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l« S »?» F « NTRnB9 ' r ATIV8 TO FAftSf AND GARDEN. . 1 — •' no, » ♦<> Blench Beeswax. .It is said by the New York TVitim, lhat io 18(51 tn$ following plan was em« ployed to bleach beeswax, the plan no( g proteoted by patent, but the secret my carefully kept. Mr. Langstrotli was tire originator: The wax was put J nto *,bettle with water, tho water be- mg added' to keep the wax from barm \BM- Wax in more inflammable than oil. The melted wax was put into a tin box having hole* in the bottom, which al lowed it to fall on a roller that revolved in water. It was then placed on cloths and exposed to the sun. Three melt ings were necessary before the operation was complete. It was broken up in the morning before the sun arose to heat it. The dirt would fall into the water. Preserving Seed. Corn. After seed corn is dried clear through to the center of the cob care is still re quired in keeping it until ready for use. Many leave it hanging in a dry place in whii h it was cured, which is unobjec tionable if always protected from damp ness, frost and vermin—the great t re quisites in keeping the seed properly after it .is. cured. Corn in traeos may well bo stripped of its husks and dried on a floor before packing away, to be sure all moisture in the butts is dried out. A_ well dried ear will snap like a dry stick when broken. If it is properly d:y, Ihany good farmers prefer to leave the seed on the ear until about ready to plant, believing that this guards against the sweating process which it passe? through when stored in any quantity. If the oars are packed in barrels, avoid using salt barrels. Others prefer shelling and sacking (sacks are not so retentive of heat or moisture as boxes or barrels), small bags not over one bushel in capacity being better than larger ones. Careful shell- ing by hand, rather than by^machine, so as not. to crack the grains or injure the germ, is a good practice. This shelling may not be done until midwinter or later, but many advocate doing it as soon ai the corn is well dried, to secure it against dampness caused ly warm spells iu winter. Too much care cannot be taken to keep the cured seeds dry and away from frost. , N. M. Luiton stores it in the cellar in boxes or sacks cn sup; orts nailed to the joists of the first floor, where it is always dry and warm, especially if there is a furnace in the cellar. E. J. Heat puts the seed in slatted boxes hung under the joists of the second story of his workshop, the lower story having a fire in it in cold weather. That frost will not injure the germ of well cured seed is believed .by some, but the most care ful growers keep the seed away from the frost the year around. Farmers who carefully follow tho above method with seed corn will not have to replant, even in unfavorable seasons. From ninety-five to ninety- nine per cent, of such seed will germinate in practiqo. This last statement is based on long experience by many careful ub-' servers; -it—is- not-theory. 3-fe—ia poor vitality, not cold or wot,'that causes so much seed corn to rot in the ground. John Gould proved this by germinating one hundred per cent, of good seed in mud at a temperature of forty-five de grees, although it took twenty days. Above all, such seed will steadily im prove the yield and ripen the crop'with- in ninety to one hundred days in average seasons.—American Agriculturist. Fruit in Cellars. A correspondent ot the New England Farmer has the following advice to offer on the subject of the storage of fruit in cellars: "When the late apples and peurs are first gathered they are hard and ined ible, but soon alter they are stored away important changes take place in them. They becone mellow and juicy, tho change taking place slowly or rapidly, according to the temperature of the place where the truit is kept. For the sake of the fruit it is desirable that tho change should take place slowly, for the fruit thus ripened always proves supe rior to that .whose maturity lias been forced by a warmer temperature. The warmer the room the faster the apples and pours ripen, and for this reason it is desirable that the temperature should be kept at only a few degrees above the freezing point. As the fruit ripens one of the most im portant changes that will take place is the absorption of oxygen fram the air and the giving out of carbonic acid gas. This change is so important and so detri mental to the health of those living in the same house, that if a lowed to go on it will in time very likely cause severe illness. If a room is used only for the storage of apples, and the place kept perfectly closed, the carbonic acid gas that will bo given out in a short time will be sufficient