Farm Notes, It is more profi:able to buy old Western corn for feeding than to grind home-grown while in its soft <oondition. The culture of Indian corn is in greasing In Australia. 1t is said that 15 cents per bushel covers the cost of <ultivatien nd harvesting. Soft-shell eggs sre causei by a de- ficiency of lime, O, ster shells are composed of carbonate of lime, and serves as *‘ grit” in grinding the food as well as for material for forming the shell, A Montreal dealer ships tomatoes to England, where they bring good prices. The taste for tomatoes has been acquired, but the Eaglish ell mate will always be too cold for them to ripen. Spest hops, if properly dried, are said to be an excellent and healthy substitute for feather downs in bed- ding. They have been used for that PUTrpOSe LIANY years. Frequently the British farmer ex- pends in a single year as much in making a crop as would buy an equal number of acres in the cultivated and older portions of this country. A large fowl will make more meat than a small one, but requires a longer period in which to mature, Early maturity in hens is of more impor. tance than size or weight of carcass. Fowls need gravel, oyster shell: and some green food. When in counfine- went these subitances should not be overlooked. A head of cabbage or an onion or two will always be highly relished. The Rizhmond, Va., Southern Planter says: “There is no mean, no procrustean, standar] that can be declared off-hand applicable to a spe- cial soil. B'rictly speaking, eaeh par- ticular case demands a new analysis, © se field may produce a forage five 4 mes more nutritive than another.” A new white potato called Duke of Albany is becoming very popular in England. Itisa sort of the Beauty of Hebron, Most of our American po- | tatoes do well if taken to Eagland, but thie rule does no! work both ways, as Am rican farmers who have pianted imported seed have found to their wostl, Mr. J. J. H. Gregory, of Marble- bead, Mass, carefully collected the castings of worms daily for one season over & given area, and they measured é nearly 8 quart to the square foot or " enough to raise the surface of the land half an inch, Heaslso by experiment shows that an acre of land may con- tain eix tone of worms. Vegetables, like grain, seem to pass through a sweating process when placed in a heap, which guides those storing them in large quantities to be careful of the temperature of the cal- lars and storehouses in which they are kept. They need not only a tem: perature suitable, but also more or jess'ventilation in the heap. Goats’, milk is solid in London at thirty-seven to fifty cents per quart. It is preferred by many for the food of very young children. English and Welsh cottagers find the keeping of goats for their milk a profitable busi- ness at the prices paid, The yield is generally very small; but a gost picks its own living with less expense to its owner than any other animal, Australis has 80,000,000 sheep, against 36,000,000 in this country. The wool yield of Australian sheep has been very light; but the improve. ments made by importing American breeding steck are rapidly bringing it pp. Some flue-wool breeders’ have shipped rams lo Australia at $100 to $500 per head, and the crosses from these fully double the original wuol- lip per sheep. Cottonseed oil Is sid to be superior for many cooking purposes, It does not scorch so readily as other oils, and if properly refined gives an excellent favor to what is cooked with it. People have been using more cottonseed oil than they knew, much of it being palmed off as olive oil. Now that its merits are better understood, it can afl rd to pass under ite true eolors. Let those who desire to consgme ol have their opportanity. The New Hampshire Mirror and Farmer recommends that fine sali be sifted over cattle from head to tall about this time, and again later in the season, ns a remedy against lice. About a pint to each animal is suffizleat. A correspondent who tried the remedy selected a few animals for experiment with the salt, and omitted its use on others, and the result was that those that were so salted were free of lice, while those not so treated were lousy G. H. Danley writes to the Jadiana