AfiKiccuraiu Vaixk of Yoraa Clovkr. A few farmers are plowing up fields of young clorer of last year a seed. This prac tice was qalte common a year or two since, and though not to be recom mended has some good arguments in its favor. Of course the clover has not nearly got its growth of top and still less of root. In fact, I find that clover roots do not get their largest size until the second growth after the first mow ing. It is this which makes growing clover seed so advantageous to the soil. During the hot dry weather of July and August the strong clover roots strike more deeply into the subsoil thin at any previous time; and though the second ctod. including seed, is taken from the soil, there is an increase of fertility by tne operation, mat is to say, there is more fertility available than before. Of course there is no ab solute gain by taking something from the soil ; but what the deep tap root draw from the subsoil more than balan ces what is taken away in the hay and teed. In plowing under young clover most of this advantage is lost; but if plowing is delayed until nearly tne last or .May, mere win siiu oe time ior planting corn or potatoes. The clover, at this early stage, is very succulent, and immediately begins to decay, mak ing the soil warm and light. There is no trouble from sod in after cultivation where vounz clover has been plowed under, and the speedy decay of the plants nnder the corn is for the first few weeks even superior to a dressing of manure. In a heavy, rich soil this may be all the fertilizing needed. On the whole, the practice is not nearly so wasteful as it appears, and is certainly much better than leaving tne new un seeded because the farmer expects to plow it the following season. Some even argue that it pays to seed spring grain which it is intended to plow and sow In the fall. But this is very doubt ful. Clover the first summer makes a verv small zrowth of either top or root, and as stubble for fall sowing should be plowed as early as possible the clover can De or very liiue vaiue. i ne oats or barley shelled on the ground in har vesting are worth nearly their market value as grain for manure when the field is plowed early. I am not sure that it would not pay to sow oats on stubble grounds to be cultivated under jusi De fore drilling in the wheat. Such land will be a better, moister seed-bed than if left bare during the month of Angust and early part of September. We have learned during the past few years that the crop or wheat depends mainly on the growth and vigor of the plant the preceding fall. Anything which secures this, whether it be clover or other suc culent plants plowed under, is of great benefit to tne crop. Pi-wc Water Fob Stock. While every man owning or keeping animals recognizes the importance of providing them with a pientuui supply 01 water, there are many who pay little attention to its Durity. A pond or stagnant pool which receives the drainage or surface water from ths higher surrounding fields is far too frequently considered good enough for farm stock. In some in stances it is good and pure enough, es pecially if the pond is of extended area and deep, and at the same time receives constant additions from subterranean springs. But we have seen hundreds of such resorvoirs which were little better than mud-holes during the greater part of the summer, being filthy In the ex treme, and the water warm and alive with animalcules and low fungoid spe cies of plants ; but they served to supply a liquid with which many a noble ani mal was compelled to quench its thirst. Is it any wonder that stock drinking from such ponds should te anected wun various kinds of fevers, or that conta gious diseases should be generated in these pools 01 nun r We are well aware how difficult it is to find pure water by digging wells, es pecially on some of the prairies and higher plains of the West, and that even to depend upon some of the larger creeks and rivers for a supply of pure water is little better than to use the kind of ponds we have described. But it is not necessary to particularize as to locali ties or regions of country which are well or poorly supplied with water, as it is sufficient to say that stagnant pouds or streams, which come so near oryin up in summer that water is only foun along their beds in small sinkholes and puddles, are not healthy sources from which farm stock should obtain water to drink. Water that is unfit for the use of man is also unfit for his animals; and we would have every breeder look at the subject in just this light and no other. When all do this, there will be less complaint of diseases which are only too well known in localities and upon farms where the supply of pure water is limited. Thx Farmers' Friend. The swallow, swift and nighthawk are the guardians of the atmosphere. They check the in crease of insects that otherwise would overload It- Woodpeckers, creepers and chickadees are guardians of the trunks of trees. Warblers and flycatchers pro tect the foliage. Blackbirds, thrushes, crows and larks protect the surface of the soil, snipe and woodcock the sou under the curface. Each tribe has its respective duties to perform in the econ omy or nature; and it is an undouDted fact that, if the birds were all swept away from off the earth, man could not live upon it, vegetation would wither and die, insects would become so nu merous thit no living thing could with stand their attacks. The wholesale de struction occasioned by the grasshop pers, which have lately devastated the West, is undoubtedly caused by the thinning out of the birds, such as grouse, prairie hens, etc., which feed upon them. The great and inestimable service done to the farmer .gardener and florist by the birds is only becoming known by sad experience. Spare the birds, and save your fruit ; the little corn and fruit ta ken by them is more than compensated by the vast quantities of noxious insects destroyed. The long-persecuted crow has been found, by actual experiment, to do far more good, by the vast quan tity of grubs and insects he devours, than the little harm he does in a few grains of corn he pulls up. lie is one of the farmer's best friends. A farmer states that he planted five rows of corn with seed taken from the three inches below the top of the ear, rejecting the imperfect grains at the ex treme point; then five