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AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. Cows for Winter Dairies. Cows for winter dairies should come in about September. The calves are given the whole milk only for fi .e days, when they get warmed bweet skimmed milk. The winter dairy season begins in October and lasts until July, when the demand for butter falls of! and buttermaking gets troublesome. If the cows cannot all be brought in at the desired time, some should be bought or exchanged, and the heifer calves bred at the right time for future use. One cannot always make a complete change from Bummer to winter dairvinar. but it must be done gradually.?Neio ?Yvrk Times. Barreling Apples. Before packing, the first thing to do is to make up your mind how many grades you are going to have in the pile from which you a: o packing. There will be two grade- at least, and the chances are not more than three. For instance, take a Baldwin grown on the inside of a tree, that is apt to be rather green, that will be one grade. All the medium sized apples, have them all the one size as much as possible, and pretty high colored, that is another grade. Grown at the top of the tree or at the outside limbs, apples will be much smaller, but nign in color, that wm oe your tnira grade. A barrel of apples, when opened, should be all as near of the one s ze and color as it is possible to have them. If you pack your barrels in that way, and brand them accordingly, the buyers in Britain and elsewhere will soon get to know that that brand represents well selected, honestly parked apples, and the result will be that they will pay a fancy price for it. The price is not so much of a consideration with them as it is to get the very best article.?New Yurk Herald. Compost of Dry Lteaves. In making a compost principally of dry leaves the heap should be made broad aud kept flat on top, in order to have the water falling in rain percolate down amon* the leaves throughout the entire mass. It you can add a little barnyard manure, weeds, old hay, or even straw, as the leaves are gathered and thrown up in the pile, so much the better for hastening decomposition. The compo-.t heap, when completed, may be six to eight feet high, and the leaves and other materials used trodden down firmly. Just as soon as sufficient fain has fallen to wet the cormost heap all through, it should be turned over by commencing on oue side and pitching the materials over, keeping a narrow channel open across the entire length of the heap, for by working in th.s way you will be sure to have the entire heap moved and the materials of which it is composed well mixed. If any part of the heap >houid be found dry, add water sufficient to make it moist, for unless the leaves are kept moist they will not decay, only very slowly. The compost heap may be forked o/er two or three times during the winter if it is wanted for use in spring, for the more frequently the heap is moved the more rapid will the material* decay.?Hew Yor.'c Sun. Horse Breeding for Profit. There is something peculiar about the draft horse bus ness of this country, remarks the Breed.i*a Ga:ette. It is about thirty-five years since our people began to wake up to the fact that our horse stock mipht be freatlv imnrovfid bv the o O v 1 importation of the heavy draft breeds of Great Britain and France aud from that time down to the present the business of importing and breeding draft horses has not experienced a check or a reverse. No other branch of business in this couutry, whether pertaining to agricultre or any other industry, has been so uniformly prosperous. The importers have all made money; thsir customers who have bought these imported horses have almost universally made money; farmers fchohave b;ed to the-e imported stallions have all made money by so doing, ? A ?4.:n *1.. i... ?J - ?uu ami nic uumucm gue*j uu auu groA's and still the demand goes oat from our large cities, from our lumber camps and from our miniDg districts for irore and better hec.vv draft horse*. All horse-; of the heavy draft type that are bred in this country find a quick market at "ood prices as soon as they are old enough for use, and there is no prospect of an abatement of this demand. Surely breeders of draft horses in this country have every reason to congratulate themselves upon the unexampled prosperity of their business in the past aud its bright, prospective future. Srorinfj Cabbages in Pits. There are several objectioDS to storing cabbages in the cellar, even where there is plenty of room. Pits are sometimes u&el for this purpose, but trenches are :j 1 r ?.i- t? ?