Mow the Bullfinch la Taught to Sing. Boys and girls are not the only little folks who attend singing classes, 01' which you shall know when you hear about the piplug bullfinch, in shape and size this bullfinch is somewhat like the sparrow In our city parks, but he has a very different head. The spar row, you know, has a trim, quick, little pate of his own. Not so the bullfinch. Uis is a clumsy affair—in fact he has a sort of a "bull" head and neck; so, you see, he is a well named. Besides, Uis body is nearly as blacx as a coal, and his throat is as red as if the coal were ou Are. lie is not naturally a singer, nor is he half so clever as our American mocking-bird, in tact, he seems rather stupid, but is willing to learn; aud it so happens that if you persevere long enough you can teach aim to sing a tune. The country peo ple of Germany have found this out. There the peasants take great delight in training bullfinches. Their pupils, being not very bright, as 1 said heiore, are stupidly hopping about their cages, when suddenly they hear a tune played on a violin. They prick up their ears, —or would do so if they could—and bogin to listen, quite unconscious that that very same violin has beeu playiug that very same tune for about a week without their noticing it. But it is something to catch their attention. Day after day, for months, the patient teacher goes over aud over again the same tune to the listening birds, until human listeners begin to wonder which will get crazy first, the bullfiuch or the player. But by and by the birds begin to pLk up the air, piping the simple parts at first, and takiug up note after note until, at last, they know the whole thing by heart, bome times a rustic father spends half his time all winter, teaching one little pa tient bird, and all the children look on with the greatest Interest. Or aboy will undertake the task, and when he at last succeeds, his sisters look upon him as the most wonderful fellow in the world; and they cry in real earnest when the wonderful boy carries his pupil to town to be sold; for sold these bullfinches are sure to be as soon as they are taught, or else exhibited by their owners as street singers. Some times bird teachers are known far and wide for their skill and successs; and at Freiburg, in Baden, and small villages on the outskirts of the Black Forest, bullfinch training is practiced as a regular business. In such cases, a small hurdy-gurdy, or "bird organ," is used, as being less difficult and tire some than the violin; and, instead of training one bird, they teach the same tune to a class of ten or a dozen. Gen erally, the birds are sent to London or Paris, where, if they have learned their lessons thoroughly, they are bought by rich folks, put into beauti ful cages and treated as pets, whilst other bullfinches, having trifled away their school-days and only half learned their tune, live a vagrant life around the markets, belonging to nobody, and picking up their dinner as best they can. Greek Fire. "Greek Are"—or as it is sometimes called "Saracen fire"—was the most important war material men had before the invention of gunpowder. Twice the city of Constantinople was saved by the use of It. It is said to have been invented by a Syrian, who deserting from the service of the Caliph, reveal ed his secret to the emperor. The in gredients, if not also the mode of dart ing the fire, were kept a secret for up ward of 400 years,and it is quite uncer tain row what were actually the com ponent parts of that which, Joinville says, "came flying through the air like a winged long tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead with tho report of thunder and the velocity of lightlning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illu mination. It is generally considered, however, that "the fire" was composed of naptha, mingled in certain propor tions, now unknown, with sulphur, and with pitch obtained from ever green fir. This mixture ignited and blown or pumped through long tubes of copper, which were mounted in the prows of galleys, and fancifully shape 1 into the form of monsters, produced a thick smoke with a loud explosion, and a flame, fierce and obstinate, which no amount of water could ex tinguish. When used for the defense of walls, it was poured in large boilers from the ramparts, or was hurled on javelins by means of tow which had previously been steeped in inflamma ble material. Against it the bravest soldiers went In vain; their imagina tion recoiled from a thing so subtle and terrible. Horses fled from it in dire frieght; snips were burnt by it, there was no way of standing against it. The Greek emperorß, sensible of the enorm ous advantage which an