Staging In Texas. ' The wind moans here like a creature in distress. It sobs against the window panes, and sighs and waves along the eaves like a cohort of cats celebrating the election re turns. There is something awfully uuieal about it, even ghostly. 1 cannot help lis tening to its dreary monotony —its bewil dering plains —and sliapiug themselves into cries unearthly. All at once a host of demon spirits dash against the glass and shriek out angry imprecations, i shudder like a creature afraid, and pull down the curtains to shut out the storm's hoarse roar. Anon the rain dashes dowu and sideways, rusluug with a clash and shock against the frail wooden walls, pouring lrom the low roof, dripping, deluging, saturating all the earth. Oh, ido not like those storms! For three days at a time the}' never cease. Rivers 01 water fall, rushing dowu the narrow valleys, teariug away the soft earth, channelling out the streets and tilling the streams to the very top of their limestone bluffs. Our ban Antonio is a brave stream and seldom uu cqual to the emergency. The water ire vjueutly rises titty leet in a single night, but it rarely overflows, l.ast August it reached over the banks tor more than fifty mi | es aud ruiued #IOO,OOO worth of corn, potatoes and cotton. Such a calamity may not occur aS*" 1 in * UlcllUlL '' WUh ii " Western rivers rise from building of bridges extremely hazardous. At this time there are very few bridges a Western Texas, which renders traveling in wet weather somewhat dangerous as well as amusing. The crossings are effected, in high water, by means of pooutoonsor ter nee, and in dry weather by "fords." The descent is not like that which Virgil de scribes, into Avemus —"facilis but, on the contrarv, quite the reverse. The bluff drops off from the first, second or third terrace, and each drop is worse than the preceding one. The last is usually con sidered "a drop too much." It just lifts you out of your boots. The bluff is a per pendicular wall of sand or adobe clay, gulched by running water, and is appro priately described ,by the feminiue term I 'perfectly awful." If you are a lady you go down with the driver in the hack —who says there is no danger—until you reach your final plunge, and then you shut your eyes and pray. Yc,u never expect to see the sun again, just as if you lived in London, but somehow you do, The sure-fooled mules slide dowu the "ragged edge." the driver leans both feet upon the brake and swears sc-ftly to him self; the coach rocks and plunges; you feel yourself slipping down, down, down, like a frightful nightmare, and at length you are on board the boat. The boatman puts hi 9 head in, hopes you are not frightened, and says "50 cents;" or, if he is a native, "four bits." You hand it out mechanically, never thinking to ask what the charge is for. You are so bewildered that had he said "#5" you would have paid it as read ily and felt that you had escaped cheap enough. He turns a crank, the ropes creak and strain, the boat swings round in the narrow, boiling gorge, and iti five min utes you And yourself reeling up the red clay bank on the further shore. You wake up. The motion has ceased. The driver shouts, swears, lashes the thing has stopped and refused to move. The jehu puts aside the curtains and says: "You'll have to get out muia ! This old scare-crow buzzard's carnage can't tackle the bluffs, dash 'em!" "Mud's purty bad ! Sorry, mum ! Got any rubbers? No. That's bad. Kin lend you my slicker if ye'll put it on. Kinder keep the leak off." (Driveis are always kind, polite and respectful to ladies here.) It is raining furiously. The wheels are slipping back. You feel yourself going dowu. You realize what it means. If nervous you scream and faint. If not you open the curtains. The driver whips up his jaded "carnon." The coach stops sliding down. You leap nimbly out. The mud catches you and holds you. Y'ou are safe at least. Then the fun begins. Y'ou drag a good sized farm up the awful bluff. Your companions follow and bring up all the mud you left. The mud is very kind, it sticks close to you—it follows you—it prevents you from flymg if so disposed— it goes with you like Ruth, and stops with you when you stop —quite out of breath and moral reflections. Your feet are red as well as your face. Somebody says it seldom rains in Texas. Don't* believe it. I never saw prettier rain in my life. Such mud 1 Prepared glue is not ordinary muci lage beside it. The sharpest knife will not cut it from your shoes. Y'ou stand on the upper bank unable to move. There are sheets of water falling upon your spring bonnet, torrents of it rolling from your best clothes, waves, rivers, oceans of it be neath your feet. Y our only solace is that your disgusted and dripping companions cannot laugh