AGRICULTURAL.
OLD SCYTHES MADE USEFUL - -A. J. F.
Howard writes: "Having, like almost
every other farmer, a number of old rcytht s,
some of which are not much worn, and
having last winter a little leisure, I made
some very useful and handy tools, and
without any outlay. To make a bill hook
I cut off 20 inches of the point of an old
scythe, leaving 15 inches for the blade.
The handle is made by cutting away the
edge or blade part of the scythe, leaving
the back, around which cloth was wound,
until it was of sufficient size, when it was
covered with leather. For a drawing knife,
which I tlnd useful in making haudies to
tools, etc., I use 24 inches of an old
scythe, 12 inches for the blade, and 6
inches at each end for the handles. With
a cold chisel I cut away the blade portion
of the ecythe at the ends, and bent the
back which can be done without heating.
The handles may be made of cloth aud
leather, as tor the bill hook, or of wood. A
huife for paring apples, cutting turnip tops,
aud many other uses. This is made from
the end of a scythe, 4 inches for the blade.
1 cut the back of the scythe entirely away,
ming only the thin part, then took a piece
of wood —an old broom handle will do —
and with a liue saw 1 made a cut in the end
to admit the end of the blade, whick was
fastened on by rivets. A chopping kuife
for cutting meat, apples, etc. For this
kuife 1 used 12 inches of the middle of a
scythe, leaving 4 inches for the cutting
surface in the centre of the piece. The 4
inches on each end had the blade removed,
and were turned at right angles to the cen
tral portion, with the ends passing iuto a
wooden haudle." But very few tools are
required in making the articles above de
scribed, and any farmer, during a raiuy day
or two, may construct tbern from an old
scythe, and at no outlay of money.
THE AGE OF FOWLS. —If a hen's spur is
hard and Hie scales on the legs rough, sue
is old whether you see her head or not, but
her head will corroborate your observatiou.
If the under bill is so stiff that you cauuot
bend it down, aud the comb thick and
rough, no matter how fat aud plump, leave
her for some one less particular. A vouug
hen has the rudiments of spurs; the scales
ou the legs are smooth, glossy and fresh
colored, whatever the color may be; the
claws tender and short, the nails sharp, the
under bill soft and the comb thiu and
smooth. An old hen turkey has rough
scales on the legs, callosities on the soles of
the feet, and long strong claws; a youug
one the reverse ot all those marks. When
the on the old turkey cock has
a long tuft or beard; a young one but a
sprouting one; ai d when they are ofl the
smooth scales on the legs decide the point,
besides the difference in the size of the
wattles of the neck and in the elastic shoot
upon the Dose. An old goose, when alive,
is known by the roufh legs, the strength of
the wings, particularly at the pinions, the
thickness and strength of the bill, and the
fineness of the feathers ; and when plucked
by the legs, the tenderness of the skin
under the wings, by the pinions and bill,
and the coarseness of the skin. Ducks are
distinguished by the same means, but there
is the difference that a duckling's bill is
much longer in proportion to the breadth of
its head than the old duck's.
WHAT SIZE TREES TO BUY. —Purchasers
of trees oiten make the mistake of suppos
ing that the larger the tree bought the
greater the gain. Nurserymen, who of all
men should know as to this, say that there
is absolutely nothing gained by buying
large trees. This applies of course in a
general sense. If a tree could be removed
every few years, so as to have an abundance
of fibrous, or small roots, there would be
no check on removal, and such a tree would
become to* large to move profitably.
J&egeaer&l run of trees are not treated
thus, and so, the larger the trees the less
likely is it to have many roots, and as a
consequence the tree must either be pruned
back severely, or let alone to make a weak
growth, and perhaps die. The best way is
to get a medium tree, treat it well, and it
will give far more satisfaction than a large
one would have without much doubt.
A GOOD garden is one of the best invest
ments a farmer can make, paying both in
pleasure and in profit. Not a stingy little
garden, to furnish greens for the chickens,
but a broad well kept garden, with every
thing planted in long rows that may be
kept clean by the frequent use of a cultiva
tor. Let this garden be filled with all the
improved varieties of garden sauce that
shall add to the relish and digestibility, and
force-giving value of the tanner's table.
Plant sweet corn every two weeks for a
succession.
A TEASPOGNFUL of powdered charcoal, a
quart of bran, and refuse from the table,
mixed and moistened with water, are the
ingredients of a capital egg-producing food
for hens.
