WORK OF AMERICA'S HEN HER VALUE IS NOT LESS THAN 290,000,000 A YEAR. Worth Mora Than that Fntlre Wheat Cron of tha Country Not an Far Behind the Knrnlni of lha Rallroade Cnntri Kaally May Several Statea of lha Dnlnn. II. W. Collingwood, of the Burnl New Yorker, soys in the New Turk World: ' Mm. American Business Hen I one of our moat useful citizen. Hhe is a shrinking, unassuming creature, too modest nt times even to rnckle over the birth of her own egg, leaving that celebration to her husband; and yet Mm. Americnn Hen has been quietly raying off mortgages, driving wolves from the door nnd hatching out nest eggs for thousands of featherless bi peds. In 1890 there wore In this country nurrtEMACY op the American hen over commerce and agriculture tictoriallt biiowh. 258,871,125 chickens and 20,738,315 other fowls. In that year the Ameri can hens laid 0,81)0,074,002 eggs. There are now 850,000,000 chickens, which will lay this year 13,750,000, 000 eggs. These eggs are worth $165,000,000, and the poultry meat sold during the year will bring $125,000,000, which gives $290,000,000 as a very low estimate of the earnings of Mrs. American Hen for one year of the great depression. The 350,000,000 hens are worth $105,000,000 of any man's money, but we will not consider that, but take imply the earnings of the lien. The average length of an egg is two and one-half inches. The 13,750,000,000 eggs will, therefore, make a chain 642,218 miles long, while the total weight of this production of hen fruit is at least 853,125 tons. Does any reader of the World real ize what this immense production of eggs and meat means to the country? Here ore a few figures for comparison: Value of silver production $72,510,000 alneotwool clip 8H,14fl,4M Value of all sheep 60.Hi7.TaS Value of all swlus 10,639,745 Value of mules 108,W4,457 Value of borons M0,140,1H6 Value of petroleum products... 62,8H3,403 Value of potato crop 7H,W4,901 Value of tobaooo. crop 85,674,220 Value of cotton crop 359,104,040 Value of oat crop 1(18,655, 08 Value of wheat crop 287 ,938,0m Imports of aoffee one year 84,7H3,124 Imports of tea one year 12,704,440 Total of pensions 139.2S0.07B Total of school expenditures. ...178,215,556 Total Interest on mortgages.... 76,7)18,077 Coat of Poetofnoe Department... 00,626,206 Nat earnings of railroads 823,106,454 Dividends on railroad stooks. . , . 81,875,774 The value of all gold produoed in American mines in 1895 was $46,610, 000, and all silver $72,051,000. The value of all minerals, including iron, gold and silver, taken out of Ameri can mines in 1834 was $208,168,768. Americans are giveu to bragging about oar immense mineral resources, and yet yon will notice that the hens paid for it all one year and bad enough left to jnst about pay the interest on all mortgages) Mrs. Hen will earn enough this year to pay the entire State and coun ty tax (which in 1890 was $143,180, 007), and have enough left for every cent of pensions that are paid to old oldiers. ' The average oow weighs 130 times as ranch as the average hen, and yet 11 the milch cows in the country have a total value of but $263,955,545. Mrs. Hen in one year will earn enough to bay every oow, and pnt the entire tobacco crop in her pocket aa well. Bbe could pay out of her year's earn- - inga for all the tea and coffee import ed in one year and all the petroleum products, and have enough left to buy U the tobacco grown in 1896. The total assessed valuation of the follow ing States fall below the hen's yearly - earnings: New Hampshire, Nebraska, Vermont, Alabama, Delaware, Mississippi, Artsona, Idaho, West Virginia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, South Carolina, Montana, Utah, Oregon, Florida, Wyoming, North Dakota, Colorado, South Dakota, New Mexico. ' Nevada, In other words, Mrs. American Hen Sould bny any of these States from one year a egg anu ouioaen money, he could bny in this way Mew Mexi co, Ariaona, Wyoming,' North Dakota, 13 o and Montana all pat together. lha total cost of conducting the ?o:ot r t loet year vf !)0,R'2fl,298.84. We can pick out 60,000,000 of onr bent hens that will cover every dollar of this outlay in one year. The net earnings of the railroads in 18(15 were 8!I2!,10,454. The railroad dividends paid amounted to 881,873, 774. The American Hen paid nearly twice the profits earned by American railroads. The total earnings from passenger trafllo amounted to $201,640,698, or less than that of the hens. It cost in 1895 slightly over two oents to carry one passenger one mile, .01H4 