BANKINO UP TREES. In raising the level of ground by filling, the question often arises whether trees which are thus covered to a considerable height around the trunk will bo killed or not. The Country Gentleman says that trees which have greeu and lender bark may bo killed by banking up tho earth around them, if the soil is of such a character as to hold water for some time wherever it is drenched by rains; but older trees, with still and dry and thick bark, and with the soil about them sufficiently dry and porous to allow tho water to drain away soon, will not be injured. Trees which have a coarse-furrowed bark will favor this drainage better than those with smooth bark. GILT EDGE BUTTER. The farmer who has good dairy cows and the modern improvod dairy ap pliances makes the gilt edge butter that private customers like to pay fancy prices for. The factory takes milk or cream from largo herds of cows milked in filthy stables, and it is impossible to ruako gilt edge butter from such cream. Tho improved appliances make homo dairying pleasant and profitable. The power for churning is furnished by a good big calf or steam. The milk is cooled and the cream may be separated as fast as milked ami tho sweet milk better utilized. With all these ad vantages where the cleanliness is known to be satisfactory with ice or ruuning water in the dairy, the farm dairy with new methods can make better butter of Sner flavor than the creamery. The butter is putin neat, attractive packages, wrapped in specially prepared paper, in stead of white rags that may have served for other purposes, like the famous little English cheese that was discovered to bo ripened in tho warm feather bed, the de mand soon ceased.—Western Live Stock Journal. VALUE OF APPLE POMACE. The value of apple pomace for feeding cattle is such that it should not be wasted its it has been. It is easily kept sweet by packing it down solidly in barrels or boxes, and it is eaten with avidity by all tho animals of the farm. Cows es pecially desire it and it is good for them. Tho horses like it, and sheep, pigs, and poultry are glad to get it. It is an aid to digestion, and, while it may not contain any great amount of nutriment, it is as agreeable to the live stock, al though "fattening food." We do not eat apples for the nutri ment they contain, and wo may not justly object to the pomace that it is not fattening to the animals. They like it, und if it does no special good it does no harm. But it does some good, if only indirectly, for when cows are fed a peck of It, with meal sprinkled on it, ;hey will givo more milk than if tho tnoal is given without it. If thera are apples to spare, they may be saved for the cows with advantage, and a peck given daily, sliced and with a little meal added, or alone, will return a profit in the milk and butter.—New York Times. •' CHARACTERISTICS OF SHEEP. Individuality in sheep is very distinctly marked. There are good ones and bad ones, quiet ones, and nervous, fidgety ones, some that are always at the front, and others that are always at the hind end of the flock tagging along. There ire family traits of individual merit and demerit. By keeping a flock register it was found there weie ewes that never raised their lambs with any uniformity, If not from one cause, then another was sure to take them off. Another family were apt to bring thin, weak lambs, but they were always willing to live, and some attention would bring to healthy, vigorous sheephood. Still another fam ily would bring great big, lusty-looking lambs that seemed bora to dio, and dis appoint all reasonable expectations. Twins are characteristic of some fam ilies. There is also family resemblances by which an expert shephard may readily identify families and members of fam ilies. Colonel Mark Cockrell, of Ten nessee, one of tha most careful shephards, :ould pick up an abandoned lamb and identify its mother by the lamb. Somo sheep are strong in their likes »nd dislikes, and will often display a good deal of cunning to carry a point. Somo aro voracious eaters, and others just the oppoiste. The individual char icteristic incidental with breeds aud va rieties is often very distinctly marked. These cliaiacteristics are very interesting to the student, and highly important to cultivator of sheep.