The locomotives for the Mniichuriaij Railway, as well as most of the rails, have been contracted for in this coun try instead of Europe. Tho Mormons are becoming very active in New Zealand, and it is stated that eight more missionaries are on their way from Salt Lake City to this colony. They intend to work principally among the Maoris, of whom there are already four thousand members of the Mormon Church. After a long period of suspension the ironworks of a Western city re sumed operations and the black chim neys poured out dense clouds of soot over the town. Raskin would have ana thematized it for its hideousuess, aud daiutily clad women looked upon it with horror, but a little girl, hungry and cold, whose father had been for j mouths without work, clapped her hands and exclaimed: "Was there ever anything so beautiful as to see the smoke in the chimmeys again! That big piece is a shawl for mother, and those cunning little bits tumbling down are shoes for baby, and ob, there comes such a lot of tho smoke maybe it is a really hat for me; auywd**, I know it's shoe-strings." Lieutenant Colonel Maus, U. S. A., who has had charge of the physical examination of the twelve thousand New York militiamen mustered into the service of the United States, has made a very interesting report upon tho subject of this inquiry. He finds that it was necessary to examine seventeen thousand soldiers in order to obtain twelve thousand up to the required physical staudard, which was placed very high; some think too high. Of this number the three up country regiments were far superior | to the city troops in physical develop- ; meat, a logical result of the tonic of pure air and out of door employment and recreation. Of the city soldiers Colonel Maus found the cavalry supe rior to the infantry—clearly a tribute to the value of exercise ou horseback. Among the infantry the chief causes of rejection were a tendency to hollow chests and impaired vision, unmistak able evidence of long days at desk work and poring over ledgers. Poor feet was another frequent defect, aud deafness was not uncommon. One of the London papers sees a "romance of commerce" in the re cent death of one Henry Greenwood? an inmate of the workhouse inlirmary at liampstead. It seems that Green wood was once a rich man, and be longed to a firm of jewelers so emi nent that it supplied the pearls worn l>y Queen Victoria at her coronation. At that time, indeed, he and his part ners were the leading dealers in pearls, not only as regards England, but in the whole world. Greenwood, after his most famous transaction, led a rather adventurous life, a part of it in Australia, where he was Mayor of Ballarat. He accumulated a fairly considerable fortune, which, however lie lost in various reverses, until to. ward the close of his life he was in a state of abject poverty. His death took place in the workhouse from cancer when he was about eighty years of age. Curiously enough two of the members of the liampstead Board of Guardians when Mr. Greenwood en tered tho workhouse were old school mates of his,and one of them met the expenses of the funeral in order that lie should not lie in a pauper's grave, aud was 1 imself the only mourner following the coffin. The growing cities of Europe—in creasing as they are, constantly and enormously in the density of their population—present an area unfavor able to human life; and it has been estimated that unless such a city as Paris were supplied with human life from outside, everybody in it would die out in about four generatious, re flects the New York Sun. The con ditions of city life are unfavorable to human longevity aud health; but when we come to examine in a city who they are that will survive the longest and are the best able to com bat these unfavorable elements and who, therefore, must become the leaders in that city and found the moat prominent families aud will gain the most control and get up into the highest society by living there long and gettiug as much as they can from their fellow citizens it is discovered that they all have skulls of a some what similar type—long-skulled— somewhat below, in that respect, the medium skulls averaging throughout Europe. A man must, in other words, have a long head to get along in a great city and found a family there and continue it for a number of gen erations. Our word "long-headed" is, in a certain sense, a provision of scien tific discovery; it is literally and ab solutely true to the craniologist. THE MUSIC OF THE MARCH. f Merrily beat tho drums as the brave boys march away; Merrily, merrily, merrily the silver bugles play; And ho! for war ami victory! the brave shall 'win tho day— Merrily, merrily march tho boys where tho red flag waves the way! Mournfully beat tho drums when the brave boys march awny From the red and trampled battlefield where the dying gasp and pray; Anil ho! for homes left desolate and hearts that weep alway— Mournfully, mournfully bent the drums, and the drooped'flags drape tho day! 030O0G0OGO000O0SS § THE TRADER'S "WIFE. § A Tale of the Philippines. rHE