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|f ^ FAKM, 61BBEN AXD HOUSEHOLD.1 ? PTo Increase Ewes. The easiest way to increase roses is V? 1 flairor'nrr Cf>M. uv litvcrijug. t? lien tut uvtii.nujj t.vuson is over a branch may be half cut through in a sloping direction, and the cut portion laid and pegged* down and covered with soil, or it may be pressed down into a pot, and when it is rooted j the layer is severed from the original plant. In tliis way one plant may j furnish half a dozen layers in one season, and so on for a few years, and! the third year the original dozen may ; be increased more than a hundred i times. Petrolenm on Trees and Bashes. Dr. II. Gibbons, at a recent meeting ! of the California Academy of Science.: aid that since he put petroleum on the trees in his garden they had grown | tetter and faster than ever before, and j - given better roses than before. The I petroleum seems to k>ll the scale insect.; - The handsomest rose he exhibited was ! from a bush which looked nearly dead ', a short time before. The petroleum ! * . - .j - ri Ti. I was mixea witn castor -ou. it is applied sparingly, and great care is taken that it does not run down the roots. Perhaps in a crude state the petroleum would be bad, even on the stalks; but ; % mixed with castor oil it appears to be advantageous to the plant. Value of Bones and Bone-Axh. The difference in value between raw ' and burned, or very dry, old weather- : beaten bones, consists in the nitrogen of the former. This varies in propor- , tion to the quantity of gelatine in 1 them. Raw bones contain at the most < forty-five per cent, of organic mat- ] ter, in which there is on the average seven per cent, of water and four per ( Pcent. 01 nitrogen, equivalent, to iuur . and three-quarter per cent, of ammo- j ilia. The ammonia in 100 pounds of j bone is worth about one dollar, while the twenty-five pounds of ( phosphoric acid is worth $2.50. ; The former is all lost in burning the bone, but the latter is all saved, ] - and in an excellent condition for use ] as a fertilizer. If it will cost more than this dollar to grind the bone fine 1 - - -Paw tipa n CAinTv r# io rr* o/l A Kit 1 CUVUgU XVI. HOC, Cb OaYUl^ AO IIKV'UV./ KSJ j losing the nitrogen, as the burning of < the bone will be paid for by the potash 1 * saved in the ashes. Bon^s are very hard and tough, and it would cost at ; least $20 a ton to grind them, count- ( ing the cost of the machinery, if the j quantity is small. But if sulphate of i potash and quic-klime are used to soften < and reduce them the cost will be very small, and the whole of the nitrogen | will be saved in the valuable fertilizer { remaining. ? x^arir jc AMCUIU^ ux Auiuiais* It is quite as important to fatten and market economically the animal products of the farm as it is to raise them. A pound of beef, pork or poultry" can be made much cheaper in September and October than later in the season, when a larger part of the rations must go to keep up animal heat. There is no sleight of hand in laying fat upon an animal's carcass.. It must come out of good honest food in the rations fed. The temperature in the latter part of ] l summer and early autumn is in favor s of the best use of all the fattening ar- i nf fnnr? -arhilA t.hprp pnoil.rrh of 1 green food to sharpen the appetite and s keep up good digestion. "We t have found green cornstalks, i especially sweet corn, an excel- ] lent article in the stye, to be fed in connection with corn on the cob, and j cornmeal and other rations. We ? have never seen pork made more { rapidly than with this kind of feeding. c It will be safe to feed all that the c swine will eat up clean, and no more. ? Clonl- im tlio .-foof? ?? 15ftla \vVl PTt HT1V- t UAUVXX uy uuv i>WVi C? MWVAV ?? . v.?j , thing is left in the trough. This will j require a little attention, but the pigs <, will grow so fast that one can afford x p" to linger by the stye a few minutes, once in a day, to see the fat accumulate. Corn is high this season, and we s want to make the best use of it. The J best poultrymen we know begin to give extra feed in September, when j they' are going to kill L November. Tho Thonbcirivinor mflrVpt, is r>rptt,V SUTft -* **""1" '-'a-1-' ~*o ~ ? r v ( to be a good one, and brings ready cash, j The small potatoes boiled and mixed with Indian meal and hot water make * an excellent feed for turkeys and other * poultry. This favors growth, as well * as fattening. The rations of corn and j other grain, unground, may be reserved to the last few weeks of life. Turkeys should have their" liberty all through ? the extxa feeding. Some poultrymen * shut up their geese and ducks, but vre J doubt the economy of this method. y "WT-i-fK rr/-w\/3 mil* f^OV XL"?!! hilVA 51 2 YY .1ULL Oi ??\SWl x uu VJULVJ ?? AA* t w . greater variety of food and thrive bet- j1 ter with an access to a pasture with is pond or brook, while they are receiv- * ing fall feed for market. All that the s fattening animals will eat up clean is I a good rule for the last month of feed- s ing. ? m ^ Potato Cnltnre. \ t The following is from a Quebec cor- i t respondent of the American Cultiza-; tor: Last season*I made the follow- j " ing experiment with potatoes planted j ^ on sod ground, manured with a mod-! erate dressing of. seven cords to the j f acre ox cow suiuit; uiauui r~) uu ; the surface and harrowed in. The [ rows were three feet apart, and hills ! eighteen inches apart in the rows. I j seeded with one eye to a piece and one ! piece to a hill, except in case of the seed end of the potato, which contains more than one eye, and which I consider the poorest piece of the potato. If any portion of the potato is discarded it "should be the seed end. An eye from that portion of the potato next "to t.hA <?pnt#>r. or from the center itself, is I preferable to a piece containing many j( eyes all bundled together. I esteem ! * the above method of seeding as j * V ' the best, although it is different from j * the practice of our fathers, who planted 1 s seed ends only. Instances are recorded ! e in this latter named practice where as : I many as fourteen bushels of such seed j1 were used on an acre of ground and a ;c --- yield of but 100 bushels secured, even ! I where the other conditions "were all j' favorable to a good crop. In potato ' * culture the seed should be sufficient to I feed and support the sprouts until they | * . can secure their sustenance from other j1 sources. Calculating at the rate of one j( eye or piece to each hill and 9,680 hills i to the acre, and there will be required j aDOUL nve ousneis 01 eariy ruse puutiA>t? i v %, to plant an acre. A variety with a less j i number of eyes, like the. mammoth I ] pearl, would require eight bushels for ' ( Iff ." the proper planting of an acre. In my j < experiments I had one variety so smooth j s and destitute of eyes, the few that ex-11 k isted being scarcely distinguishable,that f ? anly seventy-five par cent, of the seed 1 sprouted and produced vines or haulms. ( Planted side, by side, and treated in j i ? everv way alike, the varieties named ; ? rNs. below gave the following yields per i i b' x acre by actual'weights of sorted pota- i |r/ \ toes: Early rose, 101 bushels per acre;! s r " early Vermont, 63 bushels; Orange j 1 p- County white, 126 bushels; ruby, 76,! s Davis from Dakota, 95, and beauty of j i Hebron, 202 bushels per acre. The j i ; foregoing trial was made in a very un-1 ( ||fK . favorable season of drought, and is but '< E|;' a poor test of average yields, and j 1 again, the supply of manure was insuf-; ficient for the best results, yet the pro-j \ portion of the yield of some of the new i < varieties is seen to be largely in ad-; < Hp?:? vance of that of the elder kinds. The j < necessity of introducing new vari- j< efcies possessed of the vigor j < and hardiness of youth is self- ] evident. I also experimented with a ! j late English variety, known as the i. champion, but the rust destroyed the I j Kip crop when half grown, hence I did not K&-' - -include it in the experiment mentioned \ "above. Medium early varieties of po- j jtatoes need to be encouraged so as to j : escape rust and early autumn frosts. < 'Qty mi crop of potatoes was some-' < what