—American Farmer. TilE CREAM GATUEHEII. A most important man iu a cream collecting creamery is the driver, says the American Creamery. Ho must be a man of tact, intelligence and fidelity; upon his judgment often depeuds the success of the business. lie must be a neat man, not one of those animated patches of grease and filth, but a man who takes pride in keeping his cans bright and his wagon clean. He must have a nose for good cream, be able to tell instantly the presence of taint, and be backed with strict orders to refuse everything "off flavor." Such a man is worth good wages and can earn them. Never trust a boy to g.itber cream. If we succeed iu getting tho crea n prop erly raised we want it well care I for in transit to the creamery, and not jouncad at breakneck speed over rough roads. Cans are vastly preferable to tanks for transporting cream. Each can should be gradually filled from the start, al though many drivers fill one can at a time, and in hot weather bring three or four cans of half churned crc im to be mixed up with the balance in the vat. One creamery expert has recommended putting a pound of salt in tae bottj.nof each can when starting out iu the morn ing. After commeneing to fill the cans stir the cream until the salt is dissolved —salt is a refngerine, and cream will keep in better shape if so treated. A blanket should be carried in hot weather aud kept spread over the cm l . moisten it often and let the beat of th .- ■un work upon that rather than upoc the or nosed cans. TWO-YEAR-OLD HENS FOR BREEDERS. There is no doubt but two-year-old hens are preferable to yearling pullets for breeding purposes, as the eggs ot ths hens are larger. The chicks coming from hens' eggs are likely to be stronger and more apt to live. But hens two or three years old will not lay so great a number of eggs as will pullets in the first twelve months after they commence to lay. If, however, ono has a choice lot of well developed pullets and mated with a vigorous two-year-old cock, do not fear to set the eggs from them, but do not use the earliest litters, as they aro not likely to give you as strong chicks at tho later ones. The best laying hens, all things con sidered, are those one year old—fowls that were hatohed the previous season in March or April—consequently the best plan for all fowl breeders is to raise chickens every season to be the layers of the next year, and to kill the old stock regularly every fall before moulting or as soon as they cease to lay. Among our foremost breeders the mat ing of vigorous twelve months' old pul lets to a good cock in his full second year has given as good chicks on the average as the mating of two-year-old hens to a young cock. Ono thing that may be depended on as a rule, tho most reliable breeding birds that can be mated together as to age aro those of one sex or tho other that are a year tho oldest. It is only through repeated experiments that the breeder can be able to select tho bsst pointed and finest specimens for mating, aud wheu this is accomplished the most satisfactory results will gen erally follow.—Connecticut Farmer. CORN AND MILLET COMPARED. Experiments bave been made at tho Massachusetts Hatch Station for the pur pose of comparing com and millet as grain crops on the basis of the yield. Further experiments are in progress to compare meal from millet seed aud froui corn as food foi milch cows. For the present it is simply desired to call atteution to the fact that the millet lias enormous cropping capacity. II gave to the half acre 37.2 bushels of seed weighing 47 pounds to the bushel, while the corn gave .10.8 bushels of shell grain. The millet straw weighed 2.191 pounds; the corn stover (by no means as dry), 2.100 pounds. The millet straw,chopped, crushed, moistened and sprinkled with meal is readily eaten by both horses and cattle, but it does not appear to be equal to the corn stover in feeding value. The millet seed, a 9 shown by the re suits of foreign analysis, appears to re semble oats very closely in composition. So far as they have had experience in! feeding it at the station, tho meal from it appears to equal corn meal in feeding value for milk production. The fertil izers were the same for the two crops, but the labor cost considerably more for. the millet than for tho corn. The crop, however, was cultivated in drifts and hand hoed and weeded, while in ordin ary farm practice it would bo possible to secure good crops by sowing broadcast without cultivation and thus bring the labor cost per acre as low as for corn/ It doo3 not thresh easily by hand, but on a large scale the work could doubtless be done by machiue at a much lower _cosDJ The seed was sown in drills fourteen inches apart, at the rate of about tviff quarts per acre. It was planted May cut and stacked September 18, and threshed October 5 and 7.—New York World. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Clean up for winter. A squealing pig gives no profit to its owner. Start the hog on milk, grow it on grass and finish it on grain. Get-a supply of sand and small gravel before the pit freezes up—better get it to-day. Road dust makes a better dust bath than ashes. Ilavc you a supply housed for winter? Do not crowd the pigs so that when they are fed the weak will be trodden upon by the strong. If you want plenty of lard feed your pigs on corn; if you desire meat and growth feed other food. It is stated that in a well-bred hog a gain of from ten to eleven pounds can be made from a bushel of corn. Fowh roosting in trees had better be brought down from their high position and given a place with those that roost under cover. If eggs aro your principal object, list Leghorns to improve your stock. Bui for