438S 
THE BUBAL fiEW-YOBMEB 
PERSONALS. 
Attorney General Garland is regaining 
health and expects to resume his official duties 
next week. 
Gen. O’Ryan, the new Minister of War of 
Spain, is an Irishman by descent, though born 
in the land of garlic and guitars. 
The President has just had a new barn and 
carriage house built at Oak View, the Com¬ 
missioners having granted permission to “Gro¬ 
ver Cleveland to build one barn, 26x25.” 
Michael Cudahy, once a bright young 
hog-chopper, is now the partner of Phil Ar¬ 
mour, is worth over $2,000,000, and he and his 
wife are leaders in Chicago’s best society. 
General Sheridan commanded the caval¬ 
ry in the Army of the Potomac just a year, 
and in that time fought 76 battles and cap¬ 
tured 205 battle flags and over 160 field pieces. 
Harriet Beecher Stowe was 76 years of 
age on the 14th of Juno last. Although she 
has been in delicate health for two years past, 
Mrs. Stowe still goes about among her friends, 
and takes long walks through the country 
around Hartford. 
Mary N. Prescott, who died at the home 
of her brother-in-law, Richard S. Spofford, 
on Deer Island in the Merrimac, last week, 
was known as a writer for the young quite as 
widely as her sister, Harriet Prescott Spof" 
ford, is known to grown-up readers. 
Princess Letitia Bonaparte, daughter 
oi Prince Jerome Napoleon, better known as 
Plon-Plon, is soon to marry her uncle, the 
Duke of Aosta, formerly Amedeus, King of 
Spain. The Duke is a bro her ot the King of 
Italy, and is a widower of 15 years’standing. 
Ex-Governor Alonzo B. Cornell has 
just purchased the old homestead of Governor 
Clinton at New Hamburg, on the Hudson. 
The farm consists of about 300 acres in a 
high state of cultivation, and was sold for 
a little over $33,000. Until the present time 
the place has belonged to the Van Rensselaer 
family. 
Cardinal Monaco, the secretary of the 
Holy Office, who signed the Papal rescript 
against boycotting and the Plan of Campaign 
is one of the most influential members of the 
Sacred College, and is commonly regarded as 
next in the succession to the Triple Crown. 
He is an Ultramontane, and extraordinarily 
firm in his convictions. 
M’lle. Gabrielle Dumontet is to day perhaps 
the most distinguished young woman in 
France. At the recent examinations in med¬ 
icine and surgery under the auspices of the 
Women’s Union of France, she gained the 
first prize and was awarded the medal and di¬ 
ploma of honor. Besides being unusually pro¬ 
ficient in her professional and scientific stu¬ 
dies, she is an accomplished linguist, musician 
and painter, and a brilliant woman in society. 
Mr. Blaine, who is making a 700-mile 
coaching tour from London to the northern 
part of Scotland as the guest of Mr. Carnegie, 
the millionaire iron king of Pennsylvania, 
crossed over into Scotland last Thursday. He 
is in excellent health. His son Emmons says 
that his father will sail for this country July 
17, and will spend the rest of the summer at 
Bar Harbor, keeping away from the madding 
crowd as much as possible. 
Germany’s new Emperor, William II, was 
2!) years old last January. He is six feet tall, 
with an exceptionally fine form and soldierly 
bearing, blue eyes, light-brown hair, and a yel¬ 
lowish mustache. By an accident at his birth 
his left arm was crippled, and is a nearly use¬ 
less member. He suffers from ancestral scro¬ 
fula. On his last birthday he was made Ma- 
j< r general. His wife, like his mother and 
grandmother, is named Victoria, daughter of 
Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. She 
is not of royal blood nor of personal beauty, 
and their married life is said not to be ideal. 
They have four children. 
Judge Ai.len Thurman, says Harper's 
Bazar, never kept a carriage, though he could 
afford to keep 20 if he wanted to. If the 
distance he has to go is too long for him 
to walk, he takes a street-car. So fond is he of 
street-car riding that he will go from one end 
of the line to the other on a fine day, and he 
enjoys chatting with the drivers. He goes to 
bed very late, and is not an early riser. Ten 
o’clock sees him at the breakfast-table, at two 
o’clock he dines, and at seven he sups. After 
supper he plays a game of whist with his 
granddaughters ; then he retires to his “den,” 
and reads till past mid-night. History and 
biography are his favorite reading. 
