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Ng ET Le
Agricultural.
Sheep give two crops a year, one in
the fleece and one in the lambs; some-
times three, for in California and Texas
they shear twice a year,
On land that is worthZ§100 per acre
the productjof each cow ought to be
$75 per year. If she will not. do that
she is not up to the mark o ™h good
Cow,
The best grass for wet land is red-
top ; to this may be added meadow
spear grass, fowl weed grass, and
perennial rye grass. “Otethese about
six pounds each may be used to the
acre,
Taking Indian corn as the basis of
comparison, we learn that 100 pounds
of corn is equal in nutriment to 45
pounds of peas; 76 pounds of wheat ;
83 pounds of oats ; #0 pounds of rye ; 111
pounds of barley; 138 Jpbunds bf pea
vines ; 333 pounds of corn stalks; 460
pounds of oat straw; 500 pounds of
wheat straw; 500 pounds of barley
straw ; 500 pounds of Irish potatoes;
925 pounds of rutabagas; 6066 pounds
of rye straw; 907 pounds
and 1250 pounds of white turnips.
BiG POTATOES, —A correfiponfient
writes us, over his own name, {rom Bé-
loit, Kansas, follows : We yor
paper, February 1, you called tention
to some potatoes raised in Dakota, which
weighed 2] pounds, While in Califor-
nia, last October, I saw Irish potatoes
that weighed 5 pounds, and quite a nun-
ber. They raise some larger than those
I saw, 6 to 7 pounds. This, was jn. Santa
Barbara county. t*T.08 Angeles, 1
saw a sweet potato that weighed 154
pounds. They say they have’ raised
some that weighed 20 pounds, At Santa
Barbara I saw a pump pr that weighe dl
228} pounds, four feet Tohjy; dud six feet
in circumference.
of beets,
as
atl
GENERAL ITEMS.—Sowing clover
with wheat in the spring, to be
under in the fall, will pay.
of clover seed is enough to sow eight
acres. Experience proves that the Tur-
ner is the best red raspberry, and the
Gregg the most productive and profitable
of the black caps. Both are indispens-
able. Now is the time to push trim-
ming apple trees. When cutting off the
limbs, cut each one off far enough out
80 a8 to leave the stump as loug as the
diameter of the limb whether it is
large or a small one. When working on
small fruits the old wood should now be
gut out of the raspberry and blackberry
rows and the canes tied with
yarn to the wires. 1f stakes are used,
twine for tying wool will be required
turned
Ome bushel
i
carpet
GREEN PEAs,—To raise
in perfection requires good garden land ;
a dry, sandy loam will g
liest, but in time of draught,
of the erop upon sucl
inferior ;
RIeen ix
“as
bring ther
iii
+3
vine lid
HE GUAalLy
1 Jand will be
Yers
$213 . - oid ire
SUILL, SINCE eariingss 1s very ae-
sirable, it usually pays te risk a . small
of Poin, sandy
soil, and to depend upon better land for
the later crop.
hardy, may be sown as soon as the
will work mellow ; sometimpes this ean
be done in March. The manure for
peas is usually spread along the farrow
from the cart, and covered lightly with
the hoe. before sowing the deed, which
is then covered with a rake or hoe about
half an inch deep. The manure should
be as fine as it is possible to' Bet it. The
pea called Champion of England is also
the champion of America, as a late pea
for the private garden. It is the sweet-
est and Lest of all; but it makes long
vines, and does best when staked with
brush, which of course cafifivt Ye done
on a large scale profitably, — New Ehg-
und Farme: / :
Don’t to work
there is some warmth in it
piece early peas upon
Peas perfectly
aud
being
begin the soil. until
Don’t uncover the strawberries too
soon. Let them be protected’ fit we
have a bright sunny day.
“ples. Milk from the cow, when given
improper food or drink, affects cheese
made from it more seriously than it
does butter : but in either case it is bad
enough, and when drank, i8 the origin
of deadly fever and various other fatal
| diseases,
In experiments made at the New
York experiment station with musk-
mélons, the Christiana proved most sat-
isfactory among the varieties tried.
One peculiarity of this melon is that
the fruit as soon as ripe becomes de-
tached from the stem, so there is never
any question as to when it otight to be
plucked. A handful of sulphate of
potash, or several times the quantity of
wood ashes, added to each hill, was be-
lieved to improve the quality of the
fruit grown.
