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.i * *H ' Farm, Harden and Household. Coat of Food for Hen*. It is very often asked, what is the cost of feeding a hen? Ihere are, of course, differences according to the [ breed ; namely, the size, activity, &c., and particularly generative activity. An egg represents a large amount of ; nutriment, of the most condensed sort, and a hen that lays 200 eggs per year wilT need, say,, some sixteen or seventeen pounds more of pure nutriment, for this purpose alone, than one laying half that number. And, of course, every additional ounce of fat laid on your fowl's ribs must go in at the bill, ?as well as telling in your bills,) so that rattening breeds consume more than non-fattening ones under equal circumstances. Again, other things being equal, a very active fowl uses up entirely, without accounting for it in eggs or fat, nutriment enough, in excess of a quiet one, to pay for her liveliness. "Every flap of your turkey's wing costs u uiixiu UA uuxii. But from a series of painstaking observations we can say that the average fowl at large consumes not far from a bushel of corn per year. If at large, she supplies herself'with green food, and picks up insects, larvse, &c. If kept cofmned, animal food must be artificially supplied, such as crushed chandler's scraps, chopped sheep's lights and livers, and house scraps. In summer you must add to this short, tender grass, and in winter raw cabbage or boiled potatoes, or other green vegetables.' This, for a year, brings the estimate for the cost of the food of the confined fowl up to the equivalent of a bushel and a half of corn. It will generally be found that when com varies in price, the cost of vegetables and animal food varies with it, so that this estimate is gonerally correct.?Poultry World. Kaiaiiijc Koora for Cattle. I think people do not pay attention enough to raising roots for cattle, and as I have lntd a little experience in that line, I will give it for the benefit of your 'readers. In 1871 I purchased four ounces of man eel wurzel beet-seed and sowed it on two square roils of ground, in drills two foet apart, and tended with a hoe ; and in the fall I harvested from said piece of ground thirty bushels of beets, sixty pounds to the bushel. The Bamo year I sowed about one-eighth of an acre of carrots, from which I obtained about forty-five bushels. In 1872 I sowed three-eighths of an acre to mangel wurzel, in drills three feet apart, from which I obtained 191 bushels. I also sowed three-eights of an acre of carrots, in drills two feet apart, and obtained 125 bushels. The carrots were more expensive in weeding and digging, and returned less feed in proportion to the amount of land sown than the mangel wurzel, but of a little better quality. I think mangel wurzel the cheapest food for cattle that can be grown, if wo take the amount of land used into consideration.?J/. N. S., of Concord, Iowa, in Western Rural, Co-operation Commended. In his recent consideration of the condition, prospects, and possibilities of American agriculture, Mr. Dodge, urging the idea of combination on the attention of farmers, declares that there is no reason why comparative isolation should lead to positive hermitage. A great enlargement of American dairying has come from association ; the monthly gathering for sales of farm animals in Madison Countv. (fliio. has 6aved im mense sums from the clutches of middlemen ; the inauguration of market fairs should be general; associations for importing or buying animals of the best blood should be more numerous ; there should be a farmers' library in every township in the land ; farmers should join to build flourishing mills, sawmills, and woolen factories, if they cannot get them otherwise; and they should combine cn masse to enforce upon politicians, railroad directories, and all others, justice and equity in their dealings with agriculture. How to Grow Lima Beam. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says : For the'past ten years wo have raised them in great abundance?in fact, have cooked none other for dry. The first year or so wo found difficulty in ripening the beans, as we picked for the table as fast as they were ready. There are only two points, if observed, to insure success. 1'he first is to pinch oft* the top of each vine when they have reached the top of the stake?say six feet?and the second is carefully to save the earliest pods for seed. Many writers say that they must be planted eye down, Ac. We never practice it. \tfeputthe ground in nice order, when it is warm enough, and plant ns any other beans, four to a hill, and they generally all come. By saving the earliest for seed we have them nice for the table three weeks earlier than at first. Bee8 on Every Farm, M. L. Dunlap, of Illinois, said that bee-keeping was a delightful and profitable pursuit as a family recreation and resource ; not that thousands of pounds can be raised by every one, but all can have a supply. When we teach all to manage them, and make them interested, we give them something to attract them, something that will keep our boys from the towns and their vices. We find few farms for sale now, becanse the tastes of the people are becoming elevated, and homes are made more attractive than formerly by the addition of such things as make them pleasant. We have the flowers, but if they are trampled out they must be raised, protected, and made accessible. It was a success, even in Chicago, the suburbs of which produced abundance of white clover. w? Self-Vaccination. ? An Iowa man, sayR an exchange, who thought some things could be done as well as others, and that a penny saved was a penny earned, concluded to vaccinate himself, and save the necessity of paving a fee to a physician. He cut a plug out of his arm, thrust in some virus obtained from the nrm of his sister, who had been vaccinated by a physician a few days before, tied up the wound with a piece of wet newspaper, and awaited the result. The surgeon found it necessary to am- i putate the arm in a short