Items of Interest. lomonat —Senator Barn* in• .4 bas-twehili :e Moue are tenSliti • " *hid* ru the State. ;,,,, l r ch is said ilia' . A ti g an owns 150,000 acres of land in lowa. —The 'Normal Schools of tnialitate re ceire 1140,01 a year each from the State. --- -.Therefixe now sixteen broom facto ries managed by Chinese in San Francis- co. - —A undatio barber has eloped witk pretty and tolerably wealthy white gir of Latuutstei, Ohio. —Weattkit -reported that Xeyt York citillP!Oc4o9l4oQo for suurmnatitlC*l t6opew,uotv(ordfink. it g Ova* yeartharok bsirsi:_bpen twenty eight lintarders ist,fhtsbngeabd vicinity and not a single execution. —Mm. Mary Myers,--a pretty young 'in flow of Pittsburg, boreewbipped Joseph Illanebar4, of,tbat place, for alanderiug • he'r, _ . s ---Sixty-fenr and thirteen recently Opp ed vicinity of Kingston, this State, and the law refuses to dissolve the mar fiage.f; —X little daughter of Mr. .Plante, liv in Oil City, is seriously ill from blood poi setting, the result of wearing colored stockings: _ - This money received Ind deposited in. the Treasury oiracemultot " consetetice," during tbe lesn, finalists - amounted , to **,661.130. —The richest mine in New Mexico, now= v,- ( isth $3,000,000, was originally sold for $1 in silver, a little 'op dust and an old. revolver. —ln England a telegraph, message of twenty words costs; only twenty-four cents. In Switzerland the rate is 'half a cent pci• Word. —lt is stated that a party of Mormons _have settled in Aneera township, (near Camden J.,) who "have announeed their int:cation of practicing polygamy.` —Tbecitilt upon which Garfield AIM while on tbe.gtand stand, March 4th, it is said, is the same that was used 1.7 Wabhingtonin New York at his inaugu • 'on as first President. • —Seere,tary Blaine is 511--"Seervitary Windom 54; Postmaster James, 50 ; torney-deneral Mac Veagh, 48 • Secretary Kirkwood, 6.3 . ; Secretary Robert T. Liu- coin, 37 : Secretary Hunt, 52. —Two children, one seven and the oth er three years of age, were fatalfy-burned; • near Johnstown,- by the explosion of a can of oil with,which they were playing during the absence of their mother. —Mr. Joseph Wharton), of Philadel phia. has given #150,000 to the Universi ty of Pennsylvania to found a department of finance and economy, to teach young men business theories and principles. —ln Rungao and 'mill; European countries, alumAanited lerther, said to be equal to bark-tanned, is used to a consid erable extent fox harness. - process - 1 of . ..tanning is yery simple, and requiresl but twenty-foul hours for its ebinpletiOn.' gang of tight young thieves, seven (A' whom arc under seventeen years old, and-the eighth who is twenty-four, hired by the ethers at $1 a day, were captured by the Chicago police, \Vedneaday nights while they were removiug plunder from.* freight car. - _ —lt is reported that horse leather has been officially adopted. as the material of which the booth issued to sailors of the German navy are in future to be. made, experiments in the use of this , material during the paid eighteen months having been so satisfactory_ that calf-skin is to • be abandoned: - - - 2 —According to thebest authorities, the quantity of salt -contained in - the sea - amounts to - four hundred thousand billion . cubic feet, which if placed in a pile would form a mats 140 miles long, as many hroad, , and as many high ; or, otherwise disclosed, would cover the whole of Eu rope, irdands, seasand all—to UM height of the summit of Mount Blanc 'which is about 16,000 feet b$ b. —President Gartfeld, at his =reception the other day/jive the nrosOrigorous handshaking th an elderly, plainly-dm:B ed, motherly-looking 'woman Wearing a gray woolen 'shawl and au old-time bon net, innocent of feather or hewer. She said but a few words, and was evidently • a stranger; but perhaps the honest face and almost homespun attire spoke to his heart, for his heart beamed with the kind est of smiles, and she received the hearti est greeting of any one. —General Walker gays that the• centre of populatioanf the 'United States, which is now being computed ‘ will be -found to be very near Cincinnati. The centre of population