A writer on the subjeft of laying
hens says he with a flock, the
average laying of each heir being ‘only
65 to 85 eggs per annum. By selecting
for hatching from year to veay the eggs
of those hens that laid the greatest
iunber, he brought them up iu process
100 210 eggs
authenticated in-
began
lay from to
We have well
stances of hens laying
gle year, and even more than this nuns
ber is guessed at. It is highly profitable
under oxdinary circumstances to keep
egEs
if
non-
sitters are such as give the former ; but
fhe sitters. when of a good breed, will
generally about two-thirds of this
as v
|
1
of time to
each.
200 eggs in a sin-
bens which lay from 150 to 200
the contrary,
The
pel but quite
they produce only 60 to 50,
annum,
reach
umber
a
Odd Stories about Animals,
Sherman, of Stockton
to shoot a rabbit,
is.
was about
As Staey
N. J.
eagle swooped down andicarried it off,
an
iI% one of the
He
then
A chicken ventriloquist
Ky.
and
curiosities of Concord, CTOWS
notes, makes
clarion
echo-like repetitions of them, gradually
with
dying away as if at an increasing dis-
tance,
John C. Long's chickens at
Ind., was a hen with a
brood of eight little ones. Her coop
had been raised high enough for her to
out by means of a small
A large owl entered,
Among
Columbia City,
in and
Of
pass
piece board.
The hen then flew
hich fell, and made
hastily ran out.
against the
the owl
A
was witnessed
Africa. Pursuing a caterpillar
host of mall ants. An
mount
bite
would
prop,
a prisoner,
between insects
in South
singular combat
bv a traveler
Was oa
'
iL
al would
back and
caterpill
and kill
siaughtenng
caterpiliar’s
>, ¢
Pausing, the ial
head and bite
After
dozen Wr more of
iis
118 tormentor.
eaterpillar showed signs
he ant
taking himself to a
a combined ati
+1}
dtalk of
3 nade
grass, Las
eaterpiliar climbed up, tail first, follow-
by the
woached him he
AY soon
sized it in his jaw and
The ants,
had too strong a
resorted
ed ants As one ap-
hrew it
hat the
position for t
tostrategy. They begansawing through
the grass stalk. In a few minutes the
stalk fell, and hundreds of ants pounced
upon the caterpillar, and he was killed,
and the victors marched off in triumph,
eaving the foe's body on the field,
& a3 f1 :
Oil the Stalk. Seeing
Yi
Satetp) a)
them Lo overcome,
cn pms
Happy Hours,
An accurate observer save : Mankind
always happier for having been
happy ; so that if you make them happy
now, make them happy itwenly
years hence from the memory of it. A
childhood passed with a mixture of ra-
tional indulgence, under fond and wise
parents, diffuses over the life a
feeling of calm pleasure { and in extreme
age very last remembrance
which time can erase from the mind of
are
sil
whole
old i= the
The weeds found on our
largely from the grass seeds with i
which weed seeds are mixed: © The mi |
sroscope not only reveals to the eye the
worthless seeds of the grasses, but by eare-
ful use it detects the weed Bad
weds are a source of great injury to the
farmer and the subject should not
neglected.
Dr. Sturtevant, director of the New
York agricultural experiment at Geneva,
ways: “That broadeast fertilizing is a
better way for corn than hill fertilizing
seems in accordance with my awn ob-
servations, 1 bave known many far
mers to pass from hill manuring to
broadcast manuring for corn, but I have
never known a farmer fo change his
practice from broadcast manuring, after |
once having given it a fair'trial,”’
farms come |
weds,
be
cS ———
iis
The quality of milk is impaired by
allowing cows to drink foul water and |
o eat improper food, Al know the
bad effects of turnips in winter, and of
wild onions and other weeds; cropped |
while at pasture, in summer ; but now
comes up something which has not been
thought of as injurious, heretofore; |
This is from grass and “ay grown on
toned land, or such as is fertilized by’
sewage. Distillery slops, perhaps, is the
do not like it any better for fattening
nan. No enjoyment, however incon-
siderable, is confined to the present mo-
A man is the happier for life
for having once made an agreeable tour,
or lived .any length of time with pleas-
ant people, or lived any considerable
terval of innocent pleasure, which
contributes to render old men so, inat-
| tentive to the scenes before them, and
carries them back to a world that is
passed, and to Seenes which are never Lo
be renewed again, Dickens.
