JATM, ©ABM & LUTDINT. A New WAT OF TRAPPING RATS.— Get a common round wire trap. Bait it with the moat inviting food, and wait patiently until a eat ia caught. Instead of killing this rat,and waitng perhaps for weeks before you are for* tnnate enough to trap another,keep him alive •id feed him as much as you would a pet squirrel. In a few days he wiil be come re conciled to his cage, and you arc now ready for business. All night bate the trap well and set it where the rats resort most. Some one or more of them, seeing a rat quite at home in the midst of plenty, will enter the trap without any suspicion of harm. Next morning, pump or pour water thoroughly over the trap to clean it, and to make the kill of your prey more easy. Have an empty barrel into which drop the contents of your cage ; the prisoners being well soaked, will be so heavy and slow that you can easily knock them on the head. Treat your par tially tamed rat, however, "as if you loved him," and return him to his cage j this is easily done by lowering the cage into the bars rel. Repeat the operation from night to night and you will be surprised to see hew easy a matter it is to out wit so cunning an animal M an "old rat." Be careful not to keep a large one for your tame rat. lie will frighten off all the young t fry, as none of them will dare to enter.— The only difficult thing in the matter is to get your first rat. I have had a wire trap baited for weeks beforeT could entice ono to eater it. To get the first, is something like Astor's receipt for getting rich : "Get a thousand dollars clear of the world, and it is all very easy." Since 1 caugh my first rat, I have failed but once for many nights in get ting from one to four to keep him company.— If yon readers will try my plan, I think that something may be done to abate one of the most tolerable nuisances of the country. To say that millions of dollars worth of property are annually destroyed by rats, would not be an extravagant assertion. TACTS IN FRUIT CULTURE. —Doctor Trim ble, of Newark. N. J., who has paid great attention to fruit culture gives the following as his views, the result of many years ex perience : 1. That the most successful way to con quer the curculio Is to gather the fruit as it falls and feed it to the stock or destroy it, as it is by this fallen fruit that the curculio pro pagates its species. 2. That the fruit of the apple tree can be protected from the apple tree moth by wrap ping around each tree two or three times by a rope made of straw. The moths will harbor in this rope and can then be destroy ed. 3. That the only way to kill the peach tree porer, is to cut him out, not once only in • seasoß, but to follow him up every two weeks until exterminated. After the first 'going over' of an orchard this will be little or no trouble, as each tree can be attended to in two minutes. HITCHINO POETRY The following lines should be pondered by every one who presumes to hitch.their horses to our village shade trees. They should be heeded too : Horseman, spare that tree ! 'Tis not a hitching post ; Though in its infancy, It soon will shade a host; Then spare, oh, spare that tree, For he who placed it there, Meant not that it should bo Jy beast of thine gnawod bare. JEST The leaves of the geraninms are ex* cellent for cats where the skin is rubbed ofT, and other wounds of the like kind. One or two leaves mast be bruised and applied to the part, and the wonnd will be cicatrized in a short time. STIR TIJK SOIL. —The value of keeping all soils, well stired, among cultivated crops, is not half understood by the great mass of our farmers. Don't let the land become bard and baked,but run your cultivator and plough • through your crops, and use the hand hoe thoroughly. The benefit derived frotn work - ing the soil—keeping it mellow—admitting the air, &c., must Lot be overlooked if you wish good crops. Stir the soil. How TO BUILD A CHIMNEY. —Iu building a chimney put a qusntity of salt into the mortar with wbice the iatercourse of bricks are to be laid. The effect will be that there will never be any accumulation of soot in that chimney. The philosophy is thus stated:— The salt in the portion of morter wich is ex posed absorbs moisture every damp day. Tho soot tbns becoming damp falls down to the fire place. JG2E" A correspondent writes to the Phil adelphia Ledger, that six years experience have convinced him that a coat of gum copal varnish, applied to the soles of boots and shoes, sad repeated as it dries,nntil the pores are filled, and the surface shines like polished mahogany, will make the soles waterproof and also cacae them to last three times as long as ordinary soles. How TO KILL CANADA THISTLES.