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VOL. Y. NO. 21. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1877. $2.00 per Alim. Siiille Copy J.Cents.
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Puss and her Three Kittens.
Our old cat has kittens three ; *
What do you think their names should be ?
One is a tabby with emerald eyes,
And a tail that's long and slender ;
But into a temper she quickly flies,
If you ever by chance offend her,
I think we shall call her this?
I think we shall call her that;
Now, don't you fancy " Pepper-pot"
A nice name for a cat?
One is black, with a frill of white,
And her feet are all white fur, too;
If you stroke her, she carries her tail upright.
And quickly begins to purr, too.
I think we shall call her this?
I think we shall call her that;
Now, clon't you fancy " Sootikin "
A nice name for a cat ?
One is a tortoise shell, yellow and black,
With a lot of white about him?
If yon tease him at once he sets up his back. j
He's a quarrelBome Tom, ne'er doubt him !
I think we shall call him this?
I think we shall call him that;
Now, don't you fancy " Scratchaway "
A nice name for a cat ?
Our old cat has kittens three,
And I fancy these their names will be?
"Pepper-pots"' "Sootikin," "Scratchaway"? :
thore!
Were there ever kittens with these to com- ,
rare?
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Alia WG Call ltie UlU muiuer?iiun nuai uu ;un j
think? .\
" Tabitha ilon^clnws Tiddlevwink."
? Thomas Hood, j
THE HOUSE CLEANING.
Mr. Walter Ammidon laid his knife
and fork down with a gesture of absolute
despair.
" Not going to clean house again, Mrs.
Benedict! Why, it seems as if we had
only just recovered from the dreadful
tearing up process of last spring!"
Mrs. Benedict slowly dropped four !
lumps of sugar into Lis coffee, then
handed it to him, utterly regardless of
the misery in his face.
" ' Dreadful tearing up!'?that's perfect
nonsense, Mr. Ammidon. As if you '
were* verv much inconvenienced last I
May while the carpets were tip and the I
curtains down and the painting going j
on. Of course I shall clean; it's my !
habit, and has been for twenty odd !
years." V
Mr. Ammidon gave a little groan at
the sad fate that awaited him?that
awaited all bachelors iji boarding houses
?in the shape of several consecutive
days of bare floofrs and the odor of soap;
of cold dinners eaten wherever it was
convenient to set the dining table; of
Mrs. Benedict in a chromic state of
bustle and crossness, and the servants
impudent, tired and sulky; of wide open
doors and windows where the draughts
tore through.
He was a gentleman, however, Mr.
Ammidon was, and so repressed his illtemper
and disgust and mental maledio
tions that house cleaning was a purely
malicious instigation of his Satanic
majesty for the torment of mankind.
" We'll be so nice and sweet and clean,"
Mrs. Benedict went on, with horrible
cheerfulness, "and I've been thinking,
that I'll have your rooms newly papered,
Mr. Ammidon. I'm sure you'll like
that?"
"Very much?when it's done, madam."
?
And he cut his meal short and rushed
out of doors into the cool, fresh October
evening air. .
"Ah, bah ! I can Already experience
the agonies of last spring ! Good heaven !
the woman must be made of cast iron to
attempt such a siege again. It is no
wonder her husband died if he suffered
two attacks of house cleaning a year, and
I shall die or grow crazy unless I leave
her?but I suppose all women are
equally idiotic."
A jpoan of genuine misery broke from j
his hps as he strode along, his hat I
jammed over his eyes?very unlike the !
handsome gentleman he really was, with
his frank, cheery face and pleasant
mouth, with the white, even teeth, and
the half curling, thick dark hair, and the
"grave, intelligent eyes, that nothing
could ruffle as the idea of Mrs. !
Uonpdict'R Rf>mi-annual " tearing- !
up "?a courteous, refined, genial |
gentleman, whom society found a puzzle j
because of his persistent bachelorhood, j
when it knew of at least a half-dozen
women who would have jumped at the j
faintest chance of an offer of marriage
from him?who himself wondered why
he never had fallen in love?and whom
pretty little Mrs. .Baldwin, the blue
eyed," blonde haired widow, with no in- i
cumberance, a house of her own, and an ;
income of three thousand a year, often
felt quite piqued with that he was so very :
unimpressionable. I
So Mr. Ammidon strode along, almost
fnrm'n<T r?nrners. his uace s
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gradually growing slower, and then, all
at once, he heard the brilliant tones j
of a piano as some skilled hands played, j
and, looking up, found himself in front !
of a warmly lighted, cheery, hospitable j
house?the very house where Mrs. Bes- j
sie Baldwin live:1.
The contrast was so startlingly vivid
between the pictures in his imagination i
that lie involuntarily paused?one, the 1
picture of the way Mrs. Benedict's i
boarding house would look next day, the
other of how Mrs. Baldwin's elegant
little home always appeared when he
called there and as it appeared now
through the lace curtains?quiet, warm,
hospitable, inviting.
