FaRM, harden and household.
Banner Oara af Ho.
Thn principal diet of hogs in snmme
should be gTans, rich slop, frnits and
vegetables, and some oorn; these, with
the worms and insects obtained on
rnnere. are amuly snfflcient to snstain a
steady growth nntil the cool autumni
weatner nets in, wnen a cuei 01 sonna
oorn with some slop should be con
tinued until they nre fat enough for kill
ing or for market. Tins process of taking
hogs through the summer applies equal
ly to hogs that have been wintered, or
to spring pigs, except the pigs should
be fed stronger on account of their
more rapid growth.
Summer is the time to make pork;
making it in winter is mnoh like run
ning a boat against a wind and tide; it
requires too much food to keep np the
snnnlv of animal heat. If hoars have
plenty of grass in summer, and about
half the grain they will eat, they will
fatten rapidly, and about three pounds
of pork can be made in cold weatner
with a hog in a close pen. The grass is
oooling and loosening, and counteracts
the feverish properties or the grain.
Another important consideration in
favor of snob, a diet is cost, which is
merely nominal as compared with grain
alone. Free access to pure water and
good shade is essential to comfort and
consequent growth and thrift of the pig,
The hog delights in a cool, damp locali
ty, and is very sensitive to heat and
cold, and suffers extremely from expos
nre to either. Any unusual exercise
will be fatal to a hog that is fat, on a
hot day, if it has not free access to water,
Hogs are not apt to root when there
is plenty of grass on the ground, bnt
rings in their noses have many great ad'
vantages and by all means should be
used. They should be allowed to have
all the grass they will eat as early in
the spring as possible, and clover and
timothy is good for them in winter,
Hogs that have run to grass and slop all
summer can be shut up in a pen and
fed to advantage six weeks or two
months, but no longer.
A pig should never be allowed to stop
growing; in fact, the rule holds good
during its entire life. A poor, mangy
pig is of no value; close confinement in
filth and dirt will check the growth,
however generous the feed; bnt if
starved at the same time, it will be a
mercy to both pigs and owner to send
them to the manure pile.
Milk is a . very cooling drink, and al
most indispensable in raising young
pigs, uut very little corn and no corn
meal should be fed to young pigs before
they are four months old. The effects
of corn and raw oorn meal on the oung
pigs are these: These pigs will first be
costive, then they will scour. Tney will
rub against everything they come in
contact with, and rub their hair off.
Their skin will have a red and dry ap
pearance. A dry, black scurf will begin
to form on them, and the more of the
corn meal that they eat the poorer they
will get. The best thing that can be
done for a pig in this condition is to
give him a thorough washing in warm
rain water or sour milk. Sour milk is
best. Coarse flour or middlings from
rye or wheat, when made into a thin
drinkable slop with milk, is the best.
feed for young pigs except bread and
milk. Bread is good for young pigs be
cause it has been leavened. Food has
to ferment before it will digest, and if
fed to young pigs before fermented, it
will overtask his stomach and spoil him.
Lettuce is good for young pigs. It will
stop the scours on him. The middlings
should be put with the milk at night,
after the feeding has been done, and
night, never allowing the swill tub to
get quite empty, always leaving a little
in the bottom for yeast. The swill
should never be allowed to get stale.
Hogs .and pigs treated as here described
will grow to satisfaction and prove pro
fitable. (?., in Ohio Farmer,
Kcclpes.
' Potato Pie. Boil or wash common
or sweet potatoes and strain through a
fine sieve; to each pint add one and half
pints of milk, a little melted butter,
two eggs, salt, nutmeg to the taste;
bake in one crust, like custard pie.
Buttermilk Muffins. One quart
buttermilk, two eggs, butter the size of
an egg, two flat spoonfals soda mixed in
a little water; or one spoonful salerntus,
two teaspoonfuls salt, flour to make a
thick batter. Bake in rings in a quick
oven.
To Bottle Bed Currants. Pick
them unbroken from the stalks into dry
wide-momthed bottles, adding, as you
fill, some finely-sifted loaf sugar, so that
it may fall on each layer of currants;
fill the bottles, rosin in the corks, and
keep them in a rack, with the neck
downwards.
Custard in Cups. Beat three eggs
with three tablespoonfuls of sugar and
a little nutmeg and salt, add a quart of
milk (new is best); pour into your cups
and set them into a dish that yon can
fill with boiling water, and put them in
to the oven to bake. In this way they
are much nicer than when cooked out of
the water.
