AT THE LOOH.
EUGENE FIELD.
f thought myself indeed secure
So fast the door so firm the look;
But lo! he roddiing co oes to lure
My parent ear with timorous knoek.
My heart were stone could it withstand
The sweetness of my baby 8 plea,
That timorous baby Knocking and
“Please let me in; it's only me"
I threw aside the unfinished book,
Regardless of its tempting charms,
And, opening wide the door. 1 took
My laughing darling in my arms,
Who knows but In eternity
I like a truant ehild. shall walt
The glories of a life to be
Beyoud the Heavenly Father's gatof
And will that Heavenly 1 ather heed
The truant's supplicating cry?
As at the outer door | plea i,
“Tis 1. O Father! Only 1!
A ——
FOOD FOR THOUGIIT,
One lives and learns.
He lives 'ong who lives well.
Vanity is the most jealous disease.
We are all of us slaves to something.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor.
The ear should be asbigas the mouth,
A good character shines by its own
light,
It is more blessed to give than be
givin away.
Money made by chance will go with
esrtainty,
Happiness can always be found in a
dicti nary.
An extravagant man giows poor by
seeming rich.
How many suspicious peopls one
meets in this world.
Old peop'e are continually * indulging
nu new wrink es,
He that lacks time to
time to mend.
If yoa feel angry baware lest you be-
come revengelul,
The frown of a friend 1s better than
the smi e of a foul,
Want of care does more damage than
want of knowledge.
Te whom you betray
you give your liberty.
The stabborn man is the
will not list#n to reason.
Je virtuous and vou will be happy, as
weil as odd and eccentric.
Two good listeners may be friends,
but two good talkers un -ver.
mourn, lacks
your secret,
man who
The man who thinks ‘‘*he can’t do
ft’? is wore than half rignt,
He hathagrod jndgment that relieth
not wholly on I's own,
A man is little the better for liking
himself, if nobody likes him,
Why is happiness so scarce? Too few
engaged in producing it.
Pools thyme with fools, and gener-
ally the two are sold together.
Peace is the shadow that
sun of a virtuous life cats.
the setting
Worrying is mental cowardice in al-
most every one excep. yourse.f,
More men are born with shovels In
their moutus than silver spoons
The fear of being an old maid has
made many unfortunate watches,
ng fa e is one of
devil has
A Christian with «|
the bx st advertisements
on earl.
It just takes three timesas [on to tell
a lie, on any subject, as it dues to ell
the truth.
The hardest of all things is to gel =
man to stop and look himself squarely
in the face,
A man thinks i. very easy to save the
world until he has tried save Lhe
man next door,
The fact that riches have wings may
be the reason that they enable wu man to
“fly high.”
No disposition 1s a security from evil
wishes to # man whose Lappiness hangs
on duplieity.
thie
to
fe
i
Justice is a hiltle short-sighted, per-
haps, but it frequently has an eye tothe
main chauce,
Denial is based on 17norance. To the
informed wind possil ilitics are unlimit-
ed,
It is well to he dethroned before one
has done anything to deserve dethrone
ment,
Talking and eloquence are not the
same, to speak, and to speak well are
two things,
fensive “han the arrogance it usually
accompanies,
Avord eirecamlceution in
Words, like cannon bal's
straight to their mark.
Lying is the bass of all evil,
about one year of absolute truih
crime would disappear.
Ianguage,
not talking about it
acter that cannot defend
worth vindicating.
When thedavil can’t make people keep
still about their religion he tries to make
them say too much,
A man naturally finds It necessary to
have recourse to his J*‘ancle’’ after he
has “auntied”’ too much.
It was probably the man who mar.
ried a rich wife who first started the
joke on the difficulty of finding a wo-
man’s pocket.
If you have anything to give, give it
to the “‘hale fellow, well met.” If you
have anything to lend, lend it to some.
body else.
