The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

^^ •% a. i A TKUTOMIC BAHSON. A^B«cr Drink liiK Brewer the Victorian Tug-ul-Wiu- Wltb Bontes. > A KewV.Vork despatch Bays : Bob«Btiau Miller, a lUvarian brewer, of No. '404 Kast Forty second street, was the victor in a tug-of war with two teams o{ horses at a picnic at Bcheutzen Tark, Paterson, N.J., yesterday. Miller wei({hB 225 pounds, in 25 years old, and is nearly as broad as ho is Jong. His rxhibition yesterday was a repe- ittioD of one t^ivcn on Friday last to a few friendaaud fclluw-workmcnat Oppermann'g brewery in Kaat Foitylifth street. One endjof a strong, heavy ladder was chained to a btake, the other beinj; fastened to the top of a woudon horse. Then Miller put two straps over his shoulder and lay upon the laddiT with his head downward. lie braced hi 3 fi et against an upper rouud and held on with both hands to one of the lower rounds. When he had thus adjusted him- •elf two horses, of the sturdy build aflectcd b> the brewers, were hitched to thn strapei, to which was attached a whiDivtrcc, and began to X'"" (°'' their lives. In spile of whip and voice Miller held hia position. A^aiu and again the driver urged his willing Kteeds, but they tnada no impression upon the stalwart Teuton, whone leg and arm muscles stood ont like whip cords.* These horses weighed 4,000 pounds, and their driver said they were accustomed to haul loads of six and aeven tons with great ease. Another team tried to pull the modern Bamson from his perch, tugi-ing and pulling until they were in a foam of perspiration, but they, too, failed, and were taken away amid cheera and jeers from the spectators. After this Miller exercised his biuepa with heftvy dumbbells, brokestoneH weighing live or six pounds with hia naked liats, and performed other feats of strength. Miller •ayt be drinks forty or lifty glaeses of beer a day, and offers to bet (500 that he can hold bis own against any team in the coantry. %- ^ UIKU KATHEKTUANOPBIN HIS JAWS A IlHttle It<-lwr<>n > ICial BalldoB and it Valuabli} Pacer. A Detroit despatch Bays : K. Ketter, of this city, recently imported an Kngliah bull- dog, warranted never to open his jaws when once they had closed on an enemy. Kccently the dog was given a corner in the stable, where Mr. Ketter also kept a fast pacing horse. Veatcrday Kutter locked the two animaln in the barn and went away. When lie returned and oponed the barn door be found the horse on the lloor nearly dead, while hanging to its under jaw, from which the tleah had been torn, leaving the bone almobl bare, was the bulldog, alive but badly braised. Mr. Ket- ter and his friends set to work to relievo the borsu. The dog was choked, kicked, pounded, burned with hut irons, a wedge driven into his jaws, hut all to no purpose. Finally an axe waK procured and the dog'K head obopfied off. Even then it was diffi- cult to loosen the grip, Tho horse will probably die. The skin was torn from his body in many places where tho dog had evidently tried to fastco his toeth, and he was scarred from head to foot. The dog had evidently had one hold on the horse's breast, for there a large piece of Uesb waa torn out. Probably the dog, after break- ing his rope, had wandered into the pacer's stall and bad been kicked. lie retaliated with hiii teeth and tho light b<^gan. There wa« hardly a whole bone loft in the dog's l>ody, iind the horse will not he good for Anything if ho lives. IIKI.IKVKO HKKNINN KOROIVKN. A I>evote« I..«aTeii Her lied for the First Time In Fifteen Tears. A Ilookville (Conn.) dospatcli says : This plaoo is greatly stirred up over an alleged miracle. Rridget Cnllon, after showing in many ways a deep religious feeling, took to her bed fifteen years ago in the month of August. She said the Virgin Mary had told her to do so in order to atone for sina. Bhe at first would lie on nothing but a board, but after considerable urging was persuaded to take a bed. Many doctors were called, but they all gave up her case. I'riosts tried vainly to talk her out of the idea. Bbe hardly ate anything, going at one time three months and twelve days without solid food. Bho said her heart troubled her and she could hardly move. About a week ago ISridget told her mother that she thou);ht her prayers had been answered and that she was to get up again. About 1 o'clock Saturday morning «ho felt an unusual change come over her, and for the first timo in about tlftoon years ^ot up and