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"TGKIOTLTOSAL
rOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
A Second Crop AdvisableLand
from which the first crop has
been taken already, 6ays the Ploughman,
ihould not lie idle during the remainder
Df the season and fill with weeds. The
busiest farmer cannot afford to neglect
the smallest plot of this kind. As soon
18 the first crop is harvested, the ground
I Id be ploughed lightly and fertil- j
and made ready for some plant
will mature before frost. Turnips
. favorite as second crop, but others
jeused to equal advantage. Cabplants
can probably be set now. If
erly cared for the second crop may
lite as profitable as the first.
Fall Chicks.
>w is the time to set broody hens in
r to get a supply of pullets for early
g laying. Pullets hatched now will!
1 laying in February and March,and
irst to begin will want to sit by the j
of March. In sitting hens in hot
her it is best to make a nest on the j
ad, or if this is not practicable, line
: with sod, dirt side up. Sprinkle
water containing a solution of car- j
acid. Make the nest on top and
kle with sulphur, and you need
no fear of lice. If you have any
^-hatched chicks that seem droopy,
you have not taken the above preons
against lice, examine their;
i at once for the so-called butcher
To destroy them anoint their
i with your finger dipped in lard, j
it the third day, and tre.it the breast, j
and wings of the mother hen to a
ke process.?New York San.
A Sanitary Hint.
The cellar demands attention now.
"he great source of disease* is a damp, .
Ithy cellar. It will pay for the lime 1
squired to clean it out. The decayed
uit and vegetables, the sprouting po- !
ktoes, beets, etc., the mouldy boards
id kegs, the refuse of celery; plants
lat have passed the season there shuuld
e removed, and the cellar swept and
eaned, whitewashed, if possible, but'
; least cleaned of cobwebs and mould,
he banking that has protected the
ouse collects moisture now, and is'
armful to as great a degree as once it
as healthful. Let in the pure air and
low all foul gases to escape, thus much i
: the unpleasant, "weary ieeling" may
} avoided, if not a severe and possibly
>tal diease escaped. There is no excuse j
jcause so much has to bejdone in a short
me now. This is a most important
ork and cannot aHord to wait.?Mas- j
chwetts Ploughman.
"Experimental Manuring.
Any work of experimenting in the
*owth of crops by dilferent methods of
I inuring or culture should be based
ion equal conditions. Thus, if a far-.
ar were to try the results of various
>des of manuring and fertilizing he
ould select or make a piece of soil that
>uld not grow any crop at all, or such
jrop over the whole ground that would ,
jasure precisely the same in every part,
le latter ia very rarely to be found, but
teornout piece of Land may easily be
ocured that will not grow corn?if corn
to be grown as a te3t crop?at all. !
le writer, in his experiments in grow- 1
? corn consecutively for several years ;
the use of the special corn manure, ]
d in growing mangels by another arti-1
ial fertilizer, chose a piece of land upon 1
lich the previous year the largest corn
ilk was only seven inches high, and the
st mangel weighed only two ounces, i
ich soil as this will then show pre-1
lely what the manure will do, and will
re results as near certainty as may be. j
le present year a corn crop grown to
kt varieties for ensilage on a piece of I
|w land without manuring is so uneven
Ii spotty that the com plants average
height from ten inches to seven feet. ;
ch a piece of soil is c'early untit for j
perimenting on, and will be until it is ;
?rn down to an even quality.?N^w
rk Times.