inference is natural but, no, she is not my wife," said tho old trader, as he glanced at the pretty young Phil ippine woman who had just entered Jj/ and greeted the jr / /. strange papalangi ft/ J j(f 1 with a graceful MlfllJ/ Jl\ \ tolote alii. HmatM'/ // I He was not at all ■fi|Jjl||||§Cw p \ offended at my ' \ r,in( i° m su ßg® 9- 1 ■ 1 tiou. It was quite \lf excusable, for in -rfjifcF 4 ¥ these regions n /mW 1 letVh trader without a ' !y 7 I |E/ native wife is n I f / phenomenon. Hut HM\ I 1 ""SH if 1 had 1/ used my faculties m V"l(|i|! of observation, I \ \ 1 have known bet- I >j ter. There was I no trace of woman |is For Policemen. The police authorities at Scotland Yard havo recently been testing a new electric lamp, designed to supersede the "bull's eye." It is said to be the invention of a police constable, rI 1 1 IU I '' ■■■ ■ N i ii.l ... "fun- Gooarkerry nml Currant Ci tUnga. It is very ensy to make o ittings of either currant or gooseberry bushes. A foot leugth of last year's growth, with the end smoothed oil and fixed standing in the soil, will put out roots from its smoothed surface. It is best to only leave one bud above ground. This will make the stem for the future plant. To Ilomeftticiite Wild Flower*. Most wild flowers may be made to grow iu gardens if provided with an environment sufficiently like their na tural one. Select a sbady place, fer tilize it with leaf mould, water freely aud protect the plants from the sun for about a week. In removing them trom the woods be careful to get all the roots and to leave as much soil around them as possible. Gestation In Summer. All the domestic animals vary from one to two weeks in the time they bear their young. If the latter part of ges tation is in warm weather, and when there is plenty of succulent feed, the parturition usually occurs a little sooner than it is expected. If during cold, freezing Aveather the reverse is the case. It is probable that the more succulent food obtainable during warm weather has something to do with it, by keeping the bowels open and the general system relaxed.—American Cultivator. liegonl i Culture. '— Begonias of all kinds grow best in a soil that is quite rich, somewhat saudy , aud porous. A soil that is heavy, 80 Pf?y apt to become sour cannot be used with good results. The mat ter of drainage is also an item in the culture of begonias not to be over looked. In potting the plants pro vide ample drainage by placing broken pottery, cinders or some such matter in the bottom of the pots. Flowering begonias can be bedded out in the summer with success, if plenty of water is given and a fairly sunny, warm location selected for the bed. Those of the Rex type will do best if plunged in a partially shaded location. Both classes should be protected from hot, drying winds, and should never be allowed to suffer for want of water.—Woman's Home Com panion. Small Size of Jmuy Cotvg. It is quite possible that Jersey cows Mid others giving large messes of milk are undersized because iu calfhooil, for a time, at least, they are apt to be fed on their own dam's milk. If their stomachs are cloyed then, the effect remains until they may be half grown. Jersey and Guernsey milk, because it iB extra rich, is often pre ferred by dotiuffparents for their very young children, who have to be brought up ou the bottle. Yet no cow's milk is a complete substitute to a child for that of its mother. All re quire some dilution, and the milk that is richest iu butter fats needs some thing added to it worst of all. This is not, however, to excuse the city milk dealers, who may dilute the milk to the legal standard. One-half the mortality in cities of babies brought up on the bottle would bo obviated if they were fed properly. A Fnrm Holler. Portable farm boilers for cooking vegetables for bogs and other animals aienow made in many styles, but on many farms the question of expense will lead to the using still of the old fashioned "set" kettle. It is a com mon practice to set such a kettle in brick, and lea - , c it exposed to the weather. The kettle is thus constantly being filled with rain, and the top bricks loosened. The accompanying COOKING APPARATUS FOR ANIMAL FOOD. cut shows an excellent plan for cover ing the kettle when it is constructed out of doors. This keeps everything snug and dry and presents a much bet ter appearance than does the kettle ihat is exposed to the weather. Such a kettle can be located convenient to the various farm buildings, to economize labor in feeding out the cooked food, i Whatever limy be the relative chemical value of cooked and uncooked food for fnrm animals, it is safe to say that the digestibility of vegetables is greatly aided by cooking, which is n most im portant point iu tho case of feeding young animals.