Railroad Station Wells. The series of driven wells near a Pump- ing Station of the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company having been connected to the suetion j ipe of anew stewm pump in | | | Hints for Home Dressmaking Do not tritn w ol with silk ; braided designs have superseded the use of piece water per minute, about one hundred and sixty gallons being the amount quired, hy concussion down through the surface 1 soil to water level in the gravel or sand stratas generally found overlying a strata of somewhat impervious to the water filt- clay or rock, which being ered or soaked in from rains, drainage and other means from the surface, acts but the supply is af- fected by dry weather sometimes, and is liable to be impregnated with organic #48 a reservoir; matter or vegetable decomposition unless the tube passes through a thick stratum of clay before reaching the water-bear- ing vein of gravel or sand. first is he water when pumped at discolored and contains considerable earthy matter, but continuously pumping for a day or so, will generally clear it. The town of Christ's Church on the Island of New Zealand had three thousand of these inexpensive wells in many years ago, each of them flowing, thus aveid- ing the expense of a pump, and they perseverance in use are largely used on all sand waste land, like our American plains and those of Australia. They have been improved of late years by the addition of a cast iron point fastened on the end of the pipe to make it drive easier, t otherwise it is the same as the old fashioned tube well. Any onecan put in these inexpensive little wells if they de not Every farmer can thus have t venience in each it pipe, pasture field of ing stock, without driving them in the more effective, but they wear better—as long as the material itself. All dresses that are used for walking length, and cumstances before they have become a part and parcel of society life, and are Even then they do not wear long dresses for dane- ing or for any formal dinners where there is no dancing. occasion excepting or grind receptions Plain plaited (box-plaited) skirts will be much worn this season, and may be either trimmed on to a lining or made entire of fine wool, with narrow plaits under the box plaits. The edge is hemmed up and faced on the under side side, braid for binding being but little H wed, R should be narrow at the back, and well held plaited edge. The short, rounded apron front If the skirt is draped the drapery in above the flounced or so are straight folds the the Hot up into a few parts and made as simple as is still fashionable ; in not lower part of the noticeable that the drapery is and shirring. many instances fullness does descend upon skirt, and it is cut Paniered basques are as fashionably worn as ever, but they are not very deep and are rounded over the hips, where with the drapery at the back, the skirt being trimmed with or alternate ruffles or embroidery and platings of material. Sagging pulls are also +} Lil ruffles of embroidery between or head places in creeks which become pu if them, sed, and wood auger welded onto a plece « from the animals’ use « nary gas-pipe isall that is u pipe can be used to test tain when Have each four pieces, and have water has length of g well down so that the ends will sccket ; use a cap on top of meet when screwed drive or strike on. and thus ring the pipe, bammering it down, and turn th while driving to its downward § ress, put kxien Use w Cast in the anger and bore the dir Hiri out frequently at the bottom t the resistance at the bottom in the pipe. Having bored and pipe into four feet or n ing gravel or pitcher pump, if the easy OTe sand, use water be not over depth a suction distance, say twenty-five feet, if beyond that lift-pump with a evlinder water or within easy run mto suction distance ob done at an expense not exceeding thirty dollars all complete. -~ Bryn Mawr (Pu) Home News, may be used, and a nice — The Sense of Weight. Anthrop- Francis At a recent meeting of the ological Institute, London, Galton, F. R. 8., exhibited plained some apparatus contrived by himself, with of testing the muscular and other senses. Thisappara- tus consisted of a box, something like a backgammon-board, containing trays of weights arranged for measuring the relative delicacy of the muscular sense (the six, added by modern psychological science to the five recognized by the ancients) as existing in different per- sons, The principle Mr, Gatton claimed as a new one, It established, he said, a grand scale of sensitivity, and was ap- plicable, by means of analogous methods, to testing the delicay of other senses, such as taste and smell. He employed small weights arranged in sequence, which were numbered in succession 1, 2, 3, etc., and differed by equally preceptible variations, as calculated by Weber's law. Genérally, the number of grades be- tween the weights that any person could distinguish had to be found by trials, and that number became the measure of the coarseness of his sensitivity. The weights used were blank