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CULTURE OF THE PEANUT. PHOULIAB, OHABAGTBBZSTIOS O? THIS LAOtMBINOTJS PLANT. Indtffenoag to Aflrlca, But Now Grown in Evory Clime—Its Elon- j sated Pod a Botanical Curiosity. According to tho American Encyclo- pa?dia tho peanut is a leguminous plant, ! botanicallv known as the nrachis liywo- gia. It has several other common names than that by which wo arc nccus- j tomod to call it, among them doing ground pea and ground nut. In the Southern States it is known as pindar and gouber, while by tho French it is j called the pistache de lerro. It is gene rally believed to be indigenous to Africa, although there are live or six species of the genus found growing wild in Brazil. It has been successfully introduced into Spain, has for several years been raised in the States of Virginia, Georgia, Ten nessee, and has more recently been cul tivated in California. A small variety also grows in China. Roughly speaking, it might be said that tho peanut looks like clover and grows like a Bweet potato, but for those who prefer a stricter and more botanical description the following may be quoted: Tho plant is a diffusely branched, trail ing annual, with abruptly pinnate leaves with four leaflets; the small yellow flow- era are in auxiliary heads or spikes; calyx ■with one narrow lobe making a lower lip, the upper lip four-toothed and with a long threadlike tube; heel of tho co rolla incurved and pointed; stamens united into a tubo by their lilameuta, each alternate shorter than the others; ovary at the bottom of the long calyx tubo. After the flower falls away tho forming pod is forced into tho soil by tho elongation of tho rigid dellexed stalk to which it is attached. The forming pod then rapidly enlarges and forms a thick-shelled iudehiscent pod, with a strongly netted surface, often contracted between tho seeds, of which it contains two or three. These have very thick cotyledons and an extremely short ra dicle. The burying of tho “forming pod."or .nut, by the “elongation of the rigid de fied stalk” is the peculiarity of this plant, and is one of the curiosities of tho Vegetable kingdom. The flower and leaf *taiks are of entirely different characters, 'I he flower#talk i3 a trailing vine like that of the melon and cucumber, the blossoms appearing at short iuterva’s along its length. Tho flower opcn3 and blossoms close down to the s!a'k in tho notch formed by the iitfle leavos shown, nud it is not until after the potals hive fallen and the seed pod is formed that the pushing power is made manifest, -Gradually thescod pod, or nut, is lifted -a Wa y from tho stem and a little stalk show'sItself. As this stalk grows so the ■nut at tho t»»d of it is pushed forward .until it curves over like a fishhook, wilh the little nut in the place of tho point j£d barb. Gradually the nut is pushed Mwn to the ground iind thi'U pushed ‘liflo it. If by any accident this is pre vented the fruit ceases to grow. Tho culture of the peanut is not dif ficult. Good corn laud is generally se lected in this county, care being taken abut there is nothing in tho land that would stain the shells. In this f tate a tmudy loam that never suffers from drought should be chosen. Tu fact, good melon land is good peanut land. The bottom lands on the borders of rivers that receive a winter or spring overflow are admirably adapted for the giowth of this nut. Planting time may be had in -March if thero i3 no frost, or from April 1 to 15. Tho ground should ha ploughed live or six inches deep and then har rowed. The uuts, which are, of course, to bo planted raw, must be taken out of ♦he pod without breaking the skin, the bwt plan being to crush the -hells with -a light wooden hammer. The korncis .are then planted in rows four f.ct apart jmd twenty inches from hill to hill, with £hrceor four kernels to each hill, cover ing them about two inches deep. The plan of planting adopted in the South is to mark off the laud i:i furrows three feet apart, and in these two pens ,are dropped at intervals of c ghtcen Inches, and covered an inch and a half deep. )Vhon the nuts arc ripe, which will he in October, tho California pcauut farmer runs a furrow on each side of the row of vines with, a bull tongue plow close enough to loosen the soil nod plants, 'fhen he takes a light and narrow grub bing hoe, digs up the vinos and turns them over to dry, taking care never to gather fu rainy weather or when tlie ..ground is »*e.ry wet. After allowing the vines to lie in the sun for a day the best plan is to stack them, after tho dew has dried, in the following fashion: Driven stnko of four or fix e feet long firmly into the ground, spreading dried grass or hay around it, so as to kee i the vir-.es from ghc damp ground. Then lay the ylnes aVo.md the post with the roots inw£i$, taking care to leave a space around .the stake lof purposes of ventilation, and when the *< f ack is of n proper height, that"li it with a straw cap tied to the stake. I.et the Vi - ” e3 remain m the stack •from three to flve and then pick the nuts and send to mm/ £e t- A clean, bright appear*.’ 