Sh Interesting to Tobaoco Growers. BIAVANA SEED V8 SUMATRA, We can drive Sumatra tobacco out of our markets, or at least succesfully com- pete with it, by growing first-class Ha- viana Seed tobacco. It will meet the de- mand of the trade for fine wrappers, and is far superior in quality and flavor and nearly equal in wrappi ng eapacity to Sumatra. Had the cultivation of this variety of tobacco been understood and a sufficient amount grown to supply the demand, the tobacco industry would not have been in its recent depressed condition. There are several varieties of Havana Beed tobacco. Five yearsago I obtained a package of seed from Cuba which pro- duced five distinct kinds, from a stocky broad leaf to a very tall narrow-leaved plant. The broad leaf had too coarse veins, the narrow was fillers. I chose a medium, and hope by a few vears’ careful selection of seed to obtain a desirable va riety. At the present time I re commend only one variety, and that is the one introduced by Mr. Elihu Marsh of North Hatfield, since, but unfortunately this seed has in many crops been allowed to get variety can about five years mixed with a course broad leaf which has very large veins and is undesirable. But pure Seed with suitable soil and cultivation which there is yet none superior. will produce a leaf than I will briefly enumerate some of the principal points to be observed in tlk Havana Seed seed of successful cultivation tobacco :— First, use good pure the very best been improved Ly the followin will give the best plants, re afew of the earliest seed-podst variety. Seed that g met best results Select move all suckers: whe urn brown, . all thea hla ms and i remove all the blossoms and Ter » . H 11 y v ar size ; the seed will get ripe an strong healthy plants: but all the will not be perfect, and it shoul fully winnowed (usually one-quarter to one-thir moved, bat it will pay. in this way a few years, provement will be observed in ty and quantity of the crop. ly convinced from obser 1343] al} : until all the [his requires time and i By using seed a deci the Vall ence and study of the in upon important t« healthy toba seed corn or ment wil tical. Suitable soil i the plan such as will pr of Need leaf tolaceo soils the appli that is known advisable, ane} or Peruvian guand be grown upon run-out needs flowing aml fert paying crops. Sucl plowed as shallow good work soor ht incl seven or eight In the ground freezes of dry slacked lime to 1} then be 4. The { row the land t appli plow in ten or t to the acre tains the twtter the nearly large land until three feet cords of furrow ; if used, apply them the manurer, this with a ridge that will mark the places for plants t wen- ty-iwo to twent; -“our inches ape r:. Th point to be noted here is that the ferti- lizer must be nearer the plant th: necessary for Seed leaf, Set good healthy plants, and in two to four days cultivate deeply, once in a row, without disturbing the ridge : cul- tivate again after the first rain. When the plants are well rooted, loosen the soil lightly around the plants to break the crust and destroy the weeds. Keep the s0il loose hetween the rows, and when the plants are abet 14 feet high use wu horse-hoe that will place the fine soil upon the side and edge of the ridge, A simple attachment wade with two barrel staves in the shape of a V placed under- neath a common cultivator will answer the purpose. Very little hand-hoeing is necessary. In about one week place more soil around the plant to keep erect. This variety of tobacco is very liable to tip over before it is topped, and when it does it should be set up at once ; the sooner it is done the less the damage. It should be topped so low that the top leaves will be about as larg as any upon the plant when all are ripe, I am aware a wide difference of opinion exists as to how much it pays to sucker tobacco, but it should be suckered once abont half way down, and again clean, for the simple reason that the suckers suck the juices absolutely necessary to perfect the leaves, hence the name suck. ers. A perfect erop cannot be obtained unless the suckers are removed, besides it is less lable to pole sweat and damage from fat stems and tearing. Tobacco should not be cut until it is thoroughly fine, apart fine manure to commercial Cover in is : ripe. The practice of cutting a little green to obtain a darker color is wrong ; | it should be fully matured, and if | allowed to stand a few days after it is | suckered clean, more weight and better quality is obtained, Havana Seed usual- | ly requires four weeks or more to ripen | after topping, and it cures better if hung with twine than upon lath ; the slower | and darker it can be cured the better, Tobacco should be taken down only | when in just the right condition. When | stripped the butts should be kept even and the leaves tied with two strings in bundles of ten te fifteen pounds each. Springfield ( Mass.) New England Homestead, March 31. neat from REBATE MATTERS, in the Office as to | whether the present reduction means a permanent whether in a few years the Government will be col- Opinion difiers reduction, or tobacco, lecting about as much from sunff, cigars and as The largest receipts ever received from the tax on tobaceco was 828 148,767.90. in 1877, cigarettes now. The last reduetion before the Wis March 3. Mav 1. 