injured by frost just as it was coining up in May. This year I propose to hoe my potatoes just as they <--rirnr>)??r>i->e> +/-> r>/vmf> nr? tnerphv fnvpr ing and protecting -the young vines j from the ill effects of the late spring ; frosts. In my experimenting I esti-' mate 102 heaping bushels of manure to represent a cord, and for convenience's sake say 100 bushels to the cord. An j ordinary ox cart or two-horse wagon ! will contain thirty-four bushels, or at i the rate of three such loads to the cord, j The present season I shall spread j twenty two-horse loads of cow stable j manure to each acre of ground deVoted to the potato crop. Farm and Garden Notes. Don't allow your fruit trees to overbear. Grindstones and elbow-grease will keep tools sharp. Good feeding is the secret "of success in sheep husbandry. Hens that are molting should have a proportion of bone meal in their food. Manure on all lands, and grass land particularly, should be spread as even as if you were sowing grain. The wastes of the cornfields make ;i gwu uilu iur uie wws <?uu pigs, <uiu i they should be turned into milk and pork. Gtaher windfall apples and feed them to the pigs. BoiW, and mixed with meal while boiling hot, they make good feed. Clover requires little handling in :uring, and should be cured as much in the shade or cock as possible. Cut as soon as a third of the heads are in full bloom. A cow cannot srive a larsre auantitv [>f milk unless she is highly fed. She j produces nothing except what she de- j rives from that given her by the farmer. The value of poultry in the United states amounts to over $300,000,000. rhis large sum would be increased if poultry received the same attention as is bestowed on sheep, cattle or horses. When sows eat their young it denotes ;hat the wants of the system have not previously been supplied. It is often jwing to the failure to give them a iberal supply of salt before farrowing. A brunch of farm labor specially idapted to a warm winter is that of iruwing stones. All stones that are int. frr>7Pn in. nnsi<rhtlv stone i>iles or ivalls should be removed while teams md men are not busy. The action of plaster is so peculiar ;hat it can never be depended on as a >taple fertilizer. Still it is generally >o beneficial and cheap that it is usuilly advisable to sow it as an auxiliary it the rate of 100 pounds per acre on ill broad-leaved plants. A successful Boston florist says that le seldom fails to root slips of the most ;ender and rare plants. He credits his success to a layer of oats placed under ;he usual layer of sand in which the slips are piamea. >v ueii moisteuea ;hey act as a stimulant and feeder to he tender roots of the slip. The preservation of straw for feeding purposes is very important. It is best secured at or immediately after threshng time. The chaff, especially of vheat straw, is most valuable, and should, so far as possible, be distributed hrough the stack. That which is left n rear of the straw carrier should be put under shelter, as it rots easily. The use of tarred paper or roofing :elt in the poultry-house has been renerallv approved bv those who have lsed it as a protector and preventive j >f vermin. The felt, after remaining j >n a few days and becoming hardened i ind comparatively dry, may be white- j vashed without detracting in any i jreat degree from the strong odor vhich it is claimed keeps off the vernin. "Some farmers think that a cow must ;at all the time when confined in a italL It is poor economy which puts ' resh hay into a manger on top of >lder hay. A little tossing of the hay eft in the manger will dry it and make t seem of renewed niceness to cows j >r horses. "We have seen ahorse leave lis hay and yet when it was tossed ind stirred up, or even taken out and >ut back, he would attack it readily. friend of ours sprinkles the slightst bit of sugar on old hay for his pet iorse. Both the grain and straw of oats that! ire properly cured and harvested are i nuch more valuable than when moldy md covered with rust. To cure oats veil they should be cut with a cradle md left in the swath a day or so, then aked and bound up and put in small tacks. These should oe duiic line a arge stack, only of course on a small icale; not more than 150 sheaves being >ut in each. In this way the grain and itraw will be kept bright, even through i rain, which cannot soak in much vhen the stacks are well made. When ;he straw is to be fed to stock this winer this extra labor will pay. Recipes. Pyramid Pound Cake.- -One pound >f white pulverized sugar, one pound >f butter. one of flour and ten esrsrs: >ake in a dripping-pan one inch in ! hickness; cut when cold inte pieces ; hree and a half inches long by two | vide, and frost tops and sides; form >n the cake-stand in pyramid before ! he icing is quite dry by laying first in i circle five pieces with some space beween theifl; over the spaces between ; hese lay five other pieces, gradually j Ira wing in the column, and crowning i he top with a bouquet of flowers. Potatoes in Seven- Ways.?Sun-1 lay, peel, steam, mash, and milk, but-! --- ?j ?u < ! noi.A i .er cUlU SillU, (UlU UlCll UC<ll i-int vant- i >atter, the longer the better, till they ; tre nice and light; keep hot. This I beaming and beating win be found a ,Teat improvement. Monday, baked )otatoes in their jackets. Tuesday, )eel and bake with roast beef. AYedneslav, fried raw potatoes. Thursday, >eei, steam and serve whole. Friday, ' potatoes a la pancake," peel, cut in hin slices lengthwise, sprinkle with jepper and salt and fry in butter, turn ng like griddle caKes. baturaay, po- \ ;atoes boiled in their jackets. And so >n through as many days more in as nany different ways, ad libitum. Tomato Soup.?Take eight midiling-sized tomatoes, cut them in two, remove the pips and water}' substance, )ut them in the saucepan with a faggot >f sweet herbs, a clove of garlic, an raion stuck with three or four cloves, >ome allspice, whole pepper ana salt to :aste. Place the saucepan on a gentle ire, stirring the contents occasionally. yVhen the tomatoes are thoroughly lone, turn them out on a hair sieve, renove the onion, the garlic and the faggot of sweet herbs; remove also the noisture which will drip from thetonatoes, then' work them through the sieve until nothing remains on the top ' )ut the skins. Have a quart of plain j ;tock boiling hot, stir the tomato pulp I nto it, and, removing the saucepan j Tom the fire, stir in the yolks of two i ?ggs beaten up with a little cold water | xnd strained. Serve ovar small dice of j )read fried in butter. Paste for Tarts.?A delicate paste j :or tarts is made of the whites of one j ?gg and the yolks of three, one ounce j jf sugar, one ounce of butter, a little ; salt, and enough flour to make a paste >o stiff that it can be rolled out! smoothly. Koll as thin as you do com-! naon pie-crust?say a quarter of an \ inch thick. Bake in patty pans, or in j sjem pans if they are good shape and , aot too deep. To keep the paste from | puffing up prick it lightly, not piercing j clear through to the tin, and then, as : a still greater safeguard, fill the tarts ; with uncooked rice"; then bake. "Wlien j ;ooL fill with fresh fruit or preserves, j w any kind of jelly. The whites of * I the two eggs which Vvxi reserved at first beat to a stiff froth with a table-Pi11 A^eiir*QT? or?/-l r\ti+ An thft fnn rvf apVSVllJLUJ. VlOUgai.auu |;ut vu vuu W|/ v*. the tarts. Household Hints. To clean zinc, rub od fresh lard I with a cloth and wipe dry. Fresh fish should be fried in the I grease obtained by frying sweet salt I pork. Cutlets and steaks should be fried | as well as broiled, but they must be put in hot butter or lard. The grease is hot enough when it tnrows on a ; bluish smoke. If the water in which new turnips j are boiled ; well salted, and is changed twice o* times, the strong and j disagrt :>r noticed in them be- i fore fr< >t < will almost entirely j be remi Tend*.