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AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARfi AND GARDEN. i FOREST LEAVES AS MANURE. If ii farmer’s time is valuable he can not spare much of it to gather leaves merely for their manurial value. If bed ding is scarce it may be well to gather them as an absorbent in stables, but to merely rot down into leaf mold, leaves are worth more where they lie in the for est than any where else. There they serve as a mulch and protection to the soil they cover.— American Cultivator. THE STRAWBERRY BED. When a strawberry bed is very weedy and matted, plow it up. When a bed has been neglected until it is so very weedy that you can hardly find the plants, it will not pay to clean it up. Prevention is much better than cure! The strawberry needs attention, and most people recognize the fact. Once in a while, however, a strawberry bed is neg lected until it is worthless, and when that is the case, better plow it up and start anew, with a determination to give the crop such attention in the future as it needs. It is of no sort of use to ex pect that we can obtain good results un less we attend to its wants.— Green's Fruit Grower. Horses get too much hay. When a boy on a farm, says a writer in Colman's Rural World , I remember it was a standing rule to rake down a little hay into the horses’ rack every time any ■one went into the stable. The”result was the horses would keep their grinders going nearly all the time, and become pot-bellied, unsightly animals. Horses fed iu this way become mere machines, or hay cutters, the nutrition of the hay is not assimilated, and a large portion of it hr wasted. By such stuffing, every organ in the body is interfered with, and when put on the road Or to work on the farm a horse so fed cannot move with any "comfort untii relieved of the superabund ance of feed. The disease known as heaves is generally due to over-driving when the stomach is full of hay. Bulk in feeding is necessary, but when the food is nearly all bulk an extreme has been reached, and it is time to change. Hay should be fed with as much care as grain is fed. Different horses require differ ent qualities, and in feeding anew horse it becomes a matter of experiment until his wants are,ascertained. i PIGS ON DAIRY FARMS. f ’There is no other food on which young pigs thrive so well as on skimmed milk and Indian meal. Pigs are also very fond of whey, and do well on it provi ded they have a liberal allowance of In dian meal fed with it. To keep pigs on whey alone is a great waste of food and time. On skimmed milk, and the run of clover pasture, a well-bred, young pig "will grow rapidly; but even in this case * little corn meal could be fed with very decided economy and advantage. The ®il and starch of the corn restore to the akimmea ihflk the fat-forming material 'which has been removed in the butter, and, in effect, converts it into new milk again. But it is very desirable that the awal should be cooked by pouring upon boiling water, and stirring it carefully until it is made into “pudding.” In the dairy there is usually much hot water thrown away, which might be used for this purpose, without cost, and with lit ;tle labor. On farms where much grain is grown, and only a few cows are kept, it is usual ly not profitable to keep a large stock of pigs. The common mistake made, how ever, is not in keeping too many, but in not feeding them liberally. Asa rule, the pigs are kept on short allowance until they are shut up to fatten, after the corn is ripe, although there can be no doubt that a bushel of corn, fed to pigs while in clover during the summer, will pro duce double or treble as much pork as a bushel new corn fed in cold weather, in the autumn, when the pigs have nothing but corn. A few fall pigs can be kept in the yards during the winter to good advantage, especially if the cattle are fed grain. But it is a great mistake to stint young pigs through the winter, although it must be confessed that it is a very common one. Young pigs should be kept gro wing rapidly through the winter and ! spring months.— Prarie Fanner. ; TICKS ON SHEEP. The English mutton herds of sheep and their grades and crosses are much more liable to be troubled by ticks than Merinos, says Joseph Harris in the Ameri can Agriculturist. Every English farmer dips his sheep two or three times a year to kill ticks. Scores of preparations are sold for this purpose, and men go round from farm to farm with a convenient ap paratus for dipping the sheep, and do the ■work at so much a head. As to the relative merits of mutton sheep and Merinos, much may be said. But that is not our purpose at this time; what we wish to say now is, if you are keeping any open-wooled sheep of any kind and have not dipped them this fall, do not let another week pass without doing so. It is cruel