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THE GREAT EASTERN TO GO. Illuory ol Ibo lam-t Ito-mum Iver (on. struct‘~l'un the Very Best-III; no Vent! vu- Unlucky an! the (Hr-on; lo“ Honey. After experienclng ofl‘ the Iele of Men a few of her cnstomery misadventures the Greet Eestern ha been brought from the Clyde to the Mersey, where, at Tramnere, the giant steamshx ls to be bombed and broken I: . In two ve months. itla romle. ed she wl l have been entirely on to pieces. 80 ends the " etrenge, eventful history" of the memmoth creation of Bron. el and Scott Russell! It is lletle exagger- ation to any the!) to thousands of newspaper renders the informet'lon that the Greet Eastern ll to be broken up has come home just a trifle sadly. They have no peounl ery interest in shipplng. end may never have had my ; they may never heve gone “ down tothe see in shipe ;" they may never have seen the Great Eeeeernp but all the same the I"! o! the and 0! her course and her impel‘dlng destruction brings the shed- ows of regret. Till! GRIN! EASTERN. The Great Eastern was certainly conceiv- ed under luckiess stars. Wish the excep- tion of the short interval during which the great vesselwas employed for the laying down of the Atlantic and other cables, her existence has been one long chapter of dis- aste r, disappointment and general failure. Scarcely any example of modern ingenuity has become so completely, or on so gigantic a scale, a money-devour ng white elephant. Fortunes have again and again been sunk in the Great Eastern, and dividends in con- neotion with her have hardly ever been heard of. Many of us are too young to re- member the building of the great ship that was to revolutionize ocean travellingfi It was in 1852 that the Eastern Steam avi- gation Company Was started to provide a steam route to the East via the Cape; and the next year the directors, having come to the conclusion that the cost of maintaining coaling stations along the route would pre- vent the venture paying if a ship could not be obtained big enough to carry an amount of coal sufiicient both for the outward and the home voyages, and to accommodate a large number of passengers and a very heavy ,A-,_-.‘_A_4 Mr, Scott Russell to lave seen vuu uawv lame the nerve of the end of her 00““ and id; 2133b; withhaving been either-broken ‘ hing” the “h“d' or lost in §h returned to England, leavin 4,000 tons oi cable at the nu impu'ding destruction ms of regret. we can“ assume The Great Eastern was certainly conceiv- ed under luckiess stars. Wish the .excep- lieu of the short interval during which the great vesselwas employed for the laying down of the Atlantic and other cables, her ' been one loag chapt‘erfoildis- e r dies intmont an genera a: are. anarcély anpypzxample of modern ingenuity has become as cempletel , or on so gigantic a scale, a money-devour ng white elephant. Fortunes have again and again been sunk in the Great Eastern, and dividends in con- nection with her have hardly ever been heard of. Many of us are too young to re- member the building of the that travellingN It was in 1850 that the Eastern Steam avi- 'on Com any was started to provide a Etaddm route Ito the East via the Cape; and the next year the directors, having come to the conclusion that the cost of maintaining coaling stations along the route would pre- vent the venture paying if a ship could not be obtained big enough to carry an amount of coal sufiicient both for the outward andl the home voyages, and to accommodate a_ her of assengers and a very heavy‘ mgbrugmmissaned Mr. Scott Russell toe bui d a mamoth steamship that would meet all the demands‘ that could be made upon he'Ihey set to Work. What they produced as the lat est steamship in the world, :s the folliwing detailed figures Will show : great ship ....... . . . 692 feet hidinzzzrztxxn... ..... 83:... Depth at the side ....... . . . . . . 