rows taken from the middle and base of the ear, reject ing the imperfect grains at the butt. The result was that the five rows planted from the middle and butt of the ear ripened about two and a half weeks before the other rows, the corn of the former being better eared and filled to the end of the cob. To keef the roots from rambling we lift, and if necessary shorten a few times while the trees are young, thus bringing them into the habit of forming fibry roots near home; while to prevent them entering cold, unsuitable soil we find there is nothing so effectual as keep ing the surface soil in a suitable state as regards moisture and richness, and, of course, not digging and cropping it. In regard to milking cows oftener than twice a day, as a general rule it seems unnecessary, hut there are cows in nearly every dairy that suffer ex treme pain if allowed to go twelve hours between milkings, as their an xious watching for the milkmen and their bellowings and moanings indi cate. Few persons practice pruning cucum ber, melon, and other similar kinds of Tines; still, it is just as beneficial, if properly done, as the annual pruning of the crape and other woody plants. The pruning should be confined, how ever, to the pinching off the ends of shoots only. mllS TIF ic. Mixture of Ilaces and Mental Char acter. One further general inquiry of a different kind may be added : W hat effect is produced on mental nature by mixtare ot races T 1 here is reason for believing that, throughout the animal kingdom, the UDion of varieties that have become widely divergent is ptayi ically injurious; while the union of slightly-divergent varieties is physic ally beneficial. Does the like hold with the mental nature 1 Some facts seem to show that mixture of human races extremely unlike produces a worthless type of mind a mind fitted neither for tiie kind of life led by the higher of the two races, nor for that led by the lower a mind out of adjustment to all conditions ot life. Contrariwise, we find that peoples of the same stock. slightly differentiated by lives carried on in unlike circumstances for many generations, produce by mixture a mental type having certain superiori ties, in Lis work on "The Huguenots," Mr. Smiles points out how large a number of distinguished men among us have descended from Flemish and French refugees ; and M. Alphonse de Candolle, in his "llistoire des Sciences et des Savants depuis deux Siecles," shows that the descendants of French refugees in Switzerland have produced an unusually great proportion of scien tific men. Though, in part, this result may be ascribed to the original natures of such refugees, who must have had that independence which is a chief factor in originality, yet it is probably in part due to mixture of races. For thinking this, we have evidence which is not open to two interpretations. 1'rof. Morley draws attention to the fact that, during seven hundred years of our early history, "the best genius of England sprang up on the line of country in which Celts and Anglo Saxons came together." In like man ner. Mr. Gal ton, in his "English Men of Science," shows that in recent days these have mostly come from an inland region, running generally from north to south, which we may reasonably presume contains more mixed blood than do the regions east and west of it. Such a result seems probable a priori. Two natures respectively adapted to slightly unlike sets of social conditions may be expected by their union to produce a nature somewhat more plas tic than either a nature more impressi ble by the new circumstances of ad vancing social life, and therefore more likely to originate new ideas and dis play modified sentiments. The com parative psychology of man may. then, fitly include the mental effects of mix ture ; and among derivative inquiries we may ask, how far the conquest of race by race has been instrumental in advancing civilization by aiding mix ture, as well as in other wayst Popu lar Science Monthly. lectrie Conductivity of Carbon. la the last published proceedings of the Physical Society of London, the methods of determining the electric conductivity of various forms of carbon are shown, which are due to Mr. Bauer man. As the use of carbon elements is getting more frequent, such experi ments are very well worthy of notice. A fragment of the substance to be tested, no matter what be the form of carbon, is introducee between the jaws or a pair of tongs, formed by bending a strip of zinc into a horseshoe shape, and immersing it into a solution ot cupric sulphate. If the carbon is a non-conductor the copper salt is decom posed, and the deposit of copper only takes place on the immersed surface of the ziuc. When, however, the carbon possesses a high di-greeof conductivity a zinc-carbon couple is formed, and a deposit of copper takes place on the surface of the carbon, as in ordinary electrotyping. American anthracites, and coals that apparently had been subjected to the action of intruded igneous rocks, gave the most rapid results. The most remarkable of these was an anthracite coming from Peru containing a large amount of sulphur coming from a high plateau of the Andes, 13,nK) feet above the level of the sea. This coal was covered with copper almost as rapidly as graphite. Pennsylvania coal possesses the same property, but not to such a high degree as the Peruvian coal. Ordinary Welsh anthracite was not a good conductor, but on being heated to a full red beat, it conducted electricity freely. The connection between this conductivity in carbons, and the amount ot disturb ance In the coal formations, if fully established, is a curious one. In South Wales where, as it is well known that no great amount of disturbance has taken place, the electric conductivity is small, while with American coaL where disturbances were undoubtedly greater, and accompanied by more recent heat ing, the conductivity increases. As M. Bauerman very properly adds, long continued exposure to a lower tem perature might possibly produce the same effect, and further experiments upon this point would be desirable. Historical Chronometer and other In struments. Among the time keepers exhibited at the Kensington Museum is one which was twice carried by Capt. Cook. This same time-piece was again used by Capt. Bligh in 1787, and when the crew of the Bounty mutinied it was