THE MlDDLKiMJKQlI TOST. T. D. HAItTER, Editor aud Pno'n. mi)tLEliftfl, I'A.. M)V. 2I.IHMI. The hostility of Cotifn Kir toward the const ruction of Nicaragua Caiinl Iiim been settled ly Arbitration, and work on the cannl in making rapid progress. Tli-; liorror which Editor S(pii1, of the rtU M"U V;rt:r. expresses nt the idea of anyone's going into journalism for tho purpose of ranking money, is justified by tho opinion of the Washington ,'Mr by the cxpcrincc of a great many persons who try it. Professor Thompson, of tho geological ui vey, who lias b rn ut work near Ht.no, "Ncv., making survey unci inup for tho purpose of establishing res'-rvoir sites for tho purpose of irrigation, is very en thusiastic ri'n:iril i nir the work, and nays thi result w ill ccicd bis niiiMt sanguine expectations. Ho is confident that through irrigation it 11 1 1 i or. . of ncr.s of ril lauds on the Pari tic c.oa.1 can be re claimed and made productive. The popular belief tin t iroiicl.iil men-of-war are an invention of the hut half f the nine teenth century is evidently not founded upon fact. Divers have re cently be n a! work in th harbor of Trieste, An-uia's seaport, ami have brought tip portions of tlie French frigule which was wrecked s venty-cight years ago. The wreck had sunk so deeply ill the sand as to be well preserved, und it has been found that the hull was of wool a:id wm heavily plated with iron. P.i e platitrrs in the South nrr iiccus to;oed to burn their rice straw t get it out of the way. We understand, says tin.- M.iiin'.i,tiwi,' Jlfnril, that recent p...it.ral tests have demonstrated tint thi iriw makes excellent jiaper mate rial. Due paper i-oiiniuiiy has gone so far as to order some Jiil(lt) or luiii) to. is of tin's straw to further experiment. Kicc straw may yet prove to be a col ton seed in -niniatur.'. At any rate, the resultsof tin v cperiiiicnts w ill be watche I with intciot. The Yankees of Asia, hs the Japs are FMii-f-t iiiii--; called, 'nave been more tor mented with the disastrous antics of the elements this year than even the Ameri s'MiiH, Jhji:;u has had a series of earth iprnkes and floods and a tidal wave has ddcJ hundreds qioro to tho thousands -lready killed by billing mountains and rivers pushed out of the place. Tiie his tory of this year is one of disaster nil ever the globe. Almost no nation has craped, but Japan has su.Tcrcd p -rhap more than any other when her are is "considered. There is n feeling of warm friendship for.Tapau in th" I " 11 i t 1 States, which ma'.i'i Am-lieaiw regret tin- c:tl ntnitics that l.ie overtaken thi inter i -.tin;,' pe.-j.L-. "W. W. MeXair, f .mums for his daring explorations, died recently in India. His death was caused by overtaxing his powers by mountain climbing, exposure and lack of food while pro-ccuting sur veys during she last two years in Af ghanistan. Jy shaving his head ami staining hi.-i buly, MeXair, in the dis guise of un Indian doctor, spent two .mouths exploring the sweet valley of Kutinstan. Xo European had cvr man aged before to set foot there, on ac count of hostility to tin- native tribes, lie found that the ptople there num bered about 2ilti,iiii:i, and were nearly white in color. The women were very beautif-il. His disguise was penetrated before lie completed his investigations, nml he was compelled to llee for his life. With only two native assistants lie also explored the Asphalt and His aruk vallevs. Vii -toi in is mi Australian colony with the si.'. and the population of Ken'iis in 1-vsil, or an area of Sr.iKHl square miles nml a population of 1,Um,(j.iii. Jj-at in ntcud of ht;'t:g corporations build tin railroads mid ii vi.i - land away to yet them to do tiiis, Victoria has kept its land and built its own railroads. The result is that this thriving little commun ity of about l,(HHr,(l)ll souls, or the popu lation of Philadelphia, had last year an income of n,(IOt,(lilO, and of this sum $!!,. "iOO.U'M) was iu the shape of profits on the State railroads. Seven years ago the income from the railroads was ouly $'.00i),0()t'; in 18S15-7 it was $12,285,. JOU and for the year just closed it lias jjrown up to nearly double the