28 geet Depth in the hole .4 set Tonnage, builders; measdrbinent 22,927 tons a little more than two weeks for the former- ly lost cable. and had at length the luck, 8. from Ireland to Newfoundland. e attempt, the Great Eastern almost all its tteln ef the Atlantic. In July, 1866, she set forth again with a new cable, and accompanied by three auxflia steamers. On the 27th she reached Ne snndland, having succeed- ed in rejoining America and “the old country" by electric wire. This good work done, the Great Eastern laid up at Heart's Content till the next summer, when, pro- ceeding to mid-Atlantic, she dredged fort v after many slips, of fishing it up. Joining the recovered end to the portion in her hold” the great vessel steamed back, and by Sept. t 1866. had stretched her second cable. ‘ 0531) as A snow smr. ‘ i These cables laid, the owners of the Great 1 Eastern were a sin in the and condition of ‘ having a gigant c steamer on their hands, l which, as the lesser of two evils, they must 1 perforce maintain in idleness. In 1867 a' 1 party of speculators came to their rescue 1 with a scheme of refitting Brunel’s steam~ ship as a passenger-carrying vessel, and. employing her to convey visitors to the: : Paris International Exposition from New; . York to anre and back again. At great i ‘ cost the transformation was effected, but the; crowd of visitors that had been expected to cross the Atlantic in the big steamship did. not put in an appearance, and neither profit' for the speculators nor ay for the sailors ! or engineers was rea ized. In the evil l fortunes of the Great Eastern there‘ was a, break down when. in 1868, the cable laying ‘ company that had formerly borrowed her ! took the vessel over for further prosecution l of the work in which she had been alone. successful. The passenger fittings were once . more removed and the tanks were again’ Tonnage, registered, including 13 914 tons put in, and from 1868 till somewhat recent! 9‘12“” space """""""" 6 000 tons years the Great Eastern laid cables in the! Stewage f0? ‘5"? l """' ' 10'000 tons Atlantic. in the Mediterranean, across the‘ Coal bunk?" input; 21%;!- - - - -- ' 30 fee, Indian Ocean, in the Red Sea and from Draught ° W‘s” ddl en ides. Europe to Brazil, as well as other important. Horse-power 0 p“ 8 g ’ 1 000 lines. But there is an end to cable laying,‘; nominal ~ - - ' i """" 6'!" “1'6" ’ as to most things, and latterly the leviathan, : HOTSO'PM'“ ° screw 3- ’ 1 600 degraded to the condition of a mere hulk,} 110111111“ - - - ' ' gullâ€""1...; ’ has sunk to the work of a _" show_ship.” A. 6* tbs-misc}; as the following no show: Length .............. Breadth ............. Depth at the aide ..... Depth in the hole ..... Tonnage, buildera‘ mew Tonnage, registered, i nomfnal ............... . .. . Horsepower or screw engines, nominal ............... . . nommowar n! paddle engines, "gm-ca?" T.".' ..... ... ....... quag-pqur of screw englnoa, indicated .................. Number of cylinders, paddle. . . Number of cylinders, screw. . . . Diameter of cylinders, paddle. . Diameter of cylinders. screw. . . Daily coal consumption, paddle Daily coal consumption, screw Total coal consumption ...... Pitch of screw .............. Number of blades of screw . . . . Weight of screw ............. Iron in hull ................. Woodwork .................. Weight of anchors (10) and nuuluur u: ll'vw on"... n... .W,, 000. There were 5 funnels 100 feet high by 6 in diameter, and 6 muufii of iron, and 7,- 000 yards of nail provided for them. Most of the mute and spare were iron and the ehronde and rigging were of iron wire rope. The united length of chain cables In: a mile, the links weighing 50 pounds each. One or two of the 10 anchors weighed 10 ton apiece. There were ‘20 boats. The peddle- boata were 56 feet in die‘meter by 13 feet ML- -_:..lâ€" About10,000 iron plates, weighing each about one-third of a ton, were used, each plate being fastened by 100 rivets. The number of rivets used was therefore 3,000.- : 1AA l__A. LI..L L.- uouw won: uu .vu- .. __,.W doe and had each 30 strokes. The origin- al p an provided for the accommodation of 800 saloon passengers, 2,000 second-clan passengers. 