carried to Pictainfs Island. In 1808 it was sold by Adams to an American who touched there. He sold it in Chili when in 140 it was purchased by Sir Thomas Herbert at alparaiso, taken by him to China, and brought back to England in 1J. Among astronomical instruments may be cited two of Gali leo'stelescopes, the one with which he discovered the satellites of Jupiter in 1010 and the smaller one with which he first saw the spots on the sun. Tycho Brahe's qnadrant is also on exhibition, and the oldest European instrument in the collection is an astrolabe made at Barcelona in 1345. Not the less interest ing ia an instrument used by Sir Fran cis Drake during his voyage around the world in 1377. By its aid Drake could tell the sun's altitude, the ebb and flow of the tides, the hour of the day (if the sun was visible.) and it contained a compass, a perpetual calen dar, and a table of latitudes, and as it irn mmlfl from Drake's designs, by its compactness it bears witness to his ingenuity. Ammonia and Hitrie Acid in Eirer T'u f RnnB&inmiilf An thfl fMTA- sion of the recent freshet in the Seine, made some curious researcnes ui nitrogenous compounds in river water. Undoubtedly tne duik or sue n nirxoge- IIUUO DUUDMIUtio ww u A v xva, a.awa wv destruction and solution of some of the buildings, and the wah from the cul tivated fields through which the river ran. On the day of the greatest rise in : Iia SitinA Af KnnioainirAnlt eArntkttd that each cubic metre of water held in solution 33 centigrammes oi ammonia, and 1 gramme and 30 centigrammes of nitric acid. On the day the analysis -i i 1 i i . L. was aiwio uio caicmauuu buukcu tuoi 143,510,400 cubic metres of water passed i wl - VvciH iro in Paria in ilia rvAnhr. four hours. This would show that in! a single day the quite large amount of 47,538 kilogrammes of ammonia and 1R2 213 Vilntrrammes of nitric, acid went carried oif. Explosive Fotcer of Water. Philoso phers assure us that when they are en abled to explode pure water without converting it into steam as is believed to occur when an unusual volcanic eruption happens a destructive instru mentality will nave been made mani fest whica will utterly dwarf all our previousexperience of explosives. Pro fessor Piazzi Smyth said that be had momentarily caught this terrific power on one orcasion, when, having pushed a single drop of water into a large ladietui ot melted lead, tne wnole ot the metal was instantly dispersed in the air. Probably, also, the recorded destruction of a certain copper foundry, through a workman spitting into a cauldron of molten copper, was due to tne same awtui potentiality. The strain on belts is always in the direction of their length : and there fore boles cut for the reception of lac ings should be oval, the long diameter being in line with the belt. orotic. Germ as Sugar Cakks. Blend well with the fingers six ounces of good butter with a pound of fine flour, work ing it quite into crumbs ; add a few grains of salt, one pound of dry sifted sugar, a tablespoonful of the best cinna mon to very fine powder, and a large teaspoonful of mixed spices; to these the grated rinds of three sound, fresh lemons can be added, or not, at pleasure. Hake these ingredients into a paste, with the yolks of five eggs, and about four tablespoonfuls of white wine, or with one or two more in addition, if re quired, as this must be regulated by the size of the eggs; half of very thick cream, and half of wine, are sometimes used for them. Boll the mixture into balls, flatten them to something less than three-quarters of an inch thick, and bake them in a moderate oven for fifteen to twenty minutes. Loosen them from the baking sheets, which should be lightly floured before they are laid on, by passing a knife under them, turn them over, and when they are quite cold, stew them in a dry, close-shutting canister. The Germans make three in cisions in the top of each cake with the point of a knife, and lay spikes of split almonds in them. To Cak Sweet Corx. Very many fail in their attempts to can green corn for winter use. The following is one of the best methods, which we take from the American Grocer, and we ad vise all who wish to can corn to pre serve these directions : The corn should be picked when just milk ripe. After husking, the kernels are cut from the cob with a gauged knife and the cob scraped to get all the juices. Xext it is placed in tin cans without admixture (though sometimes a little sugar is added to poor corn) and sealed up air-tight. Then comes the "processing" or boiling, viz: subjecting the can and contents to the heat of boil ing water from one to two hours, ac cording to the size of the can. This can only be determined by experiment. Next they are taken from the boiling water and a small hole punched in the top of the can to allow the escape of the gasses and instantly resealed, after which the can is replaced in the hot bath and allowed to remain as long or longer than at first. The following recipe will restore the original polish of furniture, especially in the case of such articles as pianos, fancy tables, cabinets, lacquered ware, Ac, which have become tarnished by use : Make a polish by putting half an ounce of shellac, the same quantity of gum lac, and a quarter of an ounce of gum sandarao into a pint of spirits of wine. Put them all together in a stone bottle, near the fire, shaking it very often. As soon as the gums are dis solved it is ready for use. Then take a roller of woolen rags soft old broad cloth will do nicely put a little of the polish on it, also a few drops of linseed oil. Rub the surface to be polished with this, going round and round, over a small space at a time, until it begins to be quite smooth. Then finish by a second rubbing with spirits of wine and more of the polish. Furniture thus treated will have a brilliant lustre, equal to new. White Saccr. Put three-quarters of a pint of cream into a saucepan with the rind of a lemon, half a teaspoonful of whole white pepper, and a sprig of lemon thyme, and let these infuse for half an hour, when simmer gently for a few minutes till there is a nice flavor of lemon. Strain it, and add a thickening of three ounces of butter and one dessert spoonful of flour; stir this well, and put in the juice of a lemon at the mo ment of serving. Mix with a teacupful of white stock, and add a little