offensive wea pon of such a kind gave them, invested it with a mysterious history, and ap pealed to the superstition of their sub jects for the preservation of the secret of the manufacture. They eaid that an angel had revealed the composition of Greek fire to the Constantine, for the express purpose of maintaining the superiority of the empire over the Bar barians; and that whoever betrayed the secret to foreigners would inour not only the penalty of treason and sacrilege, but the special vengeance oi the Almighty. In the twelth century, however we find it used by the Ma hometans in their wars with the Christ ians; and from that time it came into pretty general use, until the invention of gun-powder put It out of date, and caused an entire revolution in the art of war. EFFERVESCING LEMONADE.— -The juice of one lemon, one-half pint of cold wa ter, one dessert spoonful of powdered sugar, one-half small teaspoonful ot carbonate of soda. Squeeze the juice from the lemon, strain and add It into the water, and sweeten the whole with the sugar. When well mixed put in the soda, stir well and drink while the mixture is In an effervescing state. FAKM AND GARDEN. FSKDIXO FOK MILK.— In some cases of extraordinary yield ithasbeen found that skim milk has been led to eows in large quantities, and all the cow had to do was to aetj as a sort of strainer. Of late years the use of brewer's grains has become universal where they could be obtained, and the result has been an increased yield, by some claimed to be ot poor quality, and by others to be lirst-olass, giving as evldeuce the con dition of the cows, which geuerally are in good condition, and in many cases really fat,—those who claim the latter, assertiug that cows in a thriving fat condition must give rich milk. One of the most prominent producers and shippers of milk for this market feeds his cow exclusively on these grains wiuter and summer, and on a visit a lew days siuce to his farm, we found the cattle many of them apparently tit for the butuher. Corn meal and bran, in the proportion of equal weight have been considered one of the best mixtures while an addition of oil-cake, either ot tiax or of cotton seed, has, in the oplniou of many, been amply re paid by the increased product of but ter. The general custom of dairy farms has bieii to depend on grass along dur ing the summer, but ot late some have practiced giving a small ration of meal or bran, and with very good results both in the yield of milk uud butter, it is getierully taught that nitrogen ous food adds to the casein in uillk,and that carbonaceous compounds increase the butter product, and the reasoning seems to be plausible, as cheese eontai us a large proportion of nitrogeuous mat ter, while butter is almost entirely a fatty substance largely composed of carbon. CHOOSING POULTRY.— In choosing poultry never buy a bird that cannot be cleaused without washing. It ought to be so cleanly picked and drawu thai a towel would be sufficient. Buy a chick en that has white flesh aud pale yellow fat. In buying tame ducks young ones are the best, aud If you take hold of the under part of the bill and can either bend or break it the duck is young. Tne breast being hard and thick de notes that it is fresh aud sweet. No duck, either wild or tame, is good un less iat. Tame ducks are served with apple or cranberry sauce, with currant jelly, or oranges, aud frequently with olives stewed iu the gravy about five iniuute9 before the bird is served. Wheu geese are young and in gojd condition their legs are soft,yellow and rather uowuy ; if the legs are stiff aud dry they are bad and tainted. Some kinds of tame birds require to be kept a little, others ought to be eaten as soon as pos sible; thus pigeons are best when fresh and lo*e ail taste and flavor if ihey are kept; but turkeys require to be hung up for several days before they are ten der. This condition again will vary with the age of the bird, the state of the weather, etc. But if a turkey be bung by lour of its largest tall feathers, as soon as It falls upon the towel pre pared to receive it, i f is in prime con dition, and will then deteriorate. In other poultry an excellent plan to know when they are just at their teuderest is to Judge by the ease with which the feathers come out. Therefore when you clean aud hang a bird leave a few .eathers, and wheu these can be readi ly pulled out the bird is as tender as it will ever be. AN AGBICULTUKAL HIKED. —Accord- ing to toe Canada Farmer, the agri culturists of Canada met in convention not long ago, and adapted lor them selves the following creed: "We be lieve in small larms and thorough cul tivation ; we believe that the soil lives to eat, as well