Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1872, Page 5

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1873. 5 THE FARMAND GARDEN.: Grafting the Grape—Patent Well—Au- gers and 1the Boring of Deep Wells— Iow Manurc Should Be Applied— Ananual Meeting of the Xlinois State Elartizultural Scciety —The Savoy Eurmers? €jpb—The Marketing of Corxme . From Our Agricvltural Corresponcent. Cusxpatey, TL, Nov. 30, 1872, GEAFTING THE GRAPE. “D, M.," of Osceols, Tows, has alot of Clin- ton grepevines that he wishes to gaft, and in- quires in regard to theprocess. The grafting of the grape is nof at all difficult. It ‘s generally done below ground, by inserting the graft in the msual mode of cleft-grafting, and binding the stock firmly with bag-matting or othes ligature. The difficulty is in the want of elasticity of tho wood to press the graft fimly and hold it in place; and this hes to be done by & bandage of some sort. No wax i8 used whero tho graft can be covered with earth, leaving one bud of the graft above ground. There is 8o little gained by graft- “ing that it is little practised. A good one-year- -old Inyer is cheaper and generally better than to greft. Ishould very much prefer the Concord .or Ires on their own roots, than onthat of the Clinton. 8o little have I been impreseed with -the value of grafting of the grape that I have ‘never practised it,—always preferring to set out pew plents. This is dome by elteruating them between the kinds to ba replaced. t have thus changed several hundred Sincs. The Clinton must bo left a long timo on the vines, for, when first colored, they are far from rvipe. The Clinton, reduced to a single cane, and twined on the spiral syatem, is easily managed, and makes very fair refurs. I shonld leave the old Clinton vines for_their immediato fruit, and sot new plants, You cannot have grapes or the grafts before the second year, and that you can have from good, well-carod-for plonts of the- Concord. In the meantimo, the Clinton vines will give s crop the carrent year, — & thing not to b lost sight of. WELL~AUGERS. An inventor of well-augers vritea from Towa - thiat he has just the thing for boring deep farm- wells, and that he has a sand-pump arrangement that is effectual in_clearing the well of quick- sand or eoftclsy. This is what all of them have claimed, and_yet I do not hear of & singlo well in this part of the conntry that has proved sat- _factory, and farmers have lost faith in them. I have before stated that the fault was probably +due to the want of skill rather than to the form of the suger and the mode of piping. If you “heve the auger, and #kill {o do the work cffectu- :ally at a reasonable price, there are thousands of “jobs for you; but do not ask for pay until asup- iy of gaod water is secured. Each district has 5t peculiar features in regard to the drift that Forms our preirie, and this must be taken into the account. At the Industrial Univer- =sity, owme of these wells was sunk, aud, as usual, warranted. Tho job s atecpted and paid for ; and yet that well is of o value. Here are a corps of engineers, a geologist, a philologist, and soverel able phil- osopherg, who had ample opportunity of inves- +igation, tnd they quietly give it up. In sucha case, the inventor nood not be ehocked that the (*omimon, unscientific farmer—the empiric,” &, ording to tho learned Doctor—ehould _eliow 2+ vantof feifh in patent well-augers. While the, e §% no market for theso_patents, yet there jsa %emand for wells, and, if there is auny per- con t %ot knows the thing can be done, he can have & wple opportunity. 5 fi;zx:]m:cgnoi: %11 nuz«':&m:. i be € e {0 apply barnyard manure in it3 ot e Ceion s in the fall-and early part of rinter, in ibe form of s top-dressing. Many farmers are+ n the habit of placiug itin small heops, to be spread out Bui in the spring; bud it s much better to eorend it 1V once. It i8 better to apply Tanure to g Taes-lands than direct to the grain-erop., f 6 grass-land may, after one or two years, be tarned over and cropped to any suitable crop. We thus hsve the value of the menure withont the disadvantage of the seeds of weeds, The g: wden must have old, well-rotted manure, or, what_i8 better, that from the cow- stable, freo of lil ter, as, for this purpose, it mast be in & com uinuted condition. Garden- track pannot be gro: Y0 10 any advantage without 2 good supply of ma: mre{ epplied annually. My ruls is, therefare, to . Pply manure direct to the garden, and root crops and to the meadow, and, Fa turn, put the meadC'w 10 corn and the small Sratne,’ ‘Tho orchard caxr be kept in gaod condi- Fion with clover &nd the ialling leaves. This reduces our prairie-farms to & very simple rontine of manuring. 'The msaure from the cow end horse stablo should ba spread out dur- ing the winter. Therniuswesh oui the elements of plant-food, and the soil holds jt in readiness for the use of plants. ; STATE HOBTICGLTURAL SGCIETY. This Society will hold its annual session at Centralia, Dec. 10,11, 12, and 13, This will be 8 very important meeting, as unusual prepara- tions have becn made to Tender it imteresting and of value, not only tothose engaged in com- mercial oreharding, but to the farmer Who grows fruits for his ovn family, and the suburbsn res- ident who wishes to im-ove his grounds to the best sdvantage. The Scciety is to be reorgan- ized, and mew_ features added to it ‘The Teillonds generally have agreed to balf fares, nnd this will coable people at the north to visit the great Lasin of Egypt ot 8 season of the yeor that contrasts strongiy in point of climate. It is understood that the Ilinois Central will ex- tend the time of returnto all those who wish to look st the old iron-clads at Moumnd City; to visit the great axhelve, hub, spoke, and other factories that prepare timber for 60 many useful Turposes. A ride through the romantic hills of the' Grand Chain, whence come 80 many bundred ' carlosds of fruif, Jro Msy to October, shomld not 'be Yost sight of, for it will more than pay for the fime and monay required. These hills of loess, capped with mountain limestone, and vast bat- flements of _conglomerate, and interspersed with vineyards, orchards, and gordens, are & feature worihy of our attention. The farmer needs a holidsy, & time to go “ fishing,” and this is his opportunity. Go and look upon the change that art has mado in all this south-land, sbont which romance once spread her mantle of Wonders. Cairo, 8 point of shifting_ Tiver silt, where the waters must be kept out by huge levees, may Ee reached in & few hours, and tho “lines of shipping sod warehouses that ‘communicate with the Cotton Btates is the Jowest point that the Ice-King is sble to bridge he river of the Norih, for here is the lower - Mississippi, that comes up to the frost-line, and gives an outlet for our products for the \whole “Sear, without the interference of ice. j The horticulturists of the Northwest will bo well represcnted st this meeting, toconsider the -new conditions thzt the energy of our culti- “¥atore, tho railroads, tho new villages, and the great cities of tha Valley of the Misaissippi sud “the Upper Lakcs, have presented to them. Tho hot-bads of Chizago, of Milwaukeo, and the North, that the gardeners g0 ~ carefally “guarded from_frost, have been sent to the hill- ‘Bide of the Grand Chain, and the trains of the Tlinois Central distribute their early offerings “over more