Under the most favorable auspices
electric heating is twice as expensive
AS steam.
The recent order of the President
consolidating postofllccs will add to
the facilities of smaller offices and will
apply to 30,000 postmasters.
The Calcutta (India) Guardian calls
for Buddhist missionaries to go to
Europe and teach the benighted peo
ple there the elements of religion and
morality.
Canada has a larger trade with tho
United States than with Great Britain,
and tho imports from tho latter de
creased §7,500,000 last year, and from
the former increased $1,500,000.
Nut culture is now receiving con
siderable attention in tho Atlantic
States, especially in New England.
4 'Why not have several of tho varie
ties of tho nut-bearing trees in lieu of
comparatively worthless forest growth,
rspecially along our roadsides," asks
the Now York Witness.
Although it is truo that in com
parison with some other countries,
notably tho United States, Germany
has fewer medical practitioners, their
number grows every year at a much
faster rate than does tho population
as a whole. Since 1887 the physi
cians have increased from 16,864 to
23,099, or 37 per cent., which is over
three times tho increaso of tho Nation.
In some portions of Germany there is,
though, still a great deficiency in doc
tors, especially in Bavaria, where
there aro but 2559 of them.
The Chicago Times-Herald exclaims:
"Little Switzerland led the way to
modern freedom; tho United States,
Trance, Mexico, South and Central
America followed; San Dotuiugo and
Hayti opened up next; Hawaii camo
after, Cuba is a coming. Who next?
Watch South Africa, watch Australia,
watch Canada, watch socialistic Ger
inany, watch Ireland. Nobody knows
when, but sure some timo to bo free.
Thcy'ro all getting up steam. Keep
a sharp lookout there, all yotl kings.
Bear down mighty light and don't gc
hanging any ballast on tbe safety
valves. Folks ain't going to need you
much louger."
The most interesting physician of
the present time in Europo is Herr
Ast, the shepherd doctor, who pro
scribes for thousands of patients at
Radbrucb. He diagnoses disease by
examining a lock of tho patient's
hair, and his universal chargo for ad
vice is about a quarter of a dollar.
Clients wait patiently tho whole day
through to see him, even iu bad
weather, and if by the time he retires,
near midnight, they liavo failed to
have an audienco with him, they tako
up their posts uncomplainingly th®
next morning. Tho waiting lino is
like that for symphony tickets iu Bos
ton. Tho doctor's patients are re
ferred to by tho skeptical as "Ast's
sheep."
That tho sen as a vooation is losing
its charms for tho American sailor is
manifested very plainly in the last re
port of tho Commissioner of Naviga
tion, laments tho Chicago Times-
Herald. More than nine-tenths of
our mercantile marine is composed of
foreigners, principally Scandinavians.
Those daring Norsemen still love the
sea and cling to it, and they may be
found in the merchant vessels and the
uativeß of ovory Nation of the world.
But the American sailor has practi
cally disappeared. The men who in
1812 made the American flag the pride
of the ocean and carried it triumph
antly into every cornor of the sea, the
men who made tho names of the Con
stitution, tho Macedonian and the
Constellation glorious forever, are
no longer being recruited from tho
merchant navy.
Judge Wilson, of Cincinnati, has
rendered an opinion of ranch interest
to theatre-going people and proprie
tors of amusement houses. It says
speculation in theatre tickets is unlaw
ful, and holds that reserved seat tic
kets cannot be sold for a certain per
formance after the theatre doors are
open for that certain performance.
In other words, a person buying a tic
ket for general admission after the
doors are open for a certain perform
ance is entitled to any peat in the
house not then reserved. This is in ac
cordance with an ordinance passed in
Cincinnati in 1872, but which has
been regarded as a dead letter. The
court, in setting out the intent of tho
ordinance, said that uny person who
offers reserved seats after the doors
are open comes within the moaning
of tho ordinance, oven though ho has
no connection with tho thoatre. Ho
must show, if charged under this pro
vision, that the scuts he purchased
Vert for his own private use.
NEW HAIR ORNMENTS.
