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THE RURAL HEW-YORKER 
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PERSONALS. - 
Massachusetts has over 100 female pro¬ 
duce and stock gamblers. 
John B. Moore, of Concord, Ma«s., ope of 
the most prominent pomologists and horticul¬ 
turists in New England, died on Monday, aged 
70 years. 
Dr. McGLYNN wants to destroy the “ land 
monopoly” in this country Six million land- 
owners constitute a very democratic and 
healthy sort of a monopoly. 
According to the Morning Post, of Lon¬ 
don, Mr. Simon Cameron has been a Senator 
of the United States for fifty years. Tne 
blunders of “ educated ” Britishers with 
regard to most things American are ludicrous. 
John Park Kit, a farmer living near Sioux 
City, la., got drunk in that city last January, 
and while driving home fell from his wagon 
and was killed. His heirs have sued the 
saloons that sold him the liquor for #12,QUO 
damages. 
Talmadoe A Lambert, a Washington law¬ 
yer, who says he is the sou of David Lambert, 
a newspaper man in the Northwest years ago, 
has begun proceedings to establish his claim 
to 4?<S acres of land on tne shore of Lake Pha- 
len, Mum., valued at #1,000,000 
A Washington evening paper says that 
Hon. George l.athrop, United States Minister 
to Russia, passed through Geneva Thursday 
on his way to the United States by way of 
Paris, and that upon his arrival here he will 
tender his resignation, 
A friend of Meissomer, tbe great French 
painter, went to congratulate him on his 
75th birthday and found him in the middle of 
a grain field at noon. He had bought the 
grain-field and engaged a body of cuirassiers 
to trample it down. This gave him the effect 
he wanted fora battle piece. 
The late Signor Depretis. Prime Minister of 
Italy, was married at the age of 33 to a lady 
many years his junior. But his domestic life 
was always singularly happy. He left one 
child, a boy of ten, who will bo educated and 
fully cared for by the King, Depretis having 
died a poor man. 
General Milos, the model farmer of Mis¬ 
sissippi. was handicapped at the close of the 
war by a debt of #23(1.00!) bearing 10 per cent, 
interest Ho has paid every cent of it with 
20 crops and is a rich man to day. His story 
of how he did it is as old as the hills and truth 
—home-raised supplies make the farmer rich, 
and all eottuu makes the farmer poor. 
Mr. John Norquay. Premier aud Treasur¬ 
er of Manitoba, who is now in this city in the 
interest of the Red River railroad, is a half- 
breed—a Scotch Cree He is a middle-aged 
man, large iu figure and a bit florid in face. 
In manner and conversation he is most pleas¬ 
ant, but uncommunicative enough ou subjects 
he dousu’t want to discuss. 
William B. Sessions, of Hampden, was 
elected Secretary of the Massachusetts State 
Board of Agriculture last Tuesday, on the 
12th ballot, by 18 votes, against 10 for J. W. 
Stock well; three for E. Gush man; three for 
E. Horsey; and one for E W. Wood. Vote 
made unanimous. An excellent selection of a 
successful, practical farmer. 
W. Stanley Day, of Spencer, Tioga 
County, N. Y. ( killed himself Sunday last, 
because his wife refused to get up at 5 
o’clock iu the morning to get his breakfast. 
He was about thirty-five years old and owned 
a #13,000 farm. His lather hanged himself a 
few years ago because the Geneva, Ithaca 
aud Sayre Railroad was built across bis 
farm contrary to his wishes. 
After 20 years. Governor Richardson, of 
North Carolina, is about to obey a joint reso¬ 
lution of the Legislature of 1801, which was 
indorsed aud renewed by the Legislature of 
1880, to present a gold medal as a gift of the 
State, to General. N. CL Evans, of tbe Con¬ 
federate army, for conspicuous gallantry at 
Leesburg, Va , in 1801. Only testimonial pre¬ 
sented by tbe State to a soldier in the late 
war. Will cost #501). 
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes confesses 
that there is a good deal in a name. In a letter 
to James R. Randall, author of “Maryland! 
My Maryland 1” congratulating him upon the 
‘genuine ring and lifelike spirit’ iu that 
lyric,” the Doctor says he only regretted he 
could not write a ‘'Massachusetts! My Massa¬ 
chusetts ! ” that would have beeu at ouce 
“as musical and as effective ” iu what was for 
him “ the right side in the armed contro¬ 
versy.” 
“Jennie Junk" (Mrs. D. G. Croly, the 
authoress), is at tbe head of the Women’s En¬ 
dowment Cattle Company, one of the most 
unique enterprises ever incorporated in New 
Jersey. It has just filed its certificate of in¬ 
corporation, with Mrs. D. G. Croly as pres¬ 
ident. Its capital stock is placed at #1,500,- 
000, divided into 3,000 shares of #500 each, 
The company has control of nearly two million 
acres of fine grazing land iu New Mexico. 
There are now 0,000 head of cattle on the 
ranch, and it is estimated that at. the end of 
six years the stock will have increased to 
such an exteut as to make the stock worth at 
least five times its face value. A number of 
Mrs. Croly’s frieuds are interested in the com¬ 
pany. The stock is to be placed with women 
as an endowment for their children. 
LITERARY NOTES. 
ChaS. Reade liked to write books for a 
purpose. It was generally some needed reform 
which he wished carried out. He walked his 
hero or heroine through a set of circumstances 
to show how badly this reform was needed. 
“Foul Play.” “Never Too Late To Mend" 
and “ Put Yourself In His Place” are ex¬ 
amples of this desire to show the public the 
worst side of a supposed public wrong. In 
“ The Coming Man ” he attacks what be con¬ 
siders to be almost a crime, viz. ; that of 
neglecting to improve and cultivate the left 
band. In many localities it is considered a 
sign of inferiority to be “ left-handed.” 
Many mothers compel their children to wear 
the left hand in a mitten or even m a sliDg 
so that they will he forced to use the right 
hand. Chus. Reade goes on to show that 
“ Tbe Coming Mau” must be able to use both 
hands—that “right-handed" aud “ lett- 
hauded ” will be absolete terms. His plan is 
to teach children to use both hands. This can 
be done with very little trouble if the child 
is taken in time. Any worker can readily see 
how greatly he would be helped if his left 
hand could be taught the cunning of his 
right. As it is simply a matter of practice 
and training we see no reason why we should 
not have, in the near future, a generation of 
ambidexters. We will have them when teach - 
ers aud mothers get over their prejudice 
against the left hand, and can realize that 
two well trained hands are worth nearly 
twice as much as one hand well trained and 
the otheriguored. 
Some of the papers aud magazines have 
been giving statistics as to the price of a boy. 
A young man of 21, who had never dreamed 
of supporting himself, started the discussion. 
His father met with an accident and he was 
forced to supfiort himself. He complained 
that his parents had never done anything for 
him. That started a frieud to figuring how 
much cash it must have cost to raise that 
young man from babyhood to the age of 31. 
This estimate included care, food, clothing, 
education and spending money. He made up 
the sum of #4,300. The father was in busi¬ 
ness so that he could not make the boy’s work 
useful. So that instead of “doing nothing 
for him,” the young man's father had given 
him a start worth nearly #5,000. Most boys 
appear to forget that for the first 15 years of 
their lives they bring in nothing aud take 
a great deal out. Many young men consider 
it a great mjustice that their father should 
have a right to their work until they are 31. 
There is no injustice about it. As a strict 
matter of business, no young man can do 
work enough in six years to pay for the caro 
aud expense he has occasioned his parents for 
15 year’s. 
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