* * cwusiuereu. preieruuie uy mose WHO nave experiir.e.ite.i with the various methods. The following hints in regaid to the storing of cabbages in pits from Waldo F. Brown,as p-.iblishcd the Ohio Farmer: "To bury cabbages select dry land with a slope to carry olf the water, pull them on a dry day, aad if there is any water in the heads invert them and let them drain, open a trench eight inches deep and wide enough for about lour rows of heads packed as closely as they can be. Permit to remain a part of the leaves, to protect thorn, and no straw will be needed, but the earth may be shoveled directly on to them. Put on from ten to twelve inches of .earth, and shape it up bo as to keep out the rain. After the ground freezes, protect the pit with straw or corn fodder, so as to prevent freezing and thawing, as this is what spoils "them. Knough for use up to Chris: mas may be stored in boxes in a cool cellar, j.oose heads may be stored, roots down, aud will grow and make solid heads by spring. Open a flat trench four or live feet wide and set a row across the upper end, setting them at an angle of forty-five degrees with the heads packed as closely as possible, then cover the roots with earth, tramp it down on them, and place another row with the heads resting above the roots of the tint row. When your pit is filled it will show asolid mass of heads. ]Sow put up boards a foot wide or more around the edge, and cover to this depth with light l.iter, using first corn fodder and than leaves, and put a roof over it, and although the heads may freeze a l.ttle the roots will not, and the cabbage will mature and be crisp and fresh in the spring. If jousee signs of mice put some pie' es of apple with a little strychnine on them around the top ol the pit." The Wheat Ply. This is one of the most formidable enemies of the wheat crop in the United States. Many sorry crops have been chargcd to freezing out or unfavorable season, when the fly was the cause of the bad crop. Its ravages are greater in some localities, and greater some years than others. Its most favorable season it early in the fall; therefore, early-sown wheat is more subject to its attacks. The fly is very sensitive to cold, and perhaps sowing after a good frost is the best remedy for this enemy. The fly lays its eggs on the leaves of wheat, soon after the plants are up. In four or five days the egg9 will hatch, 1 o? annrt ac Viotphpf} tllf? ivnrm-l will crawl down the leaf and work their way between it and the main stalk, passing i downward till they come to a joint, just above which they remain, a little below the surface of the ground, with the head i towards the root of the plant. Having i thus fixed themselves upon the stalk, . th'y become stationary, and remain until i transformation is complete. The Hessian or wheat-flies do not eat into the stalk, as some may suppose, but ; they lie lengthwise on the surface, covered by the lower part of the leaves. They are nourished wholly by the sap, , whii h they take by suction. As they increase in size and grow plump and i firm, they become imbedded in the side j of the stem, by the pressure of their j bodies upon the growing plant. "When everything is favorable to the flies, they will be occupied for several weeks depositing their eg s. The tiy j will often lay twenty or thirty eggs on one leaf, and, when such deposits are made, the young worms will draw all the sap from the plmt, and it dies. When their places are found in the wheat, and the stalks look weakly, if the stalks are i j pulled up and the lower blade'pulled { | back, the larva or worm is seen at the J ' joint. | As soon as the flies are hatched out in I the cr\rinfT- t.hpv am rirenared to lav their I. i 5? ??- i r ~ | eggs on the leaves of the wheat sown | i the fall before, and also the spring wheat j [ which is making its appearance above j : the surface of the ground. If all things j are favorable, the fly will continue lay- j ! ing for about three weeks, and then dis- ! ! appear from the fields. When thete : : eggs are hatched, the worms pass down i the leaf, as in the fall. In this state j j they are found at harvest, and. when I the grain is gathered they remain in the t stubble, where most of them will be | transformed into flies earlv in the fall. | For this reason, it is best not to sow wheat on the same land two years in j succession.?Prairie Farmer. I |, Farm and Garden Notes. | Repair the old poultry house. Shelter from the hot sun all rare and ! costly plants. ! Good pastures are the good farmer's I main dependence. I j Good cultivation with some hoed crop, J ; is of the utmost importance. To repel mice, ftand three or four ! I pieces of lath around the tree and tie the j top. I The only secret in storing apples is to ' have a cellar that is sufficiently dry and cool. j It is a mistake to mix chilled milk with fresh, as the latter will be injured by the former. ! White oat firkins are recommended as best in which to make cucumber pickles, j and next to that stoneware. i A New YorK farmer recommends a ! mixture of orchard and meadow oat grass for soiling purposes or early hay. j ' All things considered, the profitable line of production with hoes is to main- , ; tain health and secure an early maturity. : I Asters are desirable because they come into bloom after the greater portion of garden flowers have passed their prime. 7Tr>olortl.