The Egyptian Desert. The moment we leave the banks of the Nile, we enter a world entirely strange and new —a waterless land, without rivers, creeks, rivulets, or springe; nothing but scanty and more or less brackish wells, at long intei vals; and in the mountainous regions, some natural rocky reservoirs, where the rare rain water collects in the brief and uncertain rainy season. When the writer crossed the Eastern Desert in the fall of 1573, there had been no rain for three years; so that the lirßt thing to be provided in start ing was a supply of water sufficient to last from the Nile to the first well,and then from each well to the next. In carrying the water, the natives em ploy exclusively goat and ox skins. When a goat la killed, they cut off his head and legs at the hocks and knees; aud alter splitting the skin a short way down his breast, turn him out of his jacket by pulling it off like a stock ing. After the hide is cured, the legs are tightly tied up, leaving only the neck open ; and thus a large bottle is formed capable of holding from six to ten gallons according to the size of the defunct gcat. These water-skias, called girbehs, after a few days' use, keep the water very sweet. In the ex cessive heat of the desert, however, they lose a great quantity of their con tents by evaporation. Military trains, in addition, are supplied flatten ed zinc barrels, whose sliope is adapted lor hanging to the pack-saddles. These have screw stoppers, which prevent 111 leakage and evaporation. The wa ter carried in the gt. behs in the sun, gets quite warm, and that in the zinc barrels almost boils. As so in, there fore, as the traveler gets to camp, a potion of water is poured out into open skins and liung on tripods in the shade; then, Ui the course of half an h*ur it becomes drinkable, and by midnight Is as cold as fresh spring water. As a consequence, water in the des ert is a very preeious possession; for should the traveler find that the well on which he relied has gone dry, It may mean death to him in one of its cruel est forms. In that waterless laud, therefore, even the pious Arab abstains from his religious ablutions belore prayer, liis law* permitting him in such a case to wash his hands and feet with sand. As a rule, the water found in the scattered wells is very bad. The first thing on arriving at a well is to taste its water, and every one takes a sip, rolling it in his mouth and testing it, as epicures do rare wines. Great is the joy If it is pronounced "sweet water;" but when the guides say "not good," you know it is a strong solution of Lpsoni salts. The Arabs divide their deserts into two kinds. What they call wilderness,be ing diversitled by valleys or water eourses, where their flocks can wan der and find pasture. The second is the atmour, or desert proper, consist ing of hard gravel, diversjfled by zones of deep sands, rocky belts, and rugged defiles. It is absolutely and entirely institute of all vegetation. Xot a tree, not a bush,not a blade of grass relieves the eyes, which are painfully affected by the fierce reflection of the sunlight upon the yellow sand. Xo shade whatever is to be found, unless it is east by some great rock. These at mours, generally nine or ten days journey across, are like oceans, which you may traverse on your four-footed ship, but where you may not farryfand where caravans cross each other like vessels on the ocean. Here is a picture of a desert journey with its terrlb'e privatious and ex periences. It is now May, 1875. The sun is shining vertically over our head?. We are on the west of the !Nile, on the desolate atmours which seperate the river from the hardly less barren plains of Kordofan. A more parched, blasted, and blighted coun try than it is at this period, cannot be conceived. It is the enl of the dry season, and half of the rare wells are exhausted; aud tho?e which are not, fuin'sed only a scanty supply of brackish water at temperatures oi eighty degrees or more. The deeper the walls, the warmer the water. The marshes are perfectly terrible, and yet it is worse to halt during the day than to keep moving; for under the tents the heat redoubles as in a hothouse, making it irnpo sible to nst or sleep. Tuus we march from earliest dawn often till night; lor we must make the distance between the wells before our water gives out. On the burning sand the sun beats down with a fierceness which cannot be described. The bar rel of your gun, the stirrup of your s dJle, blister your hand and your foot. The thermometer rises to a hun dred and fifty degrees in the sun; and in spite of the protection of your white helmet, a heavy silk scarf over it, and the umbrella you carry, your skin peels off in blisrers, and yonr brain almost boils in your skull. Thlnga Worth Knowing. That boiling water will remove tea stains and many fruit stains; pour