as the owner, and ought, thereiore, to be well manured; we be lieve In going to the bot.om of things and, therefore, deep plowing, and enough of it,all the better it it be a sub soil plow; we believe in large crops which leave the land better than they found it, making both the farm and the farm er rich at once; we believe every farm should own A good farmer; we believe that the fertilizer of any soil is a spirit of industry .enterprise and intelligence; without these, lime, gypsum andguano would be of little use; we believe in good fences, good larm-liouses, good orchards and good children enough to gather the fruit; we believe in a clean kitchen, a neat wife in it, a clear cupboard, a clean dairy and a clean couscience: we believe that to ask a man's advice is not stooping, but of much benefit; we believe that to keep a place for everything, and everything, in its place, saves many a step, and is pretty sure to lead to good tools and to keeping them in order; we believe that kindness to stock, like good shelter, is saving of rodder; we believe that it is a good thing to keep an eye on experi ments, and note all, good and bad : we believe that it is a good rule to sell grain when It is ready; we belive in produc ing the best butter aud cheese, aud mar keting it when readv." REST BETTER THAN FHYSIC. —Rest would cure half the accidents that horses receive, but people will not give it them because it costs money. A pet liorse of mine had a very bad sprain consequent on a grooms' disobedience; his leg was almost as useless as though it were broken; he was seen by many veterinarians and pronounced incur ably injured. 1 was advised to sell him or to kill him. I did neither. I had his plates taken oil', put him into the largest loose box I have—one eighteen feet by thirteen feet —with straw up to his knees, and then, giving him no treatment except cold water bandages, kept him doing nothing for a year, gently walking him about on soft paths ot mv woods when it was fine weather. He recovered entirely alter twelve inontns's rest, and now he is ready to jnmp over the moon, and the only hard task is to make him not gallop. THE FARMER oi the future must be a man ot resource; he must be ready to adapt himself to new circumstances, and to adopt new crops when he finds he is undersold. He must look upou the air and soil as his agents for the production of vegetable and animal forms, the precise type of which must depend upon the supply and demand. If an ironmonger finds he has a strong competition in the sale of locks, he turns his attention to lamps, or some thing else, and so must the farmer. WH read that "types are beimg made of toughened glass, and they are said to wear well in the case, t© hand le easily, and to give a good impression without cutting the paper." IT .would seem tbat the entire ab sence of sunligh: on the deep-sea bot tom has the same effect as the darkness of caves, in reducing to a rudimentary condition the eyes of its inhabitants. THERE are hundreds of entertaining writers who would be good historians if they did not know so many things have never happened. WHEN a Chinaman was saved from drowning by being hauled from the water by his pigtail, he feebly mur mured : "L thank queue." DOMESTIC. THE CARK OF TnicTlAiii.— A fine head of natural hair is certainly a very great adornment. Wall-brushed, glossy, smoothly-banded hair used to be the ambition and the pride, or perhaps the envy and despair of every young lady. In latter days we havo seen strange changes in feminine opinion on this subject. All sorts of wild and pict uresque confusion, crimps, fluffs, ring lets, lalse pieces of every description, have deformed heads which might els® have been graceful. Hut bangs and moutague curls hava capped the very climax of ugliness. The prettiest and most piquant face grows commonplace under their spell. The brow, noblest part of the countenance, Is concealed beneath a straight or tangled mat, and undue prominence is accorded to the lower parts of the face. We wish our girls would resolve never to wear banged hatr or moutague curled hair, unless they wish to bo taken for luna tics on a tramp. To keep the hair in good condition, eschew pomades,baml oltiie and unguents. Brush It frequent ly with a clean, dry brush. Cleanse the brush once a week with borax, or a few drops of ammonia. Let the hair be loose and free at night, aud In the daytime coll it in some loose and easy way, fastening it with as low hairpins as possible. RKD DYK FOK WOOL. —Coarse woolen stalls are dyed red with madden or archil; but tine cloth is almost exclu sively dyed with cochineal, though the color which it receives from kermes is much more durable. Brazil wood