1,200 third-class passengers, 400 officers and crew, or 5,000 emigrants or USED AS A TROOI‘ SKIP. The Great Eastern was, by November, 1857, in readiness for launching. From 1854 to 1857 building operations were earri. ed on whenever the company'e treasury had money in it. for again and again all resources were exhausted. When her launching was attempted she declined to launch. Her ‘ immense bulk of 12,000 tons stuck on the 1 ways upon which it rested, and it required ‘ three months' planning and tugging and the expenditure of some £63,000 to get her into the water. She had been built with her broadelde to the water, with the notion that it would be a dangerous matter to launch so long it shi stern foremost. At length she was iioa , and her works put in as fast as her owners could furnish moneyâ€"which re- uired a year and three-quarters more. eady at last. her directors decided upon a trial trip to America. It was begun but never accomplished. When the great vessel was paesin Hastings, Sept. 8,1859, a steam iple explos on occurred : seven reons were i ed and several injured, an the voyage was ended almost before it had begun. Ex- pensive regain and lawsuits filled up the time until one 17. 1860, when from South- ampton the transatlantic voyage was again attempted. It wae succeseful. New York was reached in eleven days. Further tripe were made, but neither the cargo nor the number of passengers was sntlloient to meet even current expenses, and the owners only loet more and more money. In the winter of 1861, when troublee arose with the States. the Government obtained the services of the Hreat Eastern to convey several battalions of guards to Canada. So far as the comfort of the 2,000 paseen era was concerned, the voyage was everyth ng that could be desired. But troops were not always requiring con- veyance ; there were never enough voy era to the States there was no paying employ troops. caBlea ...... (IENIRAL DIMENSIOSS. mmpuou ...... -------------- lea of screw N ........ o...- (emit? '(1'o')' 1(de 6 ft. 2 in. 7 It. 303 tom: 44 feet 4 feet 36 tons 6.250 tons 2,500 tons 123 tons 180 tons 253 tons 3,910 3,976 meat to be 30%, and the compeny plunged deeper and cope: into debt. No pangs to Anetta“. ‘0 ever “tempted. There were few port. to which the Grow Eutern could go. CONVIBTID INTO A TBLIGRAPK SHIP. It was a sodium! to the memmoth Iron!- troeitv'l owner. when the Telegnph Con- struction and Meintenenoe Compeny went- ed to ley e «and cable between Ireland and America In piece 0! the previounly leid one, that had mapped. end eooepud in service. for ihe duty. The pe-enger eo- commodelion we. mihleui torn out end three great huh were bni i in the fore. middle sud aft holdl from fifty to Dirty foot in diameter, md $64,000 tone of cable coils were pieced in them. In July. 1866 the Great Eaten: stained out 0! Velentie ; on Aug. 2 the cable snapped, on account of the strain imposed on it, and nah 2,000 ivheml down, 1,004 miles from IrOlIId. For a week. with e grepnel and a fivemile repe, the lee! cable wee dredged int, but un- eucoeuiully, aid ell the finiluble‘epgentm L-â€" 6 m of rovincial universal providers' start- l ed a £‘. .000 company at Liverpool. and had. the Great Eastern brought around in May, ‘2 1886. to the Mersey, were, filled with con-l juror, entertainments, concert-rooms, and penny shows, she managed to realize a good ; round sum for her temporary owners. i CHANGES or NAM: nor am or Fonruxz. From Liverpool, when her novelty had ‘ worn off, the mammoth was conducted to j Dublin. Thence, brou ht, it was said, by‘ the London and Anetta ian Steamship Com- ‘ pany for £26,000, she was sent north to the Clyde. There, it was rumored, she was to be refitted with new machinery, at a cost of £120,000, in order to be converted into “ a first class pas-eager and cargo steamer.’ Apparently her owners have thought bet- ter of their intention, if it was really ever entertained, for we have heard no more of the Great Eastren till the tug Storm- oock has brought her from Scotland to Tran- mere, that she might be broken up for old iron. When lying at Dublin, it was de- clared that she was enormously strong, that she had been thoroughly overhauled and re- ainted, and that she possessed a Buard of reds certificate of seaworthinese. As this is but a short time since, it would seem that the Great Eastern, though she has at last lgnominlously fallen into the hands of the wholesale marine-store dealer, and is to be torn in pieces in his yards, is not even now the battered derelict hulk that she might ssibl be ularly ictured. pole m2“ afghan-Ir.) tn mid that thrmiah- It mey be of interest to add that through- out hery long, eventful career the marine Frankenstein has sought fortune under other names than that of the Great Eosternuhe has been known as Leviathan. as the Grefin Ship and eg nines the Great Eastern. this last end present title she will, thonB smashed up into wnte iron and efl'eotney removed out of existence, be remembered for some years to come, apart altogether from her interesting record in the chronicles of ship In , bv are wellknown “Floating City” 0 Ju ea Verne. The clever Amienl romanoor mule. .- will be remembered, the Great Eaten: the abject of one of not the least interacting unong his urmful of wonder- ful book- for boys. What eile the young men 3 Robert 0mm!- fether left him a fortune of twenty millions. He wee from childhood rested in luxury; he received a splendid education with an eepeclnl training into n thorough knowledge of nilrond mange- ment and we: expected to mooeed his father a 31“.“?“3‘ king. .A 0‘ n Wiihin ihm one after the responsibil- ities which his in ther‘n death threw n on him were unmod, heiareported s bro en down man, with mind ind healih perma- nently shattered: , I‘D; uuuuu J ~_â€"~--_ - George 14w in another youn mun left with millions of monegi who a repoer unong the “wrecks." in (other, bred c otono mason. In: of gigantic lin end strength. with commensurate brain power. so he became 3 great contractor, then a roiirond king cnd leic half a dcnen millions for his son to discipete. The young men in a aucceu u n dissipotor. 7 fi Tfié founders of both these great ounce were born in the most humble walks of life. grew‘ 39:093. mgqmlly fin‘d phylica lly‘, ‘by I IA_- ---_I elmp lo livingl and honeet lebor en'd developed lnho pefinuml gm 'I’helr eons were reared la the In of luxury and developed into In tellcctue plgmlee; Th; ”grim; gm: of our country have not I: Log Cabin Sncoes. erule,oome from the elegant mun-lone of the cities, bu! from the log cablne 0! me runl dlotricu. Simple ways of llvlng, tree dom from diulpatlon end coon/um pleu- uree. elm lo xemedlee for dloeuo, osmium, and wblcfiloeve no poiuon tn the system. develop bruwny. breiny man, who compel the Worldto recogdu thelr atrenguh and power. The principal fichtng gtoundu of Now- foundlsud, the Quad Bunk. no 600 mile. long and about 200 wide with a bottom at shifting mdl. Shlglng wu ono of the palnol Al 00- cupuiom ol the labourer: of the nibod Shh! in 1887. The final number ofurikoo for who you was 858, involving 340,854 labourers. Excluding the islands. the area of Alrioe ‘ may be whim-ted at about 11,000,0001 Iquue miiee. There at the moat only 4-. 600.0(1) nm are non more or less directly embed to eome European power. 0! theee 4,500,000 eeme 2.300.000 are occupied by the unattached Sahara. Wood fibre ior pa r is manufactured in 21 State: of ihe merican Union. The capleal employed ie about £4,000,000: number oi men employed, 21,000 ; bone el fibre made, 925,000 proud weed and 11'].