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thecroak hr. " Laugh at those who grumble, And be merry as you can." " We must travel through life, but why make a dead march of it.'"' Oh, the melancholy croaker, With his croak, croak, croak, He can always tell a funeral. But never tell a joke; He, in his ready coffin, Can drive a nail, no doubt; But with a smiling visage He never draws one out. Oh, the poor, unhappy croaker, Like a revolving vane, He antidates the weather. Is sure it's going to rain; Hi- knows the crops arc ruined, His memory he jogs To prove that now the country Is g' ing to tiie dogs. Tlic dreary, weary croaker Will have to die some day, Perhaps he'll go to Heaven And walk the golden way; But when the shining pavements His gloomy eyes behold, Hc'l! shake his head and mutter, ' 1?d-o-ift be-lieve?they're?gold." ?Detroit Free I'rcss. A BABY'S FLAG. Grizzled and errav, dazed and indolent, looking as if he hail missed the train in the progress of tins life; as if the world had gone on and left hint hopelessly behind?no Christinas turkey for him this year; not for twenty years past, I reckon ?the old Confederate soldier (who limped about awkwardly, for he had a lot of icad to carry) told me the story, the other day, in the Shenandoah. If it is untrue, or dull, blame him, not inc. I only give it as I got it. General " Jeb" Stuart was hanging on the Federal flank. His midnight camp was pitched on the hillside. Up the hill a little way lay a farm house; two or three haystacks hung upon the hillside. The worn-out horses fed there and nod led their drowsy heads to the hay. All around on the ground under the trees in camp the troopers lay?black men, white men, brown men, men who were gray and old, little lads, boys who had seen dozens of battles and hardly yet as many years, a mixed and motley lot; ragged, wretched, hungry. They lay befere the tire, munching roasted corn, gnawing it off the cob greedily, husking it, roasting it. rolliuir it in the ashes on the coals, s singeing it in the blazing tire of old Virf ginia fence rails. Now and then a shot rang out in the clear, still night, away where the pickets met too closely for j peace, and now and then better disposed y , men on the picket lines, or more favoied f. 1 and fortunate, met together and reached - / cac^ other on their bayonets tobacco, and old, ragged newspapers, in a sort of J exchange of prisoners of war. The moon rode high and white in the great blue sen above, and all the stars of he:iven looked down in pity and in peace. r Then a song burst out. The black men were singing louder, sweeter, with more pathos and memories of home than the white men. It was a sad, grotesque, weird and unique picture. Suddenly Stuart stood in the midst of the ragged and uproarious lot. "Discipline! Look here, Sergeant Zeb, I want discipline or death. Dis cipnne, i say. wo you wane me to fight battles and win victories with a howling mob like this and the eneuy right here waiting to recoil on us the moment we give him a chance! Discipline. I say. Ilang your blacks, and 6hoot your whites; or have discipline!" Silcncc in a second! And the long, lean men, and the sleeping lads pulled themselves together and tried to look and act like soldiers, while the blacks, at the suggestion of their being hung up, melted back from the fitful embers into the night, as if they were a part of it. Then the weary, bearded chief threw himself on a heap of saddles at hand : nd forgot his sternness, as he looked about over the wretched group of poor ft llows gathered for a little rest under the oaks. "Boys. I'm hungry; hungry as a 1 wolf; what have you got to eat?" A '-Ifr/en mr?n snrnnnr im <1 hfl'f dozen young, beardless troopers rushed for- 1 ward, and from out of the night, back under the trees, there came many black forms. And each and every one, black : and white men, old men and little boys, 1 reached up and thrust into the chieftain's 1 hands, with generous alacrity, an ear of roasted corn. Some of these ears of corn I had only a few teeth-marks in them, be- ' ing almost entirely intact. Others again ] were pretty well gnawed down to the ' cob. But they were all alike offered 1 with prompt generosity. ''Corn!" and the Confederate chief ' shook his head with a grim and sickly ' smile, as he mutierod to himself: "Corn! ' biled corn, roasted corn, raw corn, white corn, red corn, ali kinds of corn. No, no, boys, I'm hungry, but I can't eat corn any more to-night." The men incited back in respectful silencs into a j broad circle. And there, suddenly, somehow, in the centre of the circle. stood a child, a little boy, who had i been aroused from his sleep on the pile of saddles in the commotion that attended the chieftain's coming. And i now, wide awake, with a little tov flag in one hand and a red apple in the other, this little boy stood there in the midst of these wild and ragged men, with checks as rosy as the apple he held in his dimpled little hand. "If ycr hungry, mister, captain, general, here's my yed apple," and with this the little boy toddled right up and stood almost between the booted legs of the surprised soldier. "Sergeant Zeb, where in all Jericho did this child come from? Is it yours? I won't have children around me here. 1 left my babies home; didn't you do the same?" "'Tain t my poor utile cmcKie, ^euer.il Stuart." "Then take it to it's mother," thuntiered the chief. ' It's mother is dead, general." "To its father, then." "It's father is dead, too, general." "Dead?" "Dead. Killed 111 the battle yesterday when you led over that stone fence by the farm house 011 the hill,sah. The Confederate general bit his lips. Then,muttering to himself as he rose up and turned half away: "Killed at the farm house where I led. Some poor farmer defending his home and little ones. I can't stand this!" "Please, sir, Mister General,won't you take my ved apple? Papa growed it in his orchard. And he buyed me thar, Here the child reached its little flag, trying hard to make friends with the seemingly nam man, who was turning away as if to avoid it. "Sergeant Zeb, where did that Hag come from?" " Had it in his hand when I found it, sah: it won't give it up, sah; says its father gave it to it for the Fourth of July, sah." " FofI of July," piped the little waif, waving the little stars and stripes overhead, there in the midst of the dark and gathering circle of soldiers . under the oaks. The general turned, stooped and caught the child in his arms. " Keep your pretty little flag, and wave it when and where you like. Here, Zeb, take care of this kid. Boys, we killed its father by chance, yesterday. Let us take care of it. We can't do less; and, maybe, it will bring us luck. What do you say, boys?" The wild shout that shook the leaves of the oaks overhead startled the advocate for discipline, and. turning to Zeb, as he strode away into the night for another part of his camp, he shouted: "Silence! and Zeb, discipline, discipline! Dash it, discipline or death, I say!" and he was gone. They gathered about the wild cyed, rosy-faced orphan with its little flair and red aimle. and many a black and white and'not overclean hand reachcd out to toy with and stroke the hair of gold that hung heavy as corn silk in summer time over the lad's shoulders. " I found it in the fence corner," said Zcb, "all a shiverin', and its daddy and its mammy dead, shot down by stray bullets when we stormed the place." "Yes, and dar war a rabbit right \ aside ub him," said a black face back in the dark, over another man's shoulder. "An" golly, we kotched and eat der rabbit," chuckled another black man. "Wal, we'll keep the kid; keep 'im till the cows come home." And with a grunt of universal approval from all as they gradually melted away, old Zeb hoisted the little one high up on his colossal shoulders, and turned suddenly to look and to listen, for there was a shout down the hill atd a sudden sharp volley of shots above, beyond the hay stacks. It began to look as if this little sfjuad of raiders had got into a bite. Shouts of the enemy down the hill; shots of the enemy up the hill beyond the hay stacks. Which way should the surprised and panic stricken soldiers fly? The co lo6sol old Virginia sergeant, with the jrV' child on his massive shoulders, was the only officer in charge. The blacks were hiding about behind trees, behind each other, under saddles, blankets, anywhere. The shouts of the advancing enemy came loud and clear from below and very near. The camp-tire, the song of the soldiers, had done the mischief. This little squad of ragged, panic-stricken night raiders was doomed. The leaves began to fall like autumn time over old Zeb, the tall and angular old sergeant. What a plight for a soldier! A battle on hand