THE FARM AND HOUSEROLD. i —— Seed Corn, corn Professor Beal remarked that the topmost ear was the best for seed. Of two fields, one planted with seed taken at random and the other selected in the field, the latter vialded as mue h again as the former, Manure and cultivation may be thrown away on poor seed. The best time to cultivate corn is before planting. A shallow cultivation was recommended. Twenty-three ears of corn can be produced from one kernel by proper cultivation and the use of the best seed as high as twenty-five ears. Smut is a great damage to corn, and smutty corn, and smutty corn is very in- Jjurious to cattle, Manuring the Garden. The cost of manuring a garden plot is so trifling and the result so satisfactory, it is a matter of wonder that those who desire a fair harvest of fruits or vege- tables do not treat the soll a little more liberally in this respect. Before get ting seeds, plants, splittings or cuttings, got manure, Study the character of the soil and seek to give it the manure best calculated te enrich it, and there is nothing better than well-rotted stable manure. Let it be well worked into the soil. It is of little use to a gardener to throw it upon the ground and there leave it. Let there be as thorough pul- vorization as possib le and then inter mixture of the manure, and the land will show its gratitude i in the results, wilbsensmon Destroying Insects, The practice of excluding young chickens from the ganden, especially in midsumnier, says an exchange, is had both for the chi “Lens and for the ve ge tables. The young ¢hicks will not thoy in confinement in freedom, and { growing plants are in a good measure woteoted from insects by the chickens Ve have never succeeded better with young broods than hy putting them, with the mether, in the vegetable garden. The mother is confined ina coop and the chickens have free access to her through the slats. She follows her instinet scratehing over the he un in ground under the coop for worms and grabs, and aftera few days the coop is pushed along the new the chickens are regularly fed with scalded meal ar boiled screenings. They supply themselves with animal food from the ganien. The chickens are to small te do any harm to plants that are well started, and yet they pick up immense number of insects, The more highly the garden is manured the more rapidly do insects multiply and the greater is the need of binds-aud fowls to kee p them in check The chickens ean go unde neath encumd WPS, squashes, beans, tomatoes, ete, and pick the eggs and worms from the noderside of the leaves, where they are gene rally found. They eagerly chase every moth and bug that flies, and if one alights within striking distance it is saro to be devoured. When the chickens are large enough to do in- hry to the plants they are easily emoved to other quarters, soil. an The Welght of Sells, It i= impossible to de weight of any soil, as i to its pox rosity, tained, per termine the exact varios according of water eon- gravel, clay, efe., present, dinl or bushel &f soil from a field is identical with any or v otuer like quantity. The following ites are from John- son's **How Cro the ever Drv sand ‘weighs ahont H: Avy clay we ighs alin A san uly soil whi ich is spoken of as “light” because worked with ‘heavy "” clay that five pounds less per cubic foo * The resistance offered by soils in 11} Hag fe is the result of ad- hesiveness than of gravity.” The specific gravity of a soil is its weight Sampured with the weight of an equal bulk of RIAL, Ti a Ww AILEY 18 take 48 the st and- ard of compa and its specific gravity (sp. gr.) is called one (1). A ube foot of water weighs 62 1- 2 pounds. By comparing the we ight of various soils with this their specific gravities are ob- tained. The speeific gravity of good agricultural soils is not far | from 2.68; that is, sueh soils are two and sixty- oight hundredths times heavier than water, 2 enbie foot of it would weigh about 167 1-2 pounds. -- American Agri- Cuiinrist. is S50 greater ease the Weighs son we tl JOC risom, Planting Vegetable Seeds. 1t costs no more and the profits are dor uble to cultivate a garden rich in choice small fruits and ve getables than one growing inferior and ordinary sorts. Too great eare cannot be exercised in procuring good seed of desirable variety and having it on hand in ample time to SOW in season. A second serious con- sideration is putting the seed in the ground af exactly the proper time-this is even more important in a garden than a field. Many seeds have delicate germs and if eold, wet weather succeeds their planting they rot in the ground. Lima beans, okra, cucninbers, melons, squash, pumpkifis, ete., may be cited in instance of these tender kinds. On the other hand, peas, mdiskes, lettuce, turnips, salsify, onions and beets wil withstand the same conditions that destrey the first-mentioned vegetables and there: fore can be planted at an earlier date, A knowledge im respect tothe correct season for sowing vegetables and secur- ing a desirable succession of crops is all- important {0 the market farwer, whose success depends on gaining highest prices with products that meet the de- mand for them in season. For instance, spinach, kale aud other extra-early greens ame very welcome untillettuce is large enongh for the table; while lettuce in turn loses favor when e arly peas ap- pear. Radishes are valuable only dur- ing the early season, there being little demand for them when encunibers are at hand. , The depth to which seed is planted e-gronnd frequently determines its full development or its early destruc- tion. The size of the seed controls to great