And like a revelation from heaven it
came to him?an idea, a determination
that was so strong, so resistless that he
walked forthwith up Mrs. Baldwin's front
steps and rang the door bell, wondering
as he did why the music had ceased and
where the player had gone.
" I'll marry her if she'll have me, and
then we'll see how many times a year
the house is cleaned ; that is, if "?
Then the door opened and the maid
invited him into the parlor, with the information
that Mrs. Baldwin had just
run into a neighbor's by the side gate,
but would be back directly if the sick
child was better she had gone to see.
i Mr. Ammidon ensconced himself in
' the easiest chair in the room?a great,
deep, wide, cushioned affair that was
drawn up by the little low table under the
ohandelier.
" Bless her pretty blue eyes ! Gone
to see a sick cliild ; I like that?I like
it. What a blessing that it occurred to
me to offer myself to such a good hearted,
cheerful, teuder, fond little woman as
she is ; and wnat a miraculous fool I
have been not to have done it long ago.
Why, honestiy, I feel as if I had been
in love with her all along ; and I believe
I have been, and never knew it."
His handsome head leaned comforta- >
bly against the cushions, and his well J
shaped, well booted feet were crossed on '
a low ottoman near the tire that burned
cosily and brightly.
He waited ten?twenty?thirty minutes,
and when she did not come at the i
expiration of three-quarters of an hour j
Mr. Ammidon was conscious of a keen j
disappointment tnat astomsiieu mmoeii. i
" At all events, my object shall be accomplished,
so far as I can accomplish
it," he thought.
And he took his gold and ivory pen,
and wrote an ardent, courteous, undeniably
eager statement of his case, asking
her to be his loved wife, and begged an
answer on the morrow, when she should
be visiting Mrs. Benedict.
"I accidentally learned you would take
tea -with us to-morrow night," he wrote,
"and I must know at once when I meet
yotwif I am the blessed man I hope to
be. If you can look favorably on my
suit let me know by answering 'Yes' to
the first question I put t#> you. If it is
otherwise,I will not trouble you further." j
Then he signed himself suitably, put i
the folded and addressed note conspicuously
on the top of a pile of newspaper
and sheet music on the piano, and took
his leave, in a strange whirl of excitement
and expectation.
Half an hour later Mrs. Baldwin came
in, stopping as she passed the diningroom
door to speak to the girl.
"You carried all those papers and the
music up stairs, Annie, as I told you ?"
"The very minute the gentleman went
away, Mrs. Baldwin?it was Mr. Ammidon,
and he came just as you went out."
"Oh, that 's too bad that I was not in !
Mrs. May's little Edith is very,very sick,
Annie."
And so Mrs. Baldwin never knew of the
precious letter, as she sat there alone by
the fire, thinking of the caller she h&d
missed with genuine sorrow and paling
cheeks and eyes full of disappointment.
For pretty Mrs. Bessie, with her soft
blue eyes and rebelliously curly hair,and
small,perfect figure, was more interested
in the handsome bachelor than she cared
to admit even to herself.
The next day she dressed with unusual
care for her afternoon visit to Mrs. Benedict,
wondering, as she basted the soft
little niching in the neck of her sleeveless
velvet jacket, and adjusted the poi'fs
r?f ViAr hlnrk silk nverskirh whether or
j feet despite the half-worn boots, with a
basket lying in readiness beside her, and
her faithful ally, Annie, waiting to con'
sign piles of waste to deathly ignominy,
and the paper and rag man.
"Only one pile more, Annie, and
: aren't you glad we're so nearly done?
Here, you sort the papers, and I'll see
} that nothing worth saving has been put
! with this music."
And a minute after the soft, rustling
j stillness was broken by a sudden ejaculation
from Mrs. Baldwin, and Annie
looked up, wide-eyed, to see her reading
a penciled note, with paling face and
trembling lips. *
" It's a letter I lost, that's all, Annie.
Go on with the papers. There is a man
at the door. I'll go down. You can
finish." I
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And with fluttering he art and eyes that
were suspiciously bright, Mrs. Bessie
went down stairs, glad of an opportunity
to get away by herself a few minutes to ,
think it all over, to try to realize that it .
was true that Walter Ammidon had
loved her.
And she brushed away tears that were
both rapturous and full of disappointment
and fear, and opened the front door
to Walter Ammidon. | ,
He bowed with a little look of sur- i ,
prise and chagrin, fearful lest, now that ^
his love for Bessie Baldwin had over- ,
leaped its boundaries, and forced him to
a second attempt to win her love?that c
had become more precious in proportion **
as it seemed unpossessable?fearful lest j
his coming, as suggested by her appearance,
was inopportune and awkward. ^
n i nr Tl.ll a T 1 1 0
-DUX/ lurs. XXUUwni Uiisueu, uiiu suiuru, i
and looked lovely, despite the old blue j
veil. ; I
And then he suddenly discovered she ^
held in her liand the note he had written ,
lier six months ago.
She answered his inquiring look as a
she conducted him into the parlor.