cartr.dges, filled with shot and wadding, care being taken that the shot should he equatly didributed. They were ar- ranged in trays; each tray holding a sequence of three. The person tested had to arrange the cartridges in the tray handed to him in the true order of their weights. Some provisional results of the plan were mentioned. One was that men had, on the whole, more deli- cacy of diserimina‘ion, than women another, that intellectually able men had more than other men. It further appeared that women sensitive to a mor- bid degree were not remarkable for their powers of discrimination. Sensation was produced in them by a feeble stim- ulus, and so was pain, but the interven. ing numbers of just perceptible differ- ences did not appear in their ease to be exceptionally large, and ex- a view The Field of Science. emade baromet 4 with w . £ LOD with water. hen take a clean Florence oil flask. and y $ ty ras it will go Into plunge the neck as fa the pickle bottle, andl fal ‘ flask entirely som The water will with the weath before a stonn, named Pitma has discovers i COnS A chemist 1 ed ay 1L ¢ » 1 Fees 4 arrangements have Nt AL +4 a Haiivin oil and $ 4 3 it ¥ rocess of 1g feted been comp Baku, Russia, for manufacturing can- dles from kerosene which will greater illuminating power than fs and can be sold much cheaper, In Brazil large quanti best ties of the quality of pottery are being manufact- ured from the ashes of the hard, silicious bark of the caraike tree, dered and mixed with the purest of clay from the beds of the rivers Tae ware is said to be extremely hard and which is pow- o tained smooth and in every respect su- perior to that made by any other pro- CEess, Scientists have adopted the theory that the duration of animal life should be five times the growth of the animal or being. Thus man gets his growth in twenty years and should live to be one hundred years oll. The camel is eight years in growing and lives forty years, The horse reaches maturity in five years, and seldom lives beyond twenty-five ; and #0 with other animals, py - Pervasiveness of Natural History. According to Mr. Richard Jeffries, in Knowledye, the present age thinks nat- ural history in its higher or ideal form, just as former ages have thought meta- physics, or have been sceptical, or full of a revived classicism, It enters, he says into every phase and movement, Physiology, for iustance, which is the natural history of the human body, is taught—and rightly taught--to women and even children, Sanitation is one of the most powerful movements in our time and seetns likely to gather strength, Sanitation would be impossible without an insight inte natural history. Its main object isto dispose of certain dele terious organisms, and if these organ. Isms were not studied, it would be the merest rule of thumb, The germ the. ory, all the researches of Pasteyr, and his experiments in microscopic vacei- nation these are the purest natural his tory. So in surgery, the antiseptic which depends on growth is natural history. As for the physician of the nineteenth century, he is purely a nat- uralist. Theories have disappeared ; the one leading idea is to get at what nature needs, Men's lives are saved by natural his. tory. Athletics are based upon the re- sults of minute researches into the absorption of food, the repair of tissues, all the processes of life, training being adapted to facilitate it, who return conquerers from war, there are none so highly honored as explorers Except those of unknown regions, such as the interior of Africa or the palmocrystic sea at the other extreme, whose work is certainly natural history, Despite the attacks made upon it, the Lyell theory, that existing causes are sufficient to explain existing things and the means by which they become as they are—this great idea still influences the mind of every inves- tigator. An exhaustive account of the multitudineus ways in which natural science influences the mind of the age Every- Anglo-Saxon would be of unwieldly length. where throughout the world, eager minds are seeking new literally Therefore, it is strictly discoveries in such science night and day. accurate to say that the age thinks nat- ural philosophy, looking to it for guid- ance, help and future increase. - Meissonier's Dog and Nela- ton’'s Pay. A pet dog of the one day broke his leg, painter Meissonier rendered friable by over-feeding. Meissonier, desolated by such an accident to so beloved un animal, resolved to have recon to the rse prince of surgical science, who at time was Nelaton ; but not declare the true motive, in hot haste for him as if the family ing residence and ente rived, NE-room, began ts with y, although ul carried 4] knowing the to the great the painter, w iere Pres- a Inagnin with pain ir he care taken, At nier, 80 distressing a spectacle { Meisgso- forgetting everythi Ble, ex- claimed in agony illustri- ous master, save him! Neluton the fracture, et ive } tly GOR shortly dressed and th afterward the rec wered © and # i thanking him for requesting to know his Lee, Nelaton that when