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AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. A PREVENTIVE FOR PLANT MILDEW. A preventive of mildew upon plauts: Take three pounds each of flowers of sulphur and quicklime. Slake the lime and boil with the sulphur in six gallons of water until reduced to two gallons. Allow this to settle, thcu pour oil the clear liquid aud bottle it for use. An old iron pot will auswer to boil it in. Mix a gill of this liquid with five gallons of water, and shower upon the plants as soon ns the mildew appears.?Boston Cultivator. A QUESTION ABOUT OAT HARVESTING. One of the questions for farmers to begin to consider is whether oats to be fed on the farm should not be cut while the graiu is yet in the milk, and cured, straw and all, for feeding without threshing? Of course the portion of the crop that is to be used for seed or sold in the market must ripen and be threshed; but, as an Eastern paper puts it, "It is difficult to see any advantage in all the labor of threshing out oats to put in a bin and the straw in a stack, only to put them together again in the manger." But we do not advise raising oats for i hay in any country natural to the hay crop, and for the reason that, whero so, the hay is cheapest.?Prairie Farmer. CURING THE RUNNING AWAY IIABIT. A habit of running away is fatal to the usefulness of a horse. It is the fault of training, for in the training escape from control should never be permitted. The vice may be cured in thi3 way: Fasten two strong rings in the top of the bridle, one on each side; put a strong round cord through these rings so that it can bo drawn on as the driving lines are. As soon as the horse starts he is checked by pulling on the cord, which presses on the windpipe and shuts off the breathing. If he persists in running he will soon drop, but this is seldom done; some shaking of the head and the runaway will stop. After standing a few minutes lie may be pulled up a few times until ho learns that the driver has control of him.?American llorsc Breeder. mcsiirooms. From a little experience wo have recently had with mushrooms, we arc satisfied they may bo often grown with profit j by farmers for near markets. They j bring a high prico at certain seasons of; the year, but when farmers gather those ! for sale which grow naturally in the! fields the price is usually lowest. To ; get the best prices, they should bo grown > in hotbeds, as gardeners do, planting the spawn or thread-like seeds in beds properly prepared and well fertilized. It is the heat quite as much as the man- . ure that makes the spawn productive. | Perhaps wherever there is a good market for mushrooms a hotbed ceunot be devoted to more profitable use than this, j The market may be cultivated by gather- | ing and selling the mushrooms that at this season may often be gathered in j! fields. There are many varieties of |' mushrooms, and a thorough knowledge j of thij subject turns itself into money ! more surely than knowledge of anything j else will. The mushroom is in Europe j considered a substitute for meat. A ! pound of it can more cheaply be grown than a pound of meat, and it always ; brings a higher price, as it deserves to ! from its finer quality.?Boston Cultivator. ! THE CAtTSE OP POOR RADISH SEED. j It is stated, upon what seems good au- ! thority, as well as good sense, that the I poor quality of radish seed that comes to : our market is the result of saving the seed from stocks that have not been transplanted. This story, however plausible ' it may appear, is in no respect true. The | true state of the cose is, all the radish | seeds which come to our country arc [ grown from transplanted roots. The I growers would not produce them in any I j other way; the seeds arc sown in seedbeds, quite closely, and, when fit for the - * ? 1_J._ table, tneyare transpianteu into me iiuiu. . They are liret grown in seed-beds for economic reasons, as a given amount of seed-bed will furnish roots that will plant at least fifty times as much ground as the seed-bed contains. This enables the growers to economize time and lubor. Much of the seed growu in France is | raised by small farmers, who do all their : farm-work by hand; so while the plants | are growing in the seed-bed, the farmer is spading the soil for the crop. Poor . radish seed, like poor other seeds, comes 1 from poor selection. A worthless plant | will always yield double the amount of seed that a valuable one does.?American Agriculturist. THE MOON#S INFLUENCE ON VEGETATION, j The reflected light of the rnooa has no | appreciable influence upon cither vegeta- j ble or animal life on this planet, and if there is any electrical or other influence j it has not as yet been discovered. The i idea, however, that the moop has some . peculiar influence on vegetation and ani- j mals is a very old one, and while there never was nuy foundation for it except i the vagaries of a disordered brain, still, | as the belief is perfectly harmless, it is ! useless to disturb the quiet of your ig-1 norant neighbors who take so much j pleasure in planting their cucumbers and beans during certain phases ot the moou. The noor old moou has long been accused of being the cause of mauy a catestropho of which she was only a silent spectator. What are called the sigus of the zodiac originated from the supposed influence of certain planets within the imaginary > band or zodiac extending around the celestial sphere, having as its mesial lino the ecliptic or appareut path of the sun. The original planets know to the ancients within this band were Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter nnd Saturn, but later , other piauets were discovered, and this i destroyed some of the old ideas of the planetary system, as well as the influence of these celestial worlds upon our own. No intelligent or learned agriculturist of the present day pays any