100 °f tho pods is largely to bo desiied, a>..” *° get this tho nuts aro sometimes put a sort of winnowing cage, which is turned eithor by hand or power. Thero ;uo two sorts of peanuts grown in California— the white and the red—and to make the variety still whiter the uuts are some times treated to sulphur fames. The red variety, by the way, is more easily cultivated and sells for nbout tho samo price. Tho whito variety runs aiongtho ground, while tho red grows upright in a bunch. The picking is a rather ar duous task, but the labor will in all probability b6 modified by the use of machinery. Tho peanut is an easy crop to raise— tho demand for nuts lias trebled within tho past few years- -ami has never yet equaled the demand. The quantity of peanuts used in this country may be set down at ”,000,000 bushels per annum, and this seems a large amount; but as j there were imported into than ,000 ! of j ~ -J 11 1 A mer it u she D of thel, it repro- >t if.;:, 1-00,1.00. of Califor- iud it will be seou how infinitessimal is the share whicl this State enjoys of a groat business.— Ban Francisco Chronicle. - v - An Eight Thousand Milo Fonco. James Watson, ono of the largest land owners of Victoria, Australia, having ovor thirty thousand acres undor fence, has arrived at Sau Francisco. IIo says jack rabbits aro so formidable that the Australian Government is building a fence of wire netting eight thousand mile3 long to divide New South YValos from Queensland and bar tho pests out. They have not yet got into Queensland, and tho government is moving heaven and earth to get this check on them. Prior to this hundreds of methods have been tried. Apples impregnated with arsenic have been cut and scattered over the country. In this way the increase in some portions has been stopped, but it is not radical enough. Besides, the cost is too great. It takes ten bushels of ap ples for every six hundred rabbits. Thero aro millions and billions of the pests, and there are not apples enough to feed to them. Phosphate of oats succeeds for a while, but the phosphate soon loses its effect. Australia is paying no less than $135,- 000 per year to keep the rabbits down on what is known as crown lands. The government pays ten cents a pair for all that are killed, and expert men make from *00 to $40 per week at it. The government still keeps standing its offer of $100,000 to any man who will hit on something to effectually eradicate the pests. ^ Lands out iu the rabbit districts have greatly deteriorated in price. Many places where three or four years ago land was worth $50 au acre won’t bring five. Watson says he started a cannery, killing atid canning rabbits and sending them to Englaud. The first rabbits were taken over from England ouly ten years ago and wero introduced for sporting pur poses, nobody having any idea they would spread so rapidly. A man from South America a couple of months ago brought two dozen skunks that he thought *would settle the rabbits, but people arc dubious about them, for j skunks iuereaso very rapidly too, and if allowed to gain a foothold probably the last state will be worao than tho first, i The Australians aro anxiously look ing for some invention or remedy that w 11 put a quietus on rabbits. It must come soon or many of the great in dustries in tho colony will be paralyzed. Tho e’ght tliousaud mile fence which is being niado to keep tho rabbits out of Queensland is the greatest enterprise of the kind over heguu in tho W’orld. Its construction is attended to with great cost, but it is deemed wiser to undergo this expense than let the pests override the entire country.