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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1886)
SEH I-WEEKLY VKST SIDE VOL. I. P|| B IM0KX.M, TELEPHONE c I il *■ est side telephone . I TERRITORIAL NEWS. FOREIGN GOSSIP. AN IMPERIAL ISLE. A WONDERFUL RIVER. an ;erous Sand Bars Are Passed Tramps infest Walla Walla. —The French have taken the Ameri 'I ho Charming Retreat Owned By the How 1 tlie Navigators of Hie Colorado. Medical Lake is very popular. Crown Prince of Austria. can vetb “to interview” into their lan- The morning of departure was per EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY guage. EUensburgh is to have a new bank. The Crown Prince Rudolph of Aus I — IN - —Tattooing In Japan is practised to tria, in addition to many other desirable feet. No air was stirring, save a slight Dayton is erecting a new court house. ■Garrisons Building,. McMinnville. Oregon, Shipping from Tacoma is greatly on such an extent that a law prohibiting pomps and vanities, lias an island of his bn eze induced by the motion of tin ti e practice has just been passed. — BY - the increase. own—Lacroma, in the Adriatic, oppo boat, the sky was clear and the atmos —A French bonnet is ined the The W. C. T. U. have opened a read TTiiliiiiiyo *Ki luiei*. site Ragusa; and there in the midst of phere most invigorating. Indeed, it giraffe capote, and is trii » with two ing room at Centrallia. Publishers and Proprietors. lovely scenery, surrounded by a trans would almost tempt one to foreswear velvet ears of unequal length and size. The Moscow hook and ladder company t avel by the dusty railroad train. ----------------------------- —The T wer of London has been re parent sea, he is convalescing after a are to erect a building. BUHtiCRl PTION RATES: The river seemed a labyrinth of sand recent indisposition. The isle, three h Neuralgia, A mineral spring lias been discovered opened to visitors, after having been days One year................................ . .........................$2 (Ml bars, and to a passenger it appeared ’ steam from Trieste, is as beautiful Toothache, closed for more than a year on account ........................ 1 25 months .............................. near Snoqualmie Falls. , etc., He. as Monaco, and quite out of the world; marvelous that it could be navigated at 75 Thru- months......................... ........................ of the dynamite explosion. r CKVr* Spokane Falls lias enacted stringent II» »R . & for while the owner is in residence no all. The course tho steamer took was — The Sultan of Turkey is said to IÍOKL, XU. Entered in tlie Postoilice at McMinnville, Or., ordinances against the social evil. us second-class matter.. pay two German apothecaries $5,000 a one is allowed to land without a special most intricate, now shooting to one A daily stage and mail now runs be year each, with board and rooms in the permit. Lacroma formerly belonged to s de, now to the other, ever following tween EUensburgh and The Dalles, Or. palace, and the services of several at- that most unfortunate of monarchs. the deep water. To me the crew were The Spokane Falls fair and race meet | tendants. Maximilian of Mexico, who was much most interesting—Indians v h painted OREGON NEWS ITEMS. ing will take place September 1, 2, 3 and —Sixty-nine of her British Majesty’s attached to it, and wrote several little feathers and bare legs, squatting around 4. ■bain claims a population of 31)0. I big ships are said to be “shams, an- poems in praise of its charms. After the lower deck, all happy and playing liurlen. The farmers throughout the Walla I tiques and curios, whose proper place is his terrible end the island was possessed ■ like children among themselves. It was Lakeview expects to have a bank. Walla valley have commenced harvest I in a naval museum or colossal marine by a succession of ordinary people, by amusing to see them sitting peacefully one of whom it was sold to the Arch a omul the steam capstan, some engaged Panthers are killing stock in Klamath ing. : bric-a-brac shop.” duke R 'dolph in 1878. The future Em The mills are shutting down at Walla I THE colli! I I . —An extraordinary fact in connec- peror of Austria lives at Lacroma in the in the highly instructive and entertain Pendleton is pretty well supplied with Walla owing to lack of water, Mill creek t on with the Russian conscripts drafted ing occupation of plastering their long greatest