than a thousand miles of rail. Tho ardencrs of the North should look ab these “Hhings, for they are no myths or musteries, but new conditions that thegimqst study; then ‘20 and take a lesson wheu thia rich opportunity Js presented. ; THE SAVOY FARMERS' CLUB. % TThis Club has resumed its weekly meetings 4or the sesson. It is mo gathering of - aidewslk jarmers end as-grinders, bub ‘2 pody of intellient cultivators, #iho sre intent on making their homes moze pleasant, their calling more profitable, and the ong winter ovenings subserve a useful and 4 purpose. ; pl%:;l{l !Al?rnge ‘members are satisfied with their rogrees. They heve made mo war on other Interests ; but, with cach in hand, or, ab farth- est, 50 day credit, they have asked for large de- Gnetions on implements and goods usually sold On time, and deslers have been pleased to grant fho favor. Nono of the members claim to bo & Lompt from olddebts ; but their motto is, to pay cash for their present needs, snd to wipe ont tha old scores a8 fast as possible. If such s Sourse wero generally sdopted, business would soon revive, and go forward with gure, if =mob 0 rapid ~ strides. Money ouid bo more plenty for it wonld make it tho mensure of velue instad of credit. The subject Aiscussed wag TEE MARKETING OF CORN, No one advecated the holding of corn, but, on ¢he other hand, that it should be sold, or o3 out, sccording to the needs of the farmer. The relative monts of Champaign and Tolono Zor s market were examined, end the whys and wherefores talked sbout. The facts are these : New corn at Tolono commands 20 cents for 70 pounds in tho car, azainet17 cents for 75 pounds B Champaign. = 'The freights fo the East pre the same at both points, and yet there is this difference. The result is,.t[mt o zmount of corn that ghould be ehipped CErmpaign is hauled to_ Tolono. There is difference in favor of the farmer in the 8t g ‘c{ conl. It was stated thatthe Tolono yfiw-d alers Iaid down the corn at the door of g;’gon;mner in all the small New England towns, and thus were enabled to save the short oute from fhe the City of Boston or of New York, which would be added to its cost if sent direct to those cities. The energy and business tact thet have built up. o vast trade at _Tolono are _ certainly worthy of emulation - at other like accessible peints. It was decided that members who had corn to gell weuld do better to scll direct to theso dealers ratlier than ship on their own account. The Tolonodealers are handling all new corn, for their liberal price had taken all the old corn ont of the farmers’ hands before the new crop ‘was_ready for shelling; and, at this time, they are busy hauling the crop diréct from the fiold that is, to the extent of their needs, to pay cur- Tent expenses. A Committee was appointed to report the ex- 2ct cost of the prosent corn-crop, per 8Cre.. ‘his will, no doubt, be a valueble paper, for it will give zll the details of the operation. The present crop turns out to be immense i-]fio bush- els is common, and 80 to 90 is claimed by many: Even with the Jow prices, eat cause to grumble. Large sums of monoy Ezva ‘been loaned in this part of the Siate for the purpose of improvement and the purchase of farm-stock ; and we predict that these sums will nearly all be paid at maturity, without re- sort to new loans. Few of our farmers think of selling ont, but are preparing to stay, and we may thus say that the days of the pioneer for this part of the State are numbered with the things of the past, and our people are gteparing for permanent homes and permanent usiness 1n our towns. We are just beginnin, to appreciate the value of manufsctures, an these are being invited hither. The timber of the gouthern part of the State, and the iron and coal 50 near ot band, offer arguments that are too potent io be resisted. Runat. THE APIARY. Eoney Improved by Art—A Simple Method Given—Rendering an Indifs ferent Article of Honey Good—Sugar and Syrup versus Honev. From Our Own Correspondent. Ruax Hoxe, IlL, Nov, 30, 1672, Meny persons suppose that honey cannot be improved by art, but such is not the case. That the lignid sweets of flowers undergo some change in the laboratory of the bee is quite cer- tain ; but this change does not essentially mod- ify its constituent eloments, but is rather one of condensation. Some flowers give a pungent taste to tho honey, and others contain oils that geriously impair its value. 'These oils are quite volatile, and essily driven off by heat, and many of them will evaporate in a few weels if left esposed, but not all of them. It is supposed the bees leave the combs un- capped for the purpose of evaporating unpleas- ant aroms or deleterious oils. It is here that art steps in and gives the needed aid, by the Telp of heat, to drive off theso foreign substances that impair the value of the honey, more especi- ally for its nse as & medicine. I have before stated that honey thus prepared by heat can be partaken of with impunity by almost if not all ‘peraons. Tn the process of heating, the honey, or rather the vessel that contains it, is not to be exposed directly to the fire, but placed in a vessel of water, and that exposed directly to the beat. The heat from the water is sufficient o melt the wax, and to_drive off all tho deleterious oils, without any danger of scorching the honey, of changing its quality by boiling. Every hogse- keeper knows the difference between heating to near the boiling point and absolute boiling. In the boiling of fruits, the volatile oils are lost, and these impart the most pleasant flavor to tho fruit; hence, the practice of simmering, 8o well known to all good cooks, is resorted to. In the case of honey, we wishto be rid of the more otlereal oils, and retsin those more valuable 2nd heavier, with the honey. For this reason, we must guard against an cxcess of heat, Ttis s good practice, and one well-known to the ancient bee-keeper, to allow the common comb-honey—that is, honey from the brood- chamber, which contairs more or less cells filled with pollen, or ‘‘bee-bread”—to be a position that the honey msy be laced in su sined out without imparting to it any of the unplessant taste of the pollen. An opposite practico has been in more common uso: to strain the honey through thin muslin bags; but this ruins it for the table and the markets. Those persons having the common box-hive, and ho destroy part of the sviarms for honey, and have hivesin which swarms Lave died from loss of queens, or other cause, often have a good = supply of is hive, or brood-chamber, = honey; and it _ is desirable to retain this honey for use. The best plan is to place these combs on wire cloth placed over a vessel to receive the honey, 2nd, after uneapping the combs, to lay them on the wire cloth to drain. It 38 quite necessary that they be kept in & warm room. _ S0 500n as the honoy is drained out of the comb, it is tumed over, so that the other side may be emptied in & like ‘manner. After the honey is all ont, it may be further jmproved by heating, 28 before sizted, when ‘many im) s and the least valuable of the honey k to the bottom of the vessel, if left standing for & time. We may thus, from st would be a very iadifferent articlo, have o ‘pleasant luury for ihe table, i We mey, therefore, conclude that it is the quality and not, the quantity, of honey that will prove beneficial to our health. . Should we par- 1ake of pure honey, wo