Nig
Telegraphing in Japan and China is no
slouch of a job, There are 44,000 charac-
ters or hieroglyphics in the language,
and no telegraphic alphabet is equal to
ithe task of representing them, A
gysterh bas been devised by which only
| 6900 characters, divided into 214 classes,
need be dsed, and by the aid of numbers
| they can be transmitted by wire. But
imagine ndightning operator in Ameri
ea trying to send. several th
Ca! by such
a method as that! The operator, the
message and the telegraph editor would
, 8 probably be badly “broleen up” in the
LL on
é ' 5 ii 3
am MO A OB
Postman : ‘Say, sis, 's Mr,
Malley O’Dearmont ?"’ + 1 4 nor,
directions.”
Horticultural.
The Moss Rose.
The angel of the flowers one day
Beneath a rose tree sleeping lny—
That spirit to whose charge ‘tis given
To bathe young buds in pe ti 3 of Heaven
Awsking from his light repose
The angel whispered to the rose,
“0, fondest object of my care,
Still fairest found, where all are fair,
For the sweet shade thou giv'st me,
Ask what thou wilt, tis granted thee,”
“Then,” said the rose with splendid glow,
“On me another grace bestow,’
The spitit paused in silent thought-=
What grace was there that flower had not?
"Twas but & moment—0'er the rose
A veil of moss the angel throws,
And, robed in nature's simplest weed,
Could there a flower that rose exceed?
Sins.
Orchard Management.
As the last snow drifts dwindle away
and the ground dries off, thé farmer
takes a stroll through his orchard, and
begins to make plan8 for a spring cam-
paigh. To decide just what is the best
thing to do depends on ecige umstanc £8,
and often requires all the judgme nt of
an expert horticulturist. Very likely
the apple orchard has pot been trimined
years, The tops are thick,
of the lower limbs are dead
or dwindling ; the fruit small and of in-
ferfor quality: Instead of using. an axe
or hiand-saw and removing @ quarter or
more of the large, lower limbs, thin out
a number of smaller limbs all aver the
the trée, Avoid cutting any
limbs over an dnch in diameger. This
takes. a longer time to each tyee, but
experience shows that it is bestifor the
long life and productiveness ef
for some
and some
outside of
health,
the trees. The more you cut out of the
top, the more numerous. and, vigorous
sprouts in the centre
of summer's
Hkely
In
will beihe young
of the tree. In the
work the average farmer is not
to rub out or cut off these sprouts,
our severe climate where the sun’s rays
into the top, the bark on the
large likely to die. A little
shade is preferable. A little trimming
every year is far better than a heavy
hurry
are let
limbs
is
trimming once in two or four years
If the bark is scraped off the old
trunks, be careful not to dig too deeply
and disturb the portion whick is alive.
So far as the health of the tree is con-
cerned. no doubt the rough bark does
some good and no harm except 10 har-
bor a few insects. As the weather be-
comes warm scrub the trunks and large
limbs with soft soap as thick as it can
be well used.
If the
will be
ferent
Are severe, a repetition
Look out
Frowing season
rains
valuable, several dif-
times during the
surface of ground
t +):
Lik
for borers “a the
and all along the trunk and large lin
thet found or
Seen,
the
As the
1 falling, §
a wagon in
BAIN purpie
the potato
level tablespoouful to a pal
If any traces of 1 are
cut away with
dead bark is
WOrins of
bie
lace son
knife, Dig out
them to son
denth
about througl
rels of water In
mixed London or Paris
. i Ain
green, satne as for beetles
large
Repeat the
foree pump or
all over,
with a
shower the trees
operation after every hard rain or wind,
perhaps two or three Limes, being sure
that the apples are not large enoug th to
hang down with cavities about the
stems, The poison is to kill the young
apple worm,
If the apples are very thick on any of
the trees by ne means prop them up, but
pick off many of the smallest specimens
of fruit. It isnot #0 tedious a process
to thin fruit as many imagine till they
try the experiment ; and it pays, by se-
curing better fruit and husbanding the
resotirees of the tree for furure crops,
A very heavy crop generally weakens
thé tree ; the apples are small during
tree is checked in growth and comes to
& premature death,
So much for the top, now for the root
of the matter. Very likely the trees
have not done well for same years and
theowner is. puzaled to know whut to
do with them. If the soil and cultiva®
tion is correct and the trees are of suita-
ble varieties, they will produce a good
deal of fine fruit whether they are trim.
