AUiTlTt aUla Capabilities of on Act. i. M. Smith, a market pardeuer of Green Bay,, fur nished aome intereatinf statements of experimenta in. high culture.. He haa found tlie rule invariable, not single exception to it, that the more be haa apent in cultivating and manuring, the greater have been the. net grofiu per acre. Last season he cultivated four teen acres, and began with a taore thor ough and expensive cultivation than ever before. The result was, that, al though a "terrific drought one of the dryest seasons ever known, ItT-that re gion prevailed, after spenmiig $3,986, or $384 per acre, be bad a better balance than for any previous year. He appears to regard constant culti vation, especially through drought, in connection with copious manuring, as all-important. Stable manure is the standard, with such use of suoerphos pbates, planter, lime,' ashes, ai:d other manures as exnerienoe and good sense point out. "After you have learned bow to spend money to the best advan tage," he remarks, "a larger profit may be made by laying out $300 per acre than with lem. Alter the second year, if your land does not pay all its expen ses, taxes, and ten per cent, on $1,000 per acre, there is something wrong somewhere. I have some acres of land that did not pay expense for two year, but for a number of years past have not failed to pay ten per cent, on at least $3,000 per acre. 1 expect my whole garden to do more than that iu a short time." He adds that he is now aiming at 1.000 bushels of onions per acre, then a crop of carrots or turnis, or 500 bush els of early potatoes; or. If strawber ries, 12,800 quarts, or 400 bushels per acre. This amount of strawberries is not wholly impossible, as we have known, under our own observation, this rate on two-thirds of an acre. liatsachutetlt Ploughman. Choked Cattle. During the past win - ter. we have fed our cows aud young cattle many bushel? of apples, and dur ing the time have had several cases of choking in the herd. One cow in par ticular required close watching as she quite I'requenily got an apple lodged in her throat while eating. Instead of at tempting to punch the apple down, at such times, our first move was always to turn her loose and make her move about the yard a few minutes. This aloue was generally sufficient to cause the apple to move either up or down, but, if not, a tables poo nful jof soft soap was dissolved in a quart of warm water, and with some person to hold ber head, a little of the suds was poured down her throat, followed by gentle band rubbing on the outside of the neck near the seat of the trouble. Sometimes two or three doses would be required, but generally one was sufficient. We recommend soapsuds as fully eiiual to sweet oil or other more expensive prep arations, while it is always easy to pro cure at short uotice. If one is feeding root, apples or potatoes to stock, he should keep a little watch on the ani mals wnile eating ami attend to any ca-eof cnoking immediately : for if let alone hut lor a itiiori time, cue parts be come inflamed aud the removal of the obstruction!) become much more dltfl culi. even it' death does not take place before the case is discovered. Aeie Eng land Farmer. The Potato Crop and the Potato Bug$. It is claimed that the Connecticut farm ers, by concerted, energetic and unre . milting measures, have kept the potato bug within bounds and prevented seri ous ravages. The methods used have been the application of Paris green, powdered helleliore. the extract of man drake aud carbolate of lime. A good deal has also been accomplished by hand-.U'kiug. The experience in Con necticut has not ahowii that, with the use of gloves, there is any danger of poisoning. It li.is been observed that these bugs can't stand wet soil, and that potatoes in drv laud suffer most. The farmers will hereafter use the dampest soil for potatoes in which they will flourish, and thus avoid the beetles, but on the other hand will run the risk of having "soggy" potatoes. Should the beetle stay with us it will have an important effect on potato culture. It wiil no longer pay the farmer to plant potatoes on poor land, for the trouble of protecting them will take off too much from the profit of a small crop. He will use liis best lands for potatoes, thus deriving the same crop from a less area or cultivation and at the least expense for protection. It becomes a question what is to take the place of potatoes on poor land. Hrne to Check the Iiortr. I send you herewith a plan for the destruction, or rather one to prevent the borers from destroying trees. As far as the trial I have given it goes, I am satisfied with the result. It is worth the trial by those who have peach orchards, and can afford the risk on a few frees if they are doubtful iu regard to the efficacy of the plan. J wouia not hesitate one in sunt in applying it to every one of them. J he remedy Is as follows: bcoop out the ground (funnel shaiie) aome three or four inches from the base of the tree, to the depth of the first sur face root, and clear out all the i um ny ooze wiih a knife, kill the borers in . sight, and then fill the space you have aug out with coarse dry salt rock salt, if possible, or that from the refuse fish brine is good and cheap. The weather will dissolve this gradually, and what is made liquid thereby will enter worm holes in sufficient quantity to "salt out" the borers without injury to the