AUSTRALIA. Interesting Pacts Abont the World' Orent. eat Island Of the entire area of Australia, which is very little lees thau that of the whole of Europe, about one-fifth, or half a million square miles, in the middle, is a barren wilderness, which can only be explored at the cost of frightful hard Bhips and at the risk of life itself. In the southern portion of this desert there are dotted, here and there, hills of soft, White, yielding sand, thickly clad with spinifex, scrub oak and other low shrubr, with an occasional group of eucalyptus trees ; but in its northern part not even this mean vegetation appears, aud the sandhills are bare. The fierce rays of the sun in summer often set the parched foliage of the wilderness in a blaze, and devastating fires prevail, which give riso to hot winds that render oppressive the outlying settlements, Australia has none of the great moun tain chains and mighty rivers to which we are acoustomed on this continent. Its highest range of hills is the Warra gong, or Blue mountains, which attain a height of 7,000 feet above the sea level. There are no great inlets except the Gulf of Carpentaria, on the north coast, but the harbors of Sydney and Tort Darwin are as useful and grand as any iu the world, not omitting Kio Janeiro, Constantinople, Hong Kong or dan Francisco. The enormous expanse of country is; almost entirely level, giving indications that it was once the bed of the ocean. There a;e many salt marshes and lagoons iu the center aud west, and in the east a few rivers which alternately expose their dried beds to the baking rajs of the sun and overflow their banks. The largest navigable river in east Aus tralia is the Murray. Long and severe droughts sometimes prevail. In 1865 there was no rainfall in central or south Australia, and cattle and sheep died by thousands daily. From a paper rehd before the Geo graphical society of New York, by Mr. Jess Young, who was the astronomer of the Giles expedition, sent ont in 1874 to explore the interior of the island conti nent, we get many interesting facts re garding Australia, which are here given without much regard to connection. So dry is the soil and climate in the interior, so little variation is there, that Mr. Young often left delicate instru ments uncovered in the open air over night, and never found on them the slightest particle of rust from dew or other moisture. Great eucalyptus trees are one of the features of the more favored parts of Australia. Some of them ore of enormous growth, 350 to 400 feet high, and one specimen in the Wnrragcmg range, which is lying on the ground, measures 420 feet in height, or rather length. A peculiarity about the trees is that they begin to die at the top aud die downward, and that they usually shoot the b.irk instead of the leaves. There is an absence of edible fruits, except a f jw bemes and some small in digenous peaches. The scrub, of which wo have spoken, is generally a species of eucalyptus, and it covers fully one-fifth of the whole colony. The monotony of travelirg through it can only be under stood by experience. "For days and weeks and months you may be in it without seeing twenty yards in any direction. It is in this scrub that so maDy lives have been lost from time to time." The kangaroo affords sport and food for the natives and for the hunts man among the colonists, and the tail of the animal, as is well known, makes an excellent soup. The Australian bear has scarcely energy enough to move. Insects are wonderfully proline, mos quitoes and flies being particularly abundant. "The native children are sometimes hardly recognizable, so com pletely are they covered with flies, filling their eyes, noses and mouths." Spiders are very common, as also are ants, the tarantula being the most formidable of the former aud the bull dog ant the worst species of the latter. These ants are an inch or more in height and about two inches long. They all fight fiercely, and their sting is not to be desired. The fish are whales, seals, sharks, codfish, snappers, mullet, and hosts of others not found iu any other part of the world. There are no ruminating ani mals, no pachydermata, and no enrni. vora, except the native dog or dingo. Australia, however, is distinguished by the great majority of marsuphial or pouched onimuls, of which there are now few traces in any other part of the world. The birds of Australia are the emu, resembling an ostrich, and the more common varieties. Of the natives of Australia, who are rapidly approaching extinction, Mr. Young gives a far more fuvorable report than those we are accustomed to get. As the result of his observations, he de clares that ' tho Australian black is not naturally so depraved as many other races better cared for and better known. " He has never found any traces of can nibal habits among them, and none of torture or of scalping. "Any native whom I asked has scouted the idea with disgust, and I have seen their graves and heard them bury their dead." They are treacherous, as are all uncivilized races, but they are not bloodthirsty. They have little or no religion, though they believe the spirit is immortal. They also fancy that the dead will some times return in another shape, hence they carry a dead body round and round the grave at some distance, in order to puzzle the deceased as to his where abouts. They are also in abject terror of an evil spirit, called Chinchi. There seems to be no government among them, but when anything is in dispute it is re ferred to one or two of the oldest men for arbitration. The celebrated boom erang, bo well known as one of their favorite weapons, is a curved piece of thin wood, which, by means of a com bination of forces, can be thrown with great dexterity, making the most curious evolutions, and puzzling any one stand ing near as to where it is going to stop. It is unsafe to seek shelter behind a tree, for one may be taken in the rear or on the flank. The continent of Anstrajia, as