the water through the stain, and thus pre vent ft from spreading over the fabric. That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white cloth; also from the hands. That a teaspoonful af turpentine, boiled with white clothes,will aid the whitening process. Tiiat boiled starch is much improved by the addition of a little spermaceti or a little salt, or both, or a little gum arable dissolved. That beeswax and salt will make flat-irons as clean and smooth as glass; tie a lump of wax in a rag, and keep it lor that purpose; when the irons are hot, rub them with the wax rag,then scour with a paper or rag sprinkled with salt. That kero sene will soften boots or shoes which have te?n hardened by water, and render them as pliable as when new. That kerosene will make tin tea-ket tles as blight as new; saturate awool tn rag and rub with it; it will also remove stains from clean varnished furniture. FARM AND GARDEN* ERGOT IN GRASS—An Investigation in New York, in order to ascertain the cause of frequent diseases among neat cattle in winter time, has been ex amining various grasses, and finds that ergot not infrequently exists among them. ''June grass" (poa proteusis) he says, when allowed to remain un cut until late In the seas in, contains no inconsiderable quantity, dindlar gras ses, especially the well-known "Whit etop," ( Dauthonia Spicata) Is often made poisonous by its presence. This grass is bad enough its best estate, having so small a quantity of phos phoric add as to beineauable of sup porting life tor a long period, but when to its innutritions substance is added a poison, the result ot feeding it is disease and death. The ergot is a sort of accumulative poison, taking possession of the system and gradually but surely bringing disease. This dauthonia is very prevalent 011 exhausted soils, where no nutritious feed can grow, because the soil has no material of which to manufacture nu tritious products. Hence the truthful ness of the remark of the unlettered couutrymau who said be had found thai manure would kill whitetop "deader'n thunder." Soils producing this variety of grass generally in ed an application dissolved bone, or fine ground bono meal,powdered Charleston reck, bone black, or somothing that will supply the wanting element, phosphoric acid. Hence our well made superphosphates are profitable when applied to such soils. Hut ground boue would be more economical, for that contains a higher percent of the needed material, and is usually cheaper per ton. it the larinor would haye healthy animal-, those that have smooth coats 111 the spring time, those ttiat will not oat up his lences aud gnaw down Ins barns, let him feed such substances as posseas phosphoric acid In abundauce, e ttier hay or other fodder grown 011 pluspha'.ed land, or the raw material as it exists in powdered bone. POULTRY MANURE. —Poultiy manure is by tar ihe most valuable lertiltzer proaueed on farms. Fowls eat con centrated lood that is rich and nitro gen and phosphorus, end their drop pings partake ot the nature of the food they devour. Grain, the seeds of small plants, meat, and insect produce, wheu decomposed hy the action 01 the digestive apparatus, richer fertil'z ng material than grass, hay. and straw. Besides, birds yokl their urine in a solid form, and combined with the excrement, that is usual.y solid. As a consequence it Is not liable to be wasted if the manure is rightly cared for. Poultry manure is about as valuable as the best Peruvian guano. To make it of the highest value as a fertilizer, however, it must be stored, and applied to the ground with care. Kxpoted to the weather it will be dis solved by rain and carried off. lhaeed iu large heaps it heats and the am monia is driven oil'and lost. Applied to the soil in too liberal quantities, es pecially when fresh, it is liable to des troy Hie vitality of seeds and to kill delicate plants. It should be stored in a dry place and in comparatively small lots so it will not be injured by moisture and not ferment, it is bet.er to mix it with dried peat, road dui, or some other substance that w ill aid iu keeping it dry and tend to arrest fermentation. The best results attend its use when it is well beaten up and very thoroughly mixed with these substances belore it is applied to the soil. Lime and ashes should be kept from it. as they would act upon it in such a manner as to liberate ammonia. PERIODICAL OPTHALMIA, OR MOON BLINDNESS.