MANY YEARS AGO.
By the lake beyoml the meadow,
Where the hiiee blow,
A* the young moon dipt and lifted
Her reflected bow.
Lived and died a dream ot beauty.
Many years ago.
Something made the milk-niute blossom*
Even whiter grow :
Something gave the dying sunset
An intetiser glow.
And enriched the ctip of pleasure.
Filled to overflow.
Hope was frail, and passion fleeting ;
It m often *o ;
Vision* bom of golden un*et*
With the sunset* go ;
To have loved is to havs suffered
Martyrdom l>elow.
By the lake beyond the meadow,
Where the ltltee blow,
tflu the glory there thai perished
None siiall ever know.
When a human heart was broken
Many years ago.
Prime* *• Cheap I whl.
The consumption of prune* in this
country has very much increased of
late years, not only among out foreign
born citizens who acquired their fond
ness for this fruit at home, hut also
among native Americans, who are now
largely using prunes in preference to
domestic dried fruits. Thejr haTc the
advantage of being relatively much
cheaper than any of our native dried
fiuits, and there ate none of the Utter
that are more wholesome or can be
served more palatably. Our imports of
Turkish prune* coiue from Servia.
Bosnia and Trieste, the fruit frem the
two former now coming mixed. These
prunes roots in casks weighing from
I,;M> to 1,400 lb*., atul we have received
thus far in the trade year, beginning
September Ist, 1875, about ltl.oUo cwaks,
equal to 31.000,000 Uuv. while our total
receipts during the whole ot last year
were only S,'.**'• casks, or about HWfl,-
000 lbs. Turkish prtiues sell very
largely at the West, their chief consu
mers being the foreign settlers, to
whom their cheapness is an important
consideration. French prunes general
ly are of much better quality than
Turkish, ami *cll considerably higher.
They are consumed chiefly a( the East.
French primes come in kegs and eases,
the latter containing frem to to 00 lbs.
each, the average being a Unit 50 lbs.
We have received since September Ist.
138,000 cases of these good-, and our
imports for the year will pretwbly
reach 140,tW cases. The large prunes,
naming from 40 to 45 to the pouud. are
tlie most desirable, but the sizes frem
50 to 85 are all staple. Smaller prunes,
ranging frem !k> to 105 to the pouud,
are generally of inferior quality, as
they inclinle windfalls and other un
matured fruit—and their sale is small.
The quality of our imports this year
has for the most part been very good,
ud the consumption has never before
leen on so liberal a scale or so general.
Notwithstanding tlio very liberal re
ceipts the preseut stock is not exces
sively large except of stuall French
fruit. Turkish and large French are
pretty wrell sold tip, though enough are
held in sunk to supply all current
requirements and to keep the price
of the former down to an unusu
ally low point, which must serve to
increase their popularity as an article
of food.
i; xpluralliiu ol Ike Ureal Xahsrn.
The intrepid French traveler, I-ar
geau, hasjust concluded his prepara
tions at Biskra, in Algiers, for his
second journey across the great African
desert. He will be accompanied by
three gentlemen and a merchant of
C'hateaudun, the latter carrying a stock
of merchandise. They will start from
Biskra for Touggourt on camels and
mules lent by the French authorities in
Algiers. They will there be joiued by
a native guide and eigiil native ser
vants and camel drivers from Souf.
These natives are all intrepid hunters,
with a practical knowledge of the great
dunes or sand downs on those parts of
the*desert which the expedition will
have to traverse. The caravan will
probably start from Bhadames by the
route previously followed by Ikirneau-
Duperri, which lies more toward north
of the Sahara, and i- more practicable
than the one previously traveled by
I.argeau. Roth, however, include a
dreary ten days' journey without water
and over a soil composed of burning
sand, swept by frequent whirlwinds ot
sand dust suffocating alike to travelers
ami their iwa-ts. The expedition starts
under very auspicious circumstances.
Since the recent capture of the robbers
and pirates who infested the northwest
of the Sahara, and the arre-t of the as
sa--ins of El-Arbi Maineiouek. the late
Cadi or Judge of Souf, as well as the
occupation of Rhat to the south of
Khadames, by the Tripolitans, and the
consequent pacification of the country
ofTonareggs, this part of the great
desert has enjoyed security from rob
bers. Danger from wild beasts is not
seriously entertained by such a party
of travelers, hot what they have most
to fear is the Intense heat.* At Biskra
the thermometer already marked eighty
six degrees in the shade; the heat in
creasing between Biskra Ain el (juadra
and Khadames to one hundred and four
degrees, and rising in proportion as
one goes south. Then there are the
sudden changes of temperature at night.
While at Biskra the night tetii|>eratur<-
is projMirtionate to that during the day
time, it is notorious that more to the
south the thermometer very frequently
fails below zero at sunset. Apart from
these excessive changes of temjiearture
the climate of the desert is considered
perfectly healthy.
Jefferson, of all our early statesmen,
was the most efficient master of the
j>en, and the m<>-t "advanced'* political
thinker. In one sense, as the author of
the Declaration of Independence, he
may be called tiie greatest, or at least,
the most generally known, of Ameri
can authors. But in his private cor
respondence his literary talent is most
displayed, for by his letters he built up
a party which ruled the United States
for nearly half a century, and which
was, perhaps, only overturned because
its opponents cited the best portion* of
Jefferson's writings against conclusions
derived from the worst. In executive
capacity be was relatively weak; hut
his mistakes in policy and his feeble
ness in administration, which would
have ruined an ordinary statesman at
tiie head of so turbulent a combination
of irascible individuals as the I>enio
cratic party of tiie United States, were
all condoned by those minor leaders of
faction who, yielding to the magic per
suasiveness of his pen, assured their
followers that the great man could do
no wrong. Read in connection with
tiie events of his time, Jefferson's writ
ings must be considered of permanent
value and interest. As a political leader
he was literally a man of letters; and
his letters ure masterpieces, if viewed
as illustrations of the arts by which po
litical leadership may be attained. In
his private correspondence he was a
model of urbanity and geniality. The
whole impression derived from ids
works is that he was a better man than
his enemies would admit liiin to be, and
not so great a man as his partisans de
clared him to be.
Collisions of Nona and ttfat-s.
When we duly take all these things
into the accout, the case of our solar
system will appear as only one of a
thousand cases of evolution and disso
lution with which the heavens furnish
us. Other stars, like our sun, have un
doubtedly started as vaporous masses,
and have thrown off planets in contract
ing. The inference may seem a bold
one, but it after all involves no other
assumption than that of the continuity
of natural phenomena. It is not likely
therefore that the solar system will for
ever be left to itself. Stars which
strongly gravitate toward each other,
while moving through the perennially
resisting medium, must in time be
drawn together. The collision of our
extinct sun with one of the Pleiades,
after this manner, would very likely
suffice to generate even a grander neb
ula than the one with which we started.
Possibly the entire galactic system may,
in an inconceivably remote future, re
model itself in this way; and possibly
the nebula from which our own group
of plauets has been formed may have
owed its origin to the difllntregation of
systems which had accomplished their
career in the depths of the bygone eter
nity .—At/antic,
"Artistic" llnnse*.