" I have only this moment read your c
letter. Oh, Mr. Ammidon, what must n
you have thought of me all this time ?" a
His face lighted gloriously. T
"That you were the sweetest little ,
darling in all tho world, whom I loved ,
so, and wanted so, that I came again today
to plead my cause. Bessie, consider *
that letter written just now?what would ?
be the answer ?"
And she drooped her white eyelids E
and half averted her sweet, blushing
face, and the answer came through her f
parted lips, so low that only a lover's .
ear would have known she said "Yes." ^
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And Mr. Ammidon never finds fault ?
when his wife "cleans house," because f
he knows if it had not been for that E
abused institution, he might be a lonely *
bachelor in Mrs. Benedict's establish- :
ment.
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now sne neni 10 me nre. c
An old German woman, says the In- e
dianapolis Sentinel, who came here abont c
a week ago from the land where the Swa- n
bians dwell, and who had never seen a t
steam fire engine, created quite a scene e
at her abode, on South Delaware street, t
during a fire. She had her dough set to
make bread for supper, but on seeing so 2
many people runniug by the house and g
hearing the clanging of bells she in- d
quired what the rumpus was all about, t
On being informed, she ran into the t
house, got two buckets and then started *
in the direction of the fire, having on c
only a short skirt and a small sack, with *
a long blue handkerchief for a head dress, c
By the time she arrived on the scene the ^
fire was extinguished, but directly t
after she heard the alarm from Massa- ?
chusetts avenue and started for that v
locality with other people. When she ?
arrived she talked in her native tongue r
to all, and wanted to know where the r
bucket brigade was. Some German lady 1
asked her why. She said she had come u
with her buckets "to help put out the 3
fire the way they do, it Scliwobaland." t
There all the burghers come with their e
pails and form a procession from the well r
to the house aflame. Those on one side s
baud the water to the others, and these I
empty tjie pails and return them. The t
old lady was shown the engines and other t
apparatus. She thought the engine was \
a railroad "maslieen" to bring people to ; ?
help to put out the fire. She was dis- v
gusted with our system, and did not get 1]
home until after supper. Her husband t
was waiting for her at tht door, and was s
a little angry because she had not his v
supper "ready. When she entered the I
kitchen, nearly exhausted from the long t
trip, she looked at her bread dough and s
found that it had not risen. She called t
her better half to look at it, and said: n
"Yetz guckamold; dua bist gescheider gewessa
als icli; ich bin gegange, and
du bist nicht gegange." "You had more
sense than I; I went and you did not."
The word "gegange" is translated as
goin^, or, more freely, rising. Her husband
laughed at her remark until the ^
tears came from his eyes. It is unneces- r
sary to say that it was her first run to a j
fire in these "Oonited Shtates," but it
will be the last one. Her appearance on 1
the street was one of the scenes that do *
not occur every day. ct
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Discontent. j 1
How universal it is ! We never knew
one who could say "I amxontented." f
Go where you will, among the rich and ! "
poor, the man of competence, or the j n
man who earns his bread by the daily ?
sweat of his brow, and you hear the v
sound of murmuring and the voice of a
complaint. " The other day," said Free- 6
man Hunt a good while ago, " I stood 1
by a cooper, who was playing a merry J.
tune with his adze around a cask.
' Ah !' said he, ' mine is a hard lot?for r
ever trotting ronna nae a uog, unviug t
away at a hoop.' 4 Heigho!' sighed onr 1 J
neighbor, the blacksmith, in one of the ,
hot days, as he wiped the drops of per- *
spiration from his brow, while his red- f
hot iron glowed on the anvil; ' this is ,
life with a vengeance, melting and fry- J
ing one's self over the fire.' ' Oh, that
I were a carpenter!' ejaculated a shoemaker,
as he bent over his lap-stone;
4 here I am, day after day, working my
soul away in making soles for others, I
cooped up in this little seven by nine 1
room.' 41 am sick of this out-door ^
work,' exclaims the carpenter, 4 broiling j
and sweating under the sun, or exposed p
to the inclemency of the weather?if I t
were only a tailor!' 'This is too bad,' r
perpetually cries the tailor, 4 to be com- p
pelled to sit pprched up here, plying \
my needle?would that mine was a more e
active life!' 'Last day of grace?the e
banks won't discount?customers won't s
pay?what shall I do ?' grumbles the i
merchant; 41 had rather be a dray r
horse?a dog?anything !' 4 Happy fel- a
' ornflns the lawver. as he scratches r
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his head over some perplexing case, or I
pores over some dry record?'happy t
fellows ! I had rather hammer stone j
than cudgel my brain on this tedious, j
vexatious question.' And through ail e
the ramifications of society, all are com- I
plaining of their condition?finding g
fault with their particular calling. 'If c
I were only this or that, or the other, I t
should be content,' is the universal cry c
? anything lut what I am.' So wagsi 1
the world, so it has wagged, and so it j i
i will wag." j t
not Mr. Ammidon -would think she looked
well, and whether, possibly, he might
not escort her home.