Some of the new Parisian novelties
in lair mounts are very beautiful—off
the heal at least. A bunch of luscious
scarlet cherries is attached to a gold
pin that is to bo thrust through tho
knot at tho buck of the head, letting
| tho cherries droop slightly just above
j and behind tho ear. Fruit in the hair,
however, under any guise of enamel
uud metal, is not to be commended.
Its incongruity is obvious. We have
acceptod it on our bonnets, where its
use is lets distasteful thau the plumago
of murdered birds, but in tho coiffure
the association is not acceptable.
French women regard their hair orna
ments with great attention and take
as much care to suitably completo the
coiffure toilet as that of tho corsage.
Steel, jet, gilt aud silver ornaments aro
especially suited to dark hair. Fair
haired women should wear amber and
clear tortoise shell. For evening wear,
jeweled ornaments are properly much
worn. Except against a beautiful
neck, there is no part of a woman's
toilet where gems may bo so well dis
played as in tho hair.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
CRIMSON TINE TREESI
The very latest material for winter
blouses is satin velvet or silk plush,
printed in Oriental designs, which
have a richness and a beauty unat
tainable in foulard or uuu's veiling, j
so fashionable during tho summer. It
is almost impossible to render by
words to the mind what tho eye dis
covers iu this delightful new'fabric.
The Persian designs, where blue and
gray predominate, are most distingue,
the pine boing reproducd in every
size and tone. In one of those de
signs where tho pattern is picked out
in crimson, and one overlays the
other, aslripoof tho cream ground,
edged with fretted blue liue, is most
effective. In others tho fan tail of
tho peacock is reproduced with its own
exquisite colorings, shaded with vio
let on a red ground, with green trac
eries. This may sound gaudy, but it
it does not look HO; on tho contrary,
such is tho innate kuowledge of tho
uso and happy blending of brilliant
hues by the Orientals, that it is agree
able, not startling, to the cyo. There
is a softness, howover, in the designs
carried out in differcut tones of the
same color, such as peacock plue, sage
green, aud even reds, into which
amalgamating shades of blue aud plum
are cleverly introduced, that one must
admiro even while wondering.—Com
mercial Advertiser.
LOXDON CLOTHES EXCHANGE.
Why does not sombody in our big
cities opeu, for the comfort and con
venience of feminine kind, a clothes
exchange, on tho plan which has
proved so successful in London that
its proprietor has had to enlargo her
offices and salesroom? Tho clothes
exchange is a place where private
wardrobes are bought and sold—whero
a woman thrown suddenly into mourn
ing can get a price for all her colored
things; if your husband or father has
failed, you cau realize instantly on
your wardrobe; and where, should a
new go an not fit or prove unbecoming,
or fall out of style, or get too hope
lessly loose or tight, au instaut market
for it cau be found.
At tho clothes exchange wraps, hats,
trunks, satchels, even false hair, are
all bought up aud sold to tho thrifty
women who know a bargain when they
see it. {Second band clothes often go
at tho lowest prices when tho gar
ments themselves are almost fresh
from tho dressmaker's hands, aud
tho princesses, ladies of proud title,
with often]well filled purses, patronize
tho clothes exchange, buying and soil
ing or leaving orders for tho attend
ants to be on tho lookout for certain
bargains they are desirous of muking.
►Sometimes whole wardrobes never ap
po r in tho salesrooms at all, but on
the payment of a fee are shitted from
ouc owner to another, and women who
are going on voyages or to Bpeud
awhile iu some foreign country don't
hesitate to lay iu all their supplies at i
the exchange.
Such au establishment would have !
beeu a regular boon to many of us at |
Christmas, whea gifts were often da- !
plicated even three or four times.
Nobody wants six glove hooks, or nine
inouohoir cases, or four pairs of bed
room slippers, but Sauta Claus iu tho
rush of business frequently makes
mistakes just like that.
