anaheim-gazette 1882-12-09

ANAHEIM VOL. XIII. WEEKLY GAZETTE Established 1870. For Terms, see Fourth Page. DR. JAMES ELLIS. OFFICE AND DRUG STORE IN THE BUILDING East of Anaheim office. Office hours at 7 A.M. and 9:30 A.M. and at 2 P.M. and 6 P.M. DR. E. L. COWAN, Dentist, Has opened an office in the upper part of Mrs. Metr's building, Los Angeles street, Anaheim. Having had twenty years experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. He a scale of prices is very low. He will be found in his office every day between the hours of 9 A.M. and 6 P.M. GEO. B. SHAFFER, NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICE—BANK OF ANAHEIM. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC. GALEYTE OFFICE. H. C. KELLOGG, IF YOU WANT TO GET RID OF SQUIRRELS AND GOPHERS USE CARBON BI-SULPHIDE Everybody who has used it recommends it as the ONLY SURE EXTERMINATOR Of this vermin. For sale by A LANGENBERGER, Dealer in Groceries, Hardware, Paints, Oils and Crockery. City Stables, Center Street (Opposite Kroeger's Block), ANAHEIM. L.F. Lewis, - Proprietor. THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most commodious in the town, and special attention will be paid to Boarding and Grooming horses. The charge in all cases will be reasonable. Single and Double Teams BAD EFFECT The Chaplain burns, for the year that out of over six hundred when under the ardent spirits, into the appetitious sons brought out truth; that five-of six hundred when partially their own statement drink awakened to demand gratifying depressing effect of the use of tobacco. Thus related dous Force to the which serve in pholic stimulus, bacco, and so do the truth of the while every or m drinks does use and while tobacco holic drinks, the some form or other coholic drinks and priety and their in the public est a pure water-drinker, would be liki GEO. B. SHAFFER, NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICE—BANK OF ANAHEIM. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC. GALEYTH OFFICE. H. C. KELLOGG, Surveyor and Civil Engineer. PARTIES DESIRING TO CONSULT ME PERSONALLY will find me at the residence of R. F. Kellogg. Address, Anaheim P.O. J122 THEODORE LYNILL, Attorney-at-Law. ANAHEIM, CAL. Office in Planter's Hotel Building. MONEY TO LOAN.—Ruling rate 10 per cent. ROBT. W. SCOTT. ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Commissioner of Deeds for Arizona Territory Kroeger's Block, Anaheim, Cal. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law. SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Bibbles' brick building, nearly opposite the Postoffice. Office hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. M. L. WICKS, Attorney-at-Law. Rooms 84 and 87 Temple Block. LOS ANGELES. JOHN MANSFIELD. W. A. CHENEY. MANSFIELD & CHENEY, 'attorneys-at-Law. Rooms 40, 50 and 81, Temple Block. Will practice in all the Courts. MONEY TO LOAN. Apply to R. W. SCOTT, Attorney at Law. L. GUNTHER. Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adela and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street. City Stables, Center Street (Opposite Kroeger's Block), ANAHEIM. L.F. Lewis. -- Proprietor. THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most commodious in the town, and special attention will be paid to Boarding and Grooming horses. The charge in all cases will be reasonable. Single and Double Teams Furnished at short notice, and careful drivers, familiar with the country, supplied when required. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. D. E. MILES, Warehouseman and Commission Merchant. Highest Cash Price Paid for Wheat, Barley, Corn, Rye, Potatoes, And all Country Produce. Cash advances made on all consignments of Grain and Wool. Sacks and Twine At lowest market prices. Office opposite Railroad Depot, Anaheim, Cal. B DREYFUS, Annaheim, San Francisco J. FROWENFIELD, New York. New York B. DREYFUS & CO. Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Grape Brandy. 630 to 642 Brannan Street, San Francisco; 45 Broadway New York. A. E. WHITE. E. A. WHITE BLACKSMITHING —AND — Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. Prices as low as the lowest. Center Street, Anaheim. Planters' Hotel, ANAHEIM, CAL. L.E. STACKPOLE Manager A few years since a man to visit his lad was about forty a boy of my father, distressed absorbed in his lood in his youth to his mother with but little or weak and quite lowed her son to petites prompted years the father his son was a to immediately he restraints possible use, and as the his son had never fection, persuasied child to induce him. When I called a large head, ment, and his down to such a capable of making the body, as agere were going on one case of a young to the use of this always had two mouth when not repeatelly, undo to chew two thrice in one day, beset The result of the before he died, sue took place as his body, and his tortures. In the he would exhibit paroxysms, if foe was kept from decided aberration. But a little w letter from a goe of the Mohawk professional visi to see a son of ten years of age flesh as to be often as twice more than two which had end L. GUNTHER. Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street. MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. Pipes, Barrels and kegs on hand at all times. Tanks and Tube made to order. Honey Barrels for sale cheap. F. & J. BACKS, Importers, Manufacturers and Dealers in Furniture, Bedding, Paper Hangings, Picture Frames, etc, UNDERTAKERS, Agents for the Howe, Eldredge and Victor Sewing Machines. Los Angeles Street: Anaheim. JOHN HANNA, Real Estate Agent. Live Stock Bought and Sold on Commission. ANAHEIM. ANAHEIM BAKERY. WM. MEEK, - Proprietor. A FIRST-CLASS STOCK OF BAKER'S GOODS always on hand. Oakes for parties or weddings make to order. The patronage of the public is solicited. THIS PAPER may be found on the atlas. Advertising Bureau (10 Broadway). Where advertising contracts may be made for it in New York. Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. Prices as low as the lowest. Center Street, Anaheim. Planters' Hotel, ANAHEIM, CAL. J. E. STACKPOLE, - Manager. THIS POPULAR HOTEL ESTABLISHED IN 1868, has just been thoroughly renovated throughout, and is now in such condition as to secure for guests the Very Best Accommodations. The Table will always be supplied with all the Delicacies to be obtained in the Market. An elegant Billiard Hall and Reading Room for amusement of Guests. The Bar supplied with only the best of Wines, Liquors & Cigars. FREE COACH to the House from all trains PROF. W. A. PACKARD, TEACHER OF Vocal and Instrumental Music, ANAHEIM. KIDNEY-WORT IS A SURE CURE for all diseases of the Kidneys and LIVER This specific mention on this most important organ, enabling it to throw off turpidity and function, stimulating the healthy motion of the Skin, and by hugging the brains in five conditions, affecting its regular discharge. Malaria. If you experiencing from malaria, have the child, and Milton, Duggie, or committed Kidney-Wort will surely achieve and quickly cure. In the Spring to change the fluids every one should take a thorough course of it. SOLD BY BROGISTS. Price $1. KIDNEY WORT WEEKLY EIM GA ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1882 BAD EFFECT OF TOBACCO. The Chaplain of the State Prison at Auburn, for the year 1854, I think, reports that out of over seven hundred male prisoners, six hundred were convicted of crime when under the direct or reflex influence of ardent spirits, and that a personal inquiry into the appetitial habits of this class of persons brought out this startling and forecible truth: that five-sixths, or five hundred, out of six hundred who were convicted for crime when partially or ravingly drunk, had, from their own statements, the desire for strong drink awakened in them, so clamorously, as to demand gratification at any rate from the depressing effects on their nervous systems of the use of tobacco. Thus related in their expressions of Nervous Force to the use of drinks and foods which serve in part as substitutes for alcoholic stimulus, they keep up their use of tobacco, and so demonstrate most manifestly the truth of the statement made above, that while every or nearly every user of alcoholic drinks does use tobacco, in some of its forms, and while tobacco users do not all use alcoholic drinks, they do all of them use, in some form or other, such substitutes for alcoholic drinks as their sense of moral propriety and their regard for their characters in the public esteem will permit. To find a pure water-drinker who is a tobacco chewer, would be like finding a white black-bird. We have selected two cases from a report published by Dr. James C. Jackson, physician in chief of "Our Home," of Anaheim. invasion of his health, a climate charged with malarious poisons, or because another whose moral rectitude has hurt so indelibly stamped upon his character, that he may be exposed to the influence of vice and sin for a longer time, without enhancing the evil, than another who may have been less fortunate in his early training, is it any argument to say there is no wrong in these things? Young man if you would be wise you will profit by the experience of others. Seek not to demonstrate the effects of strychnine upon yourself should you chance to witness the dying agonies of a fellow being from such a cause; or jump from a precipice to show your skull to be thicker than another's, who may have had his brains dashed out on the rocks below. Destitution in Ireland. In the lush abundance of all the necessaries of life which is characteristic of California, its people are apt to forget that this is a wide, wide world, and that there is much misery and destitution in it. Contrast the condition of things here with that of a district in Ireland, as reported to the Bulletin by Rev. F. W. Gallagher, the Parish priest. He says: The district to which I refer comprises the chief part of southwestern Donegal, about 100 square miles in extent, and is known as Glencolumbkille. Over this vast area, there is scattered here and there in the mountain country. THE OLD RAIL FENCE. (Peck's Sun). The placing of barbed wire fences around farms, usurping the place of the old rail fence destroys half of the pleasure of farming. There is something about the old rail fence that is real comfortable, and the barbed wire fence is forbidding, cold, repulsive. Until you come to think of it, there does not seem as though there was a great deal of solid comfort in a rail fence, but there is. Did you ever see two old farmers leaning against a rail fence, whittling and talking politics or a horse trade for hours together? They are more comfortable, and rest more than they would if they were occupying the softest sofa, or the best stuffed arm-chair in the world. There are so many shapes a man can get into, to rest, about a rail fence. First, the farmer will fold his arms and rest them on the top rail, and lean his breast on the fence, and talk for half an hour until his legs are tired, then he will step one foot up on the second rail from the bottom, and stand and whittle for half an hour, until the top of the rail is as polished as a piece of mahogany. Then he will change feet and lean one elbow on the second rail from the top, and sharpen his knife