There must be brain service, hand
service, foot service, purse service, as
well as lip service, if we would see the
answer to our prayers.
We are not more ingenious in search.
ing out bad motives for gcod actions
when performed by others than good
wotives for had actions when performed
he anssalves |
POWERFUL GUNS.
ee.
low the New War Bhips of Ow
Navy are Armed.
From an article on the above by Com.
mander C. F, Good . 1, in the Century,
we suote as follows; ‘‘How very few
persons, by the way, appreciate the la
tent power of a modern projoctile when
in motion. Those who have visited the
Atlanta and have seen her smaller guns,
of six inches caliber, whisked about by
one mas, will be even the less likely to
realize that their shot can plerce an iron
plats over eight inches thick at the dis. |
tance of a thousand yards. Try to im-
agine for a moment the number of meo |
who would have to pull on a line that,
arranged in any conceivable way, could
be made to throw the hundred-pound
shot with force enough to make such »
bole. Yet all of this power is stored up
in a cartridge weighing less than fifty
pounds. To contain and restrain such
| manent distortion, when the pressure is
at its greatest; must return to its origi. |
oal shape when all is over; and it must |
offer, at all times, the greatest possible |
Technically out |
metal must be tough, clastic snd of |
eat tensile strength, These qualities
nd their highest development in forged |
steel. As in guns, so in what t ey |
throw, the ay is towards larger
The cannon-ball of ous |
grandlathers ave place to the eight |
nch and nine-inch shell of our fathers. |
To-day we are using elongated steel pro |
ured in thickuess by the foot, or ever |
the yard; we are charging some with |
melinite or other fri fetal explosives |
that will create untold havoe, or with
noxious chemicals to suffocate » whole |
ship's company.
‘Other weapons are experiencing the
same development. Hotchkiss—an Amer. |
ican, of course—brought out his revolver |
cannon, then his rapid-fire guns. The
largest of these was a six-pounder
Mounted on a swivel it could be fired
from the shoulder like an old wall piece,
delivering about twelve shots a minute
Presto! we now hear of 80-pounders, 70
ounders aud 100-poundcrs of this type. |
magioe shoulder practice with a six
inch gun weighing five tons sad three. !
quarters, at the rate of ten rounds in »
minute, each round capable of piercing
fifteen inches of wrought iron! Such
guns exist, and will censtitute a8 large
part of the armament of the most modern
ehips of war. Every one is inventing
some new form of mounting to bold the
gon that deals such rapid snd powerful
l.ws, or of breech mechanism to lessen
the time taken up in loading. Electrici
ty, steam, hy rmrlic and poeumatic
power are used in our aew ships to load
and handle guns. Maxim —American
again—utilizes the recoil of the piece to
do all the loading and firing,
*“The improvements ia guos withla the
last few voars have been so great sas to
amount to a revolution, snd their
stant end has been increase in the power
of the gun and in the rapidity of its fire
In the first direction we appear to have
reached a limit io the 110-ton gun, and
there is a tendency to Ne, Tor it is
generally admitted that a smaller gun
will do the work required for naval ser
vice. The Jargest gun contemplated for
our new battle ships is the thirteen-inch
60-ton gun, firing a 1,200-peund shell
with a velocity of 2,100 {eet per second
In the second direction we are making
constant p.ogress, but it is mainly by
improvements in gun mountings snd io
the service of smmunition, The limit of
the rapid-fire principle is reached when
the ammunition becomes tco heavy to be
easily handled by one man, and it is be.
lieved that this lias even been
passed in the English six inch rapid-fire
gun. For the present, at least, we are
content with a four-ioch gun firing a 36.
pound shell; and a large part of the arma.
ment of the ships now building will coa-
gist of these guns.”
con
imi
;
A Chalk Mountain,
AN ADVERTISING TRBADD,
Perhaps 1t may have Happened in
plissvillé County, Fairyland.