-Qf1 limn /Inst- nn ftannrftfrii* when the leaves are moist with dew is a j favorite remedy for the asparagus beetle, i Use a mason's trowel to scrape the moss or loose bark from the trunks of I fruit trees, taking good care not to in- j jure the inner bark. I Blight is often destructive to the pear. ! : All that can be done is to remove the ' : blighted portion, whether a small branch . or the whole tree, and burn it If seeded down to clover or good grass, keeping the pig3 in the orchard from now nntil fall will be an advan- j ta0re to the trees, the fruit and the hogs, i Gsvm o Unofnli" nf rrn if will fnpnich ' UVn a |yaivu w* j v ^ ?v u<?, green food for the fowls this fall, next winter when the snow happens to be off, and in the priu^ before the grass starts. ! Culture, pruning and manuring are , most important during the first few years . of a young orchard, and the lack of them can never be atoned for by subsequent ca.e. ! One of the best places for dumping coal ashes is around the base of truit trees. I'ut a small mound of it around ; each tree. Borers will not be apt to ! trouble them. : There is no good reason why the be^t . varieties aud species of huckleberry j should uot be found growing in every garden where blackberries and raspber- j ries are cultivated. j One of the reasons why so many be- I or'n tier* in noultrv raising fail to make a r v o poultry pay, is because they crowd one hundred fowls into the space which half ; that number require. ) The value of fheep to the farmer ' ought to be estimated from the stand- \ point of meat, fertility, and general : advantages to the farm, regardless of ! the market price of wooi. It is said that if a three-quarter-inch I hole is bored in apple trees atTected with : "bitter-rot," aad the same filled with saleratus and then plugged up, it will effectually remedy the ev.l. It is claimed that wool washed after it has been clipped, and left for some time in its natural grease, combs better and makes more perfect cloth than if ; washed while on the sheep's body. Wherever sheep feed, new sweet grasses flourish and weeds are destroyed, j i Bays a writer. If farmers fully appre- i ciated how great a benefit sheep are to | , land they would raise more of them. | i An e - pe.ienced poultry man maintains ! that fowls live, thrive and pay about a3 < > well in confinement (when properly man- | aged and cared for) a"s when running at j large. But they will never bear crowd1 in?- | Drainage marks the line between i swamp aud grain fields; between swale ] and gra-sy meadows; between mosquito | plantatione and pleasant orchards and j 1 groves; between unprofitable and profit- ; able agriculture. ! As a rule, a half peck of nice selected ' apples will sell for as much as a peck if the other half is made up of small, crooked wormy apples mixed in among ihera. Save the expense of marketing! the inferior fruit. The kicking of hor.*es in the stab'e indicates a nervous, restleis dispobit on. I i j "We reemmend the use of a large, | ; j roomy stall, which will often change the s current of the animal's thought, and f cause him to drop the obnoxious pracI tice. I Spices must be used with moderation. | Fowls' insides are not made of India } rubber or sheet iron, but are quite like I those of human beings. Red pepper i particularly should be used with care, s and the season when the eggs are u>ed 5 for hatching it should be supplanted by ' ginger. _ j' Calico waa first introduced into EngL land, by the East Indian Company in , iieai. ' . HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. Sujreestinn for Pletore Framer*. A critic, who considers present modes fromimr ni/.hirno no ill hnrl tAQt.A. flllflr. i-"~? ? ? ? 1 ?O <:eits the following as an improvement. The frame should in some sense repeat th? idea of the picture in its decorative or other motive, and especially in color. Where it meets the outer edge of the canvas or panel on which the picture is painted it should be of open or scroll work?so that the eye of the spectator may not be disturbed by contrast?and not limited, as pictures now almost invariably are, by a sijua e, oval or circular tiat band or belt of gold.?Ne 10 Yorlt World. Painlens Poultry Killing. Mr. E. Baden Benger, the President of the British Pharmaceutical Conference, adopts and recommends the following plan for the "happy dispatch" of poultry. A large wide-moutfced stoppered bottle is kept charged with an ounce of cholorol'orm. When ac hickcn has received sentence of death, it is held lirraly under the left arm aud its head slipped into the mouth of the bottle. A few deep inspirations follow, and the bird without a struggle becomes un conscious. Then, holding it by the legs, its neck is dislocated by a quick stretch. The plan is so simple that it might be generally adopted. Clearing Jelly or Sonp. To clear jelly or soup an experienced cook adv^^? the following process: When the soup or jelly is made and the fat all removea, put it into a very clean saucepan, with the whites (lightly whipped to a froth) and shells of two or three eggs for an ordinary quantity of 6oup, jelly, etc. ,two wh tes and shells for the first quart and a half and one for each succeeding quart is a fair average), and bring it well to the boil, whisking it all the time to prevent its burning; then pourit through a napkin (if for soup) or a jelly bag (for jelly) previously wrung out of scalding