Farmer : 1 haves heifer that is four years old, with her second calf, thatI «onsider is hard to beat. The follow- ing is the result of seven days’ milk iug~—rom May 18th to 10h: Number PRAISE-GOD-BAREBONES, {and my otusin Wildair met And towed a pot together; Burnt seek iL was that Mollie brewed, For ll was nipping: wiather, ‘Fore George! loses Ulox busty the wench Bet all the lun folkisugbing ! © ©. | They cubbed him peart of akvatiery Atalwing and at qual ig, “Oad-nst 1” ‘siy4 Dick, * tha sack {4 rare, Aud rarely burnt, 1a r Molly; *Twould care the sour: st Crop-ear yet “Of Plous M :lancnoly.” “Egad I" says i, *aere cometh one Hath been at's prayers but lately.” ~So0th, Master Pialse xd -Brebones step pad Along the streets sedalely. Dick Wildalr, with a swasuing bow Ani tone of his Toledo Gave Merry Xmas 10 the rogue And bade him say kis C elo, Next crush a cup to the Kin 's health And eke to pretty Molly “irwill eure your Bal itiipess,’” says Dick, Of Pious Melancholy," ihen Master Barebones stopped and frowned, My heart stood still a minute, Thinks I both Dick and I will bang, O1 else the devil's in it! For me I care not for old Noll Nor all the Ramp together; Yet, fidthd "tis hott to be all ve In peasant Xmas weather, His worship, Barebon 's, grimly smiled, “1 love not blows nor brawling Yet will 1 give thee, loo!, » pledge!” And, zooks! he sent Dick sprawling ! When Moll and [ helped Wiidair up, No longer trim and Jo!ly— “Feel’st not, Bir Dick.” says saucy M li rn The first time I saw her—and I never saw her but twice—there was nothing visible but a slat sun-bonnet and a pair of red angular elbows keep ing time to a monotonous chant: «7 “Ma.ry and Marthy served tha Lawd, Mery und Marthy serve i tha Lawd, Ma-ry and Murthy served the Lawd, And I kin serve Him tow,” This was followed by a vigorous rab- bing, the slat sun-bonnet flapping and the elbows flying op a home-made rickety pine wash-board-—for she was washing, standing on a bench and leaning - over so far into the hot, steaming water that there was danger of her losing her balance and drown- ing. The sound of the rabbing and splashing and her own voice had and she jumped like a frightened frightened stare when [ addressed her. “Don’t be alarmed, litile one,” I said, I have only lost my way, and stopped to ask you whera the hotel is.” She wrung the water out of her lean, red, hands, pushed back her sun-bon- net and stepped ofl the bench. “Dew you live at the tavern ?’" she asked, putting her brown head over on one shoulder like a bird, and look- ing at me with bright, ingnaisitive eyes, “Yes! What ashame to let such a child as you wash ; you ought to be playing with dolls,” I remarked, in- dignantly. She looked at me covertly trots an | der the lashes of ber poft, shy eyes as if wondering if I would do her a harm, drew her small form up proudly and pointed to the nountain. *‘Keep rite on up; tha's yoh place; g0 wha the road turns, and yew’ll site the tavern.” She buried her head in the tub and resumed her chantiog: “Mary and Marthy served the Lawd.™ When I was hall up the miountsin side I turned and saw her standing bareheaded in the sun, locking after me, but she was gone like a squirrel when she saw me watching her, The next time I saw her was when I was looking for a particular species of beetle—I am fond of bugs and worms —and, being caught in a storm, sought shelter in the first eabin; which was hers ! Bhe did not open the door until I bad knocked and pounded a num- ber of times. “An’' it's yew,” was her laconic greeting, as she swung the old boards that served for a door and reloctantly ad mitted me. There was a fire on a stone hearth ; there was a very old man asleep in a chatr, and a great brindled caf, With green eyes, arched itself at his side The room was a clean, bright, warm place, that was mors pictursqae than anything I had seen in the dreary place called the Pocket country, which Hes between Kentucky and Virginia, sud where fate had cast me for a few lonely weeks, I looked every mo- ment for some woman to mske her appearance; yet it would be Hird to tell where she would ¢ me from, un. less she had been lo the loft ‘bove, | There was a curtain hung across a’ " op mT cealed