The curious chaos ami confusion Into
which the age Is plunged In respect to
all the principle* of the arts of orna
mentation, and its incapacity either to
originate any thing, or even to see the
necessity of working with It- own ma
torials for Its own uses. Instead of mak
ing clutnsy adaptations of things out ot
date, which were made for habits en
tirely different. Is nowhere Ix-tter ex
emplified than in those last new modes
of furnishing which hurry the Ignorant
from auction to auction in search ol the
novelties of iho old-fashioned. The
amount of absolute fwlslty involved,
the newly-fabrloatod old china, with
all It* marks atul evidences more con
vincing than reality, and the ncwly
tnade-up old furniture, sticky with glue
ami varnish, is almost less offensive
than the fundamental flcliilousne— ol
the attempt to make a room of Queen
Victoria's time look like a room of
Queen Anne's, if not—heaven save the
mark—of Queen Kllsabeth's. The age* In
which art has reached Its highest have
always been those In w hint she ha*
worked with the materials nearest to
iter hand, and in order to supply the
natural requirements of existing lllv,
with nothing more than a just respect
for the past, but no senility of defer
ence to its example or over regard for
tradition, lint the very l<h<a of any
thing good or original to lie produced
among ourselves eea-es to ln> enter
tained by the superior classes, Our
room* arc becoming museums, and
IVardour street is a sort of Mecca to
which the devout continually turn
their face*. The man who sets forth
Innocently to pay a round of visits to
half a do/on recently married frlond
may calculate on a sweeping giio aero*-
two or threecenturies, through medic* al
tiermauy and flowery Renaissance
France, with a flight into the East, all
in the course of an afternoon. in one
house old oak w ill frown on liitn from
every -ide; in another delicate mar
quetry will thrust it* curved legs in his
way; in another he will have a i'hi|>-
pcnd.-ile chair to -it down in, and a tiled
fireplace to contemplate, and will not
ho able to move without brushing up
agaiu-t some collection of cracked tea
pots or array of old plates against the
wall; w hits, last of ail perhaps, he w ill
reach a draw ing-room decorated like an
Kastern tent, with Arab rugs on the
tliHu, and oooi matting* and sea-green
draperies to keep out the light of a
November dav—each one of them being
a sigu and token of the absolute uncer
tainty of the gcueial mind as to what Is
good or la st, and at the same time of it
timorous reluctance to leave the -ale
guidance of one dogmatism or other,
and trust its own sense of what itself
requires. Among the motives for mar
riage nowadays, one of the strongest
must la l allowed to la' for those who
can afford the luxury) the ambition of
furnishing a house in some altogether
MSthetirai and exquisite way, with a
perfection which no one ha* attained
liefore. Novelty, indeed, i- very rarely
attained, or if attained la-t- imt a very
short tiuie, *o eager are the next hatch
of neophytes to emulate and excel their
predecessor*. But oddity ami inapnro
priatcne.-s are easily attained; and as
houses unfortunately cannot !*• ordered
in character, the contrast of the four
square London Victorian walla,looking
down cynically and sturdily u)>ou the
outlandish garnishing to which they
are subject, gives a point to the joke
which nothing can surpass. And it is
worth noticing that these elaborate and
painful attempts to make the domestic
circle "artistic," seem to bo gradually
pushing out altogether from the decora
tion of the English house the higher
developments ol art. Old plates which
one time in a hundred may bo worth
preserving in a collection, auil perhaps
onetime 111 a dozen , which la liberal)
might be an ornament to the dinner
table, are now strung up upon the walls
where pictures once hung; or what is
still worse than plates, gaudy Japanese
fans made for the cheap use of celestial
lieasaiits, but which English ladies and
gentlemen arrange with simple pride
upon their walls, and look upon with a
delightful modest consciousness of su
perior taste. If, perhaps, those flimsy
decorations take the place here and
there of the staring {mrtraits with which
we were once familiar, there is a cer
tain compensation in tiiem; but surely
a pretty water-color drawing or a good
print is a higher and more reflned kind
of decoration than paper fans and din
ner plates'? We have nothing to say
against a dainty glimmer of pretty old
china in a corner, or the use ofa Japau
ese fan when it may happen to serve a
purpose, and give a quaint little touch
of color to a wall en •ittriui-imt the mo
ment when it may shield a lady's fare
from the Are, or even hide her yaw u in
a dull interview, or help a pleasant
flirtation. Such legitimate and reason
able uses give a sanction to any tiling;
but "the artistic feeling" which sub
stitutes this kind of foolish ornament
for pictures is surely anything but au
improvement upon the old traditions of
decoration. Photographs are the only
pictures popular In such .-esthetic house
holds, and particularly those dubiously
successful ones which are "taken direct '
from famous pictures; and are, there
fore, with curious matter-of-fact com
placency, assumed to be more "true"
than auy other rendering—just as some
unhappy critics will a—ert in face of
reason that a horrible black libel on a
lovely face "must be like, yoti know,"
as it is done by the sun himself.
otlirlal Weather M a int.
In resj>on*e to a circular sent to all
the station observers by the chief sig
nal-officer, asking for the signs preced
ing storms, Signal Service Observer
Dumont has recently sent to Washing
ton a report for his locality, based upon
his own observations, and the weather
notes which Major Ingersoll has kept
for several years, and Foreman Allin's
record. After detailing the action of
the instruments before storms, the re
port gives the weather signs by which
the approach of a storm is heralded,
and these by the way, are considered
more reliable than tiie instrumental
signs. Old weather prophet* w ill he
interested in comparing these rules
with the maxims which they have
drawn from their own observations.
We append the signs:
1. Asa rule if the wind touches north
east or east for two or three days, it is a
sure indication of rain.
2. Dense smoke and haze in early
morning portend falling weather.
3. Summer shower* of light charac
ter often follow two or three days of
smoke or haze.
4. Fog, frost, and dew precede rain
twenty-four to forty-eight hours, ex
cept fog at tiie close of storms.
5. Wind veering from north or west
to south and southeast precedes falling
weather.
0. liaios, lunar and solar, also fairly
defined and brilliant auroras, precede
rain twenty-four to sixty hours.
7. Barometer rising or falling con
siderably away from its tneaus, fore
bodes falling weather, subject to molli
fying influence* of the neighboring
ranges of mountains and hills.
8. Precipitation generally follows a
rapid influx or reflux of atmosphere.
Si. If wind is in the southwest and
rain set* in, the rain is of short dura
tion and light yield.
10. Ranks of water clouds or heavy
haze on the south and southeastern hori
zon indicate rain.
11. An area of low barometer at or
near Fort Monroe and running up the
coast surely reaches here as a north
easter.
The Japanese ai the Centennial
Few persons know, and still less ap
preciate, the resources ol Japan. Ever
since the famous Terry expedition and
the suhsequentope'dngoi some portions
of the country to "loreijrnera," the land
has bean almost a myth to the civilized
word. Even encyclopedias of a recent
date fail to give the products of the
country. Thanks to the Centennial
Exhibition, we are about to Increase
our knowledge of the capabilities of this
peculiar people. In mechanism espe
cially we are learning something, by an
inspection ol the building now in the
course of erection upon the Centennial
grounds. No cabinet work by the
most expert joiner has ever excelled
the structure which is now going up
under the exclusive control of .Japanese
mechanics. Their tools excite derision
in some quarters, hut that they are ef
fective is shown by the character and
finish of the work. Outside of this the
general exhibitors will reveal some of
the wonders of Japan. No less than
ninety contributors have already entered
their goods, and these embrace articles
I which Mill mur amazement to our
people.
In agricultural product* there will lw
display* of plum*, peaches, oulncca,
pears, apricot*, |ier*lmmoii* ami all (he
other delicate fruit of w lilch we thought
two hail a monopoly. In mineral* the
ill*plav will lie especially noticeable,
ami uill Inclinle *|>ccimcns ol Iron,
lead, silver, coal,steel, plumbago, hleinl;
ami In cheinlcala, coppera*. vitriol, *ul
pliur, ami, Ituleetl, all the article*
known to our own laboratories. Textile
fabric* Mill make a tine show. Silk,
cotton ami woollen g<H>d-are among the
a> tides. t)f course there la an expecta
tion of seeing |tccinton* of Japanese
wootluork, e*|eclallv the well known
lacipierej M are. There will !* no ilia
ap|Ni|ntnieiit hi this illrectioti. Nearly
i every exhlblloi ami the ninety re
present nearlt every province In Ja|Mn
solid* bamboo WOlk. writing desks,
vanes, trays, how la, glove tmxos ami
I vessel* toi hobling sweetmeats. Incense
j cutis are also largely represented.
ill bronze ware there will IK* *e\eral
braziers for "warming hands,"together
with vasea, (ravsaml other article*.
Strange as It mat soutnl, there wilt
eten Ih" an exhibit of lieer glasses. Till*
wilt IK* supplemented by china ware,
wicker work, all In the form of domestic
articles. Papei and straw work will
aNo form one of their exhibits, and al
together, a glance at theulnely Invoices,
Indicate* that a great surprise is in store
tor those who mat lie fortunate enough
to witness the goods when exhibited.—
I
tee*.
To those unhappy American women
' who. when they visit their shoemaker,
are obliged to call, though in faint, mor
tified tones, tor 5* or (is, letter t\, Mr.
Burroughs, author of "Winter-Suit
shine," ad minsters generous comfort.
