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FACTS FC3 THE CURIOUS, A large part of the Bahama islands 13 <tavnfr^v3 *.<"* ""I1"*" 4 w'"1 - v, u.ituic. Gk lion an-I a half of frnit have been collected from a single acre. "Wine and oil j<:rs were rendered impervious t.o moisture by the ancients, as they are a: present by the people o' Spain and Italy, by rubbing with wai. Transitory color-blindness has been produced by a iew hours' stay in snowfields illuminated by the sun, all artificial lights appearing green for a short timeCharlemagne's crown, preserved in the imnerial tre&snrr at Vienna, is composed of eight plats of gold, fotu large and four small, connected bj hinges. The demand for matches in Ureal Britain is, on the average, eight dai j for each individual. For Enrope an3 North America the entire average is sh for each individual. ^ An English physician says that seventy diseases arise directly from alcohol, and that in Great Britair 120,000 deaths are caused annuallj either directly or indirectly by drinkins?. If the earth should be suddenly stop ped in her orbit and allowed to fall . unobstructed toward the sun, under th< A accelerating influence of his attraction, she would reach the centre in about * four months. It has been e?'1"mated that there are about6,000 speck, of birds, of which five-sixth are known. Cones list of North American birds now embraces 888 species, 120 new specie? having been added during the last eight year?. Tha Por>A .'VOTT ^ a OTTO O man Auv xiiguv D?JO ? ti-w?ui j caught a sixpound trout at Pyramid lake a few days ago. Inside the trout was a four-pound sucker, and in the sucker was a half-pound chub. In the chub was nothing but worms. The Berlin police department is testing a secret method of disinfection which, it is claimed, destroys the germs in sick rooms within fifteen minutes. The experiments are made as privately as possible, but when they are finished the department will make the results public. The widest gauge railroad in existence is probably the one in operation in Washington territory, running back from the Skagit river. It is an eightfoot gauge with woodtn rails eight by eight inches. The cars carry twelve wheels of nine-inch face with double flanges. The costliest coffins in the United States are cheap affairs when compared ^ 1 >V? A /-I TT"? A I nibu ouiuo uu kjo IUOJJLU. oviuaui xu CJ-I^ , cathedral at Milan the body of Cardinal Barromeo is enclosed in a crystal casket, magnificent with gold and silver trimmings, and set with precions stones at a cost of $800,000. A subterranean forest was recently uncovered at a depth of ten feet below the surface on the estate of Lord Nor manton, near Peterborough, England. Some of the tiees are of great 6iz8, and so well preserved that the different varieties?such as oak and elm?may be readily distinguished. Mr. E. McLachlan gives it as his opinion that many of the wood-eating insects do not attack healthy trees, but only those which have commenced to decay from the operation of other causes". rPV>ooa iTiezvrt+o a-ra r?/\t roorwnciKlo fnrfTio XUVOU t 11OfcW uvfc AVwj^vu^i/iv VMV destruction of the trees, but simply for hastening the process after it has been begun. Uojt Trees Influence Kainfall and Climates. In a general way there begins to be spreading a popular belief that forests increase the rainfall of the country. As to how this is done, however, no very definite idea prevails. Scientific men have been recently maMng some very interesting experiments in this field. The results show strongly that forests do exercise a decided favorable influence on climate and the water supply. It is not conclusively established that they directly cause heavy rains. They > * J- 7:^4 ^? QOj nOW8T6rj SUCUimjig iu uio vcou u^uu & at the present to be had, increase the frequency of light showers, and thus Bp&r ? are of incalculable benefit to vegetation. In other ways the beneficent effect of trees on climate, crops and fruits is sufficiently well established. Dr. J. M. Anders gives in the American Naturalist a good summing up of the latest research on this subject. Not the least of the benefits he mentions is the good service belts of woodland do in protecting vegetation from storms and icy winds. It is very common now for enlightened farmers in the West and Northwest to plant dense rows of tre?s ar;d hedges of evergreen along the northern line of their orchards and grounds. Dr. Anders says: "The experiment has been tried extensively in France of planting trees in belts one hundred meters apart, and with marked benefit to the climate, and there are some good reasons for believing that a similar experiment in various places in onr own country would prove equally advantageous. It has been observed many times that fruit grown in he city surpasses in quality and size | hat grown in the country, and this is J ascribable to the more effectual shelter i in the former place." Forests influence the atmosphere more powerfully by their effect on its general humidity than in any other way. An evaporation of moisture from both earth and trees takes place constantly. ? The evaporation is greater from open soil than from woodland, but the differ- I enoe is far more than made up by what j is called "transpiration" of leaves of the j trees. This corresponds in a degree to i he insensible perspiration of animals, i Some conclusive experiments were | made with growing pot plants, going to : Bhow that leaves do not absorb mois- ! fcure, but that on the contrary, they | give it out. . Moisture is absorbed through the f&ts. The quantity of insensible vapor that ; is given off through leaves amount to ! one and a quarter ounce to the square j foot of leaf surface. The world-old metaphor of counting the leaves of the trees has a new significance in the light of science. Pains-taking experiment has ' enabled those studying the matter to I ^ I make an approximate estimate ui we comparative amounts of vapor given off by earth surface and leaf surface. They have calculated that a square foot of soil sets free about six times as much moisture 2s a square foot of leaf. The leaf surface is, however, many times greater than the soil surface?twelve times greater, the scientists put it?so : that twice as much evaporation takes place from forest as from open laud. When the wood of the country is cut away, therefore other things being equal, two-thirds of the moisture giving j material of the atmosphere is gone with ! it Hence the long and fearful drought j ?? 7on^Q Viarfl nf trees. The Naturalist j VU MUWV %rMav writer says: "From the data obtained it would i aeem safe to infer that when the per- j oentage of woodland is fair (25 2lo 30 per cent.) at least twelve inches of water I is transpired in the course of a season i in mild* or temperate climates; or, in : other words, twelve inohes of the total j annual terrestrial evaporation. All this vast amount of water is transpired in about six months, or during the vegeta- ; tive period. Under these circumstanoes an equivalent of nearly half the rainfall daring the warm season may be ac- j counted for by the transpiration." Another noteworthy fact too is that l/vr?<n? /VYnfirTl#^ drOUffhtfi. ! when brooks and ponds have dried np, j this life-bringing exhalation from the i trees continues constant. Our writer continues : "Moist air during winter tends to moderate extreme cold; during the summer, on the contrary, it tends to cool ! the draughts; hence forests by moisten- I ing the air in summer gives us cool and < delightful breeses; another means by which fore^to aSect extremes of temperature* The facts so far ascertained with certainty, are a sufficient comment on the ruinous folly that lays the ax of destruction at the root of our baautiful trees. They also point to the need of immediate forest planting in loca'ities >yhere a sufficient amount of woodland does not exist.? TCincinnati Commercial. EGYPT'S FALSE PROPHET. ' ! The Siory of Mohammpd Achmet, the Faiie Prophet ol tbe Soudan. Mohammed Achmet, the false prophet of the Soudan, is the product at once of an intense religious fanaticism and an oppressive system of government Bis aim is thns religious and political, while"his religious pretensions are probably assumed only as a means to gain a political end. He has posed as a savior of the people at a time when Moslem fanaticism has become greatly revived, and when the countiy was ripe for an irsnrrection. The worst element of a discontented and Datnrally turbulent population Lave gathered around him. Circumstances have favored him in the Soudan much as they have favored Arabi Pasha in Egypt He is now at the head of a revolution which for the Egyptian Soudan is as great, if not greater, than that which is mining Egypt itself. What connection he may have, if any, with the party of revolution in Egypt, it is difficult to say. After _ ?a * ? _ a again ana again aeisatuig me tiuupo j sent against him, he is at last complete master of the situation. Egypt has, for the present at least, lost her hardly won possessions in the Soudan, which, if they ever belong to her again, or if they are ever again open to commerce, or to any civilizing and relisious influence, mu6t be recocqaered with a large army and much expenditure of l)fd and money. It may be interesting, therefore, to briefly note some of the causes which have led to the revolution, and to trace AAltOAW f ? i<"0 TTIA^AMATIO ^ A* I UiiC li xto Tivuyiivuo The Soudan is a general term applied to that vast and vaguely defined region of Central Africa lying between the eqn.