THE FARM AXD HOUSEHOLD.
feed Corn.
In A recent address on the subject of
corn PiofonRor Btal lemnrked that tlip
topmost ear win the bust for need. Of
two fields, onu planted with sped taken
lit random and the other selected in the
field, the latter yielded as much Again as
the former. Manure and cultivation
may be thrown away on poor seed. The
best time to cultivate corn is before
planting. A shallow cultivation was
recommended. Twenty-three ears of
corn can be produced from one kernel
by proper cultivation and the usn of the
best seed a1 hiyh as twenty-five ewi.
Smut is a great damage to corn, and
smutty corn, and smutty corn is very in
jurious to cattle.
lUnnurlns the Garden.
The cost of manuring a garden plot is
so trifling and the result so satisfactory,
it is a matter of wonder that those who
desire a fair harvest of fruits or vege
tables do not treat the soil a little more
liberally in this respect. Before get
ting seeds, plants, splittings or cuttings,
get manure. Study the character of the
' soil and seek to give it the manure best
calculated to enrich it, and there is
nothing better than well-rotted stable
manure. Let it be well worked into
the soil. It is of little use to a gardener
to throw it upon the ground and there
leave it. Let there be as thorough pul
verization as possible and then inter
mixture of the manure, and the land
will show its gratitude in the results.
Destroying Insert.
The practice of excluding young
chickens from the garden, especially in
midsummer, says an exchange, is bad
both for the chickens and for the vege
tables. The young chicks will not thrive
in confinement as in freedom, and the
growing plants are in a good measure
protected from insects by the chickens.
We have never succeeded better with
young broods than by putting tliem,
with the mother, in tho vegetable
garden. The mother is confined iu a
coop and the chickens have free access
to her through tho slats. She follows
her instinct in scratching over the
ground under the coop for worms and
grubs, and after a few days the coop i.i
pushed along tho new soil. The
chickens are regularly fed with scalded
meal or boiled screenings. They supply
themselves with animal food from the
garden. The chickens are to small to do
any harm to plants that are well started,
and yet they pick up an immense
numb'er of insects. The more highly
the garden is manured tho more rapidly
do insects multiply and the greater is
the need of birds and fowls to keep
them in check. Tho chickens can go
underneath cucumbers, squashes, benns,
tomatoes, etc., and pick tho eggs and
worms from the underside of the loaves,
where- they are generally found. They
eagerly chase every moth and bug that
flies, and if one alights within striking
distance it is sure to be devoured. When
the chickens are large enough to do in
jury to the plants they aro easily
removed to other quarters.
The Weight offolln.
It is impossible to determine the exact
weight of any soil, as it varies according
to its porosity, amount of water con
tained, the per cent, of sand, gravel,
clay, etc., present. No ono handi'ul or
bushel of soil from a field is identical
with any or every other like quantity.
The following figures are from John
son's " How Crops Feed:"
J'ouhdx per cuhiefert.
Dry saiul weighs aliout 110
Heavy clay weighs about 73
Half saud and t-lav weighs aliout '.Hi
Hicli garden mold weigh about 7(1
Peat weighs about 30 to 50
A sandy soil which is spoken of as
"light" is so because worked with
greater ease than the " heavy" clay that
weighs some thirty-live pounds less per
cubic foot. The resistance offered by
soils in tillage is more the result of ad
hesiveness than of gravity." The specific
gravity of a soil is its weight compared
with the weight of an equal bulk of
water. The water is taken as the stand
ard of comparison, and its specific
gravity (t-p. gr.) is called one (1). A
cubic foot of water weighs (12 1-2 pounds.
By comparing the weight of various soils
with this their specific gravities are ob
tained. Tho specific gravity of good
agricultural soils is not far from 2. UK;
that is, such soils are two and sixty
eight hundredths times heavier than
water. A cubic foot of it would weigh
about 1G7 1-2 pounds. American Agri
culturist. Vlniiihitr Vegetable Hi-ciU.
It costs no more and the profits are
double to cultivate a garden rich in
choice small fruits and vegetables than
one growing inferior and ordinary sorts.
Too great care cannot bo exercised in
procuring good seed of desirable variety
and having it on hand in ample time to
sow in season. A second serious con
sideration is putting the seed in the
ground at exactly tho proper time this
is even more important in a garden than
a field. Many seeds have delicate germs
and if cold, wet weather succeeds their
planting they rot in the ground. Lima
beans, okra, cucumbers, melons, squash,
pumpkins, etc., may be cited in instance
of these tender kinds. On tho other
hand, peas, radishes, lettuce, turnips,
salsify, onions and beets will withstand
the name conditions that destroy the
first-mentioned vegetables nud there
fore can be planted at an earlier date.
A knowledge in respect to the correct
season for sowing vegetables and secur
ing a desirable succession of crops is all
important to the market farmer, whose
success depends on gaining highest
prices with products that meet tho do
mand for them in season. For instance,
spinach, kale and other extra-early
greens are very welcome until lettuce is
large enough for the table; while lettuce
in turn loses favor when early peas ap
pear. Kadishes are valuable only dur
ing the early season, there being little
demand for them when cucumbers aro
at hand.
The depth to which seed is planted
in the ground frequently determines its
full development or its early destruc
tion. The size of the seed controls to
groat extent the size of its covering.
There is an old rule which limits the
depth of covering to twice the diame
ter of the seed sown. This, like most
other rules, is liable to exceptions, the
a moment s consideration to see tnat a
heavy soil which lies close to the seed
admits of a lighter covering than does a
shifting sandy one.
Care exercised in gaining a rotation of
crops exhaustive to the soil is advisable
No two crops of a similar nature but
beets, carrots and parsnips, should bo
crown two veara in succession on the
samo ground.