income of eveii years air", and, as no one can build roads but the State, and tho State is an enterprising builder and a good manager, the profits on the railroads will in time pay all tho expanses of the Government. In addition, Victoria owns not only the postofuce, as the people do here, but all Ihe express ami telegraph business, and the profit on tlleso for this wise, thrifty little Stat- last year was 1 40,000. BONO OK THE FARMER'S Wirt Monday Is for washing, Tunwlsy Is for irnnliifc, WednrUy U for mending ar I puttsnj riot low away; Thursday Is for churning, Friday in for baking fcittnrdny Is always tho grand cleaning day. lint tlin ther Is the lirmUfast. And the dlmvr, and thu twi UKt; Bildr, thrre is th3 milking to tie dona etch night and morn; The hens to fcl, the knitting, The swe-plii;; and thn tiri'a-l to set. And th" carding of ths wool when theoretty slieeri are shorn. There is nvpr anyemJing Hut always work lx','niniiic. Fi-oiit e.-u-ly Monday morning till Saturday ntnlt;ht; Hut oftentimes 1 find. If a iin-rry song I'm singuig. My hi-srt is Ray and bapuy, tiion all my Work sifius lilit. flnilry' l.njiei' Hook. MY SINGULAR VISIONS. Karly in the winter of 1S3- I was lodu'ing in a large, old-fashioned house !.u London. Insomnia, brought on by business troubles, h id reduc -d me to a state of nervous collapse, and I was on the verge of serious illness. Kising one night, after vainly c.i'irting sleep for two hours, determined to take a warn bi-th. The hour was 'i o'clock. ilaing thrnvn on a dresimr.o-.vn, I entered the bathroom, and tinned on the hot water. While the bath tilled I jjar.ed out at the rear of a house, about one hundred yards dist.ml, in ' stn-ei. Suddenly, on the illuminated curtain of a room two or three floors above the street, 1 saw figures of a m i-i mid woman in silhouette. Stirred by curiosity, J watched the curtain with its tell-tale pictures, wondering what movements they would execute. As I gazed, surprise ami horror seized me, for I saw the mm raise n shadowy arm an I pierce the woman's bosom with a dagger. She threw her arms wildlv in the air, opened i her mouth, as if to emit a screa , and fell her to the floor, whcii'-e, of co-.;rs'-, figure cast no shadow on the curtain. All this had occupied perhaps h-ss than two seconds, but in that time 1 endured a mental torture sm h as I had n-vi r felt before. As the dagger descended 1 in voluntarily threw out my arms, as if to shield the victim, and uttered an ex clamation of mingle I rag.' nod horror. The absolute silence of the pantomimic murder made it more shocking, and for an instant I felt as. if the darkness and loneliness oi me niglit Had Mint me in with the murderer, and made ne- a participator in his guilt. I turned shud dering from the window- just as the shadowy criminal stooped toward the (pot where his victim lay ; mid before I could cry out, 1 reeled aud fell hc- ivily to the floor. My fall roused the whole house, and Philip Holt, whose rooms were on the same floor with mine, carried me to bed. Tho vision of that night hastened my long-threatened illness, and ten days passed before my faculties returned suffl eiently for me to relate what I had seen. The doctor smiled at my story and said: 'lt was a pure hallucination, my dear fellow. such things are common to per sons in your condition.' "Hut," said I, the thing happened when 1 was wide awake, and in every in aau ii was as instinct us n-.iy genuine occurrence I ever beheld." "Not at all remarkable,' was his re ply. "You ought to be satislied with the knowledge thai there has not been a word of such a crime in any newspaper. An alTair of tiie kind could no have be -u concealed for leu days. Don't think of it any more.'' Two weeks later I was in my usual health, save that my old trouble of in somnia hovered near, and recurred with any imprudence iu eating, worry, or ex citement. Not entirely sitislh-d with the doctor's theory of my vision, I went to the lodg ing house in C street and impiired Wl.0f ior rooms, a sunny oii hag, witii r- ing, suspicious ryes, and an air of unde tected criminality, showed me through the house, and offered to let a furnished suite, consisting of bedroom, sitting room, and bathroom. As near as I could guess, the sitting-room was the one where the crime of my vision hid been cum. milted. "Who occupied these rooms lust?" I inquired. 