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A Kodeth afbSov. St rn C.rpenter was born in Wash. Int4n OQtV, 'w York.' It .is' kow that he has performed fea t of strength unsurpassed by any man that has-lived in ancient or modern times, excepting, of course, the Biblical Samson, His ooonpation was that of a farmer. Being naturally of a very quiet, peaceable disposition, and a. inomber of the So cioty of Friends, hd nevr did anything for display to attract attention, but the feats of- strength, that he performed were done ifndro to satisfy himself and to see how much he could lift than for auythi4g oleo. All of his lifting was done by main strength, without har ness of any kind, Oue of his greatest foatn was lifting a box filled with iron which weighed 1900 pounds, which is equal to lifting 8800. pounds in a har neas. He hiftd it with- ease with his hands by grasping a ropo or chain which was bound around the box to seoureit. He did not know the weight of the kog of Iron at the time, and was afterward hoard to say that had he known it weighed so near: a ton he would have )ut on the othei' hun(red pounds and lifted the whole. At another time he lifted a cannon that weighed 1400 pounds and souldere,1 it. At Oomstock's Landing, on the Champlain .Oanol, near Whitehall, one day, while waiting for a load of merchandiso, he lifted a barrel. of white lead with ease, The writer of this article was an eye witness to this feat besides a number of others. His neighbors when killing hogs, if Stearn happened to be around, would ask him to guess the weight of a hog just killed. If it happoned to be a big one weighing 400 or 500 pounds lie would stoop down and twist his fin gers into the bristles, and in that way would lilt the carcass clear from the ground and guess at its weight. He performed one of the greatest feats of strength on record after he had reached the ago of 75 years. He lftcd two twenty'four-foot iron rails by grasping one in each hand, and walked oft' with them. The rails were resting on wooden horses, so Io did not stoop down to lift them. Ono day in haying time he was going from tho field with his men to the house for dinner. They were walking along the road together, when one of his men, for mischief, came up behind him and by a skilful trip threw Carpontor down. iIe gath. cred himself up and said nothing about it. He walked to the house, and after dinner, when returning to tho field with his men, they came along to the placo where the man gave him the fill. He suddenly turned upon the man, and, grasping him by the shoulder and th0 seat of his trousers, lifted him and hurled him high in the air above him and over a seven rail fence, by the mide of which they happened to be walking. The man came down in the meadow a rod or more from the fence, consideira bly shaken up, but not badly hurt. Mr. Carpentor was not a gigantic man in sizo. Ho was about six feet tall, and appeared much less thain that owing to his massive build. There was no sup)erfiuous flesh upon him, but the muscles of his airms, shoulders and neek seemed lo be piled upon him, so groat was thcir size. This gayc lhim a stoop ing appeairance. In a crowdi a casual observer' would not be likely to pilck him out for one cf the strongest men thait ever livedl. Ils strength woula equal if not surp)ass that of the great e Roman gladiator Mile. Ifelnlig at Taule. When rat last the work of carving is done, the delicate anti dillicult (duty of "'helping"'' 1egins. There enn b)e no0 peace of mind for the man who helps his family and his occasional guaests to i ny food, except soup andu oysters, bothI of which can be accurately and fairly divided. In the case of chaicken lie can .never give satisfatction. There is no rule in this matter, heyonid that of giving the cicklen legs to the boys, which can be followed. To ask people what part cf the chicken they pr'eer is simply mad ness. Ei ther ever*yblody tells the truth, and demands the best cut, in wvhich case all but 01n0 will be cxasperated by failing to have their wish gratified, or everybody will reply, '"any part," '"it makes no diff'erence," or words to the same mendacious and aggravating ell'ect. Of course, when the man who says ''it makes not (ifl'er enceo" is helped to anything but the breast, he becomes an enemy of the carv'er for life, and nothing canidisabuso him of the impression that lie has been wantonly insmited. It is.fair better to boldly help people without making any pretenso of consulting their wishes. They will then regard the earver nec a rudo and careless host; but they will Iacquit' him of any intention to piress open insuIte on his guesta, Perhaps the nmost dlifficuilt person to deal with Is the lady who says aho "prefers a leg." l.n the presence of this most trying person tihe carver is almost cer tain to make a mistake. The chances are that she abhors chicken logs, and expresses, for the sake ot poeliteness an allegett preference which she confident ly expects to be disregarded. To help such a one to a leg is to abuse her eon fldence and secure her undying hatred. On -the other hand, if she is one of those rare women who really have an abnormal fondness it r legs, she feels herself outraged if legs are withheld from her, and decides thiat the carver Is a selflsh 1br,ate, who has not iufloient deency to' respect a lady's wishes. We Oshall never know how many happy homes have been broken up, how mapy f$ena.dseanged, and-how