—rNew York Herald. A Diamond Impostor. There was a trick played in Paris some time ago which is a fair illustration of the sharp practices to which disreputable dealers will ut times resort, says tho Jewellers' Weekly. A diamond broker brought to an Americau importer, who was purchasing stones in the F.encb Capita 1 , a package of diamonds, which , he took from a largo, rod pocketbook iu hio breast pocket. IIo lelt the stones for examination and came back in the course of four or live hours. The quality of the goods was entirely satisfactory to the purchaser, and the terms of sale wore disc .ssed. The broker wanted a higher price than the dealer was willing to give, and they haggled on for some time until the difference between them amounted to only a franc a karat. The broker, however, stubbornly re futed to go below tho figure he had mentioned, mi'l the merchant was equally determined not to go nbovo lib own price; so the former put his diamonds back into tlie red pocketbook and started for fho dv.or, having retched which he stopped, considered a moment and turned buck, saying that he would yield the point of’difference, even though he lost money by it, as this would give him an opportunity of securing the future trade of the dealer to whom ho was talking. I ut canio the pocketbook ngan, .and from it was taken tho package of diamonds, which were promptly trans ferred and paid for. IVhen tho merchant canto to opoa fps picket after he rea lied homo, ho found that a comparatively worthless lot of stones’ had been sub stituted for those he hid examined prior to making tlie purchase. The broker had accomplished -this deception by tarrying two red pocketjooks, quo in each of his breast pocltffs, and both of them containing packagts of diamonds of exactly the same weight. In taking back his food diamonds from the dealer he had p<t them into tho pocketbook whi.li lie mrried on tho right side. When lief apparently re considered h>s dctermiiatiqn ijot to sell lie took out the pockctlpok frqui ips lelt hand pocket and coavA'od from it to the merchant a packet pprrpspondltig in weight with the ono tie latter had been bargaining for. An 133$ it 1^el ICnlte. ! George Lpltlcw<yd. tho pedestrian, ' and his friend, Jut Drains, tho pugil ist, arc good storytoiler.?.' Litilcwood's relatives arc the proprietors of many , public houses in flelHeld, England, and n 'we (hey a^«: (toted throughout tho count, for heir sporting proejivi- ... ‘ b' ’-m.iA however, do not so ,, ♦- go their thoughts as to roughly ei>gjjj, eron ( t0 t j 10 ‘ la aniifao- , make them um ■ uativo place, tunng lndusfies oi ... * i Little wood vas commenting o.. industries ii the presence of a group c*. friends, nnc after lie had refreshed him self thoroughly he said : ( ^ “Boys, if you over come to Sue i.o.d I'll .show nkuife to you in which there tire I&88 blades, a libido for each year. Next year another bluffo will be put in.” “And 1 can show a scissors so slender that you can lun it thiv.igi) nu ordinary pipe stem.” There wasn’t a murmur from tho crowd. - New Turk Ban. Our CniuMliun Beumlnry line. Tho boundary line of tho United Status and (’autula is an imaginary line running through tho gcogtaph cal center of the outer chain of the great lakes. Sumo points are marked by (lie course of tho iffr. I awrencc, the Niagara, the Detroit and the bt. Alary's River.?, a lid ot hors by iron posts and marks oi tree*, cut at a bight of five feet. Th to monuments mark the bnuuJttr.v i i tin new countries of Manitoba and British Columbia and aro marked with the letters “U. ti.” and “C.” on tho side} which face those tracts respectively. FABM AND GARDEN. Tanning Sheepskins. . ,<an and color sheepskins with the wool on: Tan in alum dissolved in wa ter. Proportion : Ono pound of alutq to ono gallon of water. Wash tho wool clean with plain soap. To color, use anilino of any shade you desire. Dissolve ono pound aniline in two gallons of wa ter; strain before using; thou float skins in a dye box, wool down. See that they lie flat, and let remain till color or shade you desire comes; then take out and run through clear cold water, and hangup in a hot room to dry. For plain white, wash tho skins well after tanning as described above. It not white enough, hang up in a small room and bleach with powdered sulphur, set in a pail in cen tre of room, burning. Be careful to have no escape ot the sulphur fumes, and have tho room air-tight.