So her eyes were dancing with radiant
blue sunsldne, and her cheeks were
flushing a most delicious rose pink hue,
and her lovely mouth dimpling in bewitching
smiles, when Mr. Ammidon
came into the sitting-room, several
minutes before the time for the dinnerbell
to ring?Mr. Ammidon, handsomer
than she had ever seen him, in a dark
blue cloth suit, with white tie, and his
face so grandly intelligent and animated
as he went up to her and offered her his
hand, looking straight in her face as he
spoke, very quietly, but with all his fate
in his words?and she so smiling, 60 unconscious.
"I am very glad to see you, Mrs.
Baldwin. Didn't you find it very cool
this afternoon ?"
Then she met liis gaze, and hating
herself because her heart was throbbing
so gladly ut sight of him and despising
herself because he had thrilled her from
head to foot.
Then, never knowing her fate was in
it, she turned her beautiful face carelessly
away and withdrew her hand, and answered
him:
"No; I thought it was charmingly'
pleasant."
And Mr. Ammidon recoiled as if he {
had been struck a dreadful blow, and |
COUi(.1 J1UI, iUi 111C U1C VI iuiuf vuuouiv
himself with the conviction that women
were fools anil men were well rid of
them.
The next day he told Mi's. Benedict he
would not want his apartments any
longer, and had his trunks packed and
sent to a hotel.
Mr. Ammidon determined to kill two j
birds with one stone?to get out of the I
possibility of having to meet often Mrs. :
Benedict's friend, the pretty, merciless j
little woman, than whom he had never
loved another, and to make his home
where house cleaning was unknown, and
Bessie cried till her eyes were red and
swollen to think how entirely indifferent
Mr. Ammidon was to her.
And the winter crept softly along in
soft, white, snowy robes, and several
times Mrs. Baldwin saw Mr. Ammidon
driving past, although he didn't do more
as he passed thau glance carelessly at the
window and bow.
And the sweet, warm spring days
came, and with perfumy hints of roses
and woodbine, and fresh emerald leaves,
and climbing vines, and bursting blossoms,
came Bessie Baldwin's fate, in the
shape of the unromantic, the inevitable
spring cleaning that must be undertaken
and accomplished, no matter hoXv !
temptingly balmly sunshine and fragrant j
breezes and cloudless skies clamor for |
promenades and drives in order to wel- j
come them.
Thus it happened that Mrs. Baldwin J
was ensconced in one of her chambers, ;
with a blue veil tied tightly over her
golden hair and her muslin dress pinned
i up in front, disclosing ravishingly lovely
Sound Sent by Wire,
Red Cloud and other Sioux chiefs,
vhen referring to a telegraphic message,
lave always described it as "talking
hrough a hollow wire." If the speakng
telephone becomes a familiar instrunent
in ordinary use, the fanciful phrase
>f the Indian will somewhat nearly coin:ide
with the fact. Students of electricty
have showu cause for believing that
he current in ordinary telegraphy is j
ransmitted not by the core of the wire i
>ut by its outer fibers. In calculating j
he capacity of the metal for carrying a i
mrrent, the electrician regards the wire !
is if it were hollow. But neither in the ;
>icturesque phrases of half-civilized man
tor in the boldest flights of fancy or trulition
is there anything quite so weird
is the speaking telegraph. In all the
'if.,, w 4a r\t marrin iwtrtlo wlifl nm
jaoiuin ui mugivj ?? ? * v. .
)laced wide apart, never communicate |
Lirectly with each other by speech. Af-\
er the magician has drawn his circles in j
he sand, and lighted the mystic fire, j
ind spoken the cabalistic words, he may
)grhaps summon the distant one by oeiilt
influence or through the agency of
, genie. It is a thousand times more
stounding as a mere conception that the
oice, the tones, the very iitterance of a
riend who is miles on miles away, may
>e distinctly heard by the listener who
tolds to his ear the trumpet of the tele>lione.
Compared with this,, the transaission
of music by telegraph, wonder- j
ul though it is, seems a minor achieve- j
aent.
There has been, however, a very gen- j
:ral misconception in the public mind on
his very point. The confusion arises
rom the circumstance that there are two
listinct inventions, each known as a tele>hone.
and each capable of transmitting |
Qusical tob.es. Both these inventions
tave been exhibited to large audiences
q other cities; Prof. Bell's speaking
elephone at the East, Mr. Gray's music
elephone at the West. Each is valuable
n ite own field, and the most of what
ither one can do, the other cannot do at
11?at present. The speaking telephone
an, of course, transmit vocal music as
asily as speech; the other instrument
an only send, such music as is played
ipon its piano keys at the other end of
he line. But how far the capabilities of
ither instrument may be extended, no>ody
can guess.
It is already obvious that by means of
dr. Gray's telephone ordinary telegraphic
messages may be sent to any one
listaut station, and not be repeated by
he instruments at any other stations on
he line. This is a decided advantage,
is things are now, the'most confid/jbnal
ommunications between diStoat points
nay be tapped at any office m the ofrluit.
