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The Values of Vegetables. All vegetables have an effect on the chemistry of tire body, so that we can not speak too 1 igl ly of tlieir impor tance at table. We will mention a few of these matters first, and dispose ol this asptct of the subject, so as not to seem to mix pbarmacoj co a with the kitchen. Asparagus is a strong diuretic, and foims part of the cure for rhc umatic patients at such health resorts as Aix let-Bairs. Forrel is cooling, and forms the staple of that eovpe avx herbcs which a French lady will order for herself after a long and tiring journey. Carrots, as containing a quantity of sugar, are avoided by some people, while others complain of thtm as indigestible. With regard to the latter accusation, it may be re marked in passing, that it is the yel low core of the carrot that is difficult of digestion, the outer, a red layer, is tender enough. In Savoy, the peas ants have recourse to an infusion of carrots as a specific for jaundice. The large, sweet onion is very rich ip those alaline elements which coun teract the poison of rheumatic gout. If slowly stewed in weak broth, and eaten with a little Nepaul pepper, it will be found to be an admirable arti cle of diet for patients of studious and sedentary habits. The stalks of cauli flower have the same sort of value, only too often the stalk of a cauliflower is so ill-boiled and unpalatable that few persons would thank you for pro posing to make part of their meal con sist of so uninviting an article. Tur nips, in the same way, are often thought to be indigestible, and better suited for cows and sheep than for delicate people; but here the fault lies with the cock quite as much as with the root. The ccok boils the turnip badly, and then pours some butter over it, and the eater of such a dish is sure to be the worse for it. Try a better way. Half boil your turnip, and cut it in slices like half-crowns. Butter a pie dish, put in the slices, moisten with a little [milk and weik broth, dust once w"h bread-crumbs and pepper and salt, and bake in the oven til 1 againsabrightgoldenbrown. This uish, which is the Piedmontese fashion of eating turnips, i3 quite un suited to cow r s, and oughfto be popu lar. .What shall be said about our lettuces? The plant has a slight nar cotic action, of which a French old woman, like a French doctor, well knows the value, and when properly cooked it is really very easy of diges tion. But in our country, though lettuces are duly grown in every gar den, you often hear the remark, “I can’t eat a salad,” and as few cooks know how to me the vegetable which has been refused in its raw state, the lettuces are ail wasted, and so is the ground in which they were grown. Corteous Manner. Brusque people underrate the im portance of a pleasant manner. Look beneath the surface, then, to the roots of character; pay no attention to out ward appearance, to voice or gesture, tone or manners ; they may be all de ceptive, and they must be all super ficial ; it is what is said or done, that is alone deservirg of notice. On the other hand, there are some to whom manner is everything. Each new acquaintance has to pass the ordeal of their criticism. Is he polished, courteous, graceful, dignified? Then they are ready to receive him without further question ; he bears the stamp of their order. Is he rough, crude, awkward or shy ? Then they care not to examine the kernal that may be hidden under so unattractive a shell. Both these views are impeifect and mistaken, though each contain enough of truth to make it plausible. To depreciate or ignore fine manners is essentially absurd. Their charm is irresistible, even to those who fancy hemselves proof agianst them. Yet it is not so much in themselves or for their own sake that they delight us, as in the promise of something better and deeper. They are signs or sym bols of character, feelings, affections, thoughts; and it is to this that they owe their value and charm. The laying of the corner stone of the new Produce Exchange building on Broadway, near Beaver street, New York, took place with Imposing cere monies. Jn Billings township,Saginaw coun ty, Mich., Mrs. Anna Stevenson shot 'and killed her husband, William, for trying to gain access to # their house fter she had barred him out. The pie, though married a long time, en quarrelled. Agricultural. Asparagus Culturi-—The Soil and its Preparation. The best soil for asparagus is a light, well-drained, sandy loam. It should be deeply aud thoroughly pulverized and well manured with old, rotted barnyard manure, carefully worked into the soil. This is better than chemical fertilizers, where it can be obtained, though they will be found good for top-dressing. The old pro cess of “trenching” with a spade is a slow and laborious one, and our best market gardeners are substituting some such method as the following. After laying out the bed, mark off a piece along the side about three feet wide, and from it remove the surface soil to the depth of a foot or eo. Then cover this open space with six inches of good, rich manure or old leaf mold, mixing it well with ihe subsoil by using a spade. Spread from four to six inches of manure over the undis turbed portion of the bed, lay off another piece three