“A CHICKEN RANCIL A NEW INDUSTRY IN WHICH THOU- SANDS OF DOLLARS ARE INVESTED. Description of a Place Devoted to the Frodduet on of Fowls—=Inecubators and Art ficial Hrooders-—= Raising Broil “is for the Market, New York Mall and Express. | *The out'vok for the finenbator and poultry supply business is first rate, ” said a wellknown dealer in response to in quiries made by a reporter. “There are nany new partes coming in every day now looking wt machines who intend starting in the chicken-raising business this fall to make a regular trade of it. In cubators increas ng in pumber? Yes, sir; there are in the market from twelve to fifteen machines of different patents. We ha oe here in cur store eight of the leading | peration night and day from £20 to R500 each, With a varyinz capacity from fifty to 2,00) rule, 8 first incubator s from 80 to 90 per cent of the fer e pu it Most of ire automatic in their nn, so th Wf they require very little ones nn consta The prices rang AE AR & haich tile « these m re As $ that put into whines h ony ital does ; sing business?” wus “1 know o” one party whose capital {is ther whom we fitted out, ck wat £40. 0M that we } r whose sti 1 fies wi New Jersey hatch out 3 the chicken a ne WO Years, bul many weslthy i Who hay to i we sold and nile of this wi u Spoke 1} gh urs in New of ground. It about six feet high ber of wooden buile for chicken raising. One of these ures (0x0 feet aud is twenty foe It was originally built for the fatten poultry. It is divided into pens for floc of chickens of different bres ds measures about 10x"0 feet and tains nest boxes, roosts nod feeding troughs Another bu Iding on the ground is Jong and narrow, 100x15 feet and is divided into pens the same as the other. Still an other is 40x15 feet, which we princi It has a small pond ad pally for ducks Joining. Un a knoll back of these build ings we keep a large number of artifi al ym the brooders for young chicks taken fr Tersey covers six inclosed v fence It containg a num Mines lasil ADEs, util esr ACTes is 1 cially mens rt high : » of ks each con. use incubators at the store They are kept in | these brooders four old enou; stock.” “What is the ca weeks and are then gk to be put in with the larger pacity of such aranch?” * Without crowding it will contain nearly 1.000 full grown fowls, 5000 Young chicks and 1,000 ducks The cost of such a rauch complete, without lard, is about 83.0000 One man boy can attend to it nicely, Their duties are to feed and water the fowls res uiarly, and Keep the building thoroughly cleaned. in perfectly good health, Such a busi ness, properly carried on, will yield a J rofit of ut least 100 per cent. on the cap ital invested, and even that is a low esti mate. Take fancy bred fowls and they bring from $1 to $10 a piece, and | know a man who has a partridge cochin cock which £100 couldnt buy Ti en ake broilers. They are worth to day. aad ft is the dull season, 22 cents a pound Hve weight. Fach one will weigh 2 pounds, and the cost raise it is not over 1 cents, In winter they be ng from 50 to £0 cents a pouud, or 2 a pair The demand for eges for hatching is creat and a large part of our bu eggs for this purpose i 18 cartied on for thor Is, mot for market try. Po low visitors? Yes. we sot apart Fr Gays for any one who wants to see the place. But there have been a number of such ranches lately started in the neighor hood of this city. One on Island corducted by a stock company fs the iargest. The capital interested {s 840.000 Cot i i and 1 on to iness is uj ! raisine ha A ising oughl we i i H pou! ong ENG Lik piace is clusive product has now 1.000) CLE, "re fing more buildings HT he place have a capacity for onl cliiekens a day They find the 1 i profitable, and their trade is in the Another somewhat different in New Jersey, which is devo « to the production of eggs exclusively, its owners baving contracts with parties in this ¢ iy The man who owns it started the business three years ago with a capital of just $2 He has now 1,000 laying hens