tree, which takes its nourishment at the ex tremity of its rootlets, and far away from the trunk where the salt is. Cor. Rural World. Peat Kith Corn. Plant, when you plant corn in the hill, with the corn two peas in the hill, and if you have a good stand and cover up half of them in ploughing your corn, you will still have plenty. Uo not sow them broadcast, as the weeds will grow so rapidly as to choke them out. When planted four feet apart wiih the corn, and two seeds in the hill, it is estimated that one bushel will plant nearly twenty acres. The vine grow in a bunch, and grow up with the corn until after the corn is laid by ; they then spread out over the ground like sweetpotato vines, and thus protect the ground from the rays of the sun and cause it to retain moisture, and are therefore of great benefit In dry sea sons. Cor. Sural World. Dittanct for Planting Corn. I will venture the assertion that not one farm er in a hundred ha ever given a single thought to the fact that there is almost half the difference in the number of hills on an acre whether we plant three feet apart or four. I have beard some farm er say that they could raise more corn on an acre planted four feet apart than if planted three. 1 presume they bad not stopped to figure the difference. One acre planted tour feet apart would contain 2,722 hills, while the acre plant ed but thiee would contain 4,840. Old Bone. Get all the old bones you can find. Put into a wide wooden trough 500 or a 1,000 pounds at a time; take pure sulphric acid (60 deg. quality) at the rate of two carboys to a ton of bones. Mix half and half with warm water, and apply directly over the bones. Sprinkle over the top with dirt; allow them to remain a day or two, and un covering the bones will fall to pieces at the slightest touch. Spread out on the floor to diy, and ou will have a super phosphate better than can be bought. . Notes. Buckwheat sown with pota toes drive away the potato bug. This is simple ami can easily be tried. The bugs will not disturb potatoes on land where buckwbert had been raised the previous year. nereis a rrenenman on ni travel in England who write home that in lsici mi urc ucumKiuu UK niruui in row waiting for c us tomtit just a cab d la other place. i aIIKTH ' How to Keep Heat A farmer' wife wrote from Venice, Cayuga county. New York, telling the farmer club how to keep meat fresh a loo time: "There is oo good reason why farmers and their families should eat so much alt pork, leaving all the fresh mrmtx to the inhabitant of cities and villages when the following method will keep meat fresh fur weeks, even in the warmest weather. I know, for I have used it for more than ten years. A soon ax tbeanimal beat is oat of the meat slice it up ready for cooking. Pre pare a large jar by scalding well with hot ali ami water. Mix salt and pulver ized saltpetre to ot.c texcupful of salt. Cover the bottom of the jar with a spiiukling of salt and peoir. Put dwu a layer of meat, apriukle with salt aud pepier, the name a if just goioc tu the tatile, and continue in this manlier until the jar is full. Fold a cloth or towel ami wet it in strong salt and water, in which a little saltpetre is dissolved. Preaa the cloth closely over the meat and set in a cool place. Be sure and prens the cloth on lightly as earh later is removed, and your meat will keep for mouths. It is a good plan to let the meat lie over ut-ltf, after it is -Itced. before packing. Then drain off the b.ood fh.it oozes from if. I' will be necessary to chanve the cloth occa sionally, or take it off and sr.tnb it, first in cold water, then scald in salt aud water, as at first. In tins way farmers rso have fresh me it the year round. I have keDt beef that was killed the 12th of Felirnary till the 21st of June. Then I packed a large quarter of veal in the saiuo way during thedogdavs, aud it kept six weeks." This recipe alone is worth the pi ice ot any news paper in the land. Cheep Cookery. We noticed, while visiting a large steel-making establish ment recently, that the workmen at noon ingeniously utilized the ingots of steel, which lay cooling in the yard, as cooking stoves, aud seemingly piepared their dinners over the heated metal as easily as over a tire. The idea is a good one, and might be adopted with advan tage by the men in all metal-working concerns. We believe that the custom is not common among the workmen in this country, nor iu the irou works iu England, though it owes its origin to and ha-long been practised in tin melt iug establishment of Cornwall. Jt is eon-tdered quite a civility there to offer a visitor a chop nicely boiled overs recently run ingot of tin. The big hammer Mock, we were told as an es pecial wrinkle, is the besr place to fry things, as it is smooth and usually just hot enough. Ingots are ordinarily rough mid generally somewhat too warm. In winter time, a woikmao can economize consider bly. aud at the same time vet a hot dinner, by thus utilizing the wasted beat ot the metal. Cooking Bice. Said an Alahama lady. Mr. Nichols, "Tile Yankees do not rot k rice like Southerner." "Ai d how do Southerners cook it f It In-hik a1 Southern inli-fioii. anil staple of Southern tables. Southern cookery should turn out a prime article,"'! re filled. "We on ll put into vmir men a pan w tn rice ami t ieiiiiMie j tlty of at l or iiiiIk. ami keep it cook ing Hiodeiateiy till ilone halt an hour, perhaiat then turn