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SOUrUEBN' FARM AND HOME. AGBICVLrilBft*. MOTES. English butter buyers refuse to han dle butter tubs fastened with wires. Quite a number of horses bave been poisoned in Kansas by being fed raw castor heaos. A writer in an exchange says: “I laid in a store ot sod cut in pieces, for my chicken house last winter, and fouDd >t rc< st valuable for the fowls. I packed it in one corner of the house, and before *primr the poultry had pulled it ali to pieces.” There would seem to. be no end to big .Tops this year. In the north we have the largest live stock and corn crops for many years, and now comes along the south wuh an enormous cotton crop, amounting to 4,811,265 bales against 4,485,423 bales in 1877. This is the largest crop since that of 1859 60, the greatest < vsr known. The i Al jwing is on the wing, which if true, we shall have to tally one for whisky: Some years ago I was told that a mellowing drink of whisky or beer given to a sow that refuses to let her pigs suck, would induce her to adopt them kindly. A few days since a neigh* bor who had worried all night with a valuable sow, applied for assistance, and advice being much cheaper and easier than work, I urged him till he admin istered half a pint of whisky. It worked like a charm. She received her eight little ones with the usual porcine ex pressions of maternal satisfaction, and has been a kind mother ever since. Will the readers of the Rural remember this and keep on hand the said “half pint; ” but don’t drink it yourself, it might have the same effect on your poor self.— [Rural World. One of the adjuncts to the workshop of every farm ought to be a set of tools needed in mending harness, so that the boys may, on rainy days, learn a new' trade, and save quite an expends. With harness, a stitch in time, savesAiot nine, but ninety-nine more. The essentials are, two awls, needles, waxed ends, and a clamp to hold the pieces to bo sewed. The last may be made out of a couple of barrel staves fastened to a block, and tightened by a strap around the middle. &>me mending will have to go to the shop; but, in the course of the year, quite a sum can be saved by merely sewing up the ripped and torn places in the harness or padding. We have found copper rivets, sold in half pound boxes, of great advantage in mending harness. Had*inch rivets come into play ofienest, though a few three-quarter inch ones may 1 c needed. Hi's very old mode, among tidy far- uhh, make their apple orchards look nice, but which for years has been next to abandoned, ij coming into vogue again, and discussions are being held as to the propriety of it. The German town Telegraph says: " What we know about the matter ourselves is, that we do not think that it makes much dif* fereuce so far as the health and produce tivene s of the trees are concerned, whether they are white washed or not. In other words, we do cot think it pays. It certainly has a tendency to close the pores of the trunks, as well as that it has an unnatural appearance. So far as it is declared that the white wash causes tho old bark to scale off and hiding places of insects to be disturbed, and this is about all that is claimed for it; how much better for every farmer hav ing an orchard, to scrape the trees once a year, or only every other year, and fol low it with a washing of whale oil soap or eaibolic soap and water, applied with a short broom This would be sure to dislodge the insec'.s, open the pores of tlm trees, and give them a natural ap pears n?e. Thi3 would do the work effectually, and leave no room for doubt or discus-ion. Whatever aid the white washing of trees may be to their health and productiveness, the best orchards we ever saw', which bore full crops for a generation, were not white-washed, but scraped and washed with soft soap.” We frequently come across remon strances against keeping harness in stables, the reason given being that the ammonia prevalent there rots the leather and s jon destroys the harness. Now this is beginning at the wrong end to remedy an evil. We mav talk and adv.'se, “ year in and year out,” about the matter, but harness will be kept in the stable in spite or all. Where else can the majority of peoole who keep horses hang these trappings? A, rich man may have a c’oset in which the harness may hang safely from fear of ammonia and all other dangers; but the average horse owneia will have his peg behind the team, be cause he can have no other way of dis posing of the harness. But tte trouble would end if the production of ammonia were prevented. Enter