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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD M.VKIXG TOBK TOO FAT. , The evil of over-fattening pork is less common than it used to be. Two reasons have combined fo make lean meat more popular. The doctors taught the', it was more healthful and nutritious than the fat, and Rbmit the same time the use of other oil dec reased the price- of lard so that excessive fat pork was neither profit able nor needed. The change in ways of f reding ha also had something to do with making pork more wholesome. Corn is no longer the exclusive food even for fattening. The best practice now is to feed the ration- that will make hogs grow and keep thrifty from the time it is born until it is killed. There may be excep tions to this in animals kept for breeders: but all others should be fat enough for use from the time they are the right size for roating. -By the libc.al use of milk, oatmeal and peas growth is promoted, along with at all times enough fat to make delh-ious pork, far better than that made by starving the ;mimal while young, and over-feeding with corn as they be come older. irow to sun came. During cold weather game birds of all kinds thouid not bf drawn. Before be ing packed they should be thoroughly cold and dry. Smooth the feathers down nicely and pack them in their natural chape as much as possible. Do not place the head under the wing, as it is quite pt to bleed and cauv.- a bad spot on the k!e of the bird. Late in the reason it is well to wrap in p'tner prairie, chickens, partridge and quail. Buyers then give such the preference, but during the fore pru t of the season, when the weather is more changeable, the paper proves damaging to the keeping of the game. Barrel? are favorable packages for prairie chickens, bit', partridge and quail should be packed in boxes, not over three to four dozen each for the former, and ten to fifteen dozen for the latter: avoid as far as possible putting more than one kind of game in a package. Pigeons, during the early put f of the season, should be shipped with their feathers on; but when the wither becomes warm they should be plucked and packed in ice. A (ocr'fVOb (,'; It if r-,r. r;ns .!., rLowiyr,. Very much has bf-n said and written on the advantages to b? derived from breaking up the hard, compact subsoil I underlying the stratum cultivated. Com monly, subsoils will be found kicking in the elements of fertilitv. and brinin " or? them to the surface will usually be found detrimental 1 at her than otherwise. Where there has been a continuous shal low plowing of the surface soil for years a slightly de?per plowing will add to the feeding area of the plants, but unless the. E'irf ce foil i"; itself rich ;t, nust be ac companied b liberal manuring. As the peat bulk of the run;.- of our cultivated plants grow naturally near the surface, it t-cems to me that sub-oiling for the nur- poe of increasing the footling area i? not ' of sufficient importance to p-iy the ox- ! pense; we must lok somewhere else for ! its benefits if it has enougii to recommend I if for general adoption. Tt is now com- ' ing to be pretty well understood that when a crop has carried oil" from a soil of moderate fertility the plaut food that has boon used up in it produetion it must be H'pplird from an outride source and oan- j not be obtained simply by deep plowing, whether the subsoil is brought to the sui - face or simply stirred up and left in hs ' place. So far as my ow n observation and little experience g,,, the advantages ol subsoiling mainly consist in affording additional storage for w;;lor that may be drawn c.po i by toe roots of plants in sea sons of drought ; and in season of exces sive moisture the subsoiling may itself be injurious. AV York- World. ' ' fm;m and oakpkn xorr To . ,ir:- scaly legs in fowl: ruo witn .Kerosene nno lard. Fro m-dairyin- has go) to be as thor oughly systomized a wo hope to make the reapufaoluro of bu'.tcr aud ( bees,;., !efore a perfect uniformity of dairy products can ever b looked for. Whenever stock is ready for market They should be sold. After a certain stae is readied, even day they are ted in creases tiie cost proportionately, and this without a corresponding profit. While it is best to allow the stock to run our. in the pastures a Ion- as the weather will permit, they should not be allowed either in ihe nelds or pu.stuies after the ground gets .soft from the fall lains. To feed upon the ground is a waste, because more or less is tramped down un der foot and