-- .or on the sonth and the Great Desert on the north, aad stretching from east to west nearly across the continent. The Egyptian Soudan is generally believed to begin at Assouan, or the first cataract of the Nile on the north, bnt perhaps might mere properly be said to commence at the point where the Nile makes its great outward bend. It extends to the great lakes on the south, and from Abyssinia on the east to and inclusive of Darfur and the provinces of the Banv El Guazai on the west. The extensive region, many times te^er thin Egypt itself, was not conqut:e: by :he Egyptians all* at once, but has been annexed piece by piece, and at no tune can it be said to have been thoroughly subdued or fully occapied. The Egyptian gDvernment at Cairo was continually short of funds and the Soudan, in company with the remainder of Egypt, was the victim of many abuses. "The government assumed the monopoly of almost everything on the "White Nile, e?en to the : sale of seven poor parrots, one of which was blind, and another lame < Contracts were sublet to the farmers of taxes. Each agent made a hand*one i profit for himself, so that when the : taxes, which covered every conceivable means of industry do wn to the wheel i which raised the water from the Nile, were paid by the laborer they were < many times larger than the original ei- ] orbitant apportionment, and we even heard of cises on the White Niie i where the same taxes were collecte 3 two or three times over by different j officials. Such being the methods of j the government, made doubly obnox- < ions by the corrupt officials who car- ; vio/l +J\arr> /vnt. it. ia nrtf. t,r> hft Wf>Tlde?fld at that there was a very general spiiit of ( discontent; but never h!?d there ap- | peared a leader who for any length of time could maintain a successful opposition to the Egyptian government till Mohammc d Achmet proclaimed himself : the mundi, or successor of the graat Prophet, the expected teacher and savior of the people. This claim was , suggested by the general belief existing among the Moslems that toward the end of the world a successor and expounder of the Prophet, and a fuller revealer of the will of God, was to ap- , pear. This belief is founded on various , passages and intimations in the koran, < like the following; "Say unto those of 1 Mecca, this is my way: I invite you j unto God by an evident demonstration; i both I and he who followeth me." The popular superstition prescribes certain : signs and evidences" by whioh this prophet is to be laenunea, some 01 which-Mohammed Achmet ifi said to i have shown, while he has failed in others. Several such, pretenders have j already appeared, one in the vicinity of Tunis, another in Sc-uthern Arabia, but rone of them have succeeded like Mo- j hammed Achmet. This man was born in the region of Dongola, on the western ban's: of the Nile, where it makes its greit bend. He was a poor man, a carpenter and , boat-builder by trade. He first came into notoriety on the large island of Abbas, situated abont 200 miles south , of Khartoum. Here, after the fashion of the fakirs and holy men, he withdrew from society and devoted himself to prayer and meditation. He soon had a large following, and proclaimed iiicaself the expected prophet and deliverer of the people. He wrote letters all over the country announcing himself and his mission. He was recognize ! at ones as a leader. While many of the more intelligent Moslems repudiated ( him, others moved both by religions and political motives, and who, above all, hoped that be would show them some way to escape the payment of their taxes, flocked around his standard. He was secretly encouraged and abetted by enemies of the government residing at Khartoum. His presence in so commanding a position on the Nile soon became obnoxious to the authorities at Khartoum, aDd an expedition vas organized to dislodge him. A detachment of 120 men of the regular army was sent against him on the island. TIL. TT-n?A manacrfld. XUOOC iiXCU n&iw vmvmj ? ? J and, althongh they were armed with the best make of RemiDgton rifles while Mohammed Achmet and his baud had only their spears, they were killed one after the other as fast as they landed, till not one of the 120 was left. Not a snot was fired. It was a slaughter like the sticking of so many pigs. The steamer with its crew and one or two officers escaped back to Kharconm with the sad news. Of course, after thi3 exploit, Mohammed Achmet knew that it wonld not do for him with his present forces to remain where he was. He therefore gathered together a".l his following men, women and children, cattle and children, crossed the Nile to the west bank, and fled to a wild monntain called Gebel Gedir, 200 miles sonth west of the island of Abbas and about ninety miles northwest of the penal colony and military station of Fashoda. Here, in an easily defended and almost inaccessible mountain, he took np his abode. The Baggs.ra Arabs now began to flock to his standard in great numbers. This large tribe is noted for its restless, lawless, unruly spirit. The Bagearas were the former slave-hunters of the White Nile, and no doubt dreams of the return of the old times of murder and bloodshed were not wanting. The present, at least, was an opportunity that suited them, and they determined to take advantage of it. We saw great numbers of them, with their spears gleaming in the sun, crowding along the banks with their horses and their cattle to join Mohammed Achmet in his mountain fastness. I was, however, the policy of the government to let the rebels alone, now that they had left the river, thinking that they would soon lose their zeal and disperse for the want of provisions. But a new governor of Fasnoda had been appointed who considered it his duty to signalize his loyalty by organizing another expedition against the rebels. Contrary to orders irom Khartoum he gathered the military forcee from Ka'<a, Fashoda and the station at the mouth -? OnVvot oil fifMI sr*]<?iflrq fif f-hp Ui I HO uuvab J ^ wv MV?? regular army. "With these he joined 200 men of the large native tribe of the Shillook^, under the king of the Shillooks?800 men all told. With these he marched six days across the desert by forced marches. On the seventh ! day, when the men were all tir^d oat i from the long march and utterly unfit for action, they met the enemy. Mchammed Achmet was again victorious. The fight was turned into a slaughter. Sixty men were taken prisoners by the , rebels; only seventy escaped by inn ning for it; and all the rest were slain. The governor of Fashoda and the king of the Shillccks were both killed.? Christian Union. Spoopendyke CraD-Fishing. Coming up the river the other day, I saw a middle-aged gentleman in a plug hat and business suit seated in a soow beside an attractive lady, feeling around among a lot of strings pendant from the side of the boat and warning the lady that she could not keep too quiet. "Now, my dear," observed the gentleman, " don't yon move, because I feel a crab on this line. I'll pull him up until he is in sight and then you slip fV>a not !iim Spa V "Yes, dear," replied the lady, a little flustered as she contemplated her share of the performance. "Brit. Mr. Spoopendyke, what shall I do when I get the i.ei under him'?" " Scalp him!" retorted Mr. Sjxiopendyke, drawing slowly