ah t A i-t 1 3'.;- . 1 j THE VAIiCE OF GOLD DUST. It was not Known to the Earliest Min ers In California Varied DctIccs for Adulteration. ' ;. The value of golddust was not known to the earliest minors in California. Marshall ami tlmse who were with him at the saw-mill nice lad never seen gold in its virgin state before the dis . - eoTOrv. The first pold soM at Colonia, it is said, only brought $8 an ounce, but it afterward rose to ?1G, at which figure it remaind for some years, filers and buyers did not for a long time realize anv difference in the value of different dust. "What are you raying for dust todav?" was the question often asked by the miners of the dust-buyers. Thus in those times no more difference was recognized inthequality of different gold dust than is to-day recognized in the quality of different sand or sawdust. Buyers mixed their dust together as they sent it to the mint, and iaid an averaee irice for it alL This was a very good thing for the miners who had poor dust and very unfair for those who had dust of the best quality. After wards it was found that the dut as it was taken from the earth varied greatly in value. Some of it, according to mint returns, was worth even as low as $0 an ounce, and some was worth $J0 and more. This is on account of the fact that a greater or less amount of baser metals, sliver, copier, etc., is aiwajs found in alloy with gold in its natural state. Gold dust differs as much in ap pearance as it does in quality. Some of it is yellow and bright, and some Is dull In color, dark irreen and black. The bricht vellow dust is not the best in quality," as might ordinarily be sup posed.' Some of the purest gold ever aimed has been aunosi uum:k in coior. "There is also no uniformity in the form or the jwrticles of gold dust. Some is 1 fine and flour-like, some is coarse ana smoothly worn, and some is rough and sefapgy." Dust taken from any one locality in a mining district is always remarkably uniform in value, color, and form. This fact enables buyers- after some experience, to determine im r&diately from what locality dust Is mmeu, ana mini is its tuiue. a ir- ni-t question asked by a buyer is: "AVheir did you mine this dust?'' Of course, if it came from a region that has a reputa tion for producing gold of a good qual ity tie buyer can atiora to ay a nign price for it. 1 liere is lime use in wak' lag misrepreseiitationi.wben answering this question, for the buver lias almost as good means of knowing w here the dust came from as the seller. This knowledge is of srreat value to the dust- buyer in the way of protecting himself against iraua in me way oi counieneit dust. etc. Peculiarities in the form of gold taken from mining districts often gave a name to the locality. Chunk canyon, Slug gulch, and Siecinien ravine are ex amples. A canyon in El Dorado county is called String canyon. This is said to be on account of the very singular farm of the gold dust found m that reg j ion. Much of it resembles pieces of wire one and two inches in length, and some of it as tine as thread. Observations of the form of their dust often led miners to make very valuable discoveries. All gold, as is well known, originally came from quartz. In its nat ural state in the quartz it is very irreg ular in form. Every rich ravine and canyon had a gold-bearing quarts vein, whose wearing away by the elements had loosened the precious metal, to le washed down by the water among the gravel and sand. When gold has leen washed far from its source the attrition causes it to become fine and smooth. As the miner approaches the feeding quartz vein the gold becomes coarser and more scraggy, till suddenly the pay gives out entirely. Then it is certain that a rich quartz ledge is in the vicin ity, and in this manner veins have been struck that have yielded many thous ands of dollars in a few weeks. Gold-dust buying in the mining towns was a very profitable business in the early days of California. What was called black sand, composed prin ipally of iron, was always mingled to a greater or less degree with the dust when it was brought to the buyer. This had to be Toljwn out, and often the finest particles of gold were blown out with it. Thus in ifti office Nwhere a large quantity of dust was bought much line gold would be scattered around the room. The dustings of a buyer's counter and sweepings of his floor were often worth hundreds of dollars a month. Some times the buyers were susjiected of cheating in a more illegitimate manner by slyly appropriating some of the gold whHe they were shaking it around and examining it in the blowpans. Once a miner who believed a buyer had swindled him got even in a rather peculiar manner. Jle had a iair of brass stirrups weighing two pounds. Every time he sold dust to this buyer he filed a portion of the stirnijis among it till he had palmed off the whole of them for gold dust. The Chinese have always lieen the most successful manufactures of coun terfeit gold dust. Many a lot of brass or iron filings, plated with gold, has been sold by them to unsuspecting buy ers. Of late years this has lieen less practiced, however, lecause of the fact that buyers almost invariably test the dust with acid, or burn it. y subject ing it to an intense heat the gold is in it affected, but any other metal that may Be mingled with it is soon dissipated in Vapor. A buyer was once purchasing some dust from a company of Chinese miners. His balance scales were on an open counter before them. Suddenly he noticed that one of the Chinamen bad slyry touched the balance in which the dust was to be weighed. Quickly looking under the bottom of it, he found some object sticking to it, which proved to l a small piece of a sticky substance, like beeswax. It weighed half an ounce. The wily Chinamen had intended, of course, after the dust was weighed, to remove the wax as deftly as they had put it on. Marks on the bottom of the balance revealed the fact that this trick had often lieen suc cessful. Thus this company, and ter b&ps others, had gained half an ounce H the buyer every time