- ^s of new beets, if boiled ! and then fried in butter, make .an ex- i eeiient garnisli or reiisii ior roast porK ; or for beef. Vinegar may be added or j not, as you please. Drain them well j before frying. Light cakes for breakfast or tea are j made of one quart of sweet milk, three : eggs beaten separately and very light, j a piece of bunter the size of an egg, ! three coffee cu ps of flour, a little salt, j three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, j Put the whites of the eggs in last, and ! bake in gem p;ms in a hot oven. Enormous Squids. A New York correspondent had an i interesting ta]k with a fisherman at \ Biddeford Pool, !Me. Discussing about that strange-looking marine monster, the squid, the fisherman said: "Ye wouldn't thin]-:, noaw, to look at one, that they was dangerous, would ye? j But I came near losin' my eyes once by 'em. You see this little black bag? Wall, that holds ink, the sepia you read about, that was used before they discovered Ingyink. Xaow that bag," continued the demonstrator, pointing rmf t.hp nlsir*p<; on t.hft animal with a knife as he went along, "connects with the funnel that shoots 'em along, and when a fisil chases 'em, they let fly a dose of ink that spreads over the water, and under cover of this they get off. Wall, one day I was a pullin' ..dong and I see somethin' ipight shootin' alongside, so tliinking it might be a mackerel I looked over, and kerwish ! I got four or five streams of ink right square in the face. Sting? Gosh ! I thought I was-struck by lightnen, and the fact on it was that I hed to hail one of the men near me j ? ? T -* mu.' ! 10 tow me in liKe an oiu wrech- xnt; i sawbones said I'd have a time, and so | I did, and I can't forgive him yet for prophesyin* of it. IIow fur? Wall, the streams must a' shot up three feet. It's a queer idea, but there's a heap o' men that do nothin' but catch bait for the cod fishermen. Up the Georges and round Newfoundland and Labrador's the best place for squid. There they salt 'em daown by the thousand, and sometimes they strike a big feller forty, fifty, sixty, yes, I'll say it? seventy feet long?regular old-timers. The first baitLi' cruise I ever went on I came across one. They're as nigh on to a cuss, as old Captain Sam says, as a gale from the le'ward. Strong? Why, a hoss ain't nothin' to the way them skids pull and haul, ;tnd they're such fiercelooking creaturs ye don't want to tackle one more'n once. Upon the east side of Newfoundland's a big place for 'em; after an easterly gale they often come ashore. But. you talk about a ship warpin' off a lee shore in a gale; them squids do jest the same thing. We put into a little cove off the coast to ride out a northeaster once, and in the morning one of the hands sighted a big white thing in the breakers. Some took it for a boat and some a halPvut; anyhow, a couple of us put off in the dorv, and made for it. The sea was workin' in right smart naow; sometimes breakin' in ten fathoms; but we got in and all to once a sea put us right along side of it, aboaut the wust-looking thing you ever saw. The body was creamy white and aboaut ten feet long, ending in an arrow-shaped point jest like o' these 'ere small ones, only abaout three feet across. The eyes were as big as dinner plates, black, and right aout from them were eight short arms and two long ones; the first a-flyin' about all over, and the long ones like cables fast on to the rocks, the whole ereeter swingin' by 'em. It didn't take us long to take this in, and the next sea put us right on top of it. Four or five of the arms ccme a-flyin' aboard, one ketchin' my arm and takin" the skin off jest like a knife. Captain &am was in tne dow ana maae a mi at | it with the oar, but he missed and went i over, and in a minute more we was j overboard; squid, boat and we?all I stirred up alike. I don't know how we would a' come aout if we hadn't been in .shoal water. A big sea tossed us all in, and we stamped the squid to death. He measured over forty-five feet long, the arms bein' as thick as my leg." The story of the old fisherman was probably no exaggeration, as squids of enormous size have been caught off the banks. One captured in uoncepcion bay weighed over two thousand pounds. It attacked a boat and men, and was killed after a long struggle. Mr. Harvey, a clergyman, of Newfoundland, states that Stephen Slierring, a fisherman residing in Thimble Tickle, was out in a boat with two others. Not far from the shore they observed some bulky object, and supposing it might be a portion of a wrecK, rowea towaru iu, unu iv meir. horror found themselves close to ai huge fish having large, glassy eyes,! which was making desperate efforts to escape, and churning the water into foam by the motion of its immense arms and tail. It wa? aground, and the tide was ebbing. Prom the funnel at the back of its head it was ejecting large volumes of water, this being its method of moving backward, the force of the stream by the react :.on of the surrounding medium driving it in the required direction; at times the; water from the siphon was as black as: ink. Finding the monster partly disabled, the fishermen plucked up courage and ventured near enough to throw Liie grapnel ujl tucn uuat, tnc duaijj j flukes of which, having barbed points, sank into the soi't body. To the grapnel they had attached a strong rope, which they carried ashore and fastened to a tree, so as to prevent the fish going out with the tide. At length it became exhausted, and as the water went down it died. It was the largest specimen ever taken, the body alone measuring twenty feet from the beak to the extremity of the tail; one of tlie arms was thirty-five feet long. The Mania for Gambling-. The New York Journal of Commerce remarks that the mania for gambling, now so common in Xew York, Chicago and other American cities, is an evil which it seems almost impossible to discourage by either legal or moral restraints. Few people who live out of the circle within wliich the operations are made have any just idea of * ? J- AJ. i.L^ "VT TT T tneir magnuuae. me xuuv Stock Exchange the yearly sales foot up nearly $1,000,000,000. Last year, while the receipts of wheat at Xew York were 44,000,000 bushels, the sales at the Produce Exchange were nearly 500,000,OCR? bushels. The receipts of corn were 45,000,000 bushels and the sales were 233,000,000 bushels. In lard but little over 500,000 tierces were received at Xew York, and about 6,000,000 tierces were sold. At the VAW VT?r-nhoT?r*a fTin co^Tic? .i^lCYV i. UilVi VVtWU jUAV^uuii^v vuv/ oaiv.^ ; last year reached 31,000,000 bales, while less than 2,000,000 bales hava been received, at that port altogether in the last ten years, ' ' ; *- J-v' TIMELY TOPICS. A gigantic oak at Mount Vernon, which has always been known as "Ttf'ochin nrt/vn'o Aulf " has llPPTl de stroyed by lightning. The tree had many historic associations, and gained its name from the fact that President Washington's favorite resting-place, after the heat and labors of the day, was beneath its shade. An idea of the amount of gambling in grain may be gathered from the fact that the sales of wheat in New York, within the first quarter of 18S2, amounted to 202,500,000 bushels, while the total receipts in that market, in the same time, -were only 8,921,666 bushels. Of corn the sides were 72,036,000 bushels, and but 2.599,884 bushels were received. The excess, in each case, was all " wind." The Mennonite communities in Kansas are prospering. About 15,000 of these Russians own nearly *200,000 acres. Tliis property was purchased equally from the railroad companies and from the government. The industry and economy of the Mennonites are proverbial. It is said that some of them are worth from $8,000 to $10,000, though a few years ago they could claim only a few hundreds. The wheat farms are bringing them a large income. The right of a woman past the ?lge of twenty-one years to marry whom she pleases lias just been vindicated in Missouri. The father of Laura "itobbs, aged twenty-seven, attempted to hold her to continual service in the paternal home by locking her up in a room when she had made a verbal contract to become the wife of George W. Bishop. A writ of habeas corpus un/lAAr onrl tlio mfsrriurro +.nnlr AVV/A^.Vl VilV UW1 j (tilVt tiiv liiui i nvi^v v\/v/i\ place in spite of the father's objections. A merchant of Matamoras, Mexico, a short time ago received a threatening anonymous notice to place $600 at a spot near his house. On applying to the authorities he was told to