He says, lit commenting u|ioti our na
tional vanity in "a small, trim foot, well
; booted or gniteml," that "a truly large
ami royal nature is never Stunted In the
extremities; a little foot never suppor
ted a great character." He also adds:
"It Is said that Kiiglishmeti, when they
! tlisi coiue to this country, arc tor some
time under the impression that Ameri
can women all have deform* d feet, they
are so coy of them, ami so studiously
careful to keep them hid."
Again, while discussing, in the same
eounection. on the pleasures and
benefits of walking, Mr. llurrough re
mark- :
When you see an English country
church withdrawn, secluded, out ot the
revel of w heels, standing amid grassy
graves, ami -urrounded by noble trees,
approached by |iath* and shaded lanes,
you appreciate more than ever this l>eau
tiful habit qf the people. Duly a race
who know how to use their feet, and
holds foot-path* sacred, could nut such
a charm of privacy and humility into
-ueh a -tructure. 1 think 1 should lie
tempted to go to church my -elf it 1 saw
all inv m-ighbors starting off across the
llclds or long path- that led to such
charmed spots, and was sure that 1
should not i>e jostled or run over by the
rival chariots ol the worshippers at the
temple door-. I think this is what ail*
our religion; Infmilitv and devoted ties*
of heart leave one w lien he lays off hi*
walking shoe* and walking clothe* and
set* out for church tlraw n by some
thing.
Indeed, I think it would Is- tanta
mount to au astonishing revival of re
ligion if the people would all walk to
church on Sunday and walk home
agalu. Think how the stones would
preach to them by the wayside; how
their humbled minds would warm up
ticneath the friction of the gravel; how
their vain and foolish thoughts, their
desjioiiding thought.-, their bretting
demons of one kind and another, would
: drop U-hltid them, unable to keep up or
to endure the fresh air. They would
i walk away from their ennui, their
wordly cares, their uncharltableness, '
their pride of dross; for those devils al
ways want to ride, w bile the simple vir
tue- are never so happy as when on foot,
l-et us walk by all means; but, if we
w ill ride, get an ass.
Medicine In Ancient Car pi.
Ebers, rlie German arctueologlst, lias
made an interesting discovery of w bat
i- -aid to lie a jsirtiou of one of the lost
Hermetic books of medicine. Hitherto
all attempts to trace the origin of the re
puted Hermetic w rltiiig have failed, and
it has been assumed that the great
"Hermes" wa- a mythological iiersoii
age invented by the earlier alchemists
to credit the a-quired knowledge with
the authority of antiquity. The manu
script, w hen ihorougly deciphered, mar
throw some light on this doubtful point;
but, even if it fails to do so, the laet tiiat
a fragment of Hie lost learning of the
Egyptians has been recovered is a mat
ter of scientific Interest. The manu
script was discovered among the bones
of a mummy some years ago by an Arab,
and on hi- death it was offered to Dr.
Ebers, who eventually purchased It at
a considerable price. It consist* of a
single sheet papyrus, about sixty feet
in length, and the characters are in
red and black ink. Judging from the
characters, the date of the manuscript
may Is- placed about 1,500 year* 11. t'.,
making it over years old ; and, if
written in tlie earlier part of the centu
ry, it would have been contemporane
ous with the (>eriud of Moses' resilience
at the Gourt of Pharaoh. Only a por
tion of tlie document lias at present lieen
tran-lated by Ebers, including some of
Hie headings of the various chapters,
such as "tlie secret book of the physi
cians." "the science of the teat mg of
the heart," "the knowledge of the heart
as taught by the priest-physician Neb
sceht, "medicines for alleviating ac
cumulation of urine and of the abdo
men." There Is every reason to sup- j
pose that the Egyptians attained a high
degree of scientific knowledge at a very
early period of their history. At the
present day it is still called, we believe,
by the Copts the lauid of Kemi. Lindas
has suggested that a knowledge of this
art was introduced into Europe by the
Argonats, who sailed to Colchis to carry j
off th.- Golden Fleet*. The CotefciMs,
according to Herodotus, were an Egyp
tian colony, and Lindas suppose- the
Golden Fleece to have In-en aUiok writ- i
ten on sheepskin, teaching the method
of making gold lv the chemical art. !
The date of tlie Argonautic ex|iedition '
was, according to most rhronographera,
1250 B. C., or Jisi years later than the
•upposeed date of Eliers' manuscript. It
is to lie lioped that futnre researches
may bring to light further evidence of j
the scientific history of the past, and go
enalilc us to estimate the?degree Of
civilization and scientific attainment
readied by the early races of mankind.
—Lomlon Lancet.
liisrcl Siallilira.
In 1782 the caterpillars of tiie brown
tail niotli were so numerous as to defo
liate the tree* of a very large part of
the South of England. The alarm was '
so great that public prayers were offered
in the churches that thccahuiiity might
beatayed. The poor were paid one <
shilling ;>er bushel for collecting cater- |
pillars' webs to be burned under the In
spection of the overseer of the parish;
and four score bushels were collected
daily in some parishes. Rut on the
otber hand, the benefits derived from
the labor of some insects should not Is
overlooked; some specie.* feed only on
noxious weeds, and others prey on still !
more noxious insects. One of the great
est friends of the agriculturist Is the !
family of the ichneumon flies, which
lay their eggs in the bodies of living
caterpillars, in which they are hatched,
thus destroying them; although the
caterpillar, after being."lchneumoned'"
has still a voracious appetite. The ca;> ;
erpillars whicli feed on the ealdiage eat
twice tlieir weiglit In a day; tiie larva;
of some of tiie flesh flies cat a much
much larger proportion than this. The ;
productive powers of insect* vary very
much. Home lay only two eggs; others
such as the white ant. 10,000,000, laying
them at tiie rate or sixty a minute. The j
queen of the beehive is capable of lay
ing 50,000 in a season ; the female wasp I
JO,OOO. The majority of insects how- j
ever, lay but one hundred; in general, '
the larger the insect, tiie fewer eggs it
lays. Most Insects have two genera
tions in a year; some have twenty;!
others take seven years from the time
the egg is laid until their death in a
jierfect state. Rut probably not above !
five per cent of the eggs laid become j
perfect insects. Our insectivorous birds
are diligent in destroying the larvae of
insects, hut they will not do ail that is
required; hard labor is also needed.—
London Time.
—Wendell Philips nominates Grant
for a third term, and Fred. Douglas for
the Vice Presidency.
AI.KII IXTtKAL.
HKXt Foon MN SW INK.— What would
IK* considered (III* I >tl I'IMHI Cur HIV IIII*
111 summer wmilil not answer the mum*
tiuriMMe In winter. In summer, such
It HI. I should IM< given ns would keep I lie
animal In nil Improving i-ondtllou, mid
would online tin* animal to lay on n lit
tle (at, t>ut not no ntiu-li an to cause It to
nortec from the heat, nn a fat porker un
douhtedlv doea. fouling liasls, mult an
plenty of young clover ainl hran and
middlings slop,is iv hat we line much of,
not forgetting to give regular and
abundant nuppllen of frenh, cool water.
In putting up \v I lie for exhibition pur
ponen, we have Irleil lliailjr different
klmln of ft*od for the fall exhibitions,
but have found none no denlrahle an a
slop made of corn ami oatn ground to
gether, one-third of the former, by
measure, to two-thlriln of the latter.
One ol the bent wain to prepare It In to
ncald It at night ami feed next morning,
put on the mann only enough hot water
to thoroughly moisten It, and then
cover up the barrel tight no It can nteam
well, and make the mann mellow and
nice by uiornlng. If It In found utule
nlrable to scald It, luolnlen the uiann
with water and then put 111 one or
more pann of notir milk- thick milk or
clabber—to catiar It to aour by the time
it in u*ed. We use both or either plan,
and tlud them both gen*!. An an ordi
nary nutilllier feed, we have found thin
food to answer almost all pur|MMcn,
though we do not fee*l no high an when
feeding the animals for exhibition pur
|Hi.**en, an exjerieiiee ban abundantly
proved that breeding *t<K'k should not
tie very fat, only In a healthy growing
condition, to insure healthy, vigorous
offspring. The refuse from the truck
patches, such an tomatoes, cahliage etc.,
come nicely into play for summer food
in connection with tin* starve slop, a-n
do apples (windfalls) |iearn, etc.—-.liaer
:.ia S'"lH< it ml Jtamil.
