J RUN IE JUNE IN KUKOPE.
Tlie Picture Gallery of lho Duko of
Westminster Windsor Castln
and Its ijiirronndiugs.
3toke l'ogls, Where dray, Author of "Elf cy
In i Country Churchyard," Is Uurlcil.
Tfc Jt'sort of ShftkcspfPr ami Dr. John,
sfin's House.-
London, July 27. One of tho in
teresting events of our stay in London
has been avisit to the Dnko of West
minster's Gallery, one of tho finest
private galleries, if not tho finest in
London. Tho Duke of Westminster is
very hospitable and very public-spirited.
He eives his private riding sciiool
for bazarits and opens his magnificent
suito of rccoption rooms, called his
"gallery," and filled with admirablo
works o"f art of every description as
well as pictures, lor concerts, for
charitable purposes, and at least throo
months in tho year to holdors of tick
ets, who aro privileged to oxtond tho
courtesy to friends. Tho kindness is
perfectly free and untrammelled, ser
vants aro not allowed to receive fees,
and when our party arrived thoro,
Hfteen minutes in advance of tho tiuio
ten a. m. of opening, and unac-
cotupnnied by our guarantee, Mrs.
Felix Mosohclos, who was not duo till
fifteen minutes later, wo wero politely
recoived and allowed tho entree at
onco. To describe tho interesting
pictures, or merely catalogue them,
would require more than tho spaco
reserved for this letter, so I shall only
indicate a few of the most striking fea
tures. One of thoso is tho magnifi
cent portrait of Mrs. Siddons by Sir
Joshua Reynolds, which contains his
namo inscribed in the hem of her robo
and by which ho said ho was willing to
bo judged and his namo carried down
to posterity. Another is tho "Bluo
I5oy," a liguro of a graceful youth in
bluo page eostunio, painted by Gains
borough in answer to u challongo by
Sir Joshua Remolds, who insisted
that bluo as a color did not supply an
artistic medium to tho painter. Tho
picture triumphantly rofutes this idea.
A wonderful small picturo is Murillo's
sleeping infant Christ, and a remark
able one Raphael's visit of Elizabeth
to Mary tho mother of tho Savior.
Thero aro numerous examples of
Claude Lorraine, I'ousseirand Rubens,
and a curious portrait of Van Dyck,
by himself, holding in his hand a sun
flower. This picturo certainly relioves
Oscar Wilde from tho opinion of ori
ginating tho decorative and symbolic
use of tin's high-colored emblem. A
crystal clock with largo disc of bril
liants, a cabinet composed entirely of
onyx and gold and exquisite old china,
a stand of raro woods inlaid with
pearl or ebony, aro among tho hun
dreds of other beautiful and raro ob
jects. It was noticed particularly that
small articles in daily use lay about in
some of lho rooms, such as books,
with the small asos of llowers and
the crystal dishes of roses and maid
enhair forns, or swcot-smelling carna
tions, forgot-mo-nots and mignonette.
Anotlior memorablo occasion was
our visit to Windsor and Stoko Pogis,
tho latter a littlo villaso iivo miles
from Windsor, only interesting as be
ing the secno of Gray's "Elegy in a
Country Churchyard" and the resting
place of tho author. Windsor is too
well known to need lengthy descrip
tionits towors of York and Lan
caster, its "round" towor, its battle
ments and terraces, aro all historic.
The queen occupies but a small por
tion of the south front of tho massivo
pile of stone, and as she was in rcsi-
Winoso'h CfuC
donee, tho Marquis and Marchionoss
of Salisburj on a vis,it, and tiio Duch
ess of Took expected by tho "1:10
train," wo wero not invited to pro
long our stay. Wo saw tho Queen,
however, antt tho Princess Beatrice as
they drove across tho inner court in a
low' phaeton, which ono of tho young
ladies of our party thought not half so
liandsomo as our own, on thoir way to
Frogmore, or on their return I forgot
which, and it doos not matter. Frog
iiioro is where tho Prince Consort's
mausoleum is erected, a picturo of
which is presented below, rind is fre
quently risitod by tho Quoun.
It was rathor touching to seo tho ro
apeet with which a gray-haired and
roverend look ng gentleman, with his
nice wifo and sweet-looking daughter,
watchod tho approach of tho Qucon.