lost. Tight boxes for grain and good racks or mangers for hav will be profitable, because they lessen the waste. There is no economy in supplying more bedding than is necessary to make com fortable. Such a plan only increases the expense and the quantitv of material to be handled without a corresponding benefit. Alfalfa hay is one of the best hog-feeds that can be used. Swine relish it, and if it is fed to them liberally they will take on flesh as rapidly as on corn diet. Be sides hogs never suffer with cholera while feeding on alfalfa. When it is remembered that a ton of corn is to be hauled to town, ami for it less than a ton of coal hauled back, it will be apparent that corn is much the cheaper of the two on a farm a few mile: out. This test of nctual value and of cost should determine the course to pur sue. ijouseholu hints. To Soften Shoes Rub with castor oil. To Remove Mildew Rub the spots with green tomato juice and salt. To Cure Earache Roast a small onion until soft, dip in sweet oil and put in the ear. For a Burn Make an ointment of sul phur and lard, and cover, or wet soda and apply. To Keep Moths Out of Carpet Wash ihc floor with very hot water with a Ut ile turpentine mixed in it. To Check Vomiting Give a tablc ?poonful of whole, black mustard seed. A.pply a spice plaster to the stomach. To Take Out Fruit Stains Pour boil ing water over them, or rub soda and :oal oil on the spots, and dry in the hot :UQ. To Prevent Delicate Colors Fading Dissolve a nickle's worth of sugar of lead tn a pail of water, in which soak the clothes. To Clean Greasy Kitchen Utensils Soak five minutes in warm water, to which has been added a teaspoonful of am monia; rinse and wipe dry. A State Dinner at Washington. The usual hour for a State dinner, says the Washington Star, is 8 r. m. As the guests arrive, which should be fifteen minutes before the hour set, they are shown to the rooms for the removal of wrappings and descend by the private stairway to the grand corridor and pro ceed direct to the East Room, where the President and lady await them. Each gentleman upon entering the room is handed by an usher a small envelope containing a card inscribed with the plan of the table and bearing the name of the lady he will escort. On the diagram the number of the seats he and the lady will occupy are marked. After being received by the President he ex amines the card and immediately joins the lady whom he will accompany to the !State dining hall. The lady whom he has brought remains with him until her escort appears. All the guests having arrived, at the appointed hour the steward announces that the dinner is in readiness. The President, with the first lady guest, leads the way to the State dining room, fol- lowed by the remaining guests. The presiding lady, escorted by the principal rnan, closes the line. The Marine band, meanwhile, performs a suitable march, Ia iae dining room the guests find their places and take the seats assigned to them by the plate, cards, which cor- respond in location with the diagram handed them upon entering the East Room. There arc four services at all State dirners. The dishes, in their order, are served on silver salvers by waiters, the guests helping themselves. The chief waiter serves the President first and then proceeds toward the right, and the second waiter toward the left. The same course is observed on the opposite side of the table, beginning with the presiding lady. ISo one is ever served twice. The plates of one course are re moved as soon as each guest is finished and the plate for the next is put in its place. At the close of the dinner, which lasts about three hours, it has been the custom of late years for the gentlemen to leave the table with the ladies amlnot return. The custom during the eirlier adminis trations was for the ladies to have their coffee served in the drawing room, and for the gentlemen to return to drink a single glass of wine to the health of the President. Gentlemen wishing to enjoy j a cigar retire during the coffee to th? cor- ! ridor at the foot cf the private stairway, but join the ladies when the preesiding lady makes the motion to retire. After one promenade through the suite of parlors the gentlemen surrender the ladies to the gentlemen with whom they came, and with their own ladies take ' leave of the President and his lady. They I should receive their wrappings and leave J the building quietly and promptly. The last of the guests should have retired j within thirty minutes after leaving " the table. A lad named