The only resort left frugal minded
persons was to lay the duplicate gifts
aside in tissue paper, and .during the
year at anniversaries and birthdays
cuutiouonsly swap off the'extra bric-a
brao and toilet articles. Or many a
heedful soul has already laid away a
sufficient supply of presents from tho
Christmas and New Year of *95 to
nearly dofray tho impending obliga
tions of December, '96. Now, if thore
was a clothes exchange round tho cor
ner, by tho payment of a twenty-fivo
cent foe a button hook could be
swapped for nuything equal its valuo
in tho stock, a mouchoir case replaced
by a collar box aud tho profits iti
Christmas receipts mado to equal ouo'd
output.- Chicago Record,
aossir.
According to the figures just given
out there are 1151 women in New
jYork City who couldn't tell their age.
In England one of tho most impor
: taut advances is tho oocmnz of the
j final pass examinations at Oxford to
women.
They have fined two young women
two dollars for holding up a man on
the street iu New York City and kiss
ing him.
Tho Queon has granted an amended
charter to the University of Durham,
England, whereby all degrees except
D. D. are open to women.
As a result of the fight for twonty
five years of Dr. Blake and his frionds,
women henceforth may take medical
degrees in tho Scotch universities.
Tho Pittsburg (Peuu.) Bar Associa
tion has voted down by a big majority
a resolution that no more women
should be admitted to practice law.
In the Wolsh University, for tho first
time, women are placed on au abso
lute equality with mou, both as to de
grees aud as to the governiug body.
Holland admits women as students
to all its universities, but tho largest
number of women students is to bo
found in tho Swiss universities, where
they number over 400.
Miss Sophie Carpenter, a Philadel
phia heiress, is about to marry an
Italian gentleman, but she gives him
to uuderstaud that she is an American
and means to live in America.
Nobody know who Herbert D. Ward,
the new Massachusetts Prison Commis
sioner, was until the Boston Globe let
the oat out of tbe bag. Ho is the hue
baud of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
Women will henceforth be permitted
to become regular students at the
Ilungariau universities, and special
facilities will bo granted to those who
wish to become doctors or pharma
cists.
Tho Misses Sutro, nieces of Adolph
Sutro, of Sutro tuuuel fame, are ox
celleut musicans, aud at a recent in
strumental concert iu Berlin per
foimed to the great admiration of tho
audience.
Bicvcliug has rison to such favor at
Vrtssar College that tho halls of tho
entire lower lloor of the main build
ing nro flanked with bicyclo racks.
Most of the faculty, as well as tho
students, ride.
Grace Carew Sheldon, the first
American woman dolegate to tho In
ternational Press Convention, aud who
made a charming speech at Bordeaux
last summer, is the creator of tho Wo
man's Exohaugo in Buffalo, N. Y.
Mrs. Harriet Collin, whilo cycling
in Orange, N. J., was pursued by a
big St. Bernard dog, which had gone
mad. Sho was terribly frightened,
but managed to control herself and
make speed, till she wus out of harm's
way.
The Dowager Duchess of Athol, who
has served Queen Victoria as lady-in
waiting for iorty-two years, is about
to resign. Sho was Mistress of tho
Robos iu tho Earl Derby's first admin
istration iu 1852, aud also uuder Lord
Rosebory.
One of the maids of houor to tho
youug Empress of Russia was marriod
not long since. On bidding her
good-by tho Empress congratulated
her warmly, addiug : ''l shall indeed
bo sorry to lose you, but I am so
happy myself that I wish everyone to
bo married, too."
At Gottingeu University just now
thirty-ouo ladies aro matriculated as
full-fledged student?. With one ex
ception they belong to the philo
sophical faculty, studying history,
mathematics, nioderu languages,
natural soieuces. The ouo exception
isstudyiug medicine.
Mrs. Levi P. Morton, wife of the
Governor of New York, is said to have
a weakness for slippers, shoes and
boots, of which she has so many that
she could wear a different pair each
day of the year. They are of kid,
suede, silk, satin--some embroidered
in silver, others in gold.
Notwithstanding hor advanced age,
Queen Victoria drives out in an open
carriage, even when the weather is
cold or wot. But she is wrapped
about with rugs, and when it rains,
one of the Highlaud servants sitting
behind tho carriage holds an enormous
umbrella above her head.