simplicity. When Mat imilian being extremely low. train i . into the ranks in 1885 is shown by’soine bought the isle the only available resi black hair with mud; others singing in The anti-Chinese party has called a I statistics just published. The total num a low, monotonous undertone the love Weston will soon have an anti-Chinese convention to meet at Tacoma Sept. 4th, ber of conscripts accepted was 847,587, dence on it was an old monastery which sick Indian ballad, keeping time with a wasll-liou.se. been going to ruin for a half a had of whom no fewer than 43,830 were century; and in this building the Crown slow motion of their bodies Suddenly Salem’s jail is having a new cement to nominate a delegate to congress. would come a sharp, quick growl A young man named George Henry, I ' Jews. floor laid. Prince and Princess live their simple 20 years, has been drowned in the pilot-house, immedi — A great number of important and lives. There are but three good rooms from A daily stage rims between Salem and aged Snake river, four miles above Asotin, interesting documents have lately been ately followed by more growls and sun Inaejiendence. in the house — the drawing-room, the while bathing. dry expressive oaths from the Mexican discovered in a stab'e lot at Òelvoir Giant’s Puss has had a new Baptist refectory, used as a salon de mate on the forecastle desk, then there For the second time within two months I Castle by an inspector who was sent ancient chin :h organized. musique, and the drawing-room. The would be a hurrying and a scurrying the tub and pail factory of Caughran & Crops around Weston will be much Knatvold, on the beach below Old Ta I I down to look over the Duke of Rut- imperial bed-rooms are of very’ meager and a tumbling over each othe’ to exe • land ’ s family papers by the Historical dimensions, while the long-titled Dukes better than was expected. coma, has lost its dry house by fire. Manuscript Commissioners. Many of and Duchesses of the suite have to be cute the order. We had left Yuma only Tbe Oregon Milling Co. is erecting a The auditor of Garfield county has had these old documents are of great his- content with the cells of the vanished six hours when there took place what to large warehouse at Aumsville. me was a most interesting performance, an injunction served on him to not make tor'cal value, and among them isadiarv The plain whitewashed walls but which, as I afterward learned from Tbe Masons of Grant’s Pass are erect the official count on the local option elec kept by the Earl of Rutland when he monks. match the rough, serviceable furniture. ing a new brick hall. one of the officers of the boat, is a very tion until further orders from the Judge was in attendance on Charles I. The monastery is said to have been I common one on wily Colorado—that of A Methodist church is in course of con of the District Court. —The ways of the Japanese post-office built by the citizens of Ragusa as a heaving over a bar. We had arrived at struction at Lakeview. Tiie official statement of the Northern are peculiar. In most countries, if the thanks-offering for the stoppage of a Diphtheria is reported in different por Pacific shows net earnings for May of postage on a letter is inadequate, the great fire. At the beginning of the a portion of the river where it was at $504,047, and for the eleven months end deficiency is recovered from the ad present century it was partially de least a mile and a half wide, and as this tions of Jackson county. ing May 31, $5,401.228, an.increase in dressee, and if he objects to be mulcted, stroyed by an earthquake, anil has whole space was covered with water the Dallas will have its new bank building the latter depth at any one place was exceedingly case of $104,952. finished in a few weeks. the letter is retained :»nd there is an end never been thoroughly restored. The scant. We had been going very slowly The Washington Loan and Trust com of the matter. It is not so in Japan. scenery of the island is entirely roman A postoffice has been established on have pany purchased all tlie Columbia county The other day an unfortunate Japanese tic. Beneath a sky which is rarelv for the half hour preceding the climax, Bully creek in Baker county. d get but at last we came to a standstill, and bonds, which were offered, $40,000 dress Polk county has two vacant scholar worth, for $45,625. This brings the in- declined to pay the extra postage, clouded grows a luxuriant tropical were stuck fast and firm. First came vegetation—groves of orange and myr an order from the pilot-house: “Throw whereupon he was dragged before a ships in the Eugene University. j terest down to a little over 6 per cent- magistrate and fined five dollars for tle, of aloes and figs; a true “land Eastern Oregon is settling up faster per annum. The bonds run for 15 years. evading three men and an anchor overboard on 1 the taxes. where the citron blooms.”