if, without stiriinir, iuroa dish for the table. The licli grains, feathery as suow Hakes, will be whole, and the skin which forms over the mass in the commencement of cook ing, and it can be i tripped off before turning out the rice, prevents ihees catie of the delicate aroma of the lice, and you have a fine flavored food, in place of the pasty, insii.id result of uoiliug and alii-nug. Jiural Prett. The Flunrr of Egas. Moore's Sural Sew Yorker says Mu re is a vast iiltfV-i-euce iii te flavor ot egna. Hens ted on clear, Miund gr.iin ami kept on a cl. an gtana run gite much huer flavored eggs than hen that have access to stable and ra inure heaps aud eat all kinds of filthy food. Hens feeding on fish and onions flavor their eirira HCdirilinirlv. bage, or drinking offensive water, im parts a bad taste to the milk and buiter. The richer tho food the higher the color of the eggs. Wheat aud corn give eggs the best color, while feeding on buckwheat makes them colorless, ren dering them unfit for some confec tionery purposes. Mounted Custard or Junket. Take a piece of rennet an iuch long, or a tea spoonful of the wine in which lennet is kept, to each quart of milk. Season w ith vanilla or lemon, a little nutmeg, and a tahlespoouful of sugar to each quart. More will retard the formation. Set in a warm place near the tire or on tlie kitchen table, closely covered. Look at it fiora time to time, and if iu the course ot an hour there are no sigus of stiffening, add more reuuet. When it is fiim, like blancmange, and before the whey separate from the curd, re move the rennet and set upon ice until It is wanted. Serve with powdered sugar aud cream. Pea Soup. Have ready 6 quarts of liquor iu wliicu alegot uiuttou or some beef has been boiled: put iu it a few beef iioues; one pint of split peas; two large onions ; half a small turnip; two raw potatoes; oue cat rot; a little celery ; salt to taste. Boil slowly for two or three hours, adding water as it boils away. Straiu when done; add pepper to taste. A little dried mint im proves the flavor, added just before seuding to the table. Very good soup can be made by boiling beef, mutton, or even pork bones, without previously boiling meat in the liquor, of course adding the other condiments. Old Maid's Pie. Fill the pudding dish two-thirds full of apples sliced, and then make a biscuit crust and lay over the top, or use light bread dough with a little shortening in it. Set on top of the stove and let it steam until you think the apples are done. Then put it in the oven only to remain until you think the crust is done. Pour in bottom side upward on a dish and eat with milk and suuar or a sauce. The crust should I about one-half an inch thick when rolled out. Gash the crust as you would a pie. Apple Snow. Pare the apples, halve and core them ; put to boil ttli a III tie water aud oue cupful of white- sugar. Wben the apples are cooked, lift them out without breaking; boil dowu the syrup aud pour over. On the top place a few spoonf uls of whitesof eggs beaten to a slid froth aud seasoned with lemon. To Hake ColdiUiw. Yolks of two eggs; aiablespooutul of cream; a small teaspoon! ul of murtaid; a little salt; iwotauiespoouiuisul vioegar. It cream fa uot ustd, put in a small lunm of butter rubbed in a little flour. Cm ibe cabluige very fine; heat the mixture aud pour it on hot. Corn-Cakes without Eaat. ThreecnDs Ot liuilerm.tk. tlifif m coru-meal, one of wueat flour, oue talilesooonfut salt. two ot sugar, oue levei ..r soda; did solve the last three inrilieu t-s in waia-r, stir all together ; if the meal swell too much to spttad nicely, add more water. Peach Fritters. A batter of eight eggs, eight tablespoonfuls flour, and oue quart of milk. Have ready in a frying pan some nice butter, hot. To every tablespoon of the butter add half a peach, and fry, draining each through a skimmer a you take it up. Serve with sugar. Fadge. l pouud brown wheat flonr, ipouud butter, a little Cold water; knead, roll, cut in rakes 1 inch thick. uatte on au lion plate lu the oven. Sprigs of wlntergreen or ground ivy will drive away red ant ; brauehes of wormwood will serve the same purpose To Ebonae wood, collect lamp Mack on a piece ot slate. Scrape oa mil with French polish, aud applj iu the ordinary way. cawaotM. Tie Importance of Knowledge. Detroit Free Pre : Sue said she'd take a dozen of eggs bat while the gincer was counting them out she asked the price. He told ber, and she shrieked : "Seventeen eentsf -Yes. ma'am." "Whv, that's ontrageonsr' 'Well, it's hard times, and everything is up." She sat down on a so gar barrel. igbed several times, and asked if eggs were likely to be lower or higher. "I don't claim to be a DiopheCbe replied, as be twisted a sheet of paper into the shape of a funnel, "hut 1 dare say that they'll be down to 16i cents in ess than a week, and perhaps go lower. rade. which is naturally deoreaetl coring Jaly and August is looking up a little. Our exports of gold are now equalled by our import The calling in of bond puts more ready money adoat. and capitalist are much more hopeful this week than last. The crops are about reaay la move, navigation iirosnecu are brighter, aud public con fidence in financial measures is rapidly returning. Una thing moves around another, you see, and though, as I said before. 