much miscellanieous misery has been suffered merely because the duty of carving has beep plaoed in tho'hands of the fathers of American famIlies. iight Ithd At tor Bouse I'Mits. Plants will -not grow without light, and will not thrive without fresh and pure air. But some plants require less light than others, and some will do per fectly well without any sunshine. A knowledge of varieties of the habits and requirements of plants, is essential to the success of the window garden. Go to nature for this knowledge. Nature never makes a mistake. Her hints may be trusted implicitly. Find out in what relations to sunshino and moisture plants grow in their native conditions, The primroso, nestling under hedges where its leavec nre sheltered from ti sun and protected from the dow, where its roots dip into the moisture of ditches, tells us that we must not let our prim rose pots stand too fully in the sun, nor drench the leaves, nor let the roots dry up. The cactus, growing in hot sand plains, in climates whore the rain falls one half. the year, and the sun shines fierco!y the other half, has a lesson on its own leaves for those who would be successful in the treatment of cacti. Most of the palms grow in forest jungles in the tropics, and mani festly heat, moisture, and shade are the requirements for palms, with fibrous earth full of decaymg vegetable matter for their roots. So with all plants; one must know them intin:ately to entice them to their best expression in the window gardoD. All plants do not need su1shino; so if you have no sunny windows, do not despair of having pretty plants. Ferns, many of the palms, tradeseantia or "wandering Jew," ivies, and lycopodium do not need the sun. Fuchias, begonias, lily of the valley, need but little sun, and many of our loveliest wild flowers grow best whon partially shaded. But all plants require fresh, pure air. Most plants thrive best in moist air. Oas is fatal to plants. Theso facts should be kept in mind. Many a drooping plant is crying out for air, and not for the deluge of water that you pour about its roots. Leaves drink as well as roots. And if leaves drink they must not only have good moist air to drink, but tHwy must be kept clVan, so that their nouth pores may be able to take it in. A growing plant nceds as much washing as a growing baby. Smooth-leaved plants need moro washing than those that have rough leaves. The rough leaved plants have their pores protected from the dust by little forests of minute hairs, many of them need no wetting, but the dust should be frequently blown from them with the bellows or the breath. Plants that are growing need much mor, air and water than plants that are resting. Most flower ing plants exhaust thomselves in bloom ing. When the last blossom has fallen the pot may be taken from the window and set in an out- of-the-way corner. There it wvill rest for a while. Then it will have a period of root growth, and by and by new shoots and leaves will appear, which is a sign that it is ready for blooming again, and it may be phiaced once more in the full light of window, ,ii Th WVaas ligt;lx Unti er. lHe is a chlaracter. Hie is usually a colored gentlemiani, and ho supl iies families and single boarders with meals at so much per month. Twenty dlollars a month Per person is the averago price, and for that sum he will bring to your rooms your breakfast and dinner in a square tin b)ox every morning andl evening for thirty days. This t>ox is about two feet square withI shelves in. aide of it of gratedl iron like 1hose of a bake.oven in a cooking stove, Jt opens at the end, and the victuals arc placed smoking on their shielv' a, and the box is then closed ready for carrying. It is no', the most pleasant way to live. Sometimes the food gets cold, tihe coffee pot tips into the breakfast, anid thme salt and pepper aro mixed with the preserves an,l the sugar. Soimetimues a knife is forgotten, and others a napkin fails to make an appearance. Alter trying it a week or so, tho'bonde~r ofteni becomes dtisgusted and goes back to the boarding-house table of gossip, or takes his meals at one of the nnmerus restauraiits to be found in r*very quar ters of the city. Thousands of people live at restaurants in Washington. Many mneimbers of Congress eait nowhere else. A meal can be gotten for fromi twenty-five cents up as high as you wish to go. The twenty-live cent meals are not to be praised, and thirty live or fifty cents is the least for which one can get a passable breakfast or dinnmer. There are some restaurants wvhero for eighteen 'or twenty dollars a month you can get twvo meals a day, but those of tihe bettor class cost, more and the best range from one dollar a day upwards. Two meals a day is all that is included in board, and the greater number of p)eple in Washing toa eat no more, though many take lunches at noon. The rule is a good breakfast at 8 or 9) o'clock, a cup of cofice at 1, and a diner, supposed to lbe a big meal, at 4 or 5 ini the after. noon. Itaivenn ,and 'iheep. A Bcotch grazier says auring nine days, twvo ravens killed na fewer than thirty strong i nil-grown sheep. Their mode ot set ion was discovered to b0 ais fellows : The mother-bird wouldl fly oni to the sheep's face, fixing her claws below the eyes, and seizing the top of the head with her bill, woubut flap wvith 1-cr wings andt screams frIghtfully. 