to extinguish the flame of a lamp when carried into the room, and if a person should breathe tho ait long enough death would inevitably re sult. The gas taken in large quantities, is a poison, and even in partly closed rooms where fr-.it is stored, severe head aches and other unpleasant feelings are produced by breathing the impure air. It is a common practice to store largo quantities of fruit iu the cellar of thu dwelling house, and a great deal of dis comfort and unpleasantness are caused thereby, the source of which is not sus pected. farmers who make a scientific and intelligent study of their surround ings have detached cellars, or those un der some out-building, where the fruit is stored. Where large quantities are kept, a pit is dug in the earth below the frost line, and some of the later pears and |pp!es buried there with straw until ^bruary or March. This is a gcod j tlco with those who can aflotd thf I ’ and time ior tho work; but many I to keep the fruit in the house cellar, H -v keep it at all. To them a fe\V J fuay be tne means of preventing discomfort and even sickness in tmily. •ing the month of February stored [fruit ripens more rapidly than earlier in the year, and more of the poisonous car bonic acid gas is given off as a result, This gas must not bo allowed to pormo ato the dwelling house: it must b« tamed off ia some other channel. Ii there is no chance to communicate th« cellar with the chimney and a flue thui, opened, the poisonous exhalation must be carrietj, away by thorough ventilation. If the flue can be opened ‘a current ol air can be kept in motion at all times, a&d the poison will ba readily removed from the building; but if this is impossi ble the door and windows of the cellar should be opened on every mild day. A thermometer should be kept hanging in the store-room or cellar, and when the mercury is four or five degrees above the freezing point, ventilate freely, taking care to shut up before the tem perature falls. To do all this will require considera ble watchfulness and labor, but when we consider thatit is a question of health or unhenlthfulness there can bo but little doubt that few will object to doing it. Wherever possible fruit should be stored in cellars away from the dwelling house, as it was never meant to be kept in tne latter place. Farm and Garden Notes. Horses need plenty of bedding. Do not let plants bear seed unless you need it. It requires two persons to set out a tree properly. If the soil is not naturally dry, let it be well drained. Pure-bred stock can be raised almost as cheaply as mongrels. “Breed from the best.” The soil around newly set trees should be kept mellow'—this by stirring or mulching. Keep your young chicks out of the wet grass if you wish to have them thrive and do well. Sentiment does not replace the money expended to winter the broken down, useless farm horse. Do not forget that tho best place for hot soapsuds on washing day is the cu cumber and melon patch. Which is the cheaper to keep a pound of flesh on the animal during the winter or replace it in the spring? When you notice a caterpillar nest on the roadside or field, destroy it. If neg lected, your o; chard will suffer. It is said that “butter-making, ns.now practiced on many farms, is an absoluto waste of valuable raw material.” Sound feet and limbs, a level head and rapid walk, are points to be pre ferred in a draft horse, regardless of breed. Imperfect compacting of the soil around the seed, in which is included undue hardening of the surface by rains, is the chief cause of failure iu seed germination. If tho warts are of a large size and have a well-defined neck, they may bo safely removed by tying a thread tightly about the neck, and this will prevent the circulation of blood in them, and in a few days they will die, after which re move with a sharp knife. Empty llottle Collectors. Those who have seen the empty bottle jollectors in their daily rambles about the city would little think, observes the New York Telegram, that intellect is re quired for such business. The truth is, a large amount of knowledge may be profitably utilized even in this humble calling. A Telegram reporter visited an old bot tle establishment, and while wandering through the building learned a few se crets of the trade. Hot water and soda tanks and rows of bins on both sides of the room, built like mammoth pigeon holes and extending to the ceiling, were the principal fixtures in the apartment. The bins were full of different kinds of bottles. “In this age of patent medicine and wildcat whisky,” said one of the bottle washers, “it keeps a man busy to keep track of all the differet kinds of bot tles.” The number of different brands run far into