1 am not a financier ana my predictions are uot entitled to any great weight, it seem clear to me that eggs have got to come down. A great current of eggs is setting toward this point from a dozen different directions, and even if the calling in of bonds and ibe sale of surplus gold don't produce lower pi ices, 1 cannot see why figures suouiu uo up."1 She reached into the pickle-barrel, nipjd a cucumber, and went away wouderiog why ber husband never kuew apy thing. A family in this city, the widowed father of which has been somewhat afflicted of late with an attempted inter meddling of uproarious sisters-in-law, has a six-year-old girl that has a "laculty of prayer." A few evenings siuce she enumerated the objects of her supplications as follows: "God bless papa and my governess, ard mv sisters and brother, and my ancle Sam, and aunt Georgia, and my twin eonsius and cnusio Julia, and all my relations ex cept Maud and Jane and Ellen (the obnoxious aunts.) and. the less yon have to do with them the better it will be for you." During the rain late'y. a party stepped into Merrill grocery and asked for the loan of an umbrella. He was promptly accommodated. "You're a pretty obliging man," observed a cus tomer, after the stranger stepped out. "That's a miuhtv honest fellow," claimed Mr. Merrill. "A lione-ter or more generous man you won't find in a day's travel. He has got a number of umbrellas of me, hut he alwaj biings back a lietk-r one in return. He changes 'em somehow, but how I don't know, and I don't care. I see he's honesr, an' that's all 1 care about it. Danbury Sen. The London gossips are telling this stoiy, aprofMis of Queen Victoiu's con tinued seclusion: At the princess of Wales' gaiden party, at which she Was pre-ent, the other day, the Queen ac cented a distinguished officer and con versed affably with him for some minutes. At last the gallant general remarked : "1 am very sorry for being so stupid. I am sure I have seen your face and remember it perfectly well but 1 cannot remember your name." Suggcttire. "Hair gettin' a little thin, sir," said tlie barber. "Young man. said John Henry, looking down upon him from the height of a solemn ex perience, "young man, when you are married you will never allude in that thonghrlesa manner to domestic mic Hons. X, don't aMlogize. My feeliugs are blunted. But is there not some mvsterlous unguent some aoft, seduc tive compound that m kes the hair more slippery to the grasp i Smidkins telegraphed from Xew York to the i.rotvieror of a Long Branch hotel as follows: "Reserve old room for s-If and family: down to-nwhr.' Smidkins' message was taken literally, aud he was surprised and disgusted upon his arrival at the American Brighton to find two of the oldest and most dilapidated rooms in the hotel over the kitchen prepared for the recep tion of himself aud family. A'kW York Mail. A blind man had been sitting one day and pleasantly, chatting with some visitois for an hour, when one of f hem wished thecompanv good morning, and left the room. "What white teeih that lady has," said the sarcastic blind man, "How can you possibly tell that f said a 1 1 lend. "Because, was the ready ao- swer, "for the last half hour she has done nothiug but laugh." Fed Eagle, an educated Sionx chief, wanted to marry a Minnesota girL She said: "If you can raise 150 bushels of potatoes a year, 200 bushels of wheat, auu S4U0 worth of stock, and can buy me a silk dress for the wedding, 1 am yours." "Not much." replied the coDDer colored chieftain," but I can raise hair enough to make you a braid- I hey were uot man led. The man who slapneth himself in his face in order to deprive the festive mosquito of his rations may live to see the day when he will be able to sym pathize with the well-intentioned in sect, which presenteth its bill not mali ciously, but verily because it inno cently desiieth to obtain that which it ueedelu. " When I go a shoppin'," said an old lady, "1 alters ask for what I wants, and if they have it. and it's suitable. and I feel iuclined to bay it, and it's cheap, and can t be got for less. I most alters take it, without chaffing about it au day as some people do." flbic much for the broad -faced chicken on the fence r inauired an Irishman of a farmer on Staten Island, the other day. "1 hat's not a chicken, it's an owl," replied the farmer. "I don't care how ould he is. I would like to buy htm,' says the irishman. When a Western man gets a divorce from a crusading aud strong-minded wile, the papers say, "Mr. so-and-so has resigned hi position as husband for Mrs. So-and-so." " There r remarked Mrs. Ferensnn yesterday, "I've gone and nsed my new bonnet for a postage stamp, and those stupid postothce clerks will never know the difference." . "Are you thinking of bnying thoe pigs, my menu I ' sani a countryman to a wag at a fair. --Oh, no," replied . I. I u . w l - iiicotuci, out x uave s sty in my eye." A fitherman at Long Branch the other nav says he beard a Iu valve irroan Suffering humanity, don't get excited ; it was ouiy an cx-ciam-atiou. .. llitquotation : A schoolboy baa put on p i per ibe fact that he bad rather be a good laiy and obey his mother than be a dog and obey the moon. Ton want a flogging, that's what yon do, said a parent to bis unruly son. "I know l. dad; but 111 try to get on without it," was the reply. Downy. At the theatre one evening some oue shouted, "Down in front '' whereupon ti ve young men instinctively felt then upper lips. . . "After at"!." savs an old doctor, "there