■ FALTM, HARDEN AND IIOISEIIULD.
HMIIMI.
BAKKI> EGGS.—Kent up six eggs, one
Btablespoon ful flour, six of sweet milk;
■ melt ft piece of butter in the frjing pun ;
■•when hot turn the whole in and bake in
It very hot oven; to be nerved as soon as
■done.
I COOK HI) CAHKAGE.— Cut line AS for
■raw ; put into kettle and add water to
Book until tender ; then add one-half cup
Hof sweet cream ; one-half cup of vinegar.
BIN which mix one tablespoon ful of flour;
Hceason with pepper and salt to suit the
■taste; let it boil up and serve.
I COOKING CHICKENS.— A new way of
■cooking chickens is to parboil them and
■then drop them into hot lard, a la dough
nuts, and fry a few minutes. This will
Bgerve to nutke variety in the bill of fare,
but will not wholly take the place of the
Bffkvoritc method of browning in butter.
HjNice gravy may be made by adding milk
B and flour tothe butter in which chickens
ffipbave been fried.
I SNAPS. — Take one cup of molasses
■three-quarters of a cup of sugar, one
BTF.blospoon each of powdered cloves,
■cinnamon and allspice. Add these to
Ronc-ha'f cup of melted butter and beat
Bin two teaspoons soda, and flour enough
Bto roll. Roll very thin, cut out with a
H tin cutter nnd bake in pans in a hot
| RICE MUVEINS.—BoiI the rice soft and
■ dry. Take one-half cup of rice, stir in
Btliree spoonfuls sugar, piece of butter
Baize of an egg, anil a little salt. One
■ pint sweet milk, one cup yeast, two
■ quarts flour. Let rt rise nil night. If
Baour in the morning add a little soda
Bdissolved in milk, and bake in muflin-
Brings.
[ APPLE CUSTARD. —Two eggs, six
Btablespronfuls sugar, one cup cream;
Bp beat the mixture thoroughly and flavor
Batrongly with lemon, unless some other
K: flavoring is preferred. Then take a tea-
H cupful of stewed apples, mash them,
PIAMD add them to the other ingredients;
BpUake crust and bake same as egg cus-
Bpards. They are delicious.
I BAKED BEETS.—Beets retain their
Bjnigary, delicate flavor much better by
Bbaking instead of l>oiling; turn often in
Kthe pan while in the oven, using a knife,
I. a a fork will cause the juice to flow;
R whenj done remove the skin, slice and
Bceason with butter, pepper and salt, or
Bif for pickle slice into good cold vine
| MII.K TOAST.— Cut your bread rather
■ thick, about three-quarters of an inch,
■allowing a slice for each person; toast
Bit quickly before a bright fire to a rich
■brown; dip lightly into boiling water;
E butter each slice and pile in the bowl it
||| Is to be served in; for five persons take
R a quart of milk, boil with a teaspoonful
gjj of salt, and when at the full boil add a
Bbeap i ng tablespoon ful of butter, cream ed
Rwitii a light one of flour ; stir the milk
Bontil it is as thick as cream; pour over
■the toast nnd serve immediately.
Farm and Warden Xo(n.
F Cows and cattle at pasture need more
Hcalt than on dry hay.
I Never water a horse directly after
|j| feeding, especially if he is fed on com.
| if any one desires a plant which will
bloom through the winter, with no
nothing will give greater
ion than the double pink pe
tonlt.
B To allow a cow to fall off in flesh
gaßlkbile giving milk for butter-making is
■ serious mistake, which can be easily
BBETECU'D by the expert when the butter
ii placed upon the market.
B Bonedust is highly appreciated by the
BEmrlish as a fertilizer. They import
quantities of bones from Austria.
whatever substance contains ptios
Bbhntf IS earnestly sought for enriching
soil.
B As a rule the size of the seed will in-
the depth to plant it, starting
Hrilh the smallest at one-half of an inch,
as celery, pnrsnips, etc., while
and beans may be put one and a
Half inches deep.
■ A correspondent of the Rural Mcssen-
Hfer has had good results from the appii-
HBttion of lime, wood ashes and old iron
around the roots of fruit trees that
not doing well, thus restoring the
to a healthy condition and improv-
MBfl the quality of the fruit.
|A correspondent of the Rural Ne*o
I torker stops a cow or steer from jump
pjpg over fences by nailing a horseshoe
' \WSk one forward foot. This prevents the
from spreading, and consequently
the animal unable to spring.