walked around. Tho next day eho tooli a walk out of doors. Kho informed « reporter that prayer had saved and cured her. Bhe was 21 years old when she lirsttook to the bed. From a child she always took a profound interest in religion, «tnd it is thought it turned her mind. United Htatea Fiiblln Itelit. A Washington doapatoh says : The fol- lowing is a recapitulation of the debt atato- inent issued yesterday : IMKllKST IIEAlllNO DKUT. nonds at <J per cent __ „.. | 222,207,060 IIdihImM* purnent 711,177,400 K«futi(liii{< corlineateaat 1 per cent. " Navy penftion f uml at :i per <-ont I'acino railroad t>onilH at(i per cent. lutereHt Delit on which intoreHt lias ceased slnoo maturity __ . MI.O.V) ii.nuii.Duo fli.frii.sii ii,e»i,2us 8,664 ,3tia DRBT ilKAIIINd NO INTIMIKHT Old deiimiiil anil lugnl tan<ll^^ notoH. $ 816.737 ,S2.1 14.415,000 11U,H87,870 aX).3H7,a76 6.923,64:4.820 1,717.7»4,VU3 Oertiflcat4iH (tf il(^po»it .. Qoirl oertiaoatea „.... hivi»r rt-rlifleat»'H , Fractional ciirrfiney Tutal dulil and luterawl Unlit leiM cash lu tlio treasury July l«t l.lB.'i.Wl.OSB T)«btleiui caab in Irusaury .Tunn let. I,is0,(il4,lfi9 Docreano of d«)it during the luiinth, 11,429,902 llnoreaue of debt alucu June 3JtU, 1W7 ii;i,mi,08o Total ea«U in truasuryavailablo lor reitiietlon nf piibliedotit 3IH,979,«72 Total cash In treaniiry an ahown by Truasurut's Mouuial accuuuta... fi2'J,B54,0tl'J ^l"*^' Will Carleton, author of " Farm Itallade," has a cottage for the siimnier on one of the Thousand Islands. D. A. Vnnghn, of Delano, says that one of his black sheep in his band in the moan- taini took after a black bear the other day. Tho ram ran bruin up a troe, where it was «hot by the herder.- , San Franeiico Gall. I'olioemanâ€" "llellol what's this I" One of tho crowd-" Oaso of prostration." Policemanâ€" "What from? Heat?" Crowd â€" "No ; banana peel." â€" Uurlingtun Free J-reti. 8I.KKPIMO IN A COFFIN. Peaetfal Dreuna and <><'let Keat Secured In a Ciisket. A man who will choose a coffin for a couch may justly lay claim to the badge of eccentricity. Franiiford possesses such a man, and his coffin is kept in tho loft over the undertaking establishment of K. H. Allen, on one of the principal streets of that suburb. The cotlin is of extra large size, and is only one of the many similar furnishings which aro stored in the under- taker's loft. Tho man who nightly sleeps in this strange bed is familiarly known to the people of the vicinity as liob. He is a beneliciary upon tho undertaker's oharity, and has for years done odd jobs around the place for hia board, lie haa occupied this coflin ever since he came to Mr. Allen's, except when bis asthma has compelled him to sit up all night, liob is a ijuaint little man of about fi'i years, with piercing black eyes and curling black hair, now fast turning gray. Ho comes of one of Frank- ford's fir8t families. Ilia father waa once the leading Democratic politician of the town and an extensive builder. He built all the original buildings at Frankford Araenal tnoro than half a century ago. He gave all his children, Kobert included, a liberal education, and brought them up in luxury. The undertaker's shop ia what was once the stable (altered now) of Uobert's father, and part of the very loft in which he now makes his bed was in bis boyhood his pigeon-house. A romance of love twines around the life of this odd little man, with his stooped shoulders and pecu- liar ways. His lady love died many years ago, and poor Dob often yet repeats, half audibly, some of the sonnets of which she was fond. It is thought that Bob never fully recovered from the blow caused by hor death, and 'he workshop of the under- taker has numerous acrostics and poems of Bob's composition stuck up around its walls. The man is a mathematician of some pretensions and a fine penman. Mr. Allen has known Bob from boyliood and indulges bis whims. A visitor to Mr. Allen's shop one night found that gentleman seated in his ofiioe. " Come with me," he said, taking up a lantern and leading tho way upstairs, "and I will show you Bob ; ho is in his bod now." Following Mr. Allen up tho steps leading to the loft, the light exposed to the visitor long rows of coffins ranged around the room. One of extra large size lay upon the floor, and from within it came deep, labored wheezing. The lid was well drawn up, and nothing inside oould be seen. " Uello, Bob, are you in?" said the undertaker, and the lid began to slide slowly downward with a croaking sound. .