What Chinese Epicure* Eat. A Chinese mandarin has forwarded the menu of a banquet given at Pfking to the foreign diplomatist*, the menu of which follows: I'irst came four classic dishes—namely, swallow nests with pigeon eggs, shark fi tih with crabs, dopffish with wild duck, duck and cauliflower; then suc ceed delicacies served in cups placed before each guest; swallow nests, shark fins, plain morils, vegetables, mushrooms with duck feet, fried partridge, pigeon in slices; then there appeared four dishes—namely, ham in honey, a puree of peas, vegetables and dogfish ; four side dishes: haricot cheese with bamboo buds (a kind of asparagus), roots of bamboo, chicken, shellfish; four hors d'oeuvers in duplicate, ham and chicken, lisli and gizzard, pork tripe and vermicelli, duck aud pork cutlets. Each guest had also placed before liini plates of almonds, pistachio paste, pears and oranges. Finally, the following were the roast and boiled meats: buckling pug, roast duck, boiled chicken, boiled pork. There was a profusion of European and Chinese wines. No opium was smoked, for official China is not yet reconciled to the drug which it owes to the East India Company.— Asiatic Quarterly. Slow Reward. 8100. The reader of tbis paper will l>e pleased to learn that, thorn is at least one dreaded disease that science lias been able to cure in all its etaites, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive ctire known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh belnir a constitu tional disease, requires a constitutional treat ment. Hal I '* ( atanh Cure is taken lnternallj-, acting directly on the blood aud mucoussur taces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and givinu tlie pa tient strength l>y building tip the constitution unts. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Kye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle. Hood's s ?> Cures t" I am glad to recom mend Hood's Sarsapar ill:* and Hood's Pills. 1 have suffered very much with severe Sick Headache. After taking six bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla and two boxes of Hood's Pills, I am cured of that terrible disease. I know Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best me iicine I ever taok." H. M. I.ATTI.V, Pine Vallev, X. V. (»et H OOP'S. Hood's tVI Is i nre liver Ills. 25 cents po ' nx. "German Syrup" Boschee's German Syrup is more successful in the treatment of Con sumption than any other remedy prescribed. It has been tried undei every variety of climate. In the bleak, bitter North, in damp New England, in the fickle Middle States, in the hot, moist South —every- where. It has been in demand by every nationality. It has been em ployed in every stage of Consutnp tiou. In brief it has been usee by millions and its the only true anc reliable Consumotion Remedy. 3 190 Top Buggy ..997 Cut the /fjLAfcv JPV 106 mSeton -»M I*KICK® and QfiBBT FSmtti * I'MS.Top Surrey.l 47 «uUell AI.L VJ'IIVV (60 Road Wagon t'2b competitor*. >, LaA Bflp sl6 Road Cart..18.25 lluy •rfce*Hy i iß| , - Btf. Buggy Rariiesain.Bs tory «oil >lO Buggy " M .75 Mldtllem«.n'» (30Team " sl2.GO.profit. \xscsj Morgan Baddle|l.6sfi'«t«lofuePr«e. U. S. BUGGY & CART CO. VcSSIEv <»l 1-twrMKt St., fincinnat ,0. (is5 u "f; GOITRE CURED '.'it'elil .VlPuVvlilp. n!j DR. KILMER'S SWAMP-ROOT CURED ME. Doctors Said I Could Not Live, POOR HEALTH FOR YEARS. Mr. WiUcox is a praetieai farmer and Fost masU'r in the village where he reside*. anc is treii known fnr mile* around. Ho writcft— §, 1 had W»en in j»oor for a joti# »imo. F »ur years ajro the crtef* « hipc and a of our best physicians *ai«l I would not live n year. I began nnng Dr. Kilmer's Swaiup-Hoot, Kidney, Liver and Madder Cure, then my doctor said it mipht help me tor a time, but I would not IK- here a year hence. My diflieiilties, aggravated by Hheumatisin, were so bad I could not get either hand to my fat e. I continued the medicine nearly a year, and now 1 miii a* iv«*ll a* any man "112 my age—sixty-eight years. Swamp-Root Saved My Life AWlUft* 1 "' the R-ood lieiiit h I now en- I" j°>' is due to its use." & J. I). Wit.fm, AjK .Inn, 9, Olmsville, Pa, At Dr«c*UU,Ut.«r ILM Nh Xi^r . "In. .lid.* Ouldc tv llr.iih" lu'd O I l unMluiU. Free. l>r KUinrt-A Co., RlnKluulitim, N. Y. Dr. Kilmer's U &. 0 Anointment Cures Piles Trial Box Free. At Druggist*. 60 cents. AXLE GREASE. Pnre palm oil is as good grease for axles of heavy wagons as anything else. If this cannot he procured and tallow is to be used, this mixture will be good: The tallow is melted and mixed with an equal quantity of com mon castor oil. Some finely-pow dered black lead is then well mixed in by stirring while it is warm and until it cools. This is excellent for heavy and light vehicles. For light buggies castor oil is the best grease.—New York Times. CARE OP THE COLT'S FOOT. If a colt shows a tendency to walk on the heel or frog, rasp the sole towards the toe to take away the thickness. If the foot is worn at the toe and the heels have become too high, they should be lowered with the ran]). When the edges or rim of the hoof has grown leaving the frog and center hollow, the edges should be rasped. The more frequently the foot is putin proper shape the more likely it is to grow into that shape.—New- York World. CHARCOAL FOR FOWLS. We have found charcoal a very ex cellent thing to furnish our poultry with. It may be given in a powdered state, mixed with the soft meal feed, and a little pulverized sulphur at the same time may be added with advan tage. But the very best way to sup ply this is to burn an ear or two of corn (upon the cob), charring it to blackness and throwing it before them. They will devour every kernel, and so supply themselves with a. grateful aud healthy substance that sweetens the crop, and serves as an admirable tonic to the stomach. At tliis season of the year the above recommendation will be found a valu able hint to poultrvmen. Hens about ready to lay will devour this prepared charcoal eagerly, and the increased freshness and redness of their combs afterward evince the efficacy of this allowance. For a month or six weeks in the early breeding season nothing is better than this for laying liens given them daily.