the thousands, and as they are not of value it is easy to see that a dealer in old bottles has to keep his eye3 peeled. Many of the patent medicine concerns are so dignified that they will not use the same bottles twice, and if the name of the firm is blown in tho glsss, such l ottles are of no value except for old glass. Hundreds of the various com pound and extract companies, however, fire glad to pay fair prices for their old bottles, and on this fact the success of the gatherer depends. New brands of jnedicine, etc., are being constantly put upon the market, and as soon as the live merchant finds them floating about in the garbage boxes he sets to work to find out if they can be profitably returned. Plain bottles such as are used for pop, table sauces and spirituous liquors have Btandard prices, and can be sold at many places. The old bottle business is much like that of collecting old coin, aud no doubt we shall soon see the many brands of bottles catalogued with as much pre cision as is noted in the books of coin. Aucicnt Halley Compared With a Cunarder. In an article on modern ocean steamers »n English authority says in tho Fort- nightly lie iew: Compare a galley, a vessel propelled by oars, with the modern Atlantic liner; and first let us assume that pi ime movers are non existent and that this vessel is to be propelled galley fashion. Take her length as some GOO feet, and assume that place be found for as many as 400 oars on each side, each oar worked by three men, or 2400 mcn- and allow that six men under these con ditions could develop work equal to one horse power, we should have 400-horse power. Double the number of men, and we should have isOO-horse power, with 4800 n:-en at work, and at least the same number in reserve if the jpurney is to be carried on continuously. Contrast the puny result thus obtained with 10,500- horse power given forth by a large prime mover of the present day, such a power requiring, on the above mode of calcula tion, 117,000 men at work and 117,000 in reserve, and these to be carried in a vessel less than GOO feet in length. To wbat and to whom are these meritorious prime movers due? I answer: To the application of science, and to the labors of the civil engineer, using that term in its full and proper sense as embracing all engineering other than military. I am, as you. know, a civil engineer, and I desire to laud my profession and to" magnify mine office; and I know of no better means of doing this than by quot ing to you the definition of “civil engi neering,” given in the charter of the Institution of Civil Engineers, namely, that it is “the art of diiecting the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.” CUBIOUt) FACTS. Bolivia declared its independence in 1824. There is a Russian (Greek) cfiurch in New York. Aristotle founded the science of bot any about 847 B. C. The world's consumption of wheat is about 2,105,000,000 bushels. It is propoecd to make a canal con nection between Paris and the sea. Bottles are made of papor, and are lighter and more durable than glass. During the hard times in the Confed eracy a needle cost twenty-fivo cents. The cocoa tree is an evergreen, and resombles a youug cherry tree in appear ance. Monrovia, Cal., boasts of plenty of Crawford peaches weighing a pound apiece. The oldest college in the United States is Harvard, Cambridge, Mass., founded in 1G38. Henry Clay was in the Senate ot the United States at twenty-nine, contrary to the Constitution. Goliath was over six cubits tlfifc which would make him between lane aud eleven feet high. A century ago tho population of Europe was about 150,000,Out); nowit is over 850,000,000. The deaf often hear conversation when there is- music going on, which they could not hear wiieu there was nc music. Gustavus Adolphus ascended the Swe dish throne at sixteen; before he was thirty four he was one of the great rulers of Europe. The Bessemer process of making steel was invented in Englaud in lSaG. It was introduced in this country about 1868-1870. William Pool, of Limestone Hill, W. Va., has a powder horn that General Washington gave to his grandfather over a hundred years ago. A Syracuse (N. Y.) dentist furnished a horse with five false teeth,but had only begun to brag about it when tho old sorrel swallowed them down with his oats. _ A Frenchman spent ten years of his life to invent a noi=eles3 clock, and when he had succeeded nobody would buy it. A clock is bought for its tick as much as for its time. There arc 403 mountain peaks in the United States more than 10,006 feet in height. _ The highest mountain east of the Mississippi is Mount Balsam Cone, in the Black Mountains of North Carolina, that is GO 71 feet high. Tho Justice