both eggs and for market fowls, we think nothing can excel Plymouth Hocks. Basswood honey is very desirable. The trees, five or six feet high, may be obtained reasonably from the nursery men, and will begin to bloom in abou' four years. One of tho first inducements for keep ing bees is that houey is the mist health ful sweet which can bo produced. The farmer who does not keep bees loses more than he thinks. Bees are often charged with injuring grapes by cutting the skins and sucking out tho juice. It is not probable thai this is done, but we are quite sure tha l they arc able to do it. There may be no warmth in a coat ol whitewash, but a ben house with a south win low and well whitened walls will bs unrc cheerful and seem wanner than a ! dark and dingy one. Light is warmth. Competition in the bee btisiueis nee] i mt l»e feared, as puro honey is alwayi s:t'able at a remunerative price, and even I the pleasure of having it for tho tabl< | will pay for the trouble and time needed I>o not forget the hens when you art 1 harvesting the cab'jage crop. Bury some : of the loose headed oaes, that you aro I throwiug one side, for their special bene fit. They will take care of them, stumj and all, next winter. If you havo a gocdly stock of fowls dc not make a special effort to lead all the -.mall potatoes to tho hogs. Boiled lashed and mixed with shorts or oat meal, they inakc a most excellent bre ik i last for fowls iu wiuter if fed warm, FROM TEXiSTOTBE TABLE HOW THIS LONG-HORNED STEER JOURNEY TO LONDON. He Feeds on the QriM ot the Plains, and at the Kntl People in Pioca dtUr Feeds on Him. / AN one conceive of a more If marked evidence of human prog- V** J ress than this—that cattle born in Texas and herded mostly by Mexicans are slaughtered in Liverpool and served at the restaurants and hotels of [London "down Piccadilly way" as the "roast beef of old England." The fact that this can be done is one of the wonders of a wonderful age—an ago in which a country where the wheat crop fails can get its flour from any laud in the temperate or semi-tropical regions ; an age in which the question of the fresh meat supply has been solved by the ap plication of ammonia for freezing and steam for transportation ; an age, in fact, of high pressure, rapid transit and electrical communication. But although he can got bis mutton, voal and steaks in frozen chuncks from the Antipodes at small cost, the wealthy Englishman rather fancies having cuts from animals killed within his imme diate purview, and that is the reason why the Texas steer journeys in all his frisky and long-horned entity from the plains to Piccadilly. As a calf he faces the sun, feeds on the luscious grass and flees the norther. His horns grow, ho defies the herder and enters into con spiracies for stampedes. But all the same, he doesn't know enough to avert the fate for which be was destined from youtb up. Some fine day he and his fellows are coaxed along to a corral, then chased into a chute, next forced into cars, and the last and deadly journey has begun. Tho con signment reaches New York or Boston, as tho caso may be, and tho prisoners who have lived the frse lifo of tho prairies get a taste of fresh air during the transfer from the cars to the steamer. Tho fevor of confinement is in their blood, the terror of crowds and strange noises crazes their brains, and for these reasons somo break loose and tear about the streets, scattering crowds and precipitating their own destruction. Years ago tho cat - ' ■ were transferred to vessels by means of lighters and hauled up the ship's side in slings. In these days of rush and hurry the method has been improved on and the beasts aro run into an entrance at the steamer's side through a chute of the same style as that used at corrals and by the railroads. Once aboard they are packed together in compartments almost as close as sar dines, and during the voyage depend upon the "cattle boss" and his assistants for food, drink and indeed for life. The boss gets from SSO to SSIOO por trip and the hands are given their passage across to England and back and all tha way from one to twenty dollars in money. They bave a week ashore and nothing to do on the return voyage. It is in the care of the cattle that cer tain abuses have developed which are just now attracting attention in England, where buyers like to have their beef prime and of tho first quality. A protest, putin shape some timoago by Mr. Plim eoll, indicates in few words just what is thought objectionable. Said the well known member of Parliament when in New York: "People who have not seen the suf ferings of the poor brutes cannot tell what agonies they endure. They are packed in the hold, between decks and on deck. Sometime.