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f "AGMCBLTORAir TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE ^ TO FARM AND GARDEN. The Front Gate. The front gate needs looking after. No doubt it has a hard time to keep itself Btraight and level and on the square, but it has always a weak point which is the heel or hinge post. This post has to bear an enormous weight, because of the long leverage of the gate, which increases the - pressure of the gate's weight, or any r\tlipr a-piolif manv times. To remedv the general failing of the gates, several points .-hould be looked to. The gate flhould not be any longer than ne essary to pass a wagon drivea in straight and fairly, and never crosswise. The gate should be well braced, the heel post heavy, and set at least four feet in the ground, with a large unhewn butt under the surface, tamped all around with stone, and then tilled in all axound with cement so as to consolidate the whole into a mass. Then a gate sill of four-1 inch plank a foot wide should be fitted firmly between the heel post and the latch post, and covered with six inches ; of soil. The heel post should be eight j feet above ground, and the main gate j post quit.: as Ion**, with a long diagonal Drace, an iron rod with a screw and nut at one end is the best, from the top of! this to the foot of the front post. ?uch a gate will not sag under any ordinary circumstances.?NiW York Times. Crows in the Corn Field. A few mornings ago, while passing through my corn fie d, gun in hand, in tent on shooting crows that were pulling my corn, I wondered, says a farmer in the New York World, why some Yankee | had not invented something that would frighten and keep away the crows from onm.fiwithout killin<? them. know the crows to be the farmers' best friend and insect eaier among all the birds we have. A plan or invention sugfested itself to my mind that I had never j eard even hinted at. It is this: Take j a cotton rope, say one-fourth of an inch ! in diameter, rather loosely twisted, and fasten powder crackers by inrerting the fuse of the crackers through the string at any distance apart you may wish you may have them exploded from live ; minutes to one hour apart, which is entiTely optional. After fastening the firecrackers to the cotton string by insert- : ing the fuse, place thera on a board in your corn-field. Straighten out your j string, light at one end, and you will: find it will carry the fire its entire length, i exploding the fire-crackers in its pro-! cress whenever met, and the fire will hold to the string. If you wish a louder report than the small fire-c ackers give, use the larger ones known as double headers. In damp 1 or rainy weather protect the string and crackers by covering with a board. Now this is a sure protection, as I have tried it and so have my neighbors, and all pronounce it a great success. It is my invention and I hereby publish it for the benefit of my brother corn-growers. It Vino merit r?f lw>inrr rhejin Jl* It C;in e> ~r? -- be run for a cent or two a day, starting , it early in the morning with a string long j enough to last the day. Should your corn-tield be large, have i two or Ihree strings going at once. The j larger fire crackers are best, as the report, is louder. I would like to have my brother far- j mere tell me through the columns of the ' World of some practical way of destroying "live-forever" and mustard that have ; possession of a field. Digging is out of : klUb ljUVDWVU, Curing and Keeping Cheese. The stage at which to apply salt to the curd is a critical one in eheese-making, and requires a pretty accurate test to decide. There are several, the most certain being that soft peculiar feeling known as "velvety;" equal quantities of butter and whey exuding on the curd j being firmly squeezed iu the hand; the: response to tha hot iron being the flavor ' of nice toasted cheese, etc The moisture of cheese consists of the water of the whey still remaiuing, the essential: and some of the volatile oil derived I from the butter, and the butter fats. In ' 9 skimmed milk or very poor cheese the ' proportion of whey is large, and when it, nas* passed its proper stttge of ripeness j part of it will evaporate and the cheese | apparently lose its quality, though it is merely water it is losing. In full milk or rich cheese the proportion is reversed, and the moisture being from richness the cheese will improve bv long keep-! Speaking generally, a cheese with little moisture is slow to ripen; with too much moisture, it mutures too soon. To know the proper gri3t