of acent to carry one Inn of freight one mile, and ninety-one oents to run the aver age train one mile. Une single hen, laving 150 eggs per year, could have 215 days of vacation, and would stilt be able to pay for carrying one passen cer 100 miles, or for hauling ten tons of freight 10,000 miles, or for running an ordinary train two miles. One hun dred and forty such hens would pay the salary of the average teacher em ployed in the publio schools, while seventy-five hens would pay the aver age pension to old soldiers. OMAHA'S IMMENSE UMBRELLA. When liaised It Will lie S30 Feet Above the Karth. The last Faris exposition had its Eif fel tower, Chicago had its Ferris wheel, Nashville has its giant see-saw. The department of concessions of the Oma ha trans-MiBsiBsippi exposition of 1898 has also, received an application for space for the erection of a novel me chanical device. It resembles the framework of a gigantic umbrella more than anything else which might be mentioned. The part corresponding to the stick of the umbrella is an im mense cylinder, thirty feet in diameter, constructed of steel plates firmly riveted, making a standpipe which rears its head 250 feet above the level of the ground. At the. extreme top of this cylinder are fnstoned twelve long arms, resembling the ribs of an um brella. These are steel trusses, reach ing alinoBt to the ground. At the lower end of each of these ribs is suspended a car for carrying passengers, each car having a capacity for twenty persons. These monster ribs are raised by hy draulio power, acting by means of steel cables operating through the cylinder, aided by a mechanism greatly resem bling that portion of an umbrella which oomes into action when the umbrella is opened. By means of this mechan ism the gigantic arms are raised until they are horizontal, the cars in the meantime being carried ontward and upward until they reach a point 250 GIGANTIC UMBRELLA FOB feet above the ground, the diameter of the huge oirole formed by the sus pended cars being also 250 feet. When the highest point has been reached an other meohanism oomes into play and the suspended oars are swung slowly around in a oirole, after which they are lowered to the ground. The sides of tha oars are of glass, so that the passengers may secure an extensive view of the surrounding oountry. jlu octogenarian vagrant was wags at a Et Joseph (Mo.) polioe station REMARKABLE PEAR TREE. Trained to Grow at tha Slila of a Ran M Wonderful Way. One of the most remarkable of old trained pear trees that we are an qnainted with is the splendid speci men of Uvedale's St. Germain at Wes ton House, Hhipston-on-Stonr, the residence of the Conntess of Camper- down. The accompanying illustration is published in the Gardener's Maza rine. Mr. Masterson, the gardener at Weston House, writes that "the tree is admired at all times of the year, but more especially when covered with large handsome clusters of flowers. In autumn, when laden with qnanti ties of big fruits, it also presents an attractive appearance, and there are many who also admire the tree when the stems are bare, and certainly at this season it is interesting, as the training is very remarkable. The tree seldom fails to ripen a heavy crop of fruits, cropping right down to the ground. It has never been fed or root pruned, and its roots are in the bed of the carriage drive, gravel also eneir cling the stem at the base, where it measures nix feet in nirniimfnrAncn. Tt l - fis, however, very probable that the roots have penetrated a considerable distance and come into contact with the stable drains, thns deriving the nourishment required by so large a tree. The fruits are seldom thinned, , WINTEB VIEW OV TITS PBAB TBM. as the tree is so vigorous as to be capa ble of oat-tying very large crops, and yet the fruits weigh from half a ponnd to one and a half pounds each. The total weight of the crop list year was two hundredweight. Many first prizes have been won from this tree, includ ing firsts at the Crystal Palace in 1894 ana ibvo. The First Prepaid Foat. According to M. I'iron tha idea nt postpaid envelope originated early in THE OMAHA EXPOSITION the reign of Louis XIV. M. De Velayer in 1063 established a private post, plaoing boxes at the ooruers of the streets for the reception of letters wrapped in envelopes, which were to be bought at offices established for the purpose. And it is said that a Swedish artillery offloer, in 1823, petitioned the Chamber of Nobles to propose to the Govern men t to issue stamped envelopes