they so'd him a. lot of dust. This trick and others of a similar character afterward led almost all buyers to put their balance scales in glass cases, instead of having them open on the counter. In the early days of California life specie was not plentiful enough for the needs of trade, and gold dust was used almost entirely as a medium of ex change. . The miners carried it in long buckskin purses. This compiled all . kinds of business houses and simps to have scales with which to weigh the dust ,AVhat little coined money there was in circulation was eagerly bought up by the gamblers who, by piling it up . in their banks, couM make more of a display with it. thin they could with the golil dust. 2b polish plate-glass and remove slight scratches rub the surface gently, first with a clean pad of fine cotton wool and afterward with a similar pad covered over with cotton-velvet which has been charged with One rouge. The surface will under this treatment, ac quire a polish of great brilliancy, quite free from any scratches. : The Yellow River, of China, former ly called the Hoang Ho, is aptly called China's Sorrow." It will not stay in the same place. Xine instances are on record of its having changed its whole direction. Slips of latitude and longi tude are common with it Engineers are now discussing plans to keep it with in bounds. It is more troublesome than far own Mississippi. FARM NOTES. Feeding Calves. The average boy of the farm has had plenty of disagree able experience in the feeding or calves. Fed trom a pail in the hands of a boy. the cilf is never properly fed. To feed one calf and at Ui8 same time keep off several others as hungry and eager as only young animals can be, would ho too much for a man to successfully cope with, except that he could strike and kick harder than the boy. " Yet how large a proportion of the calves raised are fed in this way? Far more thin in an nthpr. It is not difficult however, to make all this work com paratively easy, wueiuer mere ue umj three, or four, or twenty, or more calves, iiavn a. nmner feed in if Dlace and erect a line of stanchions similar to those for large cattle, but accomodate to tee size of the calves. It may be necessary to make the calves enter these to be fed for two or three times. They will soon learn that only here can they get their r.uvi Thnn. unon the proner call lieing given, they will eagerly take their places. W hatever tne vessels iea i rom, whether of metal or wood, rails or trniKTtm thev must ba fixed so ttiev can not be pushed, and they must be kept perfectly clean ana rresn. vnen me calves begin to eat grass they should, within th npit two weeks, be taught to eat a few oats dally. Thenceforward the milk ration may be diminished as . a ii the grass and grain is increasea, uuv me dArr.iw nn the one hand and the in crease on the other must be only as the paunch of the calf grows. The rennet or true digestive stomach of the calf is the larger of the four. In the full grown animal the paunch is the larg est, and this increase in the one case corresponds to the relative decrease in the other as the animal attains age. Mowing Around Fences. The grass beside and in the corners of fences should be cut ana savea, not omy ue cause it will come handy next winter, but for its effect in cutting down weeds and bushes. Since mowing and reap ing by machinery have become com mon it is much more difficult to keep fences clean from weeds. Stones are thrown into fence corners to get them out of the way of the mower and reap er, and this makes good mowing by the scythe impossible. A stone is never cot out of the wav except in the most temporary and slipshod manner by be ing thrown into the fence corner. As the difficulty of keeping tence corners clean is made apparent farmers snouiu resolve to take the first leisure time to remove all obstructions from them. When thev have done this removing the fence itself will in many cases be naturally suggested as the next great improvement. The idea that the shade of weeds in hoed crops saves the soil from drying u p is not so prevalent as it once was. It is sometimes urged even now, but only as a pretext for shirking, and should iauk with the objections that Solomon puts in the mouth of the sluggard against doing necessary work, really based on his disinclination to do the work re quired. A weed uprooted serves as a mulch, but it is not advisable to let It get large enough for this use. It will do the soil more good to wary a weed as soon as large enough to be seen than to wait for a larger growth. In t he sou the moisture it has drawn from 14 will again become arailalve for growing crops. Met ii time on every I.irm is spent in doing small jobs, and if proper conven iences for these are not furnished the time wasted is so much clear loss. A good farmer will try to have stock, grain, bay and roots, with water, all under one root, mis enables mm to ao the work with the least needless labor, and gives more time for necessary im provemers. rr.OF. E. "W. Stewart says that sun flower-seed is a valuable food for stock if fed properly. Tho best way to feed to calves is to remove the hulls in & huil-ing-machine and then boil the meats to a jelly. It is, in this condition, a good addition to skimmed milk, sunnower seed contains 23.6 per cent of oil, while flaxseed contains 37 per cent The oil is a mild laxative, and will keep the coat glossy. Fifty bushels of seed could be raised from twenty-Bye thousand plants on an acre. For growing cucumbers, squashes or similar plants put old sawdust or rotten wood about them. Those who have never tried cucumbers on strong, bushy stakes like pea-sticks will be sur prised to note how they enjoy it To matoes do better trained to stout stakes than any other way. Do not spread gas lime directly on your' land. It is destructive to plant life unless modified by atmospheric in fluences. It should first be worked into compost with old turf, wood mold, marl or muck. A mass of green vege table matter, such as weeds, may be used with it as compost, and it should not be spread until the whole heap has been reduced to a fine conditio!'