and his present buildings cost him $5,000, all of Which he made out of the business, Yet, all this time he bas been engaged in regu lar business in this city and 1 4 come in " hatching up will ive 8 | every day Substitute for Epongesin Hoepitale [Medical Jonrnal ] In some of the public kos ese paper handkerchiefs are with much wtisfaction, for drying wounds Sponges are 50 se'dom and with sch di Yeulty perfectly cleansed after being used that theie ew ployment js ol ectionalile The paper towels, how ever, suswer the same §urpose ag cotton ones, and are so cheap that they can be thrown away after belog used — ordinary cotton of loen towels having been found mich preferable to sponges, which, if soiled are liable to introduce septic mate rial into wounds The paper towels are senreel subtable for drying hands after washin , uttless set oral towels are used at once, Beta a large amotut of moisture on the hands soon saturates a single towel, For remov. ing blood from wounds a paper towel is simply crumpled up into a sort of ball or mass, and then weed as a sponge; such balls alsorh blood rapidly, pita’s Japan now used, One or the Oey, “Who was the first man?” asked a San day school (cacher of her prodigy, “Ades.” “And who was the first woman?" He hesitated a mement, and then shonted, * Madam, ¥ The Esthetio Apostle at Home, [New York Commercial Advertiser.) Among the houses one must visit—if only once-is the house of Lady Wilde, mother of the famous Oscar. It is & house In Park street, leading out.of Park Jane, one of the head juarters of fashion in the immediate nglghberhood of Hyde park. It is the dingiest, dirtiest, most disreputable abode of gentfity that [ever set eyes on. The mother of the apostle of beauty lives therein, and witli her, Mr. William-~or Master William, as he is sometimes culled —the elder brother of the apostle. When the other day I pulled the grimy handle of the bell attached to the door way, | noticed written above it, the om- inous word “Nothing!™ What did ft mean? A friend of Master William, to whom I applied for information, told me it meant ever ‘thing; that is was the whole news 1 the louse in a nutshell, and meant to describe the state of the Wildes finances. Inside things are it require to | 'p are | us w industry that has | { tainting the ¢ aay or The pen | | can never bes | ers or other like | on the the | and a | wp marries 1 1 . | back or a cripple If this is proj erly done it keeps the fowls | back or a crippl | push, for each fail | riage for a year { pin holes and pins In fact | | ized 1.00) sinesg | | ranch is one | scarcely better, but the lobby, stalrcase and reception room are so dark in broad (ny light that visitors ure obliged to grope their way up, and have not time or leisure to examine details. Those who have done so s, enk with bated breath of the dusty, almost wormy, atmos; here, dwell ing with a sense of injury on the bit of drugget over which they nearly stumbled | and the drawing room table, whic h, dimly seen in the sanctu wry, made motion of any Kind a positive danger The great Oscar and his bir ther Will iam do the duties of hosts in a most mas terly manner: the lady of the house, who. loco it ix said, objects to light, is an excellent | | convenience hostess “Brain, my dear madam; brain, my good sir That is what we want Aud so she talks and smiles and talks te all her guests, hoping they are clever, snd feeling quite sure that they are also fond | on one occasion, handed a charming young lady “Fro forma’ " he said, with a polite smile ‘But you, avoid them. | always do. ™ She did not take the hint and she lived to regret it Ti elderly, Wilh & taste of « Leu of brain some buns to Oscar » Duns wor ipboards about t Inviting Cholera. San Fran Cr Cloncisna yiskre In a sanitary point of vi presents a strange anomaly habits, man 1stoms a | my | g every accepted g esspools, exhala bons (rom water c.osels, sinks and sew: 2] tmosphere with noxious va- Hing odors pors and 1 herded wilh aud packed in damp cellars, literally the