— London port side!” I was aghast, but was con than any other ;>ortion of the state. J. V. Bogue, engineer in charge of the Life. — The silver tree of South Africa siderably relieved when three stalwart A brass band is to be formed among work on tlie Cascade division of the (Leucadendron argenteum), “whose >11. sons of Yuma jumped, of their own ac Northern Pacific, a few days ago told a leaves shine like burnished metal,” has tlier Indians at the Klamath Agency. •‘LET HER RIP.” cord, over the guard, and stood knee Tacoma Ledger man that there was room Dr. M been supposed to occur nowhere in the The delinquent tax list of Klamath An anchor was How Daniel Webster Amused a Host of deep on the bar. for 4000 men on tlie work and it required [atti:, world except on the slopes of Table County for 1885 amounts to only $168 69. His Ardent Admirers. throw’ll overboard and picked up by two considerable effort to find men to fill the pagm. Mountain, near Cape Town; but a cor Grant’s Pass wants a Normal School, a plac’es. Ii over On one occasion some Boston friends of them, who commenced striding with !1H A flouring mill and mountain water brought Governor Squire has let a contract for respondent of the Gardeners Chronicle sent him as a present an enormous it across the bar. Meanwhile the third llcry. says he once saw a specimen of this into town. boring an artesian well in Adams county, Indian followed w th two shovels. Price« I thought the Indians never would Salem rejoices in tbe prospect of good of five and one-half inch bore, to H. marvelous plant in a garden in the dis sized plow to use on his place. Webster L n fur trict of Madura, in Southern India. >nd gave out word that on a certain day it stop, thinking that they bad misunder times, and much new life and private Gray Co., Chicago, the price varying ow to a seedling twenty inches high is now from $5 50 per foot for the first 500 feet improvements. would be christened. The day arrived, stood the order. 1 trembled for them very- to $3 per foot for all work subsequent to flourishing in an English conservatory. •and the surrounding farmers for miles I at the thought of the avalanche of pro tr, ur There are two vacant scholarships in LBLE The silver tree would seem to be quite thefetate University at Eugene city from the first 100 feet. A dozen fanity that would descend on their de ruiied as well worthy the attention of col came to witness the event. Klamath county. teams with aristocratic occupants came voted In ads when seen by the mate To . We WAIFS OF*THE WORLD. lectors as many of the orchids for which y n.l- down from Boston. It was expected by my intense satisfaction the Indiai with Crops will be good in many places in high prices arc paid. efraj Jacks, .ii county, though not generally as every one that Webster would make a the anchor at last stopped and were Milk sells in Key West, Fla., at 20 fro mi —According to a French paper the great speech on the occasion, reviewing roosting on it at least five hundred heavy as promised last spring. cents a quart. Count de Lesseps was foretold by an the history of farming back to the time yards ahead on the bar. Suddenly there Sixty white girls now till the places of Color-blindness is said to have been ancient Egyptian oracle. It says: when Cincinnati!