atteutiou to the i signs of the zodiac when cither planting ' or harvesting his crops, or in wcaniug his calves and pigs.?Neio York Sun. FOOD FOIt CniCKS. Millions of little chickens are now | toddling about in front of the coops of j our land. What will become of tlicin? ! Most of them will die at about the age of five days for lack of right feeding. Let us try, this summer, to save some of these unconsenting martyrs to the ig- ; norance or laziness of their owners. ' Granted safe coops, cleanliness, and motherly hens^ nourishing food, proper- j ly fed, will do the rest. Usually the question is how to use Indian corn advantageously, because, at present, this food is the great American reliance. Corn meal ought to be well cooked before a grain of it is fed to young poultry. Itaw corn, even if scalded, irritates young intestines, and it should be palatably cooked so that it will be eagerly eaten. The idea should bo, not to manage with as little food as possible, but on the contrary to urge the chickens to cut all that they can profitably digest. Clean feeding trays are as important iu this point of view ns they are in the matter of health. Chickens hate dirt and dirtydishes. The mold on an old iccding board is a plant which will grow rapidly In their "little insides." To make a good "standby" pudding for chickenfeed, take one-half yellow corn meal, one-half middlings or bran, aud a little salt. Mix soft with skim-milk and bake slowly. If the milk is sour, put in some soda. Ouc can substitute for the milk a broth made of the table scraps. This pudding cau bo used ns a steady diet, varied by an occasional day of oatmeal. If there is not enough moat in the table scraps, add more. Give your chickens milk to dnnk always if you can; givo water also or they will suffer from thirst; aud beware of the tyrotoxicon which kills many babies aud chickens. Sour milk soon turns to spoiled milk. Don't delude yourself by trusting that your chicks will do exactly as welt when you miss a feeding timo or two, provided you leave extra food which will keep 6weet, but they will not prosper as when fed at the regular hours. Litttle chicks ofton starve to death rather than eat stale, dusty food. Look out for the scrawny fledglings; every one will look out for the downy new ones.? American Agriculturist. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Keep the mower kuives sharp. Use tin pails only in the dairy. Be gentle in handling the bees. Improve the run-out grass land. Boys, don't skip any hills in hoeing. Protect your animals from flies and tho hot sun. . Bag the grapes. Thin the fruit. Watch the insects. Never let a strange peddler or agent have your autograph. Science is tho handmaid of progression the farm and in the shop. Tomatoes yield on an average from eSfdit to ten tons to the acre. ?o~~ Average commercial flint corn contains about eleven per cent, wntcr. Ilalf of the commercial sugar of the world is produced from beets. Do not sell fruit when the market is glutted. Evaporate it, dry it or can it. Do not depeud on borrowing the ordinary farm tools from your neighbors. Own them and keep them in good condition. Soapsuds should be added to the manure heap. Never waste such. Later in the season suds may be applied to as>paragus and celery with advantage. Hooks about the stable, upon which to hang the lantern, are an excellent thing. The lantern set down is frequently knocked over, and the straw <rt hay set on tire. When an'raals arc confined, it is the duty of the owner to sec that they have a variety of food and enough of it, as well as a full supply of clean water acd fresh air. The average dairyman will never bo contented until he has an easy chair for a milking stool and can lie back and rnko a snnnze while soniebodv else does the milking. An enterprising onu thoughtful farmer will push his work rather than ullow it to push him. Nobody has as much time fcr rest and recreation as the man who is always ahead with his work. Kickers among coirs and calves arc usually brod, not born, Handle them gently and kindly and kickera will be rare. Teasing by heedless boys and hired men, originates most of the farm kickers. When hens arc shedding feathers they often stop laying nnd grow fat. Most people consider fat a sign of health. It is not a sure one. Many of the worst cases of roup are oontractcd whilo the hens are moulting. The editor of the Maine Farmer, says, that in sixteen years' experience of farming he has learned that when his land is poor or in a poor condition he is dependent largely on the season for a crop; but if the land is rich and woll-handlod he Is reasonably sure of a crop anyhow. Those who grow lettuce thickly in beds or rows and eat It thus grown, really know little of the deliciousness of this article of food. Transplanted into rich ground, when of sufficient size, and "fAn-n in+rv larnrn li/>?1<1ft lh 1ft Ivfi.Pl' 6'""" *"v" ""6 " in quality, and much more ot it will be eaten. If the pigs can be pastured in the orchard from the time the first imperfect apples begin to drop from the trees, they will do much toward ridding you of the codliug moth. If the orchard is, as it should be, in'agood growth of grass and clover, tho pigs will be benefited as much as the orchard. Don't crowd your fowls in the hen houses. Give them breathing room, space to move about in, and ample roosting accommodations. Hens will not lay well if you crowd them up in close quarters. They must have air, and their bodies not come in contact by night or by day, so far as possible to prevent. General farm products are depressed, but the best never arc. There is always short supply of the best, and at a remunerative prices. Take horses, cattle, sheep, butter, cheese, fruit?no one today has these of the best, who canuot find a ready market for them at large prices. The way is open for every far netto nroduce them. " IT Hood Drinks for Hot Weather. "Lemonade and buttermilk arc as good as anythiug drinkable that you can find for hot weather," said u physician. "They both are great things to quench thirst. They both act as a pleasant tonic to the stomach, and they have a stimulating quality, but they should not be drank ice cold?that is, bits of ice should not be iu the goblet. Let them be as cold as the ice chest or refrigerator can make them, but not more than that. Wheu you pour down your throat a pint or so of fluid that is fresh from the ice, temporary paralysis of the stomach follows. If a man happens to be very hot such a thing not infrequently is as fatal as a stroke of lightning.?Cincin/uiSi Times-,Star. 1. TA LMAGE'S SBRIQN. What He Has to say About the Open Gates of Heaven. Dreams of Matchless Splendor Which Came In Barren Spots. Text: "And, behold, a door was opened in heaveri."