SCIENTIFIC. The utility of wire rope transmission has become widely recognized. Not only among the rugged bills and moun- tains of the East and West where streams go rushing down through caverns and rocky steeps, where no locations for mills or factories are afforded, is this means of transmission of precious power appreciated, but it is so convenient to use that we fad on the prairies of the West mills being oper- ated at a Jong distance from waler powers by the wire rope. A few days ago, on a trip through Nebraska, we noticed a rope stretching for nearly a mile from a water power to a mill that had recently been built adjoining a railroad, the owners finding it much more to thelr advantage to have it there, with the switching privileges afforded, than at the dam. The ex- pense of hauling the flour which is thus saved to them will very roon pay for the system of power transmission, Dr, Henry J. Buck, writing to the Lancet, says: *'1 bave used this drug for more than twenty years—I may say almost daily—and many of my patients will not travel without a bottle of the ‘magic lotion,” as they call it, I find the simp'est and most eflicaclous way of applying it is to soak a large handful of the crushed pods in half a pint of hot water for an hour, then strain, and bottle for use. A teaspoon | ful of eau-de-cologne added to keep the solution, or it can boiled after preparing, I then have it applied to the affected parts on a piece of linen folded three or four times, or on a lint, and covered with gutta per- cha tissue or diy flannel. In this way the lotion may Le kept oa for hours without vesicasing, and in many cases the skin is hardly reddened. The stinging and burning sensation produced by the capsium lotion is, after a few minutes, welcomed by the sufferer, so magically does it often remove the rheu- matic or neuralgic pain for which It is | beiug applied, In acute torticollis a | cure is often speexlily obtained by cov- ering the side affected with the applica- tion. In any form of neuralgia, rheu- matism, subacute gout, pleurodynia, and such like, it will be found most useful, and may be reappiled over and and over again during the day and night without any fear of vesication.” non son M. N. Varren finds that when the metal magnesium is heated in a current of ammonia thoroughly dry, and keeping the temperature below a red heat, it combines with the gas without changing much in appearance, though its chemical properties are much modl- fied; for instance, it wiil not melt below a bright red heat, and burns, when red | hot, with violent decrepitations or small explosions. If the current of ammonia is continued, and the metal in this form heated to bright redness, it Is gradually converted into an orange yel- low substance which is permanent, This new pioduct dissolves in acids, and the solution contains ammonia, When fragments of magnesium which have been kept at a dull red beat for some time come in contact with gaseous ammonia, 1t often happens that their surface becomes dark yellow and shines like gold, The exact nature of this golden magnesium has not yet been made out, otf P——— simple thing and of trifling importan i ! i $ { all, when the number used annually is taken into consideration, and the in thelr production is understood, The Tittabawassee and other boom com- panies in Michigan use millions of these little and simple devices, one pin being required to every log *‘tied out’ by them; and the Orms producing them use up whole “train loads’ of logs in their manufacture. They are simply a cient of the center of the wedge re- moved to admit the insertion of a small sized rope, so that when they are driven into the center of each log they cover the rope and hold it firm. When the logs thus fastened in strings reach their destination, a slight blow breaks the pin, loosens the rope, and permits the logs to be handled separately, It will thus be perceived that millions of these little devices are made and de- stroyed annually, A writer In a London journal calls attention to the unappreciated uses and preservative qualities of soap-store, a material, he says, which possesses what may be regarded as extraordinary qual | mue h to do with the corrosion of iron ble of taking hold of the fiber of iron and steel so readily and firmly as this, | preserving structures built of sana. stone and other stones liable to crum- ble from the effect of the atmosphere; and the covering with powdered soap stone iu the form of paint, on some of the obelisks in that country, composed of stone liable to atmospheric deterlor- ation, has been the means of presery- ing them intact for hundreds of years, sip AP —— Electrified Waz.