time, and the self-vaccinator is now in his grave, beyond the reach of small-pox and other contagious diseases. What Womex Work At.?The census statistics arrange woman's occupation under 72 heads ; domestic servants head the list, in point of numbers, and, strange to say, "laborers on farms" come next. There are97,000seamstresses, 90,000 milliners and dressmakers, and 84,000 teachers. There is a glorious army of 10,170 nurses. There are preachers, shoemakers, journalists, authors, " mechanics not specified," and only 100 "show women." But who would dream of "women steam boiler makers, 5," "bell-founders, 4," "hunters and trappers, 2 ?" Hostlers, charcoal burners and miners also figure in the list. , The Heidelberr Duelling Corps. The Confltatt Observer says : "All visitors to Heidelberg must feel more or less interest in the famous duelling corps existing there. These corps dote their origin almost as far back as the foundations of the Universities of the Elector Rupert I., in the year 1386. They were at first composed of all the best and noblest among the students ; now, however, they no lopger hold the rank they once did, but are looked on, even by some of their members, as necessary evils, on the keeping up of which the general honor of Heidelberg in some remote way depends. Many strange customs nre prevalent among thfe 'members, not the least curioUs of which is the way the funeral rites of any of their number at the University are celebrated. The funeral takes place at night by the light of torches. The coffin, on which is placed the cap and swords of the deceased, is drawn on a low bier by four horses. Immediately after the body walk the members of the corps to which the deceased belonged, bearing torches, and followed by a representative from each of the other corps. On reaching the burial ground, which is situated at a short distance from the town, a ' chorale' is sung by the whole company, but no sooner is the coffin lowered into the grave,-than the hymn is changed into one of the noisy drinking songs in which these students excel. TTlVliUUl UUJ UClCUIVuj M?c grave is closed, ana the cortege mafrches back to the town, where they again halt on the Universitrots-Platz, and form into n large circle. Two of the beet swordsmen then go through the sword exercise, after which, with aloud shout, all the torches are thrown high in the air, so that they fall together in a burning pile in the centre of the circle. The ceremony thus brought to a close, the corps retire to their respective places of rendezvous, in one of the numerous taverns in the town, and the rest of the night is passed in carousing and merrymaking. The Beer IUots at Frankfort. Of the beer riots at Frankfort, already noticed by the cable dispatches, the correspondent of the London Times writes: " The beer riots at Frankfort are Very serious. The brewers having slightly raised the price of beer, the mob availed themselves of a market day, when thousands of laborers from the neighborhood visited the town, to attack and demolish the principal beerhouses, taverns, and breweries. The Iiolico at first hesitated to interfere, rat, upon some Socialists displaying a red flag, they thought it high time to assert the majesty of the law, and made an effort to withstand the rioters in the more exposed localities. They were beaten off by the mob, who, encouraged by success, received the military, now summoned to the spot, with a shower of bricks. When a few blauk cartridges fired to warn off the rioters had proved ineffectual, the officers in command at last resorted to more stringent means, and, of course, easily succeeded in quelling the riot. Tho loss of life is very great. There are thirty-seven killed ? .1 -l- ? i 1 ru\ 1?.1 Ttrui. UL1U liUUUb 1W WUUUUCU. V? nil buc OA" ception of a few, where the rioters were received with scalding beer and steam before the military arrived, all the leading breweries of the town were invaded by the mob. No doubt there has been mismanagement on the part of the authorities, or the riot could never have assumed such vast proportions. The police, consisting chiefly of Frankforters, probably acted with the leniency usuallv displayed by South German authorities on such occasions, while the military, con -nanded, I dare say, by North Germa; officers, or, at any rate, bound to adhere to the injunctions of the Prussian military code, as soon as they begun operations gave the rioters a taste of the stricter discipline and sterner habits of the German North. It was the first riot at Frankfort 6ince the late remodeling of all things in Germany." Ten Thousand Sharks. A correspondent of Land and Water writes :? In 18591 visited the spot near Kawaihae, on Hawaii, one of the Sandwich Islands, where the lava poured into the sea, after running nearly sixty miles down the mountain from the mouth of the volcanic crater. We went down in ? A.V\/\ol nn/1 OQ Ti*n onnmn/tliA/1 flin u nuaio-uunw, uiiu no nv vmv spot in .the niglii, the effect of tho great masses of red hot lava flowin^into the sea, hissing, seething, and bubbling like a million of steam engines blowing off steam, was startling and most fearful. But something more fearful still met our gaze. It was a sight?well, I do not exaggerate in saying tens of thousands?of immense sharks, as thick as they could swim, close in alongside the rocks, and seemingly comfortable and happy, and intent only upon their own situation. Some of the wretches were twenty feet long, and there they went, continually rolling and mixing with each each other?indeed a horrible and disgusting mass. Suddenly one of the ladies put out her hand, and found the water was very warm, and so we paddled off, without stopping to investigate the shark question auy further. It may have been the warmth of the water that attracted them?perhaps its sulphurous fumes. They were not there in search of food ; at all events did not seem to be eating, only playing about, and enjoying themselves. I hope never to see such a dreadful sight again. It seemed a fearful dream. To an old sailor 1 the