Mr. Young likes to call the great island, is divided into five colonies. The largest is Western Australia, with Perth for its capital. Queensland ranks next in size. and has Brisbane for its capital, ThenJ comes new ooutn waies, witn Sydney for its capital, and, last, Victoria. Victoria is situated in the most south easterly portion of the continent, end its most southern headlands enter the tem perate climate of the fortieth parallel. The mean temperature of Melbourne is fifty-eight degrees eight minutes, which is eight degrees higher than that of London. This is now the richest, most prosperous, and most thiokly populated , of the colonies, though New South Wales is steadily gaining on it. Vic toria is best known to the world, for it owes its wonderful success to the gold discoveries of 1851, which, in the year 1852 alone, amounted to $70,000,000. New South Wales and Victoria are the largest gold-preducing colonies, though each of the others add something to the enormous general yield. But, as in California, the cultivation of tho earth and the growing of flocks and herds add more to the oomfort aud wealth of the peuple than the digging after precious metal, Tower of the Cyclone. A writer in the New York Sun says : The accounts in the daily papers of the recent death-dealing cyclone which vis ited Wallingford, Conn., state as jooosely as the sad surroundings will warrant, that some of the people there insist that the wind blew the horns off a cow. A plenty of people living in the interior of Florida to-day will describe to your readers cyclones which have token the bark from the tree in their course. Be this so or not, I have examined the tracks of tornadoes' there, varying from three to one hundred yards in width, that would make the eyes of " Old Indi cations" open wide with wonderment. But I know of an instance where every leaf and the entiie bark ware taken from a tree in full vigor of growth, and at least ten inches in diameter at the butt. This occurrence was during the month of July, 18G9, in Georgetown county, South Carolina, and can be substantiated by more than a score of prominent and reliable residents of that county who visited the scene soon after it transpired. It remains to this day a mooted question whether the violence of the wind or some electrical power performed the wonderful feat. The exact location of the remarkable event here described is about fourteen miles back from the village of George town, the county seat, at the head of Winyaw bay, which is fifteen miles in land from the outer bar of the harbor. This cyclone was about one hundred and fifty feet in width only. It laid flat in the twinkling of an eye scores of huge live oaks, which for more than a century had withstood all other storms, and shaded the long avenue leading up to the plantation houso of Dr. Fishburne. It jumped over the houBe, and sweeping down among the huts of tho bauds, demolished them and killed a number, as also several head of live stock. It then shot out across the broad acres of the plantation, with nothing to obstruct its course until it reached the single hickory tree before mentioned, which stood near the center of the field. The bark was entirely taken from this tree, even to the end of the smallest twig, without breaking any of its. branches. I visited it the afternoon of the occur rence, and can vouch for the phenome non. The superstitious hands looked upon the occurrence as a visitation of the Almighty, and the number of genial old planters in that vicinity was not small who believed the gyrating wind twisted the bark off. Others believed that it was done by electricity, and cited the fact that the twigs and branches were not broken to substantiate their theory. The color of the wood was loft in its nat ural state, and without stain of any kind. A Sew Swindle Scheme. A new trick has been developed in Clarion county, Pa. The trick at its first playing paid, and will doubtless be played as loug as it will pay in other parts of the country. It may, therefore, pay somebody to read this paragraph. Goodman is a notion peddler, who had become acquainted with a thriving farm er named Logue. The peddler told the farmer that he had dreamed of a treasure on his farm, and asked tho farmer to go with him while he identified the spot. The dreamer did not wish to trespass, and the farmer humored the whim and went. Rambling in a woodland, Good man saw an oak which answered the appearance of a tree in his vision. There was a hole in the tree about twenty feet np. It was the hole containing the treasure of the vision. Neither man could climb the tree to inspect the hole. Goodman asked the farmer to help him out the tree down, promising to give him half the "find." The farmer reluct antly consented to the arrangement, and the tree was felled. When it fell there was a jingle of coins out of the hole. The tree bore $5,000 in silver by actual count Goodman did not want to carry his half in silveron account of its weight. The farmer paid him $2,500 in green backs for his share, and took charge of the coin. The farmer cannot pass a dollar of the money no good and the peddler aud his pack are gene from the neighborhood. Entries on Public Lauds. A table has been prepared at the General Land Office, in Washington, showing the number of entries upon the publio lands made in each State end Territory, under the Homestead and Timber-Culture acts, since the passage of the original Homestead act, May 20, 1862, to June 80, 1878. The aggregate number of entries in each year were as follows: 1863,13,356; 1864, 7,921; 1865, 12,968; I860, 15,973; 1867, 19,369; 1868, 23,542; 1869, 3,054; 1870, 34,443; 1871, 42,694; 1872,33,514; 1873,34,670; 1874, 25,179; 1875, 22,230; 1876, 21,886; 1877, 23,036; 1878, 24,013; total, 384,847. The figures for 1878 include only half the year, from January 1, to June 80, inclu sive. By States the entries were as fol lows: Alabama, 19,222; Arkansas, 33, 660; Arizona, 147; California, 