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? TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
' TO FARM AND GARDEN
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9B Board Floors for Piff Pens.
B A pig's foot is small in proportion to j
B its weight. If allowed to trample over |
B wet ground in its pen, it must inevitably \
B mire it up worse than other animals.
Some think the pig loves this condition
B of things. He does not, but he cannot
B help it. By all means, give piggv a j
B board floor over at least a part of his j
B pen, and under cover. This he will keep
B scrupulously clean and neat, goinir out- '
4m *Ua rtAlrloe* ll'Aath6t> vnirl llllllifi I
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or solid excreta. Very young pigs
quickly learn this habit of neatness. American
Cultivator.
To Make a Cow Mother Two Calves.
First put a blanket fan old gunny !
sack will do) on her own calf for a;
couple of days; then take her calf away
> at night out of her hearing if convenient
and keep it away until morning; then
take the blanket off the calf, and while
warm put it on the strange calf and give ;
the strange blanketed culf to the cow;
after a night of bellowing she will own it
> as soon as she sees the blanket and gets one
I smell; she is satisfied that she has found
her own. After the cow fcns liad her
: new calf a fex hours trot out her own
I calf with no blanket on, and it is sport:
J io see her smell first one calf then the
i other. The old cow has now marched
off proudly with her "twins," taking
both without any regard to age, size, ;
color or previous condition.?^cto York i
Herald.
Groomlnn a Horse.
The curry comb is a source of pleasure
to the horse, or an instrument of torture,
i accordingly as it is handled. It may be
i made to gently flatter the skin of the
horse, removing impurities and opening
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me pores, or m rt ics? bmuui u;iuu it
may scrape and irritate the surface, ;
> bruise prominent points, and leave the
tortured animalvso sore that it will for- j
ever after shrink from the touch of one
in any hands. Every person who has j
the care of a horse should learn to acquire ,
a deft, rapid, light touch which does j
th< rough work but so skilfully that the
horse enjoys it, as a man in a barber's
chair enjoys a clean shave from a skil-1
ful workman, while he dreads a scraping '
from a bungier. I nlike most men when
under a barber's hands, a horse greatly '
likes to be talked to during the opera- j
tion, and equally uulike, never talks
back. But kind pleasant words to the j
horse, and an occosioual caressing pat
with one hand while the other wields |
the curry comb, puts the horse at its ease
and establishes pleasant relations with
its master.?American Agriculturist.
Lettuce AH Winter.
The -winter crop of lettuce grown in
glass houses is beginning to come forward
in the market; and from now on to
spring, some of the largest growers will j
send in daily supplies, just as regularly
as though it were summer. There is no
difficulty at all with this crop, with low
houses heated bv hot water or steam.
One end of the benches is used for a
seed-bed, from which plants are obtained,
and. as fast as oue crop is cut,
the soil is turned over, some manure
added, and a new crop put in. At least
three crops can be obtained during one
winter. They are set quite thick, three
or four inches apart, and crow upright
rather than spreading. "All are partially
bleached by the process, and just as soon
as large enough, are tender enough, and
fit for the market. A temperature of
fifty-five degrees at night is ubout ri?ht, !
rising fifteen to twenty degrees during '
the day.
The principal enemy is the green fly. I
This is easily kept down by means of to- i
bacco. Stems distributed among the
growwig plants help a good deal in keep
mg these down, which, with fumigation i
regularly once a week, whether any can j
be 6een or not, will do 'he rest. If
green flies once get a firm foot-ho:d,they
"*re difficult to got rid of then. In this
case, an ounce of prevention is better
than any cure.?Prairie Farmer.
Points in Batter-Making'.
In every 100 pounds of milk, besides
eighty-six or eighty seven pounds of
water, there are four pounds of sugar
and four pounds of cheesy matter in
which there arc an enormous number of
small round globules which contain the
butter fat. Such a lluid is particularly
liable to lerment and decompose. Consequently
the whole system of butter- :
making must be directed to keeping the
globules in a state of the utmost purity,
otherwise the butter will pot be pure or '
likely to keep. Cleanliness and pure
&ir in the stables are indispensable, also
pure water and proper food.
^either roots, linseed cake, cotton
cake or gra:n should be given in too
large quantities to cows whose milk is to
be made into butter. The quantity of
food supplied should be regulated somewhat
bv the quantity of milk received.