*) the steamers are loaded down so heavily that in port the vessels sway. Think of the torture of the poor brutes in the storm, with seas breaking over them, knocking them to gether and sometimes sweeping thoni overboard. Why, men have told ine that they have seen cattle jammed so violently against the bulwark of a steamer in a gftle that there legs were ground off, while other wretched brutes were trampled to a jelly on the deck. Some times they are crowded together so tightly that cattle lying down would be trampled to death and to prcveut this tires arc lighted under the cattle, or paraffine putin their cars. It was any thing to keep them on their feet, any thing to save their flesh. This is horri ble and inhuman. It would be hir.nane, and perhaps would pay better in the end, to transport the beef than the live stock." To this a "hand" has recently added his testimony regarding life on a cattle •hip. After the load had been made up and the voyage had begun, the boss and nearly all the helpers got drunk and didn't regain their senses for nearly tbirty-six hours. Says the narrator: "The cattle had not been fed or wa tered since they were put on shipboard. Tne boss had become sober enough to realize his negligence, bui was stilt drunk enough to want to make repara tion. We were short of hands, only one having been sent to every foity cattle. It took us nearly two hours to give the cattle hay, and it took me about three hours more to pick the splinters and thistles out of my hands. The next morning the boss had us up at four to water and feed the cattlo. The water ing camo first. Condensed water is used. Pipes connected with the conden ler ran to all parts of the ship, except to points whero it was needed. 3o far as convenience i# concerned, it would have been just as well to leave the wa ter at the donkoy engine as to draw it off into barrels and be obliged to pack it from them. * "My clothing was dripping wet, and notwithstanding the severe oxerciso, I was thoroughly chilled. It took us three solid hours to water. Then we had a half an hour to sit by the tiddler to dry ourselves. Aftor breakfast came the haying, and after the haying we had to fill the barrels with water. That took us till 11. From 11 until 2 wo bad nothing to do but lie in the sun. At 2 we began to get the hay up out of the hold, a:id after it was up to feed the cattle and..weep up the alleys. By the time that was done it was 6 o'clock. At 6 came what may, for the sake of courtesy, be called supper. After sup per two men went onto watch for the night. Tho others went to bed or sa; around the (iddlor and told lies, but they had to b-3 up by 4 in the morning." And no for Pfteen days—*'w average tongth of a voyage. When the cattle reach the Liverpool yards thoy enjoy a brief spaco of luxury bsfore they goto the slaughter. They rest, oat and drink to their hearts' content for from three days to a weo't. Thou the ax luaooks out their life and tho purpose of their existence has beoa accomplished. They bm been bora, km roamed flu wide plains, have traversed a continent and crossed an ocean that the roast beef of England shall not periab rom the earth.—New York Advertiser. WISE WORDS. Love cannot be made to order. The greatest man may be the meanest. Hope is the yeast in the bread of life. An interrupted influence is as good as lost. Don't try to please everybody except yourself. When the skies are blue nobody else should be. Love lessens woman's delicacy and in creases man's. Courtship is to matrimony what pie is to corn bread. Fearlessness springs from ignorance as often as fear. Only the highest and noblest love is without real trickery. A dropped stitch is not always re covered in the next round. No man wus ever saved for what ho had done inside of a church. When unexpected pleasures disappoint us we are none the less serene. More men fail by trying to do too much than by doing too little. Sacred to the loving heart is the form that has said to it,"l am thine." The love which is long overlooked seldom, if ever, becomes a reciprocating love. The man who refuses to pay his just debts is too cowardly to steal in any other way. The fair one believes the flatterer, whom she sets down as a consummate flatterer of all others. The conjunction of the upper planets is more easily brought about than that of the upper class of lovers. Before any mother, it is of itself an impossibility to introduce an edifying conversation with the daughter. In consideration of la maladie de per fection with which somo souls are bom fate sometimes in a softened mood grants one some perfect thing. There is a fine point in tho ethics of good breeding where attending to one's own business may pass tho line of virtue and league itself with criminality. A Great Map of the World.. At the Geographical Congress in Berne a year ago Profe3sor Penck proposed tho publication of a map of the entire world on a uniform scale of one in 1,000,000, or about sixteen statute miles to the inch, the various Nations to take part in the production of the map. The proposition was favorably entertained, and a com mittee was appointed to take steps for its realization. The geographers of various Nations, ou the have received the idea with favor, and there seems to be no doubt that the