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THE BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
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PERSONALS. 
The new Emperor of Germany is not afraid 
of work. He is not satisfied with less than 
12 hours of active labor each day. 
Richard Ten Broeck, the famous turfman, 
has purchased a farm near Palo Alto, 60 miles 
from San Francisco, and is fitting it up as a 
residence. 
Vienna papers estimate that Dom Pedro’s 
illness of < 5 days at Milan will cost him ?L00,- 
000. Half this sum was spent telegraphing to 
Rio Janeiro. 
King Milan of Servia has applied to the 
church synod for a judicial separation from 
his wife, Queen Natalie, on the ground of an 
insuperable aversion to her. 
Mr. Havermeyer, of New Jersey, who has 
24 silos of 2,000 tons’ capacity, recently opened 
one that was filled seven years ago, and found 
the corn in perfect preservation. 
The reorganization of the Japanese mili¬ 
tary system has been completed, under the 
direction of Maj. Meckel, a Prussian officer. 
The major has just returned to Germany, 
having given three years to his task. 
Gen. Harrison’s son Russell is a leading citi¬ 
zen and ranchman residing at Bismarck. His 
wedding a few years ago to the daughter of 
Alvin Saunders of Omaha, then a colleague 
of Gen. Harrison in the Senate, was a noted 
society event. 
Madame Christine Nilsson took what is 
supposed to be her farewell of the stage in June 
at Albert Hall, London. The hall waspacked, 
and the receipts are said to reach $10,000. Mr. 
Reeves, who bade forewell to the stage some 
years ago, assisted Madame Nilsson. 
George Bancroft, the venerable histor¬ 
ian, is now at his Newport home, where his 
rose-garden, numbering 4,000 varieties of 
that flower, was in full bloom on the 25th of 
June. Mr. Bancroft watches every bud and 
blossom with tender solicitude. 
John Roll, residing in Redmon, Edgar 
County, 111., is the owner of a horse th t is 20 
hands high, weighs 2,500 pounds, and is said to 
be the largest horse in the world. It is five 
years old, never was off Roll’s farm, never has 
been broken, and has never been shod. 
F. H. T. Bellew, the well known artist and 
writer, died Saturday at the home of his 
daughter, Mrs. Jones, on Long Island. Mr. 
Bellew had for 30 years worked for the lead¬ 
ing illustrated papers in the country. His 
work for the Rural was done under the name 
of “Chip.” 
Robert H. Cowdrey has accepted the nomi¬ 
nation of the United Labor Party for Presi¬ 
dent, even after his own Land and Labor Club 
at Chicago had repudiated the action of Dr. 
McGlynn’s convention. So far at known the 
party consists of the ex-priest and Robert H. 
Cowdrey. 
Is eight a lucky number with Harrison? 
Each of his names has eight letters. The first 
letter of his surname is the eighth letter of the 
alphabet. He was nominated on the eighth 
ballot as the Republican candidate in ’88. If 
he serves eight years, he will then be the 
eighth Republican elected to the Presidency. 
Crazy Head, the renowned chief of the 
Crow Indians, is now at the Indian school at 
Carlisle, Pa. He reached there Sunday with 
his son, wbo was one of the Crows who planned 
the attack ou Fort Custer last fall Though 
more than 60 years old, he says that he shall 
learn a trade and be educated like the young 
men of his race. 
The father and sister of Mrs. Benjamin Har¬ 
rison live in Washington. Mrs. Harrison is 
the daughter of the Rev. William H. Scott, 
who was formerly a Professor at Miami Uni¬ 
versity, where he had as students under him 
Benjamin Harrison and many other men 
since risen to distinction. Mr. Scott, who has 
ceased preaching, is a very old man, and holds 
a position in the Pension Office. 
Messrs. Carnegie and Blaine arrived at 
Cluny Castle, Scotland, Saturday, thus closing 
their coaching tour. Among the party were 
Mrs. Carnegie, Mrs. Blaine, Gail Hamilton, 
Damrosch the musician, and Eaton the theolo¬ 
gian. They were greeted at the castle with 
the firing of cannon and the music of pipers. 
Mr. Blaine will return home towards the close 
of this month, and a grand reception awaits 
him. 
There has been some curiosity to know who 
would succeed Mr. George H. Corliss in the 
management of the great engine works at 
Providence, R. I. Mr. Corliss’s son, Mr. 
George F. Corliss, has never been trained to 
the business, and will probably take advan¬ 
tage of his wealth to give himself up largely 
to study and travel. The vice-president of 
the company, Mr. William Cowan, therefore 
becomes the head of the concern. 
General Harrison is an early riser, and 
spends a short time before breakfast in th 
°pen air looking over his grape-vines and the 
strawberry bed in the rear of his house. After 
family prayers and breakfast he walks to his 
office, and comes borne again for lunch at 
noon. The Harrison home in Indianapolis is 
a substantial brick structure, with a stable, 
in the rear, where the family horse is kept. 
This animal is a big sorrel, which is usually 
driven by Mrs. Harrison. 
Since the death of the late Marshal Leboeuf, 
of France, only two Marshals of that country 
survive, MacMabon and Canrobert. There are, 
however, eight living Marshals, these being 
the wives of MacMahon and Canrobert, and 
the widows of Marshals Pelissier, St Arnaud, 
Leboeuf, Randon, Niel and St. Jean d’Angely. 
The last Marshal of France to die before the 
demise of Leboeuf was Baraguey d’Hilliers, 
and he was never married, while Bazaine, 
having been degraded from his rank, is not 
included in the list. 