Paris Green?Its Use
rhe ase of Paris green- in orchards for j
t destruction of insects which injure j
tit and foliage has been discusscd
Ite freely at several of the agricultural :
aventions the past few months. Paris
[en seems to be coming into use in I
pe sections as much in trie orchard as ,
the potato field. Some who have ap- j
ed it without due caution have killed
k foliage and occasionally a cow or ,
rse. Such poisons as Paris green j
kuld not be left around carelessly ex- !
ed to animals or children who are >
L informed of its nature.
tome persons are doubtless unneces- ;
kin ^anvfiil /\# Vtnirimr* if o r?r\l Wtfl in iV) A
I*J icallul x%* ut7Ki,v%* *** ?
den or field. There are those who
e attempted to discard from their
les all potatoes which have been pro;ed
by the use of poison, but the green
low used so universally on all farms
are potatoes are grown and without
least injury to the tubers that the I
r is pretty well overcome. It has been \
od that for potatoes a mixture of;
e Paris green and plaster at the rate
>ne pound of the former to 200 or MO j
inds of plaster is more effective than
be proportion of green is greater. If
green is put on in too large propori
the insects will reject leaves upon
[chit lies; while if the green is exded
three hundred times the leaves
\ be eaten more readily and thus more j
[the poison will be taken, though in j
? small doses. But if eaten iu however
til quantity the effect seems fatal. In
aying fruit trees with Paris green
?r, a Connecticut man applied it
ng enough to destroy the insects on
foliage, yet his horse feeding upon
grass underneath the trees was not
Boned.
here is little doubt that cattle mi<?ht
potato vines which had been .poisoned
nghto destroy the beetle without he[themselves
poisoned. So, too, potal
in gardens may have the green ap|d
on a windy day, and peas and
Iis growing near get slight aoses wnncausing
persons eating these vegetato
be poisoned, jet it is hardly safe
itter such statements bccause of tbe
sjer that gome one will act too ven-some
or foolhirdy in its use. Poisons
his nature, like tire, are good friends,
by negligence may become among
greatest foes. ?Ntue England Farmer.
en Milk is R^adv For Chnrninjj
he idea still pre -ails to a considerable
nt that milk should sour before but:an
be made. This is an error. Num833
triaU have shown that sweet
; aud sweet cteam yield butter as
h and as easily as sour cream, prod
these have stood for some time at
ium temperature. It is difficult if
impossible to bring butter from fresh
: or from thin cream that gathers
l milk kept cold for twenty-four
Keadinesd for churning, a. irms
>od an authority as Profe-sor S. W.
ison, depends ch e "y upon the time
has elnpsed since milking, and the
nracure to which it has been exd
in the puns. The colder it is the
pr it must be kept. At medium
temperature?sixty degrees to seventy
degrees F.?it becomes suitable for the
churn in twenty-four hours, or before the
cream ha9 entirely risen. Access of air
appears to hasten the process. The souring
of the milk or cream has directly
little to do with preparing them for the
churn. Its influencs is, however, otherwise
felt, as it causes the caseine to pass
beyond that gelatinous condition in
which the latter is inclined to foam
strongly at low temperature, and by enveloping
the fat globules hinders their
joining together. On churning cream
that is very sour the caseine separates in
a fine, granular state that does not interfere
with the "gathering" of the butter.
Churning cream when slightly sour,
as is the custom in the Holstein dairies,
yields butter of a peculiar and fine aroma.
Butter made from sour cream is destitute
of this aroma, and has the taste
which the Holstein butter acquires after
keeping some time. Stirring of cream
does not promote souring, but rather
hinders it by increasing access of air; it
may be advantageous in making the
souring uniform.
It has been claimed, with some reason,
that churning the whole milk makes more
butter than to set the milk and churn
the cream. Veiy good butter may be
made from churning whole milk, but it
is more difficult to make than from the
cream. Willard advises, for a choice
article of fine color, full of aroma and
of long keeping qualities, setting the
milk and churning the cream. A temperature
of about sixty-five degrees or a
little above appears to be the best for
churning whole milk sweet, but the
usual temperature employed is from sixty
to sixty-five degrees.?New York World.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Don't neglect the weeds.
Be regular in feeding horses and cows.
i-1* ? A_ - r /.JJ 4.^
uive plenty ui green luuuur iu piya
kept in a pen.
Cut away old canes of blackberries after
gathering the crop.
No soil produces useful crops when
prematurely saturated with water.
The most persistent vigilance is required
to eradicate the cockle burr.
As a remedy for white specks in the
butter try stirring the cream every morning
before churning.