Doubtless many of our readers
vho have stopped while waiting for a
rain, to have a chat with tho telegraph
ierk at a way station, have heard liim
aention that his instrument, ticking
.way in lively style, was repeating a
oessage in which he had 110 concern?a
aessage between otner places on tne
ine. In war times a lively business
ised to bo done by "tapping the wires."
Jr. Gray's telephone may dispense with
he need of taking all the telegraph op- j
rators in a circuit into one's confidence, j
Larrowing the matter down to two, the
ending and receiving operators. Prof.
Sell's telephone may dispense with the
elegraph clerk altogether, and enable
he sender of a message to talk into the
ery ear of the receiver. But then sup>ose,
in the latter case, that somebody
rho has no business in the affair applies
lis telephonic funnel somewhere along
he line while a very confidential mesage
is passing. Greater scandals than
rere ever poured into the ear-trumpet of'
)ame Elinor Spearing may bo absorbed
>y the telephone tapper. It is yet too
oon to predict whether the new invenions
will fully secure what is most of all
leeJed, the sacred privacy of telegrams.
-New York Tribune.
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A Bare Instance of Self-Denial,
In the. last German war, a captain of *
avalry was commanded to go foraging. (
le set out at the head of his company,
joing to that section which was assigned
lim. It was a secluded valley, where J
lothing could be seen save woods. He |
>erceived at the door of an- humble ;
:abin an old hermit, with white beard.
'My father," said the officer, "show!
ne a field where I can forage my I
torses ?"
"Directly," said the hermit.
The good old man, placing himself at j
heir head, recrossed the valley. After '
, quarter of an hour's march, they found
i beautiful field of barley. " This is
vhat I want," said the captain. " Wait \
.moment," said his conductor; "youi
hall be satisfied." They continued to :
a arch, and arrived, about a quarter of a j
aile further, at another field of barley, i
['he troops immediately dismounted, ;
thrt rrrnin nlaced it unon their I
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roups, and remounted. The cavalry |
>fficer then said to his guide: "My
ather, you have made us go too far unLecessarily;
the first field was better
han this." " That is true, sir," replied
he old man, "but it was not mine."?
Frans fated from Rotron.
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1 Hideous Protection.
A pleasant story is told by Sir John
jubbock, quoting from Weissmann, illustrative
of the means of protection
rhicli some insects possess. The cater>illar
of the sphinx moth is quite as
;ood food for birds as any other insect;
>ut it is perfectly protected by its uglitess.
Its face is its fortune, having two ;
;reat spots on it which look like eyes
rhen the caterpillar wriggles. In genral
the insect is suggestive of a small
nake, especially when it is frightened
0 that it draws back its head and shows
ts false eyes to advantage. M. "Weissnann
put one of these caterpillars into
1 seed tray where he usually fed sparows
and other small birds. The first
)ird that alighted on the edge of the
ray, perceiving the insect, became half
>aralyzed- with fear. Eight or ten birds
oined the first one, but all stood on the
>dge of the tray, afraid to go in. 'One
>ird flew into the tray at first, but on
eeing the caterpillar hastily scrambled
rat and joined the company on the edge
hat were bobbing their heads up and I
lotfn, and looking into the tray as if i
lalf terrified. After the caterpillar was j
emoved the birds went into the tray for i
;eeds as usual.
FARM, (xARI)EX A>D HOUSEHOLD.
Hints Abont Work.
Plowing.?None but a fertile soil
should be turned over very deeply. At
this season, this should b*e well remembered,
because there is no time for the
weather to mellow the fresh soil. For
spring crops, the soil should be turned
up mellow and rich, that the seed may
push into active growth at once.
Fertilizers.?For the reasons just
mentioned, fertilizers for use on spring
crops should be such as are quickly soluble,
and readily taken up by the plant.
Now that the uncertainty in regard to
the quality of Peruvian guano has been
removed, this is perhaps the best special
fertilizer to use without previous experiment.
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T r* /% # il A.
.live stock.?une oi ine most; encouraging
events of late, has been the opening
of an export trade of beef and mutton
to England. If this succeeds, and
grows, as now seems probable, it will
provide a way out ol our heretofore
greatest difficulties. Instead of growing
and exporting grain, we shall grow and
use it ourselves, and export the produce.
This will leave our farms inmuch better
plight. To meet this new demand, our
stock must be improved in- quality, by
the use of pure bred bulls and rams, and
increased in quantity, by sparing the
heifer calves and ewe lambs from slaughter.
Raising Horses.?As has always been
the case in the past, the increasing use
of steam engines makes more work for
horses, and horses of the working kind
are scarce.. It is a question worth considering,
if it would not be better to keep
mares upon the farms for breeding, instead
of selling them to work in the
cities, where their productive powers are
not used. We have found mares equally
serviceable with horses fpr farm work,
and an annual colt will nearly pay for a
mare's feed.
