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h?????i Farm, Garden and Household. rana Sotti and OoMip. Nine times oat of ten good horses are raised bj good men. Every spindle in a cotton factory will earn $5 for each farmer in the vicinity. A man in Dunleith, HI., who cut off a colt's ears with his jack-knife, was fined $5 and costs. If a wealthy business man loses money on a farm it is all right?it goes back where it came from. One might as well skin a horse and expect it to work for him, as to skin a farm and expect it to grow crops. It is said that a great source of misfortune to men springs from their not knowing when they have good homes. Labor saving implements give the farmer power and time. Power to cultivate the soil?time to cultivate the mind. It iB estimated that fully 200,000 farm _ 1.1 TtT_ _1 Ql-l? 1 -a I era in tue vy esieru otarcs nave organized for mutaal protection during the past few months. The prediction is made that corn will be worth 50 cents a bushel in Central Illinois next August, and a year hence twice that sum. In a recent public address, a speaker said that we are debtors to birds even in the winter and early spring months, for then they destroy insects. The Fairplay (Colorado) Sentinel boasts that it is published at a greater altitude than any other paper in the world?10,060 feet above tne level of the sea. If the people of New-England would apply a tenth part of the ingenuity to farming that is bestowed on machinery they would have the first farms in the world. If a hired man will adopt good habits, keep neat, and spend his time in reading, he will be treated as an equal of the family, or he will have a family of his own that will be superior. An infant was recently ushered into this perplexing world in a houSfe, in Lewiston, Me., which holds as its ten outo, iiiu uxiiiu o jjaiciito, iww ^iauu* mothers, two grandfathers, four of its aunts and an uncle. The last idea about fencing is to plant trees for posts, and when they are strong enough, string wires from one to another. The kind of tree is unimportant, but of course fruit, nut and maple trees will be more profitable than deciduous trees. On the plains where fruit trees will not grow without shelter belts, cotton wood and white or golden willow may be planted. The following plan proved a perfect cure for a pawing horse: I procured a leather strap just long enough to buckle around the fetlock joint, to which I attached a piece of small iron chain about a foot long. After one or two applications the horse was entirely cured, the whipping of the chain against hiB legs proving so unpleasant he soon ceased to indulge himself in his favorite pastime. To break a cow of kicking, I hit upon the following plan, which has worked to a charm upon two bad kickers, and two that would step away from the milker fiom six to a dozen times while being milked: I fastened them by the head, so they could not run away ; then every time a hind foot was raised, hit with a stick a smart tap on the fore leg. Two days' lessons cured in each instance. White clover is not at all adapted to the manuring of lands. Its value is principally for pasture and for helping to fill up the bottom of timothy meadows. The top is too small, and the roots do not go deep enough in the ground to be of much value to plow into the soil. But red clover has mnch top and long top roots, and is of all known plants worth the most to plow into the soil for enriching it. Timothy should be Bown in connection with red clover in case the land is to be pastured or mowed previous to plowing in a red clover crop. Early Potatoes. A little care will secure early potatoes two or throe weeks before the time they will be ready to use if planted the common way in open ground. Cut the pieces of the earliest sorts, and place them under an inch or two of earth in a hot-bed, so closely in drills that thev will touch, so as to economize room. When the open ground is dry enough, set them out. They will come on rapidly. If a frost should occur after they are set out, they may be protected with newspaper, but we have never known them to be natermlly injured, even if the tips were nipped a little by frost. Next to a hot bed, they may be easily sprouted in a warm room. Even when the sprouts grow accidentally, potatoes may be had some days earlier by carefully preserving the sprouts in setting them out.? Country Gentleman. Small Cabbage for Market. Tne cottage uaracner, in answer to an inquiry, says: All the cabbages grown for the usual supply of the London markets are of the common Battersea variety. Their size depends on the time of the seed being sown, and of the cabbages being cut. For autumn and early winter use the seed is sown in the spring of the same year. If yon wish for an especially sweet and small cabbage, cultivate either the Nonpareil or the Little Pixie. 'Liver Hot." An English farmer who has kept sheep for forty years, says he has found rock salt a valuable adtidote for liver rot, and that these animals cannot be too liberally supplied with this saving substance. He further declares that in cases of congestion of the liver or rot he has found two tablespoonsfuls of turpentine shaken up in half a pint of water and given to the sufferer a frequent cure, unless the disease has made very great progress. Magic Yeast.?1 cupful of good hop yeast, 1 cupful of flour batter, 1 tablespoonful of brown sugar mixed with water to the consistency of yeast. Mix these together, and let the mixture stand for twenty-four hours, when it will be ready for use. Whenever you use the yeast, replace the amount taken out by a like amount of batter, and the yeast will steadily improve, the presence of the hop yeast in so large a proportion in the first mixture, making it less agree able to sensitive tastes than it becomes afterwards. In winter use warm water in making the batter. Keep the yeast eool in summer and warm in winter. The San Francisco Alta is responsible for the Btory that a Nevada lawyer had as his client a man accused of murder, and that the principal witness in his favor being his wife, who was incapacitated from giveing testimony by reason of her relation to him, he got the murder trial postponed, brought suit for divorce in her behalf and secured it, and then triumphantly placed her on the stand to secure the aoquittal of her husband. h Coral Island! and Animals. The Arabs have a peculiar mode of Cr anchoring their boats among the rocks and coral islands of the Red Sea. When the ruban, or pilot has selected his ga anchorage, either himself, the captain, to or one of his crew puts two wooden no plugs in his nose, and jumps overboard fei with a rope, to which is attached two At large hooks, which he fastens to the th rocks, or to some hard coral formation, pa which must be unfastened every morn- cri ing by hand. i Whichever way we look, the mount- pe ains on shore, and rocks and coral fa< islands are visible to us. This is an 0D extraordinary and dangerous sea. It is 6t< getting worse and worse every year. Although we are not more than six feet bo from the edge of the reef, yet we cannot ab get soundings underneath our boat. m, There are hundreds of new islands w] gradually springing up to the surface sh of the water. The appearance of these islands is undoubtedly the work of the ^ coral animal; but I do not believe, nor tei can I be persuaded by any philosopher ' in the world, that the foundations of these marine principalities were com mencea at tne Douonuess ocean. Daring my rambles along the Pacific . v coast ana in the East and West Indies, . I noticed four kinds of coral formations ^ ?lagoons, coral fringes, encircling reef, and barriers. The lagoons are coral rings, encircling a portion of the sea, ana only extist in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Although they differ in formation and appearance, yet they , are the works of the same animals. These rings often rise between five and ten feet above the level of the sea. Having paid great attention to the ? , coral animals of the East and West Indies, I will describe their habits for mc the information of the general reader. They are neither insects nor water- -i spiders; but small, soft, gelatinous animals, with whose bodies is to be found an admixture of Btonv matter resembling flint. They are the slaves , of nature, and the contractors and build- . " ers of the ocean. On their submarine ^ structure they toil, live, and die ; and ^ end their laborious career before death by cementing their own bodies with the m last layer they raised toward the completion of that home for the future generation of man. They are to be found J by millions, and are visible to the naked eye, in those narrow seas and oceans ^ where their operations are known to be carried on. They die before they reach ft9 the surface of the water, or the moment Rm they feel the least heat of the sun. As the coral rings around the circular ' lagoon often nse from five to ten feet ^ above the level of the sea, certainly that part above the water cannot be the work of the coral animals, unless nature 1 J J -A- OU nas euuuweu nit? siruunuc wim ciuici ^ animal or vegetable life, and gradually forced its head above water, and con- ^ tinues to increase until the attraction of the earth and ocean put a stop to its growth. As the corallmes are not sup- ^ posed to be able to live beyond a certain depth, the foundations of their struc- P tures must be laid on the head or shoulders of some of those gigantic mount ains which have sunk, or' may be in the course of rising from beneath.?Once a Week. To Wash Lace. tri Just at present, fashion decrees that mi ladies shall wear a profusion of lace; f0J and as thiB delicate material is easily thi soiled, we recommend the following ba method of restoring it to its pristine jnj purity and smoothness. Fold the lace tw two or three times, and tack it on a piece gg of clean white flannel. Wash it care- wc fully in warm water and with soap, not rubbing, but dipping it up and down in the water and patting it between your 'Wc hands. Change the water once. Then tei dip it into very hot water, roll it up? bu flannel outside?and squeeze it as dry ^ as possible. Then remove the tacking ^ thread and dip the lace into cold water, i into which a little pearl-starch has been B6( dissolved. Take it out and roll it up in a large cambric handkerchief.squeeze ge it dir, and again fold it up in a dry ge. handkerchief. Let it remain for an hour, then fold a linen sheet four times, ~0 spread upon it a fine piece of linen or an an old fine cambric handkerchief. Lay gj your lace upon it, carefully smooth out with your hand all folds or creases, and i gently pull each pattern into proper ne shape ; then spread over it another fine wc handkerchief, folded double, and iron g$ with a hot iron. Remove the upper ye cloth from the lace, but do not touch gj the lace until it is perfectly dry. It dries in its imnression on the cambric. and perfectly retains the beauty of its ^ pattern. When quite dry, fold it in tissue-paper, and it will look like new fQ. lace. de Co A Hint to Travelers. Even if slightly fabulouB the following is good : A young eel inhabiting the mouth of a river in India determined tai to travel. Being a fresh-water eel, he Lj was somewhat restricted in his choice stt ! of a route, but he set out with ft cheer- 'to ful heart and very little luggage. Be- vii fore he had proceeded very far up- eij 1 stream he found the current too strong to to be overcome without a ruinous con- nn sumption of coals. He decided to an- de chor his tail where it then wus, and sb groiu up. For the first hundred miles ot] it was tolerably tedious work, but when In he had learned to tame his impatience ur he found this method of progress rather nil pleasant than otherwise. But when he an began to be caught at widely separate ch points by the fishermen of eight or ten tr< different nations he did not think it so tai fine. This fable teaches that when you ex extend your residence you multiply ne your experiences. A local eel can know se but little of angling. th A Bold Rats.?Rats are learning the ^ evil ways of men. Generally they have ex been accused of stealthily taking such is articles as would relieve the natural pangs of hunger, which in the eye of hu manity, if not of law, is some extenua- tb tion of the crime. But " evil communi- at cations corrupt good manners," and now hf rats, like men, are beginning to steal fli gold. A gentleman of Nashville, Tenn., recently placed his watch under his pillow before retiring at night. In the la morning it had disappeared. The ser- ee vant had been into the room to make a in fire, and was questioned about the miss- of ing artiole.bnthe denied any knowledge . to of it. The gentleman then institnted a cc thorough search, and at length found the watch forced half-way into a rat- y< hole. On pulling it out the four-footed wl thief was found entangled in the golden A' chain, hanging by the neek, and dead, pi A Hazardous Voyage. oiling the Pacific Ocean In a CockleShell. Au attempt is to be made, says the in Diego (Cal.) Union, from this bay navigate the Pacific Ocean which has it been surpassed by any of the daring ats accomplished on the waters of the lantic. It is nothing more or less an a voyage from here to the coast of pan in one of the smallest sailing ifts afloat on the waters of our bay. The sloop Dolphin, by which this rilous voyage is to be made, is in ;t a mere cockle-shell, measuring ly 20 feet in length from stem to ;rn, 10 feet beam, and 3 feet 3 inches pth of hold. She is built sharp at th ends, and is capable of carrying out eight tons. The Dolphin is not ich longer than an ordinary sized mleboat, onlv instead of being open e has been decked over. There are o hatchways in the deck?one, the lin hatchway, being in the' centre of e deck ; the other over what is inlded to represent the cabin. .The cabin is simply three bunks * ilt in a triangle, the bunks forming fl e sides of the vessel, and joining at 8 0 feet, the bunk forming the base of * 0 triangle extending from side to side. r >ove the latter there is still' another * nk, between which and the beuras of 1 0 deck there is barely room for a 8 in's body. A man-hole in the deck, ? mediately astern of the after hatch- 11 y, has been provided for the helms- e in. The deck is flush with the gun- 1 le. e rhe Dolphin was built in San Fran- ? co, and is commanded by Captain I tvis. In her voyage to Japan she e 11 be manned by four men, including r commander. She will be supplied j tli water and provisions to serve six 1 c mths, the supply of the former t lounting to 300 gallons. Her cargo 4 11 consist of two tons of coarse salt, * plements for hunting the otter and 0 ring the skins, and provisions for the 8 lise. * Hie hazardous voyage is undertaken ! * these hardy and daring men for the | ' rpese of hunting the sea otter, the ( ^ in of which is very valuable on j I :ount of the excellence of the fur. j 1 ie sea otter is exceedingly plenty off |8 0 coast of Japan, and the adventurers 1 pect to succeed in securing a full ' rgo of skins. With fair wind and \ * ather Captain Davis expeots to make ? 0 passage in six weeks' time, as the t >lphin is a fast sailer, being regarded j{ one of the fastest vessels, large or ! tall, on the Pacific coast. He has 1 sry confidence of making a safe and , * ick voyage. The little vessel he re- i rds as being safer than a larger ves- j i 1. She is certainly as staunch as a l ? ssel well can be, and has been thor- j8 ghly overhauled for the present; 1 yage. A few months ago sue was < gaged in cruising around the wreck of , * 0 Sacramento, off Sacramento Reef. 1 ifore sailing to Japan she will run 1 wn to Ensenadas, and from thence to < e Coronada Islands and back, with a i rty of officials and others interested ' the recent purchase of the islands. ( ie fate and fortune of the Dolphin < 11 be carefullv watched. i Small Expenditures. Five cents each morning. A mere He. Thirty-five cents per week. Not ich, yet it would buy coffee or sugar r a whole family?818.25 a year. And is amount invested in the savings nk at the end of each year, and the terest computed annually, would in elve years amount to more than 70. Enough to buy a good farm in the !8t. Five cents before each breakfast, dinr and supper ; you'd scarcely miss it, t it is fifteen cents a day, 81-05 per sek?enough to buy a wife or a daugh- ; r a dress?-854.00 a year. Enough to ty a small library of books. Invest is as before, and in twenty years you >uld have over 82,000. Quite enough buy a good house and lot. Ten cents a morning ; hardly worth a cond thought; yet with it you can ty a paper of pins or a spool of thread, venty cents' per week ; it would buy veral yards of muslin. 836.50 ore year. With it you could buy a od suit of clothes. Deposit this lount as before, and you would have ,340 in twenty years; quite a snug tie fortune. Ten cents before each breakfast, dinr, and Bupper?thirty cents a day. It >uld buy a good book for the chilli en. . 10 per week ; enough to pay for a ; ar's subscription to a good newspaper. 09.29 per year. With it you could iy a good melodeon, on which your fe or daughter could play sweet music pleasantly while the evening hours ray. And this amount invested as here, would, in forty years, produce the sired amount of 812,000.?Floral ibinet. Cure of Stammering. Very gratifying results have been obined by M. Chervin, a physician of rons, in treating the vicious habit of immering. A commission, appointed investigate the working of Dr. Chera's system, put under his treatment jht patients, varying in age from ten , twenty-nine years, all of whom stam- , sred in their speech to a most painful ' gree. Some of the patients had been immerers from early infancy, while liers owed the habit to nervous shock, ten days after they were first placed ider the care of M. Chervin they were \ I able to speak without stammering, I d at the end of three weeks were disarged perfectly cured. The mode of iatment is as follows: The patient is ught, by means of a large number of ercises, to pronounce with distinct- j ss vowels, consonants, syllables, and I ntences. Great attention is paid to e regulating of the act of inspiration, slow but normal inspiration is taken certain intervals, and this is succeedi by an even, continuous, and loud niration. during which pronunciation effected. Twenty days are devoted the treatment, the time being divided to three periods: one of silence, to eak up the old habit; one in which e patient is taught to speak slowly id deliberately ; and a third, wherein > acquires the practice of speaking leutly, and without clipping his words. "Been."?The Nashua Telegraph retes that a good many years ago, on a rtain occasion, when an educational stitution was in session in Lowell, one the professors called on a young lady conjugate the verb been, and she immenced, "I will have ben" (been), pou will have ben" (been)? "Stop," died the professor; "you don't know bether Ben will have you or not?" ad the lady sat down, but ever after onounoed that word oorrectly. An Anfs Granary. '' It sometimes happens that an ant has I Manifestly made a bad selection, and is bee aid on its return that what it has of t Drought home with mnch pains is no of jetter than rubbish, and is hustled out Sep )f the nest, and is forced to throw its per Durden away. In order to try whether ?62 ;liese creatures were not fallible like inc< ither mortals, I one day took with me a he ittle packet of gray and white porcelain and Deads, and scattered these in the path hav )f the harvesting train. They had will icarcely lain a minute on the earth be- his 'ore one of the largest workers seized ed i lpon a bead, and with some difficulty of i dipped it with its mandibles and trot- ity ed back at a great rate to the nest. I aho raited for a little while, my attention tial leing divided between the other ants, hat vho were vainly endeavoring to remove mil he beads, and the entrance down which in i he worker had disappeared, and then hin eft the spot. On my return in an gro lour's time, I found the ants passing sto< mconcernedly by and over the beads, hi? vhich lay where I had strewn them, in exP ipparently undiminished quantities; hoi ind I conclude from this that they had e(f ound out the mistake, and had wisely fed eturned to their accustomed occupa- ouf ions." He adds: " I have often amused van uyself by strewing hemp and canary the eed or oats, all of which form, heavy of >urdens for the ants, near their nests ; drei ud it is a curious sight to watch the 8t" agerness and determination with which ora1 hey will drag them away. It is inter- van sting also to note how on the following en [ay the husks of these seeds will ap- wr0 >ear on the rubbish-heap, outside the n0^ ntrance to the nest. fen< With this amount of discrimination, he ants fight tremendous battles, Jut' olony against colony, in the endeavor i Kan 0 plunder each other's granaries. At ; wa* imes, these combats last for days, and ! errible mutilations are the result. Two j fan' nts may be noticed contending for a i con eed, one of them holding on with the a? enacity of a bull-dog, even although he alfl las lost his abdomen in the struggle, a?c 4 Then," says Mr. Moggridge, " the h1dctor will be seen dragging away his )rize, while his adversary, though now BU" ittle more than a head and legs, offers yie 1 vigorous, though, of course, inef- 1?^ ectual resistance." On one occasion, a f101 >attle was seen to last thirty-one days. ' Lt the termination of such desperate , j* 1 ngagements, the field is strewn with j he slain, which are carried away and , Dau laten as part of the spoil. 1 To expeditions which end in these nurderous conflicts, are added thievish trK aids on seed-stores which happen to be i P111 n the neighborhood. The ant com- ' "l8 nunities are not in the least particular i Pro is to whence they can steal grain, hemp- ; 8P? teed, canary-seed, or any suitablejnutri- i ?uf iment; and they have an extraordinary inv deverness in discovering where food is o be got for the taking. They know ! vhere there are shops in Mentone for ' g lie sale of crain. A flourishing colonv ! . )f the Atta structor iugeniously planted . tself at the door of a corn-chandler, "*8 and " were ever on the lookout for stray ing grains of oats and wheat, which might 3hance to fall from the sacks. Another . . nest, in a differeut part of the town, got its principal substance from the grains Pre af canary-seed, which were scattered by gat the birds occupying a cage hanging utr outside a shop-windov; " ^ The dimensions of an ant's granary are described as about the size of a an( gentleman's watch. There all sorts of At plundered seeds are stored for winter tio use?or, more correctly, for the seasons wh'en no seeds are growing ; for there is ^ ( little or no winter in the Riviera, such as we know by that term. In the matter of storing, however, we have to meet jl a difficulty. The granaries being only mp a few inches under the surface of the ?er ground, how do the ants manage to pro- , pent the seeds from germinating, and j"" becoming useless for food ? Ancient i authors account for the phenomenon, by j stating that the ants bore holes through ,' the grains, so as to destroy the vital [ principle. What ants may have done i. thousands of years ago in Greece and some eastern countries, we may not dis-^ m, pute ; but it is plain that the ants of j the Riviera dismiss the boring system, | and go to work in a manner which shows I , their skill in chemistry. This, perhapa, ?. is the funniest thing told by Mr. Mog- , gridge. Will it be believed??they , actually malt their grain! When the . seeds have duly sprouted, the ants nip off the radicle or fibril to check the growth, and then carry out the grain to , be dried in the open air. The seeds , ore thus malted. The starch is changed . into sugar, and, so transformed, the food is eaten with becoming relish. "I ? have myself," says our author, "witnessed the avidity with which the contents of seeds tlius treated would be devoured by the ants." If the ants in b(^( olden time did not understand the pro - J men cess of malting, the modem ones may be congratulated on their advancement the in this piece of useful knowledge. J.'1* The ceaseless diligence of these ant The communities is testified by the fact that !uC they have been discovered working in the dark, carrying seeds to their granaries, or searching for aphides from the n orange-tree, just as if ,it were broad lay. Need we say, how gratifying it is p? to see substantiated the ancient saws ,ic about ants and their wonderful foresight ? D the He The Postal Cards, *,*' As postal cards will probably soon be in circulation, it may be well to show h? how they have been used to facilitate a Brt loan. Itecentlv, in r ranee, an muiviu* a ual Rent daily several postal cards ad- '^f dressed to himself, on one of which his tied inquisitive janitor read: "Let me know when you will call for p that 14,000 francs. Your carelessness hal is inexplicable. Yours, &c." Another indicated to the janitor that oan his acquaintance was in the full tide of 0Ilc good luck: a "Answer Yes or No. I am aware the |J girl's thousands do not concern you, but you owe some respect to her family. Say distinctly if you will or will not c marry her. immediate." Better still was this one: "Mr. J , notary, requests you to call at his office as soon as possible, to acquire possession of the property^of the late Mr. Bigourdin." Astonished at the contents of this correspondence, the indiscreet porter lent 50,000 francs (?10,000) to the ingenious a borrower, who, of course, suddenly dis appeared. The police were duly inform- J0] ed of the matter, and when the- officer or asked the janitor why he lent this man joi his money so foolishly, he answered naively, "BecaurO I thought he didn't ? need it." So candid a creditor deserved B* better luck. ? i A patient at Genesee died lately from {? taking internally a liniment intended ?'? for outward application. o* td w An Eoeentrio Englishman England a-court of probate has n occupied in settling a curious case ai illeged insanity. A Mr. John Knight, di Henley Hall, Staffordshire, died in fa itember last, leaving behind him ol sonal property to the amount of li 1,000 and an estate producing a net ni Dine of ?1,500 a year. In early life w -was in straightened circumstances, o1 1 his accession to a fortune seems to e unbalanced his reason. He left a s] L making an eccentric disposition of le property, and this will was contest- w on the ground that the testator was b' unsound mind. The proof of insan- ^ was certainly very strong. It was w wn that Mr. Knight had a great par- , ity for German bauds, and was in the v it of entertaining these wandering jjj istrels sumptuously at his residence, p eturn for which they would play for d< i hours at a time. He made his F oms ride races in a ring, while he ^ od by to enjoy the fun ; and he fed j* dogs on mutton without regard to m ense. He built splendid green g ises and fruiteries, but either allowthe fruit to rot without picking or animals with it. When he went 8j shooting rooks he took a maid ser- r( i- ?i--? U.-A lUa Tr?/3crck nhfLrCAfi v Willi 111 ill | UUd uao v uwgv v?? o ? ? jury that this was not an evidence n insanity. He was, in the habit of ^ Rsing himself in skins and painting n pes on his face, and when t bus dec- w ted he would rush in among hi s serts, gun in hand, expecting to fright- ^ them. It was in evidence that he te a letter advising one of his sons a to smoke, and that he declined to C| l the same son a sum of money to _ him up in business, though the \ j( Ige could see no indications of in- I w ity in either of these acts. Hut it i u i shown that he was subject to many Lucinations, and on one occasion he ^ cied that he had been accused of ^ imitting a robbery, and went so far ^ to consult a solicitor in relation to defense, though in realitv no such ^ usation had been brought against 1. He had also treated his wife and Idren with great unkindness without ^ icient cause. Sir James Hannen, j, Judge, in summing up, told the y that soundness of mind, the ques1 they were called to consider, did j mean a properly balanced mind, as, i it did, few persons would be compe- q, t to make a will. A person of sound id must have a proper discernment a iglit from wrong, and he called attion to the difference between eccensity and insanity, stating that in ny instances persons subject to de- h ions can transact all their business lj iperly if it does not turn on the w cific hallucination from which they : fer. The jury brought in a verdict j alidating the will. The Uses of Water. tl lince Sir William Armstrong intro- b led his hydraulic machinery for rais- * ; ore from deep mines, and for load- tl ; and unloading ships in dock, it has m applied, as our readers are aware, d ^ Al ?. i. I many other purposes. r>y me quiet f issure of water the largest of dock- v ,es are now opened and closed with the ? nost ease ; newspapers are printed, c ;s are worked in hotels and factories, jj i the scenes are shifted in theatres, the Iioyal Academy, when exhibi- t ns are in preparation, truckloads of <i itures are raised from the basement 1 the galleries by a hydraulic lift of unlal size, fed by the ordinary water- t sply. Water can be used to blow the s .lows of an ergan, and in the employ- ' nt of water for this or any other in- [ mittent purpose there is the advan- j ;e that it is always ready. Pull a er, or turn a tap, and it begins to rk. There is no lighting of a fire, c i waiting half an hour, as in the case t. Bteara. And now an ingenious meinician at Paris has contrived a way close and open shop-shutters by 0 ans of the ordinary water supply. ;e 0 winch, and cog-wheels, and con-: a jting apparatus at present employed, 11 1 not required ; with twenty gallons ! c water, at a sixty-feet pressure, more , in twenty square yards of iron shut- i 0 s can be raised or lowered merely by ( rning a cap inside the shop. The wa-tubes, and indeed all the apparatus, B i inside the shop, which renders it 1 iy to guard against effects of frost; j 1 ile failure of water could be prevent- 11 by storing a day's supply in a cis- 11 n.?Chambers's Journal. j i a cure fob e t CONSUMFTIONa I 1 nr the cure of thii distressing dlseaso there has n no medicine yet discovered that can show ; re evidence of real merit than ALLEN'S I.UNQ ! LSAM. This uuequaled expectorant tor curing i ctions of the throat, lungs, and all disease* of j pulmonary organs is introduced to the suffer- ' public after its merits for tho cure of such dls- t es have been fully tested by the medical faculty, j , ) Uulsam Is consequently, recommended by phy- I ans who have become acquainted with its great ' WHAT THE DOCTORS SAT: rs. Wilson A Ward, physicians and druggists. , to from Controville, Toiin.: "We purchased | 1 in'* Lung lint sum, and It sells rapidly. We are | dicing physician*, as well as druggists, and e pleasure In recommending a great remedy, | h as we know this to be." r. Lloyd, of Ohio, surgeon In the army during war, from exposure, contracted consumption, says: " I hare no hesitation in stating that it * I by the use of your Lung Rnhum that 1 am now < re and enjoying good health." ] athanlel Harris, of Mlddleberry, Vt., says: "I 1 re no doubt it will soon become a classical reme1 agent for the cure of all diseases ef the Throat, ' menial Tubes and Lungs." 1 mos Woolly, M. D., of Kosciusca Co.. Ind., says: ! ! or three years past I have used Allen'* Lung ' Win extensively in my practice, and I am satis- | 1 I there is no better medicine for lung diseases | 1 ,,c" I | hysicinns do not recommend a mediclno which I ] nomeiit. What they say about ALLEN'S LCNO BALSAM , bo taken as a fart. Let all afflicted test it at ; e, and be convinced of its real merits. j * s an expectorant it has no eqnal. : is harmless to the most delicate child, ] ; contains no opium in any form. lrectlons accompany each bottle, j r ACTION.?Call for . ! < I ALLEN'S LUNO BALSAM. j< J. N. HARRIS A CO., Ctnc'nnatl, 0. |l Propribtobs. ! j PBRRY DAVIS A SON, General Agents, Providence, R. L I old by all Medicine Dealer*. FOB SALS BT ] HN P. HRNRT, New York. O. C. GOODWIN A CO., Boeton. KN80N. H0L0WAY 4 CO.. Philadelphia. ( Irr Rid op a Cold at Oxce by using Dr. Jayne's j pectorant. a certain cure for all Pulmonary and I oncbial Affections. (cat and Oldest Family* Medicine.?Satp- ( d't Liver Invioorator-m purely Vegetable Cattarand Tonic-forDyspepsia,Coastlpatlon,Debility, ; k Headache, Bilious Attacks, and all derangents of Liver, Stomach and Bow sis. Ask your ' ugglst for It. Btteart of imiMioni. 1 Hints to Owners of Watches. A watch is a most delicate machine, id a very little thing is enough to image its system, and make it go too tat or too slow, or to arrest the motion I its wheels, and it is .just that very ttle thing that you don't take any otice of. Show us your watch, and e'll tell you what are the habits of its wner. A person of irregular habits will >oil the best watch in the world. Caress or inexact people will always hare atches that go fast or slow?or that go ath fast and slow by turns. If you in't be steady and regular in your ibits, you need not expect to have a atch that you can rely on. All the best watchmakers in the orld will be unable to give your watch lat regularity which is lacking in your:lf, and which you cannot, therefore, reserve in your watch, and which you estroy as fast as the watch is regulated, or a watch should be wound up every ay at the same hour, and as soon as ossible in the morning. And the best ? *? J --? it.:. 1- -l... tk. :casion ior uumg wis 10 nucu wo linute-hand marks seven or ten linutes after the hour-hand has marked le hour. The operation of winding up a watch lould never be performed carelessly or jughly; but, on the contrary, with reat precaution, especially at the molent when you give the final turn to le key. Then you should gently loderate the movement, so as not to rind the watch up too tight. You tiould always take good care to fit the eyhole before commencing. It is not a good plan to carry the key bout with yon, unless it is kept in a ase; and never carry it loose in your ocket, as it is liable to get dust into ;, which you will introduce into the 'atch, from time to time, in winding it p, to its great detriment. Never, under any circumstances but lose of extreme necessity, open the iterior compartment?that which conlins the machinery of the watch. In winding up the watch, the hand lat holds it should remain perfectly beady and without motion. The hands may be advanced or set ack, when necessary, without any harm eing done to the watch, although con ary to the popular notion on the subJet. A Cough, Cold, ob Sore Thboat, reuircs immediate attention, as neglect oftenmes results in some incurablo Lung Disease. Brown's Bronchial Troches " will almost inariably give relief.?Com. The Times says Dr. Walpole has lost is beautiful chestnut mare. She died sudden in harness, it is supposed from bots or piD orms. If the Doctor had used Sheridan's 'acahy Condition rowders, he would, no oubt, have had his mare to-day?they are eath on worms. Chapped hands are very common with liose who have the r hauds much in water. A bw drops of Johiuon's Anodyne Liniment rubed over the hands two or three times a day, rill keep them soft and white. Fishermen, ailors. and others will do well to remember his.?Cook For loss of Appetite, Dyspepsia, InIgestion, depression of Spirits ana General Jebilitv. in their various forms, Ferro-Phos uorated Elixir of Calisaya made by Casitell, Hazard A Co., New York, and sold by ill druggists, is the beat tonio. Ah a stimulant onic for patients, recovering from fever or ither sickness, it lias no equal. If taken durug tbo season it prevents fever and ague and ither intermittent fevers.?om Flaqo's Instant Relief has stood wenty years' test. Is warranted to give itnmeliatt relief to all Rheumatic, Nouralgio, Head, iar and Rack aches, or money refunded.? Com. The Bbowns and Blacks produced by hat sterling preparation, Crihtadobo's Eicelior IIair Dye, caimot be excelled by Nature; ts tints challenge comparison with Nature's Qost favored productious, and defy detection. -Com. Prop the Falling. It is a great blessing to have by nature a atreng onatitutlon, but not more than one-half of the inlabitants of the civilized world are thus provided, lany constitutions are feeble to begin with, many there, originally vigorous, are crippled by overxcrtion, dissipation, unhealthy surroundings, [rief, privation, or some other portentous cause, icfore the prime of life is attained. But is this an vil without a remedy a palliative? Not contitutions can be replaced. Hundreds of thousands f Instances might be adduced in which conetituional decay has been arrceted by the continuous ise of Hosteller's Stomach Bitters as an in vigoraut. t is coustltuaioual strength that enables one man o recover from a disease which would be mortal o another destitue of this element of resistance. A'hencver a malady of any kind obtains a foothold n any part of the human body, and becomes a hronic fixture there, it is proof positive that the lonstitution has been mastered by the disease and irgently requires help. In such a case Hostetter'a litters should be taken at least three times a day, mtil the natural powers of the system are recruitid. Tbcu tho morbid principle wbith generated md feeds the complaint will have to succumb to the nflucnce of animal vigor, aided by the toning, egulating, purifying operation of the Bitters upon ho organ or organs in which tho ailment is localid. There is nothing like this mighty tonic to ' prop the falling.'' Tli? Markets. jrrw YORK. Jeef Cattle? Prime to Extra Bullockul .14 a .14 lint quality 12 a .13 Second quality 11 a .12)4 Ordinary thiu Cattle... .09 a .12)4 Inferior or lowcet grade .OS a .11)4 ITIIcb Cowa J 40.00 ?75.0O logs?lave 06 a .06)4 Dressed 07Sa .07>4 iheep 08%a .07)4 Potion?Middling 19".,aoq flour?Extra Western 6.7S a 7.10 State Extra 6.00 a 7.30 iVheat?lted Western 1.90 a 1.00 No. 2 Spring 1.63 a 1.68)4 ftye 63 a .H? Hurley?Malt 1.07 a 1.35 'orn?Mixed Wrutrrii 67 a .68 lata?Mixed Western 83)4a .54)4 [lay, per ton 17.00 aSO.OO It raw, per ton 13.00 a 2:1.00 flops "72's 40u50?Wh ,10 rt .13 fork?Mess 15.50 aSO.UO Lard .08',/! .10", Pelroletitu?(.'rude 9\a 10 Hetined2f)4 Hotter?State 37 a .40 Ohio, Fine 30 a .32 " Yellow 18 a .28 Western ordinary IS a .20 Pennsylvania Que 30 a .35 Plieese?State Factory 15)40 .16 " Skimmed 05 a ,IO)f Ohio 13 rt .16 Kgns?State 17 a ,18)| ALBANY, R'lierit 1.85 a 2.( 5 Rye?State 88 a .90 '.'orn?d.xed 88)40 .67 Hal lev-Slate mo a 1.10 .late?Sti.t< 84 a .55 BUFFALO. p. rt H.46 a 7.10 . . 6.40 rt 6.75 I.m 4.75 a 6.60 I . u*i aio.oo nti.Mt No. 2Spring 1.43 a 1.53 *3 n ' i urn ? _ ? Date 42 a .43 Kvf .65 a .85 llirley ... .M al.OO UvJ O8J4 a .09 PHILADELPHIA. Flour 7.50 a 8.15 Wheat?Western Bed 1.90 a 1.91 Coru?Yellow 82 a .83 Mixed 8214'a .821, petroleum?Crude 14 lkdued .19> Clover Seed 8.00 a 9.25 Timothy 3.50 a 3.75 BALTmORK. Cotton?Low Middling 18 .18* Flour?Extrs 8.50 a 7.60 Wheel .. 