at you. The driver discharges a new volume of oaths, all neatly bound for the occasion with Texas leather. The lashing and cursing cause the rain to hold its breath in astonishment. At last up he comes—the Red Sea is crossed and you resume your place. The thoroughly saturated passen gers have enough to do hewing off the mud to occupy them till the next station is reached, and somehow the conversation lags for want of encouragement. Very few people are killed In these stage journeys, few seriously injured, but there are plenty of old citizens here who never ride across a river. They invariably get out and walk down. When asked if they apprehended danger, tliey say, "No, but it is safer.'" But the "Concord" and "mail coach" are doomed in Texas. Their race is nearly run. The iron horse is pre-empting all their valuable territory. Railroad stock is more valuable than horse stock. The age of progress has reached us. The Switch ICDgiue. Everybody enjoys a practical jcke when it is played on somebody else. A few months ago a young man named Stone had BO gained the confidence of the engineer of a switch engine on the Erie railroad at Jersey City, that he had been able to run up a very long bill for board at the engi neer Gage's house. He kept him placated and, indeed, glad to board him for noth ing 1 , by telling Gage of the immense influ ence he enjoyed with the Suoerintendent of the Northern Railroad, and said it would be an easy matter to get a first rate posi tion for Gage. One day he informed Gage that he had had him appointed general manager of the New York & Northern Road, and nothing remained but the super intendent's signature to the necessary pa pers. Gage could hardly control himself with joy and obtained a three months' leave of absence trom his employers. In spite of Stone's precautions to keep quiet, lie inform 3d several persons of his good luck and promised situations to three of his friends, who resigned the positions which they then held. Time wore on and the papers were still unsigned. Stone said that the Superintendent was sick, then that he was dead, until finally it dawned upon Gage's stupid mind that he had been the victim of a hoax. He raved, and cursod and sworaso that fears were entertained of his sanity; but it is a pleasure to know that he kept his head level enough to give Stone a deserved thrashing. After which he became calm and good-natured again, and mounted his switch-engine once more. AGRICULTURE. BROKEN WIND IN HORSES—The treat ment of broken wind, can seldom be more than palliative. Whatever in creases the distension ot the stomach and bowels, aggravates the complaint by increasing the dilliculty of expand ing the lungs. Therefore, avoid stimu lants and promote regular evacuations. Abstain from over-distension of the lungs by too violent and too sudden ex ertions, particularly after eating. The food should be regularly given in mod erate quantities only; but most par ticularly it should be of such a nature as will contain much nutriment in small space. Hence corn is more proper than hay, and, above all, a manger food composed of one part bran, one part bruised corn, and two parts bruised oats, agree particularly well, if given somewhat moistened. On a quantity of this food no horse will need hay. When they can be got, give also carrots, mangel wurtzesl, Swedish turnips, parsnips, or cooked potatoes, which feeding will be found to com bine both medicine and nutriment, and render little water necessary. Turn ing a horse to grass commonly aggra vates broken wind; and a neglect of moderate exercise also aggravates the complaint. Water should be sparingly given, particularly in the working hours; at night a moderate quantity should be allowed, but on no account let the broken-winded horse drink his All at a pond or trough. As such a horse generally Is a gross feeder, u muzzle ought to be put ou as soon as the maugor has been emptied, that he may not devour his bedding. FEEDING ROOTS WITH FODDER.—The turnip pulper is very cheaply made by boring a hole endwise through the centre of a hickory or maple log one foot In diameter, fifteen inches long and putting an iron shatf through this, then turning the log in a lathe and put ting in rows of short steel teeth, allow ing them to project about one-hall inch; hang this in a box with a solid plank in tront, just clearing the teeth. This is run with a pulley from a horse power. The turnips are pressed against the front plank aud the teeth moving with rapidity cut the turnips into a fine pulp as last as they cau be shovel led into the hopper. Run the liay, straw or corn stalks through a straw cutter, then mix two or three quaits of pulped turnips with a bushel of eul fodder. Let this mixture lie in a mass for two days, or perhaps three, when