'Mr. ("arr and his wife," answered the hag, w ith evident unwillingness. "Do you know Mr. t'arr's business?'1 I The tenants' business hain't none, o' nine," she replied, sharply. "When did the t'arrs move out,"' "About three weeks ago." "Did you see Mrs. Curr on the ;hcy left the house J' "Now what do you ask me Unit I don't watch people's Join's iu house. The tenants is respectable faiu' lies, and they don't like no meddiiu'. If you want these rooms you can have 'cm, but you won't stay long if you ask too many questions about, your neighbors. We don't want no troublesome or worrying people here." It was evidently useless to ask further questions, so I tramped downward through the ill-smelling, narrow lulls, my suspicions far from lulled. mien I again spoko to Holt on the subject, and told him that my suspicions still existed, he frowned aud said: "If your permit yourself to go on iu this way you'll be in bed again. There is no rea sonable doubt of your hallucination. Tho books ar9 full of such cases. Further more, the woman could not have been actually murdered, or the crime would day for? this It fame an Irresistible attraction toward the bathroom window, whence my Tision of few months before had been ecn. Whenever I lay awake, I went Home timn during the night and stared out toward that uncanny lodging house. Night after night I saw nothing, and turned away, relieved at the assurance that one symp tom of my former illness wan wanting. Finally, nt 1 o'clock on cool April morning, after three hours of rain toss, ing in bed, I entered the bathroom, with my eyes directed toward tho house. For an instant I could not credit the vision that met my gaze. On the luminous cur tain where I had seen the shadow panto mime before, the same tragedy was being enacted. This time I had arrived a little later in the progress of tho scene, for all I saw was the falling woman and the withdrawn dagger in tho hand of hel companion. The man stooped, a before, toward his victim, and I waited to see him rise, in hopes of obtaining somo as surance that what I had seen was real. I saw nothing further. If tho shadowy slayer had stooped to a real victim, he must have risen in such a spot that hit figure was not brought again before the light and the curtain. Filled with forrbodings of a new ill ness, I awoke Holt atid told my vision. We went to the w indow, looked toward the lodging bouse, and saw only the faint gleam of unlighteij panes. Holt gave me ,m opiate, and ne::t morning the doc tor had me removed to the eountry. I retiiMit:"d out of town all summer, bathing. tihing and boating. For three months I went to bed tired every night, and sl'-pt ten hours. Then I took a long sen voyage, and arrived bark n about Ihe middle of September, more robust i th in I hail ever been before. Holt and I laughed at the old hallucination, and tho doctor rallied me considerably upou my detective spirit of tlie winter before. On the Hrt night iti my lodgings I forgot the fateful window, and slept without disturbance. The next night, however, I rnme iu late, und yielded to a sudden whim tiiat led lue to tho bathroom win dow. As I entered the bathroom I looked over toward the lodging-house, and gave a little start at seeing a light in the very apartment that had so long possessed for me a f.-.ciaating interest. The night was warm, and the window whence the light shone was hoisted. Tho curtains were drawn u!o, aud I could see pretty clearly a man and a woman sitting oppo site each other near the center of the room. I shivered a little on discovering that the couple were very like those of pantomimes. As I gazed I saw the woman suddenly start toward her companion with soma gleaming weapon in her upraised hand. I felt my heart quicken and my breath come thick. The man rose to receive the attack, and I saw a shining dagger plunged into her bosom. Trembling with horror, I was about to cry out.whcii a hearty, natural laugh burst upou my eat