1.70 ?110 Corn 08 a .07 Ota .47 41 M \ - \ " 1 i Consumers should use from one-fourth V to otis-half less of Dooley's thsn of other Yeset H or Baking Powders. It is put up full weight.? M Com. chicago, milwaukee & st. paul railway. (Kilwsukes ft Bt Paul Railway Co.) Extending from Chicago to Milwaukee, 1st Crone, Winona, Hastings, St. Pawl aad Hlnneapolla. Alio to Madison, Prairie da Chlrn, Au?tin, Owatonaa, Charles City, Maion City end Alcona | alio to JanesrUle, Monroe, Ripon, Berlin and Oehkosh. Embracing more Bnalneaa Centres and Pleasure Resorta than any Nortbwestsrn line. CHICAGO DEPOT?Center Canal and Madison atreets, (with Pittsburg, Port Warns* Pennay Irani*. and Chicago. Alton Alt. Louis R'ys.) MILWAUKEE DEPOT-Corner Reed and South Water streets. Connecting In St. Psnl with all Railways dlrsrglng thence. Nsw York Orrtcs?819 Bread way. Borrox OrricB?1 Court street. Okkchsi. Orsicss?Milwaukee, Wis. S. S. MBRBILL, Osn. Msssger. JKO. C. OACLT. Ain't Ocn. Manager. A. V. H. CARPBNTEB. Q. P. and T Agent KTX C?Xo 18 ' jM Lisi to J. H. JOll.M.?.v BrMeh Lcwdiu Shot Gone, ?40 todJut Double Shot Ilahiajr Tackle, do. Largtdlmwli to doaltrt or eM*. Army Puna. Berolyses^sto., bought ee traded for. Goede seat by szpreaa C.O.D. to be erasilnod bates SeMte. i f Jintablukod 1880.1 Welch, db Oxlffitha, > Manufacturers of Saws, SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS. . -i ^ EVERT SAW WARRANTEDS FILLS, BELTING k MACHINES?. LIBERAL DISCOUNTS. e a | P ice List, and Circular* free. C/> WELCH & GRIFFITHS, ' I Boston, Mm . 4 Detroit, Mich. MOTHERS! MOTHERS! 1 MOTHERS! 1 Don't fall to procur* MBS. WIN SLOWS H 800THLNG 8YEUP FOB CHILDREN TEETH- H 10. V This valuable preparation h?? been need with W NEVER-FAILING SUCCB88 IN THOUSANDS OP 1 CASES. , \ It not only relieves the child from pain, but tavlrorate* the stomach and bowel*, correct* acidity, awl Hives tone and energy to the whole system. It will ^ also instantly relieve Griping of the Bowels and Wind Colie. We believe It the BEST and SUREST REMEDY IE THE WORLD In all case* of DYSENTERY AND DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN, whether arising from teething or any other cause. i Depend npon It, mothers, It will give rest to yourselves and Belief and Health to Tour Infants. Be snre and call or "Mrs. Winslow'a Soothing Syrup.' Having the fac-sImtle *f "CURTIS A PERKIN'S' on the outsld* wrapper. Sold by Druggists throughout tha World' 670 An EACH WEEK-AOENTS WANTED H* ' Bnslnes* legitimate. Particulars free .T WORTH. St. Louis. Mo . Row V4F1 t PORTABLE - -r^ Soda Fountains, 40, SSO, 973 and ?100. GOOD. DURABLE, AND CHEAP SHIPPED READY FOR USE Manufactured by J. W. CHAPMAN & CO, Madison, Ind. ?Send for Circular.? sewing mauiiuio Is the BEST IN THE WORLD. Agtntu Wanted. Bend for circular. Aridress: " DOMESTIC " 8BWINO MACHINE CO.. N. T USB tbe Bellinger Bash Lock and Support to FASTEN YOUR WINDOWS! No spring to break, no cutting of sask; cheap, dur able, rerjr easily applied ; holds sash at any plac* desired, and a self-fastener when tbe sash is down. Bend stamp for circular. Circular and six copperbronzed locks sent to any address In the U. 8., postpaid, on receipt of fOcts. Liberal Inducements t* the trade. Agents wanted. Address, Bellinger Bash Lock Co., No. SIS Market St., Harrisburg, Pa. [Por Illustration of this cheapest and best lock.se* Wooii't Household itagmint, A. T. Indeptndent.ete.] BHlfflfifll ^ea"^ectar ?' PSNTOT Slaclk T"F1 A pjtlJwHiiS - With the Oreeu Tea Plaror, W.Pm*sceiNlWTtA#" The best Tea Imported. For ,al* ererywhere. And for sal* XmirWBK T wholesale only by the OBBAT tm /mmll ATLANTIC A PACIFIC TEA CO IS dMKal No. 181 Pulton Bt.l 14 ? Church edSSSJHEf St., New York. P. 0. Box, MOB Rend for Thea-Nectar Circular 151 nnn reward ^ U/X?V/V/V/ For any case of Blind, Bleed _ lng, Itching, or Ulcerated DrtTTTjiy/1 Piles that I)K BINO'B PILB ACWdiU BEMEDY falls to cur*. It la V prepared expressly to cure the Piles and nothing g else. SOLD BY AIL DBPOOI8T8. PRICE tf W0RKINflCLA88.^^."SdAK^ hie employmcnMt home, day or evening; no capital required ; full instructions and valuable package of goods sent free by mail. Address, with six cent return stamp, M. YOUNG 4 CO., Id Oortlandt-sL, New York. fn 4t0n P" day I Agents wanted I All classes 90 w &&VJ 0f working people of either sex,young or old. make more money at work for ua In their spare moments or all the time than at anything else. Particulate free. Address G. BTIW80N 4 CO., Portland. Me. Dr. Whittier, Longest engaged and most luccessfurphysldaa of ih* age. Consultation or pamphlet fraa. Call or write. tlfl to <D1U <PflUA.H BlalrA Co. Bt. Louis. Mo WONDERFUL.?A New Method of curing yy CnxacwPTiux. asthma, Bkohchitib. Ac., sent free. Immediste relief and a permanet cure guaranteed. Address, with three cent return stamp, A. YOUNO. 290 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, E. D? N. Y. A CENT*! WANTED ererywhere. Bamplea and circulars mailed 011 receipt < f CO cents. - - _ .1.1, v v en. 1 GORHAM PRAY. Manufacturer. am ???. ; 12,000,000 ACRES I I __ 1 Cheap Farms! The Cheapest Land In Market, for aala bp tha 4g UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, In the OBEAT PLATTE ALLEY. 3,OOO,000 Acres In Central Nebraska I Now for aale in tracta of forty acrea and upwards on fire and ten yeara' credit at 6 per cant. Ho Advance Intereat required. ! Mild and Healthful Climate, Fertile Boll, an abundance ofGood Water. THE BE8T MARKET IN THE WE8TI The great Mining Regions of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Nevada, being anpplied by the fhrmera In tha Flattb Yallkt. SOLDIERS KNTITI.F.D TO A HOME* I STEAD OF 100 ACRES. THE BEST LOCATIONS for COLONIES. FREE HOMES FOR ALL I Millions of acres of choice ciOTernmcHi u^cn n>< iuw 7 -? ? Homeitead Law,near thle Great Railroad, with good market*, and all the convenience* of an old ettled country. Free pane* to purchaser* of Railroad Land*. Sectional Map*, showing the Land, al*o new edition of Deacrtptlve Pamphlet with new Map* mailed free everywhere. Addrei*. . O. P. DAVIS Land Commla*loner V. P. B. R., Omaha, Mc>? MOSEY Made rapidly with Btencll d Key Cheek Outfit*. Catalogue*, eamnle* and fullpartlo| nlara Trtt. 8. M Spencer. 117 Hanover fit., Bo*ton. Hint a to Stock Breeder*: tell* how to breed mala fsmsl*. fnr rt? f. P 8H"*? '''?? ft, 1 Dr-Whittior, Long*** engaged and aaoet ?ucce*#funphyalctaa of the age, CcmaulUtlon* and pamphlet* free. Cal o? write. j