— TRUE BEAUTY. a May I find a woman fair, And Ler mind as clear as air ; If her beauty goes alone, "Tis to me us if ‘twere none, May I find a woman rich And not of too high a pitch If that pride should cause disdain Tell me lover, where's thy gain ? May I find a woman wise, And her malsehood not disguire Hath she wit as she hath will, Double sarm'd she is toil May 1 find a woman kind, And not wavering like the wind How should 1 enll that love mine When ‘tis his and his and thine? May 1 tind a woman true, There fairest hue ; There is besuty, love, and wit; Happy he can compass it iz beauty 's Agricultural. Dr. Sturdevant that potash, whether in the shape of wood ashes or in the form of sulphate or muriate, is a special fertilizer for melons. SAYS A correspondent of the New England Farmer says that where the land is new nd rich in mineral elements there need be no fear of black knot in plum and cherry trees, About 12,000 cattle, acres of its smiface, exist on the Island of it not seven miles each way if were square. It also exports one cow for every ten acres | one for every two bein i it Jersey, quite of the surface. | Poultry per pound, let the breed be what it may, the | same. One bushel of corn will produce nine to eleven pounds of | will cost very near poultry. t makes no difference whether Leghorns, Plymouth Rocks corn. A cure garget by the use of beans. or Brahmas eat the i has never failed to | writer says he Ie | other meal, for four successive and has found that quantity to cure the worst ¢ He t cows were fed with bean meal times a they oubled with garget. su fii ASS year would ' Of orchard grass the late Mr. Stanton | ra: Gould says in his treatise on The testimony that has been from all parts of the world for turies past establishes the species among the very and the would grasses, Hiteres and dairymen ted by its more extends Mr. T. Garden, says that Greiner, in th the easiest ar quick- | ds that Wi rene | est way to destroy the rally potatoes are up, so that the start about the time when the | rows can | be seen plainly, is by a thorough use of harrow or diag. le places great em- phasis upon this and deems it far more effective than the cultivator and hoe, at less expense, A 1 tS discovered a me French chemist claims thod of ove danger threatening ravages of the phyll 18 Lo inoculate tl The POISOTL plants thus for want of food. way injured by tl The its dryness, comparatively of fis When value phates and nitrogen, contai 6 to 8 per cent. of the former an of the latter. If crude state the phosphate is not imme- diately in the bones, de- compose, — Massachusetts Ploughman, As to fertilizers, there equal to wood ashes, says Hiram Sibley, and they should be sown broadcast im- mediately after planting corn,or applied liberally about the plants as soon as they are up. Corn is a potash plant, but requires the phosphates, Fertilizers should be sought which contain both, and, when sown broadcast, they may be used unsparingly with profit. spread on lead in a available, because, being it is not soluble until they is greatly The low price of wheat English in discouraging to the farmers, al SOWwWhn gol crop would present low prices, The acreage this year is much smaller than usual Thus the evil of itself, the farmer pay to wheat low pt ices corrects and who goes on has the best success tack our apple-trees and more than fifty our grain fields. Seventy-five million dollars is estimated as the damage done to the wheat in Illinois in one season, in the United States from insect depre- $400,000,000, Mixed husbandry is the only sure way to success in farming. Repeated crop ping with a single cereal will bring a waste of the plant-food elements in the yield as to entail certain logs upon the land-owner, This fact will do more toward forcing the Dalrymples to cut up and dispose of their immense land areas than anything ese, though they may not now see it in that light, Corn which is hilled will blow down more readily than that which has less culture, This can be accounted for by the surface, and when hills are made they are confined to the small space cov- the roots run from one row to the other, as nature intended, and in no way liable to be blown down except by winds of unusual violence, Beef cattle have advanced in during the last five years 140 per cent, The price to Eastern consumers has not for the reason the Western advanced in like ratio that part of the gain to Bank Taxes. 1 The question as to whether the banks | first of last January upto the time when law repealing bank taxes | referred the | The | ras passed has been to Attorney-General for an opinion, which has thus crued $1,661,553, The guage of the repealing law, as it ag ; is about lan- sees raised in this question, The first section of this law abolishes | taxes ‘‘on capital and deposits of | more and better dressed beef, Cheaper transportation is credited with 40 per fair deal. Professor Taylor, of the Agricultural Department, dormant plants, vines, ete, be placed in a high vessel with a small quantity of naphthaline, and the vessel be cov ered, which If the pure it will i MIR OF plants, in a few hours any insect may infest will be asphyxiated. stance be chemically not ¥ Those who are alarmed sit ui ab the weevil would do well to make a trial of this simple remedy. for Rheumatism