from the hall. On looking round I saw my friend Holt in the doorway. "Merciful powers, man, did you net that?" I gasped. "Certainly," lie a!d, with Another laugh. "Then 1iow can you stand" there laugh' ing? If wo both saw it there au bo no doubt of its reality." "It was real and unreal, old man ; Your sight is vindicated and the doctor J and I ere put to shame, but there is no ; cause for liorror. See, tho light has been turned out 'here is nothing more to I be learned. Take something to steady j your nerves aud I'll explain the mystery." Wondering at. his language, but con siderably reassured, I billowed Iii in to his room, nml sat down. "Now," said Holt, "the thing you saw to-night (I sliudilered again aa he spoke) "and on two other orca-Moiis is easily ex plained. James Carr and his wife, who have lived in that apartment oil and on for eight months, nro known to many theatre-goers here anil elsewhere as Arthur l.erov and Mile. Picard. What you saw to-ni-ht was a rehearsal of an incident in a play which is to bo pro- luced at the fheatro earlv next You'll find tho very scene on a dozen hoarding in tho streets. It's a quarrel. The woman attacks the man w ith a pair of scissors, and ho responds with n dagger. Tho play was produced in the provinces last winter, and at one or two watering places in tho summer. You've seen three rehearsals." "Holt, I don't believe you," I cried, as it flashed upon me that my old illness was returning, and that Holt had taken this method of diverting my luiud from the threatened calamity. Holt promptly went over tho whole occurrence and his description differed in no important feature from my owu vision. On the next day I went round to my doctor, laughed at his learning, and ac. -oteil his apologies for tho discredit ho had cast upon my visual sanity. That evening ut dinner while reading an afternoon paper I came upon a con spicuous heading in these words: "Slain ut K- iiearsal." I started, read on, and discovered that James Carr, alias Arthur I.eroy, had killed his wife tho uight be fore in their rooms in C street. Then I knew that Holt and I had ac tually seen tho crime committed. According to the newspaper's account, Parr, on being arrested, had confessed tho homicide aud pleaded self-defense. He had been married flvo years, but he and his wife had always lived a cat-and-dog life. After their rehearsal of tho night before, she had called up an old grievance, and finally, in a lit of anger attacked him with a pair of scissors, the very weapon sho was to have used in tho mimic scene on the approaching "first night." Ho had defended himself with the dagger just employed nt rehearsal, and was horrified to And that he had AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OP INTKUE8T II EI, ATI VK TO FA KM ANI OAltDKX. . BT-rnonrcTs on thb daiht. Just how to mnko a profit out of the by-prodiicte of tho dairy is often tho question that settles tho point of nctual prons in ine aairy. There are several ways pointed out by the writers, Includ ing skim cheese, feeding it to calves and to pigs. The latter of these methods has proven tho most profitable with the gen erality of dairymen, who have learned to feed it to the growing pig in preference to tho grown hog. Sows in pig do well on it, nnd if tho skim-milk it necessarily our then this latter ia by far the best plan. There is, however, the obi cow to take into consideration hero. She is aa fond of hr own product as any other animal, as is often witnessed to tho own ur'a loss when sho sucks herself. If fed to her with a tirouer mitln nt nl... materials, it is our liclief thnt sklm-milk will mako a better return to tho dairy inun in this way than In any other. Amcriain Dnirymnn. WIXTKR f.VUK OK VINES. At tho approach of cold weather the irsaiKi vines are timrted. iififiisteini1 fmm tho trellis and laid flat upon the ground. They m-iv be held in this simply placing a stone or other heavy ob ject upon tho end. and this will safely pass the whiter anywhere except at tho extreme North. Where the winters aro usually very severe tho vines shouhl also bo covered with soil, straw or litter of some eort; and perhaps this may be a