. Mb. J. A. Watkins, gives the fol lowing remedy for maggots on sheep. He says: "I have cured some very hard cases with kerosene oik Saturate the sore and wool around it, applying with a syringe, in order to insert as deeply as possible. It will kill them instantly and drive off the flies. I also tried it with good effect on a sow that was trou bled with flies." Cows often chew corn cobs, not for their nutritive value, bnt for the min eral they contain, just as they will chew old bones. In such cases wood ashes, or, better still, ashes from corncobs, will be eaten as greedily as salt Ashes for cows when on green feed corrects aridity of the stomach, and a few supplied occasionally will do good. Don't kill your hens that molt now, as they will make your early layers, and also be the most serviceable in win ter, as they will molt before the cold weather comes on. Hens that do not finish molting until late in the season seldom begin to lay until spring comes on. There is one mode of saving bones which should not be overlooked. It is to keep a barrel of lye convenient, into which all the refuse bones should be dropped. The result Is that phosphate of potash will be formed, which, unlike phosphate of line, is soluble in matter, making one of the most valuable fer tilizers known. Hybrid perpetual roses should be well pruned back, and eld or weak shoots should be cut out entirely. The strong shoots should not be left longer than three or four buds or joints from the base. Comet c, 1S80, which was discovered by Mr. Brooks at Thelps, near Brook lyn, on the 22d of last month, was a faint object when detected by him, and has since become steadily fainter. Its orbit has been calculated by Dr. S. Op penheim, of Vienna, from European and American observations extending to the end of May, and it appears that it passed its perihelion on the 3d inst. at the distance from the sun of 1.43 in terms of the earth's mean distance. Its distance from the earth ou the same scale Is now 0.85, and this has been in creasing ever since the time of discover?. FAOKTL. - - i . t McCot, : when he cauie to Scott County, went to wotk for a fanner named' Ilitt who had a very charming daughter Emma. A young man whom Farmer Ilitt had repeatedly driven from the place continued to come around, paying his addresses to the daughter until finally the father, de spairing of keeping him away by. any milder means, hired McCoy to thrash blm every time he came near. Once or twice, or niy be more, the young man came, saw the girl, took his thrashing, and departed. But one day there came the end of this sort of thing. McCoy, returning from town, where be had gone as driver and escort for the daugh ter, approached the father, saying: -Well, Mr. Hitt, I've setUed this business of that young fellow's coming around here to see Em." 'What do yon mean?" asked the far mer. "I mean that he won't come any more, an' you can bet on it" "Why, Mac, you haven't killed him, have you?" asked the farmer fearfully. "No. Better than that" "What then?" "I've married Em." The old farmer flew into a dreadful rage, but McCoy had the girl.and there was no getting her away from him, so Farmer Ilitt like a sensible man, made the most of it and gave his son-in-law a piece of land, which he is now tilling, while "Em" minds the babies like a du tiful wife. Miss Birdie McGinnis is one of the most confirmed flirts in Austin. She has been engaged to half a dozen men, and thus far has never married any of them. Of late Tom Anjeiry, a dissipated student of the university of Texas, has been paying Miss Birdie marked at tention. A few evenings ago, being in a secluded place with her, he flopped down on, his knees and remarked, in an agonized tone of voice: "Miss Birdie, I adore you." "I can't believe you," replied Birdie; "you men are so fickle and Unreliable, Your so-called love is a mere passing whim." "Oh, no," said Tom; "my love for you is greater than that of your last four fellows put together." Small People in Politics Speaking of little Miss Breckinridge, who thought her papa was regarded in Kentucky as a very smart speaker, re mluds me of a story I heard of the In galls children. "I tell you what, mamma," said the little son of Congressman , "Idont like those little Ingalls children so much as 1 did." "Why not dear?" said the affection ale mother. "They talk so big lately, and they just look down on me because my pap is nothing but a Congressman. They say their papa can just be president of the United States if be wants to, and that he has just made the boss speech in the Senate and everybody says so." "My dear madam," said widower Jones to the blushing, blooming widow W., who had recently buried her elder ly better-half. "I always thought a young woman like you, left alone in the world, with no encumbrances, would seek the solace of another husband im mediately; it is the usual way, you know." "I could not think of it im mediately," replied the lovely vision In becoming black and white, "that would be too soon. I have made up my mind to wait the proper time and then " "You need not wait another second," replied the ardent woer, "take me now." The cards are out Tramp "Sir, a single moment" Genial Man "Well, my good man?" Tramp "I will be frank with you. I am tired of life and have determined to drink myself to death. 