shall assuredly derive benefit therefrom. ' We can only be eatisfied of 4he purity of honey when its soures is known to xlb;gxence the necessity of keeping the honey- ‘bees to collect it, or of obtaining it from reliable parties. : 3 Honey has been adulterated with various sub- stances to improve its color, and to increase it bulk and weight—iwhich has tended to injure its reputation in the markets, but’ it should be classcd a8 moro valusble then syrup or sugar. And yet, sugar and syrup, from their cheapness, have largely taken itg place. Because beef and pork have becoms great staples of food, there is Fet no reason why the good wife may not have her poultry,—not ouly 25 a luxury, butas 2 food. So of the honey; while conceding & prominent placo to sugar and syrup, we neod mot meglect the bees. And, while the poultry may not sup- ply the masses With cheap food, yet if is songht for at a reasonable profit to the producers. So of honey ; it must continue to occupy & place in every well-regulated farmstead or suburban home. There are particular locations, and others that may be made such by art, where bee- Leeping may be made profitable on a large scale; bub this is not general, and wo must take these big stories of cnormous yields as exceptions to ho general rule, for tho simple reason that tho same_conditions do not exist in all places. Wo moy thus class bee-keeping not ouly as a sci- ence, but an art; & science, to know Low to best monage them; and an art, in the manipulations and conditions presented. Erra. SAILORS. ¥What It Costs to Take Care of the Dis- abled Tars—Report of the Marine Hlospital Service for 1872—New Eios= pitals. The following is s_eynopsis_of the report of Supervisor Surgeon Woodworth to the Secretary of the Treasary, and gives an idea of the work done by the United States Marine Ho pital ser- ‘ending June 30, 1872 e dor e e O oamri, Xov, 1, 1672 Four hundred and five thousand eight hundred and fourteen days of hospital relief were fur- nished to 12,302 sick and disabled seamen, being an average of 82 0-10daya for each patient treat~ ed in hospital ; 854seamen afilicted with diseases not requiring 'Test snd trestment in hospital, were relieved by furnishing with medicine, mak- ing the total number of seamen relieved, 13,156 ; 521 deaths occurred, or a fraction less than 4 per cent of the number treated. The total cost of the eervice for the fiscal year, exclusive of erecting and repairing hospital buildings, wes $396,203,11, being sn avorage for onch patient of 97 6-10 conts per day, against an expenditure of $458,082.42, or an averago of $1.04 per day, incurred in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871. . ‘Hospital money collections for the last fiscal yeur amount to $323,700.05, which is en increase of $35,554.63 over tha amount collected in 1871, under the operation of the same law. A comparison of the cost of the service for tho fiscal year ending June 80, 1671, and June 30, 1872, showa g difference in favor of tho Iagt-named year of $56,519.31, or 135 per cont diminished expenditures, Notwithstanding the diminished expenditures, the fe s for af- fording relief heve been considerably i cressed during the last year, relief ha ing been fi shed in 72 customs districts in 1871, snd 81 districts in 1872. The unusually Inrgo number of seamen affeoted with small-pox during the last year, owing to tho prevalence of sease thro:fhant the country, has aug- mented the total expenditurcs, a3’ well as in- treased the average daily cost of hospital relief, it being much more expensive to furnish proper care and treatment to seamen suffering from contagious diseasos than to_those afflicted with non-contagious disesses, The salaries of med- ical officers at several of ihe 'frmmpnl ‘medical that Dosts have also been increased one-half during t year, ‘h%hl? ix{ftodncfiun of the system of obtaining the farmer has mo | ‘bids from’different parties * for supplyicg sub- sistence, medicine, etc., for the use of the mo- rine hospitals, has beer, attended with fayora- bleresults. Tho commission of 1 per csnt al- Jowed to collectors of customs, since the organ- ization of the service in 1709, not_beingin sc- cordence with the law, was abolished July 1, 1871, which was saved to the fund nearly $4,000 during the last year. : A The department worl of the Marine Hospital service, which was formerly allotted to the Rev- enuo Marine Division, has, under the act for the Teorganization of the Marine Hospital ecrvice, approved June 29, 1870, come under the imme- dlate supervision of the supervising surgeon. In this branch of the service_the supervising surgeon has been assisted by B. K. Whitaker, Esq., Reinhold Springsguth, Esq., and Dr. H.W. Saurelle. In order to transact the rapidlyin- creasing business of the office, each of these gontlemen bas nob only declined the usual leave of absence, but has continued throughout the st ootk overtiume, Mr. Whitakor, in partic- , having rendered additional service equal to about five deys in each month. Although re- coiving but $1,600, $1,400 and $1,200 respect- ively, these gentlemen have cheerfully made thesd povsonal sacrifices withont extia compen- gation. RECOMMENDATIONS. I would respectfully recommend that Congress be nsked so to amend the law regulafing the Marine Hogpital service s to include withm its provinces the officers and seamen of the revenuo Cutters, coast survey vessels, vessels of the En- ineer Corps of the Army, and of the Light- ouse Board. It is suggested that yachts might properly be included, as’the seamen employed thereon are usually elected from among those who are engaged for & portion of the year on morchant vossels, and who, during such time, come under the operation of the law. The term “seamen” ghould be defined so as to include g1l employes on such vessels as are subject to hospital tax. T beg to invite your attention to Saction 5 of an act approved May 3, 1802 (Vol. 2, Statutes, p. 198), which fixes charge for the care and treat- ment of foreign seamen at 75 cents per diem, and suggests that Congross be asked so to amend the 1aw as to allow the Dopartment to regulate the charge st each port where there i6 & United States Marino Hospital, in order to_cover the equal expense of food, ‘medicine, and nursing. Under the operation of the present law tho loss 10 the prosent fund in consequence of maintain- Ing foreign seamen smounts to several thousnd dollars per anuum, This provision of an ancient statute works manifost injustico in the adminis- tration of the service. NEW HOSPITALS. 