med or untrimmed, Many trees are
planted in soil which is too black and
lommy, on soil which is far better for a
pasture or meadow than for trees. A
heavy pruning and all the soap and scrub
bing ‘you can give them will avail little,
It is most likely now toe late to make
good trees by drainage, if they ever
suffered on this account—and many
have suffered, even where little sus.
pected, Such an orchard may be left a
few years longer till the young orchard
on the hill or well drained plateau of
strong wheat land comes into bearing,
then convert the old treed into firewdod,
If they are on suitable wéll-drained, soil
and have borne or have not borne fruit,
it will be well to top-dress the land
composted. Pile up the limbs as soon
Bivey ue eut iy chop them up short
AWRY to tel ound or pid théy
way ba burned. ¢ yon
Pedr treet heed Vt very tittle trim-
ming, except dwarfs, which the general
farmer should seldom attempt to raise,
Start the mbes very low and let th
trees go to grass, after they have bee
cultivated, not later than Aug. 1, for
three or four years, Plum trees need
about the same soil and cultivation as
peach trees, and not much trimming.
To save the plums, remember what has
often been written about jarring the
trees to kill the curculio, It is a sure
thing and when economically done it
only costs about six to ten cents per
tree for the entire season. There is,
probably, no better way than the old
jarring progess, Cherry trees need but
little trimming and cultivating, about
the same as for plums,
a ————-
Sanitary.
TREATMENT oF TyrrHoiD FEVER.
In an editorial on the recent epidemic
of typhoid fever in Paris, the Medical
Record, January 6th, says that
the conclusion to be drawn from the
Paris epidemic, as regards the therapeu-
tics of typhoid fever $s that the disease
must be hed, not actively treated,
We believe that the sooner this view is
taken, and typhoid fever is looked upon
scarlet
the physician can-
RRS.
wals
as a disease like small pox or
fever, ‘whose
not greatly agodify, but
we can, in part, the better it will
be for our science and our credit
Tie CURE SACCHARINE
BETES,
read before
August id,
the author
remedy for
COUTHE
whose danger
avert,
IDiA-
Felizet,
nees,
OF
In a paper by Dr. G.
A cade
AVS the .
of Scie
Hug
the any
Tour nod a’ MERE,
claims to have discovered a
regarded
The
has succeeded in
a disease usually
saccharine diabetes,
that he
end to glycosuria artificially
animals,
that suppresses the
as incurable
author
putting an
BLATTER
in and that the
produced
medicifie
glycosuria will
artificial
likewise cure dials
ha
union between artifi-
a few ‘weeks or mom There exists
says he, a bond of
cial
and
rritation
is not then,
submission to the severit
glycosuria, intermittent diabetes
that bond
bulb. It
in masking the disease by
confirmed diabetes, and
is of the rachidian
ies of a regime
exempt from bread, feculents, sugar,
ete. , succeed in
by tapping the very source of the
duction of sugar,
pressing the irritation of the bulb,
but
pro-
that we curing it,
by sup-
Bro-
the elective ac-
the
the
that is to say,
mide of potassium, by
tion of sedation that it
functions of bulb,
effects of such
that
and
Tyruoip
WAVES AND
exerts on
the SUPPTesses
irritation with a rapidity
and, in
cures the diabetes,
MALARIAL
is often surprising, large
repeated doses,
FeEVE!