ten years ago was about forty eight miles east of Cincinnati, or rather north of east. The large increase in the Southern States would give the centre a slight Southern course, and the growth of the great West would probably take it westwardly,- about fifty miles. These causes acting together will throw the cen tre of population very near to Cincinnati. —For some years past, in the naiet vil lage of Montrose, at the head of the Nar- , row Gauge . Raulrdad to Tunkbannock, has been transactpi an immense business in making a variety of toys.. The trade was commenced by Charles M. Crandall; who ' was lately in company with the Orange Judd Company. That partnership is dis solved,and Crandall and W. It. Beckwith are now carrying it on. [lt is related that a party not a thousand miles from . Montrose, declined buying toys unless they came from over the water. On get ting an invoice from Germany, and sub mitting it to a close inspection, it turned - out that the "choice foreijor toys" were • made in Montrose `.] —Pittston Gazette. —Some idemof the extent of the new Barnum and London Consolidation may be gained from the following : There are 000 men, women and children on the pay - roll. In the stock are 800 draught horses, ' .20 trick stallions, 20 performing ..elg 7 phants, 20 camels , 30 Shetland pomes, golden cbariots,- - 100 vans, cages and vehi cles, 3 bands, eallipea, 18 jubilee singers, 2015tu Indians, i 5 open dens of performing ' wild animals, the whole forming a proces sion of nearly two miles in length. The show will be transported over the coontry - - by „three trains of cars, . owned -by the combination." The tents' will cover three acres of- ground, stud the interior will be illuminated by electric lights. *- - '—ln New York there• are about s'o k-veaders of sawdust, having a capital of 4200,000 invested,, and doing a business amounting to.more than *2,000,000 annu ally. Forty years ago the mills were glad to'hate sawdust carted away ; twenty-five years ago it-could be bought for b 0" cents a load, but the price has increased, and - now it brings 0.50 a load at the mills. It is used at the hotels, eating houses, greceries, and other business places. It is' wet and spread over floors in ord er to • make sweeping cleaner work,. -,=Lib- . err use a great deal about pipes and buildings to deaden walls and floors. So da-watertnen and packers of glass and small articles of every 'kind • pee f It, and doll* and 8006 living creatures ate more or lass stuffed with it. —A syndicate of New York 'real estate speculators offers to pay 11S;090;000 for Trinity graveyard, "which stands at the head of Wall street on Broadway. 'lt is , tbe most valuable property in New York, slid covers nearly two acretain which sev eral thousand bodies -lie.. No, one has. been buried there for' many years,- and • the proposition is to LeiXIOV• the vermin). ble bones_ to a less valuable locality. Among the graves is - that of Alexander liainilton. A similar proposal was shade - several years ago, when Rev. Dr. Higbee, tha niaor-of Trinity, denounced it in a sermon upon "The, niercenary spirit of the age which thus tempted man to dis turb the sages of their fathers and'motb 's ors for the bake of gain, and to exchange the worship of God as. it were,- for the worship of mammon. o —The Hazleton &Write states that the indications point toaetions - trouble among the working damsel of this State at no, distant day, caused mainly by the impor tation of the Hungarians and - •ltallans, who are arriving in this and other sec - thins of the coal and iron regions in such, numbers as to cause sedans apprehension among thorightfal - American birs that • they will - berevontnally ruined' by coming in with cheap labor. The brawny Hungarians are • diseazding the harp, ViOlitl and organ, and taking up the - *hovel, pick and wheelbarroir to work in many places for fifty cents a day. The ' I-macme coal fields are not the only places affeoteu by this growing evil, but from all --the-industrial centres of the State mite the mutterings of 41100DIZOL trent tit" working classes, an& something ought to be done to avert the unwinding trouble before it is too hit* • EMU