HTESESTRC TO FARMERS.
FrmlM SartfcaCav.
The path of the eow ha ever been
over richer fields and closer to golden
harvest. A hundred experiment sta
tions backed by the appropriat ion! of
six freat nations itaad half baffled be
fore the mysteries of her life and work.
A degenerate modern motherhood turns
oyer to her sustenance millions of the
children of men. There hare been tied
to her by all the bonds of human inter
est the brains of science and the hands
of art. She has given us the cheapest
food to buy aud the most profitable food
to sell. No man should tie to her whose
dignity suffers where learning ponders.
The bugbear of overproduction stares
the man in the face who is a living ex
ample of under production. He holds
it up as a reason why he should not go
into business, or being in, why he
should go out The truth is simply
that there is an overproduction of
inferior dairy products and a tremend
ous shortage of good ones. An ounce
of poor butter is too much for any
housewife, fifty pounds of good butter
is not enough. We have 500,000 too
many poor cows in this state and a
shortage of over a million good ones.
LH misty theories of over production
(follow the end of the rainbow and let
the Wisconsin farmer look for his bag
of gold on top of a milk can. The
Dairymen's association has sought and
welcomed help and knowledge from
every quarter from the man with one
cow, from the man witli a hundred;
from the theories of Prof. Arnold, the
practice of John Gould; the common
sense and trained intellect of Robertson,
and from the agricultural department
of our university as directed and con
trolled by Prof. Henry and his assistants.
To Prof. Henry in particular we owe a
debt of gratitude which cannot be paid
We car. simply endorse upon it the rec
ord of our appreciation; our apprecia
tion of modest but most effective labor,
of cordial sympathy, of stirring enthu
siasm, of conservative judgment and
unquestioned courage. 1 am specially
proud of the fact that the association
which 1 am privileged tospeak for here
tonight has always had its windows
open toward the university ; that it has
had the sense to understand the wisdom
of the state in laying the foundation of
science under the art of agriculture. 1
am proud of the fact that it has had
none of the cheap prejudices of ignor
ance against the wisdom of thought;
that it has in fact endeavored to blend
the knowledge of farm and laboratory
Into a white light which shall brighten
and bless our Wisconsin farms. II. C.
Adams, ex-president Wisconsin Dairy
men's association.
Haw to Kara Gawl liana.
A horse is an actively constituted
animal, says Dr. F. C. (ironside, V. -,
in the Canadian Live Stock and Farm
Journal, and yon cannot produce condi
tion, in the true sense of the word, with
out a sufficient amount of exercise
Condition does not simply mean the
presentation of a good appearance, but
it signifies the ability to endure work
and maintain health. The two latter
abilities cannot be possessed without
liberal feeding and plenty of exercise.
Good condition requires time to pro
duce. The work of conditioning ought
to begin fully two montlts before the
season. The daily exercise and qu antity
of food should be increased in like ratio,
until five miles a day is given a draft
horse, and eight or ten a light horse.
A great invigorator of the horse is
rubbing; nothing next to good feeding
gives him more vim. A plentiful sup
ply of good, thick clean cotton rubbers
should be on hand, and the horse should
be rigorously rubbed after his exercise,
until he is perfectly dry. Groom while
the circulation of his skin Is active, ns
after exercise, is far more beneficial
than at any other time.
Have nothing to do with drugs or
nostruns, for they do more harm than
good If the animal is well; and if he ig
sick they should only be used under the
guidance of one who understands their
action aud the nature of the malady to
be cured. Drugs ar in no way essen
tial; in fact they are detrimental to the
process of conditioning. -
The death rate among heavy stallions
during the season is much higher than
It need be, which is largely the result of
abruptly putting horses into the trying
ordeal of heavy service and constant
excitement, without building up the
system in the manner Indicated.
Many flat sided, long backed, slack
loined horses are receiving liberal pat
ronage on account of their defects be
ing considerably masked by layers of
fat and flabby muscle.
- "' HOT KM. '
Potatoes are more wholesome when
baked than when boiled.