HEIR
monthly
Board of Health
tics showing
AND
RE
report, t
ATION,
(
2
3 {YY
Ne Hey
r., and comm
nO msn
return ol
as follow
tyvln wl
and its steady Ir
for the
0
part
Prolninence,
last three years
of
movement.
frequency
an extensive
As the
ushered
aApparentiv a
COM Preneneve
demic of malaria was
almost
in i
a total disappearance of ty
decrease, and laces
quite,
1
}
4
i
this return of typhoid fever
former importance and relative fre
an intimation of the decrease
of The
tendency toward typhoid fever com-
menced several years ago, and
steadily grown stronger eagh year,
shown by the increpsed prevalence,
tendency to unusual frequency
severity, and the increase each year of
desiths from this cause, As the decrease
in the frequency of typhoid preceded
the malarial wave, so its increase pre-
cedes the entire disappearance of mala-
ria. or at least gives us some ground for
bope that such a disappearance will
take place. This disappearance of epi-
demics of malarial fever oB a large
scale has often been followed by an un-
usual prevalence of typhoid fever or an
extensive epidemic. The epidemics of
malarial fever of 1807 and 1824, which
are stated to have extended over all
Europe, were followed by typhoid
fever.” The writer thinks that the
spread of malarial fevers over Connec-
tient. Massachusetts and Rhode Island
has ceased.
A Crazy ¢ Father.
quency is
and disappearance malaria.
has
As
and
CRA AI 505
Charlotte was a beautiful girl, with
luxuriant golden hair. The rector of
the parish and an officer of the British
army were dining at Edgeworthstown
House. After dinner the ladies repaired
tothe library, and after wine the gentle-
men followed. As they entered the
door of the library the officer exclaimed,
“How beautiful! Mr, Edgeworth
said, haughtily and quickly, “What do
you admire, sir #** He replied, ‘Your
danghter’s magnificent hair?’ Charlotte
was standing in a becoming attitude
before the bright grate, with her arms
resting upon the mantelpiece. Mr.
Edgeworth walked acrossed the room
to the book-shelves, opened a drawer,
held her head back and cut her hair
close to the head, As the golden ring-
ary father said, * Charlotte, what do
you say?’ “Thank you, father.”
Tarning to bis guests, he remarked, "i
will not allow a daughter of mine to b
vain,"
Chronologistic.
Interesting Events.
Tamarlané died 1405; Marriage of
Napoleon 1 to Maria Louisa, 1810;
Victory of Poles over Russians, 1831;
Prince Bismarck born, 1815. Charle-
magne born, 742 ; Florida rediscovered
by Ponce de leon, 1512; Thomas
Jefferson born, 1743 ; Nelson's victory
over the Danes off Copenhagen, 1801 ;
Professor 8, ¥, Morse died, 1872. Our
Saviour crucified, 33; Washington Irving
born, 1783 : Bishop Heber died, 1826 ;
Fall of Richmond, 1864, Oliver Gold-
smith died, 1774, Resurrection of our Sav-
our, 33: Plato died, 347 B, C.; John
Stow, antiquarian, died, 1605; British
museum founded, 1753; Canada dis-
covered. 1499 : Robert Raikes, founder
of Sunday Schools, died, 1511, Richard
L of England (Cour de Lion) died, 1199,
Albrecht Durer, German engraver, died,
152%; Battls of Pittsburg Landing, 1862 ;
Washington chosen first President of
the United States, 1786, Lalande,
French astronomer, died. 1807 ; Revolu-
tion in Brazil, 1831 ; Kaulbach,
painter, died, 1874. Petrarch crowned
with laurel in Bome, 1341 ; Hudson Bay
Company 1662 ;
Patti born,
1402;
.
Eugene,
German
Adalina
Medici
Prince
1736
Battle
1 1512 2
crowned sovereigns
First
Edward Young, poet,
Henry €lay born, 1777;
{ History of Music) died,
of Warwick, the “King
battle of Bainet,
musician, di 1758
{ Baron Baltimore
founder of Marviand, died, Battie
1746 : Buffon, natusalis
» Fusell, painter, die
German Empire formed, 1.
min Franklin died, 1790.
established,
1843, Lorenzo
Lord Bacon died, 1626,
died,
18065,
de
died,
great General,
General Horatio Gatesdied,
of Ravenna (Gaston de Foix slain
William and Mary
of England, 1680 ;
Napoleon, 1814,
died, 1785;
Charles Bu
i814.
Maker.”