FASHION NOTES.
Waists of flowered silk vio in fr.vor
with those of silk appliqued with lace.
Veloutine or English velvet is used
a great deal for blouses, aud it comes
in ribbed effects that aro lovely.
Some of the prettiest vests are made
with little ribbons or ribbon embroid
ery introduced among the laces.
Beaded velvet and printed velvet
are high in favor. Military looking
cuffs, a la Trilby, aro often seen upon
walking jackets, with big buttons and
frogs.
The ideal of tho skirt of the short
jacket is that it should stand straight
out four or live inches from the figure,
and iu f.as it is materially aided, io
extreme instances, by padded Lips.
' Tho long shoulder seam is working
another onslaught on the citadel of
fashion, and may yet win an unques
tioned victory. It goes with the queer,
bunchy sleeves iu tho inidalo of tho
upper arm.
For morning and afternoon shop
ping, driving or coaching uothing can
bo in better form than a black broad
cloth coat and skirt, with a waist of
light apple green taffeta, lining of tho
sfiuie in jacket and skirt and a green
taffeta petticoat to match.
WISE WOUDS,
| Moderation is a virtue.
Labor is the girdle of manliness.
| The virtue of prosperity is temper
ance.
One of the sublimest things is plain
truth.
A page digested is better than a vol
ume hurriedly read.
The most respectable sinners are the
most dangerous ones.
An extreme rigor is sure to arm
everything against it.
Let self bo bnt a pliant brush; lifo
will paint the picture.
Success is always sure, when wc uro
willing to pay the price.
Some menaro merely wrecks to show
others the way not to go.
Responsibility walks hand in hand
with capacity and power.
Every person interested in scandal
has been the subject of it.
Some men work modesty too hard,
and are generally disliked.
Doing gool is the only certainly
happy action of a man's life.
As soon as it does no good a man is
willing to tnko euro of himself.
Labor rids us of throe groat evils:
irksomeness, vice aud poverty.
Thero are such things as adorablo
faults and insupportable virtues.
As soon as you try to make a profit
on your friends, you will have no
frieuds.
Tho chief drawback to self-made
mou is that they can't select their
materials.
He who brings ridicule to boar
against truth finds in his hand n blade
without a bilt.
So many queer things have happened
in tho past that men will believo any
thing.
Every man who \jves right helps to
make unwritten laws for tho goo.l of
others.—Tho South-West.
A Contrast ill Children.
In contemplating tho condition and
prospects of tho childrou of our tene
ments wo are struck by the contrasted
fortune of those of some of our Ameri
can Indian tribes, which our Govern
ment has favored nudfosterel bv its
logislntion. The Indians, as earlier
residents on our soil than ourselves,
havo been kindly treated of lato years
by the awakened conscience of tho
white man.
Tho Usages, for instance, a remnant
of a once powerful tribe, west of tho
Mississippi, havo a fnnd, hold in trust
for their benefit by tho United States
Government, equal to SOOOO for each
member, male and female, adult, child
and infant, which gives, at fivo per
cent, iuterest, three huudred dollars a
year for the support of each individual.
They number 1500 souls. Besides this,
thoy havo their reservation, a strip of
laud sixty miles in length, and the
same in breadth. What a fortnuu
such au income and property would
be to an equal number of our east side
workers aud their familios 1
If odueation in schools aud case in
circumstances can mnko these red men
fit for self government, tho Indian
Territory in which they livo will doubt
loss bo somo day admitted as a State
into tho Union. Many of them are
quito civilized, but the taint of abor
iginal barbarism is still strong among
the mass. Tho liberality of our Fed
eral Government has exerted itself in
the cud of tho present century to re
verse tho cruel and un-Christinu con
duct of tho white immigrants, who
seizod their lauds, shot down their
people and 'refused to acknowledge
thorn as human beings. What can bo
done to atono for such early wrongs
tho present generation of Americans
has done, aud many of tho little chil
dren aro richer than tho mass of our
own.—New York Nows.
