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HOW TO KEEP POTATOES THAT
ARE DESIGNED FOR SEEO.
IatereitiBg; Reports from the National
Department of Agriculture All About
the Big Poultry Shew and the Toaey
ad Standard FowU There Exhibited.
The first annual exhibition of the New
York Poultry exchange, held recently in
Xew York city, was attended by many
society folk as well as fanciers. The dis
play of domestic poultry was one of the
best ever seen in the city. The brahmas,
both dark and light, were well represented.
There was a fair showing of white cochins;
the buff cochins were well represented, as
were the partridge cochins. Among the
Plymouth Rocks were quite a number of
prize winners. White, black and brown
leghorns were represented, and there were
some fine specimens of langshares. The
white, also the laced, Wyandottes were
much admired; and the late English fad,
the miuorcas, attracted considerable attention-
These fowls are remarkable for
their Peculiar combs, along with otht
thias. Among tne fancy oreeas appeared
white Wandottes and white Plymouth
Rocks. Dorkins and houdans were pres
ent iu small numbers.
JAPAVESE BANTAM. WIIITE POLISH
BANTAM.
The exhibition of bantams pleased both
coatnoiseurs and children. The varieties
of bantams are great and show signs of
increasing, for experiments are constantly
being made in order to obtain miniature
specimens of the larger breeds. As a
rule they are simply small specimens,
though in some cases differences can be
discerned. All bantams are purely fancy
fowls, being popular chiefly on account of
their beauty and because they can be
kept in places where larger fowls cannot,
as well us from the fact that they make
capital pets. We give Illustrations of two
varieties the white Polish and the Jap
anese bantams.
The show of turkeys was an interesting
one, some of the birds being enormously
large. A bronze turkey shown by Sher
man Hartwell, which had been fattened
with a view to its gracing the White
House' table on Christmas, weighed forty
four and three-quarters pounds and nat
urally attracted much notice from visit
ors. The bronze turkey, as all may not
know, is the most rapid in growth, quick
est to fatten and heaviest of all the
turkeys of this country. Narragansetts
and whites are the most domestic. The
wild turkey, even when bred iu domes
tication, is the hardiest, finest fleshed and
highest flavored of all the turkeys.
A BRONZE TURKEY.
The pigeon department proved an inter
esting one, for it included some well
known carriers, among whom were Vol
unteer, All Xew, Lady Florence and
other birds with good records.
When one recalls the fact that the eggs
used in this country every year, imported
and domestic, have been estimated as
worth 112,000,000, and that the chickens
eaten by our people are worth at least
half as much, so that we consume an
nually in fowls and eggs $ 188,000,000, the
Importance of well managed poultry shows
is apparent. Every effort made that tends
to the improvement of domestic fowls is
of wide spread importance.
Vises for Indoor Growth.
Vines known under the general name of
Ivy are exceedingly attractive for house
decoration. The German ivy is a rapid
grower, but will not bear the cold as well
as the English Ivy. The coliseum ivy is
beautiful when growing in a hanging pot
at the window. It is easily raised from
seed or cuttings.
ivt oBOwnra ujdoobs.
English ivy, properly treated, will lire
for many years, and few plants give less
trouble. Tick advisee that water be'
given occasionally to lvy grown in pota
during the winter. If one has an English
ivy that appear to be dying, and its leaves
wither and fade, these must not, sajs this
well known florist, be picked off, but must
be left to drop off. If the leaves are picked
off when they show signs of decay, the
tiay leaf bud at the stem, ao small a to
be muBoticed, will be liable to be killed;
but if let alone a new leaf or shoot will
out of each one.
C lilener Colas step art.
In his annual report the commissioner
of agriculture advises the abolition of the
seed division of the department and the
transferee lb) datttsto the state and ter
ritorial experiment stations. He disap-
ITsrevas fa eerona to nn w uqanueu
aa exacatiT branch with a member of the
abiaet at tt kd. IU leaitten, fee.
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COLTJMBTTS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1888.
opinion, ought to be tnat 01 an advisor in
those Investigations and enterprises which
bear upon the agricultural interests of the
country.
Regarding the present year's experi
ment in the development of sorghum
sugar manufacture, tlie results will, he
believes, be such as to Justify the produc
tion of a sugar supply from a plant as
easy of cultivation as own, but little cir
cumscribed by climatic influences, and
one whose by-products have a value equal
to the cost of raising.