1 respectfully recommend tho purchase of & site convonient to the portof New York, and the orection thereon of a pavilion hospital of 200 bed capacity. I renew the suggestion mado 1ast year for the erection of pavilion hospital on Angel Island, in the bay of San Francisco, and also onenear Pittsburgh, on s site to be selected for that purpose, the former to accom- ‘modate 150 patients, and the latter 30 patients. The present Lospital for the port of Pittsburgh, iocated near Allegheny City, is unfit for future use, on account of its unfavorable surroundings; but the land is valusble, and should sell for nonrly double the amount that will be required hoth to purchuse & suitable sito and to pay for tho erection of a new hospisal. _ I particularly favor constructing all of the ‘hospitals of wood, and destroyiug them after ton or fifteen years, both as o sanitary and econom- ical mepsure, and building new Ones in their stead. Tho Frime object 10 be attained is to s cure favorable results in the treatment of dis- eases and injuries, an object which has been, in the past, subordinate to architectural design, and trequently to the favoring of cortain localities. A permanent building of brick or stone should ‘be constructed, adjacent to and separate from each hospital building, to contain the heating apparatus and laundry. At New York and San Francisco there should be s residence for tho Bsurgeon separato from the hospital. The present hospital buildings at Natchez, Miss., Ocracoke, N. C., New Orleans and San Francisco are of no use to the gervice. The first two named aro located at ports whero no appli- cations are received for relief, and the last two Botommary caakemient of. 8 tions of th atement of the operations 0 Marine Hospital service for the fiecal year eudin‘inluuc 30, 1872, as compared with the preceding fiscal yoar : o Number of sick and disabled ‘seamen treated in {h and other hospitals, Number of senmen with trivisl diseaaes relieved by furnish- ing with medicine without heing admitted to hospital. .. Total number of scamen ro- 2871, 14,956 12,392 €51 13,156 405,814 of 854 seamen received in 1872 without being admitted to hospital. ... 1,111 Average number of d: patient remained in ‘Porcentage of deaths, Total expenditares oz edness incurred on sccount of Marine Hospital service, cexclusive of erecting and re- pairing Marine Hospital buildings.. oo $453,052.42 Average cost per diem for each patient, counting 854 “out ‘patients ? s 854 doys’ relicf, aud caleulating average cost on the basis of total expendi- tures and indebtedness in- curred for each year......... ‘Diminished expenditure af the service during the flscal ending June 90, 1672. ... Diminished percentage ex) EUre. . sveennnay . Amount of ‘hospital moncy col lected. 1,198 30 7-10 03 76-100 32 9-10 03 94100 $996,203.11 $0 97.6 50,819.51 13 perc. $323,700.05 $35,614.63 8 128 $288,145.42 6 of hioapital money col- Number of ports where reliet was furnished, .. Number of ports tal money was collected BLOWN TO ATOMS. E=plosion of the Dualine Worlks near White Fish Bay, Wis,—Four Fersons Enstantly Killed. From. the Nilwaukee Sentinel, Nov. 30. The Thanksgziving dinner festivities of the quiet neighborhood ut the corners formed by tho intersection of the section-line road with the Whitefish Bay turnpike, were scarcely over when & shurp, sudden shock eroused all to . sonse of danger. The family of & Mr. Swain, & well to-do farmer, were greatly atartled. 3rs. Swain drop- ped a basket sho had in her hand at the time, aud ihe dishes in the cupboard came to the floor with & cragh. BIr. Swain, on request of his ouse sterted to the door to learn the cause of this unusual commotion. He observed a cloud in the direction of what was known as the powder-mill,” and immediately divined that an accident had occurred at the establishment. It proved too true, for on his arrival at the edge of the bluff not & vestige of the building was to be seen. On descending he discovered the black- ©ued xamains of two of the workmen. Without £ G5 Zor ssistanco, L il et The ill-fated works bad but recently been v=— tablished under the supervision of Mr. John W. Cummings, formerly of Rochestor, N.Y. Ho bad obtained the Tight for a portion of this country, and was manufacturing ‘the compound ‘Wwith a view to its general introduction through means of & joint stock company. The worl wore temporarily located on & plateau formed by & landslide off the bluff, near Mr. Swain's, about three miles above this city. The building, & low wooden one, had not long been occupied, aud would have iven way t0 larger and moro sub- stantial structures, if 3r. Cummings had lived long enough to demonstrate the great utility of the componnd as & blastingsgent. To enable ‘’him to give proof of its utility and its superior- ity to nitro-glycerine, & number of our business ‘men contributed librally to tho undertaking, So encoursged, Mr. Cummings was meking very fine progress in introducing his componund, until the unfortunate moment in which 1o and his co- Iaborers were Ewept out of existence by one fell swoop of the dangerous material under his con- 72 145 trol. Tn itself duline is not a dsngerous compound under ordinary care. Nearly & year ago we wit- nessed several exhibitions” of its force mear Hiles' manufactory in the Menomines Vallay. Then Mr. Cummings explained the nature of the new explosive, &nd Landled it with impunity for the purpose of impressing the spectrtors of its hormlessness under ordinary circumstances. It hiad the sppoarance of light brown sugar, and a smsll conister with o cartridge fuse did re- markable execution. Without the percussion 56 the end of the fuse, tho powder would puft out of the canister as jn case of & *‘ squib,” ag the boys of old were pleased to call a broken fire-cracker. In an experiment mpon s piece of heavy boiler plate, about _eifiht inches ‘square, nitro-glycerine made s alight deflection under the geat of tho canister. A new plate was sub- stituted, and after n dischgrge of canister of dualine, & perforation was found glmoat ogual in dismeter with the bottom of the vessel that had been placed upon it. Subsequently & larger canister was placed upon three bars ~of railway iron, Inid closely to form _as solid & bed as possible. The dischergo resulted in the ~destruc: tion of iron, & portion of tho fragments burying themselves in the earth, while others did con- .siderable execution amung the shingles and o fence-posts piled up in t place chosen for the experiment. It was then acknowledged as superior to nitro-glycerine, The Intterappenred to bave its force in & lateral direction, while dualine acted verticelly, and in a direction under the charge. Since those ex- periments, Mr. Cummings been very active in interesting our capitalists in the manufacture of the new agent. At the time of the explosion there were but four men inside the works, Michael Sackreiter, Jt., a boy of 15, Frank Bentley, s resident of this city, and Sackreiter’s father, who had called to ¥isit his son while on his way home from town. Mr. Cunmings was 2lso.present, and a carpen- ter, named Fisher, was employed outside with a piece of furnishing for the establishment. The only one of the pa.rtgi who escaped was Fisher, who, thongh some distance from the building at the time of the explosion, Teceived o number of cuts about the head and face through flying linters, which whirled by him with the clond that swept him off his feet. Mr. Swain’s errand was successful in that it secured the prosence of Dr. Thompeon, Sheriff Parsons, and_Albert Conro, Esq., who, with the Tesidents in the vicinity of the works, procoeded to the task of recovering the bodies of the vic- tims. Frank Bentley was found a short way from the site of the building, and at a distance of sixty foet another body was found. Boerds were procured, and upon these the bodies were fastened as soon as found, and dragged up the bluff. The boy Saclkreiter was found frozen into the ice tnat girts the lake shore at that point. To secure the remains it was found necessary to chop them out. The fact that the body was found limbless at = distance of over one hundred feot from the works displayed fully the terrible force of the explosion. _ The canse of the terrible explosion will