good precaution with tender vines every where nt tho extreme North. Tender raspberries and blackberries nro to bo treated in a similar inanner.but the canes being more brittle and more easily in jured than grape vines, need careful handling a:id gradual (wilding whilo undergoing tho operation. A gciixl prac tice is to throw one or two shovelfuls of soil against the canes on one side, and bend them over this by a sort of curve. The tops are laid upon the ground near the next stool of canes and held there by another one or two shovelfuls of noil. Two persons can do this work very con veniently and quickly, und when growers learn to depend more on these easy modes of giving winter protection than on the clmnccjt of a mild winter, or supposed hardiness of plants, they will have little reason to complain of winter kill, or of placing such an excessively great v.-iluo on the ability of grain's, raa'obcrries. etc.. to endure tho winter without such means of protection. Pojuilir Gardening. AKTIFICIAI. FKItTII.IZF.I'.8. In using artificial fertilizers, savi n writer iu the New York World, Phavo found a great deal of difference in tho benefits rec eived, which seem to bo gov crncd very much by the seuaon. In somo cases I could H(' lit tin itr no Kinflf VClir. fill tlll fiunift n niinilar soil, the crop was uiunifcstly in creased. This seems to ibou-ml nn k moisture that is supplied and also whether n is present in lirno to produce tho best results. When it is sown nnlriltml n .li near the surfaco it needs rain in a sufll- cient quantity to put it in a condition for lllant food nnd tn wnxti !t .1. wJiero the roots can get hold of it. Then, again. 1 suppose a soil may be too wet to receive Very much benefit from it ir -ls.. in a wet season or on wet ground it may be of more benefit to one kind of crop than to another. Two years ago I lilanted a patch of potatoes on ground naturally wet and which was nmile wors. I.v end heavy rains throughout tho season. It w.is well fertilized with a good com mercial liraiuf. I lie crop seemed to re ceive but little or no benefit from it. Im mediately adjoining it was a field of corn, of which one row net to t'.i-t potatoes happened to have been fertilized at the same time, while the balance of the field received none nt all. The difference in the appearance and yield of this one low and the unfertilized one wiu ostonishiior while.es before said, the potatoes yielded but little more than on a piece of similar ground nearby that had no fertilizer nt at all. eod, while on the stalke where the thrifty condition of tho planU can be observed and compared with the general average of the field, is a far better plan and need? no argument for ita recommendation. , The early maturity of the need eare, other things being equal, should entitle them to preference, along with plump ness and a full development into large and handsomely shaped ear. If from talks producing doublo cara, take tho largest, if well formed, and, aa a rule, those that grow low, rather than high, on the talk. Ear with large cobs should not bo chosen, but rather those of smaller diameter and with long kernels. Uko begets like, and by a Httlo attention to this matter improvement can constantly be made. The preservation of tho earn selected maV be insured hv tmilllnir thn tiiwVa r.t several ears together and suspending them from the rafters of the corn hnnsa nr nnv other dry building. By so doing the seen corn will he safe from rata and mice as well Of exemnt from ilnmnnnutml mnulil that might affect its germination. In . i. . ... .v niaKing a cnoico it is ttiongnt, aa bctore statod. that both thn mr nnd ilia stnltr should bo taken into consideration, rather innn tno mere selection of a large ear. Attain, consideration should be eiven to the number of tho rows, the length ami compactness of the kernels, and tho ircneral aoliditv and welirlit nf thn There Is some diversity of opinbm ft to uie ume wnen me seca corn .ought to tie gathered, somo claiming that seed gathered- nnd dried In the sun soon after tho kernel la out of thn milk haa fri,.r vl. tality to withstand cold and damp after it is planted than if allowed to