and a babe in his arms. The old sergeant came near throwing it away with the heap of negroes, hiding away under the saddles. Where was Stuart? The sergeant put his hand to his car and leaned to listen as best lie could between the sharp volleys from below that were ruining tnc prospects of the next year's acorn crop in the trees overhead, lie could hear the clatter of iron hoofs on the high ridge to the west. The moon was setting large and round and low. Over the bare crest of this hill and against the moon he could see the Confederate cavalry pouring in impetuous flight. Stuart, the cautious and wary leader, had escaped. "Come men' We must follow our general on foot?any way to get out of this. Come! Up by the haystacks and over the rid<rc." The strong man started up the stony hid to pass the hay stacks. The child, as if it was afraid it might fall, wound its left arm affectionately about the great gray shock of hair. And that little act saved it: that accidental show of affection won the old fellow's heart entirely. Why, he would not now have pitched it aside .with the terrilied negroes for gold. l*p the hill he led swiftly, the men following iu groups, knots, singly. armed, unarmed, limping, leaning, erect in all manners of ways, only so as to escape the Federals, charging up the hill from below. They could see the points of shirin? bayonets entering their camp, by the light of the burning fence rails, as they lied out of it, and the black color had nearly all faded from the flyiug Confederates as they ncarcd the haystacks. Here the gray-headed old sergeant, with the child on his shoulder, paused for a moment right under the haystacks to get his bearings. The moon had fallen down behind the crest of the hill. It was nearly dark now. The Federal bayonets were only a few steps in the rear. The rajrffed Confederates huddled close and helpless up and after the tall and grizzled old giant, who stood there looking out which way to lead them, with the child on his shoulder, its little left arm hugging the great shaggy head, its right one holding the flag. The tall, gray soldier threw up his great, heavy hand to his brow and looked out under his broad palm to try and see which way to lead. Suddenly the haystacks blazed out before him, and the whole scene was bright as day. The Federals had been waiting for the Confederates to come. And now as they stood there, huddled together and helpless as sheep, they found the haystacks in their path of retreat, and stood there behind them, before them, around them, to shoot them down in the light they had kindled. It was a matchless and magnificent sight! No scene so bright, no sunlight brighter! It pleased the child, excited and delighted it. What could it care for the long lineof gleaming guns leveled a few rods away in the rear? What did it know of the death hiding down in every gleaming gun-barrel ol that compact mass of uniformed men just before? Nothing at all. Its little heart leapt with wonder delight at the beautiful uniforms, the discipline, the quick action :n which every gun was brought instantly to the shoulder. The bayonets were beautiful ?the gleaming bayonets all in the bright liirht. " The child seemed to think this a part of the celebration, and in the fulness of its delight, just as the Federal ofHcer drew his sword and was giving the word "Fire!" the child, holding tight on to the great grizzly head with its left hand, and, as if to contribute its part to the oelebration, waved its little Hag there in the glare and light. And in tnat awful stillness which comes always before any dreadful catastrophe, piped out in its shrill, little voice, as it raised itself higher for the occasion: "Foil of July.'' Put it upon record in gold and red that the Federal officer lowere:! the point of his sword. The heavy breeches of the Ljuns struck the stony ground witha thud, the line of blue divided, and the old jray Confederate, with his little charge sn his shoulder still waving the little Hag, massed on through the line, while cheer ifter cheer shook the bullet-riddled leaves jf the oaks overhead. And this is the story of the old ('onFederate soldier of the Shenandoah, who lad missed the train on the line of Progress, down in old Virginia. ?Jowjuin Miller. Increased Length or Human Life. The stage to which we have at present lttaiucd may be stated thus: Compared with the period 1838?'>4 (the earliest for which there are trustworthy records) the average duration of a man's life is now , 41.1) years instead of 39.1), and of a ; woman's 4>.3 instead of 41.'J years, an uddition of eight per cent, to the female life and five per cent to the male. Of each thousand males born at the present day, fourty-four more will attain the agfe : of thirty-five than used to be the case previous to 1871. For the whole of life ; the estimate now is that of 1,000 persons (one-half males and one half females) thirty-five survive at the age of fortyfive, twenty-six at fifty-five, nine at sixtyfive, three at seventy-five and one at eighty-five. To put the case in another way, every 1,000 persons born since 1870 will live about 2,700 years longer than before. In other words, the life of 1,000 persons is now equal in duration to that of 1,070 persons previously; and 1,000 births will now keep up the growth of our population as well as 1,070 births used to do. This is equivalent in tu.ciilf In an inorr?oc/? nf nur nnnn. tw-u.v ivy ~ ? lution, and in the best form?viz., not by more births but by fewer deaths, which means fewer maladies and better health. What is more, nearly seventy percent, of this increase of life takes place for is lived) in the ''useful period" ?namely, between the ages of twenty and sixty. Thus of the 2.700 additional years lived by each thousand ot onr population seventy per cent., or l.S',10 years, will be a direct addition to the working power of our people. It is to be remembered that there might be a great addition to the births in a country with little addition to the national working power?nay, with an actual reduction of the national wealth and prosperity? seeing that, regarded as "economic agents," children are simply a source of expense, and so also are a majority of the elderly who have passed the age of three score. On the other hand, as already said, only one-quarter of the longer or additional life now enjoyed by our people is passed in the useless periods of childhood and old age, and more than one-third of it is lived at ages when life is in its highest vigor, and most productive alike of wealth and of enjoyment.? Coru/iill Mayuzine. Palovzean Funeral Customs. In the graveyards of the Palovzcs, in the counties of Borsod and Ilcves, may be seen here and there pyramidal monuments of stone, with niches in their sides for images of the saints. They are a survival from the ancient heathen altars of these people, the Rumanians of old, which were erected in honor of the sungod; and to this day also may be seen on many of the houses of the Palovz.es the symbol of the pyramid with Rial's eye, the use of which has come down from generation to generation, without the peasants knowing what it means. Children who die still-born, or without having received baptism, are buried as near as possiuie 10 me pyrumiuui mumr ments. It is a part of the folk-lore of the Palovzes that the little ones who arc laid to rest near these Baal-pillars will at the end of seven years come out from their graves, when, if some good soul will come near them and utter the baptismal formula, they will immediately become little angels and go to heaven; but, if the baptism is not given, they will have to wait seven years longer for another opportunity to be released. Many other reminiscences of Baal-worship survive among these people. The mother who has lost a young child wraps her head, as a sign of mourning, in a fiery red cloth. The former prevalence of cremation is radicated in the custom of burning the clothes which the deceased wore last. The tcar-jugs of the ancients may still be found in the houses, of exactly the old form and size, but destined to a quite different purpose. Another peculiar custom at the funeral feast is t o lay a plate with salt and bread upon the table, for the use of the soul of the departed one, if it should appear in the circle of friends.?I'opuUw Scicncc Monthly. A cobbler's wife call him "Breath,'' because 'he lasts for the living. COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD. AH IHTEBESTIHG DESCBXPTIOH OP HOW HATS ABE MADE. A Curious I'ritfi'ssmid Olio Tiint Call* For lirrat Labor?Various Stages ot Jikinc. In the first place the whole material of which a good felt hat is made?with the exception of the bands, binding and lining?is fur. For this purpose the furs of the beaver, the Russian hare, the rabbit, the French coney and the South American rutriu arc used. Every reader will be familiar with all but the lastnamed animal, which is a soft-coated, beautifully marked rodent, about as large as a cat. Several of these furs arc mixed t<> make the felt, and the mixtures for fine hats are secrets carefully guarded by the men who have discovered the right proportions for the constituents. The forming process is a most curious one. It consists of a copper cone six inches broad across the top, about twelve bread access the bottom and three feet high. This cone is full of holes; in fact, it is a sieve. A workman takes it and dampens it. Then he sets it so that the t. 41.