In other words, the cow that gave the
smallest quantity should not be fed as
liberally as the one that produced
considerably more. \ The dary roorn
should be free fn.m the slightest smell.
The cows should I e kept comfortable
and not be annoyed by dogs or driven '
rapidly, or forced to wa:k lon<; distances.
The utmost cleanliness in milking should
be observed, shallow pans were the
most common for setting, but in winter
deep setting was better. For large
ouantities the inechinical separator prothe
host results. The nrocess of
i ripening the cream should s-to'p short of
Bouring. Butter colorcd with carrots
could not be expe;-te<i to keep. From
forty to fifty revolutions per minute in
the chum aie enough. The buttermilk
should be run through a strainer, and
bure col:l water poured into the churn.
The I utter should be taken out with a
wooden scoop and not with the hands.
In working and salting the grain of the
butter should noi be broken.?Neui Tvrk
World.
Beauties of Bjickwheat.
There are several arguments in favor
of buckwheat as a farm crop. The time
of filling the ground and sowing, in late
June, just between the hurry of planting
and haying, is an interval of comparative
leisure. Insects do not trouble
buckwheat, and so on land full of wireworms
or grubs this is an excellent plant
not only to escape the ravages of these
destructive pests, but to rid" the soil of
them preparatory to the raising of other
crops. In some parts of Michigan wirc
worms are very destructive. I lost not
a little from their attnck of my corn on
a low piece, which I had drained. Upon
examination of a similar piece intended
for corn next year I found it also full of
these grubs of the elater beetles. I have
raised a good crop of buckwheat on it,
I which I expect wi 1 secure against iirjury
of my crop another year. Many beekeepers
object to planting especially for
bees; but all favor such crops as alsikeclover
and buckwheat, for these are
valuable for other purposes. This season
ha9 been the poorest for honey ever
known in the Lnited States, Canada
and Europe. The early honey crop was
ft failure. How fortunate the beekeeper
who secured from buckwheat or other
fall honey plants enough honey at least
to winter his bees. Last summer I
planted the Japanese buckwheat?half
the field early in June; the remainder
July 1. Both parts did equally well. I
had to pay $3 a bushel for seed, but am
not sorry I did so. The size of berry
ar:d prolificnese of this variety are surprising.
The bees also worked on the
flowers nil day; usually they do not
work on buckwheat after noon; the
flowers do not seem to secrete nectar except
early in the day. I expect the
buckwheat cakes from this variety will
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be, at least, up to trie stanuaru.?rrufenor
A. J. Cvo'\ in NtW T^rk Tribune.
A Novel Implement.
It occurred to me last spring that a
steel rail would be an efficient implement
to spread manure, and I borrowed one
from the Canada Atlantic Kailroad Company
with which to make the experiment.
The manure, a large portion of it
uight soil, had been deposited on a fouracre
field. I hitched two heavy teams to
the rail, about four feet from each end,
and started them, taking a sweep of
thirty feet each time. It worked admirably.
The lield was level, and after going
over it four times with the rail,
which was done more quickly than once
with a harrow, 1 had the satisfaction of
seeing the manure not only evenly
spread, but well incorporated with the
surface soil. In half a day. with two
men and two team9, I had spread as
much manure as twenty men could have
done in the same time with forks and
shovels.
In the adjoining field I had dug a drain
several hundied yards long and tilled it
twenty inches deep with stone. After
having covered the stone with coarse litter,
it occurred to me that I could make
the horses till in tne carta wun me slcci
rail. I placed a team on each side of the
ditch and had the rail drawn on an angle.
The clay was thrown in by the ra:l as
fast as the horses could walk, and in an
hour I had covered as much drain as
would have have taken my whole force
a full day to do with shovels.
After harvesting my corn last fall (it
had been cultivated on the ridge system)
I decided that I would try to level the
ridges and root out the corn stubble before
plowing. The corn had grown so
strong that the stalks had to be cut with
a brush scythe, and the stubble was as
thick as stakes. A three-horse team on
each end of the steel rail leveled the
ridges nicely and uprooted and scattered
the cora stubble so thoroughly that the
soil (a stiff, black clay loam) plowed as
easily as a summer fallow.
