FAKM, HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Secdlnn UIUM lniU In the Fall. Tlio practice of seeding iands to grans in the fall is gaining ground in many sec tions, especially among the New Eng land farmers. Arguments in favor of this custom are: The grass is not so liable teen harvested small grains, potatoes, fodder crop* and the like, and turn over old-sod lands for this purpose. At the South seeding of grass will t>e delayed until September. The quantity of seed will depend upon the varieties of grasses to be grown and the purposes for which they are de signed. The extremes of very light seeding, which produces large coarse stalks, and very heavy seeding, which makes exceedingly tine ones, are to be avoided. Pastures call for a variety of grasses, to be sown witli liberal hand. In selecting a mixture for permanent pasture, it should be borne in mind that the land will be cropped continually throughout the season, and therefore it is imperative to have grasses which ripen in succession that stock may be supplied with a tender and succulent growth. The varieties should also be selected with a view of suiting the soil for which they are designed. Clover plays in pastures as in meadows an important part; orchard pass, which arrives early and remains late, is also a valuable constituent. This grass is highly esteemed, especially on light dry soils; meadow fox-tail, with its early and rapid growth, is another valuable so't, and red-top is also counted among desirable grasses for permanent pastures. A mixture recom mended by various agricultural authori ties for permanent pastures is as fol lows: Two pounds of meadow fox tail, five pounds of white clover, six pounds of orchard grass and four pounds each of red clover, rough-stalked meadow grass, rye grass, timothy, blue grass, meadow fescue and red top. For the South, where winter pasture is the object, the following is suggested: One bustiel each of meadow oat grass, or chard grass and wild rye grass; and four quarts each blue grass, red clover and white clover. This pasture not to be grazed later than June nor earlier than Christmas. A few grasses are suited to lioth meadows and pastures, in illustration of which may he cited orchard grass. Pure meadow grasses are those with tuberous roots, which store up in bulbs one year the material of growth for the next, and which require a certain time for the maturing of the bulbs. Timothy is a representative type of this class of grasses, hence it is highly esteemed in meadows. Other popular meadow grasses are red clover and Hungarian grass. To gain best results it Is im portant that the grasses associated nlossom about the same time, therefore the wisdom of sowing early kinds in one mowing field and late sorts in another. Among early grasses suited to meadows are orchard grass. Ken tucky blue grass, meadow frscue and tall oat grass, to which may be added Italian rye grass if the land be moist and rich. Timothy, red top and Rhode Island bent grasses are numbered with late kinds. The importance of having the ground thoroughly tilled and generously manured previous to seeding it to grass, either for pasture or meadow, cannot bo too strongiy urged.—New York Worid. Handle Hairy Stork Hindi). Mr. Pareeil, in the report of the New Jersey agricultural society, says: It is important that dairy stock, from the young calf to the old cow that is being fed for beef, should bo handled and treated kindly. If a calf is handled roughly and becomes wild and vicious thereby, when it becomes a cow you may expect the same, but if handled carefully and treated with kindness, when grown up she will be mild and gentle. It may not always be so, but in general it is. There have always been many cows spoiled by the person hav ing the care of and milking them, by whipping or frightening them when ever they come in his way, or if when milking, a cow hoists Iter fool or kicks (which is generally caused by pain), such a fellow stops milking and com mences whipping, or worse, kicking the cow, and she becomes enraged, holds up her milk, kicks back, and is finally ruined. Never whip a cow for kicking, if she does kick the milk pail out of your hand and sometimes upset and knock you. hut be kind and gentle with her, and milk her out with as lit tleiexcitement as possible, and if she Sts over her kicking propensity it will by mild and not by harsh treatment. Never whip a cow because she kicks for it will do do good, but will do a great deal of harm. nltli Bints. Invalids should keep the refreshments covered in their sick room. The jellies, blano-manges. and various liquids used as cooling drinks arc more or less ab sorbent, and easily take up the impuri ties which float about a sick room. A glass of milk left uncovered will soon become tainted with any prevailing odor, as can be proved by leaving it in a room freshly painted. How import ant then thai the poisons of sickness should be carefully kept from