Wingham Times, 1890-01-31, Page 2nm , u
l ltIDAT. JANUARY, 81, L690.
litora fuser treaded on our Farms.
`heyalue of sheep as scauvengers of
'weed life sllotild never he forgotten,
atn31 this: quality of theirs alone, not.
to mention their tnaey others, should
.give .theta a place on litany Canadian
farms now withoat them. Not only
are they so easily satisfied in their
taste as to browse ou weeds of all
kinds, but their powers of mastiaatioa
,and digestion are so much more perfect
than, those of cattle and horses, that
the vitality of the seeds is destroyed
in passing through theta. It is an
observable fetlture of pastures on which
horses and cattle have been grazed
Oat weeds may be seen springing up
from their droppings, while in the
.uase .of that; upon which sheep have
been allowed to eat down well* they
effectually kill more weed lafe by
close nipping arid: weed seeds by
through ' mastication. Mr. Galen
Wilson, in the N: Y. Tribune, 'writing
.of this asked the question if this com-
plete mastication that sheep give their
food may not be the reason why their
manure is so valuable and so much
'richer than that of most other animals
of the farm. It certainly would ap-
pear that: owing to this the droppings
from the sheep would be more easily
•assimilated by plants. However this
may be, the fact is that sheep are
•`aluable fighters of weed life on all
farms, and that they yield a fertilizer
wf high manurial, value. There are
few farms that cannot keep a shall
4fioek with, profit if only for keep-
ina down weeds as well as utilizing
,pasture fields inaccessible to horses' or
cattle forsheep lenges. limy rough
spots could be made to yield profitable
returns in tires way, for on just such
'and unpromising tracts for other
stock the Downs, Highiands, Cheviots,
Cotswolds, and others would be
under their best condioions. Sheep
have not reached their proper position
in our agriculture, but a the proper
sentiment must grow in favor of stock -
raising with the prccasses of the suns,
so must sheep husbandry become a.
larger and more fixed factor in our
farming-LiveStock JoatrnId,
Live 'Stook Notes.
Frosted bits are cruel instruments
of torture if thrust it tu' the, horse's
mouth. Various fortes of • bits are
*low made with coverings of rubber or
lather, which, being coinparativenon-
nnanctors do not freeze to the tongue
.fraud first touch like iron. In the
Absence of these, always take the frost
a et of the bite before they go iatto I lie
horse's mouth. Horses need- special
caare • in the early winter months,
‘"hen pulled up after rapid driving, or.
heavy hauling, ' they should never
Mand in the wind and 'cold with tut
ljaing blanketed. Never Ieare a"horsy
its sta•1 for the night with the wet
• and mud still adhering to its feet and
liege Germ out the -stall thoroughly
every morsel 1g, and if the horsy stands
in it tltrough the' day, clean it out
again ari''eight before bedding down.
Some dairymen make winter butter
making highly profitable. To do this
(here must be a good supply of milk,
intelligent care in feeding- is needed •
t� I,rp 'tell e t11e cows from failing off.
Yarding daily should. °1J`8 ' adtf•d to
uc;ritr teen. ;Sheep uniess shhi1te.red
from storms of rain and, snow will not
pay, They will pay for good keep,
(tut not for that halfway neglect
wbieh 18 no' keep at all.
If a titter of pigs come on a cold
&Arty, had management •or ordinary
Management may, Ilse the whole,
Wile good management tuay, and
n harry dot's, save them all. This is
tire diff'er'ence between good and bad
Eck in farming.
d iv icl u
taxpayer in
t t,rnhis. Air 11Joshua , (Mann gomery
rs, who in 1889 pair( . $60,950.55;
act'41 Mfr .fi+rederick L Anes, who
itributed $42,172 67.
if `optd Mamma -Now, Johnny, don't
se that little kitten papa gave you...
mbatty -N.)":4; 1 ain't 1,easi.u' _ 'ion;
just lrnidin' his tail in the door
ler so he can't get out itt the street,
The big (_rune turned out, by the
glish arsenals are now fitted with
evict ,to facilitate firing at night:.
r i*;'irk' sights are ]Ilcon itutted
ft s.i;ttll indandt'soent lamp, the rays
which, passing through n lens,
taverner(, so that only aY tnit.ute
t or lilt" of sight is obtainedfay
t 4f sit( adjiartalite resistan+;e tlJM
At b' tlih(lalatetl to $1117,4 tits
(',�ddarkness of the night��or the
OW observer.•
.1:'r6a::.YSi
?HE MW ENgU33H R E.'
Thsi (?lana lTs Made 11tat .1t 117111 Blit i$
Man Zotut UU11knk tit PG Verde.