I tried the rail as a leveler on a rough
field plowed out of grass, I found it too
heavy a job for four horses and worked
it with two three-horse teams, drawing
the raii lengthwise with the furrows. I
hardly expected it to work well, but I
was surprised at the result. After
going over the ground twice with the
furrow and twice on an angle with the
furrow, the rail left the field as level as
a billiard table, and packed the sod so
firmlv that it is now, three weeks after,
well rotted and will cross-plow as easily
as stubble.
I kept a summer fallow free from
weeds, destroying a heavy crop of
thistles and couch grass during that
season with one plowing in .June and
one in September. Beftire I could turn
the plows into it in the spring the weeds
and grass had formed a heavy crop at
least fifteen inches high. They were
turned under by fastening a chain to the
plow beam. I harrowed the field with
an Acme harrow and then allowed it to
stand until the sccond crop of weeks began
to show up. It was then worked
with the steel rail two or three times
during the summer, and the young
weeds. torn up by the roots, fell back
over the rail and withered in a short
time in the hot sun. The result is a
thoroughly clean field with the least
possible outlay of time and labor.?
Rural Neu) Yorker.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Add ground meat scraps to the poultrv
feed.
The first desideratum in winter ia
warmth.
Warm feed promotes laying during
ccld weather.
The chicken park should be under the
direction of the wife.
The "bronze" is the favorite turkey
with many who raise for market.
Cream not stirred enough is sometimes
the cause of white specks in butter.
Scanty fare, exposure and neglect is
ruinous to farm stock attnis season.
There is no better food for breeding
sows than skim milk and wheat brau.
The droppings should pay for the labor
of cleaning out the poultry house.
Each bushel of ften manure saved and
put on corn land will give one bushel of
corn.
If well taken care of, chickens will
pay better than any other stock on the
farm.
The practice of drawing out manure
as fast as it accumulates seems to grow
in favor.
Professor Cook thinks it desirable to
combine bee-keepiug with 6ome other
business.
Keep the pig out of the wet and give
it a chauce to keep clean by having a
board rloor in at least a part of the pen.
A hen of the large breed should not
lay le>s than lrom 110 to liO eges, the
small breeds from 1~>0 to 175: any that
lay less eggs than that should not be
kept.if
you are a breeder of thoroughbred
stock cull the fowls very closely. It
will not pay to wiuter disqualified birds.
There is more money with fewer birds
and higher prices.
Sheep and swine kept constantly on
woodeu floors often have| hoofs grown
badly out of shape. Such hoofs should
be frequently pared and shortened to
bring them in shape.
j Always select your horses for special
I work required. The heavy draft anii
mals are best ior farm purposes. TrotI
or-a intnnrlofl f/>r tho rnnfl thnn
1 for drawing heavy loads.
A Michigan bee-keeper says: My
way of jrett.ng rid of ants in bee-hives
is to kill what I can, then place green
j catnip over the brood where the ants
; gather, which I find drives them away
i effectually.
j Provide a leathern bit for cold weather
! or cover the iron bit smoothly with
j common bridle leather and protect the
I cheek pieces with the same. It is cruel
, to force a horse to take the iron bit ic
, hard fiee/ing weather.
, The best butter cloth is parchmenl
, paper. It is practically air, water and
| grease proof and does not stick to th(
j butter. "When you wrap your butter ir
I parchment paper consumers cannot
i Knf>r>ii!ntA -whfitlier the butter cloths be'
! gan life as part of shirts or sheets.
| No permanently successful attempts
I at poultry-raising are recorded whert
! the crowding of the fowls ifras practiced.
! One hundred fowls to the acre seems tc
be the limit of safety with experienced
poultry men. A wide range is absolutely
essential to the health and vigor of fowls
Beea should have not less than twenty
"r'i ^ ' j'v
pounds of honey or sjrup November 1st,
per colony, to pass the winter in safety.
The more fine days in winter that bees
will fly the more stores they will con
I sume. Protection of any kind has a
' tendency to lessen the consumption of
I food.
Mr. P. A. I.arsen, of Norway, recom|
mends ;is a preventive of ants, the use of
j the intestines of fish. He puts some of
it into the nest, and insists that the ants
J always leave if this remedy is used once
or twice. Another gentleman, Mr C.
Omberg, recommends the use of
powdered lime. He puts some of it
j around the hives with tne same guuu
elTect.
Flower Farm in sr.
We are told that the flower trade of
London is es imated at the value of
j $25,000 a day, and to anyone in any way
; acquainted with thisgigantic brauch this
! fact is not to be wondered at.
Between Nice and Cannes to London,
j especially during the winter and spring,
! there is a special railway and postal ser!
vice by which the flower cultivators of
j France arc enabled to pour into the
English markets flowers and ferns by
i the"thousand dozen bunches at a time;
j in fact, these consignments are proj
digious.
| The pjincipal kinds of flowers imported
to our markets, especially Covent
! Garden, from the continent, etc., con!
sist of lilac and syringa, violet, both
{ parma and the czar, and mignonette and
| i ent lilies, in enormous quantities,
mimo3a or acacia in two or three kinds,
i narcissus in several varieties, including
! paper white, double roman, grand moni
arque, soleil d'or, and the white roman
j hyacinth; all the above, if English
; grown, realize a better price in the
j market, but they are not grown in
. sufficient quantity in this country; and
i the Anglo-French salesmen in Covent
Garden aie now during winter, I might
state, without hesitation, the most hni
portant venders in the market, and they
nm fulltr oTOorfi of their imnortance.
?IV.U.V 1
I It is said the ottar of roses, manufactured
in the Valley of h'esanlik,
: Koumelia, is exported "to the value of
! $-220,000; and some one has made a cal1
culation to show that 10,104,000,000
j of blossoms are used each year at this
one place alone. In connection with
flower culture ou the contineut, and now
in the United States of America, the
! manufacture of perfumes from flowers
' forms a very profitable industry,
i and one which certainly might be
; adopted by the hnglish grower. The
! town of Grasse, near Cannes,the capital of
the department of the Alpes Maratimes,
; is the centre of a flower-growing district,
! and the principal seat of the manufacture
! of perfumes in France.
Making Bent Wood Fnrnlturc.
"We have all seen the beautiful Austrian
bent wood chairs aud furniture, which
j owe their popularity, perhaps, as much
; to their c harming design as to their
i strength and durability; and most of
us have had some curiosity to know how
j they were made. The /iewie JmJustrUlle
; explains the matter, as least so far as the
I processes coula be observed at the indus'
Within
! trim tJAillLMllWU uu xj uvtn-1 voiu. II ivuiu
a few years ihe methods of treating the
wood have been improved, and the ap'
plication of the material much extended;
! carriage wheels, for instance, having
| their rims made of a single piece of ash
' or oak, bent to a circle, with great adI
vantage in point of strength and cheapj
ness over those mude with tellies sawed
! in small scction9 out of straight pieces
j of wood. The material to be bent is,
; for furniture, usually red beech, which
{ grows very abundantly in the Hungarian
forests. The timber is sawed into strips
I one and one-half to two inches square,
I according to the work for which it is inj
tended, and then turned in a lathe into
; smooth, round rods. These rods are
placed in an air-tight case, where they are
exposed for fifteen minutes to the action
of superheated steam. They are then so
I soft and pliable a? to be ea-ily bent by
j hand, and are in this condition fitted to
: iron patteins, well secured, and left to
dry. The drying takes from two to
eight days, according to the size of the
! piece. "When it is oomplete, the wood
is detached from the pattern and is
! ready to be joined with other pieces,
varnished, polished, and sent out in the
j shape of finished furniture.?American
\ Architect,
A Story of John .Bright.
J John Bright, the great English Btatcsi
man, used to be fond of salmon-fishing
I in the Highlands. One evening be and
| his party were returning to their inn,
after a day of poor sport to all except
! himself?and he had a brace of fine
; salmon. By the roadside, on a henp of
I stones, they passed a wretched-looking
! man weeping, with his hands on his
I face, and all in rags. In answer to Mr.
j Bright's inquiry, he told a piteous tale
: of starvation at home, of a sick wife and
five hungry children. The Tribune put
his hand in his pocket, but unluckily
! had no change. "2s'ever mind, take
j that." he said, offering a salmon. "It
I will at least mnlce a good dinner for you
! once." The sequel was as follows: After
washing his hands Mr. Bright was coming
down todinnerwhen a girlhappeued
i to be crossing to the larder with a line
i fish. "That is my salmon," said Mr.
