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TRUE BEAUTY.
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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.
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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,
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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.”