Tissue or printing paper is the best
thing for polishing ghu or tinware.
To boil cabbage whole tie or sew in
cotton cloth. Boil Utile longer than
if quartered.
To keep Insects out of bird cages, tie
np little sulphur in a bag and suspend
it in the rag
If d(ii eusbiH are fSed with well-
Mail ootrssi errands, mice nor moth
1 Barer touch them.
Tie cabbage leaves, apple snd potato
Arhiae. end other vegetable refuse
Mn the kitchen, can be fed to the
poetry wtth profit
A particular fertilizer may be bene- J
1 stft iuu HmJA anil I.A . t liitla A-
no value on an other, because it does not
contain the elements needed,
Because prices for stock are low is
no reason why they should be neglected;
in fact the best profit only can be rea
lized by giving them the best of care.
Blaad A gmlut Scran.
'While no amount of care and feeding
of scrubs will give satisfactory returns,
good breeding, coupled with good feed
ing, will almost invariably produce ex
cellent results.
To illustrate this point, we recently
saw, on the same farm, a herd of some
fifty young cattle, steers and spayed
heifers, all yearlings past
About half of them were half-blood
Galloways while the other half were
calves from the same herd of cows tnat
the grades were from, a scrub bull hav
ing been used a part of the season and
then replaced by a Galloway, who com
pleted the season and became the sire
of about half that year's crop of calves
Now here was a fair test, for these
calves received the same care, ran on
the same pasture, drank from the same
troughs, ate from the same racks and
were, in all things, treated alike, aud
they should, and did show, just what
difference blood will make under exact
ly similar circumstances. The scrubs
would tip the beam at an average of
about 750 pounds, aud were really quite
a good lot, much better than a good
many that one may see, while the grades
averaged a strong 1,000 pounds, several
of them weighing 1,100.
Now any Kan ought to see the blood
was the power that made these grade
calves so much better than the others.
Wood will tell, and yet this farmer might
have used s pure blood bull and not have
gotten such good calves. This particu
lar bull not only was a pure blood with
splendid pedigree, but he was a most ex
cellent animal with a sire and dam and
grandsire, on both sides, that were all ex
cellent individuals, thus giving both a
pedigree of pure blood and a pedigree of
excellence. Then on this came the top
cross of good feeding and all combined
to make this lot of calves just what they
are, and will, in a few months, putanice
'ot of profit money into their owner's
pockets.
Now there are two other views of
this subject that may be taken:
Fi rst 1 lad this man bred these grades
as he did, but given the calves ordinary
neglect instead of good care, he would
have made real scrubs of them. . They
would have made him no profit, and he
might have said, as many do, "These
fancy cattle are no good for the common
farmer."
Second He might have gotten a pure
blood bull with no individual excellence,
or whose ancestors were such that he
had no power of transmitting good quali
ties; in other words, lacking in pre
potency, and have from such a sire got a
lot of ca' ves that, with all his care,
would have been failures, and in that
case he would again have said fancy
blood was a humbug.
To sum it all up, then, get a bull
whose pedigree is good, whose ancestors
back for as many generations as possible
were good individuals, and were good
sires and dams, and who is himself a
good animal, and then give the calves
good feed aud care and you are all right.
This applies to any or all pure breeds.
The same laws govern in all breeding,
and if in any particular they are broken
the result is disaster. Western Far
mer and Stockman.
- In the Menagerie
The conduct and methods of the mam
mals in their maternal capacity, as ex
hibited in a circus menagerie, might be
studied with profit by Americans ma
trons. According to the testimony of
Superintendent Conklin of Earn urn's
circus every animal, if properly fed and
kept free from noisy intrusion aud wor
ry, will rear its young with unvarying
care and affection, and further he be
lieves that animals of every species
which has ever survived in a state of
captivity will breed, and he offers the
best possible justification of this belief
by saying that he has never during an
experience of thirty years had charge of
animals which did not breed. Of course
he does not mean that every individual
female has had young ones, for many
individuals are barren. In the case of
some species, however, the animals of
one sex are never caught, and con
sequently young ones are not born
among these. An example of such ani
mals is the laughing and crying hyena.