A Flood ol Bicycle Patents,
Tho bicycle is still employing tho
energies of people of au inventivo
turn of mind. Applications for pat
ents como in at such a rate that
whereas ono room in tho patent ollico
was found sufficient for nil sorts of
wheeled conveyances, it has been
found necessary to devote the entire
space to bicycles alone. To get a tire
that won't puncttiro is tho great ob
ject now, and tho patent oilice is flood
ed with all sorts of devices. One of
tho now invention is au armorplated
tire, in which aro a succession of little
plates, liko the scales on a fish, all so
imbedded in the rubber as to make
practically no noise. Another design
for a new tire has cotton compressed
until almost as tough as iron, and hold
firmly in place between hard strips of
rubber, Still another recent device is
a self mending tire that has a rubber
tape covered with cement. When the
rider punotures a tire he simply
presses the outer edge against the tape
and the cement fastens it olosely over
the hole in the tire.—New Orleans
Picayune.
For Testing Diamonds.
Electricity is now usod to detect
paste diamonds from tho genuine. A
small disk of aluminum is attuched to
the spindle of a small motor. A clamp
with a small flat spring, provided with
an adjustable screw, holds the article
to bo tested. It is then moistened
and placed in contact with the rapidly
revolving aluminum disk. If the stone
is a genuine one, it will be left intact;
if it is bogus it will show brilliant me
tallic marks.—New York Telegram.
A Mussel-Opening Contest.
Mussels being more plentiful than
oysters at Marseilles, thoy had a mus
sel-opening contest thero recently, in
which the man who won first prize
opened 128 mussels in five minutes.
Tho American record for opening
oysters is 100 in three minutes 3| sec
onds.—New York Sun.
CHESTNUT CULTURE.
i Chestnut culture is receiving in-
I creased nttention, Tho possibilities
of grafting improved varieties ofjohest
nnt on seedling natives should be em
phasized. It is better to gralt the
struightseodlingehestnutthau asprout
from an old stump. The trees grow
faster and better, and a larger pro
portion of the grafts thrive. This may
be done when the buds are swelling,
while some prefer waiting until the
leaves are out.—American Agricultur
ist.
USE POTASH IN TIIE FALL.
It is important in manuring or
chards, that the potash fertilizers ap
plied be mixed with tho soil and go
down deeply enough to reach the roots.
Ihero is no danger that potash thus
applied in fall will be wasted by leoch
iug. Fruit tree roots go down as deep
ly as most uuderdraius as any one who
has dug undordrains in orchards must
know. The feeding roots sometime in
the course of the fertilizer downward
will seize it and turn it to use. Potash
is in especial demand for bearing
trees, though it also has an excellent
effect in promoting a strong and
healthy growth of foilage. on which
prolificacy largely depends.—Boston
Cultivator.
A DAD WEED.
Tho burdock is a bad weed, from
tho multiplicity of its seeds and tho
readiness with which thoy are dis
tributed by tho wind and by passing
animals or persons. Cutting tho bur
dock down when it is beginning to form
blossoms will usually kill it, as at this
stage of growth the root has hut little
vigor left. But when these large bur
docks are piled for burning thero
should bo plenty of dry wood in tho
heap, so as to make a hot fire. If tho
weeds ore burned alone somo of the
seed will fall down to the bottom of
tho burning pile and csoapo de
struction. In a slow liro mado from
green weeds thero is a stratum of car
bonio acid gas at tho bottom of the
heap in whioh nothing will burn.—
American Farmer.
SnOULD COWS DE CATIDED.
Most certainly cows should bo kopt
clean, and they cannot bowithout being
frequently carded and brushed. Oug
who tries it tho first time will not
licod to think about tho mnttor. The
way the cows will turn thoir heads and
necks and stop eating to enjoy tho
scratching of tho skin and tho final
brushing will toll an intelligible story
of how they like it. As the skin is an
excretory organ and throws off a large
quantity of waste mattor, as may bo
known by tlio odor of a oloso stable,
if it is not kept in healthful action by
this enrding and brushing, this matter
is retained in tho blood aud cannot
help but get into tho milk, where it
makes that strong odor which has been
called tho animal odor. It is, how
ever, only the odor of a ditty Blcin, as
is so well known to apply to human
beings who are not cleanly in this di
rection. Cows should bo well carded
and brushed before every milking.
