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' ■) DESERTED. j Bright sea, far flooding all the pebbled sand, Flinging thy foamy pearls from stone to stpne, Tby lullaby, low-murmured to the strand, Sounds like a lover's tone; And yet I know, elsewhere, Some other shore, as lair, Thy waves have kissed, and left it dry an I lone. Bright sunshine, gleaming on my cottage wall, Tracing the shadow of an lvj-spray, How tenderly thy golden touches fall On common things to-day! Yet, beneath other skies Some land benlguted lies, Deserted by thy glory, cold and gray. Blithe bird, loud-warbling underneath the eaveB An eager love song passionate and shrill, My heart is trembling amid summer leaves With sweet responsive thrill; Y j t for away, dear guest, There Is an empty nest Which thou hast left forsaken, void and still. Fair sea, bright sunshine, bird of song divine, I, too, may lose the tide, the light, the lay ; Others may win the kisses that were mine, My night may be their day; Yet, though the soul may sigh For precious things gone by, I shall have had my rapture come what may! SARAH DOUDNEY. Agricultural. Try planting a row of celery be tween two rows of early sweet corn or potatoes this year it you have not un occupied ground. The latter may be cleared away before tne celery will need the room. Arkansas farmers are suffering a series of disasters. Live stock ie pei- ishing from gnat-poisoning; a new kind of worm is destroying grain, and the foliage of the trees is being eaten -by caterpillars. California wheat-growers are trou bled by wild geese, which at night settle down on the fields. Mounted men are employed to Bhoot them, and last year on one farm $10,000 was ex pended in horses, men and ammuni tion. A successful chicken-raiser says that he always feeds his hens among his currants, and the leaves are conse quently always free from' worms, and •other bushes not thus treated near by were entirely stripped of their foliage. American lard cheese is attracting the notice of the House of Commons, and efforts are being made to chick its importation. The increasing ex portation of this spurious stuff is likely to injure the trade of the genu ine American article. After hoeing, scatter a peck of corn broadcast among your potatoes and call your fleck of fowls into the field. Aftei picking up all the corn they can find they will pick up or drive away nil the Colorado beetles. So says one who has tried it. Milk containing an abundance of large globules is best for butter-mak ing, as the cream Ihen rises quickly and perfectly. Milk with small glo bules is probably best for cheese mak ing, as a more even distribution of fat throughout the curd is then obtained. A Nashville (Tenn ) farmer’s rem edy for the army worm is to draw taut a rope thirty or forty feet long, and drag it over the wheat. The worms are dislodged, and the matured ones are unable to climb back, while, the younger ones that return are shaken •off the next morning. it is observed that the most success ful grape-growing countries have the ' least amount of rainfall, especially during the summer. One authority gives his opinion that iff climates where the summer rainfall exceeds fourteen inches, grape culture is liable to be attended by rot and mildew. A fruit-grower at Griffin, Ga., has ■80,000 peach trees in bearing condition besides thousands of other kinds of fruit trees. The peaches are ripening faster than they can be sent to market, although 300 pickers and packers are employed, and hundreds of bushels are oast aside as too ripe f or shipment. A Wisconsin lady says that one-half a pint of salt and one ounce of cop peras dissolved in a gallon of water is all that is needed for a cut-worm pre paration. She dips the plants in this solution before setting them. Says she has used it for years, and never knew of a plant being cut off' after taking this piecaution. Pleuro-pueumonia is still making itself felt beyond the Atlantio. As a consequence of an outbreak near Brighton, England, no less than forty dairy cows have been slaughtered. There were 729 cases of pleuro-pneu- * monia reported over there last year, in about one-half of which, however, no more than one outbreak occurred in a herd. A celery garden of forty six acres believed to be the largest in the world, is cultivated in the suburbs of Lon don, and the annual product is about half a million of roots or plants. There is no vegetable grown in this country which meets with a more ready sale at profitable figures than celery, and the demand is rapidly in creasing. German observations shew that the annual yield of milk rises gradually from the birth of the first calf till the fifth, reaches its maximum after the sixth, sinks gradually until the tenth calf, when it is about the same as at the first calving, and, after the thirteenth or fourteenth calf, is only one-fourth or one-fifth of the maximum yield. All who have Italian bees bear testi mony that they show more energy and more power to eradicate the worms than the black bees manifest. Give them well-made hives and feoep the colonies strong, and you need have no fear of worms. In fact, where Italians have long been intro duced the worms have almost disap- pe ired. The genius of the Yankee has come to the rescue of the horse suffering with a galled shoulder from the heat and ill shape of bard collars, by in venting a collar from catkins, or flags, which grow in swamps. The cost is but trifling, and it is said not only to prevent galling but will cure it, by adapting itself to any nect and shoul ders, and is light, cool and cheap. A train of ten cars, each fitted up with separate stalls for sixteen cattle, recently carried 160 head from Chi cago to Boston in three and a half days, the shrinkage per head being only 21 f pounds average, or about one- fourth of the usual loss. The stalls were provided with springs to prevent serious jarring, and with water and feed troughs. The saving in shrink age under this humane system com pensates, it is said, for the higher cost of carriage. Benefit of Hay Crops. When it is considered that every farmer has his own way of harvesting his hay crop, and thinks, as he usually does, that his is the best way, it is not easy to persuade him that there is a better way. Yet with the losses that most farmers suffer—and these losses are immense in a wet season—they ought to know that their system is de fective, or that at least it ought to be bettered, and that there may be a bet ter way. There are farmers, and the number is constantly increasing, who annually save thsir hay crop in good condition, even in unfavorable sea sons. They do it by the proper use of the hay cap. I say proper use. It is to be applied in all or nearly all cases, for, except in a drought, there is dan ger in risking the hay over night, as sudden and unexpected rains are characteristic of that season. Should there be no rains the cap will protect from the dew, which aWe will pay for the labor, for during the two or three days the hay is in cock it will be bleached on the outside without the cloth. The true way is to put up the hay as soon as it is well wilted, and let it cure in the cock, protected by hay caps, which should be applied the same day or immediately after the hay is put up. It takes only a few hours to wilt the grass, spread evenly, as the mower does it, or a little longer if heavy, and the tedder is used. To favor this, cut the grass the evening before. This has proved, on the whole, to be the best practice. Should a rain occur it will not hurt the cut grass, green as it is, not even should it remain in that condition during the day or for several days, whereas if it had been cut in the morning and be. come partly dry, with a rain to follow, it would have been seriously hurt. Cat the grass green before it is in blossom, as the blossom is exhaustive and makes the hay dusty. Cut thus early, two cuttings can be secured in a season, with sufficient aftergrowth for winter protection, and plant-food to aid considerably the next season’s growth. Thus a large increase of the best of winter feed, nutritious and relished by stock, is secured, with thickening of the sod. Draught Horses. There has been such a demand made upon Western Pennsylvania for draught, horses the past few years that farmers who have been fortunate enough to breed heavy hordes have found it decidedly to their advantage when their stock was brought to mar ket. The supply is not yet up to the demand for heavy draught horses, and we see as a result that there is a tendency on the part of breeders to meet this demand. The question with the average farmer and breeder is not so much as to what he may pre fer, but what is the most advantageous, the most profitable horse to breed, For ordinary farming purposes in a comparatively level country a horse weighing 1200 pounds is perhaps in most respects the most desirable ani mal. But as farmers raise four or five times as many horses as they them selves use, the question of breeding simply is, what is the most market able horse? In selling cattle to the butcher, he pays according to the weight—the heaviei the steer the higher the price. Two pounds of beef are worth twice as much as one pound. In draught horses this rule does not hold good, the advantage being on the side of the heavier horse. When a 1200 pound horse sells at $160, or 12J cents a pound, a 1700 pound horse sells at $310, cr nearly 18 cents a pound, making a market of 41 per cent, premium over the lighter in fa vor of the heavier horse. It, is not difficult to see, therefore, which is the most advantageous horse to breed for maiket. It is simply a question of dollars and cents, and is readily seen by any one. Washed and Unwashed Butter The difference between washed and unwashed butter is analagous to the difference between clarified and un clarified sugar. The former consists of pure saocharine matter, while the latter, though less sweet, has a flavor In addition to that of the pure sugar. When unwashed there is always a little buttermilk adhering to the but ter that gives it a peculiar flavor in addition to that of pure butter, which many people like when it is new. Washing removes all this foreign matter, and leaves only the taste ol the butter pure and simple. Those who prefer the taste of the butter to that of the former ingredients mixed with it like the washed butter best. The fl rvor of butter consists of fatty matters, which do not combine with water at all, and therefore cannot be washed away by it. The effect of washing upon the keeping qualities of butter depends upon the purity of the water used. If the water contains no foreign matter that will affect the butter it keeps the better for having the buttermilk washed out instead of worked out. Evidently the grain of the butter will be more perfectly pre served if the buttermilk be removed by careful washing. The grain is such an important factor in the make up of fine butter that it is necessary we should be very particular not to injure it in any way if we would ex cel in the art of butter-making. Pious Reflections. Wondrous tru'hs and manifold, »s wondrous God hath written In those stars above; But not less la the bright flowrets under us Stands the revelation of His love. —LONGFELLOW. As eyery lord giveth s certain liv ery to his servants, charity is the very livery of Christ. Our Saviour, who is the Lord above all lords, would have his servants known by their badge, which is love.