The quantity of garden seeds required
to plant a given space varies with the
soil, location and character of the seed,
so that only approximate figures can be
given. In a general way it may be said
that asparagus will from one ounce of
seed produce 1,000 plants and requires
a bed twelve feet square. One pii ri ot
largo pole beans will plant 100 hills,
while the same amount of small ones
give 300 hills. One ounce of beet seed
plants 150 feet of row. One ounce of
cabbage seed produces 2,500 plants
One ounce of carrot plants 150 feet of
row. One ounce of cucumber is required
for 150 hills. One onneo of lettuce seed
produce" about 7,000 plants. One
ounce of onion Reed is enough for 200
feet of row. One quart of peas will
plant 120 feet of row. One ounce of
radish seed is suflicient for 100 feet of
row. For seventy-five hills of squash
one ounce of seed is required. One
ounce of tomato Bccd produces 2,500
plants and one ounce of watermelon
seed is required for fifty hills.
Reoloon.
Potato riE One pound mashed po
tatoes, rubbed through a colander; one
half pound butter, creamed with sugar:
six eggs, white and yolks separately; one
lemon, squeezed into the potato "while
hot; one cupful milk, ono teaspoonl'ul
of nntmog and the same of moee; two
cnpfuls white sugar; bake in open
shells of paste; to be eaten cold.
Milk Lemonade. Loaf sugar, one
and a half pounds, dissolved in a
quart of boiling water, with half a
pint of lemon juice, and one and a half
pints of milk. This makes a capital
summer beverage.
Rolii Jelly Cake. Four eggs, one
cup of sugar, ono cup of flour, ono tea
spoonful of baking powder, a pinch of
salt. Mix all well together and roll out
on long tins s soon as baked, spread
over anj jelly uud roll up immediately.
Swef.t Apple Prnrrso. Ono quart of
scalded milk, half pint of Indian meal,
cup of molasses, spoonful of salt, sweet
apples. Mix these all together, and cut
the apples (paved) in small pieces and
stir in. Bake not less thau nn hour
iu a moderate oven.
IIoiiNeliolit II Into.
Good flour ir. not tested by its color.
White flour may not be the best. Tho
test of good flour is the amount of water
it absorbs.
In cooking a fowl, to ascertain
whether it is done, put the skewer into
the breast, and if the breast is tender
the fowl is done.
Cutlets and steaks may be fried as
well as broiled, but they must bo put in
hot butter or lard. Tho grease is hot
enough when it throws olY a blackish
smoke.
To wash red table linen use teiid
j water, with a little powdered borax
(borax sets the color); wash the linen
i separately and quickly, using very little
soup; rinse in tepid water containing a
i little boiled starch; hang to dry in the
I shade; iron when almost dry.
j Single cream is cream that has stood
j on the milk for twelve hours. It is
j the best for tea and coffee. Double
I cream stands on its milk twenty-four
hours, and cream for butter frequently
I stands for forty-eight hours. Cream
: that is to be whipped should not be but
i ercieam, lest in whipping it change to
i butter.
The World Cumin;? to an End.
Something like fifty years ago Uncle
Eli and Aunt Buth, a good old couple
jogging on along life's downward way,
retired to rest with no thoughts con
cerning the end of the world in mind
to destroy sleep, or even trouble them
during the hours allotted to slumber.
Aunt Ruth was a devout Episcopalian,
Uuclo Eli an equally devout Methodist.
It might have been midnight, when,
for some unaccountable reason the fe
male head of the house awoke. The
bed stood facing two windows, out upon
the village green, aud as her eyes un
closed she beheld a sight that sent a
thrill of fear quivering through every
fiber of her being. The heavens
were on file, and the stars were
falling to eavtli like the waters of an il
luminated Niagara.
Aunt Kuth slid from the bed to her
knees, while with one hand she groped
for her prayer-book, the other hand
being occupied with an attempt to
awaken, by a series ol vigorous shakes,
her consort, who yet slept and snored
unconscious of the impending calami tv.
"Daddy! daddy !"sho cried; "dadd'v,
wake up; tho clay of judgment is
come." The only response to her apneal
was a f Accession of en ores, for which
Uncle Eli was famous, and nn accession
of terror on her part, lest the affair
should happen before the sleeper could
be aroused.
"Oh, Lordy; have mercy. Daddy!
daddy !" she again shrieked, this time
administering a thorough shaking np;
"Daddy, the world is on firo coming
to an end pray, daddy, pray, tho day
of judement's come !"
"Ugh! eh?" grunted the only gentle
man, only half awake. "Itutti, what's
the" he never finished that sentence,
for just then he caught a sight of the
celestial pyrotechnical display, and with
a single bound vaulted over the head of
his alarmed partner, landing in the
middle of the apartment.
" Huth ! lluth ! whero's my breeches?"
ho cried, as he pranced about in his
thin aud by no means voluminous
attire; " whore's my breeches, I say?"
"Never mind your breeches, daddy;
pray, daddy, pray," sobbed his terrified
companion.
"Torment you, Ruth," yelled Uncle
Eli, awakening tho children who bIoi t
on the next floor above; " torment you,
lluth, whore's my breeches?"
" Never mind your breeches, daddy ?"
moaned Aunt Huth; "never mind your
breeches, but tray, daddy, pray the
day of judgment' come."
But daddy did mind his breeches,
and continued galloping about the
oom, overturning chairs and tables,
barking his snins and stumbling over
everything within his circuit, hunting
for them.
Meantime Aunt Eut'i remained upon
her knees, praying, or attempting to
pray, and beseeching Uncle Eli to do
likewise.
At length, just as ho was passing hor
for the twentieth timo, she caught him
by his scanty garment and besought
Lira: " Pray, daddy, pray; the day of
judgment "
" TormfLt you, liuth," he roared, as
he broko away from her clutch; "tor
ment you, Buth, I don't care if the day
of judgment has come, I ain't agoing
without my breeches !"
Nor did he. lie found them about
tho time the fireworks ceased, and the
end of the world hadn't come, after all.
The good old souls have long since
passed away, but the story remains, and
is told for the benefit of believers in
Mother Bhipton's prophecy. If it has
a moral they will be sure to find it.
Bright and positive colors will not be
in fashion except in small bits to give a
dash of brightness to a costume.
