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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. row Yields of Corn. In reference to the very low yields of corn in the Southern States, a rather singular fact might be mentioned. Some time ago a correspondent who is a South¬ ern farmer wrote asking for advice as to what crops ho could grow in place of corn, which only yielded six bushels per acre. Sincp then the writer has been on this farmer’s land and found in his close vicinity another farmer who made the past season 150 bushels of corn from twelve acres, or more than ten times the yield of the complaining farmer. The reason was very plain. The with one had grown corn year after year a few crops of rye and buckwheat edged in betweea them, and without a particle of manure, while the other had grown buckwheat for a first crop on new land, then corn for two years, then wheat, then clover for two years, and last corn on a rich clover soi. As usual, it was a case of “ the man and not the land,” as it is every time .—New York Times. Water and Manure for Strawberries C. M. Hovey, of Cambridgeport, Mass., writes to the New York World: Water and manure for strawberries are important items. When La Constante was introduced I planted a bed on a hard, hill, and clayey laid ground, hose on the the slope of that a a at top, so they could get all the water they needed, and I never saw such a crop. The fruit was exceedingly large and fine. I picked from two or three rows one hundred ^baskets, which sold for $100. Guano is not safe for strawberries. Fifteen or sixteen years ago I had berries of the Admiral Dundas variety and eight ordered or nine in inches circumference, 1 my men to give the plants applied a little guano. much The following year we high so that the leaves grew so the fruit could not be seen, and I got no fruit for three years. Wild strawberries are always found to thrive where wood has been burnt off, showing the benefit of ashes. We should fertilize to make fruit rather than leaves. Do Ughtnlng.Kods Pystect ) A few years since, at a farmer’s insti¬ tute in Michigan, facW* were reported which seem to throw much doubt on the usefulness of lightning rods or conduc¬ tors as usually placed on farm buildings. This is certainly a question of much im¬ portance. I know of one small farm house and barn, the surroundings ot which seem to show that the owner m ss illy prepared to stana such an outlay where there are seven lightning rods It is an interesting fact, that in passing through any of our farming successful, districts and the buildings of the most especially the most studious and intelli gent, of the farmers are unadorned with these supposed attractions for electricity. Surely the practical verdict of our best farmers is against such protection. That science believes in thoroughlyconstructed evident from the conductors seems fact that the tall Washington monument with just now being constructed is provided a lightning conductor. Yet that this tall shaft has stood unharmed for so faith long of a time will tend to strengthen the those who are willing to risk lightning without the rods. In the current volume of Nature, page eighty, Mr. Arthur Parnell, who has thoroughly investigated this subject, pro duces statistics that surely weaken confi dence in the value of these conductors, There are 320 cases given where light ning has paid no heed to these means of protection. Of these sixty-four per cent, resulted in damage to property. “The whole of the results of his researches affords,” he says, “evidence that failures and accidents more frequently happen be in with rods which are thought deemed to good order than with those faul ty in construction. It ould it not be worth while for farmers to give statistics as to the efficacy of such conductor? If we may judge by the practice in govern ment buildings and that of our most thrifty farmers, rodding convinced does not that pay. If all farmers could he con ductors arc, as usually put up, useless, or possibly worse than useless — so strongly convinced that they could stand firm against the smooth, bland, earnest arguments of the venders much money would he saved each year. Professor A. J. Cook. Farm and Carden Xoie«. The soil for corn must he dry,rich and well pulverized. Cows that yield the most milk, as a rule, are never fat. jA little charcoal fed to swine now and 'then proves beneficial. The first element of success in the care of live-stock is fondness for the stock. Use the curry-comb lightly. When it is used roughly it is a source of great P a in Never clean a horse in the stable. The dust fouls his crib, and makes him loathe his food? New York and Pennsylvania produced grow two-thirds of all the buckwheat iu this country, It is asserted that “there is not one farm hand in 1«,000 who knows how to feed live-stock.” source of disease. y~.g fig. asm profit us * sm tea. and return a larger m proportion to cost than hogs. A farmer in Plymouth, N. II., raised . , last rear four hundred bushels of onions on less thau an acre of land. Sprinkle a little lime (air slacked) over the potatoes in your cellar. It will tend to prevent rot, and purify the air of the cellar. Every fruit garden should have its manure heap, that in the fall or spring, when it comes to be applied, will cut like paste. Should you runout of axle grease some busy time^ mix two parts of lard with one each of black lead and wheat flour, and apply. A pound of flesh lost to the brute is twice lost to the owner, for the waste of the body tovto must m.iat hr> be ren-iircfl repaired whi.e while u it is is be- oe ln g re P a • ffii(fthey S will\ee > j with with'buckwheat buckw mat cnaitt C j p p weU and