An official army order gives all the de.,
Mile oi° the meohanisin of the new maga•
zine ride with which the army fs to be
supplied. The weight with ma„ azino'
(empty) is nine pounds eight ounces, the
slew sword bayonet fifteen and one-half
ounces, the seabbardrfour and three-
fourths ounces, the magazine when filled
with eight cartridges, thirteen ounces,
The length of the rifle is four feet one
inch, and the sword bayonet one foot
four inches,
The magazine consists of a sheat steel
box inserted from under the body in
front of the trigger guard through an
opening in the body, It fs held in posi-
tion by a spring in the body engaging. in
a notch on the magazine. It will eon-
tain eight cartridges, anti may be ,filled
when in position in the rifle or when de-
tacked, by inserting the cartridges one
by one. A spring at the bottom of the
magazine presses upward a movable
platform, forging the column of cart-
• ridges also upward.
.4 "cut off" is fitted to the right side of
the body, which, when pressed inward,
stops the supply of cartridges from the
magazine, so that the arm may then be
used as a single loader.) When the "cut
off" is pulled out thv lower edge of the
bolt on tieing driven forward engages
the top edge of the uppermost cartridge
in the magazine and forces it into the
chamber, and so on till the magazine is,
emptied. The magazine can be removed
'by pressing a small lever inside the trig-
ger guard.
One magazine is attached to each rifle,
being secured from loss by a chain link.
A spare magazine is also issued, with
each arm. The stook, like that of the
Martini -Henry rifle, is in two pieces, the
fore end and the butt. Under the hinder
part of the small of the butt is a projec-
tion forming , a so .called "pistol grip."
The butt is secured to the body by a
"stook bolt," The butt plate is fitted
with a trap, giviug access to the unoccu-
pied portion of the stock bolt recess,
which is arranged to contain an oil bot-
tle and jag..
The rifle is provided with two sets of
sights. The foresight and the backsight
are fined in the usual position on the -bar-
rel. The foresight is a square block with
a vertical out through , it, showing a fine
line of light. Aim is taken by fitting
this square into a corresponding square
notch in the .backsight, so, that lines of
light of equal width may be seen on
each side of it, and aligning the central
line of light on the point to be hit. The
lowest or "fixed sight" is that for 300
yards. Using this sight, a -head and
shoulders figure can be alit at any dis-
tance
is tance between 875 and 150 yards, while
a six-foot figure can be hit up to about
500 yards''tvithou't in either" ease aiming
off the 'figures. The highest graduation
is for '1,900 yards. The.rifie is also fitted
with extreme range sights. The front
sight, which is called the dial sight, is
graduated from 1,800 ya rds up to 3,500
yards. There are two kinds of ammuni-
tion pouches, one bolding forty rounds
and the other fifty. The cartridge is
made of solid drawn brass and is charged
with ordinary gunpowder pressed into
the, form of a pellet, with both ends
slightly rounded. -Manchester • Guard-
ian. •
The St. Paull Ice Palace Plans,
The plans for the ice palace of 1890
were accepted today, and Construction
will be begun as soon as there is ice
enough in the Mississippi. The castle
will be .860 feet long, and will vary in
width from 48, to 200 feet. There will
be one large central tower 54 feet square
and rising in the, air to a height of 150
feet. Several smaller toti ,,ers will be
erected at different angles, their height
ranging from 40 to 80 feet. The towers
are almost purely Rotnanosque in design.
Starting at the main entrance, either,
from the Cast or west side, the visitors
will enter the n;ain tower, looking to
the right and left down long vistas to
the royal apartments' at one end and a
large amphitheatre at the ether. Tlie
apartments of Borealis hex. and suite
consist of• a banquet hall and the king's
and queen's apartments, containing in I.
all eight rooms. These are located at
the east encs of the palace. The amphi-
theatre is u large e,ircular inclosttre 100
feet in diameter, with a realistic scene
at the .extreme end and niches in the
wall filled with statuary. The vista will
be about 800 feet long and from 30 to 40
feet wide, and will be decorated with ice
arches.and sprayed evergreens intermin-
gled with many colored electric lights.
The cost of the structure will be $15,000.
Dispatch to Chicago Tribune.
A Dog Coaxer.
"Dog Profit" Holloway, the tramp who
was found a day or two ego in Connecti-
cut,. twarly dead from. exposure, is well.
known there because of the fascination
he exercises over dogs. He has been seen
act:onipeeied by as many as twenty-five
dogs, and he always has from four. to
ten with him. Almost' any dog will fol-
low hint with half an invitation. it is
said,and when lie coaxes no dog cau re-
sist him, Valuable dogs- have been
known to leave their plasters to take up
With Ilolloway, and, when brought back,
would seek the first opportunity w join
the beggar. 1loiloway has been so Iona
a wanderer that be can claim tit, town as
a residence, but, so far ascvxi be learned. .
ate was born in Foster, rt. 1.1-F4,tabaiare.