1471 : Handel,
Georg: {
« ? o 3 §
abdication of
rey
Earl
slain in the
died,
alvert
1632,
of Culloden,
x
died, 1788 1895 :
a
187 Benja-
The
1680 ;
infam-
First
newspaper published in America, 1704 ;
German chemist, died,
1873. Origin of the térm “Protestant.”
520. A few of the Electors and Princes
of Germany, joined by the inhabitants
of Strasburg, published a “*Protestation”
against of the Diet, from
called **Protestants.”’
y May 14, f
ous Judge Jeffries died,
Jaron Liebig,
a decree
which
From April
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they were
10 4
in
Lord Byron died, 1824
Iassacre ol
Domingo, 1804
Ihr. Benjamin
of Lexington,
i Parlia
whites =
i
230i i widho» : 5
Bush died, 1745; allie
Edis),
Cromwell dissolve
lL
Yrs 1 /
Napoleon mn, y A
died,
lexander
the Great
Lt, brermaa
| Kan
born, 1724: Wordsworth
Ww shakespeare
vaniles, 1
Mary, Queen
Dauph
France,
Oliver
died,
gator,
poet,
ian Ge,
Allis ¥1 velist,
of Sects, married
Francis
poet, died, 1
5
in, afterwards
155% Tasso,
Cromwell born,
1200, Ferdinand Magellan,
killed, 1521 ; Uhland, German
born, 1787, Sir William Jones,
orientalist, died, 1784 ; U. 8S, Grant born,
R22: Queen Victoria made Empress of
India, 1876. James Monroe, ex-president
of the United States, born, 17568; Ludwig
Tieck, German poet, died, 1853. Rufus
King. American orator, died, 1827.
Lucan, Roman poet, died, 66 ;: Chevalier
Bayard buried, 1524 ; Edict of Nantes
approved by Henry IV of France, 1
Battle of 1745 ; Washington
inaugurated President of the United
States, 1780. Union of England and
Seotland, 1707 : Dryden, the poet,
1700: English slave trade
1807. lLeonardoda Vinci, painter
1519: Catharine 11, of Russia, bom,
1729: Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863.
[ale of Jamaica discovered, 1494, Bat-
tle of Tewksbury, 1481, Napolecn the
great, died, 1821; Battle of Prague,
1757: Baron Humboldt, died, 1858;
Salmon PP, Chase, died, 1873: Pacific
Railroad completed, 1879, Joan of Are,
heading the French forces, compelled
the English to raise the siege of Orleans,
1420: Robert Morris, died, 1806;
Napoleon landed at Elba, 1814 ; Forma.
tion of the American Bible Society,
1816 ; Battle of Palo Alto, Mexico, 1846,
Schiller, German poet, died, 1805,
Louis XV., of France, died 1774 ; See-
ond Continental Congres®” 1775; Ti-
conderogs captured by Ethan Allen,
1775: Stonewall * Jackson, died
1863. Earl of Chatham, died, 1778;
Minnesota admitted as a State, 1868,
Earl of Strafford, beheaded, 1641. King
John, of England, resigned his Kingdom
to the Pope's legate at Dover, 1213;
Jamestown colonized, 1607, Henry IV
of France, assassinated, 1610; Lewis
XITI of France, died, 1643. Mary
Queen of Beots, married to Bothwell,
1567 ; ‘Cuvier, died, 1832; Daniel
O'Connoll, died, 1847. Rueckert, Ger-
man poet, born, 1788 ; Vendome column
in Paris, destroyed, 1871. Catharine I
of Russia, born, 1727; John Jay, died,
1820, HNavejeon declared Emperor of
Cowper
navi-
Hus
Fontenoy,
died,
abolished,
, died,
yr
the French under the title of ‘ Napo-
leon 1,” 1804. Anne Boleyn, beheaded,
1536; Boswell, died, 1795; ‘Dark
day! in New England, 1780, Amerigo
Vespucius, safled from Cadiz on his
voyage of discovery, 1447 ; Cristopher
Columbus, died, 1506: Albrecht Durer,
born, 1473; North Carolina seceded,
1861. Battle of Cannala, in which Han-
nibal defeated the Romans, 216 B. (
jattle of the Granicus by Alexander
the Great, 334 B. C, ; Island of For-
mosa overwhelmed by a hurricane,
1782; Beginning of trial of Aaron
Burr, for treason, 1807 ; Richard Wag,
ner, musician, born, 1813, Battle of
Ramillies, a great victory of Marlbor-
ough, 1706 ; Paris burnt, 1871, Queen
Victoria, born, 1819 ; Copernicus. died,
1543, William Paley, theologian, died,
1805 ; - Ralph Waldo born,
18203, John Calvin, died,
1864. Dante, Italian
Agassiz, born, 1807
Davy, died, 1829; Earl Lord
John), died, Constantinople cap-
tured by Mohammed 11, emperor of the
Turks, 1543: General Putnam, died,
1760 : Restoration of Charles 11, 1660
Wises admitted as State
General Winfield BSeott
of Arc burnt,
painter, died, 1640; Alexander
died, 1744 ; Voltaire died
Motley, historian, I8YT
Bolevn crowned {
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hao Frederick Wi
der 4 {
4 "4
iiam 1, of
iia),
Emerson,
reformer,
poet, born, 1265,
Sir Humphrey
Russell
1878,
isin 1745
died
1451 :
1850,
Joan Rubens
i
oe
poet,
died,
(queen
died
costly A
A Balaklava Hero.