it will be warm and in the first stage of fermentation . In this state it is high ly relished by cattle and is more easily digeiUd ihan before commencing fer mentation, and both hay and roots are more valuable than when led sepa rate. GLANDERS mainly affects the nose, gradually extending to the throat and lungs, Pustules form in the lining membrance of the septum in one or both nostrils. These break and leave ulcers, with uneven, inflamed and thickened edges. The ulcers in the nose. Increase in number and gradual ly destroy the membrane. There is a discharge of variously colored, gluey or sticky consistency, having a tendeu dy to dry and lorni crusts on the edge of the nostrils. There is also a hard, nodular swelling of the gland, closely adhering to the inside of one or both sides of the lower jaw. According to the progress of the disease more or less frequent cough exists. There are two forms of the disease, acute and chron ic, either of which are highly conta gious and absolutely incurable, it is fraught with danger to handle such horses, and the saliva or the dischage lrom the nose of the hosse, coming in contact with the least sore or abrasion on the hand, or picking one's nose or eyes with the fingers alter handling the horse, is apt to cause fatal contam ination. FLEAS IN DOGS.—Fleas are trouble some pests to a dog, and on that ac count we will give you and our read ers the best way in which they can be removed, at the same time prevent their recurrence. Treatment: Wash the dog well with warm water lor say about half an hoar; then rub the hair and skin dry, alter which sprinkle the whole body with alcohol, then lodge the animal in a comfortable place, and keep him there till morning; then get some ground aloes (fine) and dust the whole body over with ine dust. This may be done at the least twice a week, two consecutive weeks, and the medi cine washed off tne second day after its application. This is all that will be necessary to bo done in order to cause their removal, Still, it must be remembered that you must prevent the lleas from again making their home in your dog's hair and skin, and this can be done by having the patient sleep on pine shavings and quassia chips. TIME Intelligently given to the bees will pay as well as any other farm work, and when too many are not kept, most ol the work can be done either before or after regular working hours. WHEN good earth is used for potting plants seldom need any special man ure. The best toil lor plants is found in old meadows, and the corner of fences where the sod has grown along time. Utilization of Small Streams. In general the land bordering upon small brooks and even larger streams running through farms or fields is entirely useless and in many cases is a nursery of noxious weeds and a harbor for vermin. By the expenditure of a little labor or a small sum of money such useless land may be turned to valuable account. By damming the stream a pond of respectable size may be made, which, stocked with fish, will be come a source of larger income than sev eral tmics its area of the best land upon the farm. Fish culture is too often supposed to be a troublesome and fussy busiuess, in which one may spend much money to little advantage. But Ido not propose fish cul ture. I suggest stocking the pond thus made with fish of a kind easily kept, which will not require to be fed artificially; such kinds, in fact, as will feed themselves. As a rule, the most desirable things cost for their attainment in proportion to their scarcity and desirability. Trout, among fish, are the choicest kind and the most costly to procure and it is probable that the man who gets a dollar for a pound of trout grown in a pond has well earned his money. Every one can not eat trout, as every one can not drink champagne, but there are agreeable and wholesome fishes, as well as wines that cost very little, and the average person may well be contented with them. A perch, either white or yellow, Is not far behind a trout in flavor and firmness of flesh, and this fish will thrive in any pond above the character of a mud-hole, and in water that is too warm for trout, Eels are easily grown in ordinary ponds, and these are choice meats. Black bass is a choice fish, and may be mixed with chubs and minnows, upon which they will feed. In fact, the kind of fish to be procured is alto gether a secondary matter to the making of the pond for them. THE HOUSEHOLD. EGGS AS FOOD.