water. If not sufficiently clear, rinse the napkin or baa and run the soup or jelly through it a^ain. The bag should he absolutely (not relatively, as it often is) clean, and should be hot from having boiling water run through it. or from being wrung out of tcalding water, and la>t, bmt not least, neither soup nor jelly should be handled while being run through the ba.r, as any pressure will muddy it irretrievably. Little Tricks of Hnnsekeeplng. "I have great' trouble with my furniture, and especially bric-a-brac," said a young matron, relating her experiences in housekeeping. "Ut course servants are ut the bottom of the trouble. They are always more or less careless, and when things get a little out of ordrr. I nm often ac a loss to know what to do. Yet 1 suppose if one knew how, it is generally easy to put them right. For instance, Aunt .lulia, how would you fasten embossed leather on wood when it gets loose?" "I would make a little cement of melted india rubber mi.sed with shellac va nish," said Aunt Julia, who is credited v\ith knowing more about the odds and end* of housekeeping than anybody else in her circle. "And how would you keep varnished wood looking fresh and bright?" "I would rub it thoroughly with oil from time to time. Only a little oil must be used, and that should be carefully rubbed in till it seems to be all rubbed off. Otherwise it will catch dust, and the last state of the wood will be worse than the tirst." "And suppose your white marble slabs and mantels get discolored, what would you do?" "i would take very strong soap-lees and mix it in quicklime till it is about like milk, and spread the mixture on the marb.e; clean if oil with soap and water after twenty-four hours' time, and rub J J tne marble wiin nne puny powuer ?uu olive oil." "How do you polish oilcloth?" "I use a mixture of equal quantities of linseed oil, beeswax and turpentine, and have the girl rub it in well.?Mail and Expre t. Dishes for Tea. Dried Beef Kelish.?Take the smill hard ends of dried beef, grate, aud 10 every cup ul allow four tablespoontuls of cream, four eggs well beaten and a little pepper. Put the meat and cream in a stew-pan; when hot add the eggs; stir until the mixture becomes thick. Dish up, and serve on squares of but tered toast. Italian t heese.?Wash a pound and a half of beef liver, cover with boiling water aud let stand for iive minntes; take from the water aud wipe dry; chop with a pound of veal and a pound and a half of ham; season with two tableepoonfu's of chopped parsley, a Bmail onion grated, half a teaspoon! ul of powdered sage, half a teasDoonful of black pepper, a l.ttle cayenne pepper and a teaspoonful of salt mix all together; greuse a mold with butter, press the meat into it, cover tightly and steam two or three hour*. When done, the mold will be a third filled with the juice of the meat, which drain off and put over the tire in a saucepan; add to it a fourth of a box of gelatine, dissolved in cold water; season with salt and pepper; pour over the cheese and stand in a cold place; whon r?nld turn out-of the mold, slice thin and garnish with sliced lemon. C haud l-'roid of Chicken.?Take a cold roast chicken, strip the skin carefully from it and cut the meat into pieces an inch long nnd wide. Put a tablespoonful of butter into a frying pan to melt, thicken with a tablespoonlul of Hour, mix until smooth, add half a pint of cream with salt and pepper, and let boil. Into th s sauce dip each piece of chicken and lay on a dish. Stand away until very cold. When cold, arrange the pieces on the dish, sprinkle them with a little chopped parsley, garnish them with aspic jelly and parsley and serve. Mushrooms on Toast.?Hemove the skins from fresh mushrooms, boil over live coals; sprinkle with salt; lay a lump of butter on each mushroom. Have large slices of nicely toasted bread, on which lay the mushrooms. Cold Meat for Tea.?Take the remains of cold mutton, beef or lamb, chop fine, with hard boiled eggs, ahead of lettuce, a bit of onion, and a sprig of thyme, season with pepper and salt, mix well, and squeeze over it lemon juice to moisten. Chicken Sandwich.?Spread some thin slices of bread with butter, and a little dressing made by mixing vinegar and salad oil. Put a yiyer of finely chopped celery and slices of cold chicken, cover with another slice of buttered bread. ? Courier'Journal. At the Circus.?"One ticket for me and two children's tickets for my two little eons." "Excuse me, but your older son is certainly older than twelve." "Oh yes, but the little one is as much younger than twelve a? the big one is older. So it's all the same."