Over ninety per ess of tlio United check a. cent, of tlio busi State is done 1' It in said that thero are 4,500 per sons in America who aro descended from the roynl familios of Europe. Tlio Southern Railway has set asido ft Cor t in fund for tlio promotion of mail industries iiloiig the icvernl lines tu this ui" system. Of tlio honorary dogreis bestowed ly American colleges at their recent commencements, sixty-three, a little less than half, were given to clergy men. Criminals in Buenos Ayres, who are aentuncod to long terms of penal servi tude, are frequently released on parolo for certain hours each day, so that their private business will not suffer. Dr. Wiley, tho United States client 1st, says it is a mistako that sugar is ttdultoratcd w-itlt sand, at loast in this country. He says sugar is as free from added impurities as any article of food. Late statistics seem to show, ob serve the St, Louis Star Sayings.that France has had enough of martial glory during the last one hundred years. Between 1792 and 1815,2,250 OOl) of her sons lost their lives in war, nd during the present century 6,000,- O0O have gone the same war to the Rrave. A t a cabinet council at Madrid, Spain, the othor day the means of re conciling the interests of national de fence with those of the railway com panies concerned in the proposed con- truction of a tunnel through the Py renees were considered. The matter was referred to the ministers of war and public work. The strength of China as a fighting nation lies in the number of people he can call upon to be killed, main tains the Chicago Record. Her popu lation Is inexhaustible and if her rulers are stubbon enough she can protract a war through numberless deadly cam paigns. France has found this out when pitting her own military equip ment against China's. How would Japan fare? The use of corn meal in Europe is increasing, partly owing, explains the- Boston Cultivator, to the efforts our Agricultural Department ban made to increase the foreign de mand for this great American staple. 'Tho Italians are the latest converts to tho new food. They now use corn ienl in miking polenta, instoaj of uing ground chestnuts, which was the material formerly employed. The corn meal is cheaper and better, be- causo not so hard to digest as meal : from any kind of nuts- Thcro is a contractor in Washing' ton, Levi Mnish, who ia waiting for tho war department to pay him $8,000 which he earned very easily. It ap pears that for a long time past Fort Meyer has beon short of water, and flu illy the department made a contract with MaUh to bore an artesian wolL ine well was to now 150 gallons a minute of good water, and the price 'was to be $3000. To his ova and everybody h surprise, JUaisn struck a tremendous flow of water at a depth of 80 feet. Its temporature ia 80 de grees, and it is thought to come from tho vein of somo ot tho Virginia hot springs. Tho water is said to be very pare and good, but yet the contractor lias not got the money, the depart- lueut apparently thinking that it was too easily earned, $100 a foot for an artesian well is a good price. It looks, to the Chicago Timos, as if the days of iron were nearly over. 'There is a shriukage ot production as gainst Htocl every year. Steel is as choap and sometimes cheaper than irou, whilo its durability is generally bowing itself as infinitely superior. Scarcely a ship is now built of iron plates. A striking iimtanoe of the au periority of steel waa lately shown. .A a Australian liner built on the Tyne from local steel platea was run on the reefs in a fog at Honolulu. For eighteen days she was rocked on the jagged rocks until a tidal wave lifted her off. All along the bot om the plates on both sides were bent inward, tho keel bar being broken. The plates would (inly beud, however, not break i not a single rivet had sprung nor had drop water puuetrated the bottom. The vessel was brought by her own engines, just us she waa," 19,000 miles to the Tyne. There experts examined her and made tnnoh favorable com niout on the ductile and durable prop erties of steel as compared with iron. Irou would infallibly have given- way, while stool stood the great strain ia- -UoL Fall of Beauty. Hum's the henuty of the meadows stretching fur anl far away, And the tinkling of the ilnwdrops on tha daMr every day! And the sun Is growing brighter as It streams from ent to west, And the heart Is growing lighter, and the love Is growing bol ! Item's the singing ot the mm kingbird i why when the day ain't bright They keep thulr yellow music, and they sing to you at night ! Anil the groves beeomn all-glorlou, and the hills assume a light That I splendid for the singing, ot ths mock ingbird at night! Itere' the greening of the maple, with their twinkling, tinkling leaves, Ami the silk-worm with the beauty and the wonder that he weaves ! And "hero's your lady's dresies!" ami the spider web, like milk. And the whole world Is In purple, and In Si-nrlet, ami In silk! Oh, the world Is growing brighter, no matter how it rolls! Tho sunshine's streaming whiter through a million, trillion souls! And there's nothing like the present, and there's nothing like