Green Pka Soup. Four pounds of
beef, cnt in small pieces, one-half peck
of green peas, one gallon of water.
Boil the empty pods of the peas in the
water one hour before putting in the
beef. Strain them out, add the beef and
boil slowly an hour and a half longer.
Half an hour before serving add the
shelled peas, and twenty minutes later
half a cup of rice flour, with salt and
pepper. A little chopped parsley is an
improvement. After adding the rice
flour stir frequently, to prevent scorch
ing. Strain into a hot tureen. -
Famous Bhubarb Pie. For one large
pie, or three deep ones. Take the
stalks; cut off the leaves, and rinse in
cold water (do not strip off the skin, as
it contains mnch of the flavor), cut in
half inch lengths, and add from one to
three teacups of sugar, according to the
acidity of the rhubarb; stir in a large
bowl, so that the materials may be well
mixed; add one lemon cut up very fine,
peeled, and all the juice well squeezed
in, one nutmeg grated, one tablespoon
f ul of essence of lemon, one good pinch
of salt, one tablespoonful of sifted flour,
two tablespoonfuls of butter; make a
nioe crust, and bake from half to three
quarters of an hour; make a slit in the
top of your pie, and bake in a deep pan,
so that its chief excellence shall not
waste by boiling over.
Many of the old naturalists entertained
the notion that geese were produced
from trees. It was supposed that on
the banks of a river in the Orcades, a
tree grew that produced live geese like
fruit. In an old volume printed at
Basle, 1650, entitled "Mnnsteri Oosmog
raphia," is a curious engraving repre
senting the barnacle goose dropping
from bursting pods on the tree into the
stream beneath, and swimming away.
A similar cut is to be found in "Aldro
vandus' and at the end of "Gerrard's
Herbal." The early navigators and
travelers related the most extraordinary
stories of this character. .
Fashion Notes.
Tinted veils are very fashionable.
The fashionable faa is of medium
size. ,
Veils cover the whole face this turn i
mer. ,
The "Lavense" overskirt grows in
favor.
Wide oollars and deep cuffs are much
worn.
Gray is the color for a mountain or
side Bnit. , . -
The " Aimee" is a new and favorite
style of slipper. .
Japanese fans are still the favorites
for ordinary use. , , '
Low shoes are worn as much as bnt
ton boots this season. . ... , .,
Old-fashioned pongee is again used
for dresses and wraps. , .
Fancy organdie dresses are trimmed
with Valenciennes lace. ., , . ,
One of the novelties in dreBS goods is
the " bourrstte batiste.'.'
Smyrna lace is ont of favor, and is not
seen on any of the late garments. ' " ' "
Surplioe barques are worn by matrons;
blouse waists oy girls in their teens. -Swiss
and mnslin neckties, edged with
lace, are worn with neglige costumes.
Chambery cambric is one of the
prettiest materials for summer dresses.
French laces .and grass fringes are the
most popular trimmings for all thin ma
terials.
Kid gloves for evening wear have the
wrists finished with plaitings of lace or
ribbon.
Morning wrappers and Bacqnes are
extensively trimmed with colored em
broidery.
Torchon and Russian laces are very
much nsed this summer for trimming
white suits.
A new pastime for ladies is making
curtains of Japanese silk and pasting
ngures upon them.
Carpets are now made to resemble the
raw silk material so mnch in favor for
furniture covering.
Draperies are made fuller and more
flowing, with shorter skirts, than with
princess-shaped dresses.
Small gilt fringes, strands of gold
beads, and feathers tipped with gold are
among bonnet trimmings.
Young ladies wear for a necklace a
band of black velvet to which are at
tached tiny tinkling bells.
New riding hats are in the shape of a
helmet with the back piece lelt off, and
look very much like jockey caps.
One of the recently imported bonnets
has a wreath formed of birds so large
that only ten were required to surround
he crown.
Jet is the fashion again, and has sn
perseded clair de lune and every other
Kind of bead except gold, steel, silver,
and amber.
A panache of from three to six, short,
slender ostrich tips, bunched together,
is usedon bonnets that are to be worn in
midsummer.
A pretty home dress is of stone
colored bourrette, trimmed with kilting
of the same, plastron sleeves and bows
of olive green faille.