- 500 chemical wood, valuo £2,475,000: con oi wood on the etump. £247,000. and flu remainder of the coal: largely labour. In Maine alone there are 84,000 lb. of cum! wood fibre and 188,000 lb. of chemlce wood fibre made daily. The total area of Europe laid out in forest â€"exolunivo oi Turkey, Bulgaria. Bonniau and Herzegovina-â€" in about 708,862,000.000 acres ; that is. about 187 per cent. of \ the total area oi Euro in forest-land. In pro- portion toita tota area, Great Britain and treland has of all countries in Europe tho least extent of forest, amounting to only 4 per cent. of its suriace, and, in proportion to the number of its inhabitants, enjoys by f .r the least allotment of forest, amounting to only 0089. acreâ€"i. 6., comidenbi less than the tenth of an acre to each inhab taut. The population 02 the Russian Empire in 1884-85 amounted to 109,000,000, the male sex slightly exceeding the female. The density of population was as followsâ€"19.3 per verst (about two-thirds of an English mile) for the fifty governorships of European Russia, 71.4 for Poland, 17'!) tor the Caucasus,0'4 for Siberia, 18 for Central Asia. and 76 for Finland. There were 1,300 towns and 524,000 other inhabited localities. Four towns contained apopulation exceeding 200,000, nine more than 100.000, and twenty-three over 50,000. The annual total of births averages 3,400,000. The death total is 2,500,000. In 1885 there were 867 hositals in towns, with 47,000 beds, and 800 count hospitals, with 11,000 beds, not included |Yuuatlc asylums, of which there are 77. with 15,000 Inmates. More than 11,000,000 sick persons were supplied with medicine, Therein nothing like the presence of a real lady to keep a company of rough men in order. She may not be handsome, she may not he richly dressed, nor highly edu- cated, but unless the men are very low in- deel, her presence will be more efl'ective than any policeman. A litsle scene de- scribed by 3 late religious paper is one which might happen almost anywhere, for, in spite of rough exterior, moat Cana- dian men are gentlemen. U , _A_:I_--.I uluu unvu mv byâ€"v-vâ€"..-_. A group of men was sitting ina railroad station, smoking and exchanging the re- marks commonly heard in such resorts. The men were of several grades of society, but most of them were of the hard-laboring ol-isses, ’coarsely dressed, with hands rough- ened by soil, and, what was worse, hearts and minds seamed with the rude associations which seem to be almost inee arable from a life of hard manual labor. heir conversa- tion was coarse, and sometimes it bordered on the _vnl_gar and profane. ,,,e_ 3__ .: LI... have been by excess oi heat brought into an uneqosl state, as large areas of lower stratum l of highly-heated air and va r, which is also '; intensely electric, the oond tioas to produce sendspsuh, waterspeuts, and tornadoes are fully ripe. The upper and colder la ers of the atmosphere cannot cool the lower ighl - 'heated and vapor-laden stratum so ever. y and quickl as to prevent vents in the iorm oi iunnsb ormlnv from the lover stratum ;_ to the “her stratum, and causing a ru ture .' which es place upwards in a pipe- orm, , just as water in a tank or basin. having a 1 bottom means for discharge by a pipe, flow. , l out with a whirling motionâ€"in our northern .7 hemisphere, always in the direction of the g hands of a clockâ€"and so the heated, highly g‘ electric, and excessively vapour-laden atmos- [ phere breaks into the cold atmosphere above. a ' When very large areas of the atmosphere I 'hen at the level of the “dew point,” invi. ,! siblo vapour becomes visible, psrting with Lita latent heat, which so rarefles the air as l i to force some of the condensed atmos here 1‘ in visible clouds, mounting thousan s of . ‘ feet above the condensing dew-point and I into a region above the highest paaks oi the . highest mountains. vu ouv vu- â€". w...