the past, And It's nil so mighty pleasant that wo wish that life would last ! F. L. Ktanton, In Atlanta Constitution. THE OTHER DOOR. At Inst everything is put in order, ami we are established in our new home. Dear me. trv as I will, I find it impossible to become used to it Yon see, we, that is, fnther, mother, sister and I, have always lived in tho little village of B . Father had been a preacher there long before ever I was born. All my friends, pleasures, in fact, all things concerning me, were centered in that dearly beloved vil lage. All of a sudden father is offered a more lucrative position in Now York and without hesitation we pack up our thitiRS and leave the home of our childhood, with many vain sighs and tears, on my part, at least. The weather has been so inclement since we havo lived in the city, and today has been one of those days that puts a damper on the brightest of spirits. I have been standing for some time watching the drizzling rain. Eunice, mv sister, who is more fortunato than I, in being able to entertain horself, is comfortably lounging in an arm ohair reading away, with a placid ex pressioti on her face, which is highly provoking to me. I can stand it no longer. I put on my hat and mackin- tosh and tell Eunice I am going to the store to purchase some floss for my fancy work. After shouting at her several times, t succeed in rousing her from her book, and she tells me in a dreamy manner it is too late to be out on the street alone. She does not, however, offer to accompany me. lint 1 uo not mind, for 1 am per fectly confident that I know the way so I brave the drizzling rain and the foggy atmosphere in better spirits than I have experienced all day. l reach the store, my noss is soon purchased and I trudge back again to ward home. Why, it is quite dark, but this only serves to make me feel rather adventursoine and I hasten along as best I can. Of course, this is a little diffioult, for I am not used to so many pcoplo and to being shoved about from aido to side. I do believe I have said "beg pardon" at least twenty times, but no body ever says it to nro, and I am not the one who is doing tho pushing, either. Ah, here s our strcot and here s our house ; there's a light in the hall for me. Why. the door is open I I am lure I closod it whon I loft. Well, perhaps Junico came to look for me Mid loft it opon. I run in and bang the door to, for I am glad to be once more sheltered from tho rain. I take off my mackintosh and rubbers, and then the dining-room door opens and tomebody stalks into the hall whistl ing. Through the dim light my astou ishod eyes see a man who seems quito it home. It is not papa, for papa is not so tall as this person. Who can it be? Why, the man turns up the gas, then he sees me, and we both stare at each other. At last I say: "Who are you, and what are you doing hore?" . He smiles: through all my astonish ment and indignation 1 noticed it is a very pleasant smile. Then be says: "I beg your pardon, but you havo just asked me what I iu tciidod asking -you. to answer you, however, my name is Robert Layton, and this is my home." What oau he mean, I wondor, and I sayi "This is my homo, Then I gaze abont and notice that the furui tare is entirely different from ours, I feel blush of uiortittoatiou spreading over my face. I try to bog a thousand pardons l one would be sufficient, I suppose. 1 tell him I must have en tered tho wrong house, and that we came to tho city just a week ago, and it was so dark that I mistook this for our house, and so forth. It is a terribly embarrassing situs- ation, and I am conscious that I am blushing furiously. Blushing novor did become mo, cither. His gaze, which at first had been penetrating, is now kindly. Even be fore he speaks I can sea that he ia try ing to put mc at my ease. He is certainly a haudsome fellow not of tho baby-pretty sort of mon, which I have always hated and detested, but of frank, manly bearing, a chivalrous fellow one can see at a glance. "To be sure you are in the wrong house," he says, and says it so merrily, too, that we both laugh. It is strange how quickly this cultivated young man can renssure me. though hardly thirty seconds have passed since I first found myself face to fuco with him, I already feel that I have known him for ft long time. "I am the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Stnyles," I say, and I say it simply be cause I hardly know what else to say. 'Oh, then you are my next-door neighbors, I fancy." "Are we?" I ask. "I did not kuow the name before, but ono of my servauts told me that a clergyman was the new neighbor." "Iam glad yon are to be our neigh bor," I sav. As soon as the words are uttered, I feel that I have been ter ribly bold and forward, but Mr. Lay ton answers heartily: "And I'm glad, too, Miss Stayles." 