There is now resi idi ing in this
miles West of here, a
‘Charge of the 1
battle of
Hamilton.
county,
about hero of
the famous
Brigade’ at the
Mat
coal miner by occupation
At the t
he Was on 5
five
Aght
Balaklava,
He
nfty-six
Crimean
twenty-eight
years old, and was 4 member of troop
3. No. 1004, the Britis
goons. He came to this country
and has resided in
en years. He is quite
man, and loves to o«
dents of his army life,
part connected with the war
Crimea.
Mr. Hamilton gives some
acts connected with the
the attack on Balaklava by tl
October 25,
named thew is a
and
old. of the
n 1-54,
years time
war, |
light
ALR
dra-
3 my
in i=qi
of
about
intelligent
the inci-
especially that
of the
this Couniry
an
MVErse on
important
in
ie Russians,
they stormed four Turkish
and guns
which
chargs,
redoubts captured eleven
halted, and their col-
back by the British
At that junction Ix
British commander
Light Brigade to 1
after they
umn was driven
Hig
Ragan.
landers, srl
the issued
an order for the
ur redoubt
he Turks early
onveving this order
Nolan,
Mie A
ardigan Caplain
he message, 1s
the Light
whole
%
riders for
3 a 4
Brigade to
tha
Like
Russian
ton avers that when the order
he, with many others, was so
amazed that he scarcely knew
was about, and withe even
mat
second sober thought the whole column
was harled into the terrible carnage
graphically described by Tennyson. In
charge Mr. Hamilton was shot
through the side and had his arm shat
tered and broken near the elbow, while
the horse he rode was shot through the
neck, and dropped dead after bearing
his rider safely from the dreadful field of
carnage. Mr. Hamilton served in the
British army fifteen years, and to-day he
bears the scars received in that famous
charge of the Light Brigade.
“i
this
--
The Fourth Pape: Dome in the
World.
The special feature of the new obser-
vatory "
fourth
at Columbia College will be
“This will be the
paper dome in the world,” said Profes.
sor Rees, *“‘ They have all been made
by Waters & Sons, of Troy, N. Y., tle
manufacturers of paper boats, and are
all in this country. The first one made
s at the Troy Polytechnic Institute, the
second at West Point and the third
at Beloit College. While that at West
Point is the largest, ours is the best in
construction and arrangement. The
method used in the manufacture of the
paper iskept a secret, the makers using
a private, patented process, The dome
is made in sections—semi-lunes as they
ae teehnically enlled. There are
twenty-four of these sections. They
are bent over toward the inside at the
edges and bolted to ribs of wood, The
thickness of the shell is ouly 332 of an
inch, but it is as stiff as sheet-iron. On
one side of the dome is the oblong open-
ing for the telescope, and over this is
a shutter (likewise of paper, but stiffen-
od with wood lining) which slides
around on the outside of the doe. The
whole done is so light that the hand
can turn it. The inside diameter is
twenty feet and the height is eleven
feet. The floor of the observatory is
100 feet above the groumd; we were
obliged to build it so high because of
the tall buildings around it. The build-
ing is rapidly approaching
and The 20me hulay in Pacer
paper dome,