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SELECT SIFTINGS. Pennsylvania established the first hos pital in America in 1751. In Paris the latest fancy is the cos- uming of cats and dogs. One million dollars of gold coin weighs 36S5 pounds avoirdupois; of silver coin. 58,020.9 pounds. There are over a million miles of telegraph wire in the United States, enough to encircle the globe forty times. A hoy was arrested in Philadelphia recently for stealing his sister's diamond wedding ring the day before the cere mony. Hrooklyn (N. Y.) Socialists have opened a “School of Oratory,” in which they expect" to ednoite Socialistic agitators. A perfect pearl weighing twenty seven grains was found recently by a Potts- town (Penn.) boy iu a mussel along the French creek. The culture ot oranges in California dates back to the time of the old Mission lathers, who, it is staled, brought the seed from Spain. The smallest amount spent by the Gov ernment for pensions iu one fiscal year was in 1862, <1853,095. The largest was last year, $106,935,855. The grape growers and the wins mak ers of California both complain that there is no profit in their business on ac count of combinations formed by the dealers. Among the extinct crabs one has been found, known as the ptcrygotus, that measured nine feet in length, and was undoubtedly the devastator of its kind in the ancient seas. The cells of the human lungs are 75,- 000,000 in number, covering a surface from two and a half to throe and a half times greater than the whole body surface of ten full grown men. In its native habitat the shell of the oyster is always a little open, and micro- scopie, waving hairs set up currents which carry the food plants to its mouth, where they are engulfed aud afterward digested. An Italian statistician has calculated that during the last hundred years 0030 persons perished in seventeen principal maritime disast as, without reckoning the lives lost in smaller shipwrecks and accidents. It is staled that among the records in the Tower of Loudon, a document was found according to which a man was hanged iu the time of Edward I. for no other crime than having been caught burning coal. A vast “banyan” tree has been dis covered on the tiny Lord Howe Island, 300 miles from Port Macguarie, iu Aus tralia. It covers between six and seven acres, and is thus inferior only to the greatest 61 those iu India. Tabasco sauce is made on an island iu the Gulf of Mexico of herbs indigenous to the place of its manufacture. Its formula is a secret. It is shipped from said island in large quantities to New Orleaus and Galveston, which are the principal distributing points for it the world over. John Wesley attributed his sound health at eighty-three to his ability to go to sleep at any moment; to the habit of rising at four o’clock and generally preaching at live, one of the most healthy exercises in the world; and to his never traveling less by sea or land than 4500 miles iu a year. In a lecture in New York city, Mr. George Frederick Kunz, the expert in gems, mentioned instances where gems have been found in America. lie spoke of the discovery of a rough mass of sap phire in Franklin, N. C-, weighing 300 pounds, and of a diamond iu Virginia weighing 11$ carats. Each of these was shown on the screen. Laugh. There is more benefit in a good laugh than in all the hot water remedies, faith cures, cold water, electric and all other new-fangled . treatments in the world, and it does not cost anything. Laugh. If you know of nothing else to laugh at laugh at your neighbor, lie is probably improving his health by laughing at you.—Atchison Globe. The application of rubber to wheel tires has proved a great boon to bicycl ists, aud the increase in this branch of industry is remarkable. There are 101),- 000 bicycles made every year in this country, mid 40,000 more are imported. As all these have tires of the best rub ber, it can be seen that a good percent age of the world's supply is absorbed in this way. Ti e army of (he United Stales Consisti <>l -1 ’' 1 Ci.-imi'. -'.io’ied officers. Creates An Appetite There Ik ihiIIiIiv: for whir'i we recommend Hood’a rnrsnparlllii with greaU * coniidetico than for lossof appetite, indiKCHtion, sjfi; hcadaelie and other trou* ttloHof d.YK|M>|Hic‘nature. In the moat natural way this medicine pently tones 'he stomach, assists <|l- giH-1 Ion fM|d makes one feed ‘Veal hungry.” I>;ulled In delicate health, or very d-iinty and particular at meals, after taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla a few days llud themselves longhu; for an I ea iu^ the plainest food with unexjietTled relish aud sustsfaction. Try It. Hood’s Sarsaparilla told by all drugglstt. £1; six for >1. Prepared only b>C. i. HooU a co., Apothecaries, Isowoll, ilasi. IQO Doses One Dollar “August Flower” “ I inherit some tendency to Dys pepsia from my mother. I suffered two years in this way ; consulted a number of doctors. They did me • no good. I then used Relieved In your August Flower and it was just two days when I felt great relief. I soon got so that I could sleep and eat, and I felt that I was well. That was three years ago, and I am still first- class. I am never Two Days. without a bottle, and if I feel constipated the least particle a dose or two of August Flower does the work. The beauty of the medicine is, that you can stop the use of it without any bad effectson the system. Constipation While I was sick I felt everything it seemed to me a man could feel. I was of all men most miserable. I can say, in conclusion, that I believe August Flower will cure anyone of indigestion, if takcu LlfoofMIsery with judgment. A. M. Weed, 229 Belle- foutaine St, Indianapolis, Ind,” • REV. DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon Text: “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee"—Psalni Iv. ‘23. David was here taking his own raeiicine. If anybody had onhim heavy weights, David