is scarcely used except as an auxiliary, because the color which it imparts to wool, is not permanent. Wool is dyed red by first impregnating it with aluraine by means of an alum bath, and then boiling it in a decoction of cochineal or madden, till it has acquired the wished-for color. The color will beflner if tin-mordant be substituted for alum; indeed, it is usual with dyers to add a little nltromuriate ot tin w eu they want fine colors. The addition oi archil and potass to the cochineal both renders the red darker, and gives ft more bloom; but the bloom very soon vaulshes. For paler colors, one half of the cochineal Is withdrawn, and madden substituted in Its place. Wool may be dyed scarlet by first boil ing it in solutiou of murio sulphat of tin, then dving it pale yellow with quercitron bark, ami afterwards crim son and cochineal; for scarlet is a com pound color, consisting of crimson mixed with a little yellow. Feeble Ladle*. Those languid, tiresome sensations, causing you to feel scarcely able to be on your feet; that constant drain that is taking from your system all its elas ticity; driving the bloom from your cheeks; that continual strain upon your vital forces, rendering you irrlta- Dle and fretful, can easily be removed by the use of that marvelous reme dy, ilop Hitters. Irregularities and obstructions ot your system are reliev ed at OLCJ, while the special cause of periodical pain is permanily removed. Will you need this? — Cmci/malt Satur day Siyht HINTS ABOUT WATEB.—-NO water that has stood in open vessels during the night should be used for drinking or cooking. By exposure to the air it lias lost its "aeration," and has absorbed many of the dust germs floating in the apartment. If convenience requires water to be kept in vessels for several hours before use, it should be covered. Filtering alwavs adds to the purity of the water. Drinking water should not be taken from lakes or rivers on a low level. Surface water, or water in lakes, pools or rivers which receive the sur face wash,should be avoided as much as possible. Do not drink much water at a time. More than two tumblerluls should not be taken at a meal. I>o not drink between meals unless to quench thirst, all ex -ess of water weakens the gastric juice and overworks the kid neys. Excessive potations, whether of water or other fluid, relax the stomach impair its secretions and paralyze its movements. By drinking a little at a time all injury is avoided. CURE FOR DRUXKKNNKSS.— Take one pound of best, iresh, quill red Feruyian bark, powder it, and soak it in one pint of diluted alcohol. Afterward strain and evaporate it down to half a pint. Directions for its use: Dose—a teaspoonful every three hours tlie first and second day, and occasionally moisten the tongue between the doses. It acts like quiuine, and the patient can tell by a headache if he is getting too much. The third day take as pre vious, but reduce the dose to one-half teaspoonful. Aiterward reduce the dose to fifteen drops, and then down to ten, and then down to five drops. To make a cure, it takes from five to fifteen days, and in extreme cases thirty days. Seven days are abou; the average in which a cure can be effected. POTATOES A LA PAISAIENNK.— Cut from peeled potatoes with a vegetable cutter as many little balls as the size o. the vegetable will permit. Fry them in boiling lard, being careful that they don't burn. Skim them out and drain, and sprinkle with salt. These balls may also be stewed in milk, slightly diluted with water and thick ened with a little fl >ur. Season with butter, pepper and salt. Chemical analysis fails to find tho east trace ol adulteration in Dobbins' Electric Soap, (made by Cragin & Co., Philadelphia. Pa.) For sale every where. It is tor your iuterest to try it. To CLEAN STEEL ORNAMENTS —To clean steel ornaments, dip a small brush Into some paraffin oil and then into some emery p >w0 lire. • "My worthy friend and neighbor. Whe..ee comes that smile serene?" "O, 1 am now thrice happy— I've found it— CARBOLINK. TUB applications for pos tlons as en umerators to takf the census of the In dian tribes are not very numerous. While a man is taking the census cf the Indian, the Indian may retaliate by taking the scalp of the enumerator, and the price ola new head of hair would Cake all the profit off his job. And then a man couldu't write, in a whole day, any more than a dozen such names a* Hukinokihugemsmuggerpan kiwanki. Dou't Get llie Chills. If you are subject to Ague you must be sure to keep your liver boweia aud kidneys in good free oouditiou. When so, you will be t-aie from all attacks. The remedy to use is Kidnoy- \S ort Blade. Vegetine. lllore to Mo than Gold. WALPO LE, Mass., March 1, IMS. Ma. H. it. snviNa: I wish to inform you whst Vegetine has don# for me. 1 h. ve been troubled with Erysipelas Humor for more than to yearn in my limbs nod otner parts of m v body, and have bees a great sufferer. I eommenced taking Vegetine one year ago last August and can truly sty it has done more for me than any other medicine. 