of the Peace at Cossville, Mo., is Samuel Gilmore, who is forty years of age and only two feet nine inches tall. He we'ghs only forty-six pounds. Mr. Gilmore is a successful farmer and a prominent man in the county. The Rev. Frank M. Bristol,of Chicago, has a “Cato Major,” printed by Ecu Franklin in 1740, that is said to* be as fine a specimen of typography as one could find anywhere. It was printed when Franklin trundled his forms from his composition room to the building whero his presses were set up. The greatest span of a cantilever bridge is that of the Forth Bridge, which will be finished in October, 38s;'. It has two of scienteen hundred and ten feet each. Its extreme height will be three hundred and sixty-one feet above high water, the foundations going ninety- one feet below high water. Cane importers and manufacturers have a new cane in stock, which from present indications, they say, promises in time to become as popular as the hazel stick, or the buekhoru handled ait c'e. The new importation comes "from Austria, and is tailed weichtel. It is similar tp the home cherry and has a straight handle. The weight is peculiarly proportioned, being light at the top and becoming heavy near the end. They are worth $1 and $1.50. African Slavery. It has become fashionable to patrol the East African coast to prevent s'ave dhows from continuing the export of -slaves. For tu iny years England has been performing this function alone. Now, howover, that an agreement has been made between England and Ger many, whjrcby the latter is to assist in the work, the other powers are offering ships, and the dhows promise to have a hard time of it. Franco, Italy, Austiia, Russia and Grieco all wiut to take pnrt now in the laudable work. Whether the blockalo of the coast will assist the German scheme for colonizing tho terri tory obtained from Zanzibar is another matter. It is quite possible that it will irritate tho Arabs and cause stubborn re sistance to Germany’s policy of territo rial acquisition in the interior as well as on the coast. The Pope is urging the extinction of slavery, and is imploring all the crowned heads to assist. Eman cipation in Brazil has knocked down one of tho chief props of the monarchy, aud resulted iu an agitation for the abolition of imperial institutions and tho substi tution of a republic. The anti-slavery leaders, encouraged by their successes, naturally took up the cry against royalty, aud were as naturally assisted by the former slaveholders who had lost their property at tho hands of the empire. To meet the storm, the reigning sover eign has resorted to all sorts of diplo matic methods, including a liberal granting of titles and honors of various hue. The princess even went so far some time ago as to drop upon her knees in the street to kiss the child of the leading Repub ican orator—Joso de Patrocinio —who was leading it along by the hand. The stratagem was most ef fective, for since then Patrocinio has stood by the sovereign. With the de parture of slavery and Don Pedro’s death, must, come radical changes, in spite of the close relations maintained commercially and otherwise with the monarchies of Europe. A fashionable New York lady, who recently feasted a horde of ragamuffins, notified her friends that she desired waitresses for the occasion from among members of their families. Within three days the number of volunteers was (cn times more than she needed, all of them fashionable rosebuds in society. It is said by ladies engaged in charitable work in New York City that there is never any difficulty in procuring any amount of personal services of this kind. The largest artific ; al basin for docking and repairing the hulls of ships in the United States, is being completed at New port News, Va. It is 600 feet long, 130 feet wide, with a depth of 25 feet over the sill at high tide. It is furnished with pumps that can empty it in two and a fialf hoiks. Notwitstanding the enormous popu lation ot India, there are vast tracts of uninhabited territory. According to official returns, of tho total area, 864,-- 000,000 acres under tho direct adminis tration of England, only 152,000,000 acres are under cultivation. Gen. Reuben E. Davis, cousin to Hon. Jefferson Davis and also a cousin of Presideut-elect Harrison, called on the latter at Indianapolis, Ind. The general lives at Aberdeen, Miss., was a Confederate brigadier, and was a mem ber of the Confederate Senate. A curious sight in the streets of Co penhagen is men in white attire selling various kinds of milk for small sums. George Antutni Sata. George Augustus Sala, the well known Eng lish writer, on his last Australian trip wrote as follows to the London Daily Telegraph: “I especially