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fmW ' v;" - ' W 'r,]\ ' ' ; ?-L_ . ? FOB THE FA KM AND 110&E. " Black Teeth In Swine. It may be considered as somewhat foolish to refer to the popular errors iii regard to black teeth in swine were it not \ that some fraudulent people, to be classed among the prevalent humbugs, arc going about inducing farmers to let them pull out the black teeth from their pig's jaws as a specific against cliolcra n- 1 all other diseases of swine for a fee 01 25 cents per head. Black teeth are no indi cation of any greater or worse disease than a sour stomach, caused by overfeeding and consequent indigestion, and due to the very prevalent habit of gorging pigs upon sour swill. Along with the black teeth there is a fetid breath produced by the same disorder of the stomach, and the teeth are no more the cause of this trouble than the moon is of the crawling on the ground of lima beans. Humbugs and frauds of all kinds flourish and thrive upon the ignorance and superstition, not to mention the dishonesty, of their victims, and this class of parasites will probably always fiud abundant prey. ?\New York Times. The Apple's Enemy. This, it need hardly be said, is the codling moth or apple worm. The only nice thing about it is its entomological name, carpocapsa pomonella. This moth makes its appearanco in latter May or early June, and it is well to be pr ;vred to meet it when it comes. Traps have been invented for this insect, and various means suggested for staying its advances and preventing its ravages. Professor Cook asserts, in a late number of the Rural JVeio Yorker, that Paris Green and London Purple if mixed with water and sponged on the trees is sure to kill this arch enemy of our most valued fruit. He has found that a wound of the noison A. * mixed with 100 gallons of water, and kept well mixed, is still effective to kill the larvae as they attempt to enter the apple. One or two applications of the poison to the trees, made soon after blossoms fall, will thin almost to extinction not only the codling larva; but all oth .r insects present, as the canker worm, leaf roller^ and various caterpillars. The probabilities are that in those localities where apples were so abundant last season, there will be few enough at best this year, and we can't afford to give many to the worms. Eni for Hatching. If the rules given by an authority in Prance?where poultry matters receive so much successful attention?were strictly followed, we should hear less about addled eggs, chickens coming dead, or too weak to break out of the shell when fully developed. Never let the eggs t\iiaa A?rA* nnn J |/?*7U VTVt vuu VAOJ 1U bULO JLXUSb YVUUU lUIU^ and it would be better to pick them up three or four times a day, or as soon after being laid as possible. This prevents the prolonged contact of the heat of each successive laying hen, which is apt to creatc a premature development of the germ in the egg, making it liable to perish when this heat is withdrawn. Reject all with soft shell or in any way misshapen, or surrounded with a circular ring, or having one end with an uneven or rough surface. Also those very narrow or unusually round, or wanting in size, or too large, or double yolked. The sooner they are set, the more certainty of hatching, and the more quickly; eggs set immediately after being laid often hatch in nineteen days, instead of in twenty-one, the general prescribed time. Eggs will preserve their germinating powers twenty days; but in order to be well kept during this time they ought to "be turned once a day, as is done by the hen when sitting. This turning has the effect of keeping the yolk in the centre, which is important; it being of greater specific gravity than the white or albumen, its tendency is to work through to the side of the shell.?New York Tribune. Peach Culture. The conditions of failure in peach v growing, concisely stated, are: * 1. A wet soil, or one that from any cause holds water around the roots of the tree, whether the land is situated high or low. 2. Excessive fertility, while the trees are young, whether it be secured in the natural condition of the soil or by the ingenuity of man. 3. Severe cutting back of the young growth each year, thus dwarfing the tree and robbing it of^much natural vitality. 4. Allowing the trees to overbear and thus exhaust their vitality by a single crop of fruit. 5. By deficient and improper cultivn. ticn. On the other hand, the conditions of success in peach growing are: 1. An elevated location that is not subject to late frosts in the Spring or early frosts in the Fall. 2. A warm and moderately fertile soil that is well drained by nature. Artificial drainage may prove sussessful, but its utility has not yet been fully demon-A 1L! 1 Bwniicu IU nu? region. 3. Thorough cultivation, without m?nure, until the trees come into bearing, then combine the two so as to supply all the depletion produced in the soil by growth of trees and frtdt. A. Never let a tree overbear. 