I.K.NUTH OR KIK>H.—AH"oriI!IIG t< the
c\ client authority of the CVaafr* irrutU
m<(, I'rof. lii-itle, of the Michigan Ag
ricultural College, furnlihe tlm fuUuw
lug Interesting fitcU, mostly the result
of hi own examination*, in relation to
the length of root* In plant* and tree*:
The soil ha* to do with the length
ami nmutter of rot*. In light, |*Hr
aoll, 1 find root* ol'June gra** four feel
below the surface, People are apt to
underestimate the length, amount and
importance of the roots of the finer
graaaes, wheal, oats, etc. Some root*
of clover ami Indian ooru are large
enough to t>e Melt I'jf every one on
slight examination. A young wheal
plant when pulled up, only shows a
-mail part of It* root*. They go down
often four to six feet. It needs very
careful examination to (how that clover
and Indian eorn have any more
weight of root* than Juue grass. They
probably do not contain more.
The roots grow l>el w here the best
food is to he found. They grow In
greater or less quantity In every dim--
tioii. If one finds good food, it flour
ishes and send* out numerous branches.
Many of the smaller root* ol tree* die
every autumn when the leaves die, and
other* grow in soring. Near a cherry
tree in my yard wa* a rustic basket
without a bottom, tilled with rich soil,
tin removing the basket and earth,
< herry rm>t were found In large nunt
fiers near the top ot" the soil. They hail
grow n full of small branches w here the
soil was good. Hoots in soil will grow
up just a* well as down. and do this.
Fiutuo Hr*:ts.—There are many
kinds of ecd which do not grow freely
miles* ex|K>cd to a freezing temprra
ture or considerable heat. Those na
tives of cold climates, such a* the hick
ory nut, black walnut, heavy locust,
Hhepherdia, and similar seed* with
hard, horn-like coverings, should IM
ex|>sed to the actluii of frost during
w Inter, but not in a dry state, for under
such a condition the freezing would do
more harm than good. The best way
to manage such seeds Is to mix w hit
wet sand and put hi a U>x or other tight
vessel, and then half or w holly bury
in tiie o|>eii ground, but do not cover so
deep that they will not freeze during
the coldest weather. This appear* to
lie the most natural way of preserva
tion, without MIS lug them where the
tree* are to grow.
Fall planting will answer with many
kinds, hut there Is always more or les*
danger of nut* and edible *eeds being
destroyed by mice and other vermin,
from which, however, ther are readily
protected when mixed with sand and
kept in boxes. I have known hickory
and chestnuts to be dug tin and carried
off by squirrel* and mlcw during a thaw
in winter; htnee it 1* l<e*t to guard
against such depredations.—{ fee,
If farmers would keep a*lat< hanging
up in their barns or workshops, with s
pencil attached by a string, so as to
note dow it work to ta done on rainy or
stormy days, when the hired men could
not work out of doors, it would be
found to le of great advantage. Have
It understood that whenever a rain
conies, the slate is to lie referred to for
orders, so that if you are away from
home, the work can go on. There are
scores of things that can IK- profitably
done at such times, and Just so much
time saved in good weather. All the
wagons and carriages can ta greased,
the harness oiled and re|iaired,the axes,
hoes ami spades ground or cleaned,
floors of harns or outhouses cleaned or
repaired, tools or Implements repaired
or painted, bee hives, chicken coop*
and other things made, hen houses
cleaned or fumigated with sulphur if
fowls are lousy, cellar cleaned, apples
and potatoes assorted, and all such
work le done, and without the lo*s of
time. Fanners, keep a slate ami make
a note of what work can lie done at
such times.— Itural World.
FOWL HIXTS.—The nature of fowls
requires their fetal to lie comparatively
dry. Grain and cracked corn, when
not fed dry, should la* scalded till swol
len, and then dried. iiran and mixed
feed of every kind should be kept to
crumble, not to congeal. Malt, cayenne
or blackpepper, meat of any kind, fresh
or freshen®!l fish, and chopped cabbage
once or twice a week, should ta added
to their ordinary feed for variety and
healthiness during cold weather. Feed
twice a day regularly, sufficient for
health and vigor, not more, except
while fattening the fowl. Tainted ami
stale feed is never desirable. Mashed
hones, shells, and crockery are excel
lent for hardening the shells. Sand
ashes, and common earth are each good
for fowls to roll In, and sulphur sprin
kled where they roll and roost serves to
keep away vermin. Pure water and
air, sunlight and cleanliness are alw ays
indispensable.
UNPRoriTABi.it STOCK. —Get rid of old
that ix, unprofitable—stock which It
will not pay to winter. Carry this
right through from horned stock down
to liens. It is unprotltable to depend
on old horses, and thrifty farmers usu
ally get rid of them la-fore they are
quite past labor. Hut there is often a
deep and laudable attaehment U-tween
the farmer and his obi four-legged ser
vants, and we do not wish our recom
mendation to tie taken as applying to
them. Obi milch cows should be fatted
as soon as they are past their milking
prime. Old owes give weak lambs and
light fleeces; qualify them for mutton
as soon as possible.—/>rrer'j Jvtirttnl
THK CNTIXO or Bicr.r.—To cure beef
the following has la-en found useful:
To 1 gallon of water add IK pounds of
salt, (Miund of sugar, and " j ox. each
of salt|M-tre and |a>tosh. Let these la;
boiled together and skimmed until per
fectly clear. Put in a tub to cool, and
w hen cold, pour it over the beef or
pork, and let it remain the usual time,
say four or live weeks. The meat must
la; well covered with the pickle, and
should not la- nut down for at least two
days after killing, during which time it
should be slightly sprinkled with i>ow
dered aaltjietre, which removes all the
surface hlood, leaving the meat fiesli
and clean.
TKI.I.INO THK AUK or SIIKKP.— The size
and shape of the teeth are ordinarily u
sure criterion of the age of sheep up to
six years old. The lamb-teeth are our
row and small. At one year old the
two middle front teeth fall out, and are
replaced by teeth much wider and
larger. The next year two more wide
teeth appear, and at six years old the
mouth is "full," the lamb teeth having
all disappeared. After that, the teeth
grow darker, longer and narrower, un
til they eventually fall out. A prac
tised shepherd can usually Judge the
age very nearly, up to twelve years.—
Country Gentleman.
M'lKßTiriG.
.Yon-Jfof/arfir Vitnneri' A
novel idea has lieen stalled by an in
r rontons I bitch man, who declatea that
te has invented a iiou-magnotic mari
ners'com paa* that ia to aar.an instru
ment which will direct a shin's course
without a magnetic needle. The ptin
eiple of this wonderful discovery la as
vet a profound secret, lutt we ate am
hlgilnilsly informed It consists of the
application of "notorious physical pow
cm to an iiiatrument used in practical
navigation, the iiuprovemeut of which
wan a desideratum since long" a sen
lence which will reveal the fact that
0111 le\ci friend might with advantage
polish bis Knglish a little. Ills descrip
tion of his HI vent lon is as follows;
"\N lieieaa the actual compass is dtrne
ted by magnetism, it ts HI this ease a
well-known physical power that puts
in motion tile whole ol tile wheelwolk.
I'lie instrument, supposed to tie a Car
daiius* apparatus, and piotected as
much aa possible from heavy shock*
by means of India -rublier, etc., as in
the way of chronometers, consists,
when seen on the top, of a ring, iuside
of which arc found three circles. The
riug, just like the rant of a compass
divided into points and degrees, is
lived at the lustruiuent, suit tuius
round with the vessel. Over this card
two liauds move couceiitricaily with
e.pial swiftness and in opposite direc
tion; consequently in each (inning they
will cross each other twice, and the
junction of these |HIIUIM w ill denote a
direction thai on the card points out
the true coins* of the vessel.'
A a improrsif Method of f. i< lmi<j Cup
jier naif MwL—lu oveilooking the ie
cent liaiidiMHiks, encyclopedias, lech
iioltgical dii'tlouaiiew, ami journals,
tiiauv directions for etching metals,
especially steel ami copper, are found.
It is a Pity, however, that most of these
prescriptions only very imperfectly
tultil the purpose intended, while some
of liiem are even utteilv impracticable.
Souir model II llidustl lull slablisliluellts
in Germany, especially the Metallurgi
cal MJM UIU of Nuremberg, have un
dertaken the task of submitting the
processes proposed hy the (took*, to
practical tests, in order to UIM>IIBII ma
uy of tlicin, which, like aeh route di
sease, are carried from genet at mu to
genetalloli, by LH-lng copied In good
faith in (he handiMHiks and encyclope
dias , and it Is eijH-eied that only very
few of them will stand this m-vere or
deal.