nothing. “Do you keep house here alone #7" ¥) “With feyther aud gran'fey sald the child, “tan—sn—Kpedste,”, “Oh, your bi oy She nedded her answer; I saton the bench and dried myself in the firelight ; the old’ man roused hi snd looked cur ‘at me wilh ro ferret-like eyes, that . | their weak lids, The pered to him and he “went {o sleep age of 67 pounds per day ; most given in one day, 70 pounds. From the 470 of milk we made 18} pounds of but- ter. Bhe is a grade short-horn. I would like to know if there Is any gion her age~than this, oi any breed . * a #How old are you 7" I asked, when small head, I remarked the sharp curved chin and ventured “159 “Try agen.” Shue drew back her sun-burned hair } and logked full into mine with het bright, xéStiedg ey, = “7 © &"'Beventeen t!'—for I 8caught the glimpse of & woman's nsture In their clear depth, = me Yoh all out.” She mghed as she spoke, “ “I believe you are fifty,” I sald each movement of the little woman. **Y ime twenty,” she replied in her childish voice, 1 tnink if she had said one hundred I. would not haye been surprised; she was #0 wierdly gusint and old. As we were gifting eilent, she watch- ing every movement I made, there was a greaf clattering at the door, and she flew, with that swift. motion of hers, to upen it. There was a loud, angry voice, which she at opce an- swered In her sOft toned, and thén & man stumbled into the room, and without noticing me threw himself on the low little bed and enoréd Instant. ly—an tigly, unkempt, drunken man, shabbily garbed and forbidding-1boks ing. “It's feyther,” she sighed, * He's tooken ‘mgen ; Vs the mountin agoo he's got, an’ it takes holt rite sharp, so’s he cannot de a stroke of work. Poh feyther.” “ And the old man?” I queried, pointing to ‘the slunibering fl (Gren the char. “ Gran'feytlier, He's a comfort toh see,” “ Do you take care of these no thege dreadful people I had nearly sald, but checked myself—'* your tattier and grandfather?” * Yes, an’ Kedsle! Wat, till yoh see Kedsie I" The first happy look I had seen came into her eyes. Hhe was listening —u step was at the door, which open- ed, and a youhg, fresh, fair-looking man came softly 11. He was rather neatly dressed, but one look at his long, smooth chin and open mouth, told the atorj—he was wistless, But the girl's face brighted into a sunny smile; she reached on tiptoe to kiss the pale, flabby cheek of her brother, and she opened the folded fingers of ond nerveless hand to see what he had there—it was a little fleld- mouse, the life crushed out by the tension of the long fiugers that bad imprisoned It “Yob killed if, Kedsie,”” sald the girl, sadly. “Look yeah how its eyes wimple; tha's teas in "em." The foolish boy laughed; then he drew a pretly green lizard from his pocket and held 4t wita his thumb and ~floger, its Jang, narrow green head” undulating like a snake; he made a sound that resembled the chat. tering of a monkey, and it was evi- dent that he knew no power of speech. “It's wath money,” said the girl, looking at it critieally. ‘Yoh oan dicker folx it at the tavern.” The sun came out and I rose to go; the éat followed me to the door: the old grandfather rose feebly and totter- ed out to look at the weather; the drunken man snorad ; the little ehild- woman eaved sgainst ber foolish brother in the doorway, and patted thesolt leaden hand which she held in hers; I was never one to say & grace ful or pretty thing when I should,and I blurted out abruptly to tie girl: “13 » you help them all 2’ Sue drew herself up on tiptoe and jooked up lovingly lato the foolish, imbeelle face, MNw,” she sid in a loving voice, “tha help me!” i did the next worst thing I could have done—took out a silver half doliarg fortunately I saw that the lit tle mountain washerwoman was a princess in disguise, and I asked hum- Ahly a. “May I buy the lizard ?"’ 