A Vermont mnn, who has carried the
mail twelve miles twice a day, and re
ceived the munificont sum of one cont
for the four years, is to have 390 for
the next four years.
Counting all classes of reserves,
Germany can in twenty-four hours
raise an army of 4,000,000 disciplined
men. Young Germans know this, and
they get out of tho country before the
raising takes place.
Comptroller Roberts, of New York
State, calls attoution to tho fact that
the unequal burdens imposed upon
the small holder of property is breed
ing discontent, if uot a rovolt against
existing methods.
Census Agent Holmes calculates that
one-eleventh of American families
own three-fourths of American wealth,
while one three-thousandth own one
fifth. Dr. Spahr computes that ono
per cent, of the families own filfy-five
per cent, of the wealth, while twelve
per cent, own seven-eighths of it.
A prominent Chicago lawyer changed
his office from the third floor of a sky
scraper to the twelfth. "My friends
use tho elevator," he explained, "hut
I alwayß walk both ways. My physician
reported that my heart was weak and
advised hill-climbing. A Chicago
office-building is better than any hil
I could find."
There aro in the United States to
day about 75,000,000 people who must
have food, clothing, shoiter and fire.
Besides the housing and clothing,each
person must have about three pounds
of food material every day, with fuel
enough to cook it. Thus it is that
from 325,000,000 to 350,000,000
pounds of foodstuff is consumed every
day to keep tho peoplo alive.
Germany used to be a land of cheap
and good music. Tho musio is as good
as ever, hut it is no longer so verv
cheap as it used to bo. At Hamburg,
for instance, opera seats cost from 75
cents to 81.50, or on special occasions
S'2 and $3. Concert tickets are not
much lower, 31 being charged even at
chamber-music soirees. An attempt
is also being mado iu Hamburg to en
force the wearing of evening dress in
the parquet, to the great indignation
of those who believe that fashion and
music should be kept separate.
We take many of tho meclianica
wonders of civilization for granted
without onoo thinking how muoh of
skilled and ceaseless effort goes to the
work of simply keeping these useful
appliances in repair, muses tho New
York Observer. It takes, for example,
thirty-seven specially constructed and
equipped stenmers to maintain the
submarine tolegraph cables of the
world in working order. In this world
of friction and ceaseless wear and tear
things neither corao nor stay as a mat
ter of course. Eternal vigilance is tho
price of luxury as well a3 of liberty.
The Department of Agriculture has
detailed Professor H. J. Webber, of
Eustis, Fla., to make an investigation
of the plant known as the wator hya
cinth, which has come so near block
ing navigation in the St. John's River
tributaries. Until last September lit
tle attention had been paid to the
steady incroaso in tho growth of tho
water hyacinths on the St. John's
River. At that time a member of the
laeksonvillo Times-Union staff made a
trip up the river, and at once bogan
calling attention to the obstruction to
navigation of the river by tho hya
cinths. Since that time tho matter has
been taken up by the War Department
and tho Agricultural Department, and
it now looks as though something
might bo done to rid tho river of the
plants.
The expenditures of tho various
State governments have considerably
increased within tho last few years.
In proof of this statement tho Phila
delphia Press gives a number of
figures taken from the official records.
Comparing tho 'expenditures of tha
present year with thoso of 1-SG9 the
following marked difference is ob
served in some of tho Eastern States:
1300. 1895.
Maine fu11.',59,1 iff 52.1 49S
New Hampshire. .. .. 175.092 -183 820
Vermont 151.D30 OOO^OOt
Massachusetts .1,091,080 0,900,70-
Connctlout 217.119 2,250.0-10
New Jersey 220,009 2.209,000
Maryland 1,800,041 2,15-1,750
What is truo of the foregoing Stutos
is also truo of every State in the
Union, maintains tho Atlanta Consti
tution. As population incroases and
tho Stato advances in wealth and en
terprise, its government necessarily
becomes more complex and expensive.
It is duo to no extravagance, there
fore, that the various States of the
Union hnvo increased their expendi
tures, but solely to tho domauds of
progress and development.
MANHOOD.