~ Jo nniiJif In tVin I1II1 at L11U UV'tlUlIl id V^au^m IK uiv | round groove of a wooden plate. This , plate is raised a foot above the floor in the center of a semi-circular wooden fence rising six feet above the floor. Oil one side of this particular inclosure and rising above it arc the rollers of a big machine, at which a boy is standing. The boy sets the machine going and it begins to fill the air above it with hair. The man with the cone has also started some machinery, apparently, for the cone is rapidly revolving horizontally, and something beneath it which cannot be seen is buzzing busily. Then the man takes the two doors which arc folded back from the sides of the semi-rircular fence and closes them. They form another complete semi circle and the cone is thereupon shut up in a kind of wooden well six feet in diameter. Hair is raining down all this time from the machine above this well. Hefore a minute is over the machine has tossed all the fur for one hat into the air. The boy rings a bell, the machine stops, the man opens the doors of the well, the cone is stopped, and then the visitor looks at what seems a miracle. All the fur which has been seen lately falling softly like rain iuto the wooden well is lying evenly distributed upon the topaud sides of the cone. This loose fur covering of the copper cone is the felt hat as it first begins to take shape. The man who is attending to it throws wet cloths about it and car"nnn nnil nil nAvnv to a tnnk. where lie plunges it in boiling water. Then he carries the cone to a table and carefully strips the hat form off it. It needs an experienced hand to do this; a tyro at the business would break the loose lyini; form all to bits. The man performs the operation with ease, though, and turns it over and over, looking for flaws and weak parts. Whenever he perceives one lie takes some wet fur and sticks it there. "When he has patched the form before him he wraps a wet cloth about it and carefully wrings it out. "When the wringing process is complete he rolls it with a wooden rolling pin, just as a woman rolls pastry. He rolls it from the top downward and its height diminishes every minute. At first it was about three feet high and the same in other dimensions as the cone, but in a little while it is contracted, with the rolling pin and continued dipping in hot water, to two feet high, about. Then it is taken to what is callcd the sizing shop. In this placc are round tables, the centers of which are low. while the boards slope up to the outer edges; in the low, central part boiling water is bubbling. A man stands at each of these tables and beside him lies a pile of hat forms. He takes one and beats it and dips it in the boiling water and rolls it from the top downward till it becomes not more than nine inches high. When it has reached the required size for this process the hat is "shaved" by a man who takes it on his knee and goes over its surface rapidly with a very sharp knife. Then it is "second sized" or rolled again to make it smaller, and after that stiffened with shellac dissolved in alcohol, laid oti/With a brush, thcu it is cleared, the surface being washed with a solution of soda. The next process is dyeine, which is very carefully done, the exact proportions of dyewood to water being preserved and the hats kept continually stirred as, if they were allowed to rest on each other, there would be some very extraordinary coloring effects produced. After being dyed the hat goes to the "blocker out." This man?who is one of many?has a hand on him like a horse s hoof; the palm is one great callous as white as a water blister and as bard as sole leather, and the palm side of his finger and thumb show similar callousness. These arc produced by the man's work, which is especially hard, lie has bv strenirthand considerable skill mil much perseverance to pull the hat into the shape of the block. There are no artificial aids. He dips the hat into boiling water, pulls it out again, dips his hand into a cask of cold water which stands by his side, and then grasping some portion of the hat between his hand he braces himself and pulls. When the "blocker out'" has got through with it the hat is ready for finishing. A man now pulls it over a block and irons it into the final shape. Then smooth sand paper is used to pounce or smooth it. After being thoroughly pounced the hat is then greased with hot, crude oil to make the color even; then it is rounded and the brim cut to any desired width. After this cutting, which is done with a gauged hand-machine, the hat g->es away to the curlers, who curl the brim. These men must be very skillful and have good eyes for size and shape. They take a curved iron blade witli a wooden handle and turn up the sides of the brim a little at a time till they get it to the required shape. One of these men frequently makes as much as $7.> per week, and one week he made :?110. After the hats have passed through the curlers' hands they go to the trimmers, who ?re all girls. These put on the silk binding and the sweat bands and sew in the lining, and the hats are then taken awav to the packing room, where each hat is carefully nested in a com- j partment of the wooden box in which it j is to travel to its destination. Such is i the method of making still felt hats. | The soft felt articles are turned out in | much the same way save that the stiffening is omitted and the brim is flanged I over an iron block. To make the silk stovepipe hats a large square of muslin is dipped in shellac, wrung out and then stretched over a wooden frame to dry. After drying it is cut up into sizes and shapes suitable for the various parts of the hat. Some pieces arc cut on the bias for the crowns of hats, others are stiffened particularly for the brims, while the muslin for Ihe central cylinders, which arc to be the sides, is cut out in oblong squares. The material for a dozen of these hats is then given to a workman, who draws the frame of the hat together around a block and fastens it by means of a hot iron. The shell of the hat, as it is called, is li/.n nnd lrmkinrr it still" and then the silk plush is put on, a man j ironing it to the shellac covered shell and i sponging it with water at every stroke of j the iron, (iiils sew in the crown and i the brim after the sides of the shell have been fastened, and then the seams are yone over with a hot iron, which conceals all traces of them. The brim is j then curled as in the case of the felt ar- i tide, and the hat then goes away to the j luering machine, where the polish brushes, revolving rapidly, give it a high polish. From the luering machine it goes to the hands of a girl who trims it and puts in the lining. Opera hats arc made of steel springs imported from France and covered here with either merino or black satin.? Brooklyn Kmjle. A Hoy Who is Unable to Perspire. There is a boy in Putnam county, a son of Jefferson Lee, ten years of age, who, owing to the peculiar nature of his skin, has never been known to sweat a Ma tifn An. U.UJ, ... I other phenomenal feature connected : with the boy is that he has only four i teeth, and he had these when born, having neither cut nor shed any since his birth. lie is very much affected by the seasons. In the summer he gets exceedingly warm and is compelled, in order to live at all, to keep his head and body wet with cold water, and falls off to almost a skeleton, but when winter comes and cold weather sets in he is enabled to dispense with his bath and grows fat. lie is said to be a sprightly bov, with plenty of sense.?Nuxhcille World. "So, you have finally made up your mind you won't have me?'' he asked. " Yes, firmly," sh? replied. " I sup|>oso you take me for a fool for proposing to you so often.'' "No, sir; I don't take j you for a fool. I wouldn't have you for a gift."