- Suddenly from the open window of the ticket olfiae came the low, musical tones of a woman's voice singing an old familier hymn. In a moment, as if by megio, the convercation was hushed, and the men list- enod, looking silently at each other until the verse was ended. For the moment the rough men were com- pletely subdued. No more vulgar jokes were heard ; in feet, no one seemed to care to renew the conversation. One by one the men departed. and left the singer in oc- cupation of the field which she had fairly WOD. Things are not improvin in the French colony of Cochin China. A erohanta, both Chinese and French. are failing in all direc- tions, and for the nix months n to the end oi J one the revenue had fallen o to the tune of nearly £250,000. The Governor hoe no- cordingly had to stop the making of roads, the building of bridges, anti other public ,, LL- -A-L- -3 Works ; sndohls actio; is making the state of afl'airs still worse, as it has thrown I0 many cooiies and Chinese out of work. No won- dor, then, that M. Constanta is anxious that M. Flcqnet should accept his resignation. If the Premier does this, it is sn eseed he should send in the lace of M. onstans as Governor-General t e presonb active and not too scrupulous French President-General at Madagascar, M. le )lyre do Vilers. Bad Times in Cochin China. STATISTICS. Subdued. Pawns or run \\ man Crew IN humus Two days alter my report of Aug. lit-h. we had a bony frost all through the Red Itivor volley. which has done us untold (lam- oge, and thousands o! sores of wheat are not woeth horvootlog. Some farmers are plow. ing the straw under, and others are burning it of, and the larger portion that has been out will little more than pay expenses. Some who have thrashed and talsn a load b market so It come from tho threshing whine. got 400. per bushel. and were doohod no pounds per bushel. Nine-tenths d the wheat rained h the West is sold as it ooneo from the threshing machine. There ;'CO oorae notions that escaped the froet, ‘s-I even some hum escaped. while all non-d thorn were damaged. One form in a; neighborhood on which was ruled lost ya! over five lhouoond bushels. this yoor glued on the some had seven hundred hole thet will not otwod erode. I have just returned from the Territorial bk hold at Grand Forks, and while there mvcoed with (arm'- from all ports oi Northern Dakota and Northern Minnesota and Manitoba, and all ogroo that their dil- looont sections of oonntn are damaged to on extent that b not yet known, and will fit ho until alter the threshing season is 0". Two months ago Manitoba oloirned to would have 30,000,000 bushels of wheat l- export; It is now thought she may have 10,000.” bushels. Northcn Dakota’s ospoott before he [not '1 re good for 40,- ,000 bushels for export. II we export one-quarter that amount now it will be the ontstde ure. Still farmers are pushing forward is lploughing, end back-testing the new summer's breaking. no if nothing had hapfened to this season's crop. We must go orward; we cannot stopâ€"wheat is our totaple for export, and should we be stored with a good crop next season, we will sstonish the world with the number of bushels we will send to the seaboard from Northwest. Many farmers now acknow- . ledge that we must go more into diversified farming. ‘We cannot afford to take such fearful chances and have all swept away at . one blow. - ‘ ‘ ‘ s 7 'uv uav " c We have very fine weather here just now for threshing and all kinds of farm work. lIulW Ill uu-J u uâ€"â€" V - v- , 1 - ing, and especially in rainy weather. When fungus is rustin wheat and timothy, the sheep undoubte ly eat the eggs. This is the third time in fifteen years that my shoe have suffered much loss from this source. i find it no new thing, however. for in In- diana and Illinois sheep men often have to put their shes in dry lots or in a brush tch and fees oats or else lose half the ambs. In most cases the lamb scours. I have used copperss mixed with their salt, also wood ashes and sulphur, with good efl'ect. \Vhere it can I): obtained. the male fern found in bottom timber, boiled into a strong tea and mixed with tannin of any kind, is excellent, but in all cases change of fixture isnecessary and abrush pasture is the t. Howgreedily they devour oak or hazel leaves for a few days after leaving blue grass or timothy pasture. v1 A eleek chap is taking in the staid Penn- sylnnie farmers with a new echeme, or rather a new form of an old one. He agrees to furnish seventy-five pear and seventy-five fium trees, enough for one acre, or he will rnilh quince trees and grape vines enough hr part of an acre for $125 and contract to take the fruit for five or ten years at the rate of five cents per pound for the grapes Ind 82. 