Not till lifo's heat has cooled,
Tho headlong rush slowed to a quiet pace,
And every purblind passion that has
ruled
Our noisier years at last
Bpurs us in vain, and, weary of tho race,
We care no more who loses or who wins—*
Ah! not till all the best of life seems past
Tho best of life begins.
To toll for only fame,
Iland-clapping and the llcklo guslsof praise.
For place or power or gold to gild a name
Above tho grave whereto
All paths will bring us, wore to ioso our
days
Wo on whoso ears youth's passing boll has
tolled,
In blowing bubbles, even ns children do.
Forgetling wo row gold.
But tho world widens whon
Such liopo of trivial gain that ruled us lies
Broken a.noug our childhood's toys, for
then
Wo win to solf-control
And mail ourselves iu manhood, and thero
riso
Upon uso from tho vat and windless height
Those clearer thoughts that aro unto tho
soul
What stars aro fo the Dlght.
—A. St. Johu A leoek.
THE FAIREST OF ALL.
/q ORA O'DON-
A I NELIi was
jy® I happy and
_ '/Wt I blithe, stand-
C\v4f"" / via I at er
k Ws fji— father's door;
for th"freßh
t I "ess of spring
1 was in the air,
tho birds
/ R 'nsing their
little songs at
f he i r voices.
And Nora was
singing, too. She had a voice liko a
bird herself; and I'll cugago maybe
she was aware of that same. A girl
may be as good as gold and as inno
cent as a dove, hut she can't help
knowing if she has a good-looking
face. And there's not the least harm
if she has a little vanity on tho score
of being ahio to turn a tune well or
dance a light step at a wedding or
fairing.
And as she stood there, a brave
young fellow, dressed in green, turned
the corner of the mill with a <]uiok,
light foot. She turned about at the
same time, and they looked nt each
other. lie had a bit of a cap ou top
of bis red mop of curls, and says he,
laughing out und lifting tho cap:
"Good-morning, a colleen! You're
liy far the prettiest girl I've seen be
tween this and London."
Nora dropped a courtesy, and says
she, as quick as a flash bnek again to
him: "I'he same to yourself, sir, ub a
gentlemnu. liy nli I've heard my
father teli of him, your're the imago
and tho repetition of that great king
of all Iroland, Brian Bora."
The young man laughed again, and
enys he: "My fairy priucesi, will you
be after giving mo tho pleasure of
taking a cup of cooi, fresh water from
your lily-white hand'.'"
"Tho water you may have and wel
come," says she, "barring tho lily
white hand, b'or, sir, 'tis only grand
Indies thnt have that, or that hn7e any
call to the like. I'm only a miller's
daughter and a working girl."
Well, the compliments went on ; and
when he had tho drink of water, he
got tho smell of tho potatoes and
bacon from the kitchen, aud says he—
he was in the door by this:
"I'm hungry from my long tramp ;
and if your father and mother; are
willing, nothing would please me bet
ter than to sit up with tho family aud
Inlie a bit of dinuer foreninst you."
"The bit of dinuer my lather and
mother will make you welcome to,"
says she ; "for thoy have never tamed
man or woman away flora the door
yet, let alone a fine gentleman iike
yourself."
"And what makes you call me a fine
gentleman?" says he.
"Your speech, aud the way you hold
yourself, und your elegant manner,
and tho whiteness of your hand, sir,"
says she ; "not to mention tho bright
shining jewel you wear ou your
finger."
"Faith, yon aro a clever girl," says
he; "and you've rend me rightly. I'm
valet to tho Burl of Arranmore, taking
my first trip through this beautiful
country of Ireland, where I was born,
hut where 1 never set feet beforo since
I was a babe iu arms."
"And what's a valet, good sir, may
I ask?" says she.
Well, ho explained, that it meant a
gentleman's gentleman. And, for fear
you wouldn't understand what that is,
children, I'll toll you. 'Tin a man
that waits on a grand gentleman—
brushing his clothes and laying out
his linen ; and 'lis said that, nine times
out of ten, the fellow is prouder and
more couceited-liko than his master,
the real gentleman himself.