Rudolph Wagner, editor of the "An
ntial Chemical Technological Report"
(Jnhil-ui l) de* Chrmißiher Tteknologir),
mentions in a recent German industrial
louiual that lie found that solutions of
bromine and bromine coni|Miuuds were
most excellent for the etching of steel.
He uses I part ot bromine to 100 of wa
ter ; aud iu case he wished to avoid tin
vapor of this volatile uialei tal. w hicli
may injure delicate objects around, he
prefers a solution of 1 part of brouitdc
ot mercury iu So paita of water. For
etching copper he recommended a so
lution of biouiuio in hydrochloric acid,
as preferable above all oilier agents
known.
French (~*e ot (/Iprrisf.—The use of
glycerine in boilers, to prevent tucru
stat ion. is si ill adv .M ated In the Freuch
louruals. its reaction with the salts of
lime is imperfectly undeistood as yet,
but it ts known that it laisea the curve
of solubility of these salts, and more
particuiarly of sulphate of lime, aud
umler certain conditions forms w itli
them soluble compounds. When gly
cerine is added to water containing an
excess bf these salts, they are precipi
tated in a gelattuous fotm—tin- form
lieat adapted, it is found, to prevent
incrustation, under ordiuary circum
stancea.
The action of the glycerine ap|ears
to lie threefold ; it increase# the olubi
lity of the sulphate of lime, it forms
therewith a valuable roiupouuil, and
the latter lieronie* precipitated. It is
found that aUiul one kilogramme may
lr allowed to every three or four thou
sand kilogramme* of fuel, but this t*
to lie vailed with the water and the
nature of the fuel. The glycerine,
should, of course, 1* commercially, if
not cbcmicallr, free from lime: ami it
is recommended that it be added be
forehand. and in the requiaite projnir
tion, to water sufficient tor a fortnight
or a month's consumption, lictug
tuned with the feed-water thus 1M tore
hand, the glycerine will have tiuie to
art on the litnr, and. as it forma not an
insoluble, but a soluble soap, it is as
sumed that the action of it m the boi
ler differ* froui that of fatty matter
generally, entailing no risk of priming,
etc.
Htectric Pilr in Srsquioride of Iron.
This apparutu in contained in a square
glass jar. I'he pile i* composed of a
prmin of charcoal which contains w
qnioxidc of iron in it* porea, ami a
small rial of amalgamated fine. The
latter passe* through the stopper, to
the under surface of which IM final the
charcoal. A solution of ammonium
chloride is used as the exciting fluid.
The reactions are the same as in I*♦-
blanche's couple in which oxide of
manganese is u*-d. W hen the circuit
is cloed, the chloride ot ammonium
attacks the xinc. forming a double chlo
ride of zinc ami ammonium. The lat
tor, on being set at li tarty, decomposes
the scsquioxide of iron, carrying off a
part of its oxygen and forming free
ammonia, which disappear* by evapo
ration. This pile ceases to act so long
as the circuit remains open, Its dura
bility and force are large. Its electro
motive power is as IS to 10 of the sul
phate of copper battery, ami it is thus
well adapted tor industrsirial purpo
ses. The inventors arc MM. Clamond
and Gaiffe. and it is manufactured by
the latter gentleman.
Rctnarlahlr Fro I in Saw Making— At
the works of Messrs. Emerson. Ford.
Co., Heaver Falls, Fa., on November
11, a solid toothed circular saw, with 40
teeth, of No. 5 gage at the center, and
No. at the rim, was tinished complete,
ready for market, in the short period
of 7 hours and 4-'> minutes. The saw
was on the anvil itaitig flattened,
smithed, hammered, and blocked* 4
hours and 5.1 minute*. The hammer
strokre were counted and aggregated
13,7)14. The balance of the time, 3
hours and 50 minutes, was occupied in
drilling, toothing, grinding, hardening,
tempering, and cooling after it was
tempeiedi The teeth were ground into
shai>e after they were cut. and the saw
was ground after smithing, then again
after taing hammered and la-fore it
was polished and stamped. Total
amonnt of lalair expended, including
that of helper*, was 13 hours and 40
minutes. The saw was of high temper,
and required rather more than average
amount of smithing, as 8,533 Mows
were expended in this lalatrious ope
ration alone.
Rapidity of Sand- Engraving. —As il
lustrative of the remarkable rapidity
with which the sand-blast accomp
lishes its work, the following facts, re
garding the cutting of inscriptions on
the head-stones designed to mark the
graves of soldiers buried in the natio
nal cemeteries, may lie cited.
In addition to the one man employed
to tend these machine*, he has a small
force of boy*, whose duty it is to attach
ami remove the cast-iron lettcis which
act as stencils. Thus equipped, the
the contractor is able to turn out three
hundred head stones a day, upon each
of which is a handsomely cut inscrip
tion averaging eighteen raised letters.
It is estimated that, to accomplish a
like result by the old proofs, a force ol
three hundred men would Ire needed.
Another instance of the rapidity with
which theae little sand engines do I heir
work in shown in the engraving of
glass glotren, tumblers, etc., which can
Ire done at the astounding rate of one
a minute. — Popular Svirncr Monthly.
jVete Koutr to Sdoria. —Professor
Nordenskjold's recent journey from
Norway to Sitaria byway of Pet
Strait* (Jugoraky Shar) and the Sea of
Kara hits caused quite a sensation in
Huasia. At a meeting of the Society
for the Encotiragment of Commerce
and Industry M. Sidorof said that the
journey was one to ta ranked in im
portance with the discovery of a uew
world, as it would in all probability lead
to the establishment of a regular line
ot communication with northern Europe
and Sllieria, and the vast resources of
the latter country would thus at last
find an outlet along her great fluvial
highways. Captain Wiggins, of Sun
derland, who attempted the same feat
last year, has signified his intention of
being present to welcome Professor
Nordcnskjold on his arrival in St. Pe
tersbmgh.
For truing an ordinary oilstone for
sharpening planes, take asheetof glass
na|M>r No. 'J, and place it on I lie bench.
Run the stone over it. In this way the
stone can be trued in one qnarter the
time required by the ordinary prm-esa.
IMJIKMTIU.
Til* I'KKOK IIII'K.- Mol readers think
tills la something easily pre|wred. Ho
It Is, |tcrhap, hut few nurse* have an
Idea of the necessity of having it
pro|terl> done—that Is, cooking It until
every grain becomes |M*rl.*ctly softened.
If (fie grains are m>( reduced U> this
soft stale, the rice Is almost certain,
when swallow ed, to Irritate the diges
tive organs, ami instead of soothing tlm
pari* and sustaining strength, will
actually produce a diarrhea, etc. This
tins tteen frequently noticed In liospitals.
W hen pro|M*rly boiled until each par
ticle becomes so aofiened tliat tin* grain
cannot la* detecied w lien eaten, but ma
cooked so much that the shape of tin*
grain Is destroyed, and the mass re
duced to tin* ppearaio*e of paste, then
are few articles of diet for the sick
which can IM* made more acceptable to
the lasts of Invalids than (Milled rice.
Idee Is inferior in nutritious qualities
to whrateu Hour, ami should by no
means lie depended on a* a main con
stituent of the dietary for Infants, hut
we mav supply an agreeable change,
especially when (lie Isiwels are In a re
laxed condition, it lias IM-CU a favorite
Its ui for chllureti ever since its itrst in •
triaiiictioii, and is recomiueuded hy
many of ihc earliest Knglish writers on
the management of luiaiits and chil
dren. hvery nurse hasher own formula
for the pre|iaralion ol rlcr fissls. The
following Is a very g*ssl one: Take
two (ables|asi|ifuls of the Itesl rice and
soak for an liour in cold water. Pour
away (his water, and then macerate
and gently simmer the rice in a quart
of water for two or three hours, htralii
through a flue sieve, and add warm
milk, with a little loaf sugar ami a few
grains of sail.
liow 10 I.noir a Con FlHK. —After
thoroughly sifting out the tubes, leave
the cinders iu ihe giate and pul upon
them soiue shavings or waste paper, and
a few dry slicks of kindling laid loosely
across each other, then put on some
large clllders and a few pieces of smsll
Coals. I.ight the tire at the bottom with
a lighted pa|M*r, and, w hen the sticks
are minting well, pul oil some larger
pieces of coal witli your liauds, using
old gloves to cover (heiu if needful, but
do not throw on the coal with the
shovel or scuttle. If packs It tooclutely.