—This disease, to which horses are subject, is caused by con stitutional disposition, or by the pun gent vapors winch 1111 the air of un clean stables. It appears as a bluish cloud in the center of the eye, the cor ner which gradually thickens, and an increasing inflammation of the whoie organ uniil the horse Is unable to see, when the inflammation is resolveu into a liee discharge, the film dis appears, and temporaiy relief is ob tained lor three or four weeks more. Each attack is worse than the pre ceding one, until a cataract is formed and permanent blindness occurs. The treatment is to remove the causes, to avoid any irii ating c reunistances, to give a fuU dose of sal s twelve 10 sixteeu ounces, (two ouuce do-es are useless,) and wnen the fever is re lieved to maintain good health by the best of feeding, not using much corn, but more bran and linseed, and by strengthening the eyes by cold bath ing and the occasional use of a lotion 01 one grain of sulphate of zinc in one ouuce of rain-water, a little of which should be put in the eyes. PACKING SOFT FRUITS. —The London Journal of Horticulture says quite as much pleasure has been felt upon being informed of the satisfactory condition of soft fruits after a journey, as In winning a well-contested pr r ze at a flower show. The plan which has proved perfectly successful,and which is new invariably followed whenever fruit Is sent by rail, is to wrap each bunch of grapes or fruit of ether kinds in soft tissue pi par, surrounding It wilh a slight pa<'dinv of wheat bran as the fruit Is p'aced side by side in the box. The paper Is put upon the fruit in plain folds, and not twisted into hard corners, which may press into the fruit and spoil It. Much care is taken to have each fruit thoroughly enveloped in bran, which is al.-o set tled into as compact a mass as possible by slightly jarring each box uj on the packing ben h alter the first layer is put in, and when it is quite full a sheet of paper is put upon the bran and the hinged lid closed by hooks and eyelets of copper wire, and securely corded. If this excellent old method is only done correctly all risk of failure is avoided. BREAKING HORSES. —The wild horse, as well as others, at the Falkland Is lands, are often broken in by tying them with a raw-hide halter to a post, and leaving tlem for several days without food or wafer. After long ineffectual struggles to break loose, the animals become entirely con vinced of the ab.-olute power over them of the halter, and in futme be come cowed and docile directly a hal ter or lasso is over their heads. The wild horses when broken in, are very tame and quiet to ride. 1 was astonished at the facilitv with whiih tt e F< lkland I land ho se • obey the rein. Tnere Is no necessity as a rule, to make them feel the bit at all, in order to turn them. Merely h .ymg the part of the reins i 1 >se to the hand against that side of the neck from which they are wanted to turn is snfficient. Well-broken horses can be turntd round and in a circle by this means by a gentle touch on the neck only. It in considered by M. Perisse that it is a.mi st certain that the ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians used steel, il, indeed, they din not make it. DOMESTIC. How TO MAKK A POULTICK.—Dr. Brunton gives the following useful hints 011 this subject: The common practice of making poultices by mix ing linseed meal with hot water and applying It directly to the skin Is quite wrong, because if we do not wish to burn the patient we must wait until a great portion of the heat has been lost. The prope- method is to make a flannel bag, the size of the poultice required, to till this with the linseed poultice, as hot as It can pos sible be made, ami put between this and the skin a second flannel, so there shall be at least two thicknesses of flannel between the skin and the poul tice itselt. Above the poultice should he placed more flannel, or a piece of cotton wool, to prevent It from get ting cold. By this method we are able to apply the linseed meal boiling hot, without burning the patient, and the heat, gradually diffusing through the flannel, aifords a grateful sense ol relief, which cannot be obtained by other means. There are few ways in whi'fii such marked relief Is given to abdominal pain, as by the application ofa poultice In tins maimer. HOMK-MAUK CANDY—AII children are loud of candy,and if pure a model - ate amount is not injurious. In these days of adulteration, that made at home is safest to give them. It is a simple mat er to make ehooolate carea inels; all that, is needed is one cup ol sweet milk, one cup ol molasses, half a cup of sugar, half a cup of grated chocolate, a piece ot butier ttie size of a walnut; stir constantly and let It boil until it is thick, then turn it out 011 to buttered plates; when it begins to stiffen, mark it in .-qua res, so that it will break readily when cold. Cocoa nut caramels are made of two cups of grated cocoannt, one cup ol sugar,two lablespooutuls of flour, the whites ot time eggs beaten still'; bake 011 a but tered paper in a quick oven. Nice white candy is easily made. Ja .0 one quart of granulated one pint of waitr; two tabiespoontuls 01 vii boil just as you do molasses candy, Lui do not st'r it; yon can te 1 when it is done by trying it in cold water. Full it us if it w ro molasses canny; have a disli near by wiih some vanilla in l>, and work in enough to flavor4l as you pull; put It in a Ccid room, aud the next day you will have del cious candy. BAKKD 11AM.