—Some curlous elec- trical phenomena were lately observed according to a writer in the Chemische feitung) in a stearin and ceresin manu factory In Italy. One evening four vats of white ceremin (which is a paraffin ot from onakeriy), containing about 500 . each, were being stirred to cool. hen the point of rolidification was pearly reached, she electric hight of the place accidentally went out; and, tothe su alarm of the rather igno- rant workmen, the mass of cercsin was observed to give pale sparks, Sp pi A beet sugar manufactory, with a , is said to be FARM NOTES, THE PROPER CARE OF A CcoLT.—We will start with the suckling at the day of its birth, and presume that is is of good parentage, both sire and dam, that ® is sound and able to stand and walk within fifteen minutesafter it breathes, At the age of n week most farmors come to work the dam and let the suck- ling follow around as best he can, and at the the age of four months, the colt being then of suflicient age to wean, the dam has performed a good summer's work, worked just as hard as her geld- ing mate with no colt. This method is entirely wroag. The heated blocd, tiresome labor of both mare aud colt is really killing both. The mure and colt during the first four, five or six months should be kept in good pasture where there is plenty of good water and shade, While it may be practicable to wean the colt at four months, we certainly prefer six, and now comes the most important period of the entire five years of the colt’s growth, and if starved or stunted the Hirst winter it never fully recovers, Not only the size, but the whole frame of the animal is 1pjured, never to te re- gained, The colt should be fed on plenty of good, ¢'ean hay, plenty of water at all times, and we would give half and halt of ground outs and wheat bran twice a day, about two quarts at a mess. We give this dry, but if scalded and then | cooled it will be better. A well-to-do farmer told me once this would be Loo much; I think he was right for the first week or two, but certainly not for the cold winter days, nor the springleitber, | I asked him what damage it would do; | his answer was too rapid a growth, He | bad previously told me that he would | treat a cdit as he would a boy. 1 asked | him If he ever knew too big a growth of | boy, but to this there was no answer, The colt sbould have a warm place protect himself from cold weather and | storms, a bed of dry straw or dust to sleep upon, or to lie down at pleasure; | he must not be confined to the stable, but have a yard; or, better still, an open field to run in; In no case should he be allowed to stand on a hard ficor SMUT IN WHEAT.—Smut in wheat | was once a great cause of loss and com- plaint, and it was found that the smut increased when smuity seed was used, I tound by making a strong brine with blue vitriol dissolved in it, putting it in a tub large enough to hold a tight bas- ket in which the seed wheat was placed —the wheat stirred and skimmed, end then raised out of the brine and allow- ed to drain, when it was poured out or put in bags and so remained twelve to | twenty-four bours, and then sown in | the usual manner. I never found this | tofail as a remedy in wheat, The strong brine was useful te float out light | to | perfectly introduce the vitriol to all the grains of wheat, Two years ago, think- ing of this, I poured my corn on the floor and poured among it a solution of biue vitriol and gave it a good stirring. But it will be seen that that way of applying the vitriel did not surely reach every grain, The result was much less smut thao in former years, THE “GENERAL PURPOSE COW," This long-mooted question 1s still re- ceiving attention. One writer——who evidently favors the Holsteins -—says it is a well known fact that if you want to breed trotters you must employ sires If you want good cows for milk, you must bread from animals having a good milk pedigree, and the same 1s true in regad to butter and beef. Now, if we ean breed a good butter cow, a good milk cow, and a cow that will make good beef, why can we nof, by combining these elements, get a cow that would be a general purpose co? The Holstein combines beef, butter and milk more strongly than can be found in any oth- er breed of cattle now extant, The following is given as an excel- lent mixture of seed per acre for a meadow: 12 pounds of timothy, 5 pounds of Italian rye grass, 5 pounds of meadow fescue or tall fescue, 4 pounds of red top, 3 pounds of rough-stalked meadow grass, 6 pounds of medium clover, If the meadow is moist, bromus or alsike may be introduced, the red top increas. ed and the fesene and the clover les. sened, In the catalogue of the American Po- mological Soclety votes trom the differ. ent States were given as follows for var- ious popular apples: Forty votes for Red Astrachrn, 88 for Early Harvest, 33 for Mailden’s Blush, 30 for Oiden- burg, 27 for Northern Spy, Fomeuse, Ben Davis and Caroline Jane, 29 for for Baldwin, Jonathan and Roxbury It is sald that the soil around an old | tree, especially a dead one, is unfavor- able