all through is the touchstone of the cheese-maker s skill. If the curd is too moist it may be improved by qjing less rennet, or by keeping up slightly higher temperature, by breaking the curd finer before scalding, or by inCreasing the quantity of salt. A cheese, after being kept in the press for two ^ays or so, shouid be neatly bandaged andremo\edto the cheese-room. Une end is then rubbed with melted butter, the other similarly at the first turning on the shelves, a process which may be repeated with benefit. The cheese-room i should be bo constructed that certain ! and easy control of the temperature can j bo secured?about sixty-five degrees be-; ing the average desired. O. erheating melts the butter fats, and they then become rancid and spoil the flavor of the chfese. Finally, turn daily and rub well; a good cheese should have its surface smooth and clean.?Prairie Fanner. Petroleum as a Preservative. A correspondent of the Orange County Farmer discourses on the use of crude petroleum as a wood preservative as follows: ".t is claimed by some of those who have tried it that a fence post painted with crude petroleum will last much longer than those set without. There are those again who claim that an application of petroleum in their case does not add anything to the length of time the post will last. That this oil does contain protective properties is conceded by all who have usea it to any extent. That it does not protect in all cases where applied to lence posts is no doubt due to the difference in the soil and also to the condition ?f the post at the time it was painted or coated with the oil, for to soak a green post with petroleum and set it at once is a waste of ! time, and all posts should be thoroughly seasoned before they are coated with oil or any other protective, and never set until dried through and through. A coating of petroleum on shingles will add much to their lasting qualities if applied after they are laid on the roof, but the proper way is to dip the shingles in the whole length before they are laid. This can best be done by having the oil in a trough large enough to dip the ends of the bunches in up to the middle, and when they are taken out lay them on a slanting board that will save the drip?ings and carry them into th-5 trough 1 which the shingles are dipped. Twenty-five cents' worth of oil applied ia this way will make them last twice the length of time they otherwise would. I would not advocate coating them on the roof unless they are already lain, in which case nothing better can be done with them. In appljying petroleum or any other paiut to a shingle roof all early laid, you find yourself in the same predicament that Pat was when his employer ordered him to grease the wagon. He ! said h?i greased it inside and out, but : couldn't get at the sticks the wheels j hung on. In applying oil to a shing'e j roof after it is laid, you can't get at the spot where it is most needed to make it 1 effective. A barrel of crude oil and a keg of brown metallic paint will pay in j the life they add in the wood-work to which they are applied and be worth ten times what they cost in the n*.at tidy appearance of the fences, gates and out; buildings. The petroleum can be ordeied : from any dealer in oils, and ought not to cost more than eight ccnts with the barrel included, and in localities close to oil wells it can often be bought for half the price. The paint will cost from :?to o cents a pouud in accordance with the 1,1 ?.l_ x.in* J rt 4^ ro quantity you puruuase, uuiamc uguic bein<r for small lots. A ever mix paint in the petroleum that is applied to shingles, as it is only a waste of material." Farm and Garden Notes. A good garden is a paying invest- ( ment. Agriculture makes the true riches oi ; a nation. The question is not how large a farm : do you own, but how good a one it is. Lack of shade in hot weather, too much exposure to the sun, is also a prolific I cause of disease. The general aspect of the dairy animal ' is thinner, sharper and more angulai , than the feeding animal. "When butter is gathered in the churn ^ in granular form it is never over-churned. , Pounding it after it is in a lump or large i mass is what over-churns it. I When the milk foams and froths j'd i the churn, the probability is that the i temperature is not correct; hence use a i thermometer when churning. ] A close, unventilated, or imperfectly 1 ventilated house is emphatically a foul ' house. Better cold than foul air. Bettei j1 the danger of frozen combs than the i' multiplication of germs of disease. ' Selfish interest should induce tax- j | payers in farming districts to make theii I' highways good, but they go on botching 1J them, year after year?anything to get the dues assessed marked off the roll.' At a recent meeting of the American ( Bee-Keepers' Association, several mem- ] bers of experience gave the cost of ( producing honey. The general average j of the estimates was about ten cents per , pound. j The beet grain for young colts < is crushed old oats. Barley crushed, not ground, but coarsely cracked is next best. For spring colts begin with a pint at a feed and gradually increase as ] the colt grows. 