extent the size of .its covering. There is an old rule which limits the depth of coveriug to twice the diame- tor of the seed sown. This, like most other rules, is liable to exceptions, the character of the soil having somewhat to do with the matter. It requires only a moment's consideration to see that a heavy soil which lies close to the seed admits of a lighter covering than doesa shifting sandy one. Care exercised in gaining a rotation of crops exhaustive to the soil is advisable Nn two crops of a similar nature but beets, carrots and parsnips, should be grown two years in $uceession on the same ground. The quantity of garden feeds required to plant a given space varies with the soil, location and character of the seed, so that only approximate fignres can be given. In a general way it may be said that asparagus will from one ounce of seed produte 1,000 plants and requires a bed twelve feet square. Ome quart of while the same amount of small ones give 300 hills. One ounce of beet seed plants 150 feet of row. One ounce of cabbage reed produces 2,500 plants. One onnet of carrot plants 150 feet of row. One ounce of cucumber is required for 150 hills. One onnce of lettuce seed produces about 7,000 plants. = One | ounce of onion seed is enough for 200 | feet of row. One quart- of peas will | plant 120 feet of row. One ‘ounce of | radish seed is sufficient for 100 feet of | row. For seventy-five hills of squash | ono ounce of seed is required. One ounce of tomato seed prodnces 2,500 plants and one ounce of watermelon | seed is required for fifty hills, © Receives. Porato Pre——One pound mashed po ~ six egus, white and a Sols separately; one | "lemon, squeczed into the po while ! ; hot; one eupiul milk, one teaspoonful | | of nutmeg ond the same of mace; two | | oupfuls white sugar; bake in open | shells of paste; to be eaten cold. Mink Tmoxapr-—Loaf sugar, and a half posnds, dissolved quart of boiling water, with pint of lamon juice, and one and pints of milk. This makes a summer beverage, Ronn Jeux Caxs, cup of sugar, ene cup of flour, one tea spoonful of baking powder, salt. om long ting As soon as baked, over any jelly sod roll up immediately. Sweet Aree Promxa, sealded milk, half pint of Indian meal, enp of molasses, spoonful of salt, sweet apples. Mix these all together, and cut the apples (pared) in small stir in. in & moderate oven, in a half a a half Household Hints, To wash red table water, with a little powdered borax (borax sets the color}; wash the linen separately and quickly, using very little soap; rinse In tepid water containing a little boiled starch; hang to dry in the shade; iron when almost dry Good flour ig not tested by its color White flour may not be the best, The test of good flour is the amount of water it absorbs. Cutlets and steaks may be fried as well as broiled, but they must be putin hot butter or lard, The grease 1s hot enough when it throws off a blackish smoke. In cooking a fowl, to ascertain whother it ds done, put the skewer into the breast, and if the breast is tender the fowl is done. Single cream is ¢ream that on the milk for twelve the best for tea and coffee, cream stands on its milk twenty-four hours, and eveam for butter frequently stands for forty- eight hours. Cream that is to be whippe sd should not be but or cream, lest in whip ping it change butter. linen use tepid has stood it Doubl He hours 58 | £8) s—————— The New Arctic Expedition, The New York Hera mander Cheyne, of the navy, has offered Lie ute n a position in the Arctie expedition to sail from England next June. He ex- pects also the co ape alo of 14d 44 ant Hoogoord, of the roval Dani avy, who will accompany it in the Denmark. In England the pro- posal meets with some popular favor, and it is intended that it shall dueted under private auspices, trammeled by government orders. proposed should the 3 be secured, to send a vessel to St. Pat rick’s bay, where the Alert of Nares' pedition wintered, and from th vey the prospeet of polar ule Vx means of balloons, and if favorable enmstances are found to exist, tended to attempt the journey i the assistance of balloons. Other wise, the vessel will return down Smith sound and enter We ingtor y channel b 'y way of Lancaster sound, passing up wi the current that belie ved to fl Ww toward the north and east, 0 possi ble winter quarters in latitude degree $s north. From plorations will be conducte of sledges and balloons, being released from ice lowing sommer; the vessel her course toward the sy PASS. ing as near the pole as possib le, and probably pass the second winter near latitude exghty-four degrees north, upon a meridian further to the east ad Shot due north of Greenland. The follc ing summer, upon breaking oul fo her winter quarters, she will continue her homeward: voyage to England, passing down the southerly current between Greenland and Spitabergen. The plan seems to be an excellent one, provided, in the first place, Commander Cheyne can succeed placing his ves-el at St. Patrick's bay, or at latitude eighty-four degrees north, by way of Wellington channel. Dut one vessel has ever yet reached St. Patrick's bay, and none. whatever reached even latitude seventy-eigh grees north by way of Wellington chan- nel. i says that Com British roval ant Schwatka n ‘Tests = 4 ol be On and un- It is sum of 18 here Lorin in United States Senate Explores; Following isa list of thie officers « the United States Senate, with their salaries: Secre plary of the Senate, 84,500, and for compensation as a disbursing officer of saliries of Benators, 2306: chief clerk, 83.000; principal clerk, principal executive clerk, minute and journal