0ontlnUocultivation until the close v-;: f .. ' v... hwfcij';. S? -. ' A \ ",v v- ' . '. ' ', of tho dry season, every Summer, eveu if it contiues until September.?Michigan Horticulturist. Sod Jlaklng, Tho tlire )sseutials for securing a line, close sod by seeding arc: ?Rich ground of a suitable character, seed of good quality, thickly sown and frequent mowing. In preparing the soil for ths sowing, it pays to be at a good deal of pains at the start. Results extending through years of time will depend chiefly on this part. with plough or spade tho surface should be worked over to tho depth of one foot at least. If it could be three or six inchcs deeper yet, all the better. Along with this process some fiuely divided manure, say at the rate of a gqod twohorse load to each four square rods of land, should bo worked into the soil. As the bed is finished it must be seen that at least six inchcs of good soil (that is, not sterile subsoil) is present in all such lawns as are not to be kept watered in dry weather :but this is quite as essential to those made by turfing as any others. Wherever the surface is broken by walks, drives,flower beds and the like the edges next to these should be made of sod to a width of six or more inches. This will keep the sowed parts from breaking away, as it would do if not thus protected. All stones lying at or near the general surface must be cleared away, the area be made even and firm with the proper implimcnts and the surface be worked up fine by the use of a rake or light harrow?the finer the better. Use good seed and plenty of it, applying at the rate of one quart and onefourth per square rod. As for seed, the followi g is a superior and inexpensive "mixture":?Two parts june or blue grass to one part red top or bent- grass. Sow evonlv: tllin mnv flrwin 1-mt rlnnliln J 7 J J sowing. By this we mean to divide the seed needed for a given area into two equal lots, sowing one-half of it over the plot, walking back and forth across it one way, and then the remainder by walKng crosswise of the first sowing. Aftti 1 Ms rake the entire surface lightly, then roll. l'raiilnft Currant and (ioostberry Hushes I notice advice on pruning currants as follows, writes a New York correspondent. "Prune out old canes and train up new shoots." But permit me to give you a modern Canadian plan of pruning that has proved very successful, viz.: Cut back one-half of the new growth on the top of the bush each year after they are old enough to bear, and only leave one or two young shoots each year from the bottom. By this method the following advantages are gained: First?Strong growth in the fruiting part of the bush, at the top. v ? Second?Bank foliage that will not frill off iinfil 4.1 1 vu. uuvii uuau LUII1U3j LI1U.S JvCCpiH^ tlie fruit from sun scalding and having to be picked early in the season to save them. Third ? Larger fruit and longer bunches, because all the small currant3 and short bunches are produced near the terminal buds, and these being pruned off give us nothing but the largest fruit, and as it is the seed that exhausts the plant, and small currants have just as many seeds as large, so when they are disposed of the plant will bear its burden of fruit each year without exhaustion^ and thus allow a better growth and thicker, stronger foliage, for it is a settled fact that any kind of currant can be exhausted by one or two heavy crops, and thereby will have to lie idle for a year or two to recruit, and Often never refrain it* nrnnnr virrnr o x?r? * Fourth?Regular bearing, for a strong, healthy bush will bear every year unless it hap grown too much to wood from too close pruning, in which case one year without priming back will balance it again. Fifth?Bushes pruned in this way grow year after ycalf and become much larger than when pruned in the old way, and where bushes can be grown to a large size they can be planted, say, six feet each way and produce more fruit than the old style, thus a great saving in plants, and when planted this way can be cultivated both ways, which is also a saving of one-half the haud work and hoeing. Sixth?By this mode of pruning all the med'um sized, heavy bearing vari ties, such as May's Victoria, Versailles, Baby Castle, red Dulfch and black currants as well, may be made to produce fine fruit nearly as .arge as the cherry currant and longer in the bunch. Seventh?Bushes last for twenty years or more pruned in this way, for the vitality is alwavs kcnfc nr> ?in<l +Vi/.ir I V 1 r- ?*"? """J | are better able to stand the ravages I of tho currant worm on account of the rank foliago and abundance of it. Eighth?And while we could name other advantages yet with the above named, we can say from our own experience that currants will pay as wo.l, if not better, than the cultivation of any other kind of fruit produced for market at the present time. My .own experience with one acre, pruned this way has altogether exceeded my expectations, as well as others who have tried the same plan. The above plan will apply quite well to the cultivation of the gooseberry aleo. v. i- . , ; * llouithold IiinM. Equal parts of sulphur and pitch mattes a good stone and iron cement. Starched shirts will iron easier if you let them dry after starching, so you will have to sprinkle them before ironing. Many persons may not know that white paint may bo cleaned as well as windows by using whiting and water. The wings of turkeys, geese 'and . chickens are good to wash and clcati ] windows, as they leave no dust nor lint, as cloth. ] To brighten the 'inside of a coffee or | 1 teapot fill with water, add a small piece |: oi soap ana let it boil about forty-five 1 minutes. 