« abdicated the most shot out from the side of the steamer a CO. theUhinese at the Oregon City woolen first reported in 1777. "Herodotus relates that when Neco, mighty throne in the world to cultivate skiff, propelled by three niuscu .r abo o, hl mills. They receive $30 per month. Albany, N. Y., is the oldest town in King of Egypt, undertook the work of turnips and cabbage? in his Roman rigines. aneut A band of Morrow county horses I the old thirteen colonies. L>e bil uniting the waters of the Mediterranean garden. The plow was brought out and The skiff was loaded to the gunwales which were being rounded up at Wallula j is. No America has 57 law schools, with 269 and Red Seas, by means of a canal, ten oke of splendid oxen hitched in with rope, and on top of that was a ou£> for shipment, stampeded and 130 of them teachers 620,000 men perished in the work. He front. More than two hundred people woollen platform about six feet square. and 2,686 students. got off to tlieir old ranges. r There are 733 papers published in the then caused the work to be stopped and stood around on the tiptoe of expecta I afterward learned that this wooden T. P. Lee who lives four or five miles German language in this country. consulted an oracle, receiving the re tion. Soon Webster made his appear arrangement was technically termed a below Grant’s Pass, expects to ship forty ply, ‘A barbarian will finish thy work.’ ance. He had been calling spirits from “hatch.” re- Every man on the Pennsylvania car-loads of melons to Portland and The gentleman who alighted upon that the vasty deep, and his gait was some The boat made directly for the Indians publican state ticket w as a union soldier. points farther east this summer. bit of history copied upon a sheet of pa what uncertain. Seizing the plow with the anchor, and, after attaching “Shades of Death” is the romantic per the paragraph from Herodotus and The work on the Oregon Railway & handles and spreading his feet, he the line to the anchor, they placed this Nawgation Companv’s bridges over Defl name of a place in Parke county, Indi carried it to de Lesseps, who, having yelled out to the driver in his deep, bass platform over the anchor, commenced etette«, I matilla, John Day and Wallula ! ana. read it, took his pen and , pended, voice: to heap sand upon it, and in a short Probably the deepest well in the world •The barbarian prophesied by the oracle rivers is progressing satisfactorily. time had a miniature mountain erected “Are you all ready, Mr. Wright?” .cr .tor li is the one situated at Homewood, Pa. —F. de Lesseps.’ ” A well has been sunk in Gilliam «.tat: u> “All ready, Mr. Webster,” was the there. The skiff then returned to the It is six thousand feet deep. nerariv county, the water of which is very slip s strear reply, meaning, of course, for his steamer, bringing one end of the hawser ineatiity The prohibitionists of this country are with it. This rope was placed with a pery, and can be used as soap’ for it speech. represented by 129 papers, while the iin- The Old Man’s Ultimatum. cleanses the hands beautifully without Webster straightened himself up by a few turns around the steamer capstan, Electric dibers have only eight papers. lathe > and the performance began. I inquired e ail dit “Papa,” said sweet Lydia Hooper, mighty effort and shouted : fût tLa from one of the men ami Ascertained Wl .i le some hay was being hauled in I A large number of Indians are em • ‘ Then let her rip! ” full tn MrAtose’s livery stable at Roseburg, his ployed along the Southern Pacific rail "my teacher says I must take up the The whole crowd dropped to the that the “hatch” was placed over tho Jicev« little son Eddie, who was aged 13 years, road in cutting mosquito wood. frdffiu* •study of etymology this term.” ground and roared with laughter, while anchor as a weight to keep it from drag fellfr-.in the wagon and died in a few A gentleman has just arrived at Bos “Ya-as,” snarled old Hooper, “I Webster with his bi<f plow proceeded to ging. Every thing seemed ready, when hours suddenly a liell rang with a short, quick ton from a trip around the world, which knowed it would be some new nonsense rip up the soil.— i'hieago Times. snap, and immediately the whole steamer SÍ, Mi Brown, engaged in sheepherding he accomplished in five months. every term. Etymology, eh? And shook as though she were afflicted with near Linkville, accidentally shot himself A New' Haven, Conn., editor recently have the hull house full of bugs and OLD-FASHIONED LARD. some mammoth type of ague. with his rille several days ago, the bullet stopped a street brawl by drawing a pair beetles and grubs and lava, crawlin’ 11 Thi n such a groaning and pulling taking effect just above the right elbow. of scissors which passed for a revolver. ami flyin’ and streakin’ over every Wliat an Old Timer Considered the Best Stuff* for Cooking Purposes. and sliak ng 1 never heard. Ina few Amp liation was necessary. A rat recently made its nest out of tiling. Next thing ye’ll be studyin' Grocer (to clerk)—Say, what became minutes the hawser tightened, and then A. I. Chapman, school superintendent bank notes at New York. Only $30 in beta ly and I’ll have to buy you a tele the steamer gave a lurch forwaul. of Josephine county, died at Kerbyville fragments were subsequently recovered. cope’ and have you settin’ up with a of that barrel of soft-soap? Then more shaking and groaning of Tàeeday morning. Mr. Chapman was Clerk—Don't know. A large prairie wolf was captured one long-haired professor spyin’ out stray the boat’s timbers, accompanied by elected school superintendent at the late day last week in Manatee county,Florida ; c mints and nebulers. 