Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 231, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 13, 1889 Page: 7 of 8
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discussion is not necessary; the less he
knows about it the more he talks, and
as he talks, a thick dark weariness set-
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Some friend of the institute of New
York has made a gift of 825,000 to the en
dowment fund of Rutgers college.
In the Sydney courts it has been decided
that no Sunday newspaper can sue for ad-
vertisements, the contract being illegal.
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Courier.
Had he lived in a grading and cotton grow-
ing country like St. Landry, as I have for
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He look the Hint.
“Yes, Jennie. ' said the young lady's
beau as he clasped her small hand in
his ind gazed lovingly into her melt-
a
C., in which Lord Cornwallis transact-
ed business while in this country, wan
burned by an incendiary last week
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The effect of the electric light on the
Eiffel tower is to illuminate all Paris in a
gree.
j circumstances now. I’ve seen the day
when I've been hard pressed.”
“Indeed!" she said.
“Yes. indeed, pretty hard pressed."
“I don't remember," she said with a
The Man Who Disagrees.
There are many men in the world
who emulate the gentleman who rose
Pour a little carbolic acid on the hot brick,
shut the lid of the box and compel the
chicks to breathe the fumes of the car-I
Butter in Tube— That Deadly Bull—KU1-
ing Weeds—How to Cure Gapes in
Fowls- Pure W ater tor Stock.
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grown continuously through the season,
and a small plot, not much over two acres,
of mangels for winter feeding with the
surplus of the summer fodder. A large
part of the land produced three crops in
the year, and manure enough was made
from the eleven cows to go over the whole
fourteen acres.
• Fence off the bog holes with barbwire
to keep the cows from drinking this kind
of water, that is sure to injure the milk.
There is no need of blaming the depraved
idea the other day, and one it would like ' running them exists only in theory. The
H'VEL'ArURNS OF THOUGHT.
In China the iron workers make 6 cents
per day.
A real estate agent at Tacoma, W. T.,
claims to have paid $3,600 for postage
you, is an educator and you draw wis-
dom from him, but the man who
of beauty. Another thing is that there is
the seeds to germinate and then destroy
the young plants. In this manner the
fifty-two years, he would have known that,
although cotton seed hardens butter,
makes it better for shipping purposes and
An Orlando, Fla., policeman shot and
wounded a dog, when the canine's compan-
i ion pitched into the officer and drove him to
flight.
Two large apple trees now in full bloom
are growing from the roof of a building on
the farm of George Newhart, Lehigh coun-
ty, Pa.
Of the seventeen pickpockets so far ar-
rested at the Paris Exposition none is Eng-
lish. They are Italians, Germans and
Americans.
W eek before last the Isle of Man was
visited by a wonderful thunderstorm. The
lightning was of a beautiful rose color aud
most incessant.
Cigarettes of tea, lately introduced in
England, have been followed by those made
of a mixture of herbs, which seem to b»
received with favor.
H. H. S., of Farmington, Me., suggests,
the violet as a national flower, because of
its typical color, the blue of our national
flag, and because of its abundance.
A young lady living in Chester Valley,
Pa., was promised that if she would take
charge of a public school three young men,
each twenty years of age, would enter her
class.
A woman living near Freehold, N. J.,
nearly eighty years old, claims she has
traveled but once on the cars, never saw a
steamboat, and was never more than twen
ty miles from home.
The largest family in Arkansas is
Enough bones to fill a cart were found in
a fox’s den in Birmingham, Chester
A Dakota paper says: The large farm
of the west have got to go. The profit of
belie acid. It will cure the gapes at once,
sign of approaching decay is the scantiness
and disappearance of foliage, and soon it is
dead. Upon digging up the tree often you
will find numbers of the roots entirely rot-
ten, thus showing that the trouble is at
the very tap root
His plan is to graft on the May haw stock,
a long-lived tree, caring neither for the
abundance nor the scarcity of moisture.
He says that he has very successfully
budded on the Mayhaw. and believes that
grafting on it will prove a grand success,
ami that one of these days some of our en-
terprising Yankee cousins will come here
and solve this problem for us on this line.