1 Slake three pounds of quick lime in 1 water anil add one pound of pearlasli, making the whole into the consistence of 1 paint. Lay this over the old work with 1 a brush, and let it remain from twelve to 1 fourteen hours, when the paiut will be 1 easily scraped oil. 1 ] Recipes. Muffins in Tina.?Take one cup of . sour milk, one egg, a little shortening, a . tcaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda; if the J 1 milk is not very sonr less soda will do. , Make a thick batter, and a little salt, and bake in a hot oven. If you cannot obtain sour milk, sweet milk and baking powder will answer. To a teacup of ( sweet milk allow a heaping tcaspoonful , of baking powder. , Beets and Butter Sauce.?Take two j Burmuda beets of medium size. "Wash ; ana dry tlicm without breaking the skin. \ Boil them for thirty-five minutes in fast ( boiling water, slightly salted, which must entirely cover them. Then scrape < oil the skin, cut the beets into slices, and < the slices into strips. Melt an ounce of butter, add to it a little salt, pepper aud | a teaspoonful of vinegar. Pour it over ] the beets and serve. ] Rice Cream?One cup of licc boiled 1 soft, but not to a paste; two cups of J milk, four eggs, a cup of sugar vanilla ] extract, a cup of whipped cream. Make ' the eggs, milk and sugar into a custard, ' season with vanilla. Scald the milk first, 1 pour upon this the heated egg and sugar, ' and let it get almost cold before you beat < in the whipped cream. Set to form in a wet mould on ice. "When you are ready < for it turn out on a glass dish. 1 Watermelon Cake?One cup of white ; sugar, one-half cup of butter, one- ^ half cup of sweet milk, whites of four ' eggs, one-half teaspoonful soda, one of cream of tartar, two scant cups of flour, J one-fourth cup of sour milk, two-third3 ' cup of pink sugar, onc-fourtlx cup of but- 1 ter, one-half teaspoon of soda, whites of 1 two eggs, one tea cup of raisins, flonr 1 enough to make rather stiff. First and ' second half of recipe to be made up sep- ^ arately, and mixed like marble cako fye- ' fore baking. Tho Evolution of Nations. g The following eloquent passage is from ( an article by Dr. Felix L. Oswald in Popular Science Monthly: Tho doctrino ( of evolution recognizes the fact that tho development of social and physical or- ^ ganisms is not an unbroken march of progress. Advancement alternates with ^ pauses, us day with night, or life with j death; the phenomena of progressive life ] roll through the cycles of germination, maturity, and- decay. In the household ^ of Nature every grave is a cradle; the j mold of every fallen tree furthers tho < growth of new trees. Grecian colonies , flourished on the ruins of Troy, Persian ' provinces on the ruins of Babylon, Mace- ^ donian kingdoms on the grave of the , ? Persian Empire; Roman legionaries in- , herited the wealth and the culture of ] conquered Greece. The conquerors of ^ Rome were the noblest, stoutest, and f manliest races of the Caucasian world; ^ freemen, in love with health and Nature, yet withal with poetry, glory, honor, ^ justice, and honest thrift. They planted , their banners in the garden-lands of the West; and their empires, gilt by the , morning light of a new era, were found- j ed under auspices far happier than those , of the Arabian satrapies in the worn-out , soil of the East. In less than five hun- ^ dred ycarB dftcr the establishment of ] their political independence, the civilization of the Greeks, the Romans, and the { Arabs, had developed' its fairest flowers? , industry, commercial activity, art, lib- ( eral education, flourishing schools of t philosophy, poetry, and natural science. Five hundred years after the triumph of the Gothic conquerors we find their em- , pircs groaning under a concentration of all scourges. The day-star of civilization had set in utter night; the proud nations of the West had sunk in poverty, bigotry, general ignoranoe, cruel abasement of the lower classes, squalid misery of domestic life, systematic suppression of political, personal, and intellectual liberty. Learning Farming in Dakota. The past week an 18-ycar-old young man, heir to a large English estate, arrived in the Red river valley, consigned to a large farmer by his guardian, who pays the farmer ?50 besides his services for instruction in Dakota farming for one year. There are thorough, first-class farmers in Dakota, but it has not been supposed that England was without experts in that line. It is probable that the considered healthfulness of the climate was one of