1ier nmate, over near, woul, when the sheep was so fixed, get oni her back and dig a hole through to the kid neys. The sheep, dlistractedl and1 blhied, would sonmetimnes run over the cliff, seine times into a ditch, and1( somietimes fall down exhausted In no case were the ra vens known to leave their victims untfi life was extinct, snapping the windpipe to that end, when other means failed ; and m no case were they known to feed en the sheep's carcass. The less of their young ones which had been kIlled, excIted t,hem to madnes., and the sheep seemed to bie the only- lving 9nng en which they could vent their rage. Eidel'l\oso luttoI A writer in Troyi :Kansas says inc 8t ot our older citizens will remember Mose Kite (who lived in Petersburg Bottoim), the hero -oY our State's early political history, who was of stalwart build and powerful physique; who in 1858 led a colony of our people to Pike' Peak; who fought the Indinus on the plalins and was sbot through the body; who on his re. turn here after the rebellion was converted and baptized by Elder Henshall, of the Christian church at Petersburg Bottom, and became t. revi val preacher cf celebrity all through this section. They will also recall the fact that, attacked with consumption and re duced to a skeleton, he was obliged to remove to the Rookies in .the hope of saving his life. None thought he would succeed. Last fall, however, the author of this article met him at the head of the Republican river, bigger and more ro bust than (ver. "Why, I thought you had died of consumption long, long ago, Elder?" "Mo? I never had consumption man i though people thought that was what ailed Ime,.and I thought so'myself. But the doctors had sent me on a wild-goose chase after a dozen other diseases, just as fatal, and this was the wildest one of all." The good Elder then recounted to us, in a charming vein, his many adventures in the rough and ready life ho had led, "lbut," he said, "remarkable as you may think my warlike life has been, I have a much mere interesting story to tell you. "You know what a rough, noisy fel. low I used to be; and I could stand any hardship. Why, on a wager, I have knocked down an ox and a mule with my flst. I have fought ruflians, border outlaws and Indians; but I was dogged for years, by a more dangerous unseen enemy that was over getting me more completely in his clutches. I was shot by an Indianu in a fight on the plains, but that wound healed readily and gave mo but little trouble. After l returned i to Kansas and commenced preaching, I i first began to give way. I had a dull I teling, accompamed with a pain in the I right sido. Dr. Butler, our family phy- t sician, said my liver wias out of order, caused by the. malaria of the bottoms. I had always had an appetite like an ostrich, but my digestion became seri ously impaired. While on the circ:iit preaching, I consulted a doctor, who said I bad dyspepsia. After that, is tressing palpitation of tho heart followed, and the physician said this was caused by my indigestion and diseased livor which would probably terminate fatally. Sometimvs I id a ravonous.appetito, at others none at all. I. was feverish and then chilly. My food seemed to do m no good. A specialist told mo 1 had a tape-worml Ihen I was troubled with um.sal quantities of wator and a Iro quent desire to urinato, which was done with dilliOulty and great pain. The specialist said I had a touch of the gravel, caused by use of the alkaline water of the plains. I then began to isuifer sovero pains in the loins and the small of the back, accompanied with suddne atuacks of dizziness during which I had to sit or lie dowil, to avoid falling. I was forced to abandon traveling and p.roaching because I cou-A no longer ride on horseback, or trust myself out ailone. I begaii to be seriously alarnmed,1 and sought the advice of the most noted lIhyyiciati within reach, HeI said thati my frequent horseback riding haid jolted and jarred mec until the old iindian i wound, which had lijuredl my kidneys, had become inflamie(. Ho treated meni with mieiicines and electricity also but< gave me ino permanent beneit- My pamnful symptoms all returnd, I began to cough, got very thini and my legs I were tasagreeably numb. I began to tlespalir. At each attempt to euro. miy ailnents becamne worse, with new symip tomns. .L next consulted a celebra-ed phyisician from the East, who, niter thumping and examining me. slated that I. was in an advanced stiige of conisumip- 1 tion and thsreate ned with diabetes and paratlysial 11o thought I might possibly prolong my life for a year or two, b~y seeking a higher and drnier climna'o, TIhis was my coniditioni wihen the peopl'e in your part of the country last summer. Tlhen I started for the Rockies but hked2( this country, and settled here. At iltst the change helped ime, but about i three yoears ago the benefit Ceensod. T'hen 1 failen so rapidly that .L could be out of becd only part of cach, day. All my o'ld symiptomes returnled. At this I crisis, a party of Eastern gentlenien, on a butlalo hunt, made my house their I headquarters.