"Not so much, as ho afterwards re
marked, when ho mot his family party
on the North Terraeo, "bocuuso she is
the Queen, as because fho 1ms boon an
Mxtunplnry' wdo ami mother--has
brought up hor sons and daughters to
perform their duty and oxoroisud au
inHiitinow' for good upon tho whole
nation." Tho North Torraoo, tho
eUiblo and SU George' Chanel aro
onon Ihu publlo ut certain hours
evury day in tho week hut ono -and
tiio (lnuit Park mid ground in.
ji'j Jui,' the Lout Walk," oyuu when
d: a 1 77. b- P-xt-: VM-vifffii
tho Queen is at Windsor, as aro all
"Crown" properties and residonco
so it Is easy to see how strongly at
tached sho "must be to her one own and
only homo of Osborne. Tho North
Terrace coram nils tho widest view of
any within tho walls of tho castle. It
looks out upon Eaton College and its
surrounding neighborhood, and down
into a wooded ravine, which is a tan
glo of lu.turi.int greenery, intersected
with lovely wnlks and furnished with
resting places beneath tho lino old
trcos.
St. George's Chapel contains tho
tombs of some of those Englishmen
who havo devoted their lives to tho
sorvico of tho Crown, and notably tho
mm fi
pfeSSl
PtfMCfSS CHWIOVrcS CcxotipH.
cenotaph, dedicated to tho memory of
tho unfortunate Princess Charlotte,
famous for its veiled figures of weep
ing women. In this Chapel have been
celebrated all the royal marriages, and
there is groat discontent among the
members of the household at Windsor
boeauso Whippingham Church was pre
ferred by tho Princess Beatrice for her
nuptials with Prince Henry of Button
borg. "Whippingham Church," said
tho young oicorono, who escorted us
around tho stables, "won't 'old 300
people, and thoy can't honlortniu
as many as that at Ilosbornc, but
there's no accounting for tastes."
Tho bay horses, ho explained, wero
for "Ministers and such," when thoy
came to visit tho Queen; lho cream
colored hordes for "royalties." Two
beautiful black mountain ponies aro
kept for service at Balmoral. Ho
oninod. also, rather significantly, that
thoQuoen would not lose much of tho
' society of tho Princess Beatrico after
her marriago, but would onlvgain
I that of tho Prince, her husband", who
! is a nice, rather Moinaguish looking
' voting fellow. Leaving Windsor, we
drove directly down the "long walk,"
' lined on either side with noblo trees
sot so thickly that a completo wall
j hundreds of feet high islorined, which
' givo cool shado on tho hottest day;
I" . lift i -I At
past too "mouoi ' iarm, inrougu mo
great park, over tho "Victoria" and
"Albert" bridgo to quaint "old Wind
sor" and out to Eaton and Eaton
School, where tho boys wero onjoying
thoir noon recess in tho oriokotground
or hastening back in troops to tho af
ternoon recitations. Tho rido to
Stoko Pogis is lovoly, through quiet
lanes, lined with trees or thrifty
hedgerows, and as wo had not time to
stop anywhero for luncheon we im
proved "tho occasion by laying in a
storo of tho great, delicious English
strawberries and current bun0, which
wo lunched upon with appetito and
shared with our driver. Tho most
conspicuous objects upon tho way
wero tho carved stone lions at
tho ontranco of the grounds and
park, 1,000 acres in extent, of a
lino country house, onco intended
as a homo for tho Prineo of
Wales, now owned and occupied
by (according to our coachman)
"Coleman's Mustard." This condi
ment is placarded in largo letters
throughout England, and we woro
quite glad to find out that its
propriotor had not only a local
habitation but so sumptuous a ono.
&taam
i1iugiiia,'i(!jfU!
Tho quiet graveyard at Stoko Pogis
is d sligured by an imposing monu
ment in shocking bad tasto which
somo man with more monoy than
braiu3 was permitted to orect, but
which stands thero quito usoIoxk a
monument of bis own stupidity for
tho collective sonso of tho people
would not permit tho remains of the
poet or the simple inscription on tho
wall of tho church to bo disturbed to
satisfy tho vulgar dosiro for rolloctod
glory of ono individual. So tho poet
still' reposes in peace by tho sido of
his mother under the old lateral tomb
stones, and the daisies and buttercups
grow up about him and tho ivy clings
green about, tho walls of tho littlo
church that ho loved and in tho shad
ow of which ho rests. "Gray's Elegy
is ono of tho perfect pooins in tho En
glish laniruairo. Its tono, sentiment
I mill Im.'iiriiri' iirnnll in lmifOll. ami arc
unmarrbd by a sinirlo Haw in language
or construction. It was formerly re
quired of every ohild in English schools
that thoy Bhotild ncquiro this poem by
memory; and It says something for
tho literary tasto of some American
schools to flay that thoy make this ex
quisite work a principal lesson in En
glif.li literature; tho poem iUolf, be it
undortdood, not somebody's talk about
it and ltd author and hlsauteofldents,
of which 30 muoli of our present day
"literature" U composed.