Youno Girls' Hats. The Derby hat
is the shape choBen for general nse by
ladies. This has a stiff high crown that
may be either round or square topped,
and a narrow brim that curls upward
all around. Black or brown chip is
most useful for such hats, and the trim
ming is a band and binding of wide gal
loon, or else folds of black grenadine,
with a gray wing or a dark ostrich tip
stuck in the left side. or more dressy
occasions broad-brimmed chip, Jjeg
horn, or rustic straw hats are worn
with oddly indented brims, and are
trimmed with ribbon or gauze and
half wreath of flowers in oolors to suit
the dress. Thus a pretty dress of pale
blue bunting is worn with a white chip
hat trimmed with bluets and daisies; a
dress of ecru pongee, made with a wash
er- woman over skirt and pleated blonse
trimmed with cream-colored gauze and
deep red Jacqueminet roses. A white
cross barred muslin with pleated yoke
blouse and a kilt skirt trimmed with
a plaid sash of gray, black, and scarlet
bars. The round hat is of white organdy
muslin shirred on fine wire, and trimmed
with bows of ribbon like the sash.
A Dry Goods Palace Car. .
A correspondent of the American
Manufacturer says: The United States
Rolling Stock Company, at their shops
in Chicago, are getting up what may be
called a new departure. This is a palace
dry goods car, to be used on railroads
by dealers in dry goods, carrying sam
ples along as well as stock to be deliver
ed when sold. This car is sixty feet long,
not including platforms at each end, or
sixty-six feet long over all. It is built
as light as possible and yet is strong.
The construction of the body is very
simple, having only two large windows
on each side for lighting purposes, but
at each end there is to be a stateroom
for the traveling merchants to occupy
nights or days, while on the roads.
These staterooms are lighted by three
small windows each. The inside of the
car was not finished for use, so we can
not tell just how it is to be arranged,
but no doubt convenient for the pur
pose. This car has a sub-cellar, as they
call it, between the fore and aft trucks,
where may be stored large quantities of
domestic goods while in transit, and it
has what may be called a mansard roof,
or donble deck, for light and ventila
tion, giving it the appearance of a Bleep
ing oar except the finish. This is a
new enterprise, and it remains to be
seen upon trial if it shall prove a suc
cessful one.
Spanish Train Robbers,
The express which leaves Barcelona
at 10:25 P. M. for the French frontier
by way of Gerona and Figueras, was
stopped the other night a short distance
north of the San Andres station, not
far from Barcelona, and all the passen
gers were stripped of what they had
abont them. The brigands who achieved
this exploit surprised one of the
signal men, and naving gagged him,
turned on the danger signal. The
engine driver stopped the train, and
while the passengers were looking out of
the windows to see what was the cause
of the stoppage, some fifty men, all
armed with daggers and revolvers, clus
tered up on the carriage steps and forced
their way into the compartments.
Money, watches, jewelry, and all other
objects of any value had to be de
livered up; and in one or two instances,
where passengers ' were inclined to be
recalcitrant, the robbers placed the
muzzles of their revolvers in unpleasant
proximity with the persons of the vic
tims. After the carriages had been care
fully examined they sacked the contents
of the luggage van and then disappeared.
The train put back to Barcelona, and
arrived thpre at about pne in the morn..
" 1S8AIUTT.
Tha Rutta raaalatlaa ana ! aasea af
. Maaaeaa. . . ..
In England and Wales the ratio of in
sane to the population is - one to 873; in
Massachusetts, one to 423; New York,
one td 587; Illinois, one to 8C6; and
Iowa, one to 1.101. This shows that
the density of population has a tnore or
less predisposing enoat, producing, as it
decidedly does, a deteriorating influence
on the human race, morally and physi
cally. The increase in the number of
insane" in the State of New York for the
past quarter of a century is over 100 per
cent., and, according to experts in men
tal diseases, this increase is aot tfonunou
to any particular sections of the State,
but is more or less general. '" " '" -
JNo one who has been a oonstant read
er of the daily newspapers for the past
few years can fail to have been impress
ed with the great inci ease in the reports
Of suicides,' homicides and the commit
ment of alleged lunatics to the different
city and county asylums.) While much
Of this is directly due to the rapid in
crease of " population of. New York and
neighboring cities there must be other
causes for the disease at work. Increase
Of population brings with it overorowd-
ing, t diseosa-prouuoing' surroundings,
bad sanitary arrangements, , which, by
lowering the tone of the people, both in
a moral as well as a' physical point of
view, directly predisposes the very poor
anu miaaung ciassee to mental disease,
Dr. iiike, a well-known .London alien-
ist, has written 4 a work under
the title of "Insanity in Ancient and
Modern Life." In this he elaborately
investigates the causes of mental dis
eases in Great Britain, where the in
crease of lunatics has been enormously
large during the lost half century. Af
ter a careful examination of all the
statistics, showing that the number of
insane people confined in asylums in
England and Scotland at the present
time reaches 66,636, Dr. Tuke concludes
that the principal causes of mental dis
ease at the present time are: First, in
toxication, including the action of alco
hol and allied stimulants, not only in
the individuals taking them to excess,
but upon his or her offspring, whose
weakness produces degeneracy in the
succeeding generation; second, that de
fective nourishment, leading as it does
to exhaustion and malnutrition of the
nervous centers, causes degeneracy of
the race, the evidence of which can be
seen in large, insufficiently-fed popula
tion. Ulosely allied to this, Dr. Tuke
considers bad sanitary arrangements
and overcrowding in filthy dwellings.