Nora called her father, and the old
man invited the young one to step in
nud mako himself at home ; and so he
did. And ho so charmed them all
with his coaxing ways and the praiso
of everything he got, that the miller
offered him tho freedom of the stream
for fishing, which he took, nothing
loth ; and seemed not only thankful,
but quite delighted. Two days length
ened to three, and three to Bix, nud
the young stranger lingered on; and
do you know why? Ho was striving
to make love to Nora, but alio wouldn't
lienr to him ; for there was a fine boy
iu the next barony that she was to bo
married to in the spring,and her heart
was true to her fijst love. Ho the
cooler she gut with him tho more ho
tried to coax her, promising all kinds
of fineries and eay living if she'd go
with him to London and be his wife,
till finally she got grvatly displeased,
and says she:
"I thought you wero u gentleman,
but you're not. If you were, you'd
never be nbusing the kindness of ft
decont man and woman liko my father
and mother by trying to steal their
only daughter away from them. No,
sir, I wouldn't givo Ned Fagan's little
finger for your whole body, if you
wero one mass of diamonds from head
to toe ; and I'd not go to London along
with you if you paved every stop of
the road in gold blocks before mo. So
take that for your answer, and bother
me no more."
With that she turned to leave him,
but he called her back ; and she told
her grandchildren many a time that
she liked him better at that moment
than ever before; for his face was
changed into a grave and serious man
ner ; and says he, taking the ring from
his finger:
"You aro a goo I girl—the very rose
of Ireland, as all may know. I'll
trouble you no more. But take this
as a token, and keep it safe; and if
over you need a friend send or bring
this to London city, and you'll find
him in tho house of Arranmore."
At first she'd have none of it, but ho
persuaded her, and, so as not to vox
him, she took the ring, for she had a
kind heart, and thought it best to bo
courteous to him, after all.
When he was gone she showed it to
her father and mother.
"It's too like a real diamond not to
be paste, Nora," raid the old man. "I
doubt much but he's a waudorer of
some kind; maybe ho stole it, for that
matter."
| But the mother said 'twas a mean
thing to maligu a gift, anyway, and
she bade Nora keep it safe. And so
she did, and forgot all about it, in a
little box of trinkets she had put
away.
j Time passed; the old man and wo
! man died; tho mill went to other
' hands; Nora married Ned Fagan and
they wero fairly well off and happy.
Then the old Earl of Arranmore died
himself, and the youmr one came into
power—just about tho time of the
famine—not the greatest of all, but
another one, Tho crops failed. The
potatoes turned black in tho pits. The
new agent was a terror, turning peo
ple out into the road after raising the
rent on them till they couldn't pay it.
Ned Fagan took down with tho fever,
and when he rose up ho was a weakly
man. The rent was behind and Ned
not able to earn a shilling; aud one
day Nora was crying up in her room,
so ho wouldn't see her; and, to divert
her mind, she began fumbling about
in her littlo box of trinkets that she
had by her still. There she camo across
tho ring, and she took it down to Ned
and told him tho tale, thinking to
divert his mind as well.
"It's queer, Nora," says he, "but
that to mo to bo a real jewol;
and the setting is fine, as you can see.
Maybe if you'd take it up to tho city
you might sell it for a trido; and you
know every little helps."
Just thou there came a knock at the
door, and Nora opened it. Thore stood
tho very man they were talking of, but
drossod more sober, aud looking older
and chunged since tho day when Nora
saw him first, ten years before. He
put out his baud. But poor Nora,
thinking of all she'd gone through
since she saw him last, burst out
crying. 'Twas Ned ha I to tell him tho
tale of their misfortunes, and of tho
avarice and greed of tho agent; how
tho tenants wero in poverty through
him and tho fever and the famine ; and
how ho threatened that tho Earl him
self would bo down shortly aud put
what was loft of them, body and bones,
on tho road, where they'd either have
to dio or go into tho workhouse.
"I don't think ho'll do that," says
the stranger; "but I wouldn't call it
much of a surprise to thorn that know
if the agent was left on the road him
self."