The female hyena is seldom caugnt, al
though the male is a very ordinary in
habitant of menageries. The males of
some other kinds of animals are never
caught.
A PKHFECT JtOTirat.
As an example of a perfect mother
maybe taken the 3 year-old lioness
Hello in Itanium's circus. Hat her more
than a year ago she had tv vhelps,
fine fat fellows. She fed them regular
ly and took otery possibly care of them,
but, most remarkable to state, she not
tly allowed anybody to look at the
cubs, but led the keepers take them out
of the cage for half an hour at a time,
She neither resented this nor relaxed
her care for the little ones. With many
animals such liberties would hare end
ed in the killing or abandonment of the
cubs.
Belle is a large lioness in excellent
physical condition, tine has a powerful
and expressive countenance. The cubs
are stolid looking fellows, with not hall
as much intelligence as their mothet
They are not savage, but have no par
ticular respect for the keepers or the
public. "
The lionets weans her cubs wbeu they
are nine months old. Before they at- j
tain that age she takes all meat and,
solid food away from them, although t
at times they would very much like te
hare some. At the end of nine months
she selects the tenderest pieces of meat
to give to them. Soon after that they
are taken from their mother and placed
in residences of their own.
PECULIARITIES OF BREEDING.
Tigers, leopards and other felines
must be left alone with their young. If
they are not separated from the other,
including males of their own species,
they will probably kill the young ones.
Not long ago a leopard ate up her three
cubs simply because she was stared at
so much, and did not want her offspring
to grow up to live a life like hers.
In case it is not possible, on account
of bad temper.death or illness, for tho
mother to suckle them, young lions,
tigers, leopards and wolves are given to
Newfoundland or St Bernard dogs to
suckle. They oidy remain with the
dogs four or five weeks. After that
there might be danger that there would
gobble up their foster mothers. Ani
mals reared in this way "are not so
healthy as those suckled by their own
mothers. They are apt to have the rick
ets. Lions and tigers have three or four
young ones at a time, the leopard five,
bears three or four, monkeys one, ele
phants one, giraffes one, nylghaus two
and antelopes one.
Monkeys do not breed much in the
captivity of a menagerie, because they
are always dying. The monkey who
goes around with his Italian master in
all weather gets as hardy as it is possible
to be. But the menagerie monkey is
pampered and kept in a warm cage, so
that a shower of rain or a draught of
air will kill him. The white Chinese
monkey possesses the strongest con
stitution of any simian. He is a big
fellow, with an arm like a blacksmith's
aud apt to be quarrelsome. The man
drill, who is distinguished by blue cheeks
and a red nose, is affectionate and very
delicate.
AK ELEPHANT STOHY.
The mother elephant bestows the
greatest care and affection on her off
spring. This fact is illustrated by the
following story:
A gentleman well known in this city
paid a visit, when 10 years old, to a cir
cus in Brooklyn.
An elephant and her young one were
the center of attraction for crowds of
Brooklyn small boys. The young ele
phant had not attained by the course of
years that discretion which would enable
him to decide what was within his
powers of digestion, and he would have
swallowed a hat as cheerfully as a
bundle of hay. On this account his
mother took all the articles which were
handed to him, examined them for an
instant and then, if they were quite
good to eat, she gave them to him; if
they were only moderately good she ate
them herself, and if they were not good
at all she returned them to the generous
giver. '
Several youths found amusement in
handing in their caps, which were re
turned as no good, because they were
made of cloth.- The youth of whom we
speak was never lacking in enterprise,
and he, too, passed in his hat It was
promptly eaten by the mother elephant
It was a large new straw one. The
sufferer complained very loudly to the
manager of the circus, but was unablo
to regain his property. .
Animals born aud raised in confine
ment are usually as strong and healthy
as their relatives from the wilderness.
But, strange to say, they are much less
easily tamed.. Familiarity with man
has bred contempt. Such animals aro
not always savage, but they calmly de
cline to make an exhibition of them
selves by doing ridiculous , tricks.