“1 would like to have un advestise
ment inserted.”
a dead man behind a newspaper counter,
and the clerk turned as if mod.d by an
electric current, sud ejaculated,
‘Yes, sir; want the top of the column,
1s'posei”
“No, I am not particulas, said the ad.
vertiser,
“Want it inside next leading editor
inls?”
‘Either page will answer,” rephed the
other,
collar?”
are good enough for me,” was the re
sponse,
‘All right; want a head line in type
an inch longer than Jenking’ ad, in pext
forked lightning all over it?"
my purpose.”
‘Good enough. Want about ten
inches of potice free, don't you! Family
history, how your grapdfather blacked
Washington's boots once; mention of
yoursell as a member of a circulating li-
ative store, bassball clu
portant public positions?”
The customer said he did not care for
any notice,
“Of course, " said the clerk, ‘you want
one for yourself and the privIT2ge of tak-
fog hall a dozen.off the counter every
week for the next year or two because
you advertisei”
paper, and asked the price of the adver-
The delighted clerk figured it up, and
then asked.
year, you cas tell the boy when to call
agein, can't youl”
“No, 1 will pay you now,” ssid the
other, taking out a roll of bills,
The pewspaper man's eyes bulged ma
be said:
‘““Ah! you want to ask for 73 percent,
discount and 33 per cent. off for ashi”
“I am ready to pay a fair price for
value received. Tell me your regula
rates and here is the money,”
A beatific expression spread over the
wan face of the worn clerk, and be mur.
mured
“Stranger, when did you come down,
and when do you expect the apostles
slong !"-~| Bostoa Commercial Bulletin,
mo ———o
Measurements of Criminals,
Experionce confirms the belief that M.
Bertillon's system of measuring parts of
the humaff fr. me, referred to in our col
criminals than photographic portraiture,
According to Mr. Spearman's article on
“Crimin 3 France,” ia the English
lliustrated Magazine, the French author
ities, with an experience in the measure
ment of one hundred and fifty
thousand subjects, have never yet fqund
two cases in which all the messureménts
vecre a*ke. The size and position of
pr. ax op yo sem we 3
nesriy
eta IK . atid
the same extreme sccursey, afford a ford
of check upon the bodily megsurementa,
It is said that exact duplicates of two or
more marks have never been found on
two individuals. If, therefore, they get
a suspected person whose measurements
and marks prove to be absolutely identi-
cal with a record, it becomes certain that
the record refers to him. So convinced
are the French officials of this that we
are told that they now trust entirely te
the figures aod never even look at a
photograph till they linve satisfied them
selves of the &beolute tallying of the
anthropometrical description. —[Loados
Neus
Coal TVasling,
A cor washing plant has been erected
Last winter the discovery of a huge
mo'mtain of pure chalk in Union county,
Missouri, one mile from the Alexander
county live, three miles from the line of
the Grand Tower and Carbond:.le rail.
road, and within three miles of the Miss.
lasippi nver,. was announced: but until
the past few weeks the magnitude of the
fd was not appreciated, inasmuch as the
work of development had not proceeded
to anyextent. The mountain isabout 150
feet high; and from borings thus far
made thete does not appear to be any
limit to the chalky substance. The
mountain is the property of Joumathan
Peery, whose residence is at Mount
Veron, 111, and who is just now putting
the chalk on the cars at $5 per ton. The
chalk is found by scratching away about
a foot of the soil, when the pure white
substance is exposed in asolid mass, un.
alloyed by any foreign elements, Appar-
Ihe
discovery is the more imporant from the
fact that it is said to be the only chalk
bank known in the United States, and
8s it is convenient to the mail and
to the Mississippi river, where it may be
handled in barges, its value is not likely
to be over.estimated. A company of
capitalists in this city are investigating
the mine with a view to purchasing the
entire propert). {Commercial Adver.