Hfas is calculated to be very effectual.
BA writer in the Practical Farmer gives
BBe results of experience in saving
seeds. No general rule can be
down, each sort requiring special
Pansy seeds must be saved
they are quite green, as the pods
as soon as they turn yellow,
'he seed several feet. Plants
Bp phlox are pulled up when a fair
of the seed is ripe, and spread
■fen large sheets in a warm garret. On a
scale hand-picking may do. Pe-
and portulaca are treated in the
way, except that the portulaca
cut off, and they grow up
for another crop. Verbenas must
Hi hand-picked twice a week for several
A Bcrmonflli 1 ca Wdi.
■ All weeds should be cut, gathered Up
burned, both in the garden and in
|Bhe field—that is if they have been left
H ripen seed by neglect or by press of
in other ways. One is often so
with work that some things
B|v< to be left undone. Some thought-
Hps persons may charge an industrious
Bu with idleness or carelessness be-
Hfensc everything about a farm or garden
Bbnot In a perfect condition of neatness.
B&fe who work know bow it is ourselves.
BBjgd that some things cannot be done ss
well as others always. But if weeds
have cone to seed they should now he
burr.cd, and not go into the manure
heap. There was never a manure heap
yet so hot, unless it took fire and burned
up, as to kill weed seeds. A long con
tinued moist heat, as in a hot bed, oven,
will not destroy weeds, as may bo no
ticed in the vigorous growth of all kinds
from the manure of an old hot-bed. It
is rare that a manuro heap will heat
above 100 degrees, and we have found
tho soil to be 127 degrees under the sun's
heat the present season. And yet the
weeds grew all the faster for it.—Ex
change.
WelKhlnit Cattle by Mewnrt.
The following rules are given by
which the weight of cattle can he as
certained approximately by measure
ment :
Take the length of the back from the
curve of the tail to the fore end of tho
shoulder blade, and the girth around the
breast just behind the forelegs. These
dimensions must he taken in inches.
Multiply the girth by the length, and
divide by 144. If the girth is less than
three feet multiply by eleven; if between
three and five feet multiply by twenty
tfiree; if between seven and nine feet
multiply by thirty-one. If the animal
is very lean one-twentieth must be
added.
Another way is to take all dimensions
as before, in feet, and then multiply the
square of the girth hy the length, and
that product by 3.3(1. The result will
be pounds. If you desire to know what
an animal will dress multiply the live
weight by the decimal .605; the product
approximates to the actual not weight,
very closely.
Produce (*ood Mllkrri,
Extra milkers should be kept to breed
from, their milking qualities alone en
titling them to this preference. It is
quite as necessary to raise the calves of
good milkers, in order to have another
race of good milkcis, as it is to raise the
colts of good trotters in order to have
fast horses. Extra dairy cows are al
ways in demand. It is certainly to he
regretted that more care is not taken to
improve the milking qualities of our
cows, and it is also a source of regret
that so many of our farmers are in the
habit of disposing of so many of their
young calves to the butchers.
The Converted Pugilist.
The Rev. William Thompson, who
died in England a short time ago. spent
nearly a quarter of a century in the
prize ring, under the name of " Ben
digo," fiaving fought twenty-four times
before lie was forty. When he was
converted fie had three belts, including
one lor the championship. He had
served twenty-eight terms in jail for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
"Bendigo's" own account of his con
version is very curious. While in
prison he at l ended the rigular religious
services every Sunday, and first had his
attention attracted by the minister's
account "of the set-to between David
and Goliah." He became so absorbed
in hearing how " David the little 'un
floored the giant and killed him." that
he forgot where he was, and shouted
out " Bravo ! I'm glad the little 'un
won." When he got to his cell he began
to think seriously about what he had
heard, and could not avoid the conclu
sion that " somebody must have helped
David to lick the giant. At this point
in thennrrative, " Bendigo " continues:
" Weil, it was as singular as though
it was done on purpos:. The very next
Sunday the parson pr ached another
sermon, which seemed hitting at me
harder than the one the week be
fore. It was all about the three men
Shadrach, Mesach and Bendigo, who
were cast into the fiery furnace, and
who were saved by the Ixird from being
burnt. Oh, yes, I've heard about that
since; it wasn't exactly Bendigo who
was the third man, but the name
sounded like it to me, and I took it as
such, though I didn't say anything to
anybody. * If one Bendigo can be saved,
why not another?' I said to myself, and
I thought about it a great deal. Sunday
after Sunday I looked out for something
nbout me in the sermon, and there it
always was. After the one about the fiery
furnace came one about the twelve
fishermen. Now, I'm a fisherman my
self. Bless you! I should rather think
I was, one of tne best in England.