do no. fre.zeaseas *. • - ’ sawdust or ea-th are used. To procure a good coat on your horse, use plenty of rubbing and brushing. Plenty of “elbow-grease” opens the pores, softens the skin, and promotes the animal '3 general growth. Keen stables warm during the cola weather and free from draughts. This does not mean to exclude ali outside air; the stable should be ventilated, but that can be done without draughts. The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station ea\l 3 attention to the fact that in its experimen-s. potatoes raised from laror who : e seed ripened nine davs ear lie?than those from seed cut to'single eyes. Chestnuts aie usually srown from seed, either planted during the fall or kept in sand through the winter and planted in the spring. The large varieties of the Spanish chestnut, or marrow, which do not come true from seed, can be grafted on the others. Every preparation should be completed for making and saving the largest amount of manure possible. Provide a tight shed or dry cellar for the manure. If exposed to the weather, its most valuable constituents ore washed out aud lost. It is the worst economy to permit this. Horses that have a rackful of hay be fore them all the time will grow poor, when, if fed a limited quantity, with some grain, they will become fat. The rack tilled with hay .becomes offensive from the horse’s breath, and the animal must be partly starved before he will eat j t A Wisconsin farmer stoutly maintains that he prevents the ravages of the beetles in iris potatoes by planting one or two flaxseeds in each hill. He says the bugs will shuu the flax every time, and that he has grown potatoes in this way for ten years and secured good crops when others failed. In the care of fowls ‘no one thing is more important than system. There should be a daily routine. It must bo somebody’s business to attend to the fowls punctually at just the same time every day—just as much as it is essen¬ tial to the well-being of a well-ordered family to have the meals at regular the hours, the washing done on Monday, iron¬ ing on Tuesday, the baking on Wednes¬ day, the sweeping on Friday, etc. It is just as essential as it is to groom the horses, feed and water all around, regularly aud daily, week iu aud week out. The man or boy who has ever had oc¬ casion to drive or lead a hog does not need to be reminded that the task is oftentimes irritating. It is claimed that by the aid of a strong bushel basket the hog’s aversion to going as you please The can be successfully overcome. method of operating is this. When the subject turns aud makes a dive for your underpinning quietly clap tbe basket over his head, when he will begin to back, and can be driven in that manner past the spot to which he has an aversion, when the basket can be removed, A few applications of this kind will be sufficient to peisuade the subject to drive without difficulty. Recipe, Cabbots. -Wash, scrape and cut in sii either across or lengthwise: and put P illto a saucepan with a little salt watcr cover thcm well, boil uutl ten ^ and . dra , • n ‘ er ‘ Bean Soup. Soak a quart of beans in _ water over night ; in the morning pour off the water and add fresh. Set ° n ^ le ^ re . anc ^ when the skins rise to the top remove them, Boil until soft, allowing two quarts of water, Seasou with salt and pepper, Chicken Pates. —Chop meat of cold chicken tine and season well; make large cupful rich drawn butter, aud while on fire stir in two eggs, boiled hard, minced very fine; also a little chopped parsley, then chicken meat; let almost boil; have ready some pato pans of good paste baked quickly to a light brown; slip from pans while hot, fill with mix ture and set in oven to heat, Potato Pudding. —Boit and mash SO me nice Irish potatoes, season deli cately with salt and butter, and heat ; n t 0 a thick batter with two eggs and sufficient ntilk. Put at the bottom of a baking dish some slices of cold beef or j aln b with salt, pepper and a little stock jelly; add a layer of the potato, then a j a y cr Q f meat, and put a thick layer of potato on top. Bake to a rich brown, Acnt Betsy’s Apple Tart.— Peel and core some apples, cut them into s jj ceg ’ cu t one sma [j quince into slices, and 8 tew it Untu tender in a very tfttle wa ( C1 . with a small lump of buttei added Linc somo round t Uia w ith puff j te ro „ ed very then put into it a of the a le3 and t h cn of the q U j uce -with a layer of apples on the top; ” sprinkle sugar enough over each j to swceten jt put a band of puff tc around the edge‘and a thin with cover the over j-] lc t 0 p. wet this over w b dc of an egg, and bake in a moderate ovcn Just before it is eaten it should have powdered sugar sprinkled over it. Household Hint*. Bronzed chandeliers aud lamps should bt dusted, not washed. Washing takes oil the bronze. To fasten leather upon metal: The surface of the metal is washed with a hot solution of gelatine, and the j ea {i, eri previously steeped in a hot infus j on 0 f ’g a ii allowed nuts, to is cool, pressed upon the me tal and j.-jy epecks, etc., may be removed from bronze by means of a mixture of laveu der oil, one drachm, alcohol, one ounce, water, one and a half ounce. Use soft sponge and proceed quickly, with little rubbing as possible, To take impressions from coins, pro cure tin or lead foil, as tlriu this as with possible, place it on the coin; cover wet blotting paper, then with a sheet Of dry paper firmly, press them under weights its concave side. Jft* H. gfS3%£?