—New York Tribune. Sewnße Farming. The sewage farm at Acheres, France, which ij fertilized by the sewage of Paris, has been successful both for the purification of the'sewage aud the pro duction of various crops. The sewage, which amounts to 17,600,000 cubic feet per diem, flows as far as Clichy by gravity, and is there raised one hundred and eighteen feet and dis tributed over the farm. At present the pnmping-station is of 1200 horse power capacity, but it is to be in creased to 6000, and to deal with the output of the Paris sewers would re quire a farm of 11,120 acres instead of the 2471 acres now under cultivation. The land is worth Ave times as much as previously, and many of tho land owners are eager to have the sewage supplied to their properties. When the sewago leaves the farm soj great is the degree of purification attained that a bacterial examination reveals fewer bacteria to the cubic centimetei than is the case of most streamiT'feup posed to be uucontamiuated.—New Y'ork Post. Making a Hoiked. The ordinary hotbed consists of t> pile of fermenting stable manure, covered with a frame and glazed sashes, in which is a layer of fertile soil. The bed should be located where it will be easy of access, but it should be or dry ground, and not where watei could flow over the ground and about its base, even in wet weather. II should also be sheltered from heavy winds, and with a full exposure to the sun. In preparation for a bed the fresh manure aud long litter are col lected from stables aud drawn togethei to the location of the bed, where they AN LT-TO-DATE FRAMED HOTBED. are placed in a conical pile. As the manure is thus thrown together it is facked down by treading on it, the treading being repeated as the bed is raised a few inches at a time, until the pile is finished off to a point at the top. After a few days it may be no ticed that the pile is heating by see ing steam rise from it. It is then customary to handle over the manure, shaking it out and again making it into a pile and tramping it down as before. Iu two or three days the signs of heating will again be evi dent, and it is then ready to be made into a bed. The bed should be made large enough to extend at least a foot out side of the frame at sides and ends. Iu throwing ttte manure into shape, as the pile rises in height every few inches, it should be beaten down with the back of the fork so that the mate rial will be of uniform density. The bed should bo two fest or two and a half feet iu depth; the deeper it is the steadier and longer continued will he tho heat. When the bed is finished evenly on top the frame con be set on aud covered with the sashes. Iu a few days a strong heat will rise, and when this abates somewhat, so that the thermometer thrust into the ma nure indicates only eighty-five or ninety degrees, a layer of rich mellow soil that has beeu previously prepared should be placed in the frame and spread evenly over the bed, to a depth of about six inches. The bed is now ready for use, and seed sowing in it can commence. In the management of a hotbed constant reference must be made to a J shaded thermometer kept inside, and air must be given sufficiently to keep the temperature down to about seventy degrees, and there should be mats provided for sheltering tho bed ou cold nights and in severe storms.—Vick's Magazine. Feeding Without Profit. The chief object of feeding should bo profit from tho conversion of field crops into more concentrated forms for market. When stock ca:i he kept with profit, there is a double profit from the farm—one from producing tho crops and one from converting them into meat, milk, wool, etc. But a considerable number of farmers that do not have profitable stock farms, feel obliged to keep stock for the sake of tho manure, skinning all grass and clover fields, and growing ether forage for the maintenance of the stock. We want to bear iu mind that stock add nothing to the quantity of plant food in the forage, were it given directly to the soil, hut that tho feeding robs the average farm of more than half its strength. The stook takes part of it own use, aud most farmers do not have perfect appliances for saving aud applying the remainder. There is con tinual loss, the distribution is bad, usually, nnd if the cultivated field that grew a second orop of clover or a heavy aftermath of timothy could re tain it as a malqh to be plowed under at the right time it would get far more fertility out of it than it ever would from the manure made by feediug it, and the distribution over the surface would be far more even. Nine times out of ten the fields need vegetable matter far more than anything else, and the idea that all growth should be passed through the stables means in actual practice the robbing of the field in respect to the very thing it most needs. If the feed is needed for stock that is going to bring a nice profitover all cost, that is another matter entire ly; but where scil fertility is the main consideration, and cultivated crops are the farmer's source, of income, he is on the wrong track when he puts la bor on the harvesting of all manorial crops, only to have half the fertility lost by passing through the stables. Soils may by fed as directly by plow ing growth under as by applying the manure gotten by feeding the growth, and the amonnt of plant food secured by the fiist method is much £~cater.