MIMI Vicbicd. DISCOVIIMII UP LYDIA E. PINKHANES VEGETABLE COI9:POMTD. The Positive Cure ' For all Female Complaints. To, PMWiratiON a, it., ratllP idCnlCar ite6llllllte VOWlltabie properties that are burralens to the meet der: - ilbellltioWndenterldbel tbo teetito.ottlala Cern ,' voila idirbiekeldde4ditittlet.lltlettieedieSe . sad 1,7 obelittoisse Isitmetbeled: tibietyirte'stinents. e drilla. pernsaaantratuSeffected.ssithisnrll/. tee. l i nsa, ttierto, ay+ to4AII Ise• • .4tinnaelnind bp' ea beet 04 - 44:Ato ( be coautry. It Atli ears entirely the worst U.,rat fain* --- nt the nterus, Irnerrtbres, irregular and yadatid Ns win satia.lo%-arittaTrwables, lat'avanattan rani neerattors, ni ? oding.t. all 11 , 7 ,1 act an - a -s and the ea*. repeat splnal iAlraeas, and is as:eel:4ly adapted to the Clumgebf We. 111 , 0111 dtaarksv and erket town (rota the uterus la An early state a devehn.rsesh, rut tendency to wars-rears hnUttgl there 1, chocked nen needlly by its us , . — La fact it L - . 1 iptared to 1r the great. 444-engl-hesttcWdf that bus ever b , •eotar`s Bond. • law" - Ceisp • , Csinatimuts. • ' Walnut. • constsblere Seto/6 ' Aztieltsot 1.111431erw. Rent as Ausst. ,--- C , oostabber Salts. Collectors Wes. Zumnitleo. Samoa. • I :Battle Creek. ilnaideas. giassitsge. PRICES , NEW STYLES MANUFACTURERS .OF SHINGLI MACHINES, Field , Rollers and Plow Points, L. B. POWELL, •ORAWTOR PA., L. B. POWELL Seventeen. re., Sept. IS. Ina L IST OF. LEGAL BLANKS Altatilos for Lleente. • Sala far Liman. 1110_64seguenti 111411!Irtraliratilsal. thilentlita DOW' in admit that meet dimwit are anal! by di ordered Elder,* or Liver. and that It theme great origami are tent in a perfect condition. beetiSk will be the WARNER'S SATE RIDYIEY AND LIVER CURE Is made front a Itletryie 'trinket Leaf OP-RARE vALtyr, and, la a POW.TIVE remedy for the following troubles Pain In the Bach, • Severe Headaebis, 'Dizziness, Bloating, Inflained Eyes, - A, Tired Feeling, Night Sweats, -1-4 I L Pains in the Leiner Part of. . the Body; Palpitation ot: the Heart, Jaundice., - Gravel Painful Painful Urination, Mala . rial Fever, Fever and Ague, ' And ail diseases eauied by the Kidneys, Myer or rinary Okpalb being. out at order. It IaaBAYE and VKIMA IN cure for all Ye ale dirneultles,aucb as _ Leueonhora lellncarnation of the \Vomit loallir4 of the Womb, Ulceration o the Womb, . ft .111 control Sind regulate menstruation, and W an excellent and safe remedy for temales ‘ during PITT, Zood Purifier It is unequaled; for lt cures the organs that ataltit the blood. For ' • Boils, Carbuncles, Scrofula; White Swell ing, Salt Rheum; Poisoning by Mer cury or any other, Drug, it is certain in every ease. • For Ittcontinenpe, Impotence, Pains in the tains, and all Similar Diseases, it is a\ safe, sure, and quick cute. , It is the oat, • !known remedy that has cured .right's tinsesise. As, a proof of th e parity and worth of this Great . Natdral Ite.medY, osti the folio. UM CAIEMICAL ANALYgiS ff. A. LATTINON4I. 1.11. D. L. 1.. D., rirofessoi of_Cheusistry In the I.ltilversay of Rochester, N.Y.. knowing Die popularity and merit of ° W.titlrlittra SAVE Kustegy ASO LlV*llCl.7lM,witeratborougb Chemical Analysis, hav furnished the following statement 11 - NIVSRSITV OF 'ROCHESTER, CHZMICAL LABORATORY. ROCHESTER, N. Y.. Jan. B. UR% Mr. 11. It. WAitNIK has placed In my possession the feminist' of the medicine manufactured and sold by him under the general designation of. WAIEINEICS. SAFE. Itilt.N LIVER CURE. I bare Investigated his processes of man ufacture, whiCh •are conducted with extreme can. and according to the beat methods. k bate AIM taken from his laboratory samples of ati the Mute. slats used In the preparation of this medicine, and twoo critical examthattme find them, as well as the medicine into which they enter, to be entirely free from polsonouS or deleterious substances. S. A. L ATTIMORE. Titlit remedy i;hich has Gone such iroi,ders, as put up la the LARGEST SIZED.I3O.XTLE or any tuedtelue upon the market, :11111 Is sold by Dr..fg- Mats and all dealers at 81.244 et bottle. For Diabetes enquire for WARNER'S SAVE DIA BETES CLTEE, It be POSITIVE remedy. • IL H. Wang & CO, 11:;che.ster, N. Y NATHAN .'TIDD, Dealer Li - TITTSTON;IWILIqS,BARRE . AND . LOYAL_. SOCK COAL. Lowest pitCes'fBr cub, ()Mee and yard foot of rtne.street; Towanda. July i 5, it4o. GET YOtR. HAIR' CUT A.Nu SHAVING, AT ,THE VRinsirci: ilteouisies SIIAWNG .PARLOR. • itirwa study to please.. • - • . D. V. STEDOP.,Pr9re Towanda. Pa., July 15, 1879. ' • • GAMBLEit; CURRIER, . lianufacturersand Dealers La CABINET .tri."IO.:STIME,. SUBISER VALVE PUMPS, &c: Bisgar ltun. DradtordEounty, P War., Pa, 01141ORL81 CO, • 'PENIONS, INOREASE. ON' PEN6.IOIO; . , Ind all other classes of .cialtps for Soldiers and ioldlers` Heirs, prosecuted. Addresswith stamp. . . • . ' . GILMORE & CO., .. . . • , . Washington, D. C. $ lOutfit furnished free, with full lip .. structionf for conducting the !most profitable business that anyone can engage In. The business is so easy, o learn, and our Ins:ructions are so simple, an dalu, that any one min Make great profits front the very start. No use Catr fall who is willing to work. Women are as successful as men._Buys :and girls mn earn large sums. Many have ade at the bust les's over one hundred dollars In a single week. nothing like It ever known before. Alt who'engage ire surprised at the ease and rapidity with which hey are able to make, m ney. You can engage In his business during year spare time at great Flint. You do not have to Invest capital In It.. We lake ill the. risk. Those Who need ready money should write to us at once. All furnishedlree. Addiess f atilt & Co., Augusta, Maine. Oct. 28, • H t l w h li nl en r ri fr go e ide b trcr il t i l sittl in in ' o l ff n e ot r4 from your door. Those who dways lake advantage of the good chances for asking money that are offered., generally: become Wealthy, while those who do not improve . such - , chances remain In poverty. We want u3STIT men. *omen, bOys and_glrls to work for us right in their .wn , locallturs. Tice • business will pat toorli than en times ordinary wages. We furnish ati espen •lve, outfit and ail that you need, free.• 2 4 ,10 one who engages- falls to make • money very rapidly. Pon can devote your whole time to the work. or ~:lyour spare' momenta. Pull Information and .11 t hatis needed sent free, Address STINSON & M., Portland. Malne. • Oct. ;4 Mid. Frailty HOUSE, . - CORNEB RAIN IIiWASHINOTQN S;(ItEETB litealiat sit bdors. Terms toTg:tbe times. Large t atAble attar - wit. falliltr,4'aOratzToa. • Tawaoila. July WIT itARIc T t Located la' - 9ILIDLEMAN; ( IS BLOCK; Bliri)dit 'tiTBEILT, AND FIEESK AND SALT MEATS, DRIED),BEEP, FISH, POULTRY, GARDEN iVISIATABLES AND' BERRIES IN • t! TRUE SZA.SOg; ikc. - . - .. ir An dad iits dettinared tiles of t a rp. •, _ : 1 4.4 . • .4, _ • arta a Dxl7olt. ''''cllursille.T.tark: k ... .) . : • - Teripsataa. GE em Mstabllshed 1866.1 FINST WAND, : TOWANDA TA OM MYOR k DEVOE Keep on band, INTIN.G AT Tat -N. IV! °MCP ~ ; ::.,,,.;-/- I , i - , ., 4 ! - . , r'=- 1 •!' '.-...-') Ell „ 11MAZZIPO siswisso lt arns ATENT i Yalleibls Iran oubi Woo•I &suit Milled PLOWS are offered to the Farmers of the , emu:Ml.lpr the earning lesson wftb :Deny valuable improvements. THE VTIAItD Is aro stronest inflame( dint : bhp plow Intim omrket. THE Iffrikatt ill the hest - Mr genera; pronto' work; in both sod sad stubble. • • - Tan tITZAILD hes the elittplert and most com plete adjustment. for. 'ping . two or three ; horses THE WI MITI to the besiritrw -extant for Carl clay and stony wound. - TEE IiTIATID - Ovals 'ell other. chilled 'Bowe for eteenimr in loose end adhesive soils. THE VIA= arty* be excelled for Light of Draft. •,„ . Our Malleable Iran Beam le the arly pate. meal adjustable metal team made: Is gasturteed agamst bending or breskln.t. Is perkvtly adjustable lot 'A or 8 hopes; aver MOO fa nlO,. ana MOS cgig a thousand failed. Oar Satter% Wheels and Maalles ere all adjustable. 'Our emluti4ortuitr. exec! an Gillen for fit:filet' Chir Plows Are wan:tilted to any reaswiable WV- ,It you are going to buy a now no . tv, arre Lc ive the WUXI? a . • Having full faith, from past experience, that all that is claimed , above ic•r the WI Altl, PLOWS.is true, I challenge se vere test trials with any °Mir plows what ever. Agents wanted in townships where , I now have none. • For circulars, prices and other particulars apy to the sub scriber, • • : , . 