tiser
Trr. San Francisco Chronicle estimates
that the fruit shipments from California
to the East this year will reach 10,000 |
carloads, or 200, 00 pounds, Itsays:
*'At an average price cents pound
~~which Ed considered low, as the
above embraces a vast quantity of dried
frait, which sells at from 8 to 20 cents a.
pound our surplus for ex will bring
the State at least $10,000,000, This isa
pretty good showing for a section in
yr: apples and rn sold freely at
1.50 to $3 a pou years agh,
which at that thae was JB) aod
unfit for any
of gidod ir
~~
plant hea a capacity of 400 tons per day,
but bas dealt with 500 tons by the wet
sizing the smudge an automatically
washing and rewashing afte? crushing
the various sizes. The plant is driven by
& 100-borse power steam engine, and the
water used in the process of washing is
circulated by means of a powerful cen.
circulates nearly five tors of water vi
minute. The object in erecting this
plant was to produce’ a high-class coke
out of a mixture of very dirty hard and
soft smudge. The coke produced is of
uniform quality, and the ash in the coke
is steadily kept below four per cont
Besides the preparation of the smudge
for the coke ovens, & quantity of small
peat, suitable for fuel, is produced by
the washer
Turning the Tables on Vanderbilt:
Theres a story of »
ployea on one of the
who, alter fruiticss endeavors to
Joes man em:
Vanderbilt himself,
He was kindly received, but when it
came to the question of an incresss in
salary, Mr. Vanderbilt said “You
man, the trouble in these days is not that
men do not get salaries enough, but that
they are extravagant and do not keop
what they get.”
With admirable composure" the young
man took a note book snd pencil from
pocket, and, after a little figurin
said: “Mr. Vanderbilt, as I figure it, It
Bod had given Adam s salary of $25,000
a year, and he had lived till the
day aod hoarded every cent of it during
thud 9,000 Jona, be would still be $50,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
{| Fireproof paper is now being mana.
| fuctured.
Magnetism is now proposed for over.
| coming scale in boilers.
A mountain of sandstone suitable for
grindstones is reported nino miles from
| Grant's Pass, Oregon
At Der Island, in Columbis County,
Oregon, s vein of sand stone, estimated to
| be 200 foet in depth, has been Ciscovered.
Mexican onyx is a form of stal ite,
{ and its colors are formed by oxides of
{ metals in. the earth ever the caves
through which calcareous water, passes.
A ciaim bas now been made by Pro-
fessor Braun, of Tubingen, that he can
produce electricity direct from mechani.
cal work, and he is now at work on the
| construction of o practical generator on
this principle.
The rapidity with which flies pass
through the air is not likely to be ap.
preciated by these who see only with
what apparent ease they do it. Filles
will keep up with a fast horse, and that,
too, without lighting on him.
A report comes fromthe West of the
discovery of a process by which iron ore
| can be so softened by the concentrated
rays of an arc light as to { ¢ worked with
a comparatively small amount of labor.
If this discovery is confirmed, it may
lead to a oonsiderable modifsation of
the present modes of treating ores
Professor Boys, in a communication to
the Royal Society, Englacd, on measure.
ments of the heat of the mbon and stars
by mesos of his radlomicrometer, gives
an sccoynt of a test with a candle at
250.7 yards distance, which gave a de-
flection of thirty.elght milimoters. In
other words, this instrument would show
the heat of a candle at 1.71 miles dis
| tance.
