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- THE BRIDE'S LETTER. j
THE BRIDE'S LETTER. j • Dear Helen, you will be surprised f; Tb get a note so soon-the first 5 Bridal edition, unrevised- I And scribbled at my very worst. j I've but a pencil, as you see, j A leaf from Harry's diary torn, j And then I'm writing on my knee And feel a little bit loriorn. We're on the train still. I'm alone Harry is in the smoking car These last two hours. My time's my own But, Helen, dear, how strange men are! 11 Three days ago-time quickly flies, And yet it somehow seems like years— Since all the kisses'and good-bys, And all the trembling hopes and fears. Of course, he likes to smoke, but then You always used to say, you know, Women were different from men. Ah, yes, indeed! I find it so. Most of my dreams seem disarranged; 11 Of course, I'm happy—only life Looks altered now—the world is changed I can't believe I'm Harry's wife. And yet I know I am, for here (What tiny thorns one's wreath may mar !) I'm sitting quite alone, my dear, And he—is in the smoking car. —Madeline S. Bridges in Judge.
THE MODERN MAIDEN.
THE MODERN MAIDEN. When fair Aurora calls the Dawn The golden Day to waken. And robins en the verdant lawn The early worms do rake in. And Sol begins to light the ikies And tint the heaving billow. My lady in her chamber lies. Asleep upon her pillow. Oh, beauteous sight. A cheek so fair On snowy arms reposing And lips just parted, rosebuds rare, Two rows of pearls disclosing The light into her chamber streams, Its bric-a-brac adorning, And she awakens from her dreams To greet the golden morning. She springs from bed bow fair is she All in her maiden glory, Like Venus rising from the sea, As told in classic story She opens her door, the charming sprite. And calls her brother Freddy To tell her ma the fire to light And get the breakfast ready! When she is dressed she goes down stairs And gives the cook some orders, Then to the dining room repairs To mash the young men boarders. The breakfast over up she springs, And tells her ma and Hannah To wash the dishes while she sings And bangs the grand piano. 11 —BOSTON COURIER.
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I A Cycle of the Times.—The bicycle. Flowers for Heiress-Hunters—Mari-golds. Sweetness and Light.—An underweight pound of lug3r. Another fact to take noLe of.-A horse may pull with all his might, but never with his mane. What is the difference between a bird and a plumber?—One pipes lays and the other lays pipes. A little girl sent out to look for eggs returned without success, complaining that all the hens were standing about doing nothing. And you went up the Rbine, I suppose ? said Mrs Malaprop. cOb, yes! It was beautiful!' And did you see any Rhineoceroses ? Full-blown Rose: What a pity, dear, you are engaged so young! You will never have the fun of refusing a man Bud 'No; bit I have had the fun of accepting one.' Visitor So your sister is off on a visit, Willie ? I suppose you feel very lonesome without her?' Five-year-old Willie, dubiously: (Y-e.s, 1 feel lone- some but I'm a good deal mors comfortable.' Don't you think there is something wonderfully satisfying in Herr Ausgespielt's playing, professor? Indeed, I do! I had enough before he had been at the piano five minutes but he went on for half an hour.' King Milan is fearfully short of money, and utterly without credit.' When Brokeley read this, he thrust both hands into bis pockets up to the wrists and exclaimed melodramatically, 'Now I know what it is to feel like a king Ethel Do you think he loves you, Nellie ?' Nellie: Oh, I'm certain of it! Why, he wants to marry me so much that he has borrowed money of papa for us to get married on—a thing his proud sensitive soul could not brook if be did not love me! A propos of Chinese 'pigeon English,' Lady Stafford tells a story of a servant rushing into his master's bedroom one morning and exclaiming, in breathless haste, Missa Smith guv master small piecy cow chile! This meant that Mrs Smith had presented her husband with a little daughter. A husband who was in the habit of always correct- ing his wife's statements remarked when she mentioned that she was born on the twenty-first of April, You mean the first, my dear-not the I twenty-first. You were born on the first day of April, you know.' Thereon the exasperated wife exclaimed, People might well think so, considering the choice I made of a husband A clergyman in a rural parish in Fifeshire was recently discoursing to a drowsy congregation and seeing their listlessness, he remqnstrated with them, threatening to close the book and stop his discourse if they were not more attentive. Two of the parishioners discussing the matter afterwards, one of them observed, Man if he had said he wad gie them't a' owre again, he wad hae roosed them quicker! La: Grisette d Btranf/er was first played in Paris, when the part of Lisette was taken by the celebrated Virginie Dejazet. The famous old actress at that time had lost all her teeth. In honour of the new part she was to fill, she ordered a beauti- ful new set. Finding her teeth uncomfortable, she took them out as soon as the play was over and put them into her pocket. In the green-room she unfortunately sat down upon them, when she sprang up with a scream. What is the matter ? asked genial old Adolphe Dennery. Nothing,' smiled Dejazet; 'I only bit myself.' From the Sublime to the Ridiculous.-Dr Burgon gives an interesting account of the election of Dr. Hawkins as provost of the'college of which Dr.