— Lay the ham In a large pan, cover it with plenty ol cold water. Let it soak over night. Hub it often next morning and c ut oft' all the bard, black, scrappy pans. Pat it in o a hard enogh boiler, cover it with plenty of coUl water and let it hear gradually. Keep it steadilv boiling once it begins. Remove the coarse scum from the water, A good-sized ham should be il five hours slowly, 'lry it with a knitting needle to see If It is done. Remove it from the boiler, skin it and put it back in the water to get cold, ltreabsoibs some of the Juice from the water, and all remains of boiled meats and poultry should be set aside It r next uay In liquor they were cooked in, to prevent their get ting dry. Put your well-boiled ham in the oven to brown. Let the outer fat begin to crisp a little: stick in a few cloves over It and then cover either with Hue bread crumbs or with a thick layer of brown sugar. This ougnt to make a line glaze. Airs. Partington Say*. Don't take any of the quack rostrums, as they are regimental to the human cistern; but pat your trust in Hop Bitters, which will cure general dilap idation, costive habits and all comic diseases. They saved I suae from a severe extract of tripod fever. They are the ne plus unum of medicine. CFAMI'S. —When the cramp is in the calces of the leg , draw up the foot stroiigly toward the shin lone and in a few seconds the cramp will disap pear. When ihey are in the thighs or aims tie a towel, eord or handker ehie around the limb, jut above the cramped part and then rub this part with the naked hand alone* or using some stimulat ng liniment like spirits of camphor, or red peppered whisky. The preparation may also be rubbed upon the neck when cramps attack this part. Cramps in the stomach may be checked by lirst strongly rubbing and kneading over the stomach an i then rubbing upon and arounl the pic of he stomach; a mixture ot equal parts ot sweet oil or linseed oil, etsence ol peppei-niht, 1 ludanum and spirits of camphor. BRIDE'S CAKE. —Two cups of sugar, one-half cup of buitcr, the whites of five eggs beaten to a stiff froth, one cup cold water: Mix well together; then add three cups of fljur Into which one teaspoon of soda and two oi cream of tartar have been stirred; beat briskly for two minutes; flavor with almond and baks in a quick ove.i; frost the top. ANGEL PUDDING. —Two ounces of butter, ball'a pint of milk, two eggs, lemon ; melt the butter and mix with the sugar, then eggs, milk and flour; mix well and bake in small patty pans until nicely browned; sift a little powdered sugar over each pudding and serve with slices of lemon, bend to the table on a dish covered with a serviette. THE CREAM FOR THE INSIDE OF THE PIE. —One and one half cups milk, when boiling add seven teaspi ons corii->tareh wet with cold milk; let it scald a moment, then add two well beaten eggs; sweeten to taste, and 11 tvor wliji lemon or vanilla, Split the cake when cold, gprcad them with the cream, and put togethor again like jelly cake. HOT SLAW.—Cut the cabbage fine anu in long pieces, but do not otiop It —use a sharp knife. 801 l for thirty minutes in enough water to co?er it over, season with one teaspoon of flour, s.ir in one egg and put in one large teaspoonful ut sour cra n, with pepp r and salt. This is for two quaris oi raw cut cabbage. HICCUP OR HICCOUGH,may frequent ly be relieved by drinking a glass of cold water; by taking snutt' in order ♦ o sneeze; by holding the breath as log as possible; by some person pres ing upon the collar bones of the patient as hard as he can, or by drink ing a smail teaspoonful of dili seed. HEARTBURN. —Take one draught of the following m xture: A tei spoonful of saleratus, chalk and magnesia in a half tumbler of warm water. Heart burn is -caused by acidity of the stomach, and after being relieved will continue to return until the stomach is strengthened. Patients should be particularly careful not to overfeel themselves or drirk excessive quanti ties ot wines. WIT AND HUMOR. "IT IS a great thin* to see the spirit ual truth that all nature symbolises," said she. "So It la," said he. "And yet enjoyment Is darkened by a terrible shadow," said she "Hay?" he inquired. "A terrible shadow." she repeated, "that easts a depressing reflection upon the most exuberant soul." "Yes,"replied he, "I've felt It,when I've been short on spare ribs." "On what ?" she anxiously inquired. "On spare ribs." "But you should be philosophical, you should Imitate .Pythagoras." "Who was he?" "He was a philosopher, an antl epi curean, but he did not go so far as the stoics." "Where did they