FACTS AND COMMENTS.
Six members of the new United States
Senate are not natives of the United
States Farley, of California, Fair, ol
Nevada, Jones, of Florida, and Scwell,
of New Jersey, were born in Ireland;
Jones, ot Nevada, in England, and
Beck, of Kentucky, in Scotland.
Bents in Chicago have advanced fifty
per cent., while in Now York the ad
vance is still greater. Street rents have
quadrupled in many instances, until, as
the Springfield Hepuhlican puts it, the
room iu which a man makes his money
costs more than the house in which he
spends it. Small houses on dirty back
streets cost 81,200 a year in New York,
and rooms np four or five flights of
stairs rent for $30 and $10 a month.
The British consul at Philadelphia
having informed his government that
700,000 hogs had died of triehime, in
one year, and many persons killed by
the same disease, and it appearing that
only 400,000 died last year of all dis
eases and only thirteen persons in fifteen
years of trichina?, the British minister
at Washington admits that the state
ments of the British consul were " ex
aggerated," but not entirely without
foundation. The same, facetiously re
marks the Detroit hree Press, might bo
said of " Esop's Fables " orthe " Arabian
Nights."
Tho new prohibitory law of Kansas
denies the use of wine at the sacrament,
and renders preochers liable for its use.
It compels every physician to take an
oath not to prescribe any article into
which alcohol enters unless it is neces
sary for tho health of the patient, and
every druggist to take a similar oath not
to put up or sell any such article except
by prescriptions, duly signed, by a
practicing physician. Under this law
no ono can liny spirits of enmphor,
cologne or flavoring extracts except
upon a physician's prescription.
Tho advocates of cremation, as an
economical and sanitary mode of dis
posing of the dead, appear to be in
creasing in number and confidence. It
is now proposed to establish a crema
tory in Brooklyn, a gentleman having
tendered a plat of land there for that
purpose. Steps have been taken to or
ganize a society for the construction and
operation of the crematory, with an as
sociated society for collecting, collating
aud publishing information in relation
to cremation and its advantages. It is
expected that the expense ot cremation
may ultimately bo reduced as low as live
dollars.
Peace is far from the minds of the
European powers, if we may judge by
tho condition of things in the immense
Krupp gun works in Germany. These
factories are in a state of feverish
activity. The numerous buildings have
received more additions, the army of
employes has been increased, and work
is carried on day aud night. The next
country to have an order filled is
lioumania, for which 100 field guns,
with complete accouterments, have been
in process of manufacture. Greece will
come next with 700 field pieces, com
pletely equipped. Next in order is
Sweden, with fifty field guns, Holland
with 120, and Italy with 400 siege
guns.
" The people ask for a sign, and no
sign shall be given unto them," cannot
be said of the Chicago people. A firm
there has just put up a sign costing
32,500, and the conceited Chicago folks
claim that it is the most expensive sign
ever put up in this country. It is 130
feet long and five and a half feet wide.
It took 4,000 feet of lumber and 540
days' work to complete it. Four hun
dred dollars worth of gold and $250 of
metal ornaments were used in its con
struction. Chicago is mistaken about
its being the most expensive sigu. A
New York man had a sign that fell one
windy day and nearly killed a man. The
owner of the sign had to pay 4,800
aud costs, which makes that sign the
most expensive as tar as heard from:
Tho foresters' department in the Brit
ish East Indies is said to be the largest
and best managed of any in the world.
It is now proposed to bring one of the
foresters from that country to superin
tend the forests of Great Britain, and
have arboriculture taught students there,
as has long been done in France, Ger
many and Switzerland. We wish, says
the Rural yew Yorker, such a school
could be established by the United
States government. A lamentable de
struction has long been going on in onr
forests ever since tho settlement of the
country. If they were annually thinned
out ns needed, in a judicious way, in
stead of being mercilessly slashed down
by the wholesale; they would furnish all
tho wood and timber we want, and still
keep up the necessary growth from the
younger trees forfutuie requirements.
Fermentation is a process of nature
going on all the time and producing a
greater or less degreo of alcohol. The
amount of alcohol produced by fer
mentation in bread is scientifically
demonstrable, though practically inap
preciable; in the light wines it varies
from fivo to ten per cent. In many of
the wines it is quite sufficient to produce
a certain degree of intoxication, the
effect of the wine on the human body
depending altogether upon the char
acter and temperament of the person. A
tingle glass will produce more effect on
somo persons than a whole bottle on
others. Distillation is a modern pro
cess, by which the alcohol is extracted
from the grape juice or other substance
possessing it. The distilled liquors
rum, gin, brandy, whisky and the like
possess, therefore, a large amount of
alcohol, reaching in brandy, for ex
ample, fifty per cent., and sometimes
more.
The American Register, of Paris,
boasts, and not without reason, adds
the English journal, Land and Water,
of the slow but sure manner in which
American goods are forcing their way
into and successfully competing in all
foreign markets with European manu
factures. "Our cotton goods, both
heavy and fine, are rapidly taking the
place of English. Our printing and
wrapping paper is finding a ready sale
in the East and West Indies, while
even bank note and bond paper is in de
mand in Italy, Austria and Spain.
American cutlery is sold in Birmingham,
our locks are supplanting those of Eng
lish manufacture in English houses
American jewelry is sold in Paris, and
if we are not sending coals to Newcastle,
London is talking of supplying her
grates and furnaces with anthracite from
Pennsylvania." English manufacturers
must stir up and put their shoulders to
the wheel, or m y will be nowhere in
the race for wealth.