17,146, Colorado, 5,493; Dakota, 15,513; Flori da, 12,623; Indiana, 19; Illinois, 63; Iowa, 13,796; Idaho, 1,161; Kansas, 61, 034; Louisiana, 7,438; Missouri, 23,327; Michigan, 22,821; Minnesota, 51,575; Mississippi, 9,596; Montana, 1,160; Ne vada, 632; New Mexioo, 319; Nebraska, 47,962; Ohio, 167; Oregon, 8,025; Utah, 3,275; Wisconsin, 21,437; Washington, 6,473; Wyoming, 164; total, 884,848. The Olive as an American Product. The olive has been successfully grown in California and in South Carolina. General A. O. Jones, of the Department of Agriculture, after a careful investiga tion of the matter, is confident that thore is no good reason why olive culture should not bo profitably added to the list of our industries. The forthcoming annual report of the department contains a paper, in which is given a large amonat of information with regard to the soils and climates most favorable to these trees, and the inducements they offer to the cultivator. In full bearing, the olive tree yields from two to three bushels of fruit, producing from fifteen to twenty pounds of oil. An acre of land, properly planted, should oontain about 100 trees, and grass or other crops may be cultivated between the trees to advantage. Throughout the Mediterra nean region the olive is an important source of industrial wealth; and since in many parts, the climate of oar country is not unfriendly to the tree, its culture may prove a great and valuable addition to our resources. San Franeiaco Bul letin. It is not generally known that the Chinese make very fine razors, and that for a long period no European shaving knife could compare with theirs in keen ness and durability. A. fine edge is a necessity with them, since they regularly shave their heads carefully omitting the pigtail without using soap p any other emollient. They only moisten the bvxmji mm JHM? WBtW WKWi FAKM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Inarrhlna. This method of increasing plants or trees that are difflonlt of propagation we seldom see mentioned in the books or papers, and it is to be presumed that it is because of the difficulties in the way of using it, that so little attention is given it, and yet for some kinds of trees this method is the most available way to seonre additional trees, especially with such os have a very hard or dry bark, end cannot easily be budded or grafted. The beech and oak are of this class, but the pear and apple can be worked very easily by this process, where it is desirable to increase a choice variety, and a gain of one season's growth can be secured (when it is too late to graft) over the simple budding process. Inarching is nothing more than the simple bringing of two growing twigs of the same size together, shaving each one half thrcngh on one side, and then fitting the cut parts together with the barks of both to join, and then securing them in position by ligatures until the parts are firmly united. Tho limb is then detached from the parent tree, and forms the top of the other, the rest of its branches having been removed. The principal care required is in removing this tying material in time and not al lowing it to cut too deeply into the growing limb. Twigs of the same sea son's growth, while growing rapidly, can be made to form a perfect nnion in a few weeks, and the ligature may have to be loosened in one week. To be successful it requires that both trees be in vigorous growth, and the stock on which it is proposed to fcrm a a new head will have to be planted care fully, within reach of the limb, by which it may be worked at the proper season, and then it can be cut loose and re moved the following fall, after growth has ceased; This may be practised on trees already growing near together, or when a new top is to be put on a small tree by grafting. If a few fail to take, and other limbs are desired, the sprouts can be worked from the growing gratis by bending them together, and thus a symmetrical head can be at once formed instead of waiting for another year. This is work for the amateur or gardener, and, as has been remarked, requires attention at several times and cannot be well done where the work is out of reach from the ground, or where limbs far apart will be severely shaken by the wind, and liable to break off where tied. It is not desirable to do this work much before midsummer, and no union takes place until the new layer of wood is deposited, in the case of shoots of pre vious season's growth. A little obser vation will show that last season's twigs do not increase in diameter until after or about midsummer, even though sev eral foet of new growth have been added to their length. The new growth or an nual layer, is then all deposited in a short time, when growth for the season ceases. Whether this new wood is deposited from the bark or thrown ont from the wood below, has been a point in con troversy, but observation seems to have established the latter as the correct theory. Tho bark may be removed from the trunk of an apple or pear tree at any time during the longest days of the year without apparent injury to the tree. I have seen pear trees that were apparently on the decline and had rough, scaly bark, started into new growth and health by simply removiug all the bark carefully (without scraping the wood) from the trunk the latter part of June. The now bark is left undis turbed, adhering to the trunk, and it thickens up in a short time and takes tuo place of that removed. Home trees continue this growth much later in the season than others, and a knowledge of their peculiarities is of great importance to every one who attempts to propagate them. Cor. Country Gentleman. Prepnrln Block tor Exhibition, 1. Begin to feed animals for show as young as it will eat. A calf should be pushed from four weeks old with plenty of milk and such solid food as it will eat. That is the time to begin never quit. 2. Feed anything that they will eat, the best that is ordinarily given to such stock, and in such quantities as they want, being careful always that they clean up their troughs. 