NEPENTHE. The north wind follows free and filla Our rounding sail, and overhead Deepens the rainless blue, and red The sunset burns on quarried hills; And peace is over all, as deep As where, amid the secular gloom Of some far-reaching, rock-built tomb, The nameless generation sleep ; While, undecayed as on the day That saw them first, the kings of old. In sculptured calm serene, behold The slow millenniums pass away Still, far behind us, as we cleave Smooth-flowing Nile, the din of life And passionate vaieces of the strife Are hushed to silence and we leave Theeares that haunt us, dark regret For wasted years and wild unrest, Yearning for praise or pleasure blest Ww ith life's last fa to fi reget. For still in Egypt's kindly air, Strong antidote of mortal woes "he painless hero, Nepenthe, grows, Which she whom fair-haired Leda bare Mixed in the wine and «tilled their pain, Who wept in Spartan halls for sire Or brother, wrapped in funeral fire, Or wandering oer the boundless main, THE SPECTATOR. -—- Agricultural. How Hoas ARE GRADED. —The fol- lowing is the grading of hogs when they are assorted for market: Pigs are light and thin, averaging 60 to 115 pounds, and are really but light stockers, Skips are better in quality—fit to kill and weigh 120 to 135 pounds, too thin and light for Yorkers. Yorkers are fat and smooth, and sell well should be uniform. Mixed packing hogs are irregular in weicht and in quality, from rough to weight. smooth, usually selected for these quali- ties, and run from Yorkers weight, 200 pounds to 300 pounds, or more, ol extensive breeder, after feeding eight or ten years, goes upon record in favor of cooking and lief that one-fourth of the grain siwved thereby, The following ment is given in his case : the same litter and the same every wav, No. 1 No. 2 250 pounds, EX Pluss is selected. weighed 2 3 pounds and No. | was fed for seventeen days on cooked unvcreund corn, and from the consump- of =, were two bushels and twenty-one No Lion quia gained thirty-one pounds, gained thirty pounds. Another in is given in which shoats raw and cooked corn for six wes result being thay while tho cooked corn bushel, 1 i y 1 and gained ten px those fed on cooked com fifteen pounds to the bushel- hich are certainly woth the d attention of breed. ING GROWTH i A NT Li Bf ila principles of plant-] better Much done to trees than there now is, f hilessness, of the $s from th njury A Uwe, {or instance, 18 s¢ pruned, in full leaf, with ( esnlt of weakening the ties. bistead of ng it as desired. Troe: cannot without and this knees 1" ov et A reve. neu or frchia continually cuttings will die. without food can be prepared for the plant, I Wik! gi at be tie thrive leaves, the rardprer oh cut Or leaves no especially the first few years, until the plants are very strong. It is recorded that where the leaves are all left on a row of corn, the weight of the crop was 261 pounds, while on the stripped row it was only 82 pounds, In other similar instances the difference was Jess, vet distinct and striking in all. This same principle applies to pruning fruit trees in summer, which should be omitted or sparingly performed, except where the trees are sufficiently vigorous to bear some check. By always remembering that leaves are essential to a tres, we may preserve the health of such us do- sired. or destroy obnoxions weeds, as the case may be, A weed or tree con- tinually stripped of leaves will die, Hints. — When the cows take to eat- ing old bones, rotton wood, ete., itis a gigns that they are in need of food with phosphate in it. Feed with some bope-meal, and if they are pastured a liberal application of ground bone (500 ponds per acre) will assist to supply the aching void, Anything which increases the comfort of sw animal is likely tobe of permanent benclic to if, and also to the owner, For this reason warmth in winter and cool. ness in hot weather are always import- ant, in addition to all the good food needed. The question should always be, not how little en be fed, but how much at a profit and, alse, how much leas food, when the animal can be miwle ‘thoroughly comfortable, by proper shelter and care, aside from’ food, Rye is un excellent feed for pigs and horses, when mixed with corn ground on the cob. The cob mixture ucts as a di- visor, and the juices of the stomach act { on it better than when fed meal is also excellent to put on cut feed, | as when wet it sticks, and horses or beef