clerk, financial clerk, rolling clerk, 82,502 each; librarian and six clerks in the office of the secreta Ys £3,220 each; assistant librarian, 21,440 five clerks, 32,100 each; keeper of stationery, $2102.40; assistant keeper of stationery, 81,800; two messengers, £1,206 each: one assistant in the stationery room, 81,000; chaplain, £000; secretary to theViee-Pr esident, $2,102.40 messenger to the Viee-President’s room, £1,440; clerk to the committee on appropriations, 83.500; assistant clerk to the committee on appropria- tions, §1,600; clerk and stenographer to the committee on nance, £2500; clerk of printing records, £2 220: clerks to the committees on elaims, commerce, judi- ciary, jrivate land claims, military affairs, postoflices and post- roads, District of Columbia, naval affairs, library and census, £2,220 each; sergeant-at-urms and doorkeeper, 84,820; assistant doorkeeper, $2,502; assistant doorkeeper, 82,502; messengers, acting as assistant keepers, £1800 each: elerk sefgeant-at-arms, $2,000; to the Senate, £2250; aya of pel nso ns, a 0 ting three door- to the postmaster assistant post- master and mail carrier, $2,088; four mail carriers, 81,200 each; superintend- ent of the document room, £2,160; two assistants, £1 440 each; superintendent of the folding room, 82,160; ne assist- ant, $1,200; twenty-four messengers, £1,440 each; messenger to the commit tee on appropriations, 21,440; messen- ger in charge of store room, £1,200; messenger to the official reporters’ room, £1,200; chief engineer, $2,160; three assistant engineer, £1,440 each; conductor of elevator, £1,200; eight skilled laborers, 1,000 each per annum; twenty-four clerks to committees, 86 per day during the session. cs sis Fresh-Water Spring in the Atlantie. ro) FACTS AND ( OMME NTS. are not natives of the United Farley, of California, Fair, of Florida, and Sewell, were born in Ireland; Nevada, in England, in Beotland. Senate ates Jorsoy . of Jones, Rents in Chicago have advanced fifty while in New York the ad Street ronts have quadrupled in many instances, until, as the Springfield Republican puts it, the room in which a man makes his money costs more than the house in which he spends it, Small houses on dirty back stroets cost 81,200 a year in New York, up four or five flights of £30 and $40 a month. FOoOms stairs rent for British The consul at Philadelphia 700,000 hogs had died of trichins, in and many persons killed by the same disease, and it appearing that only 400,000 died last vear of all dis eases and only thirteen persons in fifteen years of trichinw, the British minister at Washington admits that the state ments of the British consul were *f ex aggerated,” but not entirely without foundation The BRING, facetiously re marks the Detroit Free Fie CNN, | said of ** Esop’s Fables Nights." Your, "orthe ** Arabian The new the prohibitory law of Kansas dentes nse of wine at the sacrament, and renders preachers lable for its use It compels every physician fo take an to prescribe any article which alcoho) enters unless it is neces BAry for the health of the plittent, and every Srugiist to take a similar oath not to put up sell any such article except by prese ok tions, duly signed, by a practicing physician. Under this law can buy spirits of eamphor, or flavoring éxtracis except upon a physician's prescription. oath not into ne one wi) cologne The advocates of esonomical and sanitary mode of wing of the dend, appear to be ME 10 NR ber at od contidence, OW PN ed blish in Brooklyn, a plat of Steps Cremation, as an dis in it & Crema hay £83 18 taken to for the construction and the crematory, with \ ated sOeiety Heetin B. i pg information 1 we and its ttl unin tO ésla a gentleman ory tenders d SOC Y operation \ % i COd collating relation It cremation w reduced as low i r aavaniages. 1G € pen S68 Of as five minds of the by from the if we may judge eYarisi in Grermany, state of Ave army of and work Wes has been ner assed, and 2 E10 ad is carried on day ro. Greece will 700 field pieces, com in process of ms anufa 't wilh lipped é people ask for iH {1 be given unto them,” HORZO - up al neeited Cl claim that y IOst ever put up in this feet long and five and a It took 4.000 feet of Inmber and 540 days’ work to complete it. Four In dred dollars worth of gold and 8250 of metal ornaments were nsed struction, Chicago mistaken about its being the expensive sign. A Now York man bad a sign that il ane windy day and nearly killed a man. The owner of the sign had to pay 84,800 which makes that sign the pensive as far as heard from: “14711 IE, Costing hieago folks expensive sig country. Tt 130 half feet wide iN in in its eon is most and Costs, most ex an ters’ department in the said to be the iof nl ny in the 13 DOW Propose od to bru I ole © f the oresters from that ot ¥ to superin- of Great Britain, ulture tang ght students there, bev n don € 1h France, (ior. Switzerland, We wish, New York 4 such a “hool be established by the United A lamentable de- been going on in ou er since the settlement of the country. If they were annnally thinned outs needed, in a judicious way, in- stead of being mercilessly slashed down by the wholesale; they would farnish all the wood and timber we want, and still keep up the necessary growth from She young ger trees for fatuie red quires mntry «ta RAVE wi Diates sire HL rests ey government, tion has long nr He 0 Fermentation is a process of nature going on all the time and producing a greater or less degree of alcohol. "The amount of alcohol produced by fer. mentation in bread is scientifically demonstrable, though practically inap- preciable; in the light wines it varies from