Commissioner Colman says on the sub-
"t of our wheat surolus: "The com
parative prominence of this country in Its
wheat surplus may not be popularly re
alized. When our exports have exceeded
130,000,000 bushels per annum for ten
years, those of Russia were about 66,000.
000 bushels and those of India 24,000,000
bushels in round numbers lor the last de
cade. Other lands contribute only a very
small surplus Australia, Chili, the Ar
gentine Republic and others only a few
millions each and the combined surplus
of all nations does not equal that of this
country."
It is stated in this report, that pleuro
pneumonia is now restricted to smaller
areas than at any previous time in many
years. There is now every assurance that
th present policy of the Federal and state
authorities, continued for another season,
will entirely exterminate this disease.
KIt Tears' Experiments with Manures.
The results of five years' experiments
with commercial and barn yard manures
on the Agricultural college farm at
Columbus, Mo., as set forth in a recent
report on the same by Professor J. W.
Sanborn, are briefly as follows:
Iu good years, with a pentif ul supply of
moisture, chemical manures gave a larger
wheat yield than yard manure; while in
dry years the result was the reverse. The
gain of the land treated with chemicals
over that on which no fertilizer of any
kind was used, was mostly, or possibly
wholly, due to the nitrogen in the
chemicals. Chemicals may be uselessly
used and it is such misuse or unintelligent
use that gives rise to the cry that they are
valueless.
Professor Sanborn advises fanners to
attempt, to use chemicals (not including
lime, plaster or salt) only after intelligent
buying, a careful study of the soil by com
parative tests, and then on horticultural
crops mainly, including potatoes. This
advice will not apply, however, when
wheat approximates $1 per bushel, or
when soils are largely deficient in potash
or phosphoric acid.
Sarins Potatoes for Seed.
The probabilities are that seed potatoes
will be scarce in numbers and high in
price next spring. Hence great caro ought
to be observed in the handling and stor
ing of tubers designed for seed. Potato
growers generally agree that sprouted
seed potatoes are inferior to those so kept
that no large sprouts appear before plant
ing, the planting having weakened their
vitality.
In the cut is given an illustration of a
plan of keeping seed potatoes, advised by
a Michigan correspondent in Rural New
Yorker. When the potatoes are dug they
are not allowed to lie in the sun more than
two hours, after which they are put in a
pit covered with straw or cornstalks for a
few days, and then they are covered with
boards and earth, the ends of the pit be
ing left open. Later on the ends are closed
and a very small amount of ventilation is
afforded by means of a wisp of straw
which extends up through the center of
the covering to the open air. Care should
be taken to leave a space of at least eight
inches (better twelve) between the top of
the potatoes and the covering of the pit,
which should be five by eight or ten feet
not larger. The first covering of 6ix
inches of soil is not put on until danger of
frost makes it necessary, and the remain
ing coverings are added as the weather
demands. A represents a pole supporting
the boards; b, six inches of soil; c, eight
inches of strawy manure; d, six inches of
soil: e, eight inches of manure; f, a straw
ventilator, and g a space of eight inches
between potatoes and boards.
In the same journal a Massachusetts
farmer, to avoid sprouting, places the
tubers in a dry, cool cellar of an even
temperature. A New York farmer puts
his potatoes in bins of 400 to "COO bushels
each in a cellar on the ground, first
sprinkling plenty of lime on the ground.
In this way potatoes can be kept for eat
ing purposes up to July. To keep them
from sprouting he cuts them up for plant
ing just at the time they show signs of
budding. This will keep them from
sprouting for three to four weeks if they
are stirred over often; for they will sprout
sooner when not stirred, so that a person
can guage the time for planting.
BTOBXN'G POTATOES.
A PennsylTsnia correspondent advises
that seed potatoes be kept at a few de
grees higher temperature than is best for
winter apples. A low temperature pre
vents their sprouting. The above, with
other communications on the same sub
ject, warrants the conclusion that sprout
ing seed potatoes weakens the vitality;
that there Is little or no sprouting in the
far north; that potatoes for seed may be
preserved, with suitable precautions re
garding temperature, in pits, in cellars, in
barrels and bins, or spread out on the
floor, provided a dry, uniform tempera
ture, somewhat above freezing point, is
observed. An increase of protection
ought to be given with an increase of
cold.
Farm Price of Aarlealtaral xtooucmu
In the December report of the depart
ment of agriculture occur the following
statements in relation to farm prices of
agricultural products: The average value
of corn is 43.8 cents per bushel, against
86.6 cents last year, and 83.8 cents in 1883.