"And are you still in his lordship's
service?" says Nora. "I divine you
are, or you wouldu't be here."
"Yes, I'm thankful to say I'm with
him still," says tho other; "and I'm
pretty sure of being that same till he
dies."
"It's well for you," says Nora, with
a sad smile. "It's far different with
me; and I look far different now, I'm
sure, from what I did in those days
long ago."
"Yes," says the man, "you do; but
tho clouds are parting even now, and
j tho day will break in joy and consola
tion beforo you know it. And have
you the ring I gave you yet?" says he.
"It's hero, ou my little finger," says
Ned. "My wife was showing it to me
when you came to the door, and that
for tho first time since wo were mar
ried."
"Sure, I forgot all about it, Ned,"
says she, giving a deep sigh. ' "It was
to sell it wo thought, wo were that
pushed at the present moment."
"Ob, don't do that!" says tho
stranger, rising up. "But I'll ask you
one thing oniy. Come up yourself
this very day, Nora, to tho castle.
I'll speak for you to the Earl whon he
comes ; and, take my word for it, some
good will come of it. And fetch tho
ring along with you, for good luck,
and show it to tho servant at the
door."
So he cheored them up till ho left,
and i heir hearts wero lightened in
them ; aud Nora promised to go up to
tho castle, as ho bade her, in tho after
noon. And then he went away.
The suu was setting as Nora climbed
tho long hill and mado her way to tho
castle. There was a power of horses
and carriages round about, and fine
ladies and gentlemen on terrace.
Nora thought it queer to seo the valet
mingling in among them—but there ho
was, liko one of themselves, talking to
a beautiful lady, and a little boy play
ing at his feet. 110 saw Nora at once,
rose up, und, leaving tho company,
he came over, and the lady along with
him.
"And did you fetch the ring, Nora?"
says he, laughing.
"I did," says she, handing it to
him. "And will you bo so good as
to speak to the Karl for mo, as you
promised?"
With that ho took tho ring from
her hand and put it on his finger.
"I am tho Karl of Arranmore," says
he; "and these aro my dear wife and
son."
With that poor Nora fell down upon
her two knees (she wouldn't do it, if
sho lived in these days, to earl or
king, I'll warrant yo, children; but
that was iu your great-great-grand
mother's time, when people weren't
too proud and ignorant to acknowl
odgo their betters).
But the husband and wife each took
hew by the hand ; and says the lady,
in her sweetest tones:
"How glad I am to be able to seo
and help you this day ! For my hus
band has told me all that little story,
and how, for the time, he was so fond
of you that he really and truly wanted
to take you awuy to London and make
you Countess of Arranmore."
"Nora was right, and I was mis
taken," said the Earl; "and while I
live hereafter neither she nor hers
shall ever want. From this day on I
intend to live at the eastle three
months in tho year, to know .my ten
ants and care for them as a landlord
should know and care for those who
depend on him, and on whom ho also
dopends. And during the time wo
are absent, and for all time, I nppoint
your husband and yourself curetakers
here, with a comfortable stone house
and a garden, and everything neces
sary for a good and honorable living."
For a while poor Nora couldn't do
anything but cry for joy, and blush
with confusion at the way she'd treated
the Earl when he was coaxing her
long ago, thinking of the sharp words
she'd said to him that day.
"Oh, your lordship and your lady
ship," says she, "what can 1 say! I
can't say anything for the grand, good
news. But my heart is bursting with
gratefulness; and I wish I could fly,
to be the sooner homo to Nod with the
joyful tale."
"You carry your heart in your face,
Nora," said the Earl; "and we can
read every thought that's iu it. There's
no need for a word of gratitude. Run
away homo cow to your husband and
children, and I'll bo down myself in
the morning. And by that time I'll
expect to see the old light in your
eyes and tho old smile on your lip,
and the same rose-flush on your cheek
that a wanderiug etranger onoo
thought the fairest in all Ireland."—
Notre Dame (Ind.) Ave Maria,
Man and tho Mumiuotli,
A romarkable discovery was mado a
fow years ago in tho snndstouo rook at
the Nevada State Prison. The "find"
was considered wonderful, cot only
from a geological standpoint, but from
an ethnological point of view also.
