to the girls. We are confident also
that few boys are as bad as represented. It
is possible that the so -Dulled "authority"
has been judging the whole world from his
few unfortunate associates,
The Stormy Petrel's Endurance,
Daring a recent trip aoross the Atlantic
the passengers on one steamer hoer a vivid
illustration of the endurance of the stormy
p01001. Shortly after the ship left the Irish
coast two or three of these birds were sight-
ed ot the stern of the ship. One had been
(taught at some previous time and its cap -
to tied a bit of red flannel or ribbon round
Delimit and lot it go. Tho bit of ted made
the bird very conspicuous, and it could be
easily idoutified. That bird with others
that could not be so easily distinguished,
followed the ship older across the coeau,
Rarely, during the day Limo at toast, WAS it
oub of sight, and if for an hong or two it was
lost to view while feeding au the refuse
oasb overboard, it soon reappeared, and the
last seen of it Was within a few miles of
Sandy Hook, when it disappeared, perhaps
to follow some mattard-bound steamer beak
to Ireland. When the fact le considered
thab the ship, day and night, went at an
average spend of nearly twenty miles an
hour, the feat t a performed bythe darns.
traveller eon be bettor approo atod. When
or how 11 rested 18 inexplicable,
A DYNAMITE ALARM.
3rlsnietens Box round Year the Louvre.
As an instance of the alarm whioh still
prevails in Paris, remarks the correspou-
dont of the London 1'eiepraph, I may men-
tion the excitement which was produced,t -
the neighborhood of the Louvre ehrouglo
the discovery of a mysterious object which
VMS thought to be a bomb. A policeman on
duty in the Place du Pallia Royal was told
that an " infernal machine " had been found
in a house in the vicinity of the Hotel du
Louvre, and on proceeding to rho spot he
saw a large parcel, carefully tied with cord,
from which issued a kind of fuse.
He was about to open the packet for the
purpose of ascertaining the nature of its
contents, when the bystanders intervened '
and at last lie carried it off to the office of
the commissary of Police. hero, however,
the agent of the law wa0 confronted by tho
concierge of the hoesee, who barred the
way and refused to allow him to pass
until the presumed engine of destruction
had been subjected to the chemical procesa
whioh is supposed to deprive bombs of many
of their dangerous properties, Finally this
was done, and when the packet which had
created so much alarm was opened it wan
found to consist of a wooden box filled with.
sand,
There was not an atone of powder or of
any other explosive material in the paroel,
which had evidently been laid on the spot
where it was noticed by some practical ,..
joker ; bub the authorities seem to be unable
to mote out adequate punishment to the
perpetrators of these very reprehensible
jests, which spread alarm among the public
and waste the time of the police, for al-
bhough one or two have been detected in the.
act, it has boon found that uo law exists
specially dealing with this class of offenses,
aud the culprits have been suffered to go
free,
FORTUNE FLUNG TO FARO.
Augnstns Hornsby Disappears from 111.
O',tul,
A St, Paul Minn., despatolo says :-Au.
grates H. Hornsby, who has relatives in bhe
English nobility, and who four years
ego was worth .„300,000, has disappeared.
He leaves debts amounting to $20,000, it is
alarggod, and is said to be warted for forg-
ing the mama of Mee, Antonio Wortntam, a
widow, to a deed to valuable St, Paul real
estate on which he seemed a 'nage sen of
money. Hornsby was formerly a British
ofdioor, and for a time wag stationed in
India, `,Celt years ago he carne to America,
and for 0, time was editor of the horse de.
p0rtntent of a Chicago sporting paper. In
1885 ho came to St. Paul and ntouttting rho
crest of the real estate wavo became a rieli
man, Turning his fortune foto ready oaslt
ho sot out to break the faro banks of rho
Wrest, In St, Paul ho had fair success, and
in the spring of 1888 ho went to Chicago
with $411,000 in his satolle1. All of this to
lost in throe days. The root of his money
ho dropped at the gaunt% tables of .St, Paul
aid Minneapolis. Ile kept his real estate
Venus Armstrong--" llub those hovers oiloo open, but wa0 forced to earn e, lfvh,g
ore all mashed," Barry 1)0vore(lioonoed)- by acting 00 sporting editor of the Pioneer,
"idashod i0 it 1 haft), and why wouldn't largo, i,innlly 110 lost his position and his'
they gob trashed when they have imd apoop wife oontributud to tho supttiort of their two
at yournycs?" Venue (coldly aid sternly) olrildroo by working in the N,rth0rn Prleffi0
--"' will take two benefice of tho rosesRailway offices, Hornsby is inn years old
token." `and is believed to hate sailod for Ittropo,
i