?Detroit Free Tress. -J' . & FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. A Piece of Advice. We advise every farmer to select this fall a small plot of warm, mellow, welldrained soil, to dig it up thoroughly and to add a little manure, and then to plant apple seeds on it. Select seeds from good and hardy sorts of fruit and from good apples. Plant in rows, a seed every foot or less, and cover a half-inch deep. Over the row place a narrow board, to keep hens oil, and to prevent washing or heaving of the soil. Make the rows four feet apart. In the Spring remove the boards. If the seeds all germinate, some of the young seedlings should be transplanted. Cultivate well next Summer. If green lice attack the tender seedlings, apply a weak Paris green mixture. A year from next Spring graft the seedlings. These will be ready to plant a year after grafting, if they do well, or if they remain longer in the rows. They will till vacancies in the old orchard, or supply stock for a new one, and some will be wanted by neighbors.?American Cultivator. Black Teeth in Pip, All pigs have the little black teeth in the middle of their jaws, which worrypeople so much. These are the teeth in the males which make the tusks and in the females which keep the rope from slipping oil of the jaw when they are caught to be rung. When the pigs are young these teeth arc very small, but sometimes so sharp that they lacerate their tongues or cheeks so that they cannot eat well and then they ''do miserably." When a pig shows these symptoms these teeth should be broken off smoothly with a pair of pincers. Taking the pig between the knees and putting a small cord with a slipping noose around the upper jaw will cause it to open its mouth and at the same time it can be held firmly. Sometimes these teeth turn outward and make trouble on this account. I have had a Victoria boar, nine years old, whose tusks were six inches longseme " black teeth." In another boar about as old 1 had to saw them off as they took a turn into the flesh. In sows they grow from a half-inch to an inch in length. Out of 100 pigs this year, mostly Duroc-Jersey, there has been but one ailing, and this was a case of "black teeth," by which I mean, the incipient tusks made his mouth sore, and after thcv were broken off the piir thrived as well as any?F. B Curtis. Care of Geranium*. It is altogether useless to expect that geranium plants, which have flowered all summer in the open air, will, if taken up and potted, continue to bloom equally well during the winter season. If geraniums are wanted for winter flowering, they must be specially grown during summer, although it is not yet too late to prepare a few plants for that purpose. If plants have not been specially reserved, a few should be taken up immediately and potted, care being taken to select the most compact and perfectlyformed specimens. In potting, select porous or soft-baked pots, proportionate to the size of the plant, and place in the bottom of each at least an inch of broken pots in order to insure perfect drainage. Keep the plants in the center of the pots, and firm the soil well around their roots. "When the plants are potted, water thoroughly, and place in a shady situation for a week or ten days, after which time they should be exposed to the sun. Have them well supplied with water, and remove all flower-buds until it is time to bring them inside, which will be on the approach of cool weather. Give them a light, sunny situation, and an average temperature of fifty-five degrees. Do not crowd the plants, and turn them occasionally, so as to develop an even, sym metrical shape. The most suitable compost for geraniums is a mixture of two-thirds well-rottcd sod from an old pasture; one third well-decayed manure, and a fair sprinkling of bone-dust, thoroughly mixed and pulverized before using. Water should be given as often as necessary, care being taken to give an ample supply, and when the pots become filled with roots, liquid manure water should be given twice a week. One ounce of guano, dissolved in two gallons of water, will be a proper proportion for this purpose. "When iarge specimens arc desired the plants should be repotted as often as the pots become filled with roots, or until they have reached the desired size, when they can be treated as above advised.? Garden. Farm and Garden Note*. Small flowers arc often more desirable tlmn large ones. They have a delicate beauty and a modesty seldom found in a large flower. The best way to combat the blackberry blight is to plant a new patch ever}' two or three years on a new spot. When the old bushes are destroyed, burn them. We would discourage the practice of pruning fruit trees in the fall or early winter. Early spring, or else in June, appear to be better seasons for pruning. ? Uultittitor. Double tuberoses often degenerate. Just why they do so has not been clearly demonstrated. The single ones have the advantage of flowerine nearly two weeks earlier than the double ones. Try a handful of nitrate of soda on two hills of late sweet corn. Spread it on evenly and rake it in. You will see a diflerencc in the color of the leaves in two days after the first shower if your land needs nitrogen. If green trees are cut while in leaf, they will dry sufKciently to be reasonably good fuel by the middle of winter. It is not necessary or advisable to cut them up now; only sever them from the root, that the work of seasoning may commence at once. A good way of utilizing the bed and banks of streams is to sprinkle a little watercress there. It will flourish for countless years,and near a city-is a profitable crop to market. This is. one of the earliest salads in spring, and the demand of it is increasing. Kerosene oil and milk, in the proportion of one quart of the former to live quarts of the latter, makes a wash which will destroy the apple-tree bark louse. It will also kill the striped cucumber and squash bug, and many other pests. It can be applied with a large syringe. A great deal of butter is injured in quality before the milk is brought from the barn or stable. If poor butter is the result the housewife or dairymaid is not the one to hold responsible. If cows are well bedded, and the milker uses due care, there will be much fewer complaints of ill-flavored butter. Fields that have bcou newly seeded should have the stones gathered in heaps before the cold weather for removal. The rcmovai may be done when the ground is frozen if those fast in the ground arc placed in heaps. The roller in the spring will press into the soft earth the stones too small to be easily picked up. It should be remembered that fur winter grain the best, use of the roller is to compact the seed bed before putting in the grain. The rough surface left in drilling is rather an advantage, as u protects the grain from the severity of winter. There are. however, seasons and places in which after-seeding is advisable. The fall is probably the best time to top dress grass as the rains now due make a growth which prevents the coarser particles from washing away. The winter snows and rains carry the valuable portions of the manure among the grass roots which will be responded to by an earlier and more vigorous growth in the sprint:. Every fall there is a great deal of refuse gathered around the fields, which | should be piled up and burned. Much of it will consist of weeds, whose final cutting has not entirely prevented seeding. If left till spring these seeds will fall to the ground, and burning the refuse will then miss one of its most important objects. The gizzard of fowls is admirably adapted for grinding the hardest grains, and it is well 1o give it something of this to do. Feeding fouls with meal and water or soaking grain for them is a waste of labor. Even young chickens thrive better on whole wheat or screenings than on meal mixed with water. The drink needed is better given separately. The fall is the best time to deepen and clean open ditches. The grass and weeds that grow on their sides should all be removed, so as to leave a free course of water. Especially if billows have got a foothold on "the banks, they should be pulled up by the roots. It is impossible to keep an open ditch in good working condition where its banks arc infested ( by willows. It is generally supposed that no I animal will eat bean fodder excepting ! sheep. It may be important to know j that, after a little use of them, cows be- j come very fond of beanstalks and will V ? eat them in preference to good hay. Refuse beans may be boiled and fed to fattening hogs, mixing at' first with other grains until the animals become used to the new diet. Fuchsias arc raised from seed by florists who wish to obtain new varieties. The plants are brought into bloom in about a year. Tin; millions of plants yearly raised arc produced from cuttings. Pinching in the ends of the shoots of a fuchsia probably retards its blooming somewhat, but it causes numerous branches