3. I never found it advisable to feed oftener than three times a day have tried sucKiing calves turee times, and feeding the grown cattle five or even six times, but they will do no better than three times; and I have had good suc cess sometimes in feeding twice, buc that requires experience. Iu general, I will say that an adept will soon learn tne thousand details that mase up the whole, if he has his eyes and ears about him and wants to learn. When he goes off to the fairs let) him notice particularly bow everybody else does their work, especially those who take of the prizes. An occasional ques tion, without being too inqu sitive, will bring out one piece o information, and adapting it to his own use, he may see something better. This is. an art that must be studied, practiced and picked up. An industrious man with a taste for such things will learn more to do all, or a great part of the work, himself, than in any other way. Exchange. An American Empress. There was a handsome woman got on the train last Friday. Tall, stately queenly, when she stepped into the car she looked down in speechless amaze ment, as though horror stricken not to feel the finest Axminster under her feet. Then she dusted the seat with a lace handkerchief and sat bolt upright. She surveyed the seat of the passengers into a haucrhtv stare that betokened centle birth and superior breeding, and iu her Eresence we all felt abashed and umbled. She wore a gold chain abont three yards long around her neck, and Bhe held her ticket by the tips of her white fingers as though it was contam ination, and the awed conductor stood on the farther side of the aisle and took it from her with his punch. Nobody spoke save in whispers, so depressing was her lofty, superior silence. Presently the goddess spoke. The brakeman was tip-toeing through the car. The empress turned her white face toward his retreating figure, and shouted after him : " Sa7 yu ' Ain't we gittin party nigh on to North wood?" The spell was broken. Badly broken. A regular compound fracture. Smash ed all to pieces, in fact. Burdette, in Hawkey e. " Barns trotted a neat at Buffalo in 2:13 the fastest time on record." A small Albany boy read the dispatch, and then, after reflecting a moment, re marked, as he laid down the paper: " I kinder wish Jim Jones and me cad been timed Saturday as we made tracks from that orohard on the Shaker road. I'll bet the farmer that chased as will say that we made a mile in a good deal less than 2:13, and the road was bad in places at that Jee-hokey, how we did NATURE M4DE A BOSD SLAVE. Interesting Description of a Model French ttnrm. A Paris correspondent gives an in teresting account of a model farm, situ ated about twenty miles from the French metropolis. The farm is about 15,000 acres in size, and has.the river Seine on one side and a railroad on the other. Paul Decanville, the eldest son of the first proprietor, is the present manager of the farm, but he will soon have the assistance of his three brothers, who are now preparing themselves for their work at the Polyteohciqne, Ecole Centrale, and Eoole des Mines. Connected with the farm is a model village of more than fifty houses, with co-operative stores, for the agricultural employees. The land is situated on an extensive plateau, and is therefore especially suitable to the style of farming pursued by the late proprietor, M. Arniand Decanville. The land being high, with insufficient natural water supply in many seasons, M. De canville erected pumping works on a large scale, and laid a network of pipes for artificial irrigation all over the prop erty. The height of the plateau above the river enabled him to drain off quick ly any surplus rainfall, while any de ficiency was easily made good by his pumping works. He also took advan tage of every improvement in machinery, introducing English and American in ventions whenever he could thereby economize labor. The estate is divided into four sepa rate departments. The first includes the f arrawork proper, the animals, dairy and implements; the second consists of the beet sugar manufactory, tho pumping works and the gas works; the third is devoted to the quarry, which is, nevertheless, one of the most pro fitable of the four, sinoe a line quality of grindstones and millstones is produced; the fourth includes the forges, repair shops, and the manufac tory of freight tram cars, of which a great many are used ou the farm and also sold outside. The manager's office communicates by telegraph with tho quar.ers of each department overseer, and other wires are run to different points on the farm from the sub-offices. Since the invention of the telephone M. Paul Decanville has discussed the desira bility of increasing the number of points of telegraphic communication, and it is probable that telephones will be placed in every field, so that instant commu nication can be had with the laborers. Heretofore a system of signals has been iu use, but it will doubtless be super seded by the telephone. The beet sugar distillery was one of the first erected in France, and it has proved remarkably successful. At the present time a very large portion of the farm is devoted to beet cultivation. Hops are also grown extensively and with unusual success. Indeed, it would be difficult for any crop to be a failure. The earth is never allowed to rest. It is never fallow, except for a short period after harvest, when it is used for pasture. The steam ploughs are always at it. No portion is left waste. There are no fences, no un cultivated nooks. It is divided only by occasional drainage ditches, and the crops grow close np to the edges. As soon as one crop has beeu harvested and conveyed by the trim cars to the barns preparations are made for another. Fertilizers are thoroughly spread and turned under. Other machines break the ground and prepare it for new