replied him, his he SOON did. and ducing his purse crammed with ban) painter, are you not ¢ on these the This was indeed a de cabinet-makers hay revenge ; but at the end of of his chefs d’ourve on the panels, Barnum and the Deacon. A church deacon asked Mr. Barnum the veteran showman a pass’ to see “winter » The “ Free never issue one to the big (Har We eXeept ‘passes’ are played oul. BOOW to editors, clergymen or orphan asylums, render oi service, in some way, the * winter or in very or persons who equivalent sobody will fred quarters’ special cases, my partners or myself accampany them. Without such precaution there danger from the wild animals which are not so carefully railed off from passers-by as in our public exhibitions. Besides, 8 angers disturb the trainers of our ani- mals, and cause our numerous work- men delay in their work.'' “Is that not carrying your restrictions too far?" asked the deacon. * Perhaps you may think so,” replied Barnum, ** and as you generally like scriptural authority for everything, 1 present you this printed card to ponder,” The card read as fol- lows : Free Passes.—** In those days there were no passes given,’ * Search the scriptures,” “Thou shalt not pass.’ Numb, zr., HE H8uffer not a man to pass, Judges ifi., 28, “The wicked shall no more pass,’ Nahum i., 15. * None shall poss, Tsainh cexiv,, 10, “This generation shall not pass, *'— Mark wiii,, 30, “Though they roar, yet they cannot pass, eesleveminh v,, 22, “80 he paid the fare thereof and went." — Jonah 4, 3. ~ Bridgeport Farmer. inside @ litors, is Costly Rugs. They Get to this Country. When an American buyer arrives in the heart of the rug-making country in Asia he selects the best agent he find, and gives him an order for, say, 100 rugs of about the colors and sizes of certain samples which he may find in The Turkish agent then employs natives of the villages where can the bazars. giving to each a bag of gold, and in- The sub- agent then goes among the families and talks rugs with them, drinking many the price When a bargain structions to order four rugs, cups of coffee and discussin; is the family for wool, dyes, and food, and the for days at a time, concluded some money is furnished agent goes away, sure that in the course of a few months the rug will be ready. Upon a earpet measuring Bx12 feet a for threads whole family will work months, The cotton or woolen which form the groundwork or warp the width of a rug, and the family, or such members of it as } t WOK, are able to sit on the floor and tie knots in the threads with the colored wool tightening the finished fabric then with a rough comb, inches of the rug and works along al rip. family is large enough for whole width of the rug to ime, A rag eight work side by side. Tl udgment. WALES § ayment is ac- cording ii The workets ; t. and wools, Own hi are b backs, of neight } Camels’ J-Lrains bein the arrival of the 1 § Oe F tha of {he Cinnamon. own, Cinnamon bark is well Known to all as well as ¥ & i tie ll waned * grown i ons, like to smell and eat it. of commerce, and great « are brought to Americaevery but not mans 5 In Gany use, take any thought about where and how and how it Th it grows is prepared for market. cinnamon plant is sup- because a better quality or more abund- are industrious and value com- more highly th Cingaless in a conntries have their cinnamon when all hands are busily en: gaged as are we in gathering the pro- But that har- The plants are not cut carefully selected and ent off, ranging in in size from & half inch to two inches; the smaller t' e better. After thev are cut from the plant, a knife made for the purpose, is run several times length- wise through the bark, so that it may be eEily stripped off, After being strip- ped off the bark is dried in the sun, and rolled up Jike quills, It is then bound into bundles of thirty pounds each, sewed up in mats and then sent to mar. ket, The “‘eassia buds’ which are pro- cured at the druggists, are the dried flowers of the cinnamon tree, gathered just before they burst into bloom. — Ex. An Old Tree. OS The oldest tree on earth, so far as any one knows, is the ** Bo’ tree in the sacred city of Amarapoora, Burmah. It was planted in 288 B. C,, and is ac- cordingly 2171 years old. Its great age is proved by historic documents, aceord- to Sir James Emerson Tennett, who says: “To it kings nave even dedicated their dominions, in testimony of belief that it is a branch of the identical fig tree under which Buddha reclined at Urumelya when he underwent hi apotheosis.” Its leaves are carried away as streams by pilgrims, but it is too sacred to touch with a knife, and there- fore they are only gathered when they all, Agricultural and Statistical. The stock raisers of Colorado esti- The number of horned cattle is placed at 2,250,000, The English butchers prefer cattle weighing from 1,300 to 1600 pounds and sheep about 150 pounds live weight Wethers bring from one to two pence a pound more than ewes, and black-faced sheep are preferred. sugar-beets excellent feed for making milk, healthful effect upon ihe cows