cattle eat their coarse stuff better on that account. When rye is ground and | fed in this way, it is a guarantee against | being made into whisky. Even if scraping a fruit tree does not [ do it much good directly, the habit of care and observation by the owner will be good for him. Every man should ! know the condition of his trees, and, in giving attention of this sort, he will | find out much that otherwise would be | unlearned. Bat seraping will do good. It dislo lges, and destroys many insects | whose business is to destroy the tree or | its fruit, and it greatly improves their appearance, The work is rapidly done { also, and, when need repeating every year. well done, Itemical. | The increased cultivation of small | fruit, strawberries, blackberries, rasp- | berries, currants and grapes is the most | gratifying in dication of agricultural progress, Excepting currants, all of ; these are of comparatively recent date in the gardens of farmers, and all are yet too little grown, At a recent meeting of the Wisconsin { Cane Growers' Association Miss Ida | Rust provided enough candy from sor- ghum syrup to give to every member a | taste. The candy was pronounced ex- cellent ; it was at least free from glueose, i most candy i and therefore sweeter than | sold from the stores, English millers are alarmed at thein- | ereasing proportions of American wheat | that is floured before being exported. The practice of English millers has long been to buy our wheat, which is dryer { than their own, and mix both gether before grinding. English wheat { is often too damp for The to cold weather, which freezes the water LO use alone, high price of eggs 1s in part due and thus makes drink inaccessible, In ordinary barnyardsa thaw will set fowls to laying, and a sudden freeze will stop most of thew. But if watered morning and night with warm water or soar Im lk egg production will be greatly in. creased. George Geddes says that the cheapest md be bought works, They of suel { and best water trougl second] such | very cheaply near salt isa potash kettle, as can <hape in then can never hie slight rust which id ketlles is beneficial to most stock. Fowla do nq OWN Inanure, of this fact Is sown in the to keep them fi | ing uy the hen ro by the manure wher Western ing corn after corn. Corn ETowers persist that the The result is they have bred a worm which eats | roots and which the from yeartovyear, Assit ianot m iiVes In grouna I'T A gre tory its existence depends on having corn planted on the sa: ba i Re- 1 which de ire CESS husbandry, | mands rotation of crops, will theref rid farmer s of this pest, The cold winter has either destroved food ich 1 ually live on duri: er that foxes and other wild animals retire from in- ' or made inaccessible tl wh 3h if ' wild animals \ severe weather. Tha result and kinds supposed to be entirely destroyed in the neighbor hood have been killed in various places this winter. the deep recesses of the forest, i vade farmers’ barnyaris, Some of arimals that have been Prof. E. M. Shelton’s experiment af the Kansas Agricultural to test the val * eomfort to fattening stock reports that daring one week re cently the five pigs exposed the weather wade, getting all the corn they would eat, a total increase of only six- teen pounds, while the same number, originally of equal size, kept in warm pens, consumed a little more feed and gained forty-one pounds. The practice of some of the best farmers now is to keep pigs through the summer on green food, cut and carried to the pens, with a little grain, and what milk can be spared after butter making. Spring pigs are thus made to weigh 200 pounds at seven months old, and, except in the last month, they get little grain. The best time to sell such pigs is at the beginning of cold weather, usually in October; Exclusive devotion of the soil to any one crop generally results in loss.” In the first place it exhausts the land un. evenly, removing some elements of fer. tility more rapidly than others, until in a few years this crop cannot be grown. A second objection is that such cropping breeds insect enemies, that compel a change, as has been the case where too much wheat growing has bred the weevil and Hessian fly, The sneer at Jersey cows as very good for men too poor to keep a cow and too proud to own a goat is being “gradually set aside as farmers learn that th se College farm to much more butter, besides of better quality, than some of the