on his boot, and talk for half an hour about how he is going to pay the mortgage on his farm next year. After that position becomes irksome he will turn his back to the fence, stand on his heels, and place his two elbows on the top rail, and lean against the fence, and for half an hour he will tell how the old mare that the truth of the statement made above, that while every or nearly every user of alcoholic drinks does use tobacco, in some of its forms, and while tobacco users do not all use alcoholic drinks, they do all of them use, in some form or other, such substitutes for alcoholic drinks as their sense of moral propriety and their regard for their characters in the public esteem will permit. To find a pure water-drinker who is a tobacco chewer, would be like finding a white black-bird. We have selected two cases from a report published by Dr. James C. Jackson, physician in chief of "Our Home," of Dansville, N.Y., an institution devoted to correction of the use of tobacco and diseases incident thereto. CASE NO. 1. A few years since I was called by a gentleman to visit his son professionally. The lad was about fourteen years of age, naturally a boy of more than ordinary talent. His father, distinguished in public life, was absorbed in his calling, and gave the care of the lad in his younger years almost entirely to his mother. She, a fashionable woman, with but little of the domestic in her nature, weak and quite indulgent to her child, allowed her son to do pretty much as his appetites prompted, and at the age of nine years the father was astonished to learn that his son was a tobacco chewer and smoker. Immediately he brought to bear all the restraints possible; but these were of no use, and as the relations between him and his son had never been those of familiar affection, persuasion had no influence over the child to induce him to forego his habit. When I called to see him he was tall, with a large head, indicating the ideal temperament, and his organs of nutrition broken down to such a degree as to render them incapable of making blood sufficient to sustain the body, as against the daily wastes which were going on. I have never known but one case of a youth so thoroughly given up to the use of this poison as this lad was. He always had two cuds of tobacco in his mouth when not smoking.' He was known repeatedly, under conditions of excitement, to chew two three-penny papers of tobacco in one day, besides smoking several cigars. The result of the habit was his death, but before he died, such disorganization of tissue took place as to breed vermin all over his body, and he expired in most horrible tortures. In the latter stages of his disease, he would exhibit the most violent nervous paroxysms, if for the space of two hours he was kept from indulgence, and showed most decided aberration of mind. CASE NO. 2. But a little while after this, I received a letter from a gentleman living on the banks of the Mohawk requesting me to make a professional visit at his house, with a view to see a son of his. I did so, found the lad ten years of age, and so worn and wasted in flesh as to be disgusting to look at. As often as twice in twenty-four hours, for more than two years he had epileptic fits, which had ended nearly in the destruction of his intellect. In the lush abundance of all the necessaries of life which is characteristic of California, its people are apt to forget that this is a wide, wide world, and that there is much misery and destitution in it. Contrast the condition of things here with that of a district in Ireland, as reported to the Bulletin by Rev. F. W. Gallagher, the Parish priest. He says: The district to which I refer comprises the chief part of southwestern Donegal, about 100 square miles in extent, and is known as Glencolumbkille. Over this vast area, there is scattered here and there in the mountain recesses and valleys, a population of about 4,000. It is very famous on account of its magnificent coast scenery, but is, I should say, of all Ireland, the most unsuitable for human habitation. The land is very poor, being chiefly bog, the climate unfavorable, and the locality far remote from any public market. The people subsist chiefly by agriculture and the rearing of live stock. For the last six years, with the exception of 1880, their crops were very inadequate, and had to be supplemented by the sale of their live stock. To be sure, they got their fair share of the funds raised for the relief of the poor in 1880, but with this exception they had in the other years to meet the deficit of the crops by disposing repeatedly of a portion of their live stock, so that at present many of them are without any, and others have only a mere fraction of their former stock. The recent terrible storm hastened the ruin which had been impending in consequence of the all but total failure of the potato crop, and brought these poor creatures to the lowest degree of wretchedness. It unroofed their cottages, it robbed them of their little grain crop, and rendered useless the remnants of the hay crop left them. Already many families are in absolute want, and are being kept alive by the few pounds that were sent me for their use by some charitable people who had been influenced to do so by Mr. Taylor's eloquent description of their condition, which recently appeared in the Daily News and Whig. Many others are eking out an existence on the few bad, unhealthy potatoes they are able to gather up, but which are now almost consumed, while the remainder are meeting their present wants by the sale of the few animals in their possession. In a few weeks then, at the longest, we