an ordinary stable at any period, but especially in the winter, when every cranny through which the wind can come in is carelully stojsped, and what an offensive odor ofiends the nostrils and irritates the eyes. Is this odor of ammonia, strongly alkaline and irritant, injurious only to the harness ? What of the horses, and the teuder membranes of the eye, the thro it and the nasal passage? Do you think they are less sensitive than oak- tanned harness leather, well greased and preserved as it is? By no means. It the prevalvent odors injuriously effect lha leather, you may be sure the eyes suflar, the throat and lungs are irritated a d i he nasal passages becomes inflamed. I hen occuis the irequent moon-blind* ness, ophthalmia, weeping of the eyes, followed by inflammation, white specks; then follow cougbs, bronchitis, pneu- m mia, heaves, catarrh, nasal gleet; and bv and-by, when the blood has become jk i -oiitd by the absorption of diseased matter from inflamed and suppurated membranes, farcy and glanders—dreadful an l fatal to mm or beast, too—resuit. An j while we think ot saving the har ness and removing it to a purer place, t‘it* beast which is worth a dozen sets of it, is left to rot irom these pungent cases without any help. Clean the stables and the harness may hang in them in safety ; and be sure, if the stable is not a fit place for the harness, it{|p no place for the horse. A barrel ot plaster can be procured for about one dollar. It is w’orth that as a fertilizer. It is worth ten dollars as a absorbent of ammonia, and a hundred as a health preserver to the horses, not counting the saving to the harness. Sprinkle it everywhere, and be liberal with it.— [Rural New Yorker. noJIESTIt’ receipts. Butter Taffy.—One half pint of mo- ja<ses, one half-pint water, one pound loaf sugar, one quarter pound butter. L t boil without stirring until, by drop ping a little in water, you find it is done. To Protect Steel-ware from Rust. If—all tteel or tin ware is well rubbed v i h lard and then with common un slaked lime bsfore being put away, it will never rust. This is also the beat plan to remove rust. Okeam Fritters.—Mix a pint and a bait cf wheat flour with a pint of milk ; beat six eggs to a froth and stir them into the fl mr; grate in half a nutmeg, add a | pint of cream, a couple of teaspoonfuls of salt. Stir the whole just long enough to have the cream get well mixed in, then try the mixture in small cakes. Atple Dumplings—Pare and scoop out the core of six large baking apples; /put part ef a clove and a little grated lemon peel inside of each and inclose them in hi s of puff paste; boil them in nets for the purpose or bits of linen, lor an hour. B fore serving cut off a small bit from the top of each and put in a teaspoonful of sugar and a bit of fresh butter; replace the bit of paste and stew over them pounded loaf sugar. A stor House Rolls.—Into two quart of fl >ur put a piece of butter the size of an egg, a little salt, one tablespoonful of white sugar, one pint of milk, scalded and added while warm; half a cup of yeast, or one small cake; when the sponge is light, mold for fifteen minutes; let rise again, roll out into round cakes ; when light flatten with the hand or roll ing pin, place a piece of butter on top, and fold each over itself; when light bake in a quick oven. Cup Plum Pudding.—Take one cup each of raisins, currants, flour, bread crumbs, suet, and sugar; stone and cut the raisins, wash and dry the currants, chop the suet, and mix all the above in gredients well together; then add two ounces of cut candied peel and citron ; a little mixed spice, salt and ginger, say half a teaspoonlul of each; stir in four well beater eggs, and mil* enough to make the mixture so that the spoon will stand upright in it; tie it loosely in a cloth, or put it in a mold; plunge it into boiling water, and boil for three and a half hours. Plum Cake.—Take two pounds of large, fresh raisins, one pound of citron, eight fresh eggs, two cups of powdered sugar, one of butter, four of flour, one of sweet milk, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one nutmeg, grated, half teaspoonful of ground cloves ; sift the flour and put it in the oven to brown, as you would cofiee; cut the raisins in half and seed them; cut the citron in strips half inch wide, then slice as thin as possible; bake in a six quart basin two hours. Icing for it, the whites of four eggs, two cups of powdered sugar, two tableepoonfuls of corn starch, the juice of one lemon, one ounce of rose water. English Plum Pudding.