are only two kinds of disease the one ot wh ic'i you die, and the other of which j ou dou'f. . These are the day wben one hears the pliancy pharmer philosophizing over his phosphates and phertiliaers. The latest poultry food Our poultry man announces that he keep bis Spring chicken on ice during the not weather. It it any proof that logic haa legs be cause it always stand to reason I Cottly furniture Indian bureau. . HCIKXTirtC Uteof Carbonic Acid Go in Drying and 8eaoning Timber. According to a recent patent, dkhj-4 carbonic acid gas may be nsed advantageously in dry ing and seasoning timber. For this purpose the timber to be dried is placed in a properly constructed cbamhrr.and a fire lighted underneath, or hot gaes conveyed through the chamber, so as to produce the necessary temperature. Wtth the timber, in the chamber, is placed a certain amount of water, and the products of combustion, contaiuing of coarse a large amount carbonic a id gas, are introduced into the same place The carlionie acid ga is rendered uioist by means of tlie water, and being hea ted to a considerable degree, acta di rectly upon the sap of the green wood, aud, in dissolving, it causes it to give out some ot its hydrogeu, and this com bining with the oxygen of the acid, forms water, and then is evaporated, leavtng some of the carbon of the car bonic acid in the wood. The removal of some of the hydrogen verniers the wood less productive of flame, while the action of the carbonic aciu tend to preveot decay in tb? wood, or to ar rest it in the early stage. For this op eration I he gieeuertlie wood the (let ter. It is maintained by the inventor that, if the proeess is pi opet ly conduc ted, and the wood not too rapidly hea ted, no piece of wood needs to be split or damaged in drying; that cracks which may have already appeared will not las iucieased, and that in every re spect the quality of the wood is greatly improved, becoming much baider and denser. The cost uf fuel in Englaud, for a load of 53 cubic feet of scantling, is esiimaied not to exceed twoshilliugs on planks three iuches thick, of almost any bard wood, dry in six to eight weeks. Xew Procettof Ventilation. A new process of ventilation is- now teing tried in St. George's Hospital, London, which promises to create au entire rev olution in all the processes hitherto in use. It is called the Tobin system, and goes solely upon the vertical prin ciple. Leaving the foul air to escape as it. may through the fireplace, it in troduces into the room a bulk of new atmosphere. Instead of being let down from above the cool air is introduced from below, with the result of aiiolish iog dangerous dowu draughts. Around the walls of the room are eight semi circular t llies between three and four feet in height placed npriglit against the wall, with tin ir flat side towaid it. These vertical tubes descend through the floor, and are then continued hori zontally to the outside of the building. The weight of the external air. being greater than that ot the interior, forces a current tbiough the horizouinl and up the vertical tube, and thus propels a column of cool fresh an into the waid. The steady pressuie of the external air sustains the column by continually furnishing it with a fresl. base. A col umn or slice of air thus ascends clear and sharp as a sword blade, uutil far above the heads of the patieuta it spreads gradually like a founiaiu. and scatters its spray of healthy oxygen When far aloft it mixes with the. gen eral atmosphere, ultimately finding its way out ly the chimuey. l Here is not the slightest symptom of a downward diaught. The new air is first distril- uted in the upper stratum of the room's atmosphere, aud as cold air naturally sinks, an extraordinary equable tem perature is produced. A substitute for natural leather is de scribed iu the r rench journals as now coming into use, in which the grains of all the well-known varieties, such as basil, seal, morocco, etc.. are reproduced with remarkable fidelity. In the pro cess or graining, a real skin of any kind which if is desired to imitate is takeu as a mould, and from this an i in tires siou is obtained on sheets of fibrous pulp by enoiiuous pressure. Theatti tidal stuff is obtainable in any co'or, and while it is said to cost only aliout one-eight as much leather, it posseses some ail vantage over the latter, which, it is presumed, will make it a commer cial success. For one thing, it is strou ger than leather of the same thickness. and isot uniform quality, forty or fifty forms may be cntat atime, where as the blemishes that occur in natural leather necessitate each form's being cut singly, eveu by experienced hands. The manufactured article is uot so li i- ble to soil, aud is waterproof. Another Steam Ilorte.Mr. Fort in Hermann, says Let Mondes is testing a machine winch is moved by articulated feet which are successively planted up on the ground. Two feet act from the front hodvand two from the rear, lieing pressed downward by steam, which, besid. s, in a horizontal engine, oscil lates roils which, acting upon the feet. cause the apparatus to drag itself along r rom expel linen tsci ted, it appears that the. feet, when shod with rubber and charged with a weight of 2.2 lbs. per 0.4 inch, indicated equal to O.Tjofthe weight of the motive machine. The apparatus travels at the rate from 4 to 4.8 miles per hour; and by a uew ar rangement, in which one pair feet trot while the other pair arable, it is expec ted to run at the rate ot 13 miles. It will ascend grades of 1 in 10 with quite heavy loads. Measurement of Solar Radiation. Meteorologists have long desiied to ob tain au instrument whereby compara ble oliaervations of the amount of solar radiation can lie made. a nous ex pertinents on this point have been made by the Kev. Mr. Stow aud others : and Mr. Symnns has shown that this object is attained uv the use ot a mercurial maxiuin thermometer, of which the bulb and one inch of the stem are coa ted black ; the whole being near the center of a globe of two or more in ches diameter, and from which the air has been exhausted. 