sight of a single shark is unpleasant ; so just think of this horrid mass of sharks! On our passage down, we noticed the sea, full of small dead fish, floating upon the surface, which we attributed to some submarine effect of the volcanic action, which had broken out only a few days previously. .Making the Postal Cards. The Springfield Union says: The manufacture of postal cards at the Morgan Envelope Company's building is progressing finely, the impressions being as perfect as could be wished. The ... tnfiio <>0* 1M uli.iotu r?f JU? nnrdn eneh r*vv.. ?... per minute, and could be run up to 10 sheets per minute if desired, but at the present time the daily product will exceed 000,000. The press is never stopped unless to clean the rollers or adj ust some of the machinery, as the hands take turns in going to their meals. All night long is heard the steady whirr of the pulleys, and even Sunday affords no rest, although the company intend to observe the Sabbath after next week. The sorters work nights as well as the printers, but the cutting machines that divide the sheets into cards are not obliged to run all the time to keen np with the press. The packing will be performed on the tables inside the fireproof vault. The Morgan Envelope Company has met the difficulty that attended the commencement of a new business with most commendable promptness, and we are glad to congratulate themon their success. \ Love and Legislation. "Not long since," writesa correspondent of the Detroit Dnilf/ Vnion, " I met a lady who wns for years the betrothed of Senator Carpenter. She loved him with a woman s wild devotion. She watched every movement of his life with an intense anxiety. She was as keenly sensitive to any reproach cast upon him as if she bore his name and shared his life. And yet he had broken his vows end married another. He had held her heart in thrall, until she felt that it was worthless to any one. but him> and then flnng it away as a discarded thing. He wrote her after his marriage and received her forgiveness and her blessing. He cnrvieB with him still her foudest, sweetest thoughts. When he Speaks to the Senate there is an car afar off listening for evt -v word ; and when he recei>es the plaudits of taon he thinks perhaps of one whose smile is worth more than all theirpraises, who will smile when others frown, and be* true when all else is false. There is living in Detroit a venerable and respected lady who, to those who know her, is tire heroine of a Btrange story. She may be seen almost anv day on the streets, hurrying ffoin her tour of shopping back to her pleasant little home, where over her needle and thread her fancies have full play, and memory is supreme. She is a woman of rare intellect and great cultivation, a charming conversationalist, and an exemplary Christian. She has been twice married and twice a widow ; and now, as Time is drawing his silver tracings through her hair, she moves alone ! The loved ones of the past arc gone. Her interests and her affections draw her toward the world of spirits. She was in her vouug davs the betrothed of Jefferson Davis. Why they never married is not known. She treasures too dearly the casket of the past to opon it to other yes. It may be that to her near and dear ones she tells the story. I am not among them, and do not know it. It is certain, however, whatever may have prevented the consummation of their arly plans, she and the rebel President have never lost their regard for each other. They still exchange letters, and watch over each other's welfare. Two such lives, running in such different channels, and yet having the sympathy of heart anil interest, must have much to attract each other. His hnB been a life of splendid achievements and ignoble failnres?full of excitement and thrilling episodes. Hers, having its own vicissitudes, borne like a woman, has been quiet and unobtrusive, bat perhaps as wonderful as his. "When I pass her on the street, or see her in church, I feel like running- to her and asking for her story. I know it would be interesting. The sweetheart of Jefferson Davis ! Who would not like to go back of his plottings for power, and his struggle in behalf of treason, and learn something of his boyhood, and how he acted when in love. The Last Hours of Justice Chase. Chief-Justice Salmon P. Chase, oi the United States Supreme Court, died in New York city at ten o'clock Wednesday morning at No. 4 West Thirty-third street, the residence of his daughter, Mrs. William S. Hoyt. Up to Monday evening, when he received his friende and conversed with cheerfulness, he appeared to be in his usual condition ol good health. He had come to New York from Washington to visit his daughter, and with the purpose of proceeding to Boston. On Sunday he walked to the Central Park from Mrs. Hoyt's residence and back, and on Monday he walked for some distance down town, paying several visits to friends on the way. There was nothing in his condition on Monday evening when he retired for the night to indicate that his end was so near. On Tuesday morning, at the breakfast hour, Mr. Chase was summoned to the meal. A servant was sent to call him, but nc response being returned to the servant's rap upon the door, the door was opened and Mr. Chase was found peacefully slumbering. Ho awoke shortlv afterwards, and was in the act of dressing when he was seized with an apoplectic attack. In spite of every effort to restore him, he remained in this condition of stupor until tho hour of ten o'clock on Wednesday morning, when he ceased to breathe. Mrs. Sprague, his othei daughter, and her husband, Senatoi Sprague, were with him when he died. It will bo remembered that several years ago the Chief-Justice was attacked with partial paralysis, from which he never fully recovered. He was, however, fully competent^ to- perform, as he did, his duties as Chief-Justice oi the Supreme Court, and of late he has seemed to be in the enjoyment of complete health. He had in contemplation, *\v, ihno o^in/il/nn /I Attm n vn'ail fe W11CU (.11 uo Obiivncu uwuji, U YJ01V um Colorado for the benefit of his hcaltli and for recreation from the cares ol official life. Important Lawsuits. Litigation of great importance to persons holding bonds issued by towns and counties in behalf of railroad enterprises is now going forward in the United States Court for the Western District of Missouri. Forty-five different suits have been brought against towns and counties of that State for interest on bonds issued in aid of railroads, which the authorities of these towns and counties seek to repudiate ; and there is one suit against Johnson county arising from an issue - r ninn nnft 1 I 1 OX ?1**0,11/0 IJOIIIIUI BUilooi UU11UO, 1/1IVJ legality of which is contested. The county of Henry is sued for 3204,000 in two suits by A. H. Nicolay, President of/tlie Board of Brokers in New York, and the whole amount involved in the pending litigation will reach nearly two millions of dollars. There are two suits against Cass county for ?155,000, of which .$55,000 is a portion of what are known as the bloody bonds, being of the same issue as those which led to the tragedy at Gunu City, where two or : threo persons were killed by an armed mob. j Au interesting question to be deter[ mined is whether an innocent holder of bonds is entitled to recover when the I circumstances of their issue are such I that they would be invalid in the hands of the original holders. Nearly all the plaintiffs in these cases are persons living in other States, who would come j under the classification ot innocent noiaers, as they bought the bonds in good faith, knowing nothing of any fraud in their issue, even if such fraud existed. Treating Them Better.?Convicts in the Michigan State Prison are hereafter to bo treated with distinguished consideration. The Legislature has voted to free them from the humiliation oi wearing striped garments, nnd alsc given them permission to correspond with their relatives and intimate friends. The State also devotes funds toward their education, and gives each one, when discharged, 810 worth of clothing and $10 in cash, with such other money as he may have earned by overwork. Great Medicine Mem The principles Which gttided the early I, physicians were etude and Vtigtie i enough. Galen'b theory is this: "Given i a disease, determine its Character as j hot or cold, moiBt or drV) hy iih eifort j of imagination ; having done so, select < a remedy which has been catalogued as 1 fossessing opposite tjuaUti^Ri" Whett ( elii operated oh LotiiB XIV. . for the i stone, he was so dotibtftll bf pis pthi j skill, .fts Well thb i'feBillts of it, that, 1 though the operation was successfully i performed, his agitation was so exces- i sive that a nervous tremor settled on i him for life, and in bleeding a friend 1 the next day lie disabled the patient ir- I reparably. _ ( \ When Felip tie Uire went in search 1 of the Omeguas from Venzuela ho was i wounded by ft spear just beneath the i right arm. A Spaniard, who was igno- ' rant of Burgevy, undertook to dure him, ( and De Utre'B coat of mail waB placed j upon all old Ihdiahi who was mouuted : ou a horse ; the amateur surgeoh then i drove a spear into the Indian's body through the hole in the armor, and his i body having been opened, the spear being still kept in the wound, it wtis discovered that the heart was uninjured; thus they assumed that l)e litre's wound was not mortal, and, being treated as if the wound were an ordinary one, he recovered. When Henry It, of Prance iraB mortally wounded by a splinter from a spear m inung wnii -uoiugumciic, nuiuu entered liis visor and pierced bis eye, the surgeons, for the purpose of discovering the probable injury done to the king, cut oil the heads of four criminals, and -thrust splinters into their eyes as nearly at the same inclination as the futal one had entered that of the king. Barbers were surgeons for centuries, and surgery was barbarous. Henrv V., at Agincourt, with 30,000 men, had but one surgeon and fifteen assistants, who were pressed for the purpose ; and even these had also to do a little fighting, three of them at Agincourt being archera. What happened to patients who had to submit to operations in those early days can scarcely be conceived by a generation accustomed to chloroform and laughing-gas. Fabricous of Acquapendente, perceptor of Harvey, tlins describes what he considers an improved and easy operation: "If it be a movable tumor, I cut it away with a red-hot knife, that scars as it cuts; but if it be adherent to the chest, I cut it without bleeding or pain with a wooden or liom knife soaked in acjua-fortis, with which having cut the skin, I dig out the rest with my fingers." Funeral Rites, A writer in tne unrwuan uniun urges various reforms in fnneral rites, and pronounces funeral processions " a positive evil and disservice." He says: There should bo nothing of the sort. After a funeral service at the house, the friends and acquaintances should go away, all but the nearest, and then, or still better, the next morning, the body should be entrusted to the tender care ; of some three or four tried and trusted L friends, not members of the family, and these should bear it to its final ' resting-place. A parent's heart, a lius1 band's, wife's, or child's, never ought to be subjected to the fearful tax of seeing their precious dead lowered into ' the grave by alien and unteuder hands, 1 and hearing the dreadful thud of the first clods upon the coffin. It is most ! cruel and most barbarous to subject any near relative or nearest friend to 1 such a test as this. If the whole com1 papy of relatives and friends must go ' to the grave-side, we must contrive I somehow to make the closing scene less > hard and withering. Saratoga battle Monument. There seems now to be a probability i that the Battle of Stillwater and the i surrender of Burgoyne will be duly [ honored in a monument. In 1859 the ' Legislature incorporated, undera "per petual charter," the "Saratoga Monu; raent Association," with a Board of ! fourteen Permanent Trustees as Direc tors. Some changes in the management i have been caused by death, and the oth: er day the charter was amended in the 1 Legislature, and Dr. C. H. Payne, of Schuylerviile, and Wm. L. Stone, of New York citv. were named as new Trustees. Mr. Stone, by his memoirs 1 of General Riedesel and Madame Riedesel, made himself familiar with i the entire campaign culminating at Stillwater, and the appointment is a fitting compliment to Mr. Stone's researches : in connection with the location and itit eidents of the battle-ground of Saratoga. The ground for the monument will at once be purchased, and subscripi tions are solicited. 