— Western Rural. Fsedlng Turnip*. As a refit, in moat localities, there will bo a full crop of turnips this fall, and this boing tln» case, prices aro liable to be low, and oftcik.so low that they can be fed to stock to.A better advantage than to soli. It is time that they contain a large amount of ’Water. Analysis show ing only about fifteen percent, of nutri ment, yet they aro comparatively an easy crop to raise, and generuUy yield quite largely, so that when this is taken into consideration it can be seen that they can often be used to quite an advan tage cheep, cattle, horses and poultry all relish them, and they are not only healthy, but aid during tho winter to make up a good variety. If they can be cut or sliced up, and then bran, corn- meal or oil-meal, or a mixture of two or three of those materials, a considerable increase in the value as a feed may be re ceived. ‘■'omo object to feeding them to milk Slobbering In Horses. cowson account of the taste to the milk The excessive secretion of saliva and butter, but this can be largely which is known ns slobbering in horses avoided by feeding at the time the cows may bo due to several causes. At this are milked. time of the year it is most frequently Turnips make an excellent sheep feed enused by pasturing upon second-growth and can be fed to them with profit, clover, or white clover, or by feeding : They should be cut or sliced and then ho second-crop hay. But it is also caused sprinkled liberally with bran. If fed by diseased teeth and by disease of the I with clover or millet hay, sheep in this glands of the mouth, and quite often by way can he wintered at a comparatively injury to tho tonguo or teeth from the low cost, and at the same time keep bit. Consequently it is necessary to find th -m in a good, thrifty condition. If tho cause before the right treatment can only a small number of stock ;s to be be determined upon. A quart of dry fed, a spade well sharpened,can be made bran or middlings will stop tho flow of j to unswe; all necessary p irposes in cut- salivn, if it is enused by eating clover or i ting them up,but with n large number of clover hay, but if it is caused by any j stock it will be more economical to disease this must be treated upon a I purchase a machine adapted especially proper knowledge of its cause. Pow- j lor the work. dered borax is useful to apply upon any ' It pays better to cut them than to feed injured part of the mouth.—Alto Tor.’: j whole, while the danger of any of tho Times. . stock getting choked will be considers- bly lessened, while with tho bran or Making tlie Most of Skim Milk. ! meal that should be fed with them, can The old-fashioned farm rule was that be much more thoroughly digested, and every cow kept for making butter would if the largest amount of benefit is de warrant the keeping of another sow and sired it will be best to feed them in con- pigs. Not that the skim milk would ncction with something else, alone furnish sufficient food for these, i They are readily stored in pits and if It would at first, and as tho pigs became covered with sufficient soil to protect- larger, and the cow’s milk gradually de- 1 from frost, and sufficient drainage is creased later in the season, the discrep- given so a? to be dry. they will keep in a ancy became all tho time greater, but good condition, until spring.—Wisconsin tho skim milk and buttermilk made a ' Agriwllurist. basis. They gave the pig3 the kind of food that made growth, while they could Farm anil Garden Notes, fill up on various other foods to expand Inferior and surplus grapes make capi- tho stomach and make fat. Tho nddi- tal vinegar. tion of wheat bran and ground oats to y our neighbors have rights. See that ,_ lc ™ 1 „, mak< : aU k. c --1 possible food your animals do not annoy others. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. for growing pigs. If given’a run at pas ture or in a bearing orchard, a litter of pigs may thus by fall bring nearly as much from the skim milk as the house-; wife has with great labor made from the Crowding, much more than the curcu lio sting, is the great cause of rot. In the creamery business it costs nearly as much to make 50-') pounds of butter butter. At eight or nine months old theso ^ 100 pigs thus fed will have vigorous diges- J Vicious or quick-tempered men gea- tivo organs and take read ly to corn crally own the vicious horses and kick- feeding. But it is not policy, at least ing cows. in warm weather, to feed corn to a pig Wind and cout'uuous wet lying may pot yet s.x months old. . In winter some embarrass sheep, but cold never does, so corn may be a necessity to promote long as tho rations are dulv selected aud warmth; but it may bo supplemented regularly served. for growing pigs with other and less fat tening food.