-now I Cardinal-Newman was dean. Part of the cere- monial of installation consisted in solemnly closing the college gates. The newly-elected provost was then required to knock, in order to be formerly admittted by the dean and received by the fellows assembled under the archway. The gates were duly closed and the fellows stood awaitiug the expected signal. At last a knock was heard, and the dean advancing, asked, Quis adest ? Please, sir,, replied a tremulous voice, it's me-tbe college washerwoman.' The gate was opened, and between the fellows, drawn up in two ranks, passed a vene- rable matron laden with baskets of clean linen. Crossing a field one day, the late President Lincoln, it is said, was pursued by an angry bull. He made for the fence, but. soon discovered that the bull Jwas overtaking him. He then began to run round a haystack in the field and the bull pursued him but, in making the short circles around the stack, Lincoln was the faster, and, instead of the bull catching fhim, he caught the bull and grabbed him by the tail. It was a firm grip and a con- trolling one. He began to kick the bull and the bull bellowed with agony and dashed across the field, Lincoln hanging to his tail and kicking him at every jump, and, as they flew alonu, Lincoln yelled at the bull, Darn you, who began this fight ? •Why, you used to have mohair!' said ajmiddle- aged lady who had entered a shop in search of a fabric formerly in vogue. Very true, madam but I'm sure you won t often find it now,' said the rs i t II t trying his best to please. We should have it if any- body did and I should be afraid to tell how many years it is since I've seen a bit.' But how do you account for the fact that standard article has gone out of fashion so soon?' persisted the lady. 'Well, I'll tell you, madam,' he replied bending confidentially over the counter. 'You know we've been having very changeable weather for the last few years?' Yes that's very true.' The fact is, our climate is just going from bad to worse, and, as the iiio.'s are very delicate, they've all died off. Impossible to get enough hair to keep the mills running!' A peculiar case of Black-Fever.— A friend who has recently been spending some time in Georgia relates an ancedote which shows how thoroughly scared the people of Georgia were during the pre- valence of the yellow-fever in Savannah. It seems that Judge B., of the Supreme Court of that State was in a neighbouring county at the time, but within twenty hour?' run by mail of this terrible disease. Quite sudienly late one afternoon he was seized with a heaotiche, pains in the bnck, limbs, &o. Having heard Lhat these were salutations Yellow Jack extended to his victim on approching him, the judge, in great consternation, applied to a friend, who was' posted,' for advice. A hot mustard bath was urgently recommended and, being prepared the judge was soon immersed in the irritating fluid. Presently he felt better, and, finding what he believed to be a cake of scap at the upper end of the bath-tub, he began to apply it freely to his person. After lame pleasant eXf" e ilt this way, he looked down for the first time at his body and limbs, and discovered that he was turning black. Horror His friend was hurriedly sent for, came and declared that the sjmptoirs were indicative of yellow-fever of the worst kind. 'But,' said the judge, 'I feel no pain -I feel well.' So much the worse; the absence of pain is a marked symptom.' 'Good heavens,' said the judge: 'what shall I do ? The only hope is mustard. Rub away! was the sole advice his friend could give. He did rub with a will, using the soap to everjj square inch of his b'dy; and, after some minutes, he cent for a candle—ior the twilight was fading—to ascertain the exact condition of his cuticle. On examination be was as black as a crow and tbe' soap'—which a careless servant had dropped into the tu!—was discovered to be somebody's patent paste-blacking. The judge survived.
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== DREADFUL SUFFERINGS AT SEA. The Pacific Company's Royal mail steamer Oruba, which arrived at Plymouth, on Monday, from Valparaiso, brought among her passengers nine of the suivivors of the crew of the barque Georgina, of Swansea, Captain Watkins, which was wrecked on Wednesday, August 21, on the English Sandbank, near Monte Video. She was from Newport with coals for Rosario, and in hazy weather ran on the bank under a press of sail at half-past six o'clock on the afternoon of that day. The crew, fifteen all told, were not rescued until noon on the following Satur- day. For the first twenty-four hours after grounding, the wreck was being continually washed over by seas. The crew had then to take refuge in the rigging, where they were ex- posed for forty-four hours without food or water. From the mizentop they had to climb to the maintop, and ultimately to the foreiop. R. Munady, as apprentice hoy, was so pros- trated that in climbing from the mizen to the maintop he lost his hold, fell overboard, and was drowned. Great feeling was exhibited at Monte Video, where the wreck was early known, at the men not being rescued for so long. A tug went out several times, but returned with- out attempting to give any aid. Ultimately ten thousand dollars were raised and offered as a reward for the rescue, which was accomplished on Saturday by a tug and two little boats. The shipwrecked seamen on landing were taken every care of, and supplied with food and cloth- ing, and fifty pounds in money was divided between them.