All (lie smaller cinders and unburiit
coal can he placed on the bip, and In a
ill lie time you will have a good fire,
and one suitable to cook a steak or a
chop as well as iots.il the tea-kettle and
the oat-meal porridge. A Are cannot
burn without a supply of air, aud, if
the coal and cinders are too closely
packed, (hey caq neither light quickly
nor hunt rapidly; and a steady, con
stant Are can be kept up w lib less cuai
than one liial is constantly stirred up.
if you desire a clear fire fur the grid
iron, put a few cinders on top, and,
when they have ignited, sprinkle a
little salt over (hem. Cinders may tie
style.) houie-made coke, aud the woman
who w sales theui should Iraru thai she
til rows away a thing of value.
lira in,**. —To prevent chills and fever'
avoid exposure to (he damp air of Ihe
early morning,except when exercising,
and then do not remain iu the o|>eu air
to owl off. Avoid great fatigue; sleep
eight hour* ot the twenty-four, lb
sure (hat die wafer used for drinking
aud cooking is perfectly pure. Wear
flannel und<-r-< lothiug at all seasons.
Keep the feet dry aud warm.
Croup can lie cured in one minute,
and the remedy Is simply alum and
sugar. The way to accomplish the
deed Is lo lake a knife or grater and
•have off, in small particles,about a u-a
spooltful of alum; then mix with about
(w ice its quantity of sugar to make It
|xtlatablc, and administer a* quickly as
|MMutihlr. Almost instantaneous relief
will follow.
T prevent rusting of tin rub fresh
lard over every part of the dish, and
then put It in a hot oven and heat it
thoroughly. Thu* treated any tinware
may Is* timed in water constantly and
remain bright and free from rut inde
finitely.
Kubhing w arts, night and morning,
with a moistened pieer of muriate of
ammonia is said to cause their disa|>-
leaisue- w iihout pain or scar.
THU Scirxcr or lion ixo.—ln t<oiliug
meal for soup, odd water should te
nsed at llr-l so as to extract a* much of
the nutrient juice a* possible, e.nd the
heal IN- raised gradually. Rut if the
meat be wanted in a boiled state for it
self, ami not for smip, then it should be
plunged at onee into t>iling water and
kept boiling for a few minutes, so that
all the outer albumen may lie coagulated,
in order to imprison the sapid ami nu
tritive Juice; then cold water should he
added till the terntwratlire is reduced to
lot) degrees, at w filch It should te kept
till I lie cooking I* completed, because
that heat l necessary for the coagula
tion of the coloring matter of tiie hjood.
In all caw■* no more heat than is suffi
cient should be employed in cooking.
Thus, In making soup, all the Are In the
world will not make the water hotter
than it* boiling temperature, at which
point It can he retained at a very
moderate exjw-ndlture of fuel. Violent
ebullition, sttcli a* we see cook* often
practice, while it does no good does
much harm, not only bv w astlng coal,
but also by carrying off in the steam
much of the arotnatir and volatile In
giodieiit* of the food.
WATKRIKO MILK TOGKT THE CKKAM.—
It is well known that milk set in the
usual way, although it throws up a
goodly percentage of cream, does not
yield up all the lat In lite milk, because
the sklmimsi milk, on talng subjected
to analysis, is found to contain a small
Iwrcoinage of butter, notwithstanding
it had on being set thrown up the cream
very perfectly. Kx|tcriinciiu that have
IKH-II made in adding water to uiilk to
facilitate the rising of the cream have
shown that more cream is obtained.
Thus a specimen of milk was divhtal
into two (tortious. One iMirtion was set
for cream, ami in seven hours yielded 7
per cent, ol cream. The other |tortion
was mixed with an equal volume of
water ami the diluted milk set for
cream. The diluted milk in seven hours
gave 5 per cent, of cream, or 1' 2 per
cent, more cream that It should have
yielded if watering made no difference.
It may not ta advisable, however, to
use the water in this way on all occa
sions for getting up the cream, since
water added to milk hastens the aridity
of the liquid, which in warm weather
should he guarded against.
HOT WATER IX SCROKRY.—The New-
York Mrdicat Journal slates that, in
Bellevue Hospital, hot water has.
within the past few months, been used
in the treatment of some injuries with
marvelous results. One case may he
cited: The |>atient was engaged in a
machine shop, ami while hi* hand was
II|H>II the anvil of a trip hammer, the
hammer weighing seven hundred
pounds—fell. It so happcuetl that a
file was on the anvil, and in this way
the force of the hammer was arrested
ataul half an inch before It readied the
bed. When the hand was examined, it
WHS found tiiat the whole of the palm
w a* a mass of pulp.
The metacarpal lames comminuted
extensively, ami there was apparently
hut small chance of saving the hand. It
was, however, placed In hot water and
kept there for two or three weeks, and
at tlie end of that lime taken out ami
dressed. In three months the patient
was sufficiently well to leave the hos
pital, ami at present —nine months since
the accident—he is nble u move the
fingers, ami has a useful hand.
CELERY. —The habitual use of celery
la more lieneficial to us than is com
monly sup|K>sed. A writer who is
fatuUar with its virtues says:
"1 have know n many men, and wo
men too, who from various causes had
become so much affected by nervous
ness that when they stretched out their
hands they shook like as|teii leaves on
windy days, and by a moderate daily
uqp of the blanched footstalks of celery
as a salad, they became as strong and
steady In limb as other people. 1 have
know n others so nervous that the least
annoyance put them In a state of Hgita
tlon, ami they were in constant per
plexity and fear, who were also effectu
ally cured by a moderate daily use of
blanched celery as a salad at meal time.
1 have known others cured of palpita
tion of the heart. Every hotly engaged
in Istar wi likening to the nerves should
use celery dally in the seusou, and
onions in its stead when not In season."
IJV.MON JHICK will retain Its odor for
weeks, and will not turn mouldy, even
If kept uncovered, If five grains of
salicylic acid are added to each pint.
IVIVtOVR.
A HI I-IIKMK Anor mkn r.—lt waa the
twilight hour, and they were meander
ing over the execrable sidewalk on Veto
street, lie was Marker than the king
of clubs, and site could discount the ten
s|*ot of S|Mtdea,
".Susan, i luh you I" he suddenly re
marked.
"HIIIMI! (io long!" she replied.
"Susan, will yon marry me?" he
continued.
"(io long wld yu, I'ete!"
"If yer don't, I shall embrace de
float In' waters oh de dark ribbcr. |en
de Coroner w ill haul me out an' sot on
me; dry'll plant me under de roses, an'
de verdict will lie, 'l'sl feller died of a
broken heart!' "
"You don't mean dat, Pete?'
"I do, Husnti!"
"I'en, I'ete," she said, aa she sighed
heavily, "den It's tuy disHy to ruarry
yu to save yer life, an' de weddin' U to
cum off In de Hpring!"
Ami they ela*|K-d hands and rolled
their eyes and stumbled along.— IVFs
htiry Ifrrtilil,
lams or CoxnPKJO'K. —The Worcester
Mass.) OasttU quotes a bank president
In that city as saving on bearing of ihe
great bank robbery at Northampton :
"I'm sick of this rascallr world, lfcm't
want to see 01 do busineas with auy
body. I'd rather Is* an old farmer
living on a cross road, four miles from
the sight of every body, with a barrel
of cider and two bog, than to have
any Uilug to do with banks, money, or
men."
A TkaVKLuut was once telling a
Scotchman atsiut a wonderful bashaw
whom lie had seen iu Turkev, "with
three tails that came out of his hat,"
w lieu the Caledonian, with a shrug of
contempt, Interrupted him with the ex
clamation; "Hoot, mun, and ha' we
no' Hir Walter (Hcoil; rigid here amang
us wi' forty tales ail direct frae hU
head?" The traveller was silenced.
A 1.11 nasi lUMiioiiHt asked her teacher
wtgd was meant hy '"Mrs. flrundy."
The teacher replied that it meant "the
world." Home days afterward the
teacher ask<-d the geography class, to
w hicti this little "bud of promise" be
longed. "What is a gone?" After some
hesitation, this little girl brightened up
and replied; "1 know; ii's a belt
around Mrs. Grundy's waist."