\ head poked up, and then a man sat upright. It waa Bob. He answered, " Yes; what do you want? " and then, seeing a visitor, sank back again and drew the lid after him. " Bob's got it a little bad to-night," said Mr. Allen, alluding to his asthma, and he pulled down the trap leading to tho loft and loft Bob to enjoy his sleep till morning. â€" I'hiladrlphia Record. Human IlelMga a« Pack Animal*. Professor Joseph Le Conte, of the Uni- versity of California, aendathe following in- formation in reply loan ini|uiry in" Science" in reference to the strength and endurance of llie human pack animal : " In 1844 X travelled by birch-bark canoe something like a thousand miles from Lapoint over to the bead waters of the Mississippi and down the latter to Fort Bnelling, at the mouth of tho Minnesota Uiver. Wo made several portages, the longest being nine miles. Wo had along two trunks and pro- visions and bedding for four persons for onemonth. The load which our two Toyagenra carried was certainly 100 to 200 pounds each. They made seven miles in one day, going over the ground five times, i. >., thirty-ffvo miles. Throe- fifths of tho dis- tance they wore loaded, and two-fffths going back for another load. Their plan wae to take the heaviest load first (about 200 pounds), and onrry it about a mile or a mile and a half, put it down, go back for another load of \M pounds, carry t*'.^ a mile or a mile and a half beyond the in ot deposit, then come back, take up the first deposit and carry it the aame distance be yond, etc., until all waa carried to the camp for the night ; then, last of all, they went back seven miles to the last camp, took nn the boat (which was tho lightest load of all), and carried it to the camp. I will giv<i yoa an account of one load. 'They nsed a leather strap about two inches and a half wide in tho middle and narrower toward the end, and perhaps ten or twelve feet long. One fellow, a famous voyageur, would tie this about my trunk (about hov- enty-flvo pounds) in two places near each end and throw it over the head, bringing tho band across the forehead, the tiunk resting on the back, then take 100 pounds of flour and put on tho trunk, with twenty- five pounds of crackers on tho top of all, and walk off briskly, almost inatrot. Tho man was not large or very muscular, but rather lean and wiry. " oowMa or nvw «oi,o. The MarrellouH Oarmenta Which Were Worn at a Recent Paria Dull. Never, not even in the molt brilliant days of the empire, haa Paria seen a more splendid fete than M. Cernnachi'a fancy dress bill. It was in assemblage of the most brilliant people in the cosmopolitan society of Paris, in the most splendid pri- vate mansion in the world. Such costumes were never seen before, and the value of the jewels worn was to bj reckoned by millions of dollars. A uonspicuous figure wasMme. Uauthereau, the noted Creole beauty. She was dressed as Cupid, and, of course, her raiment was exceedingly scanty. But eho waa literally incrustod with gold and gems. The abbreviated skirts of her cos- tume were actually made of pure gold, spun and woven into gauze so delicate that it was not much heavier than silk. Another ranch admired costume wag that of the famous beauty, Mme. Bernardaki. Bhe was a Diana. Her bodice was of blue velvet and hor skirt of white satin, and every stitch in the seams of these was marked by a diamond or sa- pphire. Hanging over hershoulders was a panther's akin and her hair was powdered, not with diamond duat, but with diamonds and sapphires as bii{ as peaa, all held in place by a network of gold thread. She had on her person more than 8250,000 worth of preciouB stones. MUe. Marie Van Zandt, the American singer, was esteemed one of the most beautiful ladies present. The daughter of M. ('arolus Dnran waa charming in a Japanese dress. Her father was attired as a Hindoo rajah, and not as one might have expected, as Velasquez. Mme. Pastra, the actress, wore a set of real imperial Ituaaian sables, one of less than a dozen sets owned by persons outside of royiilty. She had also a marvellous coronet of pearls and diamonds, said to be worth mote than 9100,000. 