Brood mares, if rightly managed, may
come in after the spring'B work is over,
and can raise a colt before the fall work
comes on. If the colt comes in June,
the mare is well able to plow and harrow
until the middle of Mav, and will be
ready for work again by tne time-haying
begins. But at this season a brood
mare's work should be steady, although
it may be hard. Violent, jerky, and
long continued work is what injures her.
Young Stock.?As the change of feed
comes on, care must be exercised in regard
to young animals. It is best to turn
urcui on to gsrutss iui. un num iwu
daily, before the pasture becomes full.
Well conditional yearlings are in more
danger than poorer ones, and with tljem
greater care should be takeu.
Spring CUops.?Where the lateness
of the season has not permitted the sowing
of spring crops, the hints given last
month will be applicable.
Plaster. ?A bushel of grouud gypsum
per acre will be found a very useful application
for young clover, or for oats,
when they are a little above ground.
Gypsum is useful for its own constituents,
without depending upon its absorption
of ammonia from the air. All the
ammonia we get that way will be a very
poor help. At fifty cents a bushel, plaster
is a cheap fertilizer for clover, oats,
or com.?Agriculturist.
Domestic Recipes.
Teal Cake.?This is a pretty, tasty
dish for supper or breakfast, and uses
up any cold veal which you may not care
to mince. Take away the brown outside
of your cold roast veal, and cut the
white meat into thin slices. Have also a
few thin slices of cold ham and two hard
boiled eggs, which also slice, and two
dessert spoonfuls of finely chopped parsley.
Take an earthenware mold, aud
lay veal, ham, eggs and parsley in alternate
layers, with a little pepper between
each, aud a sprinkling of lemon on the
veal. When the mold seems full, bake for
half an hour. Turn out when cold. If a
proper shape be not at hand, the veal cake
looks very pretty made in a plain pie
dish.
Cleaving Carpets.?Take a pail of
water, and add to it three gills of ox
gall. Rub it into the carpet with a soft
brash. It will raise a lather, which
must be washed off with clear, cold wa-;
ter. Rub dry with a clean cloth. In i
nailing down a carpet after the floor has i
been washed, be certain that the floor is j
quite dry, or the nails will rust and injure
the carpet. Fuller's earth is used
for cleaning carpets, and weak solutions
of alum or soda are used for reviving the
colors. The crumbs of a hot wlieateu
loaf rubbed over a carpet have been 1
found effective. j
Pot au Feu.?Take a shin of beef or
cold beefsteak or roast meat of any kind;
add the same quantity of grated carrots,
which gives a'flavor and a nice color, and
add turnips, potatoes, a little browned
flour, plenty of salt and pepper, a little
garlic, half an onion and some parsley.
Roil two or three hours, and strain after
all is cooked. This will be found a delightful
soup. The soup should be kept
on the range all the time. Throw in i
ends of meat and poultry, outside !
leaves of cabbage, green tops of celery, j
I
A Safeguard against Rats.?They
aro accomplished rope walkei s, and are
able to make their way even along very
small cords. Consequently, so long as
they can mount upon the lines, nothing
edible suspended therefrom is safe from
their attacks. A correspondent uses
wires, upon which circular pieces of tin j
are strung, and hangs his meat, grain, i
etc., between the tin pieces. The rats
cannot pass the tin circles, because as
they attempt to climb over them after
walking out on the wire, the pieces revolve.
The Poultry.
Feed the table scraps to the chickens
instead of throwing them to the pigs.
They aro wortli more to the poultry; and
everything that falls from the table?dry
crusts, vegetable leavings, cooked meat
bits, etc.?is eagerly devoured by old
and young fowls. There is variety in
this food also, which the Birds appreciate.
Crush the eggshells before throwing
them to yonr poultry, as otherwise
egg eating may be taught. The bones |
may be pounded in a mortar, and all the ;
crumbs after the family's meal may thus !
be admirably utilized*, and to one-half
better profit than if this debris i<5 giver )
to the swine.
EUROPE AS A VAST MILITARY
CAMP.
The Annnal Cost of Six (*reat Armies?How
Much it Requires to Keep Each Soldier?
The Amount Expended upon Naval Arm*,
incuts?'The Situation the Same as in 1748.
A short essay, entitled "The Question *
of Money," has been prepared by M. de
Girardin, in which it is made to appear
that ail existing governments, excepting
those of America and England, are
fast hastening in the direction of bankruptcy.
Referring ta one of the less
great political systems which in recent
years have alternately found favor with
man, M. de Girardin says the-result is,
"Europe is one vast camp," the six powers
alone spending close upon $500,000,000
annually upon soldiers. On this
subject* he makes a minute calculation,
which is well worth reproducing. A
soldier costs England, according to this
calculation, $503.10, which, for an army
of 106,000 men, makes her military expemliture
$53,256,160 per annum. A
soldier costs the French republic only
slightly over $254, but then her army
amounts to 480,000 men, and thus raises
her military expenses to $112,913,298.