THE POACHING FATALITY NEAR…
THE POACHING FATALITY NEAR LEAMINGTON. The poaching fatality which occurred at Offchurcli, near Leamington, on Thursday night, has assumed a new and more serious aspect toward Russell, the fanner, who is in custody on a charge of having murdered Brooks. When the dead body of Brooks was found on the roadside, on Friday morning, Russell immediately went to the police, and volun teered a statement as to the occurrence. He alleged that he was quietly returning home, when he was upon by a gang of poachers, and that it was only in self-defence, and after proper warning, that he fired the shot which resulted in the death of Brooks. The two companions of the dead man—Cowley and Callagher — who were with him at the time of the affray, fhave now come forward and given a different version of the affair. They assert that when Russell came up to the rabbit netting, he pulled it up, and began dragging it accrOS3 the field. One 11 .9, of the party snatched the netting out of his hand, and then, if the men's statement is to ba believed, Russell, without saying a word, raised his gun and deliberately fired at the nearest man. Brooks fell down and Russell ran away. Cowley and Callagher led Brooks away, but, after going three quarters of a mile, had to abandon him to die by the roadside, Both men say they were unarmed, carried no sticks, and would have been glad to have got away if an op- portunity had been given them. The accused man George Russell, of Bunker's Hill Farm, Offchurcli, has been brought before the magistrates on a charge of murdering Brooks, and, formal evidence having been given, remanded in custody until Wednesday. At the inques(held on Thursday last, Cowley, a com- panion of the'deceased, said that the Accused fired without a word of warn; Gallagher, another com- rade, who was with Brooks at the time he was shot, admitted that they had not interfered with Russell he would have gone away quietly. Cowley became abusive when fhe heard Gallahher's statement, and was ejected from the Court. The inquiry was ad- journed.
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UNFAITHFULNESS, DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE. A painful circumstance has come to light in connection with the suicide of a Worcester commercial traveller, Mr G. F. Woodward, who on Thursday last shot himself at Clifton, near Rugby. It now transpires that about four months ago, while deceased was away from home on a journey, his. wife found in one of his coat pockets a letter couched in affectionate terms from a young lady residing at Cardiff. The discovery naturaily much upset Mrs Wood- ward, who was, besides, in a delicate condition at the time; but she immediately wrote to the young lady apprising her that the object of her affections was a married man with four children, and asking her to forward any letters which she might have received from the husband. Although this request was not com- plied with, the young lady behaved very properly in the matter, expressing her regret that she should have had anything to do with Mr Woodward, and promising to discontinue her acquaintance with him. When the husband returned at the week's end there was, as may In supposed a violent scene, and this resulted in a separation of the couple for a limited period and the premature confinment of the wife, the child not surviving. After a while, however, they lived together again, though not on the best of terms, and it was noticed that the deceased's mind seemed to be very unsettled at intervals. His strangeness of demeanonr culminated in his making away with himself in the manner already stated, at the comparatively early age of 30, leaving his widow (who was married at 17) and family unprovided for. Deceased, who was a traveller for Messrs. Burgess and Son, of London, calling principally upon grocers, was widely known and very popular among a very large circle of acquain- tances. Much sympathy is felt with his widow.
THE DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN AT…
THE DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN AT KENSINGTON. The Cemetery of the London Necropolis Company at Brookwood, Woking, was on Sa- turday,Jfor the first time in its history, the scene of the exhumation of a body for the purposes of examination. On Friday the Superintendent of the Cemetery received a communication from the Home Secretary, ordering the exhumation of the remains of Mr Ernest Weldon, a gentle- man, 29 years of age, residing until the time of his death at Gloucester Mansions, South Ken- sington and at the same time Police-sergeant Alexander, of Woking, was ordered by the Home Office to proceed to Brookwood, and superintend the exhumation. It appears also that: the Home (Secretary communicated with the Coroner of the division, Mr Roumieu, 1 of Farnham, who caused the necessary formal pro- cesses for the delivery of the body from the grave to be served upon the Superintendent of the Cemetery. In compliance with these man- dates the Superintendent set a couple of grave- I diggers to work early on Saturday morning upon the grave of Mr Weldou. The interment took place on the 11th of the present month (death having occurred, after a short illness, on the 8th). No headstone marked the site of the I grave, and the gravel soil being still loose the gravediggers quickly reached the coffin. The grave of Mr Weldon is situated in that part of the consecrated ground furthest removed from the railway station. Upon the arrival of