Simons is the pride of , - Santa Cruz County, California. He is' seventeen years old, stands 6 feet Sc inches high and weighs 200 pound THE HTJMtf NOSE. GREAT IMPORTANCE OF A MAN' 'S PROBOSCIS. How This Organ Marks the Pecul iarity of the Different Races 3Ien Who Have Been Remark able for Their Xoses. The nose forms one of the characteris tic features of the human face, and the more one studies it the more he will ap preciate its importance. There are four teen bones in the nose and a mass of cartilages which are ossified into immov able rigidity. It is an unbending nose it will domineer; it will dictate; it will subdue. There are no two noses alike, but all noses have many things in com mon. For example, according to the Troy Ti?nes, all noses sneeze, snarl, snuff snort, sneer, sniff, snuffle, snigger and snivel. Noses mark the peculiarities of races and the gradations of society. The noses of Australians, the Esquimaux and the negroes broad, flat and weak mark their mental and moral character istics. The striking difference between the African negro and the North Amer ican Indian is sculptured on their noses The Caucasian has a prominent and w ell defined nose, and he leads in subduing the world. The Chinese have bad noses, and they are intellectually a superior race, but they are not really a proper exception, for they flatten the noses of their children in in fancy. They have cultivated small and flat noses for generations upon some ab surd notion that the eyes are the more important and should not be obscured by the nose. You can also see how the nose marks some of the gradations of society around you. Look at the concave faces of the low and ignorant, these whom you arc sure to find of mornings in the po lice courts, and who adorn the cells of our nrisons. You cannot for a moment X associate beauty, valor, genius or intel ectual power with such noses. If you look at the progress of the in dividual life, the contour of the nose marks all its stages. Who ever saw baby with a Roman or aquiline nose, or even a Grecian ? The baby nose is a little snub, the nose of weakness and undevel opmcnt. The child's nose keeps its in ward curve ; in youth it straightens, am then comes, in certain characters and races, the bold outward curve of the aquiline or the stronger prominence of the Roman. It may stop at any point in this march of progress and present a case of arrested development. And we all feel instinctively that a certain shaped nose is the proper index of a certain character. Almost all great men have been re markable for their noses, either as tc shape, or size or color. Scipio Nascia derived his name from the prominent share of this feature possessed by him: the immortal Ovid, surnamed Naso, was Mr. Nosey, or bottle nose Anttocnus V 111. was an imposing prince. They called him "Grypus," be cause his nose was as big and hooked as a vulture's beak. But then the ancient Persians permitted only the owners ol large nc:es to enjoy royal honors. Numa's nose was six inches in length, whence the second King of Rome obtained his surname of Pompilius, as being the ownei of a superlative nose. Lycurgus and Solon, according to Plutarch, were dis tinguished in the same manner. Mohammed's nose must have been a curiosity. It was so curved that the point seemed to be endeavoring to insert itself between his lips. At a later time a phenomenal nose must have been that of the ireat Frederick. Lavater offered to wager his reputation that blindfolded he could tell it out of 10,000 other noses by simply taking it between his thumb and forefinger. The nose of the Em peror Rudolph, of Austria, saved his life in an odd kind of way. During one of his campaigns a troop of knights entered into a conspiracy to kill him. A peasant who was employed about the tents ol the conspirators one evening overheard them say: "To-morrow we'll surprise old big nose and cut him to pieces." After his work was over the peasant started out to visit some friends in another part of the camp. The Emperor, who was going about with some of his knights, meeting the man, asked who he was and what was going on in his part of the camp. He innocently told that there would be fun next morning, as they were going to cut a big nose in pieces. But they had not even a chance to get out of bed '-next morning." The French and, indeed, all the other Latin races, are remarkably 4 'nosey. Napoleon I.'s nose was exquisitely chis eled, sculpturesque in mold, form and expression. He was wont to say: 4 'Give me a man with plenty of