While the conviols at tho institution
wero unearthing some huge blocks of
stone they uncovered some peculiar in
dentations in one of the slabs. Closer
investigation proved that these queer
marks were the tracks of some gigan
tic beast of antediluvian time—per
haps a mastodon or a mammoth.
When tho stnrtling intelligence was
announced to the prison officials they
had the sandstone slabs containing the
tracks carefully cleaned, whereupon
another wonderful discovery was
made. In the same pieces of stone,
sometimes at the sido and sometimes
between the traoks made by tho groat
prehistoric beast, wero a series of
human footprints, whioh proved con
clusively that man and tho mammoth
lived not only at the samo time and
in tho samo age, but that the huge
beast and tho man hud passed that
way during tho same year, and per
haps on tho same day. These wonder
ful relic 3of a bygone ago were found
in a quarry nt a depth of about fifteen
feet from tho surface and had pre
viously been covered with a stratum
composed of hundreds of IODS of stone
—the accumulation of tho agos that
had intervened between the date upon
whioh tho tracks were mado and that
upon which they were revealed to the
scientists. Expert geologists who
have since passed an opinion on tho
matter say that at the time the tracks
wero made that which is now hard
sandstone was a "mucky" deposit of
soft sediment, probably the border of
a lake, where the man had been fishing
and where the mammoth had come to
bathe or drink.
A Vegetable I'iimpiiig Engine.
This is the title bestowed upon the
ordinary tree by Sir Benjamin Ward
Richardson. Iu n recent address,
quoted in Cassier'sMagazine, he says:
"Hydraulic engineers would be sorely
puzzled to explain how tho largo
quantity of water required to supply
the evaporation from the extended
leaf surface is raised to heights up to
400 feet and above. We know that
the source of energy must be tho sun's
rays, and wo know furlhor that, iu tho
production of stnrcli, tho leaf stores
up less than one per cent, of the avail
able energy, so that plenty remains
for raising water. Experiments havo
shown that transpiration nt the leaf
establishes a draught upon tho sap,
and there is reason to believe that this
pull is transmitted to tho root by
tensile stress. Tho idea of a rope of
water sustaining a pull of perhaps 150
pounds per square inch may bo
repugnant to many engineers, but the
tensile strongth and extensibility of
water and other fluids hnvo boeu
provod experimentally by Professor
Osborne Reynolds and by Professor
Worthiogton and others."
Americans Abroad.
"There have been many estimatos
published of tho total expenditures of
Americans iu Europe every year," said
a steamship agont to n Mail and Ex
press reporter. "I estimate that SSOO
is the average expenditure of euoh
tourist. I believe that 120,000 Ameri
cans went abroad last season. This
would make the total expenditures
last year, at SSOO a head, $60,000,-
,000."—New Yoru Mail aud Express.
KEEPING ONIONS.
Where large quantities of onions ;
are to bo kept over winter they should
bo placed on slatted shelves to tho
depth of six or eight inches, in some
dry, niry place. They are capable of
resisting considerable frost and will
come out all right if they aro not
moved when frozeD, but it is safer to
cover them with samo straw or hay
when severe cold sets in. In a small
way they do very well scattered on a
barn lloor and covered with hay suffi
cient to exclude frost. When kept in I
barrels these should have holeß bored |
in tho Bides for ventilation and should I
be left unhended until shipping time.
—American Agriculturist. i
FEEDING FOB A BIG FLOW OF MILK.
The amount of milk produced from
onr herd for the mouths of February,
March and April lat was 100,385
pounds or over fifty tons. The herd
averaged during this time from forty
to fifty-one milkers, writes A. B.
Sontbwiok in New England Home
stead. Twenty of those oows had been
milking from six to twelve months, tho
rest having produced calves at difler
out times during tho winter. All feed
is given dry. The hay fed is what is
known to the market us mixed clover.