on the line. " Now wait, he's there," and Mr. Spoopendyke became ever; more cautious in his movements. " See him! Ihere he is! Scalp him, quick!" Mrs. Spoopendyke jabbed the nef; into the water and swashed around with, ftreat vigor. " What ye doing 7" yelled Mr. Spoopenayke, straightening up and glr.ring at her, as the crab struck a line fo:r Newark bay. "What'd yo think I hac' there, the bottom of the river ? What'd suppose ye was trying to catch, a church ? Take it out! Give it here!" and he grasped the lady around the waist and took the net away from her. "Did I scalp him ?" asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, flushed with her exertion, and trembling 'with excitement. "Show him to me. Let me see what lie lookn like !w " Looks like!" roared Mr. Spoopen' dyke. "He looks like Sandy Hook by this time! Why didn't ye scalp him ? What'8 the matter with you?" "I?I couldn't tell which was his he. .7," faltered Mrs. Spoopendyke, who hadu'fc . *en anything at all. ' 'I'ull him up aga . and you'll see it I don't scalp the last _ air on his skull!"' The English language lost its last' charm for Mr. Spoopendyke, and he turned to his strings with a withering look of contempt for his wife. "Now you be careful," he said at length. " Here's another varmint, and you musn't let him get away. When I cav ' PWIn!' von shove the net under " V -c - -? ? him and jast bring him aboard." " Can you see him. yet ask?d ilrs. Spoopendyke, waring the net over her head and peering into the water. "Wait! Yes, there he is I Careful, remember. Now, ecalp!" He must have been a crab of phenomenal scholastic advantages to have gotten rid of that swoop, for llrs. Spoopendyke, with a view of redeeming herself, went for the end of the string blindly, but with a strength of purpose that made failnre impossible. She not only got the crab, bat she slammed net, srab and all over Mr. Spoopendyke's head. ??What?wah-h!" shrieked that tfen tleman, as he found himself impounded. " Lost him again 1" exclaimed Mrs. Spoopendyke, who hadn't the remotest idea what a crab looked like. " Why, dear, what's that awfal big spider in the net? Good gracions!" " Take it olf!" howled Mr. Spoopeniyke. " Take it?wow ! the thing has got me bv the ear ! Hani him off, will j-e?" Mrs. Spoopendyke dropped the handle of the net as if it were an old-fashioned bonnet, and gazad upon her husband in consternation. " Gast the crab 1" yelled Mr. Spoopendyke, bearing the net away. " hat go, ye brute! Wah-hal" and the unfortnnate man wrenched the fish from off his ear and dashed it in the bottom of the boat. " TV hat's your scheme in doing that ?" he demanded, holding his aor until rnA fiat and shakinsr the other it his wife. " Think you've got to eat em right out of the water? Got a notion that he comes up cooked and yon must down him quick or he'll spoil ?" yelled Mr. Spoopendyke, enraged beyond all control by the sight of the carnage that trickled down his fingers. "What'd ye mean by it?" and he sprang into the air and alighted on the cmhappy crab, slipping up and sprawling full length in the bottom of the boat. ;t Was that a crab, dear," asked Mr3. Spoopendyke, assisting her husband to arise and contemplating the mangled fish with anything but favor " Is that what you call a crab ? I thought?!'" "You thought!" ripped Mr. Spoopendyke, kicking at the bewildered crab. "That's the trouble with you?you think! Did ye think I was going to stand here and let that crab chew on my ear till his legs acneci t r raps ye thought he was whispering to me! ilay be ye though \ he was telling me a funny story! Well, he wasn't, and if he was his voice was so hoarse I couldn't enjoy it! Ye thought, did ye I" squealed Mr. Spoopendyke, his wrath rising as the pain and fe.*r subs<id d; "thought a crab talked with his toes like some women think, did ye! Ob., you thought! If I had such r. head as that I'd fit it up with ehuck beds ai.d a stick of gum and start a fems.le boarding school! With your ability to think, you only need a squint and four long words to be a Concord school of philosophy!" and Mr. Spooperdyke plunged the oars into the water and be gan to row vigorously. " Where are you gciog dear?" asked Mrs. Spoopendyke. timidly, after her huaband had pulled hard for some time. Home !" grinm d Mr. Spoopendyke, with a horrible expression of visage. ' I'm going home to show the people how mnch damage a rusticating idi.ot asylum can do with one measly craft when she pins herself down to it!'' " Of course," assented Mrs. Spoopondyke, humbly, "bat say, dear, wouldn't fietci- if Trnn nnfiofl tfcft j-vu ~? boat!" Mr. Spoopendyke turned and gave a sharp look at thfe bow. Then he hauled his hat down over his ears, stepped ashore and strack ont at a brisk walk. '' I don't know," sighed Sirs. Spoop endyke, us I tock her boat in tow, " I don't know, but I don't think I c.-ire much for crabbing, though I'm not sure but what it's more fnu than walking borne on the wrong sida of the river with no bridge within seven miles either way !"?Brooklyn Eagle. Wire Fences as Telephones. Some observing genius has suggested that the loneliness of home life on the Western prairies, where farmhouses are often miles apart, may be alleviated by a general utilizing of fence wires for telephonic com mucication. As in some sections of the country all the fences are of wire, most of the "plant" for several private telephones is already in possession of every farmer, so only terminal fixtures are necessary to a free interchange of gossip between families thatare too far apart for neighborly calls in bad weather. The plan certainly has attractive features. If it were adopted tVm farmer's wiffl whATl Sf? tired nf the mono:ony of home life that she can get no comfort indoors except by slapping the children and pecking at her husband, can drop into a rocking chair near the telephone and chat as cheerily with a distant neighbor as if she never had a tronbte in her life. Then she conld give her husband a chance and let him swap horses and exchange crop prospects with the "boys." at the nearest village store. Asidts from its convenience snca a teleohone wonld be a great educator, for when in use by the gentler ses it would do what society rales have always been unequal to?it would comrel woman to talk one at a time.?Exchange. Moses Gantt went sailing on Chesa peake bav in a pleasure boat. He anchored oS Farmer Whitton's hou-e took three meals at the "Whitton table, fell suddenly in love with May Whitton, and sailed away with her. The fathei called nron a sheriff for help, and tha* official, with ten deputies, cut across th< country to the village where the nearesl clergyman dwelt. The elopers were there] but the marriage had alread} j taken plsca. \ f ANECDOTES OF AXIXAL LIFE. Their Affection for and Kind Care of one Another. Anecdotes of the fidelity and amiableness of the cat are only outnumbered by these appertaining to the dog; theii friendships are strong and enduring. The Rev. F. O. Morris, in his "Natural History Anecdotes," cite3 a remarkable instance, communicated to him by Mr. E. Pollock of Sligo, of a terrier's rescue by a cat. A bull dog had seized a little terrier by the throat, and although beaten and hustled by a crowd of people, would not let go his hold. Suddenly, a cat that lived in the same house as the terrior, and was always fed with it, sprang through the mob. and fastening on the dog's head and throat, lascerated him so 3everely that he was forced to let tbe terrier go just as it was on the point of being choked. By kind treatment it was ultimately revived. Strange to say, the opportune deliverer had kittens at the time, yet, for her poor little friend's safe she risked everything. Nearly every one can point to singular instances of close friendships formed between dogs and cats; and some very remarkable accounts of the attachments for other animals have been recorded; but certainly no one can tell of a more eccentric choice of companion than that related by Jesse, the natnralisfc. The anecdote was told him by an engineer of repute who, during a nine years' residence in the United States, had charge of the construction of some extensive ^orks, one being the erection of a beacon in a river swamp. During the progress of the work, a young alligator was caught, and became the property of the engineer. The strange pet he tamed thoroughly, so that it followed him about the house like a dog, even contriving to