In 1881 it was 68.8 cents. The average
value of wheat is 69 cents, only three mills
higher than the average last year. It is
82 in New York. 81 in Pennsylvania, 74 in
Michigan, 73 in Ohio, 72 in Indiana, 70 in
Illinois, 64 in Wisconsin, 62 in Missouri,
61 in Iowa and Kansas, 59 in Minnesota,
53 in Nebraska and 52 in Dakota. The
average for oats is 80.7 cents, against 29.8
last year. Barley average 52.2, instead of
53 last year. Buckwheat, 56.1, or 1.7
cents higher than last year. The value of
potatoes is greatly enhanced, being 68.5
cents, against 45 last year. It is higher
than for seven years, except in 1881. The
value of hay is much increased. It aver
ages $9.34 per ton, against $7.36 last year.
The advance has been in the drought area
of the west,
A New Grape.
Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry have a new
grape, which they call Sultana. It is a
cross of a foreign variety, Mill Hill Ham
burgh upon our Creveling. It has the
large size, the tough skin, the foreign
flavor, the solidity of the Hamburgh, with
the red pulp, the judness, the sprightly
sweetness of the native variety. The vine
is vigorous, apparently quite healthful,
heavily loaded with Immense, compact
bunches of large, very solid blue black
berries of an exceedingly rich, sprightly
aromatic nature. As would naturally be
expected from the texture of the grape, it
is a' good keeper, and was shown at the
horttcmltmral wttttT laet January fa an
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excellent state of preservation.
Cutting Hay for Stock.
Experiments to determine the best ways
and means for feeding stock economical
ly at the Agricultural college farm of
Ontario, Can., have given results that
make it appear a profitable plan to cut
!iay. It was ascertained that by cutting
the hay for feeding horses, sheep and
other stock, 12 per cent, is saved. The
nnfmalu do not waste and eat mora of the
rougher parts.
By using their own grinding mill and
cutter for feed, the cost is but 55 cents
per ton, or 1 1-2 cents per head of cattle
daily, including interest on cost of engine,
fuel wear and tear, oil, engineer and other
labor, including the mixing of food.
Pumpkins fer Milk Cows.
As good authority as Dr. Storer, says
that a ration of about thirty pounds of
pumpkin per cow daily will increase the
flow and improve the quality of milk.
More than this quantity should not bo
fei. Pumpkins are a very cheap food, as
a couple of tons can readily -be grown to
the acre with the corn crop. The seeds ox
the pumpkin ought to be removed before
feeding.
Agricultural New.
From Ohio comes reports of the short
est corn crop in years.
The raisin crop of California is fast in-,
creasing in Importance, and large ship
ments are being made to the east.
Florida has undertaken this season the
shipping of oranges to Europe.
The American turkey is becoming a
a prime favorite in the London market.
Inventive Genina In Streak.
One of the leading authors of the pres
ent day has remarked that "genius conies
in shoals." There is a depth of truth iu
the remark, says a contemporary, which
must at once be patent to all who are fa
miliar with the history of our country, and
in no field of inquiry does the fact stand
out so prominently as in the great out
break of inventive genius by which our
country is distinguished. The Elizabethan
age was characterized Dy a snoai 01 ura
tuatists, next we have a shoal of essayists
with the amiable Addison at their head,
and down through the years until what
Carlvle has called "the mechanical age"
set in. The birthday of the manufactur
ing supremacy of England was undoubt
edly the 5th of January, 17G9, wheu
James Watt announced his patent "for a
method of lessening the consumption of
steam and fuel in fire engines." This
was the source and sustaining power of
mechanical energy whose action quickly
changed the face of the world.
The inventive minds fulled in a shoal,
and before half a century elapsed England
was in possession of the most mechanical
appliances. Since the commencement of
the "mechanical age" the aspect of the
country has been changed. In districts
like the "Black Counti-y," where nothing
formerly appeared but rural scenery, great
manufacturing establishments have lieen
erected, towns raised, and the roar of fur
naces, the uoise of machinery, the buzz of
reels, and ceaseless activity now diversify
the sceue where nothing was formerly
heard but the purling steam or the howl
ing of the tempest. Not only do the
inventive minds come in shoals,
hut shoals of inventors who con
centrate their united energy on some
special branch of mechanics or science are
every now and then springing up, and in
vention follows invention with surprising
rapidity. These inventions are always
shifting; at one time there is a run for im
proved furnaces, at another improved
modes of constructing ships; then conies a
change to machinery, or some matter of
great public interest, like the rivalry in
the improving of the different systems of
electric lighting. Not only do inventions
shift from one branch of science and me
chanics to another, but at times a lull
comes over one country and a great out
break of inventive genius breaks out in
another country. Scientific American.