—Bishop Latimer. Christians are like passengers Bet ting out together in a ship for some distant country. Very frequently one drops overboard, but hi* companions know that he has only* gone a shorter way to the same port; and that, when tiSey arrive there, they shall find him, so that all they lose is his company dur ing the rest of the voyage.—Payson. Not a flower But shows some touch, In freckle, streak, or slalu, Of His unrivalled peucll. He Inspires Their balmy odors, and Imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and in cludes In grains as countless as the seaside sands, The forms wltn which He sprinkles all the earth Happy who walks with Him ! whom, what he finds Of flavor or of Foent In fruit or flower. Or what he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad majestic oak To the green Wade that twinkles In the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present, God. • OOWPER. Belief in a future life is not the re sult of inductive and inferential rea sonings—such as the incomplete jus tice here, or the dissatisfaction with all earthly good — but that, rather, these result from the instinctive belief in immortality. Savages and children never doubt it; and the nearer you approach the instinctive Btate, the more indubitable it is. It is only when refinement, civilization and science come that it grows dim. The attempt to rest eur intuitions on a scientific basis, Inevitable as the attempt is, brings with it doubt—and you get back faith again when you quit logic aud science, and suffer the soul to take coufsel with itself, or, in Scripture language, “when you beoome again a little child.”—Robertson. A Few Reflections. A Wi»s Provision of Nature. ’Tls fluid that thirty inches span The average woman’s wal«t; And Just so.long the arms of man; So, when 'tig snugly placed ArouDd the damsel whom one treasures, There Is a conformity of measures. How Rdmlrableare thy works, O Nature! kind and dear; For, spite of all tUy quips and quirks, And various doings queer, Thoa raouldest waists of proper bias, While arms to fit thou dost supply ua. If our whole time was spent in amusing ourselves, we should find it more wearisome than the hardest day’s work. With a face as red ag a lobster, And a back like the shell of a clam, The wife stands over the kitchen stove, And manipulates raspberry Jam. While her bnsband with nose like a sonnet, Andamoutn like the song of a year, Leans over the counter of free lunch, ADd elevates schooners of beer. And the daughter with ears like a shovel, And an eye like a Florida bean, Swings on tlje front gate with her fellow, With darkness to cover the scene. While her boy, the boss of the household, Playing ball In the meadow close b v, Crawls In through the old kitchen window, And gobbled her Jam on the fly. And her beautiful strawberry baby, , With Its cheeks like a fresh budding rose, Lies crying for milk in the cradle, And chewing the dye from the clothes. One who is never busy can never enjoy lest, for rest implies relief from previous labor. Don’t scold I it spoils faces. Bafore you know it your forehead will resem ble a small railway map. The Ohuroh Spider. Two spiders—so the story geo — Upon a living b nt, Entered a meeting bouse one day, And hopefully were heard to say, “Here we shall have at least fair play, With nothing to prevent.” Each chose his place and went to work; The light webs grew apice; One on the sofa spun his thread; Bat shortly came the sextos dread And swept him off, and so, hall dead, He sought another place. “I’ll try the pulpit nest,” satd he, “ There surely Is a prize; The desk appears so neat aud clea i, I’m sure no spider there has been, Besides how often have I seen The pastor brushing flies !” He tried the pulpit; hut, alas ! His hopes proved visionary. With dusting brush the sexton came And srotlert his geometric game. Nor gave him time nor space to claim The rl: ht ot sanctuary. At length, half starved and weak and lean, He sought his former neighbor, Who now had grown so sleek and round, He weighed the fraction of a pound, And looked as If the art he’d found Of living without labor. “How is it frieud,” he asked, "that I Enduresucu thumps and knocks, While you have grown bo very gross?” ’ ris plain,” he answered, “not a loss :’ve met sine e first 1 spun across The Contribution-box i” The Naming of Paris Streets. The potato bug has made its appear ance in England. The other day we pointed out the general principle on which the streets of Paris were, till very recently, named. Oaeof the best examples of the system is to be found to the north of the St. Lazare Station—the lines from which run under the Place de PEurope. Around and in the vicinity of that Place we find streets named after the principal cities of Europe; to wit— the Rues de Londres, St. Peters- bourg, Amsterdam, Berlin, Turin, Boulogne, Constantinople, Milan, etc. Tne Eastern R«ilway S'aiion