scramble up-staira after him. It oisplayed great affection for its master; but its chief friend, when taken to New York, was a cat. The attachment was reciprocated, aDd nothing seemed to disturb the friendship of the curious couple. When the cat reposed before the fire, the alligator would place himself clo6S to Puss and go to sleep. When Puss chanced to. be away, the alligator would become restless and unhappy; but as soon oo she returned, regained his spirits. Mrs. Lee, to whom we are indebted for many suggestive anecdotes of animal life, tells a still more wonderful tale of a friendship made by a cat with a canary! Both these creatures belonged to the narrator's mother-in-law, and, as presumably natural enemies, were carefully kept apart. The bird was only allowed out of the cage when grimalkin was shut out; but one day, to the lady's consternation, she beheld the cat in the room, and the canary perched on its back. However, puss seemed friendly, and the bird fearless; and so they were left undisturbed for a while, and on several other occasions disported together affectionately. One morning, they were in their mistress's bed-room, when the lady was horrified to hear the trusted cat; give a howl, and seizing the bird in her mouth, jump on to the bed. where it stood, with brist ling hair, glaring eyes and stiffened tail. At this moment the lady beheld a strange cat creeping into the room. She drove it away; and as soon as it had disappeared, her own faithful puss deposited her little feathered friend apon the bed quite uninjured, it having only been taken up to preser?e it from the claws of the intruder. The Kev. F. 0, Morris tells us of a remarkable friendship that existed on a farm near Ii6ipsic between a cat and a chicken. The four-footed companion of the bird was almost constantly with her favorite, and guarded it from every danger. When the chicken grew up, the cat still remained on friendly terms with it; and when the poultry were summoned for feeding, puss always attended, aad would not permit any of the fowls to approach till her favorite hen had first satisfied her appetite, after which they were allowed to feed unmolested. Bishop Stanley, mentions a case of a pcor ltttle kitten whose mother had been killed, taking up its abode with some fowls and their young, and becoming so friendly with them that sometimes it might be seen playfully catching at their feet as if about to bite them, while they plafully pecked at their singular companion in return. Sometimes the .'kitten would hide be hind a bush or shrub, and then unexpectedly springing into the midst of them without their displaying any fear, would purr and rub against their sides. One particular hen, however, was the kitten's especial favorite, and every day she would accompany i^to its nest, and lie down outside to wait for its appearance. One of the most remarkable instances of a cat's friendship for the feathered race is related by the late Mr. Kingston in his "Stories of Animal Sagacity." In a loft whero Puss was rearing her kittens a pigeon had built her nest. The bird had frequently lost her eggs and young through the depredations of the rats, and this, it is surmised, had prompted her to build her nest close by he cat's snuff Quarters- Puss offered no objection, and, in a little while, the two matrons became quite sociable, feeding ont of the same dish and displaying much affection for each other. The strangest, part of the matter was that, when Pass was absent, the pigeon constituted herself the defender of the kittens, flying at any one who attempted to approach them, and striving with beak and wings to drive the intruder away. Subsequently, when neither her own brood nor t,he kittens jequired her further care, shs was often seen fluttering close to her feline friend when Puss was making her excursions abroad. Surely, no more marvelous instance of affection and g:ratitude overcoming the instincts of nature is on record I Mr. Kingston is also our authority for - ' - ? i - - A * xL.i tne following anecdote : a. irug tuai had found its way into a country house had been kindly treated by the servants ?doubtless with a view to diminishing the beetles or other intruders?and had been permitted to take up its residence in the kitchen. As the winter evenings approached, the frog was wont to come forth from its place of refuge, and bask on the hearth before the fire. A favorite old cat that had a long-established right to a place on the hearth, took a liking for her strange companion, and became accustomed to its nestling undei her cozy fur. "When Froggy left its hole it would hop toward Puss, whc constituted herself its defender, and attempted to guard it against all intruders The ultimate fate of the curious couple is left untold. A wonderful "anecdote of affection in horses is told by M. de Boussanelle, and, although it is not an instance oi friendship between animals of opposite tribes, it is too appropriate to om i ha nvprlnnlred. This ffentle man, a cavalry officer, mentions that s horse belonging to his company, being from old age unable to eat its hay 01 chew its oats, for two whole month? was fed by two horses, one on each side of it, who ate from the same manger, These two noble creatures drew the ha5 ont of the rack, chewed it, and pnt ii intact before the old horse, and did the fame with the oats, which he was ther able to eat. An ingenious Blind San. The instances where blind person! have made mechanical contrivances o: 1 value and usefulness are rot few. ? 1 case in point is that of Morrison Heady of Kentucky, who is blind as a bat azic ' deaf as a post, yet he ia a marvel o: 1 mechanical dexterity, of inventive gen ' ins and quick cogitation. Among hii J inventions is a leather glove with th< letters of the alphabet painted on it You can ! ' i + him as fast as you cai touch tho- ^ers with the end of you: finger. Anc aer of his inventions is s mechanical writing machine, with whicl . he can write and others can transcribe ? The machine pricks its way along thi TiQ-nor n.nd Vir r>an read his own writinf ' f by the sense cf touch. Others can usi t the machine to write out for him any J thing not procurable in blind typo, an< t he can then rtad it with his fingers an< ) indirectly have access to the literar r gtms which would otherwise be a seale< 1 book to him. -V - Jt FAB?, GARDES AKD HOUSEHOLD. ( The Asparagnt Beetle. A TViTIa* Vieo fnnnd limfl ar> pflfi. a? KJ? JU' lUiCi una avmmv* ?w . oiesl; remedy for the asparagus beetle, i applied in alternate years. He says: With a pailfnl of dry lime and an old broom for & duster, or c*3 of the sifters used for applying Paris green to potat toes, a man can soon go ?ver an acre of asparagus. The best time to supply j the lime is in the morning, when" the , dew is on, for then a portion will adhere to the plants, as well as to the grubs, and during the day following it will be constantly dropping down or i blovra about the leaves ana Drancnes, thereby making the escape of any larvse the moie uncertain. The Best Farm Horses. Years ago, when a faster horpe than then existed was desirable, there was reason in the attempts to improve the speed of the animal, bnl there is hardly a doubt that the good of the farmer has been nearly lost sight of in the desire to get horses of great speed. The best farm horse is the strong horse, and one that can step out lively, and has endurance to get through a day's work without great fatigue. The business of | raieiag fast horse? is altogether distinct , i from, the business of the farmer. It is a source of excitement to see a horse race, but when a farmer thinks the horse he sees racing is the one he ought to have on his farm he makes a mistake. The heavy Norman horse wonld be more profitable than the one which is simply a trotter. Garret In Cows. Among the causes, says the Prairie Farmer, are congestion of the udder, bruises from lying down on the ndder on & hard floor, neglect in milking, etc. Continued friction with the palm of the hand often proves of service in reducing hardness and swelling of the ndder Such condition of the ndder is generally of a chronic nature, slow of reduction, and^ often not reducible by any means. uesiaes mccion, a smau portion of the following liniment may be applied morning and evening, but only to the hardened parts. The udder should be carefully washed before each milking, if the milk is used. Take half an ounce of iodine, two ounces of