Newsboys and Bootblacks.
My extensive dealings with both news
boys and bootblacks have convinced me
that there is no honester class than they.
The other day I gave a newsboy fifty cents
to change, and he went from place to place
until he was out of sight, but seemingly
could not get the change. In a little while
he came panting up the street with the
change and said he was sorry to keep me
waiting. The fellow with the swell boot
blacking establishment borrowed my knife
to scrape the real estate off my shoes, anrt
I went away aud forgot it. He handed it
over next day without a murmur. Some
times the boys haven't change and some
times I haven't, but we repose a mutual
confidence in each other and never get
cheated.
There is a lame newsboy from whom I
generally buy my evening papers. He
seems to huve an implicit trust in my hon
esty that I have always admired and won
dered at, for I flatter myself I know my
self much better than he does. He is
gruff, bat exceedingly honest. One time
I bought the two papers from him and
gave him five cents. He did not have the
one cent change. He said he would pay
it next day. I thought at the time he
wouldn't, but I said nothing. Next day I
left for Europe. I was gone eight months,
and constant association with the mon
archs of that variegated continent gradu
ally obliterated that one cent from my
mind. The day after I got back I was
sitting in my office when ho hobbled iu,
and in the calmest manner, as if it were a
mere trifle, laid down the coin on my desk
and said, "Here's your cent." Luke
Sharp in Detroit Free Press.
The Frenchman's HypersensitlTeness.
The extreme sensitiveness of the French
character was amusingly illustrated as I
recollect some years ago in the Piraeus of
Athens, where a vast number of ships of
war of all nationalities were assembled,
awaiting events after the flight of King
Otho aud the coming of the present mon
arch, who was then Prince George of Den
mark. Amongst the English squadron
was a line of battle ship named Con
queror, which had for a figure head a lion
trampling on a rooster. The ships were
very close together in the Piraeus, which
is a small harbor, and it happened that
the Conqueror was moored next to the
flagship of the French admiral, and that
regularly every day that officer was per
force compelled to see the Conqueror fig
ure head right outside his Btern galley.
The contemplation became so annoying to
him that he actually wrote to the English
admiral, and requested that the objec
tionable figure head might be removed.
Of course, this could not very well be
done; but in order to smoothe matters the
Conqueror was ordered away to the isl
ands of the archipelago, and on her re
turn, some weeks later, was, much ta
the disgust of her officers, made to anchor
in Salamis bay, about six miles from the
city, so as to be out of the way of exhibit
ing her aggravating figure head to the
hypersensitive Frenchmen. New York
Truth.
The City of Hoase Owners.
Building and loan associations are most
numerous in Philadelphia, and are said
to have done more than any other force to
make that preeminently "the city of
house owi.trs." The sliareboldcrs pay
twenty -live cents a week for eacJi share,
and as money accumulates It is sold to
those who need it at whatever interest the
bidders are willing to offer. Security is
taken on the land or buildings for which
the money is used, and the interest is di
vided among the shareholders. New York
Sun.
TRANSFIGURED.
To careless eyes she la not fair;
Thi rerdict careless lips declare.
And wonder why, against the charm
Of beauty riTid, rich and warm,
The face they deem so cold and dull
To him should be ao beautiful.
Are they too dull to see aright?
Hath he a quicker, keener sight
Or i& it that indifference
Than love hath clearer, truer sense f
Now is he right or wrong? Oh, say.
Doth he behold her face, or they?
Iler eyes into his own eyes shine
With traue illumining; usign
Is on her brow; a palimpsest.
To liis own gaze alone.conf eased;
On him. In gravely gracious mood.
She smiles her soul's beatitude.
This is the face hhe turns to him;
Oh. say not 'tis a lover's whim
That finds It fair; nor are they dull
Who say she is not beautiful.
For, strangest of all mysteries.
They never see tho face he sees
The face no artist's skill can limn.
The love-fair face she turns to him.
Carlotta Perry in Times-Democrat.
AN OLD THIEP3 COMPLAINT.
Nothing but Stagnation In the Burglar'
Ilnsliiess Circle Detective. System.
"Hello, Bill!"
The person addressed turned quickly
around with a determined expression on
his face, as if expecting to have a tussle
with some one, and n good natured smile
passed over the countenance of Bill Noble,
the western bank burglar, when he recog
nized a friend. Mr. Noble is at one of tho
Broadway hotels, but his name does not
nppear on the registry book.
"How's business, Bill?" queried a re
porter. "There is nothing but light game in the
market now," answered the bank confls
cator. "You can lay odds, my boy, that
it will be many a day before a big job is
worked up in this or any other city crack
ing safes. There is just as much money
locked up in safes every night as there
ever was, but it is a hundred times harder
to get at thnn it was ten or twenty years
ago. When a watchman was left in charge
of a bank it was nil right; but now even a
small amount of treasure is guarded by
a system of signals so perfect that it places
half a dozen men on watch, and it is too
a big risk to try and beat them. As far
west as you can go, and I've covered every
foot of the ground, no chances are taken,
and you're dead sure to toss up your life
or twenty years of it. if yon attempt to
get in your fine work."
"Are the safes made today harder to
open than when burglary was a paying
profession?"
"Certainly. But there is not a safe
made that cannot be leat. Time is all
that is necessary. The tools to do the
work can lie readily obtained. The bank
sneak has taken the place of the experts,
and even they are starving to death. All
the good men are doing their bit now,
and it's only a little while since I was do
ing mine. The old men iu the business
can never make another deal. The cops
are on to them all the time. They are
tracked everywhere. I left Chicago a
week ago. The police here knew I was
on the way lefore the train was out of the
depot, and they have been on to me every
moment since I arrived. They know
where I go and what I do about as well
as I do myself, and if I didn't walk a
straight line I'd get the collar in a second.
I'm doing straight business now and have
no fear. I used to get pretty hot when
I'd run into a fellow who was piping me,
but I've got used to it now and feel more
amused than mad. I have a little quiet
fun leading the boys on a goose chase once
in a while. The efforts of the police are
directed to prevent thieves who are known
from organizing. This is the best way to
prevent crime, as crooks cannot work
alone on a decent job. The detectives
have a system by which the daily record
of all well known crooks is kept all over
the country, and the heavy baud of the
law can be put on a man at any time.
This is harder to buck against than all the
locks and combinations ever made."
"Would you kill a man while at work
who tried to arrest you?"
"Certainly, if I got the drop on him.
It's part of the trade. Usually the officer
has tho advantage, because burglars are
surprised at work aud there is no chance
to shoot. A man must fight for his lib
erty, even at the risk of stretching his
neck."
"Did you lay up any money while in
the business?"
"Not a dollar. Flush today and broke
to-morrow is the rule. Crooks live good
while the dust lasts, but they blow every
thing in. Every crook has his failing.
It's either wine, women or gambling.
Gambling and drinking are all right, but
steer clear of women. They are the de
tectives' right bower. Many a good man
has been sent away by a woman's tongue,
either from malice or stupidity. They
give clues, and the detectives get the
glory and the prisoner." New York Even
ing Sun.
THE POPE'S SECLUSION.
Perianal Habits of Leo XIII and
His
tVive for the Fiae Arts,
Few persons whom fate has raised to so
high a rank love seclusion so much as the
successor of Pius XI, who was never
averse to cheerful surrounding. Leo XIII
is seldom seen in his reception robes; still
more difficult is it to observe him in hi
house dress. The seclusion in which ho
dwells is easily accounted for first by
his naturally retiring ways and secondly
by the fact that his devotion to all the
affairs that claim his attention leaves him
absolutely no time for visitors. Mgr.
Delia Volpe, the successor of Machl as
maestro di camera, must bear the brunt of
the general dissatisfaction engendered by
the scarcity of admission to a papal audi
ence, and yet he is powerless to remedy
the eviL Leo XIH, who sits constantly
before his enormous, artistically. carved
writing desk, hidden behind a heap of
books, diplomatic letters and newspapers,
rarely allows Himself to be interrupted in
his work in order to listen to the timid
petitions of his maestro di camera, and
contents himself with proving to him that
he has no time to lose.
He has not yet become convinced that a
general blessing will satisfy his visitors,
and therefore when he grants an audience
to twenty or thirty persons he considers
himself obliged to take special interest in
each individual. He asks questions and
gives advice, all of which tries him very
much and robs him of many a precious
hour. Therefore he resists as long as pos
sible without yielding to the necessity of
appearing in the reception hall between
two noble guards and accompanied by the
monsignor particlpante, whose office is to
introduce those who have come to be pre
sented to the holy father.