do as requested in the letter, and a troop of Boldiers woidd be sent to watch the money. His servant .stowed the $600 in the designated place, and returning cautiously to watch further proceedings, was shot dead by the soldiers, whom he found in the act of dividing the money. Pittsburg, Pa., shows the largest per cent, of increase in population of any city in the United States, from 1870 to 1S80, being over 100,000 people, or eighty-one per cent. Cleveland comes next with an increase of seventy-two ner cent. Chicago third, with an in jr ? ' cj crease of sixty-eight per cent, and Milwaukee fourth, with an increase of sixty-two per cent. In all but five of the twenty largest citics females predominate. The exceptions are Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Cleveland and Pittsburg. The pastor of St.. Chrysostom's church, Philadelphia, lately parted with a silver dollar wliich for two years had served as a detective of imposture. During that time he offered the coin to one hundred and thirteen starving men, who had tried in vain to obtain work, according to their own stories, if they would remove a heap of gravel from liis back yard. One and all declined the job, though it would not have taken more than an hour. The one hundredth ;md fourteenth beggar accepted the offer and the dollar. There is still one adventurous Arctic explorer unaccounted lor. His name his Leigh Smith, and he is an Englishman/ He left England just one year ago in his fragile yacht, Eira, to run up and take a peep at the 2sorth pole, alid has not been authentically heard from since. He expected to return j last November. He had provisions for fourteen months, but was not pre- j pared to spend six months' right amid j the ice floes. He had with him a compjinion, Captain Loffey, of Hull, and - - Ms surgeon, me crew uujusislcu ul twenty-two men. Lieutenant Willard Young, a son of i Brigham Young, is a teacher of en- i gineering at West Point. A Sail; Lake ! correspondent says: " He was at "West Point when his father's estate was being settled up, and when the litiga- j tion began his agents wrote to him to | know what they should do. He replied that he didn't care about quarrel-! ing over the matter; that he had a profession that would give him a living, and that he would take. what the j others didn't want. So a lot of rail- j road stock, supposed -to be nearly | worthless, was assigned to him. lie took it, and the development of the Territory has since made him one of the richest of the old man's heirs." He recently went to Utah on his wedding trip. Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about the French convict settlement of Noumea, capital of Xew Cal- j edonia, is the extreme docility of the J convicts. Large gangs of them pass j from one part of the town to another , in charge of a single gendarme, and frequently numbers may be met working in the street, with apparently not a soul to look after them. Many of them are employed in private houses as servants, returning at 9 p. m. to their prison. As a. consequence of this docility they seem to be kindly treated and have a good deal of time to themselves, which they employ in various ways, such as carving on shells, etc. These shells they sell to passers-by in the streets when they think they are : unobserved by the gendarmes; for,' strictly speaking, they are not supposed to communicate with outsiders, j but the gendarmes are not hard with ! them. There are now 10,000 convicts in Noumea, anct several thousand' more are reported to be on the way j or about to start. Moreover, they are ; not political prisoners with a decent i regard for private rights, but without j exception sentenced criminals. The gold annually taken from the : Siberian mines is estimated to be worth $6,000,000. The first discovery of the metal in that country was made at the beginning of this century. The average cost of aa expedition in search -of gold is estimated a'; $-3,000. Therefore, only capitalists can indulge in the luxury of experiments, une or tne principal operators is said to have spent a quarter of a million before finding any ore. The miners are paid only $3 a month, with board and lodging. The sale nf liquor is forbidden within twelve miles from each shaft, that discipline may be maintained. The number of mines has largely increased since the second quarter of the present century, but that period was the most prosperous in the history of Siberian mining. The labor of the serfs then cost next to nothing, though the pay of the workmen is now pitiably small. There is now being retoid the story of the locomotive which ran through "a DioKen Driage on tne Kansas racmc railway across Kiowa creek, several years ago, sinking into the mud at the bottom and has never since been heard from, though repeated efforts have been made, by digging and boring, to recover so valuable a property. The bottom is a quicksand, and even quicksands have limits, and it seems very singular that the longest boring-rod has failed to find any trace of the sunken engine. By-and-bye, the silent, mvsterious operations will drain the quicksand and harden it into rock, and then, long after the Kansas Pacific read has been forgotten gnd the Kiowa :\ _ . ; ..T i-' - "* *r * * ' creek has vanished from the map, some future scientist will discover a curious piece of mechanism, undoubt -i? xi-- 1- -x i - v.??,i? i..;? ? eiiv me worK 01 iiuuidu u<uiua, i\ nig l under so many hundred feet of undis! turbed sandstone, and will use the fact : as a basis for calulating how many million years old the human race must ; be. Thus history will repeat itself, as it has often done and will continue to do. General "W. B. Hazen, chief signal ! officer of the United States army, is ! making a collection of the popular : weather sayings, proverbs and progi nostics used throughout the country 1 and by all classes and races of people, , including Indians, negroes and all foreigners. In order to facilitate this work it is requested that all persons acquainted with any such sayings, j proverbs or prognostics will kindly lend I their assistance by sending the same in ' a short note to Sergeant James B. Xewlin, signed, corps, United States ! army, National bank building, Cleve| land. It is also requested, when ! possible, that the origin and history of ! the saying be given. Proverbs and prognostics relating to the following subjects are particularly desired: Proverbs* relating to the sun, to the moon, to stars and meteors, to rainbows, to mist and fog, to dew, to clouds, to frost, to snow, to rain, to thunder and lightning and to wind; prognostics from the actions of animals, from the actions of birds, from fish, from reptiles, from insects, from trees, plants, etc., and prognostics of the weather drawn from various objects; proverbs relating to days of the week (weather and agricultural rules), to each month of the year, to the seasons of theU'ear 'and to the year. A company has been organized under the name of the Great American and European Short Line Railroad company, with Xorvin Green as president and A. L. Blockman as vice+1. n. vi' c.n? nf cli Art on in or jpiemucuu, wiou UIH/ T?,M UI the sea trip between the United States and Europe. The plan, is to convey passengers by rail to a point on the eastern coast of Newfoundland, where steamers will be taken to a point on the western coast of Ireland, distant only 1,640 miles. It is thought that three or four days will be saved by this route. "Work has already been begun on seventy miles of railroad between Oxford and New Glasgow, in No via Scotia, and charters have been obtain ed from the Dominion government and the governments of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland The route will be by existing railroads from New York by fray of Boston, Bangor and St. Johnj New Brunswick, to Ox ford, No via Scotia, thence to is ew Gi;isgow, and from there by the Halifax and Cape Breton railroad to the Strait of Causo. From this point the line Avill extend to Cape North, 120 miles distant; across the narrows of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, fifty-six miles, by steamer, and then across Newfoundland, 320 miles, by rail. The Strait of Canso will be crossed by bridge, and