At a recent mile in England a 039 acre fnrm brought f 28,500. Four yenrs ago it was mortgaged for $70, O00. ( Tiio Xow York Journal has disrov. red tlint Andrew Jackson looked for ward to the bicycle era, for ho was tho originator of tho gooit rouds ngilntion in thin country. Franco but furnished fewer immi grants to the United States thnu nny other nation in Europe. During tho ten years preceding 1890 only about 50,000 persons left Franco for America. Tho consumption of meat in England lias increased considerably during the pnst few yours. It Uuw amounts to 119 pounds per head n year. As this is only l-8th of ft pound apiece it day, it is evident that a good many get very little meat. The Bock Island Railroad recently adopted an excellent plan to test the Lonosty of its conductors. They were informed that spotters would no longer be employed on the road, and that the money thus saved would be applied to an increase in tho wages of the conductors. Tho plan is said to be working to tho cntiro satisfaction of both tho company and those direct ly nffeoted. A complaint has arisen in England regarding the impositions borno by social visitors at country houses, who aro constrained to divide large sums among the servants, nudcr penalty of being blacklisted by the gamekeepers, butlers, coachmen and housemaids upon whoso ofllces they nro dependent for many oom forts. It is said that tho tips distributed by a single visitor sometimes aggregate a thousand dol lars. ThoBttrean of Statistics at Berlin, recently gathered somo statistics which provos that accidents from lightning strokes havo greatly in creased of lato. This is said to bo duo to the disappearance of forosts, the use of electricity in various indus tries and to tho carbon vapors arising from towns. Tho number of such ac cidents in France, whero records havo also boon kept, is also vory much greater thuii at the begiuniug of tho century. The number of men building and repairing bicycles exceods to an enor nions per ocntago tho number of men at work among horses who are dis pluojd by tho common use of the now vehicle. In 1894 in tho United States 200,000 bicycles wore made. This your the product will reach 400,000, and manufacturers predict tho future of 700,000 whools in 1896. Tho con truction of bicycles furnishes em ployment to a vnst army of workmen. Every part of the rnaehiuo must bo prepared by skillful nieii. The ma terial for each bicyolo cost but $12 or 815. uud tho difference betwoon that small sura and the largo cost goon to the workmen and the employor. 'Prizes of pigs and kegs of salt boot are tho objects for which the Saiuouns pluy cricket. The game, which is en livened by the musio of a native band, takes a large number of players, Boniotimos thirty or forty being en tered on a sido. The Somoaus have also taken kindly to large boats built nftor .European models, and these have almost outirely taken iho place of the largo canoes in whiuh they formerly traveled. Instead of work ing, the men use a large part of their iiuo in traveling in these bouts from j island to island, talking politics. Somo of the bouts require thirty or Jorty oars for propulsion, and are bo tween seventy and eighty feet long, the latest addition to the fleet meas uring 100 foot in length. AVest Australia is outdoing Okla homa in the oelerity of its city build ing, Coolgardie, the centre of the newly discovered gold fields, two years ago didn't exist. The site of the future town was a mere clearing. Even now you can only got by railway to within 120 miles of it, uud have to finish your journey by ooaou. Yet, in spite of this drawback, Coolgardie is already perhaps the most marvelous mushroom oity that ever raised within the short space of eighteen mouths. Hotels abouud. "There are many shops ud business promises worthy of a European capital," suys Lord Fiugnll, who was out there, tho other day; a theatre with really exoelleut performances," ooustuut subscription dunces, various flourishing clubs, a stock exchange, and, in f not, all the concomitants of whut we huve ngreud to cull civilized life. It must be a thirsty kind of plaoe, though, for you an only get water when it rains (whtoh .is seldom), and you have to pay $6.25 a bottle for champagne. M Ufa Worth Living I" Life Is worth living, If we llva aright, Eyes to the front, tho final end In view, The cnil when all alms trivial or tintruo Must burst like airy bubbles on our sight I.lfo Is worth living. If wo do our brst Our best Is often grantor tlmn we dream. Immortal souls with mighty forces teem Thi-y aro revealed by him who makes tho quest. T,re Is worth living when our sei-rot thought Hides no lea-t wish or Impulse, hope or aim, That can bring disappointment, sorrow, sham', Or hurt to any follow IHng's lot. I.lfo Is wortli living when wn strive to ho Of grantor use tomorrow thnn today, Moulding ourselves from rough unsightly el ay To something lovly for tho world to see. Ella Whkw.kr Wilcox, In Youth's 'oinpuniou. JULIET'S COURAGE. The level sunset wis turning nil tho little pools along tho shingly beach into drops of gold. "It's very nice," said Mrs. Elton plaintively, as sho sat on the long pi azza of tho hotel, "but I should hnve preferred some inland place for tho summer. You sec, I nm never at easa about tho children, and Mr. Elton comes down here only onco in the week." "Your brother seems to enjoy tho beauties of the seashore very much," said Mrs. Dorsey. "I think I never saw Mr. Seville enjoying better spir its." "Oh, Hint's because Miss Chnloner is here," said the matron, curving her lip a littlo superciliously. "He is ab surdly infatuated with Juliet Chal oner I" "I think sho is a very lovely girl," said Mrs. Dorsey. "Lovely? Oh, yes, I supposo sho is lovely enough, only 1 never did fancy that stylo of beauty." "Mr. Seville docs, it seems." "My dear, didn't I tell yon that Clarence was completely infatuated? I don't supposo ho would bo willing to own that she has a fault in tho world! I did talk to him seriously nt one time, about those coquettish litllo airs of hers, but I saw nt onoo that I might as well havo talked to tho wind. You see, I think sho is disposed to bo selllsh those only daughters often are ; and tlion sho is such an egregious coward !" "How do you mean ?" "She won't rido, lest sho should bo run away with; she is tor rifled out of hor sonses nt the apparition of a mouse, and I wish you could have hoard hor scream tho other da-, when a spider dropped on hor bonnet. I've no patience with such a character. " "Perhaps it is only a bit of girlish affectation." "No, it is not; sho actually is afraid." "There sho comes now, with your children clinging around hor." said Mrs. Dorsey. "They certainly ap pear to bo very fond of her." "Yos," returned Mrs. Elton, indif ferently, "she has a woy of winning children's affection." As Juliet Chalonor came up the path, hor slight tiguro darkly outlined against the sunset, hor beuuty seemed something more intangible. One little one clung to her skirts, another held her hand, and two or three skipped along in front of hor us she nearod the piazza. "Mammal mammal" piped oat lit tle Hubert, "Miss Chalonor has promised to go to Blyden's Point with us tomorrow where the little twisted shells grow." "And, mamma," interrupted Rosa, "you'll go with us, for Miss Chuloner says you can find those star-fish for your nqnuriuiu I" "Don't talk so loud children," said Mrs. Elton, pottishly. "I'm afraid you've fouud them very noisy and troublesome, Miss Chuloner." "Not ut all," said Juliot.pleasautly. "I am very foud of children, you know. And I really think, Mrs. El ton, you would find it a very pleasant walk to Blyden's Poiut." "Thank you," suid the mutrou, stiflv, "it would be altogether too far." "Tnen, mamma," urged Hurry El ton, a manly boy of 14, "Jet me row you and Rosa and Hubert in the boat Til thiuk of it," said Mrs. Elton ; "only if Miss Chuloner should chance to encounter a spider or a fluid mouse by the road, I won't answer for the consequences." Juliet luughod, but she oolorod nevertheless. "I wus telling Clareuoo of your duinty little hysterics," went on Mrs. Eltou, with polite mulioe. "If there is anything Clarence respects it is oommou souse uud courage." Juliet went into the house without replying. "Does Clarenoe think I am a cow ard, or does he think me guilty of af feotation?" she thought. "What Lave I done that Mrs. Elton should speak so unkindly to me?" "Mamma," said Harry, bluntly, "why did you speak to Miss Chalouer so spitefully?" "Littlo boys shouldu't ask ques tions!" said Mrs. Elton, sharply. "Oo in and brush your hair! " "So you havo really concluded to go to Blyden's Point with us?" said Juliet, brightly, us sh met Mrs. El ton at the dinner-table next day. "Yes, to please tho children." "And, Miss Chalonor," interposed Harry. "I nm to row lnaninia and tho littlo ones, while you walk across tho sands and meet us, nt 5 o'clock." . "Then wo must start a littlo in ad vnnco of your boating party," said Juliet. How brightly tiio golden afternoon slippc' away upon tho smooth sands of Blyden's Point! Even Mrs. Elton forgot to bo spiteful, but reveled in tho beauty of tho fur off rocks and sapphire firmament, nnd owned to herself that "really, Juliet Chalonor was very charming 1 " "See, Miss Chalonor I" cried Bes sie, ecstatically dancing upon her tip toes, "tho water is creeping all over my shells I " "Don't you see tho tide is coming up?" said Harry, eagerly. "Stand up on that high point, nnd tnko your shells nwny quick unless you want to lose them. " "But Miss Chalonor," said Heleu wistfully, "tho water is over so high over that narrow neck of land, whore we crossed by tho old lighthouse jhow shall wo get back nguin?" Juliet laid down tho branch of sea weed hho had been admiring with Mrs. Elton, and looked off towards the rising tide with a cheek suddenly blanching. "Miss Chuloner, what is tho mat ter?" shrieked Mrs. Elton. "Wo are cut oft' from tho main land," said Juliet in a low voice. "Tho tide is coming up, and half nn hour from now this point will bj sub merged. Why diil wo not think of that? Tho boat, Harry quick 1" "But, Miss Chnloner," pleaded thoughtful Bessie, "if wo wcro to run tho water is surely not higher than our waists. " "My dear, tho neck of land is half a mile away, and tho tide is rising at a fearful rate, (let into tho boat, Mrs. Elton." "Mamma! mammal" wailed- the children in cIiotus, while Mrs. Elton, palo nud trembling, ami incapable of effort, sat on the rock. 'I cannot move," she stummorod "I rnally think that I ain going to faint." But even while tho words wore on her lips, Juliet's nrm encircled her waist und Juliet's strength guided her to the littlo boat that lay rocking on tho waves. It was very small, containing but two scats, nnd when Mrs. Elton and her five children wero ensconced therein, every nook iu it was occu pied, "Thero is no room for Miss Chal ouer!" cried Hurry. Mrs. Elton looked feobly around. "Give mo Rosa let mo hold Rosa in my lap," sho faltered, scarcely knowing what sho said. But Juliet uuloosod the loop of rope that fastoned the boat to a pro jecting rock, and flung it out upon the waves. "The boat is overloaded - nln ady. '.' slio said, iu a culm voice. "Push off Hurry." Tho generons heart of the boy rose up with a choking throb, "Miss Chuloner! and leave you here to perish?" "Listen, Hurry," she said, hurried ly, "Row home us fast as you can. Two hours will take you there, and theu then you can send the boat for me." And as tho words trembled on her tongue, Juliet Chalonor glanced over her shoulder at the white-crested friuges of fouin slowly creeping up the sands, and kuew that, two hours from that time, it would all be one wild tossing mass of waves! Slowly the black outliue of the boat faded iuto iuditiuotuess,growing less and less. The suu bung above sea, while tho blue cloudless sky smiled overhead. Nature was full of soft repose and yet Juliet stood with olusped bauds and Bilent endurance waitiug for the death which wus drawing nearer and nearer the stern, roluutless deifth whose horrors never seemed so ghastly as now." "And he will be at home here to- uight," she murmured. "My God! my God 1" The thuudor of the oruol waves was iu her ears the niouniug of the surf and she knew no more. "Send boat back to Blyden's Poiut?" echoed the old boatman. "Bless my heart, sir! Blyden's Point is seven foot under the water by this tirao!" . "And MissChnloner?"shrickod Mrs. Elton. "Tho Lord havo mercy on hor soul!" solemnly uttered the old man, taking off his cup. "Oh, Juliet! Juliolt" gasped Mrs. Elton, wringing her hands, "what shall I say to my brother whou he asks for you?" Tho soft light of a shaded lamp fell across Juliet Chiiloner's eyes, as sho opened them with a vaguo sotiso of having passed through a wild, trottblod dream. "Whore am I?" sho murmured. Yon hero, Clarence?" "My love," tenderly responded tho well known tones. "But how eamo I hero?" sho askod, shuddering, as she remembered the sands and tho water. Thon Clarence Seville told her how, coming from tho nearest railway sta tion by bout, instead of tho stngo route, ho had caught sight of a whito object on the sinds at Brudcu's Point. Bidding the boatman row up to it with all possible speed, ho fouud him self just iu time to rescuo her from denth. "God's hnnd guided mo there denr ost," he said improsHivoly. "My noble girl ! were it possiblo to love you better than I did before, this net of self-siicrillco would move mo to do so." From Hint hour Mrs. Elton cherished nnd reverenced Miss Chalouer ns if sho had been a saint ; for to her thcro seemed something more thnu human in the noble self-ubnegntion of Juliet's courage! New York News. Curious Pacts Concerning Hearing. An inquiry was recently made in London us to the greatest distance nt which a man's voioj could be heard, leaving, of coitrso, tho telcphono out of consideration. Tho reply was most interesting, und was as follows: Eightoen miles is tho longest distauco ou record nt which n man's voice has boon Ik aid. This occurred iu Grand Canon, on tho Colorado, whero one man shouting tho niuno "Bob" at one end, his voice was plainly heard nt tho other end, which is 18 miles away. Lieutenant Foster, ou Parry's third Arctic expedition, fouud that hecould converse with a man across tho harbor of Port Bowcn, a distunco of CC90 feet, or about ono mile nud a quarter ; nnd Sir John Franklin conversed with ease at u ilistuuco of raoro tlmn a mile. Dr. Young records that nt Gil raltnr tho human voice has boon heard at a distaucu or ton miles. a Sound bus remarkable force in water. Colludou, by experiments mado in the Luko of Geneva, that bell Mihmcrgcd iu tho sea might bo heard at u distance of more than 00 miles. Franklin says that ho heard tho strikiug together of two stones in tho water half a mile away. Over water or a sin faco of ioo sound is pro pagated with groat clearness and strongth. Dr. Mutton relates that on a quiet part of tho Thames ucur Chel sea, he could hear a person road dis tinctly nt tho distance of 140 feet, whilo on laud tho same could only bo heard 70 feet. Professor Tyudall,when on tho Mout Rhine, fouud tho report of a pistol shot no louder than the pop of a champagne bottlo. Persons in balloon can hour voices from tho earth a long time after tboy thomsolvcs are inaudible to people below. Harpers' Rouud-Table. An Epidemic of Toothnche. One of the must curious features of the Chitrul campaign is tho extraor dinary prevulunce of toothache among the officers. The matter is rcceiviug the serious attention of tho medical authorities, and it is hoped that some very interesting statistical results will be guiued from tho careful investiga tion which is now taking place. The epidemio first made its nppcaruuco after tho active operations were over, and tho vurions rogimeuts had re ceived orders to stund fust for the summer, and reached its most violent form just before the long-expected order to partially evacuate tho couu try had arrived. Is not an epidemio of toothuohe something very unusual? Westminster Guzetto. Nothing in It. Mrs. Billus Don't you believo it's true, John, that a person partakes to a considerable extent of the nature of the creatures ho eats? Mr. Billus No. I'vo been euting fish all my life, and I cau't swim a stroke. Chicago Tribune, Not kffervesccnt. Gladys So Charley has at last popped the quostiou, eh? Gweudolin "Popped" is hardly the word. I bud to draw it out, Fuck, I0n FARM AXD UARDEX. ItAPtn BUTTER MAKttm. Butter churned in five or ton min. ntos is vory apt to bo n littlo off. Thero is nothing that gives butter so fino a texture nnd keeping quality ns to bo churned nt a low temperature. Crcnm churned nt seventy degrees will make harder butter thon cream churnnd nt seventy degroos nnd then cooled to sixty degrees. Now York World, TrtR gray ninr'tt. Tho gray birch is easily grown from seed, nnd succeeds well iu the most sterile soils. It could probably bo used for a nurse troo in tho starting of pine nnd other trees, which will not grow in such places without somo protection when first sowu. Tho young shoots of gray birch nro much used for hoops iu tho making of fish barrels, nail kegs and other conrso cooperage. American Farmer. rt,osK rA8Trnt!o op TAStrnES Much is said in some farm journals about tho evil of close pasturiug. But with a tough Juno grass or red-top sod tho best rosults will bo got by feeding closely. Tho short herbage is sweeter nnd more nutritive. If cither of theso grasses begin to grow steins for seeding cattlo will only crop off the heads nnd lenvo n mass of woody stalks nud lower loaves. It is often said that this is necessary to protect tho roots during tho wiuter. Timothy does need such protection, for its bulb at the surface of tho soil is vory easily injured. But Juno grass roots need no protection. Any super fluous herbago left ill fall shades the ground nnd prevents it being early wanned iu tho spring. This is the reason why the Iudinns mod to burn over tho prairio every full so ns to make an early and fresh growth tho following spring. Boston Cultivator. VALl'B OP SAWKfRT FOR MANl'MS. Sawdust varies in kind, und nt tho best is a poor kind of manure on ac count of molding, l'ine sawdust is a damage to land, as it is slow to decay and by encouraging mold it endangers Iho crops. Hard wood sawdust is not to objectionable if it is rotted, and when it is used for litter iu a stable, and is saturated with tho liquid and mixed with manure, it will rot quick ly, alter which it wilt mnko a useful fertilizer, best for clay land. With clay soil almost anything that loo-ieus it and opens it, making it moro reten tive of water, ucts beiioticiully, ul though it may not contribute nny plant food. This is tho caso to some extent with sawdust of even hardwood which has more mineral mutter in it than tho soft woods, Pino sawdust will bo better burned, nnd tho ushes used, thnu nsed iu its natural condi tion. The hardwood sawdust fur nishes some food for crops, but from its loose character it is not ' desirable for sandy laud under uuy circum stances. Now Y'ork Times, EXI.TJSa METHODS WITH roCL-TRr. The methods which prevail "iu Eng land for growing poultry nnd their cure vary so widoly from those in vogue here that our readers may find something to iutorcst them in the fol lowing, gleaued from tho writings of C. E. Brooke, Food should bo mixed fresh for overy moal, nud fowls should have only what they out leaving none. Through the wiutor they are fed in the morning with a hot mess of middlings and barley moal. From November to March their midday meal is boiled barley, and the later meul is wheat or maze. Now and then fowls in ooutlueineut should have a fresh piece of sod at which to pick. A little suit should bo added to their food now und then, aud occasionally a small quantity of Epsom suits. For a full day after chickouu are hutohod they ueed no food, nud for the follow ing wook they should bo fad chopped boilod eggs and soaked bread aud milk, feeding them every two hours for the first fortnight, For the next two weeks tboy should have grits, boilod rioe, barley or potutoea, fol lowed luter by bruised barloy, whout, or corn meal. During ohiokouhood four meuls duily aro best. Tho moth er should have grain and meal. When molting, a slight addition of oayenne pepper to tho moal, with some hemp seed now aud thou, aud an occuH'iouul meul of in i need raw onions will be found advantageous. The midday meul ut all seasons should inolude some green food, and whou winter approaches should inolude moat and fut, minced livor, or horseflesh. When futteuing for market, the fowls must be kept sheltered. Mutton fut, chopped fine aud boiled with milk, is de sirable 1 3 dd" to the ground outs or buckwhoat, nnd this is administered in small doses. Amorican Agricultur ist, ' - moORER IS METHODS. A correspotidont writes: "When in 1808 wo began dairying on the old homestead I said I should never bo satisfied until we had reached 200 pounds of butter per cow. At that timo from 100 to 150 pounds was con sidered a good nvtirngo. It wns not long beforo we reached 200, and oc casionally reports camo in of some who hnd actually exceeded this, by 25 pounds. 