1 took thereptile home with mein a plece of broken cup ; [ have the bit of delf yet to remind me of the little unselfish being whose history, known fu all'the Pocket country, ls the sad- dest [ ever heard. The last I saw of her sh= stood in "the rough doorway, regarding witha look of rapt devo- tion hier idabetile brother, while the old ran leaned on his hickory staff be side her, -and- the ‘eat purred trust. | ingly at her feet; and iu the room back “of her a horror as of death yafted her. So small, so trusting, pious of any labor of love to ofimhend the notice of the angels, I “Su in a dream, that small stature rowing to heavenly heights, Among the aiscoveries made during the botanical tour of Mr. John G. Lemmon in the mountain ranges along the Mexican frontier of Arizons, iA or three varieties of ‘indige- They were found in oe in very elevated meadows, | oof Aeod by peaks 10,000 feet the level of the sea. In size | Humor of the Day. A stump-gpeech : “Gimme the built of yer cigar, mister?” A Buflalo 1s not a bird, but we have "often heard of a buffalo Mil The man who sclss srs off coupons is the genuine révinde outter. When the average man laughs he’ gels fat, laughs. ’ The moralist says: ‘Every man le occasionally what he ought to bé pers petaally.” Then, agaln, some mien are perpetually what they ought to be only occasionally, A very old lady on her death-bed, in penitential mood, sald : “I have been a great sinner more than eighty years, and dido’t know'it.” Anu old colored woman, who had lived with Her a long time, exclaimed, “Laws, I knowed it all the time,”’ *Lookutyou!” shrieked Mrs. Esonf, seeond floor bdluster, “Two ‘inches nearer the wall and that culld would have smashed a $60 statuette and the hall lamp.” And then they picked up the baby. The deacon’s son was telling the minister about the bees stinging his payand the minister inquired : * Stung your pa, did they? Well, what did yoii pa sav?’ “Step this way a mo- ment,” sald the boy, “I'd rather whis. per it to you.” P ofessor—'Now, Mr. Snodkins, you may criticise thé theme I have just read.” Buodking—*"I1'd rather write a criticism, wir, I can’t talk so well as 1 can write,” Professor (whe has waded through Boodkine last theme with great difficulty)—*'Then, sir, I'm sorry for you.” “What a man your “father ls," ex- claimed Mrs, Hopespun, looking up from the letter she held in her hand, ‘“Hesays he has bought as French clock, and will bring It home with him. What will it be good for except as an ornament, None of us can tell the time by it, unless you can, Edith, You know something about French, don’t you?" a A A ———— A Gentleman of the Old School. The Providence Star relates a pretty story thos: After all, sincere polite ness is the sweetest and most accepts ble. The other day I saw a New Lon- don man in Providence—a New Lon- doner not noted for his urbsnity, but rather for his grisly susierily. Ab home he never lifta his hat to any- body. Well, he was on the Pawtudket horse cars, when there came bobbling up a poor deformed girl, plodding along bv the ald of a rude erulch, She was hunchbacked, and had a hip infirmity ; in fact, it seemed as if all the corporeal «fll ctions bad devasta ted her delicate little body. © New, what did the grim old New London< er do, but dismount and help her aboard ; and what did he further do but uopin his bution hole bouquet and hand it to her; and what did he further do but raise his hat and make her the profoundest of bows; in re turn for all of which ehe beamed upon him one of the saddest of smillées—a smile 80 sad it seemed to have eaught the sweet melancholy ¢f the Ootober sunshine, He was = gentlemmn of the old mchool—a sthool that ought never to have been dismissed, a —— The Sin of Fretting. ———— There is one sin which it seems to me is everywhere, and by everybody is underestimated, sud is too much overlooked {n valuations of character. It is the sin of fretting: - It is as com- mon a8 alr, a8 speech ; 80 common that unless it rises above Its usual monotone, we do not even observe it. Watch any ordinary coming together of people, and ses how many minutes it will be before somebody frets—that is, makes a more or less compleipiag | ab. statement of something or another, which, most probably every one in the room, or in the car or on the street coraer, ns it may be, knew be- fore, and which, most probably no. body cwn help. Why say anything about it is cold, it is bot, it is wet, it is dry ; somebody has broken an appoints ment or ill cooked a meal ; stupidity or bad faith somewhere has resulted In diseomtort. Thére