life of vermin, | ¢ lothed, addicted to the da the extent that many night are passed in stupefaction of its influence is be denied that, ns a whole, the gone ral health of the locality compares more than favorably with other sections of the city which are surrounded by mere favorable conditions, It seems impossible to account for this stale of things upon any other condition than that of the constant fumigation to which Chinatown is subject. ¢ pen wood fires from cellar to attic, cigars. tobacco contribute hourly and opium pipes all clouds of smoke to the fun agation pro living it | cess, and probably prevents the generation and spread of 2ymotic disenses, that oth erwise could scarcely fail to rapidiy deci male the Chinesse population of San Francisco. These preventive influend es uificient guard against chol visitations, for the terri matter whether it is borne of the wind, or steals like a thief at night, will sur ly decimate and piay sad havoc in these filthy habitations Ble Atsease, no wings Husband Sain ta, (8. James Gagetia | Breton girls who want to get married 0 lo Sene. near Vannes, aad stick pias n the foot of the wooden statue of & Spanish salut locally called St Uferier, his devotees within a year The pin mast be well pushed, for if it bends the future husband may be & hunch Fhis is on the Atlan tic coast On the channel at | ouman ach, on a rock socessible st low tide, there is. a little shrine supported by four Roman columns and oticarod to Bt Quiree, who landed there from England In the sixth century. His wooden im age 8 stuck full of pine Ro 4 4 « of St. Lawrence, near Quintin Here the pin must stick the first ire postpones the mar The same practice has been traced further iniand, at Laval, in Securing =» by Sticking the alue al binatown | 3 ruie people | | SUAre hi le 4 | 1 | kil | them | himself I it the flalier the ancient provinee of Maine. wher the | bare legs and arms of a colossal wooden siatue of St. Christonher are covered w ith and both young men na maidens join in the rite. Fine Arte Among Massalmeon. Boston Advectis er the Turks, an fg: hor I'ecaus orant ti¥mted and have de stros ed pictures, it is oe nstantly asserted that no rue Mussuln has ever patron the arts of acu pture and painting Nothing can be farther from the truth The painces of the caliphs of } gypt and “jain were alike sdorped with fries and paint of which no trace ut the Fsonria the lonale and Ir manuscripts ill TE siatnes in £9 ning Na all contain Were win ated as the m at the same time sent, with the great Irtental life io all letters : im ks of Christemnd pleture hiness : LY) : A legend in Ly person wmition aa = 0% Teding Hor oo" Stead ines fia 4 . ng A singular recently at Aix-la Cha elle, just previous the crown I ol for the military jubilee of his regiment garrisondd in that city. In the court of the barracks a number of horses, Intended to he used in carriages during the prince's stay, had 10 undergo a test of their steadiness and imperturbability as far a¢ noise of any dese fiption Was concerned. First, buglers and drummers treated them to the full capacity of their instruments in ag sn. semble of more than ordinary power, enhanced by an ceenstonal loud cheering of the men, and finally Dhitensified ly « chorus of several Lundred school boys, With but one or two exceptions the com Peting animals stood the test bravely “yr to rinces arr Digging in an Indian Mound, [Powton Reeord. | Ir, Green, the antiquarian and arc haol 08 *% sought out one of the hostelrics at Mount Desert some venrs ago, and, find. ing nothing better to do, obtained a shovel and began 10 dig in an adjacent mound which, from i Wpelirande wy gested to him an aborigingd origin W Nile of guid in this work a » oman mished out fur msly from the Lote afd shouted * What are you dig in’ there for? jst stop it" “ON,” replied Dr. Groen ing for curiosities In tits lod “That aia You “1 was Yook Inn mound, ft no Indian mound, rep I “that's where them Higgin is buried LI oI L884] Tr ! stire that nobod { lake dyva 