: Briyht. "I know him, for he was
hooked on the outside. Where did you
get it?" "Oh, from Sandy," said the
simple Scotch lassie, "and he is ia the
tap-room." Mr. Bright, looking rather
irrim and stern, forced his way into the
' tap-room, where his lachrymose friend
' sat with a number of cronies taking hU
"nip," and in full ylee recounting his
adventure. Nor was he a bit abashed at
the Btem face of the People's Tribune,
| but had begun a loDg explanatory state|
ment, when the glance of scorn which
, had electrified Parliaments and audiences
swept over him. Without a word Mr.
i Bright returned to his place. Afterward
j he was not so lavish with his fish.
A Precocious Criminal.
j A nice little girl is one ( elina Doiselct,
! for that is the name of the little monster
; who has just appeared before the Assize
Court of the Aube. in Prance, on the
' charge of deliberately killing two chil11
dren. She herself is but a child not yet
J thirteen years of age; but in the spring
i of the past year she was placed in
j service by her parents, her duties being
I those of a nursemaid. She had two
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| little boys to taKe cnarge 01, ageu re11
spectively three years and 6ix months,
, i and it seems from the evidence given
[ j thut this youthful criminal, being of a
l ! lazy disposition, did not like having to
j take care of them. So as a means ot re.
| lieving herselt of her little charges, ^ho
'! killed them both, the elder one l'aul, by
| twisting a pillowcase about his head
| and sitting upon him till he ceased to
. breathe, the younger one by stuffing a
handkerchief into his mouth and kneeling
on his chest. Iloth the children
were thus got rid ot the same day. The
1 murderer was asked in court whether
5 she regretted having committed the<c
terrible crimes, and she said she thought
' she did. This precocious criminal nas
' been sent to a house of correction for
r ten years. When she comes out it is to
1 doubted whether 6he will get another
' place aa nursemaid.?London Standard.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Exterminates Cockroaches.
A housekeeper who was recommended
to try cucumber peel as a remedy for
cockroaches, strewed the floor with
pieces of the peel, cut not very thin,and
watched the sequel. The pest covered
the peel within a short time so that it
could not be seen, so voraciously were
they engaged in sur king the poisonous
moisture from it. The second night that
this was tried the number of cockroaches
was reduced to a quarter, and
none were left alive on the third night.
?Baltimore American.
Paste Thfit "Will Keep.
How to prevent paste from turning
sour is a question often asked. The fol
| lowing method will make paste that
I will last a year: Dissolve a teaspoon of
j alum in a quart of water; when cold stir
| in as much llour as will give it the consistency
of thick cream; stir until all i
the lumps are moved; add as much
powdered resin as will lie on a dime,
and a half do/en cloves. Have ready a
teacup of boiling water, pour the flour
mixture into it, stirring well at the time.
In a very few minutes it will be of the
consistency of mush; let it cool; cover it
and set in a cool place; when needed for
use take out a portion and soften it with
warm water.?Detroit Free Press.
\
Cleans! nc FeathersWhere
feather9 need deodorizing, it is
best to have it done by persons who
make feather-renovating a business and
have the appliances for doing it in the
best manner, which families have not.
This is done by steaming, and afterward
drying and sifting out the dirt and
broken particles, so that the feathers are j
not only deodorized but are livened up
in such amauuer as to appear almost^as '
good as new. i\ew feathers need no
treatment except drying sufficiently to
take out the moisture they contain after
being pluckcd from the geese. Owing
to their extreme lightness'thcy can rarely
be spread out, but should be dried in a
j closed room where if possible, the sun
I can shine on them through the windows,
I or in thin sacks to nrevent them from
flying about when laid on a scaffold out
of doors in the sun. Feather beds and
pillows should be thoroughly aired and
exposed to the sun quite often, and if
properly cared for will last a long time
without any necessity for sending them
to a renovator.?New York World.