—One and a halt psunds muscatel raisins, one and three-quarter pounds currants, one pound sultana raisins, two pounds bread crumb, ten eggs, two pounds finely chopped suet, six ounces mixed candied peel, the rind of two lemons, one ounce of ground nutmeg, one. ounce ground cinnamon, one half ounce pounded bitter almonds, oae-quarter pint brandy: stone and cut up the raisins, wash and dry the cir- rants, and cut the candied peel into thin slices ; mix all the dry ingredients, and moisten with the eggs, which should be well beaten into the pudding; stir in the brandy, and when all is thoroughly mixed, butter and flour a stout new pudding cloth ; put in the pudding ; tie it down very tightly and closely; boil it from six to eight hours, and serve with brandy sauce. Stick some sweet almonds blanched and cut into strips in it. This pudding will be sufficient for twelve or fourteen persons. This can be cooked a day or two before it is wanted for the table, in which case, when the pudding is taken out of the water, hang it up immediately and put a plate underneath to catch the water that may drain from it. The day it is to be eaten, plunge it into boiling water and keep it boiling for at least two hours; then turn it out of the cloth or mold and serve. Death Kate in Pities. According to a table prepared by the New York health department, in relation to the death-rate in proportion to popu lation ».l the principal cities ot the world, the two American cities that show the heaviest death-rates are Baltimore and Washington, the former being 25.41 and the latter 25.64 per 1,000. The death- rate in the principal foreign cities is considerably higher than in the principal American cities. We append a list of the cities, home and foreign: Death-Rate: Imerican Cities. Population, per 1,000. FACTS AND FIGURES York .1,069,362 Philadelphia 850,856 Brooklyn 527,830 Chicago 440,000 St. Louis 420,000 Boston 355,000 Baltimore 355,000 San Francisco 300,000 Cincinnati 280,000 New Orleans 210,0C0 Wiishington 160,000 Pittsburg 145,000 Providence 100,000 Charleston 57,000 Foreign Cities. London 3,533,484 Paris (1872) 1,851,792 Berlin 991,343 Vienna 690,548 Glasgow 555,933 Liverpool 527,083 Hamburg 393,588 Birmingnam 377,436 Manchester 359,213 Dublin (1871) 314,066 Belfast (1871). 182,082 Turin 255,664 Venice 140,251 Copenhagen 217,500 Calcutta 429,335 Havana 250,000 Melbourne 250,678 Alexandria 212,034 24.50 18.81 21.53 18.42 17.80 20.53 25.41 18.35 15.81 31.91 25.64 23.50 19.38 31.81 21.79 26.32 30.08 29.84 24.75 26.38 27.04 24.12 27.31 27.09 27.07 25.84 29.26 22.59 3190 40.87 21.18 43.00 New York city rejoices in the posses sion of 2,000 hotels. The English duty on tobacco amounts to some $45,000,000 a year. The world’s production of gold is one- third less than in 1850. There are in Prussia 8,228 doctors, 143 surgeons and 251 dentists. The state treasurer of Nevada has to justify in a bond of $400,000. San Antonio has shipped 3,333 tons of bones since January, 1877. valued at $76,500. In France there are regular schools for the training of dogs. One teacher has 200 pupils. California has this year produced enough to support ten millions of people for a year. During the academic year of 1877-78, there were 5.035 students at the medical school of Paris. The population of Metz has fallen off nearly one-quarter since 1871—from 51,332 to 89,000. The Japanese army on a peace footing consists*)! 31,680, and in time of war is increased to 46,350 men. The total value of taxable railroad property in Alabama is $10,297,03S, a decrease of $330,527 from last year# The Catholics have 239 convents for women in England, and over 400 female academies in the United States. The Titusville Herald figures out that during 1878 about $12,000,000 were lost in the petroleum trade ot Pennsylvania. The Dublin death-rate has for six months averaged thirty-one in one thousand, against about twenty-two in London. Scotland, says the Edinburgh Daily Review, is $75,000,000 poorer than it would have been estimated by an actu ary a few weeks ago. The medical authorities of New York city now concede the scarlet fever to be epidemic, and report for the year 1878 a total of 3,802 cases. The total amount of taxable property assessed for taxes in 1878 in Texas is $318,935,707. The total amount of state taxes,including poll-tax,is $2,050,42 036. .The number of condemnations for crimes in Prussia is steadily increasing. In 1873, there were 11.692 convictions ; in 1874, 12,844; in 1875, 12.126; in 1876, 13,197; and in 1877, 14 ; 8!9. The proportion of soldiers who can read and w.dte in the several armies of Europe is as follows: Germany, 965 in 1.000; Sweden, 930; England, 860; Holland, 750; Belgium, 700; France, 635; Portugal, 495; Spain, 490; Aus trids, 460; Italy, 450; Russia. 