Well, after that came another sermon
about the 700 left-handed men in the
Book of Judges; and I am a left-handed
man. Of course I am. It was that
what beat the knowing ones I have
had to stand up against. Well, it
was this always going on that made
me make up my mind to turn as soon as
ever I got out." "Bendigo," or Wil
liam Thompson, as he was thenceforth
called, made good his purpose to lead a
better life. He began to tit himself for
a new work by learning bis A B Cs, for
his early education had been so neglected
that he oould not even read. He an
nounced, and carried out, his willing
ness to spend the rest of his days on the
platform, persuading men to embrace
religion. When he began his ministra
tions, about six years ago, he attracted
great attention, but the novelty soon
wore off, and be was permitted to con
tinue his labors in a quiet and efficient
way. His meetings at the start were
largely attended, especially by persons
of bis own class, who listened with rapt
attention to his story of his conversion
and hie evidently sincere exhortations.
The meetings were held at Cabman's
Mission ball, the Seven Dials, and at
other places in notorious neighborhoods
in London.
When people hunt for happiness they
onot want to find fault.
How (free II line ks are Made at Washing
ton.
" All paper money," said a treasury
official in conversation with a Chronicle
reporter a few days ago, •• both legal
tenders and national sec uritics, is now
engraved, printed and finished in the
bureau of engraving and printing at
Washington. Some years ago one-half
the note was finished in New York by
the Columbia banknote company, but
that has has been done away with for
sometime. Under the net of Congress
a building has just been completed for
tho sole use of the bureau. Before
moving into this they occupied a part
of the treasury department."
" What about the process of making
a greenback ?"
" The process of making the green
back and other government securities
is this: The paper is first taken to the
wetting division. There it is counted
and dampened. It is then delivered to
the plate printers, eaeli sheet being
charged to them. They again count it
in the presence of their assistant, who
is a lady, and give a receipt there
for, the assistant certifying that she
witnessed tho count. The receipts are
taken to the wetting division, where
they are compared with the hooks be
fore work is begun, and must agree. The
paper is then given the first impression,
which is on the back. This is done with
n hand press. Attached to all of these
presses are registers, which keep count
of each sheet of paper as it passes
through, so it is impossible for the
printer to secrete any without being de
tected. The note then passes into the
examining division, where it is counted
while wet and then placed in a dry box.
When perfectly dry it ii taken out and
again rounted, nnd the work examined
by experts, all of whom are ladies. The
sheets found defective in any way arc
canceled, and the perfect ones placed in
a hydraulic press, where an immense
pressure is given them. When taken
out they nre perfectly smooth. They
are then sent back to the wetting divi
sion, where they arc ngain dampened."
" What is the next step in their man
ufacture?"
" Well, they are taken to the printing
div ision, where they receive the second
impression, which is the black part of
the face, alter which they are taken to
the examining division, the dry box,
the hydraulic press, and hack again to
the wetting division, the same as at
first. They are takenl'from here the
third time to the state printing division,
where the third impression is received,
which is the large red seal on thcjface.
After this they are taken to th n examin
ing room, dried, pressed, counted and
examined, the same as on both previous
occasions. From here they are sent to
the numbering division, where they re
ceive the numbers that are seen on the
upper right corner and left center
Both legal-tender and national bank -
notes are printed on sheets, and
there are always four notes on each.
A Iter _ being numbered the legal
tender notes are taken to another room,
where the margin is trimmed from
the paper and the notes separated. This
is all done by machinery. After being
separated they are again counted and
placed in packages of 1,000 notes each.