?Rev. iv., 1. John bad been the pastor of a church fn Ephcsus. He had been driven from his position in that city by an indignant populace. The preacliing of a pure and earnest gospel had made an excitement dangerous to every form of iniquity. This will often be the result of pointed preaching. Men will flinch uuder the sword strokes of truth. You ought not to bo surprised that tho blind man raake6 an outcry of pain when tho surgeon removes tho cataract from his eye. It is a good sign when you see men uneasy in the church pew; and exhibiting impatience at some plain utterance of truth which smites a pet sin that they aro hugging to their hearts. After the patient has been 90 low that for weeks ho said nothing and noticed nothing, it is thought to be a good sign when he begins to be a little cross. And so I notice that spiritual invalids are ip a fair way for recovery whan thoxr hwnmn onmflwhnf: Ira^ihlft nnd choleric under the treatment of the truth. But John had so mightily inculpated public iniquity that ho had been banished from his church and sent to Potmas, a desolate island, only a mile in breadth, agaiist whoso rocky coasts the sea rose and mingled its voice with the prayers and hvmnings of the heroic exile. You cannot but contrast the condition of this banished apostle with that of anothor famous exile. Look at the apostle on Pat* mos and the great Frenchman on St. Helena. Both were suffering among desolation and barrenness because of offenses committed. Both bud passed through lives eventful and thrilling. Both had been honored and despised. Both were imperial natures. Both nad bron turned off to die. Yet mark the infinite difference?one bad fought for tho perishable crown of worldly authority, the other for one eternally lustrous. The one bad marked his path with the bleached skulls of his followers, tho other had introduced peace and good will among men. The one nad lived chiefly for solf-aggramlisement and the other for tho glory of Christ. Tho successes of the one were achieved umid tho breaking of thousands of hearts and tho acute, heaveu-reuding cry of orphanage and widowhood, while the triumphs of tho other mado joy in heaven among tho angels of God. The hoart of one exile was filled with remorse and despair, while the o".her was lighted up wit i thanksgiving and im *? tiuguishablo hope. Over Sj. Holoia gatu> ered the blackness and darkness, clouds,1 lighted up by no sunrising, but rent ami fringed and heaving with tho lightnings of a wrathful God, and the spray flung over the rocks seemed to hiss with the condemnation, "The way of the ungodly shall perish." But over Patinos tho heavens were opened, and the stormy sea bsnoath was forgotten in the roll and gleam of waters from under tho throne like crystal; and the barrenness of tho ground under tbo apostle was forgotten as above him he saw the trees o 1 life all bending under the rich glow of heavenly* fruitage, while tho hoarse blast of contending elements around his suffering body was drowned in tho trumpeting of trumpets ami tViohnrninf of hams, the victorious crv ot multitudes like the voico of many waters and the hosanna of hosts in numhei like tho stars. What a dull spot upon which to s^and and have such a glorious vision! Had Patmos been some tropical islaud. arbored with tho luxuriance of perpetual summer, and drowsy with breath of cinnamon and cassia, and tosselated with Jong aisles of geranium and caotus, we would not have been surprised at the splendor of the vision. But tho hist place you would go to if vou wanted to fiad beautiful visions would be tho island of Patmos. Yet it if around such gloomy spots .hat God makes t ao most wonderful revelation. It was looking through tho awful shadows of a prison that John Bunyan saw the gr.teof tho celestial city. God there divided :ho light from tho darkness. In that gloomy abode, on scraps of old paper picked up about his room, the great dream was written. It was while John Calvin was i. refugee from bloody persecution, and was hid in a house at Angouleme, that lie conceived the idea of writing liis immortal "Institutes." Jacob had many a time soon the sun breaking through the mists, and kindling thein into shafts and pillars of flcry splendor that might well have been a ladder for the angels to tread on, but the famous ladder which he saw soared through a gloomy night over tho wilderness. Tho night of trial and desolation is the scene of tho grandest heavenly revelations. From tho barren, surf beaten rock of Patmos John looked up and saw that a door was opened in heaven. Again, tho announcement of such an opened entrance suggests the truth that God is looking down upon the earth and observant of all occurrences. If wo would gain n wide prospect we climb up into a tower or mountain. The higher up wo are the broader the landscape wo behold. Yet our most comprehensive view is limited to onlv a few leagues?hore a river aud there a lake aud yonder a mountain peak. But what must must be tho glory of the earth in the eye of Him who from tne door of heaven beholds