The most important occurregee at the
vas the reading of a paper by Dr. Koch,
tne famous practitioner and investigator,
{| on the tuberculosis
sumption.
of killing the bacillus and curing the
disease,
nuts which showed that eycless myrio-
pods cen distioguish between daylight
and darkness, their skin being sensative
to light. Eyeless maggots are also sensi-
tive to light. M. Raphael Dubois has re.
cently studied the perception of luminous
radiations by tho skin, as exemplified Ly
the blind Proteus of the grottoes of Oar.
nicola. iy a sumber of experiments up-
off this animal, which i= a sslamoender
with persistent gills, Dabois
strates that the sensibil of its skin to
demon.
eV
scusibility varies with the color
hight swployed, being greatest for yellow
light
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Corn Husk Paper.
f corn husks for the production of cloth
and paper. The husks are boiled with
sn alkali in tubular boilers, the glutinous
matter being pressed out from the fibre
by hydraulic apparatus, leaving the fibro
= the shape of a mass or chain of longi
tudinal threads, interspersed with a dense
wass of short fibres. The fibre is easily
worked, either alone or in combination
with rags, into the fivest writing or
printing papers, and it also very readily
takes any tiot or color. If the gluten is
left in the pulp, io the process of manu
facture, the paper can be made extreme
iy transparent.
The Vitality of the Snail
.
The snail is blessed with a very great
power of ritality. A ease is recorded of
sn Egyptian desert snail, which came tc
life on being immersed in warm water,
eiter it had passed four years glued to s
| eard iu’ the British Museum. Some spec.
imens in the collection of a naturalist re
vived after they had apparently bees
dead for fifteen years, and snails frozen
for weeks togeihier in solid blocks of ice
have recovered op being thawed out,
The eggs of this creature are as hard to
| destroy as himself. They are perfectly
| indifferent to freezing, and have been
| known to prove productive after having
been shriveled up io aa oven 10 the sem:
| blance of grains of sand. “
! bs IA
A Bigamist Bird,
| A Seranton man who gives his atten.
| tion to ralsing pigeons says that the
‘only bigamist he has ever seen among
{pigeons is a male now owned by
| him. During the breeding season the
| bigamist maintained wo seperate
| wives and households, devoting just
iabout as much atteotion to one
{as to the other. He helped raise
| the broods of each female, aad his at
fection for each was equal
double duty kept him very Lusy. but
| he seemed 10 take pride in having sc
| much responsibility.
I Ros i.
In the Conservatory.
She (widow and rich) —**What de
you think of my garden?”
———
and you the fairest flower in it |
would I were your gardener.”
She “You would make a queer gar
dener. Come, now, I will examine you,
What is the first thing Jou would de
were you gurdoner here?”
He — I'd ask your permission to re
move your weeds."
But she married a follow as rich w
herself, and he's in training still
Profanity never did man
re han is any
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THE FARM AND GARDEN.
WHEN TO WATER RONSES,
A writer in some agricultural pag.
says: “‘Nover water a horse within thro
hours after eating.” "This muet bo & mis
take. He was right in saving: Wate
them before they are fed.”
times they will not drink before eating
if more bungry than dry. Now, it would
be crucl to drive a horse, especially ing
bot day, fifteen or twenty miles befor
giving him drink. How would a mag
like such treatment?
given a little water in half an lLour after
eating when he is being worked. Bome
think it safe to let a horse drink 2'l Le
wanls while going right along on the
road, but many valuable Lorses have
been killed Ly doing this. A little
World,
GRASS FOR PIGS
marking that therc is meat in grass for
pigs as well as for cattle and sheep.
is very tne, but it is @ mistake to sup-
pose that the natural diet of
grass, as it is for ruminant animals like
cows and sheep. The two latter have
8 very bulky double stomach, and will
thrive ou coarser fare than the pig, that
has only one digestive appartus, Withs
out doubt pigs ure often fod ou too cons
centrated food, end are bevetited by a
run at pasture, especially Ly the exercise
it involves. But the notion that grain
or some concentrated food is not needed
even by growiog pigs is a mistaken one,
It is true pigs thrive well on milk, but;
even with the cream taken from it, milk
it much more putritious and therefore &
HOW DEST TO USE FODDER,
The hay crop 1s scarce in some parts 6f
is always with us,
use that foddor to the best advantage. If
you have a silo, cut the fodder short and
put it in. This is vudountedly the best
plan mow known, but if
tilos and the chances are about
thousand only thst you such a
“modern improvement,” then cut the
fodder and shock it in the field the best
Toke
field every
week and set up or baul to the barn all
the shocks that show an inclination to
fall apart or get otherwise injured. There
it no economy of the fanin carefully
lobking after things, nod this is particu.
larly the case with corn fodder iu a year
when bay is scarce and high. — American
Dasryman.
nave
ise
PARM A
Heep the wagon well greased
Neglect is the worst weal on o farms.