that, as well as the road to Cape North and the road across Newfoundland, is yet to be built. Passengers will be conveyed without change of cars to the port on the eastern coast of Newfoundland, and will there take steamship for Ireland. The terminus in Ire 1UI1U Will ue ueiu LUC pull/ Ui. u<un a> . It is a part of tlie plan to run a daily line of fast steamships between Newfoundland and IrelandCaptain Eyre M. Shaw, the head of the London fire department, has been examining into the New York system of subduing fires/ Chief Eli Bates, of the Xew York fire department, explained the system to him, and exhibited the various apparatus in use. Mr. Shaw said to a reporter: " I was pleased," he said, "with much that I saw to-day ana at my last. visit, jl never did see engines get out of their houses so quickly. Your engines are very different from ours. Those in use in London have .parts as carefully made as a chronometer's works; still, some of yours are very fine. I don't see, however, why you have such disastrous fires as frequently occur here. When I ask your firemen about it they say: 'Oh, our water supply is inadequate; we naven c sumcieni in xurce ur yu<uim,>; our apparatus is poor, and our buildings are so high that often we can't reach the fire.' Now, that is all nonsense. You have a great reservoir 150 feet above your city, and you have plenty of water in it. Your apparatus is very good, and your build* ing.s do not average the height of those in London or any other great European capital. " Then, again, your streets are remarkably wide, and your houses are verv suhstantiallv constructed. I have seen as fine brick and iron work here as* ever I set eyes on. I can't understand' how these things are. The blame, in my opinion, does not lie with your water supply, water head, apparatus or buildings, ' but in the ^organization of the force. You have no responsible head, to begin with. Your chief is not responsible to tiiie people, but to a board of commissioners, and they seem to have no well-defined responsibility. The discipline ot the men is indifferent as compared to the discipline of London firemen, who are the most rigidly governed in the world. This lack of personal responsibility, however, appears to pervade all your public offices. Jn London, mismanagement at a fire would be instantly inquired into and the blamable party severely punished. That is one of the secrets of our success in coping with fires." FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. There are four nickel mines in the Cnited States, all of which are exceed ingly profitable. Children living on the Hyde Park side of Englewood, a suburb of Chicago, have to cross sixty-three railroad tracks in going to school. The first appearance of cotton as an article of commerce was a shipment of seven bales from Charleston in 1757. In 1830-81 the crop was 6,600,000 bales. *' A spring which flows five gallons of ink per day has been found at the foot of Hennesard mountain,Georgia. To the j natural substance a little nutgall is added, and the fluid becomes good writing ink. It can be produced for one cent a gallon. jaeyoiiu Ilit; illimcuiauo naguuuiuuuu of one or two towns there are no roads at all ?.n South Africa, merely tracks across the surface of the "veld" (plain). In rainy weather the heavy wagon traffic converts these tracks into a series of impassable mud-holes, and it becomes necessary to strike out a new course from time to time until the sun, who has been styled "the best roadmaker in Africa," renders the soil hard and friable once more. The yak is found in a wild as well as a domesticated state. Formerly verj II LUC V> CV3 1V11UWIJ. Ui HUM TclijL^uj. Nothing can be more dissimilar than the two varieties. The wild one inhabits the loftiest peaks, seldom venturing below the perpetual snows, excepl during unusually severe weather. II is a fierce brute, a:id has been known to exceed sixteen hands in height | Hue records , crossing a stream ii | which a wild herd of yak had beer | imbedded in the ice and frozen t< I /inofli fKair> fnnhe narfppflv Hisfin j UCUUil) Uil^ll XVl&LiM Jk/V**vvv-^ : guishabje through: the ice. To the Tar ! tars it is a most useful animal, beins ! employed not only for food, but as f beast -of burden, and its sure-footedi ness renders it invaluable for mountair ; traveling. Hue describes whole drove: ; with their loads on their backs sliding | down the frozen sides of steep moun J -I ' . gt LIFE IS SIBERIA. ,1 | What They Eat and How They Spend Their unit; in lut rju .iuiih. I A correspondent of the 2sew York j Herald, describing a journey overland from Cape Serdge to Sradnia Kolymsk : says : Xo matter how early you may | awaken in the morning, you will always find the mistress of the household already up?that is, her position changed from reclining to sitting, and as soon as she observes that vou are really awake she hands you a few small pieces of meat, not much, only an ounce or two, perhaps, but it steadies your nerves till breakfast-time?that is until the others wake up. Then she goes into an adjoining apartment, which is merely an inclosure to keep the dogs away from the household stores, and after fifteen or twenty minutes of pounding and chopping returns with the breakfast. A large, flat, wooden tray is placed on t,hp. floor arid t.hp hmdlndv. rlrnrminor on her clothes, takes lier position at one end, a position inelegantly but accurately described as " squatting." The family and their guests gather around the board on either side, lying flat on their stomachs with their heads toward the breakfast and their feet out, so that a bird's-eye view of the table and guests would look something like an immense beetle. The first course is some frozen weeds mixed with seal oil and eaten with small portions of fresh blubber, which the lady of the house cuts with a large chopping-knife. The approved method of eating this food is to take a piece of the blubber and place it somewhere on the pile of weeds and then press as much as you can gather between your thumb and the three adjoining fingers into a mass, which will, if you are lucky, stick together until you get it into your mouth. The man with the biggest thumb has the best chance here. One poor fellow whom I saw further up-the coast, who had lost his right hand and the thumb ?-e i?1 lw, l.io UJL iiio icit, nau tu uc ica uj 1110 The next course is walrus meat. This is also cut up by the presiding lady, and is served with no stinting hand. At this portion of the meal the one who can swallow the largest piece without chewing has the advantage, and the only way to get even with him is to keep one piece in your mouth and two in your hand all the time. After this joint has been thoroughly discussed there comes a large piece of walrus hide, which has a small portion of blubber attached to it and the hair still on the outside. When the meat is rotten the hair can be easily scraped off, but otherwise it is eaten with the rest of + V? /\ a ' I '1^ i r% l / ! <~v in A V\ /M I 4" rtri 1 />V\ uic muc. J. ins liiuc 10 auuui/ an muii thick and very tougli, so that it is absolutely impossible to chew it, or rather to affect it by chewing. Even the dogs will chew perhaps for half a day upon a small piece of walrus hide hanging from a bag of meat and fail to detach it. This is, therefore, cut into very small slices by the hostess, "and finishes the meal. It is really the most palatable dish of the meal, and furnishes something for the stomach to act upon that generally occupies its attention till the following meal, but it is astonishing hew easily a meat diet is digested, and how soon one's appetite returns after having gorged at such a meal. When forced to lie over on account of storms or some notion of Wanker's, and with nothing to do and nothing to read, it seemed to me that all I did was to lie on my back and watch for indications of the next meal. It was all there was to break the monotony, unless my pipe needed cleaning. This was always a welcome task, for by due care fulness I could.generally make it last for half a day. There are usually two meals a day in a well provided Tchouktchis household?the breakfast, just described, and dinner, which comes on late in the evening. . The