50 per bushel tor pears, plums and quincee, the purchaser giving his note with. ‘0“ interest for one year, renewing it the eoond year without interest. but paying three per cent. interest the third year. "A L “:3 ._ I..- -..;.L.:nnnlnntv nf farmers luluv yvn VvI-v' . -v--- He is said to be catching plenty of farmers on this here book, but none who will stop to think that they are paying four times the cost of the trees to begin with, that they are giving a negotiable note which will pm speedily into the hands of the " innocent purchaser" at a heavy shove, and that the ‘ agent is in no some bound by the contract. It is the Bohemian oooe scheme over again. When will {armors learn that it in not :aafe to nipn any kini of a note or contract at the solicitation of entire “rangers! AGRICULTURAL Nous. Herein one man’s experience. He says: “I t more eggs lost your from twelve pure beg orna, than I did from eighteen common hail. â€" Sow 3 “patch" 0! rye; it will furnish green food for the fowl: thinfall. next winter when the snow happens to be off, and in the spring beiore the gnu shun. Envy vhu u mean ahigirit, but if my no hhor’s cnbbogeu vhu iggor nah mine, it: v a natural dot I vhu gladt if his baby vhu crownedâ€"Carl Dnndor. ""‘ " Men) recommend sheep for feeding in orohnrde refiner ehnn swine. They leave no enfe cover for lneecte to breed. and will ice the orchard heahby and the treee manure The usage life of ohe city hone in aid to be six you-I. In view of the «sermon: numbor of bone- nud in oitiea, it ll no won~ der the demand for good one. is no large and study. Wheat bren.heing light, up ently has but little nine, yet a ton o it cont-ins forty-eeven undo of nitrogen and over ix- ty pounds 0 ph horio ecid, with a large p'oportbn oi pom . The farmer who thinks that to make money he must go where loud is cheaper, should consider well whether he Would not make more money by meking the land he l he: deeper end richer. -n..n Charlislo, Chieh‘e from a cross between Light Brah- ms: and White Leghorn: make fine broilers at ten or twelve weeks. In these, Min crosses between the large and the smell breeds, the mtle bird ehonld be of the smell- er breed. . Cornrwhen In silk md tune], ordlnnrily yieldl both honey nnd pollen In good man- cities. The honey igof Mr qndity. In AGRICULTURAL. Iowa. ANDREW HASTIB. CAN: or Sump. A NEW SWISDLE. IN 1); Ron. t'oma locditien md sou “r has bee solelholey-producer upo » ich been Work in the fall, sud build fur win! The coming Itw which our humor: unpporb ulmolt- to 3 mm, will requir- own‘r of a dog to glvo bond- to tho an of 31.000 for tho good hohu-ior of the on which bond be any be tuned for .11 ago to life or propofly which his war! animul any cause. lion. Lnfeyette Funk, of Shirhy. Ill succeeded in getting n calf from a. b hull upon a grade Short horn cow. crou hen been very Iuocedully mud. believe, by the greet: bufl‘nlo breeder, J of Southern Knees, elthough the re croee. hue. we hollcve. molly foiled. A louly chicken will mt grow. Em them, searching olpeohiiy thou! the t the head nd under the tinge. A l’eninn, Deimetien or Cerbeiio insect der. dry eniphnr. freeh lard or sweet I will be found unini. AI you due! obickene the lice will “ get up and dw Practical mu 0 to show that late one make A on to winter mulch for a berry-bode. C eon the beds of weed: now out. on them in time to make obon inchel growth belore winter weather them down. They do not blow/off ; hold the now and protect rhe plant... : Spring help ho keep ehe berries clean. 'l'wo Lions In a Tunnel. , An exciting Montana story is told Minna Ha Tribune by Station agent I of the; orthorn Pacino Railroad, donczj' v. a..