sesd, and before Mother Earth can feel that one weight has been lifted from her bosom, she is threatened with another. Everything is done systematically and rapidly, yet without haste. Every crop is treated by itself in such a way that there is little or nothing loft to chance. If hay is to be cut, it is all done in one day, when the prospect is fine. If rain is threatened, an army of workers rapid ly places every straw nnder waterproof covers, and no harm is done. Again it is as rapildy spread and allowed to cure. Then, before any injury can happen to it, it is loaded up, run off to the weigh yard, baled, strapped and stored, or else immediately sent to be sold, ac cording to the state of the market. If nightfall seems likely to interfere with the proper gathering of any crop, eleo trio lanterns are so placed as to light up the field, and tue work goes steadily on. Nature is made a bond slave. If she smiles on the farmer's labors, she is allowed to do so without interference; but if she attempts to overturn his cal dilations by any of the usual methods by which she damages crops storms, drought, rain etc. she is made to stand asido while artificial aid is given to them. Is it too dry? Open the irrica tion pipes, and sprinkle all the land with refreshing showers morning and even ing. Is it too wet ? Open the drains and hasten off the surplus water. In an elegantly -kept park, surrounded by flower gardens, stands the family house, it is only one story in height, and covers a great deal oi ground. There is no questioning the good taste of the occupants, while comfort is apparent in every part, there is no lack of tasteful ornamentation. There is luxury without profusion, aud elegance without waste. Mme. Decanville is said to be a lady of fine education and accom plishments, and her house shows her to be of a refiued nature. It is comfort able without being slipshod, stylish without being stiff. In the large hall. and in fact all around the house, are numbers of birds. The gardens are miracles of beauty. And yet the mistress is no idler lor all her aesthetic tastes, bhe is the manager of the household, as her husband is the manager of the estate; and from all accounts she is no less success ful She attends to all the household accounts, superintends the household work, and directs the management of the gardens and poultry yard. She has a large force of servants, both male and female, solely nnder her control, and I understand that the profits of the poul try yard are all oeded to her pin money. A Royal Silver Wedding. The recent celebration of the silver wedding of the king and queen of the Jieigians was made tne occasion oi a general holiday among their subjects. Brussels was deooratedwith flags and flowers, and numerous receptions were made at the palace. The queen was E resented with a golden crown sot with rilliauts aud a splendid veil of Belgian lace by Madame Anspaoh, the wife of the burgomaster of Brussels, in the name of the women of Belgium. The queen acknowledged the gift in appro priate terms, and said the demonstra tion would be the most precious sou venir of her life. The king received I magnificent silver covered oup, with handle, sent him by the Prince of Wales. The oup is elaborately chased, and on the front of it is this inscription: "Leo pold II., King of the Belgians, on his silver wedding. From his most affeo tionate cousin, Albert Edward, Prince of waies, Aug. 22, 1878." The star Aroturus moves through space who a velocity of not less than uuj-iour mues a eeoona. ARTIFICIAL. ICE An Anpnrntns Which Will Tarn Ont Thirty Ton of Clear Ice In a, Dot-How It I Done. The Ice factory recently opened in West Eleventh street was visited by a Herald reporter, and it proved to be an object of mnoh interest. The ioe, pro duced in blocks of about nve hundred pounds each, measuring four feet square and nine inches thick, was so clear that the hour oould plainly be told on a watch dial through the entire thickness of the block. Printed bills and bottles of champagne were frozen tight in the ice. The bills were read with the greatest ease through the Bide of the block in which they had been embedded. A ther mometer embedded with Fahrenheit's scale was frozen into the block at a point marking nineteen degrees below the freezing point. The ioe sreneratinar apparatus ia run in the present instance, by a steam en gine of twenty horse power. On the right hand of the engine is the refrigera tor, a copper tubular vessel, enclosed in a wooden box about six or seven feet square. The refrigerator is charged with liquid ether, evaporated, when re required, by a vacuum pump, which stands on the left of the engine and is conneoted by copper tubes with the refrigerator. The ether is drawn away in the form of vapor and passed into a copper tubular condenser, where, nnder low degree of pressure, aided by a stream of water, it is again brought back to its original state and returns through the ether cooler into the meter, whioh regulates the flow of the liquid ether into the refrigerator. The same ether is used contiguously with inappreciable loss. To utilize the cold produced by tho ethor a strong, nncongealable brine circulated by a machine called tiie brine pump through the tubes of the re frigerator, parting with its heat to the ether vapor on its passage. Thus it leaves that vessel at a temperature many degrees below the freezing point and is then used m the freezing tanks, return ing afterward to the machine to be re cooled, tor the manufacture of ice blocks the machine is furnished with large woopen tanks (placed at the left of the vacuum pump) of any convenient dimensions, which tanks are rilled with the fresh water to be frozen. In the tanks a number of hollow metal cells are fitted r.nd so connected with tho refriger ator aud with each other that the cold, leaving the refrigerator at a temperature of from fourteen to twenty degrees Fahrenheit, is continually circulated in side them, thus