115; Turkey, 75. Recent official reports show that fo- the year 1877 the deposits in postal sav ings banks in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland amounted to £28,740,757, and in trustees’ savings banks, £44,238,686, the increase in the former since 1871 being £11,715 753, and in the latter, £5,419,023. Last year there were 142 violent deaths in Vermont, including 3 murders, 34 suicides, 20 accidental drownings, 13 deaths by the cars, 12 by falls, 9 by car riage accidents and 6 accidental shoot ings. Hanging was the favorite method of self-murder, and the youngest and oldest were 14 and 91 respectively. The Moffett liquor tax system has not resulted as favorably in Virginia as has been represented, or as was hoped by the friends of the movement. The official report of the proceeds of the tax, as re cently published by the state auditor, is as follows: Rebates of licenses, i Raised by oil license system 240.600 00 True product of Moffett register Bys tem ..S 83,6C9 14 The average grain product of Europe is rcpoited at 5,000,000,000 bushels, of which Russia raises one-third, France aDd Germany 520.000,000 bushels each and Austria 500,000,000. The United States produces 1,600,000.000 bushels (about the quantity that Russia does), which, in proportion to our population, is a much larger production than any other country can boast of. Counting our inhabitants at 40,000,000, we raise 40 bushels per head, and Europe’s nhabitants at 300,000,000, she raises but 16 bushels per head. Russia has 26 and Great Britian only 4 bushels per head. The amount cf grain consumed being generally 15 bushels per head, we pro* duce nearly three times as much as we want, Russia almost twice as much as she needs, and Great Britian not more than one-fourth of her requirement. Thus, it will be seen, that the production far exceeds the consumption, but the excess is absorbed by breweries and dis tilleries, at home and abroad, which, more than any other cause, keeps up the price of breadstuff’s. lugging the baby month in an; month out on one hip, while the pair a/always seen on the street corner, txfi on a plane of equality in the matter rf dirty faces, uncared for noses, frovy heads, sticky fingers and ragged dressy We visited the sleeping roti. Forty iron cradles swung on suppds of the same material, all supplied \th clean bed8, sheets and pillow* cases,)ccupied one side of the room. It was vgr toylike in its furnishing. The Httleow table and seats are arranged in twooncentric circles, so the children go in 1 one end of the beLches and come out athe other, thus preventing any crowdinor confu frion. The children are also furnished with toys. Why The Women Arc LeftJciiind. Interview with a Milwaukee Cliaraan. “ Why,” inquired the Newman, “ if you Chinamen care so mucf for your lamilies, and are constantly seding them money for their support, n you not bring your wives to America” “ Too email shoe,” was Mr Ah Lum’s prompt reply. Then he proetded to ex plain in a language that theNews man benevolently translated for .he public, that owing to the high degre of cultiva tion which the Chinese womn have at tained, they would be unsbMo walk the streets, to drag swill carts, p)w, go into the lecture field or engage ii the other occupations which are open tithe soaring genius of emancipated Amercan women. Fnrther, we bfush for Ah Dm in men tioning it, he went on to defare that the prudant Chinaman was tightened by the extravagance ot Ametcan women. Knowing the frailty of the sex, he in stinctively perceived that the Chinese women if transplanted hee would at once adopt the custom of tleir American sisters. The result woulc be that it would cost eighty, nay ever a hundred doliare a month to suppox wives who now are lapped in luxur; on an allow ance of five or six dollars i month. When asked why Chinanan did not marry American women, Ah Lum, with a’deprecatmg grin, stated hat “ Melican woman no likee Chinaman” Are Moles a Fist 2 Germantown Teleg-aph. There is a great difference of opinion as to this question. Our own is that the mole is harmless as a rale; sometimor it damages lawus and gardens in pursuic of its food, which usually is the earth worm. If it should go through a hill of com and injure it by looseuing the root lets. it is still in pursuit of the earth worm which is in dry times found about the roots of corn and other vegetables, grass, &c., more abundantly than else where. Sj far as our observation extend we have never known the mole to eat vegetable matter. It would seem to 1)3 strictly a carnivorous animal. And on this head here is something to the point: Mr. Weber, one of the savants of Zurich, Switzerland, recently examined the stomach of a number of moles caught in different localities, but failed to discover therein the slighter vestige of plants or roots; whereas they were filled with the remains cf earthworms. He shut up several of these animals in a box contain ing earth and sod with growing grass and a small case of grub or earthworms. In nine days two moles devoured 341 white worms, 193 earthworms, 25 cater- pillais and a dead mouse. Fed with a mixed diet of raw mt at and vegetables the iroles ate the mea t and left the plants; and when the vegetables exclusively were dealt out to ti em in twenty-four hours both died of starvation. Killed by a Meteor. On Tuesday night last, Leonidas Grover, who lesides in the vicinity of Newtown, Fountain county, Ky., met his death in a way that is probably without parallel in this or any other country. Mr. Grover was a widower, living on a farm with a married daugh ter and her husband. On the evening referred to, the married couple had been absent on a visit to some neighbors, and upon returning at a late hour, entered the house, finding everything, to all ap pearance, in usual order, and supposing that Mr. Grover had already retired, went to bed tbems o lves. Next morning the daughter arose, and having prepared breakfast, went to the adjoining room to call her tather, and was horrified to find him lying upon his shattered bed a mu tilated corpse. Her screams brought her husband quickly to the bed room, and an inspection disclosed a ragged opening in the roof, directly over the breast ot the unfortunate man, which was torn through as if by a cannon shot, and extending downward through the bedding and floor; other holes showed the directiou taken Dy the deadly missile. Subsequent search revealed the fact that the awful calamity was caused by the fall of a metoric stone, and the stone it self, pyramidal in shape, and weighing twenty pounds and a few ounces, avoir dupois, and stained with blood, was un earthed from a depth of nearly five feet, thus showing the fearful impetus with which it struck the dwelling. The po sition ot the cDrpse, with other surround ings, when found, showed that the victim was asleep when stricken, and that death to him was painless. Never forget that wrong doing can not be made to pay in the end. It may hold out the promise of pleasure or profit, but shame and loss wiil surely follow. A Paris “Creche.” Letter to San Francisco Call. In the French educational department is a model of a “creche” in working order. A “creche” is an establishment where working mothers may leave their infants during the day to be cared for. It keeps during the hours of work the infant of fifteen days to that of three years of age. The “creche” is visited daily by a physician and lady inspectors. No infant is allowed to pass the night in one. No infant is admitted if sick. There are over thirty “creches” in Paris and several of the suburban towns. They accommodate from forty to one hundred infants daily. Some are gratu. itous, and others require a small fee. Each “creche” is constructed after a certain fixed model, and contains a gars den, covered yard, play room, din ing room, kitchen, linen room, provision and toilet room, and cradle room. The “creche” was first establiehed be tweeu thirty and forty years ago. i visited one yesterday. I found it in all respects as represented—theoretically a most desirable refuge for a poor mother’s infant during working hours. Every apartment was thoroughly neat and clean. It contained accommodations for forty children. About twenty were in charge during my visit. The care of these devolved upon two persons—a man and a woman. Here were fifteen two year olds in the covered yard. The ground was covered with mats, on which some were sitting, sdme standing, and some toddling about. Of course at this age they couldn’t talk much with each ether, and the faculties hadn’t ripened sufficiently to develop any regular plan of amusement. They looked like children of poverty and ciime, but they were neat and clean, aud all wore pinafores of a coarse check, which I presume were furnished at the “creche.” Their condition was certainly better than if left in ebarge of the next oldest sister, who grows up one sided Argonaut Dives. In San Francisco and other large towns of California it its said that mau} uf