Young colts are fond of petting. Kind
handling makes them gentle and more
easy to manage later on.
A cotton card is one of the beat instruments
for grooming a horse. It
cleans better than the comb.
Hay or other ground feed is indispensable
for horses, and ground corn or
hominy is better than whole corn.
Do not expect your horse to be equally
good at everything. The horse, like
the man, must "be adapted to his work.
Whatever tends to promote the general
health and thriftof the tree will also
free both tree and fruit from blight and
scab.
If you have no young pigs on the
farm, do not buy any at a fancy price
for the sake of using up the sour milk.
Feed it to the fowls.
For a shady spot under the trees and
shrubs, where the soil is rich and not too
dry, there is nothing more satisfactory
than lily-of-the-valley.
The purity and wholesomeness of the
milk depends largely upon the quality
of the water drank, as well as upon the
quality of the food eaten.
Foul odors in the poultry house should
be kept down by removing the
droppings at least once a week, and covering
the floors with fresh earth.
It is a good idea for the proprietor of
the farm to cultivate the crops in the
orchard. If the trees are injured then,
it is not so hard to tell how and by whom
it was done.
It is only a dirty habit that causes a
milker to wet his hands with milk while
milking. Cows should be milked with
dry hands, and only after the udders
have been washed or well brushed.
Clover should be grown more abundantly
than it is on many farms. When
Sroperly cured it makes very nutritious
ay, containing more muscle and milkmaking
material than ordinary bay.
Bone-dust moistened with a little water,
in the course of a few days yield to
water a considerable amount of phosphate
of lime, and this solubility rapidly
increases with the putrefaction of the
gelatine of the bone.
All chicks that feather out early are
hard to raise, and only extra attention of
the right kind will save a large percentage
of them. The severe drain upon
the system of the little chicks in feathering
is the ciuse of this.
The making up of butter depends
upon the custom of the market to wh;ch
it is consigned, local tastes having to he
considered. Whatever form is adopted
it must be of attractive neatness, which,
well repays the trouble of the maker. '
N. J. Shepherd- believes in cows that
are hearty eaters. He is satisfied that
while we may occasionally find an animal
that seems easy to keep in thrifty
cyuuaiuu wuu a amaii amuuuiui xuuu,
such aaimal has no particular points of
excellence.
The Doolcst Town in the World.
In N?ture, Dr. Hann gives an interestingacco.int
of the wiuter temperature of
"Wercho^amk (Siberia), deduced from
several years' observation. The town,
which lies in the vailcy of the .'ana,
about i> feet above the level of the river,
in latitude U4 degrees 3+ minutes N.,
longitude 133 degrees "il minutes E., and
at a height of about M50 feet above the
?ea, has the greatest winter cold that is
known to exist upon the globe. Monthly
means of ?5t> degrees F. occur even
in December, a mean temperature which
has been observed nowhere else in the
polar regions, and m.n^ma of ??<> degrees
are usual for the three winter
months (December-February), In the
year IrtSti March also had a minimum
?77 degrees, and during that year
December and January never had a
minimum above ?7t> degrees, white in
January, 1H85, the temperature of ?S9
degri es was recorded These extreme
vnnrlI1-1 mi o V\ o I rr pvorlUilo trnh fVin
l caumgo mo natuij vivuiwiv| j vu viiu
thermometers have beea verified at
the St Petersburg Observatory. To add
to the misery of the inhabitants, at some
seasons the houses are inundated by the
overflow of the river. The yearly ra-'go
of cloud is character'stic of the climale;
in the w nter season the mean only
amounts to about three tenths in each
month.
Bremen's Roland.
But the quaintest thins: in Rremen is
its statue of liberty, the "Koland," as it
is called. It is a colossal figure, ei^ht
een feet high, and was erected in the
centre of the town in 141t?. In one hu^e
hand the giant holds a shield marked
w.th an eagle 'that symbol of liberty in
all ages), in the other a naked sword. It
was the gauntlet thrown down to all the
world that Biemen wou'd be free, a freedom
so successful y maintained that
even now, though a part of tho < erman
empire, Bremen is a free city and has a
free port.