to the sheep and a great loss to you. We once visited a far mer in Maine, who had given up Merinos and was keeping grade Cotswold’s. “I feed them well,” he said, “but they do not seem to thrive. It does not pay to keep Merinos for wool alone, and then grade Cotswolds are not going to prove profitable. I think I shall have to give up sheep altogether and keep more cows.” This was in winter. We caught one of the sheep and on opening the fleece found it literally alive and black with ticks. We have" found many such instances elsewhere. Before winte' sets in sheep should be dipped twice, once to kill all the ticks, and again, two or three weeks later. to kill the ycung ticks hatched out from the eggs laid previous to the first dipping. This will effectually cure the evil. The ticks are easily killed. A favorite dip is made from tobacco stems or cheap tobacco. Wo have for man^ years used a dip made of a pound of soap and a pint of crude carbolic acid to fifty gallon of water. The only point to be it- f “ 40 k( *P mixture well ~D l? S o. l ! T e the soap in a gallon ‘“'A® °* “Omng water and add the arbolie acid and stir thoroughly. Then mix with water and the proportion named ? D °ve In dipping let some trusty man have hold of the head of the sheep and see that none of the mixture gets into the mouth, or nostrils, cr eyes. Each sheep should be held in the dip not less than half a minute. A- dip that will probably be more con veniently made is a mixture of soap and kerosene and a gallon of milk. Put them m a churn and chum rapidly for ten or fifteen minutes. If the milk is boiling hot when put in the churn with the kero sene it will be all the better. When | thoroughly churned put two gallons of the emulsion in the dipping tub or barrel with twenty gallons of water, stir it up, | and commence dipping the sheep. The j reserved gallon of emulsion will be needed to make more dip to keep the tub or bar rel full enough to cover the sheep. In our own trials we used soap instead of milk. Boil a gallon of water, and put in it a pound of soap, and stir till it is dis solved. Then add two gallons of kero sene and churn as before, or, if you have a good syringe or force pump, churn it with that for ten minutes, or till all the | oil is “cut,” and the emulsion is com plete. It is not improbable that with so much soap as above recommended the dip may need to be a little stronger—say one gallon of the emulsion to eight gallons of water. We like to use plenty of soap to avoid any possible injury to the wool. A pound of white hellebore powder to each two gallons of soap and kerosene emul sion makes a dip that finishes the ticks in a few minutes. The dip without the hellebore will do the work. You will find no live ticks the next morning, and there is some reason to believe that it will kill the eggs also. But it is always safer and better to give a second dipping in two or three weeks, and be sure you dip every sheep in the flock. It may be thought that we should tell how much dip will be needed for a given number of sheep. It is not easy to do so. It requires almost as much dip for one sheep as for a dozen. You will need to have the tub or barrel full enough to cover the sheep. Much will depend on the size of the sheep and the size of the tub or barrel. You will probably have at least twenty gallons to start with. How much more will be required to replenish the dip will depend on how much care you bestow on squeezing out the dip from the fleece when the sheep is taken out. Kerosene is cheap, and it is better to have too much dip than too little, for if you get short some of the last sheep will not be thoroughly dipped. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Make a specialty of some one branch of farming and you will succeed. The size of the farm has little to do with the financial condition of the farmer. All root crops liable to injury from the frost should be gathered without de lay. This is the time to ditch, drain, re pair buildings and make improvements generally. Many years of experience show that with ordinary, good and well cultivated soil, the best crops of potatoes are ob tained by flat culture. A well fed calf in autumn, having full flesh, is worth two others of the same age poorly fed and of such stunted growth, from which recovery is next to impos sible. Chicks raised in brooders really dou ble their age. We have chicks now in our brooder that are so far advanced at three weeks of age as those six weeks old, in care of the hen. But if you are raising stock to keep, don’t feed so heavy. If you find your chicks droopy, look out for lice. You may not think you have them, but you will find, by care fully looking, the large head louse. Grease the head sparingly with an oint ment composed of two-thirds lard and one-third coal oil. There are “big profits” in ducks, be cause they