1 Potatoes are dried, as fruits are, < for use on ships and in mining < camps, where the fresh vegetables can- i not be easily procured. The potatoes are sliced and dried in a common ( evaporator, just as apples are, aud when j used are soaked in water twelve hours | to soften and freshen them. i A New York farmer states that he < used only coal-gas tar to prevent the ravages of the potato beetle. He puts , a gallon of tar in a tub, over which he j pours boiling water, which is allowed ( to settle and cool. This is sprinkled j over the vines with an ordinary sprinkler, j A gallon of tar costing seventy-five cents suffices for several acres of potatoes. ( A practical test will convince the j dairyman who has not tried it, that his | cows are capable of consuming and di- \ gesting a much larger amount of food \ than the usual allowance. Experiments \ ol this kind will soon denote which of the cows pays best, by noting whether the excess of food is converted into in- 1 created quality of milk or converted ? into flesh. The Home and Farm gives the follow- j ing novel method of making cabbage ] head. It says that "when the plants ( are about eight inches high and have | formed woody stalks, make in isions in the stalks with the small blade of a penknife, insert small pieces of wood of the size of a match, and break them off. ( This checks the growth, and hard heads ' will be formed." The growth of a splint may be nrresLcu uy uiibienug IUC pait wim uiu iodi.e of mercury once a week for two or three times, which will lead to the absorption of the abnormal growth. When the splint does not cause lameness it would be bc3t to leave it alone. When lameness is caused it would be well to try the blistering and give the horse a re9t during the treatment. A horn that has been broken off by accident leaving the core remaining should be treated as follows: Take a strip of cloth, smear it with common pine tar and wrap it around the , core, fastening the end securely in the best way practicable. Leave it thus un- ' til the bandage comes off, when the core will have a hard covering and give no more tronble. But the horn will not grow again. In harvesting wheat almost every one 1 has noticed little heaps of straw uni- 1 formly a few inche? in length and wondered what could have been the cause of 1 it. It was the work of field-mice. The little rodents did it to get the grain. ' They gnaw off the stalk as h'gh as they 1 can reach, and it drops down endways, ! the surrounding stalks prevent it from falling over, and they continue the ' process until the head is reached. Rab- 1 bits do the same. Their work may be known bv the nieces of straw beina 1 longer and they cease operations before ' the grain is fully ripe. ' A fruit-raiser in Indiana finds cop- ' peras?sulphate of iron?the cheapest j and least dangerous substance that can 1 be employed for killing currant worms. He gives the following direction for its use: "To one gallon of rain water add a teacupful of copperas, dissolving the ' copperas in the water, and, with an J ordinary sprinkler, sprinkle well the J bushes about the time the worms first \ make their appearance. If this applica- ' tion is made at the time the first signs of 1 these pests are noticed once is enough, J but should they hatch and become 1 numerous then two or three more 1 sprinklings arc required." Wasps puncture grapes, but with bee? ] it is a physical impossibility. "When a ( grape has been burst by birds or wasps, ] then the bee sucks all the juice, and this , is nn advantage rather than an injury to ! the grower, as the sound fruit is apt to : rot by coming in contact with juice flowing from grapes that are injured ^ There have been twenty-six Buicides 1 from the t lifton Bridge in Englaud in i the twenty-four years since it was built, i The jump is ~50 feet, and death is 1 presumably easy, which accounts for the 1 popularity of the route. The last person i who went over it was a young man who < v> a? to