N 1
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
To Boil Potatoes Scientifically.
The proper, sensible and scientific way
to boil a potato is without peeling it.
Retaining its skin (though very well
washed, be it said), it also retains those
possibilities of flavor and flouriness of
which the generality of cooks do their
vei7 best to rob it. Different sorts need
different treatment, but it may be taken
as a general axiom that potatoes should
boil till they may be easily pierced by a
fork, and that after every smallest drop
of water has been carefully and studiously
drained away from them, they should be
steamed for only three or four minutes
over a hot fire and well shaken during
this process. Thev should then be served
in a dish without a cover, and very hot.
Porhnna f>iA nntAto is the onlv vegetable
that does not suffer from being eaten
from the same plate with meat or poultry.
?Brooklyn Citizen.
Notes 011 Renovating.
Skim-milk added to twice the quantity
of warm water, cleans graining, or any
varnished wood-work easily, and Injures
the varnish less than any other preparation,
as proved by many years' trial. It
brightens up oil cloths to wash them over
with skim milk after cleaning. Never
use soap for cleaning paint. When there
are spots of grease or smoke on the woodwork
a very thin lime whitewash will
remove them. To extract grease from
wall paper, cover the spots with several
folds of blotting paper and hold a redhot
iron near until the grease is al/sorbed.
Borax is very useful for cleanjDg window
glass and mirrors, and rubbing them
with old newspapers gives them a fine
polish. Newspapers are the best thing
for cleaning lamp chimneys. Put the
least bit of kerosene on a piece, when
filling the lamps; then rub the chimneys
until they shine. It is more easily and
quickly done thun washing them in soapsuds,
they look as well and %are much
less liable to crack.?Prairie Farmer.
Fancy Quilts.
Quilts are so popular now that a good
deal of attention is paid to them, says a
writer in the JJouseioife. The beautiful
Crete and Madras flowered muslin bed
covers may be seen on many beds, but as
a rule worked ones predominate. 8ome
in Roman sheeting nave only one corner
ornamented; and a favorite design is a
thick, boldly worked trellis, with some
straying leaves and large clematis.
There are just three or four crossed
staves, worked in shades of browns and
greens in the corncr, forming the trellis,
but the tendrils and flowers extend to
some distance. A bedspread recently
exhibited, and worked by an old woman,
was of brown sateen, with a design
in light blue cotton in the centcr and
round the edge. A frill of light blue
pongee silk, about a quarter of a yard
deep, was gathered on all round, and
over that a fall of rather coarse lace. The
effect was excellent. I have also seen a
gold-colored sateen quilt, worked in
pink and brown knitting silk, with a
deep frill of pink pongee silk.
Catsups.
Catsups are easily prepared, says the
Courier Journal, and a much more healthful
relish with meats and game than
niclrlpn When home-made thev are
very economical, and more likely to be
pure than even the best quality that can
be purchased from the manufacturers.
Cold Tomato Catsup?Cut ripe tomatoes
into thin slices; put in a stone jar a
layer of tomatoes and a layer of salt alternately
until full; stand aside for three
days; strain; spice to taste, and bottle.
Green Tomato Catsup?Take equal
quantities of green tomatoes and
onions, chop fine, sprinkle with salt;
put in a bag and let hang up over night.
Season with red pepper, mustard seed,
celery seed and cloves, Pack in jars;
pour over strong vinegar.
Sliced Cucumber Catsup?Take three
dozen large, ripe cucumbers and one
dozen small onions. Slice the cucumbers,
sprinkle with salt and let stand
over night. Drain; add the sliced
onions, with red pepper, cloves and allspice;
cover with hot vinegar.
Cucumber Catsup?Take large, ripe
cucumbers. Pare, remove the seed and
grate. To every pint of pulp allow half
a pint of vinegar, a teaspoonful of salt,
half a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper and
two teaspoonfuls of grated horseradish.
