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The City of Now Orleans departing
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cargo of 1500 tons, figuring 33,000
package?, and a eabm register of 128
passengers, principally round-trip ex
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and lighters to Cairo, drawing fivo
feet, and the boat drawing six feet.
She has engagements in this river for
400 tons additional, and will pass
Cairo with 2000 tons. Yet somo old
growlers are foolish enough to say the
river is playing out, but the evidences
point to "There is life in the old land
yet."—St. Louis Star-Sayings.
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FERTILIZER FOR PEAR ORCHARDS.
An experienced pear grower reoom
meuds the use of 400 pounds of muri
ate of potash with 800 pottuds of
ground boue per ucre each year. One
half of this mixturo ho applies to the
orchard in tho autumn and tho other
half in tho spring, when plowing.
The necessary nitrogen is supplied by
sowing crimson clover with the fertil
izer—New York World.
TAOOIKO TIIE SHEEP.
Tagging t.ho sheep is a necessary
thing to be dono if the shepherd would
avoid the injurious fly. Tho heat, as
well as tlio effect of tho green soft
feoding wheu sheep are on pasture,
loosen the droppings and this soilsthe
wool. The ever watchful fly lays its
oggs on tho filthy wool, aud before
anything is known the sheep are fly
blown, after which a few days is time
enough to cover the wholo hindquar
ters with the maggots. It is a very
difficult thing then to save the sheep.
It is worth while to savo the tags and
after a few days' soaking iu water to
have them washed and taken care of.
—Farm, Field and Fireside.
BRAN AS A FERTILIZER.
Thirty odd years ago the lato Solon
Robinson, after making some experi
ments with wheat bran and corn meal
as fertilizers on bis lawn, declared
they were fully as cheap for this pur
poso ns any of the commercial fertil
izers then on the market. Several ex
periments have been made with bran
and what are called "middlings" as
fertilizers for grass, and with good
results. All planters at the. South
know what a change has beeu wrought
within the last two or three decades in
the use of cotton seod, and cotton seed
meal and waste from the oil mills for
enriching the soil for all kinds of
crops. At a recent mooting of mill
owners at Louisvillo this subject of
using wheat brau as a fertilizer was
again brought to tlio fore and highly
endorsed by those who have tested it
practically. If chemical analysis is
worth anything as a test of the fer
tilizing value of wheat bran, then at
the price at which it lias been selling
for the last year or two it is worth
more than its cost as a manure. Most
farmers, however, will prefer to feed
it to their animals and then save the
manure, but it cannot be maintained
that anything is added to the value of
tho bran as a fertilizer by this process.
—New York Sun.
TREATMENT OF AN OROIIARD.
The treatment of an orchard is a
subject of importance ami should bo
well studied. If the land is so wet
that it needs draiuage. it is not fit for
use 011 this account. The land must
then be drained, or tho trees will not
thrive. The roots will run into the
draius and choko them, making double
mischief, for the land will soon be as
wet as beforo and the labor and money
will be lost. Clay land is not the best
for an orchard; a lightish, gravelly
land is better, and still more so if it
is limestone. Tt would bo bettor to
set the orchard far from the house in
lighter land than in clay because of
its nearness. If tho laud is clay, but
not wet, it may bo improved by sub
soiling it; that is, by plowing in the
furrow of a common plow and im
mediately aftc-r it with a bar plow--
that is, ono with a long bar liko a
coulter that will break the subsoil and
loosen it. This might bo done in a
strip botween tho rows of trees aud
about six feet wide, but near tho
trees tho laud should bo plowed no
doeper than a few inches, lest tho
small roots be broken and tho treos
checked in growth. It is a good thing
for an orchard to bo sown with clover
and pastured by swino or sheep.—
American Farmer.
HARDY WINTER OATS.
AVinter oats are one of tho best pay
ing crops that can be grown, writes a
Dolaware farmer. Whorover intro
duced they aro superseding spriug
oats entirely. Oats aro essentially a
cool weathercrop, and failures either
partial or total with spring oats, on
aocount of tho hot, dry weather of
Juno and July, aro so common that
many farmers ure entirely discouraged
from growing them. This trouble is
entirely obviated by substituting win
ter oats. They are sown at the same
time as winter woeat, and ripen with
wheat the following season, so that
the harvesting and threshing may all
bo done at tho same time. Tho variety
we grow in Delaware is perfectly
hardy—as much so as Fultz who>t—
and withstands tho severest weather
perfectly. On good soil a yield of
fifty to eighty bushels is common.