to form, and improves the shape of the plant and makes possible the pro duction of a greater number of flowers. The fine. dust from much traveled roads has considerable manuring propertics. Some farmers have used it as a divisoc to more evenly distribute phosphate in drilling grain. It is excellent to covcr hen droppings, as it absorbs the ammonia which would otherwise escape. In cities the street scrapings consist very largely of the droppings from horses, and are readily appropriated by market gardeners and farmers living within a few miles. Dr. Sturtevant has been counting the heads afTcctcd by smut in a plat of oats of different varieties, . apparently not much injured, lie found that 6 1-2 per cent, were destroyed. Contrary to the belief of many farmers, it was shown that the oats growing on poor, thin sod were worse smutted than that which grew stronger. This indicates that deficient vigor predisposes to the diseaso, and suggests liberal manuring, especially with mineral fetilizers, as a possible remedy. Ilounchold Hint* nml Itccipc*. Delicious pudding sauce is made of mixed fruits, choppcd fine, and cooked until soft. Thin properly with water, sweeten, and lastly add a well-beaten egg. Serve cold or hot. To remove ink stains from printed books, etc., take a little oxalic acid, which dissolve in a small quantity of warm water, then slightly wet the stain with it, when it will disappear, leaving the text uninjured. Flowers may be kept very fresh over night if they arc excluded entirely from the air. To do this, wet them thoroughly, put in a damp box, and cover with wet raw cotton or wet newspaper; then place in a cool spot. An entree of small new carrots is made by first making some rich, well-seasoned stock, then boil the carrots until tender in salted water. When done slice them tViin nml rlrrm thorn into a sauce nan con taining the stock, Let them just come to a boil, then serve. A receipt for tomato pie is as follows: Peel and slice enough green tomatoes to fill one pic; to this allow four tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one of butter, and three and a half of sugar, flavor with nutmeg, bake with two- crusts very slowly. If you choose you may stew the tomatoes first, and then there is no danger of the pie being too juicy. An excellent dish for a plain home dinner is made by stewing some veal until it is tender, thicken the gravy with flour, and season with pepper and salt, and put in enough butter to flavor it; then make a nice crust like biscuit dough, have it when baked an inch and a half thick. Put the veal and gravy into an earthen pudding dish and cover the dish with the crust. Bake and serve h< t. To clean stained woodwork which is also varnished, an old housewife recommends the saving of tea leaves from the" teapot for a few days. Drain them, and when you have a sufficient quantity put them in clean, soft water; let them simmer for half an hour. When almost cold, strain them out, and dipping a flahnel cloth in the water, wipe off the point, drying it with another flannel cloth. One cup of tea leaves to one quart of water is the due allowance. / A Wonderfnl Pass. Some people think that the engineers of the Mexican Central traced their line through the Xochistongo pass, merely obeying a professional pride that impelled them to overcome great difficulties. This pass is famous. It is a huge artificial canal made to drain the Mexican valley and lead the waters of its salty Lake Tcxcoco to Lake Tula. It was cut by order of the Marquis of Salinis, Louis de Yelasco. viceroy of Mexico, in 1G08, and under the supervision of the Jesuit, Juan Sanchez. It measures nine kilometres?nearly six miles. Xo curve of the road is less than two hundred metres in length, and the steepest declivity is less than four miles and about one and one-half per cent, in dip. The rails of the Central are steel, with a weight of twenty-seven kilograms per linear metre. The crampirons arc fastened with four bolts. The sleepers are oak, two metres and five hundred and fourteen milimctrcs in length. The ballast of the road is the limestone formation of the pass, that insures its stability. An accident or derailment there could scarcely occur on account of poor condition of rails or roadbed. "Washing away tracks is amply guarded against by great culverts to lead off the water that may come down oil the tracks, while the possibility ol land slides is guarded against, as the center of gravity lalls inside of the base sustaining the road-bed. Retaining walls occur where sutiicicnt slope could not be given to the bank. The cliffs above the road where landslides were possible have been cut away till dangers from that source has been nullified. Though the .-oil is loose and washes easily, conduits and culverts clear the tracks. The inclines of the bauks above and below the track are forty-five degrees,and careful investigation shows them to be as substantial as granite walls. The Central company also employs two watchmcn, who patrol the pass all the time. At the slightest indication of danger they would signal trains. Passenger trains are allowed to go through the pass in fifteen minutes and freights in twenty, the former being supplied with airbrakes that the latter do not possess. Never has an accident occurred in the pass, nor on the entire road has a single passenger ever stained with blood its history. Men have died in its const ruction as they do on any road, yet only twenty lives of laborers have been sacrificed on its iron altars. The company is not unmindful of the safety of passengers, and even if it was it would instantly withdraw its trains, were there any danger, 011 the ground of policy, for its engines cost $10,000 each, and the princely Pullmans much more, all of which would be dashed into kindlingwnnrl in tht! evnnt of nn accident. ? C'itu of Mexico Jtq>ublkan. Grandeur of ft Glacier. A correspondent'of the Pittsburg Dispatch writing from Glacier J3:iy, Alaska, thus describes Mtiir glacier: We went into Glacier bay, among the icebergs, early in the day, and anchored within half a mile of the face of the glacier. All our party then went on shore, spending the entire day on this stupendous river of ice. As we gazed upon it our mouths were closed and our tongues were silent, for we were dumb with astonishment, while that great ice slide dragged slowly on its dreary way, at the probable rate of a quarter of a mile per year. At the face or front it presents a perpendicular wall of ice ")00 feet thick and varies from three to ten miles in width, extending bac k to the north probably 1."?() miles. Hundreds of tons of ice are falling olf the face of this great glacicr every few minutes into the bay, splashing the water more than fifty feet high and rolling up waves that tossed our ship like a small toy boat. As the great icebergs fall off into the water below, which is twenty-live fathoms deep, sharp reports like the discharge of heavy artillery are constantly heard. This is caused by the splitting up of the enormous ice fields above. The appearance of the ice, the most pure in the world, is dazzling to the eye. all the tints of blue, from the most delicate to the deepest indigo, being rep resented. 1 "C top sunace uuuuuws mm little hillocks and miniature mountains of ice. Great areas of earth, gravel and large rocks the size of a house are carried on the top of the ice fields from place to place as this great tloe. more than a thousand feet deep, of solid ice, wends its weary way. This brief description does not half tell the story, and yet this is only one of the many glaciers we saw. Our party, manv of them old tourists, unite in saying that Lake George, Hudson river, Niagara falls, Yellowstone park, and all the rest of the American scenery together is put into the shade in comparison with that of Alaska. Every man in his own life has follies enough?in his own mind troubles enough?in the performance of his own duties deficiencies enough?in his fortunes evils enough?without mindinir other peoples business. ? . ? - - - " ,,, W 11-. I, | v INCENTIVES TO LAUGHTER AMUSING YABUS roUSD XV OUE EXCHANGES. Too Slender?Very I,ike One?Polar Expedition*?A Very Venerable Steed, Etc. Maud?"Oh, pa, I don't see how you can object to dear Augustus." Pa?"I don't want any such youth for my son-in-law, and you will please be kind enough to remember it." "But only last week you said you admired healthy, well-built young men, as the probability was that they would not die young and leave their families to be supported." "True." "Well, you know, Augustus is not at all slender." "No, but his salary is." Very Like One. Husband?It looks like rain, my dear. Don't you think we had better take an umbrella. Wife?Oh, no? we don't want to be