nose." He lit tle dreamed that he was destined to be baffled by a people the Russians whose noses were well nigh level with their faces, and that his ultimate victor was to be a man with the most promi nent nose in Europe Arthur, Duke of I TT, 1 1 T . rri. - -r . . . - P it ciuijiuu. jme .rarisians called Na poleon HI. "Grosbec" Nosey. Alexan der the Great had a large nose; so had Richelieu and Cardinal Wolsey. Look at the portrait of Washington. All that is great in firmness, patience and heroism is stamped upon his nose, which is the true aquiline. Julius Caesar's nose was of the same type, and he possessed the same characteristics of patient courage and heroic firmness that belonged to Washington. The wide nostriled nose betokens strong power of thought and love for se rious meditation, and these you see in the portraits of Shakespeare, Bacon, Franklin and Dr. Johnson, and others of our great students and writers. Gibbon had hardly any nose at all. He had a wee, little protuberance in the middle of his face which, by courtesy, was called a nose, but it was hardly discernible, set in between two enormous cheeks. Tycho Brahe lost his nose in a duel and wora a golden one, which he attached to his face with a cement which he always carried about Barneses II. used to cut off the nose of any subject accused of talking treason agalLst him. Actisanes, another ruler of Egypt, had a novel way. of punishing robbers. He cut off their, noses and colonized them the robbers in a desert place, which he called Rhi noconun, from the nature of the punish ment of its citizens. On the other hand, and more humane, perhaps, was his punishment of dishonest butchers. It was unique. A hook wa3 put through their nose and a piece of meat was hung upon it. In 1671 Charles II. had the nose of Lord Coventry, keeper of the seal of England, cut off because he dared to ask in Parliament an inquisitive question about some actresses of the day. Later, Frederick the Great had a nobleman's nose cut off because he protested openly that he had been enrolled in the army through fraud. Criminals have been known to cut off their noses to escape detection. Making a new nose has often been performed in America since Dr. J. Mason Warren, of Boston, made the first successful one in 1837. Gladstone's Daily Life. Mr. Gladstone lives a very regular life at his home, says a London letter to th Philadelphia Prcst. He breakfasts light ly about seven o'clock, and shortly bo fore eight walks to the church for prayers. To the intelligent observer the sight ol the great statesman walking to church at this early hour in the morning cannot fail to be interesting. Clad iu a long coat, tightly buttoned, with a long shawl wrapped closely around his neck, wearing a soft felt hat, his appearance i decidedly picturesque. Upon his return to the castle from morning prayeis, hf retires to his study, when he reads anc answers, with the aid of his secretary, his enormous mass of daily correspond ence. There is no regular hour for luncheon at the castle and it is partaken of by those at home at various times. Ir the afternoon Mr. Gladstone takes a walk in the grounds, and if the wcathec is propitious usually engages in his favor ite exercise of tree chopping. He dines at eight o'clock, afterward reads oi writes, and at ten o'clock retires for the night- Though abstemious in his habits he usually drinks bitter beer with hh lunch and a glass or two of claret or port at dinner. Mr. Gladstone is not in any sense ascetic, is a generous liver and is a great believer in the virtues of a glass cf good port wine. When engaged in speaking his fillip is a compound of sher ry and egg, which is prepared by Mrs. Gladstone with as much anxiety and cart as if it were the elixir of life. Mr.Glad stone never smoked. He acquired his habits at a period when tobacco smoking was generally regarded as somewhat vul gar among the better classes. A Unique California County. Yuma County is unique in many re spects. It has no fleas nor bedbugs. Sunstroke and hydrophobia are un known. Snow never falls. Grapes and citrus fruits ripen weeks before they do in California. Frosts are scarcer thru: feather's on a turtle's back. Butter is sometimes purchased by the bottle and eaten with a spoon, but only because we like it better that way. AVe arc- proud in possessing the richest land. largest river, finest valleys and pretties. girls to be found on the coast. Winter is conspicuous by its absence. Flowers thrive every month in the 3'ear. The people are hospitable to a