at one glance all mountains and lakes and prairies and oceans, lauds bespanglod w th tropical gorgeousness and Arctic regions white with everlasting snows, Lebanon majestic with cedars and American wilds solemn with unbroken forests of pine, African deserts of glistening sand and wildernesses of water unbroken by ship's keel, continents covered with harvests of wheat and rice and maize, the glory of every zone, the whole world of mountains and seas and forests and islands taken in in a single glance of their great Creator. As we take our stand upon some high point single objects dwindle into such insignificence that wo cease to see them in the minutiae, and wo behold only the graud points of the jcenery. But not so with God. Although standing far up in tho very tower of heaven, nothing by reason of its smallness escapes His vision. jl.very lily of the field, every violet Under the grass, the tiniest heliotrope, aster and gentian are as plainly seen by Him as the proudest magnolia, and not one vein of color in their leaf deepens or fades without His notice. From this door in heaven Go.l boos ail humau conduct and the world's moral changes. Not one tear of sorrow falls in hospital or workshop or dungeon but He tees it, and in high heaven makes record of Its fall. The world's iniquities in all their ghastliaess glower under His vision. Wits and tumults, and the desolations of fam ne and iarthquake, whirlwind aivl shipwreck spread out before Him. If there were no being in all the universe but God II3 coulu be happy with such an outlook as tae door of heaven. But there He stands, no more disturbed by the fall of a kingdom than the dropping of a leaf, no more exciter by the rising of a throne than the bursting of a bud, the falling of a deluge than the trickling of a raindrop. Earthly royalty clutches nervously its scepter and waits in suspense the will of inflamed subjects, and the crown is tossed from one family to another. But above all earthly vicissitudes and the assault of human passions in unshaken security Stands the King of Kings watching .Ml the affairs of His empire from the introduction of an era to the counting of the hairs of your head. Again, I learn from the fact that a door in heaven is opened that there is a way of entrance for our prayers and of eg,-ess for divine blessiugs. It does not scorn that our weak voice has strength enough to climb up to God's car. Shall not our prayer be lost in tho clouds? Have words wingi;? The truth is plain: Heaven's door is wide open to receive ever)' prayer. Must it not 13 low I? Diitrht it not to rbi" 1111 with Mia st.re urth of stout lungs? Must it not bo a lou 1 call, such as drowning in on utter, or like the shout of some chieftain in the battle? No; \ wh'sper is as good as a shout, and tho mere wish of tho soul in profouu I silence is as <;oo I as & whisper. It rises just as high and accomplishes just as much. But ought not prayer to be inndo of goldon words if it is to enter such a splendid door and live beside seraphim and archangel? Ought not every phrase be rounded into perfection, ought not the language be musical and classic and peotic and rhetorical? No; the most illiterate outcry, tho unjoin petition, the clumsy phrase, theseuteucc breaking into grammatical blunders, an unworded groan is just as effectual if it bo the ut-oranco of the soul's want. A heart nil coverol up with garlands of thoughts would he no utroption to God, but a heart broken and contrite ?that is tho acceptable sacrifice. "J kn >.v that my Redeemer livotb," risiu j up in the mighty harmony of a musiciluai leaiy, may overpower our ear an l heart, but it will not reach the ear of God like the broken voic; 1 hymn of some sufferer amid rags aud deso lation looking up trustfully to a Saviour's compassion, singing amid tears and pangs, "I know that my Redeemer liveth." I suppose that, there was mora rhetoric and classic elegat#)e in the prayers of the Pharisee than of the publican, but you know which was successful. You may kneel with complete elesanco on some ssoft cushion at an altar of alabaster and utter a prayer of Miltonic sublimity, but neither your graceful posture nor the roll of your blank verse will attract heavenly attention, while over some dark cellar in which a Christian pauper is prostrate in the straw angels bend from their thrones and cry one to another: "Behold, he prays P Through this open door of heaven what a long procession of -prayers is continually passing! What thanksgivings! What confessions! Whr.t intercessions! What beseechingj! "And t?ehold a. door was opened in heaven Again, the door of heaven Is opened to allow us the opportunity of looking in. Christ when He came from heaven to Bethany left it open, and no one since has dared 1o shut it. Matthew threw it still wider open when he came to write, and Paul pushed the door further back when he spoke of the glory to bo revealed, and John in Revelation actually points us to the harps, and the waters, and the crowns, and the thmnoo Thftro nra nrofound mvsteries about that blessed place that we cannot solve. But look through this wide open door of heaven and see what you can see. God moans us to look and catch up now something of the rapture and attune our hearts to itn worship. It is wide open enough to see Christ. Behold Him, the Chief among ten thousand, all the bannered pomp of heaven at His feet. With your enkindled faith look up along these ranks of glory. Watch how tbeir palms wave, and near how their voices ring' Floods clapping their hand3, streets gleaming with gold, uncounted multitudes ever accumulating in number and ever rising up into gleulder nosannas. If you cannot stand to look unon that joy for at least ono hour how could you endure to dwell among it forever? You would wish yourself out of it in three days, and choose the earth again or any other place where it was not always Sunday. My hearer in worldly