As an illustration of the enormous in
crease of the use of opium and morphia
in the United States the following m
tistics have a painful interest, uid it
must be remembered that this is no es
ceptional caso. In one of our large cit
ies, containing twenty-five years ago a
population of 67,000, the sales of opium
and morphia reached 350 pounds and
375 ounces respectively, or about forty
three grains of opium aud three grains of
morphia yearly for each individual, if the
consumption was averaged. Tho popu
lation is now 91,000, and 3,500 pounds
of opium and 5,500 ounces of morphia
are sold annually. While the popular
tion has increased fifty-nine per cent.,
the sale of opium has increased 800 per
cent., and nioi-phin 1,100, or an average
of 206 grains of opium and twenty-four
grains of morphia to every iiihab
itant. But there nre additional
sales of from 400,000 to 600,000
pills of morphia, which would give
us 170 ounces more of the drug. One
fourth of the opium sold is consumed in
its natural state, and three-fourths are
made into opiates, the principal one
being laudanum. The imports of opium
into the United States for the years 1879
and 1880, tiding the thirtieth of June,
were 533,451 pounds, valued at $2,736,
COG. The Xew Arctic Expedition.
The New York Herald says that "Com
mander Cheyne, of the British royal
navy,has offered Lieutenant Schwatka
a position in tho Arctic expedition to
sail from England next June. He ex
pects also the co-operation of Lieuten
ant Hoogoord, of the royal Danish navy,
who will accompany it in the interests
of Denmark. In England the pro
posal meets with some popular favor,
and it is intended that it shall be con
ducted under private auspices, and nn
trammeled by government orders. It is
proposed, should the sum of 150,000
be secured, to send a vessel to St. Pat
rick's boy, where the Alert of Nares' ex
pedition wintered, and from there sur
vey tho prospect of polar sledging by
means of balloons, and if favorable cir
cumstances aro found to exist, it is in
tended to attempt the journey with
the assistance of balloons. Other
wise, the vessel will return down Smith
sound and enter Wellington channel by
way of Lancaster sound, passing up with
the current that is believed to flow
toward the north and east, to possible
winter quarters in latitude eighty-four
degrees north. From here polar ex
plorations will be conducted by means
of sledges and balloons, anil upon
being released from ice in the fol
lowing summer, tho vessel will pursue
her course toward the northeast, pass
ing as near tho pole as possible, and
probably pass the second winter near
latitude eighty-four degrees nortli, upon
a meridian further to the east and about
duo north of Greenland. Tho follow
ing summer, upon breaking out from
her winter quarters, sho will continue
her homeward voyago to England,
passing down the southerly
current between Greenland and
Spitzbergen. The plan seems to be nn
excellent one, provided, iii the first
place, Commander Cheyne can succeed
in placing his vessel at St. Patrick's
bay, or at latitude eighty-four degrees
north, by way of Wellington channel.
But ono vessel has ever yet reached St.
Patrick's bay, and nono whatever has
reached even latitude seventy-eight de
grees north by way of Wellington chan
nel. White House Callers.
The expedients resorted to by the
people who visit the White House to
get a chance to speak to tho President
are amusiug and ingenious, says a
Washington correspondent. As the
congressional visitors aro given the
preference the unknown have to wait
until there is a lull iu the stream of
callers. But as they are apprehensive
that their names will not be the open
sesame to the President they write little
messages on the cards beneath their
names. One anxious writer sent in his
card with the following message:
"General, can you spare me five min
utes?" Another, in addition to his
name and address,, adds: "Formerly
of Hiram college." The most ordinary
message is the word " Respects" written
in one corner.
If the President was asked to give a
definition of this word, it would be
found to be one of the most comprehen
sive words in the language. It means a
shake of the hand, a request for
an office from a consuhiteship to a clerk
ship, a good word for a friend, a re
quest for a temporary loan of money,
for an autograph or photograph, and
the thousand and one things which a
President is supposed to have at his dis
posal. Tho main point is to get at tho
President. One ingenious visitor wrote
as follows on his card: 'Called to pay
his respects. Doesn't want any office ?"
If the statement was a correct one he
no doubt received a wami reception.
When tho visitor happens to lie from
tho President's State the word Ohio ap
pears in very legible characters on the
cord.
The " Black Death."
The terrible Oriental plague known
as the " Black Death," that in former
centuries caused such devastation in
Europe, and that in 1874 made its re
appearance in Tripolis after men had
long ceased to fear tho visitations, is
still alive, and has recently appeared in
Armenia and on the boric ra of the
Cespian sea. In 1870 it showed itself
in Mesopotamia. In 1878 it crossed
the boundary line of Itussia, and cases
that were detected in Nishni-Novgorod,
Moscow and other places, spread un
easiness throughout all Europe. Ger
many and Austria closed their bounda
ries, and cut off all communication,
railway as well as other, with the em
pire of the czars. The dread disease
did uot spread in Russia, and finally
dissppeared from tht European domain,
some cay on account ot the energetic
sanitary and quarantine regulations of
Loris Melikoff, others because the at
mospherio cenditions happened to be
unfavorable to its extension. But the
Black Death has continued its work
ever since, and has just given a sign of
renewed activity by anj inflating a
whole party of pilgrims from Mecca,
and crossing the Euphrates to show it
self once more in Mesopotomia.
The Chinese are said to believe that
tliA TMicnn vVtv fkniia vhn road tVlA RiVil
become Christians is due to the stupefy.
mg power of the ink, which takes away
his reason and leaves bim ready to be-
llAVO falcA UtlMnaa Wo IT"! 1 11 ITU 11 CTH 1 D wf
the purchase of foreign books are fre-
i . ii ; . . .l:
quern in consequence 01 uua eupOTi
tion. Philosophers aay that affairs should always
be oonduetod with a view to the greatest good
of the greatest nurjiber. Dr. Bull's Cough
Byrup ha domootfhated itaalf to be of the great
eat good to the greatest number of mlTerem,
United States Senate Employes.