AI
®D GARDEN XOTESR
Prepare ground well for winter wheat,
Mauare on land is concentrated sctivie
oy
| Always Lave
{ door
Long ov
Huddy.
a bitching post
st your
roings coming; read and
If you work early and late, rest
nidday
al
Buy nothing
theaply
Put
Lo
can produce wu
ire where it will do tha
st Rom
Always
reduce o«
The market
with the best.
Have you done all you can for yom
fowls" romfornt
The best time to do e thing is befots
it is actually needed.
Dn everything in the siuaplest sod
| mot sensible manner
| Better pay a good price for soed that
use poor if given you
plan to sa
st
ve labor and thereby
is seldom overstocked
Getting money out of dirt is dirty
business, but itis bouest,
Have you made your plaos for next
year! It is time you had.
During the rainy days repair the tools,
oil the harness and fix up the cow stable.
Remember that one of the most impor-
tant cares of the farm is thg care of
Liealth,
Add the uncounted comforts to the
| money income before you say the farm
| does not pay.
When threshing take good care of the
straw. Bright, clean straw is better for
| bedding ws well as for feeding.
If you bave nothing better, lay is a
good supply of dry earth to use as an ab-
sorbent in vour stables when needed.
Many diseases of the horse's feet are
due to wearing shoes t00Song a time.
| Knock off the shoes during vacation.
Apply lime whitewash in your stables,
| your hen-house, your pig-pen and every.
| where that insects can lay their nite.
When you dig your potatoes, dry
| therm before storing, but do not expose
| ther $0 the sun, if you can avoid it.
| This is a good time to open up the
| ditches or to put in tile from that siok-
| hole that makes ugly jogs in all your
work,
It is a bad plan to clean out the pouls
throw the refuse just out-
side the door. Barrel at omce sad put
under cover.
Clear away the masses of foul stuff
around the trunks of your fruit trees,
They are harbors for vermin aad ine
ACRSE NOTES,
~The sad death of Wa ter E. Penrose
will be regretuwed vy many hor emen,
| =—Trolting meetings are far more
popular 1 Kentucky then runuviog
meetings,
~Adamn Forepaugh has purchased
from J. hu Laughlin the pacing mare,
Dolly M., record 2,274.
—A trotting meeting will be held at
Dr. McCoy's new kite-shaped track at
| t. Geurge’s. Del, in May.
—There 1s a yearling brother to Arion
at Palo Alto, and his dam has a suck
ing colt by Palo Alto, 2 09}.
~Buad Doble will drive Graylight,
(216%, and Dave W ison, 2.24%, to pole
on we Terre Haute roads this winter,
| ~Bunol’s harness weighed six pounds
snd she pulled a for.y-six pound sulky
aud a 150 pound driver when she tros-
| ted in 2,08}.
| —Red Mack, 231}, by Red Wilkes,
(own: d by H. F, Pierce of (Crystal Lake
Block Farm, Stanstead, Q ie., is now in
| Bous.on tian ing for a recocd.
—The blind stallion Cheyenne, son of
Nutbourne and Jeanette, by Me-senger
i Duroe, is six years old, and has reduced
his record justi 114 seconds this year,
~The Edgardo-3peculat'on race gave
to New Glesgow the fastest (lapadian
record—2.31%, 2,804, 2.293 —until Israel
made a wark al Halifax, third heat In
2.28.