The grain is a mixture of oats and corn
in equal parts, ground, with best qual
ity wheat bran and middlings mixed
in to suit the conditions of the various
animals. Eaoh animal is fed accord
ing to her condition and noeds. The
cow that feels the best and is in tho
mo3t robnst health all the time, if a
good one, is the ouo that will produoe
the mosl profitable milk for his owner.
1 do not expect to get something from
nothing, and I do not expect to get a
good ilow of milk without feed, but it
is certain that more depends upon tho
perfect condition of the cow than a
great amount of feed, when the amount
of milk produced is considered.
Gnr cows evidently were raised in
neighborhoods where excellent grade
and nutivo cows are kept and where
good balls have been used to the .ex
clusion of sorubs. Appearances indi
cate that Ilolstoin, Ayrshire aud Short
horn grades are about the only breeds
represented. It is found that good
size, good form and a good mellow
skin are desirable features to buy.
Doubtless there are many herds that
can show n greater rocord, but I think
the doings of this herd can be consid
ered good and it shows to a degree tho
advautage of weediDg out poor aui
male.
I am a firm believer in keeping
abreast of tho times iu dairying, and I
feel sorry for the man who is willing
to continue in the rnts, but whon we
consider the subject of feed for cows I
question sometimes whether wo follow
oommon sense or fads. It seems to
me there can bo but ono idea, and it
is that whatever suits the cow tho
best—thatjwhich is the means of keep
ing her iu the most robust condition
of health, and causes her to produce
tho largest quantity of milk, rich in
bnttor lat—is tho cheapest feed and
the only profitable one, whatever tho
cost may be. Green forage in sum
mer, the best of pasture if possible,
with good sound grain, as corn and
oats finely ground, with best coarse
wheat bran mixed with it in reason
able quantity, to suit tho condition of
the animal, is found to ho reliable and
satisfactory. In winter good, sweet,
early cut hay, vegetables, samo mix
ture of grain, is reliable and as cheap,
all things considered, as any of the
variety of methods now followed in
dairy farming. What has nature pro
vided the capacious stomach of tho
porfect dairy cow for if not for tho
purpose of receiving and digesting
the sweet and fragrant hay and grass
which produces tho highest and most
| satisfactory results? One is disgusted
with the gaunted nppearance of the
noble oow that is compelled to satisfy
herself with a little Btiugy ration of
ensilage, with some nostrum in tho
shape of grain, ail for the reason that
tho cost is the lowest, and reduced to
tho minimum Ido not believe it ever
paid a man to ride a hobby, aud I do
not believe it ever will pay to feed en
silage indiscriminately, as the majority
do. But I do think this class of feed
has its place and cuu be ÜBed to great
advantage when farmers bocome edu
cated up to its most profitable use.
I believe farmers err in feeding too
much grain at one time. Cattle that
are receiving grain, and especially is
this true of milch cows, would receive
very much more benefit from such
feed if tho rations were given in small
er quantity and oftener. This plan is
fur safer for tho health as well. Tho
cow that gets six quarts of grain a day
will get the most benefit by giving
this at six different ieeds. This is ex
treme, as most of us aro not situated
so we oan carry oat such a plan, but
it serves to illustrate the idea. I havo
found satisfaction in going slow when
considering the advisability of chang
ing any well-tried and highly satisfac
tory method of feeding for something
new.
FALLM AND OAKDEN NOTES.
Use the best seed of tho host vari
eties.
If any colonies are queenlese, unite
them with others.
Don't expect yonr trees to produce
something for nothing. Feed them.
Hunt the inseot eggs and nests on
your trees, and dostroy the source of
much loss to your fruit next Benson.
The pruduotion and management'if
manure deserves as careful attention
as the production of any other farm
crop.
For eggs alone, no breeds snrpass
the Leghorns and Minorcas. For eggs
and meat, the Plymouth Rockß are
bettor.
Currants and gooseberries require
lots of well-rotted manure worked
down in the soil around them with
good cultivation.
If the poultry is given a little of
the care so freely allowed to the other
stock it will pay a bettor percentage
on the investment.
Poultry can never be raised success
fully if the poultry house be dump.
Poultry must have dry houses and
runs to be thrifty.