The czar pays a little over $238 a head for
his soldiers, but he has 575,000 in the
regular army to pay, and the total cost
of the Russian army for a single year is
estimated at the enormous sum of $137,034,925.
The German government pays
a little over $225.14 for each of its soldiers,
of whom it has no less than 412,000,
costing the empire $92,764,603.
Italy pa^-s less than $181.58 a head for
her soldiers, who number in all 205,600,
and cost the kingdom $37,176,086. The
Austrian army seems to be intrinsically
the cheapest of those kept up by the
great powers. Each man in it is supposed
to cost the public $174.30, which,
for an army of 273,800, gives a total of
$47,705,914.
To these sums might have been added
the annual amount expended by the !
great powers upon naval armaments, 1
which may be roughly stated at $60,000,- j
000 for England, $35,000,000 for France, '
$24,000,000 for Russia, $7,500,000 apiece
for Germany and Italy and $5,000,000 for j
An stria, marking a total of $135,000,000. j
The danger of universal insolvency will |
never be removed till, in the words of
Victor Hugo, rulers shall have ceased
their search for the philosopher's stone
of a definitive and invincible armament;;
and leave off first spending money on I
ships which no projectile can pierce, and
then spending additional millions on the
construction of projectiles to pierce the'
same ships.
Curiously enough, as M. de Girardin !
points out, the present situation of En- !
rope can scarcely be better described i
than in the words of Montesquieu, who j
wrote in 1748:
"A new distemper has spread over
Europe; it has seized our princes, and
has made them keep up an inordinate
number of troops. The disease has it3
paroxysms, and necessarily becomes contagious;
for as soon as one State has :n
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creasy Hie numuera ui wunu it t;un us
troops, the others immediately do the
same,so that none of them gain anything,
except a share in the common ruin.
Every monarch keeps on foot armies of
such a size as might be raised if his people
are in danger of actual extermination;
and yet tliey call this state of struggle
of all agamst all peace. True, it is this
state of smiggle which chiefly keeps up
the European equilibriuta, because it
wear3 out equally all the great powers.
And, as a matter of fact, Europe is so exhausted
that private individuals who
should find themselves in the condition
in which are now placed the two wealthiest
powers of this part of the world, would
not know how to subsist. "We are poor
with the riches and commerce of the
whole world. The necessary consequence
of such a situation is the perpetual augmentation
of taxes, and?what cuts us off
from all remedies in the future?States
no longer count on their revenues,, but
make war with their capital. It is by no
means an unheard of thing for States to
mortgage their property in time of peace,
employ, to ruin themselves, means which
they call extraordinary, and which, indeed,
are so extraordinary that the most
extravagaut son and heir in the world
would scarcely imagine theiq."
How to Preserve Iron.
A method of preserving iron from rust
has been patented by Prof. Burff and is
noticed at length in The Enc/lish Me-'
chanic. If the invention will do what is
claimed, it must rank with the most im- j
portant discoveries of the day. Iron
rusts by the successive formation of protoxide
and sesquioxide, the latter being
on the outside, and perpetually yielding
fresh supplies of oxygen to the protoxide
beneath it. Hence iron rust penetrates
steadily through considerable thicknesses
of metal in the course of years. Besides
these oxides of iron, there is the
black or magnetic oxide, which is of a '
permanent chemical character, and in
that respect is quite different from the :
other two. The black oxide dees not i
f/\ m A1 of OTl?? if o /I _ I
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heres to the surface of iron with a te
nacity almost equal to that of the metal ,
itself; it does not spread at all either
into the iron or over its surface. If iron
that has been faced with this oxide is
chipped, the exposed portion may rust,
but the rust will not undercut tho black
oxide as it does paint or the zinc surface j
of "galvanized" iron. The process of
covering with the black oxide consists in
exposing the metal, while heated to 500
deg. Fah., to superheated steam during
six or seven hours. When a temperature ,
of 1,200 deg. Fah., was employed, the
. surface of the iron became so fully pre- j
tected that afterward it was not attacked
by the acid fumes of a laboratory. The
protection is claimed to be more effi- j
cient than tinning, japanning or euamel-,
ing, and it is evident that the articles to
which it may be applied range through
the whole field of iron and steel manufactures.
Quick Work.?As a piece of joitrnalistic
euterprise the report of the University
race in the late editions of the New j
York papers deserves notice. The race f
ended at 8:51, London time, which is
five hours ahead of New York. Yet the
result was telegraphed across the ocean, ;
put into type and stereotyped, and the
plates put'on the presses oy 4:80, just I
forty minutes from tho time the finish-'
ing gun reverberated along the Thames, j
Items of Interest.
When you can-cel a note, you can't
| sell it.
An exchange says to sober a drunken
! man pour water down the spine of his
I back..
Some one has estimated that each per!
son on the globe would receive $2 ii all
I the gold was parceled out.
A Frenchman said of Shakespeare: .
i Yen you find any zing you no understan'
it is always somezing fine.