1 o all such ther mometers the title vacuum thermome ter has been 'applied. It is. however, found that the amount of exhaustion varies considerably in instruments of different makers, and that the indica tions of the thermometer are thereby greauy auected. - A Clieap Ice Pitcher. The following simple method ot keeping ice water a long tune lu a common pitcuer.is worth koowiug. Place between two sheets of paper (newp.tDt-r wilt answer, thick brown is bettei) a layer of cotton bat ting aliout half an inch iu thickness ; fasten the ends of paper and batting logetner, lorming a circle, then sew or fa-te a crown over one end, making a nix the shape of a stoveuine minus the ritu. Place this over auoidinary pitcher ni:ed with ice-water, maklug it deen enough to rest on the table, so as to ex clude tbeair, and you will he astonished at the length of time this ice will keep, and the water remain cold after the ice is melted. A Ktw Use for 3iau Una Dr. Chev- reuse, of Switzerland, auuouncea a new and curious utilization of the may bag or cockchafer. It consists in decapita ting the living insect one hour after it has fed. when, oneuinir the stomach. several drops of a colored liuuid are obrained, which varies with the nature of the plant fed upon. This substauce nas Deen used as a water color for poin ting wtth considerable success, Dr. Cbevreuse having formed a scale of fourteen different tone or shade. It is a permament pigment, unalterable by air light, and imparts this quality, it is stated, to other patnta with which it may be mixed. TegetakU Aisasall. There are some vegetable anomalies; among which the cow-tree of Bolivia ranks high. It was no trilling boon that, among the dry and stony table land of Upper Peru, a tree, the yncc, should be ready to reward the thirsty wayfarer who pierce it bark, by pouring forth a copious stream of rich and refrshing milk. The oil-nut, the shea-butter tree, and the vegetable ivory of tbe Guinea Coast, the wax-tree of South America, a ad the camphor of Sumatra, are almost equally remark able. Tbe palm tree give syrup, sugar and intoxicating liquor, as well as fruit. cordage, timber, thatch, clothing and fuel. The bamboo serves a hundred uses. The bread-fruit tree of the South Sea Islands, with fish and fern-root made the inhabitants independent of agriculture and art. Some two years since, a Swedish Professor of Chem istry, M. Stenberg, subjected the fa mous moss which his country produces in such profusion, and which had hith erto been regarded mprely as the lud's pensable food of the hardy reindeer, to a series of experiments. They were, both from a scientific and commercial standpoint, brilliantly successful. It was found that the verdant carpet, which drapes many hundreds of square miles of untrodden fielJ and bleak mountain, was a source of wealth till then unknown. From sixty-six pounds of well-washed moss the clever profes sor extracted five gallons of pure alco hol. Eighteen hundred weight of the same moss, under proper treatment, yielded to Mr. Stenb.?r the enormous amount of nearly twelve hundred weight of unrefined sugar. The sugar-cane and baet-root, cultivated at great cost, and requiring peculiar conditions ot soil and climate, do not, weight for weignt. compete with this wild growth of ibe Swedish bills; and it is not sur prising to hear that the price of moss at Stockholm has ot late rien to about a half penny a pound, ami that lack of capital and machinery alone retards the practical results of so important a dis covery. Oddly enough, copiier, a poi sonous metal, is found in the tree the cinchona which supplies us with our chief safeguard agan.s. ever, quinine; while the oak is remarkably rich in iron, with respeet to which it is sur passed only by the Iron wood of Brazil and Guinea, and possibly by the hard ligiiuuivibe of Honduras. All the Year Round. Csld Water Without lee. How delighttnl is a draught of clear, cold water in the sultry days of July and August! The plow boy quaffs his glass and feels renewed. The harvester 'ooks anxiously for the return of the pig boy. And how disappointed he is to fiud the water warm ami insipid. Many farmers in harvest lime, with commendable enterprise, furnish ice water. But there are few who can afford this when it can be obtained. Besides, to those who are unaccustomed to its use, ice water is often producive of serious illness. It is too col l for a man who is reeking with perspiration. And he often Inds it dillicult to quench thirst with it on account of its exces sive coldness. But good cold water is iu the reach of every laborer, ami that without expense. It depends upon the fact that when water evaporates, it takes up a large amount of heat. Tqis heat is said to