five to ten per cent. In many of the wines it is quite suflicient to produce a cortain degree of intoxieation, the effect of the wine on the human body depending altogether upon the char- acter and temperament of the person. A single glass will produce effect on some persons than a whole bottle on others. Distillation is a modern pro- , by which the alcohol is extracted from the grape juice or other substance possessing it. The distilled liquors, rum, gin, brandy, whisky and the like, possess, therefore, a large amount of alcohol, reaching in brandy, for ex- fifty per ‘cent.,, and sometimes more LESS more, Register, of Paris, boasts, and without reason, adds the English journal, Land and Water, of the slow but sure manner in which American goods are foreing their way The American 4 nos . of nature may be seen on the Atlantic coast, eighteen miles south of St. Augustine. Off Mantanzas Inlet, and three miles from shore, a mammoth depth of the ocean with such force and volume as to attract the attention of all who come in its immediate vicinity. lent, the shore. derful and mysterious “freak of nature has been known to the people of St. ones have been taught to regard it with ror, as the abode of supernatural influ ences. When the waters of the ocean in its vicinity are otherwise calm and | tranquil, appearance of t | takable evidences of internal commo- tions. An area of about half an acre ' shows this troubled appearance—some- | woman's kettle, | Commodore Hitcheock, of the United | foreign markets with European manu- factures. “ Our cotton goods, both heavy and fine, are rapidly taking the place of English. Our printing and wrapping paper is finding a ready sale in the East and West Indies, while even bank note and bond paper is in de- mand in Italy, Austria and Spain. American cutlery is sold in Birmingham, our locks are supplanting those of Eng- lish manufacture in English houses American jewelry is sold in Paris, and if we are not sending coals to Newcastle, English manufacturers the race for wealth. ——-———— in the United States the following sta- In one of our large cit- and morphia reached 350 pounds and 375 ounces respectively, or about forty- The popu- are sold annually. While the popula- tion has inereased fifty-nine per cent., her eourse as she entered the spring. | | eircumstance he set to work to examine | of water everywhere in ‘the vicinity, | {while the spring itself was almost | | futhomless. —Savannak (Ga. ) Neus. ————— Pleasarit to. the taste and spr quick in relieving coughs and colds, it is not at all | strango that Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup ham placed so many other cough remodics, of morphia to every But ‘there are additional of from 400,000 to itant, { i ‘being laudanum. The imports of opium | gato the United States for the years 1879 gnd 1880, ending the thirtieth of Jun 0 533,451 pounds, valued at $2,7 NEWS EPITOME. ———— East and Middle, building Rochester, a fald in rine through the explosion A manev-arony brick N.Y. w of a ml in vin 1 3 i Josoph Schell, twenty years old, was in and four or five other men were injured of Maine in Belfant, Wintiam G, Cm 1 1804, Mo. aged se Faaxg O HRY, Rovertior 1853 an died a fow dave ago st VeRtv-{ive yearns of the veil a cable dis the orew, In it off the West Pairs L OWnog ew Haven, Conn, has pe I aiid mix of have boon lo foty In New Yo the dead is rox rk recently formed fin irtedd WW ag soe in numbers Gengnar Geant has resis ut of the New York Bimsion., Frou the od his position as preside World's Fale com at Washington has boon tmsued a table of real estate in the sixty counties comprising the State of New York to be $2,830.6069, 113, and of per rity $3 12,460,320. CaLsNs OC sh the valuation WING nal props of Geran in Now Lande number Seriving imsost daily immigrants an York, and hus transports hiladoiphia deal ade of his b ms in r in bogus aM diplomas, has m A confession, ex He this country sold and diplomas are ¢ in Europe the Mexican in New Y Lieli great esocnt Usinoes, niv-five cone ¢ by which degrees are iv 30.000 bogus LLU FITET aw Of Lg and Frank Work $i ¢ Lae 1 to Mexico in the int NEL EA, Ronen, the ral Grant will pro of the & inventor and pat Ceres Hupany, ) for oil He vate wells die served Ir civil war burial lot a carriage wk the b his howe Wad From Washington, f ssioner ol to R. D, affairs indian Secre. Trownnipar, « ndered his resignation soount of Aanmi has tary Kirkwood on a illness, Tax chief of the bureau of mi rant ® uring iat w reports the arrival of 15,075 Feb. ruary, Ture total breadstuffs during the month of 1851, wore $19,919,246, and during February, 1850, $14,426,844; during the eight months 1881, $182, 428 826 and during nths ended February, 15880, $188 values of exports of Febrasry, 15 he eight mo 55,650, Forraer nominations by the Proside nt liam H. Robertson, for the port of New Phelps, of New Jersey, to be a; Edwin A. Marritt, of New general at London; Adam Badean, York, charge d'affaires to Dennmrk; Lewis Wallace, of Indiam, d'affaires to Michael J. Cramer, of charge d'affaires to Switzerland ; Chandler, of New Hampshire, Samuel F. Phillips, of North A. of New wil be collector of eustoms William Walter to York; York, consul charge Kentucky, William E. to be governor Nichol, of affairs Sheldon, of Ohio, Mexico ; Thos, M. commissioner of Indian Moyer, United trict of Ohio; Goorge Edward 8, WwW. Atkinson, Tur state department furnishes a statement upon Mr, Boosevelt, United States ‘consnl at Matanzas, and a go utleman named Drake, The report was to the effect that a number of Ameri. cans arriving at that place were swindled by these gentlemen