- Inl the party was a Dr, Wakelield, whlo informed mnc that I had a bad ease of iucurable Bright's Diseasoe anid gave me a preparation which might, ho said, ease me for a few weeks or umonthis, but that was the best that could be done. I have comnmeinced p)reachiing again; for I look upt tihe circumstances I and manner of my cure as a direct in torposit ion of Providence, and to Provi donce are my services due. That is my story. I think it is a good a romane-_ andi muchi bettor, for it is true." Stingy Waya. "I see," she obseived 8s she locked up from tier paper, "that another woman who vas p)erfectly sane all the time has been just reikased from a lunatic asylum aff r a de-. tentlon of three years.'' "'Y es,"' briefly replied the husband. "bhc was incarcerated by lier husband,'' "YeP." "Who wanted her out of tho ,way that he magl.t marry another woman." "In ease you desIred to dispose of me you would probably have inc shut me upt in a lunatic asylum.'' "'No, ma'am ; I snouldi poison you. That's the cheaper aint better wvay. As a .nani of bunness, and as ani ativocate of financial economy, I have thought this matter over time andh again, aind I should certainly prefer to spenri fifteen cents for arsenic to paying out $10 to $15 per week Ior goodlness knows how long." Ste looked at lim a long time with a whole iceb)erg in each eye, and thein turned to her paper with the remark: "Juet like your stingy ways ; you never want mne to have anything like other folks." - t iHeal estate at Jerusalem is evidently by t no meana stagnant, siunce the American consul in that city reports the issue of per. mits for buiding sixty-fiye new houses andi for adding to sixty. three others. IIouses of ~ modern style are fahionable in the sub urbe, and there is a rise in rents. Not otly has the populatiou of Jerusalem n- C creased (turing the year, but flint of Jaffa a and Hebron, the chief gain being an influx e of Russian Jews fleeing from persecution, "Jtudea for the Jews" may soon become a rallying cry. Jaffa contains nearly '20,000 people, b The Scicnt1l/Z Amnencan says that one ft of the surest destructive agents for carpet a bugs is hcnnc, thoroughly applie. AGROUVi'UR. 4obTil UAHOLMS's PuoitIATIk.--Tlh leposits of phosphate toes. to the mining yf which the Sea Islands owe, to d great xtent, their present prosperity, extends from the CooDer 1lver on the norto to the Brood Itiver on the south. The tract of land and water supposed to be underlaid by the phosphate stratum is about one hundred miles long by twenty-five miles w!d-. Originally, I think, all this tract was under water, and the islands were fornied by the slow growth of sand bars and the gradual elaation of the country. .rhe phosphate rocks lie on a bed of clay, not in a solid sheet, ai might be expected, but much as paving stones, in the sand Ued of a city's streete. The stratum is of the average thickness of one toot. An acre will yield 1000 tons of dried phos phate rock fit for the market. In the riv Pra and shallow bays the stratum is gener. ally covered by a thin layer of sand or muck, and many tons of loose rocks are scattered widely on the almost solid sur race or the main deposit. These pieces have probably been toi n up from the pave ment by the tides. In the marshes the rock is covered by from three to twenty [eot ot muck, and under the islands it is deeply covered by sand and gravel. It is "Inly such rock as lies under the water, or Is carried by a shallo* deposit of muck on ,he marshy ground, that is worked at pre. sent. The process of obtaining this rock is called mining; but, when it is under water, it Is more I.roperly fishing, as from )ight to.twonty feet of water cover the Itratum at high tide. I judge that the 3lay bed on whtc)i'the phosphate rock lies was a pasture ground for large mastodons hat grazed to and fro at will over the nahy ground as the tide ebbed and flow .d. The fossil remains of sharke, clamus, ysters and mastodons are scatered broughout the phosi>hate formation. The Dhosphate rock that is to be shipped rom these ports Is washed clean of all and and muck and then dried, It is wash !d by being thrown into a concave trough, lightly inclined, in which an endless crew ever turning torces the phosphate ipward. At the upper cud of the trough heavy stream of water enters, being miped up from the river or bay. The urning of the screw loosens the material hrown into the trough Pnd allows the vater to work freely on the sand and nuck sticking to the phosphates and wash ng them away, while the larger pieces of ock, unable to 1,ass under he flanges of lie screw, are forced upward in a heavy ,olunn. The phosphates are discharge nto an inclined screen,and there whatever and or muck may have been held by the noving muass of rocks is wasbed off by an oher stream of water, and falls through he screen into a trough, and is carried to he river bank and discharged into the idewater. The rock as it comes from the icreens fails into smaii cars;these, as filled ire pushed Into te drying house, empty *ars taking their place under the discharg ng spouts. In the dryinr room are four )ins, each holding about 800 tons. These >ins have perforated iron pipes running icross theni. These pipes are in short ections, and fit together like gas mans. l'hey are placed into position as the phos. hates are dumped into the bins. All Whese )ipes connect with an oven simiular to a iot-blast oven of an iron furnace. The )in being filled with ore and the per'ora ed pipes being properly conn(cted with he hot-air oven the blowing engine begins york, and the heated air is blonn into the nsass of wet rocks. in from twelve to weinty days the phiosphiates are thoroughly Iriedl and are ready for ahipmiient. The less ni drying is about 20 per cent. The phoesphate beds when under water ire the property of the State. They are bhrownu open to