map will be produced. Each sheet of tho map up to sixty de grees North iatitudo will embrace five degrees in each direction. The more Northern sheets will embrace ten degrees of longitude. The representation of the whole earth, including the sea, will re quire 936 of these sheets, while the land alone may be shown on 769 sheets. It is proposed to give great attention to phys ical and political features. Dr. Itiven stein, tho English map maker, says the rivers will be in blue and the hills in brown. Contour lines will bo drawn at elevations of 100, 300, 600 and 1200 metres, and the areas enclosed by them are to bo tinted. It is expected that sheets which deal with countries already topographically surveyed will be en graved on copper. The remaining sheets will probably be lithographed. The Greenwich meridian will be accepted for the entire map, and all altitudes are to bo marked in metres. The official spell ing of all couutries using the latin alphabet is to be retained. Other alpha bets arc to be transliterated in accord ance with a system to be agreed upon, while names in unwritten languages will be spelled phonetically. It is estimated that tho cost of an edition of ; 1000 copies showing only thejland surface, will bo $957,190, and as the sale of the first edition attwoshillings a sheet would pro duce only $478,595, the deficit would have to be made up by the Governments concerned or by liberal private patrons, —New York Sun. Grjwth-MoTciuont* of Plants. Photography is marvellously widening our Qeldi of vision. It has shown us millions of stars hitherto unknown, it has revealed astonishing details of animal locomotion aud caught the rifle bullet in its flight, and it is now being made to record tho movemcuts of the growing parts of plants. Especially curious are the results with certain climbers, such as the hop-convolvulus, ipomcea, etc. The young stems mcve in a succession of irregular circular or elliptical curves, which vary every mo ment, even in direction, and aro due to irregular growth in different parts ot the stem. During the sleep of plants movements do not cease, but consist ol alternate upward and downward vibra tions.—Trenton (N. J.) American. Curious Material Used by Florists. A.n uncommonly interesting and valu able material, familiar to the florist, though little known to others, is "raphia," a fibre made from the inner bark of a Japanese tree, and used in long pints like horsehair, is a light brownish yellow in color, and when twisted makes a light, strong twine. Large quantities of raphia are imported for the use of florists and gardners. It is found cheaper than manufactured twine, and, by reason of its pliancy and softness, is moro suitable to tho use to which it is put.—Picayune, The Cherokee Strip. I have just crossed the Cherokee Strip, writes a correspondent, and was sur prised to find that it took the train ovor three hours to cross it. The general impression as to the Strip is that it is a narrow neck of land only a few miles across, reserved as a highway or outlet for the Cherokees. As a matter of fuct, the Strip is eighty miles across, and is larger in area than some of the States ot the Union. The eighty miles is covered with the best quality of fine blue grass and it is doubtful whether in the best parts of Texas it is to be duplicated.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The native countries of the tallest and the shortest people of Europe, the Nor- I wegians and the Laps, adjoin each other How a Ship's Lor 1* Xept. How many landsmen know how a log book it written up? It seems just as complicated as double entry bookkeep ing when one does not know, but after a little careful attention and study it'a as easy to keep a log book as to eat hot gingerbread. There is a list of letter* arranged and they look like so much Greek to the uneducated. The letter b, for instance, stands tor blue sky, whether there be clear or hazy atmosphere, c in dicates cloudy or detached opening clouds, d denotes drizzling rain, a small 112 fog, a capital F thick fog, g gloomy, dark weather, h hail, 1 lightning and m misty or hazy so as to interfere with the view. The letter o represents overcast or when the whole sky is covered with one impenetrable cloud. Passing showers are noted by the letter p, and q indicates the weather to be squally. Continuous rain is indicated by an r, snow by an a, and thunder by at. An ugly, threaten ing appearance in the weather calls for the letter u, and visibility of distant ob jects, whether the sky be cloudy or not, is represented by the letter v. A small wis wet dew. A full point or dot under any letter denote! an extraordinary de gree. As an example of how the letters are used take qpd 1 t. This reads very hard squalls and showers of drizzle, ac companied by lightning with very heavy thunder. Numerals denote the force of the wind. A cipher indicates calm, 1 light air, 2 breeze, 3 gentle breeze, 4 moderate breeze, 5 fresh breeze, 6 strong breeze, 7 small gale, 8 fresh gale, 9 strong gale, 10 whole gale, 11 storm and 12 hurricane. This system of ab breviation is generally adhered toon all merchant vessels.