Drain the grated cucumbers, mix in the
other ingredients and bottle.
Eoiled Tomato Catsup?Put a bushel
of ripe tomatoes on to boil; boil eently
an hour and a half, then strain and re- I
turn the liquor to the kettle and boil |
thick; add half a gallon of vinegar, aod '
simmer gently for one hour, then put in
half a pound of brown sugar, half a teacup
of salt, one ouu< e each of black pepper
and allspice, two ounces of mustard,
I one of ginger, half an onnce of cloves, a
! teaspoonful of cayenne pepper, and half
1 teaspoonful of powdered asafcctida; stir
I well and let bo,L Bottle and seal.
Mushroom Cat-up?Take freshly
! gathered mushrooms; wi| e, but do not
| work them. Put a layer of mushro- ms
! in the bottom of a crock, sprinkle with |
i salt : put in more mushrooms and salt un- \
. til the crock is full. Cover with a damp
folded towel, and stand in a warm place
I fnr t-wentv-frmr hours: work and strain.
To every quart of liquor add one ounce
of pepper cones, and boil slowly for
thirty minutes; add a quarter of an
ounce of allspice, half an ounce of sliced
ginger root, one dozen whole cloves, and
three blades of mace. Boil fifteen
minutes longer. Take up and set to
cool, strain, bottle and seal.
A Musical Decanter.
A cut gla3S decanter with a musical
box concealed in the bottom is the latest
no elty in the line of fancy articles with
musical attachments. The decanters
are tinted in a variety of delicate colors, l
, which ser e to conceal the false bottom, )
under whi h the mechanism is placed.
Clear glass bottle-* are also made, and
when partly tilled with wine or a colored
liquid conceal the works still more el- j
fectually. The muical box is wound by
means of a button under the bottom, j
and plays only when the decanter is
placed on the table.
Mimical plates are made in a similar
manner, but the mechanism in them does
not play when the plate is on the table,
but when it is lifted to be passed aroui.d.
A concealed spr.ng underneath starts
and stops the worKS. The plates and
decanter cost $7.5 1 each.
i '1 he Most elegant aury article that
emits musical sounds is a gold snulTbo .
, It is elegantly wrought, and is mar el
I Ions in its working. Pressure upon a I
| small disc causes a c'rcuiar lid about the 1
size of a siver dollar to fly open, and a I
little liird po a into view. The f? athered i
songster waibles in exact imitation of a
canary, danc ng alio it and moving its
head and b.ll the wliile, and as it utters j
the last note it disa|i|>eirs from view,
and the lid closes wi h a snap. On the
other side of the box a larger lid opens j
into a receptacle for snutf. These tri es
co-t from $i< 0 npwa-d, uc ordiu;* to the !
amount of ornamental work and ewel- J
iug ihut is done upon them. Like all;
of the mo>t e pensive musical boxes,
thev are made in Switzerland.?N<-w
Yotil Journal.
"words of wisdom.
Act well at the moment.
Pleasure is the reward of moderation.
Many go out for wool and return
shorn.
We open the hearts of others when
we open our own.
If you desire to be crowned, strive
manfully, bear patiently.
A character that will not defend itself
is rarely worth defending.
What we are at home is a pretty sure
test of what we really are.
The greatest evidence of demoralization
is the respect paid to wea'.th.
There are no greater prudes than those
women who have some secret to hide.
The reproaches of enemies should
quicken us to duty, and not keep us
from it.
He needs no other rosary whose thread
of life is strung with beads of love and
thought.
Labor makes known the true worth of
a man, as lire brings the perfume out of
incense.
The first sure symptom of a mind in
health is rest at heart and pleasure felt
at home. , .
Evil habits are webs -which are too
light to be noticed until they are too
strong to be broken.
Great ideas travel slowly, and for a
time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet
were shod with wdoL
The world knows no victory to bt
compared with the victory over our own
passions and failings.
It is more manly to fail in a hundred
enterprises than to sit down and grumble
at those who are trying.