anty ;'arties who may wish 9 nine oni their agreeing to pay a royalty )i Si per ton. Exclusive right to mine irnder the waters of any tract are no Ion ?,er g' anted. TIhus far in 1880, some 140 )Ot0 tons of rock have been fished up. The royalty on this amount of rock amounts to bout one fourth of the revenue of South Jarohna. TIhe rock diried and ready for hip ment is sold at, an average p)rice of $8 i(r toni on bonard ship. [lie wec k1 pay of the negroes employed )y the companies considlering Beauifort heir hieadquiarters amounts to about $7000. i'hie payment. of this sum weekly to the iegroes exp'lainis the prosperity of the 'W!aek County'' of. South Carolina. Pns russon i8nniTvaa says, regarding veeds, that it, is an impossibiity to select in i.veragc plant among thenm for experi nuent, as the growth varies in localities. r'ho nuinber or epecies of weeds which :an start on a limited ares is very surpris mig. Ina a pear orchard that had been >lowedi and( hairrowedi last season a single (1inare oo:, of ground was found to con ain 856 growing plants, comprising seven hastiit species, niot counting grasses or lovers. One plant containedi 24 species f weeds, a lawn 18, the fields 30, and the ~arden 22. A OonRHsP8iOUNENT of the Country (fcn. Clcman claims that clover benets and en, icheus the soil by adding carbon thereto, it ontaining 50 per cent, of that element, nd further states that "Surely the absur iity of raising clover and pens for tie lit. le bits of mitrogen thiey contain is appar mit. Secure carbon in the soil and in the ircu lation of the air it will grasp a hun hrcd times its bulk ot nitrogen, and hold >n to it as food for oxygen to form nitric ocid, or as foodl or hydrogen to form am iina in the great chemuical action brought uito play by lile-" Asa decorative plants single dahlias will >ecomne very popular. They are easily ;rown, produce an abundance of bloom, 11nd are not at all fastidious as to sod and tosition, They can be treated as animals, ond, provided a good strain of seed it ob aimedl, the aniateur may dlepend upon get mug a great variety of color. TIho seedl hould be sown early in Jauary and rown on until May. By that timie they vili be strong plants. A few might be rown in po0is for wInter decoration, while hose iiiteii(den for sunmner display should e planted out. ffswox corners with their mass of brush nid weedls afford secure retreat for such roublesoflie insects as live through theo rinter, andl for the dleposite of egge of thers readly to hatch out in early spring, lie larvm prepared to engage in depreda ions upon tihe first plants that appear. 'ire p)uts an cend to most ot these, and tius the destroying clement lessena the la or and saves the crope of the farms. MALlTREII dissolved at the rate of one nd a half to two ounces to a gallon of !ater. andi applied with a sorinkier, ril completoly banish the European slbbage worm. .it has proved not only sure cure for this iiuisance, but a pecial fertilizer in stimulating an in reseed growth ot plant.] ONE pound of fresh eggs ms worth al test as much for food as two pounds of cef. An egg contains overy necessity ir the development of the perfect animal; ad yet eggs properly cooked are rarely mnd on tha tar,iAr's table. DOAMBT104 iW id holnething which Will Rive employment to the children. on days sometimes dreaded by quiet-loving mothers, when the scbools are out and the house is full of noise and frolics. Get some plaster of Paris and water, and provide some moulds; these may he borrowed from the kitchen pudding moulds, blanc-mange moulds, scalloped cake-tins, and even plain but prettily-shaped bowls, will any and all answer every purpose. Now set the children to .work; let them mix the plaster and -water, and 1111 the moulds. If any of the articles they make are of such sizo and shave that they can be hung on the wall,~provido some loop of ribbon or of braid, and when the mould is about half full of plaster lay the end of the loop in and then pour more plaster over it. When the plaster is hardened lbe loop will be found to be securely fastened in, and capable of sustaining the weight of the article. When the plain bowl is used, or a deep plato, the article moulded will resemble a plaque, and can be decorated by pasting some bright pioturo or paint ing some design on it.. A UNIQUE ORNAMENT. -A unique or nament for the corner of a room is made by procuring a well seasoned board, about ihreo feet and a half long and eighteen inches wide. This is to be covered with dove colored felt, on which is embroidered in crowels a bunch of eat-tails and grasses. The effoct to be sought in arranging the group is that of being laid upon the board when freshly gathered. There must be no stiffness in the arrangement; the grases and seeds muost be of unequal lengths, some of them reaching quite to the top of the board, and all uniting at the bottom as if <(ropped from the hand. ' This may be placed in any graceful position in the corner of the room. MA1uE.