shall have almost the entire population without food, without live stock, without any means, without seed for the ensuing spring, without remunerative employment to carry them over the long interval between this and August next. Of all the famines of which even the oldest had experience they dread the coming one most. In the famine of '46 and '47 they had live stock to fall back on. Their present wretched condition affords them no consolation or hope save the charity of the public. Relative Longevity in Various Occupations. An interesting exhibit of the mortality in legs are tired, then he will step one foot up on the second rail from the bottom, and stand and whittle for half an hour, until the top of the rail is as polished as a piece of mahogany. Then he will change feet and lean one elbow on the second rail from the top, and sharpen his knife on his boot, and talk for half an hour about how he is going to pay the mortgage on his farm next year. After that position becomes irksome he will turn his back to the fence, stand on his heels, and place his two elbows on the top rail, and lean against the fence, and for half an hour he will tell how the old mare that he is trying to trade off cleaned out all the teams on the road coming back from the celebration at town, after the fireworks on the Fourth, and how, if he wasn't fixed just as he is, and wanted the twenty dollars boot money to send Nathan off to the select school, there is no man on earth could buy that mare. Then he will get tired and stand around sideways, put his left arm up on the fence, and begin to whittle again, and swear the man that runs the cheese factory down at the corners is skinning us farmers out of our eye teeth. Without going into details as to ninety-nine other combinations by which a farmer can rest on; about or against a rail fence; it may not be out of place to speak of sitting on top of a fence. The farmers, after trying several positions, will instinctively climb up the fence and rest on the top rail, their feet resting on the third rail from the top, which is always laid with projection enough to make good footing, and an hour will pass as the fellows talk of the times when they settled in the country, and of the harmlips they have endured, and how children have grown up and gone away, and the conversation will drift into a sleepy channel, and the sun will begin to sink in' West, and the horny-handed sons of toil will suddenly remember that the chores are to be done, and with a "Good night,Lige!" and a "Drop around agin to-morrow ,Ike," they will separate,and one will take a milk-pail and.a one-legged stool and go towards the lot where the cows have come home; while the other will go across the road to his barn and throw down some hay for the horses;and they will both go to bed at eight o'clock as tired as though they had been mowing. But they had a splendid,easy visit on the old rail fence. Be Warned in Time. WASHINGTON，Dec. 1st.-The President received the following communication from Prof. E. Stone Wiggins，L.L.D., Astronomer of the Canadian Finance Department，under date of Ottawa，September last: I announced through the Canadian press that a great storm would occur in March next; that it would first be felt in the Northern Pacific，would appear in the Gulf of Mexico on the night of the 7th,and being deflected by Rocky Mountains，would cross this meridian from west at noon on Sunday,March 11th，1883.No vessel，whatever her dimensions，will be safe out of harbor, ``` But a little while after this, I received a letter from a gentleman living on the banks of the Mohawk requesting me to make a professional visit at his house, with a view to see a son of his. I did so, found the lad ten years of age, and so worn and wasted in flesh as to be disgusting to look at. As often as twice in twenty-four hours, for more than two years he had epileptic fits, which had ended nearly in the destruction of his intellect. As soon as I saw him I turned to his father and said to him that there was no hope in his case; and without making a single inquiry or knowing anything about it, I remarked that from my knowledge of the effects of the poison of tobacco, I should say that his child was dying therefrom. With tears in his eyes he said it was so. Not being able to do anything except to sympathize with the father, I returned home, and in the course of a fortnight the boy died. In both of these instances the children had the example of chewing and smoking tobacco set them by their parents. Benjamin Franklin said: "I never saw a well man in the exercise of common sense who would say that tobacco did him any good." Thomas Jefferson, in urging against the culture of tobacco, said: "It is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness." Horace Greeley said of it: "It is a profane stench." Daniel Webster said: "If those men must smoke, let them take the horse-shed." Hundreds of cases might be presented would space permit—to the wise and good this will suffice. We have often heard those who seek to defend their habits declare that they had smoked for years, and it had done them no harm and that they should therefore continue and further, they will cite you to old people who have used tobacco all their lives and enjoyed good health. Now this reasoning in ninety-nine cases in a hundred is the shallowest of fallacies, for who can tell what would have been their condition, and health, but for the very indulgence they are defending? Who can tell how many more years would have been added to the old smoker, but for the pipe he defends? Because one has a vitality sufficient to withstand for a time, without for the ensuing