remain on tho stalk until dead ric. A much larger class, however, favor perfect maturity of the seed on tho stalk, which is at least the safest plan, as there would bo less moisture to lie evaporated from tho cob. Such euro aa has been indicated would certainly enable tho farmer who practises it to have his seed corn iu readiness when it is wanted, and furthermore would re sult in a more general germination of seed and more thrifty plants than from a less careful selection. Xr.u IVifc World. ?orrLAR SCIEXCE. Microscopic examination Un$t linn the opinion that emmennite tl rxolosive. ia a chemical mr,. oot a mere mixture. s In eXDcfimenta on tlm i. ... fflasa in water, plumbiferons flint i1 was found to be the least olul,ff , relative reslstsnra of ol.. ' """It iuwnni nub uuu luiu water. Professor Fresenius, of -tyiM 1 Germany, declares that an egg ''a' is much nourishment as a pound mm ounce of cherries, a pound ami , 11 nf rsrnnp. m. nnnml rwl ki . I ttf spples, two pounds of K0oselJerri ,7? four pounds of pears. ' w Somo additional facts of scientific 1 ".crest arc given Iu a rcrent report rerning the artesian welltlie leeJT?' '.he worldt Pesth, Austria, , JE from its depth of 81 40 feet .. .. 300 gallon, of water daily. havingVi' perature of 158 degrees Fah. The protection of nien-f,f.W(lr fr . iffect of lightning has reduced ...... ...... uwi ... n rcmarKaljIe uVr. iu fifty years before tho intM,, emiiitrr iwo minureil f. lish men-of-war were struck, while f' Kim,, ifiti i t ... . c ,ruC v.. .q-.ioiiiij '""j-i'igiitveMcli,,, uifuv ui icss .imimeu. i . ' . . v-orsican uocior, .M. SiiMni, h, iin.iu suipiiunc euier engine of ueMt horse power, which is ex- ti i t mi-, t saving oi sixiy-UTc p,-r cent. i fw Scientific men in l'uri. i. i.... nessed its workings are said to hues H-rveu ineir opinion as to its ni-riu un further tests have been umde. A Dutch physician declares tlist i tl .-onnection exists lietwecit the cur,;,, mental faculties and disorder of nose. Ho says that if it were known how mnnv case f r.,ri,.'"i .' ache, of inability to learn m to rf i mental work, were due ease of the nose, many of tiu-m wua easily cureu. Ira I tut III). 1 Nti: Ittt Nobody quite believed Carr'a story at first, but the testimony of Holt aud my. self saved his ueck. have como to light before this, aud if sho was ouly wounded, it is not your I H,lm er business to lerret tlie matter out. If you're not careful you'll get into tho newspapers aud be made ridiculous." This last argument was enough. I gradually came to accept the theory of tny I JHmes Clevengcr, aged fifteen, c friends. I passed through the winter Nashville, Ind., and Misa Anna I'attcr without further illness, but gained ! son, aged fourteeu, wero married recently strength slowly, nnd when spring ap- ; nt the home of the bride's lather, ia nenred my sleeplessness returned. With ; folumbus. Iud. WtSTKIUNil IIKKS, A correspondent of the Amerimn Tire Journal my: I have the bees all ready for winter before the nights get so cold and frosty ns to candy tlie honey in tho hive. Wo winter our bees iu an under ground cellar, forty feet long, seven feet high and six feet wide, with 8x7 inch ventilation near each end; also three w-ell-fitting doors, which leaves two dead air spaces between the bees ami tho ex tremely cold weather, with tho mercury often forty degrees below zero in this northern climate. When you put the bees into tho cellar remove the cover and entrance blocks, leaving only the quilt over tho hive. Put two blocks (2x2 inches, nnd tho length of the hive) under tho hive, then put two more on top, on which to put another hive, and so on un til they are flvo tiers high. () essen tiul thing is a half-inch entrance, full width of the hive, and left open; by so doing there will be plenty of upward and lower ventilation, aud the bees will nit smother or lack in any way for pure air. Tho bottom hive should bo not less than ten inches from the bottom of the cellar, to allow the foul air, if any, to settlo be low it and pass off through tho under ground drain, which should consist of not less than two-inch tiling. Ikes placed iu a cellar as I have ilescribea, with a temperature ranging from forty to forty-five degrees, w ill winter its safely us by any other method, chuff hive not excepted. Tho temperature can easily bo regulated by a slide in each ventilator not a toboggan slide, but a sliding door. 8F.1,F.CTIXI NKKD C0IIH. When tho planting season nrrives a very largo majority of farmers goto their cribs or com houses and exercise soma little care in selecting fair ears for their sernt corn. Comparatively few. however. TmA"5 AND OII.