--ChOp your meat (cold) very fine, season with salt and pepper, and add one cup of raw rice to two cups of chopped meat. Take the leaves off a cabbage as whole as possible; pour over thom boiling water, and let them lay until thoroughly wilted. Take a good spoonful of the mixture and place in each leaf, rolling it tight and packing them in the kettle; then add water enough to cover them, and boil an hour and a half. A good bowl of gravy is a great improvement on this dish. A few bones at the bottom of the kettle will provent burning while cooking. AN exchange recommends the use of fresh, green grape leaves to place on top of pickles in jars in place of flannel or other cloth usually employed. He claims the leaves will preserve the vie gar sharp and clear, and impart a nice flavor. The leaves should be rinsed in puro water and loft to drain before use, and occabionally changed. They ex clude the air, and besides imparting a delightful flavor to the picklo, cause less trouble to the housewife. B=D's NEST PUDDINa.-Pare si:k ap ples and take out the cores without breaking them. Fill the holes where the cores came out with sugar, after placing the apples in an earthen pud ding dish. Make a batter of one pint of milk, two tablespoonfuls of flour and three eggs. Pour this over the apples and bake until the fruit is soft. Servo with "cream sauce." The sauce-alf a cup of butter, beaten until very light; one cup of powdered sugar, half a cup of cream. Set the dish in a basin of hot water and stir until it is all creamy; It will only take a minute or t wo. CATaxiLn MLKn POTATOEs,--Take good sound potatoes, cut them in slices, (rawv), and put the milk, according to> the quantity you wish to make, in a pudding dish; then after you have put the potatoes in the milk put it in the oven for about twenty minutes, then take out and put the peLitoes with the same milk into a saucepan to boil until done; season before you put thoem to boil. BoILED COD.-SOW the fishi up in a piece of mosquito-nettinig. Put on in pilent.y of boilhng water, a little salt, allowing about twelve minutes per~ pouind. Unwrap; lay upon a hot dish, and pour ever it--serving the same in a boat--a cuptul of drawn b)utter mamde from the fish pot liquor, aiid containing, beside butter and flour, the p)ounde<d yolks of two boiled eggs and a table spoonful of chopped green p)ickle. BEVoUE putting a roast of veal in the oven cover the upper side of it with tim slicea of 'bacon. Unless you have tried this you will be surprised to find wvhat a deli',ato flavor and rich brown color will be imparted to the otherwise almost tasteless meat. Thme gravy will be greatly improved, and the dressing also, if the knuckle is stuffeid. RENOVATING FUn.--Take a large tin paln; put a pint of wheat flour ini it; put the cloak in it; rub it thoroughliy with the hands until the flour looks dark; then if the fur is not white enough, rul> it again with more clean flour; thon rub it with pulverized chalk.- This gives it a pearly-wvhite look. It is also good to clean knit nubias. NouEnumsa and appetiv ing gruel may be made of Indian meal. Take a table spoonful of sifted meal, and, aftter rub bing it smooth in cold wvater, add a teaspooinful of salt and pour over this a pint of boiling water, stirring tile meal constantly while adding the -water, so that it will not be lumpy. Let it boil slowly for half an hour, and then a tablespoonful of cream may be added. H1AM CooiKED IN CIDEn.-Pmit a pint of cidler and a cup of brown sugar into enough water to cover the hiam; boil three hours, or until the skin will peel off easily. Remove the skin, cover the h1am with a crust of sugar, and bake ill ii slow oven three hours. Dissolve a eup of sugar in a pint of cidoer anmd baste the ham frequently while baking, if the cider is very sweet use less sugar. A CUnE FeoB COnD.-loil two ounces of flax seed in one quart of water; strain, indl add two ounces of rock candy, one half pint of hloney, juice of thlrce lemons; mx and le,t all boil well; let cool andi aottle. Doso, one cuul onci going to bed, one-half cupful before meals. The hotter you driftk it the better. PAN PIE.--Lino a deep) tin with pie rist; fill with the best tart apples; out hmii slices of pork, and lay over the top; uwoeten with half brown sugar and the ,est molasses; a little salt and sprinkle >f allspIce. J3ake three hours in a slow >ven. BTHwXD ONIONs.-TOp, tail, and skin, 3oil in two waters, throwing both away. WVhen the onions tire tender, have ready n a saucepan a cup of drawn butter,. hay the onions in it, simmer ten min ites, and serve in the sauce. FLAT ThONS.-A good way to make lat irons smooth is to rub them with 'lean lard andl rub dry. I . !At*'uarriages of D*d4,ed1. A diase, like the ibdividial hIhout it is locaized, has a genealogy. It has f4 an ancestry of "morbid conditions" all i cotamingled, and transmitted from suf forer to sufferer, until "by inherlm dispositions, accumulating and oom, 1 bining in definite proportions," altering. I for good or evil according to the soil a on which it grows, a now one Is pro-i duced. This, In a few words, strippecC of its technicalities. and deprived, un. fortunately, also, of the wealth of t] illustration with which it is accom- a panied, is Sir James Paget's ingenious t theory. Its attractions are undeniable, b its plausibility great, and though the author, in addressing a professional audience, forbore deducing a moral, j the lessons which it irresistibly sug- a geats are too patent to escape notice. b That ohddren inherit the courage, V t cowardice, prodigality, frugality, face, t figure, complexion, tone of voice, and 0 talents of the parents is, of course, a tj truism. It is equally certain that dis - fl eased parents bequeath their frailties 0 to their offspring. Scrofula, cancer, s onsumption, opilepsy, rheumatism, gout, insanity, cretinism 'and albinism a'e among the