—Poultry World. RYE IS THE CORNFIELD. There is one plan that, if generally adopted by the dairymen, would add measurably to the pasturage of the farm and at the same time be a benefit to the soil itself, and this is the prac tice of sowing rye in the cornfield either at the last working or as soon as the corn is cut up. In the spring, long before the pastures are "fit" for turning the stock upon them, the rye field is a wealth of fine feed and excel lent. By this plan there is no winter •washing of the laud, which is, as a rule, equal in exhaustion to a growing crop, and by the middle of May this rye sod can be turned under for corn and is next to clover sod in value. For sev eral years the writer has as nearly as possible carried out this plan and finds that, with what manure and clover sod comes in in rotation, his fields are get ting better all the time. Two ways present themselves to putin the rye — sowing broadcast and cultivating in with a light cultivator, setting teeth as shallow as gootl work will allow, so as to disturb the corn roots as little as possible ; and the other is to cut up the corn, having the shocks regular, and then sowing one and a-half bushels of rye on broadcast and harrowing it in with a harrow or disc, the loosening up of the ground covering the seed ef fectually without plowing. There is nothing equal to keeping the land at wwrk, filling the soil with a mass of roots to decay and furnish food for the following crop, and if it can be done between crops, as this plan with rye offers, a great gain has been made not only in the supplying of food to the stock, but feeding the land as well.— Practical Farmer. BEST RESULTS FROM TOMATOES. When pruned and staked tomato plants will bear much closer planting in the field than if left to themselves. Two feet by four is about the proper distance. As soon as set in the field the plants ought to be tied. Set strong stakes at each end of every row and brace carefully. Smaller stakes may be set at intervals of two rods along the rows. These stakes should be about three aud a half feet high. Next stretch two wires of about the size used iu baling hay along the tops of the stakes in each row. Take ordinary laths or small sticks of any kind, of the same length as lath and stick one just at the side of the place that each plant is to occupy. The upper ends of the stakes are held in place by weaving the wires around the tops of the stakes or laths. This makes a neat and substantial trellis. The plants are trained to single stems and tied to lath supports. Of course, tying must be done at successive intervals as the plants in crease in height until the top of the trellis is reached, after which nothing further need lie done iu the way of training. All side roots near the ground and suckers must lie pinched oft, as the object t< bo gained 111 staking would be lost otherwise. None of the blossoms nve to lie removed, but simply th" leafy shoots and suckers, which beav 110 blossoms and come out near the ( loini land sit intervals along the main mock, Pruning away these surplus shoots and tying the plants to supports exposes the fruit to the sun -1 >,'ht and favors early development to a marked degree. Tomatoes thus trained ripen about two weeks iu ad vance of those which are allowed to lie on the ground, are freer from root and larger. The crop per plant is less than by the ordinary method, but he eaii'.t of the higher prices obtained for the fruit the profits are larger.—New FiUgland Homestead. rVL't'TVATINO STRAWIU'RI!IKS. 'the strawberry leaf disease, Known as the spot, has been much more inju rious during the last quarter oi' a cen tury thsu it was iu former times; and growers are looking about for somo explanation of the spread of this trou ble. In almost all cases a new va riety "runs out," as it is called, and chiefly through tho operation of this disease. New varieties are continu ally being introduced—not becauso they are much better than the va rieties that liavo preceded them— but on account of the older varieties going back ; in fact, no one will con tend that the strawberries of to-day, as a rule, are even as good as they were in former times. It is thought that the old method of cultivation, which moderns have laughed at, might not have been such bad practice after all. The practice was to grow the strawberries in beds; as soon as the crop was gathered the leaves were mown off with the scythe and burnt, and a new crop of leaves came up be fore winter. With the progress of vegetable physiology this was thought to be very bad practice. The argu ment was that leaves make food, and the rnoro leaves the better. This would be true if the leaves were healthy leaves; but diseased leaves are worse than no leaves at all. No one ever thought of the strawberry spot in those days; in fact a specimen of this disease was rarely seen. It is now be lieved that the practice J loaf will rise to fill the pan when baked. Bake in very hot oven 45 minutes, . j. placing paper over first 15 minutes' baking, to prevent crusting too soon on «J . top. Bake immediately after mixing. Do not mix with milk. 112 , U * Perfect success can be had only with the Royal Baking Poivder, because it is tht . only powder in which the ingredients are prepared to as to give that continuous ▼ W action necessary to raise the larger bread loaf, W W * * * 4 The best baking powder made is, as shown by analy- 4 0 sis, the "Royal." 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