feet wide, aud throw its top soil into the “trench” previously made, and so proceed until the bed is completed, wheD the last openiDg may be filled with the sur face soil taken from the first. It will be seen that this process differs from “trenching” proper in that the sur face soil is not replaced by subsoil. Such preparation of the ground is more essential in the bed in which the plants are to be set than in the seed bed, though thorough “working” of the soil there will be repaired. Bowing and Transplanting. The seed should be sown as early in the spring as the soil can be worked, say early in April in most localities in this latitude. Sow in drills, about a foot apart and two inches deep, and drop the seeds about half an inch apart in rows. After the young plants come up, the hoe should be used fre quently between the rows, to keep down the weeds and pulverize the soil, and hand-weeding of the plants will, doubtless, be found necessary. The point is to get a good growth the first season, so that the plants may be large enough to transplant the follow ing spring. The general impression that asparagus should not be set out until the second or third year is erro neous, providing they are carefully tended and “forced” the first season. Asparagus may be transplanted either in the fall or in the soring, and it is n good plan to prepare the beds in the fall, even if (he planting is not done till spring. There is a diversity of opinion as to the distance apart at which to plant: but, for garden cul ture, the rows should be about two feet apart, and the plants about a foot and a half apart in the rows. For large-growing kinds of asparagus these distances should be increased six or eight inches. In field culture, make the rows at least three feet apart. The method most commonly pur sued in planting is to open a trench six or eight inches deep and a foot wide, and spread out the roots on the bottom carefully. The crowns of the p 1 gilts should be six inches btneath the surface of the ground. Fill the trench about halt w r ay up with soil at first, and when the plants are well above ground the filling may be com pleted. It is not generally calculated to cut much asparagus until the third season after planting, and it is still better to wait a year or two later than that. As an asparagus bed, with proper care and fertilization, may be counted on to yield abundantly for fifteen or twenty years, the plants should not be “stunted” by too early or too frequent cuttings. Sheep. American shepherds have yet much to learn in regard to the manage ment of their flocks. For example, the sheep in Silesia are ne^r exposed to much rain. Nor are they exposed to dust, for that is known to be injuri ous to the fleece. The greatest possible care is taken in the breeding. Men of experience are employed to go from farm to farm to examine the sheep and select the best rams that can be found. The rams are closely exam ined as to their fleece-bearing proper ties, and all but the very best are sold off. The whole economy of the sheep farm is as perfect as intelligence and industry can make it. A ton of wool ia worth $750 at 85 cents a pound, or $500 at 25 cents. A ton of wheat is worth about $32, and of oorn about $16. The freight is about the same for each, and iathus twenty-five times more for wheat, and nearly fifty times more for corn than wool. Tills is worth con sidering, and shows how much better it is to turn corn into wool thau to sell it. Colio in Horses* This disease always comes on sud denly and is very daugerou*. ^.t is as likely to attack the animal away from home, on the road, and w here reme dies cannot he had, as at home. Ani mals wiiile in harness, say hauling grain to market, if attacked get down and not unfrequently die. I have had some experience in such cases, have never used any kind ot medicine, and have never had a fatal case, nor one that has lasted over hall an hour. While the horse is down (and if he does n t lie down get him down) on his side, as soon as possible get behind him and begin vigorously to knead his stomach between the short ribs and the hind leg with the double fists, exactly as if Kneading bread, and dig in pretty hard. Almost instantly it will give him relief, in most cases air will pass from the cowels, and in five minutes or less the horse will get up cured. I have used thi3 plan with my own stock, and have recommended it to others, and once saved the life of an animal entirely given up by the owner and his neighbors. I happened to drive to his house just as they were about to leave the animal to die, aud in twenty minutes he was on his feet eating grass. The people thought I was a wizard. Statistical. A Venetian glass manufacturer is making a great success of ladies’ glass bonnets. There has been some talk of dredg ing the Rhine so that Cologne may be made a seaport. The annual cost of school books to users is estimated at $5,060,000. The average pay of the Ht. Louie school teacher is $615 51. The New Oilcans schools have aD average daily attendance of 15,357— about forty pupils to each teacher. Chicago employs 972 teachers. There are 58,097 names on the school list, the average daily attendance be ing 38,58.9. On the authority of M. Smirnoff, it is stated that the vineyards of Turkes tan are devastated by the parasitical fungus called Erysiple. During the year 1831 less foreign wine was imported into Switzerland than in 1889, but th* quantity of spirits imported greatly increased. Bkeep in Australia. Official returns show how vast are the flocks ot sheep owned in the Aus tralasian colonies: The New Zealand anti Australia^ Land Company owns 300.000 sheep; Mr. Robert Campbell, 356.000 sheep;Mr. Georgellenry Mooie. 