Thtt hint day of our stay In London
oulljidod all previous experiences. Wn
-mrto
i
went with an American friend, long
res-dent abroad, to lunch at tho old
"Cheshire Cheese" tavern. Winn Oftlco
Citiit. Fleet street, the resort ot John
sun, and even Snakespearo. whero tho
old timbered doors, the settees, and
nreplaees the pewter mugs and spoons,
and leaded dianiond-puncd windows
lemaiii, where you ran s:t in tho very
pot where the'tainous ohPdnetor took
Ins pint of home brewed and Boswoll
got oil' his quaintest epigram:
Kailh lias tin liml tor lamia town, I
No i tow ii n hulls . or liiuuc a lonl, like tills.
Tho authorship of this is unknown
and may have been Boswell himself.
Dr. Samuel Johnson's own house
with historic inscription is just around
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iii.im K'iii' fil IW ,
the corner in Gough Square a small
court rathor than square, and there is a
triangle of courts and alloys and
"yards" and narrow lanes and old
cheap houses in the locality, so that it
is dillieult for even a London cabman
to find tho o.vnct spot. But onco
found there is no mistaking it. Sala
and others havo described it, and an
inscription by tho door announces
that it was rebuilt in 10('7. It is still
famous as over for its "rumpsteak
pudding," which is compounded of
a crust mado with snot, fresli cut
steak, mushrooms, an oyster or two, a
famous sauce piquento and a littlo
pounded hi -euit or Hour; for its Wulsh
rabbit stowed with ale; for its stupend
ous chops, which must oo cut from
sheep grown on purpose: am it mus
tard and bread and chocs- Et and its
habitues stick to tho loi rihy pipes,
sovoral of which wo brought away;
and our admiration of tho great
Christmas bowl in which tho rump
steak pudding is mado so won upon
the presiding genius of tho kitchen,
which wo wero allowed to inspect,
that siio gavo us a small, square tin
a square jelly cako tin in immature
as tho veritable (with a twinkle) self
same little tin in wlrch Johnson had
his clieoso stowed. Joko or not, tho
"old Cliesiro cheese" is an interesting
and curious fact. And whether Shake
spoaro visited hero or not, Goldsmith
and Voltaire, Pope, Polingbroke and
Congrevo, as well as rare lien Jouson
andliis talky biographer, wero certain
ly frequent guests. An old piny, now
in a well-known library in Edinburgh,
contains tho following references to
this famous resort:
"Come to tho cheese, good friends, come to
the cheese.
There I'll cimnpe tlmt thou shalt quickly And
The creuture eouifoitB that thou ntcd'bt bo
much.
Thy body's fnmlslird first for wnnt of sack;
And next for lack of something good to eat.
llasle to the cheeec, good friends, haste to the
cheese."
A second mention lu the same work is to
the following effect :
"Heaven hlees tho cheeso and all its goodly
fare;
I would to Jove J could co dally there.
Then 1111 n bumper up my good fr end, plcaso;
May fortune over blets the 'Cheshire chcete.'"
The loft hand room upon cntormjr
tho "Cheshire," and tho tablo at the
right, with tho wooden settle on ono
sido and tho window at tho end, was
tho table occupied by Johnson and his
friends almost uniformly. This tablo
and tho loom are as Johnson and his
friends left them in their time. John
son's seat was at the end, his back to
the window; Goldsmith sat at his loft
hand. The latter is buried on tho
opposite sido of Fleet street from the
Choose, in Templo Churchyard. The
following is tho inscription upon the
stone:
; lleic I.Irs "
; Ol.IVIiH (iol.DSMITH. ;
; I!o'ii 10th of November. 172-S. ;
; Died 4th or April, 1771. ;
Goldsmith, it is said, lived and died
at 2 Brick Court Temple, in tlio same
building where Blackstono wrote his
Commentaries. Jennie Junk.
Copyrighted, 1885, by G. W. Hannn.
Jlarrying ior Money.