1 must go, I murmur. '1 owe you a thousand apologies, and I am very grateful to you for your courtesy and good nature. You might have taken me for " "A burglar, were you going to say? No, indeed, Miss Stayles burglars are never charming. In fact, they are quite sure to repel one." Good night," I say; "and again thank you." "I fear, since you live next door, it would be rather superfluous for me to offer to see you home. Oood night I shall hope to meet you again, if I can make your father's acquaintance and prevail upon him to ask me iuto his home." I enter our house this time and find the folks anxiously waiting for me. Fapasays: "How flushed your cheeks arel" Mamma exclaims: "Why, uild, how nervous you seem to be I" and Eunice says: "Maud, has anything happened to you? You are roally trembling!" So I am compelled to relate my ad venture, and wo all end up with a good hearty laugh at my stupidity. 'Mr. Layton wishes to see Miss Maud." This is the announcement made by our solitary domestic. "Ask Mr. Layton to come right in," is my answer. As you will observe, he asks for me, At first, he invariably inquired for my father or mother' Now he almost ways asks for me. Strange etiquette? Not in the loast. Wo are engaged, you see, and that makes all the difference iu the world, Yes, Mr. Robort Layton called so frequently and persistently and al ways to see me, as ho has siuoo avowed that now he wants to hove me in his home, in ordor that ho may not be put to the troublo of coming to our door and ringing tho bell. And I havo come to the conclusion that tho best way out of it is to do he urges, and marry him. Robort but I always call him Bob now has lived in the same home fo years, ana uaa never uoioro inougui of marrying. His aunt, who is a wi dow-, has managed his house for him all theso years, but she is a dear, sweet old soul, and she says she is just as do lighted as Bob is at the prospect of new mistress for tho house. My father and mother both put on oomioally grave looks and say that they are disconsolate at the thought of having their eldost daughter taken from them. But then I am going only next door. New York Journal. ' Half a Century. One at fifty don't foci od, yet he has had considerable experience. Accord ing to statistician, a man who has livod half a contury has slept (1,000 days, has worked only 0,800 days, has spout, in amusciueut 4,000. Hia diet has embraced about eight tous of meat and two tons of fish, eggs and vegeta bles, and he has drank over 7,000 gal lons of fluid. He has boen ill about B00 days, which ia surprising consid ering above gluttony, and has walked distance equal to half around the globe. Atlanta Constitution. The Snllur or To-ilnr. The modern sailor is a jaek-of-all-trades. He must bo a good dcat of a soldier J and to make ft soldier of tho old-fashioned tar was au impossibility ) he would hnve resented tho very aV tompt. But now ho must march and drill i shore, and know the "manual of arms and the bayonet drill like a member of a regiment for "shore dutv." He may bo called upon to perform at any time. The officers may even bo called upon to ride and you know there is an old adage that used to run, "As awkward as ft sailor on horseback." He must bo an artilleryman, and now how to handle the howitzer and the rapid-fire guns aud the "rattling Oatliugs." Even then he has to be his own horse, aud pull the heavy pieces the way they do fire-engines in the country by hand. He must be a machinist, and know the ponderous aud yet delicate ma chinery of the breach-loading guns in the same way that an engine-driver knows his engine. He must be able to use his monkey-wrench and oil-can, and keep the great guns bright aud clean by constant polishing. He must now something of electricity, and ow to manage the big sharklike tor pedoes that are discharged under wa ter from tubes in the ship's sides, aud the search-light that turns night into day. He must be a coal-heaver, and turn to and help "coal ship." And besides all this, he must learn what every sailor has to know how to tio knots, splice ropes, use a paint brush, wash his own clothes, drill with cut lass and pistol, row a boat, and know how to signal, like a telegraph oper ator, with the "wigwag flags, no you see a sailor is pretty busy man, and on many ships he never has to furl a sail or go aloft at all. In fact, nearly a third of tho crew is employ ed about the engines. Every man has his ship's number ; it is on his clothes, and his locker where he keeps them, on his hammock, aud stamped on his magazine rifle and accoutre ments. He has his station in case of fire, and wheu going into action or manning the pumps. Everything must be like clock-work, no matter what turns up. A souse of duty and obe dience to discipline he must always have before him. Harper's Young People. An American Sardine. The United States nsh commission calls attcntiou to the food value of the anchovy of the waters of the North west, which, it Is predicted will dis place the Sardinian sardine as a small fish canuod in oil. It is said to far surpass the sardine in flavor and rich ness. Russiau fishermen on Puget sound have already tried the experi ment of putting theso anchovies up th vinegar and spices, and have fouud ft ready market for them, "I have known . them," Mr. Swan says, 'to be in such masses at Port Had lock, at the head of Port Townsend bay, that they could be dipped up with a common water bucket, but there has been no demand for them, tho fisherman do not consider them of value, and wheu hauling their nets for smelt they genorally let the anchovy escape." The anohovy of the sound ts seldom more than six inches long, aud it is muoh better adapted for can ning than tho Eistport (Me.) variety of "sardine, which is cither younj horriug or the small fry of other fish. A test of the flavors of tho Pacific coast anchovy as a fish canned iu oil was recently made, and experts pro nouncod them delicious. Ihey were put up in California olive oil. New Orleans Picayune. A Mnu-o nt Coin. Tho nineteon-forty-nine and ninety nine-ceut marks on many articles of morchaudise have led certain investi gators to demand a nine-cent coin, It is said in defence of this idea that it would greatly facilitate making change and save shoppers a great deal of time. There is some reason to think that a oertaiu class of shop keepers would not exhibit any great dogrco of enthusiasm on this point, as there are many persons who will sacri fice the one cent rather than wait, and this is clear profit. But be this aa it may, it is said that the nine-cent piece is mire to come. The demand for naner money fractional currenoy is ft- ft - becoming emphatic in certain quar ters, and it may bo possible that with this circulating medium there will be odd-number pieaes, all of which will bo of great use in tho almost universal practice ot shopping by mail New York Ledger. Reasonable Superstitions. She Are you really superstitious about walking uuder a ladder? Ho Well' rather I The last time I did it a man dropped a paint pot ou me. i AIUI Al I1AUDEX. innioATiox and tiibr fiii.Tfna. The necessity for troe culture ia equally imperative with irregatlon, says Column's Rural World, and the arid lands question will never be satis factorily settled without the recogni tion of this principle in its solution. America can ill afford to ignore the xperleuce of othor nations in this re spect, and forestry should reoeive equal consideration with irrigation. It has been estimatod that within hlstorio times soma 7,000,000 of square miles along the shores of the Mediter ranean, onoe highly fertile, have been changed into worthless deserts, and for nearly 9,000 years the inhabitable portion of the earth has decreased at tha averago rate of 3,500 square miles. This has been produoed by the direct agency of man the evil being chiefly due to river floods cansed almost ex clusively by the destruction of land- proteoting forests. It is right that America should set the example of reolaiming desert lauds and thus inoroase the earth's oapacity for supporting the human race. Irri gation and tree oulture must go hand and hand in this work. PICKING) ont I.ATEI1S. How many poultrymen oan pick out ft good laying hen from a strange flock? Not many ean do it; yet it oan eaaily be done after short study ot make-up and characteristics. There goes a hen with a thiok neck, large head, ill-shaped, walks listlessly about, seemingly with no intention or pur pose in view. She does not care to scratch, but hangs around the hen house, evidently waiting for her next food. She gets up late in the morn ing aud goes to bed ejrly in the even ing. That hen may be put down as a very poor layer. The eggs of some of the other hens go to help pay her keep. Here comes another. She walks briskly and there is an elasticity in her movements which shows she has something in view. She ia neat aud natty in appearanoo, small head, with a thin neck, niocly arohed and curved. She forages or scratches all day long and mar be too busy to oome for her evening meal. She is at the door in the morn ing waiting to be let out. She suatchea a few mouthfuls of feed and is off to the meadow, looking for insects. Be fore she gets out in the morning she generally deposits her daily egg in the nest, or returns after a short forage, She is neat, clean and tidy, with i brightness and a freshness pleasant to tho eye. iuat is tne lien that pays for her feed aud gives a good profit all the year round. The writer has noticed these traits since boyhood and knows that they are infallible. By studying these traits any man may, in a few years, have a fine flock of bona, Northwest Farmer. THE FLAVOR OF MILK. un my farm I nave bad an unin terrupted experience in cheese making for 87 years, but I havo now aban donod tne making of cheese and ar ranged to sell my milk," says T. C, Smith, in the Live Stock Journal Al mauno. "The reason for the change is that for some years past we have been fighting against a gradual falling off from the fine flavor which for a long timo enabled us to make a very satis factory maket of a superior produce For a quarter of a century, viz. : from 1850 to 1881, we were on the ascend, ing scale, both in the quantity and quality ot tho cheese which the farm produced. But deterioration in flavor set in, against whioh the greatest care has boon only partially successful. "Those who are acquainted withth cheese trade know what a difference in price there is between very fine dairy, whioh like Csear's wifo, 'is above sus picion,' and a dairy whioh is only good, or at most very good. The in fluence of food upon milk on this farm is not only directly