1 have ex hausted my means and 1 implore you to furnish the funds to complete my de struction." G. M. (after a careful survey) "My good man. 1 regret to say that I have not f 10.000 to spare." "Did you read the papers about seventy-five people in the West being poisoned by eating ice cream?"he asked his best girl. "Oh, yes," she sweetly replied, "but that doesn't frighten me the least bit They didn't eat enough of it. If they had, the poison wouldn't have hurt them. You know an overdose of poison never kills. That is why I'm not afraid of Ice cream. I never stop at less than three plates." A boy wrote a composition on the subject of the Quakers, which he de scribed as a sect who never quarrelled, never got into a fight, never clawed each other, and never jawed back. The production contained a postscript in these words: "Fa's a Quaker, but ma isnt" Bill Nye is a kind, obliging man. Some body wrote to him for his auto graph and received in reply the follow ing note from the humorist: "Dear sir, in the absence of my amanuensis will you kindly excuse me If I write my autograph myself? Yours, Bill Nye." Little Millie (at the dinner table, to her father, who had given her the smallest piece of pie on the plate: "Papa, why is my piece of pie like Eu rope?" Papa (thoughtfully): "Like Europe? Indeed, I don't know. Why is it?" Little Millie: "Because it's the small est of the grand divisions." Gus De Smith. "This, Miss Bir die, is the Holy Family after Raphael." Miss Birdie "I see the Holy Family, but where is Raphael?" Gus "I expect he got away; they were after him, though.' Haw Eecrcit "Who goes there?" Old Veteran "Frlendl" K.R. "Advance, friend, with the countersign!" O. V. "Yorktownl" K. R "Thanks, old man, TO for gotten it myself." Kosciusko MintrnY "I say, Gus, do you believe in horoscopes?" Gus DeSmith "No; I believe it Is all nonsense abcut horoscopes." Murphy "Well I dont I am satis fied that all the girls to whom I have been engaged were born under the in fluence of the crab, for they all go back on me." We can no more judge of the true value of a man by the impression which he makes on the public than we can tall whether the seal was gold or brass by which the stamp was made. Ebony can be imitated on wood by first painting with a 1 per cent., solu tion of sulphate of copper. When per fectly dry the wood is painted over with a liquid consisting of equal weights of aniline hydro-chloride and spirits of wine. The blue vitriol acta on the aniline and forms nlgrosin, a black which cannot be affected by acids or alkalies. A lustre can .be added by coating with simple copal Tarnish. Tuberculosis and tvnhnid fever arn .Out Dredominant diseasm and ran no f death in the French army. HOUSKHOIJQ. A physician's daughter thus writes: Tn tins hniisnhnld rnliimn I rud of SO many woes In bread-making that It Is a wonder why no one has yet suggested on hot I tut in ir other food for bread. Some of the best physicians now avoid 'sup pers ana nave op.x. ainners purjiosc ly to avoid bread and cake. There is no excuse for bread at breakfast and dinner, while for supper stewed po tatoes, with poached eggs or cold meat, could form the principal part of the meal, adding son custard, with fruit and delicate cake; bread is unnecessary. The children of our family have for breakfast hominy or oatmeal, with po tatoes, fruit, delicate meats, with milk, and perhaps a cracker. For dinner, meat or chicken, asparagus, potatoes tnd other healthy vegetables and fruits, Tith ricefor other simple dessert; while at supper, potatoes, milk, eggs or cold chicken, cottage cheese, blanc mange, with a attle simple cake." Tackled Tomatoes. Take two dozen small ripe tomatoes, prick each one in two or three places, and care fully preserve the juice that flows from them; keep it in a covered vessel until wanted. Put the tomatoes In a deep earthera jar, and sprinkle a little salt between each layer. -Place a cover on the jar and let it remain undisturbed for three days. On the fourth day re move the tomatoes from the brine, wash them thoroughly, and dry them very carefully. Put them into jars and add the juice that flowed from them at first Boll as much vinegar as will en tirely cover the tomatoes with half an ounce of pepper, half an ounce of cloves and a tablespoouful of mustard seed. The vinegar should be allowed to get cold, before being poured into the jars. If desired, some onions cut into very thin slices, or some celery finely minced, may be added to the to matoes. The pickle will be ready to use in a fortnight The jars must be tied down and stored in the usual way. Italian Croquettes. Pound in a mortar 1 pounds of lean beef, add six ounces of bread crumbs, wetted and squeezed dry in a cloth, and three oun ces of butter, mix well. Then take one-half ounce each of citron peel finely minced, of chocolate grated, of pine kernels, of sugar, and one ounce of Parmesan cheese grated; add perper, salt, and the least bit of powdered cin namon or nutmeg, and mix all thete ingredients with the meat in the mor tar, then gradually mix in three or more eggs, so as to form a compact paste. Spread a little flour on the table, put the paste on it and form it Into balls the size of a Tangerine orange. Have a saucepan with plenty of lard boiling hot and fry the balls in this a couple of minutes, then lay them all in a sauce pan, pour over them some well- flavored tomato sauce and let them aim mer gently about half an hour. HOW TO CLARIFY EOIT. Just be fore the soup boils the scum that has risen to the top during the process of heating should be carefully removed; a little cold water poured In will assist the particles that compose the scum to rise. After the soup has boiled it should be strained; this may be repeated, then if the soup is not as clear as you would like to have it, mix one egg and its broken shell with a teacupful of cold water, then to this add about a teacup ful of the hot soup, then stir it all Into the boiling soup; let it boil up well.tben set the kettle upon the back part of the stove, and when somewhat cool strain it Carrot Soct. Boil some carrots in salted water; when thoroughly done drain them and pass them through a hair sieve; mix the pulp thus obtained with as much stock as will make it of the desired consistency; add pepper and salt and a pinch of sugar. Having melted about an ounce of butter, mix it with a tablespoonful of flour, then gradually add the carrot puree; let it come to the boil, skim off superfluous fat and serve with dice of. bread fried in butter. Em tress Rice. Boil three table- spoonfuls of rice, picked and washed in a pint of milk, with sugar to taste, and a piece of vanilla; when quite done put it into a basin to get cold. Make a custard with a gill of milk and the yolks of four eggs; when cold mix it with the rice. Beat up to a froth a gill of cream, with some sugar and a pinch of isinglass dissolved in a little water; mix this very lightly with the rice and custard ; fill a mould with the mixture and set it on ice. When moderately iced turn it out on a disband serve. Fresh Mackerel. Clean, wash. wipe inside and out, pepper, salt and roll in Indian meal or "Wheat Germ ileal" and fry in hot lard or good drip ping; drain and serve hot If you wish a sauce for them add to half a cup of boiling water the juice of a lemon, a quarter teaspoonful of mustard and a tablespoonful of butter rolled in one of browned flour, salt to liking; boil up once and serve in a gravy boat. Beets and Butter Sacce. Take two Bermuda beets of medium size. AVash and dry them without breaking the skin. Boil them for thirty-five min utes in fast boiling water, slightly salt ed, which must entirely cover them. Then scrape off the skin, cut the beets into slices, and the slices into strips. Melt an ounce of butter, add to it a little salt, pepper and teaspoonful of vinegar. Pour it over the beets and serve. A Nice Tea Disk. Make a short sweetened pie crust, roll thin, and partly bake in sheets; before it is quite done take from the oven, cut In rquares of four inches or so, take up two diag onal corners and pinch together, which makes them basket-shaped, now fill with whipped cream or white of egg, or both, well sweetened and flavored, and return to the oven for a few minutes. Tomato Salad. Peel ripe tomatoes with a sharp knife, slice crosswise, lay in a salad bow! and season on the table with salt, a little sugar, pepper, oil and vinegar. Keep the tomatoes on ice un til actually served. They cannot be too cold. Never loosen the skins by pour ing boiling water on them.and refrain as scrupulously from serving them with the skins on. Muffins in Tins. Take one cup of sour milk, one egg, a little shorten ing, a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda, if the milk is not very soar less soda will do. Make a thick batter.and a little salt, and bake in a hot oven. Ir you cannot obtain sour milk, sweet milk and baking powder will answer. To a teacup of sweet milk allow a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder. Late Investigations indicate that the chloropbyl, or green coloring substance of the leaves, is most liable to pick up metallic matter absorbed by the roots of plants. When vines have been man ured with the sulphate of copper most of the metal is deposited in the leaves, merely a trace appearing in the juice of the grapes. Tea-leaves contain much iron, doubtless due to the ochreous soil on which they best grow. The Medical World has an account of a patient whose prematurely gray hair is returning to its original color under the internal administration of phospho rixed cod-liver oil. $exLn ... "Next!" yelled a Third street barber oo ho lnnL-od around the room for a new customer. ' At the call a long-haired cowboy from the bad lands oi Montana and a Minneapolis dude came to their feet and advanced towards the chair. The dude was a utile aueau anu seaieu himself, when the cow puncher said he in a liiin-v nml ordered the dude up; but he claimed he was m his turn and didn't come up. Ijvilr bvar ve nin-lecnred eoiiher,' howled the Montano tougli, 'if yer dont vamoose outer tnai cnair m uwn two shakes of a steer's tail, I'll break yer up and use yer to plug rat holes with-' And the cowboy let off an athletic laugh that made the barber turn chalky, but the dude didn't move. 'Did ver hear me murmur!' shouted the cattleman. 'Aw. yaas. I aw heard sawininmg, replied the dude. 'Yaas, aw, wal, aw, I'll give jaw just half a minute to git." "Wenllv nv lww . renlied his dude- ship, 'you see I cawn't think of moving so rapidly. It lsti t natural, you Kiiaw , it is wcallytoo warm for such exaw- cise." 'Aw, it is, aw, wal, I'll jest taker cr contract to move yer,' and the cow man iiuirnl river in the ilirectioll of the llillf- reclining dude, and caught him by the collar, mo baruer saui no iiiougm. Dakota threshing machine had moved in and taken possession for the next five ,.ii.int.w tho. nwlinv,i boot went over and got mixed with a lot of cosmetics; a seven-shooter from his Kit got into a titssel with a hair brush and a lot of razors, his liair w ;w pounded down into the cracks of the floor, and the mirror was spattered with drops of his gore. hen the uuuo iinisnea, me cow mj looked as though he had been holding an eetincr in a slaughter house, and straightening his nose and gathering up what was left of his rai ment, he said lie guessed ne u gooer in anntlinr Icirtier shon. there Was tOO mnny ahead of him, and he was in con siderable of a hurry. The dude, pulling a handful of the cowboy's hair out of his pocket and dropping it into the waste basket, said: 'That will put me in good trim for the ball game this afternoon. The anthracite and bituminous fields of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, cover 15,000 acres, a large part of which is underlaid bv four dittinct veins oi anthracite coal varying from 2 to 4 feet in width. The coal is said to Le equal to the best Pennsylvania anthracite. Cookies. ijeat two eggs m a cup, add two tablespoons of melted butter, two tablespoons sour milk; fill the cup with sugar, half teaspoon of soda,flour to roll; bake quick; best if kept in a stone jar. Jmportanb When too rjlt or ee Ne Tor City, baerace txprewage ul f3 eantic H ira, ud t? TUie Urmad L'ulon liucal, oppualt Unail Coo Utl Ixpoc SO elegant Tooms. flttal op at cost of oai minion dollars, tl aaJ opwvtl par dar. Eoropean Plan. Elevator. Keataarant applied wltn ma beat, llunw car), atairaa aul elevate 1 nUIroad to ail depot. Kamlles can lira better fur leaa moner at the tirand I'oloa Uowi Itan at aoj otner nrat-claaa timet In taa cur. Humility is the pathway to the high est exaltation. Tne pttreat, nweeteM an I beat Col Ltrer Oil In the world, m jnuf actnred from freaH, health J liv er upon the aeuhore. It la alMololely pare an I aweeL I'atienia who have once uken It prefer it to all