salt. This sauce should not boil after the cream and stock are mixed together. Milk may be used instead of cream. Oranges in Jelly. Take the smallest-sized oranges; boil them in water until a straw will easily penetrate them. Clarify half a pound of sugar for each pound of fruit. Cut them in halves or quarters, put them in the sirup, and simmer them until the fruit becomes clear; then take out the oranges snd put them in a deep dish. Stir into the sirup an ounce or more of Bussian isin glass, and let it boil a short time; if the sirup should not be thick enough add a little more isinglass. As soon as a per fect jelly is formed, strain it over the oranges while hot. Lemons may bs done in the same manner. Fish Cakes. One pint bowl salt cod fish, picked very fine, two pint bowls of whole, raw peeled potatoes ; put together in cold water and boil till the potatoes are thoroughly cooked; remove from fire and drain off all the water, mash with potato-masher, add piece of butter the sUe of an egg, two well beaten eggs, and a little pepper; mix well with a wooden spoon; have a frying-pan with boiling lard or drippings, into which drop a spoonful of mixture and fry brown ; do not freshen the fish before boiling with potatoes, and do not mold cakes, but drop from spoon. Metallic Cemext. Mix well together one pound each of zinc white (oxide of zinc), black oxide of magnesia, sulphate of lead, and red exide of iron ; then make the whole into a dough with as small a portion of linseed oil as can be used to make up the mixture to the con sistence of putty. This cement becomes hard whether exposed to heat or not. Cure for Ccts asp Wocxds. It is not generally known that the leaves of geraniums are an excellent application for cuts, where the skin is rubbed off, and other wounds of that kind. One or two leaves must be bruised and applied on linen to the part, and the wound will become cicatrised in a very short time. A Frexch chemist asserts that salt alone answers all purposes for packing pork, provided all animal heat has left it before salting. 'o saltpetre should be used, as it induces scurvy. The brine should be as strong as possible, and cold water is capable of dissolving more salt than hot water. A Hnrr for Summer. A light thread net suspended before an open window will effectually keep out the house fly. It is a singular fact that these trouble some insects will not pass through the meshes of the net, even though these meshes are more than an inch in di ameter. Gexattxe Iclnq for Cake. One scant tablespoonful ot gelatine, dissolved in twoteaspoonfulsof hot water; mix with powdered sugar till quite stiff; spread on the cake and smooth with a knife dipped in hot water. I have tried it and find it does not crack alter becoming dry. English Muffins. Make a sponge over night as for bread, using nothing but yeast, nour, a little salt, and tepid water; In the morning beat it up well and pour into muffin rings upon the griddle. The batter should be just stiff enough to drop (not run) irom a spoon. Shaving Water. Dissolve some borax in water, and use for water to shave, when it will be found to make the soap more pleasant, and the opera tion of shaving much easier. To Have Corned Beef Juicy. After it is cold, and not dry as a chip, put it into boiling water when it is put on to cook, and do not take it out of the pot, when done, until cold. It is sato that eggs may be preserved for six months by dipping them in lin seed oil, and so placing them in a layer of sand that they do not touch. Cookies. Four eggs, two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, and flour enough to roll them ; roll them thin, and bake in hot oven. McaoKOca. A Romance of the Signal Service. I heard a couple of days ago a hitherto unpublished romance connected with the life of one of the most prominent officials of the Signal Service Bureau. He was, my informant states, once en gaged to be married to a lovely, charm ing and wealthy glrL The eve of the wedding had dawned if an eve can dawn and they were occupying the same rocking-chair and talking as in anely as only lovers can talk, when the fair one said: "Albert, duckey, there is one thing I wish you to do when we are married." "Xante it, lovey," he replied, making her feel that her corsets were a mile too large for her. "That Is, petty, to have no rain on Mondays, because, you know, darling, that Mon day is washing day, and if the things are not washed and dried then the week's work is so fearfully put back. You will, wont you, my owny I" This young man's heart was torn, but he re plied : "Maud, dearest, my duty to my bleeding country demands imperatively that I shall whoop her up the precise sort of weather that heaven will proba bly send impartially during the next twenty-foui hours upon the just and the uii just, without regard to age, sex or previous condition of servitude. If an area of barometric disturbance exists in the Middle States on Monday, how can I consistently with my duty declare that the probabilities favor clear weather with light winds from the southeast? Xo, angel; ask me anything but that, I could not love thee, dear, so darn much, loved I not honor more." "Then you do not loye me," she sobbed, burst ing into tears. The reader will readily understand how they progressed to a quarrel and parted enemies. She re turned his presents, and is now lectur ing on Woman's Bights, and he is a confirmed misogynist and sits up all Sunday night at the Signal Service office, with fiendish glee making out bulletins for Monday announcing fall ing barometers, atmospheric disturb ances, heavy rains, showery weather, and so on. - His Dio.vrrr. A ragged and uncouth alms asker, says the Free Press, was begging of pedestrians on Michigan avenue yesterday, when a policeman asked him why he didn't go to the countyhouse. "I go to the poor house !" exclaimed the old man. "Why, yes. It would be much better than begging." "You keep away from me, sir I" growled the vagrant. "A man who will deliberately advise me to degrade my character, aud stain my honor, is an unsafe officer, and I will have you broken, sir!" 