be married iu a week. ] ' " : --y HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. "Whitening Linen with Potatoes. A French laundryman has discovered a very ingenious method of cleaning linen without soap. He uses no soap, nor lye, nor chlorine, but replaces these substances by boiled potatoes, with which he rubs the linen. This curious process, it appears, is much superior to those hitherto employed, and the worst ! soiled cotton, linen or silk cleaned by I this method are made whiter than they could le by the use of an alkali. Besides, the method has the advantage that brushes can be dispensed with and well water be used.?New York World. A Nice Way to Mix Mustard. It is quite a convenience to have mustard mixed ready for daily use. If made according: to these directions it will keep fresh some time. Take three tablespoonfuls mustard, orf! tablespoonful ; granulated sugar, and mix well together, j then beat an egg very smooth, and add , it with a teacupful vinegar to the mus tara ana sugar, putting in a nine uuij at a time, until the whole is thoroughly combined. Place it then on the stove in a pan or kettle of boiling water, and cook five minutes, stirring constantly or it will curdle. When it thickens remove it and add either a teaspoonful , of olive oil or the same amount of melted i butter. Unless olive oil is perfectly J fresh, it is always better to use butter in | its place, as stale oil will spoil whatever it is used on. ?Prairie Farm r. The Effect of Vinegar on Meat. There are methods for making tough , meat tender; the operation is purely mechanical. Good meat is sometimes ! tough owing to harduess of fiber. It then remains to soften the fibers in order to make meat tender, or easy to masticate; there are two ways known to experienced :ooks; or.eby the action of vinegar upon the uncooked fibers of flesh.' the other the prolonged simmering of the meat in in un9alted sauce, or in enough water, ilso unsalted, to just cover the meat and supply it with the requisite Quantity of moisture. The pounding of meat to | make it tender is reprehensible to the last ' legree. When meat is made tender by the application of vinegar, or any kinIred acid to the uncooked flesh, it may subsequently be cooked after any desired method, although it is usually stewed. Several excellent dishes based upon this principle of cookery may be made. As for the use of the acid with uncooked meat the writer's experiments have been variously mad? with vinegar and lemon or lime juice, and cider which has nearly become vinegar, and they have a similar jtfect; as they are less rapid in action they t re preferable for those meats which ire to be stewed, braised, or baked in a sauce or gravy made from the wine or :ider.?The Ilouseioife. Recipes. Cabbage Soup.- -Boil two pounds of bacon in three quarts of water; add a j turnip, one-half head of cabbage, three : anions, two stalks of celery seasoned and | shopped tine; stew until the vegetables J ire tender. Cream Pie.?Into one pint of thick sweet cream stir one tablespoonful of j 8our, one-half cup of sugar, a pinch of salt, and the white of one egg beaten jtitf. Flavor to taste, bake in a single :rust, as for custard pie. Vermicelli Pudding.?Boil a pint j of milk with a few bitter almonds and i little cinnamon, pour over one-quarter of a pound of vermicelli that has been | softened in water; sweeten to taBte and I idd three beaten eggs; bake or boil. Corned Beef.?Boil until soft ! enough to remove the bones; put in j sarinen uisu una pour ov? ii> mc wmec it was boiled in. Pla.c a plate on it and i heavy weight; have sufficient water, so that when the weight is on it will come to the top of the meat. Let it stand un:il cold, then cut in slices. Bqtjabh.?Cut the squash in quarters, remove the seeds and skin, cover with rnlted boiling water and boil until done. When cooked mash the squash and add jne ounce of butter for each small one. Moisten with gravy or broth and put in iittlo pans or dishes; cover with bread ;rumbs, place tiny bits of butter on the ;op, and bake a delicate brown in a brisk jven. Marble Cake.?Light part: Two ;ups of white sugar, one cup of butter, 3ne-half cup of sweet milk, whites of four eggs, two and a half teaspoons of j baking powder, two cups of flour. Lark j part: One cup of brown sugar, one-half: :up of molasses, one c.ip of butter, one-1 fourth cup of sour milk, half a teaspoon j 5f soda, yolks of four eggs, flour to j thicken, and flavor. Peas with Mutton.?Take any part oJ the mutton most convenient; take half j r-Tinm r>nt. t.Vipm on in r.old