their aid in digestion and assimilation of other {food the vield of tend largely to inerease milk, sand the abundant nutriment contained in them gives quality and flavor. We ee It tale iia {lig paid for impor HINO ted cattle during the 670.500. For 1852 it is vear 188] was $3 estimated that the amount wi below 25,000, 000, Onde : <4 His CUR up with food are said to be an mixed with their meal once even or two 18 algo beneficial when sy Sheep st reat in 111e1 to be well hous TOTTI TOI in 1 TT | Yous # 3 VACKS CAN DE nade hey ore than fail winter, IN OMMON AGRICULTURY » instructed in botany, in { flowers: in izing, seed other things that w at the selecting, and His struct, and same time beget love for rural pursuits, and a desire for on in the higher instr weienoe ar of agriculture, horticulture, a breeding, ete, Pubidic sentiment arousing in this direction, Warering House Praxts. The want of thal many people experience with house plants is chiefly due to the improper way in which they are supplied with the earth in the pots becomes as diy ne street dust, At other times the soil is kept in the condition of soft mod. In many cases there is no opening in the bottom of the pot or box through which the superfluous water can escape. As a consequence it remains and becomes stagnant and offensive to the sacl, 1 is quite likely that malaria has resu'ted from the decay of vegetable matter in flower pots kept in living rooms. A German paper makes the following sen- sible suggestions on the subject ; BLOTTER wales, ivi LES “Watering plants is one of the most important things in the culture of house plants, and very special care should be devoted to it. Plants ought not to be wet until they peed it. It will be evi- dent that they require wetting if on {aking the earth [from the pot it erum- bles to pieces like dust. A sure sign 1 to knock on the side of the pot, near the middle, with the fuger-knuckle. If it gives forth a hollow ring, the plant needs water: if there is a dull sound, there is still moisture enough to sustain the plant, Plants must not be wel more than once or twice a day. On dry, clear days they require more water than on damp, cloudy days. On the other hand, the earth must not be allowed to dry out entirely, for that is also very injurious, In wetting them the water must be poured in such a way that it will run out again through the hole in the bottom of the pot. If the earth gets to place the pot in will saturate They may be too dry it is best that the very gradually, water, so water watered at any hour of the day the pot or gets hot then if except when the 1A 1% Slit 18 sHinIing on 1 » $ left it: for the earth and 5 4 ines on if too rapidly. The l flowers in summers in winter noon should never be AiIWaYs either rain water or brook water, Moist but the best for STRAWBERRY CULTURE I-drained land is the vherry., Avoid the shade of trees \ : to + 8011 should be thoroughly and deep- £4117 and Yo ad, and fertilizers u wal eel Y . y ur feet wide, with alle between them. Plant in of plants fifteen ind FOwWSs Leer the 1 samé di plants the and fall-set plant f envi) ct them from suadde heen i Ri] Howto Take Out Screws from Woodwork 1 . 4 f the most simple and readiest Ti SENN thodes for k a rusted screw 1 4 S| ' ‘ HITE LO R58 8 Wi: £0 3 EW. A small bar or rod of iron. flat at the fire and applied minvtes to the will, as soon lel vith- drawal as easy by the screwdriver oe if it was only a recently inseried Crew. As there is a Kitchen poker in every house that instrument, if heated $54 2 Alege sing i , if reddened in the i 1hiree of the rusted screw, Foon d # . ob . cals the screw. render at iis ex- few mii) to ill do ihe required work of loosening, and an ordinary screwdriver will do the rest without frend ERLE TETHIAY, aid SCTeW OF SCrews, Ww causing the least damacve ¢ or vexation of spirit. Io al work above the common kind, where it wo all pare ticularly in hinge work and mountings, fancy fastenings and appliances affixed to juinery or furniture work, we would advise the oiling of screws or the dip- Pilg there points in grease before driv. ing them. This will render them more easy to drive and also to withdraw, and it will undoubtedly retard for a loi. ser time the action of rusting. IS HOCessAry Use SCTews, Se _— wa ® La Progr Pos It is gratifying to note that the colored people throughout the entire country are improving in every sphere of life. Inthe Southern States with their limited educational advantages they are making wonderful strides towards a higher and better life ; they are to be eventually the owners and tillers of the soil | their thirst for knowledge has pro- duced in almost every Southern State colleges for the higher education of youth which in time will be productive of valuable results, their being nothing to fear from either political party, as the different sections of our country are divided upon all national questions, but united upon the general welfare of the Union of the States an! the Prog verity and happiness of our people.
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