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I curiosities that Mr. Carter finally de-
I cided to get rid of them, and disposed
of the cow and her progeny to Isaac M.
I Cross, an enterprising young farmer of
I Bondhead.
| The animals were removed to Totten-
] ham and a few days ago the Toronto
I Globe was invited to send up a man to
I see the stock and investigate independ-
I ently the correctness of the story.
At a first glance the reporter was
I rather disappointed in the lambs, hav-
I ing entertained some vague idea on
I the subject, and hoping to see a fully
I developed calf with the face of a lamb
I or vice versa. But they appeared to
I his uneducated eye to be ordinary
I lambs and nothing more. This was at
I a first glance. A subsequent careful
examination and comparison with other
I lambs of the same age showed a
marked difference. Those of the un-
natural parentage are larger and
coarser, the wool is darker, and in
toward the pelt it is like the hair on a
maltese cat; there is a tuft of hair on
the breast between the forelegs similar
to that of a calf. The legs are hairy
and the wool is slightly streaked with
hair. The mouth is dark inside and
larger and firmer looking than that of
a lamb and the tail is frequently thrown
over the back after the manner of a
calf.
They are both ewe lambs. These
indications, to an experienced breeder,
are of themselves sufficient to prove
I the authenticity of the story regarding
their strange birth. There is a strong
likelihood of their growing to a large
size. and on both oi their heads there
are dark spots, indicating a possibility
of horns They are at present as large
as ordinary year-old lambs.
The cow is an ordinary, common
grade red cow, without any pretentions
to pedigree. It is kept in the next
stall to the lambs, and munches away
quite contentedly.
The calf, which was born shortly after
the lambs, is also in the group, but it
has not the slightest claim to distinc-
tion, further than the fact that it is
brother to the lambs. All four are
healthy and vigorous-looking. —Chica-
go Times.
The Noise of '1 hunder.
One of the best descriptions of a
common natural phenomenon is that
recently given by M. Hirn, in which
he says that the sound which is known
as thunder is due simply to the fact that
the air traversed by an electric spark
—that is, a flash of lightning—is sua-
denly raised to a very high tempera-
ture, and has its volume, moreover,
considerably increased. The column
of gas thus suddenly heated and ex-
panded is sometimes several miles
long, and as the duration is noteven a
millionth of a second it follows that the
noise bursts at once from the whole
column, though for an observer in any
one place it commences when the light-
ning is at the least distance. In pre-
cise terms, according to M. Hirn, the
beginning of the thunder clap gives us
the minimum distance of the lightning,
and the length of the thunder clap
gives us the length of the column. He
also remarks that when a flash of light-
ning strikes the ground, it is not nec-
essarily from the place struck that the
first noise is heard. Again, he points
out that a bullet whistles in traversing
the air, so that we can, to a certain ex-
tent, follow its flight, the same thing
also happening with a falling meteorite
that of W. D. Green and wife, of Mur-
feersboro. Pile county. They were mar-
ried in 1835 and have had twenty-three
children, eighteen of whom are living.
Major W. P. Smith, an aged druggist at
Halsey, Oregon, started for the foothills on
a collecting tour. He lost his way, and for
nearly a week wandered in the mountains.
He was nearly starved to death when
found.
In clearing an old swamp at Pleasant
Valley, Ind., recently, what appeared to be
a stone book was uncovered. Close inspec-
tion showed it to be a family Bible, bear-
ing the date of 1773, plainly lettered. It is
now solid limestone.
Something described as a petrified snake
was unearthed by a farmer while plowing
at Ohioville, W. Va. The piece was about
as thick as a man’s wrist and twelve inches
long. It is supposed to be part of the re-
mains of a reptile at least ten feet in
length.
That was a sad journey which old man
John McGee took from New Castle, Pa., to
Columbia, Cal. His son Samuel went to
California two years ago, when just from
college, to make his fortune. His father
has just gone out to see him hanged for
murder.