Following is a list of the officers o f
the Unit-d States Senate, with their
salaries: Secretary of tho Senate,?4,500,
and fnr compensation a a (lisliuisini,
officer of salaries of Senators, $300;
chief clerk, $3,000; principal clerk,
principal executive clerk, minute and
journal clerk, financial clerk, and en
rolling clerk, $2,592 each; librarian and
six clerks in the office of the secretary,
$2,220 each; assistant librarian, $1,440;
five clerks, $2,100 each; keeper of
stationery, $2,102.40; assistant keeper
of stiitionerv, $1,800; two messengers,
$1,296 eacli; one assistant in the
stotionery room, $1,000; chaplain, $900;
secretary td theVice-Presiden t,$2, 1 02.40;
messenger to the Vice-President's room,
$1,410; clerk to the committee
on appropriations, $2,500; assistant
clerk to the committee on appropria
tions, $1,600; clerk and stenographer to
the committee on finance, $2,500; clerk
of printing records, $2,220; clerks to the
committees on claims, commerce, judi
ciary, 1 rivate land claims, pensions,
military affairs, postoflices and post
roads, District of Columbia, naval
affairs, library and census, $2,220 each;
sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, $4,320;
assistant doorkeeper, $2,592; acting
assistant doorkeeper, $2,592; three
messengers, acting as assistant door
keepers, $1,800 each; clerk to. the
sergeant-at-arms, $2,000; postmaster
to the Senate, $2,250; assistant post
master and mail carrier, $2,088; four
mail carriers, $1,200 each; superintend
ent of the document room, $2, 100; two
assistants, $1,440 each; superintendent
of the folding room, $2,1C0; one assist
ant, $1,200; twenty-four messengers,
$1,440 eaeh; messenger to the commit
tee on appropriations, $1,410; messen
ger in chargo of store room, $1,200;
messenger to the official reporters'
room, $1,200; chief engineer, $2,160;
three assistant engineer, $1,440 each
conductor of elevator, $1,200; eight
skilled laborers, $1,000 each per annum;
twenty-four clerks to committees, $0per
uay uunng tue session.
fClintcn (Io-va) Herald. "
James Butler, Esq., Clerk of tht
P.oxbury Carpet Co., Boston, Mass.,
einnloying cfjjht hundred hands, in i
communication concerning tho ndmir
able working of an article introduced
into tho factory, says: Tho famous Ola
German Remedy, St. Jacobs Oil, bat
effected several cures among our men
who havo been badly hurt in workinf
in the factory, and they pronounco it i
success every time.
The Sponge Trade.
A correspondent of tho Providence
Preset, writing from Nassau, Bahamas,
says: A very interesting feature of busi
ness life hero in tho trade in sponges.
Every day, except Saturday, the dock at
tho foot of Parliament street, which is
tho recognized mart for this branch of
tra'lic, is thronged with gentleman buy
ers of this product of the sea. The
dock, which is some 300 feet long by
thirty wide, is covered with sponges, put
up in strings and arranged in lots, which
are numbered and marked. Mr. Higgs,
tho clerk of the market, having seen
that each lot is duly labeled with its
proper tag, makes out as many sched
ules of the wholo as there are buyers,
and furnishes each with a list. Upon
this the gentleman, after a careful ex
amination of the lots, makes his bids,
and turns an the paper at tho close of
tho market. The offers are then com
pared, and tho highest bid takes the lot.
The sale is absolute, upon five per cent,
commission, and tho amount of business
done in this way is quite large during
the entire season.
(Jacksou Daily Patriot.) ,
Happy Friends.
Rev. F. M. Winburne, Pastor M. E.
Church, Mexia, Texas, writes as follows
Several months since I received t
supply of St. Jacobs Oil. Retaining twe
bottles, I distributed tho rest among
friends. It is a most excellunt reined
for pains and aches of various kintb
especially neuralgia and rheumatu
affections.
The first locomotive entirely con
structed west of tho Mississippi was re
cently turned out by the car works at
Topeka, Kansas.
A I.ndi's WIkIi.
" Oh, how I do wish my skin was as cloat
and soft as your','" said n lady to her friend.
" Von can easily make it so,'" answered tho
friend. ' How inquired the first lady. "By
using Hop Bitters, that mi'kej pure rich blooii
and blooming health. It did it for me, as yoj
observe."
There aro 10,000 opium eaters in St.
Louis and 15,000 in Chicago.
THE -UAUKETS.
ST.W YOUR.
Boef Cattle Med. Nut. live wt. 11 fii
Calves Boor to l'rinie Vi als. . "i ,
She-n 5 7
Lambs CVS 7
Hogs I jve (i (ii t; 1 j
DrcsxoJ, city "i"r 7? a
Flour l"x. State, (food to fancy i 00 (. (i ot)'
Western, good to fanev. 5 0!) f.j fc 0:t
Wheat No. a l!ed ',. 1 21'..; 1 S.0
No. 1 White 1 l'.'V- 1 2:1
Rye State 1 t,r. 1 mj
liariey Two-rowed State 8:1 t fcO
Corn I'ngi-adedWcsteni Mixed 57 j, SS
Southern YuHo.v b:,' , 55''
Oats White State l(il.yi 5o' '
Mixed Western 41 O. !,j
nay Medium to Prime, Tim'y 1 f'3 e) 1 2')
Straw Ions I've, perewt 11) Ot 1 20
Hops State, lnsil lo OA 2:)
l'ork Mess, old, for export... 15 10 fT;15 25
Lard City Steam 10 70 (. u) 75
Itetined 11 lii'-.ai 12'i
1'etroleuiQ Crude ''i-''0 7
llelinod ht'dti 8
Butter State Creamery. 1H iy a i
Hairy " 10 (? 24
Western Int. Creamery 2.1 Or, 30
Factory 11 0 b 21
Cheese State Factory 'J'i'-i li'i
Skims ." 5 (31 H
Western 10 0 l'l
Egg-.State and Penn 18 ( 18
Potatoes State, bbl Early Hose 2 00 2 ID
BUFFALO.
Steers Extra 5 35 (f 5 75
Lambs WcHtern 5 25 Or, 5 40
Sheep Western 5 fiO (j 5 25
Hogs, Good to Choice York ere. . fi 10 Or, 0 25
Flour C'v Ground, No. 1 Spring 5 25 Or, 5 73
Wheal N'o. 1. Hard Llulnth 125 On 1 23
Corn No. 2 Western. , 40 tni 40
Oats State i)7 or, as
Harlcy Two-rowed State fcm on 68
BOSTON.