—American Citlti a‘nr. In regard to buying fertilizers, inmost cases it pays better to draw manures to the farm than bulky feeds like straw or hay to he made into manure. Farmers might economize barn room by bailing their hay. It is said that four tons may thus Le stored iu the space Turkeys Without Trouble. For a long time poultry-writers re pelled me trom the attempt to keep turkoys by representing that success in volved gteat cave: “The young must have cooked eggs, milk, any other del:- which one ton would occupy when loose, pate foods; they aro very tender and Some people drive cruelly, when nfew must be kept confined for the three or minutes longer time on the way would four first weeks; and after all this labor save the horse and carriage twenty-five find cost, very taxing to tlie mind, many or, perhaps, fifty per cent, in wear and of them are lost, which makc3 the profit tear. quite slim, if there be any at all.” So the \ Vermont beo keeper says that a story ran. But m the spring of 1S8., solution of soda and water is among the concluding to try my luck, I purchased best remedies to apply wherever the beo some eggs and hatched a small gang. I or wasp has inserted its venom through kept them up of mornings until the dew was oil; then they were turned out. I fed them a few days oncornmeal dough, then wheat screenings only until they yrcregrown; and I did not lose one. Last spring 1 set the eggs under turkey-liens; tney carpo off each With a nice brood. I paid no attention to them; let tlie hens the stin<_ It is not safe to assume that warming cither food or water will increase its nu- t itive effect, Wo know it to be a fact that even in cold weather we prefer cold water to drink. Get poultry to marketby Friday night It is a curious fact that ants have been discovered carrying tho plant lice to the roots of corn. The electric light is making its way in London slowly but surely, notwithstand ing its expensiveness. On the last voyage of the Talisman 0800 specimens of deep-sea fishes were brought to the surface. A little powdered pine charcoal scat tered over a burn will allay the pain al most immediately and greatly facilitate a cure. A New Haven (Conn.) doctor advises j every man in business to take a nap of ! an hour or two during each forenoon and i afternoon. Physicians say that a bare upper lip is injurious to the eyes, the moustache , serving to break somewhat the down- ! ward fall of one's vision, j The library of the United States Gcc- * logical Survey, begun in l’SD, now eon. | tains about 15,00b bound volume-, more j than 40,000 pamphlets, and the finest i collection of maps in the country— num- j boring about 30,00 >. i 'ihe antidote for all acids except chromic, prussic, oxalic'ar.d the arsenic scries is white of eggs’ well beaten up with water; or a teaspoonful of mustard flour in a cup of hot water; or, in case of strong acids, very thick lime water. Eucalyptus leaves anti extract have long been uscl for the removal and pre vention of scales in steam boilers. Scien tific authorities recommend it, and engineers in public service have been al- vised to use it by the engineering ; authorities at Washington. For moving plants with del'cate fibrous root-, such as melons and cucumbers, a ! piece of stovepipe six inches long is | pressed down into the earth three or four inches, and then a sjiado is run under the “hill,” and it is removed with the i non ring to its destination. An ingenious inventor has devised a : new screw-half nail and half screw; ; two blows of the hammer, two turns of : the screw driver, and it is in. Its hold- i ing power iu white pine is said to be , pounds, against 308 pounds, the holding power of the present screw. Wood oil is now made on a somewhat . extensive scale in Sweden, where the re- : fuse of timber cutting and forest clean- ; ings is turned into account for the oil it 1 contains. It is used for illuminating i purposes, and gives, when put in a lamp especially made for it, a verv satisfactory | i The Vi ilmington (N. C.i St ir s.ay.s: : “It has been tlL-covcred that rice is an ! excellent substitute for pop corn. Rice j in tho hull, when heated in a popper , like pop corn, bursts open just like the | latter, and not only has ihe flavor of I the real pop corn, but is crisper and ! much more delicious to the