ont of five dollars each for refssuing their passports to them, although the samo were good for six months, Mr. Roose. volt appears to be supported by the consul-gen- eral at Havana, Tue President sent the following additional nominations to the Senate: Robert R. Hitt, of Illinois, now secretary of the United States state, Nathan W, Spaulding to be assistant United States treasurer at San Francisco, Cal of the New York agency, Tur President has decided not to call an extra session of Congress, Trex last statement shows the total amount of §317,367,551. © The total amount of legal-tender 135, leaving the net amount of eireulation of the by United States bonds $308,751,416, Foreign Nowe Ivary has decided to construct another solos which will be superior to any A ranox number of arrests of supposed Nihil Tux Bpanish court is becoming alarmed al the spread of republicanism. Ouly a few hours before King Alfonso received the news of the assassination of the ezar of Russia, he met a party of workmen, who oried out as he passed “Long live the faderal republic! Down with the king!" Toney is actively with preparing for wal Mu FEET 1 the house of com South Africa had sb British conditi are the sagerainty of wiirol of foreign relat ant of 8 British re the The Boer promised omplete self-government, Ixpaans haw CiLaparone stated is i that the Boer 3 stantially ai oopled th Fhe Hritish alsin Cad Mis Of JroBay oonditions a Win gM aid the estal ahilonut at future tal however, an massacred thirty persons sud Mexi Janos United burned nincleen WRZONS Roar slsout mixty miles south of the ferritary, to Bt. DPotersbarg { Peasants are flocking rom all parts of Russia on a plons pilge the spot where the emperor fell Pug Canadian minister of agriculture addressed a memorandum to the ernmont proposing an exteisive organizat Irish emigration to Manitoba and d weal [rTitorios. A TERRIBLE catastrophe af Municipal Italien in Nice, a well the Theatre known French transformed that town watering place, has from a sosne of gayety to one of mourning aud The of * Luel Hi O06 Bas WOK place al sadness, curtain had just risen on the i Lams { PTI E thie instantly the wm wdad took werod the audience r ihc first scene When an explosic back of the with which the stage AS BO becan stage, and almost GHery Was on fire Mas the fire was dis pamie doors ensued throw women aliri stricken, and a sera: in whic! nder foot, their buildin wume fi down and trampled ked, and the m the frightened To add to the tern idenly went in eager eflorta to decape burning from pushed radely by the loft them to their fats il Wie a Wd fn and " id } BOSE gas su dark of the auditorian of fr wh Who o5 i Was in dep $0 thrown ing classes, the and boxes not family of | By i & Co r $5 OO FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS Sennte Speclal Session, Vive Prosi lent announced the apg ‘ Tt lev id up the pos rm fiom forthe oles GIN ofthe Senate, Mr Daviaot 11 s 3 reas ans why he he vote with th : clocting Sonal and man yapead] Penclloton’s motion by 28 yeas to 27 nays, AAAI ns. i bate Mr 1 tn dis, to adjourn was agrie An Indian Boy's Love-Letter, A love-letter picked up oa the floor of » school with Hampton's views on co-education need not inevitably shock even pedagogic sensibilities, Written in an unknown tongue, however, with only the names to betray it, a transla. tion by the private interpreter, seamed only a proper precaution. If I confide it to the gentle reader, the Indian lov ers will be, neither the worse nor the wiser, while some others may find in it valuable suggestions for similar corre- spondence. Norway Bonoor, Febrnary 3, 1870, Miss « — ——: I said I like you and I want to give you a letter. When. ever I give you letter, I want you to answer me soon. That's all I want, and I will answer to you soon after. When you give me letter, it raises me up. It makes me heart-glad, sister-in-law. When I talk I am not saying anything foolish. Alwgys my heart ve y glad. 1 want you let me know your thought. I I am honest about what I say, I always keep in mind. I want always we smile at We live happy And say again, when I give letter, keep nicely and not show to any one. If they know it, it no good way. They take wi away, and that is tho reason don't show it. Hear me, this all I am I like yon, and 1 love you. I won't say any more. My whole heart is shaking hands with you. I kiss you. Your lover, Harper's Magazine, ————— Inaction, Great ovils result from physical in. nection, It is well known that through the whole human system strength and development come only by exercise. man who lives chiefly a lilo of passive repose will gradually lose the power as well us the desire for activity. This, the evil involved. The connection be- not obtain their fall power, nor the condition by salutary exercise. Pure plan with discretion, and to execute the hog epidemie, and the aneans for its pre- | partment, | resolute in the former, FOR THE LADIES, A Broom Drill, A now idea in amusements this, and ita inventors were some girls in Lowell, Mass, Twelve young ladies, com. manded by a captain, gave a public drill of their proficiency in handling the broom. The girls were uniformed in red, white and blue, The brooms were decorated with colored ribbons, and as the young women marched with the stroamers behind them they looked very martial and were warmly applanded, A vouug lady, dressed in the national was the “ drummer boy" of the broom corps. A fan drill is performed in somewhat the same fashion, only the fan ean be used more gracefully and effectively than the Bat, after 11, perhaps, the best broom drill is the that takes place in the