glycerine, two ounces of mercurial ointment and two ounces of olive oil; mix. The bottle should be kept corked in a coal placo and the contents well shaken before use. It would be beneficial in the beginning of the disease to give the cow a laxative dose of medicine, snch as a ponnd and a half of Epsom salts dissolved in a qnsrt of hot water, to which solution add a pink of molasses and an ounce of ground finger. If j there be ir.ach difficulty in jrawing the mill: from the affected quarter the careful use of a milking tabe is to be re-' commended. The Striped Bog:. Tiiis pest is well known to all cultivators of melons. It generally appears with the first opening of the water] melon, mnsk melon and cncnmber plarts. It also attacks squashes C. M. Clay gives in the Indiana Farmer his plan of circumventing the striped bug. He says : I lay shingles or other cover on each hill as soon as the seed 3re planted. The seed should be a dozen or more in the hill to give some for food to the bugs and ants, and to give place for the selection ci the best in thinning out. The -xzU will also onnV fhA inin.fts nf thfi \otihc- Tilantfi. but I never disturb them, because they attack the eggs and larvae of most insects, and are very fond of the striped bug and rose lice?the aphides. The striped bng begins at once, as soon as it emerges from winter quarters, upoa the stems and leaves of the plant, when they may be killed with the finger when found under the soil and clods of earth. Those taking shelter under the shingles early in the morning or cn cool, wet, damp evenings may be, when the trap i3 turned over, killed by tho wholesale with wooden paddles; and this process should be kept up as long as the vine3 are not too thick to allow approach to the hills. It; is true that, after the plants are established with a few full leaves, all danger to them is past; but it is best to desteoy the bug as long as possible for security in after years. The bugs begin to jiair here the first warm days in May, and soon lay their eggs on the young leaves, which should be also crushed. At this time they assemble in full force on a few plants, when they may be easily destroyed. Bent Results from Stable Manure. An Ohio farmer, writing to the Country Gentleman, tells how he treats stable manure to get the best results. There is no one question of quite so much importance to the farmer as manure. I am at present taking the annuI al product of a large livery stable in *? - * x -x to WD, ana as x agree to mu ve ? us iasi as made I haul more or less every week in the year. But in this I am only doing as I would always like to do with j manure made in my own stables. I believe in getting the mannre promptly and directly from the stable to the land. Two very important ends are thns answered. First, we save all handling except loading?and cleaning the stable and loading I would have one and the same operation?unloading and spread: ing. Second, we save the whole strength of the manure, a thing not possible to be otherwise done without great labor and expensive arrangements. I do not sneak for dairvmen or tho3e who devote their lands mostly to wheat. These must have compost or rotted man are for top dressing. I do not believe much in exclusive dairying or wheat raising. As a rule I would devote the | stable manure to cultivated crops. When I have a lead of manure I drive to the poorest knoll or ridge on the i farm that has no crop upon it saving , those most accessible for soft going, ; stop at the highest or poorest point and j unload at one stopping and on one side, 1 throwing the manure as far as I can j i reach, one forkful deep. I let the ma! nure lie until I am ready to plow, , j whether it be one month or six. In I 3 *? _ X j-1_ A*- _ . i,"L _ ; | spreading x mrov ixie maiiuctj upuu iue , | intermediate space between the ridge j ani the hollow as clean as I can with a , fork if it has lain several months?leaving more or less of it if it has lain a shorter time. The hollows need no , manure. There is nothing like a heavy , mulching of manure for these poor [ spots, and it is not best to plow nnder i much manure, for-if sandy or gravelly . I ihey are liable to loach. If the land is level or uniform in richness I would . spread directly from the wagon. While we must have stable manure for poor I spot3, and a little bone meal to fill in, ( 1 believe the farmer's best fertilizer is . clover. This shouid invariably be one . crop of a short rotation. I have some t, ten acres of muck, and while I do not f propose to mine much of it, except in | the way of ditching (as I regard one i | acre of this muck land worth several > I acres of ordinary land for cropping), I i see no reason for the extra labor of com r posting. The muck, after it lias sunned and frczen enough, is good enough to , I draw directly to the land. I am not t | able to see that so much manipulation J of manure is a necessity. In answer to ; the possible objection that it is not al! ways convenient to haul away manure | as it is made, I would say that with the 5 i best arrangeme^rs it is not necessary, f; With box stalls and an abundance of L absorbents, one can choose his time f-jr ; cleaning stables. f j Farm and Garden Notes. I There is no surer way of destroying 3 apple-tree borers than to dig them with 3 i a pointed knife and to kill them when . I found. If they are high up they may i: be crushed with a wire pushed up into r; the holes. Goal ashes spread around i j the trees are beneficial. The wounded J parts may be covered with a mixture of . j iresn cow dnng and clay. 2 The experience of sheep growers is 5 that ifc is folly to keep old sheep They 2 should be given over to the bntcher in " their prime. Four sets of lambs is all j that a ewe shonld bear. She will then bu five years old, and can be readily ? fattened for the block. j For fodder corn, rich land is best, i Sow in furrows or drills two and a half s~~? C: ' 1 ; feet apart Run the cultivator or double-shovel through three or four times. Cut as soon as the base of the .stalks begin to turn yellow, or as soon as bmaxi nauuma itpjjem vu ms iuiwo advanced stalks. Professor W. J. Beal mentions in the Rural New Yorker, that a person with poor soil and poorer tillage had tomatoe? a fortnight ahead of more thrifty neighbors who, on richer land and with heavy manuring, produced a luxuriant growth of plants and later ripening of the fruit. Colts are frequently taught the trick of nipping with their teeth by their owners injudiciously playing with or teasing them. Once learned the habit | is cured with difficulty. Treat the horse very carefully, avoiding all playing with it, and whenever it attempts to bite whip it across the n->se with a switch. Household Bints. Salt extracts the juices of meat in cooking. Thin slices of toast, cut into triangles, make a good garnish for quite a number of dishes. To keep butter as hard as if on ice, take a new flower pot, wash it clean, wrap in a wet cloth, and set it over the butter. Milk, if put into an earthen can, or even a tin one, will keep sweet for a long time if the can is well wrapped in a wet cloth. Mix a little carbonate of soda with the water in which flowers are immersed and it will preserve them iur a fortnight. Common saltpetre is also a very good preservative. Every cook knows how disagreeable it is to have the nutmeg or cinnamon which is added to cream and sugar for pudding san^e rise to the top of the sauce, and vhen it is served to have the first spoonful taken out too highly flavored and the rest without taste. To remedy this mix the nutmeg or cinnamon with sugar before pouring on the cream; it will then be gradually distributed through the sauce. Pour the cream on a little at a time, and the spice wil) tend to dissolve. Recipes. Aptle Jelly.?Boil till it becomes a perfect jelly, one pound of moist sugar, one ponnd of apples, the jnice of one lemon. Let it stand in a mold till quite film and :old. Cream Curds.?Seven eggs, three gills of water, three pints of milk, one gill of cream and a tablespoonful of vinegar. Put into a stewpan over the fire and let it boil together two or three minutep, just to separate the curd Then strain and serve with fruit Spiced Blackberries.?To six pints of '"ruit take two and one-tialf pints of sugar, one and one-half pints of vinegar, half ounce of cinnamon (ground), half ounce cloves, half ounce allspice and a little mace broken into small pieces. Boil the sugar and