*are l'olro.ttiwl fore >1"t►rta.
The Paris polioe foroe, which now num-
bars 6,1.00 lien, is about to be increased
to 7,800. The nletropolis will thus, let us '
hope, be better protected after dark than;
it has hitherto been, and midnight burg, -
taxies,
urg,taxies,. garrotings and murders may be-
come of rare ocourrenco. At the present
moment the number of gardiens de la'
pais is altogether insufficient for night
duty, and you may wander half a mile
sometimes, after having left an out of
thewaytheatre, without meetiisg u ,
policeman. llIoreover, the perilous parts!
of theoity--.places like the old Boulevard
du Crime -are usually the worst guarded
after the shades of evening begin to
deepen. It is true that at night the
policemen always go about in twos, but
then they have longer beats to traverse.
The usual extent of ground covered by a
policeman in his illot, or "beat," is one
kilometer during the day. At night the
two men tramp over two kilometers, or
one mile and a quarter,and thus it fre-
quently happens that tey are hall' a mile
or more from the scene of a midnight
brawl or an organized attack of maraud-
ers on some belated citizen. The pro•
posed increase in the number of the force
may rewedy,thia state of things, but it
is rather strange in the meantime that
the augmentation was not thought of be-
fore, considering that, as N. Loze, pre-
fect of police, pointed out in his report
on the subject, the number of gardiens
has remained the same since 1871, al•
though the population of Paris has been
increased within that time by 400,000
souls. -Paris Dispatch in London Tele-
graph.
New Railroads in 1889,
The list of new railway lines construct•
ed during 1889 showa.that the total addi-
tion to the main track railway mileage
of the United States during the year will
vary very little froln an even 5,000 miles,
This is the smallest construction recorded
in any one year since 1885, when the to-
tal increase was but 3,588 miles. The
construction in the intervening years has
been: In 1886, 8,471 mires; in 1887, 12,-
668;
2;668; in 1888, 7,284.milos, The bulk of this
year's construction has been dpne in the
south. Over 2,000 miles of the new lines
reported .to us lie south of the latitude of
Cincinnatiand. east of the Mississippi
river. Washington, however, has had
the greatest increase in railwaye of any
single state, 853 miles having been built
there in. 1889. Georgia comes next with
815 miles, and then follow North Caro.
Tina with 274 mules, rii'oxas with 270 miles,
and Mississippi with 212 miles. Sixteen
other states report between 100 and 200
miles, and in Vermont, Rhode Island,
New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada net
new track laying has ,bebn reported.
Very few long lines have been built this
season, but there has been'a groat num-
bee of neat short branches and exten-
sions, especially in =tide; east. The. total
number of separate litres on which track
was laid during the year, was 253. This
work was done by 107 different corepa•
nies, The average length of each exten-
sion, therefore, was almost exactly nine-
teen and one-half Ilniles. In Canada.,
during 1889, 733 miles of track'zrero laid,.
and in Mexico the canstruetion amounted"
to 350 miles. -Engineering News.
Romance 01' Garters.,
Ladies will be interested to hear of the
thirteen pairs of garters ordered for the
Princess Sophie of Prussia, the bride of
the Duke of Sparta, according to 'old
Hohenzollef n custom. These were 'not
for wear,`but for distribution as souve-
nirs of the marriage. In ruder times,
and even still in less exalted ranks of
life, the bride's garter was andis a kind.
of •perquisite for the bridesmaids, to Lel
cut up ah(1'shared among them to bring
each young,lady good fortune. In Ger-
many each bride of the Ilohenzollerns
gives a garter to be laid up in the mu-
seum at Berlin. The collection is beau-
tiful and curious, some fifty or sixty in
number, from the hotueliest in quality to
the richest embroidery on silk and daz-
zling with jewels. The thirteenth pair.
of Princess Sophie'g are of pale blue silk
and clasped with large diamond buckles.
These are (he historical gaiters sent
back to her. own country after the cere-
mony. Of the remaining twelt'e it is
understood that she gave one to the
reigning sovereign, and the other eleven
to the Greek nobles of high rank who at-
tended the bridegroom to the .altar. All
the thirteen pairs of garters have geld
buckles with the bride's initials • in dig-
tnoilds; •butthe blue and white, supposed
to bring good fortune, which went to t he
museum, are the most beautiful mid
costly of the whole set, -Once a Week.
A Cat Tpok the Beryl; Breath.