kitchen, where there is only broom and no streamers, COLOs, broom One one Haw an Empress Gets Through a Day. Empres the day's work and amusement cup of cold chocolate, taken o'clock. Then she goes Lo the stable see her hunting pet; steward and makes presentations, interviews takes a bheefsteak and g couple of glasses of Hungarian wine, after which lady-in-waiting tells her the with a to for arrangements + Big, HEWSDADOrs She al six, dons her riding habit and goes to the large cin which Is connected by dines is ments Here she mounts mettle some horse and trains him with wonder ful skill and bol When some ani. mal usually wild BOC Iness Ing empre iN Proceed ding A Queen's Hobos, A fashionable of Francisco had he parlors erowded one | entire day with guests inspecting an outfit which she had ast completed per | order for Queen haprolam, the wife of Ring of the islands, Among the many robes was whi is intended for a It is made in the inn modiste Kalakaua, one h 0n. Haw OCCHs if the grand state native style « fhe is Bh the New Orleans, be being in deep shoulders. The richest velvet, hiue, striped with combined with plam velvet of the sam shade. Another was of embossed velvet, of the most delicate pe ach pink s shade, which constituted the train and corsage This was over a petticoat of plain Turk also Poi h p ink, and was richly! dered’ with white jet. The half and hii rh the satin, and embroidery, nents fas design dont h, thi piece that in one ¥ oke athe red dnto a Louise gold and * alin, embire sleeves rolling collar covered with et 3 white je aru orsage, f back, owever, Was pointe The was hh ecru heavy 8 ost YF a3 % beautiful « he lot, h ined wit POSER had two | he same were to be ail Fae i sul of they y made dress slippers ihe Japapese Faciery Girls, The Japanese have just made another | advance iu their hia ation of Enropean Cusioms, i plot he pre BON ime pop i lar prejudice has greatly restricted the id for women's ialx In the nterior, indeed, the ‘Weaker sex take Part agricultural operations, but at the great centers of industry men have monopo. lized almost the whole area of remuners- five work This nm appears to | doomed, as some mor enterpris- ing m ment periment bt ann fact women, and vit to wo far baen carried these 0 Cause 10 reg I he f minine emp loyes with considerable lower vet work the same time twelve hours—as the maseuline mono po- lists, Whether they tum the % quantity 3s not stated, but in nit of their labors is said wt unfavorably with the men's work, . So great has | the success of the experiment that new factories, chiefly for the manufacture of « loth, are about to be built exclusively for the employment of women. A factors will neadéed, if it be true that the hands now in ployment work withont intermission from 5 a. tober Mm -Japnties S68 women not, a rule, very robust labor as this m strain even on lias ists hav ont T ty thi Tes Compare : beon several son be | feminine fist BOS em are are is US NeCens i} Lag ar ly Hupose a severe strongest. Frashion Netes, mace front. The new dolman shorter at the back tha Batiste embi ported to trim sun are in PF Owns, Robin's-agg ble wi by young girls this summer, a wattean plait in the back. The short street dreks for a long Irish point-lace wrought thread is used to trim cotton dresses, ECOmsS como visit this time. Basques are to be a little longer this season than they were in the winter, garments that are made merly, Pink tulle, without Ie RAVES foilots a4 new fancy 8 y 4% flutings, The newest jackets collars that cross in pretty trimming, A New York bride recently went to the altar with her veil fastened by shoe of orange blossoms. front and make a small Mother Hubbard cloak. The cheapest materials for handsome underskirts is satin, which ean be bought in all the bright colors, Daisy chains, ers prepared to trim summer bonnets, A handsome dress of black grenadine, with half inch stripes of satin and of some open meshed design, lias cach of | the sides covered with a jabos of black Spanish lace, yard wide. Many folds across the crown is ming, while others cover edges, In some seirts are of plain iron grenadine, or else the smooth sewing silk grenadines, retronsses and borders, Shirrings and ruffles are seen in all parts of costumes of cotton printed goods, where trimmings can be used. or more fabries which usually match in color, but contrasts in effect, Bright and positive colors will not be in fashion except in small bits to give a dash of brightness to a costume, change so rapidly that it is diffienlt to say what is and what is not fashionable. Gold and silver lace and gold and sil- ver bmids continue to form the deco- rations of many lovely full-dress bon- nets, Brown, tan, drab and tones of gray or dust color prevail in the new camel’s- | hair smitings, cheviots, kerseymeres and beiges. » Among new devices in bonnet orna- ments are three and: fonr crescents crossing each other; two and three Soman Jamming boars rushing out of a thicket, and | single camels, elephants, beetles, clubs, oars, rakes, spades and other gardening silver, gold, steel and red bronze. Kersevmeres, belges, cloths, English homespuns, cheviots and light eloth suitings are the materials for fatigne, business and traveling suits, Evening dresses of white or eolored tarleton have tunics, and peasant waists that lace in front, over white shirred waists that are high in the neck, but have very short sleeves, Bordered robe pattern dresses in per eales, momie cloths, satines and lawns are seen mnong the new spring and early summer goods, A novelty in the form of a lace pin is a golden fishing-rod and silver line looped over the rod, with