90.000 sheep ; Messrs. Clifford & Weld 80.000 sheep; Sir Dillon Bell, 82.000 sheep; the Hon. William Robinson, 08 000 sheep; Messrs. Dalgetty & Co., 208 000 sheep; Sir Cracroft Wilson. 48.000 sheep; Mr. Kitchen, 80,000 sheep; and Mr. Allan McLean, 500,- 000 sheep. Cows, Sutter and Cheese. It may interest some persons to learn that the entire butter production of this country for 1880 was one thou sand million pounds, and the cheese three hundred million of pounds. Ube quantity of butter exported during the same year was forty million of pounds, valued at $20,900,000, and cheese one hundred and thirty mil lion of pounds. One cheese made in Iow T a, and which was shipped to Eng land, weighing more than three- fourths of a ton, and took the prize, a silver medal, at the great cattle and dairy show at Birmingham. Great Britain and Ireland have three mil lions, seven hundred thousand milch cows; France, four millions and a half; Germany, nearly nine millions, and the United States thirteen mil lions, or forty-five per cent, more than any one of the dairy countries. Politeness Prevents Rabies, Defense Against Vicious Dogs.— A gentleman gives the following ad vice in relation to dogs: “If,” says he, “you enter a lot where there is a vicious dog, be careful to remove your hat or cap as the animal approaches you; hold the same down by your side, between yourself and the dog. When you have done this you bave secured perfect immunity from attack. The dog will not bite you if this ad vice Is followed. Such is my faith In this policy that I will pay all doctor’s bills from dog bites and funeral ex penses for deaths from hydrophobia.” A statistician computes tlftit one hundred and fifty tons of human hair annually change owners in France. Tills does not include the looks that 1 change owners in conjugal unpleas- • antness. Tonsorial Agony. You can always tell a boy whose mother cuts his hair. Not because the edges of it look as if it. had been chaw ed off by an absi-nt-minded horse or by mice; but you tell it by the way he stops on lire street and wiggles his shoulders. When a fond mother has to cut her boy’s hair, she is careful to guard against auy annoyance and muss by laying a sheet od the carpet. It has never occurred to her to sit him over a bare floor and put the sheet arouDd his neck. Then she draws the front hair over his eyes and leaves it there while she cuts that which is at the back ; the hair which lies over bis #»yes appears to be surcharged with electric net dies, and that which is silently dropping down under his shirt band appears to be on fire. When the boy is undergoing this ordeal she unconsciously continues to push his head until his nose presses his oreast; and is too busy to notice the snuffling sound that is becoming alarmingly frequent. In the meantime he is seized with an irresistible desire to blow his nose, but recollects that his handkerchief is in the other room. Then a fly lights on his n ise, and does so unexpectedly that he involuntarily dodges and catches the point of the shears on his left ear. At this time he commences to cry and wish he was a man. She merely hits him on the other ear to inspire him with coi fi- dence, and goes to work. Then she holds his jacket collar back from his neck and with her mouth blows the short bits of hair from the top of his head down his back, and tells him he’s all right. He calls her attention to this fact, but slie looks and asks him why he didn’t use his handker chief. Then he takes h's awfully dis figured head to the mirror and looks at it, and young as he is, shudders as he thinks of what the boys on the street will say when they see him. For the Fair Sex. Fashion Briefs. India lawns come in great variety ; the chief pattern shows checks in all sizes and colors. The garniture should he self goods aud lace of a quality that can be handsomely laun- dried. Silks designed for summer wear are manufactured especially for the season. They are light in weight, showing a splendid array of colors and shades—a class of goods not so much w 7 oru at watering places as formerly. Lawns give promise of holding a prominent place in dress outfits fir summer rusticating. This texture is bright aud air> in appearance, so ap propriate for the summer. No outfit is complete without one or more lawn suits. The most startling parasols exhib ited thus far are those of vermilion satin, lined with old gold silk and trimmed with double ruffles of wide gold lace. The ferrules are surroun ded by a wreath of brilliant scarlet roses, mixed with small yellow sun flowers. In millinery the manila shades are very prominent. This hue is a pale yellow, very noticeable when associ ated with crimson, Brilliant olive, overspread with a golden shimmer, is styled an antique color, very striking in tone, and possessing the quality of combining nicely with