Sergeant Alexander at this spot, on Saturday morning, the Superin- tendent gave the necessary instructions to some labourers, who removed the planks which covered the mouth of Mr Weldon's grave. At the same time two men employed by the under- takers brought over a bier from the vicinity of the mortuary, and drew it up by the side of the grave. The coffin w s lifted from the grave and transferred to the bier. The polished oak and brass fittings of the coffin were in no way tarnished. The body was first enclosed in a shell of elm and afterwards placed in a lead casing, whilst polished oak was used to form the outer covering. As the coffin was drawn up the spectator saw upon the lid a simple brass plate, bearing ithe inscription, Ernest Weldou, died 8th Sept., 1889, aged 29 years.' The coffin was taken to the mortuary, situated about 100 yards away. The undertaker's men pulled the vehicle along, followed by the Police-Sergeant and the Superintendent of the Cemetery. No members of the family were present. Upon them ortuary being reached the coffin was placed upon mose trestles, and the Cemetery Superintendent locked the door. It may be added that the Brookwood Ceme- tery aftords a last resting place to several rela- tives of the deceased gentleman, and also of his widow. Close by where he was buried is the grave of his father and mother, Mr and Mrs Jeremiah Weldon, formerly of Nuttfieid, Wimbledon Park. It is alleged that during the recent trip to the Continent Mr Weldon drank to excess, and it is to this cause that the doctors attribute his death. Dr Farr stated on Saturday, that on Wednesday, the 4th inst., he, as medical at- tendant to the deceased, received a telegram from Mrs Weldon, who, with her husband, was then on her way to London from Ostend. ohe requested Dr Farr to meet her at Gloucester Mansions, as her husband had been taken seri- ously ill. He attended at the time indicated, and assisted the deceased to his bed, from which he never again rose. Dr Farr added that he was in constant attendance upon his patient, A nd the cause of death was, undoubtedly, B right's disease and convulsions the result of excessive drinking. The deceased is described as having been a finely-built, athletic man, but it is said that he was given to brandy drinking. The inquiry was opened on Tuesday by Mr Roumieu, Coroner. After some formal evidence had been given, the proceedings were adjourned until the end of next month, in order to give ample titua for an aualysis to bemade.
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SUPPOSED MURDER AND SUICIDE. j The dead bod'e? of a young man and a. young } woman were found in a garden at Caddlehill, j Greenock, on Saturday morning, both having evidently been killed by means of a revolver. The body of the young woman was covered with flowers, and the body of the man was near by in a kneeling position. A six-chambered revolver was lying at his side, two of the chambers being empty. It appeared that the man first shot the woman, and then committed suicide. The police were at once informed of the discovery, and the bodies were soon identified as being those of Andrew S. Walker, and his sweetheart, a young woman named Holmes, daughter of a Greenock carpenter. They had been keeping company for several years. It is stated that Walker lost his situation some weeks ago. No ¡ motive is assigned for the deed, but it is stated that some time ago the young man and woman quarrelled, but the quarrel was believed to nave been made up lately. Walker was about 23 years of age, and Miss Holmes was 19.
r, LATE PLANTING OF POTATOES.
r, LATE PLANTING OF POTATOES. Last June a Correspondent, the Rw. G. R. Mason, of Elmley, wrote to the Standard to recommend the late planting of potatoes. The liotato, he contended, requires only three mouths to mature, and it matures best in the Autumn, up to the middle of October. His own custom, he said, was to plant his main crop in June, or up to the middle of July, and during-twelve years he had obtained heavier crops, tubers more free from disease, and fewer small ones in proportion to those of full size, than his neigh- bours got by planting early. In order to test the plan Messrs. Carter planted a row of Scotch Champions on the 5th of June in their Nursery at Forest-hill, and another on the 5th of July. Both rows were lifted on Saturday last, and the results can scarcely be described as encouraging. From the row planted in June a pretty good nrbp, as far as weight is concerned, was ob- tained, 1511) coming from a space 13 feet long by three feet wide, or at the rate of nearly seven and a half tons per acre. But most of the tubers are small, while none are properly ma- tured, and a few are diseased. The soil at Forest-hill is not at all suitable to potatoes, be- ing much too stiff; and the crop should have been left for another three weeks to give it a ehance of maturing. But there is no mistake as to the row planted on the 5th of July being a complete failure. Only about half a dozen tubers are bigger than marbles, and none are half the full size, while the weight of the pro- duce is less than that of the seed-tubers planted. If left till November the little crop could not have come to any weight worth mentioning. On the whole, we are not disposed, as the re- sult of witnessing this trial, to conclude that all the gardening experts in the country, except the Rev. G. H. Mason, have been entirely wrong in their practice in relation to the time of plant- ing potatoes
THE HARVEST.