have a pleasant remembrance of the ship’s doctor—a very experienced mari time medico indeed, who tended me most kind ly during a horrible spell of bronchitis and spasmodic asthma, provoked by the sea fog which had swooped down on us just after we left San Francisco. Eut the doctor’s prescrip tions and the Increasing warmth of the tem perature as we neared the Tropics, and in par ticular, a couple of Aw.cock’s Porous Plas ters clapped on—one on the chest and another between the shoulder blades—soon set me right.” Matt Quay,in connection with a Philadelphia betting syndicate, won $100,000, on election. “Had Been Worried Eighteen Years.” It should have read “married," hut the proof-reader observed that it amounted to about the same thing, aud so did not draw his blue pencil through the error. Unfortunately there was considerable .truth In his observa tion. Thousands of husbands are constantly worried almost, to despair by the ill health that afflicts their wives, and often robs life of comfort and happiness. There is but one safe and sure way to change all this for the better. The ladies should use Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. Praying*on Brooklyn Bridge. “Do you see that old woman there?” said a bridge policeman who is stationed at the New York end -of the big aerial thoroughfare to Brooklyn to a bun man. “Just watch her and see what she does. ’ She was a tidily-dressed old woman, with a pale, sad face, and sle was mak ing her way slowly through the tangle of trucks, carriages and pedestrians in Park row, opposite the bridge entrance. She reached the curb at last and slowly mounted tho steps to tho bridge en trance. Instead of following the crowd to the cars or footway, she went over to the north -^vall of the entrance, whero she stood a moment as though meditat ing. Then she suddenly knelt down, and, with h r eyes closed and her head bowed, began moving her lips as if in prayer. She was on her knee3 but a moment, when she got nimbly to her feet and moved toward tho promenade entrance, where she pa d her cent and started on foot toward Brooklyn. “Every day at about this hour that same woman comes here and goes through precisely that same programme. I asked her one day when she started away what was the matter, and she said, ‘I was only praying,’ and that is all I ever got out of her. Whether she is afraid the bridge will fall when she gets on it, and so prays beforo sotting out on tho dangerous journey,or whether she is in the habit of praying at about that time of day and finds the bridge entrance a nice retired spot for religious exercise, I nover could (ind out. All I know is that she comes every day and prays every day. and see.ns a perfectly rational, respectable old body. The fact is that wo here on the bridge do see some queer specimens of humanity among the tens of thousands who go by us every day.” One sermon a Week a Hard Task. The English Bishop of Ely has forbid den the deacons in his diocese preaching more than one sermon of “their own composition” each Sunday. If they re quire to preach twice they are directed to “write out some sermon by a standard divine” and read it to tho people. One good sermon a week is as much as many a veteran in the pulpit can well supply, and the young ministerial recruits may well be permitted to concentrate all tho opportunities for study a week will give them on one discourse.—New York Ob- terter. The Boheminn element is rapidly mul- it afflicted with sons oyc-i use Dr. Isaac Thomp- tiplying in New York city. $pn , sJSjr$>wfttcF. DruggistssoilatSuc.perbottle. Tho original s: irit-rappers, the Fox sisters are lecturing and laying hare the cheat. “Give Him iBtf, anil Let Him Gue«-.” We once heard a man complain of feeling badly, and wondered what ailed him. A hu morous friend said: “Give a doctor $2, and let him guess. ’ It was a cutting satire on some doctors, who don’t always guess right. You need not guess what ails you when your food don't digest, when your bowels and stomach are Inactive, and when your head aches every day, and you are languid and easily fatigued. You are bilious, und Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets will bring you out all right. Email, sugar-coated, easy to take. Of drug gists. In tho next 00 days, 3,000,000 bushels of corn will be shipped abroad. _ _ , , 85000 In Prizes Is offered by the publishers of The Youth’s Companion for tho ho 6hort stories. There are thre - prizes of $1(V'0 each, three of $750 each, and three of $250 each. No other papor S ays so liberally to obtain the very best mat- > for Its subscribers. T ; o pillisheri will send a circular on receipt of asfamp.giving the conditions o this offer. The Companion has Tv/o Million