, That a cat will suck a baby's breath is
a belief of many people, and an incident
that would seem to verify the belief took
place in this town yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Albert Whitney, living on Essex
street, had given her little daughter, a
child of 2 years., a drink of milk and laid
Iter, on the lounge to sleep. A half (tour
later Mrs. Whitney glanced into the
room and was alarmed tt see a large cat
belonging; to the family crouched on. tram
little girl's breast with its head close to,
her mouth. The mother screamed in
terror and the ca'. ran away. The child
wag insensible and its fate was purple.
A physician was called, and the little
one Was restored to consciousness, The
medical man was skeptical as to the
br2'ath sucking theory, and thought it
more .probable that the cat leaped upon
the Glider's breast to lap the milk from
her lips, and that its weight suffocated
1. rATlt>;tsoN,
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.Agent for Down 1 's (llelgrave) Sin
$500,000 '1'Q LOAN..
On Farm and Town Property at eery Lowest hates
and on Terme to sail borrowers.
MORTGAGES RUROHASSD. NO COMMISSION CHARGED,.
borrowers on obtain money . in 5 bay's 11
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ANGE AGENCY.
OFFICE : KENT'S BLOCK WINGI-IAM.
Private funds to loan.
A number of Building Lots and residence proper
ties for Sale.
Those desiring to makes home in Wingham should
communicate with, or apply in person at tut' Wilco,
where all necessary information can be btaoincd.
BANK' OF HAMILTON;
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Moo, A.'11- Lim (Toronto).
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Savings Bank hours, 10 to 8 ; Saturdays, 10 to
1. Deposits of $r and u4wards received and "interest
allowed
Speaitll Deposits' also received at, current
rates of interest.
Drafts on ,Great Britain and the United St to
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WINouAM CeroSER 4Tn, 188b
Vi/P N%HAM . .
FLOURINC 'MIM 1
The undersigned wish to tender their best thanks
for the liberal patronage given to our firm during
several , ears priorto the horning of otlr ruin by in
eeediarism, During t,. t. 1 season we have re•
ntoddeiledthetow"nut. , .testout ottr,rys•
tem of Hungarian holler 1 toWxe mil ling. 11 a he
Neve Watan now. gide better accommodation than
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' Yours most reapectfttily,
HU1'TON 8 CARR
Matthew 111111, ilet.'t0, 1(80. 1
Oat Met.il Kill Opened,
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The undersit+neia desire'to inform farts
ers aterl fire People generally flat they hat
reopened theist
O t Meal Mill rn Wingham,
And are tent/ prepared to pt rchase oats in
unl'unted gtutntities at 'd at the
MaxkQt Price.
They will supply ee itontern with the lust
Guess its Oat Meal.
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CONVI YA7 CEI-, 'r.T0.
FFICTS-ltcttver Blet•It
GORRIIo alta DLI' 11, ONo',
Private Mat G L ipany fund$ to loan at low rates of
interest. Aloltgemes, tov.i and gran property,
bouu'ht and sold. .Mercantile collections a fpemalty,f
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DENTISTRY.- J. S..1SF4>b1E, W mann,
,Is manufacturing Celluloid Pietas..
tyr VUlt'utite }duffs of the beatnurtetial •
'+-0r°6 as cheap us t"ey can be 500 in alae
J I>tn,ir,ivn. All work wartaillted,
Vegetable Vapor admit, btwed ter the painless,
extraet(oa of teeth, the only suis anesthetic Stamm
TARO Nene(,.-1 Will eAtraet teeth for, 10 eetx¢t
each
UI 1'lOL' : In the never 1110011, . opposite. time !..
Brunswick hotel.
Ii 1, ii\(hilar, •51. 1I ALAODItALD,'tVWsonxit-
Maker of Vulernrte,,` Celluloid, Alloy,
�hilts. Gold, eat etc., Plates, ranging L4I'r prices iron' *bud upwards pm tint
eroanStg an bridgework. Teeth ex
tt'acted without the least pairs b; the use of Vital,
izou Air, head ellree, V, Ingham, 81.40 ebtratue op
poeitu the Queen's hotel, open ugly Oun5uysexecl,t-
ed). trout Ira in Co 5 p,re. \'viIl be at Blyth ct try
21,0 wed ALM eamaday at each month- Oiheuatbtilneu
hotel; (Got tie: let null Szd tionaays of each. month --
Wilco at Albion hotel. ;trA 00 ii,'40 cents.
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P. L. Surveyor, Civil Engineer and P'taughtnlan
Particular attention palet to lb felon eV'prowl:15,
into building lots, settling disputed boundaries,
preparing complete plans of towns and villages, tts
pet Registry Art, end 'dteeriptions of properties
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and estimates of cost of 331•idges, Culvetts, &c. Pro'
files and estimates tor grnuing hills, dt'afrmee, toed
and str; et improveutents, seWeie and Other Engl.
tecr'ing works. Correspondence it*'(lite. xtatinat
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