the reasons for the con* signment,?St. Paul (Minn) Qltfu. : >" ' DOWN A~FLUME~ A. Swift Journey Down a Nevada Mountain. Rushing Through Spaco at the Bate of Two Milos a Minute. A Chicago newspaper man tells in the Ilcralcl of that city an experience he once had riding in a Nevada lumber flume* "Lumber flumes in the Sierra Nevadas," lie said, "are all the way from five to forty miles long. They are built on a regular engineer's grade. Tho bed of the flume is made of two-inch planlf in the form of a V, the sides of the V being from eighteen to twenty-six inches high. They arc built on a grade of about sixteen feet drop to the thousand. They carry eight inches of water in the ncute angle, and discharge it at the rate of 400 miner's inches a minute. In other words, turn in your water at the head of the fluinc, and it will carry a Jog weighing 100 pounds with a velocity greater than the fastest engine that was ever made. The log's displacement just about fills the V, without any more friction than occcssary to keep it in place. "About nine years ago I was up at Lake Tahoe with E. W. Smallcy and AV. EI. Patton of the Ma,ckey & Fair Lumber Company. Patton was showing us the sights. We had come up from Carson City, sixteen miles, by stage, and it was i hot and tedious ride. About sundown Patton said: 'Boys, we'll go home by the flume, and we'll get there a little quicker, I think.' "TTfi ilirpptnrl n mnn tn Krinrr nut flm ? ? V1'"6 i,4V paclit, as he called it. This was a Vjlxaped canoe about fourteen feet long, very shallow, and made to tit the flume ! ind just about fill it with the displacenent of 600 pounds. The yacht had a brake?two rubber pads on cither side, worked with a lever, and so applied igainst the sides of the V flume that on pressure it would lift the yacht gradually md allow the lightning current to pass jndcr her. She also had two small rubber wheels, one on cither bow, to keep :ier nose from grinding the sides of the lumc as she went by curves. " 'Now, boys,' said Mr. Patton, 'but:on up your coats, tic down your hats, | md hold on. Don't get scared. Trust four lives to nxe for the next half hour. I've sailed in this yacht before, and I \now she's staunch.' ''There were three scats. Patton took ike front one, to handle the brake. Smalley took the next one, and I took Jic rear and worked the tiller. That ivas rigged just like a ship's rudder, with 1 rubber wheel to ease oil her stern against ;hc side of the flume if she got to yawing. Patton told his men to put on two inches more of water, and then, with a wave >f his hat, we weighed anchor. Great Scott! how that thing jumped! Sinalley jot seasick. I jammed my helm hard lown, but Patton yelled through the air, 'Let her go; I've got her!' And with )ne hand on his brake, his hat crushed lown on his head, and his teeth set, he ooked the incarnation of courage. We plunged down the mountain with a speed :hat no steam could give. Trees flew by jke spectres. Looking ahead down the narrow thread-like flume it seemed like i plunge to destruction. Several times ;hc fluinc carried us over a high trestle, [t seemed like leaping over a precipice. 3malley held his breath, but the little pacht jumped it through the air apparently with a swish. Curves would show iliemsclves ahead. The rudder wheel would squeak on cither side, and the ;ood ship would round the curve like a Slash. Sometimes an unevenness in the Hume would occur, and then, as the craft sped over it, the spray would rise fifty feet in the air. " 'Keep on your hats!' shouted Patton; theij, as we struck a straight five-mile stretch, 'Now hold on to your teeth.' 4'I don't exactly know what the next sensation was, but I tried to peep out from under the rim of my hat, and, my soul, it was all a blur?trees, rocks, landscape, were all mingled in an indistinguishable mass. It was as if one was blown through the air from a catapult. "Well, from the time we weighed anchor up at Lake Tahoc until Patton put on his brakes just outside the lumber field it Carson City it seemed like a minute or two. We all looked at our watches. we nna mnuc just sixteen mucs in eignt minutes and forty seconds. I never in all my life had such an illustration of the force of water." Agreeably Disappointed* "And are you glad to see me, Bobby?" asked the bishop, on his semi-annual visit to the parish. "Oh, yes;" said Bobby, "because we always have a good dinner when you come. Put I didn't expect you." "No." "No. I thought you'd go somewhere else, 'cause ma said yesterday that it was about time some other member of the church oflcrcd to entertain you."?N. T. Sun. The city of Mcxico has fifty bakeries and 1,598 places for the sale of intoxitants, including 817 shops where tho popular pulque is sold. This beverago has about the same potency as lager beer, and is regarded as a tonic and blood maker. .'