This is also done by ladies, who arc ex
perts. One lady, a Mrs. Silver, wil
count I.ooonotes in five minutes. This
is the final count. They .are then ready
for delivery to the parties authorized to
receive them. The national bank note#
are not separated, but' are sent to the
banks that issue them in sheets of four
each, so that they may be the more
readily signed. The rules governing the
bureau of engraving and printing are
very strict. In fact, during working
hours the employees arc treated more
like prisoners than they are like ladies
or gentlemen. From 1,000 to 1.500 per
sons are employed there, the ladies out
numbering the gentlemen considerably.'
Thurlnw Weed's Adopted Daughter.
Thurlow Wood lately told a corre
spondent of the Indianapolis Journal
how he came to adopt a daughter. "It
was in 1845," he said, " while I was in
a barber shop in Albany, I heard that a
writing jnaster named Chapman had
been found dead in his room, and thnt
his daughter, aged two years, had been
alone with her dead father for several
hours. Chapman was a dwarf, of in
temperate habits. The little girl was to
be taken to the almshouse the next mom
ng. It was a sad case. I mentioned it
to my family at the tea-table, withont
manifesting any feeling, but I saw at
once that my wife and children shared
my interest, and when I was leaving the
house half an hour later my daughter
stood at the hall door, and said: ' I will
go with yon, father.' She was right in
her guess. Arriving where the waif
was temporarily lodged, I found the
child, and she came to me readily. I
asked her if she would go home with
me, and she spoke up, ' Yes, sir.' I re
member her sweet voice now. Well, we
took her home, and I never think of her
without feeling sure that a blessing went
into our house with that child." Mary
Weed, as she was christened, died at
the age of twelve. Mr. Weed subse
quently learned (that her mother be
longed to a respectable English family,
and that, before marrying the Albany
dwarf, she had been the betrothed wife
of a British army officer, whose death
blighted her hopes and sent her to this
country. Mr. Weed preserves a medal
which was awarded to Mary by the
American Institute, when she was only
I seven, for excellent needlework.
The time required for atrip front New
York to New Orleans in 1800 was
eighty-four day*; in IBSO it wm twelve
days eighteen and one-half hours, and
now it is sixty and one-half hours.
Dress Convention.
The animals held a convention the
other day, to discuss the subject of
dress. The elephant was called upon to
P r < side, partly because of his size, but
more on account of his being th,. only
animal with clothes enough to justify
his taking a trunk along on his travels.
When he called the meeting to order,
the bear inquired if he meant for them
to order clothes. If he did he hoped to
be measured first, as he was tired of
going around in his bear skin.
" We haven't got so far along as that,"
said the elephant, and the beaver
chipped in, and said that most of them
had their fur along, though some of it
like the elephant's, for instance, wasn't
worth a beaver dam.
The chairman, whose hide was too
thick too heed the sarcasm, said they
ought to decide what should be the
most fashionable for the coming season,
spots or stripes. The zebra spoke elo
quently in favor of stripes, but it was
evident from bis coat that he was not
sufficiently disinterested. The leopard
said he would have no objection to
stripes, hut it was a well known fact in
natural history that the leopard could
not change his spots. So he would
have to continue his present style, even
if it was unfashionable.
The ass remarked sadly that, hehad
been so long uncustomed to stripes
that he wouldn't leel easy in anything
else.
The horse said ho didn't agree with
the last speaker, for he had seem him,
in his obstinate moods, fairly rooted to
one spot.
This remark caused the ass to brays
up and ask the horse if he was heeled,
but mutual friends interposed and pre
vented a conflict, which would have
been assininc cases out of ten under the
circumstances.
A dispute arose between a white polar
bear and a black bear as to whether
white or black was more becoming, each
one contending for his own peculiar
color. While the former worked him
self up to a white heat, notwithstanding
a chunk of ice pinned on top of his head
in a towel, the latter grew blacker and
blacker over the controversy. "An ice
chap you are," said the black bear, "to
nttempt to set the faalijon among the
bears. How many votes do you Pole up
North there, anyhow?"
"We polar bear, and that is more
than you can do," retorted old whitey.
"All bears were white originally," he
continued, "but when some of your an
cestors went out of their way to eat up a
lot of children because of their aversion
to bald heads, they were afterward so
mortified about it tbatthey turned black,
and their descendants have been black
ever since."
"And where were your ancestors all
this while?" cried the b. b. " Running
to get away from one of the boys that
was overlooked, and turning white with
fear."