ta>to. Trv j it.” j A New England gen.us has recently I discovered a cheap method of dissolving i zinc by combining it with bydrngen and ! producing a solution called zinc powder. This liquid, if applied to certain woods, will render them absolutely lire proof. I and at a low cost. The discovery v. iil j revolutionize fire insurance and im- | mensely decrease the loss by fire. The inventor isabuug.ing chemist who aeci- j dentally discovered the solut'oa while | making experiments for another matter. The Buenos Ayres II mil cliims to i have examined the fibre made from the | reeds and rushes of the lowlands of the I Parana, and that tho textiles rnauufac- J tured therefrom are undistinguishable from those made from wool and silk. Blaukets, heavy goods for men's wear, feltings, and “black silk” dress goods are all manufactured from this fibre and are said to be unrivaled for texture, fin ish, color and durability. Paper pulp is also made from these reeds and rushes, the manner of utilizing them being tho invention of Mr. Newman. WHEN THE LADIES VOT» What wifi th« country be, When the ladies vote! Still the land of liberty, When the ladle* vote? Will they govern every town, Will they croih the poor man down. Sage, philosopher and clown, When the ladles vote! WiH they stand up in the ca. When the ladies vote! Will they close up all the bai When the ladies vote! Will they wait and watch at night, For a husband when he's tlghtl Not by a something sight, When the ladies vote. Will conductors pull their bells, When the ladies vote! While the fair exchange farewell* While the ladies vote! Will they start their cars and go A* they do jnst now, you know* No, they will not dare do so When the ladies vote. Oh! tho men won't be so mean, When theladie3 vote, And go out the acts between, When the ladies vote; Nor the funny writers say What they’ve said tr<r many a clay Of the high hats at tho play, When the Indie* vote. Oh! we’ll all s;e better days, When the ladies vote; We will walk in wisdom‘3 wavs, When the ladies vote; All kinds of trade will hum, And the happy time will come, The grand milleniuni, When the ladies vote! —Boston Courier. HUMOR OF THE DAY. takeentirpcharge; never feci them; and Ot the latest. If they are received hat not one drooped or died. They are now D>cy are certa’n to soil for a lowei nearly grown, very nice and thrifty, and P r£ce - f ^ ie threo days of the week very gentlo; come rouud the yard ovary ftre 1 “ e ' iC9t days, day. Their cost has been but little. Unless under exceptional circum- They ran in my wheat field some, but I stances none but con entrate.l feeds,lik< find insects are their chief food. Where grain, mill-fed or oil-meal, should btf one is limited as to forage-ground they bought to feed. These will make the may require more care. They are very manure pile richer without greatly in tend of cabbage and when raised inclose creasing its bulk. quarters I would feed cabbage to them The fall js the proper time to apply daily. But whero they can have tho lime to a field, as it loses its caustio range of tho farm I do not think they properties before seeds are planted. 11 need to be fed.—New York Tribune, , is best to throw it over furrows and allow it to slake and settlo into the soil before Fruits oil the Farm. the harrow is used. The apple is the most valuable fruit The failure of cabbage to head is more grown on the i'aim, both ter family use often due to lack of plant food than any- and for market. Yet It has many enemies, thing elre. Water diluted with plies- and requires care and closo attention to phates will often transform a mass ot gave it from them. In going through loose cabbage leaves fit only for feeding my orchard I find grafted iruit and seed- into a solid, salable head, ling, or natural trees, sutler the same According to Matthew Crawford, from their enemies, of all the enemies whose opinions will be read with in* fruit trees are exposed to, starvation is terest by fruit-growers, the first place the greatest, for in going through my - - - ' orchard I find many trees killed by “suii scald,” and many more nearly ruined by this discaso. Trees on rich, well-culti vated soils, however, are healthy and vigorous. This disease, as it is termed by some, shows iBelf by the cracking of the bark on tho side of the tree facing tho southwest. Through theso cracks the germs of tho disease gain access to the interior of the tree, and the disease is started. This disease