vinegar together, with the spices, putting these last into musliu bags. Then put in the berries and let them scald, not bo'iGrees Peas.?Peas should not be ! shelled until just before they are to be cooked, and they should not be washed, as it takes the sweetness from them. Pat into boiling salted water and boil briskly f r twenty-five or thirty minutes. If very fresh they will need less time than when old. Drain the peas through a colander, turn into a heated dish, put a large piece of butter into tbem or half a teacupful of boiling hot cream, and serve at once. The practice of serving peas summing in greasy j ivater spoils an excellent vegetable. Rice Balls.?A novel way to serve rice is to make it in balls. Proceed in this way: Take it quarter of a pound of raw rice, wash it and cook it in a farina kettle, with a quart of sweet milk, half a cnp of sugar, a little salt, and nntmeg or any other flavor you choose. When the rice is tender and the milk isvall absorbed in it, take it from the kettle and fill some small teacups with it; press the rice in firmly so that the kernels will adhere to each other. Before carrying the rice to the table turn the balls out of the cups on a fruit dish; if taken out with care they will preserve their shape. Saved by a Kiss. " A kiss saved me I" Immediately every lace bent forward. Richly, daintily-clad women and j moneyed men filled the room ; but the j silence that followed could be felt, so ; eager were they to catch every word. Some one had spoken lightly of tne trifles that so surely make up the sum of happiness or woe. Trifles count for nothing, they thought?it is the great events that determine the destinies of men for good or ill. It was this that had drawn forth the statement and the explanation that followed. " I know nothing," he continued, "of my parents or of the circumstances of my birth. Nothing in all the bitter past clings so close to memory as the certainty that I belong to nobody and nobody belongs to me. In one of our large cities, in a locality where there are many little homeless ones, where baseness is the ruling element, I may or may not have had my birth?at least, that was the first I knew of myself. Poverty isn't so hard if we've some one to love us; but no one cared for me, and all the days were alike and the nights seemed an eternity of time There is a bitterness of sorrow in the lives of the homeless, of which God only can know. The snow had fallen and the cold March winds were blowing, leaving no choice except the sunniest side of the dismal street, in which we found shelter. I, with others whose years were few and whose h^mes were anywhere, had sought the su. :iest side when a lady paused beside us, smoothed back the tangled locks and kissed me. That was the first caress I had ever known, and it saved me. It was years before r grew out of that life to a better one ; but whether I had where to lay my head or not, I felt that presence of a light footfall and the soft touch of a haD^. Out of the pure depths of her pityiug womanhood she kissed me. It was a trifling thing, indeed, to kiss a homeless, friendless child; but because of that kiss, and with the Father's help, I stand tc-day upon the firm basis of an honorable manhood."?[Christian at j Work. Caster's Characteristic.. ; Speaking of the dead and gone heroes of the late war with an old army offi- 1 cer, the other day, he remarked that in early years fighting Joe Hooker was the handsomest man he had ever seen. His hearer instanced Cnster as his ideal of a j dashiDg soleier, and he told a story j, abont him which is curions, as an in- | stance of how differently men are af- j fected by circumstances. Caster, who j went into a fight with perfect coolness, !; was the victim of what sportsmen call I buck fever, which is akin to stage- i! fright. j, "The first time Caster ever saw a buf- , falo I was with him. He had been very , anxious to get his first shot at one. and I, talked of nothing else for some days, j "Wo were in the region where the To- ! peka, Atchison and Santa Fe railway : now runs when we sighted the first , ? - v . 3 1 herd. U aster was mounixa on ? ue?u- i ] tiful Kentacky mare, for which he had j. paid S3 000, and of which hvj was very j ' proud, while I rode an Indian pony. ! ( 'Tnere they are,' I said to him, and I without a word, bat in a great state of j j excitement, he put; spurs to his mare ; 1 and was off like the wind. I followed ' some distance in the rear and soon lost j ( sis*ht of them in a swale (a hollow), j When I came up Custer was lying on the ground about twenty feet ahead of the mare. I picked him up, a little , dazed by his fall, and we went bask to i , movo she wps Custer had I drawn his revolver a d, seiztd with j j brick fever in his excitement: and trepidation, instead of hitting a bnffilo, had j , sent his bnilet crashing thrcng'a the mare's brain, shooting her jti3t behind the ear." ; ! < Gilding with gold leaf is said to have | < been nnknown prior to the twelfth cen- j tnry. Gilding with plates of gold was ! practiced much earlier. j ! EELIGIOUS HEADING. Breaking Down. Working for God is often painful as well as humbling. It entails suffering, and we are fitted for it by suffering. Why is this? Because the suffering brings us into closer fellowship with onr Lord, who was the man of sorrows; because it brings ua into sympathy with onr brethren suffering aH aronnd us; because it weakens us; beeanse it humbles us. Do you.know what is Gcd's chief difficulty with us? It is not the filling us, it is the emptying us; it is not the edifying us, it is the pulling us down. And therefore it is that God's chief instrument of education is the pick-ax. He must treak us down, down, down, and whatever he gives us to do for his service, he will first of all show us that we are not able to do it In our armies, when a man is wounded they take him at once out of the ranks and put him in the rear to take care of him. He is not fit for the fighting till the wounds are healed. Not so in the Lord's army. There the faint are in the heat of the battle, and the wounded lead the vanguard* Look at the history of the church, and you will see that most, if not all, of those whom God has employed in a signal manner for his glory live been in one way or another among the most ItlUlUtCU VI illUU) CXVLLU Ul Vi AU body, sometimes in both. Therefore do not be afraid of suffering. Do not think that suffering interferes with service; on the contrary it helps it on. When, therefore, we offer onr prayers to God, and ask him to take ns and make us, don't let ns forget to put up another petition between those two, and ask him also 10 break ns. That is a short and comprehensive prayer. "Take mel break me! make me!" God, answering that prayer, can do something with us. Religions News and Notes. Mr. Moody proposes to visit Paris for a series of services among the English and American people there. A conference of the Protestant mism'nnom on/iiDfioo in Inrtl'o TI7lll Viol/3 OIVUMAJ OUV1GV1VU 1U AUUM? VV at Calcutta during Christmas week. The name cf Moses is said to have been taken from that of one of the Pharoahs?Thuth -Mosis. The woman's board of foreign missions of the Reformed (Dutch) church has resolved to undertake the support of a lady as medical missionary at Amoy, China. "I swear it upon my honor and conscience," is the form of the legal oath in France, now that the names of God ha 3 been stricken frem it by a vote of .338 to 108 in the Chambers, St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, Rochester, N. Y., in acceptirg the resignation of Rev. Dr. Foote, afttr a service of twenty-three years, have voted him a residence, and $1,000 a year for life. Under the care of the Lutheran city mission board of Philadelphia there are ten congregations, six English and four German. The board has expended abont 83,000 for the support of the missions. The late Bishop Ssott was strongly attached to ontdoor sports. In early youth he was forced by poverty to fish for a living, and to the latest years of his long life he retained a fondness, which he frequently indulged, for the hook and line and net. He was expert at the tiller and at the oars, and was also a crack shot with ajowling piece o: rifle. After he had risen to the highest light in roaming through the fields and woods, and sailing on the streams or bay, accompanied by his grandsons and other boys of the neighborhood, who fonnd him a genial