Eliza Jane Starr, an Oakland, Cal., widow,
has petitioned the Supreme Court to in-
crease her allowance of pin money. Her
husband used to give her $1,500 per month,
and she is now only receiving $1,000, which
she claims is not sufficient for her incident-
al expenses.
A Russian navy officer has invented a
method of searching the sea or coast by
night, which does not reveal the position of
the ship. A mortar fires a buoyant shell
containing a compound which ignites on
reaching the water and lights up the sur-
rounding area.
George Petrie, while cutting peat on the
island of Burray, Oakney, found some
curious and valuable silver coins and orna-
ments. There were twenty-five armlets
and bangles and twenty-two neck rings
of silver wire, rope pattern. The coins are
of the eleventh century.
Irvin Locklair rode into Arcadia, Fla.,
with an incorrigible mustang, which he
sold to a negro cheap, on the ground that it
was too lazy to suit him. During the day
every darkey in Arcadia was thrown from
the mustang’s back, and Irvin “hung
around just to see the fun.”
the other a hot briek or stone, cut down is one weed less to go to seed.
The way to keep down weeds is to allow
A metallurgist gives as a reason why
steel will not weld as readily as wrought
Burning' of an Historical Building, iron that it is not partially composed of
The old building at Charlotte, N. cinder,' “ seems to be the case with
wrought iron, which assists in forming a
fusilble alloy with the scale of oxidation
formed on the surface of the iron in we
furnace.
Farm Notes.
An enthusiastic farmer says that “sor-
ghum is the best food in the world for any
kind of stock.” He claims that hogs fat-
ten readily on it and that it is one of the
best foods in the world for starting them
in, the fall. Little by little this staple is
, gaining in favor. It is one of the surest
products of the great west, and bids fair to
become one of the profitable. As a forage
crop it was long ago proven a decided suc-
cess and we expect it will yet become
I profitable as a sugar producer.
Every young weed that comes up and is
foliage or bear heavier crops of fruit than take in payment one-half of the crop each
in Southwest Texas, but how often is the year at its market value until the lands
jruit grower, just about the time he think- are paid for. They wisely refuse to sell
the tree is safe, caused to lament over the over 640 acres to one man, and prefer to
early decay of a favorite tree. The first dispose of only 100 to 32 -acre plots and
Grafting the Apple on the Haw.
Captain John Carr gave the Pinery a
gent articles of food or indulgence. The
cow is very virtuous if she finds it impos-
sible to get into mischief, and the way to
keep her so is to keep her so. See!
The daily papers have contained num-
bers of notices of late of men being gored
by mail bulls. Was there ever a greater
cows fed upon cotton seed, he certainly pulsory, these same breeders would come
would never have published that article, to look upon a h arnless bull as an object
no reason why a bull should not work the
' same as an ox. He is all the better for it, 1 fingers twichcd nervously as though
and there is no law, moral, human or longing to grasp the hand-piece ef a
A WONDERFUL COW.
It Gives Birth to Two Lambs and a
Calf—The Family Thriving.
The farmers of the township of
Tecumseh, in south Simcoe, are great-
ly interested at present in a strange
freak of nature which has taken place
in their midst, being nothing less than
a cow giving birth to two lambs and a
calf.
The interesting event occurred on
the farm of John Henry Carter, lot 4,
eighth concession line, Sunday. April
14, and when the news spread abroad
so many people wanted to see the
to individuals. It is believed that if the
plan works well, this is to be the begin-
ning of a gigantic breaking up of large
farms in north Dakota, and the prospect is
a pleasing one.
Old pasture fields are usually full of
weeds which have crowded the grass out.
To utilize such pastures turn sheep on
them. The sheep will eat the young weeds
as well as the grass and greatly assist in
destroying the pests In the fall the sod
can be turned under and reseeded with less
danger of the weeds again appearing.
In 1865 Henry Stewart succeeded in
feeding eleven cows the whole year on the
produce of fourteen acres of land and by
means of a succession of forage crops
but care must be taken not to suffocate the
•icks. This remedy is also excellent for 5 to 7 per cent
Feeding Cotton Seed to Milch Cows.