dinner is almost identical in form with the breakfast, except that there is most always some hot cooked meat that follows the course of walrus hide. Sometimes the second course at breakfast or dinner may be frozen seal or reindeer meat, but the first and third courses are invariable, unless changed by force of circumstances beyond the control of the householder. Besides these two meals there is always a similar service to any guest who may arrive during the day from a distance, ?11 TM-Qconf Vnc InrmViorm C11IU. CtJJL QJUU1U 11J.O XUUV11VVU. with liim, and not unfrequently beat him out unless he watches closely and keeps himself well provided. I speak feelingly of this matter, for so often have I had a luncheon put before me and devoured by tiiose who had perhaps just finished a meal, while I politely lingered so as not too appear too ravenous. I got over such trifling finally, and could take my place at the board with full confidence that I would rrc>+ if loficfr mv slinrA nf wh:if, was going. J The Poisonous Mushroom. Professor Ponfick, of Breslau, has lately made experiments on the common mushroom, of which the following are the practical results: All common mushrooms are poisonous, but cooking deprives them in a greater or lesser degree of their poisonous qualities. The repeated washing with cold water, which they usually undergo to clean them, takes away a portion of the ^Ano fhck rocf* Vmi j;UJL3UIl rtl1U Ul/ixiU? UUV.O wuv xwv, the water in which they have been boiled is highly poisonous and should always be carefully got rid of. Experiments made on dogs showed that if a dog ate one per cent, of its own weight of raw mushrooms it fell sick, but recovered; if it ate one and one-half per cent, the poison had a more violent but not fatal effect, and if it ate two per cent, it was inevitably fatal. The water in which mushrooms had been boiled was far more poisonous than even the raw mushrooms, while the mushrooms thus boiled could be taken without hurt to the amount of ten per cent, of the weight of the dog's body. "Washing with cold water does not remove all the poison, so that mushrooms thus prepared were poisonous when taken in ! larger quantities. Dried mushrooms are still dangerous for from twelve to twenty days, ancl also the water in which they have been boiled. They require to be dried for at least a whole month and are really only safe after four months' drying.?London News. Comparative Weight and Yield of Eggs, A correspondent of the Country Gentleman gives the standard yield and weight of eggs for the different varieties of domestic fowl as follows: Light Brahmas and partridge Cochins, eggs 7 to the pound;"they lay, according to treatment and keeping, from 80 to 100 per annum, oftentimes more if kept well. Dark Brahmas, 8 to the pound, and about 70 per annum. Black, white and buff Cochins, 8 to the pound; 100 is a large yield per annum. Plymouth Eocks, 8 to the pound, lay 100 per annum. Houdans, ' 8 to the pound, lay 150 per annum; . non-sitters. La Fleche, 7 to the pound, i lay 130 per annum; non-sitters. Black Spanish, 7 to the pound, lay 150 per ; annum. Dominiques, 9 to the pound, ; lay 130 per annum. Games, 9 to the ; pound, lay 150 per annum. Crevel cceurs, 7 to the pound, lay 150 per an . num. Leghorns, 9 to the pound, lay i from 150 to 200 per annum. Hamt burgs, 9 to the pound, lay 170 per an? "DrtUcVi Q tn tVid rvmnrl lav '1ST ' JLLUUL1. -A. vyo_L?oj_ij wv vmv ^^-~V ? per annum. Bantams, 16 to the - pound, lay 60 per annum. Turkeys, \ eggs 5 to the pound, lay from 30 to 6C i per annum. Ducks, eggs vary greatb - -with different species, but from 5 to 0 i to the pound, and from 14 to 2S pei > annum, according to age and keepr, ing. Geese, 4 to the pound, lay 20 pei - annum. Guineas, 11 to the pound, laj * ISO^er annum. ^ i A CHINAMAN'S BUKIAI. How Wod( Tuns Wu jLaid at Reat In Ckriati&n Cemetery. A little group of Chinamen stood : around an open coffin in the establish! ment of Undertaker James Xaughton, ; in Mott street, on Friday morning, says ; the Xew York Herald of a recent date, ; and gazed at the features of its tenant, | Wong Tung, a young Mongolian, who : died of consumption on Thursday. | "Wong Tung was a stranger to most of I the company, and was one of the recent orririlc f-r/-vTYl PdlifArn??l vpf t.TlP mPTYl j bers of the little Chinese colony in Mott I street, with a spirit of charity -which : might bring a blush to the cheeks of the j so-called Christians who hoot at them in i the streets, had subscribed money ! enough to give their dead countryman a handsome coffin and .a | decent burial. After the solemn-visaged ! group had surveyed the remains for a j | few moments in silence they removed | | the clothing from the dead Mongol and I i incased him in a new blue "sue," I nantfllnons and Chinese shoes, and nut : upon his head a finely spun hair cap. A package of rice and fruits was deposited in the coffin. One of the party j took a wooden comb and holding 't over the coffin broke it in two, lettingthe pieces fall upon the body. At the same time he hurriedly uttered a Chinese prayer and turned his back to the corpse as though frightened at what he had done. A pack of cards used in the Chinese game of " hi ki" was placed upon the shoulder of the dead man and. the highest card in the pack was drawn out and thrown upon his breast?a j signal of triumph. At noon the coffin was placed in a hearse and conveyed to Xo. 19 Mott street, where two carriage loads of Chinamen fell" into line and aa express wagon containing the clothes cf the dead man and a box of Chinese prayer papers brought up the rear. A Chinaman sat on the seat with the driver of the hearse, and as the funeral procession started away he began to throw slips of paper to the right and left. This is done according to the Chinese superstition that the devil, having his attention attracted, stops to pick up the papers and cannot overtake the hearse. There were enough fragments of paper flying in the air to keep his satanic majesty quite Dusy, aitnougn tne passing spectcituio were astonished at the sight. The remains were taken to a plot in the Evergreens cemetery, which was recently purchased by a rich Chinaman residing in Newburg and presented to the Chinese club. The coffin was lowered into the grave and the mourners scattered rice and fragments of chicken alongside of it. When the grave was closed up the clothing of the dead man was placed on the mound and burned. Handfuls of red paper slips, eaclf one bearing a prayer in Chinese characters,were thrown into the flames, while some of the mourners held lighted "Joss" sticks in their hands and mut tered incantations in uieir uauve tongue. It was a remarkable sight, this group of heathens charitably burying their dead brother in a Christian cemetery and breatliing prayers to Lord Buddha with the marble cross of Christendom uprearing itself upon all sides. No tears were shed, but the faces of the mourners were sufficient proof of their earnestness. Finally the flames burned low and the "Joss" sticks were planted in the mound. The party then placed a small board inscribed with Chinese hieroglyphics at the head of the grave in lieu of a headstone and retired, leaving aheap of smoking ashes and a dozen burning "Joss" sticks as testimony that, whatever faults "Wong Tung might have had, he lived faithful to his religion and was a candidate for the "Seventh Heaven." Oysters on the Trees. In the mornings and evenings the Gulf of Paria is usually in a state of perfect calm, and, although we made an early start on our oyster-expedition j to Chaquaramos 15ay7we_ TSdTTRJt'-get" | there until considerably after the time I we had intended, there not being the j faintest breeze stirring to fill the sail, | and the men having to use their oars | the whole of the way. It was a splen: did morning, but far too hot to be j agreeable, and the glare from the mo! tionless sea was almost intolerable, and j we lay back in the stern, puffing at our ' -* o of of o /vf r.pr | ciilU. lii. a cuuuv v*. J^-*{ spiring listlessness, unwilling to move, and well-nigh too lazy to open the box ' of sawdust in which was buried a needful supply of ice, with a few bottles of soda water - earefully packed around