£R£S. wi f h hot soapsuds, Then we „ scrub it with clean, hot water, after w }p c h rinse it off with cleat , cold water, jj an g U p 'the and dr y, if very dirty, scrub it ., vlUl suds on both sides. After it i s dr y, l»y on the grass and sweep off. Iu Three States at Once. qq ie Maryland line is about two miles goujp c f Newark, and the tracks of Baltimore and Ohio extension run across the sharp angle of Pennsylvania, which extends down between Delaware aud Maryland, at a point where it is five feet wide. After the first train stopped over the Maryland line and most picked of the their per sons on board feetthrough alighted the mud and way 250 water to the point ^ in the woods where the three ^ ^ Thc spot u iudicated first bv a loo<r stone just above the surface, >-rks Mason and Dixon's line, Beside it J9 planted Delaware, a triangular stone, with the initials of Maryland and Pennsylvania cut on the various s j des q q the west side is the following j cscr jn tiolI . '‘Erected by II. G. S. Key, M d.; J. P. Eyre, Pa.: G. B. Riddle, pj e ] _ Commissioners, 1840.” Some of the visitors mounted the stone in order to sav that they sat in three States at one time; others palate their thumbs on the apex of the stone in order to say that they bad their thumbs in the three States one time, while o'hers still stood in the narrow strip of Pennsylvania and ex tended one hand into Maryland and the other into De aware. Thegtone is about three feet high and the three sides each about fourteen inches wide. It is called a prismatic ston t.—Baltimore Sun. GRATES OP THE PRESIDENTS. Where the President, are Buried— C'ali for » National Mausoleum. It would be agood idea for the United States to have a national mausoleum, like Westminister abbey, iu which Presidents could be buried, and statues of them erected. At present some of them have neither a slab nor a monument to mark their graves. General Harrison’s body rests in a brick vault on the top of a lit tie hill fifteen miles west of Cincinnati, A big, flat stone lies on its top, but there is no inscription, and the only beauty about the grave is the pine trees which surround it with their perpetual green, John Tyler s body is buried in the Holly wood cemetery at Richmond, va., aud has not a stone or bust to mark its rest ing-place. . Ten yards . President away is Monroe’s grave, but he was not buried here until after the centennial anniver¬ sary of his birth. Monroe waite,d twenty-seven years for an appropriate tomb, and he now rests in a vault over which is a large granite sarcophagus, and on it an inscription tes¬ tifying that it was erected “as an evi¬ dence of the affection of Virginia for her good and honored son.” Van Buren’s grave, notwithstanding his wealth, is now bleak and bare, with, out a flower or shrub, at Kinderhook, and a year or two ago the little granite shaft which stood over the remains of -Thomas Jefferson had been mutilated and its inscription destroyed by relic-hunters. Its gates were rusty and its appearance that of a ruin. George Washington Henry has showed been twice day buried, and Clay one in the Senate a piece of his first coffin. Mount Vernon is now his tombstone, and the sarcophagus in which he lies is a brick vault overlooking the Potomac. It has hut one word on it, and that is “Washington.” Tho Adamses buried iu the two are Unitarian church at Quincy. When John Adams died, his son, the Presi¬ dent, obtained a deed to a burial lot in the cellar of the church fourteen feet square, aud in this he built a granite tomb for himself and his father. Here lie tho two Presidents and their wives, and on the walls of tho church above are long incriptions commemorative of their lives and worth. John Quincy Adams’ in¬ scription commences: “ Near this place reposes all that could die of John Quin¬ cy Adams.” And it closes: A son worthy of his father. A citizen shedding glory oil his country. A scholar ambitious to advance mankind. This citizen sought to walk humbly in the sight of God. The incription devoted to the first Adams aud his wife Abigail ends in the following verse of advice, headed “Pil¬ grim From lives thus spent thy earthly duties learn; virtue turn: From fancy’s dreams friendship, to active faith, thy soul Let freedom, en¬ And gage, like them, thy country and thy serve, age. The most expensive of the presidential monuments are, I suppose, those of Lin coin and Garfield. Lincoln’s monument at Sprinfield cost 8206,550, and the ground devoted to that of Garfield’s is said to be worth $100,000, and the monument is to cost $150,000 more. There has been a number of stories published in regard to the graves of President Taylor, in that ho was at first buried at Washington and his body afterward moved about from place to place. The truth is he has never been buried, but was brought immediately, father's on his death at the capital, to there his old farm iu Kentucky, and put into a vault. His body'has lain there ever since, and there is a gray granite monu ment. surrounded by a marble statue of the general, near by. Frank Pierce has a monument of Italian marble at Concord, stud, strange to say, the name engraved of upon Franklin it is Francis Pierce, instead Pierce, as he was known to the country. It has no long inscription, and is, like the monument of Millard Fillmore nt Buffalo, simple to an vault extreme. the Lancas- J.ames Buchanan lies in a in ter cemetery, and chronicles his life in Ihe dates of his birth aud death, and the fact that he was the fifteenth Prcsi dent of the United States. It takes twenty-three lines to write the inscrip tion on Polk’s tombstone, and it lies in Nashville, twelve miles away front that of Andrew Jackson, a much greater man, who sums his record up in three, Jackson’s body beside lies his in wife. his garden The at the Hermitage of monu- lime ment above them is Tennessee stone, and Jackson’s life is triven in these words: “ Gen. Andrew Jackson, born March 15, 1707; died June 8, 1845 .”