comrade and an apt instructor in the sport man's arts. Strict Silence, My dear young wife, make no one your confidant in the inevitable troubles of your married life. Above all, if you live with your husband's people, do not confide in them. Be your mother-inlaw never so good, never so wise (and the more virtuous she is the more danger to you in the course^-it will only endanger your future peace to give her this confidence. Not even your own mother should have it now; the time has come for you to have a new confidant and adviser, that one your nus Dana. 11 yon have a secret for some one to keep, he is the one; do yon need advice?who so likely zo give yon the right? If yon have differences?and yon will have, however mnch yon may donbt it now, there will come a time when the sun will seem to be blotted ont from the heavens; when all the earth will be npside down; when Dick and yon have the first "spat" ?bnry them deeply in yonr breast; yon can preserve yonr self-respeot in no other way. Yonr private life mnst be trnly private; on this depends the happiness of yonr wedded life. If yon live alone yon may easily preserve this sacred silence; if not it will be harder, bnt the need will also be greater I If kept secret, trials soon pass away; to talk of them only increases their magnitude. Yon may say, "My mother-inlaw is different from most; she loves me as well as my own mother." That can not be. In nothing are yon like her own children. Do yon yield her the homage and unquestioning obedience she claims and receives from her daughters ? I trow not. Very likely yon are i little self-important, in tbe first flush of your new dignity as a wife, and, all unconsciously, give offense to that excellent woman by your very manner. And she must be a wonder indeed if in her heart she does not resent your x . - a T compiexe monopoly 01 uer - uujr ? always that to her, remember. In the natural course of things, then, her love for you cannot be of an intense character at first; but even if it be sc, you certainly should refrain from wringing her heart anew with stories of your domestic grievances, which she feels must necessarily involve the unhappiness of her son, from whom, before your advent, she kept even the shadow of trouble. Fireside Omens. The bright and ever cheerful compan ion of our homes in the winter time,* the fire, has given rise to a host of omene and portents, many of which at times create no small consternation when the events snppo ed to be prognosticated are not of a very lucky character. A hollow cinder, for example, thrown out of the fir^by a jet of gas from burning coals, is looked upon as a coffin if it be long, but as a money-box if it be round. Some, too, exclaim on seeing the fire suddenly blaze up that a stranger is near; whereas, in the Midland conn tie?, if the fire burn brightly after it has been stirred, this is considered a sign that the absent lover, wife or husband, a* the case may be, is in good spirits. A very popular charm for reviving a fire when it has burned down is to set the poker acros3 the hearth, with the fore part leaning against the top bar of the e?ate. The poker and top bar thus combined form a cross, and so defeat uUQ IH&llCU Ui IJJLO WluULiCo nuu uouiuuo who preside over smoky chimneys. One notion is that the poker when in this position creates a dranght, tut the real meaning of this harmless superstition is, perhaps, the one we have just given. Various items of weather lore, also, have been derived from the way fires burn, an enumeration of which we find in Wills ford's ''Nature's Secrets "When our common fires do burn with i pale flime they pre3age foul weather, [f the fire do make a buzzing noise it is i sign of tempests near at hand. When the fire sparkleth very much, it is a sicn of rain. If the ashes on the hearth 3o clodder together of themselves, it is a sign of rain." An Exasperated Creditor. A jeweler long dunned a lady of faihion for the amount of his bill, but in vain. When he rung the bell the fn^mon or>oTTorpr1 r?nlitf>lv but firmly * 5>ir, the Coantess only receives on Tuesdays." "I don't care when the receiver." thundered the irate and long-suffering creditor, "what I want to know is the lay that she pays on!" Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues. " "1 . " -. ' English and American Soeiety. Perhaps the greatest contrast in English society as compared with American is that in the former a woman's importance grows with years, whereas in the latter it declines. At a large English conntry house some difficulty "? +? * malrinff ?rtnm fn* fl.11 t.VlA oxucg ao tv uiuaxug guests expected to dinner. "Why, let those girls (indicating two pretty young ladies) take their dinner at luncheon time,"saia an old j egress, "and come down to the drawing-room in the evening. We don't want you girls at dinner : we want good talkers." This old lady was a famous London dinner-giver, and loved "a feast of reason and a flow of souL" Lord Salisbury, who stands at the head of the great society leaders in London to day, is 57; Lady Derby is about the same age, and many umers uuus^ivuuas ao agitable entertainers at the same period of life conld be cited. Bnt here, even now, ladies of snch an age seem to deem themselves shelved. It is a great pity. A woman of 50 has knowledge and experience which, if she be natnrally intelligent, can scarcely fail to make her society congenial to men of sense, whether they are young or old. It is ofteD remarked by clever yonng fellows that their pleasantest hours at London balls are spent rather in talking to agreeable mothers than talking with their daughters. Nothing conld improve society here more than a determination on the part of ladies of mature age to keep well to the front and assert themselres.?[New York Tim es. 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Great improvemencfrirrerecentlyieaG-fflade in Carboline, ?-deodorized extract c f petrol^ - uui, the gie'lViIatural hair renewer, perfect as an exquisitely perfumed hair dressing and restorer. Sold by all droggista. '25 Cents Will Buy a Treatise upon the Horse and his Diseases. Book of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken- Sent postpaid by New York Newspaper Union, 150 Worth Street, New fork. The Science of Life, or Self-Preservation, a nodical work for every man?young, middleaged or old. 125 invaluable prescriptions. 25 Cents will Buy a Treatise npon the Horse and his Diseases. Book of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid by NEW YOKE NEWSPAPEE UNION, 150 Worth Street, New York. THE MARKETS. t, 3 vn-RTT, Beef Cattle?Good to Prime, l.w 10 @ 12yt Calves?Com'n to PiimeYe&ls. 6 @ 9 Sheep Lambs 6 @ 7% Hogs?Live. Dressed. city Flour?Ex. 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West 64 @ 65 Barley?Two-rowed State 90 @ 90 BOSTON. Beef?Extra plate and family..18 00 @20 00 Hog3?Live 8s4@ 9# IT 10V691 10'/ JJkWQt? Pork?Extra Prime pel bbl.... 19 50 @20 00 Flour?Spring Wheat Patents.. 7 50 @875 Corn?Higb Mixed. 93 @ 94 Oats?Extra "White 72 @ 73 Bye?State 85 @ ?0 Wool?Washed Comb & Delaine 46 @ 48 Unwashed " " 28 @ SO WATEBTOWN (5IASS.) CATTLE MAEKET. Beef?Extra quality 7 75 @ 8 75 Sheep?Live weight 4%@ 6% Lambs 6 @ 7^ Hogs, Northern, d. w 10%? 10% PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. Ex. Family, good 5 50 @ 5 50 Wheat?No. 2 Red 114 @ 114 Bye?State 97 @ 97 Corn?State Yellow 69%^ 69% Oate?Mixed 6J @ C9 Butter?Creamery Extra Pa. .. 26 @ 26 Cheese?New York Full Cream. 9%@ 10 Petroleum?Crude 6 @ 7 Befinod 7 @ 7 Phonosrrnphy, or Phonetic Shorthand Catalogue of works, with Phonographic alphabet and illustrations, for bejrinn^rs, sent on appiioation. Address. Bean Pitman, Cincinnati, 0. THRESHERS:? freo. TnEAULTMASJtTAVTO?<V)..M>?^?W ?? VflllNfJ MPM If von want to learn Telegraphy in I U U flu muli a lew months, and be certain of a situation, addiess Valentine Bros.. Janesvilie, Wis. 25 CENTS A. TREATS 1ft JEB. JKEl A^D HIS E Coatalnln? an Index of Diseases, which gives the Sr Table piviBC all the principal drass used lor tho Hors* % poison. A Table with an Entfravinsc of the Horse's 1 A valuable collection of Beceipts and much other vala, I00-PA0I BOOKafuNuI CLUB I KITE COPIES $1 00 I TEN COPIES 1 70 | One, Two and Three-Cent Stamps received. Addn HORSE BOO] 154 WORTH STRI ra tor human, fowl and sahnsl fieah, vtf first prepared and Introduced br ? 