?Flieqtnde Blatter. The average vineyard is exposed to twenty-two different perils each season. I ' ; ? Fighting Fire in North Texas. t Who first invented this novel method of extinguishing a grass tire on the plains I fame has not heralded. Old Texans de clare that when Indians killed buffalo in quantity and feasted their fires sometimes spread, and a freshly skinned buffalo hide was used by the squaws to smother the flames. Cow-boys (the Texan ones) claim the patent for this novel method of extinguishing fires. The bulfalo bunch or mesquit grass in certain seasons rather smolders than blazes, but when the dry spell is continuous the herbage becomes as inflammable as timber. To lose the naturally cured grass is to weaken the cattle, aiid lank stock dees not winter well. The lire starts,and the cow-boy, ever on the alert, sees it. A cigarette has been dropped 01 > a spark from a fire has done the business. It is not a section of country abounding with water, hose or steam tire engines. The apparatus for extinguishing the fire is peculiar and near at hand. Crack ! goes a cow-boy's revolver,and knowing exactly how to shoot, a steer falls, with soiree a struggle, and is dead. Instantly a halfdozen cow-boys gather around the dead animal, and they proceeded to nay me steer in the most expeditious manner. It is not a skin for the tan-yard, to be nice ly taken off, but there is left adhering to the hide fully four inchcs of the meat. It is a very heavy hide. >ow two cowboys tie their "ropos" to the pendulous shanks of the hide, take a twist of the ropes around the horns of their saddles, spring on their ponies, and plunging spurs into their mounts, off they start at a mad galop, dragging the hide over | the fire and puttiug it out. Other cowboys trail along ana extinguish what little fire is left. It is severe work for the wiry little horses that scour the plain, just as soon as the horses show signs of tire, the riders jump off and mount fresh auimals. At breakneck speed many miles of fire are followed. The plucky little beasts are not spared, and what they may want in bottom is made up in gamencss. A "civilized" American Eastern horse could not do such work, Tor never could he be made to face tho burning praine. ?Harper's Weekly. The He-sians in the Revolution. The hiring of these troops was bitterly condemned by i.ord John Cavendish in the House of Commons, and by Loids Camdeu and Shellburne and the Duke of hichmond iu the House of Lords; and Chatham's indignant invectives at a somewhat later date are familiar to every one. It is proper, however, that in such an affair as this we should take care to arfix our blame in the right place. The King might well argue thnt in carrying on a war for what the majority of 1 arliament regarded as a righteous objcct, it was no worse for him to hire men than to buy cannon and ships. The terman troops, on their part, might justly complain of Lord Camden for stigmatizing them as "mercenaries," inasmuch as they did not come to America for pay, but because there was no help for it. It was indeed with a heavy heart, that these honest men took up their arms to go beyond sea and tight for a cause in which they felt no sort of interest, and great was the mourning over their departure. The persons who really deserved to bear the odium of thi& transaction were the mercenary princes who thus shamelessly sold their subjects into slavery. It was a striking instance of the demoralisation which had been i wrought among the petty courts of Ger' many in the last days of the old Empire, and among the German people it excited I profound indignation. The popular ! feeling was well expressed by Schiller, in his "Cabale und Liebe." Frederick the great, in a letter to Voltaire, de' ? ? ** ? -a J: j Cl&rea nnnseii ueyonu measure uit-guaicu, and by way of publicly expressing his , contempt for the transaction he gave I orders to his custom house officers that : upon ail such of the^e soldiers as should pass through Prussian territory u toll ihould be levied, as upon "cattle exported for foreign shamulea."?Ailautic Monthly. Gold-Grabbing Machines. . Duff Brown, just in from Osceola, Nev., tells of the wonderful doirg>down j there of a gold washer newly invented by i.os Angeles talent, saya the Salt Lake | Oenti/e Tribune. The machine works j by the dry process?the dryer the gravel ' the better it works. It does not weigh over 1">0 pounds, costs *125 and can put j through thirty tons of dirt every ten hours. One man cati turn the wheel easily, and for a country where it is difficult and expensive to secure an abund, ance of water this is said to be the very thing. The one at Oscoola is panning j out iu a way that is astonishing the : miners. The machine separates and ! collects the free gold irrespective of finej ness or shape, from gravel, sand, loam ! and other debris. It is operated by hand I or other power, and is said not to cheek J in the heat. The dirt, after be:ng put ,' into it, 1 asses through a hopper over a , set of rifles, the bottom of which ie ! formed by a tine meshed brass wire 1 screen. The turning of a crank operates a double pair of bellows beneath, which , forces a constant and strong blast of air j through the meshes, blowing the dust ' out, the heavy goods falling to the boti torn. It can be divided without diffi culty to facilitate packing on burros. Mcchanical Wood Carving. "Pretty nearly everything that can be ! done in the fine arts can he imitated 01 reproduced by mechanism nowadays,' said a well known >.ew York picture fame maker the other day to a Mail ant E pre.'