1 know what it “That’s mighty strange, for it was shouts of the Indians and discordant election, and was about to be sworn into a rare capture in that part of the country. is. There's that young chap >om York, setting here.” offiL. hissing of the escaping steam. Since the substitution of gas for the that’s boardin’ down at yer Uncle “Oh, you mean that pale-looking In a few minutes I could feel the Tho total amount of outstanding scrip use of coal Pittsburgh, Pa., is said to be George’s. He got to studyin’ trache- strain perceptibly slacken, and the in Baker county is $77,140,06 besides out the cleanest city ii. that part of the coun oniety last month, and George says he stuff?” puffing of the capstan grew less la “Yes.” standing interest which amounts to $15,- try. lie blamed if he didn’t carry a mild oi bored, and the throbbing of the engines “ 1 sold it for lard. ” I 254JD7. The treasurer has on hand in At a “John” picnic in Pennsylvania, more of macadimized road into the of the stearner grew more regular, and “Did, eh?” cash $4,117,98. Delinquent taxi’s still every son of a man named John was house two weeks. Tell ye. I wunt soon she slipped easily over the bar. “Yes, sir.” uncbllected $34,331,77. The net in given a plate of cake and a dish of ice have it in You learn to spell before you The d fference of the engine's exhaust “Did anybody kick?” debt dness of Baker county is $47,960,23 j cream. talk about ¡earnin’ etymology.”— Bur “Not exactly about the soap, but one through the smoke-stack seemed to my CY p reports from Polk county are en- A young man at Lubeck, Tenn., re dette, »a B.’ooklyn Eagle man came along and said that the last sharpened imagination almost like a couinging for a good ciop. In the north --------- -------------- cently slid off a haystack and was killed west. ?rn part of the county the crops — A student of womankind explains flour he got here made him slobber like sigh of relief.— Sacramento Hee. in» were greatly ------’ benefited -■ ■ by ■ the rain, bv the prongs of a pitchfork entering his that belles acquire an interchange of a horse in a white clover pasture, but - I K stumacli and disemboweling him. Aron ind Buena Vista the farmers predict ideas during the summer, and return here comes some one.” A Man Who Loved His Prison. The Denver and Rio Grande road has to their houses to put them into prac a bi yield and the hop growers are Old-timer enters—Say, got any more ant. The area of fall sown grain is been sold at Denver to syndicate repre tice during the winter. At Saratoga, o' that lard? Warden McComb, of the California I. Scarcely one-fourth of the area is senting the bondholders, for »15,000,000. Long Branch and other fashionable re “No, sir. just out.” State prison at Fulsoin, has been plan ■Bin ig grain. The fall wheat is in a very The outstanding indebtedness is only sorts, “Wush you had some more. Makes women and girls from the most I ning extensive improvement« in the about $150,000. the best bread I've eat sense 1 was a boy. S' condition. distant part« of the country are thrown The total fund in the hands of the together in mutual observation, it not W’y it jolts like bein’ punched with a iris in grounds and has had the hearty le people of Canyonville and vicinity i petitioned the vaivi commissioners ii inniimci 3 VI of treasurer of the Grant Monument associ in close social intercourse, and the in rail. That's the sort o' viddults I like -•o-operation of Harry, the convict Dcwglas county for the appointment of a ation of New York is $121,000—little fluences that are more dominant fix the —somethin’ I can feel. Wife don’t like gardener. At the height of the work ffurv- or and viewers, to view and lay more than one-tenth of the sum original convent'onalities of feminine behavior it, but