1 will not attempt to tell who all were there, unless I simply say everybody except M. and Mme. Carnot, who are in mourning. â€" Parit Letter in the Chicago Irilnitu. OrankH Ancient and Hodoru. The press of Toronto ia excited over the number and variety of cranks who gather in the parka of that city. It appears that in ancient times the same trouble was ex- perienced in tho old world ; for we find that the groat philosophic truths of the paat wero firat uttered in parks and public placea. Sooratea taught in tho streets of Athens ; Plato, who was called the divine, taught hia now ideas at the Olympic games, and the crowds forgot tho combats of the athlettt' and flocked about him. Diogenes, the cynic, for years harangued tho people of Corinth from tho portico of the Palace of .lupitcr. Aristotle, of Btagira, established a Bohool under the trees of the Lyoarnm. /eno, the stoic, held forth from a doorway in Cyprus. Xonophanes, tho rhapodist, was allowed a aipiare in Sicily to tell hia ideas. Ueraolitus had ureoted for his use a platform in the streets of Kphcaua, and even Kant and Dcacartes did not refuse to speakintheopenair.â€" .S'(.Ca(ft<irni<;i/ouniiii. â€" ^ â€" â€" Northweatsrn Knthuslaani, That the present style of dancing is little more than a romp was dearly demonstrated at the college party given last week. One young lady had a most severe cut nu her lip and another had hor ankle dislocated while bruises wore tho rule rather than the exception. â€" ililwaukee Yenowine't Newt. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett'a drama- tization of " Littlo liord Fauntleroy" will ho brought ont at tho Broadway Theatre next fall. Latest Scottlah News. It ia announced that Lord Saliabury ia to viait Edinburgh about tho month of November. Col. Andrew GiUon, of Wallbonse, Lin- lithgowahire, vice Lieutenant of the county, died in Edinburgh on the 17th ult. The herring fi«hing at Stornoway in Scotland haa been exceptionally good thia aeason. The average catch per boat is 150 craiid. Mr. John Binclsir, the new M. P. for tho Ayr Burghs, ia the only sonof the late Uov. John Sinclair, minister of Bruan, Caith- nessshiro. ^ . • On the 11th -alt. P. McLaren, mason, Blairgowrie, committed anicide. Ho lay on tho bank of the Kricht and held hia head under the water. Tho Misses I'enny, Aberturret, have erected a window in St. Columbia's Episcopal Church, Crieff, to the memory of their father (Lord Kinlock) and mother. Aberdeen, Sootland, has just received an invoice of wheat from Bnenoa Ayres and it is thought that a regular trade^^heat is likely t» be established betwa^^u La Plata river and the north of Scotland. " Uf all the men and women that have sung," says Prof. Charteris, " none have been to me what Charles Wesley and Dr. Horatins Bonar are. Dr. Bonar is the Charles Wesley o' the nineteenth century." Lord Uosebery formally opened on the 22nd ult. a handsome block of buildings at Lisbon Grove, London, erected by the Artisans and Laborers' Dwellings Com- liany to provide accommodation for work- ingmen. The North British Kailway Company have taken over [the Tay Bridge from Mr. Arroll, tho contractor, and will in future be responaible for its upkeep. Mr. Arroll was responsible during tho year which just expired. Uev. Mr. Jack, of Kingoldrum, Fife, preached nn the 10th ult. to a congrega- tion iho Biiiallnoss of which indicated the nature of the impreaaion made among his pariahionerH by the breach of promise oaae in which he was the defendant. A btonza statue of the late General Gordon, which has beea erected in front of the entrance to Gordon's College, Aber- deen, was unveiled on June Kith, by the Marquis of IIuntly,and handed over by His Lordship to the Lord Provost on behalf of the people of the city. War, rebellion, and bloody rioting gave both Scotland and Ireland their first good roada. It waa the rebellion of 1715 that made the roada good enough for them to run coaches between London and Man- cheater in 1751, and between London and Edinburgh in 1703. A physician in Dumfries, who waa also a niomber of the Kirk Session, meeting tho beadle tho wanr o' a dram one day, threat- ened to expose him. " Man, doctor," aaid tho gravedi^ger, with a twinkle in his eye, I hae happit niony a fau't o' ycurs, an' I think ye micbt thole arte o' mine." On the 10th ult. about 10,000 persons assembled on Qleniffer Braes to hear the Tannahill cboir give their annual concert. The weatlier was delightful, and the gathering was a most auocesaful one. A programme of Boottiah aira was ably rendered, and a vote of thanks was accorded Mr. Fulton for haviug so gener- onsly allowed the use of hia grounda for the concert. Mr. A. W. Kelly, of Paisley, writes to tho />ai/i/ F..cpieii of that