—Cleveland leader. An Abyssinian Library. The Abyssinian alphabet consists of two hundred and eight characters, each of which is written distinctly and separ ately, like the letters of a European printed book. The labor required to write an Abyssinian book is therefore im uiense. and sometimes Years are con sumed iu the preparation English of a single scholar, vol nine, Mr. Luzon, an visited an Abyssinian monastery a few miles from Cairo, and was surprised to find therein one of the most unique of libraries. In a room twenty-six feet by twenty, a number of long wooden pegs projected from the wall, and on them hung about fifty Abyssinian books in manuscript A.s the entire !iterature,of Abyssinia does not include more than one hundred vol times, the monks were proud of their li p rar y Each book was bound in red leather or In boards, and enclosed in a case tied up with leather thongs. To this case was attached a strap for the convenience of carrying 'these the volume over the shoulders, and'by straps the books were four hung to the wooden pegs, three or to a The room thus fitted up also contained a number of l-.mr staves, for the monks to lean on at the lime of prayer. It had the aopeiratice of a guard room, where the soldiers had hurt" their knapsacks and cartridge boxes against the wall. ------ A , Iesson . in ... Domestic ,. Esonomy. r A bear once fell in love with a setting hen and told her one day that rite might ; ro to a picnic and he would hatch on her eggs for her. the consented, and the gaiiant bear took his position on the nest in the regulation manner, but soon got up, looking as if hr bad been re clining in a bowl of Cggnog as a subeti tute for an arm-chair. “The next hen I frill in love with must do her own hatching.” he re marked to himself hi great digest, as he took his melancholy dcjiarture. “I hatched out the eags at the very fir-: , clatter, but there are no chickens iu them.” Moral: This fable teaches ^ that some duties pertaining to the domestic econo tnv are too subtle and mysterious to be ..nlli.-mtly discharged by the lords of creation .—Lfe. AN ENTERPRISING REPORTER. How lie Learnod llie Secrets of a legislative Caucus. The Louisville Courier-Journal, in a sketch of Joseph J. Eakius, a young by the re¬ porter who has been made clerk new mayor, relates some illustrations of Eakins’ journalistic enterprise while he was serving at Frankfort as capitol Commf- cor respondent of the Louisville cial : He was only nineteen years old then, but be aitracted the attention of Colonel Kelley. When the session of the colonel legisla¬ ture began in October the re solved to send him to Frankfort as that paper’s correspondent. He instructed him to go there at once and made a ved liot partisan tight for “ the only Republi¬ can daily ” in Kentucky. There was never a better show for an active re¬ porter. Colonel Kelley told Joe that previous correspondents had always been afraid to attack the State government, such aud that lie wanted him to make no mistake. Joe was a Democrat, as all his people were before him, but he knew what his duty to a Republican paper the was, aud he. promised to carry out colonel’s instructions. If he made any mistake in his vigorous fight, he did so because he was obeying with or¬ ders. He went to Frankfort the determination to unearth sensations, and he succeeded, Many were the devices to which he had to re¬ sort to obtaiu the news in spite oi the hostility of ihe members. One of the cleverest and most amusing was the way in which he obtained the proceedings of the Democratic caucus. For the purpose of excluding him, it was resolved to ad¬ mit no newspaper men. A reporter is not easily daunted, how T ever, and Eakins considered that all things were fair in the enemy's camp. The first evening thereafter he went into the upper gallery of of the house and hid under a row back seats, When the caucus was as sembled, however, a search was ordered, and Joe’s feet were discovered slicking out from under the bench by a sergeunt at arms. The official, with a laugh, or¬ he dered him to come out, and when emerged, covered with dust and humilia¬ tion, he was greeted with an enthusiastic chorus of derisive yells. He walked out, but lie did not give up the light. A pipe from the stove in the house passes back into the cloak room. Securing a step ladder he mounted, and, placing his ear to the pipe, heard every word that was uttere d. The voices of the members were perfectly familiar to him by this time, and his dispatch was unusually full and complete. There was great wonder the next (lay, and this was intensified when that evening’s caucus proceedings were first also repotted in detail. It was at thought that he was in the confidence of some member, but the next day the se¬ cret leaked out. The door in the cloak¬ room was locked and the step-ladder liakins re¬ moved. Still, this did no good, found means to be introduced into the house early the next afternoon, and se¬ creted himself behind a book-case, where at tho cost of some personal dis comfort, lie remained during the caucus | session, lie was able to do so connivance only that j time, as the person by whose afraid longer : he had effected it was to i assist him. Another resource was dis ' covered, and for two more nights the I faithful reports of the proceedings were kept up. The third evening, after the roll had been called, the Hon. Laban T. Moore arose aud stated that the secretary bad omitted the name of one who had always taken a deep interest in their de liberations. He di.sired to suggest that the secretary call the name of j Joseph State-at-large. Eakins, His member words from greeted the were with cheers, and when the secretary called out the name u voice said “ Here ” from one of tho windows. Looking out they found the indefatig able correspondent seated ou the limb of a huge tree, which grew at a distance of J fifty feet from the window. lie hud ; climbed the tree and crawled out on a huge branch, whose extremity almost j fortable touched the position shutters. there, It was but not a the com up ro , porter had a piece of soft paper and was writing up the proceedings as they went on. As fast as a sheet was finished he dropped it to the ground, when it was picked up by a messenger and taken to the telegraph office. ’1 lie spirit of op¬ position had not guard quite died out placed the next evening, and a was over the tree. The day following, bow¬ ever, it was resolved to hold the sessions with open doors, and when Eakins walked in a little after 8 o’clock he was greeted with a perfect ovation of shouts, yells and cheers. llis plucky fight had won the hearts of all present, and he had much smoother sailing tho remainder of the term. Railroad Accidents and Color Blind ness. It has not been the duty of tho writer to investigate cases of accident which might have been caused by defects of ! sight, but he has been assured by officials that a solution will hereafter be found in them for those hitherto insoluble tnys \ teries where men. otherwise credible, have so flatly contmdicted themselves ; aitd the circumstances of the case. By or >e prominent officer lie was told that, ; being upon a train at night, delayed by ! some slight accident, lie himself took a red lantern, and going a proper distance back placed himself on the track in the way of an oil com ng train, but finding his light not observed he was compelled to dash it into the cab to attract the en gineer’s attention, and arrest him in his progress to a collision. Upon the cx animation of another engineer, his su perior officer being present and convinced of hie marked color-blindness remarked that but a short time before the man had run into tho rear of a train properly pro teeted by a red light in the hands of a j brakemari some distance in the rear, that the most careful investigation had re suited only in the suspend™ of the j brakemari for not having gone far enough back, but that he was now satisfied lhat the color-blindness of the engineer bad been the real came of the accident. Some slight or minor accidents recently led to the discovery that another engineer had ' by some oversight not been tested in his division, and tiii* led to his examimrion “»d detection lucre, .awl .... to Im convic tion „ y , Uf . writ,-,- as a color blind. Hull | another c-se now presents it-elf. An engineer killed some brakeman time holding ago ran ovet danger- and a a signal on the track in front of his engine. \ and no satisfactory ex pi (ration could then be given; but the division examiner predicted that he would probably be i found color-blind, and on his examina i tion this Monthly. proved to be the case.— Popular Science ; -- There are five spiritualistic organs in h'rance, four in Belgium, two in Holland, eight in Spain, tv. o in Italy, and three in Germany. In addition to several jour nals devoted to the cause in England and the United St a es, it has one organ eac j, : n Austria, Russia. Mexico, the Antilles, Chili. Brazil, l ruguay, the Ar gentine Republic, Australia, India and j Cape Colony. Lobby Ladies*. The ladies of the lobby are the great¬ est bore to the average Congressman, writes a Washington correspondent to the Cleveland Leader. By this I do not the lady lobbyists. ' mean There are few purely business lobbyists among the ladies abounds of the capitol, fiction and the character more in than in reality. But there are scores of women with claims, women office seekers, and adven¬ turesses of different kinds, who come to the capitol, and the rooms reserved for their raception are always full while Congress is in session. The ladies’ re¬ ception north room door. of It the lionse is opposite the is a loug room, with great white marble Corinthian columns runniug through cushioned its center, and with a number of red leather chairs and sofas around its walls. When 1 en¬ tered it to-day I found it filled with about forty ladies, some sitting and wait¬ ing, and others engaged in talking to Congressmen. Some of them were drested in the finest of garments, cut after the latest, styles, and there w’ere a number of sealskin cloaks and not a few diamonds. Mourning, however, pre dominated, and I should judge there were more soldiers’ widows after pen¬ sions than society women who had come to gossip. I noticed many fresh young girls; on colonel speaking who to had the charge polite Confed¬ erate of the room, he told me that these, in nine cases out of ten, were young women who wanted places in the depart¬ ments, and had come to solicit their Congressman’s influence. Said he: ‘‘You have no idea how many office seekers come here. There are women from all over the country. Many of them are deserving, and notwithstanding what has been said about it, I have yet to find the first questionable bad character they did in this room. If they are not show it. We have from one hundred to two hundred ladies in here every day to see Congressmen. They must ali apply to me, and I send in their cards by a page. Sometimes the, members receive them, and sometimes not. “Many of the claimants are meritorious ones, and some of them are very needy. They tell me their pitiful stories, and once in a while we have a scene here. 1 have seen many acts of congressional kindness in this room. Last year there was a poor old woman who used to come .here and scud in her card about once n week. The members generally came out to see her, and she would tell her story The few the called out always gave to her, and I have seen two, five, and even ten dollar bills go out of their pockels into hers. Congressmen are generally libernl'and kind-hearted, and they give freely.” As I leave this room I stop a moment and speak to a doorkeeper 1 know. 11c tells me that ladies sometimes try to go into the house while it is in session, and that dnrinar the last term one came to his door with blood in her eyes and a cow¬ hide whip under inside, her sealskin but cloak. gently She started to go was pulled back. She said a Congressman had ill used her, and she was bound to go iu and horsewhip him in the presence of the House. The threat of a policeman restrained her. The Colossal Statues of the Pacific. Quite lately, fresh attention lms beeu directed to the extraordinary island, remains which which are found on Faster lies about 2,300 miles west of the coast of Peru, within easy sail of San Fran¬ cisco. Everybody remembers the colos¬ sal statues which are found in profusion on ttiis island, monoliths representing men forty feet high and nine feet across the shoulders, They are made of the* country rock of the island, but it is quite evident that they are not tho work of the natives, who tire n low luce of savages, without tools capable of carving in stone, or machinery suitable for moving heavy weights. The question is, how did they come here? it has been suggested that Easter island is the re¬ mains of a submerged continent., which was inhabited by u civilized race. But Sclater, whose theories aro regarded with respect, makes Easter island the terminus of the southern migration of mankind from his fancied continent of Lcmuria. For the benefit of those who are not familiar with his studies it may he ex¬ plained that Sclater was a believer in Iho hypo, bests which ascribes to mankind a single otigin front a single race, accord¬ ing to the Bible. He held that Paradise, from which all men originally came, was a continent lying south of Ceylon; to this continent he gave the name of Le muria, from lemur, which means a ghost, hut which Linnaeus gave to a race of monkeys. Sclater believed tlint from Lemuria man migrated into Africa, into Asia, and thence into Europe and Amcti ea, aud likewise into Polynesia, one stream of emigrants pushing their way as far east as Easter island. It is evident ly worllt while to study these Easter island statues and see what light history they can shed—if any—on the early of our race, and nowhere can that study be presented to such advantage as in would Han Francisco. The navy department probably be quite willing to direct one of our ships of war to collect two or three of the colossal statues and brinir them here, if we provided a place would for their reception. The exhibit alone draw Mvannsof visitors to San I rancid CO.—(Sot Francisco Chronicle. ------- I Ifntl a Hire*Hf»»! t'ough, and raised a eonsiiieraolo amount of blood and matter; besides, I was very thin, and «o weak I could scarcely go about the house. Tins was the ease of a man Willi consumption arising from liver complaint,. He recovered his health completely by the use of Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery.” Thou sands of others tear simitar tecintony. ' ---T- advertisement • - T"* newspaper ap peared in Repeated reqilfinfl K. nave Finkham’s in'IUCQU Vegetable trie pro prietorrf of Lydia Compound to send by mail to various lady correspondents, lflrze mounted portraits of | Mrs. Filikhain; and now many a household wail is adm*n«*d by the familiar, motherly face of the Massa-Iiusctts woman who has done «o much for a ll women. _____ There is much smuggling ' from Mexico into the United Mate. l *> r ‘he I.edies. Laughter is the jujor burden mans light; plaster, Turning Making sadm— every iittogl-nhic* Darkest hour to May dawn bright. j Tts the deepest, noilthe cheapest J | r 1 ,,,, , ■* F av „ r ite Prescription.” j a jj -weaknesses anil irregularities, • “tearing down” sensations, “internal fever,” j bloating, mg rick'nesa displaccm awl tendency mts, to cancerous d» | ^ ' Price reduced to ooo dollar. By drug i . —-------- — debt . i , ), | Jersey City ha. a or over , • OOO. . Dxhrete — diseases, ----. affa'ting ma^ or <-no , ; . . ^llustrateltoKak (Jon-ti . thrw iett-r stamiis tation free. World’s Dispensary j Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y. j Im Mexico there is a petrified forest cover ing "Ms acres. _ Th<* Contrast. Am the sable i* to ermine: as smut to flower: Swen!toaU “ ^ti^^teY^rfSir^o^hmTri , jUpwrattons. , other “Rough on Pain” Plaster. Porous and strengthening, improved, side,rheu¬ the best for backache, pains in chest or matism, n euralgia. 25c . Drug gists or mail Mexsman’s Peptonized beef tonic, the only preparation ofbeef containingits blood-making entire nutri¬ tious properties. It contains force generating and life-sustaining properties; invaluablo for indigestion, dyspepsia, general debility; nervous prostration, and ail forms of also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over¬ work or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazards Co., Proprietors. New York. Sold by druggists. Cntnrrlr of the Bladder. Stinging,irritation,inflammation,all Kidney and Paiba.” Urinary Complaints, cured by “ Buchn $1. Dairymen Retting Kiel*. with Progressive dairymen who are only satisfied the best results, are adding to their wealth and conferring a benefit on society, by in the rapid improvements they are making the art of butter making. This class use Wells, Color, Richardson & Co’s. Improved Butter and know by actual test that it fills every claim made for it. “Rough on Cough*.” Ask for “ Rough on Coughs,” for Coughs, Colds, ttoro Throat, Hoarseuess. Troches, 1.5c. Liquid, 25c. The Children's Health must not be neglected. Colds in the Head and SnulHos bring on Ca¬ tarrh and throat and lung affections. Ely’s Cream Balm cures at once. It is perfectly safe also and is Catarrh easily applied with the finger. It cures and Hay Fever, the worst druggists. cases yielding to it in Ely a short time. Sold by 50 cents. Bros., Owego, N. y. The bottle of Ely’s Cream Balm that l ob¬ tained of you last summer has entirely cured my little boy of a severe attack of catarrh.