Another class of persons who, with the
best of intentions, give the pope much
trould are the mediocre artists. Leo XHI
is a great admirer of the fine arts. On his
way to the garden he often stops in the
hall of the candelabri, in the Vatican
museum, descends from his chair and re
mains several minutes, surrounded by his
palfrenieri, in gazing at tbe ceiling, which
is being painted at his expense by Salty.
He inquires about the progress of the
painting, asks those around him for their
opinion concerning the work, and repeat
edly orders very costly details to begin
anew, in order to make them more
worthy of himself and the apos
tolic palace. But surrounded as
he is by masterpieces of art, how
many Incredible pictures, what abortive
portraits must he see, bless and accept aa
tokens of veneration! Leo XIII is hard
to pleaae in artistic matters: ha is raralv
satisfied with his portraits, and even Len
bach could not succeed in thoroughly
pleasmg him. Berlin Boersen-Courier.
Negro Cable la Kentucky.
Looking out the doors and windows of
the cabins, lounging in the doorways,
leaning over the low frame fences, gath
ering into quickly forming, quickly dis
solving groups in the dusty streets, they
swarm; they are here from milkwhite
through all deepening shades to glossy
blackness; octoroons, quadroons, mulat
toes, some with large, liquid, bkick eyes,
refiued features, delicate forms; working,
gossiping, higgling over prices around a
vegetable cart, discussing last night's
church festival, today's funeral or next
week's railway excursion, sleeping, plan
ning how to get work and how to escape
1L From some unseen old figure in flam
boyant turban, bending over the washtub
in the rear of a cabin, comes a crooned
song of iudescribable pathos; behind a
half closed front shutter, a Moorish hued
amoroso in gay linen thrums his banjo in a
measure of ecstatic gayety, preluding the
more passionate melodies of the coming
night. Here a flgKtnnere the sound of
the fiddle and the rhythmic patting of
hands. Tatters and silks flaunt them
selves side by side. Dirt and cleanliness
lie down together. Indolence goes hand
in hand with thrift. Superstition dogs
the slow footsteps of reason. Passion and
self control eye each other all day long
across the narrow way. If there is any
where resolute virtue, all round it is a
weltered muck of low and sensual desire.
One sees all the surviving types of old
negro life here crowded together with and
contrasted with all the new phases of
"colored" life, sees the transitional stage
of a race, part of whom were born slaves
and are now freemen, part of whom have
been born freemen but remain so much
It cannot fail to happen as you walk
along that you will come upon some
cabin set back in a small yard and half
hidden, front and side, by an almost
tropical jungle of vines and multiform
foliage; patches of great sunflowers, never
more leonine in tawny magnificence and
sun loving repose; festoons of white and
purple morning glories over the windows
and up to the low eaves; around the
porch and above the doorway a trellis of
gourd vines swinging their long necked,
grotesque yellow fruit; about the entrance
flaming hollyhocks and other brilliant
bits of bloom, marigolds and petunias
evidences of the warm native taste that
still distinguishes the negro after some
centuries of contact with the old, chast
ened ideals of the Anglo-Saxon. James
Laue Allen in The Century.
Charles Sumner's Charming; Letters.
Senator Sumner had a happy way of
writing to any one whose work pleased
him as author, orator, painter, sculptor or
musician. Many authors have been made
happv by his expressions of appreciation.
Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell,
Motley, Prescott, et id genus omne, have
been laid under contribution by the sena
tor's biographer, and the letters Sumner
wrote them while hot from their works
will make very interesting reading. There
are thpse ncross the water who can con
tribute to his biography charming letters
of appreciation, and among them Jean
Ingelow, who received several of great
force. He had an especially warm side
for young authors of merit, and runny a
one of them, now of established reputa
tion, owes much to his discriminating
praise, and his encouragement to press on,
to elevate and purify their taste, and,
above all, "to work, work, work." To
one he wrote: "Who shall say that the
power to work is not itself genius?"
It was his way to write to a speaker im
mediately after he had heard or read his
speech. Schuyler Colfax came to the
tront in a speech on the Kansas question,
which showed him to be a man of mark.
Sumner on that same night wrote him a
letter of thanks, couched in such terms
that the young orator showed it to doubt
ing friends as an evidence that at least one
leading man did not deem him too rash.