The udder and teats should not bo
neglocted either, as those may badly
need washing at times.—New York
Times.
A CRUEL PRACTICE.
No more cruel thing is thoughtlessly
done, day after day, winter after win
ter, than tho putting of a frosty hit
into a horse's mouth. At least. I try
to think thnt only tho thoughtless
could be guilty #f such an inhuman
praotiee. Yot what child does not
learn at nu early ago tho penalty
of contact between tender flesh and
cold iron on a biting winter's day ? It
is possible that any man whose baby
fingers have oluug to frozen iron until
perhaps tho skin was torn from them,
can so far forget the sting as to force
the same biting iron into the moist,
tender mouth of a brute, as sensitive
to suffering as bo himself? "Can't
take time to warm bits;" "only hurts
a minute ;" "they don't mind it;" "do
hold them against, the horse's body
sometimes," are some of the excuses
and makeshifts we hear, but they are
poor ones at the best. Whatever is
worth doing is worth doing well, and
it really takes no extra time to thor
oughly warm tho horses' hits.
If the team is to bo harnessed early
in the morning, it must bo fed before
breakfast, and the bridles can bo
brought to the kitchen fire to grow
warm aud comfortable for the horses
while the master is ministering to his
own comfort.
Thoughtlessness causes the same
suffering as heartless cruelty.—New
England Homestead.
TREES ON THE FARM.
Do not allow the form to remain a
waste of bare land. Plant trees every
year, few or many at a time; but plant
some at all events, nnd make up your
mind to go right into tho bnsiuess in
the spring. Trees add to the valuo,
appearaneo and homelikeness of any
farm. Give them only the care the
farmer expeots to expend upon corn
and potatoes, and they will do well.
Strange it is thut au otherwise good
farmer who will tend his corn crop
assiduously will set out a tree only to
utterly neglect and forsake there
after. The tree to do well must be
fed and cultivated like any other farm
crop. Then it will respond freely
and generously both by growth
and by fruit. The plum and pear,
woll grown, pay well. Set them out
in rich soil at intervals of twenty
feet in either direction. Never let
them get hungry. Stir the soil con
stantly through the summer, and you
will never regret the day you under
took fruit culture. Some of tho best
and most profitable market pears are
Anjou, Rose, ShcldoD, Clairgcau and
Lawrence. For desirable plums plant
Abundance, Burbank, Roine Claude,
Lombard and German Prune. Fruit
trees will stand lots of stable manuro,
especially whilo they are making their
growth, but after fruiting has bogun
they need potash and phosphoric acid
in far greater quantities than nitrogen.
Hcuco tho wisdom and utility of em
ploying unleashed wood ashes and
finely ground bone for their fertiliza
tion. Mix them in proportion of one
ton of ashes to livo hundred weight of
bono, scatter a liberal quantity broad
cast over tho entire area of ground
covered by tho tree roots, and expeot
good crops of fruit. Never allow any
fruit tree to bear too heavily. When
overloaded, thin out some of tho
Burplus fruit. Tho remainder will
grow enough larger to more than
make up the difference, while speci
mens of fruit will bo far finer.—Cole
man's Rural World.
ASPAIUGUS CTTI,TURE IN A NUTSHELL.
There are many who aro very fond
of asparagus, but will not grow it be
cause of tho time which expires before
the plants will furnish a crop.
"Where land is plentiful—and on
most farms there aro many acres that
yenrly go to waste—this should not
be, for in planting a small bed and
taking care of it thoro would not bo
more than one or two wholo days in a
year spent upon it, and at the end of
tho third year tho planter would bo
riohly rewarded for his labor.