The farmer's garden is the most
profitable piece of ground on the
farm, if it only produces all kinds of
garden crops for the family.
Keop close watch that the mice and
rabits do not injure the trees. Keep
the snow tramped around the treo and
protooted with lath or wire screen up
us high as a rabit can reach.
There has been too much plowing—
too much washing and waste of fertil
ity of hilly lands. Plans should be
formed whioh ultimately result in such
lauds being seeded down oftener and
pastured more.
The ideal berry ground would be,
first, a rich, sandy loam with clay sub
soil. Second, u dark loam or gravelly
loam mixed slightly with clay, and a
clay subsoil, all having a southerly or
eastern slope.
A Massachusetts farmer speakß kind
words for the mole. He says they
live upon worms which infost most
Boed laud. They operato in rich, looso
ground because worms uro more
abundant there.
You can never get a uniform flock if
von use mongrel or grade males, or if
you change the breed evory year or so.
Chango blood often, but use a male of
the same breod, and you will see im -
prevement each year.
Clive every tree that bore heavily
last season a good top dressing of woll
rotted manure, out as far around at
least as the brauehoß extend. If the
ground is in cultivation, fork this well
down into tho soil in next spring's
cultivation.
In every neighborhood where special
attention is given to gardening or fruit
growiug there should be u horticul
tural society. There are always some
good seed grown at theso meetings,
and they help to make one enthusiastic
in the business.
Exercise is a necessity, both foi
health and for eggs. Confine a lot ol
hens and feed them to produoe eggs,
and unless some means have been pro
vided to make them scratch for the
grain given them, the rosult will be s
lot of over-fat, lazy fowls that sil
around and do nothing.
Where'the peach tree is not pruned
long, slender branches form, and theso
[.roduce fruit mainly at their outer
ends. The tree will carry much more
fruit if properly distributed, and will
produce more perfect fruit. Tho out
ting will not be attended with injury
if done while the tree is dormant.
That tho peach treos should bo left to
grow at will is an outgrown idea.
Give the children a chance to make
some money. A couple of hens,
ducks, goeeo or turkeys will start them
to figuring and to working. The little
money caruod will be a great pleasure
to them. You can afford to give them
tho grain to feed their fowls, if they
will put in tho work. They will thus
be taught to study the needs of the
poultry, and becomo wise in all that
rogards featherod stock. Their little
frials aud triumphs will be remem
bered by them in the years to conro,
and cause them to think with pleasure
of the old home.
llnud Coverings.
Probably no period has shown more
lavish expenditure of glove money
than that of the Frenoh Restoration,
from IXIS to 1880, says Elizabeth
Ferguson Seat in Lippiucott's Maga
zine. According to Challamel, no
well-dressed woman appeared un
gloved, no); hesitated to put on a now
pair every day. The popular color
was a pale taD.
At no time in tho history of gloves
have they been more generally worn
or more cheaply furnished than at the
present day. Tho gorgeous jewels and
embroideries of the past faded from
sight with gold laeo and knickerbook
ors, and with quieter colorings in dress
have come the plain brown every-dny
gloves of thiß utilitarian uge.
For the sake of those knights oi old
who wore on thoir hats the "gloves of
their dearlyngs" aud defended the
tender tokens with thoir lives, in
memory of thoso lordly, royal ones
who held dainty, bonutilul and
splendid gloves to bo their speoial
heritage, tho world to-dav bends low
over a well-gloved hand and ranks its
owner one of gentle brooding.
Separating Coin.
A recently patented coin separator
and distributor has a long, flat metal
feed chute into which the coins are
dropped at one end, tho other end be
ing lower, so that the coins will roll
down to the coin-holders, each holder
having an opening into the chute
through which the coin drops, the
size ol' the coin determining which
! tube it belongs in.
TBE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE,
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
Meek Little Suggestion—A Ita<l
Break—A Glve-a-Wny—A Firm
Grip—Overshot the Mark. Ktc.
I hiill called her my gem and my jewel,
And pet names to lovers well known.
Bur she pouted and pooviahly asked me—
"Why don't you call me "your own.'"
