THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
S<3 
PERSONALS. 
Rear-Admiral Charles Stewart Boggs 
died iu New Brunswick, N. J., Sunday. He 
was a midshipman November 1, 1826, lieuten¬ 
ant iu 1855, captain in 1862, commodore in 
1866 and rear-admiral in 187U. He was placed 
on the retired list January 28, 1872. 
Prof. Brooks, the great discoverer of 
comets and an old contributor to the Rural, 
formerly of Red House Observatory at Phelps, 
N. Y., has just established himself in Geneva, 
N. Y., where he will in future carry on his 
astronomical work. By the liberality of Win. 
Smith, Esq., of that place, Prof. Brooks has 
been provided with a line residence and a 
first-class observatory, completely furnished 
with astronomical instruments. 
It is reported that Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, 
Member of Parliament for Birmingham, aud 
leader of one branch of the Liberal-Unionists, 
who has been very enthusiastically received 
by the Conservatives since the negotiation of 
the Fisheries Treaty, intends to sever his con¬ 
nection with the Liberals altogether and ac¬ 
cept a position iu the Cabinet. He is soon to 
marry a daughter of Secretary Eudicott, 
whose acquaintance he made at Washington 
during his recent visit there. 
General Boulanger was born in 1837 at 
Rennes, being the son of a lawyer who had 
married an English lady. He was educated 
at the military school of St. Cyr. Served 
under Randon in Algeria as sub-lieutenant 
iu 1657; was shot through the chest in the 
Italian campaign of 1859, and received the 
Cross of the Legion of Honor. Promoted to 
be a lieutenant, he went to Cochin-China in 
1861, where he was wounded in the thigh. 
Made captain in 1862, and served as drill in¬ 
structor at St. Cyr in 1866. The war with 
Germany in 1870, made him a major, lieuten¬ 
ant-colonel and colonel. He received two 
wounds aud was made Commander of the 
Legion of Honor. Became brigadier-general 
in 1880. It was with this rank he came to the 
United States with the French mission at the 
Yorktown Centenary. Was made director of 
infantry in the War Office in 1882, under Gen¬ 
eral Campenon, Minister of War. Was made 
major-general in 1884, and Minister of War 
Dext year. Since then his career is known to 
the world. 
THE POST-OFFICE CLUB. 
There is no silo very near our neighbor¬ 
hood. Our folks are mostly gardeners and 
potato farmers. Communities settle into ruts. 
It takes a good deal of enterprise to do what 
your lather didn’t do. Our folks seem to 
think that rye, potatoes and garden truck 
will pay us better than anything else. We 
can always sell rye straw', potatoes are ea h 
and so is truck. Every farmer keeps some 
stock, but only a few try to do much at dairy¬ 
ing. Probably the silo would pay, for we have 
a good many acres of sweet corn. The ears 
are sold in New York, and if the stalks could 
beputina dlo doubtless we would get about 
all there is in the plant. As it is, the stalks 
are cured in the hot weather and do not make 
as good feed as they might. The first siloist in 
our neighborhood will have to be a brave 
man. Uncle Jacob is the man most likely to 
build one. He has looked into the subject and 
investiga ed several silos in other parts of the 
State. 
‘•If I vas a yunger man,” he says, “I would 
make me a zilo right avay. I pelief dot der 
zilo vas a goot ting. It vas to der farmer 
shust about what der intention off steam vas 
mit der manufacturer. It vas brovide more 
bower und drif der farm oberations mit 
more speed pecause more stock vas gept und 
all dese Oder tings vas gome around. Der 
vind und der sun vas goot tings, but dey vas 
steal somedings from der hey mit der field. 
Ven a bottle of berfumery vas left open some 
off der strength off dot berfumery vas bass 
away. Ven you valks around mit der hay 
field dere vas a bleasaut smell off somedinks 
dot vas bassing avay from der hay. Dot vas 
like dot berfumery, it vas make der hay veaker. 
Ven der grop vas mit der zilo it vas shust like 
der bottle off berfumery doc vas hold all der 
berfume mit it. Und also der zilo vas a great 
deacher off morality. Dere vas all der fresh¬ 
ness off der summer backed avay mit a blace 
vare it vas not shange. De. man dot succeeds 
mit der zilo vas sure to make anoder zilo in¬ 
side nut nis head, vere he vas back avay Pleas¬ 
ant voras und kind deeds und Oder tings dot 
vas make live Pleasanter for him und tor his 
lannly. Und all dem pleasant tings vas ktep 
green und liesh mit his head und come out 
stwst at der right time ven dey vas most need¬ 
ed. So I say dot der zilo vas a great ung dot 
vas sure to make peiter farms und pe ter 
farmers off der future” small pica. 
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What Your Friends and Neighbors Say on a 
Matter of Vital Importance. 
Below will be found a sample of the multi¬ 
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H. Warner & Co., of Rochester, New York, 
daily receive. The subjoined unsolicited test¬ 
imonials are from your friends and neighbors, 
ladies and gentlemen you know and esteem 
for their honor and straightforwardness, and 
who would scorn to be a party to any decept¬ 
ion. What has been done for others can be 
done for you," and it is folly, nay suicidal, to 
longer suffer when the means of recovery lie 
at your very door: 
New York City (253 Fifth Ave).—It gives 
me pleasure to express my faith in the virtue 
of “Warner’s Safe Cure,” which is the only 
medicine I ever take or recommend. Six years 
ago I received the most pronounced benefit 
from its use at a time when suffering from 
mental overwork, and I have subsequently in 
my travels as a public lecturer recommended 
it to many people, and personally know of 
several cases where “Warner's Safe Cure” has 
succeeded when the doctors failed. Although 
a perfectly well woman l take several bottles 
every spring just as I take additional care in 
the selection of tonic-giving food at this season 
believing in the ounce of “prevention” rather 
than the necessity for the pound of cure, and 
in every instance “Warner’s Safe Cure” has 
the effect to give new energy and vitality to 
all my powers. 