for prepaid letters. . as most parts or asm wnere eoueeis used, the "grounds" are drank wit WAIST FOR EARLY FALL PaW AND ATTRACTIVE DESICN FOR HOME WEAR. TT Materiel la of Fnnlard Bilk, Showing Itmt Pattern, and tha Ileeomtlnna Areof l.eee and Marrow Passementerie A Waist In French Blue Taffeta. With the established popularity of the stylish little F.tons, blazers and lop coats, writes May Manton, there is constant demand for now designs WAIST OF rnF.NCH-BMTB TAFFETA. in separate waists that can be made of silk or wash fabrics. A stylish ex ample is here given, developed in French blue taffeta. It Is made over a g e-fit ATTRACTIVE WAIST FOR ting lining that is trimly adjusted to the figure by means of the usual seams and darts, and closes aa does the waist, invisibly at the centre-front. The full fronts have dusters of tucks that are laid at yoke depth, separated by bands of insertion that have mitred points. The back fits smoothly aoross the shoulders with a slight fulness at the waist line. The two-seamed sleeves fit comfortably close with a fulness at the top, caught through the centre by bands of insertion that can be omitted in favor of a small puff, as shown in back view of engraving. The neck band is concealed by a stock of satin relieved by the inevitable tonob of white lace or chiffon above. The belt that encircles the waist is of silk with handsome metal buckle. Light inexpensive silks can be pur chased at a trilling cost, so that every woman can number among her outfit several dainty waists. The ready made garments are invariably high priced, but with these reliable pat terns, a few yards of material and a little ingenuity, satisfactory results may be obtained. To make this waist for a lady in the medium size will require five yards of twenty-two-incb material. A Waist for Karly Aatama Wear. The attractive model shown in the large illustration is well adapted, ac cording to May Manton, for early autumn wear. As illustrated, the ma terial is of foulard silk, showing a leaf pattern. The decorations consist of lace and narrow passementerie that de fines the edges of the rever and the wrists of the sleeves. The waist is supported by glove fitted lining haviug the customary seams, double bust-darts and smooth under-arm gores, and closing invisibly at the centre-front. The book is wide and seamless, fitting smoothly aoross the shoulders, with a slight fulness at the waist line. The right-front shows fulness at the shoulder edge, with forward-turning pleats at the neck edge, while at the waist line the material is drawn well to the oentre-tront by over lapping pleats. The left-front lies smoothly at the shoulder and ' neck, with the additional material at the weistleid in forward-turning pleats. On the edge of the left-front is full rever that falls in jabot effect from the shoulders to the waist. The neck is completed by smooth band over which is a stock of ribbon. A soft frill of lace rises above the collar, at' fording a stylish finish. The sleeves are monsnnetaire. fol- lowing the arm closely from the wrist to well above the ellvow, where they are finished by a puff of moderate di mensions, The waist is encircled by a wide ribbon girdle that finishes with a bow and ends. All varieties of silk, including taffeta, foulard, India, etc., are adapted to the style, while soft wool textures, or silk and wool, will develop eqnally well, lace, ribbon, passementerie or insertion forming suitable decoration. To make this waist for a woman of medium size will require two and quarter yards of 44-inoh material. Jaunty Knit For a t.lttle Itnjr. The jaunty suit here represented is made of dark blue serge, with wide sailor oollar of white. It is neatly fin ished with machine stitching and deco rated with narrow braid. The ooat, of becoming length, is simply shaped by shoulder and under-arm seams; the back is wide and seamless, and has slight fulness at the waist. The clos ing is effected in the centre-front, with button and buttonholes. Above the closing the fronts open npon a shield shaped portion, the neck finishing with a narrow braid. On the left front a useful pocket is inserted. An at tractive featnre is the wide sailor col lar, falling deeply aoross the bock and shoulders. The sleeves are provided with inside seams only, anil are ar ranged at the wrists in small box pleats stitched to position, while the fulness at the top is collected in gathers. The short trousers, extend- EARLY MORNING WEAR. ing to the knee, have inside and out side leg seams, and close at the