1 seem to r>eperfectly free from this bumorssd can recommend It to every one. Would not be without this medlclDe—'tis more to me then fold—and 1 feel It will prove a blessing to others ss It has to me. Yours, most respectfully. MRS. DAVID CLARK, J. BENTLEY, M.'D., lays: IS baa done more tood than nil medi cal treatmeut KIWHARKKT. Ont.. Feb. , ISSO. Mr. H. R. STIVERS, Boston, Mass.- sir— I have sold during the past year a con siderable quantity of your Vegetine, and I b.'- Ueve, in all cases it has given s .tlafactlon. in one case, a delicate young lady of about IT y ara vraa much benefited by Its use. Her pa rents infotmed me that It had done her mpre good ihan all the medical treatment to which ■he had previously been subjected. Yours, respectfully, J. BENTLKY, M. D. Loudly in its Praise. TORONTO, Ont., March 8,1888. H. R, STEVENS. Boston: Dear Mr—considering the short time thai VegetlDe has been before the publto here, ft aelli well as & olood purlder, and ror troubles arising from a sluggish or torpid liver It Is a Qrst-class medlciue. Our customers speak toudiy to lie praise. J. WRIGHT 4 CO., Cor. Queen and Elizabeth Street#. Vegetine. raiPARID BT H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. fegetine is Sold by all Druggists, in fifin TO GOLD Given Away. Send 8-oent 17 mill •tampfor particulars. Addreea Tßß Ms- IBUJVUU MMER, Lewlabrng, PBIOU 80., ?*. 1 KIDNEY DIBEABEB, ■ LIVER COMPLAINTS, H Q Constipation and Piles. Q Dr. R. BL Clark, South Hero, YL, says,*Tn oases H H of U4mrj TTMUM IthM acted Uka* charm. it I KJ has ond IBUT nrrbtd oaays ot rum, nd baa II ■ jtoimrn FalrchUd, of St. Afbans, TV, say*. "It la ■ | E ■ pletcly cured me.*' R 0. ft. Bo(bon, of BtitaUn. nn "Om ptdt- I U age ha* done wonders forme In completely our- C ■ log a etrrure Llrar and Kidney Computet'* IT HAS |l||| VO □ ■ WONDERFUL Will ■ I POWER, mummm B hmalt laU n tta U7II, at lOTtLI ul ths ZHHX7B >1 the urns time. ■eoauee t oleaneee tho eretem Of I M . tPO(onou humors that develop* n |J Jn Kidney and Urinary diseases, Bli- U I LSV ,ne, *t Jaundloo, Constipation* I ■ Pllos, or In Rheumatism. Neuralgia ■ n ant nervous disorders. L ■ JSSE2ZVZS&2, swsa— I Kg Onepaekags will makestx qts of nod Ida*. Q TRY IT row i J OTBwy Hat the ftranbta Mm, ll.ee. L WILLS, SICSAIDBOH A CO., Propdston, 112 (WlU.Uf.tjol.) B*rU(tw, TL I j^pSTETTf^ 6ITTER s Thongb Bhaklasr like an Aepm Leal wuh tue chilli and fever, ihe victim of malaria may ail l tecov -r by u lng this c -libra; e S that most of the Hone and Cattle Powders here .re worthless trash. He says that rheridau's Condition Powders are abeo lutely | ure an<* immensely valtia' le. Nothing on earth will make hens lay like Sheridan's Condition Powders. Done, one teaspoon to one pint of feed, hold every where, or sent by mail for eight letter stamps. I. H. JOHNSON A CO., Bangor, Me. NIK RONAKZT FOR BOOK AUFMS IS •runkenniss,uv ofonltiru, tobacco narootica Ail soi lby dnx—jtstß. Send At J■ for Circular. Bop Bitter* 1(|. Ce., / BMj KIDNEY DISEASES, are quickly and surely curod by the use of KIDNEY-WOBT. itls new and wonderful remedy whiohls having cuchan immense sale in all parts of the oountry, works on natural principles. It reetorea strength and tone to the diseased organs, and through thorn oleanses the, system of aooumulated and prisonous humors. Kidney diseases cf thirty y cars standing have been cured, also Piles. Constipation, KheumatiHiu, fco.. which have dirtressod the victims for years. We have volumes of tostimony of its wonderful curative power. No longer nse Aloholio litters, which do more harm than good, or drastio pills, but use natures remedy. EXDNTY-WOKT, and health will be quickly regained. OetJt of your Druggist, Price, SII. (Will stud postpaid.) igELLS^jllCHAKDSON^^^O*^^*oi^*^iurllngion^ljk The remedial management of those diseases peculiar to women has afforded a large experience at the World's llispcnsan and Invalids' Hotel, In adapting remedies for their cure. Many thousands of cases have annually been treated. Dr. I'lerce's Favorite Prescription Is the result or tills extended experience, and has" become Justly celebrated for lis many aad remarkable cures of all tljose chronic dis eases and WEAKNESSES PECULIAR TO FEMALES. Favorite rrescrlotiou Is a powerful Restorative Tonic to the entire system. 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