larger br eds of cows, The profit from a cow can only come from the surplus above the cost of feeding. Asa rule with smaller cows more can be kept on the same feed, Ringbone in horses is cured by an old veterinarian as follows: Tie the ani- mal down so he cannot kick, Run a sharp-pointed lock, when a white bladder will pop out. through this draw it out, and the with a knife, without harm to the horse, early, and the ringbone will not return, But if allowed to harden it remove spring planting, size, or rather height, is of less consequence than other cone siderations, The tall, spindling trees have been grown too thickly, and their in digging. Short, stocky trees are bet- ter, that have been transplanted the vear before digging. the effect of mapel syrup and sugar, which are in de- flavor that cannot be imitated, cheaper the sweets of the maple will try in population and wealth. is growing To Awaken the Risibles. alt. louis th The futher of sented his son-in-law w head of exclaimed his daughter, when she heard of it, of Charley's awfully fond of oxtail soup.’ An marked to his servant thal he ing. * Well, ny i ni.» fellow, “You place.”’ “John, with an air ol sand cattle, fe) + ¥ 1 & ¥ 1 Lili Was SC Kind English bishop queralously re wins dy- said the god are gong: oO rejjed conviction place like old England !’ Steer Clear. HL mike, {ine t walks Kis Pag » Lonely Hasband Wit Care cost Love lost Organ swells, Moral Marringe bells When vi Honey moon Look ahead, Ended soon, Might ful Double brown That's a Settlad d Toronto Ne “A Loft to Lett,” is painted board suspended on the floor of a Gold “Why don’t you spell properly 7°° a Nuthing h, Happy bth Couple ¢ Have it wi store, words those customer asked the proprietor. ** Because if we did no one would turn to read them. That extra ‘t’ catches the eve," Heroic five good tons of coal have | to-day for old Gunnybags, hands mie is a dime, Shall I spurn I will! No--his lovely daughter has smiled spon me and 1 am than paid.” Th the man who hunted for his pipe when it Nor the man who threw his hat out of window and tried to hang his cigar on a peg: no | but the man who put his umbrella to bed and went and stood behind the door, * Full carried youth of the period : in he it? she more and all most absent-minded man was not was htween his teells, he Mrs. Homespun was shocked to hear one of those giddy DBrownjohn girls speak of Haydn as the author of the *Creation.”” Mrs. Homespun says she doesn’t know anything about the Bible the Brownjohns have, but her Bible “doesn’t say anything about Haydn or any other fiddling German.’ This is a boy’s composition on girls: “Girls are the only folks that have their own way every time. Girls is of several thousand kinds, and sometimes one girl can be like several thousand girls if she wants anything. This is al I know about girls, and father says the less | know about them the better off 1 am." Massachusetts fisheries employ 25,117 persons, and at least 100,000 are support- ed by this industry, which has just pass. ed through an unusually prosperous year in 1882, A BARS 5 BAXED CApnaar. — Boil until tender, drain until cold ; chop very fine, add {wo beaten salt, pepper, butter, and a half pint of milk. Bakeina but. tered dish until brown. The Field of Science. mm The total population of the United of which 43,476,000 are native bom, and 6,680,000 are foreign born. negro, and every seventh person nearly foreign born. The black magnetic sand that is found in abundance in the washings of our gold mines is, by a new process, utilized in the manufacture of cast steel direct from the Bight pounds of sand vield five pounds of steal, The slag that is left is valuable’ as sand, urers of New England, and they are cases where the They are said in many to be economical, handy, safe and free part to tall structures, According to the Paciric Medical and was 21.534. Even this rate. low ten The whole number of deaths is given at 5008, of which 527 were among the Chinamen, years, The Lancet condemns the new article *erinolette,” It is an impediment to walking, induces an uneven bodily temperature, adds another to the many burdens borne by the bids fair to compete with erinoline in encouraging a preva. lence of deaths by fire, waist, and Exposure to Hght and air will destroy sSirange {0 8a iy merchants and others appear neglect this fact, no doubt experience considerable oss, Caoutehoue tht. when uy irk ria © ana LIE RIRINGHLIA iti