70 oO r light but tly strong { range! tl} | for it positively {| fidencs | awhile all shi | drop into the reve phe n rehearsal took pl ee | i ' SHOOTING THE M USCALONGE, Novel Sport That a New York Fisherman Says Is Fur Ahend of Trolling, [New York Sun.) “There's more sport for me in walt on a runway to get a shot at a mus calonge than there is in standing on one in expectation of putting a ball into 4 deer,” said Geopge Bonnet, of the Rice Lake chub, “To get shot at a muscalonge? “Yes. Why, there's more exe itement Iylng in in hunting the muscalonge with the rifle | than there is in way. There is for me when you shoot killing it in sony other at any rate, and & muscalonge you can always know that it will be a big one bigger one than you would catch on i hook if you fished Tor a yesr. Then it requires great skit apd wariness to shoot one of these freshwater monst rs. They Are as crafty as the fox and us fierce a8 the wolf. It also requires great patience, for the appearance of your first victim may be delayed for hours Last summer I was at one fishing ground Rice lake, in Canadan—and in three days had pot sie ceeded in getting a shot at a single fish. 1 caught a pumber of small o es, the larg est being a fifteen pounder, by trolling, but 1 was anxious to kill one of the im mense fellows I koew were in the lake The way you hunt for muscalon ye with tree with branches the ritle is to climb a extending over a dee p part of the water where vou know that big { lark, 1 mafortable pl rm of boards in a tree situated in such a spot, ust as deer hunters who watch salt He ks from trees for their sh naturally It me a « atf arrange “The first led tive Lig in three wa ghed forty-two calonge have a habit of &1 the surface of the water on aud lying there, if taking a sun bath The sha LS) bird flying rhead, ping of a twig ecfson I { sh 0 sunny they of an eye, will | fention rother the ice Pounds though That is a style « { ’ } nerve ar ark hut to keep the ligh his eng = you Wo sex ng a sil ur feet long, minnow gon on thr thrast {ce i 1d over t out of the hole tht waler Liree or with 1g artificial end you sink it ugh the hol th you and, and ir right, nesr the your gaff The gaff you bait which yor waler It won shadow: down you bait and js ning up to He gradual ATAWS near see his savy eves glitter. an i th betweer At that instant a does not become excited and t } aspen has got XR nerve that one out among old fishermen, has The big fish moves on » owly, some pointed straight for the bait and sidiing up to it betraying all the his no He will bli be has satisfied matier of the strat iter Whe he gets el stope and glares wildly at the strong gad in is managed skillfully, and him on the k e, in which the advantage | the side of the fisherman hold very 1 keep moving t be lot toe f see the form of a bi AWAY muscalonge He sees the Lig ale it iow his long open low wis half man who ibled like AWS neat nos even thines then suspifousnd tl] ome on ature ‘3 4 on u ge ob'ect in the w ' to the bait and ho man sinks hi : 1 if it Is sure sirugy The Camp -Chaly Bale 8 Belle is i nati § I have made an Ins ntion that ist going ole a boon to my sex HOR shore, and what | want is that some ead talist shall put the money into the many facture. 1 haven't | for a patent but if | give the aw iy here | feel mean enough to mv conf natu It is 80 nat for me te all! Know that I can't resist the inclination. | call my devices camp chair bustle It consis’ ordi ! i f wires t the JUL . thing wil : ' In re ral tha i ary bustle d tapes, 1 worn in the usual man er It will « all tion and ; iouable Lu place f disten. in the fash. structure | INess re ume camp chair ir I and so y shut up upen A | ten witomation i 10 fiat wearer sta receive hier when she sits 1 Lave mented with a mode before when nus, aod and | sufferad the % Di some bard ker perfe the of apparatus was w worth her Lhe mn sand seated for wefully W wach hen she of the | and qesy has to 0 gr Walker - Tourists, Fore ign Lotter Bordeaux has just started a society