all that is to be eaten. If a person swallows any poison whatever, or has fallen into convulsions from having overloaded the stomach, an Instantaneous remedy most efficient and applicable in a large number of cases, is a heaping teaspoonful of com mon salt, and as much ground mustard, stirred rapidly in a teacuptul of water, warm or cola, and swallowed instantly. It is scarcely down before it begins to come up, bringing with it the remain ing contents of the stomach; and lest there he any remnant of the poison, however small, let the white of an egg or a teaspoonful of strong ooffee be swallowed as soon as the stomach is quid, because these very common arti cles nullify a large number of virulent poisons. "l an Dairy Parma. A dairyman writes that he finds there is no more profitable stock to keep on a dairy farm than good pigs. He keeps two pore Berkshire brood sows and one boar, and raises four litters each year. The litters average eight each, and the pigs are sold when they are between four and five months old to make room for the new litters. They then weigh from ISO to 190 pounds dressed, and sell for seven cents a pound. Last year his pigs brought him in over SBSO, nnd they did not cost SSO outride of the Bkimmea milk nnd the buttermilk whicii they consumed. He bus tried several kinds, Chester Whifee, Yorkshires, Suffolks, grade Berkshires, and pure ones, and finds tho pure Berkshire and the half breed of this breed and Chester White tho best feeders. The meat of these two kinds will sell more readily than any others, being lean and fat mixed, while Essex, Sullolk and Yorkshire arc all too fat for sale in tho summer timo. He cures the hams nnd the sides for bacon, and finds it is more profitable than selling tiie carcasses, lie don't think anything on a dairy farm pays so well as good pigs properly managed. ■low lo Have C'hlckrna til to Kit. I>on't imagine that it makes no dif ference how your chickens have been brought up. Don't suppose that they will bo good anyhow. Chickens have been carefully dressed, deliciously stuffed, and yet they were not fit to eat. There was a flavor about them that no soda rinsings could elennse and no sea soning conceal. Those were chickens that had picked up tneir living around pig styes and other unclean places A chicken may be spoiled in dressing it to cook. If killed with a full crop, and allowed to lie for hours before it is " drawn " or relieved of its internal organs, it gets an unpleasant flavor. Fowls should be caught and shut up without food for twelve hours before they are beheaded. Then the crop and intestines will be empty, and the task of picking nnd dressing it will be greatly lessened. Old fowls are not necessarily tough—only cook them long enough. They ore more tender twenty-four hours after they are killed than if eaten imme diately. TntiMplautinii by Nlulit I A gentleman anxious to ascertain the effect of transplan!ing by night instead of by day, made an experiment, with the following result: He transplanted ten cherry trees while in bloom, com mencing at four o'clock in the after noon. Those transplanted during day light shed their blossoms, producing little or no fruit, while those trans planted in the dark maintained their condition fully. He did the same with ten dwarf trees after the fruit was one third grown. Those transplanted dur ing the day shed their fruit; those trans planted during the night perfected the crop and showed no injury from having been removed. With each of these trees he removed some earth with the roots. The incident is fully vouched for. and if a few similar experiments produce a like result, it will be a strong argument to horticulturists, etc., to do much work at night. I'roiMuratlnu Itoacn. It is always very desirable, with those who have a very few choice roses, to have some extra ones, either to give a friend or to enlarge the flower garden. To do this, select ripened shoots, well branched. near the ground (preferring those limbs that, if cut off, would make a nice bushy plant), and with a sharp knife hack or notch the under side, so that, when bent, it will come in con tact with the soil. These notchei should be five or six in number, through to the in-art or pitch. Now bend the limb down, and with the knife slit the limbs one and one-half inch up toward the end of the top, just below the notches, and be careful not to break the limb. Cover two Inches in the sandy soli and lay a brick or stone over it to keep It down. Keep the soil moist, and by spring the roots will have formed, often four and five inches long, whtn it can be easily removed. The most difficult roses root easily this way. —American Cultivator. Becip—. LKMON PUDDING —The peels of two largo lemons grated on sugar, or boiled ana beaten in a mortar, half a pound of sugar, the juice of a large lemon, half a pound of butter, ten eggs, leaving out half of the whites. Beat all together, and putting a puff caste in the bottom of your plate, hake it. GINORKBRBAD NUTS.