for- ever remain & matter of speculation, as all who ‘were in the works were 8wept out of existence with them. As nitro-glycerine entered into the composition of the new explosive, it is supposed b it was the sourco of the disaster. And this is the more likely since it is known that the dnnger of explosion of this powerful agent is ently enhanced throngh its expansion by cold. The day was one of the coldestof tho season, thus far, and it is feared this was not taken into sccount by Mr. Cummings in handling it. The bodies all were horribly _mnlificed. The body of r. Cummings was almost Lieadless and Lis Jegs were bruised and broken. The remains of the boy Sackreiter were limbless, and pre- sented a sickening spectaclo. Frank Bentley's side and hip were crushed and torn, and Mr. Backreiter was also_torribly mangled. Of the victims, Bontly was the only one who exhibited & sign of life after the catastrophe. vicinity of the Three Men Killed and Fwo Fatally Wounded by Careless Blasting at Carmansville, No Y. . From the New York Tribune, Nov, 28, A high ridge of rock divides St. Nicholas avenue, from Beventh avenue, at the point where One-hundred-and-forty-Afth streot should connect the two thoroughfares. This barrier contractors, during tho past two years, bave en- deavored to bresk down, but as yet the work of opening tho street hasnob been sccomplished, owing to the immense mass of rock to be re- moved. The work shag been delayed on account of many laborers refusing to work on the spot, they asserting that the place was haunted from the frequency of accidonts which happened to those that labored there. Two years ago a blast gemsture!y exploded and two workmen were illed and thres severely wounded. Daring the past summer, however, the work of blasting away the rock was resumed by Fairchild & ‘Walker, who obtained the contract for opening tho street, and appointed John C. Wilson, of White Plains, to superintend the work. Two blasts were exploded at noon yesterday, and in the afterncon the workmen prepared sey- oral blasts to remove a large ledge of rack. Among others who wero fi!!.'m%with powder the chambers drilled was Edward Foley, sged 40, of Ono Hundredth and Forty-first atrect, near Eighth avenue. After filling one of the cham- bers with 75 pounds of powder, Foley ponred in sand and began pounding it down upon the pow- der with aniron rod. Mr. Wilson, the Superintendent, had strolled down the hifl toward Seventh avenue st the moment, or he would doubtless have prevented Foley from using tho iron rod, the uso of any rod to ram down sznd unless tipped with lead being forbidden. Foley found some difficulty in i)uahmg tho rod into the chamber and impatient- ly rammed its point down upon the sand. Tho iron point of the rod doubtless struck a spark from the bard rock, which fired the pow- der, for with awful violence the ledgo was riven into fragments by an explosion of the charga. Pieces of tho rock thrown in every direction with tremendons force struck many of the work- men, two of whom were instantly soverely injured that ho soon died, whilo seversl received injuries of such severity that their re- . covery is dospaired of. Among the desd was Foley; every imb of his body was broken, the back part of his head was blown off, and his face 50 burped with powder a8 to be absolutely un- recognizable. Another of the desd, Nizon Ralpph, who lived -in Ope Hundred and Forty-first street, near Eighth avenue, had his left arm torn from its Bocket, every particle of clothing blown Off his body, and face also was 8o burned with owder that s friend sould not jdentify him. atrick Conway, who lived in One Hundred and Forty-third streot, near Eighth avenue, had his left leg broken, Lis lower juw broken, the baso of s skull frictured, ang his faco’ fearfully Dlackened snd charred with the flamo of the powder. Michael Buckley, of One Hundred and Forty- eighth strcet and Eighth svenuo, bad his right arm broken, and one gide of his head badly cut by fragmont of rock which struck him. Patrol- man John Armstrong, of the Thirty-second Pro- cinot, wWho was passing by ab th moment of the explosion, was lifted of bis feel, =nd in falling badly cut his face, broke several of his_ ribg, snd re- ceived such internal injuries that it is fearod ho cannot live. Potor Mooney, of Ono Hundred snd Forty-second streot and Lighth avenue, was burled twenty feebaway by the explosion, but, with the exception of & slight cut on the head, was not:_otherwise injured. Captain Wilson, of the Twenty-second Pre- cinct, on hearing of the accident, went to the gpot with an ambulance aud soveral sirtchiers. o took back the dead and wounded- to the sta- tion-house. Conway was yet alive, but died fivo minutes aftor he was brought into the station- house. Tho bodies of the dead wora sent to tho ‘Morgue last night, and Coroner Schirmer was Tequested to hold an inquest, Buclloy was taken to the Reception hospital, where tlie sur- geons declared his recovery doubtful. Arm- strong was kept in the station-house, it not being deemed safe to Temove him to his home. The Nitro=Glyccrine Explosion =nt Scrubgrass, Pa. From the Titusville (Pa.) Press, Nov. 5. Nothing definito can be ascortained as to the cause of the torrific nitro-glycerine explosion on Saturdey, by which Mr. B. A. Wright and Mr. Honry Wolf woro killed. The utmost that is imown is that these gentlemen drove to the magazine for the purpose of chopping the ice & a7 fsom the glycorine, and it is supposed that T orpliom,the i blows of the bARORLS .E"_‘?.":‘;““’“ caned by tha The magazino was Situatbd S Lo oss i from the town, and a fow yards from the rail rond, and _contained, at tho time, eight thirty- five-pound cans of glycerine. The shock of the explosion was tremendous, and was_distinctly hourd et the Band Wolls, near Oil City, twenty miles from the scene of the disaster. In the immediato neighborhood, the effect was fright~ ful. The troes standing near are broken down ot stripped of their tops and limbs. Tho ground where the magazine stood was scooped out 80 a8 to lesve & wide, deep hole, and rocks and stones were hurled to a greet distanco. Of the victims, seare a trace remained. The most careful search revealed only & fow shieds of clothing and ‘minute bits of the bodies, and not enough conld be found in the two to fill a cigar box ; and it is supposed that the force of the explosion threw the rest of the fragments into the river. The explosion seemed to exert its force gcross and along the banks of the river. A house on the opposite bank was shoken so that the win- dows were broken, and the clock thrown down from the shelf where it stood. Theaccommoda- tion train from -Oil City, which had just loft Scrubgrass, had a very narrow escape. Itlhad not left the station more then 100 yardswhen the explosion’ occurred, and the ehock was so rceb tgnt the whela train was shaken, the win- ows Droken, and the headwsy Gt theloco- motive checked. In another minute the train would have been fairly abreast of the scene of the accident, and would probably have been en- tirely destroyed with the passengers which it contained, g gt —James Magill, a Brooklyn contractor, claims tobo an “artist in marble.” I¢ is related of him that he once carved s slesying lion in stone, and took it to the Queen’s County Fair, for a premium. The day for dist:ibuting the honors arrived, and Mac was promptly on hand. Prize after prize was