Editor and Proprietor of “Dress” Magazine. 
Brooklyn, N. Y., (263 Sumner Ave).—Dec. 
17, 1887.—1 can truly say that your medicine 
has done our family a great deal of good. 
Brooklyn, N. Y., (30 Irving Place.) Dec. 2 
1887.—Our folks praise “Warner’s Safe Cure’ 
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Brooklyn (248 Raymond St.) May 5, 1885. 
—About ten years since I was taken very sick, 
and the doctors said I had Bright’s Disease, 
and could not last very long. I suffered severely 
and for quite a long time. I then appeared 
to improve some and got around, but soon re¬ 
lapsed into the same condition as before, and 
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never well—miserable and despondent. At 
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symptoms of anything being wrong with my 
kidneys, no pain, the water flowing freely 
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sediment and normal in quantity. Further¬ 
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In fact I feel to-day that “Warner’s Safe Cure’ 
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T-TAWKKYE 
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Makes a clean sweep of two acres at a sitting. A man, a boy 
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The crop on a few acres the first year will pay for the Machine. 
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Manufacturers, 
« JAMKS MILNE & SON, Scotch drove, Iowa. 
WOOD Vs. STEEL. 
Which is the Stronger in Proportion to 
Weight—A Simple ami Interesting 
Experiment. 
The relative weights of wood and steel in 
proportion to their strength is a matter 
which probably not one out of one hundred 
readers lias ever had occasion to investigate. 
If the conundrum were propounded : 
“ Which is the stronger—Wood or Steel ? ” 
ninety-nine out of a hundred would be 
likely to answer that steel possesses greater 
strength in proportion to weight than does 
wood. Experiments nave recently been 
made in Ohio which show that wood weigh¬ 
ing only half as much as steel will, when 
put under pressure, stand a greater strain 
than steel. The illustration on this page 
shows a piece of wood and a piece of steel, 
(the latter weighing just twice as much as 
the former), under equal pressure, and in 
every instance the steel yields and is bent 
out of line. Any one can make this exper¬ 
iment. . The device is extremely simple, 
and yet it illustrates an important point 
with which every intelligent farmer should 
familiarize himself, especially as there seems 
to be a disposition on the part of some man¬ 
ufacturers to change from wood to steel and 
iron. We are indebted to Messrs. Aultman, 
Miller it Co., of Akron, Ohio, for the ac¬ 
companying illustration. It was the pleasure 
of a representative of this paper, while in 
Akron a few days since, to witness this ex¬ 
periment. A piece of ash, such as is used 
in the Buckeye machine, was placed in a 
clamp along with a piece of steel of equal 
length, the same as is used in all steel Bin- 
I ders. The steel weighed just twice as much 
as the wood, and yet the steel invariably 
yielded and bent as the pressure was brought 
down. The wood was scarcely out of line, 
and when the clamp was removed it sprung 
back to its original shape. Not so with the 
steel. Tt not only bent under the pressure 
of the clamp, but remained bent when the 
clamp was taken off. This, it is claimed, is 
a clear illustration of 
the difference between 
wood and steel frame 
Binders. When an 
all-steel machine is 
brought into sharp con¬ 
tact with some unyield¬ 
ing obstacle, its frame 
is liable to spring, and 
when once sprung its 
usefulness is at an end. 
It cannot be straight¬ 
ened without resort to 
the shop for repairs. 
A wood frame is not 
thus affected. If bent 
under a violent strain, 
it at once springs back 
to its original si i ape. 
At the first glance it 
would seem that a steel 
Binder is lighter than 
a wood frame, and that 
it possessed greater 
strength. But it is an 
instance in which appearances are decep¬ 
tive. A piece of steel one foot longand a half 
inch square, weighs double as much as a 
piece of seasoned ash one foot long and 1 % 
inches square. In others words the steel, in 
proportion to bulk, is fifteen and one-eighth 
times as heavy as the wood. A steel frame 
of a machine which is one-fifteenth as large 
as a wood frame, weighs exactly the same 
as the wood. But even with this difference 
in size, the wood lias four times the strength. 
These are simple problems which every 
farmer can solve for himself. He need not 
accept the word of any man whose interests 
would be subserved by having him believe 
one way or the other. Make the test your¬ 
self, and when an agent comes to you with 
a denial of this proposition, you can talk 
intelligently from personal knowledge. 
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Works the entire surface of the ground. No 
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This CULTIVATOR Shovels, 
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Is easily adapted to be used either as a 
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and is conveniently operated either way. 
Having adjustable axles, it is so arranged 
that the width between the wheels can 
changed to suit the dif- 
width of corn rows. The 
are easily raised out 
ground by the lever 
when turning around 
at end of row, or upon 
leaiing the field. 
Also furnished with 
Metal Wheels and 
Pivoted Parallel 
Beams. 
gs—Also manufact- 
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Buckeye Drill, 
Buckeye Seeder, 
Buckeye Cider 
Mills & Hay Rakes, 
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