— One quart of molasses, three pints of fiour, one pint corn meal, one pound of butter, half a pound of ooartr brown sugar, an ounce of allspice, a teaspoonful of cloves, a teaspoonful of cinnamon, and two ounces of ginger. I'ut the molasses In a mug. then add to it the hotter and sugar; have on the fire a saucepan of boiling water, in which set the mug nnd its contents. Let it stand until the butter and sugar arc dissolved. In the mean time mix the spices, all pounded, with the flour and meal. Afterward knead the whole together, and cut into cakes not larger in circumference than a silver halt dollar. Bake them about a quarter of an hour, but be careful not to let them burn. ROLLS.— One cup of warm milk, one teacup yeast, one and a half quarts flour, when this sponge is light, work in a well-beaten egg, two tablespoon fuls of melted butter, one teaspoonful of salt, half a teacuptul of soaa dis solved in hot water, one tablespoontul of white sugar, flour to make a solt dough; let it rise four or five hours be fore putting on the baking pan. TOMATO JAM.—Take nice ripe toma toes, pare and slice, and to one pound of tomatoes after they are cooked down considerable add one-half pound of brown sugar, one teaspoonful of ground cloves, two tablesooonluls of allspice, one pint of strong vinegar, and stew two hours. It is considerably better than any catsup with corned beef. Farming Under the Men. Every wlierc upon the coasts of Eastern New England may be fonnd, ten feet below the water mark, the lichen known as carrageen—the " Irish moss" of com merce. It may be torn from the sunken rocks anywhere, and yet the little sea port of Scituate is almost the only place in tbe country where it is gathered and cured. This village is the great center ot the moss bfisiness in the country, and the entire Union draws Its supplies from these beaches. Long rakos are need in tilling this marine farm, and it does not take long to fill the many dories that await the lichen, torn from its salty, rock bed. The husbands and fathers gather the mom from the sea, and the wives and daughters prepare it for the market. Soak it in water, and it will melt away to a jelly. 801 l It in milk, and a delicious white and creamy blane inange is the result. The annual product is from ten to fifteen thousand barrels, ami it brings $50,000 into Lbe town, which sum is shared by 160 fami lies. Its consumption In the mannfHc tore of lager beer is very large, and the entire beer of the country draws its sup plies from Scituate beaches, as the im portation frori Ireland has almost ceased. It is not generally known that the moss, as an article of food, is called "sea mom farina." del 'k-T . TIMELY TOPIC'S. The rate of increase in population of seventy-two cities in the United States daring the decade Is 34.H0 rer cent. Denver shows the maximum rate—ol4 per cent. The gnin in San Francisco is nearly half as much ns that of Brook lyn, nnd that of New York is 0,1)10 more than the whole population of San Francisco. The following is a table showing absolute gains in population: Now York, '234,200; Philadelphia, 107,- 07b; Brooklyn, 190,604: Chicago, 170.- 083; St. Ixmis, 04,136: Boston, 101.474; Baltimore, 00,044; Cincinnati, 80,014; San Francisco, 77,877; Pittsburg, 98,030. Total, 1,100,851. The Electrician says that the life of a submarine telegraph cable is from ten to twelve years. If a cable breaks in deep water after it is ten years old, it cannot he lifted for repairs, as It will break of its own weight, nnd cable com panies are compelled to put aside a large reserve fund in order that they may be prepared to replace their cables every ten years. The action of the sea eats the iron away completely, and it crum bles to dust, while the core of the cable may be perfect. The breakages of cables are very costly, and it is a very difficult matter to repair them in compaison with a land line. A ship has to be chartered at SSOO a day for two or three weeks in fixing the locality and in avoiding rough weather. One brenk in tho direct cable cost SIOO,OOO. "An Heiress Sent to Prison "is the hi ad line of a paragraph in an English journal, which tells how, at Durham, England, Alice Purvis Buddie, aged nineteen years, pleaded guilty to obtain ing three gold Albert chnins by false pretenses; how her counsel, in de fense, informed the court that the pris oner was well connected, and on com ing of age would be heiress to a consid erable amount of property; how he urged in mitigation of sentence that she had been seized with a sudden tit of kleptomania, and how the court could not overlook the fact that the fraud had been carried out, nnd notwithstanding ttie prisoner's position, ordered her im prisonment for three months with bard labor. The terrible explosion in South Wales, by which at least 118 lives were lost, adds another to that long line of disas ters which the inventive genius of Davy | and Stephenson