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THE BUBAL 
PERSONALS. 
Dn. D. E. Salmon has been elected an 
alumnus trustee of Cornell University. 
Mr. Walter Besant is troubled with 
writer’s cramp and has to dictate all his letters 
and mss. 
Gov. Nicholls, of La.,has appointed his de¬ 
feated rival, Ex-Gov. McEnery, judge of the 
State Supreme Court. 
Sir Morell Mackenzie is afflicted with 
asthma, and smokes stramonium cigarettes to 
optain relief therefrom. 
Joseph Pulitzer of the N. Y. World sailed 
for Europe, Saturday, hoping to have his sight 
restored by foreign oculists. 
From Washington by way of San Francis¬ 
co comes another rumor that Senator Fair 
will presently be married again. 
Edwin C. Reid, of Allegan, Michigan, 
succeeds Charles W. Garfield as Secretary of 
the Horticultural Society of that State. 
Mr. Alma Tadema, the celebrated painter, 
is described as a well-built man, of average 
hight, quiet in his movements, and speaking 
English with a little hesitation. 
Mr. A. W. Longfellow, brother of the 
poet, is a well-known resident of Portland, 
Me. He is nearly 70 years old, and bears 
a strong resemblance to his more famous 
brother. 
While ill at Milan the Emperor of Brazil 
had to pay hotel charges of #400 a day. In 
addition he paid $20 a day for ice, #800 a day 
for telegraphing to Brazil, and $240 a day 
to his two doctors. 
Citizen Lisbonne, the Communist leader, is 
short, stout, swarthy and long-haired. Lazi¬ 
ness, uncleanliness and proneness to inveigh 
against all who are industrious and well-to-do 
are his most important characteristics. 
Mr. Gladstone says that he really should 
like to live a while for two great objects: ‘ To 
settle the Irish question, and to convince my 
countrymen of the substantial identity be¬ 
tween the theology of Homer and that of the 
Old Testament ” 
Count Maurice Esteriiazy has been put 
under guardianship to check his mad extrava¬ 
gance. He owns, free and clear of incum¬ 
brances, more than 220,000 acres of land in 
Hungary, and can travel in a straight line 
more than fifty miles without quitting his 
estate. 
“The Dark Secret,” the little dory in which 
foolhardy “Captain” Andrews is crossing the 
Atlantic, has been seen by passing steamers 
several times during the week. Andrews is a 
native of Beverly, Massachusetts, and is 42 
years of age. He is a piano-maker by trade, 
but during the war served as a soldier on the 
Northern side. 
Just one hundred years ago Benjamin Har¬ 
rison, great-grandfather of the Republican 
candidate for President, as a delegate to the 
Virginia Convention, opposed the ratification 
of the Federal Constitution. He sided with 
Patrick Henry on the question, but after the 
Constitution was ratified gave it his hearty 
support, and was one of the signers of the 
Declaration of Independence. 
It was Marshal Leboeuf, whose death has 
just been announced, who just before the 
Franco German war, in 1870, stated in the 
Imperial Council that the state of preparation 
for war was so complete that if the campaign 
were to last two years it would not be neces¬ 
sary to purchase as much as a gaiter-button. 
At the head of the Third Army Corps at 
Gravelotte and St. Privat he displayed the 
most heroic gallantry, and literally courted 
death. 
General Harrison’s family consists of a 
wife, a son and a daughter. The daughter 
was married a few years ago to Mr. J. R. 
McKee, a young wholesale merchant of In¬ 
dianapolis, and has now an infant son, of 
whom General Harrison is very fond. Mr. 
Russell Harrison, the General’s son, lives in 
Dakota. Mrs. Harrison’s maiden name was 
Scott, and her family is one of the oldest and 
best known in Indianapolis. 
Judge Gresham’s mother, who is now in 
her 81st year, still lives with an unmarried 
daughter in the old homestead, some 10 miles 
east from Corydon, Ind. The homestead is a 
humble cottage standing upon the side of a hill, 
and there Judge Gresham loves to go for a few 
■days’ rest when he wants to get far from the 
madding crowd. Old Mrs. Gresham is still 
active and energetic, and goes about her house¬ 
hold duties with a firm step. Age has dealt 
kindly with her. 
George D. Hulst has been appointed 
Entomologist ofj the New Jersey Agricul¬ 
tural College Experiment Station, and asks 
for information concerning the best known 
.means of destroying injurious insects and pre¬ 
venting their ravages. Persons writing are 
requested to give as complete a description as 
possible of each insect pest, its method of 
doing damage, the time and duration of its 
appearance, as far as may be, and specimens 
should be sent in all states of development, 
with specimens of the plant to which the 
injury is done. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Vermont Entomology.— Bulletin No. 11 
of the Vermont Experiment Station treats of 
entomology.—This is the first of a series of 
entomological papers which the Station pro¬ 
poses to issue. This one treats of the tent cat- 
terpillar and the best methods of fighting that 
pest. The wild cherry tree is the original 
food plant of the tent catterpillar. It spreads 
from this to the cultivated apple. The station 
suggests that road-masters ought to see that 
all wild cherry trees on the roads are kept free 
from the webs of this insect. Among the 
methods given for exterminating the pest are, 
hand-picking of the webs, spraying with kero¬ 
sene emulsion and Paris-green and fastening 
bands of cotton around the trunks of trees. 
The old method of usiug the torch is consider¬ 
ed as useful as any. It is strange that the 
Station authorities have not yet tried the 
Pyrethrum treatment. 
Maher & Ghosh. —Catalogue of the cutlery 
manufactured by this firm is sent from 75 
Summit St., Toledo. Ohio. Any person can 
find a knife to suit him in this list. They are 
all here, axes, razors, shears, knives, scissors, 
hooks and primers. The goods are first-class. 