* rej-orter, '-and some of the tricks that are employed in doing it, are won' deifully ingenious. l or instance, il doesn't look as if wood carvings coulfi be imitated very well by machinery, bo( they ran, and I don't refer to the ordin ary molding or stamped work. "It is stumping, of course, but ar elaborate kind. We take basswood, which can be compressed enormously, but which will assume its original siz< afterwards if it is steamed. We stamj this wood with dies and then plane of the whole surface evenly, down to th< point of the deepest impression. Thei we steam the wood and all that has beer comnressed swel.8 out again, and som( really beautiful effects are obtained ii this way." Tempting Doctors' Fees. Once in a while a New York doctor snys the Sun, gets a soft snap. Tin other day n nabob of this town, who i troubled with the mollygiubs guvi a young .d.sculapian who hud doni him service a fee of $10,000 and ex penses to accompany him on ahalf-year'i European tour. A still more tempting offer was recently made to auother dis ciple of Galen in town to induce him t< undertake the surgery of a hunting party bound upon an expedition to thi wild Southwest. It is reported that Mr Jay Gould gives an alluiing salary to thi physic an whose exclusive service he en joys. The English surgeon. Morrel jVlacKenzie, rerently declined a fee o $H0,000 which a millionaire in this coun try offered bim for a single visit. Bu it is not every doctor who can get sue! chances. V 1 . A Cooking Clock. The latest achievement in portable double-action furniture is the cooking clock, now on exhibition here. It is made of white woqjl, stained cherry, and is constructed after the style of the old-fashioned grandfather's clock. 1 Here the resemblace ceases however, for before one is thiough inspecting its multiform surprises one wonders whether i some bright little automaton will not i spring out of a concealed drawer or ; secret receptacle and offer you a diai mond ring and a chromo. i In the first place the lower part of this mighty engine of domestic economy contains a gasoline stove which, when in i use, is pulled out like a drawer from its resting place. Below the stove is a re' ceptacle for kitchen ware, while above it is a china closet containing four shelves. Above all this is perched a calendar clock, back of which is attached i a gasoline vapor tank, which is conneci ted with the stove by a pipe concealed ' behind the case. You might suppose thatjthis collection of conveniences would hove satisfied its enteiprising inventor?but no. To the i left, and fitted securely to one side of the ca9e, is an argaud burner, supplied ?l.n tltn rraonlinA Vfl. Willi ^CJLiCiaiL'U l/JT IflAV M por tank above mentioned. When cooking is in progress the woodwork of the stove clock is protected by a sheet of asbestos paper, which is placed back of i thestove. When the stove, china closet, etc, are not in use they are pushed back into the case, the front of which is decoi rated with a handsome mirror. Beside* this multiplicity of useful combinations, the ingenious inventor has found room within the magical case for a writing desk and a drawer for writing i materials. i What more in the way of condensed i comfort can one ask for in one article of furniture? With one of these stovei clocks and a folding bed in a room, the i occupant has a kitchen, bedroom and parlor all in one. ?Jeiodert 11 eekly. Courtship In Kaflrlstan. The following is an account of the custom of courtship among the remote tribes of Kaliristan: A hafir, having fixed his affections upon some female, ncquaints his parents with his intentions. They apply to the parents of the girl, 1 and if the latter do not consent to the 1 union, a tight is inevitable. If the 1 parties agree, the next proceeding is to > appoint two expert female negotiators, 1 who, by stratagems, gat access to the house with the object of broaching the 1 subject to the young lady. The lady 1 ambassadors avoid any sudden or abrupt 1 mention of the awful subject of their mission, but launch out in praises of the gentleman who seeks her hand. They speak of his possessions, his courage and other accomplishments. The girl, pre1 tending to be a.Ironted even at these remote hints, grows refractory and runs away, tearing the ringlets of her hair as Bhe retires, while the female ambassadors, having got the consent of the parent?, drag hi.T from her concealment and carry her by force to the hou?e of her destined husband, and there leave her, where &he is compelled to remain for days silent and dejected, refusing food, till at last, if kind entreaties do not prevail, she is made to submit by blows to the union. The Kafir who has the reputation of having committed a number of murders of Mohammedans enjoys jxceptional privileges; he is respected by all in the neighborhood and experi?nces little or no difficulty in procuring - > If mi? r.G, io 1 AV11C lor UimtJCUi llic naui nuuiuu to loomed to a life of toil and drudgery, and the husband has the option of discarding ier at any moment he feels so disposed. ?St. Jamet't Gazette. Iridescent Leather Modern leather manufacturers, says she S'<oe and Leather Keport r, are suroassing the ancients in the diversity and beauty of the colors they are introiucing. Many of the shades produ ed in upper leather are h'ghly attractive. The Thebans were thought to have attaiued great proficiency in this art, but the variety of colors they are credited with was meager compared with the iridescent display of our epoch. Remnants of leather found in Theban tombs reveal the use of acacia and other trees in the tanning proce.