THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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PERSONALS. 
Wilkie Collins, Professor Huxley, George 
H. Pendleton and Dom Pedro will pass 63 this 
year. 
“You may be sure that home rule is not 
going to mean Rome rule,” says the Lord 
Mayor of Dublin. 
Joseph W. JGfkr, the Republican candi¬ 
date for Governor of Illinois, is six feet tall 
and very spare in flesh. He was a “high pri¬ 
vate” during the recent “onpleasantness.” 
The wedding of Mr. Brown and Miss Gar¬ 
field, and of Mr. Garfield and Miss Mason will 
be celebrated at the Garfield homestead, at 
Mentor, June 14, at five o’clock in the after¬ 
noon 
Gen. John M. Palmer the Democratic 
nominee for Governor of Illinois, was Repub¬ 
lican Governor of the State in 1872, but left the 
party with the Liberals for Greeley in that 
year, and never returned. 
Powderly says that after he ceases to be 
General Master Workman he will not “have 
to listen to the bark of every cur and to the 
growl of every mangy dog whose worthless 
hide has earned the sores it bears.” 
Prof. Jordan, of the Maine Experiment Sta" 
tion has purchased some representative dairy 
stock—Holsteins and Jerseys—with which to 
carry on experiments. It is intended to add 
Short-horns and Hereford?. 
Both the President and Vice-president of 
the National Farmers’ Alliance are members 
of the tariff reform league of Chicago, which 
has inaugurated an aggressive campaign in 
the West against the present tariff. They do 
not go all the way with the Mills Bill,however. 
S. W. Burnham, of Chicago, who is pres¬ 
ently going to California to take charge of 
the great telescopo at tho Lick observatory, 
has phenomenal eyes, which are said to have 
naturally as great a light grasping power as 
ordinary eyes get through a six-inch tele¬ 
scope. 
James Whitcomb Riley says that a poet 
has no right to inflict on the public verses 
which do not suit himself. This is all very 
well in its way, but the fact is that poets are 
apt to be too easily suited with their own pro¬ 
ductions. Mr. Riley is an exception in this 
particular. 
Secretary Fairchild has made an ad¬ 
mirable selection in appointing Capt. Edward 
Burgess of Boston to be President of the 
Board on Life-saving Appliances, in place of 
Capt. R. Baby, deceased. Capt. Burgess is 
well known as the designer of the champion 
racing yachts, Puritan, Mayflower and Volun¬ 
teer. He has accepted the office. 
Judge Gresham’s most intimate friends 
are unable to draw from him any statement 
in regard to the political situation. He told 
a reporter, Saturday: “My idea is simply 
this, that as long as 1 am on the bench, it 
would be manifestly improper to discuss such 
things. I am leaving politics alone and at¬ 
tending to my duties as judge.” 
Mr. John March, an intelligent farmer of 
White Oak Springs, UL, has discovered a plan 
which he thinks will do away with the neces¬ 
sity of dehorning cattle. He has conceived 
the idea that the application of a certain 
chemical substance to the germ of the horn 
soon after the birth of the calf will completely 
prevent the growth of the horn, and that no 
horn will ever appear. He has tried the ex¬ 
periment on 14 calves this -spring. Some of 
them are now over two months old, and no 
horn has yet begun to grow. 
Jcdge Edward A. White, who has been 
chosen to succeed Eustice as Senator from 
Lousiana, is the son of E. W. White, Governor 
of the State before the war. He is a compar¬ 
atively young man, wealthy, eloquent and 
magnetic, and one of the best lawyers at the 
New Orleans bar. Like Senator Gibson, late¬ 
ly chosen to succeed himself, he belongs to 
the “reform,” or anti-McEnery wing of the 
Democratic party. Senator Eustis’s term 
doesn’t expire till March 4, 1891, but thero be¬ 
ing no legislative election before that date, 
both senatorships were disposed of at this 
session. 
There has been some controversy as to 
whether General Sheridan actually rode over 
the breastworks at the battle of Missionary 
Ridge. A few years ago he wrote as follows 
about it to a personal fripnd: “The fact of 
the case is that in the storming of Missionary 
Ridge I was mounted, and rode over the 
breastworks crowning the crest of the ridge, 
at a point perhaps four hundred yards south 
of Bragg’s headquarters. The left of Wag¬ 
ner’s brigade was at this point. I have al¬ 
ways taken special pride in the conduct of my 
command at Missionary Ridge, Cedar Creek 
Five Forks and Sailors’ Creek. ” 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Flax Culture in the United States.— 
This is a volume of 100 pages issued by Rand 
Avery Company, Boston, Mass, It is by E. A. 