-J' v ' }' ' S . i . ' V " : i' Cx f.X Agrlcultnro In Mexico. Although tlio main business of tlie country is agriculture, this branch of industry is curried on under exceptionally disadvantageous circumstanccs. One of its greatest drawbacks is that the whole country is divided up into emmense haciendas, or landed estates; small farms being rarely known; and out of a population of ten million or more, the title to I the soil is said to vest in not more than six thousand persons. Home of these estates comprise square leagues instead of square acres in extent, and arc said to have irrigating ditches from forty to fifty miles in length. Mor'? of the land of such estates are uncultivated, and the water is waistcd upon the remainder in the most rcckless manner. The titles by which such properties are held are exceedingly varied, and probably to a considerable extent uncertain. Some camc from the old Spanish Government, through its viceroys; some from Mexico, through its governors or political chiefs; whi.e over a not inconsiderable part of all the good land of the country, the titles of the Church, although not recognized by the Government, are still, to a certain extent, respccted. Added to all this, there is a marked indisposition oa the part of the large owners of real estate in Mexico to divest themselves of such property; and this for various roa.ions. Thus, in the heretofore almost permanently revolutionary condition of the country, the tenure of movable or personal property was the subject to embarrassments from which real estate, or immovable property, was exempt. Under the system of taxation which has long prevailed in Mexico, land also is very lightly burdened. And, finally, from what i3 probably an inherited tradition from Old Spain, the wealthy Mexican seems to bo prejudiced against investing in co-operative (stock) or financial enterprises?the railways, banks, and mines, in both Old Spain and Mexico, for example, being today mainly owned and controlled by English or other foreign capitalists.? Popular Scicnce Monthly. Teaching Dcnf Mutes to Read. Instruction is conveyed to deaf mutes in most instances by the use of sign language, or the manual alphabet. The foundation maxim of the methods used is "first ideas, then words." The mind must be roused to activity, and, as the foundation of knowledge which other children acquire by the aid of hearing are here wanting, progress is, of course, very slow at first. Usually, instruction is begun by the word method, words being connected with the object they represent. For instance, the child is shown some common object, or a picture of an animal, and the printed name of the object or animal is shown him at the same time. He is thus taught to connect names with their objects and to recognize printed words. "When a few words have been learned, tentences are framed, and the child is taught to recognize these as units embodying a complete i.lno -.--1 * 1 : uv?. xub |||1UI.UU lllltl LUC ?)gu Ul|Hlllbcts arc taught together, aud, when those are mastered, instruction in spelling is not difficult. After names of objects, their obvious properties, with numerals and verbs of action, are next taught. The adjectives first brought forward arc those of size and color, then prepositions of locality. The simple tenses are exemplified by calling attention to a series of actions. Much use is made of contrast of ideas. A child of 10 or 12 years of age, if possessed of ordinary intelligence, can usually, at the end of a year, construct for himself simple sentences about e very-day affairs. During the first two ?r three years text lmnlvft nrrnnrnfl p?ni>piiillir fnr rlnnf.nmtno are used, after that any text-books will sdrve.?Inter Ocean. Place to Pray. The sudden disposition to stoop low while seeking to avoid a shower of bullets is. well understood by those wha have experienced the sensation. A Western Colonel, whose regiment at the time mentioned was well to the front acting as reserve and support to the picket line, found one evening upon returning to his tent his new Chaplain, just come down , from the North. It being night, and no other place at hand, the Colonel offered his guest such hospitalities as his limited quarters afforded, at the same time informing him that the position was nol without danger. The Chaplain accepted. At early dawn the picket line was driven in with a rush, the first notice being a tornado of bullets crashing through and splintering up things generally in the tent. The Colonel involuntarilv crawlnd out, and as ho did so shouted back to hii reverend officer, "Got down on your knees, Chaplain I" That gentleman, nol understanding the protection intended by this suggestion, answered, "My God, Colonel, you don't expect mo to pray here, do you?" Innocent Childhood. "Tain't so," triumphantly exclaimed Bobbie from his perch on top of a chair, gazing down on Algernon's head. "What is not true," doubtfully asked his sister Maud. Why, you said Algy was so green that grass was growing from tho top of hit head, and (determinodly) there ain't anj there." IIow Maud explained tho situation ii unknown.?Detroit Fru Prttt. THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN. * A physician says that if arnica with which bruised limbs are bathed is heated its good effects arc perceptible