-s. The .Jews, after i the exodus, probably put into practico the knowledge obtained of this art . under the Phataohs, in preparing rams' , skins dyed red for the seivice of the Tabecnacle. The love of colors is as old as the human race. The art of dyeing leather, 30 long practiced on the .Viediterranean, was afterward attained with di ..culty* by other Luropean countries. But we i need no longer to go to J- gypt or the Mediterranean for instruction concerning it. ? A Valuable Remedy. Brandreth's Pills purify the Blood, stimulate the Liver, strengthen the Kidneys, regu' late the Bowels. They were introduced in the 1 United States in 18a"). Since that time over fifty 1 millions of boxes of Bkaxdketii'9 Pilus have ! been consumed. 1 This, together with thousands of convincing i testimonials from all parts of the world, is positive evidence of their value. : Brandretr's Pills are purely vegetable, ab solutely harmless, and safe to take at any time. Sold in every drag and medicine store, either plain or suKar coated. The first saw-maker's anvil was brought to America in 1819. _ V\odM Vun Hi lieve j The Proprietor ot Kemp's Balsam gives Thousands of Bottles away yearly? This mode of advertising would prove ruinous if the ! Balsam was not a perfect cure for Coughs and l all Throat and Lung troubles. You will seo . the excellent effect after taking the first dose. y Don't hesitate! Procure a bottle to-day to keep In your home or room for immediate or future I use. Trial bottle Free at all druggists'. Large t Size 50c and $1. The first watches were made at Nurenburg, Germany, in 1477. ' A Mndman at Large! i He is a well-known citizen, and his nearest and dearest, friends do not suspect his insanity. ' How do we happen to know aoout if? Listen; 3 his appetite is gone, he is low-spirited, he don't ) sleep well, he has night-sweats, he is annoyed P by a hacking cough. These symptoms are the forerunners of consumption and death,and yet 5 he neglects them. Is it any wonder that we l call him a madman? If you are his friend.tell him to get a bottle of Dr. Pierce's (iolden Med1 ical Discovery without delay. It will cure him J if he takes it in time. It will not miraculously , create new lungs when the old ones are nearly gone, but it will restore diseased ones to a healthy condition. Tell him about it, and warn him that in his case delay means death. There are K,000 paupers in the city of Lon, don. 3 Wonderful Popularity. j! The fnct that the sale of Dr. Pierce's Plca/-. I ant. Purgative Pellets exceeds that of niiyother j.ill in tlio market, lie it gixut or small, is on 9 account of the fact thut they are tiny, little, sugar-coated granules, and that in most cases one little "Pellet" is sufficient for a dose: that 3 they are purely vegetable and perfectly liarm? less; ana for constipation, biliousness, sick headache, and all diseases arising from derangement of the liver, stomach or bowels, J they are absolutely a specific. A gentle laxai tive or active cathartic, according to size of J dose. , The wool clip of tne United St tes has increase I rom C0,0i 0,00n pounds in 2800 to more ? | than 300,000,000 pounds in 1884. I ; Use Ihe great specific for "cold in the head" j . and catarrh?Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. I The annual value of the wool crop is from " (75. (CO.OCO.OOO to $00,000 000,000. nry ng with tue 1 I market value. : If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp on'iEye-water. Druggist* sell at 26c.per bottle. k' { i . . Where Log Cabins Flourish. A party of American gentlemen, who had been camping out on an island in the great Lake Nipissing, Canada, last Summer, were returning in a sail boat and were yet seven miles from port when the Bun went down, and with it the sailing breeze. A discouraging situation, truly. "Never mind, I can row you there inside of two hours," said the guide who had charge i nf t.hn nnrt.v ax their murmurs arose. "Why, man, it is seven miles, there are four of us in this heavy boat?its a big job yon undertake," said one. "No matter, I have done the likes before and can do it again," cheerfully replied the broad-shouldered Irishman, as he stowed away the Bail and bent to the oars. He was a splendid oarsman, and the boat was soon under headway again. "What would I not give to enjoy your health and strength," remarked the Professor. "Yes, I am pretty healthy, and though I am past sixty I feel as strong as ever," replied the guide. "But only three years ago I I stood at death'8 door, and never thought to pull an oar again. You see, I was in the I woods all winter, logging, and I got into the water one day and caugnt cold. It settled on my lung3 and 1 had a bad cough, which hung on till I ran down almost to a skeleton." "Call in a