We congratulate the JFndustrios
American, of Lexioglon, K,., ou the
handsome picture of W, Li, Bimmons,
and the interesting tketch of his Wilkes
| stallions,
~James H. Murphy, of Manayunk,
| has sold his dun pacer Barney (record
2.80) to Jo''n Daly, taking the dun
| pacer Yellow Tow, by Tom Hal, Jn
| part payment,
~--American horses are being shipped
| to Aberdeen, Scotland, for coach and
{driving purposes, and oue dealer has
opened a stabie there for the exclusive
{ bundling of American-Ured horses,
— Manette (lam of Arion 2 243), by
Nutwood, will appear in the great urood
tare list hereafter, ano her son, Ora
Fino, Ly Eros, having got a record of
2 280 1~ecutly at Poughkeepsie, N., Y.
~dJ., G. Davis, Superintendent of
| Bighlawn Farm, Lee, Mass, has pur-
| chad from he estate of the ‘ate Hon.
Bligar Sanith toe premier stallion Al
cantara and all the Uotting stock of
{| thal celebrated farm.
—The hay gelding Confidence,
Winf 14 Scott, recently trotted a half
In Lil§. toa cart. This hoise has
paced eretofore, but iv & race for
p cers ond trotters at White Plains re-
cently be struck a trot and has troited,
since,
— The 6-year-old pacer Bunco, Jr.
2.134, recently purchased in the West
by George Leavitt, arrived at Bos.
ton, Mase, his new home, He will
be a formidable addition next season
to the free-for-all pac.ng brigade in the
Fast,
by
~]t is not often that a pare eighteen
years oid is put in trmining, especially
alter she has raised a family of off pring,
The bay mare, Nora l«e, foaled 1873,
sired Ly W ,odiord Mambrino, 2.214,
dam the dam of Voltaire, 2.20} by
Mambirino Chief, trotted a mile iecently
i in 2 324.
~lem. Ullman, after a prolonged
seas n of successful programming ef
the Jeading trolling meetings, has
returned to New York to spend the
| winter. Ile has brought back with him
| the bay gelling Clarcoce 8, and pro-
poses 10 become a member of the road
i rigade,
| =When Arion reduced his record to
| 2 10§ recently, at Bwckton, Cal, C. W.
| Wilnam=, of Independence, Ia, imme
| diately wired Senator stanford as tol
lows:
i “I will book ten high-bred fillies by
i Allerton to Arion for the sea-on of 189%
| at $2500 each.”
~John B. Clarke, the well-known
| breeder, of M.nchester, N. H., and
| proprietor of the Mirror and Farmer,
(isdead. He was 7: years ol’, and had
[lived a life which attracted #0
{ him the besl elemer ts of the commun
{ity, Among the hoses owned by him
were Mambrino Wilkes and Almont
Eclipse.
—W. H. Achuff, the contractor and
| driver, accompanied by his wile
| and child, bad Fin Fan and Hudson to
| a wagon on Kensington avenue, Pnila-
delphia, recently, when a pair of horses
attached to a hay wagon ran into him,
breaking his wagon and throwing out
all its occupants, Fortunately none
were hurt, Is team stopped when
spoken to.
~The many friends of Abner King,
superintendent of 8, C Wells’ Dream-
land Stock Farm, Le Roy, N. Y , will
deeply regret to hear of his death by ac-
cident recently. He wasdrawing water
from an open curb, and losing his bal.
ance, plunged head-foremost 10i0 water
63 feet below. Death was inst. n'anecns.
He leaves a wife and one son. He was
3 8 years old.
—harles Marvin rode over the Stock-
ton treck in 208), The next day he
went over the course in 22.08 riding on
raper. This isthe way one of the
most famous trainers and drivers in the
world works fo win great
against time. He supesintends every
for the speeding of bis trot.
ters and when be 1s ready to drive them
all conditions are favorable for fast reo
cords,
~The friends of the old