awarded, sod finally “Saturday” was reached. The artis's eye lit up with the glow of expectation as he leaned anxiously for- ward fo hear theso words: “Jsmes Magill— first premium for a beantifal ‘sleeping bull-pup in marble,” CALIFORNIA CRIME. The Ghastly Fragedy at Marsh Creek —¥7hat a Woman Can Do, Antioch, Cal. (Nov. 20), Corrcspondence of the San Francisco Chronicle, The details of a shocking tragedy at Marsh Creek, by which Valentine Eishler met his death at the hands of his wifo and her pazamour, Marghall Martin, aro peculiarly atrocious in their character. The murdered man was 52 yeers old, and had lived on his little ranch about four years, having proviously resided in Bacramento, N His wife, Elizabeth Eishler, who confesses to complicity in the dead, is & woman 40 years old. She im rather a mysterious record. She is the heroine of four husbands, all of whom, it is said, disappeared in & singular manner, She is a German, and came to New York from Father- 1and abont twenty years ago. Bhe first married in Willismsburg, where she resided three or four years, and after the death of her husband, a8 some agsert by poison,, she came to Oregon either with or by the aid of a_soldier in the United States army. Him 'she issaid to have married, but this is doubted. He too disap- poared sfter s_time, and then the woman came to San_Francisco, where ghe lived for some time. Nobody seems to know anything of hor career thero except that she married or lived with & man who, one morning, diseppeared, and has not since been heard of. F'wo years ago she fell in with Valentino EisLler, and, having mearried him, went to live with him at his ranch. About six months ;§0 Eishler secured the ser- vices of Marghal Martin 88 assistant on his farm. Martin is o little old_dried-up man, 57 ears 0ld, and has been in this State since 1869. en he went to work on Eishler's farm he of course lived in the latter's house, . and becamo & member of his family. Improper relations were soon established between himself and Rishler's zyife, and bave been continued until the present ime, Saturdsy night, sbont 9 o'clack, one of the neighbors near by was awalened by Marshal Martin, who told him that ‘ old man Eishler " had been kicked to death by the horses in his stable, and that ho and Mrs. Eishler wanted help. ‘The neighbor pat on his clothes, got soma help, and went over to Lishler ranch. Thoy found the body ss Martin had described it, Iying in the manure in the rear of the horses. The skull was terribly crushed and beaten, and the man had evidently been dead several hours. They made & critical examination of the pre- misgs, and discoverad, among other things, that tho horses were unusually docile and spiritless, and not in the least likely to have kicked a man to death in o horrible s monner. . Eishler remained in bed, claiming to bo sick, and betrayed no interest or grief over her husband’s death: She hed but litéle to say, and her whole manner showed that she had some knowledge of things connected with Eishler’s stk iNE dkib: an keeping back. Dr. Van Vleck examined the wounds, and at once pro- nounced that they Liad not been produced by the kick of & horee. The skull was fractured in. four different E]nuea, and was literally crushed out of sem- lance to human shape. ~ The wounds, the doc- tor said, were evidently inflicted with some blung instrument like the poll of an axe. The princi- Eal wound was in the back of the heed, which ad Lknocked in the whole back art of the skull, exposiog the brsin in half o dozen fissures. ~The others were over ench tomple, the skull hore too being crashod ont of shape. Under_the loft jaw was s frightful gash, evidently mado with the blado of tho axe, and this is what gave the lie at onco to_Martin's story about the horse kicking. Dr. Van Vlack seys that either ono of the wounds wonld have caused almost instant death. Martin end Mrs. Eishlor werenowmore thanever suspected of the crime. Still, for some inscru- table reason, inexplicable to all but rural Sheriffs and Constables, neither of them was then ar- rested. One man, however, was left to watch the premises and’ to kecp & closa guard on the movements of Mra. Eishler and Martin. About 9 o'clock Sunday night s megsenger was sent into town from the watcher on the ranch to tell Doputy Sherift Swain to come out at once, that the soman and Martin were acting suspici onsly, and he thought they were making prepa- rations for flight. Swain at once went out, and, on the way, concocted a little pieco of strate- gy to induce Martin to confess what he knew about the deed. He wen! at once to the house, and found Martin and the woman in be flmugh in separate rooms. He first lot Martin know he was thore, and then went and talked an hour with the woman. She had nothing to say about the deed, except that sho knew nothing of it, and that she did not see how hor husband conld have met his death unless he had been kicked by the borses. Swain then wont to Martin, and ostentatious- ly told him that he was a prisoner, and thst ho must get into the buggy and ride to Antioch. Martin is old, and the most insignificant speci- men of humanity that ever was seen. He trembled like an aspen, and =2t once complied with Swamn's stern demand. They rode & few moment’s in silonce, and then Bwain said: ““Martin, this is & devil of a scrape you have got into.” Yartin replied, almost piteounsly, “Yes, it is i Next time you have ajob of this kindto do,” 8nid Swain, at tho same time oyeing the little old weazen-face curiously, * yon'll know better than to take a_woman iuto partnership with i‘on. Don’t you know that women bave fearfally long tongucs ?” Martin started as if stung by 8 Wasp, “ My God!” he exclaimed, ‘‘hss ghe —" (then fiorcely ringing his bands) “Iknewit! Iknew she would ! Bhe never could keep anything!” ‘When, after o moment's hesitation, during which iho old man seemed to suffer fearful mental tor- ture, Le turned to Swain and ssid : * Yes, I—I helped to kill him;” (then hastily) ‘but she dono the work, Mr. Swain, she done the work. Ididn'tdoit. Shedoneif. She killed him with the axe, and all I done was to help drag him into tho stable.” By degrees, and by a series of judicious ques- tions, Swain soon drew the whole story out of the trembling old man. He gaid that Mrs. Eishler hed made up her mind to kill her hus- band some time before. Two woeks ago shehad been to Antioch and bought s lot of poison snd put it into soma pumpkin pie for the old man to cat, but for gome reason her courage failed, and { finally, at the solicitation of Martin, as she says, she threw the poisoned pastry into the vaaltof an onthouse, On Friday—the day before the murder—she had a quarrel with "Eighler, and then ghe told Martin that she was going to finish him, end that ho must not eat anything for sup- per. Martin said ho again begged hor Hot touse poison ; that she did not know anything about 1t, and she would be sure to be found cut. So tho deed was again put off, but this time only until next day. That morning Eishler. went to town and the ‘woman 2nd Martin made up their minds to Lill him on his return to the ranch that night in the quickest and surest way that might present itself. Eishler got back at 5 o'clock, put his horses in the stablo, and then bogan to fix something about his wagon. His wife went out of the house to whore he was working, and sat down behind him and began to talk in o vixenish