— ■ e »e ■ i . 
A SUMMER FAIR. 
The 22nd Summer exhibition of the Queens 
County N. Y. Agricultural Society was held 
at Mineola, June20th and 21st. This fair has 
become justly renowned for the Hue display of 
spring vegetables, flowers and shrubs 
Pleasing features of the grounds are the beau¬ 
tiful conifers and shrubs. 
Owing to the backwardness of the season 
the showing of spring vegetables was not as 
good as usual. The potato table was not very 
well filled. We noticed some very fine old po¬ 
tatoes, notably a peck of the Queen of the Val¬ 
ley. Among the early potatoes were two 
promising varieties — Early Electric and 
Webb’s Early, the first a small, round, red po¬ 
tato; the latter a large potato resembling the 
Early Rose. The Vanguard was large in size, 
shapely and very smooth. The Thorburn was 
one of the best varieties shown. 
There was a fine display of orchids, palms 
and ferns. William Falconer made a wonder¬ 
ful exhibit of rare plants and flowers. Among 
them were some very remarkable speci¬ 
mens of the once familiar Canterbury Bolls, 
and the more homely but still handsome Corn 
Poppy. Mr. Falconer does not believe in neg¬ 
lecting the older flowers, and his wisdom is 
shown by the beauty of his exhibit. There 
were no handsomer flowers shown than his 
Canterbury Bells. The show of cut flowers 
was very fine, particularly the roses and 
pansies. 
As might be expected in a locality so large¬ 
ly devoted to market gardening, the show of 
early vegetables was exceptionally fine. The 
tables were literally loaded with lettuce, 
radishes, carrots, onions, beets and other less 
common vegetables. Cucumbers six inches 
in length, rhubarb a yard or more long, and 
tomatoes small, but ripe and tempting, re¬ 
minded visitors from the city, of Long 
Island’s possibilities in the way of early pro¬ 
duce. 
The exhibit of strawberries was scarcely up 
to the average. A cold, damp spring, followed 
by a drought and a severe hail storm, has ser¬ 
iously interfered with the crop. Nearly all 
the berries were shown, but the Sharploss 
easily led all others in numbers and size, 
while the Gypsy was considered the best in 
quality. A number of well-preserved winter 
apples were shown. The varieties were the 
Pride of Jericho, Long Island Russet, 
Willis’s Beauty,Spitzenherg,Ladies’ Sweeting, 
Newtown Pippin, and Northern Spy. 
Among the novelties were some beauti¬ 
ful specimens of hot-house grapes and figs. 
Among the new implements was a mow¬ 
ing machine with a tedder attachment, the 
tedders being placed behind the seat. In 
light grass it would bo likely to work well, but 
it must increase the draft of the machine 
considerably. F. Whitney Powell exhibited 
a new fertilizer distributor and mixer, also a 
potato-digging attachment for a plow. The 
latter was an arrangement of prongs and rods 
for breaking up the furrow after it is turned 
over by the plow. The Hoover potato-digger 
attracted considerable attention. It is a fine 
implement, but its price ($125) will prevent 
its general use. 
H. M. Willis made a fine display of imple¬ 
ments, including the Aspinwall planter. The 
Thomas Man’f’g Co. were represented by 
H. B. Grilling. Darnell’s Furrower and 
Marker attracted much attention. It is a 
fine implement. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Dehorning Cattle.— Pamphlet from I. J. 
Wicks, Coloiado Springs, Colo.—Mr. Wicks 
offers dehorning tools for sale and in this 
pamphlet describes his method of operating 
and argues well in favor of the practice. It is 
a well written treatise—one that farmers will 
like to read. Mr. W. does not pretend to be 
the “originator of dehorning” and quotes con¬ 
siderably from Mr. Haaff. Hero are some of 
his “pertinent questions” to those who talk 
against dehorning. 
Who is responsible for the pain horned cat¬ 
tle inflict upon each other ? Who is responsi¬ 
ble for the pain and suffering when animals 
are exposed to freezing weather on the outside 
of a shed, when there would be plenty of 
room for them inside but for the horns ? Who 
is responsible for the suffering and loss result¬ 
ing from nineteen-twentieths of the abortions 
in cows caused by horns ? Who is responsible 
for the death of over two hundred human 
beings annually in the United States, killed 
by horn-thrusts ? Who is responsible for ten 
thousand head of cows, horses and colts, be. 
sides innumerable sheep and hogs, -annually 
killed in this terrible manner ? You may not 
know that an animal may freeze its horns. 