They grow a strong, stiff straw, which
stands up well. They are a very heavy
oat, a measured bushel weighiug from
thirty-eight to forty-five pounds. I
have known crops of those oats this
season that gave au average of eighty
bushols per aero on twenty to thirty
aero fields. One and a half bushels
per acre aro enough to sow. Winter
oats aro also a good crop to soed
clover with. The same fertilizatiou
and tillage that will produco a good
wheat crop will give a big crop of win
ter oats. American Agriculturist.
STRAW AS FEED.
The value of straw for feeding pur
poses depends almost entirely ou the
method of harvesting. Tho riper tho
grain is allowed to become, the drier
and less nutritious is tho straw. It is
woll kuowu that rye-grass hay out be
fore the seed is ripo is much more val
uable and fetches a higher price thau
it does if tho seed is allowed to ripen
before cuttiug. Ho it is with every
other species of that kind of food.
Hay and straw oro practically the
same crop, though cut at different
stages of growth, which is a faot too
frequently overlooked.
When feeding largely on such suc
culent food as roots or grains, straw
should be given at least twice a day,
as it is found that without straw or
hay cattle do not thrive so well. Tho
different sorts of straw Luve» as tc-
garils their nutritive value, been
placed in the following order: 1, pea
straw ; 2, oat-straw; 3, beau-straw,
with tho pods; 4, barley-straw; 5,
what-straw; G, bean-straw, without
the poils. Poa-strow, if proporly har
vested in a dry season, is a most valu
able foot], aud should never be used
as litter. If, however, it has been
much rained upon, and, is consequent
ly dirty and more or less mouldy, it
will sour itock. For sheep it is most
excellent. Horses, too, are very food
of, and th rive well upon it.
Of the white straws, oat straw is
undoubtedly tho most valuable for
feeding, but its value depends much
upon the time of cutting. Oats should
be cut when tolerably green, and al
though part of the grain may be lost
in this way, it is gained in another,
and the straw is in a condition most
valuable for stock feeding. Beau
straw, well harvested, is a very hearty
aud nutritious food for cart horses
and cattlo during the winter, and here
again tho value of tho straw is depend
ent on the time of cutting, says a
writer in Farm and Home. If out
while yet green and before the leaves
have fallen off, wo havo a fodder of
groat value; but if allowed to stand
until quite ripe the loaves fall off, and
the straw, besides containing less nu
triment, becomes so bard and woody
that it is necessary to chaff and steam
it before stock can make any use of it.
Barley straw, especially when mixed
with a good proportion of clover, is of
great importance iu the economy of
tho farm. Barley straw grown in the
South is considered belter than that
grown in the North, it being difficult
in the latter portion of the country
to save it iu tolerable order, especial
ly with clover. Wheat straw, cut into
chaff, is much used for horses and cat
tlo. In consuming straw, the inferior
sorts should be first mado use of, and
afterwards those of a better kind, and
when feeding stock on large quanti
ties of this coarse and dry article, al
ways allowing plenty of succulent
food or have an abundant supply of
water at baud.—New York World.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Don't forget to give tho horse soma
salt.
A little greaso will sometimes savoa
lot of horse.
Now is the season to reap the re
ward of your labor.
After bringing tho horso in brush
off his feet aud jogs.
Don't keep any animal on tho farm
that docs not pay a profit.
Endeavor to have tho homo sur
roundings pleasing to tho eye.
Every farmer should keep a set of
books the samo as auy other business
man.
If tho stable is kept swoot and cloau
it will largely reduce the number of
flies.
Market all quarrolsomo roosters,
ovor-fat hons and non-laying pullets
beforo cold weather.
When tho orchard begins boaring it
should roceive au annual dressing of
phosphoric acid aud potash.
A little nitrate of soda sprinklod in
tho rows aud hills of the lima boaus
will hasten the growth of the vinos.
Fowls which feather and mature
early are usually good producers of
eggs, good sitters and good mothors.
Thero will have to be considorablo
"head-work" used during harvesting
in order to mako everything dovetail.
Uniformity is a great advantage
that creamery butter has over dairy
butter. Dairy butter is made in small
lots.
Oil tho harness the first chanco you
get. If it does not come soon, take
timo. Hot ivcathor sups tho life out
of harness.
Shearing off a little wool around
tho teat will often prevent tho loss of
tho lamb from iudigestion consequent
on swallowing a lock of wool.