1 How " Greenback" Taper is Made. All the paper for the money issuectby the Government is manufactured at the Glen Mills, near West Chester, Pa. Short pieces of red silk are mixed with the pulp in the engine, and the finished stuff is conducted to the wire without passing through any screens, which might retain the silk threads, ity an arrangement above tho wire cloth, a shower of short pieces of fino blue silk thread is dropped in streaks upon the paper while it is being formed. The upper side, on which tho blue silk is dropped, is the one used for tho face of , tho notes, and, from the manner in which the threads are applied, must show them more distinctly than the lower or reverse side, although they are embedded deeply enough to remain fixed. The mill is guarded by officials night and day to j>revcnt the abstraction of any paper. Ponlli of Jolni Sfuarl Mill. The death of tlie most illustrious metaphysician of liis times is announced by the Atlantic Cable, .ljohii Stuart Mill is , no ruoro. Great in all the departments of intellectual research which he essayed, great in the scope and quality of his mind, but particularly great in his mastery and exposition of those social problems which attract the enlightened thought of this generation, the loss of Mill will be felt as an irretrievable calamity to mankind, for there is no one left who unites such magnitude of endowment with such devotion to all that is progressive in the world of social and political science. Solid Irrigation.?After the spring has fairly opened, and Colorado farmers have cast their water upon their bread, . so to speak, or sown their seed and watered it, there comes a foot of snow which fills their heart with joy, as being r the most desirable thing that conld hap, pen to them. There is just this difference between Colorado farmers and the rest of mankind, that the rest are never happy when a Jfoot of snow covers their newly-sown seed. Coal in large quantities has been dis, covered in Texas. Clothed With Deformity. Ab to the inen'o clothing at the presflgBi that is a thing tb laugh at more han to be annoyed at. A tain woman 8 a foolish sight, bnt a rain man 18 fl imehtalilc exhibition. To see awoman lestroy the natural lines Of her beauty ay poising on a pyramid of heels is bfla snoughj bnt to behold a thing which va? originally intended for a man struggling with his fihoeraakBr for apreserva;ion of his centre of gravity 18 flfa obt1 rage to make oven the Stoics smile. It b a ridiculous fact that beings called men are now-a-days so infatuated by folly, so intent upon improving, after their own fashion or that of their shoeuaker, ttpon natttre, that, in addition to high heels. they have a steel spring inserted in their boots for the creation of ii high instep. Compare such boots with the sandals worn by the inhabitants i>f China and Japan and other countries, in advance of which, according to our march of civilization, Wo consider our selves very much to be, and say, Judging according to the laws of common Bense, who is the greater barbarian. In the main, however, male clothing of* fends againBt taste rather than injures UmUl. rW nhimnov-nnt lint is the uuaivui v?* ? ugliest, and for that reason the most amusing, as well as the most enduring item in the habiliments of all ages. Mnny Chinese puzzles have pfoted inexplicable to our understandings, but suppose otir chimney-pot hat were to be discovered some iiue morning in the far-off prairies?what would Capt. Jock and his Indiana make of it ? Would it be a cooking utensil, or an instrnment of torture ? Surely the very last purpose to which ho would apply it would be to place it ou his pate ? On Marringc?To Young Men. The true girl has to be sought for. She docs not parade herself, as showgoods. She is not fashionable. Generally, she is not rich. But O ! what a heart she has when you find her! so large, aud pure, aud womanly ! When you seo it, you wonder if those slio^tilings outside wero really women. If you gain her love, your two thousand arc a million. She'll not ask you for a carriago, or a first-class house. She'll wear simple dresses, and turu them when necessary, with no vulgar magnificat to frown upon her economy. She'll keep everything neat and nice in your sky-parlor, and givo you such a welcome when you come home that you'll think your parlor higher than ever. She'll entertain true friends on a dollar, aud astonish you with the new thought, how very little happiness depends 011 money! She 11 make you love home (ii you don't you're a brute), and teach yon how to pity, while you scorn, a pool fashionable society that thinks itsell rich, and vainly tries to think itsell ""I'W , Now do not, I pray you, say anymore, " I can't afford to marry." Go, find the true woman, and you can ! Throw awaj that cigar, burn up that switch cane, b( sensible yourself, and seek your wife ii a sensible way. A Beautiful Experiment on Sound. The following beautiful experiment described by Professor Tyndall, showi how music may be transmitted by ai ordinary wooden rod. In a room twe floors benenth his lecture room then was a piano upon which an artist wai playing, but the audience could nol hear it. A rod of deal, with its lowoi end resting upon the sounding-board ol the piano, extended upward througl the two floors, its upper end being ex posed before the lecture-table. But stil no sound was heard. A violin was ther placed upon the end of the rod, whicl was thrown into resonance by the as cending thrills, and instantly the musi< of the piano was given out in the lec ture room. A guitar and a harp wen substituted for the violin, and with the same result. The vibrations of the piano-strings were communicated to the sounding-board, they traversed the long rod, were reproduced by the resonanl bodies above, the air was carved int< waves, and the whole musical composi tion was delivered to the listening audience. M. Tissandier states that in a lat< balloon ascent from Paris he reached t height of 0,500 feet abdVe the earth where, having passed through layers o clouds, ho found a bright sunlit skj - 1 - * i r.'i f* anu n lenifjtrrutuic ui uum w u^g. >.