Pain and suffering come from the resulting 
• inflammation of the periosteum. Unless the 
horn is removed, or the capillary circulation 
is strong enough to overcome this freezing, 
the animal stands about lifelessly, losing flesh, 
refuses to hunt for food, finally gives up, and 
death ensues, without any other especially ap¬ 
parent cause. 1 have seen thousands of such 
cases on the plains. Who, 1 ask, is responsi¬ 
ble for this pain and loss ? Do you kuow the 
formation of the horn ? Have you investigat¬ 
ed its composition ? If not, what are you 
talking about ! Have you ever seen horns re¬ 
moved by a scientific process ? If not, how do 
you know anything about the pain inflicted? 
Do you know a single objection against muley 
cattle ? If so, write it down and give me a 
chance to answer the objections. 
Insect Pests —Bulletin No. 46 from the 
New Jersey Experiment Station deals with 
insects and insecticides. Mr. George D. Hulst. 
has been appointed Entomologist at the New 
Jersey station and th is is his first bulletin. The 
value of this pamphlet lies in its brevity and 
directness. Not a word is wasted and yet the 
story is told. More might well have been said 
about spraying trees with the Paris-green so¬ 
lution to destroy the coddling moth. This is 
getting to be one of the most important of 
orchard operations. There is very little that 
is new in the battle against insects, but the old 
story needs to be frequently repeated. 
Diseases of the Grape Vine.— Bulletin 
No. five of the Department of Agriculture 
(section of Vegetable Pathology) is devoted to 
a report of the various experiments made in 
1887 in the treatment of the downy mildew 
and black-rot. These experiments were con¬ 
ducted in various parts of the country by spec¬ 
ial agents, all of whom were practical grape- 
growers. In our Insecticide Special we gave 
the conclusions arrived at by Prest. Pearson 
of Vineland, N. J., who presents an elaborate 
roport in this volume. The use of the vari¬ 
ous mixtures of sulphate of copper has given 
excellent results in fighting the mildew and 
, in some cases it has effectually prevented the 
black-rot. The results obtained are not con¬ 
sidered conclusive, but they aro certainly en¬ 
couraging and ought to be continued. Those 
who wish to fully investigate the matter 
should procure this pamphlet from Prof. F. L. 
Scribner, Washington, D. C. 
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Our folks are getting pretty good-natured 
in spite of the fact that spring was so lato 
and planting-tiine so unfavorable. We always 
feel pretty good-natured in strawberry time. 
The strawberry is a great humanizer. Let 
me have the power to enforce its cultivation 
in any community and I will guarantee an 
extra amount of happiness, contentment and 
kindly sympathy there. All fruits have this 
power for good, but the strawberry has it 
above all the rest. I suppose this is because it 
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after the dreary winter months. City people 
make great sport of some farming communi¬ 
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five cents per box. They can’t say such 
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We can live cheaper and feel better satisfied 
with life. About every year we have the 
same discussion as to the best fruit of all the 
list. Some vote for the strawberry, others 
favor the peach and, in fact, all the fruits 
have friends. Uncle Jacob usually ends up 
the discussion: 
“In der spring ven my wive makes some off 
dot splendid pie plant sauce, I says to her, ‘Dot 
vas God’s best gift to man.’ Ven strawberries 
vas come around I says to my wive, ‘I vas 
mistaken; der strawberry und not der pie¬ 
plant vas God’s best gift.’ Ven raspberries 
und currants vas get ripe, I vas say, ‘Veil, 
maybe I vas mistaken about dot gift after 
all.’ Ven der first apples vas come around 
my obinion vas get shakier dan effer, und ven 
grapes vas get ripe I sbust scratch my head 
und says to my wive. ‘Dem Oder gifts vas 
fine mit dere vay but dis vas der von dot 
God smiled mit.’ I keep mit dot obinion un¬ 
til der Seckel pears vas get ripe, und den I 
says. ‘Dis vas der essence off good gifts. All 
der goot qualities off der oders vas shust com- 
bressed mit dis von und dis vas shust so surely 
God’s most vonderful gift, as uefer vas. “Der 
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