THE HARVEST. Wherever harvest is finished, as it is in all but the latest districts of the Kingdom, the recent rainfall has been welcomed for its effects in freshening up the pastures, swelling the roots of turnips and mangolds, and softening the land for ploughing. Where hay of the second cut is about, fine weather is, of course, desirable, and the potato crop cannot be kept too dry until it has been raised but the rain of last week has done a great de.:d more good than harm, and many farmers would like more of it. The ploughing of clover leys for wheat has now been begun, and when that operation is going on it is always desirable to have the surface of the soil moist enough to allow of the clover being turned in well, which it cannot be when great clods are brought up by the plough, or when the skim-coulter cannot be used. Before the rain fell the weather had been exceptionally favourable to the cultivation of stubbles for fully four weeks, the hot sunshine having prevailed almost every day, insuring the happy dispatch of vast quantities of couch grass and ocher weed. The thorough baking I e., and aeration which the cultivated soil has received, too, will prove advantageous to the root and other crops to be grown after cereals, especially where the land is heavy. If well cultivated in the Autumn, and ploughed up for the Winter in a fairly dry state, the land will stand a large quantity of wet weather afterwards, and yet will work well in the Spring. From this point of view the advantages enjoyed by farmers in the early districts are conspicuous, as they can give their land all the benefits of a bastard- fallow," while their fellows in the North are still engaged in harvesting. But October is often a fine month, and although the sun's rays lose heat as the Autumn advances, a good deal of weed-destroying cultivation may be got I through when the horses are not all engaged in root carting or wheat sowing. The chilliness of the atmosphere lately has been suggestive of night frosts, but none of any consequence has been recorded at present in this country, unless at high elevations. It is very rarely that a frost severe enough to do harm to vegetables occurs during September in England, and farmers like to wait till the latter part or at least till the middle, of October before pulling their mangolds. The roots are still growing, and will increase in weight for at least another fortnight unless and unseasonably sharp frost occurs to check them. As potato-raising goes on, where the work is early, reports of disease becomes somewhat more common but it is only from Lincolnshire and Cheshire that complaints of very serions and general damage have j;been received. Reports from Scotland still state that there are no signs of disease.
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WILD BERRY CULTURE.—In this country we have got the wonderful variety of small wild fruits found in North America, but we have, nevertheless, plenty that could be utilised. The thimbleberry and the salmonberry, the huckle- berry and the partridgeberry, and the service- brery, so extensively dried in Western Canada, and the more mawkish, but still pleasant, salal of the Far West ave not much known here, though they are grown in our gardens. But, considering the climate of the regions in which they flourish, there cannot be a doubt but that all of them would soon become perfectly naturalised in any part of Great Britain. Even as it is, with the whortleberry and the cow- berry, the bramble, the cranberry, and the gean, or wild cherry, and the more acrid sloe or blackthorn, we are not to be pitied. The "gean" i3 common in many old-fashioned hedgerows, and produces a sweet pleasant fruit, L aud the sloe, rough though its plums are, has long been made into a preserve, and, it is said, forms the basis of a port wine "-so very vile that even this surly vegetable deserves a better fate. There is no reason why these fruit trees, or, still better, their cultivated relatives, or some of the hardy American species, should not be planted in hedges, or—if the farmer dreaded the incursions of pilfering hands—in localities less accessible, though not more valuable. It is certain that our swampy places—and in spite of Drainage Acts and high farming these still abound in the land—might be cropped very profitably with cranberries. The native species is a fair fruit, but small, and not equal, from an economical point of view, to the two American varieties, which are larger, and superior to it in flavour. In the United States, both are not only collected in their wild state, but are cul- tivated.to such purpose that in the vicinity o Cape Cod, in Massachusetts, every acre of wide tracts of waste land, originally worth not more than from two pounds to four pounds, yields annually a crop readily saleable at from twenty pounds to forty pounds. After the plants have begun to bear well, about one hundred bushels, or thirty-five barrels, are estimated to be an average crop, and so extensively has the busi- ness been pursued, that twenty years ago seventy-five thousand barrels were annually sold in the Eastern States, or exported to the West Indies, England, France, and other countries. At the present time, the yield must be more than doubled. Our home demand used to be supplied by Lincolnshire and Norfolk. But of late, either because land is getting drained, or owing to the cheaper supplies from abroad, or because we prefer the better ones from foreign parts, the home crop has fallen off, and the growing demand is met by large im- ports from the United States, Russia, and Sweden. Not many years ago, cranberries were sold in Norwich by the cartload, and at Longton, on the borders of Cumberland, it was nothing uncommon for thirty or forty pounds' worth to be disposed of in one day-all these berries bf-imv .sthared in an otherwise barren district. Sui y, if, as in America, one hundred bushels, valu;. i at twice as many dollars, can be grown at comparatively little cost on an acre of soil not worth as much in fee simple, it must be admitted that the resources of British agricul- ture are still unexhausted.—"Standard." A. Who suffer from NERVOUS DE- BILITY, LOST VIGOUR, EXHAUSTIVE VITALITY, KIDXKY DISEASES, &O. A mem Treatise explaining the renowned MAK.STOX treatment, by local absorp- tion, the only positive cure without TO Stomach Medicines, will be sent in plain envelope sealed for three stamps —THE MARS TON REMEDY CO., 249, MiiJN • High Holboru, L«ndou.
--DRUNKENNESS CURED.