Occasionally a crop of grass may bo
grown in tho orchard if the land is
rich, but a permanent grass sod is
stiro to injure tho trees sooner or
later.
Don't let tho woeds grow up and go
to soed where early crops have boen
removed and in the paths. If you do
it will bo adding to your work next
year.
It pays t» havo careful milkers who
will be gentle with tho cows aud who
always milk cleau. A man may easily
lose more thau his wages by careless
milking.
Shepherds who would bo fully post
ed in the art of growing wool must
study tho Bcioucc of breeding, aud tho
whole story of tho natural history of
the sheep.
lie sure to feed green oorn to the
cows. In no other way cau it be used
to pay so well. Sweet corn is prefer
able until cold weather, then field
corn is better.
Somo people seem to forgot that
tho amount of profit on a pound of
butter ofteu depends as much on re
ducing the cost of production as in
obtaining an enliauced price.
The dairyman's responsibility for
the care of his cows is not all gone
when ho is ablo to turn them out to
grass in tho early summer. Tho more
he feols his responsibility in this di
rection, and acts upon it, tho moro
valuable will his dairy becomo to him.
Compared with well-rotted barn
manure, there are 45.60 pounds of
phosphoric acid in hen mauuro to six
in barn-yard manure; and sixty-seven
pounds of nitrogen to elovon in barn
yard manure. The analysis is based
ou a ton each of hen and barn-yard
manures.
A duckling at a week old should
weigh lour ouuoes; two weeks, nino
ounces; three weeks, one pound ; four
weeks, one pouud aud nine ounces;
five weeks, two pounds and two
ouuees; six weeks, two pouuds aud
eleven ouuees; seven weeks, three
pounds aud live ounces ; eight weeks,
four pounds; nine weeks, four poundo
aud eight uiiuccs.
HOUSEHOLD AFPAIttSS.
t'Otjm full MAItKRTINII.
Tt. takes experience to learn how to
select prime fruiln nnd and
the young housekeeper ranis borne!f
ttm iltipo of tho market people agaiu
nml again because she does not know
good from bad or frosh from stale i u
reference to edibles. A fow points
«iven by n markot-inau himself may
asxist lier. To start with, there are
potatoes. Select only those with well*
filled jackets nml free from sprouts;
avoid those that have wrinkled skiu
ami aro «oft to tho touch. Nature in*
tende;! that tho edible portiou of the
)>otato should, when, in a healthy con
dition, fill its skiu almost to tho burst
iii'» point with pood, wholesome nour
ishment. An old potato coutains very
little tliat is fit to eat. While thoy
are cheaper than new potatoes, they
aro really more expensive, because iho
waste is enormous.
In choosing lemons, seek thoso with
Ihiu bkius and that are firm and
full.
The cucurabor should be, whon
thoroughly ripe, streaked with yellow.
Tho dark green variety is tho doctors'
best sura ner frieirl. In buying toma
toes, choose the rich red variety, even
if they cost more. A tomato that is
streako.l with white and is hard is a
flavorless morsel. To tell if the tomato
is perfectly ripe, pull out the stem.
If it comes out easily and cloan, tho
vegetable is in a prime condition; if
the stem brings with it some portious
of tho inside the tomato is tooripofor
use.
Watormelons, of course, are always
green, and to tell as to the ripeness
of tliem and tho condition of the fruit
two tests are easily made. Tho first
method is to have your dealer out out
a small plug for your inspection. This
is the truly safe way. The other
method depeuds on the hoaring.
Thump the sides of tho melon, and if
it gives forth a hollow sound the
chances aro that it is ripe for tho ico
box, and after it has been twenty-four
hours in tho cold to get it thoroughly
chilled you may cut it and Vie satisfied
that your guests will bo pleasod.
Muskuiolons, to be prime, should be
yellow in color. Tho green musk
uiolon, no matter how sweot and
juicy, is not in tho full perfection of'
its flavor. Apples to bo absolutely fit,
should have a mellow appoarance, bo
they of tho rod, green or russet
varieties, and tinged with yellow. In
fact, almost every fruit that grows,
when in tho best condition, takos on a
hue of yellow as though to tell that it
has received plenty of sunshine to
ripen it.—Trenton (V. J.) American.
THE USE OP MINERAL OIL.