Trainers Bay that for their purpose
animals bornin confinement are useless
New York livening Sun, ;
' Why lie Bought the Pies.
At the close ot a fair in Boston the
unsold articles were sold at auction,
and a round lot of cream pies were
knocked down to a gentleman who
seemed particularly anxious to gH
them. "My wife made these pies, he
jald, "and gave them to the fair; and as
she never makes any of this quality
except to give away my only chance is
to buy them." And then he sat down
and consumed a couple in silence. "icf
mantown Independent. .
V Sal Freeh Erg. .
Xgjttre said to become unwholesomt
When kept in refrigerators; a fungut
forms in them which is easly found
by a microscope, although It is not
noticable to the taste. ' This fungus
constitutes a danger when we consider
how. many eggs are : consumed by all
classes of society, and people of delicate
constitutions ought to be particularly
careful that they eat fresh and not
kept eggs. Exchange.
Prince de Chlmay, who Is f 2,000,0ft
richer by Us marriage with Miss Ward
of Detroit, to a good musician and playi
the violin especially well. .
SPINSTE3 WRITERS.
Women of Celebrity la Letters
Who Have Never Married.
Xew York Star: Constance Fenimor
(foolson, author of "Lake Country
"ketches," and other graphic stories;
Sarah Ome Jewett, who wrote "A Coun
try Doctor" and "Deepharen" sketches,
as well as other books which have proved
to delightful to readers everywhere;
Edith XL Thomas, the exquisite lyrist;
Grace King, authoi of the attractive
southern tale, "Monsieur Motto," and
Octave Thanet, a name which veils tho
personality of a western writer of strik
ing orignality, are all still unmarried.
Charles Egbert Craddock, who through
her brilliant characterizations and rich
descriptive powers has won a lasting?
fame, now resides with her mother and
sister at the old homestead in Tennessee.'
occupied with literary work, and deaf to
all overtures on the part of her many
admirers looking to marriage.
Gail Hamilton is too much wrapped up
in her self -independence ever to give tb
subject of matrimony a moment's
thought, if taken into personal consider
ation, while Kate Field, as the great
public knows, is too mnch in love with
journalism to believe she would be
happier as the wife of any living mac
The Cary sisters, Phoebe and Alice,
never married, but dwelt together all
their lives, each bound up in the love of
the other. There was a bond of close
friendship existing between them and
the poet Whittier, and one of his choic
est lyrics. "The Singers," refers wholly
to those two gifted women.
Jean Ingelow, now considerable more
than 55, has nerer been married. She
has always been devoted in a marked
jegreeto her mother, and while the
latter lived the two dwelt together.
Miss Ingelow Is much given to work of
iharity, and among other beneficent
lets is in the habit of giving regularly
at her lovely Kensington home to the
poor, old and young, what are known
as "copyright dinners," from the pro
ceeds of her own books.
The charming novelist, Jane Austin,
Mary Bussel Mitford, Charlotte Bronte,
is also other women of equal celebrity
in English letters, remained Vue to
maidenhood.
Education in Ancient Egyt. ,
Boys intended for the government
service entered the school at a very
early age. The course of instruction
was very simi le. The first care of the
teacher was to initiate the young
scribainto the masteries of the art of
writing. After he hod mastered the
first difficulties, ho was given older
texts to copy. These texts were moral
treatises,, older poems, fairy tales, re
ligious and mythical writings and
letters. It is to this fact that we owe
the preservation of the greater partoi
fliA lifArarv nunnina nf nnnianf. Ivfrvnf.
When one of these school boys died, thd 1
copies he had written, that could be of j
no earthly use to any ona else, were,'
buried with him. From these old
books that he copied he learned to form j
his own style; he learned the grammar I
and syntax of his beautiful language;
he became acquainted with its vast
stcck of moral precepts, religious and
mythical traditions, and with the un
numbered poems and tales that un
doubted ly abounded, and of which the
merest fragments have come down to
us. Two classes of writings were pre
ferred for this purpose, moral precepts
and letters. It was considered abso
lutely indispensable to Inculcate on the
minds of the pupils vast numbers of
moral precepts. Letter writing was
considered a high and difficult arc, and
the pupils needed very special prepa
ration in it F. C. H, Wendel in Popu
lar Science Monthly,
Getting' Together.
Slowly the people of this country
are beginning to see that the three gen
eral questions of money, transporta
tion and land are those which are com
ing up for discussion and decLnm.
Government loans at a low rate of in
terest is the answer to the first. Gov
ernment ownership of railways and
telegraphs answers the second and the'
exemption of a moderate homestead
to each family from all taxation, exe
cution, or other processes of law settles
the third.
Then, the producer of wealth would
be protected in the possession of the
fruits of his toil, labor would rejoice
mi peace and contentment revisit the
homes of our anxious and careworn
mothers and fathers.
Get right on these three questions.
Or are you too old to learn ?Karwu
Vommone, . ,
The Trap-door Spider.
The trap-door spider found In various
arU of Europe has obtained its popular
lame from the ingenious nest which it
tons tracts. It makes a hole In the
rround and lines it with moss and silk,
When this has been completed it closet
ihe little pit with an accurately fitting
Id that turns on a hinge of silk. The
rplder retires into this den when threat
tned with attack, and is said to hang
Mt to the trap door when an attempt 'a
nade to raise it In this retreat it rests
luring the day, leaving it at night to
March o food. To gain further safety
it sometiul forms a chamber leading
off from the pX and conceals this
wlthaUnkcitartBlat
YORK FOUNDRY
Hill and Elevator Supplies, Engines,
ing, Belting, Store Fronts,
CEOLOOCAL MYSTERIES.
HHifMll Origta af aaaw W Mm FllHia
StaaM af Cniaiarra, .
Geology Las been a revelstioa to
mankind and has told ns wonderful
things of the past history of the earth,
Fays the American Analytt. But
geology has secrets of its owu that are
as hidden from comprehension as the
atmosphere of the moon or the belts of
Saturn. Certain things have been done, J
says the geologist, through volcanic
action or the agency of lire, and that is
as Dear as he can come to it. Sa
that, after all, we see affects, but knon !
little or nothing of causes. There is a
rock known as amygdaloid, one ot th
igneous rocks, which in some of tits
gigautic transformations ot nature, we
will say in cooling from a melted state, l
formed within itself cavities from lbs
size of a marble or a bead to that of
the closed hand Now, as nature ab
hors a vacuum, she .ct to work to fill
these cavities, and in doing so she used
other materials, and these combina
tions produce some of what we call the
"precious stones of commerce." Exact
ly how this was done we can not tell,
hut we see sc lie hint of the operation
iu every subterranean cave where
stalactites and stalagmites are found.
Every student kuows that this is the
result of dropping water which con
tains carbonate of lime. The water
evaporating leaves a minute particle ol
lime, which takes something to itseli
from the earth or atmosphere, and in
the course of ages bodies are formed
of a most remarkable character. Id
firobttbly somewhat the same fashion
mve these cavities been filled iu the
ipieous rocks, and then come time and
storms and other agencies earth
quakes, perhaps and the rocks are
rent apart, aud out drops a bead or a
bowlder, and a curious man picks it
up, and hammers and breaks it, and
then he puts a polish on by some pro
cess more or less advanced, and lo! he
holds in his hand an agate or an onyx.
Many of the stones used in the arts
have no other origin, and are dopositt
of silica, uluniici, oxide of iron, and
other coloring substances. It is the
color or arrangement of colors that
gives tho name, aud thus we have
ngale, onyx, chalcedony, carnelian,
sard, chrysoprase, sardonyx, and others,
all members of the quartz family and
all having a family resemblance. The
agate veins of different shades of
color in parallel lines. Sometimes
those are very close together, as many
as fifty to the inch, but this is unusual.
When there are alternate bands of color
and a transparant medium we have
the onyx; but the latter may be ob
tained by cutting the stone in a differ
ent way. Agates are used chiefly for
ornamental purposes, such as cups,
seals, rings, handles for parasols,
swords, table and mantel ornaments,
but the material is so hard that it can
only be worked by those who have
practiced skill. The onyx was valued
by the ancients for its application to
cameos and iutaglios the first an ob
ject in relief, the latter a "cut in" pro
cess; and these objects are still mude.
Nature produces some ' very strange
forms ocbasionally, and agates are
found with exact resemblances of moss
and other natural objects and figures,
which are very curious and often very
valuable.
Ingersoll On Crime,. '
Before the ninth annual conventio
of the State Bar association Col. Rob
ert G. Ingersoll delivered an address
opon the subject of "Crimes Against
Criminals." in which at the outset he
demonstrated that punishmcut by tor
ture aud death had fai ed to abate
crime. The following were among Mr.
Ingersoll's utterances: ""'
'Degradation has been thoroughly
tried, with its mannings and - brand
ings, aud the result Was that those who
indicted the punishment became as do
graded as their victims. It is safe to
say that governments have committed
far more crimes than they have pre
vented. , I am perfectly, satisfied that
there are millions of others , incapable
uf practicing certain virtues. Thoreis
no reformation in degradation. Who
ever is degraded by society becomes
its enemy. A punishment that de
grades the punished will degrade the
government that procures the inflic
tion. Is there any remedy ? Can any
thing be done for tho reformation ol
the criminal? He should be treated
with kindness. Every right should be
given him consistent with the safety of
society. Bo should neither be degrad
ed nor robbed. Why should these .men
after having been imprisoned for years
be turned out without the means ol
support? Would it not be far better
to lay aside his earning, so that when
the convict is released after five years
of imprisonment be will have sevcraT
hundred dollars of his own, enough to
keep the wolf of crime from the door
of his heart? If we are to change the
conduct of men we must change their
conditions. Extreme , poverty and
crime go hand in hand. Ignorance,
filth, and poverty are tho missionaries
of crime. As long as dishonorable
success outranks honest effort as long
as society bows and cringes before the
great thieves (bore will be little one
enough to fill the jails." ,
i . . . i LaMlslana CMMriea. -
The usual impression obtaining con
cerning crooles is that they are all ol
thatt possessed of dark and sw rthv
complexions, hair block as the raven i
wing and eyes of "ebon darkness." A
New Orleans acquaintance says that
many have lily-white complexions,
golden locks and eyes of "heave:i'sowa
blue." The croolo girl Is usually ro
fined and daiuty, sensitive and sympa
thetic, light hearted and suuny tern
pered. She is usually brought up
onhitlv aud is content to remain at
heme. Of course the majority of Creoles
an dark tney ait nat-urown msinea
! ENGINE' GO..
Boilers, Horse Powers, Pullers, Shaft
and all Kinds of Casting.
Tfea Flas KaaUwa VTafSV
The avenga c(ee-ae?ker is
sensitive as to tae impression U
rass tor the Government plans k snak
ing at home. When he arrives in
Washington be at once haute ap the
correspondents of bis home papers sad
makes a special request that they make
ao mention of his presence at the Cap
ital. or if they will not consent to that
he will be pleased to hare them say
that he came on at the request ef his
member of Congress, who has a pUca
he desires h. have him accept, aact that
he is nosr giving the matter , that eos
sideration which be deems is doe. He
one comes to Washington these day
on a good, old-fashioned hunt for
office. The i, Mr&in, there are those
who long for place who systessatkally
deceive not only their friends, bat
mexbar of their own families.
One ot this class came to Wash
ington a jout three months ago, says
the Washington iW, and ever since
has been importuning his member of
Congress to provide for him. He
started out for a good, . fat Consulate,
but now he is in about the same condi
tion u the spinster who prayed for a
man. lie will take anything that to
offered, and be glad of the opportunity.
He had not been here over a month
when his wife wrote him that be was
wasting his time, and suggested in that
vigorous manner, that onlv -a woman
can command that he tad better come
home and go to work. To . pacify his
better half he wrote her that he had
succeeded in securing a place and
would go to work next week. He also
stated as soon as he got enough money
ahead be would send for her, and then
he continued to wait for something te
turnup. But success has not as yet
perched upon his efforts, and last week
when be received a letter from his
wife, notifying him that she was ready
to join him and was only awaiting a
remittance, he realized that something
must be done, and that quite speedily.
The way he went about his last bit of
deception was to complain to the po
lice that he had been robbed of a neat
sum of money, and to take good care
to see that the announcement of his
bogus robbery found its way into the
newspapers. Marked copies of the
paper were sent to his home, and now
he is enjoying another brief reap
from that source. His Congressm
has 'jeen given to understand that
case was desperate, and he expects
catch on in a few days. If ho does
bis landlady will soon join forces w
bu wife -
Freaks Made to Order.
Freaks for museums are now made
to order, says a showman. Give me
sn hour's time, and I can rig , up an
electric man for any person in the city.
All that is necessary is to fasten two
large brass or iron plates to the floor
and attach them to an electrio battery.
Any person wUl answer for the man,
provided he stands on one of the
plates and allows everybody that steps
on the other plate to snake hands with
him, thus completing ' the circuit
Slate-writing in theaters is done with
the aid of a confederate or two in the
audience. The message is written on
one side of the slate, which is carefully
covered with a- piece of -clean, dry
black rubber looking like slate, which
tits very closely, and -protecting the
writing from the damp rag which is
passed over it to make the audience
think that no writing exists. The per-
fAMn.Vtk.h Alaiu jn fn Aha, iwlttAMiim
and asks somebody to suggest a sen
tence. The confederate W the first to
respond, and his question is chosen.
An answer to this Is, of course, written
on the slate already and carefully cov
ered with the rubber. A board is next
securely fastened to the frame side of
the slate with a cord,,, and. .the per
former then takes the whole affair on
the stage and unfastens the board, be
ing careful to remove the rubber at
the same time, thus allowing the peo
ple to see the writing. All other tricks
are just as simple, but, on account of
their simplicity nobody can easilff
eaten on to the way tbev are exeoutea.
' ' Am Old Ticket.
A resident of Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
presented a ticket issued in 1855 on the
Nashville & Chattanooga railroad the
ether day and rode in a palace-car on
she same bit of pasteboard that would
Have secured him pftwage in one of the
!umy coaches of thutv-f our veers airo
Chicago Market,
WHEAT-Market firm. Cash mc;
August, 88c; September, 88ft0 88&.
CORN -Market steady. Cash, Ufa
GUo; August, 3&K; deptembercj
AW-4tarket'seady. '"Chia,4 27Ko;
August Mt: September,'
BTE Steady; 48 -' " - - - . .
BARLEY Quiet ,
PRIME nMOTHY 1 90.
FLAX No. 1, II 34.
WHISKl-tl 00.
PORK-Market dull.- Cash, I122B;
Augu it, 11200, September, 114 06
LARD Market dulL Cash 15 7Xo;
August, W 75 September, t8 WW.
TALLOW-Bhsde better. No.1, solid
peeked. 4e4ic;No.2,3teeea,4Mo.
FLOUR Nominally easier. Dealers
asked 94,85 5.35 for pateete iu barrels,
t3 3 75 for bakers', 76 H 26 for
straight, and (4 0fi4 65 for winters.
BULK MEAT-Shoulders, 15 909
5 25; short clear, 19 3565 42; short ribs,
cash, 15 00C5 60, . .
BUTTER-Stesdy. Oreamery, 123
16c: dairy, 9l3o. ' ' "
EGOS-Bsraly active Freeh, llO
12ft. - .- i. : .'.t . ..
CHEE8B-Steady. Full ores mebed
ders,7K7c: flats, 7X660; Youaf
HIDES-had. better.! No.l beery
green salted, &&e6!e' salted (rail, fet
green salted caffon; drytSv J 'Vet
dry salted hides, oo; dry ea$
deaooas, each S3o, -
.-, . - " &t
Aw