4 ones. Towanda, Mones. Towanda, Po.,'llarch 3, tsar. Plebicat. - WILL IT CURE ME • ti Said s was. whose woeltegonercounteriaace and broken.down euustltutitia plainly showed tracen disease—a sufferer with 3diervons Dtspeirsta.• iu whose stomach the most delicate worse, !ay lige lead. 'Refreshing sleep and quiet nerves were strangers. and he despaired 6! ever rtilig well. • 'e sulrlsed him to take Sinimms Liver Regulator Which be did, and in a short time was not only relievedhut. cured. • Reade, if you are suffering with Dyspepsia or Liver Disease in any form, d slot salt until the , disease has taken a fast hold upon you. but use the Regulator when the symptoms first show thews 'itelyes. It has relieved 'tarot.) 23111L.rjug. MONK LIVER. REOVl.A.rtift Is not an alcoho still:inlaid, but a PURI:I.I tii.t.F.TABLE EDT that will cure when everything else falls. It la a faultiesisfamily medicine, Does not disarrange the system. Is no sloteol drastic pure. but as tute's own remedy. The friend of everyone, and will not disappoint you. A single trial will con vince you that It Is the elk apeat. purest and beat Fatally Medicine In the world, WOK the recovered dyeptiptica. bilious sufferers. vi , ftturiol fever and ague.' the mercurial disea‘ed patient how they recoveredtheir - health, diet:flu! spirits and good uppetite-i-they will tell you by taking StMSIONS LIVER tEtirLATOR." - ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR Si AIMONS . LMtR - 11Y,O LIATOR. Original and. Onnuine prepared:nut) , by J. K. ZEILII do OM, PHILADELPHIA., - itibLD . .ZY ALL 11111TOGIST6 -HALES ' - 0 ,1 0 'VEGETABLE SICIUAN ro Motedl4 l l HAIR RENEWER. This standard article is compounded with The greatest care. • . . Its Miters, ara al,wondeitul and satisfactory AS ever. • It restores gray or faild hair 'to Its youthful Color.' ItrentOes all eruptions, Itching and dandruff ; antkthe seulp by Its use beeoines white and cleat). • u.y -its tunic proptutles t . restores the capilUk glands to their. nortnal:migoi, _presenting bald nes., and weld:n i g the hair gro4, thick and strong. ' gin . dressing nothing has been (timid so effectual or desirable. •` , • • • • Dr.„.A. lidtilsS ‘ State Assayer of ..Ilassaelp3 7 .. setts: 'agile( " I codskier it the 4rst prepara -1 gun for its intended purposes." BUOCINC HAM'S _.D'Y E; FOR TIM WHISKERS This .e)egant preparation may ixt relied on to change ,the color of the beard' from gray or any otriefullitehirutue mmde, to brown or black, at di,- eretfon. It Is eabily applied, being In our prepii;•a rive, mid riidckly awl cil. dually produces seper riadeUt tutor nbirlAsill neither rub nor trash off. 3f.A.NEIrAt.:I - 111.XD BS R. P. HALL . 4•4 60 1 .,,Nashus, N.H. eligby su Druggists and dealers In Medicine. PiSterfalltolls FACTS = FACTS • It is a conceol t ed fact that J. K. BUSH ." • IS SELLING CLOTHING! CHEAPER THAN-AT ANY ' OTHER ESTABLISUMENT IN TOWANDA , 40ROUGHt HIS STOCK COMPRISES •EVERYTHING IN THE LINE Men's , CLOTHING -And Boy's, \ s . AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS OVERCOATS LOVER .T.H.42t EVER BEFORE OFFERED IN THIS MARKET. J. K. BUSH, Bamos - STREET, TOWAtiDA. GGreat chance to make Money. oL - D We sown to t need a person in t ake übaeriptlone for for the Wiest. cheapest and bbst, Illustrated tunny publication In the world. Any one can become a suceeesful agent. -ere elegant works/4 art .gfeen tree to subscrtt.ers. The priee le so low that almost everybody subscribes. One agent reportx taking us subscriber" kr a day. A lady Aljelli rePetti making °veep* clear profit In ten days. All who can make money test. Ton 4e.1) &VCRS an your tionsto the Imminent, or only.your spare time, You need set be away from home over sight. - Yon eau do It as wellarn others. VIM directions and terms free. It you want prolltAble work send us your address at ones. -IS meta nothing fairy the yo ur' new. No one who engage, tails to , make t .• Address GNOMIC IlTiltloll , &I t% - • COMM Mil • Milton-13. Ts% missionary in ;span, gives, in the Methodist, the following account of Japanese fisrm- The timers in Japan - seem to °p aste on a small scale. 