'Woman," said the fat man on the cracker barrel, reflectively, "woman is like a boil. When another man has her we laugh at him ; when we have her ourself we cherish and protect her." He seemed to be a man of pure and lofty sentiments, and when he said he guessed he'd go home and give his wife a chance to do the chores, everybody respected hiin. Xoneich Bulletin. He was a timid fellow, but fond of borrowing John Phoenix's jokes; so when she asked him how be felt, he averaged himself according to the Pine nix plan of being very definite, and said he felt about 8S per cent." "In deed," she said, with a demure look, "are you never going to par?" She got in her work that evening. Cincin nati Commercial. "What would be your notion of absent-mindedness?" asked Rufus Choate of a witness whom he was cross-examining. "Well," said the witness, with a strong Yankee accent, "I should say that a man who thought he'd left his watch to hum, and took it out'ns pocket to see if he'd time to go hum and git it, was a leetle absent-minded." Fond mother (to old gentleman to whom her son is apprenticed) "I am sorry to say sir, that Harry won't be able to come to work for some little time. The doctor says that he has got brain fever." Old gentleman "Then the doctor is a fool, madam, for the boy hasn't got any more brains than than a donkey, ma'am." Mrs. Dipper (to Jonesey, who is deeply in arrears for board) "Mr. Jones, won't you step into the parlor for a moment? I wish to speak with you." Jonesey "Beally, Mrs. Dipper, I should like to accommodate you, but what will the boarders say at seeing us alone ? Oh, no, excuse me." A young gentleman coming from a wine dinner, yesterday, was asked by a lady: "Why, Mr. , what makes your face so very red?" "Strawber ries," be replied, "nothin, 'shore you, but str(hic) berries. Nice vegetables, str'b'ries, ah! fine bird ! Cincinnati Times. The following was the reply to the question, "Which of the two popular London preachers do you like best?" naming them. "I like to hear Mr. preach best, because I don't like any preaching, and he comes nearest to nothing of any that I ever heard." "Maria," said the pious husband, "them wicked Smiths are allowing their children to play in the yard on Sunday. To-morrow I'll sick the dog on their chickens. The judgment of Heaven must be visited ou 'em in some way." At the show the other evening a gen tleman sarcastically asked a man stand ing up in front of him if he was aware that he was opaque. The other denied the allegation; he said he was not opaque his name was O'Brien. An inebriate recently fell and struck his nose against a barber's pole. On being raised from the ground, he asked : "What's zat woman wi' striped stock ings on got agin me?" "Cemetery" is the name of a new station on the Stoney Creek railroad. All "dead-heads" are expected to get off at this station. The letter "O" is called the most charitable of all the alphabet, because it is found oftener than any other in "doing good." When she struck him over the head with a tin dipper for trying to kiss her, he called it "the tintinnabulation of the belle." "Even in the hardest times clocks employ their regular number of hands." That's because they do business on "tick." Wht Is a mad bull an animal of a con vivial disposition ? Because he offers a horn to every one he meets. If you wish for money, send a postal card to the man who owes yu, and the thing is dun. When parents yield up their daughters in marriage they do it with miss-givings. Don't turn up your nose at Ugh things, Think of bread and taxation. "Let no single man escape," is the leap year motto of the ladies. The bored of education Children who hate school. When is it right to take one in ? When it rains. Avery narrow aperture The crack of a whip. A shoemaker is a member of the solar system. A round of pleasure A promenade concert. Often found where it Is not Fault nrni coixm. Three oood Lessons. "One of my first lessons," SSIU air. scurgrs, nit) eminent merchant. uwaa in 1813. when I was eleven years old. My grandfather had a fine nock oi sheep, wnicn were care fully tended during the war of those times. I was the shepherd boy, and my business was to watch the sheep in the fields. A boy who was more fond of his book than the sheep was sent with me, but left the work to me, while be lay under the trees and read. I did not like that, and finally went to my grand father and complained of it. 1 shall never foricet the kind smile of the old gentleman as he said : "'Never mind, Jonathan, my boy ; if yon watch the sheep, you will have the sheep.' "'What does grandfather mean by that T I said to myself. 'I don't expect to have sheep.' My desires were mod erate, and a fine buck was worth a hundred dollars. I could not exactly make out in my mind what it was, but I had great confidence in him, for be was a judge, and had been in Congress in Washington's time ; so I concluded it was all right, and went back con tentedly to the sheep. After I got into the field 1 could not keep his words out of my head. Then I thought of Sun day's lesson : 'Thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things.' I began to see through it. 'Never you mind who neglects his duty: be you faithful, and you will have your reward.' 1 received, a secona lesson soon after I came to New York as a clerk to the late Lyman Keed. A merchant from Ohio, who knew me, came to buy goods, and said: 'Make yourself so useful that they cannot do without you.' I took bis meaning quicker than I did that of my grandf ather. "Well, I worked upon these two ideas until Mr. Reed offered me a partnership in the business. The first morning after the partnership was made known, Mr. James Geery, the old tea-merchant, caued in to graiuiate me, and he said : 'You are all right now. 1 have only one word of advice to give you : Be careful who yon walk the streets with.' 'in at was lesson number three." And what valuable lessons they are : "Fidelity in all things ; do your best for your employers ; careiuineiw nuuui your associates." ies every uuy these lessons nome auu biuuj wcu well. They are the foundation stones of character and honorable success. XIritc r iyny.. aiuuun ... - r -11 1 v-i tn flrMtnlnnil WAA one Herjulf, a bold and skilful navigator. 1118 son BJiarni, or uiamc, m ic """j commonly called, was also an intrepid sailor, and a worthy descendant of the Vikings. Returning irom a voyaico w Norway, Biarne found that his father u.j - Frio tn tha nw land. This impetuous youth, without more ado, and witnout stopping 10 uokwu bis ship, immediately set sail into the West, to find his father. He and his crew missed the southern point of Greenland, and, after many days of r l ;.iUni wiml ilrivpn rltfT knew not whither, they eame in sight of land. The country was nai anu weu-wouueu, but Biarne knew that it could not be I ' I--,! 