Under the third class of causes he con
siders moral influences, " partly mixed
in character, which excite or depress the
emotions profoundly, as a dissolute life,
depraved nabits, domestic sorrow or mis
ery, commercial speculations and losses.
religious excitement, disappointment in
love and general overwork. - Under
the fourth and last head is considered
intellectual strain as a cause of insanity,
which he holds to be the least frequent
of all causes, if examined alone.
An examination of the reports of the
prinoipal lunatio asylnms in this coun
try, publio and private, confirms to a
very great extent the observations of
Dr. Tuke made in England.
A Girl Vanquishes a Wolf.
Five miles from Eureka, Ran., lives a
prosperous farmer named Robert Loy,
who is engaged in raising sheep. His
"boys are all girls," and one of his
daughters, Mary Belle - Loy, barely
fourteen years of age, is the shepherdess,
whose rosy cheeks, sun-burned face and
graceful form as she mounts her pony
would excite the envy of many city
belles and charm the eye of a connois
seur in search of a sensitive rose to com
plete the latest work of his easel. Some
weeks since, while looking after her wool
ly wards, she discovered a full-grown wolf
of the coyote species and an uncommon
ly large one stealthily approaching the
flock, when she put her horse to his
speed, and the wolf, feeling that his
sanitary oondition in that locality was
very unsatisfactory, the race and chase
commenced, over the hills and prairie,
neither showing any indication of fatigue,
until he was compelled to consider him
self "run down." Now came the "tug
of war," and any one who has ever seen
a coyote at bay snapping and snarling,
holding his position against - a dozen
dogs, - can realize her situation as the
aggressor. Nothing daunted, however,
she unbuckled her bridle rein, and with
the ring at the end, and this only, made
good her position as mistress of the sit
uation, and without alighting from her
saddle sue had soon disabled her foe.
saved her lambs, and deprived him of
at least one toothsome morsel. Then
she started out for the nearest neighbor
to the battle-ground, nearly two miles
distant, for assistance, but found no one
at home who could assist her aave anoth
er girl, who mounted another pony, and
armed only with a dull knife, these two
young girls were soon galloping over
the prairie to save the scalp, for which
the county pays a "royalty when pre
sented to the proper oflloer. When they
returned, the. principal of this Had Ruling-Hood
escapade had partially recov
ered, and was moving off. At this junc
ture he was again invited to remain.
while one girl threw him down and the
other proceeded to administer Western
justice by searching for his jugular
vein with the knife. Such instances of
feminine bravery as this are rarely met
with, even on the frontier.
American Ingenuity at the Exposition.
A correspondent writes from Paris
The Paris Exposition is the interpreter
of the thought, and the orator of the
text. Now take some of the work of the
hand of American labor as you Bee, and
study it in the Paris Exposition, and
trace it over the earth. In all the gor
geous sections of the more pretentious
ancient nations, there is not one that
does not partly pay unconscious tribute
to American ingenuity. The agricultural
implements of England are many of them
modelled after American originals. The
watchmakers of Geneva admit the suc
cessful competition of the New England
chronometer. The printed cottons of
Manchester yield to the superiority of
Massachusetts fabrics, often, sold over
British counters to foreign customers.
The jewelry of Italy is woven out of
the finest fibers of the gold of Nevada,
The delicate processes of French refining
and metallurgy are conducted with the
quicksilver of : California. . American
sewing machines are for Bale in all the
cities in Europe; American scales are
used m.the distant capitals of the Orient.
American pianos and parlor 1 melodeons
are bought by the humble foreigners,
and even by those in good oiroumstancea.
who cannot afford the oostly instruments
of Paris and London, and even trained
experts prefer the former to the best
produot of the 'great piano makers of
Germany. The cutlers of (Sheffield ad
mit the finish of the cheaper aud. better
work of American manufacture. . .,
An old woman of Durham, Eugland, in
1729 first made table mustard and for
years would sot reveal the process,
CO-OPEEITITE STORES.