Tins in tho kitcliou feel tho magic
of mineral oil, an 1 where long sooiu
iug wan neces iiry to keep them bright
au.l shining in the past, to-day the
up-to-Jiite cook (lips her llntincl cloth
in kerosene, thou into powdered lime,
or common whiting, ami with these
scours her tius into a likeness of the
kerosene cleaned mirrors, anil all with
only half tho labor. Of course, they
want a thorough rinsing in hot suds
afterward to freo them of all odor, but
the real toil of scouring is what she
dreads and not the quick and easy
rinsing.
If she has an oil-cloth ou her floor,
sho adds a gill of kerosene to her
scouring water, dips a mop in tho
pail, passes it quickly over tho paintod
surface, dries it with a flannel cloth,
and with this slight effort leaves it
bright and potisho.l almost as new,
and au oil-cloth treated in this man
ner will outlast ono scrubbed up in
tho old wny twice over. Many o
housekeeper's heart haa gone nigh to
breaking in despair over painted floors
and balcouies which showed overy
footmark, and wore only made dingy
aud dismal by all efforts to wash them
out. A llanuel cloth wrung out in
cold water and well spriukled with
kerosouo makes a painted floor almost
as easy to keep as one of tho costly
hurdwoods, and tho odor of tho
cleansing will pass completely away in
half au hour. On balconies, iudeod,
or whero tho wiudows of the room aro
left open during the process, tho smell
evaporates BO quiokly as not to bo
noticed at all.—Baltimore American.
liEarPßa.
Cinnamon Cake—Tak-3 a pieeo of
bread dough, roll out a quarter of an
iuch thick, put thin slices of butter ou
top, sprinklo with sugar and cinna
mon. Let rise aud bako.
Graham Bread—Ono egg, three ta
blespoonfulsof molasses, two of sugar,
ono cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful
of soda, small cup of wheat flour ; add
graham flour to make batter a little
stiller than sponge aake; steam two
hours.
Lobster Salad—Dover oaunod or
fresh lobster with the following dress
ing: Beat the yolks of throa eggs
well; add four tablespoonfuls of salad
oil very slowly, beating all tho time;
add a little salt, cayenne pepper, half
a teaspoonful of mixed mustard and
two tablospoonfuls of viuogar.
Potato Croquettes—Prepare the
mashed potatoes left from dinner by
aiding one egj, beat well together
and form into cylinder-shaped cakes,
and set by uutil supper time. Then
dip thom in beaten egg, sift over
cracker crumbs aud drop iuto boiling
hot lard. Cook a delicate brown.
Delicious Rice—Boil one pint of
rice, with a little salt, in two quarts
of water. Put iu small cups aud
when perfectly cool place in a dish.
Make a custard of the yolks of two
eggs, one pint of milk and a teaspoon
ful of cornstarch, flavor with lemon.
When cold pour over tho rico balls.
Stowed Potatoes —Pare, quartorand*
soak in cold water half au hour. Stew
in enough oold salted wator to cover
them until cooked. Drain off half
tho water aud pour in a cupful of
milk. Boil three minutes, stirring
well; put iu a lump of butter the size
of au egg, a little salt and a pinch of
peppor. Thickeu with flour.
Huckleberry Cake—Stir one cup of
butter and two cup 3 of sugar to a
cream. Add beaten yolks of Ave eggs,
thon one cup of sweet milk, three
cups of flour, oue teaspoonful of nut
meg, ono toaspoonful of oinnamou, the
whites of five eggs beaten stiff and
one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in
hot water. Thickly dredge one quart
of huckleberries and stir in with
a woodeu spoon or paddle, not to
bruise them. Bako iu n moderate
t veu.
WHEN
John Jacob Astor has bestowod a
51,000,000 piece of jowolry on Lis
wife.
Lady Carnarvon lavishly decorates
herself with jewelry, of which sho has
a great deal.
Mrs. Faure, wife of tho President of
France, is opposed to the uso of bloom
ers by women.
Archduchess Stephanie, of Austria,
is reported to bo tho best dressed wo
man in Europe.
At a wheelmen's ball in Chicago sev
eral women danco J in bloomers and
knickerbockers.
Tho St. Louis priests and preachers
are trying to start a crusade against
tho bicycle bloomers.
Marguorita Arlina llamm declares
that women employod as servants
should wear bloomers.
Ella Ewicg, of Princo, Mo., is said
to bo eight feet two inches in height
and weighs 200 pounds.
Queen Victoria is quoted as saying
that all children should wear sashes,
as she did when sho was a girl.
Miss Llowelyu Davios, tho leader of
the women suffragists of Qreat Britain,
is a remarkably handsome woman.