it, which we had brought with us to help us on our way, and which, with the judicious addition of a little brandy, were absolutely necessary under the circumstances, while the negro boatmen, to whom the heat was nothing, tugged away at the oars bareheaded. A few pelicans lloating on the water were the only living things we saw, with the exception of the man-of-war bird, high up all/vim rrlirlinrr oVlAllt. in t.hft ClOUdleSS auv t tj mwmv ? ...v sky, now and then remaining motionless, without any perceptible movement of its sharp, angular wings, and finally sailing majestically toward the i Venezuelan coast. It was getting toward mid-day before we reached the bay, and I was glad our journey j was ended. It is a little shallow ! bay,- with a beach of white sand, and fringed to the water's edge with ! mangrove bushes. -These bushes are | literally covered with oysters; the ! twigs and branches were thick with I them, not singly, but in clumps, the j shells overlapping and fitting one into i the other in a compact mass. These 1 oysters are very small, varying in size | from a half-dollar to sixpenny piece, ! oHVinnrrh miPnin or Slioll little tllinSTS -r o i was tedious work, yet still when it was ) done the trouble was well repaid, as ! they were remarkably fine flavored. ! We set the men to work, and kept | them hard at it, while we enjoyed a j feast, having our hands sufficiently cut I and scratched in breaking them off the 1 trees. It is, perhaps, not difficult to | imagine how they got to the low | branches of the mangroves overhanging j dan dipping into the water, but how ; they got to those at the top, at such a | height above the surface, is not so I easy to account for, nor do I remember | at this moment any explanation being ?? *? ~f Vi o Arcfor glYCIl 111 iUiV nuifl. nuut wu vj tree has been mentioned. Before coming away we pulled off a large quantity of the branches, and, breaking them up, stowed them away in the boat until we had a good load to take back to the island. Considerable caution had to be observed in moving | about under and among the bushes, as : the shells were as sharp as knives, and i a branch laden with such fruit, swingj ing against one's face, would not be likelj^fco conduce to its beauty; as it | was, our hands bore traces of our exj cursion for manv davs after.?London | Field. ' How the Zulu King Dressed in England. The attire worn by Cetywayo on special occasions is the undress unii form of a general?a dark blue frock coat, braided and froggcd scarlet, heavily fringed with gold and ooped with a button, and a peaked cap with gold braid and top button. The !; trousers are a similar material to the coat. The quantity of cloth may be : imagined when it is stated that the ex-! king measures sixty inches round the . j hips and forty-six inches round the . i waist. Jt may also be said, in order to i satisfy the curious ones, that Cety wavo's , new boots are twelve inches in length, ' i four inches across the sole, three inches | across the heel, and 11? inches across - +ho insfpn Outfit"? were inclosed in 1 an iron box on board, bearing the . words, " Ex-King Cetyvvayo, passenger . I to England." ' | When the funds are unsteadyr j iWk?n mQS.e/ is tight. r The oldest newspaper publisher in London is John Francis, who has been connected with the Atheneum for more than fifty years. Disease* of Women. ' Large treatise for three stamps, giving means of successful self-treatment Address j Wobld's Dispexsabx Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. ' wrlhzlmcia Rousseau, known to all Philadelphia as a beggar, accumulated about $15,000 in five year?, and has returned to Belgium with her fortune. <m<w?sKfnllv treated. Pamphlet j)f parfacu lars one stamp, address World's Dispzsbabi i Midicax. Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Some 961,000 cases of canned salmon were I packed on the Pacific coast last year, the valne being $5,000,000. ' This year the catch has fallen off fifty per cent. Young and middle-aged men suffering j from nervous debility, premature old age, loss of memory and kindred symptoms, should send three stamps for Part vTL of pamphlets issued by World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. ! 1 2 a - /wrxmmntinn it is es- I AX UIC JLCkbV vrjk vv^.....r timated that the supply of white pine timber j in the United States will be exhausted in twelve years. 44 A Fortunate D*y." Cob. Washington and Wajebzn Sts., ) Thenton, N. J., Sept 2,1881. j H. H. 'Waeneb <fc Co.: Sirs?It was a forI tunate day for my wife when she commenced [ the rise of your Safe Kidney and LiTer Core after suffering from kidney disease for seven years. She is now perfectly well and healthy from its use. ^Tastes Kelly. A Westebn geologist predicts that Montana will become the greatest coal producing State in the Union. Frazor Axle G;ea?e. One greasing lasts two weeks; all others two or three days. Do not be imposed on by the humbug stuffs offered. Ask your dealerforFrazer's, -with label on. Saves your horse labor and you too. It received first medal at the Centennial and Paris Expositions. Sold everywhere. Pube cod-liveb on, from selected livers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard & Co., N. Y. Absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who I have once taken it prefer it to all others, j Physicians declare it superior to all other oils, j Chapped hands, face, pimples and rough skin cured by using Joniper_ TarSoap, made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., .New xor&. Those who use Carboline, as now improved and perfected, the great petroleum hair renewer, are always distinguished by the beautiful soft tertnre of the hair produced by the use of that most exquisite of all toilet preparations. 25 Cents Will Bny a Treatise upon the Horse and his Diseases. Bool of 100 pa?es. Valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid by New York Newspaper Union, 150 Worth Stroet, New York. sjrnniiy Hen. "Wells' Health Renewer" "restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia,Impotence, Sexual Debility. $1. Druggists. Send for pamphlet to E. S. Wms, Jersev City, N. J. The Scienoe of Life, or Self-Preservation, a medical work for every man?young, middleaped or old. 125 invaluable Drescriptions. 25 Cents will But a Treatise npon the Horse and his Diseases. Book of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner of hones. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid by NEW YORK NEWSPAPER UNION, 150 Worth street, Kew York. THE MARKETS. B NEW TOSS* Beef cattle, jjood to prime, I w 11 @ 12 Calves, com'n to prime veals 7 @ SU, Sheep 4 -(?- 5)$ Lambs 6 7 Hogs?Live 8%@ 8% Dressed, city. 11 @ 11 % Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 85 & 7 50 West, good to choice 5 25 @ 8 50 Wheat?No. 2 Red. 113 @ 113% No. 1 White 116#<? 116% Eye?State 74 @ 78 Barley?1Two-rowed State... 1 07 @1 12% Com?Ungrad. West mired. 83 (a 99 Yellow Southern 92 (a 92 Oats?White State 68 ? 74 Mixed Western 48 (? 68 Hay?Prime Timothy . 70 @ 95 Straw?No. 1, Rye 60 @ 65 Hops?State, 1881, choice ... 52 @ 52% Pork?Mess, new, for export.21 25 <221 25 -r i /vi in ftft Of ljara?uity cream. JLS W WJXZ ?? Refined 12 80 <gl2 80 Petroleum?Crude &A Befined 7^(5 1% Butter?State Creamery 25 (5 29 Dairy . 18 & 19 West Im. Creamery. 18 & 23 Factory 15 @ 17 Cheese?State Factory 8 @ UK Skims 2 @ 5 Western 7 @ 10}? Eggs?State and Penn....... 23 @ .23 Potatoes-L. L, BUFFALO. Steergy^ftjglrt tirtAii: Trrrrrrt'SQ'^'otfcss Lambsr-TVestern 4 50 @ 5 60 Sheep?Western. 4 00 <? 4 70 Hoes?Good to choice Yorks. 7 50 @ 8 00 Flour?C'y ground 11. process. 8 25 @ 9 00 Wheat-No. 1, Hard Duluth.. 1 25 S 1 25 Corn?No. 2, Mixed 85 @ 85 Oats?No. 2, Mixed Western. 64 & 65 Barley?Two-rowed State... 90 @ 90 BOSTON. Beef?Ex. plate and family. .18 00 @20 00 Hogs?Live 8 @ 9 City Dressed 10J^@ 10% Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl.. .19 50 @20 00 Flour?Spring Wheat patents 7 50 @ 8 75 Corn?High Mixed 93 <5 94 Oats?Extra White 82 & 85 Rye?State 85 @ 90 "Wool?Wsh'd comb & delaine 44 (5 48 Unwashed " 28 <5 30 WATZBTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MABKET. "Pnn-f ,T?.rfw? nrrolifxr 1 fib 7K Sheep-^-Live weight 4 (5 5% Lambs 6 @ 7% Hogs?Northern, d. w 10%@ 10j^ PETIT. ATVET/PBTT 4 . Flour?Peim. ex family, good 5 50 (? 