othera. l'hraictana have decided it aupenoi to any of the other ol!a In market. Made by Caa well, Hazard A Co., New York. CHtrrEDHUrna, face, pimplea and rough aktn eared by naiof Juniper Tar Soap, mi le by Cav well. Hazard i Oa, New York. It is better to die than to live with out growing better. Ant man looks like sloven with run over heels. Lvon'a Heel Stiffners keep boots atraight, 20c . Grief ceunts the seconds; happiness forgets the hours. To thoroQshly core scrofula, tt is necessary to strike directly at the root of the evil. This Is ex actly what Uood's Saraapartlla does, by acting npon tbt blood, thoronf My cleansing It of all Im purities, ana leaving n evca a uuufc vi luutui. in the vital Said. Early gardening lengthens the grow ing season, and permits, at times, of two crops on the same land, as turnips may follow peas, and time is tnereoy gamed for putting in late crops. "Are you going to make a flower bed here?" said the Brooklyn girl to her father's gardener. "Yes, miss, them's the orders." "Why, it'll spoil our tennis grounds! ' "Can't kelp it. miss. Your pa says he's bound to have this plot laid out for horticulture, not husbandry." The avaricious man is like the barren, sandy soil of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness. but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. What is taken from you before you possess it? Your photograph. A KamarkaMa Car of scrofula. William S. Baker, of Lewis, Vego Coun ty, Ind., writes as follows: ''My son was taken with Scrofula in the tip when only two years old. We tried several physician but the boy got no relief from their treat ment Noticing your SCQVILL'S SAR SAFAIULLA. AND STILLINOIA, OR I5LOOI AND LIVER SYBVr, recom mended so highly, I bought some of it of you in the year l'i, and continued taking It till the sores finally healed up. He is now 21 years of age, and, being satisfied that your medicine did him so much cood when he used it, we want to try again in another case, and write to you to get some mere. A French geologist, Mons. DeLap parent, lately called the attention of the Paris Geological Society to the effect gravitation has in heaping up sea-waters about the land. The continents are thus all situated at the tops of hills of water, and in crossing the Atlantic the ship has first to go down hill, then to cross a valley, and finally to climb another hill. The calculation has been made that in mid-ocean the surface may be more tlian half a mile (1000 metres) below the level it would have if the continents exerted no al traction. The Dammer bee, of Burmab, makes a nest in hollow trees from resin col lected in the forests. He who seeks fame as an end, is un worthy to attain it. Fraxer Axle Urease The Frsea-r Axle Grease is the best and, intrinsically, the cheapest. Don't work your horses to death by using poor axle grease. Try It Terfect simplicity of character is the source of the most profound wisdom. When you have tried everything else in creation for that bald head of yours, you will probably tumble to the fact that Carboline is the only Hair pro ducer that will do the work properly and well. No learning is valuable that does not beget higher aspirations and a nobler Hie, FITS: An Fits stopped mv. Treatise sod lltrtal boUieof Dr. Kltoe'aUreat Nerve Restorer free to Incase. bendioDr.hUme.9al Arch sw rhUaPa, The man who has made no mistakes is not in condition to know when he has succeeded in anything. If a cough disturb your sleep, take Fiso's Core for Consumjitioa and rest well. He who does not Ure to Ood, lives in vain. Advice to CnPlT"- -v .i fifth firstftvmtitomS' ma ceneral debl.ity. loss of ?Pttte, pallor, chilly sensations, followed by B:ght-aweata . ' l ... iuiirH for relief anould bo taken. Consumption is scrofu lous disease tl tne lungs; " -- great anU-scrofuI, or bloocl-purlfler nnd Htrength-restorer.-Dr. Pierce's "(.olden Medical Discovery." Suertor to coil liver oil as a nutritive, nnd unsurpassed as a pectoral. t or weait iuujo, ft i l:..i.i anVrtions It has no UltKMi, auu ' , equal. Sold by druggists the world over. For Dr. Pierce's treatise on consumption, .1 1A ua.raa i wa ilimnt ta Wnrld'a DigD9n- KUU ivWHWiu sary Medical Association, C03 Main Street, liuttalo, r. i. The first printing done in America was in the city of Mexico. There were then 200 printing offices in Europe. The second press was set up in Lima, Peru, and the third in Cambridge, Mass., in 1G39. T Weaker Sex are immensely strencthened by the use of Dr. Ii. V. 1'lerce's "Favorite Prescription.' which cures all female derangements, and gives tone to the system. Bold by drug gists. A witcnl has been obtained by Trof. A. K. Huntington for improvements m metallic alloys, the object of which is to secure strength, elasticity, and close ness of grain by the addition of a cheap and easily accessible material. For this purpose, to the copper or alloy he adds a small quantity of silicious iron which may contain a small proportion of other metals, such 33 manganese, tung sten, or the like. The mixture is made while the materials are in a moiten state a.id as nearly as possible at the same temperature. As examples of al loys made according to the invention, to copper and tin in the usual propor tion for gun-metal add not more than two per cent silicious iron; to copper and zinc in the usual proportion for brass add not more than five per cent. silicious iron; in bronzes or brasses where tin is present besides copper and zinc, a less proportion of silicious iron is used than when there is no tin. Uenerally, when zinc forms part of the alloy, it is preferred to use silicious iron containing a proportion of manga nese. 11 is customary to use ammonia for the purpose of neutralizing acids that have accidentally or otherwise destroyed the color of fabrics. This must be ap plied immediately or the color is usual ly Imperfectly restored. After careful use an application of chloroform will bring out the colors as bright as ever. Plush goods and all articles dyed with aniline colors, faded from exposure to light, will look as bright as