Klsa
Praaresa at taese f anltatlaai la
Kaalaaa.
A London correspondent of the New
York Tribune has an interesting letter
on the system of furnishing supplies by
the co-operative stores, and he gives a
history of the rise and progress made by
these stores, as follows: The happy
idea of co-operation for mutual defence
and protection occurred to some clever
persona engaged in the civil service, and
a small club was formed. Indeed, it is
said that its beginning was both humble
and accidental. . It originated thus:
Only a dozen years ago some clerks in
the General Post-offloe combined and
bought a chest of tea. and they found
the saving so great that they pursued
their joint stock operations in the pur
chase of other articles of daily necessity.
Their fellows in the office, finding the
advantage, desired to join the company.
Ik grew. They totk a little room, and
fitted it , up with shelves ' and rustic
Counters; a competent and trustworthy
man was placed in charge,. and articles
of daily household" consumption Were
bought at wholesale prices and sold to
the members of the company at the
small advance whioh would cover the
expenses of the shop. . The advantages
of the system became more and more
patent; the number of those desiring to
enter the association rapidly increased,
as the knowledge ' of its advantages
widened. Then some of the original
members seceded from the "General
Post-office Supply " and started a com
pany on a ,largor scale, establishing
themselves in the Haymarket, under the
name of the "Civil Supply Association."
Thus the exUftnpore shop grew into a
warehouse; the one man who conducted
the business was multiplied by scores,
and then by hundreds of ' shopmen,
porters, warehousemen, superintendents
of departments, buyers, and managers;
there were a board of directors, a secre
tary, and chairman. One great ware
house expanded into several, within
whose spacious limits there were stored
goods of every imaginable sort, clothing,
groceries, stationery, books, furniture,
tobacco, pipes, toys, jewelry, in' short,
almost everything fiom a button to a
helmet, that any man, woman, child,
family, might need, and all to be pur
chased at from fifteen to twenty-five,
sometimes even fifty, per cent, lower
than they could be got from the trades
men. The rush for membership, of
1 course, became prodigious. Barristers,
BOiiuiwra, uieuicai men, B.trgjriucu,
ministers, actors, people of all profes
sions, as well as those connected with
the civil service in all its branches,
sought admission, whioh could be gained
by the payment of five shillings ($1.25)
a year for membership in token of
which you received a card having your
name and number upon it.
This card has to be shown to every
shopman from whom you make a pur
chase, and to the cashier, with whom
you settle your account on the spot
for all purchases are for cash. This
card must be renewed every year by the
payment of the same sum. The business
expanded to such great propurtions that
it was found necessary to set a limit to
the number of members, and admission
into the old or first "Civil Service
Stores," as they were called, is now im
possible. The business has become so
great, has been so admirably, and hon
estly administered, that notwithstand
ing that the margin of profit upon the
wholesale prices for. defraying current
expenses, is bo small, I believe a hand
some dividend accrues to the members.
A ticket of membership in this old or
ganization in the Haymarket cannot be
got for love or money, and they are con
sidered of suoh importance that they are
frequently bequeathed in the wills of
members. The success of this first en
terprise and the restriction of its mem
bership, of course, caused the starting
of others, and there are now three
immense organizations, with several
branches in different parts of London,
The largest, and now the best one of all.
is the "Army and Navy Cooperative
Society, in Viotona street, Westmins
ter. This association was organized six
years ago, and has a place all of its own
at the head 01 cooperative associations.
The members consist of two classes.
shareholders and ticketholders, the lat
ter inoluding life members and annual
subscribers. The shares are ' of the
value of 85 eaoh, and holders of one or
more share are entitled to participate . in
the profits, to deal at the stores and with
the tradesmen connected with the soci
ety without any further payment what
ever, and to have their purchases from
the store delivered free of charge within
a certain radius. Life members tickets
(one guinea) confer all the privileges of
shareholders, except participation in
the profits and -management of the
society. They will not be transferable.
Annual subscribers who pay $1 25 the
first year, and sixty cents each subse
quent year, enjoy all the privileges
possessed by shareholders, except
participation in the prohts and manage
ment ot the socioty, and to the special
advantages as to carriage of parcels.