the married women, past the middle age, have been the wives of two, three, and sometimes four or five different men, owing to the freedom of divorce, which use*! to exist, and still exists in a modi fied form, in that state. Women were in plentiful lack in the days of the Ar gonauts, and for some time after; and when one appeared in the community with good looks, intelligence and mag netism to recommend her, she was well nigh fought for. As a rule, the women who migrated to El Dorado were not o: the finest. Many of them were more or less adventuresses, and, seeing their ex. treme marketableness, enhanced their . value by very broad coquetry, and dis posed ot themselves to the highest bid ders. After securing one husband, they entertained proposals for another, and not unfrequentlv slipped from No. 1 to No. 2, through some legal trick, before No. 1 had any idea that he had proved maritally unsatisfactory. It is related that, about 1853, three members of a San Fancisco firm had each in turn the same wife, in the sp&ceof twenty-four mouths. Some of the most matrimonially enter prising women in the country journeyed thither twenty t) twenty-five years ago, and made their marriage remunerative by getting settlements cish down before thetyingof the nuptial knot. The lives of not a few of them would, if faithfully chronicled, read like the most sensational of sensational novels. Snow Crystals. From the Hartford Courant. Snow crystals form very peculiarly. To the naked eye some crystals average from a quarter to a third of an inch in length. The variety of snow crystals is endless, and a microscopist says that the distinctive form noticed on Thursday last has been seldom meet with in his ex perience. He writes: What particular state of things it may indicate respecting the temperature of the upper air, or the action of the law of polarity which governs the formation of all crystals, can only be conjectured. But the formation itself, in these, as in all snow crystals, is an admirable illustration of the precision and beauty ol natuie’s wondrous laws. That the freezing molecules, the atomic particles of the vaporous material of the atmospheie should, in growing colder, develop so exquisitely this law of their attracting and repellaut poles, and illus trate it in forms so delicately, so ethere ally beautiful and so endless in their variety, is indeed a study to excite our admiration at the evidence it affords, among a thousand concurrent testi monies, great and small, of the beneficent intelligence and design which has so evi dently presided over the constitution of worlds. Snow crystals area delightful study and they can be observed with low magnifying powers to great advan tage. A physician’s little daughter, called upon for a toast, gave : “ The health of papa and mamma, and all the world.” But she suddenly corrected the senti ment : “ Not all the world, for then papa would have no patients.” The National Con-plaint. Dyspepsia is the national complaint. Al most every other man or woman you meet has it, and the result is that the number of pseu do remedies for it is as numerous as Pha raoh’s host. They are for the most part worth less. There is, however, a searching eradicant of this distressing and obdurate malady, one whose genuine merits long since raised it to a foremost place among the 6taple medicines of America. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters ex tirpates dyspepsia with greater certainty and promptitude then any known remedy, and is a most genial invigorast, appetizer and aid to secretion. These are not empty assertions, as thousands of our countrymen and women who have experienced its effects are aware, but are backed up by irrefragable proofs re peatedly laid before the public. The Bitters also promote a regular habit of body and give a healthful stimulus to the urinary organs. lsuftineu Failure*. Lack of judgment causes fully SO per cent, of t-.ll business men to fail earlier or later. Do notan eqnal proportion of physicians fail to cure from the same cause? At the Grand Invalids’ and Tourhts’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., Dr. Pierce, through the skill attained by his several specialists, each having devoted years to a special department of medical science, is able to cure a large per cent, of cases hitherto considei < d incurable. Many physicians, in view of he superior advan tages of this model san tarium, bring there stubborn, obscure, coni| icated,and surgical cases for examinations,, iteration, and treat ment. 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