—Boston Budget. Bound to Bo Good. Not long ago there lived in Pennsyl vania an old lady who wag celebrated for having a famous breed of turkeys. On oue occasion she sold one of these to a gentleman named Brown. When cooked and served up ai table it was found to be ao tough as to be quite un eatable. Meeting the old woman a short time afterward Mr. Brown said to her: "What did you mean by selling your turkey to me?'' "What was wrong abcut it?" "It wasn't good at all," said the gen tleman. "No good? It was bound to be good. It won first prize for eleven years at cat tle shows."—Boston Globe. He Tho glit Out Loud. The late Duke of Cambridge was in the habit of thinking out loud, so to speak, and there were times when his audible expression of opiuions was at least inopportune. It is related of him by a London journal that durinr divine service, whenever the rector said, "Let us pray," Ilia Royal Highness would answer in a voice audible throughout tho church, "Aye, to be sure; why not?" Once at the opera, after the Duke had swept the house with his glasses, ho called out in a tone that reached from pit to dome, "Why, I declare, there are not half a dozen pretty girls in the house —not half a dozen, not half a dozen."— Detroit Free Press. La«aoed Bruin in Bathing The lloqulam Washingtonian says that the steamer E Igar caught a bear in the lower Gray's Harbor the other aiternoon. A lasso was thrown over his head while swimming and he was soon subdued aud brought to the boat, where his throat was cut. Thal'a What lirouulit the Factoring. Cheap fuel and low freights are tlie neces sities of manufacturing. Two fuel-oil |.il>» lines, lour railroads, one a complete belt lino ?;ive Griffith tbese advantages anil brought het our factories as soon as the town was laid out by Jay A. Dwlggins Co.—Chicago News. Tiis railways of the United Kingdom of Great Britain have 16,860 locomo tives. A run* for nearly all of the common tils what, doctor*? l'sliaw! Take Brecliam'a Pills. For sale by alldru.'gists. !K> cents. Jjgfr Swellings jSSjg| In the. tieck, or Got tre, caused me terrlbli suffering, and I spent ai ft j(L enormous amount 01 JW money for medicines, li ••SisV vain. 1 began to tak« j Hood's Sarsaparilla. and In a few weeks I found the swelling very mnct Mrs. Bigelow. reduced, and I txrali Breath irith Perfect Knar.nhlch 1 had not done for years. 1 continued with Hood'* Sarmaparllla and am Permanently t tiretl." MRS. J. Bio now, Fremont, Mieli Uoml'm Pill* cure liver Ills, constipation, biliousness, Jaundice.sick UeadacLe. 25c. Ask your doctor what hap pens to cod-liver oil when it gets inside of you. He will say it is shaken and broken up into tiny drops, becomes an emulsion; there are other changes, but this is the first. He will tell you also that it is economy to take the oil broken up, as it is in Scott's Emulsion, rather than bur den yourself with this work. You skip the taste too. Let us send you an inter esting book on CAREFUL LIV ING ; free. SCOTT & BOWN*, Chemists, *3 3 South sth Avenue, New York. Your druggist keep* Scott's Emulsion of cod-liT«r •fl—all druggists everywhere do. fi. 3* "August Flower" " I have been afflicted with bilious ness and constipation for fifteen years and first one and then another prep aration was suggested to me and tried, but to no purpose. A friend recommended August Flower and words cannot describe the admira tion in which I hold it. It has given me a new lease of life, which before was a burden. Its good qualities and wonderful merits should be made known to everyone suffering with dyspepsia and biliousness." JESS* BARKER, Printer, Humboldt, Kaa.tt Expert Egg Handler*. In fall weather the commission dealers in large cities handle thousands of dozens of eggs. These large quantities are in spec ted by expert men, who pass tht eggs under the tes'.er; the condition o! each egg is noted; and they are sorted into several clawes, depending upon their condition. It is astonishing how quickly the eyes of such experts be come trained in detecting the quality o! •'hen fruit'' without sampling it.—New York Independent. Drugged ihe Baby- Mrs. A.—"That coupli mixture 1 bought yes terday for baby's cold made her vomit, and then made her so stupid I feared she bad brain Mrs n.—"My young friend. Dr. Hnxsie's Certain Croup Cure i» the one and only cough remedy for children. Your druggist can get it of any wholesale medicine hon«e. v»c." Old gold is to be the color of the Chicago University million-doliar-build ing. Train I.on<led With Htove Polish. Last week Messrs. Morse Bros., proprietors ot the well known Rising Hun stove Polish, tilled orders from two customers in the West for twenty-three cars loads of stove polish. As each car contained -Mm gross, weighing 15 tons, the shipment to these two houses was IttHl gross, or 845 tons. 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