town, suggesting that a statue or other memorial of Sir William Wallace should bo erected at Eldorslie. As the patriot was born in that village a tribute to his memory there would be eminently appropriate. Mr. Kelly is sure that the Eldorslie folks would receive contributions from all quar- ters to help them in auooessfnlly carrying throngfai such a work, were it seriously entered upon. laaiah V. Williamaon, of Philadelphia, ia reputed to be the wealthieat bachelor in tho United States. He haa a fortune of $20,000,000 and gives away a large portion of it annually in charitiea. Ho is a plainly dreaaed old gentleman, very modest and retiring in hia ways. Walter Beaant is an animated, bright- eyed and black-haired man, fond of the theatre, olaret and a pipe. A HBLI. ON KARTH. New York Tenement Hoosea In Hot Weather. Mulberry Btroet, two minutes' walk from the city hall, is the centre of the Italian quarters of New York. The buildings are old, the stalls aro rickety, and there is the greatcat amount of space given up to dark and unhealthy rooms with the least amount of ventilation in any place in the city. There of a hot night strange and horrible eights can be seen. Leaden-eyed, haggard men and women lie on the stoops. Swarthy, panting figures hang over tho fire escapes. Half-naked girls are pros- trate oii the sidewalks. The roar and clat- ter and shuffling of the crowds are bewil- dering. Men gathered from the dena of Naples, from the hovels of Genoa mingle with the swarming mountaineers of Cal- abria. Men with rings in their ears swag- ger about with gorgeous, but filthy dandies from the Italian cities. All ia noise, drunk- enness, dirt and perspiration. The pave- ments are hot ana slippery with garbage, and the air ia Indescribably foul. A thou- sand stenches salute the nostrils. From each crowded, noisome cellar comes a new odor. And the babies ? Poor littlo bun- dles of rags t Who shall picture the spawn of outcast Italy? It makes the heart of an honest man sink to see this place on a hot night. It is novel, it is wildly picturesque, it is full of action and color and noise. But it ia a bitter tragedy going on in the heart of a rich, proud city, before the eyea of its sworn officials. Death and disease aro writ- ten all over it. A Herald reporter went on the roof of one of the tenements on a lecent hot night and counted 27 men lying on rough beda in their underclothes, without any other covering. Away in the distance could be seen the lights of the great bridge glittering like a necklace of diamonds upon tho bosom of the fair city. And between the roof and the lights waa tho naked cros of Christ rising out of thehaggard precinct, clear and distinct against the hazy, swoon- ing, summer sky. The half-clad sleepers tossed about, sometimes perilously near the edge of the roof. He saw seven board bnnka in one room, and two more stood against the wall like swathed toboggans. Vermin abounded everywhere. There were in some of the rooms miserable loopholes that served aa windows, but there were no corresponding vents on the other aide of the rooms to create a draught. In another room the walls and floor and ceiling were coated with grease and dirt. Bundles of rags and clothing were heaped up in every corner. Lines covered with illsmelling garments wero stretched acroaa the apartment. A tambourine and violin hung on one wall. Bottlea and pans and bags atuffed with mysterious and illsmelling articlea fur- nished forth the place with bric-a-brac. A stove winked its red eyes in one end of the biggest room and blistered the wall. In a cradle beside the stove a poor baby wailed. Its ignorant mother hovered lovingly over the little unfortunate. Eight or ten lodgers were preparing to go to bed. At each side of the main apartment were rude wooden platforms on which they were to sleep. The inner room contained two huge beda, which filled the place almost from wall to wall, leaving in fact less than two feet of space to walk in. Langnagecan neither describe nor uxaggerato the condition of the bouse. It waa a vile, putrid, waterless, filth- covered hole, in which were crowded ten timea as many people aa tbe law permita. -^ How to Keep Your Cellar. .