" It's a bear-faced lie," shouted the
w. p. b., "and I can lick you."
"Come within reach, and I'll cut
your northern lights cut, you roaring
borcaiia!"
" Be quiet, children," said the ele
phant. waving his trunk in a conciliat
ing way. " You must learn to bear and
forbear," and that lie should go forbear
If they didn't behave themselves.
A good deal of merriment was oc
casioned just here by the entrance of a
giraffe with a paper collar around his
neck.
"Necks, gentleman!" shouted a
monkey that once belonged to a barter;
" black yer hoots P"
The giraffe said he didn't want any
monkey shine* around him. and jeer
ingiy inquired if he was one of the miss
ing lynx, which remark 'gave offense to
an animal whose lynx-eye had been
watching the proceedings in a fur-tive
way. He showed his contempt for the
joke, however, as only a lynx-skin.
" Is this a jaguar I see before meP"
said the hyena, catching the spirit of
the occasion; and the lion asked him if
he was drunk or dressed up. adding that
he would appear to better advantage it
he wouldn't get hyena more.
"Lion, Macduff, cried the ass, who
had been letting on that he was a sort
of second cousin to the king of beasts,
and was reminded With cruel irony that
it wasn't the first time he had dressed
himself up in a lion's kin.
" One of your 'ears ought to know bet
ter than that," said the fox, playfully.
"What do sour grapes bring now P"
asked a weasel, who wasn't caught
asleep this time. ,
" They would bring all their chickens
in il they saw you coming," replied the
fox, which was a wee sell on the
weasel.
The president reminded them
they had entirely loet eight of the ob
jeet of the meeting. If they kept on
that way folk* would think it was an
assembly of newspaper paragraph ere
instead of a dignified body of animals
considering the subject of dress. After
some further discussion, it was resolved
that each animal continue to wear what
suited it best, and the convention ad
journed.— "Grit" in Cincinnati Satur
day Night.
William H. Balch, the Boston newr
paper man and detective, and for a short
time editor of the Philadelphia /Veis,
recently heard a lady say: "I wish some
one would invent a hairpin that would
stay in one's hair." And Mr. Balch,
being of an accomodating turn, went to
work and invented such a contrivance.
It is getting so now that a man can't be
a success hi) editor unless he can turn
his hand to almost anything. Some day, 1
when we get time, we shall invent a pin
that won't wound a young man's hand
when he puu his arm around a girl's
waist to prevent her falling oat of a
buggy or off a chair.— Worrit!own Her
ald.
BMJIMJKANM IfOKMEM.
The Wonderful Iteaulta of Feeding
llor.ee on Kentucky urmee.
A correspondent of the New York
Eveniwj lost, writing from Frankfort,
Ky., says: The first Kcntuckian lever
spoke to on his native heath was a coun
try druggist, who was busily compound
ing quinine into pills for the (relief of
the ague-stricken inhabitants of George
town. Ho saw that I was a stranger.
'• Kentucky is a great State," he sug
gested, patriotically. " And is noted— P"
I answered, inquiringly. " F'or three
ings." said he, " women whisky and
horses—blue-grass women, blue-grass
whisky and blue-grass horses." Bince
then I have met some thousands of
Kentuckians and have known some
hundreds intimately, out I have yet to
tind the one who has not at some time
during the course of our acquaintance
told me in some way or'other, boidly or
timidly, humbly or proudly, that Ken
tucky is noted for three things—women,
whisky anr? horses —blue-grass women,
blue-grass whisky, blue-grass hordes.
Hi ue grass, as an adjective, is in th
Kentucky dialect a synonym for the
superlative degree of excellence. The
natives use it in the same manner as the
names of famous vintag's of wine are
employed in t.ie south of France—as
terms of affection and respect. As a
noun, blue grass is the popular name of
a superior kind of pasture growth which
attains in Kentucky a peculiar degree of
perfection, and whose presence is the
source of no small part of the State's fame
and wealth. Poa pratensos is what the
botanist call it. June grass is the name
it bears in New Kngiand. The sobri
quet under which it appears in Ken
tucky owes its origin to the biue hue
which the grass assumes during its
flowering time in the early summer. Its
Presence is an indication of the richest
land. The same soil which, if left to
itself, will bear the blue with the
greatest success will, if cultivated, pro
duce huge crops of tobacco and lump,
the- most consuming of all farm products,
without any sensible diminution in
strength. When uncleared. trees of black
walnut,blue ash and black locust oove-r.it
to bear testimony to its virtue. A dozen
counties in Kentucky boast a soil strong
enou.'b to produce the biue grass in a
greate-rr less degr e-e of perfection. The
th'usand and one requisites for its ab
solutely perfect growth arc found com
bined in only three—Fayette. Woodford
and Bourbon—wbich together constitute
the fnmousblae-gross region of the State.