We have done business with Maher & Grosh 
for many years. 
Perkins Wind Mill, Mishawaka, Ind.— 
This concern sends an elegantly framed pic¬ 
ture, which is the neatest advertisement we 
have seen of late. It is tastefully framed 
and splendidly painted, and the advertising 
feature is so modestly displayed that it is a 
pleasure to examine it. 
Dutton Mower-Knife Grinder. —Circular 
from the Higganum Manufacturing Corpora 
tion, Higganum, Conn. This is the season for 
this handy implement. We have seen it in use. 
It is a good thing. It will prove a paying in¬ 
vestment on any farm where a mower is in use. 
POST-OFFICE CLUB. 
The Dark Side of Farm Life story stirred 
up our people considerably. It made us think. 
We have less of this “Dark Side” than many 
other communities, yet we get our share of it, 
I suppose. Following this story came the 
comparative prices of farm produce in 1850 
and 1888. According to these figures farmers 
ought to be making just about three times 
as much as they made 88 years ago. Perhaps 
we do make more but we don’t save as much 
as our fathers did. They accumulated pro - 
perty, bought farms and built houses. We 
have, many of us, hard work to hold on to 
our property; let alone adding to it. All the 
older men can easily point out the mistakes we 
younger men make. They went to church in 
the lumber wagon, it appears, they had no 
sewing machines, pianos, hired girls, washing 
machines, patent churns, or any of the other 
money-eating implements of the present day. 
They say that money is more plentiful now 
and that people have invented two ways of 
spending it for every new method of making 
it. If we would live as the old folks did we 
could make plenty of money at farming. This 
seems pretty evident to us, but we don’t know 
how to begin to start back to those “good old 
times.” 
“De fact off der matter vas” says Uncle 
Jacob, “dot we spends shust about half off our 
money pecause somebody else vas do it. Ve 
shust pays mit a tribute mit society. If Mr. A 
baints mit his fence, den Mr B , if he vas an 
enderbrizing man vas shust baiut his. Effery 
body could get along mitout a goot many tings 
dot dey haf, but Jive would not be so bleasant 
mit dem. I might say to my viveund daugh¬ 
ter; ‘Now den, dere vas no uze in paying out 
bleudy off money for der vinder’s clothing. 
Here vas grain-sacks und furtilizer bags dot 
vas goot varm cloth. Ve vill vash dot und 
make dot into clothes und keep varm und 
healdy.’ Now, dot could be done und off ve 
vas littng mit some desert island vere nobody 
vas griticize, I haf no doubt dot ve vould 
vear shust such tings und be shust as happy 
as never vas. But von ve goes in mit der so¬ 
ciety off any gommunity ve vas shust haf to 
come up mit der standard off dot gommunity 
mit our dress und our vays off fifing und all 
deseoder tings. Der consegueuce vas dot ve 
spends blendy oil' money dot ve kuows vas 
uzeless shust pecause Oder beeble does it und 
ve tinks it vas fearful dot ve falls pehind. Der 
trouble mit society vas dot it vas gultivato 
bride so fast dot ve vas ingrease our oxpense 
shust like a snow-ball vile ve vas keep up 
mit it.” sm a ll pic a. 
particularly Uncle Jacob’s deductions and 
conclusions on vital matters, is good. The 
subject of feeding cows for milk as discussed a 
few weeks ago, so as to get the most profit out 
of them, is a matter that concerns every milk- 
producing farmer in the country. The first 
thing to have is a good cow, then proper milk 
producing feed, and, last but not least, a good 
milker. Uncle Jacob talks about the leaks in 
the barrel. He says what water is put in a 
barrel can be pumped out if there are no leaks, 
and thesamo hesaysis true in the dairy—what 
a cow eats will be converted into milk if there 
are no leaks. Well, I think a farmer ought 
to feed his cows himself; then if there are any 
changes at the pail he will know the cause. 
One big leak,that prevents the feed going di¬ 
rect to the pail is a cold cow, and perhaps it 
is the biggest leak that most farmers have to 
encounter. If a cow is kept warm and com¬ 
fortable, free from the chilling blasts, she will 
give a good flow of milk; but if this same feed 
is diverted from its proper design of milk- 
production to that of keeping the animal 
warm, there will be noticed a very great fall¬ 
ing off in the flow of milk It cannot be other¬ 
wise, for it’s only the surplus over and above 
what is used for the animal’s comfort that we 
get at the pail. Uncle Jacob’s head is level 
when he wants the leaks stopped, and I agree 
with him when he says that the best milker 
gets the best returns from his feed, for if 
there is an abomination and loss beside it is to 
have a noisy, worthless, indifferent milker at 
the pail, who flourishes the stool at the slight¬ 
est provocation, while poor bossy is trembling 
with pain, fear, and disgust. The returns at 
the pail with such milkers will be very limit¬ 
ed, and no cause to wonder as to the reason 
either. 
So it occurs to me, as a candid opinion—the 
result of years of observation—that a farmer’s 
headquarters should be at the barn, and his 
regulur office hours should be when the dairy 
is being milked and taken care of; that such a 
farmer, in ihesedaysof low prices, who is on 
hand and looks after both ends of the cow— 
the feed and the pail—who studies the raw 
material in order to get the greatest amount 
of finished product, is on the highway to suc¬ 
cess, while the easy-going farmer with his 
slip-shod ways and methods, will suddenly 
wake up and find that he has been going back¬ 
ward. 
Yes, Uncle Jacob, go on. You may not 
always be right in your conclusions, but you 
are not afraid to express your views anyway. 
On the temp ranee question, as you have ex¬ 
pressed yourself in a late Rural, you are 
sound to the core. m. h. c. Gardner. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
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