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PERSONALS. 
Blaine will sail for home July 19. 
Missing Charlie Ross’s father has just been 
reappointed warden of the port at Philadel¬ 
phia. 
Frederick Vokes of the merry-making 
family of that name has just died in London, 
aged 40. He is remembered in this country. 
Standard Oil magnate Rockefeller has 
been made a trustee of Yassar College. He 
has a daughter there, and has given the col¬ 
lege §21,000. 
Nola Tvvigg, a servant girl of Portland, 
Ore., has fallen heiress to a fortune of $200,000 
in England. This Twigg will now be able to 
branch out for herself. 
Rev. James Freeman Clarke, the noted 
Unitarian preacher, of Boston, died June 15, 
of a complication of diseases, aged 78 years 
He had been sick two years. 
The king of Holland’s heir, the Princess 
Wilhelmina, aged seven, has been betrothed 
to the 12-years old prince of Saxe-Weimar. 
The marriage will unite Saxe-Weimar and 
Holland. 
Edwin, the second sou of Jay Gould, has 
been admitted to the N. Y., Stock Exchange. 
The old gentleman is not a member of the Ex¬ 
change, but it is bandy for him to have the 
boys there. 
Jacob Truax, who was with Robert Fulton 
on the second trip of his steamboat, the Cler¬ 
mont, completed his l(J0t h year the 3rd of the 
month at Eau Claire, Wis. He has always 
used tobacco and voted the Democratic t icket. 
Miss Amelie Rives, the Southern novel¬ 
ist, who has just shot up into fame, was mar¬ 
ried last Thursday to Mr. John A. Chandler 
at Castle Hill, Va., the home of the bride’s 
parents. The newly wedded pair will remain 
at Castle Hill for the present and go to Paris 
later. 
Major General W. L. Stoughton, who 
lost a leg at the Battle of Stone River, and 
since the war served Michigan two terms as 
Attorney General, and served his district in 
the Forty first and Forty-second Congresses, 
died at Sturgis Wednesday. 
Mrs. Azubaii F. Ryder, of Orrington, Me., 
who is 104 years old, was one of 1G g’rls to 
scatter flowers in the open grave at a service 
held in memory of George Washington. She 
has a large and interesting correspondence 
with old and young persons all over the United 
States. 
When the father of Mrs. Palmer, wife of the 
Michigan Senator, died, he left $6,000,000, and 
his will covered four lines of foolscap paper. 
This fortune was equally divided between his 
daughter and her husband, so that both the 
Senator and his wife are secured from want 
for the rest of their days. 
Thomas McElrath, the first publisher of 
the New York Tribune, died in New York last 
week. Ho was born in Williamsport, Pa., 
May 1, 1807. In early life he began the pub¬ 
lishing business and also practiced law, but 
m 1841 entered into partnership with Horace 
Greeley in the conduct of the Tribune. 
During the first year of his law practice 
Senator John Sherman made $1,000, and of 
this sum he saved $500. He has made it a 
principle of his life to live well within his in¬ 
come, and the consequence is that he has sev¬ 
eral hundred thousand dollars, some suy sev¬ 
eral millions, stored away for a rainy day. 
It is rumored in England that Lord Dela¬ 
ware’s eldest sou, Lord Cantelupe is about to 
marry a Miss Joicey, an American heiress, 
said to have an income of $100,000 a year. It' 
Cantelupe is not superior to many English 
aristocrats who have married American girls 
his engagement may well be considered a 
melon choly affair from various points of 
view. 
The bulk of Mathew Arnold’s earnings, 
says the Lounger of the Critic, went to pay 
the debts of a son who had all the propensi¬ 
ties of a millionaire’s offspring without a 
millionaire’s bank account behind him. Mr. 
Arnold denied himself everything to clear the 
family name, and the object of his visit to 
ibis country was to earn money to satisfy 
that son’s creditors. 
Queen Victoria recently celebrated her 
G9th birthday. Only four English sovereigns 
have attained a greater age—Queen Elizabeth, 
70 years; George II , 77; George III., 82; Wil¬ 
liam IV , 72. Victoria has reigned longer 
than any of her predecessors excepting Henry 
HI., who reigned 50 years, and George III., 
who was on the throne for 00 years. The 
Queeu has been on the throne nearly 51 years. 