prosperity, affluent, honored, healthy and happy, look in upon that company of the redeemed, and see how the poor soul in heaven !?: better off than vou are, brighter in apparel, richer in estate, higher in power. Hearers, afflicted and tried, look in through that open door, that you may see to what gladness and glory you are coming, to what life, to what royalty. Hearors pleased to fascination with this world, cather tin votir souls for ono nnnro eiative look upon riches than never fly away, upon health that never sickens, upon scepters that never break, upon expectations that are never disappointed. Look in and sea if there are not ouough crowns to pay us for all our tattles, enough re3t to relieve all our fatigues, enough living fountains to quench all our thirst, enough glory to dash out for ever and ever all earth's sighing and restlessness and darkness. Battles onde-J, tears wiped away, thrones plucked from the bosoms, stabs healed, the tomb riven?what a sceuo to look upon! Again, the door of heaven stands open for the Christian's final entrance. Death to the righteous is not climbing high walls or fording deep rivers, but it is entering an open door. If you ever visit the old homestead where you were horn, and while father and mother are yet alive, as you go up the lane in front of the farm house, and put your hand on the door and lift the latch, do you shuddor with fear? No, you are glad to entor. So your last sickness will be only the ianein front of your Father's house, from which you hear the voice of singing before yon reach the door. And death, that is the lifting of the latch before you enter, the greetings and embraces of tho innumerable family of tho righteous. Nay, there is no latch, for John says tho door is already open. What a company of spirits h ive already entered those portals, bright and shining! Souls released from the earthly prison house how they shouted as thev went through! Spirits that spod up from the flames of martyrdom, making heaven richer as they went in, pouring their notes into the celestial harmony. And that door has not begun to shut. If redeemed by grace we all shall enter it. This side of it we have wept, hut on the other side of it wo shall never *weep. On this sido we may have grown sick with weariness, but on tho other side of it we shall bo without fatiguo. On this side we bleed with the war rior's won ads, on the other side we stall wave the victor's palm. When yon think ot dying what makes your brow contract, wh it makes you breathe so deep a sigh? Whf.t makes you gloomy in passing a graveyard? Pollower of Christ, you liavo been thinking that death is something terrible, the measuring of lances with a powerful antagonist, the closing in of a conflict which may be your everlasting defeat. You do not want much to think of dying. The step beyond this life seems so mysterious you dread the taking of it. Why, who taught you this lesson of horrors? Heaven's door is wide open, and you step out of your sick room i ato tnose portals. Not as long as a minute will elapse between your departure and your arrival the ro. Not half so long as the twinkling of an eye. Not the mikionth part of an ins Ian t There is no stumbling into darkness. There is no plunging down into mysterious depths. The door is open. This instant you are here, the next you are there. When a vessel struck the rocks of the French coast, while the crew were clambering up the beach a cage of birds in the ship's cabin, awakened, began to sing most sweetly, and when the last man left the vessel they were singing yet. Even so in the last hour ot our dissolution, when driven on the coast of the other world, may onr disembarkation from this rough, tossing life be amid the eternal singing of a thousand promises of deliverance and victory! For all repenting and balievin; siuls the door of heaven is now wido open, the door ot mercy, the door of comfort, for the poorest as well as for the wealthiest, for the outlaw as well as for the moralist, for Chinese coolie as well as his Empjror, for tho Russian boor as well as the Czar, for the Turk as well as the Sultan. Richer than all wealth, more refreshing than all fountains, deeper than all depths, higher than all heights and broader than all breadths is tho salvation of Jesus Christ which I press uuoti vour consideration Corns all yo trav elcrs of tho desert undor theso pafoi trees. Ob. if I could gather before you that tremendous futuro upon which you aro invited to eater?dominions and principalities, day without night, martyr; under tho throne, and tho four-andtweuty elders falling before it, stretching off in great distances t.he hundred and forty and four thousand and thousands of thousands, host beside host, rank beyond rank, in infinite distance, nations of tho saved beyond nations of the saved, -until augelic visions cease to catch anything more than tho faint outline of whole empires yet outstretching iKjyoud the capacity of any vision save tho eye of God Almighty. Then, after I had liuished tho sketch, I would liko to ask you if that place is not grand enough and high enough, and it anything could bo added, any purity to the whiteness of tho robes, any power to tho acclaiming thunders of its worship. And all that may be yours. Fishing with a Wheel. The present catch of salmon, 9nys r I Portland (Ore.) letter, approximates to a thousand tons daily and is so great the factories find it impossible to handle it. Great quantities, therefore, spoil and aro lost. Salmon are caught by the usual method of using nets; Indians spear them in large numbers, but the main source of supply is the iish-wheel. This most ingenious and effective contrivance is at} immense wheel about thirty feet in diameter by eight feet in width, consisting of four great pockets of ordinary mesh fence a ire. This wheel is placed in a favorable situation in swift running water. The force of the water