become latent. Pour some water on the hand. How cooling is the sensa tion as it evaorates. The vapor g.;izes Uoii the heat of the hand and leaves the baud col l. It requires as much heat to evaiioiate one pound of water as to raise 5.4 pounds from zero to the boiling point. But how can this be applied to tbe matter in hand ? Wrap your water jug with some kind of cloth, which will absorb much water. Any old woolen cloth will do. Every time you get a drink see that the cloth is w et. If you can hang the jug iu the shale where the wind can ttrike it, this will much facilitate evaporation, and keep the water inside cool. The vapor con tinually abstracts heat from the water iu tbe jug, and water may be eveu frozen by rapid evaporation. A porous uugl-ized jug is an excellent vessel in which to keep water. It al lows the water to jiercolate slowly through the pores, and this retains the ouuide in a moist condition. The na tives of the very hot countries cool their water by the last uietuo I, for, with them, ice is unknown. We used the above method successfully long before understanding the reasons for il. A Persian Postman. A correspondent of the Pa7 Mill Ga zette writes: "A tew days ago the first postman" was paraded about the bazars and shown to the Shah. This was hi costuiue: A light green tunic, re' trousers, and a black hat with a stu pendous yellow feat tier. His accoutre ments consisted of a great leather bag hanging In front of him if be bad had another behind he would have looked like an Eastern "sandwich man" a French horn slung over his left shoul der, a stick in his right hand, and a letter with a Persian sistage sirnnp on it iu his left. This phenomenon, after having been led alsjul the bazars for some time, was takeu "before the Shah." The admiring "Bah, Bah, Ma-liallali," followed of course. 'But what is the horn for?" "To blow." "Blow it, then." "On my eves be it." Xow the postman, while on the roud, had re ceived the gut of halt a kran a small silver coin and as lie could not find any pockets in his new-fangled gar ments, be had put the coiu into his month. Blow he did; but the horn was dumb. It is a pity the thing was a failure. If he could only have done a hearty "ta-ta-ratata" I might have been eucouraged to send you this letter by the new post; as it is, I do, perhaps, a wiser thing, and send it by your own government courier. Wotto for a doctor: "Patients is a viitue.7" E. F. Honker Rlttrr Wloo at roa has new been knows ta fail in the curs of weakness, sttenjed with symptoms ; india poait on to exer ius ; lei f nemory ; diffi cult v of breathing ; treneral weakness; hor ror of disease ; we .k, nervous trembling ; dreadful horror of deatn ; night sweaif cold feet; weakness; dira iess of vision; languor ; aniversal lassitude of the nuseu lar system ; enormous appetite, with dys peptic symptoms; hot hands; flushing of the body; dryness of tbe skin ; pallid coun tenance and eruptions on the face.p.irifying the blood; pain ia the back ; heaviness of tbe eyelids; frequent black spots flying be fore the eyes with temporary autTuaiun and loss of sight; wani of attention, elo. Tnese symptoms all arise from a weiknes, and to remedy that, use E. F. KiXKti'a Biiter Wine of Iron. It never fails. Tbousuids are now eniortng health who have oaed it. Gel tlie gi-nuiue. 8nd on'y in $1 boitlps rake only K. ' r. hunker. IVpot nwi ffice. No. 2o9 North Ninth st.. 1'i.iliidel- lbi. Pa. A-k for KnnVel s Iiiftrr Wine or Iron. This truly va'uaMe tunic his been so tl or- Hlifhly tested ny all clashes of the comma- ni'V thai it is now di-eiued inJi-penahle as T nie medicine. It eosts but 1 itle, rori fie the blood and gites t ne to theiomach. renovates the fVVtm and prolong life. I now only ak s trial of tnm viluahle ooic Price $1 per bottle. E. F. KCN KEL. Sole Proirieior. . J'i9 North Muta Si b.-l.iw Vine. Philad'li'bi. Ta. sk fr Kuokei's Biiter Wine at Iron, and take oo o1 her. It is sold snly in Si tx.l'Vs. with a photo graph of the Proprietor on erh wrapper. all otier is eomirrtVit. Sold by alt Diuggista. TariwosM Rhuveo Alivs. CesJ and 11 complete, in two hours. No fee nil head uaases. seat. Pin sud Stemach norms re moved by Dr. Kcxkil, Nurtb Nistb Svkeit Advice free. Cone, see over 1, specimens and be eonviuccd. He nevti fails. BROOMS! BROOMS! J0H5 I. BEUEB A 10., 353 'Washicgton tt- New York. Frin-irml Dnwt IB . V.k for Uia Uat Sima MaDttlactniaa la tba I' a led Slafas. Brooms from $2.no per dozes ad apward. Tlw lowest prkas sad tretat aariely to be (mad l aa aaUia eew tor of WOOD and WTI.LO AB, escs. as Palh, Tot, Rwkrta, Mata. Tot no. Joraaia. Wlcka, u. tocrtber wtia a fall Uia of At. Briar Wood and Clay Piia, Taney T-ik Hit- Ikiaa, Cattery, Sc. Sagaia n-um Hi id pt mitt. A fall Una of the Diet qtnlltj of TIXWAEa. - we aall ear (aoda at prxas that V aot reqain an? ewalDf aa tbe read. Ordera by aval anil fa w 'i-lt $5?$2or.7cVTcssr- H F. Ill I e.ti um i ' - L , , m rt tUTVI TT A f. KlllOOtt City, ML ..WH.MWIM HAW UVMI. r.TC TT- i oalK to alP K n 5 -co P o o o -a m X r r & o o 3D 3 a o e H 00 f fed a a w w 2 G art -J a 2 H K O S3 hi Q d a 5 2 r Ca OoM PI 2 ft n w 5 OB H SO ?2 n z o z 3 3 5 IS3 " ' o ;a H FREDERICK SPIECKER, SOTHll CIAl Leaf Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Or THE BEST BRANDS. S3. 152 FA23H3n3T AVZ27U3, FHILADELPEIA. Only srrat tr 0 & SeUd T Ogv uld. Cisar Store at V sa;Uea. I lr SHOW CAGES! SHOW CASES! 