" Button parties " are popular in the
^West. We don't know whence they derive
their name, unless it is because they
are always sure to come off.
Recent investigations warrant the assertion
that one baby with a cracker biscuit
will make the couch of wearied industry
more uncomfortable than fifteen
prize mosquitoes.
Orders have been given by the Russian
? ? it M% I
government 10 me manager 01 me imperial
iron foundry at Tula to construct
without delay 40,000 iron huta for the
accommodation of troops. ?
Great pecuniary distress prevails in
Belgitfm. Manufactures have stopped,
workmen are out of employment, trade
I is dull, and the theaters are empty.
Germany is an equal sufferer.
A new plan for protecting safes is to
inclose them in wire netting, so connected
with a battery and bell that the division
of-any portion of the wire ruptures
a circuit, and the bell gives the alarm.
The Missouri Senate has passed a bill
offering $10,000 reward for the discovery
of a sure cure for hog cholera. Such a
handsome prize should certainly stimu
late the faculties of scientific men, espeI
cially those who are practical farmers.
Zachariah W. Haynes, a deaf mute,
who was married in August, 1874, -to a
daughter of Chang Bunker, one of the
Siamese twins, is a teacher in the institute
for the deaf, dumb and blind iri
Raleigh, N. C. He has two children,
both of whom can hear.
A Frenchman has discovered that hu- .
man hair can be transplanted, and bold' .
headed men can * become reasonably
hirsute by the process. It, however,
requires more skill than landscape gardening,
and only very rich men can
stand the expense.
Victor Hugo gave on his birthday?
February 26th?a dinner party to several
intimate friends. At the dessert his little
grand-daughter, Jeanne, begged permission
to give a toast. Lifting her
glass, the little one cried: "To the great
Hugo, from the little one."
A sensible author says: "Have you
enemies? go and mind t?eoi not." That
is a capital plan (addsthe Bridgeport
Standard), especially if the enemy is
the biggest and is patiently awaiting behind
the fence with a cltib to discuss the
matter with you. Better yet, go around.
Dnnnln nAnamllv Trill rr]fA know
tliat charcoal lias been discovered to be
a sure cure for burns. By laying a small
11 ioce of cold charcoal on the burn the
pain subsides immediately. By leaving
the charcoal on for an hour the wound is
healed, as has been demonstrated on several
occasions.
Women are going into the insurance
; business. And when a comely woman
enters a man's office,hitches up her chair,
1 places a fair hand on his arm, and begins
! to talk about policies, he feels as if his
; life ought to be insured pretty soon.
, And this feeling is greatly augmented
should his wife drop in unexpectedly during
the interview.
M. Paul du Chaillu in a recent lecture
gave a singular evidence of the teach
ableness of parrots in the wild state in
Africa. One which he had taught to
j talk also taught some twenty others
: therein by itself, and some of these es:
caping taught - others in the forest, and
he heard a flock of them chattering on
j top of a tree, one day, to his astonish'
meat.
In the milt of a codfish, or in water in
which certain vegetables have been inI
fused, the microscope discovers animal!
cules of which many thousands together
do not equal in bulk a grain of sand, and
yet many of these arc supplied with organs
as complex as those of a whale or
j an elephant. In a single pound of such
i matter there are more living creatures
j than of human beings on the face of the
entire globe.
The sly young lady who, a short while
ago, returned home from a sleigh ride,
and explained to her mother that her
hat got awfully bent while going
through a deep snow drift, has invented
a new excuse for tho mussed condition
of her head gear upon returning home
from a carriage ride with her young
man. She attributes it to the overhanging
branches along the road. Her -
mother smiles knowingly and keeps
silent.
A benevolent society has?been formed
in Paris for the purpose of transplanting
to Algeria* all children of either sex without
homes, or of poor parents who are '
willing to part with them. A tract of
land, with the necessary residences,
schools and workshops, will be obtained
for the young peoplo, mid in addition to
receiving a good education, they will be
taught trades and reared to habits of industry*
Count Foucher de Careil, a
member of the French Senate, is president
of the society, which numbers
among its directors Ferdinand de Lesseps.
Indian Corn as Food.
At a late meeting of the Paris Academy,
M. Fea, of Padua, enlarged on the merits
of maize as an article of food. He gave
comparative tables to show that maize is
superior to all other cereals in fatty
matters, and that it may be considered as
a perfect food. He also replied to ob"
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jecUUIlB lliuv xiit v c ucvu utwvftv w
accusing it of giving rise to certain
diseases, notable pellagra; and demonstrated
that the Penicillium, -which is
supposed to originate this disease, never
attacks the maize urdess it is damaged,
The Towel. .
There is something refreshing in the
absolute astonishment that visitors to a
printing office sometimes display at the
commonest things. " What is that black
looking thing up in that corner ? " is
sometimes asked by an unsophisticated
observer; and the nearest typo answers;
" That is the printing office towel. Wo
always stand It in the corner "