- - -_ - a nighi'a gé;'énture in the greab Tunnel. in the opting of l8b‘5. _ nA__- . u mnfnh n"' ”In It was Brown‘s “uwowh otI’ thnt :._j and he was propsring to sleep at the s 2 when “Jim," the tunnel-walker on A" rushed in, the picture of fright, gupin'; “There’s :omo kind of a critter inf. tunnel that cries like a babyâ€"and, St. Patrick, what a yell !" Agent Brown went to the tunneli coaxed his courageous big dog Tip tc and investigate. Tho dog's courage co , his life. A minute after he dienpp there was a chorus of frightful yells, that was the last of poor Tip! A,:, luau-y "w.- v..- -w_- __ Satisfied that there were mountail in the tunnel, and impressed with th that they must be got out before thn night passenger-train came alon , the sallected all the force he ooul com and prepared to hunt the “vnrn Brown and his "section crew" to numbered seven men, reinforced by a dogs. and the arms at the party were I gunanrl two rifles, and four revolvers. 7 1.--“- 1.-....Ln- m l Lighted by three huge torches m oily cotton-waste, they crept into the nose of the tunnel, and slowly adv until the dogs stopped and whined. ing ahead through the loom, the me new four fiery eyes. \ hat happene re told in Agent Brown’s own words : " I kept the torch-carriers in front, was certain the would run after th fire, for they be nothing but pistols. “ ‘Now, boys.‘be eteedy, just as were firing at a mark for fun, end yo with the torches, don't move back w! fire; hold your ground. for your 1i pends on it. I’ll teke those two eyes left, you men those on the right; A square to hit between the balls of fir the bettie’e over. I'll give the ordel ready ! Oue,‘ tw‘o, fire 1‘ 7 7 _‘__LL _.A “ bhe'oiâ€"t'hh blLUtel gave a death y- the other didn’t, and, with the col thqgnns behind them, the noble (1105 “ The fight was on in an instant. . the dogs could only get kilred, and knew well if the fight began to sppro. my entire force of hunters, torches a would desert. Whatever was done he done in a moment, or both brutes be upon us. " ' New, boys, quick I All take that mass of dogs and lions, nnd away I' “ ‘Three pistols and two rifles one The fight wasn't over yet, but was weak. ‘ Give it to ’em again, boy: all hmds responded. “ ‘Now, boys, advance slow ; ther particular danger now, unless we close to their claws.’ It was in minutes before I could get the ton close enough to see that the dogs a) were all dead or fetully hurt." A hand-car was brought u soon aible, and the deed lions and don piled upon it. and the men had t} clear in ample time for the midnigl In answer to a correspondent w what becomes of the money wutriht campaign purposes the New York “ says :â€"Money is required for many p In no canvass has so much been e: as in the present. so much betting, ‘ urgent and continuous appeals for Some goes to the purchase and diesel of tracts and caricatures, some to starving newspapers, a great deal l Money sends eloquent ststosmsu village country groceries to whoop t and arouse the masses. This mean and beer costs money. Then lamps, uniforms, medals, music, and mo; all to be aid for. Champagne at ions h quarters, cigars and extrt (by the hour), flowers, unlimited b of course the more money the mo Little of this money is stolen, we although Colonel George Bliss had theories to the contrary four ye The election would go on just as w out the money, but there would u much beer, nor so many idle'statesrr. inc around bar rooms. It is not a b to have this money in circulation. have only a chance in four years at ed beer, and so we advise liberal ' tions. After the elections moral r- upon money in elections would be but just now there is so much in that one does not care to be the m the Egyptian feast. By-and-b election l An I: town druggint took stock (v tomen or two hear: one 63;] Int ' they were .- lollovn : Six to see I; tory, font to use the telephone,' pom e stamps, three to en nlreg cone 1 vim: in the n hbor ood,§ five cenu’ worth of eel lit: powd‘ one wblegey {letectlve wh-o weal; Vuâ€" v. â€"-V__ , than tholo a! and of whi dmggllthq ellg cod _ “13h. l4 0011:1335“ I» "vs hulth neighborhood. 17 y ”d A Drugglst's Cnstome Money to Elections.