Thoso who ought to know say that
tho Crown Princess of Boumania is the
handsomest sprig of royalty in Europe.
A favorite diversion of Baroness
Mario Ede von Ameline is the killing
of tigers. Four have mot death at her
hands.
Ex-Empress Eugenie has in her pos
session forty portraits of herself, the
work of some of the best known artists
of Europe.
Among tho employes of the Treas
ury Department at Washington is
Mrs. Wilcox, a grandnioce of Presi
dent Andrew Jacksou.
Sovoral towns in Bussiahavo oleoted
women as mayors, ou tho ground that
they are best fitted to bo intrusted
with the interests of tho community.
The Countess of Dudley is the only
countess in England who can claim the
distinction of having been a bona fide
shop girl before sho assumed the title.
Mmo. Casimir-Perier, wifo of
Franco's ex-President,has organized a
crusade against tho uso of birds'
breasts and wings for decorative pur
poses.
Miss Adelaide FTasse, tho now chief
of the Department of Government
Documents of tho Agricultural
Bureau, is aa expert fencer and bi
cyclist.
Mrs. Stewart, widow of the late
Sheriff of Oroeno Couuty, Missouri,
has boon appointed to succeed her
husband until a new Sheriff can bo
elocted.
Mrs. E. M. Watson has an apri
cot ranch in California, managed on
tiroly by horsolf and employing 300
people, aud Mrs. Harriot Strong has
an English walnut ranch, 320 acres in
extent.
Miss Virginia Fair, daughter of tho
California money king, is an oxpert
ventriloquist and often amuses her
friends by playing pranks similar to
thoso in which Valentino Vox in
dulged.
i Thero is a peculiar process of spe
cialization always going on in j>opu
]ar things. Thus discussion of tho
bicycle has ceased, aud overybody is
taken up with the bloomers, a mere
accessory.
A prize of $2 worth of ioo cream
tickets for tho tirst wom&u who will
rido a bioyclo, in bloomer costume,
around tho public square in tho even
ing is offered by the Times, of Clay
Center, Kan.
The degree of LL.D. has boen con
ferred upon Alice Freeman Palmer by
the faculty of Union College. Mrs.
Palmer was formerly President of
Wollesley College and more recently
dean in the Chicago University.
Rov. Ella G. Thorp married a couple
iu Wichita, Kan.,Juue29. Thoaffair
attracted considerable attention, as it
was supposed to be the first instance
where a woman has performed the
marriage ceremony in that State.
A leading jeweler in the West End
of London asserts that earrings are
slowly but suroly cotniug into vogue
once more, and that the revival prog
nosticates a change in tho stylo of
headdress in the arrangemont of the
hair.
In tho latest bicycling costumes in
Paris tho Zouave knickerbockers are
mado much less full than formerly,
and now skirts are seldom worn. It
is said that womeu iu cycliug dross
aro frequently to be seen in theboule
var J cafes.
A dress of dark bluo suiting has im
mensely largo leg-o'-mutton sleeves of
moire. The bodico is mado of suiting
witk a vest front of tho moire; a high
collar with turued-baok points is of
tho moire, and a velvet belt makes an
appropriate finish.
Miss Emma Kinkle, of Woodville,
Oregon, met aud killed a fair sized
boar while out alone with a guu re
cently. She is a good shot, aud has
stalked and killed several deers, but
never went hunting for bear. She
wasn't hunting this one.
Tbo rector of the Berlin University
has informed the professors that re
strictions will be placod en female at
tendance at tho medical lectures at the
university. All lady studouts before
being admitted must procure authority
to do so, either from himself or tho
Minister of Education.
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tho novelties for racing wear. They
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very deep collars out square across
tho shoulders and trimmed with heavy
applique lace. Sometimes there is a
wide rullie of fancy or satin-striped
silk muslin and a long scarf of tho
samo material to loop across the front.
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because beof6teak was cut out of their
breakfast bill o! faro. It only took
the landlord one day to realize their
value, when he capitulated and ofiored
them the beet the houso afforded at
every meal.
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EinprrM Eugenie's 111 under.
In the artiolo, "Life in tho Tuiler
ies Under tho Hecond Empire," pub
lished iu tho Century, thiH amusing |
slory is told: An amusing incident '
occurred while the i>a;;cs were rehears- (
inj; tho part tboy bad to piny in tbeso ■
festivities. Tbey were chosen from ,
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Emperor's stables, and wbeu tbo cos-
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friend?"
"Twenty, madame!"
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standers, may be imagined.
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