> 65 (leg. Fall. Wlien descending anc re-entering the clouds, which were ii a highly electric state, the tempera ture decreased to 27 deg., and tho t>al loon was snrronnded by small crystal: of ice. PAIN! PAIN!! PAIN!! WHERE IS TIIY RELIEVER? Readers, you win And it in that favorite Horn Remedy, PERIi Y DA VIS' PAIX-KILI.ER. It has been tested in every variety of climate, am by almost every nation known to Americans. It i the almost constant companion and inestim.ibl Mend of the missionary and traveler, on sea am land, and no one should travel on our takes or river without it. Its Merits are Crsi?bpa?k?d. If you are suffering from INTERNAL PAIN Twenty to Thirty Drops ill a Little Water will al most instantly cure yon. There is nothing eijual t it. In a few moments it cured Colic, Cramps, S/ktsms, Heart-burn, Diarrhaa Dysentery, Flux, H'inri in the Hovels, Sour Stomach, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache. Cures CHOLERA, when all other Remedies Fail. It gives Instant Relief from Ae/iin.7 Teeth. In sections of the country where Pevih aki Ac.uk prevails, there is no remedy held in grcate csteem. Foil Fr.vi.n Aim Acit'e.?Take three tablespoon ful* rf the I'ain-Killcr in nliotit half a pint of ho water, well sweetened w ith molasses as the attac! is coining on. Ilathing freely the chest hack am bowels with the I'ain-Killcr ut the same time. Re peat the dose in twenty minutes if the first doe not hlor, the chill. Should it produce vomiting (am it probably will if tlio stomach ii very rouil. tunc little Pmn-Killrr in cold water sweetened wit suirar after each spasm. Perieverance in the abov treatment has cured many severe ami obstinut easel of this diseusc. Git FAT "ClIOI.EItA" RFSIEDY PAIN-KILLER. It is an Externa nnd Internal Itemrdy. For fltiir mer Complaint or any other form of bowel diseas in children oradnltB.it is an almost certain cart and has without doubt, been more successful i curing the Viiiious kinds of CllllLEItA than an other known remedy, or the most skillful physiciat In India. Afiica and China, where this dreadful dii ease is more or less prevalent, the Ptiin-Killrr i considered by the natives as well as by F.uropea residents in those climates. A hUKK REMEDY and whili it is a most edit lent remedy for pain. I is a perfectly safe medleineiu the most unskiUfi hands. It has become a household remedy, f.om th fact that Jt (fives immediate and permanent relie [ It is a purely vegetable preparation, made from th best and purest materials, safe to keep and use i every family. It is recommended by physicians all persons of all classes, and to-day. after a public trti of thirty years?the average life of man?it stand unrivalled and unexcelled, spreading its usefulnos over the wide world. Directions accompany each Bottle. Price 25 cts., 50 cts., and $1 per Bottle. PERRY DAVIS <t SON, Proprietors, Providence, S. I. J. V. HARRIS * CO., Cincinnati, 0 , Proprietor! for the Wr?tern and South Wester States. For sale by all Medicine Dealers. for hale wholesale b7 JOHN F. HENRY, New York. OEO. C. GOODWIN d CO., Boston. JOHN SON, HOLOWA1 A CO., Philadelphia. Ore Cold after Axother, will, with mar.y cor stituttuus securely establish the seeds of Cor sumption in the system. Those in used of a remed will And Dr. J.iyne's Expectoraut always promp thorough and efficacious. Best end Oldest Family Medicine.?."Jar t/rd'e Liver Invigorator-a purely Vegetable Cat hut .if and Tonie-tnr Dyspepsia, Constipation,Deblllt] Sick Headache, Bilious Attacks, aud all derangi ments of Liver, Stomach and Bowels. Ask you Druggist for it Beware of imitation*. AGENTS WANTED. Quick Sales, Large Proflti Family Want Supplied Not a Book.For elrcula ddreu Clark Vuh.Co.tAK it, N. *, Waih'?%?.< A Motley Preacher, < A Virginia paper reports that during the exhibition of J a traveling menagerie and circus in a town of that State, where there was, at the time, some religions convocation in session, the painted jester of the equestrian ring illustra- < ted his own serious capacity and greatly j affected an audience, in which many J church-members were present, by delivering the following homily: i j Mt Friends: We have taken in six j I hundred dollars here to-day; more mon- J ey, I venture to say, than any minister , | of the gospel in tins community wonld receive for a whole year's services. A large portion of this money was given by church members, and a large portion of this andience is made up of members ' of the church. And yet, when your preacher asks you to aid in supporting the gospel, you are too poor to give anything. Yet you come here and pay dollars to hear me talk nonsense. I am a fool because I am paid for it: I make my living by it. You profess to be wise, and yet you support me in mv folly. But perhaps you say you did not come to see the circus, but animals. If yeu come simply to see the animals, why did yen not simply look at them and leave ? Now", is this not a pretty place for Christians to be in ? Do you not feel ashamed of yourselves ? You out to blush in such a place as this. The sensation following a speech like this, in snch a place, from such a speak* or mnv ho imnarined. The local clergy availed themselves of the spirit thus produced and a religious revival was attempted. Gov. Smith, of Georgia, has addressed a letter to the farmers of the West, if which he says that the four States on Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina uso every year 50,000,000 bushels more of gram thnn they produce. They must look to the Western farmers io supply this deficiency ; any attempt to raise corn for themselves would be at the expense of their cotton crops, and would causO them a loss of at least $50,000,000 a year. The State constables ia Boston are warning all retail liquor dealers to comply with tho terms of the new law. Flaoo's Instant Relief has stood twenty years' test. Is warranted to give immcilin/e relief to all Rheumatic, Neuralgic, Head Ear. and hack aches, or money refunded.?Corn Dr. D. Elmore, of 85 Warren st., JerKoy City. N. J., has a certain euro for Cancer. Ho uses a vegetable extract that takes out the Cancer, roots and branches,when tho sore rapidly heals, and never ulcerates. In its early stage charges i nothing for treatment and modicum until cured. ?Com. [ There is no excuse for poor Biscuits, ' Rolls. Bread, Griddle Cakes, Muffins, Waffies, f Ac., when Dooloy's Yeast Powder is used, f Grocers sell it.?Com. Chapped Hands, face, rough skin, [ pimples, ring-worm, salt-rheum, and other ' cutaneous affections cured, and the skin made r soft and smooth, by using the Juniper Tab 5 Soar, made by Caswell, Hazard A Co., New t York. Be cortain to get the Juniper Tar Soap. mad?by us, as there are many imitations made with common tar which are worthless.?Com. The nil-gone feeling which people sometimes speak of, is caused by want of , proper action of the liver and heart. These 5 may be assisted, and the bowels regulated, by , Parson's Purgative Pills in small doses.?Com. | Corn and flour are stnple Articles : ; but net more so than Johnson's Anodyne Lini' merit, where known. It is good for children or t adults, for any internal soreness of the chest or r bowels, and the best Pain Killer prepared, ^ under whatever name.? Com. i Crist adoro's Excelsior Hair Dve . stands unrivaled and alone. Its merits have [ been so universally acknowledged that it would be a supererogation to descant on them any | further?nothing can beat it.?Com. Valuable and Reliable.?"Brown's 5 Bronchial Troches " are invaluable to those ex" posed to sudden changes, affording prompt re} lief in Coughs, Colds, etc.?Com. I Manifest Absurdities. , Is there any good reason why the dictates of k common seuse should be disregarded in medical ) practice? Surely not. Yet how literally they are - sometimes set at naught in the treatment of dys\ pepsia, liver complaint, conetlpation, nervoui prostration and general debility. How often are , powerful purgatives, emetics, and ealivauts given j til cases of Indigestion, bilious colic and costtvct ness, when the disease has already robbed the f patient of strength ho needs to combat with the f attack. The absurdity of giving debilitating mediae ctnes to sick people who aro tso weak already, is ^ so manifest, that it is astonishing how any sane man can believe in such practice. The rational . course under such circumstances Is to admlsttr 3 a tonic and regulating medictne, and the expert etice of a quarter of a century has proved that . Uostctter's 8tnmach Bitters is the most wholesome and efficient preparation of this class to be found ' In the medical repository. It Is, however, something more than an invigorant and a regulator, c Its properties as an aperient and anti bilious agent; inutility when given as an anodyne, Instead of laudanum, or chloral, or digitalis, or some >1 other stupefying nacrotlc; its trauqutlizlng ten,1 dcncy in spasmodic afTection, and its palutability, i as contrasted with tho sickening pills and potions 3 of the pharmacopu'la, certainly entitle Hostotter's Hitlers to be called the most comprehensive remedy in existence. The Markets. HEW YORK. Beef Cutlie?I'rimcto Kxtra Bullocks$ .12,Va .13 first quality 12 a .12)4 Second quality 11 a .11>4 B Ordinary tlim Cattle 1"X? .11.'a r Inferior or lowest grade .03 a .10). Milch Cows 03.00 ahO.ilO i- Uogs?IJve no'.a .0<H| t Dressed "7)41 .iW'? j{ Sheep 00 a .06), ? Cotton?Middling lfl'.a .20 Flour?Kxtra Western 6.95 a 7.35 ,, State Kxtra 7.10 a 7.40 i, Wheat?Ucd Western 1.32 a 1.32 li I State 1.65 a 1.70 u No. 2 Spring 1.04 a 1.67 o Rye 37 a .98 Barley-Malt 1.10 a 1.20 Oats?Mixed Western .SI a .S3 Corn?Mixed Western 07 a fidfe Hay 1.1S a 1.80 I- Straw .55 a 1.10 e llopa "72a, .35 a .45?"71s, .10 a .15 ' Pork?Mesa 14.17 al7.75 '! l-ird hO'.a ,09fi f Petroleum? Crude 0'gap% R> lined 20 llutter?Stale 3H a ? Ohio Fancy 28 a .31 li " Yellow 15 a .20 Western Ordinary 15 a .22 t Pi.tittuvivaliift line ^4 , '! Cheeao? Stat*- Factory 1%' .1? j' " Skimmed 09 a .1l?x o Ohio 14 a .15 ii Egga?State IS a .IS d BU7TALC. Beef Cattle, a 5.12.54a 6.08 8 Sheep 9.90 a 6.00 Hoga?Live 6.25 a 6.90 Flour 7.90 aio.oo Wheat?No. 2 Spring 1.45 a 1.53 Corn 62 a .63 Oata 44 a .48 Rye 85 a .86 Barley 84 a 1.00 Lord 08 a. 08 n ALBAKT. Wheat 1.90 *2.25 Rye?State 93 a .95 Oorn-W?*t -MX Barley -Slate 84 a 1.10 Oata?State 66 a .66 PHILADELPHIA. i- F onr-Penn. Extra 8.60 a 9.50 i- Wheat?Weatcrn Red 1.90 a 1.95 y Corn?Yellow 64 a .98 h Mixed 6314a .64 _ Petroleum?Crude HJt ReflnedlO.# Beef Cattle 06 a .07 i*. Clover Seed 8.00 a 9.00 r, Timothy 4.25 a 4.87* '* BALTIMO&X, Cotton?Low Middling! 17J4a .18 - Flour? Extra 6.50 a 7.80 I. Wheat 1.65 a 2.10 r Corn?Fellow 64 a .66 1. Oata tf a M ' \ W CHICAGO, ^ MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY. (Milwaukee 4 St Paul Railway Co.) Iil?ndlii|froin Cblcqro ta Milwaukee, L* rouse, Winona, Hastings, St. Paul *d IlinncapolU. Alio to Madison. Prairie da "hien, An.tin, Owatonna, Charles City, Mason City and Algona ? also to Janesyllle, Monroe, Klpon, Berlin and Oshkosh. Embracing more Business Centres and Pleasire Reaorta than any Northwestern line. CHICAGO DEPOT?Corner Canal and Madison street*, (with Pittsburg. Port Wayne A Pennsylvania.and Chicago, Alton A St. Louie B'ye.) MILWAUKEE DEPOT-Corner Reed and Mouth Water streets. Connecting in St. Psul with all Railways ditergleg thence. Kiw Toar Ornci-819 Broadway. Boitob Orrics? 1 Court street. OisxnaL Orricse?Milwaukee, Wis. 8. 