1IA 1wiItajI in Tain for "the high ice-hills." which he had been told to expect, i hougn nis men grumoieu m;i.;iv ha wiiiilil nnt stn ashore, but. sailing on the wind, as only the North men then knew now, ne aept on wnu . Vi a n tlia larhnnril fur left side of the ship. After two days and two nights of voyaging, they approached land again. It was low and wooded ; if woa fli-oonlnnH- Keening on his course, with a south-west wind, Biarne made land a third time, i nis was an island, as the young Viking found by sailing around it, and it was "high and mountainous, with snowy mountains." Standing out to sea, with the sontb- . ; ...1 a.;il klnm-ino. KinmA Mil I All w cvb niuu nnu trav.u. for three more days and D.Kbte,wbeD be made the coaat ot ureenianu. ne fAnnl liia fattiAV VaII Attf Ahl.ftllMi At ft iwuuu inn " point called Herjulfness. or Herjulf A Turret - Shin's Armament. The harbor of New York was guarded by the Roanoke, which has four turrets and eight guns : but most of the other turret-ships have only two turrets each. The turrets are armored with solid iron plates, eleven inches thick, backed with wadding; and the guns which they contain weigh twenty-two tons. A twentv-two ton gun. vou may be sure, is a terrible instrument of de struction ; but I don't suppose you can guess the immense weight of the shot which it will throw. A hundred pounos seems ereat. but the actual weight of each shot fired by the Roanoke is four hundred and forty pounds, and tnus the eight guns tired at ence would pour three thousand five hundred and twenty pounds of steel into her antagonist s side ! Think for a moment of the effect of such a volley on the most heavily armored broadside vessel, how it would make her reel and groan like a great beast struck at the heart ! Think of the thunder that such a weight would cause, and the terror it would carry to an enemy ! And some of the British turret-ships, like the, Glatton and the Thunderer, even carry guns which throw shots weighing six hundred pound eacn : Little Children. People who habit ually out children out of their hearts. and close their doors upon them, have no idea how much comfort they set aside what pleasure, what amuse ment. Of course the little creatures meddle with things, and leave the traces of their fingers on the wall, and cry and "bother" a little ; but, when one gets into the way of it, as mothers and other loving relatives do those things become of minor importance. Children are such pretty things, and do such funny things, the toucn ot their little bands is so soft, the sound of their little voices so sweet, their faces are so pretty, their movements so graceful and comical, the whole family goes baby mad, and it is no wonder. No book was ever written that was half as interesting as a child that is learning to talk and to think, that is developing from a tiny animal into a being with a conscience and a neart. Judament rendered. A fond father sent bis young hopeful of four into an adjoining room to get a book. The boy came back and said it wasn't there. "Yes, it is, my son," said the father, "it's on the table." The boy went back and reported again that there was no book there. 1 be lather got impatient and sent another child for the book. and in the meantime the mother brought the book from a different room, with the iemark, "Here's your book; it was on the mantel-piece." The gentleman composed himself to read, and about ten minutes afterward discovered young hopeful still stand ing by his chair and regarding him in tently. As he raised his eves the boy broke out solemnly, "Father, there's a fib about somewhere, and 1 didn t ten it." Woman's Journal. Jttle CkJIdrea. People who habitually put children out of their hearts, and close their doors upon them, have no idea how much comfort they set aside what pleasure, what amusement. Of course the little creatures neddle with things, and leave the traces of their fingers on the wall, and cry, and "bother" a little; but, when one gets into the way of it, as mothers and other loving relatives do, those things become of minor impor tance. Children say such pretty things, and do such funny things, the touch of their little hands is so soft, the sound of their little voices so sweet, their faces are so pretty, their movements so graceful and so comical, the whole family go baby-mad and no wonder. No book was ever write n that was half so interesting as a little child that is learn Ing to talk and to think, that is develop ing from a tiny animal to a being with a conscience and a heart. USsrary Thomas Chatterton, who, in one sense, lived a long life before he was eighteen years old, was one of the most extraordinary literary deceivers on re cord. Born at Bristol, In 1752, he was tausrht a small routine knowledge at a parish school, and then belonged to the Colston School from his eighth to his fifteenth year; afterwards he led the life of a drudge in an attorney's office. Antiquities, especially of an artistic or poetical kind, were special objets of his liking; and in this direction he mani fested at once his genius and bis fraud. In 1768 a new bridge was opened at Bristol; and there appeared in Felix Farley's Journal, a translation of an an cient manuscript under the title "A Description of the Fryars passing over the Old Bridge." The antique phrase ology and the vividness of the descrip tion, attracted general attention ; but the whole affair was the product of Chatterton's own brain, although he In dulged In plentiful lying when pressed for an explanation. This first decep tion marked his sixteenth year ; and the remaining two years of his brief career may be characterized as one continued falsification. He handed to a Bristol tradesman a pedigree, tracing his an cestors back to the Norman times, and claiming to the astonished shopkeeper relationship with many a noble and knightly personage in past ages. He produced the "Bristol Tragedy" and other poems declaring them to have been written by one Bowley, a priest of the fifteenth century. He brought forward some old parchments, descriptive of the principal churches and chapels in