— Mrs. Sallie Davis, Green Postoffice, Ala. One of my children, a girl about nine years old, had a very bad discharge from her head and nose of a thick, yellowish matter, and was physicians growing prescribe worse. for \V e her, had two but different without benefit. Wo tried Ely’s Cream Bairn, and much to our surprise in three days there was a marked Improvement. We continued using tho Balm and in a short time discharge was apparently cured. —0. A. Cary, Corning, N. Y. Tlic Hope of the Nation. Children,slow in development,puny,scrawny and delicate, use “Wells’ Health Renewer.” Lemon growing is rapidly becoming an ini porfcant industry in Florida._ Wlion visit, leave Impo N« I’tnitr. York city, bag#a*e, you or \v save PXprt'fiKnge and carriage hire, mid stop at tha (Irani Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central d »pot. dollars, Mkieleg'in rft 1 mid rooms, upward titt■«! up m, a Kuropnnn cost of on*s million ICI» vntor. Restaurant supplied perdity. with theh‘*at. Horse plan. c trs. Stages and elevated railroad to all dep.itd. Families fan live better for lead money nt the Grand Union Hotel than at any other flrat-ohiss hotel in tho city. Under British rul© there live about 2N5, 000,0(H) human beings. The Pains and Aches Of rheutnatiem hue© in many infltnnoes been cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. The best authorities say that rheumatism originateii in a morbid condition of the blood. Lactic »cid, circulating with the blood, at¬ tacks the tih rot is tissues, particularly in tho joints. Hood's Sarsaparilla, by its purifying and vitalizing ac¬ tion cn the b.o >d, corrects tho cause of the disease, and thus effects the mo. t rrinaikable cures. Rheumatic Lumbago “I was troublod with rhoumatio lumbago, and see ing Hood's Sarsaparilla wan recommended for that, I thought I would try it. After taking three bottle* 1 felt like s new mao. 1 wn» also unable to sleep nights, but after taking Hood's Karaaparilla I could sleep es well as ever. I would recommend llnod’s Sarsaparilla before all others. L. E- Uabsidy, Omaha, Nsb. “I suffered from what the doctors callod muscular rheumatism. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla and »m en¬ tirely cured.”--J, V. A. PROUDFOOT, letter oarrier, Chicago, III. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by Dniffguds. $1; six for $5. Made only by 0. I. HOOD A OO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar RADWAY n 1 TWIT i tr.n S O il IT t IS A RV 11 BSBaroa* R u B B ■RELIEF UUREM AND I’llHVISNTM Colds, Coughs, Soro Throat, Inflammation*, Uliommitisni, Neuralgia, Hoafluoho, Toothache, Asthma, Difficult Breathing. CURBS Till: WORST hour I*AINN in from thin one ad to twenty vortinsolent minute#. Not one NIJFFI2K after WITII reading PAIN. need any one RADWAY’S READY RELIEF la n Cure for Every Pain, 8prttiu*t Bruise*, I'll iu In the Hack* Cheat or l.imba. It «vu* (lie Plral nnri In tlie Only PAIN REMEDY That instantly stops tlie most excruciating pain, allays the Inflammation, and cures Congestion^, whether of Lung#, Mtoinsch or Bowels, or with other threatened glands or organs by one application It H«dr.«d PNEUMONIA, Or any inflammation of Vh# internal oraana or mucu* membranes, after exposure to fold, wet, rti;., lose nu time, tint apply Ra.tway's Relief over t.l»« part affected wittt A teaspoonful cungottlo 1 or in icflanjiimtlon half f.urabloi anil of w«tor < uro tho will 111 imtiont. fow a a miuutoi our# Grumps, Spasms, Hour Htoinach, Headache, Itoart bnrn, NerfoiisusM, Hlosplettsuos*. Hick iMarrhwa, □al pain”. D^tootery, Colic, FUUilency, and all later MALARIA CVIIEU IN ITS WOIIST FOUMH. There ia ro * remedial agent In the world thtt will cure and Ague and all other Malm l us. Bilious N.eo Filly cent* per H »i«l by llrugiflntN. Jr. Railway’s Sarsaparillian Resolvent. the creat blood purifier, For the Cure of All Uiroulr DUcjucii. Jhronio Bbeunjarism, Scrofula, Venereal, Kyphi itfo Omi plsiut#, etc. (kr« our »>'•<>h on etc.; prios twoiity-Hv# Ceuta). Ghadiilar IlHuding SwellinIlackinie •/ ( ry Cough, Gauceri u.h Affection*, the l.i/n^H. iJyHpopsia. Water lirar.h, Whit# <>l the hwellings, F. Ulcers Tumors, Hip Punphrt*, Itl'flehep, Lhi j>ti* tut ce, 11‘ieuni, U DistMuoa, Go it, l»ropay. Kicket*. Salt on chill*. Gonsun»pt»i>»», UiabsteB. KWnsf, Bladder, Liver j Coin plaint#, etc. SCROFULA, ‘ wh.th.rtr.n.mittrub» p»r«itt«or ac'tuir«d, I.I.IAN j* within | <u y»ar* »f «.g«. i.v i*te. raDWAV'h kahsa ! sod poruunent in it** treztmsof * r “l cu>*. Hold by all ri One Co lar a Louie. ca t» HUdW/iV ,__. f 0*2 n;l Fill . c/a l. tvUUTl uJ twynu Aui Forth, cure at .11 dinorJ... of th» stom.ch, Llr.r i ttiim n. llZSSW w’ii. ra-.-o i »u •*» u ‘“ t.rn.1 Viscera. Pure , . < nUm.uz u« nt", ^ 'I’OTf IliPL'IlMf’. il*t sure Oida^k for R*<J way's, and #*• that. th« name “Kadway*’is <U what you buy. OICCL PLATE rl-Hii- EN6BAVINU *“ 11 w * * In a Uiinsmoratlou of the comp etlon of *h* ww n f\RonUITICntl — Tu* portrait* or ~p W3Shifl§[t0i!f LiflCQ)l? 3HU U£l7i£*u» *•«* fr 1 'r / w t 'l*V>' fema>j. A -i • sn.i v. . 