BeefVWestorn Met 10 00 11.00
Hops Live., 6 (fj V-i
Hoga City Iirctbed HJ ot H1'
Pork Extra Prime per bbl . . . . 12 50 o)i 13 00
Flour Spring Wheat Patents.. 6 50 (rf) 8 00
Com Mixed and Yellow 61 (.j di
Oat Extra White iVa0i 5ii
Byo State 95 Or, I 00
Wool Washed Comb & Delaine 31 (ty 33
Unwashed " " 41 47
WATEKTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef Cattle Live weight Vird 6V
Sheep fVt(a
Lambs 6''ij VA
Hogs !yt'is 6?l
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour Penn. good and fancy . . 4 STV.Ti 5 00
Wheat No. 2 lted 1 18V 1 18i
Kye State 1 05 &4 1 05
Corn State Yellow &iVt 64'
Oats Mixed W.
Cutter Creamery Extra 8l' 7j 85
Cheese New York Full Cream. 13 ( 15
Petroleum Crude lA v
Refined sig &'
Dancing. '
Dancing is one of the oldest of recrea
tions. Homer spouks of a new dauct
invented by Dredulus for Ariadne. Thes
eus was iu.modenitel.v fond of the reel
or fnndat.go in which the arms move
with the legs. The Normans revived
rather than invented round dances in
the twelfth century ; the Bohemians
invented the redowa; tie Poles the
polka, first danced in England in 1840 ;
the Hungarians themazourka and galop.
The cotillim owes its origin to the
courtly Duo de Lnnzun, who, for his
audacity in contracting a clandestine
marriage with the "Grande Mademoi
selle," was imprisoned for ten years by
Louis XIV. To this now popular anil
long-winded dance many figures were
added by Marie Antoinette, and some
more by the Empress Eugenie. Under
the second empire the post of conduc
tor of cotillions at the Tuileries balls
was one of considerable social impor
tance, and was long held by one of the
emperor's equerries, the Marquis de
Caux.
Good fnr Tinkle.
We are pleased to ay that our baby was per
manently cured of a aorinns protracted irregu
larity of tho bowels by tho no of Hop Hitters
ly its mother, which nt the same time restored
her to perfect hcilth and strength. Ihu
Parents, University avenue, Hochcbtor N. Y.
See another column.
Every man's work pursued steadily
tends to become an cud in itself; and
so bridgo over the loveless chasm of his
life.
Hero In the Ti nt.
Dizzino, uavwiii, desnondenoy, jaundice,
lo;S of appetite, iiill.uumations, gravel, female
dif.'aMCs and all rriuldei of the urinary organs
and bladder are quieldy nud surely removed by
Warner's Sato Kidney and Liver Cure.
Kind words are bald-headed. They
can never dy.
Indiof.stil'S, livsrr.rsiA, nervous prostration
and all forma of general debility relieved by
taking Mi:ssmas;s Peptonized Ufkf Tunic, tho
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. It contains blood-malting,
foree-generatiiiL'' nud life-sustaining properiie:- j
is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions, whether
thy reult of exhaustion, nervous prostration,
overwork, or actio dijen.se, particularly if
resulting from pulmonary compl.iiulH. t'aowell,
Hazard i Co., proptietors, New fcoik.
There U but om) way to euro bnldn'-si, and
t.K.t i by iiMii-it' i:-t.iSR, a d.to.ljrbwJ oxtra-H
of petr.deuin, tin n.it'.iml hair grower. Ai re-e.-ntly
ii.ii'iv.ved, it is th n.ily dre.-i.-ing fur the
hair thai cultured people will u-:o.
Til Grctitert IINeovery of tho Age,
For ovrr tliit t- -four
DK. TOBIAS'S VKNUTIAN LINIMENT
taa tieen warr.ilited to cure Crone, folic, SpRStns,
liarrh.-:i and I: srntery, tnketi tiiterullv, ami Sure
l"lire:it, P.iins in tLn I.imt.a, clirnntc ltlicmiiatixm.
Old Sores. Pini!'l''K, 151. iti llCH niul Sweiliuus. cxter-I'MiT.-.
::U net u bnttle li;.r. (..-rll r. turned, luanv f;mi
ili. s M liinn they woul.l net K-witheiit it even it h
win tin ii Untie. Sold I,- dni;:L-ists at M5 and 30
-entM. llefot. 4'1 Murrav Ktrei-t. Kfw Ynrk.
A GOOD FAMILY REMEDY
STRICTLY PURE.
'Mr-
ri'Idsermravlii represents the bum's In a iii-ultliy 9t;it?
What tho Doctors Say!
TT. FLKTt'HF.U, of Lexitiir'.m, Miownri, y. "I
IV-('ellU!iel.t MHir If II 111 in ' in prelerell-e to aiij
olii! r utfitieiue lorcoUKhs and colds."
lilt. A. '. JOHNSON, of Mt. Vemnn, 111., write 01
o!ue Wdnd.Tlul cures of CouMitmut ion m lu i!ac
by the ilro .ii "AIIoh'h l.llilyt HuImuiii."
im. .1. n. TUltST.R, niomitsville, Ala., a pnwti.-int
I'll1 t'iei i! at I went V-live e;ilv, rites: " It IK tli uem
Tei'.ir;itieu iui-(.'iiiMimeti"n In tha world."
For nil l)!ciiMrN of Ihp Tliront. T.nnir mid
I'll! ioii- Or-.ri'M.,, it i ill be lotiud li imM
eee!Ii-:it l.eiut-ilv.
AS AN EXPECTORANT IT HAS NO EQUAL!
it coNTAirjs r:o opium in any form i
J. H. HARK3S & CO., Proprietors,
CINCINNATI, O.
For Sale by nil Dru&roiHts.
M by VcKAKSON is HOliUIXS, N, w l.rlt.