The Pnatshen Lamn.
The selection of the Pantshen lama,
whose headquarters are at the monastery
of Krashis Lunpoin Further Thibet, and
who has shared the overlordship of
Thibet with the Dalai lama since the
fifteenth century, took place at Lhassa,
recently. The ceremony is, perhaps, the
strangest revival in the ritual of any
church. It wap an old idea with the
northern Buddhists that distinguished
members of their order were incarnations
of divine beings, who, while continuing
to live in heaven, had the power to asaume
an earthly existence. This belief
is still held regarding the pontiff of
Gedun Dubpa and Krashis Lunpo, the
one bein<r looked on as the incarnation
of the third person in the Trin ty, of
which the great teacher is the head, and
the other that of the second person in
the same. Accordingly, when either
of the pontiffs dies, as the Pantshen
lamu did some time a#o, the
other has to set to work and discover
wherein the celestial spirit has embodied
himself anew. The first step is to get
me names or an xne maie cuuureu uuru
just after the death of the deceased lama,
and to Bclect three from these, one of
which, cast by lot, is the name of the new
incarnation. About the beginning of
the year the Chinese Resident at Lhassa
was informed that three "young boys of
remarkable intelligence and strangeness"
had been found, and aftfer some time
spent in communicating with Pekin, the
youngsters were brought to Lhassa and
preparations made for the grand ceremony.
All the abbots of the great monasteries
were present to supervise the
week of prayer; the three children were
received by the Resident and the Thibetan
authorities "in order that their intelligence
and difference from other persons
might be tested," and finally on an
auspicious day a golden vase containing
the fate of the boys having been brought
in and placed in front of the emperor s
image, which stands in the hall atGedun
Dubpa, the lot was drawn and the elect
rvf fho tViroo h o 11 o r? qq AmituKhd inr*fl.r
nate, the I antshen Kinpotshe, "Glorious
Teacher," henceforth to rule over hall
Thibet.
Rolled Wrought Iran Chains.
The proccss some time since announced
of rolling out chains of wrought iron
from the solid bar has, with certain im
provcments, been successfully resorted to
?the principle of forming the rollers
and the process of roiling out a chain
being in this case similar in some respects
to the method employed for casting
the links and having them come oul
together in a chain from a mold. In the
latter operation the flask is made to pari
equally in four ways, and the chain molded
while the links are separated so as to
divide the space equally between them,
giving as little clearness as possible,
which will not change their appearance
perceptibly?the flask is divided, the
chain is removed, and one is cast in the
mold. Similarly, a piece of chain is
swedsred out of a bar of iron in an analogous
manner by means of four converging
dies. Thus, in producing a continu
ous chain in this way, the dies are made
continuous by having them formed on
the circumference of four rollers arranged
with dies distributed in equal divisions,
and the rollers driven by gear wheels, so
that the four parts of a link will meet
accurately in place; proper clearance is
given to the dies, so as to allow the material
to leave the matrix freely as iho
roller revolves. As the blank is carried
forward between the rollers, the dies
partially press or swedge out the links
at right angles to each other, breaking
the fin or feather edge that is left on the
inside of the link.?Mining and Sr.itiitific
Press.
Gladstone's Library.
Mr. Gladstone's study at Hawarden
Castle is rather curiously arranged. The
wa 1 are co ered with books, ~and volumes
are also massed in large shelves
jutting out from the walls into the
room. Between each partition of books
iU 10 rrtnm fn tx7 'i 1 Lr tVina t Vi a coffin.r
bUUIC XO tvwLu kw ni?n\ wuuo iuu ui? * i u ^
of space in the arrangement of the library
in this manner is enoimous. The
stock of books, perhaps, exceeds lo,000
volumes, and notwithstanding this large
number Mr. Gladstone lias little difficulty
in placing his hfind on any volume he
may require. There are three wr ting
desks in the room- one is ch:e.'ly reserved
for correspondence of a pol tical
nature and another is used by Mrs.
