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A DETECTIVE'S KINDNESS. FARM AND GAKDEN. INTERESTING RELICS. discoveries Mado Fifty-five Feet Be. low the Surface of tbe Earth.

S. A. Harrison, of the firm of Harrison Green, railroad contractors, has in his possession, says The Milwaukee Sentinel, several specimens which will be of much interest to antiquarians and naturalists, which were obtained under rather peculiar circumstances. Mr. Harrison's firm is the contractor for tho construction of the new branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.

Paul railwav from Sioux City to Manilla Junction, Iowa, The road follows tho level of the Missouri river for a part of the distance. About forty miles southeast of Sioux City, within a distance of four miies from Mapleton Station, and ten miles from tho Missouri river valley, the new railway line encounters a high hill, which is the main divide between the valleys of the Maple and Little Sioux rivers. This divide is more than ten miles long, and the elevation varies in width from half a mile to a mile and a half. The railway line crosses the hill at its lowest point. To accomplish this it was necessary to dig a cut sixty-four feet deep and a little over half a mile in length.

The earth which it was necessary to remove in digging the cut is, with the exception of that on the surface, the yellowish clay which is characteristic of that part of Iowa. This clay is very compact, and devoid of rock and gravel. At a depth of from thirty to thirty-five feet, on the side of the hill sloping toward the Little Sioux valley, the workmen in digging the cut discovered what Mr. Harrison believes to be the marks of eleven tepee fires. A quantity of wood ashes was found in each of the eleven places, varying from half a bushel to a bushel' and a half.

With each deposit of ashes was also found a quantity of charcoal. Further along in the cut was found what appeared to be the remains of an old structure, the nature and purpose of which could not be determined. The workmen engaged on the cut call it the "lime-kill," Two walls of soft limestone, about sixteen feet apart, rise perpendicularly through the clay, and were lirst noticed at a depth of fifty feet from the serface. The walls are from eighteen inches to two feet thick, and were removed by the workmen for a perpen-Jicular distance of ten feet before the level of the railroad grade was reached, without discovering the base of the peculiar formation. About 500 feet from the "lime-kiln" was found another trophy, At a depth Df fifty-five feet from the surface the workmen discovered, pointing diagonally across the course of the railroad track, the trunk of a black walnut or ash tree, about a foot in diameter.

Twelve feet of tho protruding timber was cut off, and the remainder was left imbedded in the side of the cut, When the axes of the workmen cut into the tree, the wood was apparently sound, but when it had been subjected to the action of the air, the water in which it was soaked evaporated and the wood gave evidence of extreme rottenness. Mr. Harrison secured a piece about a foot long, which he brought with him to Milwaukee. Still another find was made in this extraordinary railroad cut The bones of some large animal, in a badly-decayed state, were discovered and were thrown out on the dump-pile with no Bare or thought of saving them. Mr.

Harrison obtained the skull, which in nppearancc resembled a buffalo, though somewhat larger. He saved four of the teeth, and they are now in the possession of Henry Mann, of this city, who as a naturalist has some interest in discovering the species of the animal whose bones were found under such peculiar circumstances. Prof. Peckham will assist Mr. Mann in his efforts to classify the animal.

The question of particular interest in connection with these discoveries is: What were the circumstances under which the skeleton and the tree, which of course were at one time on top of tbe earth, became buried so far beneath its surface? Antiquarians may also try to guess what race of beings built the tepee fires, the evidence of which is thus discovered, and at what age the limestone walls were erected. The geological formation of the earth at the level where the finds were mado is entirely different from that of the surface. Mr. Harrison says, and there good evidence that it formerly composed the surface of the earth. The level is about 232 feet above the high-water mark of the Missouri river.

No Such Trouble Here. The dispatches say that the lack of water in Burmah is defeating the British army there. If the British army was like ours, nothing of that would ever defeat it Chicago News. Saves a Kleptomaniac From Disgrace. Nobody who closely observed him would be deceived in the belief that he was a purchaser, and yet, day after day he was seen at one of our leading dry goods bazars apparently noting; everything that was going on, though perhaps more observant to the actions of the throng of purchasers than heeding what character of articles they, bought He was a private detective one of a large force of lynx-eyed men employed at holiday time by the stores to restrain the kleptomaniacs who might otherwise take advantage of the elbowing customers to appropriate some little Christmas present from the counter without exchanging any legal tender therefor.