the Horse. Remedy in When a horse falls uncertain lame irregular int ion aricitior VIO AliSiNg i qt HY acid 84 tale given in one for a week or fomentations to ti Crowing the Quince Among the cooking fruits the quine occupies nent place, ane + SOME Ver t has commanded a © been caused diseased Measure overcome by ots, is encouraged by ols that spring from deseased This growing from diseased wood ought process of trees abandoned and a new departure taken, New seedlings should be the grown most perfect specimens of fruit; will possess constitutional weakness coming, as they must, from diseased trees ; but no will and be healthy and vigorous. doubt some Ag soon as healthy trees are thus obtained all of We already have some new seedling produce excellent fruit; if so, the there is any indication of disease, the new seedlings introduced to replace The enemy to the quince is the roots : but To be able to work the trees single, and not in clusters as many do, which is easily done by keep- ing the sprouts cut off when the tree is small. When only a single trunk is required to be looked after, it is easy to If this is done faith- fully, there is but little danger from borers, providing coal ashes or gravel be heaped up around the trees during If trees with vig- the quince is a crop that promises as profitable returns as any fruit that grows, but if only diseased trees can be obtained, it is useless to set an orch- ard with the expectation of a profit, { things in de worl’ till yer infringes on his rights. When yer does dis, look out for dar’s gwine to be a mighty sudden comiuotion, I ing associations, except such taxes as are noe due, and payable.” The law | specifies no time when it shall go into | the bill by the President, which was on the third of March. From that moment all the | with the | the ex- press terms of the law, applies only to | moment in which was signed named were abolished, in taxes as are now due and " If there “such paya- are any taxes coming | en. of course, pressly excepted from the operation of law ; but, if there are no ‘‘such then ti $ 1 ere 8 no payment to be made. What, tl If there are any and are to be coll the recent law. T i implied t been very easy for Congress “accrued” i “due and 3 words Statistical Comptroller Knox says the passage of | and State banks and the | the average to about $1,000,000 a | The amount the of tax collected | banks on capital | fiscal year | was 35.050 702, of which $437,774 only | from national was upon capital, the remainder being | The tax State bonds | and private bankers was $5,249,172, of than one-fifth The total collected | and upon was | fax § i ¥ aa od £4) ’ all upon deposits capital upon all classes of banks during the last year The amount gener- stamps is about two and a half millions stamvs takes effect on the first of July next. Tue CorrER PLANT, prove that the coffee plant will bear | climate extremes, and that it will thrive in localities differing as much as 20 degrees to 90 degrees in average temperature, It flourishes best on uplands and mountain sides, from 1500 to 4500 feet above the sea level, and in the tropical belt between the 256th de- gree north and the 30th degree south of the equator. Brazil boasts sixteen species of the plant growing wild, But coffee, as an article of commerce, only began to be known in Brazil in | 1722. By the year 1780 that country exported 14,000,000 pounds, though Cuba at that period was shipping 25, | 000,000 pounds, Towards the end of | the last century, however, large sugar and other estates in Brazil were econ. Statistics | tons ; in 1840, 48,432 tons ; in 18560, 98,- 907 tons; and in 1860, 143,071 tons, Subsequently there was some diminu- in the returns. Coffee has now ma, a small State on the Pacific coast, Cruz to the port of Manzanillo would this district has the reputation of being Cordova and Oriza- ba coffee is equal to that of Cuba, but the Colima is said to be superior even to the favorite Mocha. Mexico, coffee progress, and of fu making great is destined hereafter to bx main exports of that country. O16 the - “ Recent Legal Decisions. NUISANCE bill property INCONVENIENT BuiLp in equity was flled by cer- {an building owners praying highway that a in a pertaining to closing up of the highway be enjoined, building of the complainants, or that rendered the use their itself deleterious to the health dangerous—it have In this supreme Court of was simply inconvenient street, thi : ! i £3 Ilinois decided that the building occupy the case—Clark va, Donaldson injunction could Judge ali Schofield, he building having of equity would not, interfere { were a bu 188], vessel used as a con 3 of the Revised Statutes, 1 appear that the ow ner or r at the time of the alleged WAS AR consenling pariy or Tt £ notes H, but when NAOT Dy pay nent lank 4 LOI ity ial Court in favor judgment was reversed Judge Day, in the opinion, said assignment of the and the SUS the right of the bank to the Unless, therefore, the bank he makers to pay H or consented be- fore or after the payment that it should pad to him, or authorized H to re- tain notes, authonzed Dent DUE In an 8 citizen of citizen of the defend- ant pleaded that he had been discharged INSOLVENT DISCHARGE action on an account by against & Maine, defense The and The Hills Judicial the in Court