1870, year ending June 31, 1879, For present made 7 and ? the the IRI. R72 4 went into effect fiscal receipts from tobacco were from cigars and cigar- of $I8,108,008.69, received that vear, The the cigarettes, ), and ettes $11,719.226.39. making a total reduction which took place next vear did not affect but ) 4 wl ast fiscal ve cigars or reduced the tax on tobacco from 16 cents per pound. there was collected fron tax on tobacco 225.811.936.16. sSO0WwWedd FLIRT LINE, MIOW 3 lola L of 18 (0K (6s 60 00 0060 francs were expended and OOK 00 tol acco che wi HK. ns ——————" More Precious than Gold. sail an ago." officer of a safe deposit company, “About ten years We box that contained a child's primer. two or three picture books fish-hook and line, This box was left with us by an elderly lady, and once belonged to a child that died mas y years ago, had in one of our safes a small and a its contents Two or three times a vear the lady came to our place and ex- amined the contents to see if they were all right. She was the mother of the child, she seemed to take a fad sort of pleasure in gazing upon the articles that had amused her dar- ling in the long ago. Finally she ceased coming, and when the time for which she had leased the space in our vault had expired we made in- quiry as to the reason why it was not renewed. We then learned that she was dead.” “Who was the lady?" “1 must decline to state ber name: but I will say that her husband was for a yuarter of a century one of the leading business men of New York. | He took the little box containing his dead wife's treasures away with him," and A French inventor says he is to con. | struct a buloon which will be eliptical in form and 131 feet long, Ite capacity will exceed 100,000 cubic feet, giving a lifting power all told of 34 tons. The means of propulsion is to be a dynamo- electric machine and a secondary battery, i Cullings. Why is a fishmonger a prudent mer- chant¥ Because he buys and sells If you should happen to want to have Patent medicines are now made that Autumn: Wheezy, sneezy, freezy ; Winter: Flippy, drippy, nippy ; Spring : SBhowery, flowery, bowery ; Summer: Hoppy, croppy, poppy. BRADY. Oh, ves ; a tall man can have a short man A young lady on being asked where I am the daughter of a Metho- dist minister, The young man who went to a butch- of a fellow who went to a grain elevator to have his corns removed, Man's a Fool. Man's a fool! When it When it's No'er o When He Ww Of the wet the | hen — 4 A gent ACTH ‘dark possibility Wo Red show weakn fect health, Tr {rom rit. Tran the persons who could spare t} them has advanced dentists for GRAFTED plantin “ound teeth jaws of health em to those ile needing een practiced wine time, Tw the superfluous sound the decayed together and the freshly drawn good tooth immediately placed in the cavity made by the other, But it ofien happened to Le Necessary to remove a sound tooth from a patient at a time when no person of whom the dentist had any knewledge needed such aone. It would therefore be lost, for only ** living ** teeth could bs made to Rrow in a strange mouth, and they died very soon after wing torn from their parent gums, Teeth are “living so long as the membrane covering the roots had any vitality, 1t has been a problem of great interest to dentists throughout America to devise some means by which the sound extracted teeth could be kept alive indefinitely, until they should be needed, and toa Nan Francisco dentist belongs the honor of solving the problem. Dr. W. J. mol ua peran i» was as folis with Lae WS individual tooth, and molar, were mated one with ducting a series of experiments, which have resulted in the discovery of a means of preserving the life of the ex. tracted tooth, It is nothing more or less than grafting it as drawn, upen the engorged comb of a healthy rooster, and leaving it there properly secured, ' until it is wanted, | ence of chloroform, washed, and every- } i i thing removed down to the membrane ' and placed in the freshly made cavity | where it is needed, mouth of a gentleman in which & week or so before. parently firm always been there, and which was as those which had It had been kept alive on a cock’s comb for ten days, and is had been taken from the mouth of a young lady whose looks were benefited by the removal, The Rev, Mr, Gilbert, during an ad dress at Christ church. the other night, of the telephone, asked his if audience tell them that it was now possible to convey by electricity vibrations of light, to not only peak to your distant friend, but him. The of the to do this actually to see eiectroscope—the name abled us Wiis fic discovery . "ictoria, belonged the proud distinction. The wonderful trial of this took place at Melbourne on the 31s tober i the j Last res SOT cientific men ae Nittirier Bue t » ILLITE ed on a large 01 20 VY Did goad ¢*' = seftiod it! The It sav he was Jones, “Well man hat war dead his perienced docot and you had no right to say When ors, like Smith and 1, unprofessional that wasn't, two old, ex- SAY a man is dead, its and discourteous for a young man, a begin- ner in practice, to dispute their word, We'll forgive you this time, beeanse of Your youth and inexperience, and will hush the matter up for you: but be very careful in the future, and make no mre much mistakest, —— Jay Gould's yacht Atalanta was launched at Cramps’ ship vard recent- ly. The Atalanta will be lighted hroughout by electricity, and each state- room will be supplied with electric bells to the servants’ quarters and steward’s pantry. Steam fans will keep the air moving at all times, and, in short, everything that ingenuity can suggest and cash command will be suggested and commanded, The pleasure of plow- ing the raging main as boss of the Ata- lanta will cost Jay Gould in the neigh- borhood of $250,000, he — A valuable deposit of the remains of mammals from the diluvial period has lately been discovered on the banks of the Volga, between Zarizyn and Sarepta, after a flood which cut away some of the land beside that great river, The variety of the specimens is notable, Innocence consists in the acknowl. hituself, sists, but from the Lord. It con- therefore, in being led by the Lord, and not by self. Therefore all who are in Heaven are in innocence, for all who are there love to be led by Suede nhorg, (rod makes crosses of great variety 3 that difficult ROSIN KO Hight, to and yet are less carry ; some he the e) spectators Ht reality to « as much dreaded, Fenelon, Cultivate ie ne s Lhe body, dazzle and excite the envy of are well an able rucify those which are so inteliect, the Loot “out all evil ’ Lut al } earn to YOUr countenance al peace with God and that will i does d us alabaster shade, -— Muscovite Christianity. y and Sectar in Russia-— Secret Centres of Disaffection. anism wis dge of terior of Russia, undoubtedly is, of many tial elements which united do Em- I% not without many tiie essen much to th pire % #t of the elements of not by any means an impossibility that BO of the ¢ establishinent of the Russia adisumion, and it is native forces with unity may do much to hinder the full realizs- tion of the Russian dream of dominion, world From a well-informed pamphlet, lately published in Germany, we learn that there are scattered over the Em pire not fewer than fourteen millions of dissenters, not to speak of Jews, Mo- hammedans, Roman Catholics, and those who would naturally come under the name of Protestunts,. Of Jews there are about 2,600,000; of Moham- medans, about 7.500000: of Roman Catholics, about 7.500.000: of Protes tants, about 2.800000, The Russian {Greek) Church or Orthodox Catholic, is set down at a little over 60,000,000, Of thise 60,000,000 it. is said that about 14,000,000, more or less, are Dissenters. The sects with priests are estimated at 3,000,000. Those without priests are set down at R000,000. Of what are called Spiritualistic Christians there are 1,000,000; and what are known as Chiysty und Skopzy are estimated st 065,000, Most of these sects owe their origin to an attempt which was made some two hundred years ago to revise the religious books and the ritual. Of those who have prizsts, the mest numerous are the Pomorzy, the Phill- powzy and the Kupitones, all of whom attach much importance to what may be called generally baptism by fire, Of the priestless secis the most numerous are the Fedojeejewzy, and the Biran- inki. The latter are homeless, restless wanderers, and are opposed to marriage, holding that the death of the famous Nikon of Moscow no priest is entitled to perform the ceremony. All of the above named sects believe that Antichrist and they submit to the authority Bice 5 in power in Russia the State reluctantly and under compulsion. of They refuse to pray for the Czar: and Lhe reason assigned for their wandering that they are in perpetual flight from antichrist, The Chlysty are, habits is a3 their name signifies, self -flageliators, It is their that their Daniel Philipowitch, was a persogifica- tion of are belief founder, £, fond hey they many Cromd, of great have ng them of God amo Mothers The Bkopzy names; and many Christe, are and many prophets, immolators i this respect the Pomorzy of whom, under « bh encourage suicide by York Herald. - Curious, burning LANCE, New i AHN) coin ind by gol min im at (x have been WITCH sheds in consequer t we call the shooting stars. -— a. Origin of Simon Pure- ther Quaker, Obadiah a rigid of Anne Wi O00, i sternman, whois gu ATYIATL | d a worth £ LAO nel young lady Feignwell, another character in the same play, whois enamoured of Miss Lovely and her handsome fortune. dis its +2 himself ¥ himself of accidental of availing covery of Holdfast's sucess Prim real Simon Pure, calling an letter and contents, in passing off on as his The expected visitor. at If treated as an impostor, and is liged to depart in order to hunt uy witnesses who can testify to his indenti- ty Prim’s house +3 0 5 Meantime, Feignwell succeeds in getting from Prim a written and nneon- ditional eonsent to his marriage with Anne. No sooner has he obtained pos- session of the document than Simon Pure reappears with his witnesses, and’ Prim discovers the trick that has been at upon him CI iin, oo" Warts on Horses. A correspondent of the Germantown Triegraph says: “Fresh, clean hog's Iard rubbed three or four times on any kind of warts on horses or cattle will remove them on three or four applica- tions. Ihave removed the warts time after time, and never have been able to find the wart for the fourth application, If I shonkd send the Latin name for the lard and tell men to pay fifty cents to the druggist for about two cents. worth of good land this remedy would be oftener used, cn The Government breakwater, which was projected 1500 feet into the inlet at Atlantic City four years ago, is now nearly buried in sand. At low tide it. stards (ntirely dry, “
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