The director, Major McCrea, who" first
induced a few officers to join him in this
enterprise,' beginning with a capital of
8300.000 in 85 shares, is, in his way, as
much astounded at the vast proportions
attained in this brief time as the origin
ator of the first society, with his chest of
tea, is astonished to find that the associ
ation of small amounts should have grown
into suoh strength, and that he should
have developed a truth that had ' escaped
the acute perception of governments,
and the skill of the economist and phil
anthropist. I am told that the balance, sheet of
this company is like a triumphant march
Last year the directors were able to
boast of sales at the rate of 8500,000
month, but that rate has now been much
exceeded. During the last half year the
sales alone amounted to $3,248,365, and
the miscellaneous revenue received from
annual tickets and other sources
88.940, so that the total was 83,257,305,
whioh shows an increase of 8748,945
over the corresponding period of last
year, which, the directors say.' is the
largest amount of business which has
ever been compassed by a " co-operative.",
Ita cash in hand and with its
bankers is 8157,340; its Victoria street
premises, whioh are large and hand
some,' represent 8466,635, and its Qther
tenements 8150,000; its stock is worth
8690,870; it holds on deposit order and
on interest 8276,130; it has a balance to
profit and loss account of 8230,305,
and a net profit of 839,270. ' I notice in
the report for the last half rear, a special
paragraph , that out of the profit, the
directors recommend the payment of a
dividend at the rate of five per cent, per
annum, free of income tax, and that the
remainder be carried forward toward the
accumulation of a reserve fun! to be in-
1 i i, . . . .
vbbwxi in me society a business, 1 am
told that what they want are low prices,
They do not care for dividends. T(
give some idea of the magnitude of the
business, I may mention, that excluding
orders executed through agents suoh as
for beer, coals, mineral waters, etc., and
exoluding also parcels taken away by
th purchasers themselves, thy mt
out from the " Stores " during six
months, by their, own carriers and by
railway vans, 240,118 packing oases and
nek ages, weighing in tne aggregate
000 tons. .j
' Gossip About Snakes."" '
Poisonous snakes may be readily dis
tinguished from the harmless kinds by
their broadly flattened heads- and pro
Iecting jaws, whioh impart to . them a
riangular aspect. The majority of the
non-poisonous reptile have heads with
a norroW eliptioal contour, whioh indi
cate at the first glance their character.
The bites of the former are not near as
fatal as they are generally supposed to
be, and quickly-administered doses of
Ammonia injected into the flesh wound
by means of a syringe, or great quanti
ties ot wmsky ana other aioohoiio drinks
taken instantly after the accident prove
generally sure preventatives against fa
tal results. - These remedies, though
efficacious against the bite of the moo
oasin, rattlesnake and copperhead, of
North America, are unavailing in some
tropical countries like India, where the
violent action of the poison is intensified
oy great heat, thus causing annually the
death of a great number of people. It
muBt be borne in mind, however, that
the natives of these countries are in a
more or less nude state, and that their
bodies are thus exposed in full to the
attack of any snake whioh they may
chance to encounter. It is instructive
to notice that no tropical, travelers, who
frequently visit districts infeBted with
shakes have fallen victims to them, al
though they have made in many in
stances the collection of poisonous spe
cies a specialty of their avooation. It is
erroneous to suppose that snakes will
attack man without provocation, and
that tbey are capable of making a spring
of several feet or even yards. The ar
rangement of their interoostcal mus
cles does not admit of an extended for
ward movement of their body beyond
that of rapidly uncoiling themselves to
their full length, as anybody may satis
fy himself by irritating any of our harm
less species when encountered in hol
lows of trees, under bark or similar hid
ing places where a retreat is not feasi
ble. Under these particular circum
stances they evince a ready disposition
to attack the intruder who ventures to
disturb their repose. There is in South
Florida a very large species of the rat
tlesnake known to naturalists as the
crotalua adamanleus, whioh has suffi
cient capacity to feed upon animals up
to the size of the wild rabbit. It would
naturally be supposed that this snake,
in order to capture such a wild creature,
would possess compensating qualities by
being capable of making a quick spring
of at least peveral feet. This does not,
however, seem to be the case, as exper
ienced by an accidental encounter with
one of these formidable reptiles, which
we found some years ago during an ex
pedition to Florida, quietly coiled up in
cluster of dense palmetto underbrush,
not far from the settlement, near the
site of old Fort Capron. We dispensed
on this oocasion, contrary to advice,
with the gun, which would have offered
temptations to forego the experiment of
a close encounter, and advanced armed
with only a short, stout stick within a
few paces of our intended prey to ob
serve its behavior. The reptile proved
wide awake to the danger of her situa
tion by raising slightly her head above
the huge coil of her body, which covered
a place nearly two feet in diameter,
Another forward step decided the criti
cal turning-point of the ad venture, whioh
ended, not in a quick uncoiling of her
six-foot-long body, but a quiet and igno
minious gliding away without any sign
of offering resistance. A timely aud
well-aimed blow then arrested her fur
ther progress by breaking the backbone,
after which she was dragged helplessly
to the open, near the beach, where a out
of an ax severed her head, which, well
preserved in alcohol, still testifies by its
great size the corresponding volume of
her frame.