A BAD BREAK.
"How did you get on with your
skating?"
The One Who Got In—"Oh, swim
mingly."—Life.
BADDY PAIRED.
"You can't expect any good to come
of these ill-assorted marriages."
"No, indoed! And sho had a very
poor assortment."—Puck.
ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
First Spanish Soldier—"Tho insur
gents havo attacked tho rear."
Tho Other—"Caramba! Let us
hasten to tho front!"— Life.
TNE DEAR.
"Dear girl!"
"She's like ice to me."
Inother words,she was notespccially
dear at this time of tho year.—l'uok.
OVERSHOT THE V-AItK.
Elmore —"What makes llsrlau so
hard up just now? Lost his job?"
Dayton—"Oh, no. Ho has a big
raise in bis salary and is trying to live
up to it."—Truth.
JUST THE OTHEP. WAV.
Western Transient—"Did yon over
live on the border, madnra?"
Landlady—"No, indoed, Bir, but
I've bad a good many boarders live on
me."—Boston Courier.
A GIVE-A-WAY.
"She says she's twenty-tive,but she's
thirty-five. I can read it between the
lines."
"What lines?"
"Those on her face."—Harper's Ba
zar.
FOBEsioirr.
"Do you think Julia will accept the
offer of her foreign lover?"
"No; her father says when they go
abroad they may got somethiug
cheaper and just as good."—Chicago
Record.
COUNTENANCE AGAINST HER.
Frederick—"That photographer is
certainly chasing after the impos
sible. "
Willy—"How is that?"
Frederick—"Ho asked Miss de Mill
ions to look pleasant."
EXPLAINED.
"You say he hugged you like a
bear."
"Yes."
"And you found it sweot?"
"Woll—er—yes. It was like a cin
namon bear, you know."
EVOLUTION.
His Wife —"And you aro to defend
that shoplifter?"
The Lawyer—"My dear, she isn't a
shoplifter. Sho was, formerly; hut
sho has savof so much money in the
last ten years that sho has becomo u
kleptomaniuc."—Puck.
HE DIDN'T STAY LONG.
Bobby (to early caller) "Aro you
tho gentleman sister Maud expected?"
Mr. Staylate—"l don't know. 1
suppose there are others."
Bobby—"That's what my sister
said, but that vo l didn't appear to
know it."—New Yu.-k Journal.
A FIR* GLTLP.
Mrs. Wainwood--"I was speaking
with Miss Elder to-day. She says that
everybody tells her that she holds her
age remarkably."
Mrs. Grimm—"Yes; she has been
thirty for the last six years, to my
knowledge."—Boston Transcript.
CERTAIN.
Mrs. Forster— "Why, good morn
ing, Mr. Felton ! Will Mrs. Felton bo
at home this morning?"
Mr. Felton—"Yes; she is going to
be home all day. A family is going to
movo into a houso right opposito ours
to-day, aud Mrs. Foltou is not quite
certain of tho time."
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
Miss Antique (displeased with bet
photographs)—" This, sir,is the fourth
sittiDg I've given you, aud the picture
is even worse than the first."
Photographer—"Yes, miss. The
last sitting was a mouth after the first,
and you were a month oldor, you
know."—New York Weekly.
WHY THE TRIP WAS PUT OFF.
"Ab,Professor," greeted tho student,
"I hear that you are about to make a
trip to San Francisco."
"You are misinformed, sir," tho
Professor answered. "From motives
of economy I have decided to post
pone the event .until winter."
"You see." the pedagoguo explained,
"taking advantage of one of the groat
laws I expound in tho natural philoso
phy olass every day, I find that tbo
trip can be shortened in cold weather.
The principle involved is that law
whioh relates to the expansion and
contraction of metals. I find that a
steel rail thirty feet in longth contracts
one-quarter of an inch with the cold.
At the rate of 176 rails to the mile in
a distanoc of 30U0 miles I make just
about two miles and a quarter by trav
eling in winter."
"Quite a saving, Professor," said
the student, and be walked on silently
marvelling at the lenrned one's saga
city.—New York Journal.