The letter found its way into print, and
soon it was regarded as happily voicing
the views of the party, and Republicans
generally indorsed Sumner's indorsement,
and Colfax was a made man.
So thoroughly necessary was it deemed
to have Sumner's stamp on a rising repu
tation that he was sometimes importuned
to do for others what he had done for Col
fax. "Let him," Stunner said to one
suitor, "make such a speech as Colfax
made, and I will write him such a letter
as I wrote Colfax." Arnold Burges lohn
on iu The Cosmopolitan.
A New Military Tent.
A trial of the Howe convertible tent
and intrenching tools was made on Mon
day at Colchester, in the presence of Maj.
Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood, V. C, and a com
mittee of officers. The inventor claims
that this tent, the pole and pegs of which
will form efficient intrenching tools, is
easily carried, easily erected and always
at hand when required. It is made in
sections, of which each soldier carries an
equal portion, which, when packed for
transport, does not exceed sixteen inches
in length and six pounds in weight. The
tent is designed to accommodate any
number of men, ten or twelve being a
convenient number. The tent pole 1s an
iron tube, made in ten interchangeable
sections, each of which, when unscrewed,
forms the handle of an intrenching tool,
to which 6pade, pick or hammer can be
attached at will. One edge of the spade
is curved and sharpened, forming a useful
hatchet, while a sharp spike, used as a
pick, can be easily and securely affixed to
one end of the tubular shaft or handle. A
second tube, tapering into a point at one
end, and closed at the other end with a
movable irou head, slides within the tubu
lar handle, and may be employed to
lengthen it, or may be detached and used
as a tent peg. In sandy soils this peg may
be passed through a hole in the center of
the spade, which is then buried, forming
a storm anchor.
Every part of the implement serves a
double purpose, and every probable con
tingency seems to be provided for in its
construction even the tent hooks are In
geniously made to -act as spanners. At
first sight the addition of any extra weight
to the burden of the modern British in
fantry soldier who is seldom a Hercules
would seem to be an argument against
the adoption of Mr. Howe's clever con
trivance; but it is contended that by dis
pensing with a blanket the soldier might
carry his tent section without adding to
the weight of his kit. He would then be
able to pitch his tent without waiting for
tbe arrival of the baggage wagons, which
are frequently many miles in rear of the
marching column. London Court Jour
nal. Cartons Story of an Inventor.
They tell a curious story of old Chris
topher Meyer, who was more or less with
Ives. Many years ago he was a work
man in a factory where rubber shoes were
made. He received the fabulous sum of
$1.25 a day. At night he worked out the
details of an invention for economizing in
the number of men employed in the fac
tory. One day he finished his machine,
carried it to the shop and showed his boss
bow well it would do the work of a dozen
or twenty men. The boss was thunder
struck; but before he could examine the
invention Meyer seized a big hammer and
knocked its delicate machinery into chaos.
"But I want that," protested the boss.
"I know you do," answered tbe work
man, quietly.
"Come and see me to-morrow noon,"
rrtntlnuefl the head of the firm, pompous
ly, "and we will make some arrange-Baeata"
"If you want to talk business with me,"
remarked the workman, coolly, "you can
come to my lodgings at 7 o'clock to-night.
Better not be late."
The millionaire was there at 7, Meyer
was taken into the Arm, and in a short
time he was at the head of the business.
He lives in New Brunswick, N. J., in a
pretentious house, and his sons are all
well married. A short time ago the old
man he is more than 70 years of age
took it into his mind to marry again, picked
out a beautiful 19-year-old girl and pre
pared for the wedding. Immense opposi
tion was expected from the faniilj , as old
Meyer is worth ten or twelve millions:
but, to the amazement and chagrin of so
ciety and the sensational press, all of tho
old manufacturer's friends, family and
connections backed him up heartily, and
sent him off on his bridal tour, looking
and feeling like a major. Blakely Hall's
Utter.
Collecting Flue Violins.
In an office building on Union square
are the quarters of a dealer who sells the
finest and costliest old violins that are
sold in America, .Amateurs who collect
old fiddles know him" well, and enormous
prices are paid by them for the instru
ments ho makes a specialty of buying
and selling. A man from the far weit
bought a Stradivari us for $2,500 the other
afternoon, and in the course of his pur
chase played a snatch of a tune on it.
His playing was execrable. I never heard
worse from n street musician. I remarked
on this to the dealer, und he replied,
smiling:
"The costliest violins belong to the
men who have least skill in playing them.
That is one of the curiosities of the trade.