Bris tol; they were wholly his own produc tion; but by discoloring them with smoke and ochre, and imitating old writings, he completely deceived Mr. Barrett, who was at that time writing a history of the city. He wrote to Hor ace Walpole inclosing pieces of ancient writing, purporting to be biographical sketches of Bristol painters, scarcely, If at all, known to the public, and offering to place in his hands a large collection of such papers. Walpole, who was at that time preparing his "Anecdotes of Painters," entered upon the subject with great interest; but bis critical judgement soon detected the fraud, and he shook off the Impostor. Some Lon don booksellers made Chatterton an offer which tempted him to come to the me tropolis, where he was chiefly employed in writing satirical party articles. The attention they attracted gratified his enormous self-conceit; and in a wild burst of excitement he said to a friend that he hoped, "by the blessing of God, very soon to be sent prisoner to the Tower, which will make my fortune." The "mad genius," as he was called, had long brooded on suicide ; and he put it into effect at a squalid lodging in Brook street, Holborn, and did not live to see his eighteenth year. Chamber's Journal. Bed. used on a railroad, signifies danger, and says stop. The same color displayed on a man's nose may well be interpreted to give a similar warning. Bckeaek's Bern Weed Teale. In the atmosphere experienced here during the summer months, the leth argy produced by the heat takes away the desire for wholesome food, and fre quent perspirations reduce bodily en ergy, particularly those suffering from the effects of debilitating diseases. In order to keep up a natural healthful ac tivity of the system, we must resort to artificial means. For this purpose Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic Is very ef fectual. A few doses will create an ap petite and give fresh vigor to the ener vated body. For dyspepsia, it is inval uable. Many eminent physicians have doubted whether dyspepsia can be per manently cured by the drugs which are generally employed for that purpose. The Sea Weed Tonic in its nature is to tally different from such drugs. It con tains no corrosive minerals or acids; in fact it assists the regular operations of nature, and supplies her deficiencies. The tonic in its nature so much resem bles the gastric juice that it is almost identical with that fluid. The gastric juice is the natural solvent which, in a healthy condition of the body, causes the food to be digested ; and when this juice is not excreted in sufficient quan tities, Indigestion, with all its distress ing symptoms, follows. The Sea Weed Tonic performs the duty of the gastric juice when the latter Is deficient. Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic sold by all Druggists. Ira la ta BlMd. xbe Peruvian Syrcp vitalizes and enriches the blood, tones up the system, builds up the broken-down, cures Dys pepsia, lvbility, Dropsy, Chills and Fevers, Chronic Diarrhuea, Nervous Affections, Boils, Humors, Diabetes, Ac Thousands have been changed by the use of this remedy from weak, sickly, suffering creatures, to strong, healthy and happy men and women; and invalids cannot reasonably hesitate to give it a trial. A 32-page pamphlet, containing a history of the Peruvian Strcp. a valu able paper on progress in medical sci ence, a treatise on Iron as a medical agent, testimonials from distinguished physicians, clergymen and others, will be sent free to any address. Seth W. Fowls &, Sons, Proprietors, 86 Harri son Ave., Boston. Sold by dealers gene rally. 14 The new State House bell and the new clock have been put In their places, but Bennett A Co., at Tower Hall, No. 513 Market St., Philad'a, still stand by their old sign of the big clock. The only thing new is their schedule of prices for good clothing. This is the lowest in the city for articles well made and from good materials. The attention of the salesmen and their straight-forward way of doing business is alone worth an extra dollar, but politeness at their store costs the customers no thing. "A Drep f iT la Every Wrd." Flemington, Hunterdon Co.,) N. J., June 26, 1X74. )' Dr. B. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. : Dear Sir: It is with a happy heart that I pen these lines to acknowledge that you and your Golden Medical Dis covery and Purgative Pellets are bless ings to the World. These medicines cannot be too highly praised, for they have almost brought me out of the frave. Three months ago I was bro en out with large ulcers and sores on my body, limbs and face. I procured your Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets, and have taken six bottles, and to-day I am in good health, all those ugly ulcers having healed and left my skin in a natural, healthy con dition. I thought at one time 1 could not be cured. Although I can but poorly express my gratitude to you, yet there is a drop of joy in every word I write. God's blessing rests on you and your wonderful medicines is the bum ble prayer of Yours truly, James O. Bixlis. When a medicine will promptly cure such terrible eating ulcers and free the blood of the virulent poison causing them, who can longer doubt its won derful virtues t Dr. Pierce, however, does not wish to place his Golden Medi cal Discovery in the catalogue of quack patent nostrums by recommending it to cure every disease, nor does be so recommend it; but what he does claim ! ikii tfct thara ia bnt ens form of blood disease that it win not cure, and that disease is cancer. ie uoes not re commend his Discovery for that dis- m.mma .l ha Irnnwa It to be thA mnat searching blood cleanser yet discov- anwi mi tntt it win iree we dioou mnu system of all other known blood poi sons, be they animal, vegetable or min eral. The Golden Discovery is ar- .t.A hw him tt roirft thA worst forma of Skin Diseases, as all forms of Pim ples, Blotches and Lrupuons, also all Glandular Swellings, and the worst rum nf AWnlmii and TTleerated Sore of Neck, Legs or other parts, and all scroluious Jjiseases oi tne uoura, as White Swellings, Fever Sores, Hip Joint and Sninai Diseases, all of which belong to Scrofulous Diseases. 