11 tvrrj - w i-r^Ano |ip.-r»unify * fa > f dime l-xclu-lveterrlo rrsni sr.*, title" Si .OO s‘“d & A . 2 Eoe«.:ime with ?»uch wonderful hu J. ViUKiil, CHICAGO. ILLor 8i’. LOUIS. MU m L. K. t~ ► a I * !f A « <».. Ap7»'fc, i • ImUma, Hi. rsnpiePI £ 5J 1.1 IRIS'*! Wli r -Z ~ . ^ 'ser.d led irmi (• for i circa dar * 3d if'niniy Ave.. New Verh. rehife p lt s»i A.tlP, \V ifl.tca. Cutin. IOc:b. V.. n. ( mraetwyij» gras 2 III Scrap Pietor*s, 1 c. fJ »okC'o.. N'a»tsa.N.Y. ItwvwllMWbKiSSKn.'SEt Yoars^Ilecord. UndoTBeA by Physicians. sub* ill*yi‘ /‘it* mmmm. CUBES By the use of tills ALL RJEMTCDY, the Stom DISEASES c,oh and Bovrelo OF speedily regain their j • tr engfch, and the TUB blood ia purged. $• t KTDTTEYS It ia pronounced by » IJVJTR hundreds of the beat , BLADDER doctors to be the ON V Ii Y C IT B. 33 for all 1 AJNTD hinds ot Kidney ] TOINABT eases. 4 ORGANS It ia purely vege¬ { DROPSY table , and cure® -whets GRAVEL other medicine* ftdt. DIABETES It is prepared ex¬ BRIGHT’S pressly for these dis¬ DISEASE eases, and has never PAIRS been known to fail. IN t One trial will oon the vinoe you. For sale BACK by all druggists. ■ LOTN8 PRICE *1.25. *i £ OR l Send ftr SIDE A /Ot of Pamphlet Tcat *“ fNERvotra menials# jjj DISEASES SqjJ HUNT’S! IJ RETENTION / W on REMEDY j NON-RETENTION CO., OF Pro? Wence, « TODCB. m3 k. i. HUNT’S (Klilnej and I,iv«r) ftKMl'DY lino saved from linrferng dittoana And death hundred who have been Riven up by phytm-iam to die. N ?NU-3 Mark. THIS PLASTER „ Acts directly upon th* £ w nins cles and the nerves of tha Tr*<J« E hack, the seat of all pain. P- FOR ALL I.unnr Trout.).,, whether local or deeply leatert thl, v platter will rell be lef funiut to tilve Instaut by sbenV a»* blyllW tier between the bi.dea SHARP For Kidney Trouble, ft mm ! Ks lieumatlsni. kill in I the th Aide Neuralgia, and B«c< Ache, the they are a ce rtaln and speedv ?<iv cure. TAINS. AMD I Sold by Druggists for 26 *AC* cents, or five for ©I. - Mailed on receipt ot PU$TERT PATTERNS OP ANT SIZE. UNPARALLELED OF FER! D EMOREST’S BESl nr THE Of all the Mnufazine*. Illustrated with Original Uteri IHeturrs. Kngraa lugs, 1‘hotogravure* and Oil Eiu li cow Of •• PcmnroHt'n Monthly Mnrntltic," Coupon com mencinit with November, IHfU, will corrUlu A Order ontltllo* the holder to the mlectlonlofony pattern tn Uluct rated to the faehion depnrlnicnt In that number, “'^cX«'o"T~, r ,“';ondl„e the Coupon with , from the Magazine containing tho order. ONLY TWO DOLLARS lh Sem!''twenty 1 conta^fw number with Pattern the current Coupon and you will certainly subscribe for a year ami get ten (lines Itn value. IV, Jennings Dotnorest. Publisher, 171.14lh St., NewYortu Sold by all Newsdealers aud Poetinaater*. BBAZiLlAN COMPOUND The moNt remarkable DIMt'OVUKV of I ho ONUIC CONSUMPTION. tAl, ilW'3 afflicted# upon ihe j* .-wa-x part* awT.'.* a.h" J^gfldioiisitnds 1>ICU Inin cured , *vbo jut Iiiib vr.Npent for him I [ 'Iris (red* of *lol m worthg Mil remedies. you ii 1 IIShionciIitW It HIM: JflON irsf ’ v ' ---------- HTKIt, consumption. For u al« at all Druggists, > For history of the disoovsry or mulled upon rsoeipt of ;|f inf this remit kablw oom price. HmaM. Nr7,1C, $i ound and testimonial# of i.ahue Hizv., holding four pmaoitn restored to hoalth. limns the quantity, 93.60. addr* s BRAZILIAN UOM Directions for using accom-JroUMD Go., IJ9 »ud 2*1 panying OYrry package. I Market Ht -, Newark, N. J. Gut this adv. out and send .o some afflicted friend. PIANOS AND ii ORGANS at Low Prices . 1 ■OLD IN ALL PARTS OF THK COUNTRY ON THK FOLLOWING EASY TERMS t PIANO 8 , SSB CASH, AND • IO MONTHLY FOR THE BALANOB UNTIL PAID. ORGANS, • 19 CASH, AND »9 MONTHLY. SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND REDUCED PRICES. Horace Waters & Co. 124 FIFTH AYE., NEW YORK. Paynes' Antomatic Engines ana Saw-Mill Wo offer OH 6 ll» II. P, inountetl Kngliw with Mill, U) ,d. r-oliil .s»w, 60 ft. beltins, $' 100. cant-honka, Kagino rig skirls complete 9110 for operation, on circular cars, (B). on PAYNli l«e*. H »J for H. \V. HONH, 01 *llMjfl«s Automatic F.n ®hnft.n*r, L'inck, from Elmira, 2 to 3 N 0 II Y. P. IJox : also 18.10. Pulloj's, llaoeer* fco*i we want 1000 book aoents ©osrth« nonr book TIIlitTY-TIIItKI-•: YEAIW AMON© 1 ftllD (JUfl Ufll WlfSLU || Ski711 llVlIlllllw A MC BrYn!ooi>CE.n<! -IMuretlby ticn. fm’t suekm.n. xyUwt, Tr* Qmt rutatuffing ften w. frooW ..Ut. ..n,!. ot s:i,i,i.iati, o.ij tiw' ! fSSTMUi* **«.*••*& ■rJV’22 ‘tfLJi* STctf’ZZt fj*** *Wl4 U. S.PENSION & INCREASE Many officer*, soldi Ota, sailors, wido*V«. children, mothers and lathers everywhere, wt ill cull led t.> Lnck/c.^ WillTK KIKJttt. This A«e*cy ».,t or r nettedt-d by Wa h ngton, I>. C., or oUters. G a mp Prompt am? miccckmIiiI, Vth*rw»»w *»« cimrec. Hand tw«»*t linns lor replv aod circolar. Addrms PEN^ . J. (Lat« ; U s. Pension Agency, n •'.) I3YI. X»mQ tTI ST y S i'ilis W?. 1st, .....51 75 a* ptaBy Spinal Cor»ct,..............^ Corset,... OO J85 nPR Spinal Spinal AbdommalCorset^ Nanina I\ ~ Bet o zDinended by Jcodlpg phf MCfenn , deliverod free auywhero in tlio U. 6. ___ of price. Lady Agcnta V/ai.UJ. © -DrJLinijaiat’s&pinxlCoraetCo-.ri'ilq'way.HewYorh. on receipt I bftYe a posltiro remedy for tb* sbovo dlMssa; and by It* use thomufiiofcutioi tire wo»*t kind of lonl! fttiarilnc have teen cared. Indeed.* ottronsi»my faith in Ics efficacy, timt I wj I Fend TWO BOTTLES rKEK, tcgretbEr wild a Va l.t ! A BLKTRKATI8K on this dtseoM W anj tufferer. 6ive**prets*Ttd V *», ad dr ts. Dii. T. A. SLOCL’M, ie* Pcai 1SL, York. %2& R. U. AWARE THAT LoriUard’s Climas Plug hear in e Lenf a red tin ten/ ; that LornlardN Rote tine Cut: that LoriUard’s LoriU&rd’a coasldered Suaile. are y ? j OPIBMSSafsffH,^