ONE good farmer says that he purchases
in the summer his mill feed for his stock,
when it is cheaper than it is in the winter.
A Japanese Bronze Worker. —The
most skilful bronze worker in Japan, and
one of the most skilful of workers in metal
that Japan has ever possessed, is said to be
a Kiyoto artisan named Zoroku. His spe
cialty is inlaying with silver and gold, an
art which he carries to such perfection that
h s pieces are scarcely distinguishable from
the che/8-d'cem re of the Min period. What
one sees on going into his atelier is a very
old man—some 65 or 70—petrmg through
a pair of huge horn spectacles at a tiny in
cense-burner or still tinier flower vase,
from whose frets and diapers lie is paring
away with marvelous patience, an almost
imperceptible roughness or excrescence.
Beside him winter and summer alike,
stands a brazier with a slow charcoal
fire, over which an iron netting supports
one or two bronze vessels similar to that
he holds in his hand. Plainly these bronzes
are being subjected to a slow process of
baking, and if you watch for a moment,
marveling at the purpose of a proceeding
which s ems only calculated to mar the fair
surface of the metal, you shall presently
see the old man dip a feather into a vessel
filled with greenish liquor, and touch ihe
heated bronze here and there with the
most delicate and dexterous care. This
liquid is acetate of copper, and this patent
process, which you see repeated perhaps
twenty or thirty times during a visit of
twice as many minutes, will be continued
in the same untiring fashion for a half a
year to come, after which a month's rub
bing and polishing will turn out a bronze
rich in green and russet tints that might,
and indeed must, you would fancy, have
been producd by centuries of slowly toiling
time.
From a telegraphic dispatch it appears
that a Favre secondary battery was sent
charged to Glasgow, Scotland, aDd tested
with astonishing results by Sir. Wm.
Thompson and others. Before saying any
thing about the actual or prospective merits
of this apparatus here and now, it is thought
best to await the arrival of printed accounts
of what the Glasgow physicists have done
with it and what they observed.
The moon , though apparently as large
as the sun, is in reality the smallest heaven
ly body visible to the unaided eye. Her
diameter is 2164 miles.
DOMESTIC.
MOTH KILLERS. —The aromatic preserva
tives which have been used from time im
memorial are of a character not at all de
stined to kill, but merely to annoy the
pests. Camphor, pepper, naphtha, car
bolic acid, etc., are efficacious in prevent
ing the moth laying its eggs within scent
ing distance of the odois, but none of 'liese
will destroy the eggs already laid or the
larva; developed from them. On the other
hand, arsenic, alum, soaps, shaving pow
der, potash and common salt will usually
kill the eggs m the incipient or primeval
condition of transformation, and the larvie
are also invariably exterminated by them.
There are many Kinds of mixtures used,
but their practical effect is not satisfactory.
The substauces which hinder the laying ot
eggs are preferable, perhaps, to those
which will kill the larviu, ou the principle
that 44 au ouuee of prevention is worth a
pound of cure." It is the odorous sub
stances, solely, which take effect upon the
moth; coal tar, for instauce. The most
successful moth-destroying compouud is
naphtha, a constituent of coal tar of a pun
gent, disagreeable odor. It evaporates
slowly, ami. used in ordinary quantities,is
not injurious to the health. Neither is it
injurious to the fabric to which it is ap
plied. Nupluha, in its unvarnished oou
dition, is one of the best extirpator kaowu
to entomological scieuce, aud can be suc
cessfully used where oilier expedients fail.
How TO BOIL AND STEW. —To do either
the food must be immersed at the begin
ning in actually boiiiug water, and the
water must be allowed to reach the boiling
point again immediately, aud to boil for
live minutes. Tue action of the boiling
water upon the surface of either meat or
vegetables is to harden it slightly, enough
to prevent the escape of either juice oi
mineral salts. After the pot containing the
food has begun to boil the second time, it
should be removed to the side of the fire
and allowed to siu.mer until it is done.
This simmering or stewing extracts all the
uutricious qualities of either meat or vege
tables. The pot should be kept closely
covered uulesa for a moment wheu it is
necessary to remove the scum. The steam
will condense upon the inside of the cover,
and fall back into the pot m drops of mois
ture. If the boiling is alow, do not think
that rapid boiling cooks faster than the
gentle process recommended. After the
pot once boils you cau not make its con
tents cook any faster if you have fire
enough under it to run a steam engine.
Remember if you boil meat hard and fast
it will be tough and lastless, and most of
its goodness w ill go up the rhiuiney or out
the Window with the steam.