carries it around with a steady, resistless motion, plunging the monster scoops into the stream. Any hapless fish that wanders into the radius of this wheel is quickly lifted from the water, dropped into a slippery trough constructed iu the wheel near its nxlo and slides into a box, where its animate career ends. The efficiency of this invention is shown by the fact that one of these whecli has landed' twelve tons in twenty-fauj- hours. THE MATRIMONIAL LOTTERY. Jinks?Winks married a woman of intellect, didn't he? Blinks?I don't know. Why? Jinks?I notice he never has any but, tons on his clothes. CONNECTICUT BLUE LAWS. Fnll Lint of tlio Famons Enactments Which Forbade a Woman to Kiss Her Children on Fast Day. The term "Bine Laws" is applied to such as relate to the private consciences of individuals. All oonntries formerly had such statutes, and the thirteen colonies were no exception before tho Revolution, The oode of Connecticut is often spoken of in this respect. Those most noted were of the Colony of New Haven, which was united with the Connecticut Colony in 1G55. Here is a fnll copy of the Now Haven list, often called the "Connecticut Blue Laws." The Governor and magistrates, convened in general assembly, are the buflr>A r\9 tln'o in/1o. piUUiO jAiHUlj UUUC1 V?VUj Ui tux.i XUUQpondent dominion. Conspiracy against tho dominion shall be pnnishcd with death. Whosoever says there is a powor and jurisdiction above und over this dominion, shall suffer death and tho loss of his property. Whosoevor attempts to change or overturn this dominion shall suffer death. No one shall be a freeman or give vote, unless he bo converted, and a member in full commnnion of one of the churches allowed in this dominion. Each freeman shall swear by the blessed God to bear true allegiauco to this dominion, and that Jesus is the onlv king. rfo Quaker or dissenter from the established worship of this dominion shall be allowed to give a vote for the election of magistrate or anv officer. No food or lodging shall be offered a Quaker, Adamite, or other heretic. If any person shall turn Quaker, he shall be banished and not suffered to return on pain of death. No Quaker priest shall abide in this dominion; lie shall be banished, and suffer death on return. Priests may be seized by any one without a warrant. No one shall run on the Sabbath day or walk in his garden, or elsewhere, ornnnt. rovcrnntlv to ftlirl from mfifitini?. No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair or shave on the Sabbath day. No woman thall kiss her children op the Sabbath day or Fast day. The Sabbath shall begin at sunset on Saturday. To pick an ear of corn growing on a neighbor's garden shall be deemed a theft. A person accused of trcspais in the night shall be judged guilty until he clear himself by his oath. No oue shall buy or sell land without permission of the selectmen. When it appears that an accused person has confederates, and refuses to discover them, he may be racked. A drunkard shall have a master appointed by the selectmen, who are to debar him the liberty of buying and seiiing. - Whoever publishes a lie to the prejudice of his neighbor shall be put iu the stocks or receive ten stripes. No minister shall keep a sohool. Men stealers shall suffer death. Whoever wears clothes trimmed with gold, silver, or bone lace above two shillings per yard, shall be presented by the grand jurors, and the selectmen shall tax the offender ?300 on his estate. A debtor in prison, swearing tnat lie Las no estate, shall be laid oat and sold to make satisfaction. "Whoever brings cards or dice into this dominion shall pay a fine of ?5. No one shall read the common prayer book, keep Christmas, or set days, or play on any instrument except the dram or jews-harp. No gospel minister shall join people in marriage. The magistrate only shall join them in marriage, as they do it with less scandal to Christ's Churoli. When parents refuse their children convenient marriage, the magistrate shall determine the point. The selectmen, on finding the children ignorant, may take them away from their parents and pat them in better hands at the expense of their parents. A man who strikes his wife shall pay a fine of ?10. A woman who strikes her husband shall be punished as the court directs. A wife shall be deemed rood evidence against her husband. No man shall court a maid in person or by letter, without first obtaining consent of her parents. Married persons must live together or be imprisoned in jail. Every male shall have hi* hair cut round according to a cap. A little railway just opened between Lynton and Lyamouth, in England, has the steepest incline in the 1J rrt?n/1tnnf 1 in WOI'IU Ur IIUUU1U1 . .v. 1}. Tho lino is only 900 feot long, and was built to give passage over a cliff nearly 500 feet high separating the two places. Water is brought from a distance of a mile to the summit of the cliff, and is drawn from the reservoir to move the cars, two of which are connected togother by a wire cable and sufficient water-load applied to 1ho descending one to drag the other up the incline. Fortune turns faster than a millwheel, and those who were yesterday at the top may find themselves at the bottom to-day. Summer Weakness Loss of Appetite, Sick Headache, Quickly Cured by HoocPs SarsapariSIa Make Your Own Rugs, ' I rice Ust of Hug Machines. l:ng 1'iittcrna, Yarns, etc., KHKK. Acent* Wnntcil. E. POSh A- ('<).. Toledo, Olilo. V N91 I, a s J?i c#new I'oiisiuii taws, spnt "SLBIlfijJ I L 9Hal free. lieaerierarelttved. W mmwff I k IBV success or no fpp. A.W. McCormlck ft Boat,Washington, D. 0., ft Cincinnati. 