"The work is arduous, for we must' be constantly on the lookout." observed one of these men as the store was closing for tho night "and wo must have a care to look out without seeming to be too observant. I have noted nothing suspicious thus far this week; but last season we made some arrests on the quiet and I gave one lady the best Christmas present sho ever had her freedom. It was in this way: "I was passing the lace-counter when I noticed a well-dressed lady whose face looked familiar to me. She made some purchases and then, as the clerk momentarily turned his back, she put a handsome piece of lace in her open handbag. I could not be mistaken, and as she received her package from the clerk she turned her face full toward, me, and I recognized her immediately as a jealous wife who had once employed me professionally to shadow her husband, whom she suspected of infidelity.

"As she saw me looking at her, she probably divined my mission in the store, and was about to faint. I caught her arm and, hurriedly observing to the clerk that the lady needed air, escorted her to the door and to her car- riage. "Now give me that lace and hurry home as fast as vou I whispered." "She obeyed, and I took the lace to the proprietor of the store in person and made a sufficiently plausible ex-' planation without betraying the name of the lady. As she was wealthy and could readily pay for a bale of such lace, I judge that she is a kleptoma-: niac. "I have seen her only once since, but believe that she and her husband, have now gone East to live.

Last. Christmas night these fur gloves you, see were left at my home, and I've never doubted that they came from the lady whom 3 saved from the mortification of exposure last year, but most of those who rob stores do not deserve such consideration, and most of the storekeepers say they are going to prosecute any shop-lifter caught in the act." St. Louis Sunday Sayings. Children's Manners. In training children in good manners mothers often mistake an overflow ot spirits a natural playfulness of healthy childhood for rudeness, and in subduing and correcting these seeming faults rob the little ones of wholesome exercise and a large share of the sunshine of their lives.

There is a time for playing, for noisy outside sports that develop the young muscles and strengthen the fast-growing bodies, and children should not -be deprived of this privilege of their childhood. The essential things to be taught them in play are to respect each other's-rights, to protect the weak, and to be fair even in their sports. Moral courage should be cultivated in children by teaching them always to say boldly and do bravely what they believe is true and right regardless of consequences. "There is something knightly in the heart of every boy something helpful and womanly in the heart of every girl," and these qualities should be developed. The sympathies of children-are quickly aroused, and can be rightly directed to their great benefit Pets are a great source of pleasure to children, and the possession of them awakens and increases the chivalrous spirit and which enlarges and ennobles the character.

The care of a dog, a lamb or a goat, trains a boy in all that is manly; whilo tho pet kitten or bird gives a little girl sonse of responsibility, and teaches her kindness to the helpless. The Church at Work. Partially Successful. A woman who had been over half the country on tho heels of her runaway husband was asked if her search-, had been successful. "I didn't find John," she replied, "but the trip did me lots of good.

I'm very fond of travelin' Half Breeds in Manitoba. In a recent number of the Popular Science Monthly on the "Inter-mingling of Races," John Reade has this to say of the half-breeds of Manitoba: It was under the stress of such famine that the half-breed population of the Canadian Northwest which has of late been so much before the world, grew to its present proportions. Its history carries us back to near the eighteenth century. Arthur Dobbs, whose account of the countries adjacent to Hudson Bay was published in 1744, obtained his information almost wholly from a half breed trader called La France a proof that the metis was not unknown a century and a half ago. The explorations of the Verandryes, father and sons, lasted from 1731 to 1754.