Those who collect violins are rarely
master performers on them. They buy
for the sake of having. Men who can
play tho violin do not invest fortunes in
instruments. They buy as good us they
ran afford for themselves and do their
best with it."
This collection of fiddles is, by the way.
a curious craze. I knew a man in London
who had it very badly. He owned dozens
of violins, and had each put by in a
special glass case on the wall of his study
along with a little book containing its
history, written by himself, and the docu
ments that authenticated it. He also had
a flue collection of bows. lie would start
off at an hour's notice for Russia or
America to get hold of a prize violin, and
the only tune ho could pluy through was
"Yankee Doodle," which is the easiest
one to learn on the violin. Mr. Joseph
W Drexel owns. I believe, the finest
collection of violins in New York, which
probably means in America, hut he is far
from a, brilliant performer on them.
Alfred Trumble iu New York News.
A Story with Moral.
Near n railroad crossing where trains
frequently waited for connection berries
were very plentiful. Two women con
ceived the idea of making a little money
by selling fresh berries to the hot and
dusty travelers. They forthwith put
their idea into execution, and were soon
passing through the waiting trains offer
ing the fruit for sale. One invariably
made ready sales, selliiif; out before she
had gone through a train; the other al
miji had berries left unsold, and some
times she failed to sell any. One made a
liamUomo little "pile" by the end of the
season; the other questioned whether bhe
iiad been paid for her time.
The reason for the success of the one
and the failure of the other was not hard
to find. It all lay in the manner of ser
vice. One of these women was careless
nnd untidy in her appearance; the other
was scrupulously clean and neat; one
measured her berries front her basket in a
cup, filling it with her hands 113 she
passed through the train; the other made
up little paper holders lined with fre-h
green leaves, nnd these she filled with
berries before the train arrived. No one
wonders which would sell the best.
Probably some baker or confectioner
may suspect a small sized moral lying
around loose hereabouts. American Gro
cer
A Printer's Search for a Kejlwle.
Another one of those old time typos lin
gered down town one morning among
convivial spirits long after the "jig" wjis
up, and when he finally got started west
ward it seems to me that all the printers
in town live on the west side it was
broad daylight, and the cast bound cars
were crowded with people who hadn't the
faintest idea of what it was to work all
night. He lived on Madison street, and
when he reached his home he tried for
several minutes to adjust his key to the
keyhole, but couldn't strike the combina
tion. Every half minute a car loaded
with people passed by and everybody
laughed at him. Then a cunning idea
struck him. He went calmly down in his
pocket, got a match, lichted it, held it up
to the keyhole, inserted the key, unlocked
the door and stalked dignifiedly in, while
an irrepressible shout went up from a car
that was passing. Daylight might be
good enough for pome, but he needed a
Sttle extra illumination. He was used to
artificial light. Chicago Mail.
Old Versus Xew Champagnes.
Champagne is not stored in the London
dock vaults, but on the upper iloors of the
dock warehouses. The Russians, who
used to rival the United States in cham
pagne drinking, are fast giving up that
wine and betaking themselves to port.
There were not more than 500,000 bottles
of champagne taken in Russia last year.
The English cannot understand tho taste
of Americans for new champagne. The
impression appears to prevail in the
United States that champagne deterior
ates after it is three or four years old, nnd
it Is said this impression, for reasons of
their own, h;is been fostered by the trade
in that country. The English and French
laugh at this. They do not touch cham
pagne until it is at least seven or eight
years eld, 81 a large dealer, who wa
looking at some of his stock in the ware
house, said he had champagne of the vin
tage rf 1808, which was much sought
nftp". St. Louis Republican.
Design of Belgian Coins.
e'.;:jie of the small Belgian coins, which
a; perhaps, tho prettiest of all the
modern examples, have a vigorous effect
given them, not by raising the effiey in
the ceuter much above the general sur
face, but by surrounding it with a sunk
space, from which it stands out bold and
round, although protected from wear by
the nm which carries the inscription.
With the English or Ainericau coins, in
which a profile head or other figure swims
about iu an ocean of background, such a
treatment would be impracticable; but
the Belgian designers fit their lion very
cleverly into his circular frame, without
cither crowding or awkward vacancies.
A disposition of this sort would be the
very one which would occur to a trained
decorative artist, to whom the jumbles
that now pass muster for coinage designs
would be abominations; and a sculptor of
the first rank might then be called in
with great advantage to complete the
modeling. The Epoch.
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