-MEAT.. It is only in exceptional cases that tho farmer can afford to purchase feed for stock. Nearly or quito nil tfio food necessary to keep and fatten tho stock for market should be raised upon tho farm. Hut oil-meal and bran con, in nearly all cases, bo purchased and fed to stock with profit, and there are few ma terials that will odd as iiiuelt to tho value of other materials, or will iucreae tho value of tho manure to the extent that this will. It is not altogether in their value them, selves aa it is in tho increased value they give to other materials in making up what we may term complcto rations that they can be used with profit. In order to feed stock during growth its economically as possible, it is an item to lessen tho amount of grain fed. Not that stock can bo properly prepared for market with no grain, but by using bran nnd oil -meal in connection with other materials, tho amount of grain can Is materially decreased. One of , the strongest reasons for ita use, especially during tho winter, when stock must depend almost entirely upon dry food, such as straw, hav, sheaf or unthreshed oats, and corn fodder, und with oil-meal make up a ration that will supply all tho elements of nutrition. In most localities the belter plan is to secuio a supply in tho full sullicient to last the greater part of the winter. It should be stored iu bins or boxes where it is reasonably certain to keep dry. If it can bo kept perfectly drV it will keen iu n good condition for feeding u long time, without deterioratin-' in nualitv. while it can be secured tit a less cost nt this time than later. The best results can be secured if tho feed is cut before mixin-' the bran. straw. iinthreshed oats, hay aud fodder, if run through a cutter, and then a small quan tity of bran and oil-men! is milled v..rv little grain will be required to keep till me growing ana nrccdtng stock in good coiiuiuon, ana especially so ll a comlort able shelter is provided, in addition; and tho cost will bo considerably les than if grain must be supplied. When fattening stock, grain must bo largely depended upon to finish for nuir ket. Ami with thesotwc materials, used in connection with dry, rough feed, tho stock w ill require but a light feed of grain ; and in a majority of cases tho le-s grain fed the lower the cost. l'rairie Fitrnwr. PAIiH ANI flAUPKX NOTES. Apples should bo allowed to cure well after picking before putting away, other wise they will heut and i-.ioro or less will rot. Wh-n jiieking grapes cut them off in bunches and dip tho ends in warm seal ing wax ; then placo tho bunches in a box or jar and fill in with saw dust. A great deal is now said about lack of success in fanning. No plaint issuing from nny class of people is the country is so general ns that coming from farmers. It is generally considered that Leghorn hens will lay tho most eggs in a year, und wo think they can still hold this place among layers, yet it cannot bo disputed that tho Minorca is very close behind it a a layer. He generous to tho colts. (Jivo them plenty of oats, plenty of good hay und plenty of exercise, nnd they will repay it all iu good scriptural measure, heajied up, pressed down, shaken together and running over. Very many farmers mako tho mistake of sowing too Httlo Med when stocking down to grass. It is poor economy to pinch here. If you want a good catch aud a good sod sow plenty of seed of a mixture that will bo fit to cut for hay at about the samo time. A manure is usually kept, nt least ouo half, and frequently a greater portion, is wastod by hatchings and escapo of am monia. jjouDie me amount of fertility that has been purchased iu the form of A great amount of motive p(,wwl lor years past, lieen derived fr.. , liscliarge of water from nrte.jsn , in i imn.c, more so, ill laej, tlMH ID l other part of the world. In tlie t,!i Tours there is an artesian lull drives a hydraulic wheel seven metre. diameter, and works the nuiliiurr silk factory. Tho very latest itntirovcnu r.t manufacture of filament forinur.iay lamps is a process whereby the fi; aro heated to a high tempenituri- Uk ing Hunt fuel In a suitable (urniiiij at the conclusion of the iqieriii -n ru the temperature to a still liiji.