To MAKE CREAM SAUCE FOR PUDDING.—
To make a bowlful of cream sauce take a
piece of butter the size of a small egg and
beat it up with powdered sugar until it is
a light ci earn. Then set it aside.
Then into a snail tin saucepan
put a coffee cupful of water, and add to it
a teaspoouful ot flour mixed io a little wa
ter. Cook this thoroughly until it is like
thin starch. Then take up the butter and
sugar mixture, and, wnile you are beating
it energeticaly, let some one pour into It
slowly and gradually the hot flour-3auce.
If the beatrng is no: stopped for a moment
the whole sauce will rise and be foamy as
sea-froth. Flavor with wine, brandy or
vanilla, as preferred. This is the best
sauce made. Potato flour is sometimes
ust-d instead of wheat flour.
To GIVE PINE AN OAK COLOR —Wash
the wood caretully in a solution of cop
peras dissolved in strong lye, in the pro
portion of a pound of copperas to a gallon
of lye ; when the wood is dry after having
been thus thoroughly saturated with this
wash, oil it, and it will look fresh and nice
for a year or two, when it cau lie restrained
and again oiled. Often, when not subject
ed to hard usage, the color will remam uu
dinimed for several years, only requiring
to be oiled occasionally. The color may
be put on with a short bristled brush, or,
the hands being protected with thiu buck
skin gloves, the wash may be applied with
a cloth, which will saturate the wood more
evenly. It will blister the hands if they
are not protected.
CLAM SOUP. —Boil three minutes a quart
of clams with their liquor and a pint of
water. Strain them, take off the beards
and return to the fire the hard portions aud
the liquor. Add two or three spi igs of
parsley, a small piece of onion, a blade of
mace and a little thyme. Let it cook
slowly for half an hour. Cook together
in a saucepan a piece of butter the size of
sn egg and a large tablespoon of flour. Add
to this when done a pint of hot rich milk,
then the clam liquor strained, then the soft
parts of the clams which you have reserv
ed. Season with salt and cayenne pepper,
let the whole become well mixed ami
serve.
HICKORY-NUT cookies which will delight
the souls or stomachs of children are easily
made. Take two cups of sugar, two eggs,
half a cupful of melted butter, six table
spoonfuls of milk, or a little more than a
third of a cup, one teaspoonful of cream
of tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda, one
cup of chopped meats stirred into the
dough.
WHEN cooking asparagus be sure to put
salt in the water; put in almost enough to
season it with. The asparagus will cook
quicker and be more tender. A solution
of salt and water bwils at a higher tempera
ture than water alone ; consequently a lit
tle salt should be added to the water in
which any vegetable is cooked.
THE little boxes of thin wood which are
used to carry butter or lard in, when cov
ered with cambric or silk, make pretty
work boxes, Small peach baskets, paint
ed and lined with a bnght color, are orna
mental and convenient, beside affording
the satisfaction which comes from making
something from nothing.
A TEASPOONFUL of black pepper will pre
vent gray or buff linen from spotting, if
stirred into the water in which they are
washed. It will also prevent the colors
running, when washing black or colored
cambrics, or muslins, and the water is not
injured by it, but just as soft as before the
pepper was put in.
BY omitting shortening -that is, both
butter and lard—from any good fried cake
recipe, and using in place of it a cup of
sweet milk, the cakes will be light and al
most entirely free from grease. Take care
to have the lard in which they are fried
very hot.
A LUMP of bread about the size of a
billiard ball, tied up in a linen bag and
placed m the pot in which greens are boil
ing, will absorb the gases which often
times send such an unpleasant odor to the
regions above.
To keep your knives and forks from
rusting, make a flannel bag, stitch from top
to bottom, an inch and a half apart, a
dozen times, making a receptacle for each.
Boil and keep in a dry place.
WIT AND HUMOR.
A CERTAIN Galvestot iah was not expected
to live. He had a neighbor with whom he
hail been on bad terms for many years, and
after whose condition he made inquiry of
a mutual friend when he heard of the ill
ness.
"I'm glad to see you feel" a kindly in
terest in him, but 1 am afraid he is sinking
fast," responded the mutual friend.
"He is. Is lief Well, i am not sur
prised, 1 always thought that was about
the direction lie would go when he died."