causing the water in the tanks, ou each side, to congeal until the required thickness of ice has been ob tained by the process of successive layers, but done as closely and compact ly as nature performs her admirable work in winter on the lakes and ponds. When the blocks aro frozen solid the cold brine is pumped out of the cells and replaced by brine of the ordinary atmos pherio temperature. The circulation of this comparatively warm brine, for a few minutes in the cells, loosens the ice from then? sides and renders its removal very easy. A knotted and looped rope is frozen into the block, a hook is inserted in the loop aud the block is hoisted away. It is then carried by means of a traveler in any convenient direction for delivery at the door ot the factory. It is claimed that this machine, which, however novel here, has been in use for about nine years in Eugland, con pro duce thirty tous of ice daily at a cost of one dollar a ton. it requires an en gineer, two firemen and two laborers to work it. It will cost, however, from $75,000 to $100,000 to put it in running order, so that the invention could only be made available to corporations or pri vate individuals commanding a consider able amount of capital. Neto York Herald. Morocco at the Paris Exposition. The court of Morocco has an inde scribable air of romance about it. writes an American correspondent in Paris. It is hung with mats and scrafs of gay, warm colors, and displays an endless variety of attractive knickkaacks. deli' cately embroidered silk kerohiefs, cigar and cigarette cases and holders, bril liantly illuminated bracelets and neck laces made oi an aromatio composition, fantastically embroidered slippers, deli' cate pastilles, and an astonishing varintv of gilt and tinsel ornaments. Everything seems to send forth the most delicious odor. The air is heavy with eastern perfumes and spices. Olive wood, sou venir s in the shape of canes, paper cut ters, paper weights and sleeve buttons, are spread temptingly before you, Strange looking musical instruments. war trumpets, balafans (a very primitive sort of piano), spears, guns and queer looking dirks and battle-axes appear. Then the tall, handsome Moors, with liquid eyes and languishing manners. looking like the stage Othellos, in their picturesque red tarbonehes and flowing many-coiored robes ; standing in the tent and around the courts, add greatly to the romantio scene. One of these dark-eyed attendants Drought tor our inspection a box full of pretty rings. And while he was telling Mistress Jack about his country and enlisting her sympathies for his king, wuo, he said, was very ill, he managed to persuade her that the rings were the prettiest and the cheapest in the Exposi tion. These apparently sleepy Orientals are in reality quick-witted tradesmen, and keep up a very lively traffio with their small wares. They never cease to praise tne beauty and taste of the Amer ican women, and the generositv of the men. JNext to the Americans, they say the English buy most : the French and Germans " look a loni? while but don't buy anything." Bosnian Women. Bosnia is one of the most valuable provinces of Turkey. The population originally of the same Slavic stork, is divided only by differences of religion, They are a hardy, martial race, self-re liant, accustomed to vicissitudes of life. and prepared for evnry emergency. The women are almost as mascunue as the men. They have strongly marked phy siognomies, are athletio in form, bold and intrepid in bearing, and of the mould from whioh heroio races are east Their beauty is of the sternest type, and vet it ia commanding and attractive. The complexion is fair and free from blemishes, the eyes large ana lustrous, and the countenance indicative of both energy and good nature. When they love, it is with an intensity that brooks no control. When they give their hearts, they expect hearts in return, and woe be to him who deceives them. Bet ter that he had never been born. He becomes an object of hate to all her family, and may be the cause oi a per petuation of vendettas from generation to generation. Often when yon can get no other guides, a Bosnian woman will accompany you on the way, and lead you to your destination though the journey oooupy several days. eware, nowever. that you treat her with proper respeot, or due win be. the consequences, Sagacity of Chickens. ' The artfulness of common chickens is illustrated by this fnnny story, pub lished in Land and Water! In former days it was difficult for visitors to get anything to eat at John O Groats, the extreme north of Scotland, there being no butchers or bakers within miles. When visitors arrived, it was the custom of the proprietor of the little inn to chise and catch a chicken, pluck and roast him at onoe for the visitor's dinnor. In course of time the chickens became very artful. They kept a sharp look out, and when they saw a carriage com ing along the road they eonld see a long way down the straight road from the inn they bolted with all legs into the heather, and did not reappear until the visitors had eaten their bacon with out the chicken and taken their depart ure. That birds learn from experience is quite certain. The following fact proves it : When the telegraph wires were first put up between Berrydale and Hems dale, the grouse were continually flying against the wires and killing themselves, and in one season the driver of the mail cart picked up no less than forty brace of grouse that had been so killed. Of late years not a grouse has been found killed by the telegraph wires. They seemed to have passed on the warning that telegraph wires were dangerous, The casual invention of the saw came about by the use of a jaw of a serpent as a cutting instrument. It was fonnd to work well, and was afterwards imita ted in metal. Enconrniretnent for the Feeble. So long as the failing embers ot vitality are capable of being re-kindled into a warm and genial glow, )ust so long mere