called | the Walker Tourists of France, which publishes a curious prospectus The ex ercise which brings them together, say these pedestrians, “changes fat iato muscle and develops the chest and legs but more nobly elevates the sentiments of man, and restores lis energy and virility by putting him face 0 face with nature and solitude. ® Every : unday the Bordeaux club will start for “study walks and graduated promenades” In (he environs, “Marches etudes” turns out to mean an early start, breakfast In the woods, and the explora tion of sites and vulne. In the afternoon there will be games, then a supper, and back to bed at nightfall, having “trans. formed into strength that activity which every man possesses, but which in tawns he expends in uohealthy pleasures, ” “Dag Cheap. { hieago Paper.) Nothing so well shows that there is a revival of business in the south as the fact that a Florida man was able to trade off his printing oY ce for a mule Fither | that or mules are de g cheap in Florida Amer can Yolees, [Exohnnge ) Iu spite of the standing criticism and ridicule in Europe on the nasal voices of American women, the cultivated volcos of Amorican girls continue to take high rank in the vocul schools there Corrected, Miss Anna Johnson, of 24 Front street, Columbus, Ohio, says: “I suffered from an aggravated form of constipation and indigestion for several months. My fam- ily physigian tried all kinds of medicines and pills, but to no effet, 1 began 16 think my case wasa hopelessone, A friend of mine (Mrs, Elvira R edmond of East Long street, this city ), called, and sceing the con dition I was In, recommended me totry your MANALIN, I must say I had but little faith in the medic ine, but after I had taken | & few doses 1 wis convinced that Maxa LIN was the medicine for me, After I { had taken one bottle I was entirely well of my complaint, I consider it one of the best remedies for constipation I have ever used. I have several friends who are us- ing it, They think it dn excellent remedy, I recommend it to all who are afflicted with constipation or indigestion, Any one doubting this statement is invited to call on me at 24 Front street,” Mr. Milton Knotts, Urbana, O,, writes: “ Last November one vear ago I was tak | ensick, and called in our family physician, | He examined me and said I had symp- | toms of typhoid fever, He gave me { medicine for two weeks or more with. outany relief, I began to think that my days on earth were fast closing in, 1 saw at that his medicine would not reach my disease, Just as I was about it I would have to die, my daughter brought me « lets, 1 noticed a case were like mine, and Peruxa LIN had cured him, ‘ | 1 at once | to try it. I procured one t tie of Peru NA and one of Maxariy, and m as directed, and before | had used the two bottles | began to receive strength and | gain in flesh, I finished the rest two bottles and cont its use until the thurd bottle was u When 1 were used 1 could eat anvthing | want to and go about my work, 1 consider that if it hadn't been for your Pervwa | would have been in my grave. wishing informatio —AT THE - once it | to conclude t) ne of your pampl whose symptoms and Maxa Qc 1 : took the Job Office he nued wy Parties 1 Can wrile me al the nena You : tre mn Moundeville, W. anciing George Fisher | am hand ring a Ging good $ rade A PLAIN ROAD TO HEALTH. Read the Sworn Testimony and Satfs. | fy Yourself, THE HOWARD GALVANIC SHIELD CHEAPLY, NEATLY AND WITH DI | | This bs the only appliance made that can be spptied ty to the Kidneys, Liver, Btomach, Bplecn, part of the tudy it tan be worn at } t Man, Woman or Child i If your are Weak, Lasgnid, Teriiable, Fretful Nee. | vous, Forgetie Uneocial ¥ Apperos { Caner. that your Energion can ? y entra trated, Your Theoghte Clonded amd Thaconnected, that | Home and Social Circle & pert Have any ( harms { for Yom, and that Hope wt gone. The Nows | Khir i | overcotae it eBectiunily ® Hire { any ting the day by wit without site Mow # Is are y wy by the partion | MeCLamanex