is called “sun scald,” bccauso the sun causes the bark to crack, and so the germs euter. among strawberries seems by general consent to be going to the Bubncb, a faultless plant producing iu abundance fruit of immense size, ripening quite early, bright red iu color and of good quality. Iu sending poultry to market it is well to hear ono rule in mind, a* given iu a poultry-dealer's circular: “Care should be taken that lots shipped for the special occasions should arrive in sufficient time before tho event to meet the best salo.' Tho poultry that arrives too late always meets a poor market.” The rule is*a Among tho remedies, I believe a mee 8 a 11° or ' 1 lule 11 goncrous supply of food, with good and gooJ oao for kiud °f l >rotiUt3 proper cultivation, is the best. After “l’orhaps a grave mistake has-l*i tho trees arc of good size, their tops will matle b >' writers on poultry topic*,”says shade their triniKs, and keep the sun *’• Jacobs iu Amertea . /.’. g ! II, m ’, from scalding the bark, thus giving the ‘‘ ln leaching that the poultry business germs no chalice. But, then,’the “lior- J 9 ! 1 ? 1 easy avocation nml well, suited for ers” are another dreadod enemy. Thole- h'dtcs and children. Ibis is true so male deposits her eggs uuder tho looso far as tho care of a family flock is con- bark of young applo trees near the ceruod, but when the poultry business ground. The young larva' hatch out in j s *° ' ,t! conducted as a business it must about two weeks, and set themselves at be ‘teno on a scale sufficient to pay a once to work to gnaw through tho bark large profit, or enough will not be do into tlip tree. Whoa oncoinlho interior' r1 ' 011 10 au l'l 10r ^ a family.' of tho tree, the only remedy is to find The general b.-lief is to the offect that the entrance of their burrows, and work bard woods should be cut in .June, July, a stout wiro or keen knifo-b.lado into the or August aud left until the leaves have channel. But nn ouuco of preventive is drawn the sap frgfm the trees. If cut iu better than a pound of cure. Tho young June tho newky-forming wood is nr- trees should ho washed, in June and j rested in its growth nndtheharkbo- July, with soft soap, mixed with water comes separated from the solid timber enough to thin it, but not thin enough and loosens so that it is easily removed, to run when put on tho tree. Apply The wood harden^ and dries so that tho this as high as two feet up tho main wood eating beetles will, uot attack it limbs, and down tlie trunk to the and tho timber thus freed from this ground. This will kill nil insects, giv-; ipjui v, which u known as “powder ujg a smooth, healthy bark to the trees, pest.” Timber ttaug treated season* with —Rrairie Farmer. great rapidity an« is moa* durable. 1‘oinaihs aud Perfumes. Pomades are made of purified lard and tallow, which have been placed in an enclosed place where they have absorbed the odors of the petals of flowers. ( live oil also absorbs odors in the 3asne way and is used for conveying them. To extract the odor from pomades and per fumed o;l3 they have simply to be saturated with alcohol, which ausorhs the perfume. It requires a large amount of flowers to saturate a pomade with perfume, and these must be renewed daily for month*. Odoriferous essences are obtained by the distillation of flowers thrown into large copper retorts with water, but only the stronger odors will endure the heat without deterioration. The “flower waters” arc made by placing alcohol in the condensing tank used in distillation, and this condenses and ab=orbs the odorous vapor until it becomes fragrant. Most of the popular handkerchief ex tracts are made by skilfully lomb tiiog the odors of several different flowers, and some inventors have made happy aud profitable hits in this direction.— Graphic. An Equalizing Rotting System. Four clerks in an offico in the jewelry district of New York decided in October, 1881',--to keep a record of a system of betting for drinks of roffeo which they had established. They matched coins each morning and the in- ■or h id to foot Ue bills for the day. The result, as shown in the following table, a fords abundant room for thouc h.: /! P. ! 1SSO *!•.» 44 1881 V v» 53 5*3 88 1883 *lt) 50 5>.i 18C! . 57 70 DO 48 1884 So tir 70 1885 ..’.tu 57 i r 100 188*5 ...Si ;s t c,:; 7S 1887 T-i N» 7U <58 1888 5o 71 5» 06 : Total .... 