bothered with it. Husband?You take great chances, my love. Wife ?I know I do. If I were a man, I would be a bold speculator. I would never be content, like you, to do an ordinary, humdrum business that would just bring me a living. [An hour later, tha couple standing in a narrow doorway with the rain beating fiercely in. ] Wife?How do I look? Husband?Very much like a speculator?sharer of my joys and sorrows.? Iiost/jn Budget. Polar Expedition*. Speaking about winter resorts, a military friend of mine writes me that he wouldn't ask anything better than a commission to make a trip in search of the open Polar Sea. He invites me to go. I thanked him for the invitation and asked him when he wanted his men picked, before or after the trip. While 1 would like well enough to catch a few pickerel in the open Polar sea and breathe the crisp, pure air of no degrees and no minutes longitude due west of a given point, I am almost positive that I will dig the clinkers out of a large base burner this winter and write foamy, frothy, sunny, sootSful poems for a dying world. While no one would more cheerfully enter into the giddy whirl of Esquimaux society, or load his stomach with codliver oil and old harness and saddles with vinegar, in order that he might gratify a morbid curiosity as to whether the North Pole had a hot box or not, yet I shall not avail myself of the opportunity to go this winter. While few could more joyously contemplate a life where it would take a ninety-day note a lifetime to mature, I am free to say that I would rather, at present, climb a tall tree until the payee gets by.?Bill Nye. A Very Venerable Steed. Mr. Shaw (Josh Billings) tells this story of a young mau who had just graduated from college, and whose father was a minister. The old man said, " Now, you've been to a heap of trouble, and it's cost a good deal of money and time, what ye goin' to do?'' "I am going to be a veterinary surgeon."A what?" said the father. "A veterinary surgeon?a horse-doctor. The horse is one of the noblest animals in the world, father, and he hasn't many friends. I am going to study him, and see if I can't help him. I believe it is as good a business as any.'' So, in spite of all his father's talking, the boy studied up all the old horses he could find; read up on each Case; pracj tised what he could, and in a year was | quite an adept. Then the parish made I fniliAw o Txxnoartf nf o r\rcn Tho tvir_ 1 ilia nuiiui a (Mbacuu ui it uvi^u. ^><1 | son was greatly delighted. The people had paid a good price for the horse, and the old gentleman was anxious to have the judgment of his son on the animal. Taking him into the stable, he asked his boy to look him over, which lie did carefully, shaking his head at every examinaton. At last he said, "Father, the poor horse doesn't amount to anyI thing." "Why, my son, the old horse i6 quite as good an animal as the one on which our Master rode when on earth." As he said this, the boy had just finished examining the horse's mouth in order to determine his age. The old man repeated his sentence, "Just as good a horse as the one our Master rode into Jerusalem." "Father," said the boy, "it's the same one!" Stock Definition*. What is a bull? A bull is a person who talks much of the prosperity of the country, the vast earning capacities of the railroads, the big crops out West, and then cats a tencent sandwich for dinner. What is a bear? A bear is a person who talks much of the depressed condition, too many railroads, and that everything must go to smash. In the evening he occupies a front seat in the crack theatre of the town. What is a broker? A broker is one who, in consideration of a certain commission, properly sees to it that you "go broke." ' What is a put? A put is an instrument in writing which secures to you the right of putting your money where you will never see it again. What is a call ? A call is an instrument of torture benevolently issued by a capitalist. The profits you thought you would make generally begin after it has expired. Brokers sometimes accept them as a margin. What is a margin? A margin is a sum of money put* up on your deal. It has a patent right for always growing smaller, and is related by marriage to a stop order. What is a stop order? A stop order is an electric machine used in firing you out of the market.? 1 VuU Street S'eim. War on the Sparrow. War has again been declared against the English sparrow. The hardy and aggressive bird's enemies are moblizing with the determination to make a more vigorous attack upon him than he ever before experienced. The lenders in the movement arc ornithologists and sportsmen. They have prepared a circular petition, that has been widely distributed and extensively signed, asking that some conccrtcd action be taken to exterminate the ''foreigner." The bird is spoken of as an "intolerable pest," and, beside being put down as a general nuisance, he is charged with ruthlessly murdering or driving away " our own sweet-voiced songsters." The petitions are to be sent to the Ornithological union of New York, and the society will take some action regarding them. " 1 think the sparrow is a nuisance," said a sportsman who is taking part in the movement, yesterday. ' He is ail ugly little thing, with a voice like the sound made by a door swinging on rusty hinges. His habits are very disagreeable, and he is the most avaricious and bellicose creature in the whole bird world, lie fights like a professional pugilist, and there is not a nice, ?|iiiet genteel bird that can stand up against him. A whole brood of 'em have taken possession of an ivy-vine that covers one of the walls of my house. They bulldozed all the other birds that used to come there so much that they have the whole vine to themselves now. They make such a noise that I can hardly sleep after daylight. The only way I can begin to get square is by popping over a dozen or two of them before breakfast every other morning. The sport amuses me, but it doesn't seem to make any diminution in the number of the birds. There must be millions of 'em. Hut I'm agin 'etn all the same? I'm agin 'em to the death. ' The caretakers of several public squares said that the sparrows have taken almost entire possession of the trees and shrubs in the urban parks, and if any other bird strays in ho is pretty j sure to be set upon by the brownfeathered " toughs" and beaten off.? P/iil'idtljifiia Times. Too Good a Report. Insurance Agent?''It's all right. The ! doctor says you arc the lx?st risk he ever j examined." . Citizen?"The beat risk?" ' Yes; soundest constitution and perfect health, you know." "Did he say that?" "Vcs, indeed. No trouble about your ! case. He sai 1 there was nothing to pre- j vent you from living a hundred years." "Vou don't mean it!" "Honest truth. Come riirht around to n.y oflice and I'll tix up the papers at j once." "No. thank vou; it won't pay. I'm j I too healthy."? Call. i . . ... - ' "*- ' ? . * ' ' < " - ' " valley and peak. The Valley said to the Peak, " Oh, Peak, I fain would arise And be great like you; I would seek Your remote and sacred skies. Although I lie so low At your feet, I aspire to sharo The mysteries that you know In your cloud-roofed house of air." The Peak to the Valley said, " Oh, Valley, be content, Since for you my veins have bled, And for you my breath is spent. Alone, for your sake, I live In the cold and cloudy blue, Great only by what I give Out of unreached heavens to you." ?Lucy Larconu HUMOR OF THE DAY. lie is a philosopher who can find music in ft fat man's snore. A man with a cast in his eye?A trout fisherman.? Te.au Si/tings. Earthquakes cause quite a movement in real estate.?New York Dial. Practical jokes?Those that are published anrl mid for.?Np.ui York Mail. - r-? ? ? The only bar that tramps are unfamiliar with?Crowbar.?New York Telegram. A Boston agricultural editor says that the best way to preserve peaches is to keep a bulldog in the orchard.?CourierJournal. A society exchange says: "Ladies' bonnets this season will be felt." Yes, and the one to feel it most will be the husband.?Ronton Post. "Why is a harmonious husband and wife like eight cubic feet?" asked Flattery, and before I could reply the answer came: "Because they are both in accord." ?Boston Times. A fashion paper, in describing a belle's attire recently, said she wore carbuncles, and now that poor girl gets U00 dilfcr-' ent recipes for the cure of boils in every mail.? Washington Hatchet. Orange peel is now sairl to be collected, dried in ovens and sold for kindling fires.