go?" asked the Board of Trade man, and, gHzlng at him in amazement, his wild Western way began to dawn upon the culchaw ed mind of the Boston girl, and she said: "Take mo to ma-ma." INauliville Daily News.) Terrible. Such Is the term Mr. C. W. Purcell, of the National Stock Yards, Chicago, 111., applies to hU sufferings. He says : "I for one, wish to sneak a word of praise for St. Jacob's Oil. I suffered with a pain in my shoulder and arm for some six months and at times it was terrible. One bottle of St. Jacob's Oil, however, cured me thoroughly. Tim oilier day a genuine trauip with a stomach yearning for a picked-up nioal undertook to enter a yard on Winter street. A large, fierce dog stood at the gate to give him a hostile welcome, and alter vainly trying to propitiate the animal the tramp called to a lad of ten who wag making a kite on the veranda. "Hey, sonny"' "Yes, I'm hay," was the reply. "►Say, bub, call ofl yer dog." "No use—no use," replied the lad. "Even If you got in fiere ma's waiting at the kitchen door with a kettle ol hoi water, Sarah's working the tele phone to git the police, and I'm here to holler "Murder!" and wake up the whole street I" Two 1 oys from Lexington,Kentucky recei.t y hU cetded in making a parrot talk through a telephone. The parrot didn't understand where the "Pretty Polly" that be heard came from, but he lepited "l'jlly wants a cracker'' in such a loud voice that the boy at the distant end of the line heard it dis tinctly. The pai rot's cage was sus pended over the instruim n , so that his head was near the ear and mouth pieces. lllarimburg, (Pa ) Independent.] For five years, says Mr. J, Echter, thiscltv,! have been afllicted with rheu matism, and fjr two years have had a sore on my leg the size of a silver dollar, which nothing would heal. St. Jacob's Oil cured the rheumatism and healed the sore. Jlxv. MK. I'IIH.H was once called upon 10 uiarrv a man to hit* lourih wife. As he approached the couple, he said: "Please to rise." The man wriggled about his chair a mouiei t an i iiia y spoke We've usually soil" "TUKKK, that explains where my clothes line went to," exclaimed an lowa woman, as she found her hus buiul Hanging n the stable. "RULER ruin," as the boy taid when he threw the te. cin r's ierule into the stove. TUK man who waxes strong every day—The shoemaker. A CIXSK shave —IVo per cent, per month. Vegetine. Six BoKles Every Spring, SICK HEADACHE. MINNIAPOLIS. Dec. 10, 187 S. H.R.STEVENS. Boston: DKAR SIK. —I had been troubled with Sick Headache as often AS once a week for twenty years up 10 March. 1975. when I thought I would try Veg. tine, i took -tx bottles and have been troubled but verv little since. I have recom mended Vegetine to others with the same good results. I taka a half dozen bottles every spring which keeps me all right through the year. By so doing tt cleanse, my blood and fortltles my system against disease for the year. Yours very resp'y, S. J. SfIKKMAN. Dispensing Druggist, 4if4 Nlcolet AV. MINNEAPOLIS, Dec 11, 1878. 11. R. STEVENS, Boston: Everybody goes for Vegetlne. It sells like hot cake-. CKOSsMAN A PLI'MMER, Druggists, Cor. Nlcolet Av. and Second St. * Ches life Rest and a Cood Appetite. MANSKIRLD, OHIO, Dec. 14, 1878. 11. R. STEVENS, Boston: DKAHSIK,—I have been anileted with Rheu matism ror twenty years. I heard a great deal about Vegetine, and was recommended by a physic an or this city to take the Vegetlne. 1 was so t bat 1 could not walk. Al-o had a terri ble swelling in the leg, and I wan cured by the Vegetlne. Before taking Vegetine I was rest lexs, and could not sleep, since taking It, It has given me rest and a good appetite. I can highly recommend It for what It has done for me. MISS K. A VANTILBI RO, Short st. Vegetine. IS THE BEST SPRING MEDICINE. Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists. CVf All PHY iB alarming! 'n- OifliVl-jIJ A. 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It will cure entirely the wont form of Ft-uiato Com plaint*, *ll orarlan troubles, Inflammation and Ulcera tion, Palling ami IHaplaceiuenta, and tho con*ev|ueut Spinal Weakness, aud la | to die by four prominent IJ iihrsii'iatui aud that lis was afterwards cured by H Kidney-WorL H M. M. B. Goodwin, nrvedttor In Chardon, Ohlr>,|J savs he wss n.it expected to live, being bloateu beyood belief, hut Kidney-Wort curedliim. ■■ Anna I, Jurrett of South Salem. N. Y., saysLJ that Keren real . sutTering from kidney troublesH and other c.uiiphcatious was ended by the use of Kidney -Win t. |J John B Uwrsnrs of Jackson, Tenn.. suffered ■ for yenrsfroui liver ami kidney troubles am HE after taking "iMtrrels of other medicines,"L Kiduey Wort made him well. Mieha-I Colo of Moil g' mery Center, Vt ,H suffered eight yeaiH with kliiner dilticiilly am EY wss unable to work. 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