to the growth of a young one-— probably because the soll is exhausted of some important food element, which may have caused the death of the old tree. If a young tree is set in the place of an old one it is best to remove a large portion ot the old soil and replace it with new if you want the young tres to thrive. As a rule, it is true economy to pro- duce and manufacture everything as pear as possible to the place of i eon- sumption. The man who grows en the farm all he consumes on it saves double tion-~the hauling home what 14 buts and tug haa) $0 market what to pay for is two items Do Ve difference be tween successful and unsuccessful farm- ing. ? Wherever weeds grow luxurian the ground is usually fertile, and su ground should be made to prodace tome of aerop. At this season millet ox Hungarian gru should be sown on suc Experiments with the Bordeaux mix- ture, as a remedy for grape rot, is made in every section this season, it is believed that In a few years the dis ease will be under control, ois family use ee every” yor a So coi 1 boas iver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of fo fina ever Jie duced, pleasing to the taste an ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com- mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 500 and $1 bottles by all leading drug- gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro- eure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute, CALIFORNIA Fie SYRUP CO. SAN i FRANGIDOD, OAL, SEW vous, BR CURE in the Word. Dr SPEY ERAS, lavansa, hs s BEECHAM'S PILLS (THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY.) Cure BILIOUS.and Nervous ILLS. 25cts. a Box. OF ALL DRUGGINTS, TOU WILLSAYE MONEY Time, Fain, and will CUKE CATARRH by using Ely’s Cream Balm Apply Balm BLY BBOS. Trouble inte each nostiril M6 Warren St.N.Y Fise's Memsedty fr Ostarrh Ba Beg, Esatent to Use, and a “CATARR Sold bry draggies or seni by ve, KT. Haseltine, Wares ha THE DEPENDENT PENSION BILL Grapts pensions to Meldlers, Sallors aad & Widows nnd Chkildres. - facremsed. Write im mellately, Mating . J. 0. DERMODY, Awe Channeny DulMiing. WASHING PATENTS? HE OREN, For: o. + LERMANN, TT D. 0. | BExe rom OmoTLan STOPPED. H FREE ITS ms gf all Bua N FRY Shans aly Suh ww Nreve Afeerion, TO = Tararirss oH hen Brest # afer realise and Bf tela! betle free ts fret dog's wie. T Fu pallien peying ctpress cheng on — a wanes, PO 4 hae whae En HPI oY rt PETS Bow Praogiow FAR asd vi illage pre pert for salo—send OFOTS, N.Y. for list, F. N, 8r0 MINER, E. RENMAN & MONEY, Washington. D. C. Paraxr, i Oran A¥D Land AT TORN RTS. . D, Money, 10 years Member of Don ges, a A. Freeman, years Ass't Vy-Gen, EE —— " Fu. For CHRILBLAING —Any one who suffers from chilblalns will be glad to try the following remedy recommended by a writer in Arthor’s Home Maga- zine: “I made a strong solution of white oak bark, as hot as I could bear, and bathed my feet every night before retiring. It made a perfect cure. I had been troubled so much that I used to dread the cold weather on that ac- count; my feet would fester and be so swollen and sore that I could not wear shoes, Now I have bad no chilblaigs since I applied this remedy, a good many years ago.” af eac— Put dishes, “‘tamb ers and other glass articles into a kettle, cover them en- tirely with cold water and put the kettle where it will soon boil, When it has boiled a few minutes set it aside covered close, When the water is cold take out the glass. This process will harden the articles so that they will not be 80 easily broken, Cop Bors Wit TARTAR BAUCR, Pick the cod rces clean of any skin, cut them in bits the size of an egg. Make a pyramid of them in the centre of the diab, squeeze over them a little lemon juice, a and dust with a trifle of cayenne . Make enough cold tartar sauce to mask the cod roes, and serve with chopped lettuce, mustard and cress, or watercroas, MISA Polls and Pimples and other affections arising from Impure blood may appear at this season, when the blood is heated. Hood's Sar. sapariiia removes the cause of thems Sroubles by purifying, vitaliting, and eo the blood, and at the same time It gives strength to the whole system. Cancer is curable by ah early opera- tion, The Fraser is k all dealers, One box a wala, Re oslved medals at North TR Coron Ts If uae Centennial, aud Paris Bxposition, Black coffee is now soggested as cure for consumption, a AIA toted with De. re mn SS A A II AO Aon. The old rule Is to int corn when the apple tree is in i rr . Sollishnoes 1s the assassin of of the soul HOUSEHOLD. MACARONI, — Break the macaroni in pleces an fuch long. Boll one-half hour and drain; add one pint of cream, one well-beaten egg, season with butter, salt and a little pepper. Stir over a clear fire until it thickens, and serve hot, IA —— Driep ArrPLE DUMPLINGS, -One pint of dried apples, cut, one-half pint