la nope for the weak and emaciated invalid. Let him not, therefore, despond, bnt derive encouragement from this and from tho further fact that there ie a restorative most potent in renewing the dilapidated powers of a broken down system. Yes, thanks to its unexampled tonio virtues, uosteuer s etomacn liitters is daily reviving strength in the bodies and hope in the minds of tho feeble and nervous. Appetite, refresh ing sleep, tht acquisition of flesh and color, are blessings attendant upon the reparative pro cesses which this priceless invigorant speedily initiates and carries to a successful conclusion. Digestion is restored, the blood fertilized and sustcdauce afforded to each life-sustaining organ by the Bittors, which is inoffensive even to the fominino palate, vegetable in composi tion, apo thorougnly safo. use it, ana regain vigor. Does the World Move f Tbeltev. John Jasper, of Virginia, says, "De sun do move, for in de mornin' it shines on dis side ob de hous, whil in de ebenin, on dat side ob de hous. Now, ef he don't move, bow com he dar ?" Notwithstanding Mr. Jasper's logio wo vot believe the world moves. When Mr. Jasper's ideas constituted the popular belief, people thought that to die of suiall-pox or cholera was simply fnifilliug one of nature's laws, now, tnrougu vaccination, smaii-pox is averted, while cholera, cholera morbus, dyt-en-tory, (flux), and diarrhoea are readily cured by the use of Dr. Piorce's Compound Extract of Smart Weed. Does not such evidence tend to prove that "the world moves?" As an external remedy for cuts, bruises, sprains, swellings, bites and stings of insects, tho Compound Ex tract of Smart Woed has no eqnal. Veterinary surgeons have also employed it with marked success. From the Newburyport, Mass., Herald. Grace's Salve Bhould be iu every family, for thero is nothing of the kind exceeding it in value. For Sdalds, Barns, Chapped Hands, and Sores from Humors or otherwise, it is the n'ost speedy onre known. We speak from facts under our own observation. For upwards of thirty years Mrs. WIN8LO W'B HOOTEINGSYRDP has been nsod for children with never-failing success. It orrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery ana aiarrnoea, whether arming from toething or other causes, An old aud well-tried remedy. 25 eta hnttln. CHEW The Celebrated "SlATCnLF.88 Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. Thb Piokeeb Tobacco Compant, New York, Boston, and Chioago. TU fj-vta'.irffil Pnnulnrttv Of Doolcy's Yeast Powder ia the best evidence of its north. Whenever vou want a lieht. white. sweet hisouit, delioiona pot-pie, elegant cake, or a choice pudding, Dooley's Baking Powder should be used. Perfeot purity and absolute full weight are the watchwords of the manu facturers. Dvsneutie Bvmotoms. low spirits, restlessness, sleeplessness, confusion, sour stomach, pain in the bowels, sick headache, variable appetite, raising food, oppression at pit of stomach, low fover and languor. Parsons' Purgative Pills give immediate reUef and will ultimately cure the disease. FnlrbRnka Mcnles. Numerous foreign governments, as Russia, Cuba, Siam, Japan, etc, have adopted the Fairbanks Standard Soales for government use, and in the last four years only, our own govern ment in the Post-Oihoe, War and Treasury Departments, have bought over 11,000. To oleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweeten the breath, use Brown's Camphorated Sapona ceous Dentifrice. Twenty-five oents a bottle Tbe Markets. w SOB. Beef Cattle Native 08 9 09 Texas aud Cherokee. M 0 10 MllohOows 85 00 06 03 nous Live 04 ( 04 H Dressod 05 C5H Sheet) 09XM D4M Lambs 06 06X Cotton Middling UX& 117 Flour Western Good to Oholee... a 85 9 T VO State Fair to Oholoe t as 9 5 00 Baokwheat, per cwt 1 95 ( 1 6J Wheat Bed Western I 05 9 1 11 No. 1 HUwaukea 85 & 1 15 Bve State 51 81 Barley SUte, , 78 BarleyMalt...... ....... . ..... ...... 65 Buckwheat 80 Oats Mixed Western...... 18 Corn Mixed Western. 47 Hay, per cwt........................ 45 Btraw, per cwt....... 80 Hops Good to Prime 08 Fork Mess 11 00 Lard City Bttarc 07 Fish -Mackerel, No. 1, new 18 00 No. 1, new 11 00 Dry Ood, per cwt 4 17 Herring, 8 id. per box.... 18 74 90 80 81 (1 48 40 11 011 87 a 07 20 00 a la " 3 4 60 19 Petroleum Oro ...... MXHOSH Bsflned, Wool Oaliforr aleece 90 9 l(l Texas " 90 4 17 Austral lao " M. IB SUte XX 18 Batter tttate...... 18 Western Oholee...... .... 14 Western dood U Prime.. 08 49X 84 1 93 01 08 Is) Western Firkins 05Ma Cheese Stite Factory. . ............ 05 9 State Bkinuued..... 08 8 Western (8 O Eggs Stats and Pennsylvania, .... 18 0 BDYVALO. OB Ot Oi 18 F:onr 4 M A 4 78 Wheal- No. 1 HUwanko 1 08 a l ism Oui-n Mixed Oats Bye............. Barley Barley Halt..... a 4 ..... rSIULCBUXtla. Beef Cattle Extra.. ...... ...... ... Bicep. ........... ............. ,aM Hoss Pressed 08 05 05 C8 06 06 it Flour Pennsylvania I lira, 6 00 Wheat-Bed Western.. ..... 1 to Bjo 47 Co-n Yellow...... .......... ..... 80 Mixed...M...M..asM... .... 40 a 8 as a 1 14 a , 69 a si a 8 Mixed .... M 4 aiy PrtrolentnOrude.,......08ao8 BeBned, 10) " " . . .... d'l im a Texas jg Oaltforula. 80 a 18 BOSTOB. va.ue.... ............. , Sheep. ...... ................ . 08 08 X . oejtfa 07M Hoge.. :onr- Com Mixed. ... (l w M P" ' 81 a 81 Wool umo ana Pennsylvania XX. 81 a 86V California Fall... .. J 80 3MHTOa, KASB, Beef Cattle........... WK9 07 Sheep..... M 05 a 0H LircbS. IV a 10 bcp.,.u,.HM....M 07w) 08 W1TS1TOWB, BUM. WV, ItaJfl. USM9 . 19 AIM) l888tU t 00 m I I uaor uis -eor ig tuotc...... Haecp. ...... tMn.Ps...samMjt Children do not die of the croup to whom Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs Is adminis tered. Parents will do well to rememrjer tnis fact and keep a medicine, which saved so many lives, in the house ready for an emergency. The Balsam overoomes a tendency to consumption, strengthens weak and heals sore lungs, reme dies painful .id asthmatic breathing, banishes hoarseness and enres all bronchial and tra- chealinflammation. If you have a coign, nse it "early and often." an irnggi t h. raiders of this paper do not know of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment we nrge them to find out about it. Write to i Dr. John son A Co., of Bangor, Me. It is the most mar velous remedy In the world. iumstiiiT NOTICE.