almost every dye. There are a number of novel effects in greens, especially those shades that partake of other colors. The lichen green in dress materials has a golden lustre; elder green has a silvery veil ing ; sycamore green has a changeable appearance—it is very soft and deli cate, showing off splendidly in super fine goods. Summer silks having the new Jap anese patterns are much sought after in the making up of combination suits. India foulard silks are desira ble. especially those with porcelain patterns of hawthorne branches. Raw silks are deemed quite unique; the designs are copied from stained glass, and so closely scattered over the goods that the original texture is en tirely concealed. It appears that the choice of colors in personal adornment is governed this season, to a great extent, by obi- theticism. “Tawny shades ascend and desoend the scale in as many de grees as one or moreoot%ves on a musi cal instrument. Fading away, they sink into rale ytllowlsh blendings, or, growing deeper, they attain gradually lonine’ hues of the now promi- flower. Those reds that are tinged with pur ple are considered novel, the orchis red ranking first in this list. Turc red ha the pure gurnet hue and looks well with “telegraph” blue, which shade blends beautifuly with several of the sealhetic colors. Creamy white is highly favored, and particularly in the choice of fine all-wool goods and satius intended for full dress. The grayish Russian blues are popu'ar. Blue deepening to purple lia9 a very pleasing tfleet. Green lightening iuto yellow is charming. Greek adornment in dress has al ways held in a more or less degree a very important place in refined modes. Just at present this clasical style of dress is seen in touches. Here and there the eye will rest on a dainty curve or a delicate outline that re minds one at once of the picturesque effects so prolificaliy expressed in Grecian drapery. These artistic ex pressions in personal adornment are not easily secured; only the skilled workman can produce the desire! re sult in the construction of such fash- ion able toilets. Dress hats for gentlemen rre of pearl-gray cassimere, with a b* 1 crown five and a half inches high, and round curved English brim that i nearly two inches wide. The felt h for business and general wear is a English Derby, larger than thos lately worn ; the crown is five and fourth inches high, and the rolled brim is two inches and an eighth in width. Cocoa brown is the stylish color, and there are navy blue and English green Deibys imported to match suits. American Derby hats have more tapering crowns, and are not so high as the Euglish shapes: they come in pearl-color, black and brown. Theories of The Earth’s Surface. * 4 Professor Charle3 S. Hastings, in recent lecture at the John Ho University, gave an outline leading theories in regard to the cal character of the earth. Alt there are a great many theories, may be reduced to two distiuctiv According to the first, the inter!. the earth is a fluid covered wit thin crust, about thirty miles or there abouts in thickness. The advocates of the secoud theory hold that the earth is practically a solid sphere. Among the reasons given for sustaining the first theory, the following are, per haps, the prin :ipal, namely : As we eo down in mines, wells and othtr under ground caverns, it has been ascer tained that the heat increases in a ratio of one degree fo>* every 100 feet of decent below the sun’s influence. This theory is also suported by the occur rence of volcanic eruptions and earth quakes, and the existence of hot springs. Those who put forth the sec ond theory also support it by two ar guments. They hold that if the r centre of the earlh were a liquid and the outer surface a solid,%he heavier portion would go to the centre. Again, the weight of the crust of the earth is about two and onelialf times that of water; the weight of the whole earlh is known. From this, it may be de duced that, in order to make up the entire weight, it must be seven times as heavy as water at the centre. The lecturer briefly discussed the two theories, and said that, if the two theories were modified, they could be reconciled, and that this mean would probab^r be the true theory. The intf rior of the earth is most probably a fluid of the consistency of tar. Unique Dinner Cards. At a recent dinner-party in New York, some odd dinner cards were used. They were exact imitations of square soda crackers made of pale silk, filled with down and sachet pow der. The edges were slightly coloreds as a cracker is browned in thebaking^ and the print of the cutting-stamp was copied by the silk being stitched together in places. In the centre, where the name of the manufacturer U9ually is, was the name of the guest. As they lay upon the pure white linen by the plates they looked like such fresh, good soda crackers that it was a disappointment to find that they would not break and crumble into brittle mouthfuls. The speaker had failed to awaken very deep interest in his hearers, when the small boy had stolen quietl out after leaving red pepper on stove there wasn’t a dry eye in t house, A new church edifice for theU versalists is in process of erection Eist Providence, R. I., and is e peoted to be ready for dedication Ootober next.