Readers a v eek. Every family should take it Any new subscriber who sends $1 .75 now.will receive it • reo to January 1, 1889, and a full year’s subscription from that date. A Rnd’cnl Cure inr Epileptic Fits. To the Editor—Please inform your renders that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease which 1 warrant to cure the ivorst cases. So strong is my faith in its vir Lues that I will send Lee a sample bottle and valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give mo his P O and Express address. Resp’y, H.G. ROOT, M. C , 183 Pearl Ht.. New York. Bad Habits. Habitual constipation gives rise to piles and to other dangerous and painful affections, all of which may bo cured by the use of Hamburg Figs, a fruit laxative which oven children like. 26 cents. Dose ouo Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. V, Bronchitis is cured by frequent small Uo3cs of Piso’s Cure for Consumpii#i. Aa Old, Rsllabl* Firm. fldenoe occasionally shotjrn by the public to a Ipng-e tablishcd firm. The John P. Lovell Arms Co., 147 Washington Street, received a lew days ago, from a man in Tennessee, or whom, they had no previous knowle ge.arcg- whom they had no previous km „ Istered letter containing a Five Hundred Dollar. bill, with an order for sixty-six dollars’ worth or goods, requestin r the ohange to be returned. A careful examination of tne bill proved its value and tho ord. r was filled as desired. The •ender lived In a remote locality where the rostofflee was Mb only means o' communica tion and the bill referred to was his mi st con venient sum to inclose. It would not be re- markable If this firm, who have been identified with historical Dock Square for forty-eight years,should thus win the confidence of Boat u or New England people,but It is worthy ot note that their success In business has grown out or the sound reputation that extends through out the United States. Any one who has seeu their advertisements of Guns,Rifles,Revolvers, Cutlery, Sporting Goods and Fishing Tackle in this paper can feel perfectly safe in sending them any amount of money and be sure to get the full value in return, or If unsatisfactory In any way, their money refunded: All of our readers wanting goods In their line will do well to.Eond 6 cts. In stamps for their large 100 Pago illustrated catalogue. Canada will lay a cable between British Co lumbia and Australia and New Zealand. A Tremcndons Sensation Would have been oreated one hundred years ago by the sight of one of our modern express trains whizziug along at the rate of six y miles an hour. Just think how our grandfa thers would have stared at such a speotacle! ft takes a good deal to astonish peoplo now-a- days, but some of the marvelous cures of oon- B tion, wrought by Dr. Pierce’s Golden lal Discovery, have created widespread amazement. Consumption is at last acknowl- “Go” B t 31 «mazem» u », vwjuimiuuvu in u, mot acjtuowx- edged curable. The “Golden Medical Discov ery” is the only known remedy for it. If taken at the right time—which, bear in mind, is not when the lungs are nearly gone—it will go right to the seat of the disease and accomplish Its work as nothing else to the world can. Only $150,000 has been raised of the $500,00 wanted for Grant’s monument. Cliroaie Coughs anil Colds, And all diseases of tho Throat and Lungs, can bo cured by the use of Sc ot’s Emulsion, as it contains the healing virtues of Cod Liver O l and Hypophosphites in their fullest form, Is a beautiful creamy Emulsion, palatable na milk, easily digested, and can he tuken by tho most dpiicqte. Please read: “I consider S ott’s Emulsion tho remedy par-excellence in Tu berculous and strumous Affections, to say nothing of ordinary oolds and throat troub le.”—W. R. S. Connell, M. D. Manchester, O. A Congress, for the suppression of impure literature, meets In Switzerland in 1889. Monthly Irregularities are relieved and curod and much suffering saved to woman by use of Bradfleld’s Female Regulator. If You Are Sick With Headache, Neuralgia, Rhrumatism Dyspep sia, Biliousness, Blood Humors, Kidney Disease, Constipation, Female Troubles, Fever and Ague, Sleeplessness, Partial Paralysis, or Nervous Pros tration, use Paine’s Celery Compound and bo cured. In each of these the cause is mental or physical overwork, anxiety, exposure or malaria, the effect of which is to weaken the nervous sys tem, resulting in one of these diseases. Remove the cause with that great Nerve Tonic, and the result will disappear. Paine's Celery Compound Jas. L. Bowen, Springfield, Mass., writes - “Paine’s Celery Compound cannot be excelled as a Nerve Tonic. In my case a single bottle wrought a great change. 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