—Eggs are an article of cheap and nutritious food which we do not And on farmers' tables in the quantity economy demands. They are very convenient to take to market and this Is the disposition which too many farmers make of them. They probably do not fully comprehend how valuable eggs are as food; that like milk, an egg is a complete food in Itself, con taining everything necossary for the development of a perfect animal, as is manifest from the fact that a chick is formed from it. It seems a mystery how muscles, bones, feathers and everything that a chick require* for its perfect development are made from the yolk and white ot an egg; but such is the fact, and it shows how complete a food an egg is. It Is also easily digest ed, if not damaged in cooking. A raw or soft boiled egg is always as easily assimilated as Is milk, and can be eaten with Impunity by children atul invalids. The average egg weighs a thousand grains, and is worth more as food than so much beefsteak. Indeed there is no more concentrated and nourishing food than eggs. The albu men, oil aud saline mutter are, as in milk, in the right proportion for sus taining animal life. When eggs bring no more than twenty cents per dozen it is much better economy to And a market lor theui in the family than at the store. Two or three boiled eggs, with the addition of a slice or two ot toast, will make a breakfast sutllcient for a man, and good enough lor a king. An ordinary hen's egg weighs from one and a half to two ounces, a duck's egg from two to three ounces, the egg ol the sea gull aud the turkey from tiiree to four ounces, and the egg of a goose from four to six ounces. The solid matter and the oil in the duck's egg exceed those in a hen's egg by about one-fourth. According to Dr. Edward Smith, iti his treatise on "Foods," an egg weighing an ounce and three-quarters consists ot one hun dred and twenty grains ot carbon, and eighteen three-quarter grains of nitro gen, or 15 25 pei centum of cii bou and two per ceutuui of nitrogen. The value of one pound ol eggs, as food sustaining the active lorces of the body, is to the value of one pound ol lean beef as 1 584 to 000. As a flesh producer, one pouud of eggs is about equal to one pound ol beet. UUCS OK A SAND BAG. —One of the most convenient articles to be used in a sick-room is a sand bag. Get some clean, tine sand, dry it thoroughly in a kettle on a stove, make a bag about eight inches square of tlaunel, till it with dry sand, sew the opening care fully together and cover the bag with cotton ot linen cloth. This wllll pre vent the sand from silting out, and wiil also enable you to heat the bag quickly by placing it In the oven, or eqren on the top of the stove. After once using this you will never again attempt to warm the feet or hands of a sick person with a bottle of hot water or a brick. The sand holds the heat*a long time, and the bag can be .tucked up to the back without hurting the in valid. It is a good plan to make two or three of the bags and keep them ready lor use. THE following oil is recommended as an excellent compound preparation lor restoring and strengtheuing'the hair: Take of purilieu beef marrow, say lour ounces; purified lard, two ounces; concrete oil of mace, four ounces; oil of aloes, lavender, mint, rosemary sage and thyme, each two drachms; balsam of tolu, lour drachms; camphor, one drachm; alcohol, one ounce; place the alcohol in a glass mattress, and with the heat of a waim-water bath dissolve therein the balsam of tolu; add the campher and essential oil. On the other hand, melt together the marrow, lard, oil of mace, and as It congeals add the alcoholic solution made, and stir the whole until it is entirely cooled. Lubricate the head with oil once or twice every twenty-four hours. How to clean silk is of interest to all wearers. This is the French meth od, Tlic silk must be thoroughly brushed and whiped with a cloth,then laid on a Hat board or table # and well sponged with hot eofl'e e, 'thoroughly treed lrcm sediment by being strained through muslin. The silk is sponged on the side intended to show, it is al lowed to become partially dry, and then ironed on the wrong side. The coffee removes every particle of grease, and restores the brilliancy of silk,with out imparting to it either the shiny appearance orcrackly and papery stiff ness obtained by beer or indeed by any other liquid. The silk really appears thickened by the process, and this good effect is permanent. To keep a stove free lrom rust in any atmosphere you have only to rub off all the rust you can and varnish It with the common varnlsk. In the autumn when you wish to put it UD again the varnish will all burn off in a very short time and all odor from it will go with it. THE parasites which effect canaries may be got rid of by merely placing a clean white cloth over the cage at night. In the morning it will be covered with very minute red spots, almost invisible without a microscope. Those are the vermin so annoying and so fatal to the birds. IK water in which quassia chips have been boiled in is put upon the exposed