\ grout mistake ia aometimes made in ventilating cellars and milk houaes. The object of ventilation is to keep the collars cool and dry, but this object often fails of being accomplished by a common mistake, and instead the cellar is made both warm and damp. A cool placo should never be ventilated, unless tbe air admittnd is cooler than the air within, or is at leuat ua onl aa that or a very little warmer. The wariuor the air the more moisture it holda in sua- penaion. Necessarily, the cooler the air the more the moisture is condensed and pre- cipitated. When a cool collar is aired on a warm day, the entering air being in motion appears cool; but us it fiUa tho cellar tbe cooler air with which it becomea mixed chills it, the moisture ia condensed, and dew ia depoaited on the cool walla, and may often be seen running down them in streams. Then the cellar ia damp and soon becomes mouldy. To avoid this tho windows should only be opened at night, and lateâ€" the last thing before re- tiring. There ia no need to fear that the night air is unhealthyâ€" it is as pure as the air at mid-day and is really drier. The cool air enters the apartment during tho night, and circulates through it. The windows should be oloaed before sunrise in the morning and kept closed and shaded during the day. If the air of the cellar ia damp, it may be thoroughly dried by placing in it a peck of fresh lime in an open box. Thecjuautityof lime will abaorb about aeven pounds or rather more than three luarts of water, and in thia way a cellar or milk room may soon he dried, even in the hottoet weather.â€" If ea/</i and Home. A MILLION ON A LIFE. John Wanamalcer Carries the Hlglieet BUke in the World. The greatest achievement in the history of life insurance has been made by Mr. John Wanamaker, who is now paying premiums on 91,000,000 to twenty-nioe different companies. The last policy issued on ilia life was received by him on Thurs- day last, and ao far as is known there is no other man in the world whose life ia insured for such an enormous amount. There are a number of men in this city who have been trying for years to achieve the point juat gained by Mr. Wanamaker, but they have so far failed, although John B Stetson, the bat manufacturer, has suc- ceeded in getting policies on hia life amounting to $750,000. He ia desirous of putting the amount up to a rouud million. The risks on Mr. Wanamakcr's life are divided equally iuto life and fifteen-year endow- menta and he pays over 400,000 annually in premiums to the different companies in which bis risks are placed. In the matter of paying premiums he is outdone by Mr. Stetson, who pays 985,000 in the same length of time, but the difference is ao- oounted for by the fact that besides paying the premiums on tho risks on bis own life ha also pays those on the lives of his busi- ness manager and hia son-in-law, both of whom he has insured for 9100,000 each, besides holding policies for large amoanta on other people's lives. Should Mr. Wana- maker allow the annual dividends to go uncollected until tbe riaka on bis life expire he will be entitled to about 91.100,000. There are three companies which carry premiums of 9100,000 each on hia life. But Mr. Wanamaker ia not the only man in thia city upon whose lite big riaka are iasnod. George W. Childs ia insured for 9100,000, and so is Wharton Barker. Ham- ilton Disston 13 insured fur about 9150,000. J. G. Darlington ia insured for one- tenth of a million, and his partner, William M. Bunt, for twice that amount. â€" Philadelphia Record. Shower Qf Diamonds. It ia reported from Kieff, in Bussia, that in meteorites which have lately fallen there minute crystals have boon found having all tho chemical properties of the diamond. Thia ia the third instance of tho kind that haa come under our notice, one having been reported last year from West Australia and another also from Russia. Carbon, in ita amorphous state as graphite, has long been recognized as a constituent of certain meteorites. Charcoal, graphite, and diamond being chemically identical, it is not so astonishing that one allotropic form as well as the other should ho found in a meteoric stone. Tho human geniua who discovers the secret of tho difference â€" of tho physical difference between a dia- mond and a bit of ooke or plumbago â€" might straightway buy up the world's gold mines and all the honors. â€" Netncasllc Chronicle. Mrs. Langtry saya it is a lie that she is to marry Fred Gebhard. Tub Lookpor* Journal fancies that the advantage of the amokeless powder, which has been adopted for use in the Lebel rifle, will not all boon the aide of the French, for " they will be in clear sight of tho enemy who will be partly shielded