-r dr, for a short period by the introiwi a bhist of oxygen. It is stated that, near lira ivi Penn., an oil well is loeati-il sliiil lay pumps a Parrel of first-riw petroleum, me residents in tl,-- r.c: purchasing and burning it vitcis having passed through any pvt answers the purpose equally u we. tlie tiuest illuminating kerosene, d e smoKP, ana lias no unpleasant wot M. Pasteur delivered an Mr other day in Paris to the menilxr-nr? society oi I'rucueai .iicuirtm-, m declared with much ein.h:iu;liilr is never snontaneous. Tho minrii during it, ho said, was invsriiUj r mitted. This means, of irn, tk dog ever goes line I utile-. lie lui bitten by another mad b'g, t It once important and rea--;in;.:. Tlie ingenious adulternter i v home in Austria. At the W.x Vicuna, where food is aauiuelfef ing, tt loaf of bread wa f-iiala; largely of the pulvi-rinl l-iriiof sawdust and chaff; groiin.l v,7 found to be mixed with ivunlfifl namon was colored with m lire: n called "nutritious coilio" c iif tirely of roast acorns and iii:r rT. Progress has its pcnaltii. T steam as a motive power in;-i it cost many thousands nf ' the use of gas as an illuuiituu. tricity is now at the front f meut as power and light. 1' 9 some killing, but its victiuiiv compared with those nf tun less it will be rendered M but it must always retain uiju'i as well as good. We do ii"t J good on this side of eternity. A French scientist ha ill insiilatimr mliKt.niee. A bt t' niltim? from the treatment "!t sulphuric acid, which ha consh'lereil of no value. h:. to furnish what, mrorui:? hunitre KUetriqut, i a insulating maurisl. Tta which resemliles r.iitiarr t comes, after exposure t- i.'1 hard as ebonite or vulean:"-1 sesse high insulating jirej- I':.;! re :;e :.'ie !iii i neb irn 1 m( ii.lt . I .. :.Ml! i:.ii. eek urn -lien If Hi n ler It !.ef.i The I .t the nulwr nals til 1 1. A-k ip -n.linj '. rqr lu:9 sn 0V1 rsinrs All Eight .Mile Tni1 Svii'lii1'-' IMMI' ..Mil 1' l,.r-i-1'" 1 l' The Grass Valley Company has been workiror ran'tal of which to carry ahead the the drain nml miniiiL' t'.l-.'1' by the Nevada City iV or" Hank Tunnel Compan will be started on the ut a point about 1!UU0 f" t'rossiriL' aud run a In''-" in averaire vertical deiitli face of 1UO0 feet, awl l'J down at the deepest Tl... ,.t !... tunnel ,..il... In I. .-...I. a ..HtllUlJ the Providence group of n i.reeK, tnence truverni - r Uold Flat district, through f mit m at rwl .tlw.r clsin long somewhat the saim .1 i. ..-..ll IWL'U - uescriueu uy nun Ilunoh n.in.. The stK"' outlined in the Can J" Virginia City (A" ) i f i lorn, omparauveiy icw, liowevcr, lnHl n" uce" purcnasea in tlie form of give the subject any attention previous to 'commercial fertilizers lias boeu vantonlv that time. A telection of the ears for ! wasted around the bums. Youth '' Ah! foolish tny Ye wi.h tbst )' i lie oiu -" Apeeul r .-rl nrnsl i "vend The Eat tout l; of the rate of rknifii Jnd sec. I 81 ll the c trm-im 'IMS','!-, I mill . Wliie; "kins, t 1 1 the tiit j tlie ui.t, '-li. Tin -it a mriii ri s ere I. ' 'lie Hori ' A.M. in I the ' snd bin S l'l.i.n. ,l'ii;ers. o '"shiHtf t J', an.l i I hail been ;iUuislied Veil n llliwt ''J? one .f k.r. It,. en the """i llilliol, f'inn ub ami he '"-rifofiij ' Us.sJ. u, !' 'Irai;..,..! f-ltally )llr. '""Ulliim t Cn'l' t the "I'd ami I, 'tli the J'r,l oil (""intitiie t "U fstm-kev M suoii '"tfi-s. "'ill the. ""J SOIIIM i they their i f"'"kdt.,. fbl,"ui Ul.,1 tl remove . -i ..cot ' Keimeu J'-''iianJo(l k fe Riven .... L"e.leil I,..' . 'lie cuari i.i... P'"jy Im... . . It.l, -"uu i
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