then she ain’t been uster good Harry’s term expired, and though he out a wagon road leading from Canyon ly proposed to be raised. begged hard to stay, he was sent to for tlie ensuing year. New York sub- livin’." ville up the South Umpqua, by way of Andrews, the Georgian, who last year stant ally dictates to the rest of the "We’ll order you some more.” San Francisco a free man. Within ten th« Glasgow ranch, (to which there al- walked from Atlanta to Boston, is now country through the force of numbers, “Wush you would. You may talk days a deputy sheriff brought Harry rwd\ is a road) and thence across the on his second trip, accompanied by the wealth and audacity.— N. }'. Tribune. erbout your cotton-seed oil, an’ all that, back. “I've come to stay this time. HXMntains to a point known as Union same little dog. The peculiar thing but olil-fashion’ lard is the best stuff fur General,” he shouted, gleefully; “they —When Miss Annie Middleton was cookin creek upon the present wagon roa<l lead- about it is flue the pedestrian is 96 years ’ purposes after all. It’s naeliul, ain't smart enough to keep me awa married to E. E. Stone, at Ixmisville. , naprom Rogue river valley to Fort old. an’ nobody has ever improved on natur’ from the garden.” He bail plead«- several days ago. she wore what was W<lai! uh. The people of west Alabama have had yit. Wall’, good mornin’. Don't fur- guilty to thefts enough to get a v u will of the late Ann I’otijade has to sustain losses by two overflows of the pronounced to be one of the most beau g t to order the lard. Say, I wouldn't sentence within his beloved pi is been filed with the county clerk of Bigbee river this spring and summer. tiful dresses worn in that citv. The rare if it was a leetle stronger.”— Ar long walls. — Sacramento Bee. ^^Bon county. She leaves some house That stream was out of its banks last front was o* imported silk gauze, em kansaw Traveler. hold articles to Joseph and Theodore week anil much corn and cotton sub broidered in marguerites and da’ses. —izrp earth is one "ot the best ab- The court train was a rich piece of EoBja lc. and the remainder of her merged. lorbents of manures. hour lold goods to Mary Ann I’oiijade. a*» • avinowne uudi'ioi ilp,aitn A prohibitory law went into effect in white plush, bordered with heavy bands —A cup of strong coffee will remove To6 Annie Goulet she gives $21). To Nantucket, Mass., on the first day of the of ostrich tips. In the corsage were is to b ■ a-ked to appoint a special i^edi- the odor of onions from the breath.— IkXii Bvmes. $10o. To Joeeph I’ou- present month, and in the morning a some colored tints, which made the eal o liver ‘o inspect workmen employed Exchange. jade - iOff, for educational purposes. The well-known resident walked the entire effect more pleas ng. Downy white .• cigar factories. It is alleged that — White «pots upon varnished furni reejeii ’ of her estate, valued at about length of Westminster street, scattering feathers and illusion veil, dotted with many of the foreign cigar makers re- ♦HBb. she leaves to her step-son, L. H. oats and hay seed Business was ruined, tinv orange blossoms and flagrant ■e tiy imported are unfitted by diso-ise ture will di-appear if you hold a hot Ponj i le, who is to give to Mary Ann, his he said, and the streets would soon be Marecbal Niel bnds were added.—.V. K ’<• h mille tobacco that oth -r men are to plate from the stove over theta. —L'/ecte» land I,carter. wife. <100 for her own use. ilerald. grass-grown. moke. — Troy Times. Issued ECY i ai eb CY ! h E s lì EY Forest Tree Planting. There are certain of our forest trees wbtL, are easily moved, at either spring ** autumn; others must be very carefully pre pared for transplanting. The black walnut makes a most superb lawn tree, or a tree for roadside shade, but it is hard to move with out preparation. Tbe same is true of many of tbe c aks. and, in a measure, of the sweet gum (liquidambar), I lack birch, asb and tulip tree, white the maples and elms, tbe basswood, white birch, pin oak (from the swamps) and of course, willowsand poplars, may be moved when the leaves are off, without much painstaking. The prepara tion wnich the above-named trees require, is such 1 oot pruning, that masses of fibrous roots miiv b‘thrown <5uc close to the stem. The tree selected should be small, say, hav ing a stem not ever two inches tbrouge. The tap root—for a strong tap root will