DRUNKENNESS CURED. A wealthy American Lady whose only son for years was a slave to Intemperance, Nervous Depres- sion and Exhausted Vitality, after seeking in vain for cure, and trying all known remedies, at last fonnd a simple means that cured and saved him from a drunkard's grave. Anyone suffering or ds- siring to help others in this worthy cause by sending a selF-addressed stamped envelope to Mr James Hol- land, 25, Hart Street, High Holborn, London, will receive this information free of charge. Mention this paper.
MARRIAGE IN MANY LANDS..
MARRIAGE IN MANY LANDS.. It is little to be wondered at that, taking the world over, we find many peculiar methods of performing the most important ceremony in a human being's life- time, and many quaint customs connected with it. Although marriages are much the same amongst all civilized peoples, yet where savages are concerned they show a wide difference from the simple rite in use in some races, which consists merely of the man and woman drinking from one cup, or making one another some small present, to the elaborate cere- monies, often stretching over many weeks, which ara in vogue elsewhere. When a native Australian ar- rives at the conclusion that nature did not intend him to lead a life of single blessedness, all he does is to pick out his heaviest club and lay wait behind a bush for the object of his affections. When she appears, he leaps from his ambush, hits her on the head suffi- ciently hard to render her insensible, Ijears her away acroes his shoulders, and on coming to herself again she is considered to be the lawful wife of the man who has honoured her with such a forcible proof of his ad- miration. With the ladies of Guiana every year is a leap year, the privileges of which they assume as a matter of course. Any maiden who desires to marry a man takes an opportunity of offering him something to drink. It he refuses this offer, it is a sign that he will have nothing to do with her but if, on the other hand, he accepts it, the marriage is held to be con- cluded. In Japan the principal, and apparently the binding, part of the marriage ceremony consists in the bride and bridegroom drinking nine small cups of saki (a drink made from rice) together. A Japanese lady who is going to be married has, before she leaves her father's house, to blacken her teeth and soon after the wedding ceremony has been performed she is obliged i to pluck out or shave off her eyebrows. These two acts are supposed to be indicative of her fidelity to her husband. An immense amount of feasting is con- nected with a Japanese wedding. For about a week the bridegroom has to keep open house, and entertain an indefinite number of the relatives of his wife and himself. This custom of course imposes a severe tax upon persons of moderate means, so much so that a man is often in straitened circumstances for years after his wedding.
-----OVERPRESSED ENSILAGE.
OVERPRESSED ENSILAGE. Mr John Bevan, of Elton House, Knockley, Ire- land, says From personal experience I am con- vinced that ensilage made from very wet grass is more liable to be sour, and not only sour, but the en- silage will be of an inferior feeding quality if too much pressed. To make ensilage no further pressure is required but what is sufficient to exclude the air and prevent decomposition taking place any pressure be- yond that is most injurious and takes much of the most nutritious juices of the grass from the ensilage itself. It is for this reason I prefer the Pearson roller to any other mode of ensilage stack-making, as I think it gives the minimum pressure required and does not force out the rich juices of the grass. There are two modes of pressure at present in use-one, continuous pressure in bulb the other (called the Pearson), continuous compression,' layer after layer when stack-building. Now, the action of both on the mass of grass to be ensiled is quite different. In the first class—continuous pressure—the grass is thrown together loosely (only trampled) and allowed to heat, and the grass when, I may say, in this semi-boiled state and softened, is pressed together as it falls from time after time, and thus the best of its juice can be easily forced out when pressed by tons weight of stones and other mechanical means, and this immense pressure, kept continual!) on for months, or perhaps the year. The result is ensilage, but ensilage of a poor, inferior description in fact, farmers by making ensilage in this way are acting something like a Devonshire orchard man, who puts on his cidar press to his apples, and keeps on pressing while he can get any juice out of them, and then lets their jnice flow away, and keeps the refuse to feed his cattld^UTo my mind those who thus continue to use the COI^fnuous pressure system will, no doubt, make ensilage, but at a heavy loss to themselves, for they must double the amount of feed to each beast. On the other hand, those who use Pearson's continuous compression sys- tem of the roller give the least amount of pressure ne cessary to exclude the air and this pressure is only applied where the grass comes in wet and green from the field, so that none of the juices are at all pressed out, but the grass consolidated so that no air can get in, and what rain water is packed with grass into the stack forced to the sides, there to trickle away, the stack getting no other pressure whatever after, as it heats and falls, but what its own weight gives the stack, sinking so little and so slowly that the air is effectually excluded. I see a long letter in the papers which fully bears out what I have been writing. It is an account of two stacks of ensilage made by an extensive butcher in London, purveyor to the Queen, who, with little additional feeding, fattens on ensilage so made cattle fit for the Queen's table. Query- Could this be done on poor ensilage having most of its juices squeezed out ? Hay may be left so long ex' posed to the weather that it will be too dry and lose half its nutriment. So with grass for ensilage it may be overpressed and all its most nutritious consti- tuents squeezed out."