fault. Pump kins grow so large that the hired man takes chances on rupturing himself whea turning them over. Alfalfa and babies grow, faster than in any place we ever heard of. Yuma (Cnl.) Times. A squirrel was killed recently on its vav from a grain field in San Joaquin County, Cal., and on examination of its pouches they were found to contain 810 grains of wheat, which goes to show how much damage ft few of these aaiLiais cn do, UURIOUS FACTS Aboriginal Australians have the Small est heads of any race. A man has been held for trial at Johns ,town, Penn., for stealing 84,000 shingles. Three eggs of different sizes, one insid the other, were deposited by a hen in t Lehigh County (Penn.) barn. In England and Wales the averag duration of married life has been com puted at about twenty-seven years. It required an act of the Italian Parlia ment to permit the burial of the poet Browning beside his wife at Florence. A thief stole a pair of shoes from s policeman at Sedalia, Mo., the othei night. The guardian of the night wai sound asleep. In the Cape de la Hogue lighthouse in France a windmill is used to drive twe dynamos, the current being stored up ir accumulators. A perfect penknife, which measures three-sixteenths of an inch in length, ha; been made by Dr. John Temple, of Mar shallton, Penn. At a fancy-dress ball in St. Petersburg a lady appeared as Miss Grippe, her cos tume consisting of a map of Europe, witb the infected districts appropriately marked. Phil Bauman, of Lancaster, Penn., sold for 200 to parties in New York city a hog which is three years old and weighs 1215 pounds. The monster is ir a museum. A Salem (Ore.), man recently sold t three-quarter short-horn cow to a Port land butcher. It weighed 1 630 pounds. The same farm owns a sheep that weigh 263 pounds. Recent excavations in Rome show that the ancient plumbers of the Eternal City were obliged to be very particular witb their work. There have been unearthed great quantities of lead water-pipe, each plainly stamped with the name of the owner of the house, the year of th( plumbing, the name of the consuls for that year, and that of the reigning Em peror. Astonishing the Cossacks. -- A newspaper correspondent, David Ker, traveling in central Asia, came one evening upon a Cossack camp. Fhcs were blazing and round them stretched the men, resting after a hard day's march. The traveler had been long on the road, and with his white Russian forage cap and travel-stained clothing looked so much like the Cossacks them selves that he entered the camp quite un noticed. Then he sat down on a stone and took out a colored map of the coun try, knowing well that the strange sight would bring the men about him immedi ately. "So it proved. I suddenly became aware of a gaunt, sallow, gray-mustached visage so criss-crossed with saber scars as to look like a railway map peering over mv shoulder. Then another and another came edging in, till I was com pletely surrounded by wild figures and grim faces. i 44 'What's that picture, father? We can't quite make it out.' 44 'It's not a picture at all, brothers it's a plan that shows me the very way by which you have come here from holy .Russia and all the places you have passed .through.' "Then, seeming not to notice the looks of unbelief and the meaning grins with which my hearers received what they considered to be a most outrageous lie, I went ca : 44 'Up here at Orenburg you passed the Ural River, and then marched eastward to Orsk, where you crossed the frontiei and turned to the southeast.' " 'So we did, comrades,' shouted hall a dozen voices at once. 'He speaks tht truth so we did.' 14 -Then you passed Fort KaraButak, crossed the Kara Kcum desert, and halted here and here and here' namincr and describing the various posts. 4 'The Cossacks listened open-mouthed to the familiar names, aud the excited clamor was followed by a silence of ut ter amazement. Then one said : 44 'Father, can you show us the very place where we are now?' 44 'To be sure I can, my lad. See,that black spot is the village yonder; there's the river twisting and winding, and hert is your camp.' 1 'There was another pause of blank be wilderment, and then the scarred veterac with the gray moustache asked in an awe-stricken whisper: 4i 'But, father, tell me for the leve ot heaven, if we've marched 1000 mile since leaving holy Russia', how can it al' go into a little scrap of paper no biggej th&n an Easter cak5?' " In his rpeech at the opening of the Legislature of the province of Quebec, ue Lieutenant Governor announced, miong other things, that during its ses sion the Legislature will be asked to pass in act granting 100 acres of land to the father and mother -of every familv of twelve or more living children. CHILDREN'S COLmft. A IXARSED ELEPIIAXr. jftere was a learned elephant, As learned as could be; Whatever book you gave to him He'd read it easily. French, German, English, La In, GrceS, Dutch, Russian, or Buonesp, No language came amiss to ..ni ne read them all with eas, At least his hearers thought he d!