A Man of Massive Brow.-
A short time ago ' Speth, the Walnut
street optician, received an order from
a Columbus judge to send him the larg
est pair of spectacles he had on hand.
fie .pioked ont a pair from an 01a stock,
that looked as though they might have
been made expressly for Joe Gobs the
day following his fight with Tom Allen,
and sent them by express to the judge's
address.
A few days later tho package came
back, with an accompanying note saying
the frames were altogether too email
he couldn't get them ou, and must have
the largest size manufactured. He had
a head that was a head, and wanted a
pair of glasses that could be used for
both eyes at the same time, bpeth puz
zled over the matter a day or two, and
then took out the bow between the glas
ses, put in a new one oi double size, and
sent the spectacles back to Columbus,
confident that he would soon get a com
plaint that they were altogether too
large, but he was determined'to convince
. , i , a . ... . i l
tne juugo ne nau Druugim ins worn. 10
the right shop, if he didn't make a cent
on the job.
Bnt back thev came again, with
testy note from the judge that he didn'
want any more children's spectacles sent
np that way. lie wanted something
that a full-grown man could wear, and
that. too. without any more nonsense
he was in a hurry for the glasses.
By this time Mr. Speth had got mad
in earnest, and made an empnatic
declaration that the goods wouldn t be
thrown back on his hands again for the
same cause. He then Bet to work and
forged a pair of frames specially, big
enough to fit a mule, and sent them for
ward with a request to notify at once by
telegraph if they were too small and he
would Bend on his sign.
A day or two afterward a Columbus
man dropped in and inquired of Speth if
he bad yet sent the sign.
V Good heavens 1 no 1" said the opti
cian. Did he want it ?"
' Well, no." eaid the visitor with
queer smile. " The specs were a leetle
bit tight, but he thought he could man
age to get along with them till he could
come down and leave his measure.
"Well. I'm stumped." said Speth.
" I got up them frames for a joko. What
sort of a head does that old judge tote
around anyhow ?
"Him? Why bless your life, man.
he's got a head like a flour barrel, and
everybody says that's what made him
bow-legged. You just ought to see how
small them specs of yours looks when
he has 'em on. Blamed if tbey don
give him a cramped look that makes
fellow fldgetv." eaid the gentleman
" they do, honest. It's a pity you didn't
spread 'em just a leetle mite more."
Cincinnati Breakfast Table, ..
When the voice is lost, as is some
timea thn nasa from the effects of a oold,
a Simula uleasant remedy is furnished
bv heatino- un the -white of oue egg.
adding the juice of one lemou, and
sweetening with white sugar to the
taste. Take a tablespoonful from time
to time. It has been Kno wo w? eneom
ally cure the ailment.
I Peruvian Temples of the Sun,
! Of the early history of the Peruvians
we have but little knowledge, owing to
that barbarian policy exercised by the
followers of Oortez and Picarro, in de
stroying everything belonging to the
tribes whioh they conquered. Like the
Mexicans, the Peruvians had advanoed
in art, soienoe and learning, under the
administration of successive wise rulers,
and their State arohives contained writ
ten histories of their country, from the
dawn of civilization among them, till
the period of the conquest. But the
superstitious Spaniards committed these
works to the flames, because of their
heathen origin, and we are" obliged to
depend almost exclusively on the trttth
of tradition, for the knowledge we pos
sess of the history of this people during
the Inca dynasty. The most magnifi
cent of all the 'Peruvian temples, was
that of the sun of Ouzoo. The mode of
worship in this temple was similar to
.that of Heliopolis in Egpyt, where this
great luminary was adored. His golden
impge occupied a large portion of one
side of the interior of the temple, and
before this the worshippers prostrated
themselves with rich offerings in their
hands, which were reoeived by the at
tendant priests. Two or three virgins,
selected from the first families in the
kingdom, were in oonstant attendance,
whose duty it was to make oblations of
wine to the burning deity, and ohant
hymns of praise to the great Father of
Light. (Like other' aborigines of this
continent, the Peruvians were nomadic
tribes, aud gamed a subsistence by
hunting and fishing. Superstitious in
the extreme, their objects of worship
were as numerous as those of the Egypt
ians. Do Yon Diet Much 1
" Do you diet, much this warm weath
er?" asked a friend of old Fuzbuz, as
he took off his hat and mopped his brow
the other day.