AKIKK giving Sandy certain directions
about kirk mailers, the minister sniffed
once or twice, and remarked: "Saun
ders, 1 fear you have been 'tasting' this
morning." "feed, sir," replied Handy,
witii the coolest effrontery, set off with
a droll glance of his brown eyes—
"deed, sir, I was just gaen to observe I
tiiucbt tin-re was a smell 'o sjieerlU
amang us this irrorr in'!"
"ISTHI* the doctor's office?" inquired
a man who |Mjp|ted Ills head inside the
sauetum door. "No, sir—the next
flight of stairs." Well lam 100 tired to
f;o any further," said he, sadly; "but
f you see the doctor any time this
morning. I wish you would tell him
that my te|>-inother Is dying, and we'd
like to have him call If he gets Utne."
"HTMI-ATMY," nays John Taul, "Is
something which 1 never withhold froui
those In trouble, whether they happen
to be friend* or not; there'* uuUilng
mean about me. I And, 100, that one
can go around shedding sympathy on
all sides, for week* at a time, without
spending a rent or being at much per
sonal Inconvenience."
MAKSHAI. Hoi XT, once showing the
picture* he u>le In Hindu, slopped be
fore one and remarked: "I value that
picture very much; It saved the lives of
two estimable ueraooa." An aide-de
camp wlils|*red in the listener'* ear:
"He threatened to have them both shot
immediately unless they gave them up."
"Mug the President some
thing, dear. What would you like,
General?"
'llie President who hath music in
Ids soul)—"Well-er —what's that song
about Kathleen mam en v riii'—where it
says, 'lt may be en s years, and It may
le forever! I'd like that."
TIIUUIKIUK Hook was oner busily en
gaged In w riling a song w hen he was
much annoyed by a fiddler straining
harsh discords under his window.
Hook threw out a six-jienoe to him, at
the same time requesting him to lake
his departure, a* one ncnt/ifr at the door
w as sufficient.
BOOK AUKNT to lawyer's clerk greatly
bored: "Sir, you had better take that
book; you'll Audita remarkably good
Investment, ami " "t an you change
a ten dollar bill?" asks the clerk. "Oh.
yes; 1 can do that." "Then you've got
a mighty ight more mouey than 1 have.
Good day!
Ax OLD Dutchman undertook to
wallop his son, but Jake turned upon
him and walloped him. The old man
consoled him*elf for his defeat by re
joicing at hi* son's manhood. He said
"veil Jake ish a smart fellow; he can
vip hi* own laddy."
"WHAT size do you wear, sir?"
blandly inquired the hatter. "I think,"
said the customer, "about Just
then in tacking toward the mirror he
stepped on a piece of orange peel and
sat down suddenly—"ataul a cap-size,
1 think."
"Mr sox," said a stern parent to a
seven-year-old ho|eful, "1 must dis
cipline you. Your teacher says vou
arc the worst boy in the school. W*ell,
papa," was the reply, "only yesterday
she said I was just like my father,"
A SCOTTISH STCUKXT, supjtosed to be
deficient In judgment, was asked by a
professor, in the course of his examina
tion, how he would discover a fool.
"By the question* he would ask," was
the prompt and suggestive reply.
"THE Ixml hath need of him." was
the inscription on a funeral card of In
vitation recently sent out. Very flatter
ing to the deceased and the surviving
relations hut we should sav that the
statement need* confirmation.
Is A street of Leicester, one day, I Van
Sw ill wa*acoted by adrunkeii weaver,
who, staggering against him. said: "1
have been spinning it out." "Yes,"
said the dean, "and now you are reeling
it home."
Ix THK line of "Ilow to Bring" up
Parents," is the s|ecch of a little bo>
who said: "Father, 1 think you should
give up swearing or family prayers."
The boy recognised the fitness of thing*.
"A rtuiosoriiKK being asked what
wa* the first thing necessary towards
winning the love of aw oman, answered,
"An oppnrtmilty."
"JoTTtNiM by the wcighshle"—
Figures made on a coal cart by the
scale-keeper.
"WHAT kind of a waist ha the
ocean?" asked a fashionable young lady
of her lover—"A watery waste, my
dear."
WHY are pianos the uohlest of niauu
factum! articles? Because they are
grand, upright and square.
Wnr is your wife like dynamite? Be
cause she's apt to blow you up if harshly
handled.
WHITE TEETH denote goodness. The
man who says so sells tooth brushes.
A mc AH hen is tatter than a live one
she will lay wherever you put her.
THKIIK Is nothing "goes against the
grain" uiore than mill-stones.
How make a tall man short—Ask
hiiu to lend you five dollars.
A MAX can find fault in any direction
lie is pleased to look for it.
LEAP year motto—Look before yon
leap Into matrimony.
Disoociisixo sweet music—Blowing
your own trumpet.
THK Romans urned their dead; we
earn our living.
MOTTO for a seamstress —As I sew so
shall I reap.
Mb run* Malarial*.
Attention ha* Iwn called, lately, to
the value, for fibrous material, of the
Pound! plant, or the well known hlbls
tu* cnnnabiiiua. It i* an auniial, of
llirw to three and a half month*' dura
tlon, and by the end of till* time It I*
ready to lie rut fur the ulrcplng procea*
that !• neoesaary for the extraction of
the fibre, w hlch I* tlcucrlbed a* of great
length, silky and line, ami of uniform
texture.
One who ha* investigated the struc
ture and properties of Oil* plant with
Btuch care declare* that *uperior tow
and hemp, a* well a* cordage of great
compactne** snd density muv I*' nianu
taclured from it. lie describe* a sam
iilr hank, purchased in the hazaar* of
udia, and prepared in the ordinary
rude manner, hut recleaned so a* to de
ls* h portion* of the still adhering liark
that It was not at first thought worth
while to —the hank liellig of
good odor, from seven to nine feet long,
fine to the touch, and having a remark
ably silky gloss, considering the small
amount of rare la-stowed on it* iirst
preparation; in fact, had greater atten
tion been | laid Ui It, and a iiro|w-r mode
pursued in extracting the tllire from the
tisrk and drying it, It I* believed that
the best of litis fibre could tie used ex
tensively for tirst-4 las* Dundee manu
factures and for *U|ierior rojie and cor
dage, such as would njual in appear
anee that made from Manilla hemp, so
much lit request lor yachting purpoac*.
The second and third kinds would also
be fouud useful for coarser descriptions
of the manufactures just named, while
the refuse, Including culling-, rejec
tions, and the root end*, would prove
valuable for use by pa tier makers, a* is
the case with jute ami other rusterial.
Maa a rlrbei SSIMI a Sblft.
11l Southey '* lltslurg of Until, he tell*
how Cat*-is ile Vaca wa*ln a great ship
gtiitig to Mouth America with four hun
ilrel men ami thirty horse*; ami after
they hail c rosso I the esjuator, tlie com
maiiiler iliw overeil tluil there were only
three cssks of wslrr left, lie gave or
der* to make the nearest laud, and for
three days they sailed tor the coast. A
|MMir sick soldier, who hsil left Cadiz
with tlwm, brought a grille, or ground
cricket, with biui, thinking Its cheerful
voice would amuse htm ou ttie long,
dreary voyage. But to hi* great dis
oppuioUiieut, the little inset was per
fectly silent the whole way.
Tlie fourth morning after they had
changed tlie ship's course, the cricket,
who knew what she wa* about, set up
Iter *hrillest note. The soldier at mice
gave warning to the oAfffl in charge
of lite vessel, and lliey soud saw high,
jagged rock-just ahead of theui. The
watch had been careless, and the great
ship in a few moments would havelwen
dashed to pieoe* on the ledge* If tld#
puny creator* had not scented Uie land
ami told thctn of tiieir danger. Then
they cruised along for some days, and
the cricket sang for thetu every night,
juat as cheerily as if the had been In
far-off Spain, till they got to their des
tined port, the Island of Calaiina.
Or SeStnrk's buadar* XsawdlM
Tlie standard remedies for all disease*
<tf the lung- 0) itEXCg'* JTIMOKIC
MTKI r. Scorjua'a Ma* WEED Toxtc,
and Mcnexcx's MSKIIMAXK PILLS, and,
if taken before the lungs are destroyed,
a speedy cure 1* effectoj.