$ But listen for a while I'll tell you of this elephant A thing to make you smile: Although by all accounted wise He didn't know a letter, But just invented all he read, nd none knew any better! TIIE AFKICAX AND HIS DOO. WThen a missionary from Africa lately in England, he told an amusing story of a poor African, who lived near one of the rui-sionary settlements, and whose dog, by some accident, had got possession of a testament in tho native language and tore it to pieces, devour ing some of the leaves. This man came to the missionaries in great dis may, and laid his case before them. He said that the dog had been a very useful animal, and had he' ped to pro tect his property by guarding it from wild beasts, and also in huuting and de stroying them; but he feared it woula be useless for the time to come. The missionaries asked him how was this, and why should not his dog be as useful as formerly. As for the injury done, that was but an accident, and the Testament could be replaced by an other copy. That is true," said the poor man; 'but still I am afraid the dog will be of no further use to mj. The words of the Ne-w Testament are full of love and gentleness, and after the dog has eaten them it is not likely that he will huct or fight for me any more." A COURTEOUS PRINCE. ' Do not be afraid, Louis," said th& Empress Eugenie, holding her son. in her arms. 4I am not, mamrm, answered the boy of eleven, 4I hav-3 not forgotten that my name is Kapoleon." The cutter in which the empress and her son were being conveyed at night from a steamer had struck a reck and the waves were dashing over it at the time this conversation took place. The y oung prince, who af tirward lost his life in the war between the English and the Zulu3, had one trait not com mon to children, he treated his play mates and all who served him with marked courtesy. The favorite com panion of his sports was Louis Conneau, the son of the emperor's physician. They were daily together, and many storm3 rufTl id their intercourse. One day, when there was to beastat dinner at the Tuilcries, at which the prince was not to appear, he invited Louis Conneau to dine with him. Both lad3 were very fond of strawberry cream, and the prince, in order to give an agreeable surprise to his playmate, requested that dish to be prepared for the dessert. Dur'ng the morning the two boys quarrelled, and Louis Conneau returned home. The prince, two proud t3 show any emotion at his playmate's departure took his scat at the dinner-table and tried to eat But when the strawberry cfeam appeared his self-control gave way. The tears rolled down his cheeks, as he said to a servant: "Take the cream to Conneau, and tell him I haven't the heart to eat it without him 1" A HUMAN ROP. A number of boys were skating and sliding in Yorkshire, England. On a sulden the ice gave way a most in tha middle of the lake and one poor little fellow fell in. There was no house near where they could run for help; no rope3 which they could throw to their struggling companion. The boy3 stood on the bank with pale, sorrowful faces, afraid to try to reach their friend, in case the ice should give way and swal low them all up. But one boy suddenly remembered that although you cannot staid a board upright on thin ice -without it3 going through, yet if you lay the same board flat on the ica it will hi quite safe. Not only that, but he knew that he could run along the board without fear of cracking the ice. "I will lie down H it on the ice ncar the edge; then one of you muit come to my leet and push ni3 along till you too can lie down. If you all lie down in that way, and push the boy in front of you, we shall make a line long enough to reach poor Reuben." Thu?, taking the post of danger him self, the brave toy wa? able by hi3 liv ing rope to reach his friend. He pulled liini out, though he was not one moment too soon, for he was so exhamied with his efforts to keep his head above water that he would very soon Lav sunk.
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