-Farmers', Fatnl- h..ul Others ean onrchsaano Remedr equal to Dr. TOBIAS' VKNKTIAN LINIMKHT for the ' J""" Cholera, Narrnaa. Dwt-r,. "SL'0.SSl oatb acornnpanytns each bottle) 5i"t"'T'l'fJ"I Chronic Rheumatism, Hnedsobe, Toot-haohjsl Bora Throat. (Jnte, Bnrra, Srellins, Broi, Mointo Bites, did Sores, Pains In Limbs, Back and Obe.t, It" VKHKTIAN UNIMKMT Was imiron . '.. noons who baa mod It om ootiuji"" jy "' IV "i latinr. If It was Ten Dollars Bottle ""'."""J'' nn?J he without It. Thonsanrle of OertiHoates on be aeen the Iepot, si peaking of its wonderful onratlve properuoj. Hold ty tns New York. Drocgist at Octs. Depot, Saowit S BaowpBiAti TaoorfSS, foreons-bs and polo's AGENTS In earnest, write Hall. 234 Broad'y. W.Y. owbrt nan.avii.vai Merllr Lancashire Clog for p I Oo., poet-paid, J. QhaDBET. Chatham Oentre.N.Y. CCk a day to AenU to sell a Household Artlolo tgjy Address Bucheye Jl'Pn t,'o. Marion. Ohio, A Of ft A BIONTII-Anents) Wnnterl-3p bmt selling artioles in the world: one eampler. iPtlUtl Address JAY BRONSUN, Detroit, MioS. $7 A DAY to A Rente anTssslnnforthe 1 Iresldt VUltor, Terms and Outfit Kree. Ac dress P. O. V1CKBRY AngnttH, Mains' WANTED Men for one rear, to begin work at nnrn. Hnliirv filir. BunilieHH first clnfiH. MuxitorUlass WoskSjCikcihsati.Ohio. nnnivfi " p"o's9.onlr''?i'.'A,r, . Great 1fl in sMfinn Inrestedln Wall St. Stocks makes I 1 111 A III till fortunes erery month. Book sent if iv iu yivvu ,rHeeIpiajnnn everything. Address BAXTER CO., Bankers, 1 7 Wall St.. W. T. DK.FtlOTK'S IIKAI.TU nlONTIII.Y.-IB octavo panea-Kd.ted by Drs. K. B. tooTJ.Sa. andjB. Sent on trial for six months for FOUR 3c. STAMPS I Murray Hill Pab.Oo.,1 g! R. ath Bt..,N.Y. rIr'TJ1 A O The obnloest In the world Importers J. tjixiJe prioes Largest Company in Aroorioa staple article pleases everybody Trade oonttnually inoreasing Agents wanted everywhere best induce monte don't wate time eend for Oironlar to ROR'T WELLS, 43 Voaey St.. W.Y., P. U. Box 1287. $ 1 0 g $25 Efo&Jhttjttl NoveUies CataiJl'ne A Olltflt FX66 application "to J. H. BUFFORD'S SON8, Manufacturing Publishers, 141 to 147 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass. Kstabl ished nearly fifty years. GRACE'S SALVE. Jouksttllk, Mloh.,Deo. J7, lfW7. Mrtm. Favja: 1 sent you 6ti ota. for two boxes of Oraoe'e Salve. I bare bad two and have used them on an uloer on my foot.and It ia almost well. Respectfully yours, O. J. Van Ness, Price 5 oents a box at all drnggists, or sent by mail on receipt of 33 oents. Prepared by HKTII W. FOVyi.K ifc SON. S Harrison Ave.. Beaton, Mass. N y;n U 37 Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion Sour Stomach. Sick Headache. NEW RICH BLOOD ! Pnrson' PnrTnt1v P. Hn make New Rich Blood, and will completely change the blood in the entire ayntem in three months A y person who will take 1 pill ea;h night irum 1 to 12 week may bo robtored to souud health, it such a thing be tm?i)le. Bangor, Maine. 900,000 aem Uken la fnar mnntha tv US.Ano renpla. flnnrf t,'m.l ,U. l. IX IU! S .tini, BDll gfol ,C ciely. Adilren. A J. titlmore. l,nd Vmu'r, ftatina. k&Qam. .OaUy andlWeekly, Quarto, Boston, Moss. The Largest. OheanAiit .nri Real P.mll. w.n.n.. In New England. Kdited with special reference to the faried tastes and requirements of the home circle. All the foreign and local news published promptlj. Daily Transcript, ! 1 0 per annum in advance. Weekly " i " " " ' (0 copies to one address,) S7.5U per annum in advance. BEND FOB SAMPLE COPY, WHO WANTS A FARM WHERE FARMING PAYS THE BEST ? FOR SALE. Mil II (111 .sRjph farming V WVfV VU ftt from ,0 y located ia MicbiKiui iiH lis!' nr.ri. an on as ktiuk ui pa mmsm terms of payment. Also. of Choice Pino in beat Lumber DlntrltHn "Send for Illustrated Pamphlet, full of facts. ilirnn. LanJ CommlKwIoncr. Kanwlng, Alfrh. RAPONIFIEj Is the Old Baliabl Concentrated Lye FOR FAMILY SOAP MAKING. Directions aooompanyinc each oan for makin Hard Soft and Toilet Soap quickly. ' IT 13 FULL W SIGHT AND STRENGTH. The market li flooded with (eo-oalled) Concentrated Lire, whioh ie adulterated with salt and rosin, and uan-f BTM m fJITM, , JYU BUM 2 1M SaponifieR MADB B7 THB) Pennsylvania Salt Manuf g Cdt, PHILADELPHIA. Make Hens Lay. I An English Veterinary Burgeon and Chemist now traTeliPK in thia coir, try, aaye that most of the Horra and Oattle Powders sold here are worthless trtteh. He ears that Sheridan's Condition Powders are aWsolotely pure and immensely'valuable. Nothing; on earth will make hens lay like Sheridan's Condition Powders. Dotie one teaspoonfnl to one pint food. Bent by mail for eight letter ilamni. X. 8. JOIINSON A CO., Bangor, Heine. EsUblUhed 1633. Gargling Oil Liniment "ellow Wrapper for Animal and White for Human Flesh, is good roa nl, fds, Sprains and Bruises, Chilblains, f rost Bites, SlrinL'halt, Windfalls. Scratches or Grease, Foot Hot in Sheep? Chapped Hands. Foundered Feet. External Poisons, Sand Cracks, Galls of all kinds, S u fast. Ringbone, Poll Evil, Swellings, Tumors, Garget in Cows, Cracked Teats. Roup in Poultry, Cracked Heels, Lame Back, Hemorrhoids or Piles, Toothache, Rheumatism, Spavins, Sweeney, i-istula. Mange, Caked Breasts, Hore Nipples, Cuib, Old Sores, Corns, Whitlows, Cramps, Boils, Weakness of the Joints Contraction of Muscle. Callous, Lameness, Crownscab, Quittor, Foul Ulcers, Farcy, Abcess of the Udder, Swelled l.egs, Thrush, f,?'7,"M 011 the standard etSSl th VDiUi Sutes- l-artfe size, f.mil- ,um' J"! s'na", 35c. Small sire lor family use. a5c. Manufactured at Lock port, .i 6y Merchant', Gargling Oil Company. JOHX UODCE, gecy. in
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