Mr. Joseph Gibbs, of Opelousas, La., re-
ferring to an article written by Prof. Har-
ronton upon feeding cows with cotton
seed, says :
which Washington naturally suggests
to you. Possibly it will be Capitol.
It may be president. Take the word
which first comes into your mind. In
the same manner let the third word be
suggested by the second, the fourth by
the third and so on. Be careful that
the third word is not suggested by
both the first and second. Drop the
first entirely, and let your mind go
from the second alone to the third.
Having written this list of words, you
will have furnished yourself with a
cheap but very useful mirror of your
mind. If you are unable to use this
mirror, you may discover some very
serious defects in your mental pro-
cesses. You may discover that you
think along certain lines too frequent-
ly. You may discover that you are
using superficial principle quite too
much. to the neglect of nore import-
ant laws of mind. You will thus be
led to avoid certain mistakes, and to
The Gapes— How to Cure.
W hen a large number of chicks have
the gapes it is a difficult task to handle
each one separately so as to force a feather
tip or horse hair into the windpipe in or-
der to pull out the thread-like gape worms,
though such is the usual practice, as cures
are not always reliable without physical
aid. The best remedy is to give each chick
a drop of spirits of turpentine on a bread
crumb. If the chicks are numerous, mix a
tea-poonful of spirits turpentine with a
quart of cornmeal, make into a stiff dough
and feed it to the chicks A wholesale
method of curing gapes is to put the chicks
in a box with a wire partition; on one side
—Livingston Pinery.
AA Guinea Fowls,
Wz English correspondent of the Coun-
WTIUPt leman says: Guinea fowls are not
I * near so much kept as they well might
. be. considering that they are, as a rule,
very profitable. They cost nothing to
raise; they prefer to seek their own food
in the fields, and seldom come home for
food as long as they can find a supply for
themselves. As a rule they mate, ami it
taste of the cow if you insist upon leaving _ ____
temptation in her wav to indulge her low noise actually heard has been compar-
tastes. She is no better than other animals ed to.the sound produced when one
“ tears linen. It is due really to the fact
that love tobacco, garlick and other pun-| that the air rapidly pushed on one side ----------- ------- — ug J. a
in front of the projectile, whether bid- more philosophical nature —Wilbur W.
let or meteorite, quickly rushes back White in the Chautauquan.
It is a well known fact by those who have ments is the sale by the Grandins of over
experimented with apple trees that there $100,000 worth of their 100,000 acres of
is probably no place where the apple tree land in the Red river valley. It brings
will grow more rapidly, put on so rich from $20 to $30 per acre, and the sellers
just before striking the earth. The
roup, or where adult fowls are suffocat- , selection and cultivation this has been in-
ing with the well-known difficult breath- creased to 10 and 15 per cent, and it is be-
ing. Once or twic • at practice will enable lieved that a similar course of treatment
you to handle the chicks just as it should applied to sorghum will effect a like re-
be. To prevent gapes, keep the chicks on j suit, although probably in a smaller de-
| destroy the flavor qf their meat and make it
unsalable in our market What ot the in-
i digestible balls found in an animal's stom-
I ach, resembling fibre and glue? We know
that cotton seed oil is a drying, not a fatoi
like linseed, but dries very -lowly. Is a
varnish oil fit food for horned cattle ? I
[ sincerely believe that we are ruining our
I milch cows stomachs by feeding them on
slops, turnips, bran and like trash. Good
grass, free of weeds, and sound hay, makes
the sweetest and best butter.”
is best to have the sexes equal. The
hen steals to her nest, but can-
not refrain from making a noise when
she comes off, which betrays her to the
watchful farmer. Guinea fowls are valu-
able on farms where their range is wide,
as they destroy a large number of insects
and do not scratch up seeds. In fact a
flock of twenty guineas will consume a
number of insects so large as to almost ap-
pear incredible, as they are active and
always searching. They also consume
grass and young seeds, as well as the seeds,
of undesirable plants and grasses.
dom, and therein ho fails, for by that
course is his ignorance the more glar- i
ingiy displayed. His mental status is
bound to be found out as was that of a
boy whose employer had occasion to
leave alone in his office a short time.
