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tl)c ttuum inu?. V * UNION, a o. > -O liia Mid thai ibe late patent deaiaion it lively to eheapen telephone aerrioe amaaingly. ^ I | ^ ^ Athletics are said to be languishing 1ft ov oolleges. Football is under ban and beeeball is too alov. There ere about 12,000,000 bouses in this ooun.trj, with less than sir people to sash en the average. An educational qualification will hereafter be required of men seeking enlistment in the United States Army. ________________ Aooording to the New York Tribune, u arefj country or tine globe the farmer ia raising a wail of distress. Farm products are too cheap. I The world's chief supply of alohasier comes from the quarries of "Volterra, some thirty miles southeast of in Italy, where this industry has been handed down for generations. _________ Schools of stenography and typewriting turn their pupils to use by doing at rather low rates typewriting for lawyers and others. The oopying makes good praotioe for the. pupil and incidentally brings in considerable revenue in the unhnnl The Boston Transit Commission will relieve the narrow, crooked and erowded streets by a subway, beginning in the Public Garden and ending at Park street The subway will be partly double-track and partly quadruple, and will be lighted by elects jelly, England is not generally thought of e a gold producing country, but Knowledge says that there are perhaps few* countries in the world in which the isetal is more generally din-, trihuted. The principal ntines in Wales, now abandoned, were worked A* pn rang agu as vuu noman ocoupauon. The eoti of the Baltic Canal is estimated at $87,440,000. Prussia contributed $12,500,000 and the Imperial Treasury raised the reel ' It is a singular fact, oommonte the New York Mail and Express, that, although this- canal ie about twioe as long as tho Manchester Canal, the latter cost $75,000,000. Houseboats are gradually develop* ing into a recognized feature of American summer life?west as well as east of the Rooky Mountains. The fashion has been imported in the last place from England; bat ite origin XUftV be ironed to flhinn Tndiu ?rwl I other Oriental countries, a large proportion of whose population in born, lives and dies on these floating homes. The New York Tribune thinks it will doubtless be news to many that houseboats can be leased quite ' as^cheaply as cottages for the hot months of the year, and that they offer many advantages, whioh are afforded neither by the oonntry villa nor by the summer hotel to those in search of changt of seene and air. The St Paul Pioneer-Prese remarks: While the farmers of the Northwest ore deploring the advent of the Russian thistle, a new forage plant, also of Russian origin, has made its appear anoe, wmeb promises to prove such a blessing to farmers as to more than atone for the damage done by it* pestilent compatriot. It is known as aaoaline. It requires no cnltivation. Once planted, it propagates fUelf in any soil, in dr r, sandy, barren or in wet, alluvial swamps. It stands the drouth, for its roots strike deep. It drinks in the rain, when there is any, like a camel loading up for a journey through the desert. It is as nutritious as any of our grasses. It possesses a combination of remarkable properties, which adapt it wondorfnlly well for the conditions existing in Minnesota, and especially the Dakotas and beyond. Oar impression is that the Minnesota agricultural collogo is trying it, or has arranged to try it on the Htnte experimental farm. 1 \ tiTTMR DISEASE IN FOW1S. When fowls mope about, bang their beads and sit about with ruffled feathers, gradually getting weaker, avoiding food, but drinking, they are suffering from a disease of tho liver, combined with intestinal fever. The disorder is commonly oalled cholera, and a eonspiouous symptom is a green and yellow discharge from the bowels, this being colored by the overfloiring bile. Qive the fowls a teaspoonful of saturated solution of hyposulphate of soda three timet) a day, withhold all I food, give all the water they will drink, and keep the aiok bir ds apart from the others, as tho disease is infectious. The eggs of siok birds are not fit to eat, as they produce violent pains in the bowels and diarrhoea, and, of'course, the flesh is equally unwholesome. This disorder is closely allied to the swine cholera. Overfeeding and other unwholesome conditions encourage this disorder if they do not actually produce it. ?New York Times. A TMJIT BARROW. An ordinary wheelbarrow is so shaped that it is impossible to utilize it for wheeling boxes and baskets of J fruit without great care and considerable anxiety as to the safety of the fruit?anxiety which is only too well justified whon the whoel, striking against an unseen stone upsets the carefully balanced