are brought to a marketable age quicker than a chick, and frequently you can get more for them. Their feath ers are marketable at a fair price; little is given for the best chicken feathers. They are worthy your attention. You know that if cows eat cabbage, onions, or other strong smelling and pun gent foods, they will make the milk have that flavor. Now, it stands to reason that water that has become impregnated with manure wash, frog spittle or slime, will have the same effect upon the milk. Keep them away from it. If the fruit trees are split by frost, a good plan is to heat grafting wax, spread it over a piece of muslin, and place over the wound, tying in place with strips of the same material wrapped around the trees. The strip covered with the wax should be sufficiently large entirely to cover the wound. The great object of cultivation aside from killing the weeds, is to keep the soil open, so that it can absorb whatever is needed from the atmosphere to nour ish the corn. The soil when kept in this condition will get a portion of moisture in the dryest season, will get also much needed ammonia and the plants are thus greatly helped. It is quite an item to Mve the poultry gentle, and especially the hens. If the hens are tame they will make much better and safer mothers than if wild or uncon trolable. A little pains should be taken to make them gentle before they are set on eggs, as it may be necessary to handle more or less before the chickens will be able to take care of themselves. The windmill is an implement that cost* very little compared with the advan tages derived. Water pumped into a tack can be conducted to the barnyard or to the pasture through pipes, thus saving the expense of pumps and the la bor of pumping. Where there is no run ning water troughs can be arranged for itock and may be kept full without dif ficulty. WOMAN’S WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. my lady. My lady is not fair, but a clear light Shines in her eyes from morning until night. My lady is not learned, but she knows The way to every heart; straight there she goes. Though neither fair nor learned, she is one To love and love, and never to hare done. —New England Magazine. A PRIMA DONNA’S PRESENTS. Theresa Malten, the prima donna at the Bayreuth performances, has received a beautiful bracelet, set with diamonds and sapphires, from the German Em peror. The present was sent through the German Embassy, and was accompa nied by the most flattering assurance of the Emperor’s appreciation of the prima donna's performance in Bayreuth. Frau lieu Malten has also received from the Prince Regent the Bavarian Rauten crown in diamonds, with turquoises, showing the Bavarian colors, as an orna ment for the corsage. Frau Cosimi Wagner presented the prima donna with a gold hairpin, with diamonds, in the form of a dove.— New York Star. LIMERICK LACE REVIVAL. Miss Foster, the adopted daughter of the late Irish Chief Secretary, has nearly succeeded in reviving the manufacture of Limerick lace, as an important Irish in dustry which has been long neglected. Miss Foster, since her marriage with Mr. Robert Vere O’Brien, has lived near Limerick, and she recently turned her attention to reviving the lace industry, which now bids fair to resume its wonted activity. Assisted by a committee she has opened a training school for girls, the pupils of which are making rapid progress in the art. All the necessary material has been supplied to the girls, who, in ad dition to their ordinary training, receive lessons at the local School of Art in con aection with South Kensington.— New York Herald. STYLES IN HAIR DRESSING. A style cf hair-dressing as opposite as possible from the soft, graceful, fluffy mass of hair so long favored is affected by a number of fashionable young women, ft consists of a number of moist, flat rings of hair flattened down upon the forehead, these called “Spanish love locks.” There are those who, for a ca price, have adopted this style of coiffure, as the “Spanish” mode with them has Certainly not proved a success. The pretty rolls of hair above the locks, run through with a Spanish comb or jeweled pin, are graceful, but the plastering process above the forehead is hideous. There is hardly a feature of the toilet which so quickly and materially affects the looks as the arrangement of the hair, especially above the brow.