water I and boil until well done; remove the chops from the soup into an earthen dish, let it stand until the next day; then remove all the fat, which has hardened into a cake on the top; have ready a quart of shelled peas, put them into a kettle with the soup, and cook onthour. Add a few potatoes Prices Paid for Famous Literary Works. These arc 6ome of the prices that luthors have received for works now famous: Goldsmith, $100 for "The rraveler," $300 for "The Vicar of WakeBeld,1' and $500 for "The Deserted j Village;" Fielding, $5000for "Amelia," ] and $12,000 for "Tom Jones;" Dr. John- | son, $G25 for "Hasselas;" Macaulay, ! $100,000 for the "History of England;" Boswell, $~>000 for the "Life of Johnson ;" Dryden, $0000 for his translation of "Virgil;" George Eliot, $10,000 for "Romola;" Walter Scott, $3500 for the first Waverlys, and large sums for later anes, with $40,000 for "Woodstock," md $90,000 for the "Life of Napoleon;" Zola, $80 for his first story, and $30,000 j for "L'Assomiuoir;" Wilkie Colling, I |25,000 for "Armadale;" Milton, $75 j for "Paradise Lost;" Byron, $15,000 for ?,??? i i> ?_,i ton nr\r\ I UUll tJHrtli, UUU '?p-VjVUV AVI V^XJUUC I Harold;" Campbell, $100 for "Pleasures j of llope;" Bums, $10 for the first edi- ] lion of his works, and $3500 for the last; Poe, $20for "The Raven;" l.ong- j fellow, $4000 ($20 a liue) for the "Hang- , ing of the Crane," the highest price ever paid for a poem; Whittier, $o00 for the copyright of his work3, which he ifterward bought back for $1200; Tennyson, $12 a line for "Revenge." A Novel Pavement. A newly patented pavement is said to have been suggested by the surface of an ulephant's tooth, which consists of intermingled layers of hard and soft material, >o that the process of wearing alwayfl produces a series of ridges upon the surlace. The new system of paving is the idea of Mr. Ranyard, the English astronomer, and comprises the use of blocks having alternate hard and soft j layers?such as Portland cement and a ! mixture of sand and cement?which are set upon edge, so that the edges of these lamine form a wearing surface. The blocks are made four inshes high, and may be worn to less than an inch witfcjut becoming smooth like graniti blocks,?Arkansas Traveler. Baseball Outfits. The cost of placing two baseball teamB on the diamond is higher than might be supposed from their simple-looking outfit. In the first place, at least a dozen bats are used. These cost $7.50. The bati used by the League and American Association clubs are of the "black band" variety. They are turner! by hand, and are of the best sea oned timber. The catchers' gloves used by the big associations are made of the heaviest Indian tanned buckskin, padded and furnished with sole leather tips. They cost $5 a pair. A catcher's mask costs $3./50, It is made of hard wire, padded with goat hair, and the padding faced with imported dogskin, and is impervious to perspiration, ana is anvitys pimuiu and soft. A "perfect supporter," used by nearly all ball players now to support the shoulder cap and elbow pieces, costs $(>. The League belt, made of worsted webbing, mounted with nickel-plated tongue buckles, are sold for seventy-five cents. The flannel shirts worn by the players cost them $5 each, which item alone represents more than $100 in a baseball game. The shoes worn by the players look like the cheap articles which are sold for $2 in sporting goods stores, but they are very different. They are made of calf skin and cost $G a pair. Many lookers-on at a baseball game game wonder how the catcher's bodyprotector Is made. The material is either chamois or canvas, padded and quilted. They sell at $10. Shoe plates have come into use in the leagues. They are made of steel, one for the heel and one for the toes. A set costs $1. The player's stockings cost $1.50 a pair and their caps $1. The trousers aie of flannel and cost $5 a pair. The outfit of each man amounts in value to nearly $20. Then every team must have a sole leather batbag, for which it pays $15, and a set of three bags, which costs $7.50. The umpires this year use a "patent celluloid umpire indicator" to keep a j rnnnr/l A f -f otfilrao on/1 KoHc t V? Q f m Q XT , IVWiU VI VUU IfKV/O UUU uu<*kj bUWV ill %mj j be called. It is operated by the thumb or finger while held in the palm of the | hand. Since the number of strikes was increased it was found impossible for the umpires to keep tally after the former style, and the indicator was brought into use. It costs 75 cents. Every league player now uses a sliding pad to protcct him as he