"Dye it I dye ft !" answered Fuzbuz,
running his hand through his hair, and
looking at his fingers. " What do you
mean, sir ?"
"Why, yon look good and hearty, and
as for color
" Color, color 1 . What is it to yon.
sir, whether I dye my hair or not ? Hang
it, sir, if I had such an awful looking
head of hair . as you ve got, I d dye it
sky blue."
"Look here, old Fuzzy, what in the
deuce are you talking about? I asked
you if you dieted, seeing that you were
complaining of dyspepsia the other day.
and you Begin to rave about hair dye.
Dye 1 diet I Oh. ah I I see 1 I
didn't understand."
" But I do, and find that in your case
one must never say dye. ISoston Com
mercial Bulletin,
Fnrtioward of thirty years Mrs. WINSLOW'S
SOOTHING SYRUP hag been used forohildrea
with never failing success. It oorreots acidity
of the stomach, relieves wind colio, roculates
ine Dowels, cures dysentery and diarrnraa,
nether arising from teething or other Cannes.
An old and well-tried remedy. 25 cts. a bottle.
Hamdt to have in the House. There is
nothing like Grace's Halve for the immediate
relief and speedy onre of Barns, Soalds, Flesh
Wounds, Cuts, Felons, Salt Rheum, TJIoors,
Erysipelas, old Sores, &o. 25 cents a box.
Sold by druggists generally.
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The nearest approach to perfection in articles
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Yeant Powder. With very little experience the
housewife or cook is alays sure of delicious
biscuits, rolls, bread, cake, etc., every time.
Parsons' Purgative Pills are a priceless boon
to the people of the South and Southwett.
They effectually prevent fever and ague and
all malarious diseases, and ooxt only 25 cents
a box.
Burnett's Coooaine is th best and cheapest
Hair Dressing in the world. It kills dandrnff,
allays irritation, and promotes a vigorous
growtn oi tne Hair.
The horrors of war are nothing to the hor
rors of Neuralgia. Immediate relief may be
had by bathing the head with Johnson's Ano
dyne Lluirueut and snuffing It up the nostrils.
The Greatest Discovery of the Ace is Dr
Fobiaa' celebrated Yenetlan Liniment 1 8u rears before
the poblio, and warranted to onre Diarrhea, Dysentery,
Oolie, and Spasms, taken internally; and Oronp. Chronic
Rheumatism, Sore Throats, OnU. Bruises, Old Sores,
and Pains in the Limbs, Baok, and Oheat, externally.
It has never failed. No family will ever be without it
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rOBIAS' VKNBTIAN HORSR L1N1MRNT, In Pint
Bottles, at One Dollar, la warranted auparior to any
ether, or NO PAY, for the core of Oolie Outa, Bruises,
Old Sores, etc. Sold by all Drucgiats. Depot 10 Park
Place. New York.
The markets.
ST1W TOBK.
DeafOettla H.tlve OTVtA 10l
ftxas and. Cherokee.. 07 (A 08M
Miioni'ows iauu oo oo
Hcit Live OSfco V9S
vreesea...... us us
Sheep , 07 9 11
Lamb 07 V (4 08
Cotton: Middling HHiA UX
riour i western l oooa to unoico. I a 111
SUte: GoodtoOhoice.... 171 a 7 00
Wheats Bed Western ....Ill (4 1 11M
No. 1 Milwaukee l is l loia
nje: mate. .................. ...... sj a
Barley: State , II Q
Barley Malt Ml a
Oats: Mixed Western...... UVA
Oorn: Mixed Western 41 a
Day, per evrt. 68 a
turaw, per rwt so
Bops 78'e 08 ait ......7t's OS
Pork: Mess 10 J0
Lard: CltyBteam 07
Pish I Mackerel, No. 1, new 1 00
" No. 1, new 1010
Dry Ood, per cwt. 8 7
Herring. Scaled, ner box.... 18
Petroleum: Crude.. Ot augW Refined,
Wool California Fleece. S3 a
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Australian Fleece....... 88
State XX 88
IJn-i. State H
Western : Oholoe 14
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flheeee; State Factory 16
SUte Skimmed 01
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