boxen to the injury of fruit and temper. The fruit barrow rcp.escnted ir. the FRU1'T BAHROW. aooompanying illustration, from the New "York World, not only avoids all ibis uuuujuuoc, bul luukcr provision | for carrying a larger number of boxes more readily and in perfect safety. It consists of a small table or platform, with two of tbe logs shorter than the others. Two pieced of wood are fastened diagonally and projecting beyond at the lower end are attached to a small wheel. At the other end they are finished ofl with handles. Some laths around the platform serve as a fence to prevent the boxes falling off. Strips of wood are added as braces to strengthen the whole. THE WKAOTNO PERIOD FOR EAMRft. Borne imagine thai tbc weunmg pro* I ceae Jb a very dimple one. Well, in n benec it ie, but in another dense it is not. Weaning lambs does not dimply mean taking them away from the dims. It nieaun that the ewes shall be prop- i erly dried without iDjury to the udder.. aud that they shall then be put in u fair way of improvement, whether J they are to be sold off or kept for further breeding. And it means that the lnuibe shall be so mauaged that the weaning period will not prove to them n period of stagnation. Tlie season of the yeur at which they are to be weaned will depend entirely upon the time at which they come to hand, und the use that it to be made of theui and the dumb. When lam be | come in the autumn they will be ready for weaning before the ewes go out to pauture early in the spring. When they are born early in the spring they will be ready for weuning in midsummer, and when they are born late in i the spring tney will not be ready to be weaned until the early autumn. Something, too, depends upon the way in which they have been minted. When they hate been well supplied with milk they will Htand to be weaned at an earlier reason than when the milk hoe been short in supply. At, a rule the suckling period should extend over from four to five months. Usu ally four and a half inonthe ie long enough to aucklo lambB. | Whon the ^caning season arrives the lambs should not only be separated from tho ewes, but thoy should bo taken quite away from thora. It would not be wise, where it could be avoided; to put tho lambs on one side of a fence and tho ewes on the other, even though they should no! lit aide is break through to one another. The lambs would be more restless than >1 out of tho sound of tho voice of the j dams, and the latter will dry up more quickly when they cannot hoai the bleating of the lain be. it if an ex^el lent plan where there is an opportunity for it to abut up the dams in the sheds for a few days at the weaning season, and to feed them dry food to hasten the lessoning of the milk flow. ?Farm, Stock and Some. * ^ FARM AND GARDEN NOTCH. Co'Ws seldom grow long hair except in a cold Stable. ' Then it is a blessed provision of nature. Train up a heifer in the way she should go, and when she is a cow she will not depart from it. If trees are taken from the forest where their bodies have been shaded, they should be boxed to keep off the direot ravs of the sue. If not pro* teoted the bark will be blasted ou the southwest side. Young chickens may be allowed the run of the garden, the mother being cooped; and the havoc they make among insects is an excellent things Exercise to a growing chiok is what sleep is to a young babe; both are essential in each case to good health. Here is A. H. Huyck's way of dehorning calves without a saw: An ounce of caustic potash, costing tlfteon cents, will dehorn fifty. Wet the horn button and rub with the caustic for half a minute any time before the calf is nine days old. B?. sure not to get much on the skin, 4 ikntA in ntinn m. r?r r. Ilfirt one, and it thou Id be the aiui of every poultry keeper never to frighten them ) a acared heL cannot do her beat any more than u scared cow. This is ap* plicable to every fowl or animal yon may keep; "ftlwayi- win their confidence by good treatment; you then have gained u very decided advantage in their management. Tree* are usually planted ho close that symmetrical growth in impossible. They are planted thick with the idea that a more dense shade will thus be secured, but the object sought is defeated by thick planting. The most dense shade u afforded by trees which have sufficient space to brauch naturally and thus form a thiok canopy of | leaves un over tlieir beads. <n< ipkr. Sponge vJuke?Three egg? beuteu five minutes. add 1; cups sugar ami beat two minutes, one cup of flour with a teaspoon of creain of tartar. Mix these thoroughly and add half cup of cold water with half teaHpoon of soda and another cup of flour, Apple Fritters?Three eggs, three tablespoons silted sugar, one pint flour, salt, milk to make a good bat* ter, as many apples chopped flue