way about lis trip to town. Martin says he was in the ‘“corral” pottering over some little work, but 2s he knew what was coming off he kept s shi watch on Mrs. Fichler and hor busband, . This G4 mat eor tinued his work and was particularly crusty in his replies to his spousa. Ho was on his Imees shaving & new whiflletree, and his wifo 81 aat behind him, watching his movements keonly, ¥iually he picked np tho sxo, which I under his hand, and cul off tha end of the w fletroo. When he had done he laid it dowa, but this time s little behind him, so that it wes no Ionger under his oys. Quick ns thought, and with the stealthiness of & cat, the woman sprang up and acized it ; then, giving it an awfalswing, she lifted it, and, boforo her husband comd have tho loast warning of his fato, Bent it crashing through the back of hisskull. The old man gave ono groan, and foll over on the wagon-tongue, his hiead nearly touching the ground: The wom. an again gwung the axe, and this time dealt him an under-blow, which crushed in his temples and spattered overytbing around with gore, Martin says hang'mefiled thisg whole sceno, and then came forward. The women was greatly cxcite_dt, and asked him to pick up the body and it way. 4 Where shall I teko it 7" said Martin, “Well, anywhere,” was the reply; “any- where out of sight.” “Teel of his pockets,” said Martin, The womsn felt, and found $80 in fi:lvl and a lot of papers. (file old farmer hog thet day received pay for 8 quantity.of waod) “Tll tell you what welll do,” said Martin ; “we'll take the money au:d swear that he wea murdered and robbed,” * No,” said the woman, * that won't do; we'll bo found out, eure ; the money mey be found. No, we'll leave the money in his pocket and drag him to the stablo, and swear the horses kicked him to death. That's the best plan. Come, take Liold of him.” This plan was adopted, and the two seized Dld of the old man’s arms and started to drag him to the barn, about forty feet away. A last gasp, & muscular coutraction, or something of the kind, betrayed to their minds that life still existed in tho body. “Get me the axe!” said_Mrs, Eishler, as she dropped her sido of the hody ; © Get me tho as! He's not deed,” Martin ran back for thoaxe, and. the man’s shoulder and with the other dealt him sanother blow, this time cutting a_frightful gash in the neck. They then dragged him to the sta- ble and half buried him in the manure, Poor Eishler laid for & minute, and then made s struggle or two for life. He ed the har- ness with one hand and seemed to be trying to raise himself np. Mrg. Eishler had the axeand sgain she gave it a swing, with the remark, *T'll finigh the job this time 7% "And she did. The blow was struck with the side of the ax on the side of the head and fractured the skull again in half a dozen places. The poor old man never even quivered after the blow. He gank back in the manure and showed no farther sign of life. Mrs. Eishler stood by, axe in hand, waiting pos- sibly for some feeble straggle, but none came. Then she turned to Martin and said: “Now, kiss me, honey; the deed is done, and (nffer & pause) you have proved yourself a cow- ard.” According to Martin, they then agreed to stick to the story sbout the horse kicking. The whole of these sickening details were nar- rated by Martin with the same nonchalance that e would display in describing the Lilling of ballock. He had no other feeling in the matter apparently than that of abject fearof the conse- quences..Deputy Bheriff Swain locked his pris- oner up, and then went back to the ranch for the woman, She was still there, but pretended tobe very sick and naable to gowith him. _ After some difiiculty Swain got her into the buggy and start- ed fortown. Onthe way Lie told her that Martin had confessed tho whole thing, and suggested that she, too, hud better make & clean broast of it. After some hesitation she did so, snd told very neatly the same story that Martin bad, with the exception that sho claimed that ho had done tho deed while she stood by and witnessed it. In Lis copfession Martin admitied thst he had bad criminal relations with, the woman, bt this, woman-like, she denied. She bore out Martin’s statement with reforence to the cir- Ccumstances of the killing in almost every par- ticular. She was greatly oxcited during tho nar- rative, and ab times talked incoherently, but enough wos got out of her to convince Swain that the murdor was actually commiited in the ‘menner described. Before leaving Martinez the Chronicle man celled at the County Jail to see the prisoners. As the reportor approached the jail, the cries, and screams, and ravings of a woman were heard is- suing from one of the cells. This wag Mrs. Eishler. _The Sherilf said sho was now playing the insanity dodge, and had heen since she was | lodged in jail on Tueadsy morning. From the Dature of tho horriblo ravings, the reporter Wwas led to believe thab the insanity was not feigned. Ina few moments he was escorted into the jail ' cell. Tho door’ was not opemed, but through the grating tho reporter saw the most wratched object in_ the way of humanity that he ever saw. Tho woman stoodup in the cell yelling snd howling like a wild beast., S had Bcarcely any clothes on, and her long_black hair hung in tangled mossés down her back, Her underclothes wore - filthy, her face begrimed witl dirt, and her eyes wild and bloodshot. And all the time sbe muttered in a low, sevage tono somo incoherent, espressions referring to the deed. Mr. Hunsicker called her up to the grat- ing and told her to dress herself. The only Te- ly was & demonincal yell and then a wild loud Fifeh which changed to the jibbeting of an idiot. She spokein a strange mixture of Ger- man and Euzliahl 2nd only now and then a few words, euches ‘merried,” ‘“wife,” “Oregon,” “murdor,” “die,” “bo hung,” could bo uader: stood. Once she came and put her savago faceagainst the grating, and the reporter saw her features. Bho showed her age, her face being sallow and wrinkled. Her mouth was never still, end had more the expression of a beast than of & human boing. Her hair was jet black and thick, coarso and matted, and hung in long Topes over her forehead and down her back. Her eyes wero light gray and vary scuall, bt florco and awtul in their glare. The pupils were no larger than pin-heads, and the lids scemed devoid of eye- lashes. Al day long she stood there and raved withont cessation, to the wonder of the gapin crowd ontside. *Bhe's only playing off,” sai Mr. Hansicker; ghe was parfectly rational up to tha time she was lodged in jail.” 1t was perfectly cloar though, that if the wom- an was rational when sha did the deed, shois a raving manisc now. Her whole sppearance and ‘mannerindicated that she was not._feigning, for no sane person, however careful he might bo, could Leep up the fierce yells and frightfal screams for s0long & time. 