ever after sponging with chloroform. The com mercial chloroform will answer the pur pose very well, and is less expensive than the puritiod. TJie investigations of the Trussian Firedamp Commission have shewn that many mine explosions attributed to fire damp or outbursts of gas are really due to fine coal dust, all kinds of dust ap pearing to be capable of exploding vio lently when ignited. The experiments relative to the inflammability of coal dust were devised as nearly as possible in accordance with the conditions pre vailing in practice, and more than 200 tists were made, explosions occuritg in every case where an electric spar w; s produced in a dust cloud. -laeiit low-ceiled rooms, or ctiUnzs even with the window tops, it is urged that such rooms may be more perfectly ventilated than those with high ceil ings. The:eaka;e of air winch is al ways going on keeps the air in motion, whereas in high-ceiled rooms only the lower part of the air is moved, and an inverted lake of foul air is left floating in the 'space above the window topj. Moreover the heating of low-ceiled rooms is accomplished at much less ex pense than the heating of high-ceiled rooms. A new company has been formed for the extension of submarine cables of telegraphic communication on the west coast of Africa and by means of exist ing cables with Europe. The length of the cables which will require to be laid is 3000 nautical miles, for the most part in water of moderate depth. The cost will be f 2.000,000. Scmmeu 5aisac.es for picnic use are known as Cambridge saasaces. Take 1 pound of well boiled pork fat and bam. 1 pound of veal, and 1 pound of beef suet ; all these should be well minced, then add 1 pound of bread, crumbled through a wire sieve, the rind of half a lemon well chopped, a little salt, nutmeg and pepper, a ftw sage leaves ciioped very bne; mix all well together, make into little rolls or flat cakes and fry. They should be floured before cooking. Many words do not satisfy the soul, but a good life comforteth the mind. and a pure conscience giveth great con- i aence toward uou. Startling Weakness. general and nervous debihtv. imnaireil memory, lack of self-confidence, premature lose of manly vicor ami powers, are com mon results of excessive indulgence or youthful indiscretions and pernicious soli tary practices. Victims whose manhood has thus been wrecked should address, with 10 cents In stamps for larce illustrated treatise civinz means of perfect cure. World's lisensary Medical Association, GJ Main Street ISuffalo N V. Sarcasm is a bee with a sting and no honey. ir you feel as though water was gathering around the heart (aeart-dropsy) or have heart rhenmatism, palpitation of the heart with suffoca tion, sympathetic heart trouble Pr. Kilmer's Ocian-Wied regulates, correct and cures. Kindness Is greater than good man ners. St. Bernard Vegetable Pills. WnatxTED PrarLT Vitamin.. TDe lient cure for Liver lad lldiut ; I'otnplalnta. CohUtfuom, Headacai 1'izzme. and HthiwiwI. A., a H.wl Huntier an.1 Munwr HnLotn i ur .nu-'iiis nrrx Of UW rtt. ltnird ai4e HUlam theooum. IT-..JB 3 ectita at unuonaw, or Iw ,,,.:,,: 'ff 1 oiuiK"wii rasa. Acl.lrm lUariU)I.-.ciCn.l Mnrat. (e fork a- at. riaul HAH. .? S5 " r. Sample worth tlA FHF.lt yuM , xvr.i iiuuur.K, noil j.Mk-Lk -- nmiii Boot, k? mail FREE. Addna Dr. WARD A CO.. LOllMAXA, mo. JONES 'PAYSthe FREIGHT "" rottmprtotut t0U tt ilaCMtHTII, B1.MJHAMTOX. N. T. FRAZERGARfk BESTISTUE WORLD U llC AO C tr Oti U Ocaulaa. Bold Everywhere. 5 w5? 77is production cf electricity to bleach one ton of calico is calculated by Watson, at the lowest possible rate, at i Sd. but would probably cost double that, while the bleachinz with twenty five pounds of bleaching powder requir ed for that purpose, at the price of JL'G 10s per ton, would cost only is. 1 per ton of calico. Besides, the puttlna electrodes for a daily turnout of ten tons bleached goods would cost over 12,000, at the price of 2os per ounce ofplatma. It is announced that the Commenda- tore La.nclani is coming to lecture at various leading American colleges next winter. lie is one of the most distin guished archaeologists in Rome and a member oi tne LJncx-s, a royat selenit ic society of Italy thirty-three years older than the French Academy. Sriinr occasionally illuminates the dark spots of our ignorance with such effulgence as to completely overpower one. A case in noint is the announce ment that Southern dentists have dis! covered that the peculiar whiteness of the negro's teetn is due to tne excess or white blood corpuscles. Thr crpat linrse-car eomnanv of Ber lin pays the municipality C per cent, of its gross earnings. 1 he income wmcn thus accrued to th6 city in 1835 was 1138,720. Hall's Hair Renewer always gives satis faction, and Is indorsed by our best physi cians. As a stimulant to the stomach, liver, and bowels, the safest remedy is Ayer's Tills. Cvll baths are dangerous to the old or feeble. Warm bath, are relaxing, and should not be taken in the morn ing. The morning is the best time for a cold bath, the evening for a warm one. BROWirS 11 BITTERS OaMaia; IR0X with PVBE TEGET1BL1 T05ICS, alrly eoeialrtritf CIXiSSEs sad E3 RICH IS THE BVOOO. Owlekeas taaarUoa of the Uveraad Kidneys. Clears the eeaipiexlea, Makes the akia aaasota. It eats aot injure the teeth, eaaae headache, er predareeea-tlpatloa-ALL OTHER IR05 XEDICHES DO. Phjmoana and DrassiaUawrywhararacooiawad is. Mias Ea HamTWAH. ailentora. Pa-, aara: 111 blo.l wmm Uun ml mmurj and I Mcu vatk and Uaa-ixL Alio uw four bott of Brown' Iroo bitters 1 am aotir-ly wrtorwl to twalta and Mnnctn. and chrtuU recoaamrad tt. Mas M W 8aIi.lS. Pin S- Richmond, Va.. nit: -Mr littifl b..r wa Hiltum trwn a frj man utuk of blood pou-Bina and uie-cw not bf-n-mina- him u th. toa-t. I triad Brn i Irun Bittr. lu b.tl anired hun. alta.iH hia blood sa in a Wnbl "".I- It certainlj a (rau tonic and pur-ncK and I twartuj nconun-od a. I1SIKI. MiVSBSrT.IS S lirwll St.. Trlto. S J. Mr: "1 uoril Bram'i Imn Bitter, fc Uia blood mtu the bo-x reaalt.. I cannot wianmnnrt a ton tusluj m a blood punocr. Genuine has abnre Trade Mark and cro-aed red tinea . en wrapper. Take eXbrr. Madeonll bl BltVW.t tUUatCAL to, BALTIMOILE. MO. DR. KILMER'S One ot every five we meet has some form of 1 Itairt Inscasc, and is i n con stant danzer of Apoplexy, tin-. k or Sudden Death I Tn.a Ittmetly regulates, re lierea. eom-cta and ernes. CWITepand at lr. Kilmer. Mi.,,..,, rm.lwintnn V V 6f3C ItenoVln-lllir7 answered. . WUWHIIWMtmilIW $ 5. 