5 60 Wheat-No. 2, Red 1 14 @115 Rye?State 97 (? 97 Corn?State Yellow. G9}?@ 69K Oats?Mixed C9 @ 69 Butter?Creamery Extra Fa. 28 (3 28 Cheeee-N. Y. Full Cream... 11%@ 11^ Petroleum?Crude 6 (? 7 . Refined 6%@ 7 Thattembhscocrge 0 IS & fever *nd ajrce, and fef IB ^ H ?2a IH? ^ cozener, biliona n lr CEIEBBATE9 9 4^ remittent, besides ?! ' / fecuons of the stomproduced by miasma' ftyJ-f i tic air and water, are both eradicated and prevented by the^ use dorsed by physicicns, and more extensively nxed as a remedy for the above class of disw ordors, as well as for Btak STOMACH^?, m*ny other*, than nay R?25 Hfeii,__ ?c3 Ira ^ medicine of the age. ES a tr 'SF &T E&& For by all dSs. *^2?g a M gists and Dealers genGOODoNEWS czjcagaijgafcaa Tift ? >8 hiM5 K jra Get up Clubs for oar cele jg??.'>$j8 BRaTED TEAS, and secure i beantifu' BggjJgga " Hess Bcse 9? Sold Bird Tei Set,1-' Si ,'Aw'rf.u^ (M piece*,) onr own Importation. ClH l?i 1 'J 71 or Uicn beautiful T? Seta circa awaj to tue .party aeinlns a CIcb for tSS.OO. Beware of the ao-call*< " CHEAP TEAS " that ar? beineadvertiaed?they are daageroci and detrimental to health?low poiton. Deal on'.y with rtllabb Bootes and with fihit handa if powtlhle. No hurubujr. ' The Great American Tea Co., Importers, P. a Box m SI k 33 YESEY ST., New York. MAKE HENS LAY. An English Veterinary Surgeon and Chemist, now j traveling in this country, sa/s. that the moet ol the j Horse and Cattle Powders sold Here are wortaiesstrxsa. l He says that Sheridan's Condition Powders are atxy> j lately pure and immensely valuable.' Xothingron earth i will make hens lay like Sheridan's Condition Powdars. | Dose, one teaspoonfnl to one pint of food. Sold every where, or sent by mail for S, letter stamps. L S. JOHNSON ACQ.,Boston,Mass., formerly Bangor. Me. t Tjf3 Q la abnodaDce.?S3 Million ponnd? EL. gS %r imported last year.?Prices lower u &S aft thaa ever.?Agents wanted.?Doat Bw, aa waete time.?Scad for areolar. 10 lbs* Good Black or Plixcd, for $1. 10 lb?. Fine 251ac!s or IttlxedL, for 82. 10 lb?* CJiolce Slack or mixed, for $3. Sena for pound Maple, 1" cts. extra for postage. Then pet up a club. Choicest Tea In tbc world.? Lar?c8t Tariet7.?Plcasca everybody.?Oddest Tea Hoaee in Amcrfca.?No cnromo.?fto namon*.? StraVjit business.?Value for money. JvQKT WELLS, 4** Teary 8t??i. Y.. P.O. Box 1287. ( AKET THAT {""T AXP NOT fe=3 VILLW.-NO Vay AMY WATCH LJ WEAR OUT. t COT TV by Watchmakers. By mail, 25 cts. Circular O VIaU FSeE. J. S. BiaCH U CO.. 38 Dey St.. ; 9_83 hS S ?5* *5* For pamphlets deecrib. i Sk? dJj H_ P P38 '.~i\ cSi' ^ S1*34 [ S U ^ Bos a b=a B Vey CorrrHufiitjAXachmmt \ ~<t* Tsz AULTMA:; St TAYLOECO. Mansfield.a I riioaoRTn-pJiy, cr f 'lionetic Shorthand. Catalogue of works, with Phonographic alphabet and iilastmti.ins, f ^ beginners, sent on application. Ad. cre<>s Benn Pitmen, Cincinnati. O. m * ?wi* bui 3 T.n?i?lv Ad. Card* and a None' \L bach Cook iiock. C.Hanford, Syracuse. N.Y. 25 CENTS A. TREATK 3SSE C^ E AND HIS I Containing An Index of Disease?, which Eire* th? S: *j able giving all the principal drugs used for the Hors aroiaon. A Table with an Engraving of theHorso'* -x > ua oiu cviicciiun w auu MIUV** v?? ? ! !00-FA0E B00K??nuni?IDS I CLUB 3 ; riTE COPIES $1 00! | 'iLii coritis 170! Ccc, Two and Three-Cent Stamps received. Add: HORSE BOO: i 164 WORTH 3TR LYDlifE. PINKHAM^S^ frESETABLE COMPOIJTO. Is a Positire Core i ii For oil tbocePalsfhl Complaints AadW?alaMMW jf* ' Meamaoatoosrbcet fenaatopoyalsttoa. #P^'.*vV| A Xediclne for "Woman. Invented bftWoxBai*, ? j|y||| Prepared by a TToman. Tfca Grealerf Sedleal Dlieorory Sac* Um Mm ? jyit revives the drooping tplrits, Invigorates aat * hnrmonlre?theorganlcfgactioaa,glTweIs?tfrttT ?nd^ %j3H|| firmness to the step, restores thenatnrallujtre totk? ^89 eye, and plaits on the pale cheek of woman the frctk' roees of llfo's spring and eariy summer time. * ^'"Phjrslciaas Use It and Prescribe It Freefy."CJt' . It removes falntraa, flatulency, destroys allcravlag for stimulant, and relieve* weakness of the stomaekb .v?gSgj That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, w?lgii . and backache,Is always perm riTvwntlycnredbyltsasfc i For the enre of Kidney Complaints of cither MX - this Core pound Is easarpse|e4. LYDIA ?. PDTEHAirS BLOOD PETtHTEB will eradicate every vestige of Burners tram the ? ; ?>fS Blood, and give tone and strength to the tjtiem, OC i~35g man woman or child. Insist on flaring it, ; ' Both the Compound and Blood Purifier aro prepared at 233 and 225 "Western Arcane, Lynn, Ifnnt. Price of either, $1. Six bottles for 85. Sent by mail la the formyj of pills, or of lozenjres, on receipt of price, $1 per box for either, lira. Piaihain freely answers all lettersot - * Inquiry* rti * , , tlM KofMBflyahwiMMwlthogtlTDIA. E-PESEECUPB Lmra TILLS. They cure constipation, biJloasaafe and torpidity of tie liver. 25 cent* per box. jg-SoId by all Dnujci*ts,-S* 0? ' O?^ l ^ E^3 ^ ra for human, fowl and animal flesh, was JJA- first prepared and introdaced by It r^>5 J?3 Geo. w. Merchant, in Lockport, N. T-, , /53L U. S. A., 1S33, since which time it has - ^ I kvi steadily crown in pnWic favor, and i* i AVI now aclniowledjed and admitted by the ^ f trade fooe tne tusgm uiuuwt u country. When we make this announce ? meat we do so without fear of contradiction, notwithstanding we are aware there are many who are more or ton - .^3 prejudiced against proprietary remedies especially on account of the many ham.- . bugs on the market; however, we are M pleased to state that such prejudice does not exist against GARGLING OIL. We-co not ' '-^g, claim wonders or miracles for our liniment, bet W9. --/ .. do claim it is without an equal. It is put up in-bot_v jM, ties of three sizes, and all we ' "Tl.. J?l ie ttat ?on a fair ITtrial, remembering that the.OfT ~^>53g pat up with white, wrapper (small) is for human and rowi flesh, and that wita yellow HllWton .Ultll wrapper (three sizes) for anl maldesh. Tryabottle. ^ As these cuts indicate, the Oil is used success^- >-i-'Sg fully for all diseases of the human, foiel and animal "J /luh. Shake well before juing.- _ Cannot be Disputed* at. One of the principal reasons of iirk. wLth? wonderful success of Mer- chant's Garbling Oil is that it is _ - > ^ J. manufactured strictly on honor. *?g*sS3a I" proprietors do not, as is the > Pr"V 0856 100 in&Q7t after making ?59 4a398vfor their medicine a name, dlminish its curative properties by using inferior com- "'<^5? pounds, but nse tne very best goods to be boughtin ; Mthe market, regardless of ccatFot-^;- -IB half a century Merchant's Garg- /. ling Oil has been a synonym tat r honesty, and will continue to be ' -'.'Spa so, long as time endnraa. Pot -M sale by all respectable dealers ?"MB throughoat the United States and other countries. :v '-*-^8 a Oar testimonials date from 1838 to the present Try Merchant?* . Gargling Oil Liniment for internal ' and external use, and tell yoaff neighbor what good It has done. - . ^ rkmt fail to follow directions. Keep the bottk . weflcoried. . s rilRPQ Burns' and SprainsandBruises, ouncd Scaidg, Stringha.lt, WlmteaS*. " ' ^ ChilhlnJns, Frost Bites, Foot Bert in Sheep, Seratch.ee or Grease, Foundered Feet, - >..3cX-->3?gBB Chapped Bands. Boup in Poultry, ErtgrnalJPoiTOcj.^ Sore^i^ges. Cwrb, f. Galls of all kinds, Epizootic, Lame Back,' - - : Swellings, Tumors, Eemoorfaoids or Piles, S3 Flesh Wounds, Sitfast, Toothache, Rheamatiszn? Bingbone, Foul Ulcers, SpaYins^Sweeney, f * Garget in Cows, Farcy, Corn?whitlows, Cracked Teats, Weakness of the Joints,. *r. Callous. Lameness, Contraction of Hosclfl*. ! " Horn Distemper, Cramps, Swelled Leg^Hi?&MK " Crownscab, Quiuor. Fistula. Mange, Th?fsh.'- ?. i-?' Ab?ofiw> of the Cdder. Caked Til inmiiiiy"- ' the 4v XL ?nce of & bettex liniment tha? "Merchant's Gar^ta? Ofl,a or a 13# "McrcMnt'a worm jliukw. w. vnrm*-**** *?&B?2a^t: factored by M. G. 0. Co., Lockport,2i. Yn U.S.A. JOHN HODCE, SGC'y. MYSP?35 "HAINES" 1 PIANOS ARE USED ASD INDORSED BY THE GBEAS H9 EST ARTISTS IN THE WORLD. PATTI! GERSTER! MARIMON! VALLERIA! KELLOGG! LABLACHE! CAMPANIN1! GALLASS1! 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