-fif meiubraue.
teSmSm For Dc;
Oeeiisjonjilly apply a
i nrtii-le into ami h'arl,
'it the ear, l-ubliiUK iu
thoroughly.
A Curo at Last.
I Upedflrs without. Dumber for tho cum of Catarrh
f.ivu ijecn cxteimivi-ly lelvertiKecl ami deulitk-aa
i l -lero is se-iio virtue in nil ot them, but the evidence '
I .r. ralu-hnir.u that I,t'a ('renin balm ytxx more I
i ttiri-I: M,..ii any other tn tliorieat ol ttio disease,
: uiet i;t-.ui:Ji it is a comparatively rn-w diseoverv it
i lj:n re-u. tvd in morn cureri within the rruii.-e ot our
e! 'ei-v.iiii tluiu all the othr-iv put totetiier. Vow
X,t;ke:-IPir ii.,U)UonLcader, of liee 19, 187'.).
i I'l ic-o 50 cents. On receipt of 60 cents, will
mail a package free. Bend lor circular, with
full intormatinn.
I KLY'jj CliEAM BAM CO., Owego. N. t.
Eii-i-i i.y an i 'rurmmts.
At Wholesale, ju ;v..w York, ruiladnlphia, Sjra-
cuso, ISfiHt'in, ;bi-.-::.,'o nud other citicH.
& a,f Vj re B t n '
IVAmDL)1 u 0 CIGARS
war t. Apj.li. aii,.ulorc(.u.iitioumu. Leacconi-
- lined WOh hi cents lor l.ostiii:!., etc. l'obtala mil ul!
liccd. Address .Mi'n Eliiat lodorc. Ameha Co!. Va!
PLEASANT LUXURY, 8URS curi.
II etui, iliruut, Luog i r-u m. hoi u p o Mna-r 'ni.-'
fil.t.H, to W. W. 1 joi-u..-. -..m So i i. Hi St ..m. ri.
Si
ifTWor Catarrh,
I -i ((.fliSl UJ ie- . .j-.,!!,!!!-., mam mill
I mfo&niri91tfo UM filler a ,,nrtii lo
I LATAK3H COLO3 '&irS"f "'" 1!'l,m tha
I ireWAl.C;ri,?1Jf lr. atLB thresh tnu
sc&J( f va mtmt ri,.llff ,,,,1
. raT,siv i ft .it i
PETBOLEOrjELLY"S
Used and approved by the loading
CIAIfS of EUROPE and AMERICA.
B0HZ8.
BK1TT DISEASES.
a ins most Valuable gf3 H 1
I Family Remedyg? Ln
CATflltrtU. L.aiUltilli(jrDB. Etn. Al.r.
liounoa, voioa, oore xujcai, vrono
9"Try thorn. 5 and 60 cent lizei
CBAMJ MI-3AL AT THEPHILADJXPHIA EXHUSITION I 'tJI xgjJ?
- iilLVCil UDAI AT TUB PA1U tsXTOklTlVN. ' ' COUjAlS&CQii.Y,
flCOBS Oil
flfew, THE GREAT rfCif
IllIOEIlEBl
ilEBIITISl.
Neuraaia, Sciatica, Lumbago,
Backache, Soreness of the Chest,
Gout, Quinsy, Sora Throat, Swell
ings and Sprains, Burns and
Scalds, General Bodily
Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted
Feet and Ears, and all other
Pains and Aches.
Ho Prfparlon on tarth equal St. JiCrM Oit.
nV, ttirr, simple ni chtop Eiternul
IliMnedy A trial ftitnila Imt the comparatively
trilling outlay of f,0 Cents, and ?cry oue enlTfirlng
iib pain can have cheap an! iwiitlve proof of lta
claims.
Wrectione In Eleven Language.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALEES
IN MEDICINE.
A. VOGELEU & CO.,
llitUimure, lid., V. 8. A,
KIN U 14
(A Medicine, not a Irriok.)
CONTAINS
nors, Bccnn, mandrake,
DANDELION,
ASD TDK PnRTST AXD nplSTMHmCALQtJAU
TIES OF ALL OrilCR 1UTTEHS.
THEY OTJllE
All Tilfea'canf ttieStomnrh, Itnwela. Tilryid,
Liver. Kltlm ya.aiKl I'rhinryOfrNina. er
vouanuH3, Mei'i'it'n-npiisaml especially
r ClUlMt.- t.UU!lUlUbd.
stooo m COLD.
Will be pM. fnr ft crsf thny will not c;ir or
i;t'!i, or lur aiiyiunj ii::i;ru or lujuriou
fount, iu ttiLin.
. Ankyonr tl mire tut fnr lion fitters rA try
-4 them bt!for vu bleep. Vako uu other
1 1. C. ! on Absolute nm! Irrrn.MMorure for
urium: lite .! opium, louticco ttnd
unrcoues.
Bend fob Cmiclah.
All titmv? nolrl bv dniiftrhta.
in RUtm Mf. t'n., Itorficntifr, ?T. V., A Toronto, Out.
ayno's Automatic P'icvinos.
n
--i:iL-Adr.r!-'-''iTV-ii ' F4
iteiiilble. IVii-iJili, iitiil l'Vmim:iir!il trill rnrulsh n
i'rr ;,ci'or (fl.. S - n,., triev than' ttmi otfir-r
.ii'j'iie liit'lt, imt Htte.l ivitu an AiHnn1.1l ir ilut-oir.
tseu.l Kir Ill-it tr.itil ,;ulo,.-uii "I," ter Iiii.-nii.itieu &
l'nces. lW. l'.v.Mi .V: i,...-., IJ..x boo, (..'uruiu.-, N'.Y.
P AGENTS WANTED FOR THE
SiCTOrSI
JL HISTORYwAR
TMs in tlin chpRpoat nnl only romrVtt and rcliitUe
litstor nf tho Unj.it tUvil Wur iniUiMirtl; it abouuda
In narmtivi'K oi' ixthpiiuI adventure, thrilling im-i-.l.'utu,
darinn rxj. toils, Ihtdii' deed., wonderful
usi iii.-B( etc; uud coiit.iMts inc-lilie p..rtmits of 1(10
i-;n liUi; tff.t'TH.H. S'Mld lor lierilH'll ii 'en and oxtia
term? to AkluIb. National 1't.u. Co., i'hilu., l'a.
