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,”