has been powerless to avert. In horror this colliery accident approaches nearly to that of Lundhlll, 1 where, in 1857, 180 miners perished, or to the calamity at Hartley, when 808 men were buried alive by the destruc tion of the shaft. The responsibility in this instance may never be known, but there is a certain timeliness in tho news that the British employers and work- j people linve come to terms in regard to : the bill to determine the degree of lia-| bility in the event of accidents. In ac cordance with this agreement a system j of insurance may be established by em ployers which will prove of mutual ad vantage to them and the laborers Agricultural statistics show that in the last fifteen years the production ! of wheal and barley in the United States j tins doubled; that of corn, cotton and tobacco more than doubled; potatoes] nearly doubled; hay Increased more than one-third and oats about 140,00n,- 000 bushels. The vast increase in cereals is mainly dne to the rapid devei-1 opnient of the Western and Nortliwes- i tern States. During the present gener ation the corn-center has been transfer red from the South to the West, and the wheat-center from the Middle States to the far West. From PCOto 1878 the production of tobacco increased 100.000-1 000 pounds, mainly in the South; while Texas and Arkansas have been the chief contributors to the increase of two and a quarter million pounds oi cotton in the same time. In the former 157,000,- 000 were raised in 1870. and 500,000.000 in 1878; in the latter 118.000,000 pounds in '7O, and 318,000,000 j n "7a. A fmit-picker is the latesl invention. It is simply a ring or collar of sheet metal tour or five inches high and the same in diameter, with the upper por tion formed into half a dozen points like a crown, each point being covered witli an indiarubbcrdiskorahield toprc veut the fruit from injury by ontact. A socket in the side receives n light pole of any required length, and from the bottom of the ring or crown extends a light hose of cotton drilling, or other light material, to convey the trait down to the hand of the operator, or into a basket, wagon, or wherever desired. Standing on the ground the operator reaches for the fruit, the points of the crown passing on each side of the stem, and a light upward shove easily de taches the fruit and jt drops down through the crown and hose. The operator can hold the pole in one hand and the hose in the other, or the hone can be hooked to a small, movable bracket placed on the pole for that pur pose, thus allowing of handling the pole with both hands, or an assistant can manage the hose. Ever since the mutiny of 1857 the peo ple of British India have been disarmed, though generally in villages bordering upon a forest one or two inhabitants are licensed to carry a matchlock, which, although useful in driving off hogs, is of small value in tiger slaving. Tbia, therefore, becomes especially the busi ness of the magistrate of the district. Conseauently, when a tiger appears in the neighborhood, one or two officials pitch their camp in his neighborhood, but are often thwarted for weeks by his canning, and sometimes do not get him at all. A man-eating tiger Is abnor mally suspicious, and is off at the slight est alarm. When once a tiger has be come a man-eater he seems to care only for man, and perhaps on this account usually comes off rather short of food, and wnen killed seldom presents a pros perous appearance. Not one tiger in n hundred, however, is a man-eater; but once let one of this sort get near a vil lage. and it has often happened that the whole of the inhabitants will, after re peated losses, in despair, move en rrwuse to a neighboring town for safety. This has frequently happened in Central In dia, bat is now rare. A difference of opinion exists among European engineers in regard to the practicability of establishing a sea, as now proposed, in the great Sahara, the chief problem being, it would seem, bow to keep it up. It is argued that, sup posing the sea to be created by means of a canal, it will lose an enormous quan tity of water by evaporation every day, without the introduction of an equal volume of fresh water. Tho water evaporated being replaced by a supply coming through the canal, the whole body will Boon reach the maximum of ■Munition; and thus, the evaporation still continuing, a deposit of salt will be formed which, in time, must fill up the whole space of the interior sea—the salinity of the water being such that no animal life would be possible in it, and the ultimate result being simply the ac cumulation of an immense deposit ot salt. On the other iiand, the projectors of the enterprise claim that the presence of this water, and its evaporation, must produce copious rains, which will in large measure return into the sea, and thus not only accomplish the object re ferred to, hut also convert a sterile waste into a fertile country. William J. Carlin, an unassuming