Whitman and J. R. Lfeson who state that 
they have taken their facts and figures almost 
entirely from publications of the United 
States Government. The book is an argu¬ 
ment in favor of a removal of the duty on im¬ 
ported flax. The authors claim to have de¬ 
monstrated that this duty is unnecessary and 
a hindrance to the development of the flax¬ 
growing and linen-manufacturing industries 
of this country. Our impression is that the 
authors wdl have hard work to bring farmers 
who raise flax to their way of thinking. 
Cheese and Cider Presses.— Catalogue 
from Boomer & Boschert Press Co., Syracuse, 
N. Y. Nothing could be more complete than 
the outfits offered by this house. Everything 
in this line can be found described in the 
catalogue, and the manufacturers keep up 
with the times, too. In short, the man who 
thinks of procuring a press, neglects his busi¬ 
ness when he neglects to peruse this catalogue. 
California Experiment Station —Bulle¬ 
tin No. 79 gives theresultsof experiments with 
hydrocyanic gas in treating trees for the 
scale. A tent is placed over the tree and the 
gas forced into the tent. This treatment is 
becoming quite a factor in California fruit 
growing. 
Missouri Horticulture.— The Thirtieth 
Annual Report of tho Missouri State Horti¬ 
cultural Society is received from the enter¬ 
prising secretary, L. A. Goodman, Westport, 
Mo. This is an excellent report—one of the 
best of the year. It is full of sensible hints 
and advice. 
Winger’s New Holland Power Wind 
Mill. —Circulars from E. B. Winger, Free¬ 
port, Ill. The maker claims new and superior 
features for this mill. Look them up. 
“The Racine” Dustless Separators — 
Catalogue from Johnson and Field, Racine, 
Wis. A variety of excellent farm implements 
are described here. It will pay to examine it. 
THE POST OFFICE CLUB. 
By a curious coincidence it happens that 
the club discussed this very question of the 
farmer’s daughter last week. So I am able to 
add a little to tho other testimony. A young 
woman ran away from home and married a 
worthless scamp that everybody knew was a 
good-for-nothing fellow. She had a good 
home—an only daughter. Her parents loved 
her, still she ran away. The club members 
could not understand it at all. “It beats all 
how contrary human nature is! Here was a 
gal that never had to sile her hands, her 
mother doin’ all the hard work—with all the 
attention she wanted, an’ yet she up an’ run 
away. Our modern girls ain’t what their 
mothers was, an’ don’t you forgit it! Let ’em 
git down an’ dig ez they done in old titne3, sez 
I ,” etc. 
Uncle Jacob listened to it all: “Veil, veil,” 
he said at last, “I am not von off dem beeble 
dot vas alvays growling mit der yildren off 
der bresent day. I can remember enough off 
my own yildhood to see dot if I vas a boy now 
dere vould be blenty off new influences dot I 
did not haf, dot vould make me sliump fo 
keepavay mit. 1 am von ofT dese fellers det 
peliefsdot der yildren vill bo shust vhat dere 
bareuts vas, und dot dere is no vay off dodg¬ 
ing around mitdis fact. I haf dried to pring 
my yildren up mit dis brinciple—namely dot 
I vas der von dot vas going to be reponsible 
und not dem. Effery man knows dot der 
bleaaantest bicture dot vas framed mit memo¬ 
ry vas agoot und happy home vere tings vas 
bk asant und happy und vere dere vas enough 
self-denial und vork to sweeten dot happiness. 
Dot vas der last ting dot beeble vas run avay 
from. Dot man dot vas dry und make men 
und vomen oud off his yildren baf no peesness 
to start oud unless he vas villing to bring 
back all der memories off h.s boyhood und 
study dem ofer, pick oud der tings dot vas do 
him mostgoot und bractice dem mit bis yild¬ 
ren. More girls vas hurt mit too much kind¬ 
ness dan vas hurt mit hard vork. Dot moth¬ 
er dot dries to safe her daughter’s hands mit 
der expense off her own back, vas von off der 
poorest friends dot daughter cau haf. It vas 
far more gruel to send a young voman out 
mit der vorld mitout any knowledge off house¬ 
work dan it vas to make her stay mit der vash- 
tub und dish-pan until der vork vas berform- 
ed.” SMALL PICA. 
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