Favctte is the county which includes the
city of I.cxington and Asliand, the
home of Henry Clay; Woodford, the
one In which is Woeidhine, Alexander's
farm, the largest in the State; and Bour
bon is the source of the finest of Ken
tucky's exported cattle and the original
producer of Kentucky's corn whisky,
whose name it U-ars These three are
alike districts of exhaustless fertility,
and al'ke possess a subsoil of blue lime
stone which constitutes a perpetual and
natural fertilizer.
The blue gtass is cultivated as a food
for stock. It perfects the good qualities
of an animal and diminish!* his bad
ones. Kentuckians assert that it makes
horses go faster, cows give more milk
and la-ar more flesh, sheep grow .more
quickly and wear more wool than any
other food in the world. It is exclu
sively a pasture growth. It cannot be
cured for bay. It stands in the field the
year around, and the stock for the same
period feed upon it wi:h the greatest
relish. The fall of snow is seldom heavy
enough in Kentucky to cause them any
inconvenience. It acts rather as a gen
tle seasonrr, which the stock puff or
scratch away, to find tlie grass moist
and succulent on account of its having
been there. Usually, unless the winter is
very severe, the stock is kept
turned out the year around in the blue
grass region. Sometimes the sheep have
to be housed in a heavy storm, but slicep
nre not a popular or common product
with the Kentucky farmers. Sheep can
thrive on a land so much poorer that it
seems a waste of wealth to raise Ultra.
Before the war mules and hogs were the
great staples of the State, but the de
mand from the South, which used to be
so large for these in slave days, lias
grown too slim to allow the business of
their breeding to be general. Durham
ind Alderney cattle and thoroughbred
and trotting horses have in oonsequ< nee
become the almost exclusive produc
tions of this great stock country.
The comrarative possibilities of these
four brandies of the business is an in
teresting subject of discussion among
Kentucky stockmen. Probably the man
who raises a few of each and not too
many of any is the wisest. Popular
opinion, however, varies on this sub
'ect. Some years sgo there was a great
"shorthorn" fever, when everybody's
money went into "shorthorn" cattle.
The market was bulled tremendously
until the prices for a single animal ran
as high as $90,000 and even $30,000.
Then there was a grand crash, and the
survivors retreated to the breeding of
blood running horses, or, as they are
technically called, thoroughbreds.
Ux tli? kit tow '•"art Mc4tißg Vset
have come into fashion as a source of
profit, and Kentucky has surpassed lier
elf with her success. She has been
only a lew years in the buaimz. kit her
achievements are marvelous. Her im
provements have taken the line of in
ducing a natural trotting tendency and
an early maturity. It has yet to be dis
covered whether this means an early
decay or not. The fastest two-year-old
trotter in the world, 80-So. is n Ken
tucky horse; also the fastest three-year
old, Jewett, the fastest four-year-old,
TrUkett, the fastest five-year-old, San Li
ClnuH, and Maud 8., the fastest six-year
old, and with St. JuJk-n the fastest trot
tor yet produced anywhere, wm bred at
Mr. Alexander'* place in Woodford
county.
Such a record m this suggest* some
peculiar virtues somewhere which may
account for it. All these animals are of
the old-fashioned Kysdyk's Hambietou
ian pedigree, which has been common in
Eastern stables for two score years; and
yet at the age when hones in the East
are first jogged gently around the track,
that they may learn to submit to bit
and reins, these Kentucky animals are
making records away down in the
twenties such as were seldom made a
all before the State entered the business.