After the conquest of Canada by England, the fur-trade ceased for some years; but in 1766 the Montrealers began to push northwestward, and from that time their agents, mostly French-Canadians, mingled freely with the Indians the consequence being the growth of a half-breed community. There was a considerable population of Bois Brules (for which they sometimes substituted the more ambitious of 'the new when Lord Selkirk began his scheme of operation to colonize in 1811. That even then they were not all French is shown by some of their surnames being Scotch or English. But it is from the years immediately following the establishment of the Red river colony that the bulk of the English-speaking half-breeds date ther first appearance. In the year 1814 they numbered 200.

In 1870 the Manitoba hajf-breeds and metis (as those of British and French origin my be distinguished) were estimated at 10,000. Besides them, there was a population of uncertain number scattered through the territories, and a tribe of half-breed hunters with one early explorer deemed to be 6,000 strong. In 1874 Dr. G. M.

Dawson, while engaged in the British North American Boundary Commission, came upon a camp of the latter body, consisting of 200 buffalo skin tents and 2000 horses. Dr. Wilson considers the rise in this way of an independent tribe of half-breeds as "one of the most remarkable phenomena connected with the grand ethnological experiment which lias been in progress on the North American continent for the three last centuries. The Slavish Press. "Matilda," said Mr.

Seacook, as he laid the evening paper aside in disgust, "there isn't a newspaper in the United States fit to read. What we need is an aggressive paper; something lively and fearless, that will expose the follies aud foibles of mankind without fear of the consequences." "Don't you find anything in that line in the paper?" ''Nothing but a lot of slush, my dear, according to this paper, all men are popular and efficient and all ladies charming and beautiful. It makes mo tired." "What do you want to see?" "Why, I want to see the tr uth about things; here it says of Jim Standoff, one of the greatest soaks in the town, that "the Hon. James Standoff, a gentlemanly and, courteous business man, has accepted a position as salesman tor Nogood Now. the fact is, Matilda, that he has been looking for that job for a year, and he didn't 'accept' it it was given to him to keep him out of the work-house." "I think I saw a paragraph in that paper, John, which will suit you." Saying this.

Mrs. Seacook took tho paper and read aloud: "That gray-haired reprobate. John Seacook, was found last evening again in a beastly state of intoxication, and carried to his home on a door." Mr. Seacook gasped once or twice, and then he seized a club and remarked that when journalists became personal and aggressive it was time for good citizens to revolt. Then he left St.

Louis Whip. The Smoke Cure. An intelligent and trustworthy correspondent says the Boston Transcript, has sent us the following: "The smoke of wollen rags is a cure for the most dangerous wounds." A lady of my acquaintance ran a machine needle through her finger. She could not be released till the machine was taken to pieces. The needle had broken in her finger in three places, one of which was bent almost double.

After repeated trials the pieces were extracted by pieces, but they were very strongly imbedded. The pain reached to the shoulder, and there was every danger of lockjaw. The woolle rags were put over the coals, and she hold ber finger over the smoke, and in a very short time all the pain was gone, and it never returned, though it was some little time before tho finger healed. This is one of many instances of such cures, some of them taking place after several days from the time of the wound. Let woollen rags bo kept sacredly and always at hand for wounds.

The smoke and stench will fill the house, perhaps, but that is a trifle when the alternative is the lockjaw; or even a long, painful sequel to the wound. Another instance, was the wound made by an enraged cat which tore the flesh from the wrist to the elbow, and bil through the floshy part of the hand. One ministration of the smoke extract ed all the pain, which had been fright ful Raisins Grade Stock. Farmers every where are fully alive to the advantage of superior stock. Tho improvement within the last twenty years, in this country, is far beyond all that has passed before, since the discovery of America.

The breeders and importers of pure bred stock have done more for the natural prosperity of tho country while making, many of them, large money for themselves than any other class connected with agriculture, and, as a rule are respected by the community at large. On tho other hand, many farmers who want to improve their stock of horses, are apt to imagine that a grade stallion is as good for bira as a purely bred one. Nothing could be more fal-licious. Let us look at the matter for a moment A full bred sire upon common stock gets a half blood, and a half blood sire on common stock gets one-quarter blood, only half as good: The pure blood sire will cost no more to keep than the half blood sire. It may cost double as a first investment.