CELLULOID "tiE
Heiiri Meiitiu-r tho i-hoieet selected Tortoise
Shell and Ainher. Tho lij-'htent, liutidpimirxt,
an 1 Htroujorit liiiwu. i-V.ll lv 0)itk'itiiia and
ji-,v-ler.q. Mitd l.v (ii'EN'OKR OlTICAt
AIT'G. CO., l.iMi-i'.lru I.nuo, Noav York.
II Irl.ve!u SAFEST
Ml. i'.L.SI; U .t.trl Hlrl-alll'.-';e
.;:i .J.'.i.iit.-ir. t'leinest
li.it'.::. l! r.i.lc-tur 11 .uk or
l:rvn; '1o,s NuT Sl'Al.V
M... I v .... I i.. . .. ....
i RISTADORG'S M
oiievcrv vv.'lii(.p..inte.l(ol
J el for Tji'lyor (iwitiooinn.
NiM by Jim nut ani up-
1.M1 by Mulr ffrvtwrfl.
t i i t U t Vl ii Mm. St ,N.V.
C. N. CuiB'UVi'ON.ABt.
NEI
For rtiiluli inn alN a-.el Cellini, is the most valuable
material knn-vu. It is lar Hiipu-inr to CjliMiuin,., and
mev , er-ii mieal. It in a .Uuu!il'- discover. , and in
in -rits a" a wu'l tiiii-li nre niie,n;i!ed. It iH th only
uatiiral uud iIumWi- tiuMi in- is I In. It will ray
Sou to i-L-ud tor sample card and tentiii.ouialB to
SEELEY EH0S., 32 Bui!i;tg Slit), N. Y. Cily.
RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA!
Xo other i lVi aralicn has cured an many caut-aoi
thou- diatnsip reiii.,..int8 as 1'illld'N KxtrncI,
Pond's Kxirtiet Plaster (JSceuta) is invaluable lx
tl-e-o di .eases, LuisiliMtM, I'aiuo in Back or Side, eta
l'ond's i:irnct tliiilineiit (SUecnta), for Ur,e when
removal of ciofliiu,; is iucnveuieut, is agreathelg
In reliuvini; infiamuiatory cases, bold by all drUK
gists.
truth j" Href. MMtTiNlK
8rt i t-(.-x ml Wium w tl f-r Jj c-DIl i
tf lht. t. lf ul t) 3i I I li.'J k tlfVlf , ittl 1 ft C KHi
riCTCR t,f mr fu'itr li.i'ur .1 or 'f. p--.p
pfclui.ij, w. Him1, (mi fti.il p:v "f 'tuan.', ;
CUt ;f mr: ,i;re. 5lC if) ret -t'.'.t In nil n, t ,-.i.t:
Ai U-Mi I'ttU L. lUitiTiti, lUi!t.Li'j l'l. UojIoq, H
KJ AUoSALAitf iieriiontU. AUEKPfNSSD
k O Kdvaucnl. At l.H uroniptfy tfali, SLOAN
CM A L'O.UOB dl Jii, s,t. t luciunuti. it.
A Aerate M'r.n:c!l. Rr r.Drr Rii-fle
ilJ f ) sr A V elsl.a up to X S It Rc-p.il
i iiri i,i at t "Wi 'I ... i . . .
: Kflj "il,M?'.,-,l'7A,iEOTS WAJiTKbl
; auil l'Vt-. Ja lirons.jn.Dotroit.Mioh.
7 7 AYKAlianc
) puf't 1'r-o.
V-J- l'.O.Vl' KI
m expf n4i s to Atfonts.
'. All IPi'KM
V KK LR V , A ."iK Uh t a, la i ne.
CiF.NTS WANTKil f..r "tl-.c li.t end I'axteat'
-T mug i-n-ii-ni
Nation;.. I'uMih n, Kt
..n.i im. t. .
ret.
l'r rt-s r.'diii-ed
II A KYLAMI FA It .lis, to I4-.M per A m
XiA. tsuort wait. r. br. e.v-mtiitiM-iw. h- aillivclirnatti
tataliiiiuelriitt U. 1'. ('lIAMbtbS. Ii d. i-alslmiv.Md.
YOUNG MFNI'-n'-nTelce,-,,,,,,. r.i:nii.HobX
uuiiu I1IL.1 a u,,,!,, iirj innu, ,nWraiileed
.-ayinif ofaree. Add'a Valentine isi-o.-.., .Ian'. svile,Wi.
V Afaliilotriieorilalf l'rico Music. Add'i
1 lliieiliioicl'ub.Co. l'.O.IiuiMi.Krie.I'a.
flASlI ,"Kl"l'MS.-Kaui.lo and ttrnu
V71 Ol L fr..t-. Mumulv Naiiun, Waitvu, Pii.
PISO'S CURE
for roiiKiinipiini, aiBC
lh best Cotub .Medicine.
G9C9 $21?, ft."-"?' an'l.oxttna.n. T Ouitil
ii-i.i-. A.plr.'n p , mwhiu A: lo.. Aiii.,,.i m
PHYSI
TkeVnlt.
"Artlclegilroin pur
Y ftttelina auch u
Fomada Vaseline
Vaseline Cold Cream,
Vase line Camphor Ioa,
Vasol.na Toilet Soapt;
an autrarlor te an atiaiUr .Me.
VASELINE CONFECTIONS.
An agreeable form of tak
iug VaaeLue inturnaHy.
For thf
Treatment t
CUTS. CHTtBl.ATHa'
EHEnMATTRM1
ana Uinhtliri a
of ail onr good. '
r
mum
mm
V I" rPW
r1 f'.jj .1 A
lUABAS
at! v.4 J2v
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