as the batter will take. Sift sugar over when fried. l'uuding?Soak one cup of tapioca all night in three pints of water, ln-#tho morning cook it an hour and then add half cup white sugar, haif teaspoon salt and a small j tumbler of currant jelly ; mix together thoroughly over the lire, then pour into n mold. Serve with cream an J rugnr. Lemon Honeycomb?Put into a dish the juice of a good-sized lemon, with two ounces of powdered sugar ; whisk the white of one egg, one pint oi cream and one ounce of sifted sugar | into a stifl froth. Hkim it ofl as it forms and lay it upon the lemoD juice till all the cream is exhausted. Lot it stand u day beforo you servo it. Ancient Remedies tor Hiccough. The hiccough seems to ho a modern and dangerous disease, but the ancients knew it and prescribed remedies that might now be tried advantageously. Galen recommended sneezing. Atins approved of a cupping instrument with great heni to the breast. Alexander believed in an oxymel o' squills. Al.saharavius made use of refrigerant draughts. Rhoses put his trust in calefaeionts, such as cumin, 1 At l*t- - i-. _! pepper, ruo ami iuv ukc, in vinegar. Kogoriua looked kindly on calefacient, utteuuunt and carminative modicinot*. ? Chieagi Times-Herald. It in predicted l>y Collector of In* tern.il It even no Mine, of Chicago, that the income t'?s from Chicago will not exoccd $1,000,000, and may fall below #.*<00,000. If he in correct, observes tho New York Times, Chicago is very much poorer than the world hud been led tp enpposy, I LADICt' COLUMN BKWAJUD Of A BjtATE MPLORBB. M. Dienlafoy, who with his wife exolored the rains of Sass, hss been sleeted to the French Academic dea Inscriptions. Mme. Diealsfoy not only received the l^egion of Honor for her shsxe in the work, bat also the t eirvKf fa swaam ?v??t?%** %*?tlJ ?a r ?v *T LUUU D VIU VU^O 1U jIUUiiV. ?Soientiflc American. DAKN1NO BOTH' HOCKS. The half-hundred female co-eds at Adrian (Mifeh.) College have decided to aid in the construction of the new gymnasium by earning #1 apiece. Among the devioee adopted is that of mending the socks of the male students. The price started at ten cents a pair, according to notices posted on the outsido doors in the female dormitory, but the girls soon begen cutting the price, and now five cents will secure a good job. The girls will hold an experience meeting, at which oacb will relate in detail how hor dollar was earned.?San Francisco Examiner. ^ELVICTKUN 18 rOPtrLAB. Telvoteen, which formerly was such i t a despised material, and which ha* , figured fti such so largely in novel* and tales, is now woven witn a glossi, nes* and a coloring which makes it desirable for handsome gowns. The richest weaver have ribs, stripes and various pattern* with figures of dots, stars, Vandyke and electric lines, and , those of bright contrasting colors with j the plain or moire grounds. The latest thing in this material is a cotton plush, which washes well, and is principally used for morning dresses, blouses and dresses for children. I The useful aud beautiful are now being combined by the mechanical genius of the age to on extent that our grandmothers never dreamed of. Certainly. they never imagined a dav when plush waists and dresses would j thrust ItiKi the | family wash. Another improvement in this line u* a style of ribbons in various fashionable colon- and in black which wash perfectly, ami are intended for the ornamentation of undergarments so that the decorations of thosu articles of clothing need not be laboriously withdrawn every time a garment is laundered.--New York Commercial Advertiser. AMt'HEAIEM o! A OUREN'k OUT* AO*. To the Trinccs* belongs the credit of reviving in the breast of her inothor the long dormant taste for theatrical entertainments. lu her youth Queen Victoria was frequently, throughout the Loudon season, to he seen at the various theatres with her young husband. ami for tin lirst fifteen years | \ that followed her murriuge hardly | mimed a singh importaut operatic event in tlu metropolis nhowiug not odIj h keon and intelligent appreciation of both munie ami drama, but ulso a very kindly feeling toward the artists. \ftei tho death of the Priuoe Consort, in its<i 1, the Queen declined to heui any longei of anything connected with the stage, and it wan only with the utmost difficulty that some ten years ago the Princess vat able to induce her mother to permit the organization 01 some tablehux-vivans at Osborne. This hud the efl'ect of paving the way to amateur theatricals, ol which the Princess, notwithstanding her strongly developed embonpoint, is inordinately fond; auJ from amateur theatricals to performances given by professionals was but another ste}i. Now, the Queen has again taken such ? liking to the drama that she actually goes to the enormous expense of huving entire metropolitan troupes and their scenery conveyed all the way from London to Balmoral, n twentyfour hours journey, in order to provide her with an evening's entertainment. In spite ol her stoutness. Princess Beatrice is as far from looking as good-humored as her equally fat sistor, Princess Christian. Her face usually wears n tumbled expression, and this is attributed by tho peoplo who know her to the difficulty which she experiences in keeping n.attors smooth between her by no means agreeable husband and tho hitter's imperious mother-in-law.