Suppose the half blood cost $300 and the full blood cost $600. The interest ou this sum is only $36 a year. The difference in value of each colt when it stands up, is far more than this sum, and tho service value to each mare should not bo less than $10 more for the full bred than for the half bred sire. These are low figures. The service to fifty marc3 is $500 yearly, in advance of what it would be for the service of the half bred sire.

But many persons err in supposing that they can soon breed up high grades from their half bred sire. Nothing could be more fallacious. The full bred sire breeds a half blood in tho first generation on the common mare. Bred to the produce the second generation gives three-quarters, the third saven-cights, the fourth fifteen-sixteenths. The half bred sire to a common mare gets a quarter blood, the next cross one-half on one-fourth equals three-eighths, the third cross one-half on three-eighths equals seven-sixteenths, the fourth cross one-half on seven-sixteenths is fifteen-thirty-seconds, or less than one-half blood.

Tliat is to say, he has bred for four generations (twelve years) and has not as good stock as ho started with in his sire. The man who (and the rule will work approximately in all stock) buy grades with a view of breeding up, is going away from home. In other words, he is losing money. Farm, Field and Stockman. Easy to Find.

A rather fresh-looking man entered a drug store and said to the druggist: "See if you can find for me the address of Mr. Theopholis Simpson." After looking through the directory for some time the druggist gave it up, remarking: "I can't find him nt all." "Nonsense! Why, you can't help finding him. He is a little fat man with a bald head and a little black mustache, waxed at tho ends. He is the easiest man in the world to find. Gimme that book." Texas Siflings.

Demand for Domestic Service. The last census showed that there were 938,910 women employed in domestic service in the United States, but this does not mean that in 1880 there was a demand for only 938,910 women in such employment. On the contrary, at the high wages current (and these wages, it must be remembered making allowance for board and lodging are higher than those received by tons of thousands of female school teachers, copyists, typewriters, there is a large unsatisfied demand. Besides, if greater competition were to reduce the wages to a plane more consonant with the pay of skilllcd female labor the present demand for domestic service would be vastly increased. If "hired help" could be hired for half what it now costs (and at that rate it would be well remunerated in comparison with other employments) a host of families, especially in the country, would keep servants who now feel it impossible to do so.

There is not a particle of doubt that at the ruling rates tens of thousands of women can easily find places. There is as little doubt that at smaller but still good wages the number of women who could secure good employment in the kitchen under comfortable conditions exceeds the whole number of working women in Now York, whose misery is periodically set forth by the newspapers. In other words, this misery might practically bo ended by the victims themsolvcs if they would only give up trying to mnko a living at dying rates in overcrowded industries and enter a field where they are sure of steady work nt good pay. New York Post. Chicken Gizzards for Indiges-( tion.

A favorite prescription of Chinese physicians for chronio indigestion is to cut up and digest chicken gizzards in hot water until they are reduced to a pulp, and thon add some spices. A ta-blespoonful or two of the resulting paste is taken at each meal until the patient has entirely recovered. From China tho practice passed to other parts of Asia, and was adopted here and there among the Mediterranean people. Strange to say, it wag never learned by the great nations of Europe until the latter part of the present century. San Francisco Post.

Pye Versus Pye. A very queer case that of Pye versus Pye was called in a New York court It was a divorce suit and the evidence went to show the kissing habit is very easy to acquire and more difficult to shake off than the opium or cocoaine habit. From tho evidence appears that Mr. Tompkins, one of the boarders at the Pye mansion, drifted into the habit of kissing Mrs. Pye.

In fact, it is very little exaggeration to say that he became a chronic Pye-biter. They became so brazen that their kisses were suggestive of the ringing of a patent gong. In the Pye family the Kissing seems to have been almost as persistent and promiscuous as that to which the witnesses testified in the Beecher case. Mrs. Dempsey, who had boarded at Pye house, was put on the stand and examined by a lawyer.

Lawyer "Did you ever see Tompkins kiss Mrs. Pye. Witness "Lots of times; and when I didn't see him I heard him. There was a plaintive, sobbing gurgle about it that reminded one of the exhaust of a bath tub. It could be heard all over the house." Lawyer "Did she not resist his kisses?" Witness "Not precisely; but she set her face very strong against it that is, against his mustache.