side. where pockets are inserted in the out side seam. Inside bands are provid ed at the top, having buttonholes to attach to buttons on the shirt waist. The trousers display a fulness at the knee in knickerbooker style, which is regulated by an elastio run through casing. Useful and becoming suits for small boys can be fashioned in this style in tweed, cheviot, serge or light-weight DOT'S BUSBlAN SUIT. oloth in shades of blue, tan, gray or cardinal. To make this suit for a boy of four years will require one and five-eighths yards ot nfty-four-idoh material or three yards of twenty-seven-inob. ma terial, with five-eighths ot a yard el eoniTMUng material I or eouar. - COLONEL TOM OCHILTREE. The national Character Who Jested Hie HII I Throaah Concrete. Colonel Tom Ochiltree became m, national character a few years ago)' when he came to Congress as a Bepre- TOM OCRILTABB. sentative from Texas. He was con spicuous to look npon, and he rarely said anything that was not conspic uous. He made friends and he was so good-natured to his enemies and so quick with his wit that the men who were opposed to him were anxious to get over their tilts. He was pointed ont on the floor of the House as the first native Congressman from hie Btate. - It was also related that his distriot was wider and longer than many of the States of Europe, reach ing over a territory ot twenty-seven counties, and running from the gulf to Eagle Pass, on the Bio Orande. This area comprised 87,600 square miles. Ochiltree was praotioally the king of it. He was the only man in the dis trict when power was in consideration. Ochiltree went to the top of capital favoritism at a single bound. He was a prince of story-tellers. The beauty of his hnmor was that it hit no one so hard aa it hitfhimself. He was a joke to himself. He rarely appeared upon the floor of the Forty-eighth Congress that he did not put the Honse into a furore of laughter. The country mem bers used to doclare that he was more fun than the minstrels. His bills and appropriations were jested through the jest always bearing a strong argu ment why Texas and Texas harbors should be the' especial care of the country. He called himself the "Bed- headed Banger from Texas," and the title was enough to get him a hearing before the business committee. It was his custom to send in word to an im portant session of a close-mouthed and dignified committee that the "Bed-headed Banger from Texas" had a few remarks he would like to make covering a few points in measure the august body had in its pigeon-holes. The admission of Oohiltree meant a good laugh a long series of good laughs and it is a port of Legislative tradition that the Colonel's stories have done for him what plain, unvarnished and prosaic logic failed to do for others. Chicago Times-Herald. The Mystery of Heredity. Ont of 222 pupils in the grammar schools of Chicago who attained a cer tain percentage of efficiency only ' twenty-five were boys. This would indicate that girls are about four times . as bright as boys. It is hard to un- stand these things nnd to straighten up the rules of heredity. It is, we believe, an accepted rule that boys "take after" their mothers and the girls after their fathers. If, then, the women are the smartest, the boys, "taking after" the mother, should also be smartest. If the men are the smartest, then thet girls, "taking after" the father, should be smartest. It is a difficult riddle to-unriddle.- Baltimore Bun. WORLD'S BICCEST JUC. Nearly aa Tall aa a Man and Will Hold ITS Gallon. As a curiosity there may be some in terest in "the largest jug in the world," but there is little t se for such a recepta cle. An Illinois pottery firm has con structed an immense jug of the shape and appearance ot the familiar little brown jug of history . It is so heavy that several men would be required to lift it high enough for one man to drink out of it. It is almost as tall as a man, being sixty-one inches high. It is thirty-six inches in diameter and holds 175 gallons. The jug is per fect in every respect, and expert pot ters have declared it the finest piece of workmanship ever seen. The owners have been offered hand some sums for the jug by firms de siring to use it for advertising pur poses. It is no small task to finish a BIOOBST CO BVBB MADS. ctJ vessel of this size, and the greatest ears must be taken, for if a single flaw creeps into the elay it ia liable to burst when being turned and or sate grstA karoo ia the workshop.
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