from view by the smoke of their own guns." But, as ia suggested by the Buffalo Courier, will not that smoke prevent the enemy getting a clear sight of tho French? Fanu and Garden Notes. Tobacco smoke killa the green fly ; water the red spider. Cattle should bo introduced to freah pasturage gradually, particularly so if it ia clover, and in fact, should have a man with them to watch for the first two days. Much that is often allowed to go towaate upon the farm could profitably be gathered up and made into good fertilizer and ap- plied to the land to aid and increase the yield of the crops. Give, as far as possible, the kind to each crop best adapted to se- cure the best growth and yield. A very cheap way to, fence poultry from the garden is to stretch thiee No. 12 wire! quitu tightly, and then weave a common swamp willow, sharpening the ends and sticking them in the ground a couple of inches. This fence does not coat over aix cents a rod, and ia very effective. Cabbage and cruliflower want a rich soil. The tirat crop may be planted after winter froata are over ; a second for early fall or late summer use, a month later, and the late winter cabbage in July and Aogoat. Early cabbage have room enough at two feet apart; the late drumheads re<iuire three. The cauliflowsr ia the moat anccnlentand delicate of all the cabbage family, and universally liked. Btill the cauliflower is a rarity, because requiring peculiar care and attention in raising. It delights in a rich aoil and abundance of water, which it would be well to supply artificially in a dry season. A Dakota farmer mixed four bushels of barley, two boahels of wheat, and seventeen bushels of oats, and sowed the mixture on nine acres of land. He ont the crop when green, as soon sa the barley was ripe, tied in sheaves, cured and stored it in tho barn, and says he never had a better substitute for hay. The fence corners should be cleaned out before the weeds become thick. If the weeds and ;,'raHa be allowed to remain in such places until they produce seed the work of eradicating weeds from the farm will bo lost. Many farms are overrun with weeds every season by neglect of cleaning the harboring placea for seeding. Turnip seed may be aown in the latter part of June or in July. Tho seed is very small, and consequently the soil must be fine. The land should be prepared now, naing plenty of well-rotted manure, whidt should be harrowed in. If grass or weeda appear work the grounds with a cultivator and harrow again before seeding. Laat year there waa paid as compensation by local authoritiea in Great Britain for oattlo slaughtered on account of pleuro- pneumoniaâ€" for diseased cattle, 9107,000; for healthy cattle in contact, 9114,000 ; on account of swine slaughtered owing to Bwino-fover, 979,000 for diseased swine, and 932,000 for healthy swine in contact, making a total drain on the country cauaed by these diseoses amounting to 9.'W2,0O0. There has been leas discussion than usual this year aa to tho relative values of early or late cut hay. The advocates of dried grass, or hay cut and cured early in the bloom, have gained ground of late. They havo/a good cause and one that ia sure to gain friends whenever tried. One reason for tho apparent lack of intereat in the Bubjact this year Ilea in the fact that in a groat many communities work ia about three weeks behind on account of tho sur- prisingly wet May. So it happens that farmers will actually not be able to ont their grass as early as they would like. John Roll, roaidiiig at Redmon, Edgar county, 111., is the owner of tho largest horse in the world. It ia twenty handa high, weighs 2,500 pounds and ia 5 years old. This horse was never " broke" and has never been off the farm. It has never been shod, and the blacksmith at Redmon is afraid to shoo him. All Accommodating Clerejinan. Two couplea, Frederick Liale and Fannie Matthews, Ernest E. Harlow and Eliza A. Crabtree, the young men being residents of this city and the young ladies from Excel- sior Bprini's, appeared in the Recordor'a office yesterday and applied for marriage lioensea. A clergyman who had accom- panied them stood by while the licensee were being made out and a dual ceremony immediately followed. In explanation of their haste they said that tho irate parenta of the brides were in pursuit from E.\cel- sior Springs for tho purpose of preventing the ceremony and reclaiming their daugh- ters.â€" A'an>a( City Timet. i •fl- f«'