spring, without remunerative employment to carry them over the long interval between this and August next. Of all the famines of which even the oldest had experiences they dread the coming one most. In the famine of '46 and '47 they had live stock to fall back on. Their present wretched condition affords them no consolation or hope save the charity of the public. Relative Longevity in Various Occupations. An interesting exhibit of the mortality in the different walks of life was furnished by the General Register in report on the death rate of the whole population of England in 1851. From this it appears that out of every thousand persons between the ages of twenty-five and fifty-five, forty died on an average. Classified according to the most favorable mortality, and increasing downward, we have the following tables: Below the Average Above the Average. 1. Merchants. 7. Miners. 2. Weavers. 8. Tailors. 3. Cobblers. 9. Bakers. 4. Carpenters. 10. Butchers. 5. Blacksmiths. 11. Liquor dealers. 6. Laborers. The mortality of the eleventh class is so great that in good companies they are only admitted with great caution, and on short endowment or term policies. Mariners, also, are considered poor risks, as 35 per cent. of the deaths among them are attributable to accidents. Among miners 25 per cent., among machinists 15 per cent., and among painters, well-diggers, and glaziers 10 per cent. die in consequence of casualties. The callings of brewer, typeetter, tinsmith, lithographer and stonecutter are also in a measure detrimental to a prolonged duration of life. Buffalo, Dec. 1.—An employee in the iron foundry here attempted to commit suicide by plunging his head into a pot of molten metal. Both eyes were burned and the scalp cooked. He will probably die. Mrs. Wilson got a divorce from her husband, in Oregon, on the ground of cruelty. He reformed, and wanted to marry her again, to which she consented; but he afterward changed his mind, and now she is suing for breach of promise. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1st.—The President received the following communication from Prof. E. Stone Wiggins, L.L.D., Astronomer of the Canadian Finance Department, under date of Ottawa, September last: I announced through the Canadian press that a great storm would occur in March next; that it would first be felt in the Northern Pacific, would appear in the Gulf of Mexico on the night of the 7th, and, being deflected by the Rocky Mountains, would cross this meridian from the west at noon on Sunday, March 11th, 1883. No vessel, whatever her dimensions, will be safe out of harbor, and none of small tonnage can survive the tidal waves and fury of this tempest. As the wind will blow from the southeast, its planetary force will be sufficient to submerge the lowlands of the American coast, especially those bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and washed by the Gulf Stream; while the air currents, for several hundred miles along the east side of the Rocky Mountain range, owing to the great atmospheric pressure in those regions, will spread universal destruction. The New England States will also suffer from the wind and floods. No point outside of a harbor in the whole area of the Atlantic ocean, especially north of the equator will be a place of safety, for this will be pre-eminently the greatest storm that has ever visited the continent. Sex in Eggs. A correspondent of the London Journal of Horticulture says in reference to this question: "Last winter an old poultry keeper told me he could distinguish the sex in eggs I laughed at him, and was none the less skeptical when he told me the following secret: Eggs with the air bladder in the center of the egg will produce cockerels those with the bladder on one side will produce pullets. The old man was so confident that I determined to make experiments upon it this year. I have done so, carefully registering the egg-bladder vertically or bladder on the side, rejecting every one which was not decidedly one or the other, as in some it is slightly out of the center. The following is the result: Fifty-eight chickens are hatched; three are dead, and eleven are too young to decide upon the sex; of the remaining forty-four every one has turned out true to the old man's theory. This of course may be an accidental coincidence, but shall certainly try the experiment again." GAZETTE. SEMBER 9, 1882. OLD RAIL FENCE. (Peck's Sun). We barbed wire fences around the place of the old rail half of the pleasure of farm-something about the old rail comfortable, and the barb-forbidding, cold, repulsive to think of it, there does though there was a great deal in a rail fence, but there is. The two old farmers leaning onance, whittling and talking trade for hours together? comfortable, and rest more if they were occupying the best stuffed arm-chair in there are so many shapes a to rest, about a rail fence. We will fold his arms and rest on rail, and lean his breast on walk for half an hour until his when he will step one foot up rail from the bottom, and walk for half an hour, until the as polished as a piece of when he will change feet and on the second rail from the on his knife on his boot, and hour about how he is going engagement on his farm next year.ion becomes irksome he will to the fence, stand on his his two elbows on the top against the fence, and for half tell how the old mare that SUGAR FROM SORGHUM. A Highly Encouraging Outlook for this Young Industry. New York Tribune. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—Dr. Loring the United States Commissioner of Agriculture, has received from Professor T. Marsh, president of the National Academy of Sciences, a report from the Academy upon the "scientific and economic relations of the sorghum industry" made in response to a request presented to him on January 30, 1882. The report is very elaborate and will fill forty closely printed pages of the forthcoming annual report of the Department which will be laid before Congress early in the next session; it is signed by Professor Brewer, Johnson and Silliman of Yale College, Professors Chandler and Moore of New York and Professor Smith, late of the University of Kentucky. Professor Goesman of Amherst, Mass., resigned his place on the committee on Sept. 12, 1882. The committee find as a result of their investigation that all the analyses made in the Department of Agriculture not only confirm the well-known fact of the presence of sugar in the juices of sorghum and maize in notable quantity, but they also establish the fact that the sorghum yields in its juice, when taken at the proper stage of its development, about as much cane sugar as the best sugar cane of tropical regions. An examination of the analytical table submitted to them shows that the juices of sorghum in certain exceptional but not isolated cases were remarkable for the cross in the syrup was only 5 per cent of that present in the juice, instead of being as Dr. Goesman found, 30.65 per cent; and was no more than usual with sugar cane juice—a fact of the utmost importance to the farmer as well as to the manufacturer. With regard to the so-called gum, a product of the manufacture, the committee may thus in the purging of sorghum and corn stalk sugar it happens very often that this operation is of unusual difficulty owing to the presence of A CERTAIN GUMMY SUBSTANCE. And this practical difficulty has been by some so magnified that the economical production of sugar from these two plants has been confidently declared impossible. In the experience of those in Washington, as well as many other observers, this peculiar substance has been found to be present often in quantity so small as to offer little if any resistance to complete purging in the ordinary centrifugal. It appears to be formed by the transformation of other constituents of the juice in the process of syrup production. The committee recommend a still further investigation into the effect of fertilizers upon the growth of the sorghum and maize, variety of soil best adapted to the production of sugar in these plants, the methods of defecation, and the processes of manufacture and use of lime or some other alkaline agent. The committee expresses the opinion that the fruits of the encouraging "policy of the Government toward the sorghum industry are already beginning to show themselves in the decided success which has attended the production of sugar from sorghum on a commercial scale in the few cases in which the rules and good practice evolved, especially by the researches made at the laboratory of the Department of Agriculture, have been intelligently followed. Sufficiently full returns from the crop of 1882 have already come to hand to convince us that the industry will probably be a commercial success." when he will step one foot up rail from the bottom, and tale for half an hour, until the he will change feet and on the second rail from the his knife on his boot, and hour about how he is going age on his farm next year. becomes irksome he will to the fence, stand on his his two elbows on the top against the fence, and for half tell how the old mare that trade off cleaned out all the road coming back from the down, after the fireworks on if he wasn't just just anted the twenty dollars boot Nathan off to the select has no man on earth could Then he will get tired and walks, put his left arm up and begin to whittle again, and that runs the cheese factory owners is skinning us farmers' teeth. Without going into neety-nine other combinations mer can rest on, about or ence, it may not be out of of sitting on top of a fence. After trying several positions, they climb up the fence and trail, their feet resting on the top, which is always laid enough to make good footer will pass as the fellows talk when they settled in the counhardships they have endured, children have grown up and the conversation will drift channel, and the sun will be the West, and the horny-toil will suddenly remember care to be done, and with a big!” and a “Drop around Ike,” they will separate, like a milk-pail and a onego towards the lot where come home, while the other road to his barn and one hay for the horses, and go to bed at eight o'clock as they had been mowing. But midid, easy visit on the old Warned in Time. Dec. 1st.—The President following communication from Wiggins, L.L.D., Astronomian Finance Department, unawa, September last: I amgh the Canadian press that auld occur in March next; that he felt in the Northern Palear in the Gulf of Mexico on 7th, and, being deflected by mountains, would cross this mewest at noon on Sunday, 883. No vessel, whatever will be safe out of harbor, mittee on Sept. 12, 1882. The committee find as a result of their investigation that all the analyses made in the Department of Agriculture not only confirm the well-known fact of the presence of sugar in the juices of sorghum and maize in notable quantity, but they also establish the fact that the sorghum yields in its juice, when taken at the proper stage of its development, about as much cane sugar as the best sugar cane of tropical regions. An examination of the analytical table submitted to them shows that the juices of sorghum in certain exceptional but not isolated cases were remarkable for the amount of cane sugar