— New York Pott. THE SIGItER EDUCATION OF WOMEN. Mrs. Christine Ladd Franklin, who was made a fellow of Johns Hopkins University for her mathematical achieve ments, takes a deep interest in the plan of the collegiate alumna; to maintain, each year at least, one young woman, already a graduate Of an American college belonging to the association and who gives promise of following in the foot steps of Darwin and Huxley, at a foreign university. The scheme is in part Mrs. Franklin’s Own, and its object is to lend some assistance in the settlement of the vexed question, will women ever add an important discovery to the world’s stock of knowledge by establishing a fellow ship for the support of young women likely to become capable of original re search while they obtain the best prepara tion possible for working alongside the world’s scholars. Mrs. Franklin’s idea is to get hold of just the right young women with scientific proclivities and back them during from one to three years’ study in Europe. Women, she says, have demonstated that they are better physically and mentally for going to school. They have proved wonder fully receptive. Will even a handful ever show themselves investigators? If they do not, she thinks it ought not to be for lack of money to obtain the neces sary preliminary training. With Mrs. Franklin at the head of a committee, the collegiate alumnae are now engaged in raising funds before declaring the fellow ship open for competition.— New York Star. a sire’s pretty room. Here is the description of a room just completed by a fashionable decorator in New York city in the house of a wealthy man who will have his only daughter home from school this winter and ready to take her place in society. The house hold arrangements are being made largely with a view to her pleasure and conveni ence, and when she arrives she will find this pleasant surprise that has been pre pared without her knowledge, though the decorator has been at work on it for two months. She is a pretty girl, with a fresh pink and white skin, big hazel eyes and very dark hair, and after the decorator had caught a glimpse of her he decided that the room should be done in pink; so the walls are covered with a French paper that is a shade between cream and rose, and above this is a frieze of a paper with the pale brown and green orchids on a pii?K ground, The ceiling is cream color, sprinkled with silver stars, and the picture moulding is silvered. All the paint in the room is white enamel paint, and the hangings at the windows and in the arch of the alcove containing the bed are of cream-colored China silk, with a pattern of large interwoven rings of pale green and brown. The bed seen between the curtains is of silver-plated brass and has a spread of heavy pink silk louder lace and a huge pair of raffled and laced pillows. The fire-p’-ace is in the corner and has silver andirons, shovel and hongs, being iuelosed with cream-colored tiles, which have pink figures on them, taken from the poems of one of the first of-the great female poets, Mother Goose. a 4^l around the edge is a border of deep red terracotta, and the mantlepiece is white and silver in the colonial style.— New York World. AN EMPRESS IN THE KITCHEN. The Empress of Austria is the best royal housekeeper in Europe. She is as thoroughly acquainted with the details of the imperial Austrian kitchen as her husband is with the details of the impe rial Austrian Government. She superin tends the household affairs of the big pal ace at the Austrian capital with the great est care. She receives personally, reads and acts upon reports from cooks, butlers, keepers of the plate and keepers of the linen. . Cooking devices which have be come inconvenient or antiquated aro abolished only at her command. New methods of preparing or serving food are adopted only at her sug gestion. Changes in the personnel of the establishment are made for the most part only in obedience to her orders. Conse quently a person can cat, drink, sleep and be served better in her house than in any other in Europe. The kitchen in which the food for the bluest blood of Austria is cooked is a huge room with all the arrangements at each end for preparing fish, fowl, and beast for the table. Fifty chickens can be cooked at once on one of the big, whirling spits. Against the side walls from floor to ceiling stand scores upon scores of chafing dishes. In these dishes, all of which are self-warming, the meats are carried to the carving-room whence they are returned to the kitchen ready to be served. The boiling and baking, and frying and carrying and cut ting occupy a small regiment of servants. Twenty-five male cooks, in white clothes, dress, spit, season and stuff the meats. As many female cooks prepare the vege tables, the puddings, and the salads. A dozen or more boys hurry the birds, fish and joints from the kitchen to the carv ing room, where long lines of carvers slice and joint everything laid before them. The kitchen utensils fill a big room opening into the kitchen. This room is the ideal of German housewives. The high walls are covered with pans, kettles, griddles, and covers, which shine as only German hands and German muscle could make them shine. There are soup tureens in which a big boy might be drowned, kettles in which twins could play house, and pans which would hold half a dozen little Hanses or Gretchens. In short, about every culinary utensil on the walls is of the heroic size, suggestive rather of the Missouri barbecue than of the feasts of crowned heads and diplomats at one of the first of courts. For days before the great court festivals the whole Austrian court kitchen staff, from the “head court cooking master” down to the youngest scullion, work like mad. The chefs hold repeated consulta tions in their council chamber, often de bating hour after hour with all the earnest ness of a Parliament or Congress concern ing the best methods of preparing fowls, Sauces, cakes, and scups. The menu, as selected by the chefs, is submitted to the master of the provision department, sd that he may immediately order from the city whatever the cellars of the castle lack. The Austrian court dinners are famous on the Continent. The delicacies which result from the protracted meetings in the council chamber of the chefs are often so fine that favored guests not infrequently observe the old German fashion of taking# choice bit home to their friends in the name of the Empress and with her best wishes. All that remains of a court feast, or dinner, is sent to the Viennese hospitals. On the days just after the banquet the Em press is very busy looking over the re ports and inventories of the frau head keeper of the napkins, and the fraulein head keeper of the tablecloths, and the herr head guardian of the imperial china, and a dozen other like functionaries with jointed titles. She reviews all these com munications with conscientious care, and ordet-s with strict attention to minute de tails the replacement of all that has been lost, broken, or defaced. FASHION NOTES. Numbered with novelties are the plaited skirts. Velvet muffs will be carried this winter to match bonnets. All fall sleeves are set with the head above the shoulder. Light otter promises to be the fashion able fur for dress trimming. Braiding is most effective done in corners, points, yokes or bretelles. The waistcoat of a jacket is usually of a contrasting shade of cloth, braided. Cloths of old rose contrasted with moas green or wood brown make beautiful cos tumes. Several purple shades of cloth for outer garments are shown as novelties by ladies’ tailors. Black, with Boulanger red, and taa with Eiffel rouge, are the latest combina tions from Paris. Short mantles and talmas are made with high shoulder gores that are turned square at the elbow to form sling sleeves- In the shops where a specialty is made of mourning toilets the brooch or buckle used on the basque is purple, white or black enamel. The refinement which distinguishes the new woolens is also characteristic of the fashionable colors, which are mostly half shades of green, gray, blue or terra cotta, and exquisite tints of fawn and brown. Some of the black silk stockinette jersevj are made with vests, deep collars with revers, and turn-back cuffs, formed of openwork silk passementerie and crooheted silk stars finely interwoven with cut jet. Fashion has decreed that ladies in kfondoa’s best society mast appear at afternoon teas, lunches, kettledrums and other afternoon entertainments with arms bare, as well as in the evening. The long gloves will be drawn off, and no bracelets will be worn, but the fingeri will glitter jrith Costly rwgs. _ POPULAR SCIENCE. During the last ten years an oculist of Cronstadt, Russia, is said to have treated thirty cases of photo-electric ophthal mia, anew disease duo to the action of the electric light on the eyes. M. Cornu,the French scientist,believes that the light of shooting stars cannot be due to comoustion or heat, as supposed, but it is a phenomenon of static electric ity developed by simple friction. In a recent issue of a Russian medical journal, a contributor emphatically calls attention to the common sunflowers as an excellent and cheap substitute for quinine in the treatment of malarial fevers of all possible forms. The German Government propose forming a botanical garden in the Cam eroons, for the purpose of determining what plants, medicinal or commercial, are the best for cultivation in the planta tions of Germany’s African colonies. It is said to have been demonstrated at the Paris Exposition that, by a combina tion of compressed air and water, it will be possible to drive a train on slides over vi hundred miles au hour. There is no smoko, no noise and scarcely any perceptible motion. Narrow chested recruits of the Prus sian army are to be measured monthly, and those whose chests are not widened by drill are to be discharged as predis posed to consumption. All are to be considered narrow chested whose chests are less in circumference than half the length of their bodies. The new and ingenious process brought forward in London for the production of aluminum steel is likely, it is claimed, to supercede all other methods. It consists simply in melting pig iron in contact with clay and a certain flux, the result being a sonorous, incorrodible alloy, containing 1.75 per cent, of alluminum. In observations on eighty-two male and twenty-eight female convicts Dr. Fradenigo, of Italy, has found them more liable to ear diseases than law-abiding citizens, but has detected no constant relation between the obtuseness of touch, taste and smell so common in convicts and the sharpness of vision credited them. Dr. Yon Duhring has reported a case in which tuberculosis was transmitted by the earrings of a girl who died from con sumption to another girl. Shortly after the second girl commenced to wear the earrings an ulcer, containing tubercle bacilli, formed on her left ear and she subsequently developed pulmonary con sumption. An official report states that in Eng land and Wales 546 pci-sons were killed by lightning during the twenty-nine years from 1852 to 1880. The inhab itants of rural districts are found to suf fer more from lightning than those of towns, while vicinity to the west and south coasts reduces the chances of injury by lightning, and distance from the coast and high land seems to increase them. Anew ice machine of great capacity has recently been devised, in which the sulphurous anhydride hitherto . employed for this purpose is replaced by a mixture of sulphurous and carbonic anhydride alone. The inventor of this arrange ment explains the matter on the basis of the theory that some kind of molecular action, or rather reaction, occurs bet ween the two gases when liquefied, in conse quence of which the pressure exerted by the gas is much smaller than would be expected. By comparing modern skulls with those of the same race in an old mon astery in the Kedrou Valley, Dr. Dight, of the American College of Beirut, Syria, has shown that thirteen centuries have added two inches to the circumference and three and a half cubic inches to the capacity of the Caucasian skull. The brain is developed in the part* presiding over the moral and intellectual functions, growing higher and longer, without in crease of the lower portions, Which give breadth to the head and in which the sel fish propensities are centred. A. Queer Rustic Vehicle. On the last day of the Exposition Pro fessor A; B. Morris drove from Esses Centre to the Exposition. Me rode in one of the strangest buggies that ever was seen on the streets of Detroit'. The Professor made it during his odd hours for the past t.wo or three months. It was made entirely of second growth hick ory, and most of the hickory had the bark left on,the smooth bark being upon the shafts and smaller parts of the bug gy, and coarse hickory bark on the hub. The rig was ornamented by many twisted hickory switches, bent in all sorts of queer shapes and loops. The rest of the buggy was made with hickory with the bark off, and the whole affair was var nished nicely, and the effect of the smooth hickory and the hickory with fhe bark ou was Very pretty; There was not a scrap of leather or of iron, or anything nbout the buggy, except a few nails that had been driven here and there. Even the tires were hickory hoops.— Detroit Free Frett, The Champion Sleep Walker. Young Mr. Hollenbeck was in Jamul the other evening, says the San Diego (Col.) Union, and attended a party there. After enjoying a dance and the society of the good people of the neighborhood, he went to bed and to sleep. Mr. Hollen beck, Sr., lives in the city, aud about 9 o’clock in the morning was in his corral looking after some cattle. He was sur prised to see his son enter the place, and he asked him: “What did you leave Jamul for, aud how did you get here?” The young man paid no attention to the question whatever. His father repeated it and becoming alarmed at his son’s strange manner, grasped him by the arm and shook him. The young man slowly came to himself, or rather swoke, for he was sound asleep and had no idea what ever that he was in San Piego. He had got up in his sleep, walked the fifteen or twenty miles to this city, fording the Sweetwater River, and had made his way straight to his father’s house. Burning at the Stake. “Burning at the stake is the most runful and horrible manner of death ever witnessed,” said a traveling man to a Chicago Herald writer. “I am forty-five years old, and the burning I saw took place at noon one day, about the middle of July, 1859, at Marshall, Mo., eighty-four miles from Kansas City. The victim was a colored man named John, who b longed to Giles Kiser, a farmer. On the evening of May 13 John had murdered young Ben jamin Hinton at his st-amboat wood yard on the Missouri River, between Laynesville and Miama. John murder ed'young Hinton for his money, and ob tained $52, some of which he distributed among other