physician?" "Yes, I went twenty miles through the bush to see a doctor; he gave me some medicine, but it didn't help me much." "How was the cure effected?" "An old Scotch lady, who had come over from the States, gave me a preparation of balsams and herbs, which she said the early settlers in America used, and it soon stopped my cough and put me on my feet again." One has but to travel along the frontier to learn how easy It is to get along without doctors, and how effective are the natural remedies which the^ old grandmothers know 1 how to prepare. They often cure wnere tne I best physicians fail. Every mother of a family knows how coughs and colds are quickly'and radically cured with syrups and teas made from balsams and herbs which "grandmother taught us how to make." Warner's Log Cabin cough and consumption remedy was, after long investigation into the merits and comparison with other old-time preparations, selected from them because proved to be the very best of them all. It has brought back the roses to many a pallid cheek ?there is no known remedy its equal as a cure for coughs end colds. Memory Feat or a Magician. Sir John Stainer, whose reputation as an organist and composer is world-wide, ays the Chicago New, has a wonderful memory in regard to musical matters. On one occasion he was to play the organ in the performance of the "Messiah" at the Crystal Palace. Just before the hour for opening it was discovered that thero was not a copy of the work in the building. In this emergency Dr. Stainer's memory stood him in good stead. He played the entire organ part right through without a fault and withI out a note of music to guide him. There j is no record of sucli a feat ever having j been dose before or since. I S^IACOBS Oif Lumbago. CflSES so years * STANDING. NO RETURN OF PAIN. iSaf At DrngjiiU ul D?4l*n. THE CHARLES A. VOGELERCO. Baltimore, Md. i Diamond Vera-Cura FOR DYSPEPSIA. AND ALL STOMACH TK07SLS3 SUCH AS: ladlftttlon, 8o?r-lto*jicA H?*rtbnrn, XaoM*. 01441neii, CoatUptUoa, Fullctu titer c&tlsf, Fool i Riling U the Month aid dli*cr*?*bl? tuU &tur ?>I lag. Htrvouatu kn4 Low-Splrlti. I At Druggial* and Vea'er* or tent by mail on re| cetpt o/ 25 cts. (5 boxes <1.00) in ttampt. Sample | tent on receipt ojl-rent Stamp. | THE CHARLES A. VOCELEn CO.. Baltimore. Ill | j ,jQiTr Warner's Log Cabin Remedies. ? "SarsapaI sHV "Cough and Con sumption Kemeay,"? jjfa.fi-FVryq "Hops and Buehu,"? "Extract,"?"Ha.rTonI "Plasters," (Porous-Electrical),?"Rose i Cream," for Catarrh. They are, like j Warner's "Tippecanoe," the simple, ef! fective remedies of the old Log Cabin j days. Paul.?"Now what i9 the use, Sarah, of our taking several magazine*, when i we can get the whole thing combined in ' one? When we were over to the Stetson's, the other evening, I happened to p'ck up the one they take, and after glancing it over could account for your ! always going to Mrs. Stetson for inforj mation, and it was very evident where : she gets her information from. S a it ah.?"Weil, Paul. I am glad you 1 have come to your senses at last! If you will remember, I have wanted for some time to take the same magazine that they do, but you have always put me of? by ; j objecting to my takii g a fashion j magazine. The fact is, n family maga1 zine that is published to interest every I member of the family, must contain a ' fashion department; and it is a great credit to Monthly Magazine j that its fashion department, like all ' its other departments, is so perfect. I j But >lr. Stetson is always as anxious for | its arrival as his wife, so he must find in j | it just what he wants, too. I am going ' ! to send to the office of the publica- j tion, 15 l ast 14th street, New York, j for a specimen copy, for I see that they , ! send one for ID cents, aud I will certainly lo;e nothing, for cach number of the magazine contains a "Pattern Order," entitling the holder (free/ to any pattern she may select. That alone will be worth cents to me." I understand that the publisher, Jennings Deuiorest, 15 East Fourteenth I 1 street, jS'ew York, will send a specimen i copy for ten cents. I am going to send for one, for I can certainly lose nothing as j each number contains a "Pattern Order' worth thirty cents, for it entitles the ho'dcr to any pattern she may choose.* The magazine i* only $2 per year aud worth ten times that amount. PS! ELY'S CREAM BALM i !S SURE TO CURE 1 cold in head : y / QI-'ICKLY. j Apply Balm Into each ELY BROS.. (16 Warren St., N. Y. FRAZER BEST IN THE WORLD UntflOC I tsy Get the Genuine. Sold Ererywheie, slu />? ^ ThiriBHBEANDSl M* If* Fv M H N \ 1 ">* >>vOrat atonn. B* 4S rf PQ Bift*' eomra tho ratlr* ud B W Ai D I\f* ? Brmd" tradt-mirk. ' :^3pg| Wliat Scott's Emulsion HasDirtl: m Over 26 Pounds Gain In Ten Wee**. Experience of a Prominent ClLSue^ -v Thx Gmromnzi. Bocrrnr to* ia> jf ? Bnmauaottor Vicz. I n r'cyg Bin yuxcnco, July 7th, XML) ^ I took a severe cold, npgii my cnesnc ana lungs cumi??? > . not give it proper attentions It developed into bronchitis ? and in the fall of the sam year I was threatened wiflfe* -M consumption. 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