00 S.U ST nrwra-bta. EfS Cream Ba!m He .'tre nerer han dled a catarrh reme dy thathcu increased ao rapidly in safes a Ely's Crenm Buhtt or Viat Aus 7t'ren siich universal tut isaction. C. X. Criltenton, Hi Ful ton St., .Veto Tori CUy. CatarrH MS HAY-FEVER Anartirleisappliedlntoeir'i nostril and la able to uas. Price hi rte. hr mail or at drm.-ir.rt. M-nd for circular. fcIA' BKOTHHU3, DnuicUta, Owwo. N. Y. UNMARRIED jwuJ rKir HUw wtiea nwrr:el. Clival r froo. P.O.B4xl6. 3Iianooll, 311m. lor v;iniiisra. uwi i bix HAM. Att'r. Waaaininoa. IX J. at 84 Ptwn's Ttemedr for O-arr-i is the Best, inat to l, ao 1 l neapest. a Alfiwl K-r old In tlie TlKid. lltauiaclie. Hay Fvr. A oti t-euts. STOPPED FREE Iman Persons Rtorf Dr.KLLHS 3 GREAT NerveRestorer I lataVBKAHf St NRVE UlSrv- OLpSur enr fs A -Vrr A 'r, i- ni. hi. fi. r. r:e. I INFALLIBLE U Uli-ri u l.r?rL i tft aftt I wi.' d rt t use, TrfiMlnl fitmi txr..c iree r I hit pat;eaO. thevpiyia,: erprech..rc0t'0. ht. I twve.l. Sm.t nam-i. P. O- n exrrs; ad ire?, n .rHutril to Dil.Kt.INc.oit Arrh St..rnilTd-iphs.Pi. Hart taken th lead I t:te s;rs i true cUu oi reiBC'lic. a J lus give "-tt tiaUwcxaai UMi --ILR?HY BR3.. Paris, Tew 6nHN th Uvaf of th pufcii: ud mmm r&ak amenr the ItUaltaf ftidfcl ciac uf th Mom. A. 1 bMHrrf. SoM W rJt c Ma ORGANS: ful aui LUrflt t. nr-d fiTJ,, In tb wor.d. Lmw T ' . P Ttl BV! tea-tit T- Sirlsie i V. 1 Weaver Orew & Pi.M C3..ve?K BOOK AGEXTR WASTED for PLATFORM ECHOES LIVLNfi T BIT MS rsl BEAM ANO BEAUT, By John Ii. Gough.. Tfls lastanwnwnlse life werk.behn fall of tannine tates. - ?."or V 1 "?"- ." 9V- aad eon, lull .c 'Uochter and tesrs. It efl .1 ...u l' eO. T J tl j, -ddeS be I.ifs sl4 Deslh et Mr. Orach. Rf,, LTMAM IS. iott. ia A(.u w.t,0.-,t.a sa WonS. aie e aoe month. sid. Q-VMmt . ... es wa J.e flre r.rws .nd Pm, Vt.tflr.. Write for ciprvlsrs Si QREYDOPPEL'Q u BORAX SOAP V Cleaaaea, lartnra aasl aaakra elathrw white aad aweet. Excellent far Bath and Taller. Fall d bars ealy. Far sale everywhere. fARQUHAR VIBRATING SEPARATOR. MMO rod CATALOG; t . WMsVrfWI CaaacUv. Sm 3 skwss,auiititt,iwt.ra TlTA-nT.TTsJ Far sswrvw as it afv. - . rv X- X 7 a . 4w 1 ve m -nee- JW V tin. m i tl Stmtitt, I llnss atrial 3ft. BALLARD saixckt, wfm Am target ttrrr.rs. werii iesw.-i - m Iri" 't' MARLI! FIRE IBMs CO- Xew Hajrea, SLOCCCE Waft rraalM .mliai Doiit wmat yoar -fMwrr ofTimorni&brrrnt I Ihinlntal mm mi wi virtn. an.1 Will kca T TflUlra KARS. Ask for thFISH hRAKD" ir-nj ffrdfHpTivv w,,.,..- ,77 "-""""a Hoc,. ttneXIH liUal !. . -'"a. rt : I come, routamw,, ,il I"tiaktJ T which th. health i. . ? .' J t-T which ,h. healih able. Lm ot APP,.j, rajZr DWP. Detail ws .riou, a, ot.cn byandrua.sfPari!!a iy by t l nu.r ; r' ii , 1J liCh HOOD ft CiiX IOO Desna !ea,lu -Dolar 5t:r--A.,. U.U ITUS'i' faourand-stream' a. :lilJt.a-. I ej?!x 1 rvf si..'t.. ery dar. en. nair w-.then -.citir. rr.. 7:'" wiwfci. FKKU T.H.,yKlTi r ssie b, 1 ImmtuZ-l Sn! J T xoana in i t.ts. st K. it m tyr 01 Dear miittciona KeesT,! "a Of auji one atiin tLe suui W. L. DOUGLAS ' B-at rsatensl. prv,-,.. Wlj av-rv a;r sirr.,i... V.:"--"aiB n..w T-r7 D;r wsrr.i.r..t. "W.U UOQa. 1.1! ( ' 'ail4.- -www v a 1 HU KLelAV S.OO 9ho. ,-aais. u, , ,71 f Ct ;bte itio from 491 w. m. leUn. mim. -( ' TTITTOC'TnirC' IVORY luuiuiiuii upEiRi iuunnii3 Krealnr Teeth Perfect ... c,., nj Blair's PijlsSii- '" rwti, - jrroMATic a9 Pi at I llIM T.Lt , F'-amtyttry, fnat .1.4 TmettM. Ct4 aad W fur all purpH. ftlBapiw. wuag xj .;.r. kJ. Farwibar tmm aaal macewaeyt feat) rail Saad for I: J eviAv.ax INCLOSIMQ Bra w rea Full PaancuLaas. BCIN BROS. 4( MEWARK, H. j. f O DOI tiRH i:kfe ,vr I r'''ti.'l.SIltyjl!,- I Hinwlilliiiwisw. I I ia.4. Safrielwl swll.rt I wriair-Me.H. wrtflwfti.. Kisf ;S 100. teit.SMae: suxrsiMiauj. ,e .w ewe, ,'jit P ATENTSSteJ Hiubik. Patant Liwrw. 'Mnrin a i I CURE FITS! Wlnan 1 my i-nre I io n-t &'ntrr,vmjr tnr a 1 1 me anil tLen ha tzrra ir .ra ; 3fM.t LtfSV or TALUS SirtE ft-s & varrajit my irin-Jy tociireULew.nt'ak-jL vita HHer ha faliel udo raa--n f or w -few. cim rwrod at -ncr for a . rtmiisf j.r f my intlhhl rmrlj. (iire Zxpn . f ltaoiM rru DotHiiur for a mal. 114 1 vi t. 'A O. FARQUHAR, KUawiK Tvi raw HHI3 150 ETr.nrrs k sPffl.ITl u ou-.ua i tuuuidd,, AihiaU ijUw. -sf, 1 Bold by Droffrisra or trnt r suQ 00 ffriij No Rope lo Cut 01 Horses' Minn. mnM HKI ULL l om.i-' HAiwr 10 any pari oi l . a. . i i: ,.( Vrr. niriwin1 wi nam " ' - aena r-ir rnc 1.11 j. i.niiiriiorK, KaH-hraier N. . NO LADYI3 Fi; ALLY BEUTIFUL Without a Clear'hlieJopJE f,,nuil Toai-r(EB!! ej taa tn ..!ina.eaavi m ij (. as tu:e. It 2 r p.,wJrt tat - ..t.iereof:kO naeiwoftteaJ- ..l-.Bp.e,;'' olat"' . ..ieffOt1 . UiHrJT a xht oesatj t plea, Freelt!, Fi'-e tirnta. "'"."i tSI Sanbarn, t'ttapoel 'L,,Vai s ItcS, eic It ftw he of toe akin from tiie injurious n- " and cosmetic wa-lie coBtAinlM beamioea tne sun, s rmt " bmsw and jaatnfol appeirda. wl J.v . notiirs in the rt to he me aw &ller the world ever pro-ui-e 1. (jwpn! For sale h Drurgt aaj F1.',! of al Picture, free. KIDDER S PASTILLES. SEuS -,,-..Turi.-.tfl,J; aSSWSSSSSWeeee - V-l j,. drtd. c:ire Ms nOi t t -t ' , , frm A. M. to 4 P. Js.at:.-Jrta '"' la I an.l MwilTi.iKVwl " GIVEN AW A H fi II aat swaj avaa am tt at r-swou-ut JuJ". at- OPIUM . in aU jr-A. STITCUREPJ Aeiaete , - - a ,.etM-eVMr.ae. sleep: ese swres je M DR. U. I I'll If r .warl t-tel news. DR. K- M'H . I WA BEST IK JHE: WORLU. t'eaa. tf-MmaandtakenoPthvT. rataTia tr A T T"WF - I .3 -r 0f Ufjrvif I PlHpiea Biol. he. s-a(r ar Oilr I Bleaalalieflj aad all Uia Piteatei Cm I aal CsnalrzUo Uraaiiflea aTV 7AI 41 Wit Magazine Riflo.X5- " fi e -a , dry la w" -riMl 1 rarm-rtnrmrwtaaata