30 The People's Remedy. Tha Universal Fain Extractor Note: Ask for POND'S EXTKICT. Take no other. M II lor I will ak ( icellcat thiaara." -Dirt HTBA.T-T1'Te"e":" Vaatrayrr. Hu beea in a omr thirty yemns aod lor cleanliixaa and prompc coiv t're Tlrtoea cannot Da exceueo. IIEfl Na raaaily caa aSonl to De wttaoai ruii'i Extract. AeeMaMa, BraiMts - ' - - UkmIba- mrm r 11 ahaoat instantly bjr external application. Promptly relieve pains or Baraa, Mealda, Kxrariartaae, rhalaca, OM Korea, Bails, Felaaa, t'araa, etc ArraiU io flamatioD, redneea aweUlnra, atop blmUng, retnoT dWotaratkm and beala rapldlr. rtJMlEWUaRUSCS.-It niwaja rrlWsp.in In tne beck aoaiams,fnllnsai and prcaairg pain In the head, aanaea, vertigo. ilUICOIIHCAlthaaBoeqaaLAIlUndnfaU eermtieae to which Mies are anhwet are promptly cared. Fuller dcUHl in book accom pany In c each bottle. PUIS hliaa or Ueedlaw meet prompt relief and ready can. No esse, however ctuooic or obstinate, can long mist Its regular use. IAI1C0SE VBIS.fthi tha only sore enra for this diKtrpasine and dangeroos condition. UDIET IISUaiL-" ha.no eqnallocrrma nent cure. ILEEBiM from any canae. For this b a ave ciae. It has saved hundreds of lives when ail other remedies failed to arrest bleeding from se, etsej ai a. laaaa, and ehwwbere. IBEBMATISM. lEHAHIA, JWhaehe d burarba are all auke relieved, and oitea per manently cored. PaTSIGIARi of eli schools who sre acquaint! witn Poad'a Extract of Witch Ilaxei reca ommend it in tbeir practice. We have lettered commendatioB from hundreds of Physicians, many of whom order i- tor nae ia their own practice. In addition to the foregoing, they order it as for Hwelliaaa of all kinds, QaJaay, War Throat, laSoased Toosila, Simple and chronic Diarrbepa Catarrh, tor which It is a specific) Chilblalao, Frost ed Feet, Htlaa of laaerta, Maoaailac. etc, t'haooeo Hands, Face, and indeed all manner of slria disease. , TBIUT BL-Kemoves Mortis , Raaahaaa, and Kaxartlaaj beala Cats, Kraptiaaa, and Piaapleo ft rmrei tavuporaf and re rsia, while wonderfully improving the ra alexia. TB f ARMEBS. PaodH Extract. Ko torx Breeder.no UvervMaa can anord to ba without it. It is nsrd by all the Leading Liver-.stsbkr, Btreet Railroad and Sret Hurnemerfln New York City. It has no equal ior HaraJao, liar araa or (toddle ChaSaaTs. rUidnraa, tarrorabea, MwelHawa-Cata, Larermllaas, Bleediac, Pasaaaaaiai, Colic, INarrbara, ( kills, t alas, etc It rangeof action ia wide, and tne relief it affords is so prompt that it a invaluable in every y arm-yard as well as is every Farm -boose. Let it be tried once, and yon will never be wtlnont H. IABTI0R. Pooaa Extract ha been hnit.efl 1 ne Pennine article has the words Pass's Ex tract bkmn m each bottle. It a prepared by theaaly pimo llvtaa; who ever knew how to prepare it properlv. Refuse all otber pre parations of Witch BaxeL This a the only article sued by Physicians, and iathelxiW tala of this corntry and Enrope. R1STBRY ARB BSE BF PBBB'o EXTRACT, in pamDhlft form, sent free on applicstiuo u tnE VFwtyX. "m,kt1' BLANKS at atly nnmo at bis omoa. AlvIOS DILLBOM & 0., 21 and 23 TAJ. Tenth Street, PHILADELPHIA. HAVING VERY MUCH Wo hare low as complete FURNITURE, BEDDING, BED CLOTHING, Jkrw CAN HE FOTJTS'D GREAT inOUCEOEnTS in CLOTIIinO. MEM'S, YOUTHS'. BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S Fine, Medium, and Lorn Ao- At 9 mcea, in urge Assortment PRICES NEVER AS LOW for twenty wars. Large Purchases of Goods for Cash, at present very lour prices for Woolens, have enaoiea us to effect this. SAMPLES SENT BY MAIL for auacnea on pnnxea voter, witn plain Instructions for Measurement GARMENTS ORDERED Sent by l I . it a s- ' umevu, ii mi we pay cxpressage ootn ways on goods returned, and on return of money to us if kept 6IVE US A TRIAL ORDER on rnnaaeipnia. TltW Of TOWW alalia 6m ETro, !!! S PORTABT.T5! SOW FOUNTAINS. $0. 50. 1 $100. CHEAP DURABLE. Will MS AriilSr"1 S-Uw 25 FA.NCT BRISTOL CARDS. 10 tint -i.k . luc; or JO Bjixsd Reap. Usaiaik sad C. luT ftl O a day at home. Ageaa wants. Oatftt aad VjLaV una fn. TKCS a CO, Aagasa, Mama! . S-Mv $77 week to A renta. Old and Young. Term and (Mutt frm. Address P. v. v m Auauia, a aloe. ll-as-ini ftfi tn ftOfl i"4!" k0"TA i-worth n iv VMV urn BnaauB a OeftKtlaadJtaiae. TTLMH THITIJS CAIM t 501 FIMR TINTED OR WrTTTa kv M .. SlUiD STAMP In ItvPl.N a. coaeere. AOKMTb wanted. F1LKARD S CO, Bara- r raaa a. 15-ly 9 ; FANCY CARDS, new wyhe, wHh poei-oaifl. a. u u SIKut aa ART Sea- Waahlagta XraarlaL New Flaeat Naooaal picture iaasL Kicsllent ekaare fcr Arenta Territory opaa, Wrrraaaa Baoa., 1M William St, 5. V. -l'.'-lt 0 AGENTS WANTED FOR THE EIMTEIMNIAL HISTORYoftheU.s. The great interest In the thrilling history of ear country makes this ths fastest aellioc to. rvrr pub lished. It contains a full account of lbs tiread Cen tennial Yhihitioa. CAlTIO.a,. Old, Incomplete and CnrslUbW workasrs heme circulated; as that the bnnk voa saw eooiains 443 aao eagravioaraaiid SSo pafeo. Send for circulars awl extra terms to Areata. Ad. dresa, Kanuat PcaLUUlm Co, Fhiladslphks Pa, S-aT-tr BROOMS! BROOMS! JOBS I. kEIIER m CO., 953 Washington Bt, Hew York. Principal Depot m Hew York for tha bast Brosm Msnnfactares ia the United Stales. Brooms from $3.00 per ioiea and iDward. The lowest prices and xrsatsst rsrletv m ha SanJ anywhere. Also aa eath-s aew stock of WOOD and WILLOW WARS, rack aa Paila. Tubs. rWkecj. so Twi Cordace. Wicks, Sc, together with a full nos of Apple Briar Wood sad Clay Pipes, Fancy Soaps, Yankee Sl taoes. Cutlery, Ac Segare from Ok m $00 par milL A fall Una of lbs best quality of TUf WARS. P. 8.. We sen oar seeds at nrlces that do aot reoejre any dramming oa lbs road. Orders by sw will re ad Issu, A-M-'y BIDUCID TO A CIRTAIHTT. Cbaxtco to WaJa Without risk. Bend for areolar at one. No time to loae. ALLEN CO.. 7a Siin Street. NEW IOKK. J-7-ly JOO PAINTING RXATLY RXIOTTKD AT THIS OFFICR. EN1AEGED OUR STORE, aid veil-selected a Stock of I For Parlors, Chambers, Dining Rooms, Libraries. Feathers, Mattresses, Spring Cots, Beds, Bolsters, Fiiiows, Ticks, Ac, &c Blankets, Quilts Counterpanes, Comfortables of Cotton, Wool or Down, Sheets, Pillow Cases, &c. IX PIIIIAIJKIX'IIIA. any kind of Garment, with prices Express, Fit and Satisfaction guar- ' .. these terms if unable to come to wja WfsTmuTiMmlt. t--y cism.'Wsa I o-k,N T Jasi,lt.M-t nmltwl.O rT- I 1 Clothing Bazaar, 518 Market Street, Half-way bet. Fifth and. Sixth iltreets, BOOTH SXDK, FnnjuixpniJL .
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