il i DAMeniIing Ca ipering, Hardened to change the raw color OF purple, i 8 annealed Slee] Wi or 1 PANE L 1 1 healtl considered especially ble-keepers are among the and from respiratory al though much exposed to cold and damp, Some evolved from men, t of free affections, atiribnite this to the ammonia the piles, and 8 sald in corroboration that little breast amulets of carbonate of Ammonia. or of throat with liquid ammoni, gives sure relief in bron- chial attacks manure Spraying the diluted Professor Putnam suggests in his re port, as Curator of the Peabody Museom of Archmology, that it will not draw too large inferences from the find. ng of stone implements. That our recent Indians, he says, “used many exceed ingly rude stone implements can not be questioned, and even to-day, among the Western tribes, stones picked up at ran dom are used for various domestic pur poses, and when a camp is changed many such are left, with other things which are of too little value to be taken From these facts ‘t is evident that the ruder implements asd utilized natural forins are not certain evidence of the period of development of the people who made use of them. That we, in camping out, are so often forced to make ise of stones, shells, bones, and withes of roots or lark, shonld be considered in drawing deductions from the rude character of any set of implements,’ et m— op ——— Some Interesting Facts. — It has been estimated that there are six hundred thousand miles of barbed wire fences in use, do AWAY. Ninety-thhee thousand acres of land were planted with timber in Kansas last year. Great Britain has thirteen thousand registered chemists and druggists, and twenty-three thousand registered medi- cal practitioners, On the Western end of the Canadian Pacific road 8000 Chinamen and 3000 whites and Indians are emploved, Out of 9,627,902 registered letters and packages carried last year by the Post Office Department, lost. a minute and uses 3000 cubic feet, or about 375 hogsheads of alr per hour, Three thousand depositors in Connec- | tient suvings banks have not made in- quiries about their money for twenty years past, The ground upon which Cincinnati stands was purchased by 8, C, Symmes { about ninety years ago for sixty-seven | cents per acre, boone city of Newark, N. J., eontains 1200 factories, with 20.232 The capital invested is $23.919.115, and the sales foot up $66,234 525, now grazing in what six vears ago was Indian country in Texas, The gold annually taken from The of the metal in that country was at the beginning of this century. cost of an expedition in search of gold is estimated at $3000, There were on the farms in ted States on June 1, horses, 1.812.932 mules, 12.445. 503 milk cows, cattle, 35.191.156 sheep, and 47,083.05] swine, The Minneajo'is six million dollars, the [ Inij- 10,357 987 1882 Tribune says that It save that a herd of 1000 entirely cleared 500 acres of brash Not a was Jeft, Sea VEArs, vestige of urchins are =o tenacious of life to the shell move off in different directions, mon Le pieces of the broken The aggregate value of the property i ape pe edl Aid ’ LIE PTOI) ’ eb 3. . pe of colored people througho TINes is sel being ar down at $6,478 05] of $671.17 $OI1.179 over the Secret of Good Manners. § I i i Cimer, She wakes PpOrirasis prove painierse statesmen witl Swed simpy ia t Khe rose TWO happiness and success of they felt the genuinene her sym- pathy. It mor charm. y try Madan It any girl [41 eXPerinm thinking nothing of the WH suirounded her with an mn- hi Rear jer’ nt. = admiration she in, but MAY W ness she can confer. It matters little whether her face is beautiful or Before the end her 4 jetie oostly, for the world likes sunshine and sympa- thy and it turns to them as the flowers bask in the sun of June, -— Flowers in Potatoes. A gentleman from Utica in Louise ville, who wished to send some beauti- ful buds to Lis wife, was at a loss how to do so. A frist friend said he would fix then. He cut a potato into two pieces and bored holes in them into whigh he inserted the stems of the buds, and placed them in a box with cotton to support them, A letter from the re- cipient acknowledged the remembrance, and said that the buds had developed itito full-blown flowers, There is suffi- cient woisture in a good sized potato to support a flower for two weeks in a moderately cool temperature. Flowers from bouquets or baskets may be pre served in the same way. The potatoes wm be