1 All the laui belong to the government, and all have to , pay a ground rent. • Wheat, barley f ye, and buckwheat are grown in rows; the weeds being kept out by hoeing. !t'seems strange to see all `their grain growing in rows, but no doubt, good crops are thus produced. Rice is the chief product of Japan. The earth nearly everywhere is black, and the- black soil of the valleys, when' Cultivated and made to hold the water from the neighboring hills, makes , good rice-fields. The soil is broken by maiinal labor.. Men go into the mud up to their !nees, and with a long-bladed hoe _turn the earth over. Horses are used' to liar row it down, and when ready, the rice plants are set out by hand; The rice of Japan is very One, and the :Japanese know how to cook it. With them it is 'the principal article of food—a little rice, with pickles and tea, often constitues .the meal. The people do not know bow to ; make bread, but seem to be very fond of it when they can get it of -foreigners. They hive boar which they use in various ways in the simplest kind of 'cookery. .I noticed—in_ (samba to this place (tfakones a mountain town forty-five miles froth Yokohama) that at some of, the inns, instead of tea , they gave us a drink made of pound. ed wheat. Potatoes, Sweet potatoes, egg,.„plants, corn, melons, cabbages. onions, and turnips are also grown. and other vegetables, .the names of which I do not know, and never saw in America. I think all the vegeta bles groin in New Vork can be cur ttvatt.d 'beret Of, fruits, we have peaches, pimps; oar ges,Straw berries, pears, and persimmons, also Jigs., Dairy Products At the recent annual ineetin6 ,e , the International Dairy Fair Also elation one speaker claimed that the dairy interestof the.country exceeds the wheat interest, in / money value. The corn 'prodpetibn of 1679 was worth $500,000,000, ,but the exhus tion of the soil. necessary to its pro duetion represented . tagt• less than $lOo,OOO,OUu, or twenty, per cent. of th 4 selling value. -Wheat and corn depleted the soil of its natural wealth, and,:notwithstauding the vastly in creased acreage devoted. to, these crops, last yea there was a decrease. of $26,000,000 .in the total market sales. On the other band, dairy products not only- made up for the 1 impoverishment of the soil by Corn lu-1,84,, but' added $10t),000,000 to its valtie..,'; Colonel Sprague. of Ver mont., one of the Vice-.President74ind President of the Atuerican • Agricul tural Association. said*. had a farm in Vermont of 112 acres, which nine,; yearS - ago would winter only three i and a half head of cattle, on which ; he now winters sixty-nine head, and t bis ambition is . to : winter one bun i I tire(' head. Vermont produced more butter:and clieese•than all the rest of :Sew England combined, although it lis not allairy State. Both the qiial-1 1 ity and quantity of production have ± been so improved that ,it single eow has produced 8 . 0 pounds of butter . ~. . in a year, although the aveiage is_ --OP.-- twining in Japatv 100 pounds per cow per annum, and" tnOst, tows ruo their owners in'debt. Hodsebold WHEN anything- is. accidentally made too salt it can be counteracted by adding u teaspOouful of vinegar and a. teaspoonful of bug:ir.. Cowin' make tlie,miStalic boiling things too ithleh." .'.After reaching the. boiling point meats can .be made -tender by letting them merely simmer,. 01'TERS Si . II:IZZLEI).---PUL a good lur.v-of butter, some Salt and pepper on a platter, and, set% in the oven ; :arain the liquor - from the ) oysters, then put a fe!iv , ata: time in a "warm spider and shakeionstantly until the oysters are• puffed out; then pour oil the platter ;- serve with bits of toast'around the platter. • To CLEAN Xt CA t 5 A ST E. Take a little vinegar and water and wash the mica carefully with a soft cloth ; the acid removes' all stains,, and it a little pains is Laken to clean the corners, and to wir.3.thent dry the mica will look as widd.as new. If the stove is very, hot tie the cloth to a stick and so . eScape the danger . of burning your hand. • DKr I PUT lTOEs.