young man, ol Philadelphia, has fallen heir to a fortune of $4,000,000 left by an uncle in Australia. When he received a letter front a Ixmdon solicitor setting forth the demise of his uncle, and re questing him to prove his identity and thus his claim _to the inheritance, he went home to his mother. At first she was inclined to treat the matter as a hoax, but afterward recalling references to a brother which her husband once made during iiis lifetime, she advised the son to answer the letter. The result has been a continued correspondence and the probable settlement of the prop erty upon the heir shortly. It appears that the deceased left his home in Kng land when lie was twenty years of age, and was supposed to have gone to China on a merchantman, shipping as a com mon sailor Nothing was heard of him afterward, and lie was given up as dead. About fifteen years aao a letter was re ceived from him by the father of the boy who now comes into possession of his estate. That was the last heard of him until the recent advices of his death. Ilrlek Tes. In a recent report on the trade of Kin Kiang, China, Borne interesting facts are given in regard to the manufacture of and traffic in a product known as " brick tea." The quantity of this kind of tea exported from Kin Kiang during one year has amounted to W 1,333 pounds. There are three kindH of brick tea made. The first, or largest kind, is s cake of coarse green tea, which weighs, when thoroughly dried, about three and one half pounifs, and is about one foot long by seven inches wide. These cakes are made in a wooden mold while wet, and compressed by a lever press and after ward dried. This is all done by band labor, and affords employment to a large number of coolies. When dried, each cake is wrapped in paper and packed in strong baskets, each containing thirty six citkes. The cost of this tea per bas ket is about s'>.7s, and the annual ex portation amounts to from 15,000 to 90,000 baskets. The tea is sent Ironi Kin Kiang to Tientsin, from whence it goes overland through Mongolia for consumption among the inhabitants ol ; West and Northwest Siberia, in the province of Kazan, on tiie Volga, and by the Kirghis and other Scutas tribes. A cake of tea of the same form, but of a much commoner quality, costing about $5.25, made by the Chinese at Yang-lon tung, iti Hunch, is largely consumed in Mongolia. There being no copper cur rency in that country the Chinese bank ers in Mongolia keep stores of this brick t*a and issue it as a monetary medium. The second kind of brick tea is ol s finer quality, each cake weighing one and one-half pound, and being eight and one-quarter inches long by five and one quarter inches wide. It is parked in basket*,each containing eighty or ninety, and costs about $M.25 per basket. This kind is consumed in West and South west Siberia, at Kazan, and on the Araeor. The third kind of brick tea is made of black tea (lust, each cake weighing tivo and one-quarter pounds, and being eight and one-hnll inches long by six inches wide. It is packed in baskets contain ing sixty-lour rakes each, and costs $H per basket. It is consumed through out Siberia and in Eastern European Russia by the peasantry. It is made into rakes at Foochow, Kin Kang and llangkow. The yearly exportation from the tim e places is about 100.000 baskets it is stated that at Hangkow there are now four brick tea factories, two of which employ steam power. The em ployment of steam instead of hand presses will ultimately cheapen the cost of production, and at the same time a more satisfactory article will be placed op the market. Brick tea made in the old manner was not pressed sufficiently hard to enable It to successfully resist the rough treatment it received en route and frequently reached it* destination in a broken and crumbling condition, which detracted from it* value, buyers laying considerable stress on it* hard nes* and perfection. Story of a Wonderful Cure. The papers have been commenting on the " summer stories " published in dif ferent parts of the country, but the fol lowing from the Catholic Mirror, pub lished at Baltimore, ec.ipses anything that has vet appeared: Mr. James Pat terson, of tliis city, has a little daughter Katie, who is now nearly ten years old. Some five years ago she began to have a slight occasional pain in one ot her knees, which became a trifle enlarged, and her parent* took her to one of the leading physicians of Baltimore, who made light of the trouble, and rave some medicines that did the child no good. The enlargement increased, and when the father took her to another doctor, who also stands high in hi* pro fession, he pronounced it a case of white swelling, and he treated her for it. But he did not succeed in curing her. Finally, she was placed in the care of an eminent surgeon, who has sln3 the cathedra] and all the churches were thrown down, with any number of houses, and 4,000 or 5,000 persons were killed. Five