of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of bak- ing powder and one tablespoonful of butter or lard, Use flovr sufficient to make into small biscuits, and drop into boiling water and boil quickly till the apples are done, Cut the apples into small bits with scissors, and seak Into warm water before making. Eat with cream sauce flavored with nutmeg. co ——————o CHICKEN PIE —Singe and parboll a pair of chickens, eut thom up and cook till quite tender, Uncover when meurly done and let the water boil away till re- dueed one-half, Line alarge, deep pan with biscuit dough made very short and rolled about an inch thick, and put in the chicken cut into finer pleces, with butter, salt, pepper, a dredging of flour, | and their own gravy, Cover and bake i till the upper crust Is brown. Berve | with mashed potato and cranberry sauce, | ham which bas been pickled but not | smoked, Parboil in water to cover for au hour, throwing in a bay leaf and a few corns of black pepper and allspice. Transfer to the oven, bake for lwo { hours, basting freely with a little of the | liquor from the pot, or with a little | sugar dissolved In vinegar or sherry | Wine. | beginning of the last | brown nicely. balf hour, EE — IROILED SHAVINGS. —Shave from a lean ham, as you would cut dried | five, | slices. | clear fire, and broll | the edges curl, Serve heaped rather crispy until in the | od potatoes around them, VEGETABLE BOUP, — Wash thor- oughly a lettuce, with two or three handfuls of sorrel, cabbage or spinach, then shred into small pieces, and put over the fire, with two ounces of butter, for at least ten minutes, turning over the vegetables with a fork the while, To this add one quart of hot stock, and simmer for one hour, only letting it boil up at the last, Then add four yolks of eggs, and return to the fire, taking care the soup does not boll after the eggs have been added, Stir ina gill of good cream, a piece of butter rolled in flour. and serve ina hot tu- reen, with a dash of cayenne pepper and salt to taste, Lr — Cov Rors Ny BANDWICHES.— Cut thin slices of bread and butter from a square loaf; spread the slices witha anchovy paste, Pound some cod roes lightly in a morlar, and make into sandwiches between the savory bread and butter, Cut into triangles, A teaspoonful of mayonnaise sauce on each sandwich 18 a great improve- ment, but they are very palatable with- out, Good As Gold Bo enthusiastic are thousands of people over the benefits derived from Hood's Barsaparilia, that they ean hardly find words to express their confidence in and gratitude for this medicine, “Worth its weight In gold” is a favorite expres. sion of these warm friends, If you need a good medicine to purify your blood, bulid up your strength, try Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists. $1:six for 85. 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SIX PER twenty-five years, an CENT. paper, sift pounded sugar over them, { glaze them witha shovel or salamander; | dish on & napkin, ssa lI Cs —— i Dmx Lia Beax | one quart lima beans over wight; | following day boil them unl I tender; sain and press them through a colan- ; put them over the fire Rr a pnt o ik slozk | fire, and when it boils thicken | two tablespoonfuls of four rubbed into | one { then add it to the stock, and season with seit and pepper ;iet it boll up ones; add the heaten yelks of two eggs and serve, ED BROILED SALT MACKEREL. — Select a small mackerel (which will be more tender than a large, older one) and put walter; pour off the water and let it stand in milk two hours; then drain and dry in a napkin, brush butter, or, better still, pure olive oil over it, and boil in a double-wire broller;when done plunge it into hot water a moment, which swells it and makes it look fat; serve with meited butter containing lemon juice and chopped parsley. Please Don’t Forget It. That Dr, H. James’ Cannabis Indica is pre. od in Calostta, India, from the purest and Native Hemp, and fa the pa remedy either in that country or this that will Cole tively and permanently cure Ohmpemption, Wikis, Arthme, Nasal Ontarvk and Neveous hilly or break up a fresh cold in twen- BA A PS or rietors, street, Padiadeiphia. - - AI Oh A wise farmer learns from Lis mis. takes as well as from his successes, ——— One Thousand Dollars. I will forfeit the above amount, if I fall to prové that Fioraplexion is the best medjcine in existence lor Dyspepsia, Indigestion or Billions. ness. It is a ofrtaln eure, and affords immedi ate relief, in sasen of Kidney and Liver Come aint, Nervous Debility and Consumption, wraplexion builds up the weak system and cures where other remedies fail, Ask your druggist for it and get well. Valuable book “Things Worth Kuowing,” also, sample bottle 8 free: all charges prepaid, Address rankiin Hart, 88 Warren Street, New York. 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