—lvenj ng„ of Rochester, has 'been=,-largely en gaged:in the businesg of supplying the\ ~North-western army, and his practice is td first. slice the pt tatoes, then put th(ini is a steam „Dux thr. e or four tainvtes • to keep - the stare'l in, and then subject them to drying. If-not placed in the steam- box, "the starch would ceme - out. When used, they are soaked, and are then like fresh potatoes: . - -s 4b Faim Life. A writer in 8 - 6 - Miner's Mayazine asserts that - the farticr, having' the most; sane and natural" occupation, ought, to --,find life pleasant. Ile alone, strictly - speAing, has a home. -How can n man take root and thrive without land ? Ile writes his history upon his field. lioW many ties, how many resources he has bisfriend.. ; ship with his cattle, his team, his dog, ' his trees; the 'Satisfaction in his growing crops, in his improved fields; his intimacy with nature + . With bird and beast; and with the quickening elemental 'forces; his cO•operations with ihe.clouds; sung seasons, - heat, wind,,rain and -frost. 'Nothing will take the' various. social digtencipers with the city atid artificial life breed, out of a man, like Istming—like di rect and loving contact with the soil. It draws out the poison. Itliumbles hitt. ; teaches him • patience and rever ence, and restores - the proper tone to his . system. • Cling'to the farm, make much of it, put yourself into stow your heart. and your brain upon it, so that it shall savor of you an i radiate your, virtue after your day's 'work *done. !.A.rit . You TEttl—Why do cows sitdown torrest -the same, as dogs ? Why does a dog torn - round a few times before .he lies down ? Why does a cow get op- from the-ground hind end, first, and a horse fore end _first?, Why does a squirrel come down a tree Bead first, and a waited first? IV*. dot s a mule kick with - its bind - foot, ;and a shceP with its fcire foot? farmer residing iii Williams ‘toWnibip,'.l§.lorthamptint copoty v baa lost twenty-Pour pie by hog &- MUM; • . , ~_~ Farm Nato,. li:::Bottria, Angell rand machnicul properties the soil , from old pastures is best fbr potting plants. - -a The quieted way ' to expel foul air from a well is to , hest a bar of Iron red hot:sad ' lower it 'down into the water; the sadden ,formation of steam ta effectual. • .7.-Amount of bay allowed daily pee, timid for Cattle crossing the At lantic from Boston to Liverpool iy t 5 *made, or 210 poundu for tilt voyage of fourteen day a. —There la true economy in a kind ly treatthent of the domeatie the motto Of ail who tivre any. prop ,ertS, in iii . eare - iiiier - them shoulddie, ,► fluminity is .. .the. best piliey."_ .—Dairymen. ,ebould bear - ha mind that •poor butter or cheese is-always the diet to feel the effects of 'a dull narket. The best products - are al. ways inquired for, evtn on the pair 64t market. 4. expaorzerießhalle es . tablisheti in Bucks county since IV.), which are making • hatter awl' cheese at the rate of (5U tons - of but; ter and 2000 tons .of cheese` per an- flUrl2. —The Pots Uri): .Yeti 4 d advocetei quick fattening for • foals when they are intended fortable-use, end reecitn- mends raillOn any state from fro,h te - thick.: \this should be fed In-coii neetion with a'grain diet. : —The last agricultural returns of flreat -- 13zitairi show that the growth . of woods and .forests is going on very fast and in the • last five years has, increased their area half a million, acres. • . is believed at the !Jana office, Washington; that Westeen .swindlers ha've obtained titles to more than 000,000 acres or public lands, most of which they have - disposed of t innocent settlers. • -Shipments of . two • consideral,le lots . of black polled Angus' cattle were made in February froin Scot land 'to New-York, for Canadian breeders, there they are rapidly get ting, into great favor. —Mr. J. A. Draper, - Wayland. Mass., sent to The. Sere England Farmer lively,.specimens of the arm ' worm, picked . - up March . 