----A MILKING MACHINE.
A MILKING MACHINE. A new milking machine, made in Sheffield, is being tried in Australia, and, according to re- ports. is considered to do its work well. Un- like other milking machines, which have been tried and given upas injurious ,to the cows, this new apparatus is not made so as to imitate the "pressure of the hand. It consists of four short perforated tubes, to which gutta-percha pipes are attached. The tubes, which are < rounded at the ends, so as not to prick the cow, are inserted in the milk channels of the teats, which they simply keep open, allowing the milk to run out. The gutta-percha pipes are united at the ends, so that the milk runs from them through a single pipe into the receptacle placed ready for it. All the milk is taken from the cow by the apparatus, re- peated trials having proved that no more milk is to be obtained by the hand after the tubes1 have been withdrawn. It is said that the cows do not object to this method of milking, but probably only docile animals have at present been tried. It remains to be proved whether the use of the machine will be injurious to the cows or not, as it might be applied for a time with impunity, and yet turn out objectionable afterwards. If any harmless and eflectual milk- ing machine could be brought into use, it would save an immense amount of labour, and be con- ducive to cleanliness also.
THE PRICES OF SHORTHORNS.…
THE PRICES OF SHORTHORNS. Satisfactory as were the prices realised for Short- horns at the recent Holker sale, a writer in the Farmer contrasts them with the valnes of cattle from the same breed in the palmy days of Shorthorn fashion. The highest price made for a Duchess cow the other day was 205 guineas. This is quite enough to give for the best cow in the world but eleven years ago at a pre- vious Holker sale, a Duchess cow was sold at £ 2,205. and as much as 8,000 guineas was once given for a cow of the same tribe, though it is said that the agent had mistaken his instructions, and the sum of £1,300 was paid to cancel the bargain. This was at the famous New York Mills sale, when the Earl of Lathom gave over £5,000 each for some Duchesses, brought over to England. Such pricer, were the result of a perfect mania for pedigree cattle, resembling the craze for old china. It was impossible that they could be kept up long, and there is no reason to regret the failure of a sensational system of speculation, which was never a sound one from a business point of view At the pre- sent time well-bred cattle are so extensively spread about the country that buyers will not give extrava- gant prices for a mere name. In short, as it has been more forcibly than elegantly expressed the bottom of the pedigree Shorthorn humbug has dropped out,' never to be restored again.
LICKED BEEF.
LICKED BEEF. Miss E. A. Ormerod is about to circulate, appa- rently at her own expense, several thousand copies of a little pamphlet whidh she has just published on "licked beef and injury to hides resulting from the attack of the warble fiy. The term licked beef" is given by butchers to a. condition of the carcase of an ox beneath badly warbled portions of the hide, the common impression having been that this injury to the meat was caused by the cattle licking themselves The injured meat, sometimes termed butcher's jelly, has to be pared off to render the rest of the carcase sightly, and as the damage is done to the most expensive joints, it is by no means insignificant. Consequently, in buying a warbled beast the butcher js careful to allow for the damage referred to, so that the farmer, very properly, is the chief loser from his neglect to adopt preventive measures now well known. Mr. I'enberthy, Professor of Pathology at the Royal Veterinary College, havinK examined some of the jelly sent to him by Miss Ormerod, declares it to be the result of inttammatior, in all probability caused by warbles, and unfit for human consumption, as well as deleterious to the health and comfort of the animals affected by it during life. As to the loss caused to hides by warbles, Miss Ormerod adduces abundant evi- dence from buyers to show that it is enormous, amount- ing probably to some millions of pounds sterling per annum. The preventives to warble attack, and the remedies to be applied to affected animals, are given in another small pamphlet which Miss Ormerod sends with the one under notice on receipt of a penny stamp with the one under notice on receipt of a penny stamp to her address, Torrington House, St. Albans, or packets may be obtained from her for gratuitous dis tribution.