5 J1 55* l 5ST sss A Ham! Shaking Soviet j. AVo notice tho formation of a “Hand shaking Society” in connection with some Western churches. The members pledge themselves to shake bauds with at least one person iu connection with each religious service. Wo doubt the expediency of such a society—knowledge of such an obligation taken would rob i the aetof significance and value—but the object aimed at is well worth the heed ful consideration of C hristian people. A e* uiia! handshake has often settled not ouly tho religious home of a church at tendant,but retained under Christian in fluence many a oue ter whom Satan had spread his net,—Chrietim Intelligencer, twins is deucedly pan out well— “Line upon line”—The transatlantic fleet. The man with happy. A pilgrim—One of the old blue-mass variety. Continually going up and bursting— Rockets. Never allude to a dressmaker a3 Miss Sew-and-Sew. The greatest hard-thips in the world are—Iron-clads. Sometimes the lawyer's “hardest case” —The office boy. Things that always Buckwheat cakes. An epitaph for a faithful car conduc tor—“He took his last farewell.” Nothing will turn a woman's head so completely as a bonnet that pas-ed by. A Cape Cod fisherman calls his boat “The Kiss,” becau ; c it is nothing but a smack. “George, do the Indians always travel in single tile.” “I never saw but one and he did.” Most people -believe iu “the greatest goad to the g-eatest number,” and thei' greatest number is number one. Virtue is its own reward, and the pay isn’t big enough to keep many people in the business.—5. . rciilc Journal. Which is the longest word in the Eng lish language? “8miles," because there’s a mile between the first and last letters. Waiter—Mr Pepsine is dainty about his eating. Head waiter—Is he an epi cure? Waiter—No, he's a dyspeptic.— Chicago Globe. ‘ Handsome! Y'es, beyond expression. Rich! Immensely" so 1 hear. Love him) That is a gross digression. Marry him! Of course, my near.” —Slercurg. Y'oung Wife—“Before we wero mar ried, George, you never smoked in my presence.” Y'oung Husband—" I know it, my dear, and you nevei wore curl papers in mine.” An old lady, seeing a paragraph headed “Boy Inventors,” said; “Boy inventors! Well, 1 hope some of ’em will invent a boy that'll stay in the house nights.—Neio York News. “Large Directoire muffs will be seen this winter,” says an exchange, if they are anything like the base hill rautis seen last summer we want nothing to do with them.—Rochester Rost-Keprcj.-. The barber think? he's funny When ho entertains b s folks; But won’t he for big muntiy Shave the whiskers from hi* ;o!tcs. —Detroit Free Pee**. Fater Familias— “Why, iitiiei. Y’ou don’t mean to tell me you want to ra»rry that baldheaded Professor Wiseman?'' Ethel—“It is true he is bald, but think how many young men of to-day are bald on the iuside of their heads."—Jdei. Date palms constitute the wealth of tho Arabs of the desort, but unlike rare coins their value does not depend upon the antiquity of the date. A paiiu with a recent date is worth more than it would be if dated before the ood.—,Si/tings. “No, my man. I haven’t anything ter you,” said a gentleman to a tramp with outstretched hand. “Who asked for anything!” replied 'he tattcrJemaiidu. “Don’t you see I’m a politician? AU I wanted was to shake.”—lh~ton Tran- tcripi. An extreme specimeu of a dandy alighted from a four-wheeler aud went round to pay the driver. The poor old rack-of-bones maro turned her head to gazo at him. “Yu?,” said the driver con fidentially to the horse as the passenger moved away, "that's the blessed hobjecu you’ve beeu a-drawin’ of.” When Offenbach’s effects were sold, a very high price was paid for the com poser’s violoncello. A countrywoman, who had never such such au instrument, could not refrain from exclaiming; much money ter a piece of wood!” And, taking hold of it to lift it, added; “And it’s hollow at that!"—Argonttiw. A poor Scotchman who had but scant pasturage for his c w one day tethered her on the summit of a barren hillock, where sand and stones were far more plentiful than vegetation, und, locking around him exclaimed; “Wee>, xvoel, Rosy, my la*-, if ye baena mickle to cat yo hiv at ony rate a splendid view.” “Wo will hax e tea, Bridget if you please; and we will have a fevj slices of bacon with tho tea,” said hvw mistress to her Irish servn t. Inter.rd—at tho termination of wlvch Bridget brings in the tea tr^y. “\\ here i? tho bacou, Bridgst?” asked the mistress. “In the taypot, mum! Y'er said o’d have it with the tay, so I put it inter the pot.”