- It burns readily and with great fierceness and is safer than kerosene. Now cannot some useful avocation be found for the treacherous banana peel.? Philacletphii Call. " I hear that your wife creatcs quite a sensation," said one Burlington man to another who bad recently been married. " Well, I guess she does." replied the other dubiously, feeling of the bumps on his head. '-But the sensations arc not altogether so pleasant as might be wished.?Burlington Free Press. "You must be sick to hire a horse in the daytime," said an impecunious young man to a companion. "Why so?" was the inquiry. "Are they any cheaper at night?" "Guess they are! All you've got to do is to eat a five-cent slice of mince pie and you can have a mare all night that wouid beat Maud S. to flinders."? Burlington Free Press. REASSURED. "Oh, youth, with smooth sand-papered pate The night is dark, the hour is late, Why do you linger on my gatef' ' I stay to help your daughter hold This gate upon its hinges old; Go in, old man, you're catching cold!" The old man sought his little bed, And pillowed there his tranquil head; "I guess the gate is safe," he said. ?Luther 0. Riyrjs. "Landlord!" cried an irritated traveler who had been eating dried-apple pie at a railroad hinch-house, as ho held one + aKoWvir/i/1 tow onri rvrn/1ii/>nr] uaau t\j 1110 ouuvitiwu J?H umu JV*VV*UW? a gimlet with the other. "Look at this confounded gimlet I've found in your pie and broke half the teeth in my head out on!" "Well, I declare!" said the landlord. "I wanted to use that yesterday and hunted all over for it. Much obliged, stranger."?New York Star. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The lastest discoveries render insulation so perfect that to-day there is less loss of electrical force between the United States and England than there was formerly between New York and Brooklyn. A tricycle postal delivery system is to be tried by the postmaster-general of Victoria at Portland, Sale and Ararat, with the view of extending it, if it proves successful, to other districts of the colony. The making of large lenses is a matter of many difficulties, aa may be inferred from the fact that there have been nineteen failures to cast the thirty-six inch glass for the great Lick telescope to be mounted in California. Bronze is a mixture of copper and tin, aud sometimes lead, the proportions of which vary somewhat, but are usually nine to one. It is often adulterated with zinc, but when this is the case the surface honeycombs on exposure. Paper bottles are now made on a large scale in Germany and Austria. The fol lowing is said to be a good recipe for tlie paper: Ten parts of rags, forty of straw, fifty of brown wood pulp. The paper is impregnated or coated on both sides with sixty parts of defibrinated fresh blood, thirty-five parts of lime powder, live parts of sulphate of alumina. After drying ten or twelve rolled leaves are coated again, placed over each other and then placed in heated molds. The albumen in the blood forms a combination on pressure with the lime which is perfectly proof against spirits, etc. The bottles are made in two parts, which are joined afterward. Uncle Esek's Wisdom There is no rule for beauty; this enables every man to have a little better looking wife than any of his neighbors. I don't expect to please everybody. I don't know as I would if I could, for I don't tl\ink anybody but a fool could do it. The last thing a man doubts is his judgment, when it ought to be the first thing he is suspicious of. When the devil turns moralist look out for breakers; no one can tell where he is going to hit next: he can't even tell himself. The world is all agog just now; everybody wants to talk, and nobody wants to listen?the fool-killer will be around soon, and put a stop to these things. I believe in moral suasion?as a collateral. Ignorance is the principal ingredient in bigotry?obstinacy and a general cussedness complete the job. It ain't so much the ignorance of mankind that makes them ridiculous, as the knowing so much that ain't so. Jokes weren't made to cast before swine, any more than pearls were; and the man who can make them shouldn't throw them around too loose. The man who can, in a few words, tell all lie knows, on any subject, at a minute's notice, is a hard one to tangle. It is the brains of the devil that make , him terrible; a fool-devil is the lowest order of cranks.? Century. His First Case. " I lost ray lirst case to a miserable little jiettifogging lawyer named Johnny Wood," said General Sharp, at Chicago. "I was a graduate of Harvard Law school, iintl liaU a good (leal 01 conceit, i beside a perfectly good ^asc. When in)' senior warned me that I should have to meet Johnny Wood, I laughed at ! | him. The suit was before a justice of i the peace. We made out our case, and | Wood's client, the plaintiff, made out , none worth speaking of at all. When Johnny Wood arose to speak lie rehearsed the evidence impartially, and then, taking up a book read the law? such law as I had never heard of, but which fitted his case to a nicety. When he got through, I said, 4 Mr. Wood, will you allow me to see that statute, please?" 14 4 Certainly, sir," he replied, handing me the book closed. 414 Aii, thank you; but what page is it on?' 44 'What page?' lie cried, indignant. 4 Don't expect me to coach you, young man. Find vour own law?you. I I iounu mine. "Of course I couldn't find it, but Johnny had the laugh, and the court | with him, and I lost my case, according ! to the law which that scoundrel Wood had made out of his head just as he i spun it out." Had Traveled a Great Deal. Mr. B. P. Shillaber, in his charactcris* j tic way, relates that when old Jerry Noble, of Portsmouth, X. II., was once on the witness stand,he spoke so hu gely, i and at the same time so vaguely about ; the extent of the world he had seen,that the judge remarked: "Mr. Noble, you have travelled much." " Yes, sir,"' said Jerry. * I have traveled a great deal, but rincipaliy in Rockingham county." I Handel, the composer, wa< a great eater. He would often order a dinner ; for three, and then frighten the waiters j half to death by calmly eating the triple i dinner himself. How the Chinese Aim. , When the French troops made their < first and unsuccessful advance against ' Scntay, some importance was attached j by the special correspondents of the Eng- ] lish papers to the circumstance that the 1 Black Flags apparently fired low. It was < pointed out that most of the bullet- j wounds received by the French soldiers ] were found in the legs and lower parts j of their bodies. Of course, tho practice < of firing low is one strongly urged upon ' tho troops,, a shower of bullets being much more effective if fired low, even if 1 it strikes the ground in front ef the advancing hostile forces, than it would if sent into the air over the heads of the j approaching enemy. But a rather inter- ] esting explanation is given of the reason why the Black Flags and their allies fire low by one who has had a great amount of experience with Chinese troops. He says that the bulk of the Chinese had no idea of the use of the sights on the rifles, and it is almost useless to attempt to teach them the use of 1 such contrivances. Thus, a Chinese soldier armed with a modern rifle would never think of raising the sight of his weapon when he was called upon to use it, especially in the face of an enemy. He would fire at an object six hundred yards of! with the sight down, the consequence being that the muzzle of the rifle not receiving the necessary elevation to carry the bullet over a long distance, the ball would strike or descend very close to the ground before it reaches its destination. It was also asserted that some of the Chinese soldiers actually knocked the sights off their rifles being entirely useless. A Press Association Rifle. The annual rifle shoot of the Lowell, trass., Press association recently took place in that city. A special prize of a Winchester repeating rifle to be known as Hood's Sarsaparilla rifle was contested for. Fly stings have caused the deaths of three persons at &t. Petersburg, recently. It is supposed the insects had previously settled on cattle infected with the rinderpest. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound strengthens the stomach and kidneys, and aids digestion, is equally good for both sexes. More drunken women than men, it is said, van be seen in the streets of London. Desplne Not the Day of Small Things, T.iftlo f.Kinmi m?v Holn u man ricA?.1 bent pin in an easy chair for instance, Dr. Pierce's "Pleasnnt Purgative Pellets" are small things, pleasant to take, and they cure sick-headaches, relieve torpid livers and do wonders Being purely vegetable they cannot harm any one. All druggists. The Congo region, Stanley declares, is one af the most fertile on the globe. A Remnrlcitblo Tribute. Sidney Ourchundro, of Pittsburg, Fenn., Writes: "I have used Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs many years with the most gratifying results. The relieving influence of Hall's Balsam is wonderful. The pain and rack of the body, incidental to a tight cough, soon disappear by the use of a spoonful according to directions. My wife frequently sends for Hall's Balsam instead of a physician, and health is speedily restored by its use." Life Preserver. If you are losingyour gripon liie,tryWeli3 Health Renewer. "Goes direct to weak spota. Would Yon Believe lt< Nature's great remedy, Kidney-Wort, has cured many obstinate cases of piles. This most distressing malady generally arises from constipation anil a bad condition of the bowels. Kidney-Wort acts at the same time as a cathartic aud a healing tonic, removes the cause,cures the disease and promotes a healthy state of the affected organs. James F. Moy6r, carriage man'fr, of Myerstown, Penn., testifies to the great healing powers of KidneyWort, having been cured by it of a very bad case of piles which for years had refused to yield to any other remedy. "Rough on Toothache." Instant relief ror neuralgia, toothache, faceiche. Ask for"Rough on Toothache."15&25c. The Blood Would Run?For five years I was a great sufferer from Catarrh. My nostrils were so sensitive I could not bear the least bit of dust; at times so bad the blood would run. and at night I could hardly breathe. After trying many things without benefit I us-xl Ely's Cream Balm. 1 am a living witness cf its efficacy. Peter Bruce, farmer, Ithaca, N. Y. Easy to use, price 50 eta It is a well known fact! In the Diamond Dyes more coloring is given than in any known Dyes, and they give faster and more brilliant colors. 10c. at all druggists. Thev are a great success. Wells, Richardson & Co., B urlington, Vt. Pubest and best cod-livzb oil, from selected livers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard & Co., N.Y. Absolutely pure and sweet Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians declare it superior to all other oils. Chapped hands, face, pimples and rough skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., hew York. Otirbo-llnca. Sorrow and gloom the soul may meet. Yet love wrings triumph from defeat; And the coarsest hair can still be fine By using Magic C'orboline. Pretty WomenLadies who would retain freshness and vivacity. Try "Wells' Health Renewer." 25 Cents Will buy a Treatise on the Horse and His Diseases Book of 100 pages, valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid. New York Horse Book Co., 15U Tjvinnrrl Struct-. Vow Vnrlr oit.v "Itongli on Itch." "Rough on Itch" cures humors, eruptions, ring-worm,tetter,salt rheum, chilblains. A balloon* that will carry 100 soldiers is a new invontion. Tired All Over Tula is the way many peopls ei press that terrible feeling of languor, debility and lasaitude which U often the forerunner of terious disease. It iboold be overcome at all hazard, and Hood's Sarsaparilla if the best medicine for the purpose. It throws off the tired feeling and fire* new vigor to the while body. "I become more and more impressed with the effeo. tnal qualities of Hood's Sarsaparilla, I n?e it constant)? in mr family, and believe that the health we constantly enjojr is due to its tisx It la pleasant to take, and makes one feel like a new man."?E. B. Dhom, Editor Westvilie ilnd.) Indicator. "I was all run down, had no appetite, my food would not digest, and I was troubled with nerrons debility. On taking Hood's Sarsaparilla I commenced to feel the effect* of it at once. Hare now taken four bottles, and can Bay I feel like a new man."?J, E. McOaLL, Rochester, N, Y. Hood's Sarsaparllla Bold by all druggists, fl: six for 15. Made only by 0.1. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries. Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar cream mlm Causes no Fain. i^S^ead] g1 ^ief at rmtvERii fA0nce' li0 *" Treatment trill ray Cure. >otaLiqnld or^nuff'Ap" usai ply with Finger. rsy^fevek Give it a Trial. UniKk''?ta, Owego, N. Y I Bjiff: I.ying Ag?rt? cant SELL and tdl RiajiMB (he truth about Jonks. Put j-our m m liXsKxkT1'70^- . m *5 ton WAGON SCALES. ; 11 ?. Dfam Do*. Tar* Beam. FrtieU _ ? R" 1'aiU. Frrc Price List. Erery Sua. SqfcAJ addrtu JOITIS 0? BIKOSAUTOH, TijwB? BXJJOHAMTON.N. T. HAVING discovered a sure euro for all Spleen Diae:i>eJ. Dr. I.eo n w m ikes a specialty of that, and *auts a phyxlcinu to trikc his place. for farm and jructico. Address Die. I.r.E, .Marth;ivi!le, Ij?. , M ft Bl Vfffc S-nil stamp (nr our N'?w Boole on ' PftTS" T ^P.'lenM. L. BINGHAM, PatP I laltt I -lit 1-awjor. WabtiiDKton, 1). (J. MIC "flDEDA" (' ?!?v I'rcc for 2i*. stamp. I nt Urtnfl IV-:; .1- S..II, I'JJ V. . BOOK ON THH This valuable work, by a thoroughly erinary Surgeon, should be In the HORSEMAN and FARMER, as it cc how to cure a Horse when ill. How a Good Horse when you see one. and have this 100-page book forv NEW YORK HOF 134 Leonard Street, j In the new Mason & Hamlin Upright Pf moe the strings are held by screws and aeamd directly to the iron plater each string ieing held by a separate screw. In piano* jenerally the strings are held by the friction H )f wrest-pins set in wood. The results o? tl?>??' Mason & Hamlin Improvement are remarka- HH ale purity of tone (resulting in part from the jasy method of toning the three strings balonging to each tone, exactly together), with much le6s liability of getting out of tune or of being affected by clunatic changes. This Improvement has been pronounced the great- jfl set made in Upright Pianos for half aoentury.' 19 ?Boston Journal. H ? i A raw and pretty glove is made In Paris from tho skins of young Florida alligators, j H| There Shall be no Alps. When Napoleon talked of invading Italy erne of his officers said: "Bat, sire, remember the Alps." To an ordinary man tnese -would? Lave seemed simply insurmountable, but 2T*< poleon responded eagerly: ''There shall be ' no Alps." So the famous Simplon pass wu I^MN made. Disease, like a mountain, stands In HH the way of fame, fortune and honor to many BHf who by Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Disoov* i HH ery" might be healed and so the mountain ^E0 would disaDDear. It is sDecific for all blood* BW chronic lung and liver diseases, such as con- ^BB sumption (which is scrofula of the lnng8).pimSles, blotches, eruptions, tumors, swellings, 9BH aver-sores and kindred complaints. ^BB In an orchard of 100,000 trees at Lakesidty j Ohio, two peaches were the entire crop. * * * Pile tumors cured in ten davs, rupture in four weeks. Address World's Diapensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. 7. Thxbx are 600 German newsapers published . in the United States. . ^^B Words of Warning and Comfort. . 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Hj If you are a minister, and 19 have overtaxed yourself with your BB pastoral duties, or a mother worn oat BB with care and work, or a man of businea or labor, weakened by the strain of your every- ^B day duties, or a man of letters toiling over your midnight work, Hop Bitters will moat * surely strengthen you. ^B If you are suffering from overeating or drinking, any indiscretion or dissipation, or are young and growing too fast, as is often IBB the case, fiP "Or if yon are in the workshop, oa ths MM 'farm, at the desk, anywhere, and feel M 'that yoar ayatem needs cleansing, ton- |H 'ing, or atimulatlng, without in toxical'lne, If yon are old, .Jfl ,'blood thin and impure, pnlse ^9 .feeble, nerves unateady, faculties 'waning, Hop Bitters Is what yoa needto jB 'give yoa new life, health ana rigor." JH If yoa are costive, or dvapeptlc or aoffer .. .^Hj Ing from any other of the numeroua <li*- h eases of the stomach or bowels, it is your own fault If von remain ill. If ^B you are wasting away with any form WBt of Kidney disease, stop tempting death this M| moment, and turn for a?cure to Hop Bitters. If you are sick with that terrible sicksflM, . . hB Nervousness, you will find a "Balm in UU- .. ead" in Hop Bittern flfl - mm ?If you ere a frequenter, or a resident of, j ?a miasmatic district, barricade yoar ays- ( ?tern against the scourge of all countries J ?Malaria, Epidemic, BUlon* and Inter- j ; I ?mittent fevers by the us? of Hop BttiO ,? I If yon have roogh, pimply, or sallow akin, bad J H| breati, Hop Bitters will give yon fair akin, rich blood, the sweetest breath and health. WOO will ' |H be paid for a case they will not cureorhelpt . B A Lady's Wiali. " I "Oh, how I do wish my akin wuai clear and ' 'aoft aa yoora," said a led* to her mend. "Yon 'can easily make ft k>, answered the Mend. "How T'* Inquired the first lady. . "By nlng Hop Bitters that mtkea pan, rich blood and blooming health. 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