Gladstone. Looking out of the sturly
window the flower beds facing the
casile prcseut a picturesque appearance,
while the heavily-wooded grounds beyond
stand out in bold relief and form i
massive green background.
Why Colonels Are Numerons.
Bill Arp explains, in a recent letter to
the Atlanta Constitution, that in old time
ra litia musters "the Governor was the
Comm;inder-in-Chief, but as he could
not be personally present, the militia
were reviewed by proxy. Every county
had an aid-de camp with the "rank of
Co onel. He held his lank and title as
long as the Governor held his o ' ce, and
he was expected to holier for him and
talk for him and boom him, and. if
necessary, he must fi lit for him on a
sui ableoccas on. If the Governor Tailed
of re-elect on, these Colonels had to retire
too, and a new set were appointe I,
bur the old set never lost their title, and
bo the State in course of time got pretty
full of Colonels."
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Sonth American Canoes.
The Creoles of South America call the
canoes used by the Indians "woodskins."
These boats are made of one
piece of bark, stripped from a species
of locust-tree called purple heart.
Unlike the birch bark used by our
Indians, this bark is very heavy, so that
in the event of a wood-skin shipping
water to any great extent, it sinks
immediately. To make one of tbese
wood-skins, a large purple-heart tree is
cut down, and the bark of the requisite
length is taken off. A wedge-shaped
piece is then cut out of the trough?'*
? ?J rtTimn'r?a
suapeu uar&, jxuiu iuc iup uununaiun,
at a distance of three feet or so from
both ends on caoh side.
The ends are then raised till the edge
of the cuts meet, when holes are pierced
on either hand at a distance of six inchci
from the cut, and numbers of turns of a
strong withe, or liana, passed through
them, and made fast in a neat manner
to a small, round stick placed along #?e
inside.
Two strong pieces of wood fastened
across the splits prevent the sides from
closing in. The ends are then trimmed
down level with the sides, and a ticklish
but serviceable little craft is turned out.
The whole process of making one of
these wood-skins, including the drying
of the bark, occupies a space of three
weeks. Wood-skins vary in size, but
usually are from fifteen to twenty-five
feet in lenght, and an ordinary-sized one
will carry three or four people, with
their hammocks and provisions.?Youth1 a
Companion.
Iler Heart Buried In France.
Mrs. Mary Magdaline Verge, a native of
France, died recently in Peru, Ind., with
tumor of the stomach. Her last request
to her daughter was that her heart be
taken out, her feet and hands araputantyA
conf +r\ Pnonnfl Kliriol A p.
cordingly, Drs. Passage and Kamsev amputated
the feet and hands, and took
ncr heart out, placing them in a glass
globe tilled with alcohol. They will be
sent at once to France for interment,
while her remains were taken to Somerset
for burial. Her daughter has also
promised that after decomposition has
taken pla^e, to remove her mother's
body to Franco for final burial. Madame
Verge is a graduate of the School
of Medicine in France, at Paris, Reims
and Bios, in 1849. She came to this
country about four years ago, being
born at Bryneufin 1*1H. Since her residence
in this city, while stauding near a
window during a thunder storm, a flash
of lightning blinded her, froin the cllects
of which she had never recovered. She
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Rhanuhetii's Pills are purely vegetable,
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Sold In every drnc: and medicine store,either
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The heiress of Ihe King of Holland. Princess
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The Proprietor ot Kemp's Balsam gives
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Don't Give op the Ship.
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Golden Medical Discovery remains untried. It
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but it has cured thousands of cases of consumption.
in its earlier stages, where all other
means had foied. Try it, and obtain a new
lease of life.
In 1886 Vancouver, British Columbia,had 1508
inhabitants. Now it has 20.000.
Many imitators, but no equal, has Dr. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy.
Washington has a summer homo for cats. It
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The best cough medicine isPiso's Cure for
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If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isnac Thompson's
Eye-water. Druggists sell at2oc.|ier bottle.
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And when the soap escaped his grasp.
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As swims upon a turbid lake
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