usually 1» found going perpendicularly into the ground (otteu larger round than tbe stem of the youug tree) must be cutoff some months before transplanting. One can take away the surface earth around the tree, close to the stem, so as to tee where str< ng lateral roots are thrown out. Then between two of these, and close as posable to tbe stem, dig down about ten inches deep, aud with the nand clear away tbe soil from the tap root. Than take a long framing chisel, cut it off about a foot Lelow the surface, aud replace the earth around the stem. After the tree has recovered from the shock, which it will quickly do, unless the weather is excessively hot auJ dry—in which ease a pail or two of water will help it—the lateral roots may be cut off. This is Jxwt done with a sharp spa le, not cutting all at once, unless the tree is small and the roots numerous. When the leaves fall in autumn, or before th-y come in spring, the tree may be taken up with a b ill of earth, and it will do as well as an elm or maple. Even hickories may bi moved in this way, but they need fully six months preparation. And while you are about it don't forget to plant trees around the outer edges of your farm, and provide for road side shade. It will improvs the appearance of your farm a hundred per cent. It will also add to its money value. Shropshire Sheep. Sheep and wool will rise in value again io due time. They are bound to. It is to the farmer’s interest still to “bother” with this kind or farm stock and wait for goo 1 times. He can J erliaps better afford now than at any other time to experiment with sheep, in breeds, feeds, etc. In Englund beyond a doubt the coming wool and mutton producer is the Shrop shire. It Is descended and has been improved from ,a very ancient horned breed of black-faced and black-legged sheep. Animals similar are found in the Highlands of Scotland at this time, where the best mutton in the world is grown. The Shropshire* are little known in America. Attention of farmer, and breeders ought to be brought to them. Tli«y are so popular in Great Britain tliat at the last Royal Agricultural show there were 875 Shro|»hires to 420 or all other breeds put together. Over there this breed is called tbe “rent-paying sheep.” A late description says of it: “ They may well be called models of beauty. They have a small, well developed head with bright faces aud kindly eye« ; a muscular neck, well set on a jair of very tine shoulders, remarkable hams, supported on tine, trim legs, anil in turn with the shoulders, sup[>orting a square, deep, finely proportioned body, tbe whole well covered with a fleece of tine staple, long, auu in every way desirable w<«>l. “ The Shropshire has all tbe good quail- . ies oi tbe South Dow n, with these in addi tion: It has considerably more size and carries a larger proport on of lean meat with much less of fat; it has smaller heal and legs, more wool on its belly, and wool of a greater length and of a better quality. Auother good point over the South Down is its strong constituí on and ability to be kept and fed in larger flocks. It also has greater fecundity and will breed earlier in the spring, and, lastly, it will thrive over a much greater extent of country and uuder more au verse circuui- stances.” A Breast Flow. A breast plow is serviceable for many pur poses. It can be used for cutting sods, for cl -aning the surface of swamp«, and remov- Ing the moss and tangled weed« which cover such wet ground. It is excellent for cutting up thistles when in thick patches, and for plowing up pialntains or other stiff weeds which aie thick on the ground. It may also be used for clearing fenc » rows of the mass of weeds that often cumbers such places. These weeds, when thus loosened from the soil, will make most excellent material lor compost heaps. This tool is made like a round pointed shovel, with the sides turned up two inches, and isfitted toastout handle, which has a cross handle for the hand-«, and a padded saddle to push upon with the breast. The edge is sharp. This tool will be found useful in the work oi cleaning up aud killing weeds and brambles. **A horse belonging to John Lawson, of Oikland. was bitten by a black snake, and the owner compelleil it to swallow a quan tity of whisky," says The Chfi-a’O New* W. have our opinion of a man who will comi»! a black snake to swal low as mea i whisky as they have In Oakland.— New mag Independent. /