they contained. It is ascertained by these analyses that as an average of them all there was obtained 58.57 per cent of the weight of stripped stalks in juice. Of the weight of this juice 16.18 per cent was crystallizable cane sugar, and it was learned that 11.20 per cent of the weight of the juice may be obtained as sugar by the ordinary process of manufacture. It also appears that THREE VARIETIES OF SORGHUM Gave over 13 per cent of sugar, seven varieties 12 per cent, seven 11, seven 10, and seven 9 per cent of sugar; and that of the varieties of maize grown in 1880 ten varieties gave over 9 per cent cane sugar; ten varieties 10 per cent, nine varieties 11 per cent, nine varieties 12 per cent, four varieties 13 per cent, one variety 14 per cent, and one 15 per cent. The committee state that in 1880 over 62,000,000 acres of land, or 38 per cent of all the cultivated land in the United States, were in maize. The amount of the sugar thus apparently lost, calculated by the results obtained by the Department of Agriculture in the last three years, is equal to the present product of the entire world. A remarkable uniformity has been discovered in the several varieties of sorghum as sugar producing plants when fully developed, but it has also been learned that the different varieties vary widely in the time required for their full development, varying, as has been shown, fully three months between the early and later maturing varieties. "No conclusion," says the report, "established by the work of the Department of Agriculture, practically considered, is of greater importance than the positive ascertainment of that period in the development of the several varieties of sorghum when the juices contain the maximum amount of cane sugar. On this point there has existed during the past twenty years or more the greatest discrepancy in statement, and the opinion prevailing has been very wide of the truth as established by all these experiments." The investigations of the department prove to the entire satisfaction of the committee that after the cutting of the cane it "should be immediately worked up" for the production of sugar. The results submitted to the committee also indicate that the exclusion from the mature cane of all immature cane is of the greatest importance if the manufacture of sugar is contemplated, variety of soil best adapted to the production of sugar in these plants, methods of defecation, and the processes of manufacture and use of lime or some other alkaline agent. The committee expresses the opinion that the fruits of the encouraging "policy of the Government toward the sorghum industry are already beginning to show themselves in the decided success which has attended the production of sugar from sorghum on a commercial scale in few cases in which the rules and good practice evolved, especially by the researches made at the laboratory of the Department of Agriculture, have been intelligently followed. Sufficiently full returns from the crop of 1882 have already come to hand to convince us that the industry will probably be a commercial success." The report concludes with suggestion that the "sugar-producing industries of the whole country, both that of the tropical cane at the South and the sorghum over a far wider area, will be vastly benefited by further investigations similar to those that have already been submitted to them." The conclusion arrived at by the Department in the laboratory and mill as its special contribution to the sorghum industry, and the conclusions obtained elsewhere, are in the opinion of the committee as follows: First—Cane should be worked up as soon as cut. Second—That suckers should not be allowed in the crop. Third—That the exclusion of all immature cane is of the greatest importance in the manufacture of sugar. Fourth—Sugar has been made from sorghum and corn stalks. Fifth—Ripe seed will indicate the proper time for working up the crop. Sixth—Rain and drought do not affect the quality of the juice. Seventh—Mature sorghum is not injured by frost. Eighth—Loss of sucrose in sorghum syrup is no greater than that in syrup from sugar cane. Ninth—That the presence of gum in the syrup of cane and maize is the great obstacle in way of sugar manufacture. These are the discoveries claimed by the Department. The little town of Axminster, Devonshire, England, became famous by reason of its carpets in 1755. They were woven in one piece, but until 1839 this involved so much time that it caused them to be few in number and enormously expensive. In that year it occurred to Mr. Templeton, a Paisley shawl manufacturer, that the process adopted in weaving chenille shawls might be applied to Axminster carpets, and this greatly reduced their price, although they are yet very costly. The firm of Templeton & Co. of Glasgow still do nearly all the weaving by hand. They have designing establishments in London and Glasgow, where nearly one hundred persons are employed. They are now making a carpet for the library at the White House and some for Mr. Vanderbilt. They some time since made for the King of Siam a carpet 100 feet by 34. Its centre was a three-headed white elephant. A carpet made for the King of Denmark as a present to the Mikado represented a menageric. One 74 by 52, woven for the Sultan, was valued at $6,000. A Paragraph on Lawn Tennis. Lawn tennis is doubtless the most sensible game ever suggested for the fair sex. It af- The President following communication from the Wiggins, L.L.D., Astronomical Finance Department, unaware September last: I am with the Canadian press that a would occur in March next; that he felt in the Northern Pacific in the