parte of the body and left to dry there, mosquitoes and flies will not trouble the surface so protected. Quassia water is harmless to childi en ar. d gi own people but death to insects. LEMON ZEST. —Rub loat sugar over the surface of lemons. The friction breaks the oil-ducts and the sugar ab sorbs the oil. Put into fruit jars in the lump, or pound fine. Keep tight ly corked. This is very tine for flavor ing custards, creams 1 etc. To RAISE THE PILE ON V ELVKT. — When the pile is pressed down cover a hot smoothiDg-iron with a wet cloth, and hold the velvet firmly over It; the vapor arising will raise the pile of the velvet with the assistance of a light whisk or clothes brush. To remove lime from teakettles boil potatoes in the skins in the kettle till the deposit of lime shells off, then to keep it off boil a kettle lull once a week. A CEMENTED cistern should be left for a week or ten days for the cement to set and harden before tlie water is let in. If the bottom leaks after that the cement must have been of poor quality. To cleanse ivory ornaments, rub them well with fresh butter— i. c., with out salt—and put them in the sun shine. LAMP-SHADES of ground glass should be wasned with soda and water, which will not discolor them. WIT ANT) HUMOR. LITTLH JOHHNT got himself Into a scrape last week. De Smith, Johnny's father,does not like his mother-in-law. There is a coolness between them. One morning who should come In but Mrs. l)e Smith's mother, with a dray lull of baggage, with the avowed pur pose of staying a few months, stating that Johnny had been to her the day before and Invited her to do so. John ny's ma took Johnny aside and asked him what he meant, as he had never been requested to convey any sucb In vitation. "1 know you didn't tell me to invite grandma to come over," responded Johnny. "Then why did you do It?" "You didu't let me go to the suckus, did you?" "What has that got to do with It?" asked the irrate mother. "It's got heaps to do with It. 1 made up my mind then to bring thing to a crisis, and I've done it. We will have a suckus in the bouse now three or four times a day. "I'm a kind boy to my parents, but it wou't do to trample 011 me. I'm not much of a .Sunday school boy either, but 1 am a terror to plan." SOI. SMITH KUSSKI.I. tells the follow ing story of his experience as an en tertainer; At a small Ohio town, where he had given his performance the previous night, be met at the depot the following morning au elderly granger, who, while lie peacefully munched a huge quid of tobacco, in tently eyed the humorist and Anally said: "Say, mister, ain't you the fel low wot giu the show up to Smoot's Hall last night?" "Yets," replied Kusseli, "1 did give an entertainment at Suioot's Hall last night." "Wall, I thought you was the chap. I wanted to tell you 'bout a boy of mine; you ought to have him; he's just the fel low lor your show; he's the biggest fool I ever ess." IN a North Carolina town lately two men were disputiug about the relative merits of the salve ihey had for sale. One of the men, in order to demon strate that his salve was better than any other, cut oil' a dog's tall and ap plied a little of the salve to the stump, and. ID the presence of the spectators, a new tall grew out. But the other man, who also had salve lor sale, took up the pieee of tail that had been cast away, put a little salve at the end 01 that, a new dog grew out, and the last heard of those parties they were quar reling as to who ow ned the bicoud dog. THKKK are none as deaf as those who won't hear. "Father," said a young reprobate, pitching his voice so the old gentleman would be sure to hear, "let me have one hundred dollars ' Eh t" sall the parent, inclining his ear. "I.et me have two hnndretf dol lars V" "1 heard you quite distinctly the first time, my sou, quite distinct ly." SOM K youngster recently dropped the following note,written in a sprawl ing hand, 011 brown paper, into one of the letter-boxeh at the Post Office: "My dear rianta Ciaus: Won't you please bring me for cnsuias a nice tourch lite prossession 011 horseback so i can ride myself." • THE Kev. Mr. (we omit name foi obvious reasons) begs us to say that he has slippers enough to stock au army hospital, but that he is mighty short on toots and hats. He is not a popu lar preacher, but a very go*Kl and use -lul man. People will readily find him If they choose to hunt liiui up. There are manw of him. PKOFISSOR examing a student—What is "a virgin forest 1"' Student —A lorest where no one has ever been. Professor (severely)— Shall 1 never be able to inuuee you to express your ideas elegantly and classically V Why couldn't >ou say "a 101 est wiiere the hand of uian has never left its foot print?" IT IS a singular tact that a snow-ball thrown by a boy