be te we this 3 fa ve td ed Prot ondctary | g of Mili aunty. Pa KD CUNSTIPATION Milroy, Pa, May 5, 14 { & pleasure AW ae em from th Lay ne Pn PARALYSIS A ietithe I doe that have wor § and have ' ” stat r severn! m te "yg e and Conetigation, Since from the the tr abide bei 1 therefore | alysis of on wring “pg I have ge { commend them toany who may be suffering from the | sarme trouble D.M OCOATNER NERVOUS PROSTRATION AND BLERPLESSN pes | roy, Pa. June bh ty fere we jan born | improved in my eral heal) for years « that My wife has stration, » thes Aint ured ber dally hoosehinld Gentletmer Pi | seemed 10 her a bu much broken and much difculty wd { She ae | it over two months oan + ng the day, can » J bas =) ¢ I con or rronsness, shoot oremens and general debility JOHN COX KO MEDICINE NEEDED Belleville, Pa, May 20, 155 Getthe I hav oon grestly benefitted Ly 1) f the Howard Bhield, No &, fw constipation. 1 | {since May and sonld not like t wit yout applinnce snd bave give then a trial f ' sate ens fitiod an | have boon CB PEACY A LEADING DOCTOR BAYS Milroy, Pe. Jane £1682 ad ¢ Re wit} "n jie Het {| Nervous ot Line rest a sleet Now is the Time to Subscribe was» that che owl thom { et fot me 1 dq to fry the Hwan] Shield, bas = w sleep well at tk with comiort maht, a2 that w ! wr nN general boailh r applisnces rvalon FOR THE mer " ae er worn I now feel thankful for 2 | 20 8 oth that 3 wont) WHAT Gent f bas R ten y at night ot for relief. 1 i have boon wearing it | my back and have | ef vince wonrieg it vor | Cramps in my lower «x tremitisg, meatly nik the roo “CENTRE DEMOCRAT,” en Baving to tise an | procared a Howard fhe for Lumbag t Blenmatiom is had the most wonderful re | the small of my back and have gained strength of | | muscle to a most = | degree, | there recommend the use of these applinnoes of all Rhen | in every cane wih Ven x ‘The LARGEST and CHEAPEST Paper Bellefonte. “tn nderfa can re in every case with benefit A NARENIDERER. M.D WHAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE 1st NATIONAL BANK BAYS Ashland, Pa, March 8 1885, I know what your Appliances are rom personal use and 1 therefore recommended your wield to Mrs, Hanburger some time ago for Bcibtion nd Indaced her to send for one which she did and bas weed it for about fonr weeks and she ie now able to be around and feels entirely cured Yours re fully, GEO, NH, HELFRICH, President of the Tot Nations! Rank Another AMdar't From a Prominent Citizens of Ohio, NERVOUS DEBILITY IN ITS WORST FORM. Columbus, 0, cor, Friend & Sand'ky ste, 53 48 Gentleman’ <1 take pleasure in sayin, that | tried alinost every known remedy, as well as so-called KE) votrie applisnces without any benefit. 1 war weak nervous, dapirited, dosponpent, almost without hope almost entirely enervated, Incked power and will foree, in & word war aflicted with the worst symp. toms of Nervous Debility the effects of which ard » well known to ow sufferer. 1 oan truthfelly say that the Moward Spinal Appliance and the Howard Ehicld edtirely cored me commenced thelr tee in 1551 and wag restored to perfect health. 1 am now married and Wave 1 ever ad « recarrehce of my for mer ramble. You can refer anyone to me ae 1 skal! ever fuel grateful to you. Your treatment is ax repre sented on Mave proven yourselves worthy of the confidence of every sufferer AUG. V BLLERMAN Personally Appeared before me, Aug. ¥. Klerman, to me known deposed and swears that the above let or, serfying a8 10 the curative powers of the Howard | Electric Shield and Fpinal Applinnces is trae. Sworn and subscribed before me thie 61h day of May, A, D ' 1085, THED., MH. BECK, Deprity Clerk of Courts of Franklin C6, 0 For father information, we send our Dilastoated Pamphlets giving a Jorge number of testimonials for | other aliments, AMERICAN GALVANIC CO. NChestannt Eereet Phila, Pa Gentlemen; ONLY $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. ——————— —————————— OFFICE : HARRIS NEW BRICK BLOCK. BELLEFONTE, PA.
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