0 nnill&l HAIIIT. Only Certain and llrlfllAra eanr (,'IRK In the World. Dr. Ul mw J. L. bTEPHEXS, Lebanon,0 ajnup STUDY, Hook-keeplng, Business Korn:i\ KUDIC Penmanship, Arithmetic, Short-hand, etc., II thoroughly tmight by MAIL Circulars free. Hrynnt'a College, -137 Main xt., Buffalo, X. Y PENSIONS 'nkwdaW.8, ' I LnVJIUIlU Soldiers, Widows, Parents, sen I for blank applications and Information. PatiuoiC O'Farrkij, Pension Agent, Wasnlugton, 1). C. #TC TO8*i50 A MONTIIcan bp made working ? I w for us. Persons preferred who can furnish a horse and give their whole tloie to the business. Spare moments may bo prolltnhlr employed also. A few vacancies In towns ami eitlev. II.' P. JOHNfcOX & CO., 1UU." Main St.. lticiunoud, Va. I According to a New York newspaper. 30.000 strangers spend tho night of every day in New York city. Children Enjoy The pleasant flavor, ccntlo action and soothing effects of Syrnp of Figs, when In noed of a laxative and if the father or mother bo costive or billon# the most gratifying results follow Its ose.so that it is the best family remedy known and every family should have a bottle. In the year 1703 there was but one newspaper in the United States. One Tlionsnnd Dollnrs. I will forfeit the nlwe amount, if I fail to prove that Floroulcxiou is the best medicine in existence for Dyspepsia,Indigestion or Biliousness. It is a certain cure, and nffords immediate relief,In cases of Kidney and Liver Comfloint, Nervous Debility and Consumption. loraplcxion bnilds up the weak system and cures where other remedies fail. Ask your drncirist for it and get well. Valuable book "Thing Worth Knowing," also, sample bottle sent free: all charges prepaid. Address Franklin Hart, 83 Warren street, New York. The earliest d-ited print, 'the St. Christopher print," was printed In 1-123No soap in the world has etvr been imitated ns much as Dobbin-*'* Electric Soap. The market Is/nil of Imitations. Be careful that you are not (Weired. "J. B. Dobbings, Philadelpbia and New lork," is stamped on every bar. The rnc horso is said to have a great dltlike for u camel. FITS stopped free bv Dr. Rune's Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day'e use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and 52 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. 031 Area St.. Phila., Pa The bunya.ow is now tao English name for the summer cotta.e. E. A. Rood, Toledo, Oliio, says: "Hall's Catarrh Cure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen years ago and she has bad no return of it. It's a sure cure." Sold by Druggists, 75c. a street in Hu'l, England, Is called "The Land of Green Ginger street." If afflicted with sore eyes use Drlsoao Thompicn'tEyoWater.Drugglsts sell at25c.per bottle Gunpowder and alcohol mixed used to be giv* n to so diers to make them fight. Cures Promptly and Permanently LUMBAGO, Rheumatism, Headache, Toothache, SPRAINS, Neuralgia, Swellings, Frost-bites, B R UIS E S . THE CHARLES A. V06ELER CO., Baltimore, Md. n/vn tvttccttm rnttdtr XUIt U I 0?j1N 1 XjH 11 BILE BEANS. I Try "BILE BEANS SMALL" (40 llttle beans In each bottle). Very small?easy to take. Prloe of either size, 25 cents. asrBUY of your druggist.. ( Carter, Tex.. Jan. 19. We hare need "Bile Beane" for a long time, and they have given perfect eatlefaction in each caae. J. c. McDakeau THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY, i BEECHAM'S PILLS \ For Bilions and Nervous Disorders. "Worth a Guinea a Box" bnt sold for 25 Cents, t BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Id Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use JSW IS In ttmo. Sold by druggists. liTj afe % aWHJSKEY HAS* H B I III mm ITS cured at home wilh> H W* B | I BWa om psin. Book of tar'ULlJsiS K%aUH?: wmsrnr omc* ?* whiMuu ?. mmm HEST I* THE WOULD UutHVb Or Ott the Qenulno. Sold Ererrtehefi 0 Ei iii oin s^i o ?rcat PENSION Bill 1 LliulUNU isPassed. ,^ i w i ^ fr* And Knthor* aro ontitled to $12 a mo. Feo tlO when you get your money. Blanks free. .'OSKPll 1L IIl.XTKU, Atty, tVuhtaiUa, IX (, Pennsylvania Agricu Address A. B. FARQ 2 Icrmswhich rendermoot Doctor Hooks so value! i Intended 10 hp ol Service in lite Knuiilj-, a" t I'artI contains Information on (lencral Di? ? Anatomy nrut Functions?covering Eryslpelw, Dai! Prickly Heat, Measles, Small Chicken Pox, W and Cure, Fifty pages on the II It A IN noil N a Kits, Dizziness, Delirium Tremens. Kpllepsy, Faint Neuralgia, Disease- of Spinal Cord, Lockjaw. St. V ? Inflammation, Cataract, unties on tho KA It? Deaf-I _ A ^ n S Koises In, to Extract Foreign ^ fill fflS a the MINK ? Hired lilt-, ca- k|uU fi Fifteen pages on the PA<'K. t? 3 iflB m TKI.TII ? Cracked J.ips, bJPs3 5J3 3 (turn 1MI,Ac. F.lglitcett page* sdf xir * a I'll'H?llruuchUI.-:, Pipliihca Mumps, Ulcerated Soro PROFUSELY on 1,1'XliS?Consl'Oi|itlon. - Spittim; Wood, Stllcli In Side, Ac. Twelve page, f of, Ac. Forty-four panes on A IIDO.il IN A I. i a Dlnrrhren, Dysentery, Dyspepsia, Heartburn, fail the very Important I riiim-v mill tfcnlral Orn Hon of Madder, Ac. Fifty paces on Diseife Debility, Fevers of nil kin.In, Malaria. Oout, libcini a 1'art If relates to Disrnses ol XVaineu -Met a Part Iff Is devoted to Children itml Tliei Information mothers constantly neeil. This part a l'snT IV corers Accident* n J Household Surgery, l'olsous and mm n ~ a Part V?t.'riirral lly- F la 81 anil Uulitc to lamp. Healthy I.lre. ?? lion* Answered: valuable vn? ilt.w N? all topics relating to Health xouaiayrie a PAnx VII?For the perttFnl i a relations of Man end Wire: for ilie Newly Married Part VIII?Coiikery mid llaliillrslbrilir i Part IX? Indications III lll<f:io by Ape 1'art X?.11 rilicilies?'t'liolr 1'eejwratlon ami I | a PartXI?llotanlcn! .lleilicnl I'racticei ii Over 1-200 LINKS OF INDKX to guide J ranged alpiiabetieally. A most valttablo work, iv I a on receipt of (id cents iu cash or lo. and !!e. no it a: J BOOK PU8. HOU n Don't read I Don't think f Don't believe! Nov/, are you better ? You women who think that patent medicines are a hum* bug, and Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription the biggest humbug of the whole (because it's best known of all)?does your lack-of-faith cure come ? It's