hidden by leaves or mosses, In the Senate of Connecticut, a bill was passed, allowing railroads incorpo- rated under the general railroad law of that State, to consolidate stock, fran- chises and property with the stock, ete. of railroads outside of the State, when such lines fornr a continuous Hine from some point in that State to some point in an adjoining State, ——In the louse the proposed Prohibitory amendment to the State Constitution was lost for want of two- thirds in the affirmative, the vote being 128 yeas to 8] nays. An Artistic Duel, There has been no small stir in the musical circles of Germany over ihe quarrel between the Berlin violinist, Waldemar Mayer, and Ludwig Hart mann, the musical critic, Early in the present year the Berlin artist gave a concert in the Gewandhaus at Leipzig, and was afterward invited meet a company, where the talk tumed upon the criticisms of music inthe journals. “I know fora fact,’® observed Herr Mayer, ** th these musical critic to all # are to be bought.” A student al the University stood up in great wrath and said that be could name Herr Mayer dared charge, “Who is ‘Ludwig replied the ie LUeT, bribe into his windireetly If 1 wanted Hart press I «should one against whom not make such a musician, Dresden.” * Well,” ried take a Fela if he will not own hands he will receive or mann to praise me in the the favor. On a concert at and received an iavitation to visit Hartmann after the concert, To Frau Hartmann. ** cism of Maver gave the next day 1 i 1 ipesdd he OONIEr URE ad into SAW Was Lo ™ ps 2 vit seg 1 ¥ rani Hartmann's saloon than confronting hi The he would be good her what he had Teipzig. As be lu Frau Hartmann suruck mn across the face with a riding whip the ig out his 1 and wrote a challenge to Ludwig as his hostess, m. enough to repeat wo Baia Ih Bogiely FH tated 10 do Ls, and he received a second blow on rryir » room. He went straight to Hartmann, which the eritic naturally yer had already fired his shot at Hartmann, be- hind Hart- wife had saved i refused to accept, Maj Yr his back, in Leipzig, and nn conceived that his him the trouble of firing any shot in Ie- turn. The duel was commanded by the himself, who had got but the cor 1 the worst of it, 43 tic Bee it this was any T'eas0n fo second battle, ently Ao Religious Sentiment. fT if 4 fe 18 too short 10 nurse ofe’s mis. land, ih Laid Hurry Ow mas : ’ 5. s beautiful only as A life Ther: is Lila 3 is no beauty in the life § he no thought ¥ fOr OL When 1 Lie eleThal glory, endeavor to contemplate the it resolves into three ; i the three, they ry Nazianzen., terate the views of thd We even the possibi 18 Inatier. gare not 14 Ol i chance, jest 1% sh Nout only be. vain We icature upon the justice roodness of God, that man should His word ond chance undertake to supply does not what reveal, Man's sex is now—and he who neglects the present or the delusion of LL the Cmoriem OppoT- ! of his soul. Wise words, does so at £4 usd fitlv sroken. LE, attle, fur Bam Life is often spoken From birth to death it is one prolonged struggle for existences. We most fully when disease attacks us and pe Fa e wp ~a} i fas al are in the wan conscious of this “ing en Most ills of life are due to onr thoughtless nes, Wedo not sulliciently apprecinte We some ww seem to think that we shall escape the penalties of wrong-doing. of the business ventures we undertake. We cannot ignore the difficulties, bud we are prone to think them chained like the lions in Bunyan’s pilgrim. It is not right that we should overrate possible difficulties in the way of suo- cess. To do this would perhaps para Iyze all efforts, Nor should we under rate them. To do this is to insure de- feat sooner or later. Rather measure the full strength of the enemy. Meas ure, too, your own strength, then in the name amd strength of the Tord, go bravely forward, and win every time in the battle of life.— Good Work. 110%, he strength of the enemy, So, too, Ll I AAR. Honeymo oning at the Hub. ' a They were a Boston couple who had been married but & few weeks, and had just gone to housekeeping. As the husband stood at the area door one worming with the market basket in his hand, his bride threw her arms around me so very, very much, Bradford “Bunker Hill monument may fall,” he answered with enthusiasm, “but my love will always stand.” “Well, then,” she exclaimed, kissing him, “don’t for- get the beans,”
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