at a lat man misses the mark eight times out of nine, but if tired at a lamp-post every shot crushes through the glass with uner ring precision. THK water is very low in the springs and rivers all over the country, it is said that in Florida you can "Wade down upon the Suwanee River." ONK of the inexplicable phenomena of nature is the effect the emptying of a pan of ashes has in suddenly rever sing the direction of the wind. THK man who was confined in the attic of a jail swore he would bring an action against the keeper forgarroting him. "SAM, why do you wear your pants so short?" "Why my mother-in-law's dead and I'm wearing em half mast." WHY is the letter r the most hopeful in the alphabet? Because it is the end of error and the beginning of right. A CHILD seeing a bill on a telegraph post: "Oh, mamma, look! A mes sage has fallen down." WK are always told to put our best foot lorward. A mule always puts his backward, and he puts it strong. "IT'S easy enough after you get your hand in," was the reply of the crimi nal with the fetter on his wrist. WHAT IS the best way to prevent wa ter coming into your house? Don't pay your water-tax! WHY are Addison's works like a looking-glass? Because in them we see the spectator. TnE reason that they call them dog days Is because the dogs gets dazed ill the summer time. 'lll K butcher complacently smacks his chops as he meats the demands of ids customers. WHY does a dog go round and round after his tail ? Because ha can't go across lots. THK higher the bridge to a man's nose the more easily he goes to sleep In church. MANY a man who doesn't smoke in this world will have to in the next. THE sun is the oldest settler in the west. KIFLE club3—Gangs of pickpockets. A PRICKLY pair—Needles and pins. A TAKTNG person—The policeman. LAW'N order—Keep off the grass. A M-ISS Is as good as a smile. Jeff*r*on ■ Republican HI in pile It jr. With the introduction of the purely re publican ideas of Thomas Jefferson, when lie rose from the office of Vice President to that of President, the pomp of the 'court' came to an end. He abolished at once the weekly levees. Fashionable society rallied, but the great republican was inflexible— the levees were not restored. As to the dinners, he preserved the old Virginia style of free and easy hospitality. He kept at the Presidential mansion about eleven colored servants and a French cook, a French steward and an Irish coachman. His bill in the Georgetown market aver aged #. r > a day for the use of his table. The President's 'mansion' was converted into a general rendezvous and free club. No etiquette was required or observed at these dinners beyond the forms of ordinary good breeding. The whole code of procedure was abrogated. The second rule of repub lican etiquette laid down by Jefferson was this: 'When brought together in society, all are perfectly equal, whether foreign or domestic, titled or untitled, in or out of office. He further ordered that to main tain the principles of equality, or pele mele, and to prevent the growth of pre cedence out of courtesy, the members of the Executive will practice at their own houses, and recomuieud an adherence to the current usage of the country,of gentle men in mass giving precedence to Indies in mass, iu passing from one apartment into another.' The lacies of Washington re garded the abolition of the levees by Jeff erson as an invasion of their vested rights and put their pretty heads together to con sult what they were going to do about it. The result of their deliberations was coer cive, and they determined to apply it upon Mr. Jefferson. 80 on the usual day for holding the levees they took possession of the White House iu force. The President was taking his usual horseback ride. On his return he was told the circumstances. He entered the room where the fair inva ders were assembled, booted, spurred and dusty and recived thein in the most court eous and graceful manner, but the levees were ended, nevertheless. "Mr. Merry, the English Minister of this time, was a fanatic on the subject of etiquette. He was thoroughly outraged and indignant at the manner of his reception by President Jefferson. He wrote as follows to Josiah Quincy: 4 L in my official costume, found myself, at the hour he had himself ap pointed, introduced to a man as President of the United Staees not merely in an un dress, but actually standing in slippers down at the heels, and both pantaloons, cravat and underclothes indicative of an utter slovenliness and indifference to ap pearances. " A tal will not be brought up to the required temperature. They should beirequeut- Iy turned lu the fire, to insure unifor mity of temperature, and made as hot as possible without burning them. 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