had them, and yet out of his own experience he advises vou and m3 as to the best way of S etting rid’of bur lens. This is a world of urden bearing. Co.ning into the house of prayer there may be no sign of sadness or sorrow, but where is the man who has not a conflict? Where is the soul that has not a struggle? And there is not a day of all the year when my text is not gloriously appro- priate, and there is never an audience as sembled on the planet, where the text does not fit the occasion: “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, aud He shall sustain thee.” In the far east wells of water are so infrequent that when a man owns a well he has a property of very great value, and sometimes battles have been fought for the possession of one well of water; but there is one well that every man owns—a deep well, a perennial well, a well of tears. If a man has not a burden on this : boulder, he has a burden on the other shoul der. The day I left home to look after myself and for my seif, iu the wagon my father sat driving, and ho said that day something which has kept with me all mV life: “Do Witt, it is always safe to trust God. I have many a time come to a crisis of difficulty. You may know that, having been sick for Ilf teen years, it was no easy thing for me to support a family; but always God came to t he rescue. I remember the time,” he said, “when l didn’t know what to do, and I saw a man on horseback riding up the farm lane, and he announced to me that I had been nominated for the most lucrative office in the gift of the people of the county, and to that office 1 w’as elected, and God in that way met all my wants and I tell you it is always safe to trust Him. Oh, my friends, what we want is a practi cal religion! The religion people have is so high up you cannot reach it. In the Straits «*f Magellan, I have been told, there is a place where whichever way a captain puts his ship he finds the wind against him, aud there are men who all their lives have been running iu the teeth of wind, and which way to turn they do not know. Some of them may bo here this morning, and I address them face to face, not perfunctorily, but as one brother talks to another brother, “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He snail sustain thee.” First—There are a great many men who have business burdens. When we see a man harried and perplexed and annoyed in busi ness life we are apt to say: “He ought not to have attempted to carrv so much.” Ah, that man may not be to blame at all! When a man plants a business he does not know what will be its outgrowths, what will bo its roots, what will lie its branches. There is •tiany a man with keen foresight and large business faculty who has been flung into the dust by unforeseen circumstances springing upon him from ambush. When to buy, when to sell, w hen to trust and to what amount of credit, what will be the effect of this new- invention of machinery, what will be the effect of that loss of crop and a thou sand other questions perplex ousiness men until the hair is silvered aud deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek, and the stocks down by 1 wits’ ends and . go up by the mountains and go down by the valleys, and they are at their stagger like drunken men. There never has been a time when there have been such rivalries in business as now. It is hardware against hardware, book? against books, chandlery against chandlery, imported article against imported article. A thousand stores in combat with another thousand stores Never such an advantage of light, never such a variety of assortment, never so much splendor of show window, never so much adroituess of salesmen, never so much acuteness of advertising, and amid all the severities of rivalry in business howr many men break down! Oh, the burden on the shoulder! Ob, the burden on the heart! ion hear that it is avarice which drives these men of business through the street, and that is the commonly accepted idea, t do not believe a word of it. Ah! my friend, do you say that God does not care anything about your worldly busi ness? 1 tell you God knows more about it tlirtu you do. He knows all your perplexi ties, He knows what mortgagee is about to loreelose; He knows what note you cannot pay; He knows what unsalable goods you have on your shelves; He knows all youi 1 * Third—There are others who carry great burdens of physical ailments. When sud- /len sickness has come, and fierce choleras and Malignant fevers take the castles of life by t torm, we appeal to God; but In these chronic rjlmeuts which wear out the strength day «*fter day, and week after week, and year after year, how little resorting to God for solace! Then people depend upon their tonics and their plasters and their cordials rather than upon heavenly stimulants. Oh, how few people there are completely well! Some of you, ny dint of perseverance and care, have kept living to this time; but how you •ave had to war against physical ailments! Antediluvians, without medical college and Infirmary and apothecary shop, multiplied their years by hundreds; but ho who has gone i/urough the gantlet of disease in our time, an I has come to seventy years of age. Is h : r > worthy of a palm. The world seems to be a great hospital, and you run against rheumatisms and cdq- sumptions and scrofulas and neuralgias and scores of old diseases baptized by new no menclature. Oh, how heavy a burden sick ness is I It takes the color out of the sky, and the sparkle out of the wave, an l the sweetness out of the fruit and the lustre out of the night. When the limbs ache, when the respiration is painful, when the mouth is hot, when the ear roars with unhealthy obstructions, how hard it is to bo patient and cheerful and assiduous* “oast thy bur den upou the Lord.” Does your head ac’ie? His wore the thorn Do j our feet hurt? His were crushed of the spikes. Is your si le painful? His was struck by the spear. Do vou feel like giving way under the burden! His weakness gave way under a cross. A prominent merchant of New York sii l to a member of my family, “Myin> ,, ijtf wants her case montione 1 to Mr. r J ;il 111 This was the case. He said: “My in > ui* had a dreadful abscess, from which k'i » Til suttered uutold agonies, and all surgery hid been exhausted upon her, and wors i aud worse she grew until we cal lei in a few Christian friends and proceeded to pray about it. We conimonde l her case t > G > I, and the abscess began immediately bo cured. She is entirely well now, an l with out knife and without any surgery.” So th it case has come to me, an I there are a sc ire of other cases coining to our ears from all parts of the earth. Oh, ye who are sick, goto Christ! Oh, ye who are worn out with agonies of body, “Cast thy burden upon tho Lord, and Ho shall sustain thee!” Another burden some have to carry is the burden of bereavement. Ah! these are the troubles that wear us out. If wo lose ouP property, by additional industry perhaps we may bring back the estranged fortune; if we lose our good name, perhaps by reformation of morals we may achieve again reputation for integrity; but who will bring back the dear departed? Alas me! for these empty cradles aud these trunks of childish toys that will never be used again. Alas me! for the empty chair aud the silence in the halls that will never echo again to thoso familiar foot steps. Alas! for the cry of widowhood and orphanage. What bitter Marahs in tho wilderness* what cities of tho dead, what long black shadow from the wing of death, what eyes sunken with grief, what hands tremulous with bereavement, what instruments of music shut now because there are no fingers to play on them I Is there no relief for such souls? Aye, let the soul ride into the harbor of my text. The soul that on Jesus hath loaned for repose, I will not, 1 will not desert to its foes; That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to shako, I’ll never, no never, no never forsake. There are many who carry tho burden of sin. Ah, wo all carry it until in theappoint- ed way that burden is 1 if bid. We need nd Bible to prove that tho whole race is ruined* What a spectacle it would bo if we could tear oil the mask of human defilement; or beat a drum that would bring up the whole army of the world’s transgressions—the de ception, the fraud, and the rapine, and the murder, and the crime of all these centuries! Aye, if I could soun l the trumpet of resur rection in the soul of the best men in this audience, and all the dead sins of the piste should come up, we could not endure thd sight. Sin, grim and dire, has put its dutch upon the immortal soul, and that dutch' will never relax unless il be under the heel of Him who came to destroy the works of the devil. Oh, to have a mountain of sin on the soult Is there no way to have the burden moved! Ob, yes. “Cast thy burden upon the Lord.” The sinless One came to take the conse quences of our sin! And I know He is in earnest. How do' I know it? By the stream ing temples and the streaming hands as He says, “Come unto Me all ye who are weary onddieavy laden, and I will give you rest.” JJ&y will prodigals live on swines’ >!ms«s when the robe, and the ring, and tho ti i'ds. from the day you took hold of the first -. f wdcom * jire re idy? Why go wan- yardstick down to the sale of the last yard • >4l»Uigover th ? great Sahara des*rt of your vru* e ' C ’ 1 ■' '''"“t* vuruuga. 'V nen loss comes, and you find your pron- erty going, just take this Book and put it • lown by your ledger, and read of the eternal ^.sessions that will come to you through «'Ur Lord Jesus Christ. And when your •usiness partner betrays you, and your M lends turn against you, just take tho in- MUting letter, put it down on the table, put >our Bible beside the insulting letter, and then read of the friendship of Him who sticketh closer than a brother.” A ynunj; imxiutaiit in New York City got ins ;l<‘i'mints entungleW. He knew he was honest, mill yet lie coul.l not nmke his ne- '•oiints romeout n;h', mnl ho toiled nt them •tuy and night until he was nearly frenzied t seemed hy those hooks that something r “““appropriated, and he knew be- ture Hod he was honest. Tho Inst day came. He know if heeoiildnot that day make hi, n vomits come out right ho would go into disgrace and go into banishment from 110 business establishment. He went over there very early, before there was anybody iu the pie ", and he knelt down at the desk and sai l: “Oh, Lord, Thou knowest I have tried to ho honest, bntl cannot make these things co 10 out right! Help me to-day—hulp m, this morning!” "lie young man arose and hardly knowing way he did so opened c hook that lay on tho des . and there was a leaf containing a line of figures which explained everything. In other words, ho cast his burden upon tho Lor I and the Lord sustained him. Young nnn, do you hear that? Oh, yes, God lias a sympathy with anybody that is in nny kind of toil! He knows how heavy is the hod of bricks that the workman carries up the lad- deroC the wall; Ho hears the pickax of the niiinr down the coal shaft; He knows how atro ig the tempest strikes the sailor at mast- he-id; Ho soei the factory girl am mgtll ! spin lies an 1 knows how her arms nclie; Ho sees the sowing woman iu tho fourth story an I knows how fow ponce she gets for mak- in ; i garment; and louder than all the din nn I roar of the city comes tho voice of a sym ntlietlc God, “Cast thy burden upou tn i Lord, and Ho shall sustain thee.” Second—There are a great many who have n weight of porsocution and abuse upon them. Sometimes society geti a grudge against a man. All his motives are nils- interpreted, and his good deedsaro depreci ated. With more virtue than so no of the honored and applauded, he runs only against raillery and sbaq> criticism. When a man rsigms io go down ns nas not only tin; force of natural gravitation, but a hundre 1 ban Is to h elp him iu the precipitation. Mon are persecuted for their virtues and their suc cessor. Oormanicus said ho had just as many bitter autogonists as ho had adorn ments. The character sometimes is so lus- trou : that the weak eyes of onvy an 1 jeal ousy r moot boar to look at it. It was their iut -grity that put Joseuh in the pit, and Daniel in tho den, and Hhadr.v h in tho fire, an 1 sent John the Evangelist to desolate Kit ir.os, and Calvin to the castle of persecu tion, and John Huss to tho stake, anil Korah after Moses, and Haul after David and Hero | after Christ. Be sure if you hare anything to do for church or state, and you attempt it with all your soul, tho lightning will strike you. The world always had had across between two thieves for the one who-comes to save it. High and holy enterprise has always been followed by abuse. The most sublime tragedy of self sacrifice has come to hur- lesquo^nie graceful gait of virtue is al ways ^pftwea by grimace and travesty. The .sweetest strain of poetry ever written has come to ridiculous parody, and as long os there are virtue and righteousness in tho world, there will be something for Iniquity to grin at. All along the line of the ages. and in all lands, the < man, but Barabbas. robber.’ And what makes the perseentions of life worse is that they oome from people whom you have helped, from those to whom you have loaned money or have started in busi- or whom you resened in some great crisis. I think it has been the history of all wr lives—the most acrimonious assault Ins come from those whom we have bene fited, whom we have helped, and that makes it nil the harder to bear. A man is in dan ger of becoming cynical. A clergyman of the Universalist church went into a neighborhood for the establish ment of a church of his denomination, and he was anxious to find some one of that de nomination. and he was nointed to a certain bouse and went there. He said Co cbo man of the house, “I understand you are a Uni- versalist; I want you to help me in the en terprise.” “Well,” said the man, “I am a Universalist, but I have a peculiar kind of Universallsm.' 1 “Well,” replied the other, “1 have bean out in the world, and have been cheated and slandered aud outrage i and abused until I believe in universal dam nation !” > cry ha* been “Not this . NfjfjtBarabbas was a le i Almighty? Something About Siberia. Since the building of the trans-Siberian railroad wai resolved upon, and Siberia has attracted general notice, tho world lias become interested in the origin and meaning of tho word Siberia. V. M. Florinsky, in a paper published at the University of Tomsk, holds that the word is of Slavic derivation. It occurs for the first time in tho writings of the Persian historian, Uashid-Kddiua (1247- 1318), ns the name of what is now called western Siberia, for in connection with it tho historian speaks about the River Irtysli and the steppes of Kirgbeso and the Bashkirs. The Russians have known (lie country since the latter part of tho fifteenth century, and official mention of the “Siberian land” is made iu docu ments dated in 1551 and 1556. The word is supposed to have originated with a tribe of Huns which was known by tbe name of Sabirs or Sebirs, and first lived in the Ural Mountains and .subsequently settled down in the regions of the Don and tlie Volga. The city of Sivar,which existed in Bulgaria in tho tcntli century, was a monument of the wanderings of this tribe. * The Sabirs were also men tioned among the Slavonian tribes on the Volga enumerated by Jcsplt, tho King of the Khozan. Now, taking these ac counts into consideration, it appears that tho Huns were of Slavic origin, and that the name of Siburs was assumed by or applied to that tribe of the Huns which has wandered fro a the north (Sever) into tho southeastern regions. Another scholar, if. Potanin, in Ruxskoye Obozrcnic, maintains that the origin of the word Sabir is derived from tho Mongolian. He shows that a certain mountain name i Sybyr, nr Sumbyr (per haps the same as the Mount Sumer of the Indian legends), is variously and re peatedly mcutiouu.i in the folk lore of the Mongolians at the extreme southern borders of Siberia.—Gaston Transcript. A Solti id's SavIiigH. ages of private rnidicr in ihv ¥13 i t Mem ■ . Iml The w army is not more than til inontii end rations. It doc easy ior a soldier to become they can save something. Accoru.i : m the Omaha Ike, Colonel Slanton, Pay master of tlie Department of the Platte, recently paid a soldier $1048.89 as the savings of a five years' enlistment. Said that officer: “I have paid quite a num ber of men amounts ranging all Hie way from $500 to $5000. The largest sum I ever knew a soldier to have deposited with tlie United Stales when lie was finally paid oif was $5012.45. That man was a hospital steward at Fort Meade. He had served several terms of enlist ment, and had not only saved what money the Government paid him, but be bad made some more by lending. When I paid him the $5012.45 he immediately re-enlisted for live years more, and de posited tlie entire uimnmt again with the United States. Soldiers are just like men in every other occupation. Some of them save unmej and others do not. They could all save money if they would.” Biggest Fresh Water Fish. Tho biggest of fresh water fishes, the “arapaima,” of tlie Amazon, in South America, which grows to six feet in length, has teeth on hrs tongue, so that the latter resembles tlie file and is used as such. Some kinds of trout ulso have the same peculiarity. Fishes that swal low their prey entire have their teeth so supported on fiexible bates at to bead backward, but not forward, in order that their victims shall not escape utter they have been seized.—Jlnton (JoUicnlor, THE FARM AND GARDEN. CORN HEAL FOR CHICKS. Corn meal dough is not sufficient food for chicks, but when each-mess of the corn meal is mixed with fresh milk, in-! stead of water, the value of the mess is; increased. Chicks should,however, have a variety of food, and will cat any kind of seeds or small grain, especially broken wheat. Milk is excellent, but the chicks are liable to get wet with it, or the milk may become too sour and breed disease. If mixed with corn meal, and the mess eaten up clean, the chicks will relish it and thrive on the mixture.—Farm and Fireside. GRAFTING THE GRAPE. In grafting grapevines that are an inch or more in diameter, cut them off two or three inches below tbe surface of the ground, then insert the cion just as you would in a branch of an apple tree of the- same size. Wind with a piece of cord or bass bark—no wax should be used—j aud after tying, draw the soil back, cov ering the stock and cion, leaving only the upper bud on the laUer exposed.' We prefer performing the operation as early in the spring as possible, or as soon os the frost is out of the ground, aud be fore the buds show any signs of growth. Some vincyardists cut the cions in win-' ter and store them in a cool place where they will remain dormant until the vines have pushed some of their leaves, then the cions are inserted as wo have di rected. We may say, however, that grafting tho grape is rarely a success ex cept when performed by those who have had considerable experience in the pro pagation of vines. Try it, and secure the needed experience.—American Agrit culturist. ' HOW TO GET NATURAL WATF.R CRESS. Every clear running stream of water, if no great depth, may be easily made to grow a crop of salad iu the form of water cress without price. A little seed scat tered on the upper part of tho stream will, of itself, soou crop all down stream. Iu the absence of seeds a planting of slips on tho banks, although a slower process, is equally certain, ns, after tho first year, seeding will take place aud a sure crop follow. The kind of location selected for tho growth of the crop for market is the low bottom lands liable to overflow on the banks of tiic river. Here, if it can be so managed that a spot can lie selected where the water by sluice ways can be let o : so ns to cover the beds a few inches deep of water and yet all tlie time renew itself so as not to get stagnant, then the very state of things is at hand for a good water cress bed. So fast do our wants increase that in all large cities there is a demand for fresh young water cress the year round. But this is to feed tlie epicure mostly. The time of all times when a good dish of water cress is tasty, is tlie first crop in the spring, and almost the first outside green thing this northern latitude pro duces. To our mind this is enhanced by plucking them one's self, all as it were in a state of nature's providing.—Prairie Former. ABUSING SHEEP. We have heard of sheep being used to restore fertility to woinout land, and have road that they were quite efficient in the destruction of various kinds of weeds. But, according to an Ohio funner who recently gave his experience at one of the county institutes, they may be trained to render even greater service. This man turns part of his flock on laud “infested with bushes, briers and weeds,” and keeps them there n few days com pelling them to do “Senncuger duty” by eating these foul growths. The animals are then turned into a better pasture and another portion of the flock is set to work clearing tho bushy ground. The process is repeated until the laud is thor oughly cleared. A writer who has re ported tho matter to the National Stock- man and Farmer, says that “by thus Itarving them” the sheep will “eat all kinds of weeds and bushes, with no per manent loss of flesh or health,” and adds that he has seen some of tlie laud which was "well and cheaply” cleared in this manner. After three or four seasons of this kind of clearing, the laud is ready to plow and there is “no hard, laborious grubbing or breaking of plows or strain ing teams plowing away roots.” We dq not doubt that sheep can be made to cleat the land of bushes and weeds, but it must bo pretty hard work for the sheep aud slso be an expensive method for their owner. A man can drive a nail with a good watch, but it is cheaper for him to use a hammer. So a man can clear land by the use of sheep, but an ax and a bush scythe would! enable him to do the work to better ad - vantage.—American Dairyman. YOUNG STOCK. Fully matured stoek can eudure violent changes of food with much less disturb-, ance of the system than can young ani mals still growing. Therefore, specially good management is necessary in chang ing tho young tilings from tho dry feed of winter to the unripe grasses of spring. If tho change is made suddenly an at- tact of scours will check their growth fora month perhaps. If ensilage and roots have been fed during tho winter, the change to grass will not cause such, disturbance ns would occur in a change from dry hay, which is the usual ration of young stock on most farms. Such changes arc best made gradually, and some dry feed should be given each day at the stable, or from troughs or racks at the pasture gate, until the grasses gain substance. Many farmers send their stock to the pastures too early in spring for tho good either of the stock or tho pastures. The ground when tho snow lias recently left it is soft and saturated with water. Turning cattle upon it at '“Hi a tinio is specially harmful to tho •ciss roots. The deterioration of so ...auy pastures can doubtless be largely traced to this practice. Many farmers turn their spring calves out to pasture during their first season. Though a fow may occasionally thrive under this treatment, most of them come to the bain in the fall about onc-linlf as largo os they should beat that age. Stable care and feed, with a yard to run in during pleas ant weather, but with free access to cover during the heat of the day, has been found by many progressive farmers to give much the best results. Skim milk, with a little oatmeal, bran, crushed oats, and clover hay, will give growth to de light the farmer's eye, while the develop ment thus secure i is the kind needed to make good dairy cows of tho heifer calves, provided they are of good dairy blood. Lambs are not usually weaned until some time after they come to grass. With them, therefore, tho change from winter <o spring rations is not likely to i au.se serious trouble. But a small feed of bran or oats each clay for awhile, after they go to pasture, will bo well returned in extra growth. Keep the young stock growing thriftily.—Awizrican Agrtcullur- ist FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. The earlier potatoes can he gotten in, the better. Clean straw is good for the hens to scratch in. One advantage with duck* their rap id growth, - -r * Put turpentine in the drinking water to prevent gapes. Some recommend soaking corn in ker osene for cholera. If not already there, get onion seed into the ground at once. Hard coal ashes make a nice cool mulch for currant bushes. Generally on the farm there is no ne cessity for buying extra ioods. It isn’t so much what you make on a farm, as what you save, that counts. Geese cat the grass'close down to the roots and often kill it out in this wav Poultry will readily digest bones' if they are broken fine enough for them to eat. Potatoes do much better if planted while the furrow hill or drill is fresh made. When hawks bother the chickens a few bmsh piles will afford a good pro tection. Agriculture needs talent, energy and persistence if it is rescued from its pres ent condition. Curd is good for young poultry of all kinds and can be fed to the laying hens to a good advantage. Hens will lay more eggs without the roosters than witli them, but of course tho eggs will not hatch. Feed only what is eaten up clean and at certain hours in order to keep the fowls from getting too f it. To save feed by starving animals, is the act of a miser, who starves himself to death to save money to live upon. The planting and grafting of all kinds of trees and shrubs should be immedi ately attouded to, if not already done. Mass your llowcrs. Put the pansies all together, the pholx together, the asters together. They show off well this way. If you have the right kind of horses the buyer will come after them; if tho wrong kind you will h ive to hunt a buyer. Unquestionably wood ashes fed to tho hogs are excellent as a remedy for cer tain conditions that will surely result id disease. A single weeping birch docs not look bad on a lawn. Its white bark,weeping branches and finely divided leaves are unique. The sowing of succession lots of peas, beans, spinach, lettuce and corn, maybe done every ten or twelve days for a month yet. Leaving tho manure in the barn-yard will allow a considerable portion of it to leak away aud often be carried to the ditches. Use good composted or well rotted manure for early garden crops; if yo“ must use green manure, cover it well with the plow. Somo people who give the cattle the best of care neglect tin hogs. The hog will repay good care as well as other kinds of stock. Don’t forget to sow some flower seeds for the wife and children, or at least pre pare the ground for them as you would for an onion bed. Guard against constipation iu swine. The fat-forming foods tend to produce costiveness. The opposite kinds of food tend to prevent it. If turkeys are fed only once a day let it be in the morning, rather than at night; with a good range they generally have full crops at night. You can still plant rhubarb and aspar. agus beds, if not done already, and strawberry plants may be set out, but tbe sooner these things are done the bet ter. A little ditch here and there or the cutting away of a ridge wifi often drain away tlie surplus water. Such work may not be but a few miuutes, but will greatly facilitate the drying of the soil. It is always best to label everything you plant in tho flower aud vegetable garden, especially if there are several varieties of the same kind of flowers or vegetables, in order to avoid confusion later in the season. There is profit in really tine produc tions, be they butter, eggs, fruit, vege tables or meat of auy kind. A gilt- edged aiticlo will sell nt a good price ia a glutted market. Care aud the use of one’s intelligence will produce fine articles. Every farmer ought to know at the cud of the season what work has paid him best, what work lias paid least, and what has retuned no profit whatever. We need more of business methods on the farm and less haphazard work—some of which is very likely carried on at a loss. WISE WORDS. AH the glorified feci that they have had an easy market. From tlie lowest deptli there is a path to the loftiest height. It is a great defect in men to wish to rule everything, except themselves. Oh, banish the fears of children! Con tinual rains upon tho blossoms are hurt ful. Find earth where grows no weed, and you may liml a heart where no erroi grows. Nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; nor nobly, which is done iu pride. True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretenses, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counter feit last long. Farmers who feed their pigs and cat tle good corn, and pay no attention ta what kind of books or papers theii children arc reading, make a big mis take. What a pity it is that men should take sucli immuusu pains, as some do, to learn thoso things, which, as soon as they become wise, they take so much pains to unlearn. A charitable untruth, an uncharitable truth mid mi imwisc management o( truth or love, are all to be carefully avoided of him that would go with a right foot in the narrow way. In a world there is so much to be done, how happy that there is so largo a por tion of daylight; in a world where there is s» much to bo suffered, how merciful that there is also so much tight. There can be no real fear or icvercnce or seriousness of heart, until a man has come to understand, at least in some measure, what ho is, that is, to realize his own awful structure and destiny. The Key of Death. The "Key of Doatli” is apparently a large key which is shown among the weapons at tho arsenal at Venice« It was invented by Tibaldo, who, disappointed in love, designed this instrument for the destruction of his rival. Tho key is so constructed that the handle may be turned around, revealing a small spring, which, being pressed, a very fine ncedl* is driven with considerable force from the other end. This needle is so very fine that tho flesh closes over the wound immediately, leaving nn mark; but the death of the vietim is almost instantane ous.—Detroit Free Press. Tiie cost of a high-class right-wheel Dassea»er locomotive (s about §8500, To Lift Sunken Ships. Working models of a new device for raising sunken or wrecked vessels have been exhibited both in this city and in Washington. It is claimed that this system is the only one that will work successfully in raising vessels sunk at sea which have heretofore been abandoned after as large a part of tlie cargo has been saved as possible by sending divers down to the vessel. The inventor of this new device claims that he can raise a vessel of three thousand tons in less than ten minutes' time. The apparatus consists of an iron sphere twenty feet in diameter and made perfectly air tight. From six to eight of these spheres aie needed for the rais ing of a vessel of 3000 tons burden. They are practically steel pontoons. At the top of these pontoons is an air valve opening downward into the interior of sphere, while at the bottom is a valvo opening outward. They have a capacity for coutaiuiog 5333 cubic feet of air and each pontoon has a lifting capacity of from 500 to 700 tons. The exterior shell of the pontoons is of steel one-quarter of an inch thick, braced iatitudinally ; ml longitudinally. When the wreck is reached water is pumped into the pontoons and they ara sunk over tlie wreck at the point needed. Their course is guided hy chains work ing from derricks on the deck of the wrecking vessels. Outside of the pon toons is a heavy network of iron bracing! enclosing it like a jacket. At the bottoi* of the pontoon is a heavy iron chain, fastened to the outside bracing, and i/ RAISING A SUNKEN VESSF.L. the lower cud of the chain is a strong double catch hook. A diver is sent down with each pontoon as it is lowered to tho position needed, and hy descend ing the ladder he is able to fix this catch hook upon the hawser block or stanchion on the deck of the sunken vessel. When a vessel is resting on tlie bottom it always has a list to one side. Tho plan adopted hy the managers of this now system, is to lower two pontoons, one at the how and tho other nt tho Hern of tho vessel, on tho side to whieli she is listed, and then pump out enough water, supplying the space with air, to right the vessel. Then the other pontoons are lowered and placed in position, two at tho bow, two at the stern, and two, four or moro amidships, as may be needed. Then the pumping apparatus is set at work on the wrecking tub, and it is claimed that the water in the pontoons can he forced out through the outlet at the bottom at the rate of forty barrels a minute, and that in eight minutes the sphere will bo filled with air and ho floating on tho sur face of the water. The wrecked vessel is not raised above the water, but is brought near the sur face. In this manner the vessel is towed to the nearest port and placed in dry dock.—Neie York Herald. ‘‘Reeding" a Dollar. What is tho "milling” on a dollar or other coin? Probably not one person in 500 would answer this simple question correctly. There is a popular belief that the corrugations on tho rim of a dollar arc tho milling. A Chronicle re porter thought so too until the point happened to arise in a conversation with C. M. Gorham, coiner at the mint, tho other day. Mr. Gorham went into tho coining- room and picked up a “blank,” a round piece of plain silver cut out of a silver bar. Jt had goue through one machine, which had slight’y rounded the edges. The blank was dropped in a milliing machine, and when it came out a second or two later the rim was flat and tlie edges of the rim were raised a little above the level of the sides. The verb “mill ing” is this plain raised rim without reference to any corrugations anywhere. The purfacc of tlie milling is to protect the surpose of tlie sides from wear. The milled blank was dropped into a stamping machine, from which it dropped a perfect dollar. While in tlie machine the piece dropped into a corrugated collar and the piece ex icg umler great pressure the rim was forced into the corrugations and became similarly corrugated. These parallel notches or corrugations, generally called the mill- ing, constitute tlie "reeding.” The term is adapted from its architectural use to express a small convex molding, especially when such moldings arc multi plied, parallel to each other.—San Fran cisco Chronicle. The Eartli'a Inferior. Professor J. C. White, State Geologist of West Virginia, has become very much interested in watching the progress of an eight-inch well near Wheeling, which has, after one month’s boring, reached tho phenomenal depth of 4100 feet. The well has passed through both oil and gas, several thick veins of coal, gold- bearing quartz, iron and various othci minerals. After tho well has reached one mile depth tho Government has agreed to take hold of it and bore as far as possible. The temperature and mag netic conditions will beohserved, and hy means of nn instrument constructed for the purpose a complete record of the drilling and all discoveries made will be kept. This record will he placed in the geological survey's exhibit at the World’* Fair, aud afterward preserved at Washington. Professor Wlfite and tho Government officers say this will ho on* of the most novel and important cx- hibits at tho fair, mid will attract tho attention of tho scientists of tlie world. —Picayune. Although nn Englishman invented the postage stamp it was an American— Janies Bogardus—who devised tho best plan of printing tho contemplated stamps. His device was selected hy the British Government in 1839 from 2,600 competing designs. Bogardus died ia iu 1874. Two Senses of awApostrophe. In "Scenes Through the Battle Smoke” is the following example of ill-chosen eulogy: A missionary iu India was shot, as he sat in his veranda in the dusk of the evening, by his owu chowkeydar, or watchman, whether intentionally or by accident wifi never bo known. Near a public road stands his solitary grave. On tlie stone at the head is the inscrip tion: Sacred To the Memory of the Rev. — Somenthal He translated the Scripture, into the Afghan tongue, and was shot by his owu chowkeydar. Well done, liiou good and faithful ser vant. —Argonaut. Daniel Webster's grave is on a knot! nearly iu the centre of tho little grave yard at Mansfield, Mass. It it marked by a simple headstone that hears only tho name “Daniel Webster.” There is no other inscription on the stone and the surroundings are dreary and solemn. Nearly 3,000 Greek ladies have pre. sente i a petition to King George, de manding tin: establishment of ladies’ colleges in which they may he trained iu commercial aud industrai pursuits, so they may be able to compete with meu iu the struggle to live. IVool ol l'«|>iiinri(y* THE f.MVEI.r, DIAMONl* SAFETY BICYCI.R EAC 1 - TOKY KKI’T HI NMNU TWENTY-KOUK IIOUKS A HAY TO SUI’I’l.Y THE DEMAND. I’assenprrs on Hiochost train which ivhizzod tliroimh Worcester in t lie small lioufs of the taornnu; have noticctlof hitcn factory which hever seems to closc.nml from whoso windows flic hriirht liidd )lro;ims nil nitrlit lonir. It is the factory of the John l\l.ovell ArmsC’ont- panv of Boston, and il is runnlntr liternlly twenty-four hours a d.*«y, with two complete relays of men, from t he foreman down. This netivity is due to the extraordinary popularity of the new eiirhty-five-do||;tr Lovell diamond safety bicycle, .•» machine which istrivirm the very best of sat i-f.'ietinn. Ilnston Herald. To change the name and not the let ter ji hange for worse and not for hq/ter. ToiiriNtn, ^ hethor on pleasure heutor business, should take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, a* il acta most pleasantly ami effectually on tho kid nova, liver and Imwels, preventing fevers, headaches and other forms of sickness. For sale in 50c. and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Fie fnsfs enough whoso wife scolds at din •e»* time. Copyright, 18W. JV/nc/i will you have, sickness, suffering and despair, or health, strength, and spirit? You can take your choice. All chronic diseases and de rangements peculiar to women are permanently curfd by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription.- 1c restores the female func-' tions to healthy action. It removes the obstructions ancF suppressions which caused trouble and misery. For pe riodical pains, internal inflam mation, ulceration and kindred ailments, it. is a positive rem edy. The system is invig orated, the blood enriched, di gestion improved, melancholy and nervousness dispelled. It’s a legitimate medicine, the only one that’s guaranteed to give satisfaction in the cure of all “ female complaints.” ■pTT'nQ-V I, < \ II. C’H X JLAjJTj O' uri* fill fnrmsof pflosand E'ATAnRilAD aftVrtloiiK of th<‘ Headdek. No soil tint of linen. Kiwi- 1y iiifrodiirnl. 1,’ivo Infant r«‘l«» f. Sold by druggists, or sent post patd for .id edits ^ rent stamps taken. Address, Kastkkn Medicine Co.< Reading, Fa. w i \k. Nervous, Wketciird mortals get well mi l keep well. Health Helper tells how. bouts, tt rear. Nnmploeopy free. Hr, J, II* !>\ lb l .iltor, BtfffgKfr N/Y. I BUY STAMPS. I particularly want the StnitipA lined during the Info \YTi r. If Is worth your while to look over your old papers, as 1 pay as high iw 95.00 apleoe for some. Address («. It. i'A LIMAN* ‘200 Pearl Afreet, New Y#rh* Brown’s Iron Bitters cares Dyspepsia, Ma laria, Biliousness and Ocneral Debility. Givaj Strength, aides Digestion, tones the nerves - crea*es appetite. The best tonic for Nursing Mothers, weak women and children. Kansas Oxtt !s oromlsod Ice at five penis a hundred, as a result of competition. Denlneee (’nn’i be fared By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deal ness, and that is by con stitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of tho mucous lining of tho Eustachian Tube. When lids tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imper- feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam mation can be taken out and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ton Hfe caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in flamed condition of tlie mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that we cannot euro by taking Hull’s Catarrh Cure. £ead for circulars, free, F. J. Cheney At Co., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75 cents. nr you would ff correct in pfotiounotng Manitoba accent the last syllable. Malaria cured and eradicated from tho system by Brown’s Iron Bitters, which en riches the blood, tones tbe nerves, aids diges tion. Acts liko a charm on persons in general ill health, giving new energy and strength. Live leisurely unless you are anxious to die in a hurry FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Hustorkr. No tits after first day’s use. Marvelous euros. Treatise and trial bottle free Dr. Klim*. Ml A ft’h St., Philn... Pa. 7JT7 A T mTT CALENDAR A»" XXXjJCYJLi X Xl. fate /or each dav of 9/. Jlor. Few left, will mail for l.’r. <a« h toclose. 250,000 hi us# —designed L»r I lio masse*—economical! 1891 Cook Book P -BXVSXOIVS l>m* .*»!» !> disablud. fc! 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