--New York Tribune. T'ASIIJOM NOTES. If one is going to wear ? throatlot those of soft, light rnehjugs arc jiret, (ricsU I 6prb| gowns are trimmed with jot buttons set in a rim of rbinestones. Thins blaok erepons dotted witb jet beads are found among the spring morelties. A laoo in white and cream, which resembles Brusselrftipplnjue, is n specialty in millinery. The crar.o for open-work effects has uttaoked tho shoes, and patent leather and glossy kid shpeu are perforated la voriouH paterus, UKo the cloths, velvets and silks wo ranch worn. With broad boww at the back oi oft. hatfi. broad boww in frout, wuo!i ipetanding aigrettes on the crown. lh? new hat will transeeud any of ikt " predeoewwors for all screen purposes. Clover red bergere, which iw u delioate pink like that tiut of a aon shell, creamy yellow, innuve, gray-bine, rose-pink, and yellow-greon, in vur>out shades, are among the most fax! tonablo colors. Block and white striped tatlcVae, organdies and swivel silks will he much worn this season, and they make extremely sylisli gowns, combined with a trimming of bright sutin or veb ret to give the ilrosw a. touch of color. The daintiest underwear iw made nainsook or batiste in white or pole colors handsomely trimmed with eithei narrow Valencieuuea lace and insertion or Aleuoon and Venice laces, as oh 1 ..1 ? M r w nil muv.u Liit iiii niiuru?u(!rj ) *jt i; '> Huiitinij Pythons in Narah The colony of Natal, Houth Africa abounds in boa-coustrietorB and pytboui. While they do not attack men. they are especially doHtruetj\? of cattle, sheep and oxen, and foi iLim reason parties are formed by huntera and natives to burn the bunh and forest in order to exterminate the peel*. Som< of the holdierH at Pietermardj.burg were receutly informed by a party ol neighboring Zulus ol the whereabouts of a huge python that had been destroying their oxen. The soldiers, with 200 natives, started off to cupture the snake, and, having located it the fort^t won fired for u m?Jo roundabout, an enormoiiH pit having been previously dug in toward the centre oi the inclosed space. What "= itl. tht burning brush and tbAnhOnts of the Knllirs they huod drove the reptile toward the pit, where, closing in ipon him, they forced him iuU it. The python proved to be of euormom ei/.e, being thirty-two feet long and forty-ono inches in eirou inference. H appeared to be quite stupid or dazed huviug just eaten u young ox thai had beer led into the iualosure. An enormouH cage, with iron bare half way down tho front, having boon constructed, the snake was got out of the pit and taken to Marit/.burg in the cage. Here it ih kept 011 exhibition al the barracks, and it is fed twice * week two Knllit goats at each m? al It will not cut anything that hue b?-en ulreudy killed for it, preferring to kill its food itself. The goats are thrust through a small door at the end of the nlivo Oj ......... 1 ? - -O ' U?IUH ..n K. i <-7"" upon them, the snake tuddunly lunges for-vurtl uDil crushes thorn in its powoi ful folds After covering them with a thick *luue almost an inch deep bofore swallowing them, it flattens them out by squeezing them and then ewullows theni almost at a gulp. After this the python goes to Hleep, and does not awaken until it is tiuie to food again ?Chicago Times. A Moth Story That Holds the Record. Here is a moth story that holds the record lor tho moment: Lost week * resident ol Marlengton, W. Va., got ont his nfl? it !??.! A.?.?r? *?<....V iug for two weeks in * closet nod found, upon extracting the cartridge to eloau tho gun, that the lead of the bullet had all been eaten away and remained in the barrel in tho Hhapo ot tine dual. With the duxt there tel.* mil tho dried body of a moth. The appearance of the moth indicated that it had eaton tho lead from tho bulletin proof of bin story tho owner of tlio rifle allowed the moth and the lead dust to several friends, and all agreed that everything indicated that the moth had eaten tho leaJ. ? New Yore Sun. Tli/itA wointo * ' * - .^v.v nvio (UIUIUUH tl> Ull* country lust your. Ncurly one-hoi f wero caused by despondency, 157 by iuwuity, 218 by liquor, 270 by ill health, 241 by domentio tionblou, 2:12 by disappointed lore, 122 by lmHimwl h\"S.CM ftu.! 1212 2ui. * '