year* since a violent hurricane prostrated nearly 5,000 dwellings, and caused the death of sev eral hundred inhabitants. People who love excitement are plentifully gratified there, as there is always movement in Zinila, generally of the earth. Tbe groun is occupied by two distinct races, the Malayan and negrilo, or Oriental negro, the latter resembling the Alfoors of the interior of Papua; and, as they live in the mountains, they are thought to be aborigines, driven back by the former race The Malays, divided into the Tagals and Bisayers, dwell in cities and on cultivated lowlands, and are either Roman Catholics (converts) or Mohammedans. The negrikis are many of them idolaters, though mostof them are nomadic, and without any creed. The Mestizos, mainly the pro duct of Chinese fathers and native mothers, are an important part of the population, monopolizing by their en ergy and industry most of the trade. The Chinese proper follow various call ings, snd generally prosper, returning home when they have made money, and never taking their wives with them, which is the chief cause of the Mestizos. There arc many large and important cities in the group, Manila, the largest, having 240,000 people. The islands were discovered (1521) |by Magellan, who, after visiting Mindanao, sailed to Zebu, where, siding with the native king in a war, be was mortally wounded, and died at Mitotan. Spain sent, some year* later, an expedition thither, under Vil la boa, who named tbe islands after tbe Prince of Asturias. subsequently Philip 11. The sole ports in ttie archipelago ofen to foreign vessels are Manila, Zebu. Loilo and Sual, the narrowness of Spain refusing to yield to the modern progres sive spirit. The Rising (feneration. We don't believe that Edisoo's boy teased his dad to invent some way for a hd to crawl under a circus tent without getting kicked. The small boy's digestive apparatus is undoubtedly the nearest approach to perpetual motion that tbe world has yet known. The immense number of fish worms consumed by small boys in tbe transac tion of business on Saturdays does not seem to have any effect upon tbe genera) stock. A person is expected to be thankful because be enjoys good health. Only a small hoy tan enjoy bad health, and then it must only be bad enough to keep him out of school. A Connecticut man invented a dentist's chair that could be adjusted to 4.G91 different positions, and a boy, wig occupied it one day, in five minutes broke it in trying to get himself into a satisfactory position. He was watching his neighbor's boy climb a tree, and he had a look of pain ful anxiety on bis countenance. " Are Sou afraid the lad will lad and break is neck P" was asked him. " No," be replied, " I'm deucedly afraid he wont." " Mr. P. T. Harnura enjovs a circus performance as much, watches the feats as intently, laughs at the clown as heartily, and applauds as vigorously as a boy. But when it comes to crawling under the canvas without getting caught the boy can give him points. A boy can imagine almost anything, lie can tug an old shotgun about all day without firing at a living thing, and be under the impression that he is havinga howling good time; bat ail attempts to indue* a boy to imagine that he is kill ing Indians when he is sawing wood have proved futile. You see that boy P How timidly be approaches every dark spot as be hur ries through the night! bow warily be watches every tree-box! bow he jumps aside at tbe slightest rustle! bow tretnb> ingly he meets every wayfarer! Well, that is the same boy who is just dying to go out West sad slaughter the pesky redskins. You wouldn t think so, to see him now; now would youP A fond mother wants to learn some way to tell how ber son will turn out. That's easily done. If he's wanted to go out and weed the garden, he will tarn out slowly and reluctantly and be two hours dressing. If he's called out to see a circus procession go by be'll probably turn out quick and hurt himself trying to come downstairs and put a boot on at tbe same time. A Bey s Ml range Pet. Not long ago. near the Temescal tin fine*, in this county, say* a paper published in San Bernardino, CaL, lived a man named William Jenkins. He had a small boy between two and three years old. It was observed for some time that this child spent the larger oart of his time at play near n Cile of rocks some distance from the oust. Tbe father took occasion one day to follow bis liule boy soon after be had gone to his usual place of resort, when, to hie horror, be discovered n large rattlesnake coiled about tbe child, who was feeding the poisonous reptile from his hand. Tbe father, sunns: paralysed with fear, secured s stick, and, watching his opportunity, threw t be serpent from the child and ki lied it. The boy was overcome with grief at tbe death of his pet, and would not be com > for Led for a long time. Tbe snake was of the red variety, and shout six fret in length. ; lion, and dom nut