THERE is a certain Galveston family that
does not attend church as regularly as they
should, but they send the oldest boy every
Sunday to keep up appearances. Last Sun
day the head of the family said : "Go
dress yourself boy; it's time for you to go
to church." "I would like to know," re
spouded the boy, sulkily, "why 1 am the
only one iu this family who lias got to be
religious ?" "Because you need it most,
you scoundrel—that's why !" thundred the
stern parent, feeling for the young mar
tyr's hair.
(IndmnaiioiiH, itiihaim. Farmer.)
Evrrvlioily Kltflit.
When every one says a "tiling is so, it
must be so." On this point Mr. A. 11.
Lyman, Druggist, Manistee, Mich., writee:
Every one who tries St. Jacob's Oil, says
that it is the best .remedy ever used for
rheumatism. Mr. White, a customer,
after having employed every known spec
ific for rheumatism was cured by St.
Jacob's Oil.
A CONTEMPORARY lias been asked: "Can
a man belong to a brass band and be a
Christian?" It replies : "We see no im
pediment in the way. But if he is a
member of a brass band, and is given to
practising on a cornet or trombone at home
it is a very diffi :uit tiling for the nun liv
ing next door to be a Christian.
A STORY is told of an old gentleman who
always took uotes of his mini iter's sermons,
and ou one occasion read them to the
minister himself. "Stop, stop!" said he,
at the occurrence of a certain sentence ; "1
didn't say that." '1 know you didn't,"
was the reply; "I put that iu myself to
make sense."
DAUGHTER —"WeII, mother, when 1
grow up, 1 shall have my boots as 1 want
them." Mother—"Tea, my dear, I sus
pect when you get older you will walk
yourself iuto the grave." Daughter—
"Perhaps I may, but, anyway, 1 shall look
well while I'm walking there."
4 TM always disgusted at these round
dances," remarked the elderly Miss Wall
flower at the ball. "I thiuk it not only
very stupid, this hugging and twirling
around, but a wicked waste of time." Said
Fogg, sot to voce , "Ncbody to hug her
poor thing. Anybody who attempted it
would And it a waist of time, I guess."
[Fall River, (Mass.) Daily Herald.]
Barnard !iinuUctarm{ Company.
Mr. Isaac L. llart. Superintendent, No.
8 Ashton street, says : 1 l ave used that
superior remedy, SL Jacob's Oil in a se
vere case of rheumatism in my arm, aud
its effect was wonderful, having banished,
after a thorough trial, all paiu leaving uiy
arm as well as ever.
M. FEBRE, a French naturalist, says that
the wasp is endowed with more cunning
than any other insect on wings We dou't
see anything so very cunning in a wasp
lifting a mauoff a bench in a park. An
earthquake does the same thing, and makes
no pretensions to fun.
LAST evening a Whitehall chap, dressed
in his liest clothes aud lavender pants, was
on his way to see his sweetheart, when an
old bell wether went for him and butted
him head over heels iuto a mud puddle.
His visit was postponed on account of
the wether.
ELECTRICITY, it is now claimed, can be
condensed and bottled the same as beer.
Ttie next great discovery will be that one
drop of it will blow the worst case of colic
to pieces in Ave seconds. Before giviug
it to a baby place the infant in a strong
iron box so that the fragments can be saved
for burial.
MAJOR, I see two cocktails carried to
your room every morning, as if you had
some one to drink with." 44 Yes, sir ; one
cocktail makes me feel like another man,
and of course I'm bound to treat the other
man.
A. Loliitr Joke.
A prominent physician of Pitt9burg said
jokingly to a lady patient who wasjcomplain
ing of her continued ill health, and of his
inability to cure her, "try Hop Bitters! '
The lady took it in earnest and n ed the
Bitters, from which she obtained perma
nent health. She now laughs at the doc
tor for his joke, but he is not so well
pleased with it as it cost, him a good pa
tient.
SOME people are very hard to convince,
"Why, I thought you were dead," said a
gentleman to a neighbor.
"Well, you see the report was false,"
was the rejoinder.
"I don't know about that," continued
the man of obstinacy. "The person who
told me never yet deceived me, and I
can't say as much for you."
"DON'T give your arm to a man—take
his. If you let him take yours he will
give your arm many a loving squeeze and
twist that he should have no opportunity
of doing." "Ob, yes, just because you're
married and settled down you don't wj*it
the other girls to have auy fun. That's
always the way.
"SHALL I read you a pretty story, Ef
fie?" "Has it got a moral in it 9" "Yes,
darling." "Then, Mumsey, I'd rather
not. A story with a moral is like jam
with a powder in it 1"
A POOR copving-clerk at the French Min
ister of the Interior was lately asked what
place he occupied there. "Oh, a very good
place," he replied—"between the stove
and the window 1"
Ilabitual CofttlvciU'H*
is the bane of nearly every Amer can woman.