It is announced that after settling all debts 
the estate of the late Roscoe Conkliug will 
amount to between $700,000 and $800,000. The 
sum was accumulated during aboutseven years 
of close attention on the part of Mr. Conkliug to 
his legal practice. During that time he paid 
off a security indebtedness in Utica of $150,000, 
His will which was made 20 years ago, leaves 
his entire fortune to his wife. Mr. Coukling 
has of late years received some of the largest 
fees ever paid a lawyer in this or any other 
country. 
Robert Browning, according to Harper’s 
Bazar, has never written a poem for magazine 
publication, and he cannot be induced to do 
so. His reason for this resolution is that as 
far as the reader is concerned he is an unin¬ 
vited guest in the pages of a magazine, but if 
a person buys his books it is because he wants 
to read him, and not because he wants to read 
some one else and finds him, as in the case of 
magazine publications. Mrs. Browning, on 
the contrary, he says, liked to appear in the 
magazines because she enjoyed being in the 
company of others. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Milk and Vinegar Inspection.— The 
29th Annual Report of the Massachusetts In¬ 
spector cf Milk and Vinegar is sent by Rock¬ 
well & Churchill, Boston, Mass. There is a 
good deal of interesting information here. It 
appears that 20,000 cows are required to sup¬ 
ply the city of Boston with milk. In 1887 
09,000,000 quarts of milk were consumed 
which cost the consumers $4,140,000. The 
daily milk supply has increased from 15,000 
gallons in 1802 to 47,202 gallons in 1887. In 
1802 the city required 81.9 gallons per 1,000 
of population; in 1887, 118.1 gallons. The In¬ 
spector estimates that the percentage of poor 
samples of milk sold in 1887 was 12.54 The 
criminality of the trade in impure milk is 
thusforcibily illustrated iu this volume: 
“The following letter was received from a 
well-known physiciau iu the citv of Boston: 
No. 252-Street, Feb 4, 1887. 
Dear Sir —There is at No. 0.-street, a 
day nursery, of which I am the medical atten¬ 
dant. The milk used is supplied by-, of 
Somerville. Within a few days I have had 
the milk examined, and find that it has been 
diluted one-fifth with water. We shall 
change milkman at once, and shall begin on 
Monday. I wish, however, that you would 
take the matter up and see if the law will 
have any effect upon him. I am, 
Y ours truly, 
-, M. D. 
This letter is only one of many which might 
be produced; but what a situation does it 
preseut! A charitable institution, a day 
nursery where poor people, unable to employ 
a servant, and obliged to work for a living, 
may leave their young children in the morn¬ 
ing and return for them at night after their 
day’s work is over. And here is a man, if he 
may be called such, who is willing to cheat 
these poor children—is willing to steal the 
food from their lips, and all for a few cents of 
extra profit. Language fails to properly 
punish such a villiau.” 
The Inspector discusses at length the causes 
other than adulteration, which operate to 
make milk impure or unwholesome. He 
quotes the following rules published by Prof. 
Vaughan the discoverer of “tyrotoxicon,” a 
poisonous body developed when milk is fresh¬ 
ly drawn into a tight vessel and deposited iu 
a warm place. 
1. The cows should be healthy, and the 
milk of any animal which seems indisposed 
should not be mixed with that of perfectly 
healthy animals. 
2. Cows must not be fed upon swill, or the 
refuse of breweries, or glucose factories, or 
upon any other fermented food. 
3. Cows must not be allowed to drink stag¬ 
nant water, but must have access to pure, 
fresh water. 
4. Cows must not be heated or worried be¬ 
fore being milked. 
5. The pasture must be free from noxious 
weeds, and the barn and the yard must be 
kept clean. 
0. The udders should be washed, then 
wiped dry, before each milking. 
7. The milk must at once be thoroughly 
cooled. This is best done iu the summer by 
placing the milk-can in a tauk of cold water 
or ice-water, the water being the same depth 
as the milk in the can. it would be well if 
the water m the tank could be flowing ; in¬ 
deed, this will be necessary unless ice-water 
is used. The tank should be thoroughly 
cleaned each day to prevent bad odors. The 
can should remain uncovered during the cool¬ 
ing, and the milk should be geutiy stirred. 
The temperature should be reduced to Gl) F. 
within an hour. The can should remain in 
the cold water until reudy for delivery. 