“Now,” said he, “sit down here and
keep quiet; don’t say a word; if you go
to talking, folks will find that you’re a
fool." The boss had been gone but a
short time when two gentlemen en-
tered. Looking around they saw the
boy. “Where is Mr. Blank?" No re-
ply from the boy. Again. “Where is
Mr. Blank?" The boy looked at them
but kept silent. Finally one visitor
turned to the other and exclaimed
“That boy is a fool!” A few seconds
later the man returned and the boy
exclaimed, rather puzzled, “Boss, they
found me out and I didn’t, say a word.”
In this ease silence did not work extra
well, but in most cases it would cover
a vast amount of ignorance, if the man
who always disagrees would give it a
fair chance.—Texas Siftings.
folly than to have this powder magazine I care what the motion is. I’m agin it!” |
around the farm. There should be a law I They arc “agin” anything and every-
passed by the legislature of each state, I thing. You venture an opinion on
requiring each owner of a bull to saw the I every and with “There is
, „ ... . e. , ,, . where I differ with you! he crosses
horns off within one inch of the skull. We his legs and goes orrin a mental ram- suy 100,
know this would start a howl among the ble as cratic as the flight of a kite ‘ pressed,
with the taste of the milk and butter from fancy breeders, but if the law was com- I without a tail.
A Mirror of Your Mind.
Starting from the word Washington,
write 100 words just as they occur to
you. Let the second word be the one
An Interesting Suggestion.
An ronaut now in this city makes
an interesting suggestion. “Has any-
body,” he says, “ever used the balloon
in the exploration of Central Africa, or
proved that it would not be serviceable?
Look at Stanley, struggling for years
amid forests, swamps, anu savage
tribes, yet unable to make his way
into the interior, but would it not be
possible for a skillful aeronaut to lake
him in a balloon from the eastern
coast of Africa, proceed in the direc-
tion of Ujiji, and from there toward the
sources of the Nile. surveying the
country as he went along? They would
sweep across the continent at the rate
of 4<>U or 500 miles a day, so that but a
short time would be needed for the
long journey, and they would meet
with no obstruction from swamps, for-
ests, or savages.
“The balloon would easily carry all
the provisions and water required by
the party during their trip, and the
aeronauts might travel only during the
day, descending for rest at night.
Years ago Prof. Wise repeatedly made
voyages of 1,000 miles in his balloon,
and corapetant sky-flyers might now
be found to solve the African problem
through a voyage in an air ship. It is
the only way to do it, and I shall tell
Stanley so when he gets back here to
lecture." It is to be understood that
the aeronaut who made the foregoing
remarks is an enthusiasts on his favor-
ite subject. New York Herald.
always disagrees for the sake of disa- i
greeing, and who can always disagree |
fluently on either side of a question. . ,
bah! He is worse than the man who county. Pa, recently,
always agrees with everybody.
The man whose disagreement is .
! chronic, is generally ignorant, and he manner unprecedented.
| thinks by disagreeing, to impress those
around him with a sense of his wis-
club and lull the chronic dissenter to
rest The man who disagrees with
you honestly and has solid sense with
which to back his arguments against I
M KNT Q(V lads to its keeping qualities, it al-o spoils
E • n— • l --- the flavor and texture, making it not much
W ----- better for eating purposes than tallow. If
EnErhum . r u i i il n . r j ■ . u , beeves are allowed to eat cotton seed two
Sorghum is Said to be the Best Feed in the World' days previous to bing Slalghtered, it wil
A handsome white woman was found
recently living with a Chinaman in San
Francisco. Her little daughter, by a white
husband, was with her, and had been
taught to call the Mongolian “papa." An-
other daughter, fifteen years of age,
lives with another Chinaman.
One afternoon, while Nellie Sawtelle, of
Smithfield, Me., was sleeping on a lounge,
a pet cat of the family threw across her
neck an adder which measured three feet
in length. She threw it on the floor, where
it showed fight, so as to keep her a prison-
er until a neighbor arrived and killed it
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