'The reportertarned away, sick at heart at the dreadful spactacle, and wont’ to the other sido of the jail to sce the ‘woman'’s eccomplice. The Deputy Sheriif wont to Martin's cell and called him out. Alittle old dried-up figure with & shock boad reaponded to the call, and camo ranning out of the cell with the alacrity of a ring-tailed monkey. A more insignificant specimon of the man tribe tho re- porter had neyor seen. He camo out witha sickly grin on his faco, and laughed o little sim- periag laugh vhen he' suw the Dopnty Sherifl. is form was bent down double, and by, was 5o attenuated that his skin looked as if it were drawn _over skeleton. His_ hair, which is of tow color, was cut short, and stood out over his head like 'bristles on a pig. In intellect ho is only a fow removes from an idiot, being of that class dosignated as lacking of sense. He hasa sharp, keen pair of eyes, which twinkle in his head like thoso of & rat, and theso, together with his emooth, pinched-up faco, geve one an unpleasant sensation similar to that which is felt when he finds himself in the prosence of vermin. “VWell, Mariin,” eaid tho correspondent, .“nem is a nice scrape you have gob yourself i Martin (in a peevish, nervous voice)—Well, yes; butIwas dragged into it by that woman, I{lt wouldn't a got into it, if it hadn't been for er. Correspondent—How did you come to get dri,fgad into it? artin—Woll, I don’t know. Sho's been agoin” tokill th’ 0ld man for & good while, and would ba’ dono it if it hadn't been for me. Correspondent—You murdered the old man with an axe? Mertin—I didn't; she did. Corrospondent—But you saw her do it? lartin_ (spitting out » mouthful of tobacco juice)—Yes; I seen ber do it. Cn?rresyanflenb——-\?au, why didn’t you stop her l)éufin (aftor o silence)—Becauso I was afraid of her. Correspondent—Do you_know that you are in very groat danger of hanging for this crime ? Martin (after a pause)—Yes; I kmow Iam in 8 bad fix ; but sho done it, and Iain’t so much too blame. Correspondent—What ever induced her to Lill the old man ? Martin—I dunnow. Her and the old man usod to quarrel a good deal, end mebbe that’s the reason. Correspondent—You-and she were pretty inti- mate, were you not ? Martin (with 2 grin)—Yes ; T guess so. Correspondent—AI¥. Hunsicker thinks the woman is plsying off crazy. What do you think sbout it ? Martin—She ain’t any more crazy than I am. She's never been o hollerin’ this way before. The interview hero terminated, 2nd tho chim- panzee was marched back to his call. e g 0 NMISCELLANEOUS. Munich has the best beer, and it is sold st two cents a quart. —Two Indien mothers have been arrested in Oaldand, Cal., for pappoose-icide. —President Madison’s old Virginia home, “Snnnyside,” has beon recently sold for $5,700. —An old lady in East Seginaw, Mich,, has given bonds in $£300 not to scold her neighbors for an entire year. - = —1It is singular how closely “ Burning Boston" resembles the old cuts of * Burning Chicago,” u.eodl é)_y the ifl‘\(l!stradtnd papers. 25 —Itis considerad a very polite thing when walking with s lady to pass i o the oppo- site gide to avoid stepping on her shadow. —AL. Houzean, @ learned Frenchmen, is of the opinion that wo should utilize the apes by mak- ing slaves of them. —A atrategic Georgia youth about amputated ?r.: Pfatharti amm, recantly, by bunging o sieel- over the place where the disciplin: usually l.mng.17 2TBRES alinp —An cld lady named Mra. Green lately died , a0d starvation. in ihe dtitudo of preyor, Rt s —DBenevolent Louisvilla people scatter nutsi; the park for the uquinels,l:mf dizbolical :n?::ll; boys follow aronnd and fill their pockets before the squirrels know anything about it, o S3bil Docy, of Ohio, has saved 9200 ant of ber xages for hoeing potatoes. She advertises ina Cncinnati papor for a husband who has !‘xvx‘xge the same ‘amount of money in tho same —A 10w Saade of silk ig colored bya very deadly 258 there is enough poison s most distant relative of the E the wearer, poison, and i, to instantly kifi?f:edI young man court: —A: Cojorada “Wo hope o]\:x e dividpalgast £00 heajfhy a climato for by, Mr. Hunsicker, and taken to the woman's | b then giving her all the iced lemonade she g o i aral s _—An Indianspolis swain returned his marrisge license with #Not consummated ” written on the back of it, and appeared quite crestfallen when the clerk declined to refund the money paid for the document, —2Mrs. Bergin, of Nowack, 0., hid $450 in the ash-pan of the stove, on leaving home, 8o that it would escape burglars. Her husband camehome, started a fire, and the greenbackswers conyerted into ashes. —The habitual use_of slang by Nev York's most fashionable ladies affords material 1.~ gy elaborate erticle in one of the London weesty journals. The writer professes to be well-in- formed. —A Kansas City (Mo.) fi'fl‘s brother had tha ‘misfortune to shoot himself, and sho seeks con- solation in * benzine,” and may be seen any af- ternoon staggering from one saloon to another. Of course she's beautifal and accomplished. —Sundry fomales of very advanced yiews ara trying to carry the divorce system to its legiti- mate_ conclusion in Ilinois by establishing a community on the bssis of polyandry at Lone Prairie. —Here i8 a curious advertisement from the “ggony” column of the London Times: * Wha art thou? I am Skull, the son of Skeleton, triba of the bloodless, and Native of Ghostland. Ber- tram. Furthor information of,” etc. —Mliss Laura Elam, of Somerville, Tenn., re- ceived the $25 preminm at the Memphis Fair for ‘muking the best calico dress, having successfully competed with the domestic skill of more than ivy, otc., 100 Indies. A standing antidots for poison i to take s handful of quick-limo, dissolve in water, let it stand half an_hour, then paint the poisoned parts with it. Three or four spplicas tions will never fuil to cure the most aggra: vatedcases. Poison, from bees, hornets, spidet bites, etc., i8 instantly arrested by the applicas tion of equal parts of common galt and blear~ bonate of soda, well rubbed in on the placs bitten or stung. —Tho negrois proving his_capacity for get- ting a living in & varioty of ways. A fall- blooded specimen was canght & fow days ago ex- tracting bank bills from & bank through o Smsll aperture by means of s long wire with & bit of tar on thoendofit. Hohas n crudeides of the wire pulling neceseary to extract funds from the banks, and only needs cultivation to accom- plish it in the regular Wail streot method. —A Mr. Walker Iately rend before the British Association, at Brightton, s paper on * Dinitro- brombenzene,” which, to quote the local report, was full of stch words as mononitromonobrom- benzen and metamonitromonobrombenzen, and therefore not celculated for light reading. —One of the most profitable as well a3 inter- esting kinds of business for & woman is the care of bees. In s rocent sgricultural report it is stated that one lady bought four hives for S10, and in five years sho was offered $1,500 for her stock, and refased it as nov enough. ‘In addition to this increase of her capital, in_one of these 1filvu years, she s0ld 22hives and 420 pounds of oney. ~—A certain number of wespors to which his- torical records ara attached, and which belonged to the Museum of the Sovereigns, have jnst Dbeen placed in that of the Artillery a_Paria. ong them oro the crogs-bow of Marie de Medicis, the marriage-sword of Henri IV., pis- tols which belonged to NapoleonI., & small model of & cannon offered fo Louis XIV. by the Francs-Comtois, subros and snddies presented to the First Consul, etc. —Professor Guillery hes demonstratedanew the powerful antisoptic properties of carbolic acid, in some recent experiments. ~He envoloped a fresh cadavor in a cloth seturated with a solution cone taining 3 per cent of tho acid, and, after an in- terval of four or five days, poured more of the solution over the body. 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