are plenty of things to fret about. It is simply astonishing bow much annoyance and discomfort can bs found in the course of one’s every: dey living, even at the simplest, if one Keeps a sharp lockout on the dark side of things. Even holy writ suy® we are born to trouble, as sparks flying upward. But even to the sparks flying upward, in the blackest of smoke, there is the bluest of blue sky the road the sooner they will reach it, JFrautiug io ull thus waste op Ss road. ‘ to him, and say something fanny. “How oan 17’ she ssked, “don’t you see how busy I am baking these ples ?' “Well, you might say, ‘Charley, won't «& Year of Crime, The New York Evening Telegram thus summarizes the criminal account of the year that has just closed ; Oa an avE&rsg§ there has been each arders_ and one suicide, gyeraged only two in a week and dynching¥ one, Bince January 1st, 7%) persobs have met their deaths at the hands of their tellow-men, One huondred and twenty-five wer: mys terlous murders, There were fifty- two wife aniarders, five murders of husbande, six pairicides, four matri- oldes, five fratricides, and two soroi- ¢ldes. Forty children were killed by their parents. In. 28 of these crimes there were two aseassins, in three in. glances there were three eof them. Twenty-four of the murderers com- mitted suicide and one died in Jil ———— Murders, In regard to murders New York lends with 131; 76 of these were com- mitted Io the city of New York, and 15 in Brooklya. The other Bates and Territories rank in the following order ;— Missouri, 44; Virginia, 48; Porn- sylvania, 80; Kentucky, 87; Texas, al; Illinois, "80; New Jersey, 80; Qhjo, 28; Massachusetts, 27; Arkan ang, 24; Tennessee, 21; Indian, 19 North Cerolina, 18; Georgis, 10 ; Mis. siegippl, 156 ; Colorado, 13; Caiiforaia, 10; I'wa and Minnesota, 9 each; Alabama, Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan and Wisconsin, 8 each; Louisiana, Maine and BSouth Caro each ; Kansas and Rhode Is- hind, 6 eadli; West Virginia, 5; the t ry, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming, 4.each ; Elorida, Nevada and New Hampshire, 8 each ; Dakota, Nebraska and: Washington Territory, 2 each; Delaware, Montana and Vermont, 1 each, a Exceutions One hundred and one persons pald the penalty of their crimes by death during the past year. Of this num- ber ninety-eight died on the gallows, and three were-ghot, The scene of the executions of she lstter being the Of those who for. groes, thiriy-eight were white, eight were Indians and two were Chinas men, Three women were executed. One was hanged in Georgia, with four; meg fof, baving committed a wurder at a eamp meet ng, snother wai éxeculed in 8 uth Carolina, with her brother-in-law, for murdering her sister, and the third died on the gal. lows with two men in North Carolinas for klik het /busband. Eighty- eight of the executions were for ur der, fiye for arson, three for treason, two for lying io wait and stabbing, atid * three for . ssssulling women. The persons hanged for tresson were three Indian scouts, executed by the United States , authorities at Fort Grant, Arizona. "Two brothers were hanged together in Temnessee, and two etusins died on the same gallows in Pennsylvania, Of the murders expinted six were those ot wives, one thal of a husband, oneof a son, one of & sister, one of an sundy ope @f & daughter in-law, and ‘one awk committed in prison, Oag. of the exefdtions was that of Guitesu for the © mssassivation of President Garfield, one that of the Indian chief Brave Bear, and two oc- curved ff New York city, those of Binorad atid’ Leighton, on the 20t) of April and May 19 h, respectively. The 101 executions are divided among the several States and Terri- tories as follows : Georgia, 11; South Caroling 8; Ljuisiana, 7; Missouri and North 4 srolina, 6 each; Dakota, Tllinols, “ledjana, Indian "Territory and Pennsylvania, 5 each ; Bsmtasky, Tennessee and Texas, 4 Arizona, Arkansas, 4 Virginia, 8 each; aE CAIOBIA Colorado, Cone nedtiott,” District of OC lunibia, Fiori. ds, 1daho, Nevada, New Jerwey, New MutiGlaiiq Oregon, 1 each. + Rgnenieg. Judge Lynch has been very buay during the'past twelve months. By bis orders 57 per-ons have been put to death for -warious orimes. ‘There were twelve double and four triple lynchings. Thirty-four of those on whom spoymary justice was inflicted where White men, twenty-two were negroes,” was an Indian who Was in Califorais, "Of the fifty-seven Ilynchings, thirty. four w murder, three for ho we- ‘two for oattle- sterling IY. C'¥lorado, two for cotton. TEA 3 two for robbery and Bede sR, Florids, Indians, Minnesota, Missis- sippl, Ohio and Texas, 2 each; Ar- kansas, Californis, Louisizsna, Mis. souri, Oregon, Virginia and Wiscon~ sin, 1 each. Buloides, Three hundred and eighiy-three persons in various parts of the country having grown tired of life, ushered themselves inte eteinity by the agency of the pistol, gun, knife, razor, fire, the rope and various other ways. In New York city 128 persons ocom- mitted suicide, and in Brooklyn, thers were 26 cases. Of all the Biates and Territories, New York ranks as the first, with 184 tases; New Jersey, 88; Pennsylvania, 87; Ohio, 24 ; Mary- land, 18: Missouri, 10; Illinois, 9; California, 7; Arkansas and Delaware, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and North C srolina, 5 each ; Alabama, Indiana, Georgia, Maine, Rhode Island and Virginia, 4 each: District of Columbis, Louisisosa, Misels ppl and New Hampshire, Beach; Ken- tucky, Michigan, Vermont and Wise. consin, 2 each. sort ff Mi — Saving the Train, The usual crowd of autumszs idlers were gathered together in the store, occupying all the grocery seals—ihe only gross receipts the proprietor took uo pride in—when a little, blear-eyed, wenzen faced individual sneaked in by the back door, and slunk Into a dark corner. “Tonat's him,” sald the ungram- matical bummer wita as green patch over his left eye. “ Who is it?” ssked several at once. ¢“ Why, the chap who saved a train from being wrecked,”” was the reply, “ Come, tell us about it,” they de. manded, as the small man erouched in the darkness, as if unwilling that his heroic deed should be brought out under the glare of the bliss ng kero sene lamp. After much persuasion he began : “It was just such a night as this— bright sand clear—and I was: going home down the track, when, right before me, scross the rail: lay a great beam, There if was, Pale and ghast- ly a8 a lifeless body, and light ss it appeared, I had not the power to move it. A sudden ramble and roar told me that the night express was thundering down and soon would reach the fatal spot. Nearer and nearer it approached till, jost as the coweateher was about lifting me, I sprang aside, placed mysell between the obstruction and the track, and the tr.in flew on unharmed.” The silence was so dense for a moe ment that one might have heard a dew drop. Presently somebody said : * What did you do with the beam ?”' “I didn't touch it,” he replied; “ but it touched me.” ** Well,” persisted the quesiloner, “if yoa couldn't lift it, and didn’t touch it, how in the dickens did the train get over it?" * Why don't you see ? ’ said the sad faced man, as he arose from his seat and sidled toward the door, ‘The obstruction was & moonbeam, and I body took its place, and —* “Bang!"' flew a ham agsinst the door; and if it had struck the body of the r treating man there would have been a much bigger grease spot fres- coed on the panel, ——— A ————— Bananas and Plantains, A pound of bananas con‘sins more nutriment than three pounds of pota- toes, while as a food it is in every sense of the word far superior to the best wheaten bread. An acreof ground planted with bapanss will return, according to Humboldt, ss much food mat rial as thirty-three acres of wheat, or over a hundred acres of potatoes. The banana (it should be called plan- tain) is divided into several varieties, all of which is used for food. The plantino msz'nito is a small, delicate fruit, neither longer por stouter than a lady's fore finger, it 18 the most de- licious and priz xd of all the varieties tain, I plantino guineo—ocalled by us the banana-—is probably more in demand than any other kind. It is subdi. vided into diff rant varieties, the prin. cipal of which are the yellow and purple bananas that we see for sale in our markets, but the latter is so little
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