most familiar of the dis - ii eases or defects which "run in familfes." I A craving for alcohol is a recognized e "morbus," handd down from father to son, whilo listlessness, sloth, ifa practicability are as really transmitted g as a capacity for work and a clear brain f from one generation to another. A n prudent person hesitates to marry a consumptive, or a member of a family in which insanity has appeared, thw3 C acknowledging the soundness of the il data muntioned. Consanguinity is be- c lieved, and justly so-to intensify the 1 risks of transmission, though only be- b oa"se theie is a chance of near relatives, tA such as cousins, being tainted with the h same family trouble. Yet little care is y taken to avoid dangerous "intermar-. J ringes of diseases," to use the phrase which Dr. Benjamin Richardson has so happily coined. If both parents il havr. a tendency to the same malady, t] the children can scarcely escape. But d if caicer and consumption wed, there 1 is hardly a hope of the offspring escap ing early death or prolonged misery h from cancer, lupus, comsumption. 1 tuberculosis of the brain, epilepsy, t, diabotes from nervous injury, or some 1 variation or combination of the three. The intermarriage of rheumatism -and consumption is productive of hydro- 0 cephalus, and diseases of the bony y framo-work of the body, such as the t hip-joint disease so comnion among a weakly children. The State does not v in modern timos-as in a more heroic age-exercise a control over marriage. It is, therefore, all the more immErative r tn those who are swvayed by so:ne re- I gard for posterity not to neglect in mar. ~ riago every consideration save those of ~ affection, wealth, position or social itness, when their own future sorrow and that of another .eneration arc in- e volved in their noglect of the laws of v nature. t vatiuo or Mrontan,a Girasses.* it is claimed that Montana grasses axe richer and stronger than any in the i world. They grow in bunches, and a have solid stalks from six to ten inches E in height, whose heads are filled with sweet nutritious seeds. It is a kind of "standing hay" for Winter use. As we sawv it, it looked like wheat, dead r:ipe, v and it is said to ietain this color till I Spring. But while the pasturage is so) free and open, still every ranchmani has ~ a his owni range with his cabin and corral ~ for branding service. After branding S his cattle and turinig them loose for U the 'Winter, lie is careful not to humor 6 them oni the af. proach of a storm by C feeding them at home, and they soon become indepondlent and learn to "rius tie" for themnselves. As b~f ore men tioned, the Winter of 1879--80 was very ti severe, and thousands of cattble perished " on the ranges. Many stock men arc t now building sheds near well snoeltered g canyons, as a p)recautionary measure, rt and also cutting aLd putting uip hay u at a cost o)r only about $1 a ton. E~x. 0. perielico is teaching them that with k their wide margins they can aiflord i more expense. Trho average cost of raising a steer, not counting the inter- mi est on the money invested is only about I' $1 a year. lHe will .bring on the rancho ti in market condition about $20, and at the railroad $25. With such handsome a profits there is no excuse for careless ti management, and some of thn large tI growers are becoming more careful of ti their stock during the Winter. They I will supply a herder for about every t thousand cattlo,whose duty it is simply ti to natah them from a distance, ride b riroundi the outskirts and follow up any b trails loading away. a -, , ci (ndest, ren In the WVori, Thei~ oldest tree In tho worhi, so far l iis anyone knows, is the JDo tree of the ai sacred city of Amarapoora, in Burnmah, hi It was planted 288 B. (I., andl is thore- fr roro now 2170 years old. Sir James W Imerson Tonnet gives reasons for be-.o lieving that the tree is rea.hy of this a wondierful age, and refers to lh tori ki locuments in which It is mentioneel at hii lifl'erent dates, asi 182 A. 1).,.228 A. D,, 'u md so on to the prcseont day, "To it.," re e asys Sir Jamnea, "kingsi haveoeven i khodcated their donilnions, in testimnoiy E >f belief that it is a branch of the as denticalh tree uinder which Iiuddamh ro- in dlined at Urumelya whoeo ha underwenit p~ uis ap)othieoais." 1's heaves are carried81 away as streamers by pilgrims, but it is 00 sacred to touch with a kmif,, and he.refore they are only gathered when tet hey fall. The king oak in Windsor ba ~orest, England, is 1000 ycars old. tra ..... r, --In London plum stones are bought pe Lo to be nut Inta nauteae ja- E a A Terrible Trge4Y' John d 1Tarir'en,ti, Ia >t murder in tb quis, F or yVje ad borne an evil 'reputation. He was rraigned to-day to stand trial for the Airder of Michael Payton, a bdke*: rhom he had stabbed in a drinking sa. >on, on the night of August 20,.1881, 'ayton lived about a week afto. thp tabbing. Parker's subsequent arrest ras not his first. aquaintanc with tho: bw. Four or five years before a young ian named Thompson was stabbed at danco in his own house and died of le wound. Parker, who was known 3 "Johnny," was accused of the (time, ,ied and acquitted. Publio opinion, owever, never was agreed upon .the oint of his innocence. , Nellie Prker, his young wife, was a, tight, pretty and delite little woman. 