I saw her time and again." Lawyer "Where did he kiss her?" Witness "Anywhere and everywhere; on the stairs, in the hall, in the dining-room, at his leisure, on the cheek, but usually square in the mouth." Lawyer "Was Mr. Pye present when tho kissing took place?" Witness "He was present occasionally, but he was not accounted for rnuch. Mrs. Pye was always present when the kissing took place. I don't remember of her having been kissed a single time when she was not present Lawyer "Did Mr.

Pye object?" Witness "Tompkins never tried to kiss mean did Mr. Pye object to Tompkins kissing his wife?" Witness "Tompkins didn't have any wife to kiss. He kissed Mr. Pyo's wife but I expect if Tompkins had had a wife she would have objected. They often do." Lawyer "May it please the court this witness is showing a disposition to trifle with the court." Court "The witness will answer the questions." Witness "I am answering the questions, but the attorney is questioning the answers." Lawyer "When did Tompkins kiss Mrs.

Pye?" Witness "Whenever he had an opportunity, but I noticed he didn't kiss her when he was down town. The only time when he didn't kiss her was when he was not there." Lawyer "Who did kiss her then?" Witness "I did. I liked her a little myself." Lawyer you did, did you. Did not Mr. Pye object to you kissing his wife?" Witness "No.

Why should he? d'dn't object to his kissing her, why should he object to my kissing her? There was nothing objectionable about it, it was a mere friendly salutation." Lawyer "Did you ever see Mrs. Pye kiss Mr. Pye?" Witness "No, but she may have done so when none of us boarders were around. She is a sly piece." Lawyer "How did you come to kiss Mrs. Pye?" Witness "Put my arms around her neck and kissed her in the usual way." Lawyer "Did she ask you to do so?" Witness "Well, 1 noticed that no matter how many times she and Tompkins kissed before he went out, that she never got enough to last until he came back, for as he opened the door they were at it again, so when he was away I kissed her, more as a matter of accommodation than anything else." Lawyer "Where was Mr.

Pye?" Witness "Oh, he was nowhere." Lawyer "That's enough. You can step down. Texas Sitings. She Skinned a Man. "What morbid creatures some women are," soliloquized a young sawbones tho other day, as he wheeled himself around in his yellow cane-bottom chair.

"There is a pretty-faced girl attending one of our medical colleges who is scarcely 18 years old, yet she enjoys the distinction of having superintended the job of skinning a dead man whom she had purchased for a few dollars. Skinned a man? That is just what she has accomplished; but she didn't stop there. No, no. Sho tanned the hide by somo sort of process, and, this done she cut and sewed the leather into a reticule with her own dainty little fingers, and then painted violets and forget-me-nots on either side of the bag, She is very proud of het achievement, is this little girl, but Lord deliver me from her like. She comes from a small town in ono of the Middle States, and will complete her course oi study in two or throe years, I saw her tripping along Michigan avenue one day last week.

The reticule of human skin was dangling on her arm as pretty as you please, and her face, tho personification of innocence and maidenly modesty, was as pretty as a doll's. We see strange things sometimes! eh?" Chicago flcrakl. Plum shoots grafted upon wild plum itocks do well. It is said that excellent soap can be made of concentrated potash, whale oil and milk. To properly keep straw and hay stacks the stacks must be so constructed as to shed water.

The editor of the Orange County Farmer trains his tomatoes to poles, and they grow six feet high. Cows that have no bedding are often injured in the knees by getting up or down, especially if the floors be wet and slippery. Lay in your stock of seeds for next spring now. Every preparation should be made betoro the busy season opens in the spring. Leaves gathered into heaps and allowed to lay and decay for two or three years make an excellent fertilizer for plants.

This is an excellent season for repairing the fences and buildings. If deterred, the spring with its hurry will allow no time for such work. Every farmer must know what kind of swine breed well aud are wanted in the markets. That is the kind which can be bred with profit Give the pigs burned cobs, that is, cobs charred to a coal, but not to ashes. Charcoal is good for them, and promotes health and good digestion.