To Do Up Black CambricDissolve
enough salt in a gallon of
water to make a strong brine, and when
cool enough soak the cambric in it for
one hour; then wash it out, using a very
little or no soap, and rinse in clear, cold,
soft water with some powdered borax
dissolved in it. Soak some white glue
in cold water for two hours, then dissolve
it by putting the pan on the stove
in another containing hot water. When
melted add enough more water to dip
the dress; there should be ju9t enough
glue to make the water feel sticky w4ien
cooling on the linger. Put in a teaspoonful
of salt, make the glue water
quite blue, and use it when lukewarm.
Put a dark cover on the skirt board,and
iron on the wrong side. If these precautions
are neglected, the dress will be
shiny and linty. Use no water in which
white clothes have been washed; a good
cambric washed in this way can scarcely
be distinguished from new. Care must
be observed in preparing the glue, that
too much is not used, ss the water needs
only enough to feel the least trifle sticky
when the hand is dipped in. Rubbing
the flatiron on a cloth saturated with
kerosene oil is a good plan to pievent its
sticking, and usiDg a piece of sandpaper
to rub them on occasionally, they may
be kept as smooth as glass.
Itecipes.
RrcE Croquettes.?Roll one-half pint
of rice in a quart of sweet mlk or water
with a little salt until soft, add half a
cup of butter, two beaton eggs and a
little corn-meal, cut any shape desired
and drop into hot lard, or fry with a
small quantity of butter or lard.
Ginger Snaps.?One pound of flour,
half a pound of treacle, hiilf a pound of
sugar, a quarter of a pound of butter,
half an ounce gro ind ginger, sixteen
drops of essence of lemon, half teaspoonful
of soda dissolved in two teaspoonfuls
of hot water. Roll out and cut into
shape.
Homtxy MuFFr*:?.?One large cup of
white flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, two teaspoonfuls talt, mix together
d?y. Add two cups of cold boiled
I linraJniT linolon cmnnfK thrftP COrcrs. one
I UUUlill JF " ? OO I
half cup of melted butter, two table!
spoomuls white sugar, and sweet milk
enough to ma?e a thick batter.
Oi:as?e Cake.?Two cups of sugar
and half a cup of butter stirred to a
| cream: one cup of sweet milk, three
! eggs well beaten, three cups of flour,
I two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. For
the frosting take the whites of two eggs;
save out enough to frost the top; add to
the rest the juice and grated rind of an
orange and spread between the layers.
Potato Salad.?Cold boiled potatoes
sliced very thin, three hard boiled eggs,
one small onion chopped tine; season
with salt and pepper and pour over
dressing made of the yolk of one egg
stirred into a half teaspoon made mustard
and one teaspoon strong vinegar;
j beat in by drops three tablespoons of
j 6weet cream and the white of one egg
beaten to a froth.
Fig Pudding.?Three-quarters of a
pound of grated stale bread, half a pound
of best tigs, six ounces of suet, six
ounces of moist sugar, a teacup of sweet
I rrV*/. ??rl !
| muit, a Jiinu iiuimc^. luu u^i>
I suet must be chopped very tine. Jlix
the bread and suet first, then the figs,
susar and nutmeg, one egg well beaten,
and lastly the milk. lioil in a mold
four hours; to be eaten with cream and
sugar containing a little nutmeg.
sriced Bkek.?Take from four to six
pounds of beef, wa>h and cut off any
part ot the skin which is not sweet and
clean, pick off all fragments of bone and
cut meat into ocverui pieces; cover with
boiling water; skim carefully as it boils,
and then simmer until the meat falls to
pieces and the liquor is rcduced to hnlf
a pint. hemove the meat, season the
liquor highly with salt, pepper, sage and
thyme; add it to the meat and mix with
a fork until the meat is all broken.
| Pack in a br.ck loaf pan and when cold
cut in sticcs.
Dried Yeast.?Peel six good sized
lintnfnps and boil till tender: have ready
in a stone crock three pints of flour;
I while the potatoes are hot rub them
J through a colander into the dry Hour;
boil a large handful of hops fifteen minutes
in three pints of water, strain out
the'hops, add the water to the flour and
potatoes, mix wellaudwhen almostcold
add cold water enough to make it as
thin as bread sponge; have half a pint of
dry yeast soaked soft and stir it in; let
the yeast rise, stirring it down several
time.% then add to it three quarts of
sifted corn meal, mix thoroughly, roll,
cut into cakes and dry quickly.