I had a conversation recently with a
very clover and attractivo New York
lad3', who, among other misfortunes,
was nlllictcd with 2,000,000. She
said siio would never marry, because
she would not bolievo that any man
wanted hor for any other reason than
her gold. "And what," I asked, "do
you lose therobyP If a gentleman
takes you bocnuso you aro fo pretty,
tho small-pox, a fall from a horse, any
accident may destroy your beauty,
and whoro will his lovo bo if it is for
that reason only ho took you? If an
other ono Jlls" in lovo with you bo
eauso you aro so fresh, ho young, so
lively, time is safo to destroy all that,
and your hold on hhn is lost. But if
ho takes you for your money, you need
only bownro of dangerous specula
tions, and you will always keep tho
chnrni that brought him to your feet,
and you have nothing to fear." "That
is ono way of looking at it," she said;
and so completely did sho embrace
my opinion that bnroly a yoar after I
recoived an invitation to her wedding
with an English nobleman.- Temple
liar.
Jamei I). FUh, of the defuutt Marine
tank U employed lu tho ehoe department of
tliu xiiiluititlary, Jn marching to and from
hi work lie Is not forcrd Into the common
rnk, but la permitted to walk alone. Frlendi
hare furulahtd hla cll with a carpet and taay
chair,
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A 'IT.Ol'irAI, TOlt.V.UIO.
An Kx Narnl Oftlrcr'a Attnnn of Ills Kx-
liorlciirc In n .Ih iip! Tj'iihoon.
"The tornado of Monday last was u
vivid illustration (j what the wind cfti
do when it eels a irood rcadv on,"
(aid John B. Kobinsou, member of
assembly from Delaware county and
for eleven jejirs an ollicer in tho
United States navy. "I wan over yes
tenia v tosec the ell'ects of Hie blow in
Cainiien. and the destruction is simi
lar to that caused by a htirrknu In the
tropics, or an Hast India typhoon. No
one can ever believe the wind could
exert such unearthly force until ho
lias experienced it himself. 1 .was in
a typhoon once on the Uth day of
August, 1871, in the United States
storcship Idaho, in Yokolioma harbor,
Japan. I never want another such
experience. We had had a long spell
of intensely hot weather. The day
before tho typhoon part of the 10tli
British regiment and royal marines,
eehanged to go home, were transferr
ed to a transport, and to moid tho
heat moved in theeaily morning. Five
of the men were sun-truek when tho
sun was not three degrees high. We
had about twenty-four hour.' notice of
the coining of the typhoon by the fall
of tho barometer, tho shifting of tho
wind, and increasing moisture of the
atmosphere. A few hours before tho
center of the storm passed, the sky
became tilled with inky black clouds,
gyrating around in the most confused
manner; tho wind blew a steadily-iu-ereasing
gale, finally, as the storm
center was on us, assuming hurricane
violence.
"1 was navigating ollicer, and pnrl
of my duty was to watch the barome
ter and sympsiosoinotcr, which I mark
ed every'ten and live minutes. Tho
mercury fell in regular jumps toward
the last, as if tho bottom was out of
the tube, halting at 27.10. Tor the
half hour proceeding this the situation
was perfectly awful. Wo woro at
anchor in the harbor, the two host
bowers down and veered to ninety
fathoms of chain on each. The bar
ber was full of craft, lariro and small.
Admiral Kopjiol's llagship, a Clyde
built steamer, was on ono sido of us,
the l'acilio Mail steamer America,
Capt. Warsaw, on the other, and a
Norwegian bark near astern. Tho
steamers kept full head of steam on
and could ease up thoir cables. Our
vessel and the other sailing craft had
to trust to their cables.
" The danger of fouling was immi
nent, the bark drifted all around us,
fortunately not striking. Had sho
done so both vessels would havo boon
ground to pieces. The wind at its
lioight was simply indescribable, tho
noise like that of ten thousand devils
yelling in the air. Then was no sua
on while tho wind blow at its greatest
velocity, as it cut tho tops oil' the waves
like a knife and tho air was lilled with
blinding salt mist. Wo could not
show our hands above tho rail. To
look to windward or hold your head
up against the wind was impossible.
When the baroniotor ceased falling tho
wind fell and u dead calm, awiul in
in its stillness, succeeded for about
fifteen minutes. Wo were then in tho
vortex of tho storm and, as wo after
ward calculated, four miles from tho
actual center. As tho wind lulled the
sea rose and came piling in the harbor
in tumultuous waves, running in all
directions, toppling up over our decks
and lilling them with tons of water.