Maud 8. and St. Julien will afford ex
amples of what I mean. Maud S. is by
Harold, a fine, handsome young hone
but one who makes his first great
achievement as a sire in her. She was
bought on faith, as all young trotting
horses must be. In her five-year-old form
she changes faith to knowledge by mak
ing a mile in 2:174. St. Julien is by Alden
(Joidsmith's Volunteer. Volunteer is a
Kysdyk's Jlambletonian horse, standing
lin Orange county, N. Y.; of mature
years, and confessedly the most success
ful of living sires. St. Julien was bought
on faith, too, as well as Maud 8., but it
was not until his eleventh year that he
made a reputation by his famous effort
at San Francisco. In the case of the
Kentucky horse the owner had five
years of doubt; in the ease of the Eastern
horse he had eleven. If you ask a Ken
tuckian to give you the solution of such
a state of affairs, he will pull up a bunch
of blue grass from the ground, and,
holding it up with its delicate fibered
root, will say: "There is the solution."
And you, knowing no better one, will
perforce agree with him.
Terrible Tales of Famine.
The London Pall \f ili G tielU Bays:
The famine in Azerbaijan and the ad
joining districts of Asiatic Turkey. In
spite of various assurance to the con
trary. has not abated Letters from
Urooinieh, Tauris, and other planes
speak in harrowing terms of the suffer
ing of the people. Cases of cannibalism
have occurred in the neighborhood of
Van, where the famine seems to be the
most severe. At Khoi and other places
all the dogs have been eaten. This
speaks volumes when it is remembered
how repulsive an animal a dog is to
Mussulmans. The mortality, particu
larly among the Kurdish tribes of the
mountain districts is great. At Selmas
typhus has carried off many lives. A
letter from this latter place says: "The
streets are full of dead bodies, which
nre generally only buried when in a state
of putrefaction. People are afraid of a
plague adding its horrors to those of the
famine. Wheat cost $350 a ton, the
newly-harveited barley $150." A letter
from Uroomieh says: "I am very much
afraid of an epidemic disease declaring
itself here; the mortality is frightful,
dead bodies are left lying in the streets,
and then drawn to the burial ground like
carcasses of horses. The ensuing month
will probably be more terrible. The
Catholic mission has expended in relief
about $4,000 (ail that it had to dispone
of), the American mission about $30,000
—both sums drops in the ocean. The
Christians here have suffered less than
the Mussulmans. Ol the former, com
paratively speaking, very few have died
of starvation. The harvest will bring
some relief, but hardly any for the ut
terly destitute.who have not the where
withal to buy even one pound of bread."
Another correspondent says: "As the
dogs have mostly died or been killed for
food, the place it divested of its guar
dians, and is exposed night and day to
the attacks of the Kurds who come from
the mountains to plunder. We are al
most in a state of siege, and the firing
of guns never ceases at night; the roads
are very unsafe, bands of famished
Kurds plundering every traveler. Poor
villagers are robbed of their clothes,
which are hardly worth sixpence." The
Persian government does a little toward
lelieving the sufferings of the people;
for instance, at Uroomeih 9,000 Mussul
mans arc receiving daily raiioas of
bread.
Cared by Hasty Pudding.
Doctor Kadcliffe cared but little for
books, and yet he left $900,000 to found
the library at Oxford university, which
bears bis name. A friend, visiting him,
asked where his study was. Pointing to
a few vials and a skeleton, be replied :
"This is Radcliflfe'slibrary."
Though one of the most successful
physicians of bis day, he seemed to ig
nore physic. He onoe remarked, that
when he began practice be had twenty
remedies for every disease, but before
many years he found twenty diseases
for which be had but one remedy.
His reputation was due totheanme
qualities which command success in all
departments of life—namely, quick
penetration, good sense, declaim and
fertility of expedients.
He was called to a gentleman ill of the
quinsy. Seeing that neither en internal
nor an external application would be of
any service, he ordered a hasty pudding
to be made. When it was done, his
own servants having oeen instructed as
to their behavior, brought it to the pa
tient's room.
"Come, Jack and Dick," said the
doctor, as the pudding was placed on the
table, "eat as quickly m possible.
You've had no breakfast this morning."
Both began, but on Dick's dipping his
spoon twice into the jmddiag to Jack's
onoe, they quarreled. From words
they went to throwing spoonfuls of hot
pudding nt each other; then handfmk.
The patient was so much amused that
bs nearly hurst with laughter, and
burst the quinsy and he recovered.