To theme three medicine* Dr. J. H.
Schenck, of Philadelphia, owes hi* un
rivalled success in the treatment of pul
monary disease*.
Tlie Pulmonic Svrup ripen* the mor
bid matter in the lungs; nature throw*
it off bv an ea*y expectoration, for w hen
the phlegm or mailer is ripe a flight
rough will throw It off, the jiatient has
rest and the lungs begin to* beat.
To enable tlie Pulmonic Syrup to do
this, Schenck'• Mandrake 1111* and
Schenck"* Sea Weed Toulc must be
freely used to cleanse the stomach and
liver* Schenck'* Mandrake Pill* act on
the liver, removing all olnUructlon*. re
lax the gall bladder, the bile start*
freely, and the liver W soon relieved.
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic I# a gentle
•timulant and alterative; the alkali of
which it i* composed, mixes with tlie
hssl and prevent* souring. It assists
the digestion by toning up the stomach
to a healthy condition, ao that the food
and the Pulmonic Syrup will make good
blood; then the lung* heal, and the pa
tient w ill surely get well if care U taken
to prevent fm*h <xld.
All w ho w !*h to consult Dr. Schenck,
either personally or by letter, can do so
at his principal ofllee, corner of SIXTH
and ARCH SIKXKTW, Philadelphia, every
Monday.
Schenck'* medicine* are told by all
druggist* throughout the country.
irrtan tar I owa, to*4* J
lr i'torr*
"Sucre** j* never achieved without
merit. A man may make a poor article
and sell It once, and there lwing 4t>,-
(KW.OOO people in tlie I'uited State*, the
sale to each one would be enough to
make a decent fortune. But an article
that holds the Held year after year, and
the sale* of w hlch increase regularly
and rapidly, mu*t have absolute merit".
Ih\ K. V. Ilerce, of Buffalo, X. Y.,
occupies our entlie eighth page to-day
with hi* various articles. We admit it,
because we know the Doctor, and know
of his articles. We know him to lie a
regularly educated physiciaii, whose
diploma hang* on the wall of hi* office,
and we know that he has associated with
him several of the mo*t eminent prac
titioner* in the couutry. We know
that parties consult him, by mail aud in
person, from *ll the Slate* In the Union
every day, and that they are fairly and
hon*tly dealt with.
Thi* grand result has been accom
plished by two Agencies—good, reliable
article* —article* which, once intro
duced. work easily their own way—and
-plendid business management. They
have succeeded tie cause they ought to
have succeeded.
If you would patronise Medicines,
scientifically prepared by g skilled Phy
sician and Chemist, use Dr. Pierce's
Family Medicitirt. Gulden Medical
DUcovery In nutritious, tonic, alterative,
and blood-cleansing. and ait unetptaieti
Cough Remedy; Pleasant Purgative
IV!lets, scarcely larger than mustard
seeds, constitute an agreeable and reli
able phyaic; Favorile Presetiption, a
remedy fur debilitated females; Extract
of Smart-Weed, a magical remedy for
Pain, Bowel Complaints, ana an un
equaled Liniment tor both human and
horse-flesh; while his Dr. Sage's Ca
tarrh Retnetiy is know n the world over
a the greate-i specific for Catarrh and
"Cold in the Head" ever given to the
public. They are sold by di uggists.
it) WARS A St rrrjSEß.—Ct RKT> BY THE
GOL.J>T_\ MLDICAL PISCOVKRY.
Dr. R. V. PIKRCB:
Dear Sir —Twenty years ago I was
shipwrecked on the Atlantic Ocean, and
the cold and exposure caused a large
abscess to form on each h g, which kept
continually discharging. 1 was atten
ded by doctors in Liverpool, Havre,
New Oilcans, New Y'oik. and at the
hospital on Staten Island (where the
doctors wantcii to take one leg off.) Fi
nally. after sending hundreds of dol
lars, I a as persuaded to try your "Gol
den Medical Discovery," ami now, in
less than three months after taking the
llrst bottle, I am thankful to say I am
completely cured, and for the first time
in ten years can put my left heel to the
ground. I am at home nearly every
evening and shall be glad to satisfy any
lN'ison of the truth of this iuformation.
1 am, sir, yours respectfully,
William RT'DKR,
13 87 Jefferson St.. Buffalo. N. Y.
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CMlllttl. >• fssslt eaa sXonl to bt wit boat
TFmmftt kurto. A ret deals, Mratom.
Laai t arts, Kprmlns, are relieve
almost Inaustlr l> nUAiI appbrallna
frunc'lr r-ltrra* uitea •<* Haras. HasMa
I'.arsrtsftsas, baßaga, Ol* Sara,
llwils. Frlaaa, (seas, ob. Amwt* In
-osmslK*i, rrdsees swaUlncs, atttf* b reding, iff
rrnv-vra dieuWmtiato* mm lasals raptdlr.
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in i hr its. k sndi-bs,fani>sa sad prisadag tale
Is lb' bead. us uses, tertian,
i liUGBRIMgA " As* noeissL At) triad* of wt-
rrmma to wbirb .sdhsTan ssbjecl sea
jimui|illjr enrsd. FoUrr dsUlls la bowk acoOto
iMi.rlncaacb btdilti.
PILES blind or bleed lag- -m*e< praaKM rsbst
oiid rrsdy ran, Xaraaslwaaiwdiiakw
dmitsatr, ran kmg raaiaa Us naatarss. ,
VARICOSE VtlM. in* lbs eoly saes ran far
Ibis OIKmSm slid dsnfer'msroad tikis.
UVif f BIMASit. ft tesaeataalforw-m
--le-nl Cart.
BtIIBIBB '>■* *y CMS*. FortM* Us a*e- a
(Tsr. || bas saved hoixtoeda at lives wbao ail .
olb-r rvassdirs (ailed u> arras btoadtog frsss .
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otssteodll tt oalrpesi iirr. Wrhs> letMrsaT
ruasteadsZlua trims bssdsad* at I'bMrtana,
tnssr of wbaw ordw 1: tar osv ta tbsir own r- * ■
p-sriira. la sddlliew l lb* fflewoies, Ibsr *
elder iu ass lot wweffiaf* of alt kinds.
l|alsa,Marr TTtraal. laia.se* Tsastba,
shops' sad cbraaic lllarrbsm, a terra,
'A* kich 111. a ; ft 4 blfblslsa. Craw- g
etc.. rbaggsdllaedib SkssJalwfttSßl
sit rnsnaar of akbt diaiasss.
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TO filial. tbsPa Katraet. No Stock
flirrdrr.aa U w.-; H ao ran sSord to batwllbo**
It. II Is used by aX tlw t nsdlnf iiveeMSUblaa,
Muwl ttslietaMls sad Xra* Iturssuia gsa Hew
VorXC.y . It baa so wisal f* bignUss, tlar
arw or Wsddle t.Uaaagsi, NtiWseee,
Vrslabn, Srtlkgtd Watsr laltisa
lUwretag, feswnilii, t aJir, tHsrrbwa.
( Mils, CUnAs, nc. ltsrmgrwfactksals wids,
SJ-'l IS' rats* ■ affords Is so Jjrocsjs flsst tt Is
Itnshaabkr to every Ibais* se arrti tr to
•varr Psrto-bMsaa Let W irkd oscr. sad
J"* wit! s'-va* be wbbout tt
CAITMHI. - tasf, Fairs'* baa bnm taXewto
emtstar artidc bas tlx -da Paad*a Ka
traet blow* to each hottl*. ft is J.-{owd by
Uw aal || rasas SrSw abo rwir knew hew a.
luimywi Hiawerl,. Benw ail olber pr*. *
IstoSnw at a'kcb ttsart. This to Ike aahy
aitslr saed by fi.j -• ux. and la tb-
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Brooms from $2.00 per dozen and upward.
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no v whom.
Alw u> rnttre new Mock <J WOOD and WILLOW
WAKE. >-h M Pailn. Tut*. Bnkol*. Mt. Toiow,
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any drumming ou the road. Ordan I T mail will re- *
crier piompi attnailos KuUblwhud ISM. Mt4|
OR KIHPiw DAMASK CARDS, with Mmu,et*.
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fttsi i|KW:<>f Pro, iu'i>. Grain, Lira Siuck Muikbta.
Ohco. 51 -in.* St, New York. *- PIM*
tier it fur a Month. 8-SitHt
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