First of all havo your land in good
shape, and don't be afraid of tho ma
unro or fertilizer. Purchase your
seed from somo good house, as tho
scod is tho foundation upon which
your future bod will rest. Sow it
thinly in rows one foot apart during
tho months of April or May, according
to the woather, and keep down all
weeds. To procure good strong
healthy plants thin out the seedlings
to three or four finches in the rows,
saviug only tho strong onee.
One year can bo gainod upon this
systom by buying from you seedsman
year-old plants, which should be sot
out in spring in a rich sand loam,
which has been plowed at least eight
een inches deep and has had a liboral
amount of well rotted manuro worked
into it. If your soil is of stiff olov,
add plenty of sand to it and also some
sifted coal ashes, which will servo to
looson it up. You should also make
somo preparation for under-drainage.
Every fall a good dressing] of ooarse
mauuro should be appliod aftor tho
tops havo been out, and in tho spring
this should bo forked in.
In cutting tho crops never cut tho
roots too closely, as thoy need tho ben
efit of nt least a littlo foliage, or olso
they will woukeu and dio during the
cold season.—New York Witness,
FA EM AND GARDEN NOTES,
Feed regularly.
Weed out tho culls.
Benson all soft food with a pinch of
salt.
Feed ground bono und crushed oys
ter shells.
Givo your shoop a sunny southern
cxposuroprotectod from tho north aud
northwest winds.
Who enn find a winter sitter 1 Her
price is above roubles. Sho considereth
n nest and layoth in it; sho ariseth
early and gathereth the grub,aud when
sho has finished hor laying sho sitteth
on tho oggs, aud hatchetli a brood.
And the breeders of exhibition fowls
rise up and bless her.
Three meals a day in winter are too
mauy for your fowls. Two is a
plenty, if tuey are of tho right sort.
Agood warm mash at night, for them
to go to roost on these cold nights, is
a very good thiug, aud that gives them
the grain in the morning, wlieu they
have all day before them in which to
scratch about for it among tho litter.
The run of tho market shows that
the big beevos aro not in as active de
mand as heretofore. Twelvo hundred
pounders brought as good prices per
100 pounds as the over-fat eixtcon and
eighteou hundred pounders. This in
dicates that consumers aro no longer
willing to pay Ave cents per pound ex
tra for fanoy over choice cuts.
Charcoal is one of the most essen
tial articles of food to successful poul
try farming. The best way to secure
this is to place an ear of corn in tho
fire until it is entirely charred and
then shell off to your fowls. You see
an eagornoss developed and a healthy
condition brought about. All pale
combs will become bright red, and the
busy song which precedos laying will
be hoard and the average yield of eggs
greatly increased.
It is possible to get three litters of
pigs from s sow in one year, but this
is a little too hoggish. Some say it is
best to keep a sow breeding all tho
time, as it will oheck tho tendency to
take on fat. It is our opinion that fat
—a reasonable amount of it—is not
poisoD, even to a sow, and does not
call for heroic doses of anti-fat. The
sow will be better pleased in the end
with two families a year, and what
pleases the sow ought to please the
owner. The man should not be a hog.
A SERENADE.
Sleep, lovo, the world is
Why should you wake?
Sleep, Jove, the stars are keoplug
Watch tor your sake. I
Dream, love; a dream's insistouco
Twine round your heart I
Dream, love; in dreams no distance
Holds us apart.
Watohing, I stand and trein'jlo,
Waking, I sigh;
X but a dream resemble—
With dawn to fly.
—Exchange.
lIU.UOIt OF THE DAY.
Don't stand on your dignity too
much! Got off occasionally uud hus
tle. —Puck.
Tencher—"What was Joau of Aro
maid of?" Pupil—"Made of dust."--
Boston Transcript.
Tho man who conduots his business
in a slipshod manner naturally loses
his standing.—Puck.
Henley—"Brown is a very far see
ing man." Penlev—"Yes, when he is
looking backwards."—Truth.
Lovo may bo blind, but his senso of
hearing is so acute that ho never mis
takes the jingle of copper for gold.—
Truth.