1 remember well tho posi tiveness with which certain persons declarpd they knew no dairyman who ever produced such a quantity by hou" est means. Tho standard has boon get ting higher nud higher, until today 400 pounds per cow Is fur more com mon thnu 200 pound was at that time. "Not so very many years ago n dairyman who was looked upon ns a lnau of good intelligonoe, nnd fairly well educated, denounced tho Jersey cow ns tho poorest of all poor stock, nnd yet to-day ho owns asjlne a herd of grade Jersoys as one could wish to sec, I hnve heard him say that the liquids from his cow stables wero only a nuisance, and not worth tho trouble of trying to save; and yet he has arranged his manure drops and stables so as to carry all tho solids unit liquids to the field every day. "How do thin things come about? Very largely through the relation of experience of practical farmers in au thoritativo journals. Mcu of intel ligence have told iu nn iutolligont maimer what rosults have booti no. coinpliKliod by them, and tho seed has taken deep root. "It seems passing strnngo to mo while I a in looking over the half dozen agricultural nnd dairy journals that como to our home overy weok, ami in overy ono of them fiud some thing of valuo to mo in my business, that so many farmers can endure to plod along, shutting themselves out from such a fund of information as others havo and yet bo content. "But I am sorry to say thero aro too many farmers like ono I met a few years ago whom I naked to sub scribe for a pnpor. His reply was that he knew enough about his busi ness without nny of the 'book-farmin' fuliows trying to tcuou him. I was not very woll acquainted with him, but it was my fortune to pass his farm u short timo since, uud I took espeoinl pains to note what I could in passing without particularizing. From the broken-down buruwnys, unhinged bnru doors, old rubbish in tho road side, fcc, I concluded he would al ways bo found iu tho large c lass who coutiiiiuilly complain that 'furzniu' don't pay,' "Thero are methods aud mothods, nud there aro precious few of us so wise but that wo may learu something useful from a careful consideration of all of them." Country Gjutleiuan. - PARI! AND GARDEN NOTES. Potatoes should be dug as soon as tho skin sots. Winter grain sown iutho full is bet ter fully ripened before cutting. Marsh hay is the very best material for a winter mulch for strawberries. Why not utilize spare moments to guther dry road dust for winter use? Fronch gardeners tie uji thoir plants with twigs of tho white vine clematis. Is your hen-honsa roof in such order that it can withstand the full uud wiuter storms? Tho moro dooile the cow the more likely hor energies to bo devoted to her master's iutorcst. Of whut good is it to save seeds unless they ore kept carefully sepa rated and properly lubeled? Put tincture of iron, a teuspoonful to tho gallon, in the drinking water of tho fowls. It is an excellent touio. Dou't set out too many early apples. The wiuter kinds are the most valnublo aud are good keepers, Culves taken from thoir dams when young, will often, mouths Inter, learn to suokle oows to which they have ac cess. If you are going to puok eggs for winter use, soloot those from heus with which the cooks have not run. Eggs containing no gorms, koep much beU tor thun others. , Lean meat or greon bone is an ex oelluut food for moulting heus. A pint of linseed mesl may also be divided among twenty-five heus duily at this timo. Now is a good time for the farmer who is anxious to stock his farm with pure bred poultry, to make his pur chases of good fowls. Breeders aro often willing to sell aheap in tho fall rather than to ourry thoir atook over.
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