From it unuailv arsei those disoid r < that so
surely undermine their health aud strength.
Every woman owei it to herself and to her
family to use that c -lebrated medicine Kidnev-
Wort. It is tne cure r< rnedy for c intipation,
and for all disorders of ttie kidneys and liver,
lry it in liquid or drv form Equally efficient
in either. Boston Sunday Budget.
You can tell a merciful farmer as soon
as he stops his team at a post. He takes
the blanket off his wife's lap and spreads
it over the poor horses.
PUT a rich man on mule -back and tbe
mule will throw him just as quickly as he
would a beggar.
LIKE the dog in the manger, the nose is
above kissing and is always ready to in
terfere with the kissing ot others.
A SLIVER in your hand is worse than
two thousand in the hand of your friend.
Vegetlne
Cured Iler.
HKLLRVOTC, Kv.
DR. H. It. STEVENS —Peak Sik: I must stats
that your Vegetlne iieseW to be called a valuable
blood purlfler, renovator ami Invigorator of the
whole ay at cm. My wife Buffered for a length of
time with a scrofula sore ou the leg. She took
several bottles of Vegetlu®. 'I he reaulta were
surprising; It cured ner, while all the former
remedies failed to give satisfaction.
Respectfully, T. F. 1 HICK.
1 know the above to be true.
11KN It Y W KKTIIM EI Kit,
Druggist and Apothecary, 13 Monmouth St
Vegetlne For eradicating all linpurittea of the
blood from the avsteiu, It has no equal. It has
never failed to effect a cure, giving lone and
strength to the system debilitated by disease.
Vegetine.
Purifies the lllootl.
BOSTON, Mass., .lan. 18,1877.
MR. n. R. STF.VENS—Dear Kir: I have been
using Vegetlne for some tune with the grealest
satisfaction, and can highly recommend it as a
great cleanser and purifier of the blood.
* J. L. HANAFORD.
Pastor of Kgleston Square M. K. t'liureh.
Nervousness, and all derangement® of the nerv
ous system, are usually connected with a diseased
condition of the blood. Debility is a frequent ac
companiment. The tirst thing to be done Is to Im
prove the coudttlon of the blood. This is accom
plished by taking Vegetlne. It is a nerve medicine,
and possesses a controlling power over the nerv
ous system.
Thousands Speak—Vegetlne is acknowledged
and recommended by physicians and apothecaries
to he the bet purifier and cleanser of the blood
yet discovered, and thousands -peak In its praise
who hase been lestored to health.
Vegetine*
Prepared by
Hi R. STEVENS, ROSTOV, MARS.
Vegetine is S< Id by All Draughta.
MBS. LfDU L PINKHIM, OF LYNR. MISS,
if
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'B
VESETABLE COMPOUND.
ißaPoßltlT^nr®
tortll |RM Painful Oanplalnta ui WMRIIMM
■oruunon UiirbMtfrail* population.
Tt win rur* entirety the worrt form of Female OM
plain ta, all oTirUn trouble#, Inflammation awl Uloarw.
Hon, Falling and Die placeman ta, and tha oonaaquaat
Spinal Weakneaa, and U particularly adapted to Jbe
Chang* of Life.
It win dUaolr* and expel tumor* from tha utarua In
an early stag* of development. Tha tendency to cam
aarou* humor* there is checked rery speedily by Ita uaa
It remoTM falntneae, flatulency, deatroyaall or* ring
for etitnulanta, and reiiaroa waaknwaa of the stomach.
It ctirea Bloating, Boadachea, Nerrooa Proatratloo,
General DabUlty, Blaepleaaneaa, Daptwartoa and IndA
(cation.
That feallng of hearing down, conrtng pain, weight
and backache, is always permanently cured by lta uaa.
It wUI at all Umee and under all clreumttancaa act la
harmony with the law* that gorarn the female y stein.
For the cure of kidney Complaint* of ottbar eex this
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receipt of price, |1 par bo* for either. lira. Plnkhaa
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He family ahould be without LVPIA k PIItIHAMt
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A LITTI K boy entered a fish market the
other day, and seeing for the first time a
pile of lobsters lying on the counter,look
ed intently at them for some time, when
he exclaimed : ''Them's the biggest grass
hoppers I've ever seen."
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