Gulf of Mexico on the 7th, and, being deflected by mountains, would cross this meadow at noon on Sunday, 1883. No vessel, whatever it may be, will be safe out of harbor, small tonnage can survive the cold fury of this tempest. As below from the southeast, its waters will be sufficient to submerge of the American coast, especially north of the Rocky Mountain range, great atmospheric pressure in New England States will also wind and floods. No point burrow in the whole area of the town, especially north of the place of safety, for this momently the greatest storm visited the continent. Sex in Eggs. Advent of the London Journal of Days in reference to this quencher an old poultry keeper told distinguish the sex in eggs. Him, and was none the less he told me the following with the air bladder in the egg will produce cockerels; bladder on one side will protrude. The old man was so confident trained to make experiments upon I have done so, carefully regulating bladder vertically or bladders, rejecting every one which readily one or the other, as in nearly out of the center. The result: Fifty-eight chickens three are dead, and eleven are decide upon the sex; of the re-four every one has turned out man's theory. This of course accidental coincidence, but I try the experiment again." The investigations of the department prove to the entire satisfaction of the committee that after the cutting of the cane it "should be immediately worked up" for the production of sugar. The results submitted to the committee also indicate that the exclusion from the matured cane of all immature cane is of the greatest importance if the manufacture of sugar is contemplated, and show the importance of an even crop with no suckers in its manufacture for sugar. The committee also find that "prompt working of the cane so soon as cut is always safe and any delay is fraught with unavoidable risk or loss." This conclusion is established as well by the work of Dr. Goessman as by the Department of Agriculture. The statement submitted by the Department also show that sugar has been made from SOREHUM AND CORN STALKS. "It will be seen from the reports of the past three years of the Department of Agriculture, as well as from a wide range of experience elsewhere, that sugar in large quantities has been shown to be present in the juice of sorghum, and maize also, which is of the first importance from the economical side. High-grade marketable sugar in considerable quantity has been successfully made from sorghum juice, comparing favorably with sugar from the true sugar cane or sugar beet." The committee has also found that the hydrometer and ripe seed are sufficient to indicate the proper time for working up the crop. It is shown, moreover, by the investigation at the Department, that the idea that the effect of rain would be manifested in the diluted juice, and that conversely a prolonged drought would result in a concentration and diminution of the juice, is utterly unfounded and incorrect. It has been shown that when fully matured the sorghum stands even hard frosts without detriment, but if immature the effect is most disastrous. With regard to the manufacture of sugar from sorghum the experiments of the Department has shown that the statement of Dr. Goessman that "in sight of these facts it will be quite generally conceded that the sugar production from syrup like the above must remain a mere incidental feature of the amber cane industry in our section of the country," is entirely unfounded, and that the relative loss of sucreyone persons are employed. They are now making a carpet for the library at the White House and some for Mr. Vanderbilt. They some time since made for the King of Siam a carpet 100 feet by 34. Its centre was a three-headed white elephant. A carpet made for the King of Denmark as a present to the Mikado represented a menagerie. One 74 by 52, woven for the Sultan, was valued at $6,000. A Paragraph on Lawn Tennis. Lawn tennis is doubtless the most sensible game ever suggested for the fair sex. It affords every opportunity of physical development, and, if indulged in reasonably, cannot fail to prove beneficial to the health. As a rule, however, young ladies just learning the game, in their enthusiasm, neglect all the principles of health, and indulge in the exercise to excess. This brings on sick headache, billiousness, exhaustion, and general weakness, which can only be removed by Swayne's Pills. One trial is sufficient to convince the most incredulous. Pork Restrictions. Berlin, December 1st.-The following is the text of an ordinance presented in the Bundzrath yesterday, for bidding the importation of American pork: First—The importation from America of pigs, pork, bacon and sausage of all kinds is forbidden. Second—The Chancellor is empowered to permit exceptions to the prohibitive rule, subject to necessary measures of control. Third—The restrictive ordinance of June 25, 1880, in respect to the importation of American pork and sausage is abolished. Fourth—The present ordinance goes into force thirty days after the promulgation. The ordinance of June 25th, 1880, only applied to minced pork and sausages, and not to hams. "Do not grasp at the shadow and lose the substance." Kidney-Wort is able to convert you from a shadow of your former self into the substance of established health. Said a sufferer from kidney trouble when asked to try Kidney-Wort for a remedy. "I'll try it, but it will be my last dose." It cured him and now he recommends it to all. If you have disordered kidneys don't fall to try it. An editor, only married a week ago yesterday, printed a fierce article against "hoaxism."