colored men. Judge Hicks, of Independence, then Judge of the Sixth District, granted a motion for a special term of court to try John and two other colored criminals.' This was in the forenoon. When the court ad journed for a nooning the j eople, impa tient at the law’s delay, burst upon the Sheriff as he was conveying the prison ers from the court room to the jail, took them from the officers, and there in the sight of hundreds hanged the other two and chained John to a walnut tree and burned him to death. He lived about six or eight minu'es after the flames wrung the first cry of agony from hit iipß. Then the inhalation of the blazing fire suffocated him. His face, arms and breast were scorched frightfully, and the lower portion of h s bodv was a charred, shapeless mass. Judge hicks was so in dignant at this outrage that lie resigned from the bench. No trouble to tunas concerned ever resulted frem the case. Oriental Beggars. Beggary throughout the East is a thriving profession. There.are guilds ol beggars, besides the numerous commu nities of dervishes, who are semi-religious mendicants. Many families have been beggnrs for generations, and rm mendicants from choice. Some of these professional beggarsure actually wealthy, Four-und-twenty years ago the writer well remembers a case. The Chief Beg* gar (the title was not conferred in deri sion) gave his daughter in marriage to a substantial fnrraer. The girl’s dowrj consisted of two freehold houses, the rooms of which were entirely filled with dry pieces of bread, and the sale of thesa begged crusts subsequently realized a considerable sum, beiug disposed of as food for cattle. In the east there is nq organized chanty, but Mussulmen arq exceedingly charitable, many giving away a fith and even a third of their in come. The Wife of Columbus. While at Lisbon, Columbus was apeus tomed to attend service,says Washington Irving, at the chapel of the convent o( All Saints. There he became acquainted with a lady of rank, named Dona Felipa, who resided at the convent. She wa the daughter of Bartollommeo Monis dq Pallestrello, or Perestrello, an Italian cavalier, lately deceased, who had been one of the most distinguished navigators under Prince Henry of Portugal, and had colonized and governed the Island of Porto Santo. The acquaintance soon ripened into attachment and ended in marriage. It appears, adds Irving, to hate been a match of mere affection as the lady had little or no fortune. According to the New York Commer cial Advert-tier, since 1800 more than 00,- 000 bodies have been buried in the Pot ter’s Field on Hart’s Island. There are no single interments. The bodies are placed in trenches, dug in regular rows, forty-five feet long, fourteen feet wide, and ten feet deep. Each of these pits will hold one hundred and fifty bodies. A New Kind of Insurnnee has been put In operation by the manufac turers of Dr. Pierce’s medicines. His “Golden Medical Discovery" and "Favorite Prescrip tion” are sold bv druggists under the manu facturers' positive ouarantee. Either benefit or a complete cure is thus attained, or money paid for these medicines is returned. The certificate of guarantee given in connection with sale of these me Heines is equivalent ton Policy of insurance. The “Golden Medical Discovery” cures all humors and blood taints, from whatever cause arising, skin and seal diseases, scrofulous sores and swellings. The “FaVorite Prescription” cures all those de rangements a tid weakneses peculiar to wo men. Don't hawk, hawk, and blow, blow, disgust ing everybody, but use Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. What Is our lite but an endless flight of winged facts or events ! In iplendid variety these changes come, all putting queeiiotis to the hurnam spirit. A Weekly Mssaslae Is really what The Youth's Companion is. It publishes each year as ranch matier as the fonr-dollar monthlies, and is Illustrated by the same artists. It la an educator in every home, and always an entertaining and wholesome companion. It has a unique place In Ameri can family life. If you do not know it, you will be surprised to see how much can be given for the small sum of $1.75 a year. The trice sent now will entitle you to the paper to Janu ary, 1891. Address, Toe Youth's Companion. Boston, Maas. Oregon, the I’nmiliee of Farm-re. Mild, equable climate, cerlain and abundant crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock coun try in the world. Full Information free. Ad dress Oleg. Im’igra'tn Board, Portland, Ore, A 10c. smoke for flc. “Tansill’e PanßV^__ Dangerous Tendencies Characterize tii&t vsry common complaint, catarrh. The foul matter dropping from the head into the bronchial tubes or lungs may bring OH bronchitis or consumption, which reaps an Immense harvest of deaths annually. 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