Our hatches wore battened down and
everything was fast, of course, but
our most serious danger was just then,
as wo wero loaded deep and rolled so
that we actually thought at one time
we'd turn clear ovor, but wo camo
through it ull right but heavily shaken
up.
"Tho wind came out from tho op
posite quarter, in a few minutes blow
the sea down again and raged with
demoniac forco and decreasing velo
city for an hour or so, tho barometer
jumped up to near thirl y inches again,
tho sky cleared until theru was not a
cloud to be seen and tho typhoon was
nasi; but it loft lis wreck behind.
Numbers of small craft and several
largo steamers wero on tiio beach in
pieces no bigger than a yardstick. Tho
harbor was full of toa-boxos for days
from the wrecked vessels. Ashore
the voiw was like that in Camden yes
terday, only tho swath far wider" 1
have been live times noross the Atlan
tic, in some heavy wintry ualo.s on
that treacherous ocean, "was in a
cyclono oil' llattoras in tho frigato
Macedonia, have scudded two thou
sand miles before tho 'bravo westerly
winds' on ono parallel, oil' Capo of
Good Hope when going out to India,
but I have never seen tho wind blow
so hard as in that typhoon. Indeed,
1 novor believed it could blow so, and
usod to joko at the tnoss-tablo with tho
Dxecutlvo ollicer, wbo had been In a
typhoon prior to this one and would
yarn about it. Dttrlntr tho height of
tho typhoon ho whs standing alongside
of mo under tho break of tho poop.
Capt. J Crittenden Watson wan in tho
cabin praying, ho leaned down oloso
to my ear, ami yelling with till his
power, otherwise I could not havo
heard him for t!m shrieking of tho
wind, said: 'Now, d n you, don't
you boliovo it can blow.' My reply was
mi atlirmativo nod of the head, as I
registered the next jump of tho baroni
otor." "Js thoro no way of escaping or
mitigating tho dangers of these vio
lent tornadoos'i"'
"None thatscionco has yet discover
ed. Outside, with sea room, you can
run out on Ilium if you aro warned
soon enough, as tho captain of tho
Twilight tried to do lust Monday, but
if caught in tho track of one all you
can do is to niako everything snug
about deuks, batten down your hatches,
bend your storm-sails, furl your square
(ails, and double lash them, run life
lines along tho docks, and put vour
trust m providence." I'liiluiUlphiu
Times.
Purine thO'M!iio:i of one hundred duyg
lust year ono Hurnloun hotel paid u market
0111 of (125,000. Aiiiou tho 'Irian were 00.000
I omnia of heef, 13,000 pound of mutton. 20,
rxiundsof lumb, 7 000 pounds of u.il, 1.1000
pound of pork, GO.bOJ pnunda of eh ckou,
J.".0)0 poutida of KalllM- 101 dozen rquuba,
M, 100 pounds of (lh, 0.000 nund of salmon,
i,000 pound of bulli r, 'JUKXI dozen tgua,
t5,000 quurU of tuilk und 10,0'J'J quart of
ilium.
Tho Maxwell-rrcllcr Murder Ca&
Lennox Maxwoll, tho allcgod mrtr
dcrcr of Prellcr, has arrived at St,
Louis, tho scene of the awful crinio
Tho horrible method employed in con
cealing the murder, tho llight of th
murderer and his arrest at far-ofl
Auckland, have conspired to throw
around the crime and tho criminal
deep anil unusual interest.
Maxwell, since his arrest, has con
ducted himself cooll' and carelessly.
He claims that he is Innocent and thai
at tho riirht time his Innocence will be
fully established. But this claim ia
probably nothing more than a defiance,
an clloi t to arouse jiublio sympathy in
lus behalf as a persecuted man. Hi?
real defense has probably beon made
public in the tentative suggestions that
Maxwell has a weak mind, and is even
crazy; therefore, if guilty, not respon
sible for his crime. Anotlior lino of
defense has been shadowed in tho an
nouncement that the supposed mifrdor
was not murder but an attempt at nn
inniraneo fraud. It is not probable
that this latter defense will be attempt
ed. Tho father and brother of l'rcllor,
engaged in business on Wood stroet,
near liuildhall, London, havo been in
terviewed by a New York Herald re
presentative and they say that this,
story of Maxwell's about an insuranco
fraud is "too monstrously improbable
to bo considered for one moment as
possibly true." They furthor statu
that the murdered l'rellcr was a young
man of excellent habits and quiet
tastes, lie had good prospects in life,
a line salary, and 110 money dilliculties.