By having a plaoo for everything
and everything in its plaoe, you can
bo a source of great comfort to caro
loss people who don't remember where
they leave things.—Puck.
Friend—"lt must bo awful to havo
tho newspapers keep saying such
things about you." Political Candi
date—"Yes, but supposo they didn't
say anything at all!"—Somerville
Journal.
"Doesthe old fellow have money?"
"I rather think so." "Makes a show,
doos he?" "Oh, no—but his daugh
ter, who is thirty-flvo years 'old and
awfully ugly, was married last week."
—Gothamite.
May—"Thoy toll mo your engage
ment with Charley Gumpleigh is
broken. How did it happon?" Carrio
—"lt is no mystery. The faet is, he
was too frnsh to keep; that's all."—
Boston Transoript.
Hicks—"Timos aro pretty hard, J
can toll you. Why, it's til I can doto
koep my family out of the almshouse."
Wicks—"And is tho nlmshouso in
your town really so attractive as
that ?"—Boston Transcript.
Softleigh—"Tho Widow Pnsso pro
posed to mo lust night." Sappchoad
"Really! What did you say?"
Softleigh—"Told her I'd be a sou to
her. You see, her daughter got there
first."—Philadelphia Record.
"Oh, dear," sighed Mrs. Cuinso as
she tossed about in bed, "I'm suffer
ing dreadfully from insomnia." "3o
to sleep aud you'll bo all right,"
growled Mr. Cumso as ho rolled over
and began to snore again. —Judge.
Hubby—"When I first got married
I determined to have no large items of
expenso in housekeeping, but I find,
after all, that it is the littlo things
that eount." Batch —"How many
havo you?" Hubby—"l have four."
—Detroit Free Press.
The person who will construot somo
phrasos with which a man who has
fallon down on a slippery sidewalk
can adequately express himself with
out shooking tho passors-by aud lay
ing himself liable to arrest, will do
much to advance the cause of civiliza
tion.—Puek.
"I might as well plead guilty,
judge," owned up tho peuiteut pris
oner at the bar. "If it had been a
bolt of laoe or a basket of diamonds
yon might have called it kleptomania
and let mo go, but I don't reckon that
would work in this case. I stole tho
hog, judge."—Chicago Tribune.
Charity is a divine attribute, but
the man who sets out to prnotice it
soon disoovers that it is a one-sided af
fair. It is regarded by the other feller
as a vory slick and easy way of getting
something for nothing. Bo charita
ble, but keep a buoksaw and half a
cord of wood on hand. —Detroit
Free Press.
A lawyer residing in tho North of
England, and noted for his laconia
style of expression, sent the following
terse and witty note to a refractory
client, who would not succumb to his
reiterated demands for tho payment
of his bill; "Sir, if you pay the en
closed, yon will oblige me. If you do
not, I shall oblige you."—Pittsburg
Bulletin.
Victoria's Family.
Queen Victoria has had nine chil
dren, seven of whom are living; forty
one grandchildren, of whom thirty
three are living, and twenty-three
great-children, all of whom are living.
Her oldest great-graudchild is the
Princess Feodore, of Snxe-Meiningen,
seventeen years of age, whose mar
riage is now under discussion. As
the Queen is in good-health, she may
yet live to see a great-great-grand
child, which no sovereign of England
ever did.—New York World.
Kitty Saved Tliem All.
At a fire in Mr. Tasker's boarding
house, Intervale, N. J., last October,
a cat was seen coming out with a kit
ten in her mouth. Depositing it in a
plaoe of safety she flew back into tho
burning building and brought out an
other. Bopk and forth the poor
mother ran until ovcry ouo of the lit
ter was saved. Who could have done
more?— Our Dumb Animals.
!Tho Samoau "War."
The Samoan "war" of 1889 was the
result of a quarrel between a native
and a German, in whioh the German's
nose was broken, Inside of twenty
four hours Germany had demanded
81000 for that broken nose, and $lO,-
000 'for the depredations committed
on German plantations the year be
fore.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat,