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I FARM AND GARDEN. 1ITTI,CHINO QUINCE BUSHE1. The only adventaffos resnUinff troni ‘the use of a little salt around quinee bushel are that it tends to keep down the growth of weeds and keeps the soil moist. Even then it must be spar ingly used. A good, heavy mulch ®l coarse stable manure or other lit'er is of the greatest utility, especially in n hot climate. Dig up the soil about the bushes in the spring as thorough-' ly as you can without disturbing the roots, and then give each bush a heavy mulch.—American Agriculturist. SELLING EGOS BY WEIGHT. , It seems to be slow work inducing the enactment of a law compelling the selling of eggs by weight, and this question should be thoroughly agi tated until a change is made. It is a subject that should bo considered by the State Board of Agriculture of each State, and as it is largely in the inter est of the farmers the Mirror has called attention to it as a matter of justioo. There is a wrong done tho farmers in selling eggs by tho dozen, for the farmer iu selling eggs by tho dozen, is compelled to giro more than he receives, while tho cus tomer pays too much or too httla at times, according to circumstances. It is the dealer who is shrewd enough to assort the eggs and put tho differenoo in his own pocket, but he does so by common conseut of all who buy aad sell It is a fact that an egg should be worth what it costs. The hen that lays a dozen large eggs may have con verted more food into, eggs than one that has laid fifteen eggs, yit th-i fanners may sell the fewer number for less than the larger, though really the fewer may weigh more than the others. During the year one hen may lay one hundred eggs that weigh seven to the pound, while her companion may lay 120 eggs that weigh ten to tho pound. The latter will be considered the bet ter hen, although the former will have really performed more service and -Iaj4 over two pounds more of eggs than the one that gave (he greatest number. In justice the farmer ought to receive more money for the large eggs, as they cost him more in the shape of food, but the fact is that he receives less, because eggs are sold by the dozen. There is no correct method of ex change except by weight, and it is not to the interest of producers to sell by. any other system. Exact justice is done all concerned when eggs are sold by weight; and to adopt this method is to encourage better breeds of fowls. More eggs and larger ones will then reach the market, and each producer’s goods will be sold on their merits. As we stated before, this is a subject which demands the consideration ol poultry associations, agricultural so cieties and the whole body of farmers as a class.—Mirror and Farmer. ORCHARDING ON CHEAP GROUND. What to do with the land that will not bring more than from $5 to $15 per acre has been a problem with many tarmers, for generally such land is almost worthless for most crops. Located upon hillsides, or in exposed places where the soil is poor, there seems to be no use or demand for it. Bnt in the last quarter of a century a great deal of this laud in the north ern belt of States has been turned into apple orchards, which have been paying from $15 to $75 per acre an nually, a profit that would be consid ered satistactory by any farmer. The orchards have been well taken care of, and have demonstrated what can be done. Instead of allowing the land to remain idle, the owners planted the orchards of trees on it, and then care fully cultivated them. To-diy the land is worth considerably more than at the beginning. The trees on poor soil need more training than those on rich. Enrich the earth aronnd the trees, and they will get established. Barnyard manure is undoubtedly the best for this, and where it is abundant do not be de ceived into buying any prepared mix ture. Allow poultry, sheep, and swine to fertilize the orchards by roaming at large in them. They open the soii, let in the air aad sunlight, fertilize the trees, and destroy the i use its. By tnrning the orchards into poultry ranges yon will add qnito a little to the income from the eggs and fresli chickens supplied for the table or market. Train the tree young. The best au thorities say that only the pocket knife should be used for training and pi t’a'ng apple trees. This is only another way of saying that tho prun ing should be done early, before the branches have attained any great growth. Discover whether the limbs need to be cat off before they have reached the size of the arm. . Prune the young trees so that thsy will form an even head, giving the heaviest amount of shade on the south side, to shield from the hot sun. Use a pov- , ered glass with a magnifying power to discover the insects on the limbs in broad daylight, and then clip off the twigs with the eggs or nests on them to barn.—Germantown (Penn.) Tele graph. THE CULTURE OF PUMPKINS. The use of pumpkins as a fall and winter food for cattle cannot be too highly recommended, and the fact that they are the cheapest and most easily raised of all our winter green foods is not generally known, or at least not acted upon. Coming at a time when pasture is getting very short and be fore the farmer wants to commence using his roots, they bridge the gap between summer pasture or soiling and winter barn feeding, and keep up the flow of milk which so often fails oil about this time. Those who plant them usually drop just a few seeds in the hill with the corn, and let them take their chance and make something if they can. This is wrong, for the pumpkin being a plant that requires a great deal ol moisture and sun, does not get enough of either. The former it has to share with the ooru, which also needs lot of moisture, especially during the grow ing season, and the sunshine is shut off by the foliage of the corn, in addition to this there -is very little laud that is rich enough to support two crops. Pumpkins should bo grown by them selves like other crops. i For a pumpkin patch choose a light soil A sandy piece of bottom is just the thing, the tfther the better, of cqnrsef though oompartively poor soil wiS db. After plowing and harrow ing, lay it off in check rows ten feet each way. At each cheek dig a small hole and pnt in one or two forkfuls of manure, or, which is quicker, throw out a doable furrow with' the ’plow ing and then put your manure in the checks. The pumpkin, like corn, is a coarse feeder and does not need the manure to be thoroughly rotted, but makea large roturne for a liberal ap plication. Cover up the manure with three or four inchee of earth, making a perceptible ‘‘hill.” Sow four or five seeds in each hill as soon as danger of frost is over, which in this part is about the first of May. When in sec ond or third leaf, thin to two plants in a hill, and if the ground is rich, they may with advantage be again thinned to one, when danger from the striped bug is over, about the time the plants begin to run. They should be culti vated alternate ways every couple of weeks till they begin to run,- which will be in about two months from sow ing, when they will very soon com pletely cover the ground, and so keep the weeds down themselves. The pumpkins shonld be gathered as soon as the first light frost has killed the leaves, and stored in a cool place where frost will not reach them. A good plan is to pnt them On a barn floor, or other place, where they can be sorted as they are fed, using those first that are beginning to rot. In this way they may be kept till the first or middle of January, where t ie ther mometer does not fall below fifteen or twenty degrees of frost. * Besides being excellent food for cat tle, hogs are very fond of them, and they are a great means of keeping them in health while being fattened Sheep also eat them with relish whan thay get accustomed to them.—Country Gentleman. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. A great deal of country.-tmtter is overworked. Salt is a great preventive of disease among sheep. Butter should be worked ns little as possible to have the milk worked out of it. In case of fire in stables, pnt a sad dle on your horse and you cau leal him out without difficulty. The power and longevity of the horse a|« in exact ratio to ths intelli gent-care and fee,ting he receives. Just .before driving a ligGffedJ of oats should be given instead of a heavier feed of a more bulky grain. Give the sow succulent food and keep her in thrifty condition if you would have her produce thrifty pigs. Study the prejudices of your mar ket and supply brown or white eggs and white or yellow skinned fowls, as required. Horses recovering or suffering from debilitating diseases are readily over come by heat, and should not be pat to exhaustive work. The French are conducting a series of experiments in "grafting” potatoes. It is expected to increase the yield and to hasteu maturity. The breeding stock must be healthy and vigorous or the eggs will be lack ing in vitality and the chioks will be weak and debilitated. At the Geneva (N. Y.) Station ex periments are being carried on with over one thousand difierent varieties of berries and small fruits. Iu traiumg a oolt the safest rule is to teach him one thing at a time, and be sure that it is learned thoroughly before attempting something else. Tho eow in France for the dairy in dustry is not the Jersey, but the Dur ham, whose beef tendencies are being reduced in favor of the milk tendency. After the berries have been picked it is well to burn over the strawberry patch. This will not merely kill the weeds, but the insects that injure the plants. To effectively preserve potatoes when they begin to sprout, gouge out the eye “skin deep" by means of a penholder, with the inverted end of the steel pen. The trotting craze has caused many breeders to forget that a fast walking horse is a valuable animal for the farm, for the road and for all kinds of practical work. Drowning is Not Pleasant, Persons who may be tempted to go Into the water beyond the safety line because they have heard that death by drowniug is so pleasant, ought to listen to the tale of Congressman Forman, of Illinois, who came mighty sear being turned into food for cels at Atlantic City the other day. According to the Congressman, tho drowniug person has neither a pano ramic lightning express view of his past life nor a grand treat in the shape of a paradisical vision of beautiful flowers, birds and fountains, with an accompaniment of nngel voices and harps. His experience convinced him that there is nothing of the sort. “Drowning,” he says, “is alto gether a matter of fact way of passing in your chips. Yon make a desperate struggle to keep out of harm’s way until your arms grow tired aud your breath gets short. You finally come to the conclusion that the whole ocean is iu league with the powers of evil, aud that you of all the world have been singled ont for spite.” He didn’t get any pictures of his past life at all —cither tho good or the bad parts of it—but lie did a heap of cogitating in a very short space of time of how to keep his head above tho water. When he finally had to go under, hie sensa tions were as if ho was moving along tho sandy bottom on his stomach at railroad speed, tearing up tons of dirt every second. Doubtless tho fairy tftles about the pleasures ofilrowumg have encouraged a good deal of reckless exposure at the summer resorts. This matter of foot and altogether uninviting description of the reality by ths Illinois Congress man ought to load to s ilaoidoii reform in this respect. — New Fork News. TIic “Lamp Blr J ? ’ Some people call tho stormy petrel the “lamp bird.” Itis so oily that the fishermen of St. Hilda stick a wick iu the mouth of a dead specimen, light it and it burns for an hour. —New York Advertiser. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS* Frozen dishes. "'Frozen dishes at the close of a din ner are said to lower the temperature of the stomach and thus tetafd the digestion. Fof this reason frnit is prelfiffed for a dessert by many per sons who have conscions digestions. The ices or creams may then he taken in the evening.—New York Fbst, CLEANING FURNITURE. It is enstomary in some households to wash the furniture with soap and water. Such a method may be en tirely safe when praetiOed by careful persons. As the average maid is like ly to treat a valued Vernis Martin cab inet with the same Consideration ac corded s common floor, it is well that the use of soap and water by her in eonneetion with furniture should b« forbidden. When soap is used for furniture it shonld be of the best quality, having bnt a small amount of alkali iu its composition, and the water used should be lukewarm, applied with a soft cloth and quickly wiped off, par ticularly from all Corners and crevices. Dark mahogany, which is now so fashionable, is particularly sensitive to soap and water, arising from the fact that the coloring matter which operates to darken the wood through the action of light is au aeid, so that when the alkali of the water is permit ted to remain upon it it will, in reach ing tho aoid, for which it has affinity, destroy tho pollened surface. Raw linseed oil and spirits of tur pentine, in the proportions of two- thirds oil and one of turpentine, is the model furniture reviver. It is what professionals rely on; as a rale they use no other. The woodwork should be first carefully wiped off with a dry, soft cloth, and the dust thoroughly removed from corners and carvings. The best article to accom plish this is a large paint brush,usual ly called a painter's duster. The oil may then bo applied with a smaller brush, wiping off with a soft cloth and rubbing thoroughly dry. It will be found that dente and scratches lose their prominence under this treat ment ; should this method be pursued regularly there will be no difficulty experienced in having furniture retain a fresh appoaranee. When a piece of furniture is very badly defaced and dented it should bo intrusted to somo good repaiter, who may sometimes find it necessary to sorape off the old finish entirely, in orJeiito make a satisfactory piece of work. When tho wood is slightly dented one may sometimes overcome the tronble by steaming the indenta tion with a hot iron and a wet doth, afterward making a small pad of mus- hu and rubbing over the surface some thin shellac, just adding a touch of oil to make the work easier. Scratches may bo treated in the same way.— Ladies' Home Journal. RECIPES. A Light Lunohing Dish —A nice luncheon dish is fried bologna. If tho bologna is of good diameter remove the skin and cut into rounds of fourth of an inch' thick or less, if desired. Dredge lightly with flour and fry quickly in butter in a very hot pan. Serve on a warm platter with a garnish of .green. The bologna of any size may also be cut into lengths of five or six inches and fried as above directed. Fried bologna—to the taste of many —is more dainty and more delicate than fried ham, and more digestible. BrownSauoe—To n. ’ s brown sauce put one tablespoonful and a half of butter iu the frying-pan and on ths fire. When the butter gets hot and begins to tarn brown add a generous tablespoouful of flour and stir until the flour turns brown. Now draw the pan to the back part of the stove and stir until the mixture cools slightly; then add half a pint of stock, pouring it in gradually and stirring all the while. Place the pan on the hot part of the stove and stir the sauce until it begins to boil. Add a level teaspoon ful of salt and about oae-tifth of a teaapoonful of pepper. Simmer for about five minutes. Apple Charlotte—Rub the bottom and sides of a baking dish with butter, and line it with sliees of light bread. Peel and cat apples into thin, small pieces, and nearly fill ths dish with them, scattering between the apples plenty of sugar, siuuil bits of butter and grated nutmeg. Do not forgot that you must use sugar according to the acidity of the apples. Have sugar and butter on the top layer of apples, which cover with eliees of light brea 1 softened in water. Pnt a plate on this with a weight on top to press t' e bread close upon the apples. Bake i in a quick oven, aud serve with a rich sauce. Gingerbread—Two eggs well beaten, two-thirds cupful of New Orleans molasses, half cupful of sugar, one- third cupful of butter, half cupful of sour cream, half capful ol sour milk, one and a half teaspoonfuls of soda, half teaspoonful of ginger, half tea spoonful of einnamon, flour to thicken; boat the sugar and butter together; add the eggs and beat well; then add the soda to the sour milk ; stir iu the milk, nream, molasses and spices; thicken so you can drop it easily from a spoon, and bake in a moderate oven. It requires more care and louger baking than a cake made from all sugar. Celery Soup—Cook two small heads of celery (from which the green leaves have been removed) for forty-five minutes in a quart of water in which a chicken or leg of veal has been boiled. Boil a pint of milk, half an onion and a sprig of parsley together. Mix two even tablespoonfuls of flour with four tablespooufuls of cold milk and add to boiling milk. Cook ten minutes. Mash celery in the water in which it has been cooked, and stir into boiling milk; add two tablespoon fuls of butter, sa't and pepper to taste. Strain and serve at once. A cap of cream added jutt after the soap is put into the tureen is a great im provement. I The young of several species of ser ,'pents retreat down the throat of the mother when pressed by sudden uau- Tho deed for what is now Eastern Pennsylvania, given by the Duke of York to William Penn, is for the tern, of 10,000 years at five shillings rout. LARGEST OF ALL TRUCKS, XT DOSS ODB ?OB3 lit VARIOUS bfrlBS. BIBLES FOR THE BLIND, FIRST EDITION EVER PRINTED IN THE POINT ALPHABET. A Monster Vehicle Capable of Car rying Eighty Tons—Slity Horses Betnetlm^s Draw It. ^ I J O Philadelphia belongs the til' honor of having produced an ' I * inventor who devised a truck, 6 composed entirely bf iron And sleet* And Capable of hanling eighty tons* or 169,000 pounds, at one time. This truck, which has, since its Construction, thirty years ago, done Work in almost every large city in the United States, is as good as new. The track itself weighs 16,000 pounds and cost over $3000 to build. Since then five smaller trucks of similar construc tion have been bnilt, tho combined capacity of which exceeds 560,000 pounds. The owners of these giant trucks, who are Philadelphians, con trol the heavy hauling business of the eutife American continent. Whenever a heavy boiler, sugar roll, submarine or street cable is to be moved in any part of the United States one or more of their iron and steel tracks are shipped to that point. Although when the giant track was bnilt it was designed to carry but eighty tons, it is believed that more than twice that weight might with perfect safety be loaded on it. By ex tending the pole and placing the other tracks in line it has been estimated that the longest monolith ever quar ried, the one broken from its bed at the Hough ten quarry, Ashland, Wis., November 18th, 1892, and which is forty-six feet longer thpu Cleopatra’s Needle, erected by Vanderbilt in Cen tral Park, New York, could be easily and safely transported any distance pn good roads. Thus the question of hauling huge weights is no longer problematical. Some description of this largest of all trucks cannot but be of interest to those who have been accustomed to seeing only wooden-wheeled wagons and timber carts. Tho wheels are three feet nine inches in diameter, made of iron and have a steel tiro two inches thick and twelve inches wide. They revolve on steel axles six inches in diameter and stand nine feet two inches apart from track to track. From the top of the truck to the ground the distance is but four foot. The fifth wheel, or turning arrange ment, placed on the front or forward axle, is a complete double circle six feet in diameter aud revolves on small spherical steel balls in such manner that no matter how short a turn is made the load can have no chauoe to tip or cant to one side. The first hauling ever done by this wagon was soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, when a forty-eight-ton boiler for the double-turreted monitor Dictator was to be hauled from Fifth aud Washington avenue, where it was made, to the monitor, lying at the foot of Federal street. Tho boiler was loaded on the giant truck and pulled by sixty horses iu the presence of 7000 persons, started safely on its journey, and would have reached its destination withont mishap had the pavement been equal to the strain imposed upon it. When on Federal street, between Third and Fourth streets, a bit of in ferior pavement gave away under the enormous weight, and the massive iron wheels settled to the hnb, pushing the cobbles away as easily as though they had been laid in mud. Tbe horses were found to be inade- quate to pull the wagon over such a pavement, and the journey was eon- tinned by placing ships' anchors in the street. The anchors, after being buried, were couuected with the wagon with blocks and ropes, to which the horses were attached, and the wagon was made to slowly flow its way through a crushed pavement fo the wharf. The performance demonst -ated tho fact that no amount of twis.ing, wrenching or rough usage could daa age the truck. The street alone suffered, A large truck with immeuse wooden wheels made of the best-seasoned rood adapted to the purpose was made i" Chicago five years ago, and was crushe d to pieces the first time it was loaded, sinee which no further experiments with wooden wheels have been tried. Tne horses which pull this iron truck have been trained to the work and seem to thoroughly understand what is required of them. They are never strained by overloading, the rule be ing that one horse for each ton is re quired. They are hooked up tandem fashion in strings, and when last week the cable for the east side of Market street, 22,000 feet long and weighing forty tons, wound on a gigantie spool, was hauled from Broad street and Washington avenue to tho power-house at Twentieth and Market streets forty horses in four strings of ten each were used. The guiding of forty horses through the crowded streets of a big city looks like a difficult task, but it is not. The whole operation is conducted almost entirely by the voice of one man, although there are ten in attendance. The lead horses at the forward end of each string, together with the two shaft horses, have been carefully trained as leaders. It is to them the word of command is given and they are the first to respond to this com mand, the others merely following the direction taken by the leaders. The two other strings of horses are fastened to the iron rounds of tho truck, while for extra heavy weights the washers on the front axles are provided with eyelets, to which enormous chains holding oth< r strings of horses cau be attached. The horses are hooked up in bunches, instead of being placed in one or two strings, because the turn ing of corners cau be accomplished with greater ease in that way. When the cable roads in New York were first introduced the means em ployed to get the spools of cable through the streets to their destina tion was certainly primitive. The cables were shipped from the manu factories wound upon immense reels, like Titanic spools of silk. When those were received for the first cable roads, for lack of a better way, they were plentifully smeared with greuso aud rolled through tho streets. Thai plan, however, was soon abindoiu l and the iron truck from Philadelphia brought into requisition. The forty- two ton cable of the Broadway road was delivered by this truck, it beiu^ shipped over to New York for that purpose.—Philadelphia Times. The is In Eleven Volumes— Each Letter Represented by a Dif ferent Number of Raised Dots; I f HE only Bible published ifi ^ I > the point alphabet td.be used I ' by tho blind has lately, beeii ft” , . printed ifi Louisville. It con sists of 1839 pages, is in eleven vol umes and was turned out by the American Printing House for the Blind, an annex of the Kentucky In stitute for the Blind. Tho eleven em ployes of tho printing house were en gaged on the work for about ten months, and on May 7, 1891, just a little over a year after the work was begun, tho first shipment to the American Bible Society at New York was made. Of course this is not the only Bible that can be read by the blind. Those thus afflicted have been reading a Bi ble for forty years, but it was pub lished in what is known as the line alphabet. The lino alphabet is made up of the Roman letters enlarged and raised on the leaves of the book, so that the blind reader may know them by fol lowing their outline with his fingers. Every school child can read a book printed in that way. But with the New York point alphabet each letter is represented by a different number of raised dots arranged in a fixed posi tion. Strange to say, this second method is the easier to learn, and is always taught before tho line method. That any sort of a Bible for tho blind came out at all is due to a be quest of $40,000 made to the American Bible Society by a wealthy woman of New York City. It was made a per manent fund for printing Bibles for tho blind. Tho four girls who do the typesetting began their part of the work April 28, 1853. As soon as one page was set up it was carried into the molding room and an impression taken. The page was then ready to be cast. It was carried down stairs aud placed in tho stereotyping ma chine. A thin coat of tin foil was then laid over the mold and a light pouring of metal made, so as to melt the tin foil into the mold. Another pouring was then made to fill in the blank spaces between lines aud re-enforoe the back. A piece of ordinary roof er’s tin the size of the page was then laid over the back of the thin metal impression, and another light pouring made to make tho two adhere. When tfiis had cooled off the workman had a true copy of the page on a very light, flexible plate of stereotype. All the rest of the 1039 pages were treated in tho same way, and on January 24, 1894, the day the last page was set up, the last plate was also completed. The work of printing was then be gun. The leaves are necessarily very heavy, and, of course, can be printed only one side. Four sheets, or pages, were printed at a time. When tho pages were ready for binding six of them were grouped together and stitched with wire. The inside edge of each sexto is bound by a oloth-lined card-board guard. This is made nec essary by the thickness of the leaves and the constant handling by the rea der. When these sextos are bound to gether they make a volume varying in thsekuess of from three to four inches. The New Testament is included in three volumes, the Old in eight. The whole work of printing the first set of this Bible cost just $3000. The cost of binding is $1 a volume. The interest on the bequest nearly balf a century ago, has grown so that the books (^'.u be sold to the blind at less than the cost of the binding. The whole set is sold at $7, and the New Testament alone can be secured for $5 less. These Bibles are being sent out to all the schools for the blind , in tho country through the American Bible Association. A Sheep Thai Hibernates. Unlike most curious creatures of the animal creation the Persian sheep has “two chief peculiarities.” Dating tne spring and summer months it accumulates an enormous amount ol fat in its tail, that appendage fre quently becoming so enormously en larged as to weigh from forty to sixty- five pounds, s two-wheeled carl being provided for its reception by most ol the shepherds wi»\ raise this peculiar breed of animals. Its other “chief peculiarity” is this: During the win ter or dry season the big-tailed sheep becomes dormant, hibernating like a bear, thus consuming tho fat stored up in its tail during the more favor able months.—St. Louis Republic. T ill! U. S. Government Chemists have reported, after an examination of the different brands, that the ROYAL Bak ing Powdei* is abshiuteiy pure, greatest in strength, and superior to all others. ROYAL BAKING POWDER COMPANY, 106WALL 8T. NEW-YORK. THU Slay Intercut and Prefll You* A (treat many people who are empolyed oni • (.irtlally, or working at low MyuroR, would find it to their interest to correspond with B. F. iohnson A: Co., liicltmond, Y r n. Tlicy wish to employ men and women of the highest and liest cluu'aelei to represent them in each local ity. London has 809 mala sail branch post- •Uloes. The True l.nxutlve Principle Of the plants used in manufacturing ths pleas ant remedy. Syrup of Figs, has a permanently ben-licial effect on the human system, while the cheap vegetable extracts and mineral solu tions, usually sold as medicines, aru perma nently injurious. Being well informed, yon will use the true remedy only. Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. - Pennsylvania has 9200,000,000 invested In Iron and steel mills. That Everlasting Irritating Itch. That describes Tettor, Eczema aud other i kin diseases. 50 cents will cure them—stop the itch at etpee. 50 centt pays for a box of Tettcrine at drug stores or post paid from J. T. Simp- trine, Savannah, Ga. 'Most of American slate Is quarried In Xastern Pennsylvania and New England. The Mysteries of Medicine,’ “When a person takes a dose of medicine,” said a doctor yesterday, “he never stops to consider what a wonderful provider nature is. When you cousider that we are able to givt drugs which will go through tho en tire system without having an effect upon any part or organ until it comes, perhaps, to some nerve upon which it expends all its force, it is indeed • miracle of the most wonderful kind. Wo don’t know why it dobs it, but we know what it does. The progress in materia medica has been wonderful. By provings the specific effects of drugs have been discovered, so that they can be given with specific re sults. Medicine is gradually emerg ing from the dark valley of guess work in the bright sunlight of science. Tho modern physician- does, not make a mixture , of seven or eight drugs, hopiug that some one of them will produce the effect desired. Ha does not take chances upon striking a remedy one in seven. He knows now just whet drug will produce the re sults he wants and ho prescribes that. I attended a man the other day who had not been sick for twenty or thirty years. I went into his room and, after observing his symptoms, asked for half a gloss of water, into which I dropped a small pellet, a triturate. The old mau looked at mo after I had giveu him a dose of it and then smiled. ‘Well, doctor,’ he said, ‘you treated me for this complaint when I was sick many years ago, aud I must say the remembrance of the taste of the medicine you gave me then is still vivid. I don’t think that a person could have mixed a more horrible eon- ooction than that was. Now you treat me for the same disease and the drug is almost tasteless. How do you aeooiijit for that?’ ‘Progress,’ I re plied. And progress it isl Every day increases our knowledge pf dpngs and our power to Afleviata'inffering and save human life.”—Fit tabor eh Dispatch. The Pottery Tree ot Para. One of the curiosities of Brazil is a tree whose wood and bark contain so much silica that they are used by pot ters. Both, wood and barft are burned and ashes are pulverized and mixed in equal proportions with olay, pro ducing a very superior ware. The tree grows to a height of 100 feet, but does not exceed a foot in diameter. The fresh’bark cuts like sandstone, and when dried is brittle and hard.— Demote st Magazine. Swimming Cavalry. _ Some very interesting exercises ia swimming eavalry took place lately on tho Cabui Bivcr, at Peshawar. The Thirteenth D. 0. O. Bengal Lanoertf have been practicing their horses in a largo tank in their lines and on the river for some time. One squadron took cover along tho river bank and kept up a steady fire to. protect the passage of tho other squadron, who placed all their arms, accouterments and clothes in largo country boats.' and conducted tbeir horses into tha water. Some horses seemed’ to thor oughly enjoy themselves in tho water J others became unmanageable from fear. However, the opposite bank was reached aud war paint resumed, and the squadron was with most cred itable rapidity taking measures to pro tect their comrades, who then crossed iu like manner.—Broad Arrow, In 1773 hailstones said to weigh twenty ounces fell at Murcia, in Spaib. Deafness Cannot be Cared by lot a! application", as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that Is by constitu tional remedies. Iteafne-s is caused byanin- Samo 1 r >mt. ion oi t .o mucous lining of the i.ustachiau Tube. When this tube gets in. llamed you have a rumbling sound or imper- fect bearing, 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 ont ten are caused by catarrh, which ie nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. 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