Prof. Detmers, of Ohio University, says the greatest favor a hog once infected with hog cholera can confer upon its owner is to die at once. It is said that wool grows more rapidly in the fall than at any other season. The reason for this is that sheep are usually in better condition every way at that season. Although a largo tree can ba transplanted to a new location, yet it will not grow as rapidly nor as large as one that has occup'ed the same place since it sprung from the seed.

While milk is standing for cream to rise, the purity of the cream, and consequently the fine flavor and keeping of the butter, will bo injured if the surface of the cream is exposed freely to air mucli warmer than the cream. Do not sacrifice your best lambs and ewes because the butcher offers an extra price, but retain them for breeding purposes, first securing a pure bred male for grading up. The value which competent judges have assigned the various features of butter is as follows: Flavor, 25; keep-qualities, 2C; texture, 25; color, 15; appearance, 15. Total, ICO points. Mr.

A. B. Allen, expresses the opinion that practical recognition of the law of heredity of disease in domestic animals, would add millions of dollars annually to farmers' incomes. Mr. J.

F. Hyde reports that he changed the bearing year of his apple orchard from the even to the odd year by picking off all the fruit, not allowing a single bloom to perfect itself. The Poultry World says: "A tea-spoonful of glycerine and four or five drops of nitric acid to a pint of drinking water, will generally cure a fowl that shows symptoms of bronchitis." The larvae of the borer lives several years in trees. Hence be sure to probe for the borer and remove him if it be possible. Borers have done more damage to the peach than all the diseases known.

In icy times all kinds of stock are in some danger. Horses should be sharp shod, and the cow paths about the stables and water troughs should be lightly strawod, so that the cows need nol slip. A dairyman should keep as many cows only as he can feed well. It is not economical to divide the food among a large number when the same results can be secured from a smaller number well fed. A musty cellar is death to milk or cream, but it seems impossible to pound It into the heads of somo people.

More butter is ruined by bad cellars and caves than from any other cause ontho farm. The coming buttermaker, according to the National Stockman, must have a clean mouth and breath, as well as clean clothes and a clean apron, be honest, neat, smart, level-headed and able to keep accounts. Sour milk, mixed with two quarts ground oats and one part wheat middlings, is an excellent egg-producing food for hens, and will greatly promote laying, as well as assisting to keep the hens in health. Young stock, once allowed to run down, never fully recover from tho effects there f. Of inferior feed and lice, the lirst generally brings ontho second.

Poor feeding is scandalous; vermin added, it is brutal. Bee hives should be kept as near a temperature of fifty-two degress as possible. The object should bo to prevent too much cold and at tho same time avoid warmth that may cause the bees to come out. Commenting on the opposition of Profs. Brown and Sanborn to the ensilage the editor of the American Dairyman says: The poorest ensilage we have ever seen has been In the silos of agricultural colleges.

It Is said there are over two thousand varieties of tho apple cultivated in Europe, its growth extending from 88 to 60 degroes, though the best fruit is grown between the thirty-eight para) lei and the forty-second. Not a Single Where. Annie G. had been punished for crying over two broken dolls. "Ob, yes, mamma," she moaned, "you can punish me if you like, but I've had a terrible affliction, losing both my children in one day, and I'm bound to cry.

If I was to die (reproachfully) you could cry without being lntersturbod." Another day sho wanted to go several places, and upon being refused exclaimed. "You won't let me go anywhore I want to not a single where. New Or-leant Picayune. A Devoted Cat's Fidelity. A cat belonging to a gentleman resident about eight miles from London, was given to a brewer living at a distant part of the metropolis; taken there after dark In a closed basket placed in a covered wagon.

A fortnight had elapsed, when tho poor animal, weary and footsore, walked into her former master's kitchen, and lay down in ita accustomed corner by the fire, purring with Joy at having reached the old home. Such fidelity was deservedly rewarded. Chambers' Journal..