very easy to u don't" in this world Suspicion always comes more easily than confidence. But doubt ? little faith ? never made a sick woman well ? and the " Favorite Prescription" has cured thousands of delicate, weak women, which makes us think that our " Prescription" is better than your don't believe. We're both honest Let us come together. You try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. If it doesn't do as represented, you get your money again. Where proofs so easy, can you afford to doubt? Little but active?are Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. Best Liver Pills madegentle, yet thorough. They regulate and invigorate the liver, stomach and bowels. WALL PAPER BARGAINS! !Ve will guarantee all these clean new goods Jost made, and full length?a yards to tbc roll. An 8-yd. roll White back I'aper. 3 to U:. kn S-yd. roll (lilt I'npcr. 3 to 10c. In S-yd. roll Embossed (Jilt Paper, 8 to 13c. .Jilt Borders. 4 to 18 incites wide, '2 and Borders without Gilt, V to 0 Inches lc. jer yard. Send ?c. In stamps for samples of tha best and ^realist bargains in the country. P. H. CADY, 305 HIGH *TKEET, Mention this paper. . Providence. R. I. rffHK WOHPCWFUL | \0*M ^.^1 3CTRe\cHAiRra^K^^A] ifiiiw tr? t?ufl tsjgjl| rnrp aad Ihlp nods to ^sfH I tf^^TSHKKL ipa k?oo. #~*Vo*udmtrai. X}^ DfUTSBI. tPBgWyO.O<Ul4?W.tHh?t<??agj? DEPENDENT, PENSION BILL | has become a law. $l'i i'ER SiORTIlTtO wl honorably discharged Soldiers and Sailors of tho lata , war, who aro Incapacitated from earning a support Widows the sa;ne, without regard to cause of death. Dependent Parents and'Minor Children also hitej> estcd. Over 20 years'experience. Hcferoncoain au parts of iho country. No charge If ansuccesaftil. Write at once for "Copy of Law," blanks and full lib structlons AU. FBEE to il. .HcAI.LItJTEK ft CO. (Successors to Wm. Conard k Co.\ f, O. Box 715, \t nshlngtou, P. C. ; MR] aCM AT'ltNUON i KfifMEN and BOYS! Qfl-Ci'S Don't ran your Boots and Shoes |3rJ4J orcr at the HceL Bay a pair of ?Morten's Counter JL- Heel St ifx j9 ? qB feocrs from your dealer, or send 1 'i/epal asc. in stamps and recelre a pair p ifH I w by mall. Wo guarantee them to 2 keep the Ileel straight. Mr.de In Br* all sites for ladles', children's wr\ xSnH and men's wear. Give also of (CTIt:; Z'i~. ^fl shoe. Any boy con put them oa. Rr^? MORTON HEEL ST1FFENER CO Ill* I dal IIM !l J Chamber* St., >ew York. WM. FITCH & CO., tO'i Corcoran Build log, Washington, D. C. PENSION flTTORNEYS | of over 'ill years' experience. Successfully prosecute pensions and claims of all tc nds In shortest possible time. Cfr.N'o FEE cxless successful. BN.m B I prescribe* and fn'ly etu dome Big tf as tb< only ^^Onali_^U specific for ihecertai^cura . 4Br1 TO & PXTB. of this disease. t . I O. n.lNGRAHAjr.H. Dj,' Amsterdam* N. Yi , fSB VrtaDtjrby th* -. We have sold Blf 6 for U?& ardnnatl^HB faction. I 1 D. B. x)YCHE ft CCK. i *81.00. Sold by Druggists.] Itural Works, York,Pa* ar's Standard Engines, Saw Mills, Shingle Mills, Threshing Machines, etc. 3~ Seed for Catalogue and Special Prices. "?R 'UHAR CO., York, Pa. f CTOR'SBILLSii SAVE HEALTH!: r> knowing Ikhv t? lake care of your dear ones when * :ir-?c attacked liy disease. TIIK TJMB TO* I'll lif.'K 1M.XKSS I? IN ITS IXC'Il'IKX-* t.'V'j tut liow many persons know what to do In* Midi a case. Not one In a thousand. Do you? If J not, you need n physician to tell you ; and you dou't * generally have a doctor at hand In the middle of the * night, or at o moment's notice, and In any evcut his services are exjtensive. A I look containing the In- * formal ion you wont can bo at hand, however, and J If you nro wise will bo nt hand. Such a book ^ ^ i wo offer you for only - "" /w and If you are prudent /w tjOCi you will send for It by rjfJCi -T 7, return mall. lis title Zf Tostpaid. ia "KV lilt V hi A X Postpaid. I - ? 1118 OWN IMM!-1, ? TO If." It Is the Imxir of J. liA.Mir.TON AYERS, . A. )i., M. 1)., and Is the result of a life spent in light- J hit disease In every form. It Is written In plain M ever)-day English, and Is frco from tho technical ~ less to the generality of readers. This Hook la* id U >o wonted as to lie readily understood by all. J ens*-, and consists of Sti pages on the SKIN, Its ? l.vr's Ileh, Tellor. Scalp Diseases, Klugworiu, Rashes, arts, t.'orus, Ac., Ac. Showing how to Prevent, Arrest K1IVcovering Aponlexv, Trance, Congestion,* lug. Headaches, Hiccough. Hypochondria, Insanity, J iIus'h Dance, l'alsy, Ac. Niucteen pages on the E YE splinting, stye, Ac. Ten k __ __ ness, Earache, Running of, a H 08 fcs BB rtodle*. Ac. Eight pages on f 3 & 8JL in V 3 E a ^ Canker Month, Toothache, i aawtaa i# outiikoatmui wind * rln, Hoarseness, Influenza, J ILLUSTRATED. I Throat, Ac. Eighteen pages I AMlima, Cough, l'lcurlsy, < 011 (I MA ltT?Palpitation, Enlargement, Dropsy* I'pvily?Cholera Morbus, Colic, CnsUvcnea*. Cramp, r .' lours, Jaundice, Piles. Ac. Twenty-six pages on 9 nit*?'.travel, Diabetes, Private Diseases, Iirflanuna s nl (ienevnl Syateni?Alwcess, Cancer Dropsy, lallsin, Ac. Everything treated In detail. j.u U'iilon, Woinb, Prcgnaucy, Confinement, Ac. J v llWenMta, from birth, and Is filled with Jnst tbe ? lone Is worth many times the price of the work. nntl Emergencies, Including * , _ _ their Autldotcs, Ac. Invaluable. J i gleiie?Preservation of Health 5 1 Paut VI?('amnion Ques . r* t. ui_i,t miscellaneous Information on* Btl It 10-flight, and Disease. Pilled with Hints. 1 ??of thinking young people; the J . I'seful knowledgo for all contemplating marriage. 0 m 1 Sic , ft noni?A11 Invaluable section for housewives, a enr:?nee?'Temperaments, Ac. Worthy close study. Prescriptions, Receipts, Ac. Extremely useful. nstmctiotu for preparing aud usiug Common Herbs. J you instantly to the Information yon want. Ar- *' nich <lu,tld bo In every household. Scut postpaid ? go stamps. J; iSfc'. 134 Leonard St. New York. J' .J