slides to the bases. It is worn on the side and hip, and is made of chamois leather. It's cost is $2.50.?Commercial Advertiser. A Boston Man'd Original Levee. A young man in Boston who is going abroad soon, wished to en'.ertain some friends before his departure. He knew they were surfeited with the ordinary Style of evening parties. He wanted something original. He invited ten young ladies and nine young gentlemen. As each guest entered the receptioniroom he or she received a handsomely engraved card which bore the mysterious word "Causerie." A hint as to the meaning of what would follow was given by the quotation from ''Paradise Lost:" "With tliee conversing, I forget all i time." After his guests had .puzzled ' their brains trying to decipher the meaning, the host volunteered an explanation. Ten subjects were presented for discussion, and he had chosen ten couple* ko do the work. Instead of spending* the evening in dancing, Cach gentleman was expected to fill out his card with the names of the young ladies with whom he desired to talk. In that rcspect it differed slightly from the ^election of partners for the dance. There could be no wall-flowers. The conversation must be general. Five minutes were devoted to each topic, and at a s:gnal from the host there was a general swapping of partners and a complete change jn the style of conversation. For in- ! ptance, the company opened the ball by telling what they knew about "Boston Busy B's, Baked Beans, Brown Bread, Baseball, Big Brains,BloomingBeautie-, Blithesome Bachelors." Whentheyoung ladies had practically floored the gentlemen in regard to the relative merits of baked beans and brown bread as the best method of producing big heads on baseball tossers, they turned their attention to the topic: ' The Lady or the Tiger?"Wh'ch?" There was a strong division of opinion on that. The others were: "Consciousness," "The real affinity between a redheaded srirl and a white horse, "Boston Fads," "Given a squirrel on a tree and a man at the foot. Tbe man moves around the tree, the squirrel does the same thiug, keeping always on the opposite side. Can the man go around the squirrel:" ""Will the opposition to the Andover theology warrant the heathen in adopting a protective tariff, excluding j pur missionaries?" "Does an incubated | Eien hive any maternal instinct?" and he ladies were familiar with the last opic for the evening: "Leap Year."? iArgonaut. How They Vote in Mexico. The election for President in Mexico has recently taken place, and a correspondent of the Boston Herall tells how the voting is done in that country. The election takes place on Sunday, and the polls were open all over the City of Mexico. At most of the polling places, situated in the' "zaguans," or porticos of houses, there were two men sitting at a small table. There was no ballot box or electoral urn, merely printed forms on which the citizen voting indicated in writing his prefej^nce for elector and then signed his name. It was very quiet at all these places, and no soldiers were to be seen at the polling places, and no show of power in any form. All was as democratic as nn election in any rural town in Massachusetts. No loafers were permitted, and nobody came up with a bunch of ballots urging the voter to take this or that ticket. There were no ward politicians out, nor did any wear a badge. Any one who desired voted without let or hindrance. All the stories of troops at the polling places, and of high-handed interference with the nonulnr will, turned I out to be mere bugaboos, like too many Southern outrage yams in our Presidential contests. True, very few people voted, for the average citizen down here is no politician, and so long as he can go to bed at night in peace and get up in the morning unawakened by canonading, he lets politics run as they please. The Swiss Good Night. "The Swiss Good Night," refers to the custom of the Swiss mountaineers of tailing through their speaking trumpets at dusk, "Praisethe lord God." One herdsman starts the call, ana his neighbors from every peak, echo it. The sounds are prolonged by reverberation irom one mountain to another. After a 'short period, which is supposed to have been devoted to prayer, a herdsmen calls "Good Night." This, too, is repeated, and as darkness falls, each retires to his hut. These calls may be heard for miles and are re-echoed from the rocks, for some minutes after the original call has , died away.?Detroit Free Press. I Two artesian wells, recently sunk in Sonoma Vailey, Cal., are considered to be worth not lew than $10,000 each. One , jf them flows 90,000 gallons of water per day and the other 100,000. --"?.