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from Mercer, Pennsylvania, 125 Shropshires and 

 twenty rambouillet rams from Dexter, Michigan. 



The appointment of Albert D. Chamberlin as 

 register of the Douglas land office is very general- 

 ly approved. 



B. C. Wheelock, of the lower La Prele, has a 

 handsome harvest of carrots, sugar beets, etc.; 

 Longfellow corn also matured. Samuel Cum- 

 mings, of Upper La Bonte, raised popcorn as fine 

 as the Eastern product. Some of his cabbages 

 were as large as washtubs. 



The storage reservoir of the Wyoming Develop- 

 ment company at Wheatland is just completed 

 and water turned in. The reservoir covers 1,200 

 acres of ground and is fifty feet deep. Its com- 

 pletion insures ample water supply for the Wheat- 

 land farms during all seasons. 



At the Wyoming creamery Ora Haley is having 

 125 cows milked, and it is expected that during 

 the winter they will milk 200. A fine product of 

 butter is being now manufactured and with the 

 advancing prices the creamery, it is expected, 

 will pay well. 



BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. 



The Century for the Coining Year. 



The Century Magazine celebrates its quarter- 

 centennial in its November issue with an "Anni- 

 versary Number." In honor of the occasion it 

 dons a new dress of type, with new headings, etc., 

 and it appears in a new and artistic cover. Al- 

 though The Century has reached an age that is 

 unusual among American magazines, it continues 

 to show the youthful vigor and enterprise that 

 has always characterized it. The programme that 

 has been arranged for the coming year contains 

 a number of interesting features. Much has al- 

 ready been written concerning Mrs. Humphry 

 Ward's new novel, " Sir George Tressady," which 

 has been secured for its pages. The story de- 

 scribes life in an English country-house, and also 

 touches somewhat upon industrial questions. It 

 will be the leading feature in fiction for the com- 

 ing twelve months, other and shorter novels 

 being contributed by W. D. Howells, F. Hopkin- 

 son Smith, Mary Hallock Foote, and Amelia E. 

 Barr. There will also be contributions from Mark 

 Twain and Eudyard Kipling (the latter furnishing 

 to the Christmas Century one of the most power- 

 ful stories he has ever written); a series of articles 

 on the great naval engagements of Nelson, by 

 Captain Alfred T. Mahan, author of "Influence of 

 Sea Power upon History"; three brilliant articles 

 on Rome, contributed by Marion Crawford, and 

 superbly illustrated by Castaigne, who made the 

 famous World's Fair pictures in The Century; a 

 series of articles by George Kennan, author of 

 " Siberia and the Exile System," on the Mount- 

 ains and the Mountaineers of the Eastern Cau- 

 casus; articles by Henry M. Stanley and the late 

 E. J. Glave, on Africa; a series of papers on "The 

 Administration of the Cities of the United 

 States," by Dr. Albert Shaw. 



Prof. Sloane's "Life of Napoleon," with its 

 wealth of illustration, will reach its most inter- 

 esting part, the rise of the conqueror to the 

 height of his power, and his final overthrow and 

 exile. In order that new subscribers may obtain 

 the whole of this monumental work, the publish- 

 ers have made a rate of $5.00, for which one can 

 have a year's subscription from November, '95, 

 and all of the numbers for the past twelve months, 

 from the beginnig of Prof. Sloane's history. 



McClure's Magazine appears this month 

 with a photograph of Abraham Lincoln on the 

 cover. With this number begins the publication 

 of a "Life of Lincoln", which is well illustrated 

 and more than fairly well written. 



The Review of Reviews occupies a field all 

 by itself, and gives us quite as much interesting 

 information concerning the recent political and 

 other affairs of the various nations of the earth, 

 as the average man has time to read. 



The Cosmopolitan is always worth more than 

 the very moderate price asked for it. The two 

 most notable articles this month are: " The Ger- 

 man Emperor and Constitutional Liberty," by 

 Poultney Bigelow; and the story of the naval dis- 

 aster at Samoa, six years ago. 



The Forum is filled full of food for thought. 

 We have elsewhere commented upon a very no- 

 table article on "Co-operation Among Farmers." 

 Besides this there is an article by O. D. Ashley, 

 on "The General Eailroad Situation"; and one by 

 Professor Leslie Ward, on "Plutocracy and Pater- 

 nalism"; which are worthy of note. 



Lippincott's for November is quite up to the 

 standard of excellence which this publication has 

 always maintained. The most noticeable article is 

 a tale of Washington life; "In Sight of the 

 Goddess," by Harriet Eiddle Davis. 



Scribner's Magazine for the month is full of 

 good reading. "A History of the Last Quarter of 

 a Century in the United States," by E. Benjamin 

 Andrews, President of Brown University, being 

 especially worthy of note. 



Munsey's for November is a delightfully artis- 

 tic number. The photographs of a large number 

 of European feminine notables are especially 

 good. They include the Queen of Portugal; the 

 crown Princess of Sweden; the Queen of Den- 

 mark, her daughter and grand-daughter, the 

 Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Fife; and 

 also many other well known ladies of high degree. 



Monthly Illustrator " Edison on Inventions," 

 is the title of an interesting article by Eufus K. 

 Wilson, which appears in The Monthly Illustrator 

 and Home and Country for November. The article 

 is based on an interview with Mr. Edison. No 

 inventor, or indeed any one connected with manu- 

 factures of which invention is the basis or an in- 

 tegral part, but will feel an interest in what the 

 great " Wizard of Menlo Park" has to say on the 

 subject. Mr. Edison is very severe in his criti- 

 cism of the patent laws and the present practice 

 in our courts, which works so seriously against 

 inventors and in favor of patent thieves, whom 

 he properly designates as pirates, 



Contracts and Specifications. 

 We have received a copy of a recent publica- 

 tion issued by the Engineering News Publishing 

 Co., of .'New York, entitled, " Engineering Con- 

 tracts and Specifications," by J. B. Johnson, C. E. 

 It is a book of rather more than four hundred 

 pages, and although it is necessarily full of tech- 

 nical terms and phrases, yet the style and ar- 

 rangement is so clear and lucid, that it may be 

 studied easily and profitably by any intelligent 

 man who is in any way interested in such sub- 

 jects. It will be found especially useful to irri- 

 gators. It contains a brief synopsis of the law of 

 contracts, and illustrative examples of the general 

 technical clauses of the various kinds of engineer- 

 ing specifications. 