faces t»>e Boulevard de Strasbourg, and the R ie de Mulhouse runs along one side of it. The fine facade of the Northern Railway Station is m the Place Rou- baix, and the Rue de Dunquerque is not lar off. In the neighborhood of other stations we find the Rues Watt and Stephenson—in commemoration of the beginnings of the application of steam to locomotion. The Rues Cuvier and de Jussein are naturally in the vicinity of the Jardin des Plantes. When we read Avenues Bosvuet, Rapp, Jiabourdonnals, Place Desaix, etc., we expect of course that the Champ de Mars is not far off. Round the Arc de Triomphe we are not sur prised to find such names as Avenues de la Grande Arimee, Marceau, Hoehe, Kleber, Jena, etc. Kuowing that the Faubourg St. Honore is the headquar ters of Orleanism, we find it a matter of course that there, should be such streets as the Rues de Berry, Anjou, Penthievre, Royale, etc., in connection with it. It ia very natural, also, that in the neighborhood of the Chapele Explatore, we should look for the names of Seez, Chauveau Lagarde, Malesherbes and other friends and de fenders of Louis XVI. The Oileon Theatre is surrounded by the Rues Corneille, Racine and Rotron. The names of Fenelon, Bosauet, Massillon, and other preachers, indicate most I surely the vicinity of a ohuroh. The Rue Jean Jacques-Rousseau ia so called because that famous writer once lived on the second floor of the house No. i in that street. The Rue de la Jussienne, not far off, is a cor ruption of the words Sainte Marie* i’Egyptienne, who had a church in that street. In the same vicinity we find the Rue du Jour, a contracted form of Rue du S^jour, the street hav ing first been so named because King Coarles V. had a residence in it. The Rue du Roi-de-8icile owes its name to the fact that the kings of Sicily onee had a mansion in it. The Rue de l’Universite passes over the site where formerly was to be found the Pre aux Ciercs, the rendezvous of the Univer sity students for their courting,, drink ing, and fighting bouts: hence its name The Rue du Bac, the main thorough fare on the left bank of the Seine, owes its denomination to the ferry-boat, Bac, which used to ply opposite to it before the Pont Royal was built. In the quarter where the English most congregate, we flu cl the Rues de Rivoli, Castiglione, Pyramides, named after battles won by Napoleon ; the Rue du 29 jillet, which commem orates the July Revolution of 1830, at which time it was in course of con struction, and the Rue 4 September, which prepetuates the date of the birthday of the present Republic and the downfall of fhe Third Empire. It had previously borne the Bonapart- ist appellation of Rue D'x Decembre, in remembrance of the great plebiscite which made Napoleon III. feel se cure on his throne. Thus street names as well as writings have their destinies. Arizona Birds. The wild turkey abounds on the streams aud the d'vides along the Gila river, and to the north of it, feeding on the nuts and grass seeds which give it so flieafl ivor Whether it is the aboriginal bird of America, or strayed from the Spanish Missions, matters not much to the eater, but I am iuclined to think from the strong flavor aud the color of the feathers that it is the genuine wild bird. Its weight far exceeds the do mestic turkey. The top-knot quail is a native of Arizona, and I venture to affirm that two good sportsmen can fill a wagon in one day along the Gila river bot toms. As the agriculture of the country increases these birds increase in num bers, and at this season are very fat from the native seeds, the mesquite bean and the fields of grain in the settlements. The absence of celery prohibits the enjoyment of the canvas-back duck, but the teal duck is not excelled in any part of the world for juice and flavor. Mallards abound. Doves are iu season now, and can be taken in any numbers. The Syrian dove, the very same spe cies 1 believe that were sold “two for a farthing” at the temple of Jerusalem, coo in the cottonwoods of Arizona. They are not more than a third the size of the dove of the Ark. Wild pigeons are abundant—one of our mountains (Chiracalruas) is named for them. Blue cranes—nine feet spread—are killed on the Colorado river, and eaten as Colorado turkeys. Reed bird* are plentiful in the swamps, and as large as bobo-links in New England. Curlews are abundant from January till Juue. The irrigated lands and swamps are favorable to snipe, and they abound in the season. Blackbirds (ohenates) exceed all others in numbers and vocal powers. The trees are literally black with them in the spring, and their music is the joy of the morning. The chapparel cock (paisano) is a very delicious bird, but hard to kill, its motions are so rapid. These birds are the natural foes of the rattlesnake, and build a corral of chollay (cactus) around him, and irritate him until he lxshes himself to death against the thorns by w hich be is surrounded. Blue-jays, red-birds, whipporwills, robbins, sparrows, hawks, crows, eagles and such, are abuudant. Last summer I domesticated some humming birds in the Santa Catalina mountains, and fed them on the honey from the flower of the Maguey. The raw material used for porcelain manufacture in Japan is obtained from the neighborhood of Arita, in the province of H<* zen, aud appears to con sist of elastic acid eruptive masses of tertiary ^ge, containing a large propor tion of potash mica, probably due to the action of later eruptions.