much sooner than if applied while cold. A standing antidote for poison by poison oak, ivy, etc., is to take a handful of quicklime, dissolve in water, let it stand half an hour, then paint the poisoned part with it. Three or four applica biuus, it, is saiu, will cure the most aggravated cases. A retired pliisician living in Ohio, and suffering with diabetes, claims to And great relief in a diet consisting wholly of buckwlicat. lie states that when ho confines himself to a buckwheat diet exclusively, the disturbance in the stomach is relieved, as is also the pain in the eyes, due to the disease from which he has so long suffered. This remedy is a very simple one, and well worth trying. For ordinary nervous system being out of order or by excessive fatigue, a hot bath will so soothe the nerves that sleep will naturally follow, and upon getting up the patient will feel very much refreshed and the toothache gone. For what is known as "jumping" toothache, hot, dry flannel applied to the face and neck is very effective. For common j toothache, which is causcd by indigestion, or by strong, sweet acid or anything very hot or cold in a decayed tooth, a little piece of cotton steeped in strong camphor or oil of cloves is u good remedy. Care in tho diet, especially when the bowels are disordered, is helpful to mitigate toothache. If the tooth is much decayed, nothing is better than its extraction. Tho CJrlzzly Bear. The grizzly bear is the most formidable of all the game animals of this country, and is dreaded by all animals alike, with, perhaps, the exception of the mountain lion. It is the largest of the bear tribe, often attaining the weight of ovci 800 pounds, and a length of nine feet. Its strength is enormous; with a single blow it can fell a bullock, breaking its back, and one has been seen walking of! carrying a large buck beneath its arms. Its chief weapons are its long, sharp, chisel-edged claws, that arc gouge-shaped also, and terribly effective in tearing or lacerating a foe. The grizzly is found all along the range of the Rockies, and, aa we have seen, in the Sierra Madre, and as far north as latitude G1 >. In the north they feed more upon Hush than in the south; there the deer and bison often falling victims to its ferocity, and a large grizzty has been seen to kill a powerful bison with a single blow of its paw. All the rest of the bear family flee from man, but the grizzly attacks the hunter unchallenged and is a dreaded and respected opponent. Old hunters attribute many strange customs to the grizzly# They say it will never touch a dead animal, or one that has not fallen by its own prowess; also that it digs pits for its victims, and covers them up. It is said that wounded hunters often take advantage of the former habit and feign death, and so escape, the bear rarely molesting tnem 11 tne ruse is successfully carried out. The grizzly is dangerous game, for the reason that it is extremely . tenacious of life. Thus, if the sportsman waits until the animal is directly upon him and \ fires into the heart, he cannot always depend upon the immediate death of the beast. It may develop energy enough to do great damage, and many instances are on record where the body has been completely riddled with bullets, yet the animal has killed several men before it finally succumbed.?San Francisco Call Hand Organs. Hand-organs, writes u correspondent of the Troy Times, are a modern infliction, and have introduced the monkey, which is a feature formerly uukown in mendicant minstrelsy. The monkey, indeed, is so amusing that one almost forgets the organ-grinding while watching his antics. These animals are worth from $10 to $30, according to their training, and when an Italian owns his organ and monkey he is really well-to-do in the world. The best hand-organs cost from $100 v to $150, but those which so commonly torment the public rarely cost more than $40. The best are the flute organs, and t.VlfiV nlliv nftfirlv il Hny.nn tunoo nnrl oAma ?J 1 J J ?? have extra cylinders, which add to their capacity. The principal factory ia in Chatham street, this locality being so near the Italian quarter (Baxter street) that it is very favorable to trade. There are some Italians who own a number of organs, which they rent by tho season at a large profit and with but little loss. The grinder having finished his summer itinerancy, of course comes back for winter quarters, and thus pays his rent. Both organ-grinders and boy fiddlers have their regular routes, which they repeat year after year, and there seems to be some general arrangement which prevents interference. It is said that more than 800 of these peripatetic minstrels ./ have gone from New York this season, and yet it will be rare if two men visit l the same village. When cold weather sets in the grinders return to Baxter street, where they pack together?some- ' times nearly a dozen in a small room, with neither fire nor lights. The Italian M ! can sustain life under extreme privations, | and he seems content to sloop on tha floor and live on what ho can pick up.