8. MERRILL, Oen. Manager. J NO. C. GAULT, Ass't Oen. Manager. A. V. H. CARPEKT1R. 0. P. and T. Agent. H I ? U?nu **i 3 Beautiful Chromoi mailed free for I# eta. Agents wanted. BOLB8 A CO.. Bedford, Mass. g*o^s^| * AOEJTT8 WANTED. Bend for Catalogue. DOMESTIC SEWING MAC HIS E Co.,N.T. MOTHERS! Ilon't fall to procure MBS. WINELOW' SOOTHING SYBUP TOH CHILDREN TEBTB ING. Thla valuable preparation haa baas naed with NKVER-FAILING SUCCESS IN THOUSANDS Of CASES. It not only relieves the child from pais, hat vigorates the atomach|and bo we la, correct add lty and gives tonu and energy to the whole syateaa. It will alao luatantly relieve Griping of the Bowels and Wind Colic. |H We believe it the BEST and 8UREBT REMEDY IN I THK WORLD In all caaea of DYSENTERY AND niARBHCNA IN CHILDREN, whether arlalngfroaa tothtng or any other cauae. H Dopend upon It, motheri, It will give reat to fl ynuscivca and H jy. Relief and Health to Tour Infanta. V Do tare and call for M " MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING STROP." Having the fac-elmlle of " CURTIS A PEKKIN'S ^ ou the oulalde wrapper. Sold by Druggists throaghont the World. ?Frrparfd hy a Regular Phyticlan.? i I S y Cv f eurraD}?|opala,UT?r^a . a .e I/ Complaint, Po?*ran<l Ajiie, \ \ IT ^ /? /andall l>l?eawsof IhoKMoeja. \ 7/> \ ? j # /it purlAra the Blnrt, eijualiiea lb* \ a 1 U v J I /circulation, tonea tbe Stomach, pro-1 I I V 2 1 ^ Itleei end imparu rn-w life End Tiger I Q I K 5 1 fft \ to Iheenlirr !jiiotn. Ladlw In par- / fj. I * 2 \? \Unolar*UHndluo??a?l?aal uae/ ^ a ?A /fl \ hlfhly bmrflclal. I'rampt, / .T / J > v\ speedy,reliable sod Mfe,!!/ JMj / 1 I p ^ ?tidvr?c~d byPhyticiaut and l>r\ifjqi*U. OTIC I "VT7CC Enterprising young an* J U IJlii X!ii^ioa middle-aged men and wo.mn ambltloua tomake a successful itart In busl a?, are offered superior facilities tar preparing liemselves at the RPENCEBIAN BUSINESS COLtCOK. Milwaukee. Wis. I O.VKV Made rapidly with Stencil * Key Cheek '1 Outfits. Catalogue!, samples and fullIpartteurn five, a. M. 8pen?er, 117 Hanover 8t., Boston. ilfl T(1 <R9fl )1U 1U tDZlU A.H.BlalrACo., St. Louis,Mo I2jOba.OOO_ ACRES! Cheap Farms ! M Cut C ii r. a p 1st Lajtb i* Market, for sale by the JNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO., I 111 the GREAT PLATTK VALLKT. I J,000,000 Acre* In Central Kebraskn VI Vow for sale In tracts of forty acres and upwards ui five and ten years' credit at ( per cent. Ho idvance Interest required. j^V Mild and Healthful Climate, Fertile Bell, an ibundance of Oood Water. THE BEST MARKET IN THE WE8T t The great WM Mining Begtons of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Nevada, being supplied by the farmer! in the i'LdtTTS Vl' "V tM. 1)1 KHS ENTITLED TO A HOME* I STEAD OF 160 At TIES. THE BE8T LOCATIONS FOB COLONIES I FREE HOMES FOB ALL Millions of acres of H choice Government Lauds open for entry nader the Homestead Law, near this Great Railroad, with good markets and all the conveniences of an Old settled country. Free pssses to purchasers of Railroad Land. Sections! Maps, showing the Land, also new emtlon of Descriptlre Pamphlet with new Maps Dialled free everywhere. Address, O. F. DAVIS, Land Commissioner U. P. R. R., Omaha, Seb^ lifflDlf IMQPI ACQ MALK or FEMALE, tWa WvUillMnu wLAOOsweekcri.-.rsntoed. Kcs[>scts. tie cmnloymenWat home, day or evening; do capital requirid; fun Instruction, and valuable package of goods sent jo by mail. Address, with six cent return stamp, M. YOUNO A GO., Id Oortiandt-at., New York. Vif7k> nil EACH WEEK-AGENTS WANTED j) I At'''' Business legitimate. Particular raw. J. WORTH.Bt. Louis. Mo. Boa 1 V4H HOW 'TIS DONE, or the Secret Ont. Mustache and Whiskers in 44 days. This (IREAT SECRET and 100 others. Oamblsrs' Tricks, Cardiology. Ventriloquism,'all In the ORIGINAL " llnok nf Wniulrrs." Matted forgets. Address D. C. CUTLER, Carthage, Illinois. fn P?r dey I Agents wanted I All classes OJ IU <PCU of working people of either sex, young or old, make more money at work for us In their spare moments or all the time than at anything alee. Particulars free. Address 0. BT1NBON A CO., Port land. Me. MMM Thea-Nectar Black. TEA r x-?Tt ribVAatV^j With the Green Tea Flavor. W fjwc"iHiziKAJi* The beat Tea Imported. For j sale every* here. And for sal# w wholesale only by the GREAT Or M?\ml ATLANTIC A PACIFIC TEA CO 9 No. I'd Pulton Bt. A i A i Church ^ St., NewYnrk. P. 0. Bo*, 6,MB ^ Bend for Tboa-Nectar Circular Dr Whittier 298 btexet AJT. W Oixmer, plttiburff, Pa. I Longest engaged and moat successful physician I of the age. Comultation* or pamphlat free. CU 1 or write. TTflTTfl Great Offer! picture*! Frame*! Hew nil V\ Htm pie *"<1 M Page Catalogue 6 ct*. J U U 1 U J at GOULD. 20 Bromfleld St.. Bo?ton, Ma I Write for a Trice I.iat to J. II. JOllNSTON) Breech.Loading Shot Can*. $40 to $.100. Double Shot fiona, J3to#l.V). Single (inn*. #3 to gS). Rifle*, Mtot7i. .. RewilTere. g* to |0&. Pi*tol?, gl to (A. Oon Material. Pithing Tackle, he. Larf ilMraw'i in draUrt or ehtot. Army Onna. Revolver*, eto., bought or traded for. Good# , aeot by eipreea C.O.D. to be examined before paid far. Dr. Whittier, W8pS!??p?" Longeat engaged and mo*t *iicce**ful ^>by?let*B of the age. Comultation or pamphlet free. Call or write. Qi A P" Week IK CASH to good Agent* > Addre** A. Coult?? A Co..Charlotte JHch. a (\m PORTABLES Jeo?Soda Fountains, MO, >50, trs and >100. GOOD, DURABLE, AND GREAT flMf 8HIPPXD BBADY FOB UBB. e Hal Manufactured by Jwju J. w. CHAPMAN & CO, MpE-rgj MBdlfOB, Ind. m ?Bsnd for Circular.? m t] (|j)|| reward * J) I llllll For soy cu? of Blind-Bleedlnr, Itch VlallUU Ina, or Hlc?rit?4 Plica that Br RING'S PILB RBMBDY (kill to care. It te pre pared eapreaely to curl tha PUeS and nothing elae BOLD BY ALL DBPOOIBTB. l'BICB ? Howard Aaaoclatioa, Philadelphia, Pa. J An Inatttutlon herlng a high reputation tor honor- i able conduct and afotoeitonal skill. Acting Buryaoa, J. 8. HOUGHTON, A D. Bseaya tor Young . 1 If or. .eat free Of charm. Addreii, HOWARD AI BO- I CIATION, No ? Boath Ninth St., Philadelphia, Pa. I ?J