He had nothing to gain by dostroying
his identity for tho paltry insuranco
of $,r),000 all ho had on his life. Be
sides, ho could not havo prolited by
such a fraud except through his fathor
and brother.
Neither Mr. l'lollor nor his son will
attend the tr'al at St. Louis, but it is
a very important thinir that tho father
says:" "Tho identification of mv son's
bodv is most complete, as in addition
to the identification by tho iiotel peo
ple and personal friends, a cut on his
thumb made by a barber in New York
was.found on tho corpse." This stato
tnent is well calculated to bring alarm
to Maxwell and his attorney. It ex
plodes tho "insuranco fraud" dofonse,
and throws tho case upon different
ground; and to render Maxwell's
situation more dangerous it is furthor
stated that a great surprise is in storo
for tho people in tho Bhnpo of tho tes
timony 111 tho hands of tho coroner
and tho prosecuting attorney. What
tho evidence is will not ho inndo pub
lic until tho prisoner is arraigned.
Tlie opening of the ease will bo watch
ed for with a great deal of interest. A
curious people will want to know what
hue of defense will bo adopted in tho
effort to prove thu accused innocent
c.f ono of the most heinous of modem
oriines. AntiMis Oily Times.
The Undertaker's Bill.
Washington special: Undertaker
Merrltt, it is reported, thinks his bill
for tho (iraut funeral will reach $30,
000. In his opinion it will bu paid in
full by tho United States government.
It is probable that congress will take
some action relative to 'the paytnotit of
the expense of the sickness and burial
of (loneral Grant, but Uudortnkor
Merritt should not havo too good an
opinion of tho liberality of tho govern
ment in making out his bill, or ho may
bu disappointed. Undertaker Spcaro
of this city has not yet received his
pay for services rendered at tho Gar
field funeral. Like Undertaker Mer
ritt. ho paid S10 apiece forcarriagos
that formed the procession from tho
railway station to thocapitol when tho
body was brought from Long Branch
and thu same again when it was
escorted back to the railroad station
boforo starting for Cleveland. Ho fur
nished sashes for lho congressional
delegation and the pall-bourors, etc.,
his whole bill amounting to something
like $1,000, but tho board of audit
created by law to adjust tho claims on
account of tho funeral thought that no
more than thu usual price for carri
ages should bo paid by Spoaro, and
they refused to allow such uu amount.
Thoy never took into account tho fact
that on tlie day of the Gatiield funeral
in Washington carriages could only bo
obtained with tho greatest dilllculty
oven at $10. Tho board told Spcaro
that they would allqw him only about
a third of his bill, ami they would not
pay him that until he agreed to sign
a "release of all furthor claim
and give u receipt in full for his ac
count. Ho declined to do this, and ho
has never received a cent. Ho hopes,
however, that congress will do some
thing in the premises. It may not bo
generally known that if congross docs
not settle with Mr. Spoaro ho can suo
the Garlield estato for tho amount of
his claim. His experience may bo of
interest to Undertaker Merrltt when
ho goes to collect tho amount of his
claim for tho Grant funeral.
'I ho Use of Sunflowers.
This plant is a vigorous grower, and
has been extolled as a pruvehtivo of
malarial diseases. Tho seed a (fords
excellent food for hens and also for
horses. It is said that there is no kind
of feed that will keep horses in health,
give them a sleek appearance and
liiako them lively and spirited liko tho
sued of the suuilowor, feeding half a
pint night and morning. It Is partic
ularly recommended for giving a horso
power of endurance, being fed half a
pint night and morning with othor
loud. The stalks and heads, after the
seed is worked out, also make good
mnlurial for tiros, and aro especially
convenient in summer, when it quick
tiro is desired and au enduring heat is
not wanted. In their growth they
make a sliowy appearance about dwell
ings and give an agreeable frograuco
to lho air. Tho latest direction in tho
llne.of utilization of the sunflower is
(he planting of a seed lu a place at tho
proper distances, so that tho stalks us
thoy grow will servo us bean polos.
Wo havo seen them started in that way
this season, and as they grow th
leaves are removed, thus forming au
oxcollent stalk for the bouns, but what
tho client will be upou thum remains
to bo seen. 'I ho roots must tax tha
feeding capacity of tho soil quite
heavily.--). Loud Qlobc-Vcmocrut.
The euflro wool crop ut the l'luent Sound
couut'e umuuuts thli tuaion to USD, 00 J lb