'hough her family is not wealthy; her 3oial position was so much bettier than er husband's that their marriage aboilt Vo years ago made quite a local sensa on. Her devotion to the man of her hoice, rough and desperate as he was, ras known long before the tragedy of )-day. Ever since Parker's arrest, the all form of the young wife has been Dstantly seen about the jail, and the ympathy of all employed about the til was hers. The court was crowded. The young ,ifo, Nellie, was there, her baby boy 1 her arms. With her were two of 'arker's sisters. They seemed calm and von cheerful, and as soon- as she could nuage it crossed to the barred cage here he was confined, and leane I gainst it talking to him through the ratiAg. The attendants made way )r her, and noticed the affectionate ature of her greeting to him and the ontleness with which he replied to er. Whilo they were conversing Gov. 1harles P. Johnson, his attorney, rose i the court and asked permission to mnsult with his client in the jury room. ermission was granted. An officer >ck the man from the cage. Nellie, ith a smile, handed the laughing baby > her sister-in-law and walked beside er husband across the court, the law ars, (ov. Johnson and Presley N, ones leading and the sisters foilowing. 'he spectators gazed at the little pro. assion with some interest, but, save ie wife and husband, no one knew that was a proccAsion to death for two of [em. Yet such it was. To the rough, esperato fellow it was the way to de verance, even through the grave. But : the little creature by his side it was uch a test of will power that it can ardly be measured, She knew that e was going to kill her; she had ageed D die at his hands. He had the wea ,on of fate deftly concealed. Clinging to her husband, despairing t heart, but calm of face, she passed ii with him and entered the jury room. jife closed upon her as the attendant )eked the door whereby they had on. Dred. Hiusbaud and wife sat down on bench together. Not a sign of fear ras upon either. She sat with her hand -i his. He talked earnestly with his twyers. Governor Johnson arose and ft the jury room With' a grave face. 'resby d ones sat near by writting. leither lawyer suspected that the whole fair had been the ruse of a desperate can and woman weary of life. The door had closed behind Gov. ohnson and the ocup)ants of the room -Parker, his wife aunt the busy attorney xcepted-wcre watching in a dumb ray the attendant who was shooting he bolts. At this moment it was that 'arker swiftly drew his pistol and, put mng the muzzle against the back of his rite's head, pulled the trigger. The eport rang out and brought all to their >ens the young wife tumbled forward a heap to the floor--dead I Before ny one could take a stop toward the lurderer Parkt r had fired again, the ullet this time piercing his own brain, le fell beshte her-not dead, but soon die. Cointernation was on every face, ourt otlicials rushed in andl doctors ere summoned. In forty minutes arker breathed his last. T1he traged.' 'as over. The mnurderer left a letter >his sister saying : "See that I am put longei<te my little boy Morris and give uir bodica to my old friend, John P. [ullaly. The Knits of Honor will Lke care of my sweet, loving wife, ive my love to all, and especial.y Tom aliahan, itoaurrczoon of a PrehisItoric Raco. About ten miles from Cincinnati, along io Little Miami river, is a locality hich has long been known to the coun y people as the 'Pottery Field." The round was strewed with fragments of ottery. bones, arrow-points, and other nmns of like chalauator, and the place as generally co:nsidered to be the site an ancient workshop. The primitive resi still occupies the locality, and is ade up of oak, beech, el01, maple,, anut, etc. All around are found n eroums mounds of tumuli, most of them nail. A few of these were opened by lomtn~ iaque, in 1876, and some in rting igg fond ut in 1878, r.CalsMetz and other gentlemen' terested in archloelogy commenced a ~stomatic exploration of the country ereabout, anid so much has been found ut we are enabl, d o form some Idea of me habits, and get a glimpse into the fe, of the people whlo ce lived in 1e immediato vicinity of the city of incinnmati. During the four years that me excavations have been carried on, etween 650 and 700 skeletons have een brought to light. Many of them *e in advanced state of decay, and umble to pieces on the slightest touch, hile otheris, again, arc in a very good ate of preservamtion. It can, therefore, irdly be inferred that, because some the skeletons are much decayed, they e neessarily very old ; for though we7 ive well-preserved remains of bones em Bbylon,, Nineveb and Egypt, hieh'are certainly 2,500 or 3,000 years I, still the causes are exceptional in inch they are found in good condition ter the lapse of many years. Difi'erent uds of soil and1( difference in climate wve much to do with the matter ; for, a dry and equablechmato, bones may sist ior- a lng time the influence I 1ich would caus.e their decay, while, a moist (chmaute, aLdiwithi sudden and tremo chaliges of temiperature, sueh we have here, anmy bome, unles-buried peOat, or subject constantly to heavy essure, so as to become partially fos ized, is liable to soon decay, frtita of ,Stel.--A patent recently gran I in Vienna and Bierlin is for using dad of steel, teumpered and h'ardeneda, to amit motion frcm one pulley to anoth. in belting. The faces of the pulleys, ordhing to this arrangem ent are turned fectly flat and then covered with a var. blof rosin, shoHlac and asphalt