3 Ma Geo- " Merchant, in Lockpoct, tU T? "* ? * ,0~> wMrfi tima tklm fu. O. .flu, n . ? steadily grown in public favor, *ad *, ^ now acknowledged and admtttwd by to* trade to be the standard of at country. When we make this aaaoonoet ment we do so without fear of eootaf > - ^ diction, notwithstanding we an aware | there are many who are mora or 1*M prejudiced against proprietory HHJtfflW especially on account of the manyhaaf bugs on the market; however, we ar? pleased to state that such prejudice doe# not exist against GAHGLENG OIL. We do no* claim wonders or miracles for our liniment, bet we do claim it is without an equal. It isput up la bot- - . | ^ ties of three sizes, and all we .n?.ivTl^ u""ly ^ ***** y?n give ii a fair JI/ i(o T trial, remembering that the OQ put up with white wrapper pWsgsyfig2B?p (small) is for human and fowl Ml flesh, and that with yeSow .'j ^ wi Trr wrapper (three aizes) for antmal flesh. Try a bottle. "^jSM As these cuts indicate, the Oil is used saceaaafully for all diseases of tne human, foul and animal yi fiuh. Shake well before using. Cannot be Disputed. gk One of the principal reasons of M " ?<* the wonderful success of aier 'SSffijfraSchant's Gargling uu.uuk ? ? . "fi9manufactured strictly on honor. ' its proprietors do not, ss is tb? ' -:-i ' case with too many, after making -_t 'ga for their medicine a name, dlmin- "^^^2 Ish its curative properties by using inferior com- i pounds, but use tne very best goods to be booghtia '?' Mthe market, regardless of cost Tor half a century Merchant's Gargling Oil has been a synonym for honesty, and will continue to be so. long as time endure*. For sale by all respectable dealers throughout the United States and other countries. a Oar testimonials date from 183S to the present Try Merchant's Gargling Oil Liniment for internal ji and external use, and tell yoar neighbor what good it has done. Ijont fail to follow directions. Keep the bo Ok r.cil corked. PIIRFC Burns and Sprains and Brniseik OUHCO scalds, Stringhalt, WindgaEs. Chilblains, Frost Bites, FootBotin Sheep, Scratches or Grease, Foundered Feet, Chapped Hands, Boup in Poultry, ? ' '"iwM Sore NioDles, Cnrb. _ ? Sand Cracks, Poll EtO. Cracked Heels. Old &<** ? < Galls of all tends. Epizootic, t.ihw Back. Swellings, Tumors, Hemoorbold* or Pile*. J Flesh Wounds, Sitfast, Toothache, Bhemnaoain, Ringbone, Foul Ulcers, Spavins, Sweeney. Gaijret in Cows, Farcy, Corns, whitlows, Cracked Teats, Weakness of the Joints; Callous, Lameness, Contraction of Muscles, Horn Distemper. Cramps, Swelled Leg*, Crownscab. Quittor, Fistuia, Man^e, Thrush, Abscess of the Udder. Caked Breasts. Boils, 4c. $1,000 REWARD for proof of the exist' . tv .Jfi ence of a better liniment thas ? ySSggfeT "Merchant's Garbling Ofl," or _ yBS&xf better worm medicine than **1 J, "Merchant's Worm Tablets." MiaViyTTTnfr afactcred by M. Q. O. Co., Lock* port, 2i. Y., U. S. A. Ji JOHN HODGE, Sec'y. K?S U?33 Hostettert Stomadi xnoetg^aisJUtarlRO^ ?i ? ?o*??eretl0iu W8*^.d*1These are not empty ^g^J^yg^Ef \?g= assertions, u tliota- j lif ^B -^jZAQl KJ&bt aads of oar conutry- % nien^?nd lromg ecced its ^effect# *w SSot Sojfew^J ^tifrelgS^ft - 1 "HAINES" W A *T/^? ru?vi\j& ABE USED AND INDORSED BY THE GEEATWI ARTISTS Ef THE W0BLD. , j PATTI! GERSTER! MARIMON \ '#t VALLERIA! KELLOGG! LABLACHE! CAMPANINI! GALUSSI! RAVELU! BftlGNOLI! ABBOTT! MARIE ROZE! - /'J OLE BULL! PEASE! CASTLE! WA REROOSZS* 97 FIFTH AYENCE, NEW YOBS. For Sale by all leading Piano Honsee. CKTAr LQGUES MAILED FREE OF CEABGE. Pggggg GOOD NEWS Get ud Clubs for <?? OOX BCr^Bc BEaTTD TXjLS, and wctrv a bttitiM ffififcjBl " Ec?2c*?cr fold Baad Its Sit" BlriK'.ljVVLvil (M places,) oar ova Ilujui Oa* of Uuk besattftal T?? 6?U (1t? aw?? V~Vj to (lie p*rty icaulns a Clab for $29.00. Byw?J? ?f tb> M aB? Vy3 " CHEAP TK1S " thstarabtlBradTTflMil ftgtwtofWI -iJSfil and d?trfmeaul tofce*:tb?clow poison. CcslealyvlthrtUaM* *-*^5 Hoatej and wltli flnt haali If potable. Ho lumsiac. 1 W The Great American Tea Co., Importers F. a toe %.% n * U VE-IT ST., Kry Tort. Pmmm' Pnr*atir? Blood, and will completely change the blood la ih? +S& entire aystem in three months. Any person who t will take one pill eachnteht from 1 to lJireelnnrorb# .;-S ^ restored to sound healtiL tf such * thine be poeBWa. V <B Sold everywhere or sent r>y mail tor 8 letter staiBML ' ? -I* S. JOHNSON ?fc CO., Botton, Mum,. - ^ formerly Bangor, Me. TP B Ain atwxi&Dce.?85 UHEoo poanM f&m | I. H V Imported last year.?Prices lower .< 9 P U A than ever.?Agents wanted-?Doat A g IL liwastetimev-Sendlorciicnlar. 10 lb*. Good Black or Mixed, for $1. : J 10 lbs. Fine Black or Mixed, for $2. 10 lbs* Cboice Black or Mixed; for $3* Send for pound sample, 17 cta.eitra for postage. Then get tip a dub. Choicest Tea In the wori<L? Largest Tariety.?Pleases everybody.?Oldest T? House in America.?No chromo.?No Hnabogv Straight bnaincss.?Value for mooejr. JtOBT WELLS.4*Tewy St~N.T.. P.O. Box 18*7. MSIfE HFNS 11Y 1 mniti. iibiiw bfin An English Veterinary Surgeon and Chemist, now (ravelins in this country, says that mott of the Hozw ) and Cattle Powders sold here are worthless trash. Ha Bays that Sheridan's Condition Powders are absolutely pure and immensely valuable. Nothing on earth will make hens lay like Sheridan's Condition Powders. Dose, one teaspoonfnl to one pint of food. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail for 8 letter stampe. 1.8. JOHSSOX& CO., Boston,Mass..formerlyBangorjta. qnfl Agent. Wanted?300 active, fober agents to travel and sell territory for my Automatic Wagon Brake. An opportunity for 8 or 10 energetic men in each State to obtain lucrative employment. <.-M Each agent will be furnished a brake and outfit at? reasonable price. A good surety bond required- Fo* ; - a further information address, with inclosed stamp, v; H. E? Jack?on, High Shoals, Walton Co., Ga. T D11 Tu 13 JUOHTT. rnt. USIDB, /^\ I AU I n tb. Onu A?7. -Utl.lf / ud Pfjctoloci*t. Wffl, Ik to c??u. Witt t(i. kriM, / Sp? \ O.JOT lock *t bur, hsA ? COUUCT Kfr; "' M I TUKS ? jw fbtar* huah*?4 ?r vffii, with bmm, timo: <*21-^lk ad pUoo of ta^Oor, wd of m*rri*c*? p<ythotof H*llj Yrarr returned lo *V. v+K MtfariUd. ^ wu-LwiNO (j.) anywItch D WEAR. OCT. CDiT Ti bv Watchmakers. By mail. 25 cts. Circalsrt cUijJJ FEEE. J. S. BIBCH t CO-. 33 Dey SU X-X. f~VLD Coins Wanted.?Send 25c. In stampe for eats- ~ \J logue of prices. S. M. Thnrber. E. Worcester. N.Y. V, ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD. | EYEBYBODY WAKTS IT! ^ EYEBYBODY NEEDS IT! THE SCIENCE OF LIFE* OR, SELFPRESERVATION*, Is a medical treatise on Eshaustod Vitality, Kcttoob and Physical Debility, Premature Decline la Has; is an Indispensable treatise for oreir sua. whether 4 younz, mlddio aeed or old. THE SCIENCE OF LIFEt OR, SELF* PRESERVATION, Is beyond all comparison the most eztraordlsu7 work on I ijiolOKy ever published. There knothiac whatever thai the married or sinsle can either r?- .*1 mire or wkh to know but what Is folly explained.? M Toronto Glob*. THE SCIENCE OF LIFE* OR, BEUTP RESERVATION, Instructs those la health how to remain so, and the invalid how to become welL Contains one hundred - 3? and twenty-five invaluable prescriptions for all forms of acute and chronic diseases, for each of which Srst-clasa physician would chxrze Irom 93 to $10.? LonOon Lancet. / THE SCIENCE OF ETFEj OR, SELF- J PRESERVATION, ,Jj Contains 300 naces. fine steel cnRrarinCT, is superbly bound in French muslin, em booed, full Kilt. It Is marvel of art and beauty, warranted to be a bettw 4ry at*rv U?n?A MLT1 hfi S^Trtere for*donbie tie price, or the money will to refunded in every instance.?Author. THE SCIENCE OF LIFEj CR, SELFPRESERVATION, A Is so much superior to all other treatises on medical snbjects that comparison is absolutely impossible.? Domon Herald. THE SCIENCE OF LIFE; OR, SELFPRESERVATION, Is sent by mail, securely sealed, pcetpaid. on receipt of price, only $1.25 (cevr edition). Small illustrated jjfgi samples, 6c, Send now. The author can be consulted on all diseases iw quiring skill and experience. Address PEABODY MEDICAL INSTITUTE, ^ or W. H. PARKER, W. D., ^ Jggj, <1 Hn!flnrti Bc*t9D. Iffma. ? Postpaid. \ ;E on the I DISEASES. |f mptoms. Cause and the Best Treatment of each- 4 !, with the ordinary dose, effects, and antidote *bea eeth at different ages, with roles for telling the aca. *9 able Inforsiatlon. V ID to ANY ADDRESS in AP ApyvA FATES or CANADA, for ?*) ufcW | 0| 1ATES. twenty copies one hundred copies <# . js K COMPANY, SET. NEW YOfflfc ,|