traceable to the food upon which tho cows have been lately fed, but also indirectly to the continuous nse of large amount of artificial food and manure which has entirely altered the herbage of the farm. "No one could have boen more re luctant than myself to acknowledge that high farming, whioh of course greatly increases its quantity, baa an adverse influeuoe on the quality of oheese which a given farm produces. The system of making whioh I have followed is called the Derby system, aud is identical with that by which tho finest Leiooster cheese is produced. "Perhaps, as aoueese-maker, I have uo great reason to oomplain, for 'dur ing the whole series ot thirty-seven years there has not been one year in whioh the season's make has been bad, But the derideJ declension from line to very good and good is, iu my judg ment, distinctly owing to tho influ ence of food on milk, such influence having been gradually brought about by high farming." ITORAR BRRRDINd. In t'.ie brooding of horses it is necessary to look at least two or three years into the future for our results, and to every one who looks at the matter candidly and without prejudice the prospeots for about that time, and until another depression, which is not likely to come for at least the next too years, looks unusually bright for many different classes of horses, providing they are of superior quality. The street-car lines, which have until very ecently used enormously large num bers of a class that as a rule had neither beauty uor speed, and were not large enough for heavy draught, ill require comparatively few in the future ; consequently every breeder should now so breed as to avoid pro ducing that olass if possible, Either discard the poor individuals, no matter how well'bred they may be, or so breed them that the detects will be very oertain to be corrected. To do this it is neoessary to look, beyond the individual aelected, to the inheri tance. A stallion may have perfect hocks and yet belong to a family so notoriously bad in that respect that if mare at all defective in this particular were bred to him, there would natur ally be an intensifying of the defoot rather than a correction of it, says the American Horse Breedor. Another vory objectionable dofect, whioh is muoh more oommon in the South than in New England, is blindness. If one has a blind mare or one whose sight is at all defective, selecting a horse with absolutely perfect eyes and sight is not enough, as, in addition to that, one should be very careful to make a choioe where there is not a single an oester with the same kind of defect. In breeding for profit, the prospects look better for continuing with well bred and individually good horses than for any other kind of stock, and it is not necessary to confine one's breeding to the speediest olasses. It is at least an open question whether at the present time the hard est to obtain is not a really first-class, handsome, stylish family or road horse of good sire pleasant disposition and so trained as to be perfeotly safe. In such, while the fabulous prioes that have been paid for the fastest ot trotters and tho roughbreds never can be expected, there is as muoh more certain profit than in any other class. The hoaviest ot draught horses are in just as good domand as ever, as neither eleotrioity nor anything else has taken or is like ly to take their plaoe, but a better quality is demanded here than a few years ago. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES). It will pay to have a rotation of orops, if only corn, oats and grass are used. A young and growing animal re quires a different ration from a mature, fat ono. No suooess succeeds like success. A soil is best for the crop that grows the best upon it If you must let the manure leacb, draw it out, so the washings may go into the field. One haa said that storage rooms out of doors for farm tools are cheap in the first instanoe, but mostly costly in tho final reckoning, Do not have a dozen grapevine canes where only one should be, for the result will be many vines, over crowded with small bunohes. It is generally considered labor lost attempting to mond a half-worn out orchard by filling in the vacant places with young trees. The more econom ical plan is to commonoe a now or chard in a new situation. A farmer said before an Iowa insti tute : It has been proveu that clover sod is as good to produce corn as tha virgin soil. Farmors are just awaken ing to the importance of sowing all small grain fields to clover. It is the only wholesale fertilizer yet discov ered. Ouard against worms in the young pigs by giving oohstant acoess to plenty of salt aud wood ashes. A lit tle asafetida in the slop twice a weok will act as ft good tonic. Plenty of groan or vegetables are also good. This is the advice given by an old swiue grower. German millet has been grown to a large extent in Middle' Tennessee for the seed. Some seasons it pays $3) to the acre. - It will make aa much seed and as heavy orops of hay on tha riVer bottoms a anywhere else in tha world. Some of it on'o;lit to Ua sown ou every far bo.
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