The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Gas and Oil
Company have struck rich lubricating
oil at a depth of 1000 feet, in a well dug
twenty miles west of that city.
Dentil of nn Improvident Freak.
"General Tom Pounce," a dwarf
known in connection with Tom Thumb
all over the world, has died in poverty
on Green street, in Cleveland, Ohio.
He was only a trifle larger than Tom
Thuml). He was brought here from
Saxe-Welmar by his parents in 18
when scarcely a year old. and from the
first was exhibited as an infantile
curiosity. He had earned more than
?100,000 in his life, but spent it freely,
and ceasing to be an nttraction after the
loss of his health, came here four years
ago to live with his biother. Two years
ago the brother died and the dwarf in
vested all he possessed in a little cigar
store. He had no business capacity,
however, and was nearly starving when,
three weeks ago, John Wiamann took
him and cared for him until he died.
All the goods poor Pounce possessed
were a small diamond ring and a gold
watch. He had saved them in order to .
Vifivp pnmirrh to uav for decent burial.
lie was interred in a child's coflin,
clothed in the dress suit in which he used
to appear on rhe stage. His name was
Ernest Geyer.? Chicugo Herald.
Mexico's National Beverage.
Through the center of the pulque
region of Mexico the railroad runs a train
called the "pulque train" into the City
of Mexico every day loaded with barrels
and bottles of pulque. These bottles remind
one of the bottles known in
Scripture time. They are made of hogskins.
The skin is stripped from the hog
a'.most intact, turned inside out, ar.d
then, with the legs, tail and throat tied
up,it is filled with pulque. The baggage
car of our train, a correspondent says, is
nearly filled with these uncouth objects,
and until we knew what they were we
supposed it was a load of hogs. As the
train stops at the small stations on the
way to Vera Cruz, boys and men rush
up to the baggage car with bottles, pails
and demijohns, which are filled from
these hogskins. In the cities the pulque
shops are frequent, and you can always
see a crowd of Mexicans standing before
the bar absorbing the pulque. They
drink it from large glasses which hold
about a quart. I am told that when it is
fresh pulque is as sweet as honey, but it
ferments rapidly and is sour in a day or
two.
rv/?itumonr Xnr Ovnr.
1 he rush on the druggists still continues and
daily scores of people call for a bottle of
Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs for
the cure of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis
and Consumption. Kemp's Balsam, the standard
family remedy,is sold on a guarantee and
never fails to give entire satisfaction. Price
50c and $1. Trial size free.
Tue St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
Railway now operates 3280 miles of road.
A Wonderful Food find Modiclnc?
Known an 1 used by Physicians all over the
world. Scott's Emulsion not only gives flesh
and sirengtli by virtue of its f\vn nutritious
properties, but creates an appetite for food
that builds up ihe wasted body. "I have been
using Scott's Emulsion for several years, and
nm pleased wi h its action. My patients say it
is pleasant and palatable and all grow stronger
and gain flesn from the use of it. I use it in
ail cases of Wasting Diseases, and it is specially
useful for children when nutrient medication
Is needtd. ns in Marasmus."?T. W.
Pierce, M.D., Knoxvillc, Ala.
A Rtid cnl Cure for Epileptic Fir*.
To the Editor? Please inform your readers
that I hare a positive remedy for the above
named disease which 1 warrant to euro tha
worst cases. So strong is my faith in its virtues
that I will send flee a sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give
me his P 0. and Express address. Kesp'y,
H. G. ROOT. M. C . 1S3 Pearl St.. New York.
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people who ynffered severely with rheumatism. It
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"I had rheumatism bo that when I Bat or laid
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hasalipoet cured at."?P. Cabsiw, Gallon, O.
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Misti .1 UXJA DFAVitt.
2227 N. 10th St. St. Louis. SIo.
Our bsihr when two months old. was attacked
w.tli Scrofula, ivh'ch for a long time
destroyed her eyenifdit entirely and ca.-ned
u* to despair of her life. The doctors failed
to relieve her. ami wo gave Swift'* Specific,
which noon cured her entirely, and slid is
now hole and hearty. E. V. Dklk.
Will's Point. Texas.
Scrofula de-sloped on my daughter?swelling
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Swift's Specific, and the result was wonderful
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