— Mow them in Augest, when the sign is in the heart and it is said in the old of the moon. I have tried the experiment, and the first year it killed more than half and the second year there was very few left, and the third year there was not one to be found. Try it—it does not cost much. PRESERVING POTATOES— Put a foot of po tatoes in a bin, then sprinkle with slacked lime then another layer of potatoes, then lime till completed. A bushel of lime will suffiee SO bushols of potatoes —Rural American. MANURE.— With little of it, very little can be accomplished in this part of the coon try at farming ; bat with plenty, almost ev erything can be done that may be desired, provided it U properly applied to the soil. JB3T The richer a man makes his food,the poorer be majtoihii sppstite 1 flailwrato, &c. LACK. A WESTERN R B; Summer Arrangement—l BG7. PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE WESTWARD | EASTWARD. Passenger Mail Mail Passenger Train. Train. STATIONS. Train. Train. A. M. P. M. 9.C0 New York" 5,26 11.30 New Hampton, 230 1150 Washington, 2.08 P M. 12.02 Oxford, 1.56 12.13 Bridgeville, 1.45 12.18 Manunk Chunk, 1.35 Line. 12.45 Delaware, 1.30 Dine. 100 Mount Bethel, 100 1;20 Water Gap, 12.44 1,34 Stroudsburg, 12-20 145 Spragueville 12,17 1.56 lienryville, 12 07 P M 211 Oakland, 11.49 2 29 Forks, 1130 2.50 Tobyhaana, 11 10 3.04 Gouldaboro', 10.57 3,26 Moscow, 10.34 3.37 Dunning, 10.24 l.lOAr. ) f Le 9.55 A M. > SCRAKTOK. } P.M 10.10 4-30Le ) C Ar.9.45 6,20 10.40 4-52 Clark's Summit, 9.23 5.50 10 53 5.00 Abington, 9.15 5.35 11.13 5.16 Factory villa, 859 5.16 11.4 3 536 Nicholson, 835 430 12.08 5.58 Hopbottom, 8.13 4.05 1238 6.20 Montrose. 7.55 3.35 P M 1.08 6.41 New Milford, 7-24 305 135 700 Great Bend, 7.15 2.40 P. M. P.M. AM. P.M 'Station foot of Liberty St. CON N ECTlOJfS—Westward, The MORNING TRAIN from New York con nects at MANUNKA CHUNK with the train leav ing Philadelphia (Kensington Depot) at 7 30 a. ui. and at GREAT BEND with the through Mail Train on the Erie Railway, with sleeping car attached, stopping at all the principal stations on that road, and arriving at Buffalo at 6 18 a, m. The Passenger train from JScranton connects at Great Bend with through trains going west and east on Erie Railway, arriving at Buffalo at l.r 8 a. m,, aid at Salamanca at 12 m. Eastward. The MORNING TRAIN from Great Bend con nects there with the Cincinnati Express on the Erie Railway from the West; at Manunka Chn k with a train for Philadelphia and intermediate stations, arriving in Philadelphia at 6.30 p. m.' and at New Hampton with a train for Easton. Bethlehem, Al lentown. Reading and Uarrisburg, arriving at Har risburg at 8-30 p. m. At SCRAN'TON. connections are made with trains on the Lackawanr.a and Bloomsburg Rail road, and on tho Delaware and Hudson Canal Co.'a Railroad, Time Tables of which roads are printed below. J. BRISBIN. President"" R. A. HENRY. General Ticket Agent. je29tf LEHIGH VALLEY HAIL BOM) OFB.I THBOCOa FROM HEW YCRK'ASD PHILADELPHIA TO WILKESBARRE, forming direet rail connections A'OliTir, SOU7IF, IASI and Hjh'Sl. SUMMER TIME TABLE COMMENCING J U JVE /7i h, /8G 7, All Through Trains make close connections with Trains to and from New Fork and Philadelphia. THE MAIN LINE TRAINS FROM WILKESBARE (the present north ern terminus ofthisroad) TO NEW YORK and PHILADELPHIA, Leave WILKESBARRE at 8 o'clock A. M. and 1.30 P. M. Arrive at New York at 3.15 and 10,25 P M Philadelphia, at 2 05 and 8.40 " Leave New York at 6.30 A. M. and 12- M. " Philadelphia at 7.45 A. M. and 1.30 P. M; Arrive at Wilkesbarre at 3.02 and 8.48 P. M. STORE! Nicholson Pa,, Wm. 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