Frederick Gebhard and Mrs. Lillie Lang¬ 
try, it is said, are to be married in September. 
They have long been betrothed, but Mrs. Lang¬ 
try will not much before the time mentioned 
be legally free from her present husband, who 
now keeps a hotel in England and refuses to 
consent to a divorce, which, however, she will 
get next month under the lax laws of Cali¬ 
fornia. She and Gebhard have purchased two 
very large adjoining farms in the valley of the 
Howell Mountains, Cal., and are going exten¬ 
sively into stock raising. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Points About Fertilizers. — A pamphlet 
of some 50 pages from W. 8. Powell, Balti¬ 
more, Md.—The main object of this pamphlet 
is to advertise Powell’s Prepared Chemicals. 
This is attractively done and a good deal of 
sensible information regarding the grow ing of 
various farm crops is thrown in. Here are 
some of the subjects treated. Sources of Ni¬ 
trogen as to Ammonia, Plant Nutrition, How 
to Make Hot-beds, Wheat Culture,Corn,“Farm 
Talks,” Successful Onion Culture, Potato Cul¬ 
ture, Grape Culture and information regard¬ 
ing the growing of tomatoes, strawberries, 
tobacco and sweet potatoes. This pamphlet 
is well worth examining. 
“Dr. Bailey” Ensilage Cutter.— A cir¬ 
cular from the Ames Plow Company, Boston, 
Mass., describes this machine. In this cutter, 
the knives are concave—attached to the wheel 
Diagrams showing the superiority of this 
method of cutting, over a convex or a cylinder 
arrangement of the knives, are given in the 
pamphlet. It is time to be thinking about 
cutting the s lage. Reading this pamphlet 
may start the thought in the right direction. 
Missouri Agriculture.— The Twelfth Re¬ 
port of the Missouri State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture is sent by Secretary J. W. Sanborn, 
Columbia, Mo. This volume includes the 
various bulletins published during the year, a 
record of the proceedings of the State Board 
and various papers read at farmers’ institutes 
and other gatherings. It is an excellent vol¬ 
ume, containing a world of information for 
the thinking farmer. 
Department of Agriculture —The Re¬ 
port of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 
1887 is at hand. It is, of course, impossible to 
do anything like justice to a volume of 
nearly 1,000 pages in a brief review. The 
1887 Report seems to us, from a hasty exam¬ 
ination, to be of unusual value, and we can 
heartily advise every one of our farmer friends 
to get the volume and keep it for teference. 
Consular Reports —We have, from time 
to time, called attention to the value of the re¬ 
ports from theU. S. Consuls, which are issued 
by the Slate Department at Washington. 
After glancing over No. 91, just received, we 
are inclined to repeat what we have frequent¬ 
ly said, that the farmers of the country will 
find a good deal of interesting matter in these 
volumes. 
POST-OFFICE CLUB. 
Some of our farmers are dropping into a 
habit that makes the older men shake their 
heads dubiously. It is the ice-cream habit, 
if I may use such an expression. Quite a 
number of farmers have bought ice-cream 
freezers and make their own cream. This 
seems, to those who have not tried it, a very 
expensive way of doiug business. It does cost 
a good deal where ice has to be bought, but 
as a rule it encourages farmers to put up their 
own ice. There is really less expense con¬ 
nected with the running of an ice cream 
freezer than people suppose at first thought. 
Where one has his own eggs and milk the cost 
is not much more than cake or meat. Time 
is needed, but almost any boy will turn the 
freezer crank for the sake of the cream. 
Uncle Jacob belongs to the ice-cream brigade. 
He seems to have prepared a series of argu¬ 
ments in support of the freezer. He ought to 
know what he is talking about, too. 
“Dere vas no goot reason why der ize-gream 
freeser vas out off blace nut der farm house 
Dot olt idea off der faimervas blayed oud. 
.fcseeble says, dere vas der farmer, off course it 
vas all right rnit him to ride out mit der sun 
effery day uDd drink varm vater undalvays 
dake der rough part mit life. Veil, veil, I 
nefer could see any reazon vy der farmer 
should make tings ihust as hard for himself as 
can be. Dere vas no reazon vy der farmer 
should not haf a shade off some kind mit der 
mowing machine or der vagon, u d if some¬ 
body vill tell me off der man dot can get more 
gomfort out off a blate of ize-gn am dan der 
farmeb, I vould like it. Some beeble says dot 
ize-gream vas not healdy. Veil, I vas not find 
dot so. Milk und gream und corn tarch vas 
gontain blendy off health. Vos dere some- 
dink mit der gombination dot spoils dem? 
Der action off fire vas make dem mit nize cake. 
Vos der action off cold spoil dem? Der fact 
off it vas dot ize-gream vas* *oue off der blea- 
antest, healdiest und most gomforting dishes 
dot der farmer can make, und mit myobinion 
a goot ize-gream freeser vill pay a goot brofit 
in der course off der summer. Und shust see 
vhat a sermon dot freeser vas breach. Dere 
vas dot gream backed avny mit der freeser, 
keeping der bleasantness und flafor off der 
vinter und spring vile all arount it vas shust 
so hot as nefer vas. It vas geep cool veil 
effery ting elze vas oxcited. Der man dot uzes 
an ize-gream freeser vas learn tokeephispraiu 
in shust dergondition off dot ize-gream. He 
vas geep cool vich vas der gondition off mind 
dot vas vin der battles off life und make tings 
bleasant und happy.” small pica. 
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