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During a recent
A NEW SALAIJ. , 1 , , . .
most instructive
and delightful excursion through the
great meat , vegetable and ; fruit markets
of San Francisco , with John P. Irish as
guide , interpreter and expounder , THE
CONSERVATIVE saw for the first time a
crate of "alligator pears" and received a
lot of them as a donation to test as salad.
The experiment was a success the salad
a satisfaction. A recent number of
Harper's Weekly thus describes the
salad fruit :
"Among the many valuable fruits
which might be shipped to northern
markets if rapid steam facilities were at
hand is the agnacate ( alligator or avocado
cado pear , Lauraceae ) , which grows on
a tree with laurel-like leaves , from thirty
to seventy feet high. The fruit is like a
huge pear , with smooth green skin ,
turning brown if allowed to hang too
long. It has a soft buttery meat , half
an inch thick , which melts in the
mouth , and is oaten as a salad in com
bination with lime juice or vinegar
and salt and popper. "While it is almost
tasteless without condimouts , it is so
agreeable with them that the aguacate
habit becomes a fixed one after a few
months sojourn on the island. In the
centre of the pear is a largo hard kernel ,
an inch or more in diameter , which is
not edible , but from which may bo ex
tracted a reddish-brown indelible dye ,
which needs no mordant to lix its color.
This salad fruit is sometimes seen in
Now York in small quantities , where it
sells for from 25 to 50 cents , though it
may bo purchased ou the island for a
copper piece. There is no reason why it
should not be shipped to the United
States in quantity , but it requires care
ful packing , and should be picked from
the trees while firm and green. "
ANGLO-SAXON SUPERIORITY.
To Wlint IH It I > ue ?
Among new books of profound study
and careful investigation and study few
excel the volume with the above title by
Edmund Demolins. At a later day THE
CONSERVATIVE will contain extracts
from Mr. Demolins' great and valuable
work. It is published by Charles Scrib-
ners' Sous , 157 Fifth Avenue , New
York City.
LOCAL iiisToiiv.
. ett Halo's book on
"Kanzas" and Nebraska , published in
1854 , the following mention of our town
occurs :
' Table Creek post-office is at old Fort
Kearney , at the mouth of Table Creek
thirty miles below the mouth of the No
braska. Here is Boulware's ferry , one
of the principal ferries across the Mis
souri , and the site of Nebraska City , so
called on paper. "
The book , it will bo seen , is by no
means an old book ; but "there is not , '
'
says Mr. Hale , "tit this moment , a town
or village of whites in Kansas or Ne
braska. " And Nebraska extended west
to the Rockies and north to the British
possessions.
The Nebraska River mentioned is the
Platto. One was the Indian word , as
iho other was the French word , for Jlat
or shallow , and Mr. Hale always uses the
Indian name. There has always been
an effort to retain the Indian geographi
cal names , which certainly are to bo pre
ferred to the Ongs and Ords that the
Americans brought with them , but no
one can object to the few pretty French
Titles that still cling to certain places.
The French who once occupied this ter
ritory have passed away even more
swiftly and surely than the Indians.
The editor of THE CONSERVATIVE
: akes pleasure in remembering the fact
; hat ho circulated the petition , and se
cured signers thereunto , which caused
she change of the name of this county
from Pierce to Otoo. The former had
aeen given it by proclamation of Acting
Governor T. B. Cumiiig in honor of the
then president of the United States ,
Franklin Pierce , and its present name of
Otoe was bestowed by an act of the first
legislative assembly of the territory
which convened January 16 , 1855.
TIIK NEW EGG. .
,
the practice of
people stopping at frowzy hotels , or who
thought their relatives and friends were
trying to poison them , to live largely on
boiled eggs ; they would break the shell
themselves and count on finding the
same old egg inside that they always had
found there. But now that a French
man has found a way , by feeding hens
on hardware , to produce eggs contain
ing a medicinal percentage of iron , we
may as well let the plain old-fashioned
egg go by along with our other cher
ished beliefs , and resign ourselves to
finding any sort of a doctored compound
within the egg-shell. New Yorkers
will now no doubt forsake the chocolate
drop and fall to poisoning each other
with new-laid eggs , and the worried
look on the old red rooster's face will
only deepen , for who can tell what the
chickens will look like which hatch from
medicated eggs ?
COLORADO IKON ANli STEEL.
The great Colorado iron and stee !
manufacturing plant which is eligibly
located at the flourishing city of Pueblo
is now turning out an immense tonnage
of superior products. The geographica
position of this vast manufactory of
steel rails and dimension irons , for
building purposes is veiy favorable and
taken together with its nearness to in
exhaustible coal and iron-ore fields , i
can command better than any of its
Eastern or other competitors , the mar
kets of the Pacific coast and the Orient
The managers and principal officers o
77- ' > .
.his . corporation are men , who , like its
) resident , Mr. Osgood , take a broad and
optimistic view of the possibilities of
he iron and steel trade of the United
States with China and Japan.
THE CONSERVATIVE hot long since
not Mr. A. O. Ca s , the agent of this
nxxsperous Colorado company en route.
for the Orient , where he will no doubt
establish a largo and profitable trade in
steel rails and other forms of Colorado's
rou and steel output. Trade will follow
the energy and far-sightedness of Auier-
can manufacturers wherever they send
their active and intelligent salesmen
ike Mr. Cass. This is legitimate
expansion , logical annexation and benev
olent assimilation. Goods of first qual-
ty and at reasonable prices will capture
; ho markets of the world.
A TIMELY WARNING.
The plieuomonnl success of the Warner
Library ( nearly a million volumes hav
ing been sold since ( ho appearance of the
Irst volume , less than two years ago )
lias called forth inferior works on
literature , hastily compiled , which in
some cases have been represented and
sold as the Warner Library.
We want , therefore , to give due
notice that , in spite of the claims of any
so-called libraries of literature , the War
ner Library is the only one which has the
following features :
FIRST Thirty royal octavo volumes ,
over 20,000 pages , with over 1,000 portraits
traits of authors and illustrations in
colors of the homes of the most famous
authors.
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throe hundred of the foremost living
authors of Europe and America.
THIRD The history and examples of
the different literatures of the world , as
the Hindu , Chinese , Egyptian , Japanese ,
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etc.FOURTH
FOURTH A special volvftne of famous
Poems , Songs , Hymns , and Lyrics.
FIFTH A volume of Synopses of the
Famous Books of the World , giving the
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SIXTH A complete biographical Dic
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The people of Placeville , Mich. , are
exterminating the harmless necessary
cat , who they claim is responsible for
the spread of diphtheria among them.
The mice must be at the bottom of this ;
the only charge that can be made good
against cats is that they are responsible
for the spread of kittens.
The man who has a million of dollars
and good business sense is a benefit to
any community. But the man whom a
million dollars own , control and warp
is a detriment. It is one tiling to have
a citizen who owns a million dollars and
works them ; and quite another to have
one whom the million dollars own , con
trol and work.
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