2 in his ! mowing field, where 0 thousands were crawling over the snow," all heatied forest. ' .. —Germati scientific men' hay es timated,- the ratio of insects to p arts to he two to one; and • on - this basis have estimated that there are ,proba. bly .100,000 specieS.of insects in the world. A hOut '1 CO,OO species have been classified.' • —The offer of. a prize'for the best car for transporting cattle in com fort brought to the' American Hu- • mane Association no lesS than .12.) models and 20i plans- and sketches, all of which the Committee of Award are carefully.'etamining, - :•-rrofeistr S. A. Knapp writes to The lo that in I,r:lf:ti c:Ll feeding at the Agricultural Col. lege, as neallffs7iTitilda - biTiSTiiii:itelf . by substituting ,corn and hay Ii sweet corn fodder. an acre of the latter is equal to four' tons of hay and eighty bushels of corn: • —Mr Richardson, ;of Mississippi, iS•said to be the largest cOttonTlant er n the world- has many plantations, faetories and mills. argil also , a great 'many -conntry stores. lle is'a man of - sixty-two. lie has a. lieCuliar habit of rising at 2 o'clock' in the_morning, waking his secretary; and dispatching all, his business be' fore his 7 o'clock breakfast. —Mr. John Parnell, a brother c& the Irish agitator, hag. an imnien,e Teach orchard in, Alahau3a which hag Mika ,571),1 0!) -worth of pea, Filen ca nit , . to this cOuntr) mahout ten years , ago. and I)uy ing an old cotton-farm, gradually tsar,. formed it' into this orchard. lie ' is getting vly wealthy, it is sahl, he is ,always:the first to have early I= - ' • large Priee.: - —Prof. Wolllly-finds the following .relations • between temperature and the. compaelries,s. or soils :• In-sum mer, eompaet soil is on -the-average warmer than loose soil,- hut.in winter and on the fall of temperature it is In'vrarni weittliez, compact soils are manner by day and colder - by:Jiight than loose - sods, and they ° art.. subject to, greater,tluetuatious — of. temperature:. The :praetie3l inftt enee is pl.,in, • —An old farmer once said he I would not have a hired man tin his - I farm who (lid not. R h Ile alway-(ldied whistlers. , Said be 'never knew a whistling laborer to - I find fault withAris food, his bell; or eotuplain of - any little extra: work-lie. was asked to perform. Such a z wan is generallj• kind to children anti to animals in his care, lie fotind . s.4.ll • .a man more careful about puttiaLt up bars, anti seeing that the-nuts on Lis plow were nll properly tightened be , fore be took - . it hitt> the field. lie never kriew a whistling hired man'. to I beat or kick -a,cow, or drive-her fin a „tuft into the stable. lie never' had Itemployed a whistle 7 whO was hot thoughtful and economical. —A ecording.te,the Western l'a . rin pt and f loe. "The popularity of poll ed 0:0-00s-rapidly increasing and the Editor hopes to see this breed take the place of horned animals in all the choice herds of Kansas and Nebraska, an 'example which woull in course of. timei,ause subAtittt tion of "the gentle miille " for the .. the "dangerous Texan " by the larae herders 'of the Territories. ,The rui• vanta g es of airs - change he sums t;p as follows.:'. There 'seems to be no .question that', pulled cattle can be breitat least ten per, cent' cheaper . : than ,th r e honied: They' are harmli , ss as sh'elp . and' exceedingly, tractable. TliC* can be transported to market at leS.4 cost and much .more' comfort to tainselves than the horned. , .W he slaughtered their meat always ,brings: 4 the top priCe,•,.and the hide's being, en rarely exempt froni - • holes and sears -made by the - horns of their :S.St7eiates; alSo brings more money. -It wouhl seem as though • the introduction of siiuch a-breed was a matterof natural importance." ProportiOn of Crearit to Milk The fiat poriion of .milk from the the cow contains about one-twentieth part of Cream the second flftti, one twelfth ;. the -last fifth, one-sixth. [low important then. to get ihe,last and richest drop, even if it were not true that cows are quickly dried up by a slovenly practice or leavia! small portion in the. udder. Cows will continue to give a flow of milk at much longer periol when Milked dry. Farmers; it will be seen, re twice a double benefit by inch a course. First, there is 'more cream in the milk, and second, the Dow will continue much longer; two requisites in all dry scriatries,