a gold fish { dangling from the end. | | [Worvester (Mass) Bpv.] Nothing on Earth so Good, | Certainly a strong opinion, said one | of our reporters to whom the following | was detailed by Mr. Henry Kaschop, with Mr. George E. Miller, 418 Main | street, this city: 1 suffered so badly with the wumatism in my log last winter that I was unable to atte nd to ny work, being completely helpless, 1 heard of #t. Jacobs Oil and bought a bottle, after | ning which I felt greatly relieved | With the use of the second bottle 1 was completely cured, In my estima | tion thers is nothing on earth RO good | for rheumatism as Bt. Jacobs Oil, It | nets liks a charm I 535 Ordering Jolin Adams Below, One of the most successful of the { commanders of the American navy dur | ing the Revolution was Commodore Bam- i uel Tucker, of Marblehead, His biog- { rapher, with pardonable pride in his i hero, claims that he ** took more prizes, i naval hero of the age.” The simple manners that then pre- vailed in Marblehead are illustrated by jan anecdote of the way Mr Tucker's commission as captain was presented to him. He was chopping wood one day {in his yard, with his sleeves rolled up, tand a ts axpusiiin hat slonehing over his face. Buddenly an officer rode up to | the gate and halted, looking as if he had made a mistake, a ‘“] may, fellow,” he shouted, some- what roughly, to the w wadeho per, “1 wish you would tell me if the Hon, Samuel Tucker lives about here.” ‘““ Honorable! Honorable!” answered | Tucker; “there is not a man of that | name in Marblehead. He must be one | of the family of Tuckers in Salem. 1 am the only Bamuel Tucker there is | here.” SometlLing about the young man sug- | gested to the officer that the commission i which he bore, | Tucker a captain in thé American navy, { belonged the woodchopper, He | handed it to him, and returned to Cam i bridge. Captain Tucker alw ays obeyed orders to the letter. He was ordered to the Boston, which ship was assigned to | parry John ‘Adams as envoy to France. One day, the Boston, falling in with an armed merchantman, engaged her, Mr, | Adams, seizing a musket, took his place | among the marines, and, when Captain | Tucker ordered him to go below, con- | tinue d at his post, “Mr. Adams,” said the resolute eap- | tain, laying hold of the minister and forcing him sway, “1 am commanded | by the Continental Congress to deliver |] vou safe in France, and you must go | down below, sir!” Mr. Adams obeyed, i and left the deck. {La Crosse Ropublican Leader) Having been cured by St. Jacobs Oil, I recommend the samo to all sufferers with rheumatism, says Mr. L. Shiffman, { 3504 ( alumet avenue, Chie go, Ii to Thread from Wood. The manufacture of thread from wood for crochet and sewing purposes, has, it is said, recently been started in the mid- | dle of Sweden. Ir is wound in balls by | mac hx nery, either by hand or steam, which, w ith the labeling, takes one min- ute Aa twelve seconds, and the balls are | packed up in cardboard boxes, generally ten in a box. Plenty of orders from all | parts of Sweden have come in, but as the works are not in proper order, there has hardly been time to complete them all. The production gives fair promise { of success, and it is expected to be very important for home eonsumption, ce ———— Truth and BURELLO, is the best family medicine in the worl ri ify the blood, remove poss and b iliousnoss, aid digestio wn and stimniate the whole system ¥ Truth and sober. noses compels us to answer, Hop Bitters, being perfect and harmless, See “Truths” in umn What pu { another of | tise timated that 40, 000 men have | been engaged in the pine forests of Rev. W. F. Davis, of Massachusetts, has been going from camp to camp since { October as an evangelist, ! TR I AR —— ™ ENTYHIVE CENT TRE ATISE Horse and his Dis siting an index Diseases which give s, Cause and the 3 i anos, wy A Tal Horwe, 1 i Treatn reipal drags ns effects and antidote whim a with an Fagr ving of the Hors agon with 4 for dell eli id earth ed forthe ordi A Table s Touthat different A valuable cals » i other vidaabde informa. 100-Fage Baok went pvt I toany addeem { In the ¢ o8 for fwentyfl Postage | Stam al W YORK NEWS se APER UNION, 148 & 150 Ww. wih Strect, New Yi Poirin % and wn rh i Conia The Greatest Biucuvery of the Age. h 0 Wie, . , Rpasine, nite rally, and Sore 44 eats, a iF exter ot returned, many fans Rot he witho ut it He Son £1 it dry # J and 8 Matra Stree! OW York THE MARKETS, a hotel contin Dey ot, NEW YOUR. Nat live wt, Poor 0 Prime Veals, | Beef Cattle Moa i Calves + a oO 50 a0 x RGD 125 @ 1364 1224.6 193 1068 2 106 8 « #0 57 1] 30s : MW Bb} good to fancy 4 53 n, good to fancy, ! Bader . Two row 4 Hate : i Corn Ungraded Westorn Mixed Southern Yellow, | Oats White State | Hay- { Biraw Hops Pork Jarl Medizm to Prine, Tim'y 1 10 Long Rye, porowt,..,. 180 State, 18% . i5 Mans, old, for « port, 13 10 City Steam Refine Ceade 6152 fil of 112011 12Y, 6 ob way | MN Gh 18 14 28 “Gn In @& Blhe Petroleum. = «© “ot i Butter. Rtate Cream ry. AVesforn Im. Crean Wry Fae ory Rtate Fao tory, Ski i Western Egga-State and Pann, : Potatoos— State, bla E; arly Rose 2 12 BUFFALO, Chess fh 690 @@ 525 @ 620 @ 57 a 118 @ MN @ 38 @ 88 Sheep Hogs, Good to Choice Yorkers, . 6 60 Flour—('y Ground, No. | Spring 525 Wheat No. 1. Hard Duluth, ie 18 Corn—No, 2 Wostern. Oats Barley BOSTON, Beef Western Moss Hogs Live, Hogs Pork- Flour. Corn Oats. Rye Wool @ @ il @ 8 G13 0 L650 @8M 61 6 63 80a 52 9 @ 100 Washed Comb & Delaine 31 2 83 Unwashed ** " Ht @ 47 WATERTOWN (MASS) CATTLE MARKET, Beef Cattle - Live weight Shoop hi _~. Lam] Ng 1.0 | xtra Prime per bbl, , Spring Wheat Pato nts, Mixed and Yellow Extra White State 18 50 be PHILADELPHIA, Flour Penn, good and fancy, Wheat No, 2 Red, Ryo-Rtate., ,. , B00 @® 525 1% @ 121% | T100¢ @ 100% ia iY Oatse Mixed |, , 1" ‘@ 9 Dutter—Croamery Extra, Cheeso~New York Full Cream, Petroleum —Cmde............ Retin Este nana The “ Black Death,” The terrible Oriental as the * Black Death,” ant flses Inova nt i forme Europe, and § that In 1 made its re- sppustunes in men li a tly appeared in alive, recen pombe 4 and on the oe of the Cae oian sea. In 1876 it showed itself esopotamia. In 1578 it crossed the boundary line of Russia, and cases that were detected in Nishai-Novgored, Moscow and other spread un- easiness thronghout all Pp Ger many and Austria closed their bounda- ries, and ent off all communication, railway as well as other, with the em. pire of the czars. The dread disease did vot spread in Russia, and finally dissppeared from the European domain, some ay on account of the energetic sanitary and quarantine regulations of Loris Melikoff, others because the at mospherie cenditions happened to be unfavorable to its extension. But the Black Death bas continued its work ever since; and has just given a sign of repewed activity ‘by am ibile 8 whole party of Ein: from Meces, and crossing the hates to 3a oy it- sell once more in Great Merit, All the fairs give the first premioms and special awards of grest merit 40 Hop Bitters as the purest and best family medicine, and we most heartily approve of the awards for we know they deserve it, They are now on exhibition st the Baie fairs, and we sdvise all to test them, Bee another golamn, Colorado now chalios ‘the position of the greatest bullion producer in the | world, Australis has so largely fallen that it Las lost its foremost place, u Can't To be without Ya. Cou ad yi Lure, There are 10, 000 opium caters in Bt, Louis and 15,000 in Chicago. i S08 87 ALL BRUOGISTS ARS DEELERS 1% MEDONL, A. VOGELER & CO. Elv's Créam Balm in another column cle tike Cream Balm has long been desired, and now that i is within the reach of sofferers from starch, hay fover, ote, wlieve they will make the mont of it DrW E. Boékuian, minend v in the highest ters Jaston } Dhaid i Argus, ve hoon 8 sufferor fox voars with caterrh, der a physician's treatment for over s ve tried a nomber of sure core remedies bained uo relief. 1 was sdvised to try Ely's Cream Balm. 1f esve mie immediate relief I Believe I saan pow entively cured. —6. 8 Davis, First National Baal Ek, Eliza} beth, XJ Price, 30 comnts Owegn, N.Y. and | Oo Wi 1 mail it for 60 cents, gages gale sexs Mrs. Co., Elkhart, Ind Shipped with privilege of examining before ving, Hand. Hurness, £5 10 £26, 78, ote, Bugeies, Prarr, Bee. ree Cop Leven On. made tb, selected livers, on the womshiore, by £ ‘sewed, Hazard & New York It is absolutely pure and sweat, Patients who have anos taken it prefer it 16 all Others. Phivsic.aas nave in superiir to any of the other oils in market, Platform Bpein Prioe-list sent free. WwW. A sriyon bottles of Cansoryye, s deodorized extract of petrolewn, will produce pew hair on a million Bald heads, which is somethi uo other preparation over disoovered il A GOOD FAMILY REMEDY! STRICTLY PURE. (This engraving represents the Longs In o healthy state.) ne the Doctors Say! 2. ¥F TEN, of Lexington, Missourd, says] p si in Jreherencs to any sare PRghs an and colds. DR A.C IOINSON, of of ML. Vernon, His, some wooed ert} otros of Consam by the we of “Allen's Lung Ba DR 4. B. TURNER, Blonntsyille, Ala, 3 pk whet as of twenlyive vears, wWrilok EL wrutis # for Oo mien i the work of | Fer a Blsenues of T the a uimonny TERR iw excellent emedy. AS AN EXPECTORANT IT HAS NO EQUAL! THEY CURE Stomach, Dowels, yond Lrinafyt owed, Med, Compisinie. 81000 IN COLD. Wil he ped or fof eh Cr wr JE Arann for bic 16 an shootuir and te Pruskeuness, wie of opm, Wie arootine 3 An ro rtp diver, Rid = Nanorar Prumsunso Co. Philadelplia, Pa 'EVE-GLASSES. FG. 00, 18 Maiden Lane, Now York. CINCINNATI O. For Sale by all Druggists. 1b MeKABSON & ROBINS, New . mE LAND! LANDI!! Over 1,000,000 Acres. = Mild Climate, Productive Soil. Low Prices. wrias. maps, einen gine parteniars free, ft JOM AR uf « Land Uotmioner. Rock, Ark. Sub-Bass & Oct. 355, 368, $75, $100, $120 a Pao Non A pe hp Fatt 1 a rN LOYMENT 224 RY pot jc manth. ai step nel Agents Wanted, (Salary ur ILA Tron 0 to! pn sine. I: Tr ind AGENTS ir mat rm 81 FT tasinen by selling our goals, Circulars wilh POTS = & MTR jaa Chromo Cards, EERE List, EC. Dux, Falethary & Dan shin Sts, There 's Groen Grass Neath the 8a nex rone & chorus. Popular hit! pe “doweph: Shelfy. " dealers. By mail, $5c. GW. Peek. 213 W. th RY $350: | JoxTn : AGENTS SN i ree. § Bak trait aie A and SXiuiges io Agents. 10 RERY, Augusta Maine. ou Beautiul F oy Adver st + ORANT & BRO 'N, sami. A FARYLAND ARMS. 87 io ATR Short winters Catalogue free, Tor. CHAMBERS, ¥ Learn Telex . Earn 3 to $100 YOUNG MEN a month, wu atos se | Ro paying offfecs; Adds Valentine {ron Janesvitie, W GENTS WANTED for the Best and Re Sciling Pictorial Books and Bibles. Prices reduced 5 per et. National Publishing Co. Philadelphia, Pa. FREE Soot ct Hatt betes Mae adi ESDRERENS————— ! Teller ASTIN * KIDDER S 7 AS 1 ILLES. all, Sowell & Co, maa BE haricstown, Mass. CASH je, Pa. TR —— PREMIUMS, Sample _and terms free. MONTHLY Navioy, Warren, Pa. 0 RANGE © Vashington D.C formap & OVES, Address 1. W, PISO'S CURE for Se Ei ed is Nise I Acre. foralbare Sa How & descriptive aor the best 8999 Lo fea are Co. Augosiadie: CIANS of EUROPE and The most Valuable reais to be an athe sale tr t Boston. Ci . 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