overruled gave the defendant VA, ings this appealed the Suprer yi ~t0 the Maine, The Carlton Court of judgment, Case affirmed tracts made by a citizen of this State with citizens of another State, The insolvent laws of a State can have no effect beyond its own borders, a The President of the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company declares his bee will aceede to the concessions asked by the manufacturers, and that they do not necessarily involve a redustion of wages, as if the selling price be above 2} cents per pound it means an advance, wen A committee of iron workers had a conference with the proprietors of the E' & G. Brooke Iron Company, at Birdsboro, Penna., and it is believed the difficulty will be satisfactorily ad- Deadly Dressing. muintain that such walstsare natural to them and are independent of art, must have been born deformed, A lecture the present dress was recently delivered in under the au of the Health Bociety, ol style of London pices National The lecturer observed that the primary objects of elothing to cover the body and tt es of the peri In the neck back extremities is le or no concern in SOTHE OF wi evening dress of the chest about the low he arms, and upper part and are bare, while lower accumulated a mass of raiment that would garb a down children. In the ordinar tie equable teraperature of the The the regard is covering of the chest above the | iS very inn, periap 3 reasnably many l iothing are body ma tbat . that con d 180a%e8 dy Bp sia, disturbances of nutrition, Tight-lacing, renders m moroYer less useless the diaphragm or prin cipal muscle of respiration, The breathing powers of the narrow waisted are always seriously the he tendency to Hnpaired, and hence follows possibly languor, or inability for exertion, t faint, etc, The cirenlation, moreover, is ints And Certain cases are re. fered with, ported of death fix women who have tight-daced Mn apoplexy in young Stays injoriously affect the muses of the back. These muscles become wasted because their function, that of supporting the 8 absoriw «| he corset. the muscles that have been Thus the back is spine, they by 1 exhibit usual changes of long disused, wally acti by the use of stays, and those women who maintain that they cannot do with- out the support of stays make use of the argument of the opinm-eater, who, craving for the drug, asserts that he cannot do without it, Under no cir cumstances do young girls require stays, and to the bulk of young women also the same remarks applies, A modified corset, composed merely of some stiff material, and devoid of all bands and whalebones, may be used by those who incline to. stoutness, or whose busts are prominent, and by women who have been mothers, Such a corset or bodice would merely give that slight amount of support re quired for comfort and appearance The lecturer next referred to shoes and boots and denounced pointed ‘toes and high heels, He thought the amount of clothing usually worn by women was too great, and that the number of petticoats was often excessive, ele. The Workshop. For the purpose of hardening wooden after it is turned is boiled for about It is then to dry, when it will become An with great anti-friction composition used uncecess in Bavaria instead of ele, is thus 104 paris oil, tallow, made : parts of lard are melted with two i of pulverized plumbago., The lard is melted, the plumbago mixed in slowly, 4 stirred well mixture cold, and the applied % should be turaed ich they Circular saw collar mandrel on wh If the collars aclly true, 31 hie nthe are nie i + vadiy finished “AW ion will be multi rim of near the eve, the deviat plied many fold at the the saw, 1 Beineh collar is out 1-100 part of 1 72-inch ill throw a maw out sprung in hardening can +» straightened in tempering, Harden- when nol enough to change lay nave + i; ana ini NYE truth Lille wheel: we sane, not- in the 4 faster at that by ithe motion Ler 'V appx Alv nore while in the day by other nation, gic ater a Ua toch Better Than Medicine. an editor, who having a dish offered him at dinner. absent- a crowd unabde to make replied, “Owing to I matler we an u for it.” Husband (2 A. ». after a curtaia “Well, all I've got to say is if are a person of such refinement and Bir msnghoo mw One i “When | want to enjoy a retrospec- said Mr. Smiley, as ‘1 go to the minstrels. All the dear he memory of the days when ith a cigarbox for banjo, and the old lady's best milk-pan for a tam- uid Mrs, reading Buusty had got paper an ac- great fire, she raised spectacles from her eyes to the of her head, and remarked, ““If in the wp homeknit stockings, such as we make and wear in the country, they wouldn't be a burstin’ of their hose at every fire,” SETTLE Wib Moses, "The follow- ing notice is by a Virginia blacksmith “XN otis. De co-partnership heretofore resisting betwixt me and Mose Skinner, is hereby resolved. Dem as what owes the firm will settle wid me, and dem what de firm owes will settle wia Mose, * . A Cincinnati man caught in the belt- ing and whirled around at the rate of a mile in about two minutes, was rescued uninjured. When asked (if he wasn't dreadfully frightened, he answered : “No; I thought my wife had caught me and was running me out by the back of the neck.”
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