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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TIME…
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TIME TABLE. JULY, 1889, AND UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. VP-WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. n.tn. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. f p.m. ji.m. a.m. p.m. Now Milford dep. 2 45 6 45 8 2510 20 10 35 1 0 5 0 7 5 3 55 10 0 5 0 Milford 6 20 8 20110 15 10 15 12 25 4 55 0 Johnston* 56 6 58 8 37 10 32 10 48 1 13 5 13 7 17 4 8 10 13 5 13 Hav.rfordwest 7 9 8 4710 42 10 59 1 24 5 24 7 4 17 10 24 5 » Clarbeston Road 7 22 11 11 1 3/ t ■ 1 37 Clyndenven. ••• 7 35 11 23 1 oO o 46 7 51 10 o0 5 46 Whitland 7 50 9 2211 16 11 43) 2 7 6 2 8-6 11 6 6 0 St Clears ••• 8 2 9 33 11 54^ 2 18 6 14' 8 18 11 16 6 12 Saraaa 8 12 12 3j 2 27 8 27 11 23 Carmarthen .Tunc.- arr. 3 48, S 23.^9^49|H^1 12^ 14 2 38l 6 30 8 38 5 5ill 34 6 2o > DOWN—WEKK DAYS. SUNDAYS. am a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Carmarthen June dep 12 31 5 15 9 21 11 21 2 41 4 37 6 15 6 44 5 15 9 15 Raman 9 31 11 31 2 51 6 o4 9 25 St Clears 5 30 9 3911 40 3 0 6 30 7 3 5 30 9 34 WhitSnd 5 48 9 54 11 55 3 16 5 7 6 46 7 19 5 48 9 46 Clynderwen 5 59 10 6 12 6 3 27 7 30 5 59 9 57 C Lbeston Road 18 3 39 7 42 il0 9 Haverfordwest 1 1 isl 6 24 10 30|12 30 3 51 5 36 7 16 7 54 6 24(10 20 Jolinston 1 30) 6 39 10 42,12 42 4 8 5 47 7 27 8 6 6 39-10 32 Milford ao-r. 7 15 11 5jl 30 6 5 7 4» New Milford axr- 1 45: 6 50 10 55jl2 55 4 151 6 01 40 8 20 6 50)10 45
PEMBROKE AND TENBY TIME TABLE.
PEMBROKE AND TENBY TIME TABLE. UP TRAINS-WEEK DAYS. SUNDAY a. m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. Pambroke-Dock dep. 7 55 10 0 10 20 12 30 2 30 4 30 6 35 3 0 I ambroke .UOCK U F 5 TO 30 12 38 2 40 4 38 6 43 3 8 Pembroke J ? 1Q 34 § 2 45 4 42 6 47 3 12 Lwnpbey g u "m 10 46 12 46 2 55 4 50 6 55 3 21 Manorbier g yQ 63 12 52 3 5 5 6 7 2 3 30 Penally f'xrr' 8 25 10 25 10 56 12 50 3 10 5 1 7 5 3 35 Tenby S de„ 8 35 10 35 11 0 1 5 5 4 7 10 5 0 Saundersfoot 8 44 JJ 9 } 5 13 I f 5r Kilgetty and Begelly 8 4/ H 12 113 § 23 *>13 Narberth 9 5 11 0 11 2/ 1 40 0 3o 4o o 30 Whitland 9 15 11 10 11 35| 1 j5 5 ii> ,)o 5 40 DOWN TRAINS—WEEK DAIS.- Sunday. a m a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. P m- P-m* /J 11» y 12^^=jg»gsSS!Si::«[S^ [S Tenby j dep. 6 4010 36 1 10 4 30 6 0 7 35 8 25 8 0 r> 11 6 4310 39 1 13 4 34 7 08 § 8 5 PenaHy J 431 4 50 7 47 8 40 8 16 Manorbier « 3Q 4 g8 7 54 8 25 £ amPhey 7$11 0 1 37 5 3 6 17 8 0 8 55 8 30 § Stop when required for through pMemj-n on speaking to the Guard.
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Cures QlsndularSnellinjfs. Clears the Blood from all Impure MattC From whatever cau»e arising. As this Mixture is pleasant to the tastf and ranted free from anything injurious to the j-.j* cate constitution of either »ex, the Proprietor* ,0 sufferers to give it a trial to test its valoe. ell; I feel duty bound to inform you of the wond rfti, effects of Clarke's Blood Mixture on me. I 1 1 had suffering over two years of a severe n"ttlr(\I! first consulted the best medical aid if could p0> /td procure till my means were run out, aund with heart I was compelled to come into the n°r}$(1 hospital where I now am. I began to think would never get better, till I read of Clarke'' i#j»» Mixture," and I determined that when I coul" the means I would try it so I commenced j|«^ prive my self of little necessaries till at length I «iood eleven shillings. I commenced to use the j gf# Mixture on Monday, May 6th. I then had tbo wounds on the left leg, one very largo one. 0 ankle bone, one on the shin about the size of* The crown, and three on the calf almost as large, three right leg was almost similar, but there were t All sores which I thought would break irto °°f' t o$ are perfectly healed up now but one small Pn „re the left ankle about the size of a shilling. There are d they fifteen patients in the ward that I am in, a(1 the were surprised to see my legs wheD I had ta*e mixture a week, and there are three of tbem no ing it. I am very sorry, indeed, that I cannot P Is cba'e another bottle, and if you kindly sen^ smnll quantity I should be able to got 1t and I 1 never lorget it as long as I live. Yours faithfully, EDWAED STATnEES, tju No. 8 Ward, Anal by Road Workhouse Uospital' June 13. 1888 LATER. I I write to let you know how I am getting received the bottle of Mixture you sent CKS *n j of wounds are completely healed up. 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