8. In summer, when ready for delivery, the 
top should be placed on the can, and a cloth 
wet with cold water should be spread over the 
can, or refrigerator cans may be used. At 
no season should the milk tie frozen ; but no 
buyer should receive milk which has a tem¬ 
perature higher than 05 F. 
9. After the milk has been received bv the 
consumer it should be kept iu a perlectly 
clean place, free from dust, and at a tempera¬ 
ture not exceeding 00 F. Milk should not be 
allowed to stand uncovered, even for a short 
time, in living or sleeping rooms. In many 
of the better houses in the country and vil¬ 
lages, and occasionally iu cities, the drain 
from the refrigerator leads into a cesspool or 
kitchen drain. This is highly dangerous : 
there should be no connection whatever be¬ 
tween the refrigerator and any receptacle of 
filth. 
10. The vessels in which milk should be 
kept are tin, glass, or porcelain. After using, 
the vessel should be scalded, and, if possible, 
exposed to the air. 
Rossie Iron Ore Paint.—C irculars from the 
Rossie Iron Ore Paint Company, OgdensbUrg, 
N. Y. The color of this paint is entirely nat¬ 
ural. It is advertised as the most durable 
paint for tin, iron and shingle roofs, barns, 
out-buildings, pumps, tools, etc. It will not 
crack or peel and will resist all kinds of 
weather. 
New England Conservatory of Music. 
—The catalogue of this institution contains a 
good deal of information that will be of in¬ 
terest to musical people. This is a good in¬ 
stitution, well managed and thoroughly relia¬ 
ble. 
Bushnell’s Cider and Wine Press.— Cat¬ 
alogue from the G. H. Bushnell Co., Thomp- 
sonville, Conn. These presses are first-class 
and they are well described in the catalogue. 
POST-OFFICE CLUB. 
As most of the readers of the Rural doubt¬ 
less know, we are trying High License in our 
State. Ours is not much of a liquor commun¬ 
ity'—we would stand a good fight before we 
would allow a saloon in our midst. We are 
temperance people—most of us— and we are 
ready to try any sensible plan of regulating 
the liquor traffic. If this High License won’t 
do it, we want something that will. We want 
to fight the business with every weapon we 
can get. We will gladly support High License 
and do our very best to see that the law is 
faithfully enforced. If it fails we will try and 
fix it so it won’t fail. Uncle Jacob is a strong 
temperance man. 
“VeuI vas ayunger man,” he said, “I vas 
alvays dake my glass off beer ven effer I vas 
dry. I nefer vas in favor off vhisky, but I 
vas tink dot beer vas healdy. Von day I no¬ 
tice dot my leedle poy vas pour vater mit my 
beer-glass und drinx it out und smack his 
mouth shust like it vas taste goot. Dot vas 
make me tink. I says to myself, off dere vas 
notink but beer mit dis gouudry I do not 
tink dot leedle poy vas mit so much danger, 
but dere vas so much visky dot I vas afraid 
he vill vant somedink stronger dan der beer 
vas off he vouct gets mit der taste. I says to 
myself: ‘I vill run mit no risk.’ It vas safer 
dot I gifs up mit my own beer dan dot I 
gultiwates dot boy’s taste mit someding strong¬ 
er. So I vas gif up mit my beer. Some off 
dese fellers vas say dot a man haf no right to 
interfere mit der liquor peesness. Veil, vile 
dot peesness hurts nobody, nobody vas haf 
any right to interfere mit it. Ven dot pees- 
uess reaches iu mit your family und puts some 
black marks on dose dot you lofe best, it vas 
shust so much more a public enemy as vas 
der wolf dot comes out mit der night und 
steals der sheep. Den dese fellers says dot 
vile I may haf a right to say somedink about 
what vas done mit my own neighborhood I 
haf no right to say vhat vas done mit some 
oder neighborhood. Veil, I tink dot vas not 
shust so; if my poy goes avay to some Oder 
blace und gets diuuk, it vas shust as much off 
an injury to me as if he vas get drunk mit 
my own house. It vas more so pecause it vas 
advertise me mit a bad name. Der facts vas 
dot der saloon vas an element off danger mit 
dis goundry, blace it shust vero you vill, und 
it vas der duty off all goot citizens to fight mit 
it.” SMALL PICA. 
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