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Agricultural Mlicellanj.
Ohio owns 100,000,000 worth of live
sto*k.
Thar* ar* 900 aer*s in hop* within a
radio* of fir* mile* of Sacrament*, OaL
Ov*g 1,000,000 pounds of Colorado
wheat hav* already been shipped from
Denver.
It is estimated that the present ootton
crop of the South will not amount to
more than half the ordinary yield.
Hay chopped ready for feeding is
now pressed into bales in Maine and
shipped to the Boston market.
Diehl wheat seems to be giving satisfaction
in Michigan. Thirty to fortyfive
bushels per aor? are reported in
some sections.
Borneo has a tree the nnt 'of which
S'elds vegetable tallow. The trade ia
e article promises to become one of
great importance.
It is intimated that of the present
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United lates, more apples have been
lost bj i 'ting and waste than an average
crop would amounted to.
An epidemic resembling the horse
disease has attacked the deer in the
woods of Michigan. Many of them have
been found dead, with their throats
badly swollen and every indications o
having the horse malady.
A lot of Texas oattle were recently
driven into Appanoose oounty, Iowa,
for pasturage, and now the native cattle
in the vioinity of Moulton, in that
ounty, are dying off at a rapid rate
with the Texas cattle fever.
A hen has unfortunately been killed
in Boston which might in time have
attained the power af laying golden
eggs. A solid nugget of the precious
metal was found in ner insides, weighing
four penayweights and in shape
very like an egg.
Walnut stumps have beoome an article
of merchandise and many ofHhem are
very valuable. The curly grain of the
roets is used for veneering, and some
stumps are worth 3160 after being properly
worked into shape.
A late writer lavs down this as an
axiom in drainage -It is not judicious
to spend money in draining land that
needs draining, so long as we can use
the money to good advantage in the
better cultivation of other good land
that does not need draining.
Breeding fine stock successfully is a
specialty which requires study and experience.
It is a scienoe that but few
farmers are able to comprehend. To be
a competent judge of fine stock nature
must bestow the talent, and that gift
must be cultivated and educated.
Pasohal Morris says he once saved
the life of a $600 short-horned bull,
sick with hoven, by placing a wisp of
twisted hav in his mouth and tying it
*p tightly behind the horns. The working
of the jaws to get rid of this encnmbranoe
liberates the gas in the stomach,
and relief is immediate.
Making beet sugar has not been suooeesful
in Indiana this year. The season
was so wet that the product was extremely
light.
To prepare vegetable oysters, parboil
it, scrape off the outside, and cut it in
sUoes. Make a batter with powdered
cracker, beaten eggs and salt; dip each
slice in, and fry both sides brown.
Water Cakes.?Dry three pounds of
fine flour, and rub it into a pound of
sifted sugar, one pound of butter, and
ne ounoe of caraway seed. Make it
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uvv a wiui ujuree-qaarrorB ui a
pint of boiling new milk, roll very thin,
and cat into the size you choose; punch
fall of holes, and bake on tin plates in
a oool oven.
To Make Preserved Ginger of Lettuoe
Stalks.?Put the quantity of lettuce
stalk that you wish to preserve in salt
and water for four or five days, changing
it every day; make a syfup of one
pound of sugar, one pint of water,
quarter of a pound of ginger, with the
peel of lemon, the white of an egg;
Doil till clear, which must be done three
times a week for three weeks ; wipe the
talks quite dry, and pour the syrup
tvar, boiling. This preserve, if well
tied down in jars and kept in a dry
place, will keep for four or nve years.
Cold Slaw.?Mince very finely a small
cabbage : put it into a ohina bcwl, and
prepare lor a nice dressing. Take half
a pint of the best white vinegar, mix
with a quarter of a pound of butter cut
in bits and rubbed in flour, a little salt
and cayenne. Stir all this together and
boil in a small sauce-pan. Ab soon as
it boils, stir in the yolks of four wellbeaten
eggs, and take it immediately off
the ire. Pour it boiling hot over the
cabbage, and mix it with a spoon. Let
it become cold before sending to table.
ThcU. S. Agricultural Bureau.?The
report of the Agricultural Bureau, just
pubMshed, shows that the corn crop of
this year is an unusual large oue. It is
manifest that the corn crop is as large I
as that of 1876, and when the returns are
all in, a crop of one thousand one huu- !
area mmion eusneis wiu De inaicatea,
in quality somewhat below the average.
The season has been unpropitious foY
cotton, bnt not less favorable than that
of last season. The total product as indicated
by the first week in November
is made verynearly 8,450,000oommercial
bales of 465 pounds. In potatoes the
returns point to a decrease of five per
cent, from the producf of last year,
amounting to six millions of bushels.
There has been a small increase in the
hay crop, which will probably reach 24,000,000
tons.
Home Made Yea*t.?Daisy Eyebright,
in the Country Gentleman recommends
the following: Boil two handfuls
of hops, tied in a small bag, in six
quarts of water, slice thin six large potatoes,
and boil them with the hops; when
they are soft skim them out and mash
Eerfeotly fine; add to them one and a
alf pints of wheat flour stirred to a
smooth batter with cold water; turn over
the whole the boiling hop liquor, first
taking out the bag and squeezing it dry;
then hang it aside to use another time,
f*r it will make two batches of yeast.
Stir into this mixture two tablespoonfuls
f sugar, one of ginger and one of salt.
When milk-warm, add a teacupful of
yeast, set in a warm place to rise, and it
will be ready to put into a jug by the
?ext morning. Keep in a cool oellar or
ice-house, and it will last good for
six weeks or more. Always shake the
iug before usine anv of its contents. A
teaoupfal of this yeast will make threeloaves
of bread and a pan of rolls.
Mrs. Breton, in her cook-book, Bays:
To make nice breakfast cakes take one
pound of flour, one-half teaspoon tartaric
acid, one-half teaspoon salt, one-half
teaspoon soda, and one and one-half
large cups of milk, one ounce of sifted
loaf sugar, two eggs. Make them as you
would soda bread, with the addition of
sugar and eggs. Mix flour, tartario acid
ana salt well together, taking oare that
the two latter are reduced to finest powder,
and stir in the sifted sugar. Dissolve
the sugar in the milk, add the
eggs, which should be well whisked,
and with this liquid work the flour, &e.,
into a light dough. Divide into small
cakes, place in tne oven immediately,
and bake for twenty minutes.
Trinity Church Sobbed.
Trinity Church of New York was
robbed by a daring burglar. The com- a
munion service, used during Sunday
service, is valued at over $20,000, and
many of its pieoes were sent to the
church by crowned heads in Europe.
This is evidently what the thief was
after.
On the south side of the chanoel are
two vestry rooms, each having a large
window. Each window is protected by
three light sashes. The windows are
about three feet above the ground, and
the snow reached up nearly to the sills.
To open the sushes was easy. The
windows swing on pivots, which enter
small apertures on each side of the wood
work. They are opened and closed by
meads of cords fastened to the upper
part of their edges, and running to
small iron pulleys fastened inside, a
short distanoe above the upper will, and
thence down nearly to the floor. When
the window is closed the cord is pulled
down and tied to a small catch between
the Bill and the floor.
The burglar scaled the picket fence in
Rector street, about sixty feet weBt of
Broadway. He had previously placed a
large stone on the top of the inside
stone wall on which the fence rests,
so onoe on the fence he oould step down
without getting caught on the sharp
edges of the pickets. He landed near
the tomb of Alexander Hamilton, and
took a semi-circuitous route in a northwesterly
direotion toward the chancel.
The distance was about 250 feet. With
*r> mohLinnh rl narcrar hn nrifid nnen the
weak Bashes, and then went to work at
the window of the middle vestry room.
Turning his back toward the heavy
wood work, he forced the windows
slightly-inward, making a smaller aperture,
The cord's elasticity assisted him.
He then cut the cord and entered.
Drawing a dark lantern from beneath
his ooat, he took a rapid survey of the
roonj.
Inside were half a dozen desks
with drawers, all of which were loeked.
The walls are nearly oovered with marble
tablets, commemorative of the great
men of the country. Under the yindow
opening into the rear of these rooms
stood a box used to hold the loose earth
when vaults are opened for interments,
and by standing on this box it was easy
to force the window open. Once inside'
the burglar had his own way. Desks
were turned upside down, their drawers [
foroed open, and doors broken off, while
their oontents; consisting of books and v
letters; were scattered over the. floor,
The burglar examined almost every- c
thing, even to the letters from the e
English royal family and many of the ^
nobility. He secured the oontents of
the contribution boxes, which Dr. ^
Ogilby says probably contained fifty to e
sixty dollars. He then retraced his M
steps, going south of the Hamilton a
tomb, and escaped into Hector street, ^
over the fence at the point where he had a
entered. ^
The footprints in the snow north of w
the tomb were regular and of large size, w
while those soutn of the tomb were ft(
irregular and had a trail, indicating a
fV>nf fViA Viiirnrlor Vin/1 Haati fricrVit.a)iArl n
w ~?n?* ??. ?o?- ?? o.
and ran toward the street. Among the w
stuff scattered on the floor the dagger u
was found, as was also a very large e;
pocket knife, open and ready for instant y
use. Sexton August, who generally
Bleeps in this room, was absent at the
time. Since the robbery of St. Paul'6
Church, four years ago, the church
plate has been kept in tne bank vault. p;
Among the oommunion plate were n
several pieces from the Prince of Wales p
and Prince Arthur. When these royal p
youths were in this country they attend- w
ed divine worship at this church, and V(
were each presented with elegant gold* w
bound Bibles. In return, they each tl
sent to the church some silver plate. a]
Among the papers, which the burglars g
scattered over the floor, are letters from 0(
the most distinguished Episcopal p:
Bishops and ministers in this country (j
and in England. They were highly j,(
prized. " a1
Collision of a Comet with the Earth. g
The Illinois Stavt* Zcituny thinks w
that Prof. Piantamour was, after all, si
right in his calculations about the hi
comet; he only erred in the time as- si
signed to the catastrophe, which happened
about a hundred days later than tl
predicted. According to the testimony fc
of a number of German astronomers the b;
anticipated collision took place on the ?
27th ult., when they observed no lesB ?
than 50,000 meteors, all believed to be o<
the ruins of Biola's comet. A comet w
has actually oome into contact with our b<
planet, or rather into its outer atmos- si
phere, and the former got, as it deserved, a
decidedly the worst of it
Among all the high flyers in our solar N
system, says the Inter-Ocean, there is,
perhaps, none better known to our ?
nnloufml rvoll"nn fVinri fKn cn./to11n<1 Riolu'u Til
vuirnum |/</uvo i/uvu mv ov vuu^u a/4viu ?
comet. Revolving at nearly the name w
distance from the nun as" tne earth it lo
was long expected that the two might
some time collide, and a close watch' P
was consequently kept on the motions T
of the comet. Finally in 1846, some u
astronomical detectives were started to m
discover that the comet had parted into P
two pieces, which continued to circle ?
on in the same orbit, but 200,000 miles el
distant from one another.
In the year 1852 the piece was sighted tl
once more, but the distance betweeu "V
them had extended to over a million fc
and a half miles. When again dne, in si
1859, the unfavorable position of our tl
earth prevented an observation, ?ud in si
1865 all telesoopes swept the skies for B
them in vain. The result is, two as- tl
sumptions : First, that the comet has d
entirely broken up, and its particles now p
roam through space in a demoralized p
and reckless condition ; second, that the
great mefceorical shower observed on the 1!
27th ult., in Europe, was caused by the w
friction of these particles when passing t<
through our outer atmosphere. w
S
A Palifnmift indra reeentlv went to
S?n Francisoo to seek relief from a singular
malady which had baffled the
skill of the physicians in his own town.
The symptoms of the disease were very ^
peculiar. The little finger of the right e(
nand was first affected, turning green at gc
the tip, and causing such intense pain
that tne sufferer was unable to sleep
without the aid of narcotics. The same
ilnaocountable phenomenon appeared
and disappeared successively from one nt
after another of each of the other finders m
on the left hand, passing afterward into
the seoond toe of the left foot, and finally
seating itself in the extremity of athe
'middle finger of the left hand, al- jg
ways accompanied in its ecceatric re- 5
movals by distressing sensations which ^
rendered everything like rest or repose t<
not ssperinduoed by drugB impossible. ?
Yankee civilization, as reviewed by an
Indian. A Piute brave loafing around to
Oarson Cityj Nevada, is the owner of a tr
dog whioh he lias named "Yankee," w
ana thnB explains his reasons therefore: et
" White man all time big talk; get heap w
mad; all time run around; want to fight; th
heap d?m fool; him (Yankee) all same al
?pointing to the dog. ci
The Ruby and Sapphire.
The recent diamond swindle having
attracted mnch attention throughout
he whole world, the following abstract
>f a paper read by J. Lawrence Smith,
d the laet meeting of the American
Uaociation for the Advancement of
Jcienoe, will be read with interest:
"The writer exhibited Bome specinens
which he received from Montana.
!n referring to the density of rubies, he
emarked that a pint of these stones
vonld make two pints with their oonitituents.
The finest rubies and sapihires
came from Asia and South Amerca.
Many of these gems were to bo
ound in our own country, the God of
latnre having blessed us with every,hing
needful and useful. The speaker
lad bestowed much attention upon the
lubject of which he was speaking, havng
explored Asia Minor, the Grecian
irchipelago, and the EaRt Indies for
ipecimens of the gems. Four months
Lgo h? received a package from Trout
River, Montana, and discovered that
he oontents of the package were true
lappliires and Oriental emeralds. They
vere small, did not possess the right
lolor, but nevertheless were gems.
Montana was rich with them. The gems
roin there were perfectly transparent.
The Arizona diamonds were the coloress
sapphire or ruby. If these were
:nt and polished, it would puzzle a iew;ler
to tell the difference between them
ind ^he real diamond. The Arizona
?ems were hard, and would cut any
done but diamond. The fact that they
vere so hard often led to the error of
ionfoundinc them with diamonds. The
professor had hoped to receive a paekige
of gems from San Francisco, from
hg newlj-discovered fields, in time for
his meeting, lint bad failed to do so.
He new discoveries were similar to the
?ems which he submitted for theinnpecion
of the association. The Montana
jems lacked value in the particular that
hey lacked color. They would have
lalf the value of diamonds if the green
solor was more intense. Rubies and
tapphires beyond a certain size exoeed;d
the dimond in value, for the reason
hat diamonds never get beyond that
tize. Valuable corundum had been
ound in North Carolina, but most of it
?od been only half gems. Some were
ery pure, and are now being cut in
Joston and set in jewelry. The gems
rom New Jersey lack transparency,
[he ruby most prized was that in whioh
he faintest tint of blue intermingled
rithe the red. In sapphires the intense
due color it most appreciated. In oonluding
his remarks, Mr. Smith remark d
that America had all the metals oi
he globe.
"Prof. Kerr, in alluding to the locaion
in which rubies had been disoovred
in North Carolina, said they
ere found |principally in Cherokee
nd Macon Counties. Several mines
'ere being worked in these counties,
nd had already yielded several tuns.
. man im Philadelphia owned a ruby
hich came from North Carolina, and
hich weighed a pound. Another Phildelphia
gentleman had in his possession
crystal of corundum which weighed
15 pounds. The North Carolina gems
ere only found in connection with the
nique beds of trysolite. These beds
rtend from the old North State into
irginia, a distance of 190 miles."
The Snow-storms of the Post.
Among tije great snow-storms of the
ast few were more extended in their
mge or more disastrous to life and
roperty than that of January 17, 1867. <
i lasted nearly twenty-five hours, and |
as accompanied by a furions gale aud |
ery oold weather. It oxtended as far <
oaf. na fVo Plm'na nn/1 urnii nn i
le south by the Ohio and Potomac,
though some of its effects reached to
'ompton Roads. Another severe storm
:?curred on the 20th. Wrecks were
Lied up along the coast and scores of
ves were lost. Many persons were
ewildered in the snow and quite s
umber were frozen to death, especially
i New England. Among these wsk
ommodore O. S. Blake, who got beildered
in going to his home in the
lburbs of Boston and took refuge in o
nt. He never recovered from the
lock of the exposure.
From two to four feet of snow fell
iroughout the Middle States. Four
set was the reported depth in Pittsurg,
and as it was much drifted, the
msequence was the interruption of
immunisation between the cities and
luntry for several days. Many people
ere barricaded in their homes. Steam- f
oats were kept in port, rail-cars were \
low-bound, and mails were delayed in |
remarkable manner. There was no j
>gnlnr communication by rail between
ew York and Boston for four days.
The reoords of the past contain sennits
of many similar storms ; bnt the
tost striking facts concerning them i
ere rifitnrnllv nl>n?rve/l in Upw Finer- '
.ml. ?
The storm of January 19, 1857, stoped
all the railroads of New England,
ho Stonington xoad was not opened
ntil January 27. Trains did not comlence
running between Hartford and
rovidenee until the same day. In
>mo parts of Connecticut the thennomier
was 30 degrees below zero.
In the storm of December 28, 1853,
le snov began falling at eleven o'clock
Wednesday morning and continued till
>ur o'clock Thursday afternoon. The
low was drifted as high as the tops of
le cars. A train of three locomotives
;arted faom a neighboring town toward
oston and wnfs embedded in a drift at
le end of the seventh mile. Tho next
ay a train of three locomotives ooenied
from morning till night in aocomlishing
five miles.
The great snow-storm of January 15,
331 was a stupendous one. The snowas
drifted in some places in the cities
> the'depth of fifteen feet. The churches
ere generally closed on the following
nnday : partly because the snow was (
iled so nigh against the doors that they I
>nld not be opened.
In February, 1829, so heavy a snow fell j
tat many persons engaged in festivities J
raimemorative of Washington's birth- J;
iv throughout the country were snow- '
f up in halls and had to remain in them "j
ir days. ?N. Y. Paper. J!
Picked Up Considerably. 3
/i?t t>:-i?a v:? ie
Vltpu AVIUUOIU JXlllg nun KJXJ Uii) KiiiVii
Santa Gertrudes,. about thirty-five *
iles west of Corpus Christi, Texas,
1,000 head of horned cattle, 10,000
;ad of horses and mules, 22,000 sheep, '
id 8,000 goats. He branded last year
i,000, and sent overland to Kansas
000 head of beeves, all of his own
ark and brand. Mr. King went to
exas a poor cabin boy on a vessel.
Btimate his wealth.
c
The 51-hour per week system is about i
1 be adopted largely in the Scotch iron o
ade, bnt the workmen are dissatisfied o
ith the manner in wnieh some of the n
nployers proposed to w#rk the system, o
Inch would, it is represented, divest a
te reduction of the hours of labor of I
1 the advantages it possessed of a so- 5
al and intellectual kind. y
Vagaries of a Blind Man.
I am to be introduced to a remarkable,
character, -whom I wish Charlee Dick- i
en's had happened to fall in with. Let
this feeble pen rooall what it may of his '
specialities. See, we near him. led now i
by his daughter, (for he is blind,) to '
sit for an hour in the cloisters. He is <
in conversation with himself converaa-j <
tion interspersed with short scornful !
langhs, upon the one master-subject of 1
his thought. I have been forewarned i
as to his little peculiarity, at least, his !
special peculiarity of nil,'which is that *
all his thoughts run perpetually upon <
the devil. It is concerning that fallen i
angel that he holds those sarcastic 1
soliloquies, talking, if not to him, at any i
rate of him. So for granted does he i
take it, that the subject of his own i
tnougnts ih also certainly and always tne i
subject of yours, that ho never thinks it
necessary to go beyond pronouns, nor
to specify by any name toe lost spirit i
who is his perpetual theme. It is always
"He," or "His." 80 1 am prepared
when, upon my brother's accosting him
he plunges into the subject -without explanation
or pre5a.ce. At present he
seems in a somewhat sympathetic vein.
" They runs him down shocking,
shocking, everywhere. Why, there ain't
a murder or a theft committed, but they
lays it all at his door. I suppose, sir,
he eggs 'em on, that's it. They runs
him down where you camo from, sir, I
suppose ?"
"Oh, yes! but here's a gentleman
wants to talk to you; he has just come
from a long way off."
"Well, what sort of a charaoterdo
they give liim down there ? I dare say
they runs him there? Ahab served him
well, sir. Jeremiah used to run him.
You clergymen all give him a veiy bad
character; but what weuld yon do without
him ? Your work would all be
gone !"
At another time he would change over
from tlie position of apologist, and " run
him," himself; partly on personal
grounds, partly as a political economist.
1
"Shouldn't be blind, shouldn't be 1
lame, if it wasn't for him. Shouldn't I
want prisons, shouldd't have to keep all 1
these soldiers; see what a lot he costs '
us!" 1
He rather startled my sister one sultry <
summer day, when she accosted him in I
passing?"Very hot, Billy!" "Ah!" he 1
rejoined, " but what must it be there J" '
Billy's knowledge of the Bible was <
something very marvelous. When he t
(lid turn for awhile from his favorite i
hero, the conversation was all of divers 5
rt J 1 x 11 - t L.M t
scripture cnaracters, id a woria 01 wmcn i
tlie old man seemed really to live. This t
was the more curious, inasmuch as he t
was blind. I suppose his intimate ac- t
quaintance with them came, or was kept
up, in this way. He never missed either t
morning ?r afternoon prayers at the a
chapel. You might see him shuffling a
in, doubtless looking with special zest t
to a chapter which should introduce f
" him." If " he" were " run" in a ser- 1
mon, it seemed rather to exoite his c
championship for "him," but still there t
evidently was a fascination in the subject I.
which made it a delight to hear "him" c
"run" than not treated of at all. The a
most remarkable thing was Mi at Billy f
knew perfectly, though blind, the pro 1
per lesson for every day, matins and f;
jven-song, in the Christian year. And a
more than this, he was determined that s
the right lesson, and no other, should
be rend. Thus, one day, in full chapel,
m unhappy canon went to the lectern
ind began to read. Forthwith, Billy
diufflcs over to him and pulls his snr- 0
plice. It's the wrong lesson, sir." The H
poor man tried to go on, but Billy per- *
levered, until there was nothing left but *
o return to the desk and look, where- jpon
the mentor was soon to be right. c
The old man was sIbo a great critic on ^
sermons. Few things offended him P
nore thn? to have the proper subject of 0
ho day or season ignored. n
" Mr. Moss came and preached here, 0
ircnehed on Advent Sunday a sermon
it for Christmas. Quite wrong. Just f
ho swrno on the Epiphanj. Why *
couldn't he preach on the subject of the v
lav?" 4
He evidently disliked what lias been 8
jailed " atale bread." 0
"You'll soon have a man here, sir, to ft
ireacli ; if I had as many guineas as ^
['ve heard him preach old sermons, I'd *
lit you down to tho finest dinner you *
jver ate in your life." Q
Enough of thee, Billy I May the hoax f'
md the day arrive to thee when evil an- a
rels and nights' shadows shall together r
lee from eyes and mind; and a galaxy of ^
vhite, serious-eyed, sweet angels greet ?
;hy recovered vision.?The Country u
Pareon.
One and Thro Story Men.
, e
All fact collectors, who have no aim T1
jeyopd their facts, are one story men.
Pwo story mV?i compare, reason, gener- v
ilize, using the labors of the fact col- a
ectors as well as their own. Three j,
dory men idealise, imagine, predict,
:hoir best illumination comes from 0
ibove, through the skylight. There are (|
ninds with large ground floors that can n
itore an infinite amount of knowledge ; p
lome librarians, for instance, who kaow n
snough of books to help other people u
vithont being able to make much use ^
if their own knowledge, have intellects n
if this class. Your great working law- r)
rer has two spacious stories ; his mind ^
s clear because his mental floors are ^
arge, and he has room to arrange his 'n
;houghts so that ke can get at them?
'acts below, principles above, and all in {]
irdered series. Poets are often narnow ^
iclow, incapable of clear statement, and ^
vith small power of consecutive reason- r(
ug, but full of light, if sometimes rath- p
inre of furniture, in the attics.?Poet 1]
1/ the IWcakfaxt Tabic.
Population 'of the ' Globe? In an
daborate paper by Behm & Wagner, .
inblished in Petermann's Mittheiungen, 1
ve have the result of a careful inquiry
nto the present population of the plobe,
he summation of their result being as fll
qllows':"** Europe, 301,600,000; Asia, *
^4,#00,000; Australia, and Polynesia, P
i,365,000; Africa, 19C,520,000; America, .
14,524,000'; or a total of 1,377,000,t00. V
These figures are derived from the esti- P
nates or statistics of population for the .
ears 1869, 1870, and 1871. In the 11
numeration of the population of towns,
London stands at the head, with 3,231,- 71
kK); next Su-tehoo, in China, 2,000,000,'; P
*aris, 1,835,000; Pekin, 1,684,000; E
reddo, 1,554,000; Cant<*i, 1,236,000; A
lonstantinople, 1,075,000; Siang-tau, P
Ihina, 1,000,000; Tchang - tchoufoo, w
Ihina, 1,000,000; New York, 942,292;
Vienna, 833,855; Berlin, 825,389.
m
hi
Mr. James Low, Rio Frio, McMullen E
ounty, Texas, commenced stock-raising si
n 1856, with ten cows and calves ; he w
wned a slave whom he hired out for h<
ne cow and calf per month. Mr. Low ja
ttended to fltocks rtfrcattle for one-third tl
f the increase, bought stocks on credit, err
nd paid for them by sales of beeves, th
le now has 50,000 head of stock-cattle, si
,000 head of beeves, and branded last m
ear 15,000 head of calves. fo
Hatching [Salmon.
The inquiries of Mr. Livingston Stone,
made under the cfireotion of Professor
B&ird, United States Commissioner of
Fish and Fisheries, in- relation to the
salmon of California, have revealed a
very remarkable difference in the eggs
of that species as compared with those
of the true Salmo salar of the Eastern
States. The most noticeable fact is
their relatively small number, the former
having 700 to the pound instead of
1,000. The eggs are, of course, appreciably
larger than those of the Atlantic
coast, being almost equal in size to a
common whortleberry. Owing probably
to the higher temperature of the water,
or to otiner causes, the development is
much more rapid, sinoe the eye spots
are visible in the eggs within nineteen
dayB after impregnation, arid they begin
to hatch in twenty-four days afterward,
making a total of only forty-three days
as the period of incubation.
The hatching water varied in temperature
from 55? to 65? and even 70? every
day, so that it is difficult to say what
is the average temperature for the hatch
ing period; but Mr. Htone estimates
this at 58? to 60?. Fourteen hours out
of the twenty-four?namely, from six
o'clock p. m. to eight o'clock a. m. ?the
water averaged nearly 55?.
The eggs after spawning were troated
aooording to the dry method of impregnation,
and the experiments were
successful in nearly every instance.
Another curious fact noticed by Mr.
Stone was the entire absence of female
grilse, all, of the great number observed
on the M'Cloud River, being males;
and indeed he remarks that liehns never
seen a female grilse elsewhere, although
persons assured him that they had had
a different experience.
Buffalo Hnnters Frozen to Death.
From parties just arrived f^pm Southwestern
Kansas, we learn that the
weather has been severe beyond endurance,
and the suffering among the hunters
beggars description. A farmer who
arrived in Wichita,"eports having overtaken
a team loaded with buffalo skins,
ind on the wagon, stiff with the cold,
iat the driver, permitting the team tr
svander at will over the prairies, and
entirely unable to help himself. He
old the farmer he was frozen and compelled
to remain in the position he was,
md at the same beckoned will his head
;o the wagon-box, thus calling attention
o the oontents of the bed. Upon lookng
over the side of the box a terrible
light was before him. There lying side
iy side were two hunters frozen stiff ir
leath, and as the wagon jolted over the
ongh plain, they knocked together like
wo great icicles.
The gentleman who brought the newF
o Wichita had his liondsjso badly frozer
s to make amputation necessary shortly
iter his arrival. He was unable to give
t- - -1 il.
Ht3 IlllUlt'H UI UHJf UI l!l? I1111U1 Llllllll*
>orty. We also learn from The Withifa
leacon, that a party of four we*t into
amp on Moot's Creek, 25 miles from
imber.who have undoubtedly perished.
Lt a house 12 miles west of Wichita, 15
aen arrived during the night of the 23d.
11 frozen. Some of them will lose their
eet, others their hands and Supers,
lie road between WichitA and the bufalo
range is strewn with buffalo hide?
nd meat, abandoned by their owners to
avc themselves and teams.
Highland Customs.
"Among the Scotch Highlanders many
oromonies are observed which are couidered
to have lasting force throughout
he year. The weather for the year is
ugured from the flight of clouds on
lew Year's Day. The house and its
ontents are sprinkled with water and
nmigated with smoke of burning juni>er
as a prevention of disease. Throughut
all Scotland, indeed, the day is more
larked than in England, probablv beanse
Christmas was decreed as a Papa'
elusion by the Btern old Oalvanists am7
he season craves some festival. The
rassall ceremonial was prevalent till r
ery few years ago, and a peculiar ensom
called "first-footing" iB widely oberved
to this day. Parties, generally
f men only, supply themselves abundntly
with whisky and visit the houses
f their friends as early as possible or
he first morning of the year, offering
he oompliraents of the season. He whr
rst enters auy house is called the firsW
oot. and a tradition connects him with
pleasant prophecy with the oldest mariageable
daughter of the household.
Inch rivalry then there is among those
?ho would each be for a year foremost
a the graces of some local belle.
Another Year Gone.
The year 1872 is gone. The old cal
ndar in torn flown and a clean one net
p, which shall hang its few hundred
ayB and give way in turn to Another
rhen we arc all a year older. The old
Imanac finds it way, with other rnhbish.
ito the barrel in the attic, imd its old
>kes oome in between new covers. The
Id diary has become a history, the old
ay-book a curiosity, and the old man
n older man. It is a new year, with n
leasnnt power of change over our lives
nd in our home*, too, with many of
s ; but in the homes of the very poor,
rliieh are no homes, the new year is not
cw, the same old story saddening in
^petition and beginning in 1873 with
tie suffering and want of an evil winter.
Tost meet and timely then is it that ?nt
f his abundance the good citizen make
lentious offering in charity, and open
ins as far as may be a credit side on
is yearly account with heaven. " ' He
aat giveth to the poor,'" quoted the
averepd Dow, " lendeth to the Lord.'"
>o not forget the ndage. and praetieo it
lie present year. It will do good.
A Word Abont ProoMleadlng.
Every column of a newspaper eontsins
rom ten to twenty thousand distinct
ieces of metal, according to the paper
nd the tppe. The displacement of a
ingle #ne makes an error. Is it amy
onder that errors occur ? In the large
ffices professional proof-readers are
ept -whose practiced eyes, passing
vice over every line of proof, detect
lost of the errors ; a boy is also kept
>r that purpose nt the same time readier
the copy aloud.
Still mistakes are frequently oecurng
after comfng from such hands, and
robably no book or newspaper was ever
nblished without errors that might be
eteeted by the merest novice. In book
rinting it is estimated that proof-readig
cdsts half as much as composition.
Desiring to prevent explosions in
ines caused by the carelessness of toficco
smokers, An ingenious person in
ngland proposes to have tobacco
noke furnished in mines in tlie same
ay as gas or water is supplied to
rases. He would have earthenware
rs of tobacoo placed on the surface of
te ground near the pit's month, the
noke from which is to be inhaled
irough india-rubber tubes running inde
the mine. The approval of the
iners has not, however, been assured
r this singnlar plan.
yj
Power of Memory.
Br. Johnson, It Is said, never forgot
anything he had seen, heard, or read.
Burks, ?larendon, Gibbon, Locke,
Tilotson, were all distinguished for
strength of memory. When alluding to
thiB subject, Sir William Hamilton observes
: For intellectual power of the
highest order, none were distinguished
above Grotins and Pascal; and Grotius
and Pascal forgot liothing they had ever
read or thought. Leibnitz and Euler
were not less celel\fated for their Intelligence
than for their memory; and both
could repeat the wholeof the "iEneid."
Donellus knew the "Corpus Juris" by
heart; and yet ho was one of the profoundest
and most original speoulAtoxS
in jurisprudence. Ben Jonson teMs us
that he could repeat all that he had ever
written, and whole books that he had
ever read. Themistocles could call by
their names the twenty thousand citizens
of Athens. Cvrns is reported to
have known the name of every soldier
in his army. Hortensius (after Oioero,
the greatest orater of Rome), after sitting
a whole day at a public sale, correctly
enunciated f*om memory all the
thirigs sold, their prices, and the names
of their purchasers. Niebnlir, the histsAvinrt
vr-oa tin lnuo ili'ofinnrin'aliP/1 fnr Vila
memory than for his ncuteness. In his
vouth ho was employed in Denmark.
Part of a book of aoeonnta having been
destroyed, he restoretf it by an effort of
memory.
Jttst taken Ma litttera.?We heard a
seedy-looking individual with an alarmingly
red nose remark to a brothel1 soaker
that ho had "just hftd his bitters,
but he did not mind taking another nip."
His remark suggested a train of refleo-1
tion. How was it, we asked ourselves,
that tlio word " bitters " had grown to
be a synonym for gin, whiskey, rum,
md other alcoholic stimulants, to which
it was applied indiscriminately. Bitters,
we reasoned, suggested the idea ef
i healthful tonic, not of a poisonous
stimulant; something invigorating to
the system, not an alcoholio irritant,
full of fusel oil, producing present in-1
toxicatipn and ultimate insanity, idiocy,
or premature death. Moreover, our
idea of bitters was totally irreconcilable
with " gin cocktails," "rum punches,"
and "brandy smashes," which,
we are informed, are sweetened with
sucrar and rendered doubly injurious
with essences colored by means of mineral
poison. This was bitter-sweet
with a vengeance. We mentioned this
oroblem to a friend. He solved it by
"xelaiming; " Why, don't you know
that most of these bitters advertis6d
is remedies are only drams in disguise.
Topers know it, if yen do not. I must
make one exception, however," he addnd,
" and that's Dr. Walker's California
Vinegar Bitters; there isn't a particle of
dcohol or fermented liquor in it, and it
ts the best vegetablo tonic and alterative
in America.?Corn.
Pints and quarts of filthy catarrhal discharges.
Where does it all come from ? The mucous
membrane lining the chambers of the nose and
>s little glands are diseased, so that they draw
from the blood its liquid and exposure to the air
dianges it info corruption. This life-liquid was
'o build up the system, but it is extracted ard
'he system is weakened by the loss. To cure,
"ain flesh and strength by using Dr. FiorcoV
Toldon Medical Discovery, which also acts
directly upou those glands, correcting them.
Vlso applv Dr. Sago's Catarrh Remedy with Dr.
Pieree'H Nasal Douche, the only method of
-eachiug the upper cavities where the discharge
xeenmulates.snd comes from. The instrument
ind two medicines sold for ?2 by all Druggist.
. 621.
Locke's National Monthly in a Magarine of
Ml pages published by Locke & .Touch. Toledo.
Ohio. Mr. T.oako (NasVy) writes for everv
Vnmber, avoiding politics. Read bin "Ambi'ious
Young Man." in the January Number. To
-ret if. axk yonr newsdealer, or wend 10 centn to
Publisher*. By the year *1.00. Bend for ape"ial
circular to" A gents. Bent tree. An Agent
wanted at every Boat-office.
Poisonous Bites.?Prof. " Anderson's Permador"
instantlv cutoh Bee Bting*. Wasp Btingi
ind Musqnito Bites. It neutralises the poinor
\nd VmovoB the Pain and Swelling in a few
noTuenfs. It. will bo equally effectual in neu'rnlizimr
and extracting the Poison from the
Bites of all Venomona Insects or Reptiles. No
one traveling in the woods should be without it.
As quick as a fla"h of lightning does Oristaoono's
Excelsior Hair Pyx act npon the hair,
whiskers and monstaches; no chameleon, tints,
hut tho purest Raven or the most exquisite
Browns will be evolved.
A Neglected Cough. Cold, or Bore Throat,
which might bo checked by a simple remedy,
'ike, Brown's Bronchial Troches, If allowed
to progress may tormiuate seriously.
A OTT AMMBNTOT
I* extended to the wnrld to place befnre the nobtls
> twitter PiTiirrti i,r Lunar Tlemedv than Al.t.lV'S
LUNG BAI.?AM
Vki?tt.t ?t Hattt No Bocau
CONSUMPTIVES, KSADI
Wonld yon *cnre that dtetrraalng Cough, Mid
bring bark that healthy rigor till lately planted lp
vonr cheek? If yon would, do not delay; 3>r, are
you are aware, It will be to6 Lite.
ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM
la yonr hope. I? haa been tried by tbouaanda aneb
IB yon. wh<> have beenrurad; many. In their gratt
nde. have left their nnmea to ua. that anfferlDg hnmonttv
can read their evldaneea and bejtevo. Don't
experiment with raw and nntriad mlxtnrea?yon
onn not nfford It?bnt try at once thla Invaluable
article. T? 1a warranted to break np tha moat tronIdraome
Congh In a few honra tf not of too long
atandlng. It la warranted to give entire aattafaetfon
In nil raaea of T,nng and Throat dlfflcnlttaa. Aa
an Expectorant. tt has no ptjnnL
UNSOLICITED EVIDENCE OP ITS MERITS.
uk an ttik pom,owixo:
WHAT WELL-KNOWN DRUGGISTS BAT ABOUT
ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM.
SpnntoriKt.n, Tnnr. Sept. 11.1S71
Oentlemen:?Ship n? at* doren Abt.KX'a Lnto Bxic
*am nt onee. Wc have not a bottle left tn onr atore.
It hm more reputation than any Congh medicine
we have ever aold. and we have been In the drng
hualoeaa twenty-aeren yeara- we mean Jnat what
we aav about the Balaam. V?'T truly vonra.
nrRD A TANNER.
Again read the Evidence from a Drngglat wha waa
cured bv naeof the Balaam, and now a<-Ua tt largely.
L. C. Cottrell prngg.at nt Marine ritv. Michigan
writer Sept. 13. DT2- "lam ont of Ar.t.cg'a Lirrn
Baj.'A* : aend me half a groaa na aoon aa von can. 1
would rather he ont of any other medicine tn my
atore. The I,rxr. Bat."am never ftill* to do good ftir
thoee afflicted with a congh "
It ta harmleaa to the moat delicate child.
>t contalna no optnm In any Rirm.
It la aold by Medicine dealera generally.
CAUTION.
Be not (irrriven. ranror a orr>t? hat*
SAM, and take no other.
Directions Accompany each bottle.
J. N. HARRIS A CO., Cincinnati. .,
Proprixtors.
PERRY DAVIS A SON, General Agents.
Providence, B. I. (
Bold by all Medicine Dealer*.
roH FAi.e bt
JOHN F. HENRT, New York.
OEO. C. GOODWIN A CO., Boston.
JOHNSON, IIOLAWAY A CO., PtSladelphta.
IT IB wCT.1, to okt clkar of a Bad Cough or Cold
the first week, but It Is safer to rid yourself of It the '
flrs? forty-eight hours?the proper remedy for ths
purpose being Dr. Jayne's Expectorant.
41A to !
u)lv vyj <DZlUAHBlair A Co. St. Louts, Mo.
/ MC A ?VALUABLE??'nd three-cent stamp for i
St Ml I partl.silar. DOBSON, HAYNES A CO., ,
cPUV Bt. Louts, Mo. ,
dirt*} /%/\ EACH WEEK-AOENTB WANTED, 1
?P ' W Business legitimate. Particulars
free. J. WORTH, Bt. Louts, Mo. Box MHl.
_ A A_ AOENTB and other Canvassers now at j
Dlirilf work, can learn how. to Increase their 1
111 IIIIV tnooma |18 a week (snxe) without Inter
WVU feting with their regular canvassing by 1
addressing B. N. REED, 1? Eighth St, y. T.
Scotland, L^lIndoTv^D^r^^^^lected by j
Attorney at Baw, Columbia, Lancaster .Oo., Pa. Jl
I jyUyuJdiuUUiiEA
No Person can tnko those Bitter* aocuriing
to direction*, and remain long unwell, provided
their bone* are not destroyed by mineral poison or ether
means, and the vital orpins wustca beyond the point
of repair.
DynuensU or Imllgeation. Headache, rain
in the Shoulders, Concha, Tightness of the Cheat. Dirtiness,
Soti" Eructation* of the Stomach, Bad Tasta 4
in tlte Month, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of tba
Heart, Inflammation of the I.ung*, Pain in the regions
of the Kidneys, and a hundred oilier painful symptoms,*
are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. Jit these complaints
it has no equal, ami one bottle will prove a better guarantee
of its merits than a lengthy advertisement.
For Feimsle Complaints, iu young or old,
married or single, at the ilawu of womanhood, or tli*
tuni of life, these Tonic Rilters display so decided au
influence that a marked improvement is sons i*rceptible.
For liiflnrnm.itoryr and Chronic Rlitniiintlsiu
mid (.tout. Bilious, Remittent and Inl*^
mittcnt Fevers Disensvs of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys
and Bladder, these Bitten hare no equal. _ Such Diseases
are caused by Vitiated Blood, which is general^
produced by derangement of the Digestive OrgansTgyej
hrc a Ornfle PnrgatiT* as well M
a Tonic, possessing also the peculiar merit of acting #
as a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or Inffam- *
malion of llie Liver and Visceral Organs, and in Bilioas
Diseases.
For Kklil Dlnens'-s, Eruptions, Tetter, Sak
Rhemn, Blotches, S;iots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles,
Ring-worms, Scald-11 cad, Sore__Eyes, Kry
ItcJi, Scsrt*, I)neol<cation??,t Hie Slun, numera
and I)i&4.'.ivs of tlic Skin, of whatever name ur tulurc,
up literally dug up ael carried not of the system in a
di'nrt tinte^- the ue of the-< llilter*.
Oratef??l TIioiikuikIm proclaim ViNitCAit Bursas
tlie most wonderful Iiivigoraut thafevcr sustained
be sinkaig svstrm.
J WALKER, Pr.ip'r. II. II. McDONALD At CO.,
Dniiyfial* and Can. Agta., Sab Francisco and New Voik.
t- sold by ah, nri:r,gists a dealers.
MOTHERS! MOTHERS!
MOTHERS!
Don't fall to mvenrt MBS. w i a SLOWS
! " THING SYBUF FOB CHILDREN TBBTSfc
INC.
This valuable prepirntlon baa been 'used with
.VEVKB-FAJLLING SUCCESS IN THOL'SANDB OF
1 CASES.
It not only relieves tbe child rom pain, bntUtVU*
orate* tbe atomacb and bowels, corrects acidity, at <1
gives tone and erergy to tbe whole system. It will
also instantly relieve
Griping of the Bowels and Wind Colic.
We believe It the BEST and STREST BEMKDY IN
THE WORLD. In all rases of DYSBNTKBY AND
DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN, whether arising from
teething or nny other rause.
Depend npon It, mothers, It will give rest to yourselves
and
) Belief and Heahh to Tour Infants.
Be sure and call for
"Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup,"
Having the fne-almtle of "CL'KflS A PERKINS"
on the outeldo wrapper.
Sold by Druggists throughout the World. ,
Q.OOD PAY FOR MEN AND WOMEN.
Sobecribcrs wanted for
THE CHRISTIAN INTELLIGENCER.
THE CHRISTIAN INTELLIGENCER.
$3 00 per Annum in Advance, Including
Thk OijtANKRH" a beautiful Chromo, (17 l-Sx2B 1-2
Send Air Circular and Specimen copy.
JAMBS ANTHONY FROUDE.
Rev. Win. Ormlaton, D. D.,
Rev. John Hall, D. D., *
T. Adolpbue Trollope
[And other eminent persons write for
THE CHRISTIAN INTELLIGENCER.
6 New Church St., cor. Fulton, New York.
THE CHRISTIAN INTELLIGENCER.
Cheap Farms! Free Homes!
Ot ?h? line of lb" CMOS HACIKIC RAILROAD.
"J.ono.ono Acres of the best Farming and Hiusral
Lan<'? In America.
S.non rani Aerra In Nrbroska, In the Piatt* Vallsy
uow for site.
Mild Climate. Fertile Soil.
For Ornln (trowing nod Htork Raising UDaurt>ataad
by any In the Culled Bistre..
Oiirapkk i* Prick, more favorable terms glv*n.
and more convenient to market than con be found
dsitwherc.
FREE Homesteads for Actual Settlers.
The best locations for Colonies?Boldlsrs entitled
to a Homestead of lit) Acres.
Bend A>r the New Descriptive Pamphlet, with tiew
maps, published In Rngltsh, Herman, Bwedlsb, Danish,
mailed free everywhere.
Address O. P. DAVIH. "
Land Com'r U. P. H. R. Co.,
Omaha, Neb.
TO
Consumptives!
The advertiser, bavin? been permanently cured
of that dread disease, Consumption, by a simple
remedy, Is anxious to make known to hts fellow
sufferers the means to care. To all who desire 11,
he will send a copy of the prescription used, (fre*
of charge,) with directions for preparing and nslog
the same, which they will And a 6uRBCri*forCoatmptio*.
Asthma, Brohobitis and all Throat or
Lnng Difficulties.
Parties wishing the preserlptton will please address
Rev. XDWAED A. WILSON.
104 Penn BL WllUamsburgh, V. T.
gjgfigggj) THEA-NECTAR
Black. TT1A
with the Oreen Tea Flavor. The
I^PtMUjomtTI\Jr boit tea Imported. For aula
It r1 everywhere. And for mId
rtynffllV ^ wholeeale only by the Oroot
EM il!IF\l| Atluutlrand PactflrTeaCn., No.
3 m Pulton Bt? and ?& 4 Chun h
V" T"' Ht. Now York. P. O. Box, CW.
Bend for Thca-Nectar Circular.
Write Air large, Illuitrated, Dreulptlve Price Ult
Double. Single, Mtirrle. Brecch-I.oadlng Rifloa. Shot
Oiing. Revolver!, Plitoli, etc., of every kind for mm
or ix y? at very low prlcee. Guns J3 to |K0|11itoia
?1 to *36.
$i nnn reward
ti/JLe\J\J\J For any rate of Blind. Bleed
_ In*. Itching. or ricerated
W ottTQ yrl PtVee that DB BING'8 P1I.E
AICWCUU REMEDY fell* to cure. It fa
prepared expreetly to core the Ptleiand nothing
riee. SOLD BY ALL DRU(KHSTS._ PBICE II.
Dr. Whittier,
Lonaeit engaged and moit iuorriiftil phyelelaa
?fthe~ige. Consultation or pampniet wee. v?n ?
writ*.
Sent by mall for 10 rent*. B. B. FOOTS, Jf. D.
VJD Lexington Are., Sew Tork City,
263 Receipts ^55? $135
3ent on receipt of 10 wnti. ?
Addreaa BT. BEKJAMI5, St. Lonte, Mc I
Dr. Whittier,
Longeet e lgaged end most snrr?ssfOl rnyslcian ef
the age. Consultations or pamphlet free. Call or
write.
Win ?9n P*r day I Agents wanted I All classes
of working people of either sex, young
>r old, make more money at work for ns In their J
I pare moments or all the time than at anything else. I
Parttrolais free. Address . STI5SOSA CO. Fort- I
and,Me. j
4 OFKT8 Wanted. We guarantee employment for J
A nil. >>ither sex. at fd a day. or git.ooo or more a
rear I Sew works by Mrs. H. B. Btewe, and elbsrs.
in per b Premiums Olren Away. Money mads rapidly
tnd easily at work fttr vs. Writs end see. Parti coast
free. Worthlngton, Dnetln A 00., Hartford, Ct.
>25 tgrjSJSPSZP&ja Sft
lerfnlly rapid-selling article ever Invented Ibr marled
and tingle ladles' use. Address,1
(IBB WILLIAMS, MS Pal ton St., H.Y. P. O. Bex Ml
r ' ^ I