- ; i't?*:' A Eacle and Salmon. Tho common eagle ia a bird of wonderfully keen sight. At a height of j eighty yards it can see a grass mouse or | a stoat, and having once located ita prey, it will swoop down with the speed of an arrow, and rise with the victim in its claws. Mr. Samuel Wilmot, the superintendent of the Canadian fish hatcheries at Newcastle, Ontario, Canada, told nie the following story about an eagle: A pair of eagles built their nest near our house well up in a large pine tree year in and year out for many seasons. One autumn the cold weather set in earlier than usual, and the smooth parts of the stream that ran by our house were fi ozen. But the eagles still remained in the big piue, uavts wiitsu luej new uuruttu iui food. One morning, as I fat at the window looking in the direction of the pines, I noticed one of the birds leave the tree and poise directly a' ove a rough part of the river which was not frozen. Then he went down like a bolt, and disappeared under the water. I watched with great interest to see what he would fetch?watched one- two, three, four seconds, but he did not appear. This was something so unusual that I became intensely interested. I stood at the window for half a minute watching where the bird had disappeared, and then, sure that something had happened to h:m, I snatched my hat and ran down to where lay my little boat. After some difficulty I managed to get it into the open wale', and then po'ed to the spot where the eagle had gone under. Looking down, I saw the bird, his wings partly extended, and held fast to the bottom in some unaccountable wayWith a grappling hook I drew him out. Judge of ray surprise when there came to the surface, beside the ea!?le, an enormous salmon. It was for this splendid prize that the eagle had made this plunge. UI couisene naa ounea ma strong sharp talons in the side of the fish, but when he wanted to rise he could not lift his prey. Neither could he withdraw his talons from the salmon's Bide, and so had perished. The fish weighed a trile ?over thirty pounds.? Harper's Young People. An Organ of Paper Pulp. A very original musical instrument has recently been constructed at Milan, Itaty?an organ whose pipes, instead of being of metal, are of paper pulp. Its history is quite curious. Father Giovanni Crispi Rigshizo, having learned that the parish dell'Incoranata, at Milan, was destitute of music for the olices, conceived the idea of devising a cheap material that would permit of constructing organs under such conditions that the most unpretending communities could purchase one of these instruments. This monk, who had passed his life in poverty, was confronted by lack of money, and, notwithstanding his efforts to carry out his undertaking, was be^in- j ning to despair of success, when he had thfi fortune to meet an artisan. Luiei I Colombo, who undbrstood the construc- I tion of the instrument and 'was good enough to aid him in carrying out his design. They both went resolutely to work, and finally, in .June, 1886, finished the instrument in question. Unfoitunnately, by reason of lack of funds, they could not exceed twenty-two registers, forty-four pedals and 1400 pipes. The final result, however, is extremely interesting, since it is generally agreed that the instrument possesses great power and a sweetness of tone not found in organs hitherto constructed.?New York Telegram. - They Never Fall. No.3Fclton Market, New York City, ) January 36,1884. f I have been using Brandreth's Pills for the last tei years. They araa wonderful medicine. There is nothing equal to them as B'ood Pnrifiers and Liver Regula ors. But I wish to state how rerarkably they cure rheumatism, and how ta ily; I was affected by rheumatism of the legs. My business (Wholesale fish dealer) naturally leads me to damp places. I was so bad Ic <uld not walk, and at night I suffered fearfully; I tried Bals ms, Sarsaparillas and all kinds of tinctures, but they did me no good and I was afra d of being a cripple. I finally J iMnnn-nloDiTTO T nnlf tULUIUCIIV U UOlUg a cj jl Abwa two every night for ten nights, then I began to improve. I continued tak ng them for forty days and I got entirely well. Now, whenever sick, I take Brand:ieth'8 Pills. They never fail. J. N. Harris. The Government decides to build two thousan I miles of railways in southern Italy. A Nnriow Escape. "Yes, I had a very narrow escape," said a prominent citizen to a friend. 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