411 rtTlaLMtar MoenMd an Wlunt, nw at rfvtoni.&AO'l. Securely parked lor biplntf. UltNl'ltHd, BAKr. SHiXVIMi. HTOttB F TUBES, tc. BOrWB AMD VrVWH rrBMTCB8 alt krodi TU Urstat and beat aaaunad aloe, nav aav acon4-nnd In tea tiy. LKWIH k MItO-. H-l IStl. lOtS. IM a.4 1J Bl IMJK t V t Falls. HORSEMEN I OWNERS OF STOCK ! Save Tour Horses and Cattle I CCBB THEM Of DISEASE A5D EEEP THEM Hi A HEALTHY CONDITIO!! IT GITLNO THEM M. 3. ROBERTS' CELEBRATED ABIC HORSE POWDERS. 15 USE OTER FORTY YEARS! TIB OSLT rOWSBBS OOITAISISw TZ171Z, LASATTTB ACT PUaiTT Eft FS3PSSTZSS eosiixss, raiaiiT baxiis nu tu BEST CONDITION MEDICISS IN THE WORLD. They are made f Pure Malarial only, eat tableepoonful going as far a sat sound tl erdisary settle powders. Buy obs package and after aaing thsa yen will sever get dons praising them For sale by all storekeepers. TJSK M. B. ROBERTS' Vegetable Embrocation FOE ALL EXTERNAL DISEASES " ' BITBSB MAN OR BEAST. Jaal-ly ljeyere Poultry Powder. irarmied.iraaed la tone. WcarecbirHan caolera aoa tipea, wiisesoprljofuus I TPovder.aDd a btowalof lioeis a&4 proper feeunia. wnb a needful stidc.v of Cast. rrtlAnderrvbeil-thnniof aiai anal, any one Buy fcep Poultry (even 1o eon fln men t) for any lei.etb of time, wvti hots protrt and pleasure. Pvlie J" ft,-, iTefnrn.f. a. your deaiar. Seal free apes re- eli,oXtrf.e. Adireje, . - . A. C KmS k CO, SalUaura 500,000 ACRES -or MICHIGAN LAUDS FOR KA.I-.1S! The I sads ef ta- Jar awn, Laasla A Saeiesw aaiireae l Sanaa; are .lew usered rer tula. Thmy afitart.d al.ic ha nd nW sod oetaia tarn CrartpofriraUml FARMING and flSC Laaoa The wra tac lands Inoada eana al tba moat frrfla and arHI-mmd hardwo d land la tba S'ata ThrT am lionwnd nainlj with bard Maple asd sarfc; a-l t-MM-B. atony haa, as atononrta la npnngaof palat wat r. Manicae won of fhalraaf iedab'cil aaa aMa pro-naraoa Siap la tba Cava, aad Ita ttrsMtn a., a STfater aarirtv af cm e an raaonirwi laajt any Wrav rra siata. klla aume uf tha (T-l- ia Stafa awy pro dooaeum la erawt alieadaarn. tbry baaa mo other ra. ar.aiid wbra thU erwu taila, demtmioa Mlowa. as kaa lora IhaoaaalbanaatTaariu Kansaa aad NaOra-ka PrW fr- t-liu tu aa prr mcr-. f-n-f f .r ilnalrataj nunphli. Addnaa O. St. BAB E. aivai-w . Uni.li-a,u. i. Laaaina. MirhlKaa BLANXS XsUZLI nXXTID 1T THB OffKa, IX IB ! . ft -N The (0 L Principles as 4-toId In our badf a 0TTE PRICE, CASH DOWN, BETTOR THE MONEY, RELIABLE GUARANTEE. shalJ be our 4 Rallying Words 4 Another Season, Oak Hall with iffilffllnl Men's and Boys' Clothing Now In Store, will try by low prices to see Just how large a busineae cea ba uoxxe on Uue COMMON SENSE BASIS. THIS 8ELA.SOIY WE ARE IN BETTER RUNNING ORDER than e-ver, having rebuilt a portion of our Warehouse and made PRODIGIOUS PEEPARATIOXS. WliMAEHlOlI bas taxed to their TJT3XOST H thalr -raat faellltlee la BSTCASH CAPITAL, JWCONTROL. OK MARKETS, JofCOMPETENT WORKMEN, CONVENIENT BUILDINGS, JsS-COMPREHENSIVE EXPERIENCE. For the SPRING of 1875, THE RESULT IS -FOLD. i Perfecting of plans. LA J LJ fo new plans work perfectly at first. All new machinery J LJ V LJLaaJ has hitches, but we have now got the wheels all kalaaaaa in splendid running; order. 2d. k Preparation of stock. 1 Oi Larger and better than ever to attract all our old and I J thousands of new customers. X n i 3d- PUTTING DOWN THE PRICES. We go one notch lower because we don't lose by credit sales and the largest business affords the smallest of Profits. Besides we mean to increase our business and the way to do it is by Putting down the Prices. 4th. PLACE of BUSINESS ENLARGED Made necessary to increase convenience and economy of manutacturine rooms. In doing this we have added 1 tight thousand four hundred and WANAMAKER & BROWN AIM TO BUILD Iateffrity of dOealliif oa Off E PRICE, - OF ceunc to do this we most figure closely, erwewouUloeeeej-trade,, Dona BnsnrEsa CASH. TBI! IS Sans Loaaea, but we always were will leg to sell cheap. This Is the complaiat CoUecton tfeea. . - TieoUe. aadbaat of all enables us aaCiraaras lunne. other booses auke against as, but we do aot care, and thdrreiore mark the price oa the tickets, for that ts the only way peo ple caa be certain they buy at like rates with thetir neighbors. What we saved bat year warrants the Mark ing sows of prices this EVERT DETAIL haa hn Studied Out. and wbsn the. OAK -And trie Stock OA Xjaxgro, OrrtlieS3rt3tein, VI I ZSlclx eoid. V I- I- ttuo "IPrlcss, U J "VaxlodL OLLt2xo XmprarroECLO-dts, W believe that 1878 will be the largest business year we have ever known. . WE ARE READY FOR IT. WaiwiTAKer & Wm, S. E. Cor. Sixth 8c Market Sts., Philadelphia Leaf Glover tie Feople. Announcements last Fall have hd years growth mxvX sixty - four square feet of floor space. US 1 Up the Largest Clothing Business in the World. 3 Shoving on Omctoatra Oiylsg SAtiifaetioa. Esfandiny th Vootj. 6U1JU5TBE. 13 aalcca Voyfog rIS suits us, because it is fair and ho-aov-abie, and we are willing to take any pains to reach the highest mark of mer cantile dealing. We pre fer id have our goods back promptly, and band back the money to those who Clothing pl-areFt bcaa tk tmitttnfT runs wo risk from laczpe- rKlaCal, Iff UOI JLSCC Off aBtS take of any sand. THs firm protects th buyer oa cv-ey-f point, as bo sthcr boose kaa cwftiv tBrsd ts do. arc not fully OF THE BUSINESS People examine the preeent working ot HALL.
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