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10 prmciplos, and i orfi important (o 'SuctteiT >linoiplo£ chickens and eggs than the method of inclosing and shel tering them during spring, summer and autumn. They need fresh range, and yet the welfare of the garden demands their being fenced in, to prevent dam age from their scratching and picking where scratching and picking are not, like a motion to adjourn, “always in order.” Three sixteen-foot panels of movable fence for a triangular yard can be made as follows: Six wooden strips an inch and a half thick and three inches wide form the main frame. Two hun dred lath added to this constitute the chief material required. A panel is made by taking two of the strips and nailing lath across them about three inches apait. The nailing should bo done so that the edge of one of the strips will rest on the ground. The other, or upper strip, may be placed so that the upper ends of the lath will project a foot above it. Three stakes, each live feet long, should be driven in the f;round at the corners, ami the panels astenod to them either by stout screw hooks and eyes or by short bits of rope. A tent, for roosting, shelter and nests mav be made by putt ing good stout rooting paper on two light frames each five feet wide and seven feet long, and painting it with mineral or with due paint. The ends of the tent can ho closed by triangular frames also covered with painted roofing paper. The edges of the tent resting on the ground can ho secured in place by little stakes driven at the corners. After the tent is up the peak may be made weather-proof by a long, narrow Viangofar cap of rooting paper Inverted over it and lightly tacked down with carpet tacks. Here is a tent and an inelosure for a dozen fowls, which can be moved once a month or oftenor, to fresh, clean ground, in a half hour before breakfast. A little system in moving will insure thorough and even fertilization of ground occupied. The movability also makes it possible to have the fowls far enough away from the house to prevent unpleasant odors in warm weather. Sir Chanticleer and the ladies of his Court seem to consider it something really quite '* high toned ” for them to luxuriate in a summer establishment. For salad they take kindly to a half bushel of weeds fresh pulled. They don't like wilted vegetables any better than other people. For recreation they eem to enjoy gymnastics under, over and among thebranches and twigs of an oak brush-heap, if on*' is pro vided for them in one corner of the tri angular "park-ette.” The ground un der the bushes is tfioir favorite place in which to scratch and fill their foalhors with dust. rtulqilj- ipaite a square yard at a time. They like the loose ground best for scratching and picking, and spading it helps to expose the hugs and worms they want for food, and which their owner wants destroyed. Scatter ing and very lightly raking a few hand fuls of small grain over the spaded ground seems to add to their interest in scratching and picking. Unhooking au end of a panol pro vides a gateway or door of entrance to the “ Chicken-Triangle.” —Christian Union. _ What a rin*. of Manure Did. A Wisconsin (armor semis this expe rience to the American Agriculturist: "Last year, in hauling yard manure across a field afterwards planted to corn, some of it scattered off in driblets from a handful to a pint or so in a place. When planting the corn 1 found portions of these droppings, and where noticed drew them into the hills, and with the hoe mixed them a little with the soil ns the mini was dropped. 11l throe instances, where a large handful or about a pint of the manure was thus put in, a stick was driven down to mark the hills. When hoeing, we noticed that in those hills the corn plants had started off more vigorously, were greener, and at the third hoeing they were six to twelve inches higher than the other hills adjoining. Our curiosity being awakened we followed up the ob servations, and when gathering the crop each of the three stalks in the threo hills had two large plump ears, while the surrounding corn did not average one good ear to the stalk. This set us to thinking and figuring. Thai bit of manure had given the young corn roots a vigorous start, just as good feed starts off a young cnlf, or pig. or lamb, and the roots penetrated further in every direction and gather more food and moisture. These stalks being better nourished from helots, ran far away front the poorly fed neighbors. As to the figures, the rows were throe and a half feel apart, and the hills three feet distant in'the rows, say 4,000 hills on an aero, and 4,000 pints of manure is about sixty-t wo and a half bushels or two largo wagon loads. Anybody can reckon the difference between six large, well-tilled ears of corn on each hill, and less than three per hill, and the cost of tho manure as compared with the total value of the tinal crop. The plowing, and the seed, and the hoeing, amount to the same in each case. Alt 1 have to say is, that every corn-hill planted on my farm this year will have at least a nint of manure in it." • • • Crime and Superstition. Catherine De Medicis, one of the French queens noted for vice and cruelty, was n victim to superstitious fears. Her public policy aaa bold, and site w as gen erally thought to be a woman of great courage and unfailing resources. Her reign, and hex subsequent ad ministration as Queen Mother to the young king, wm a brilliant period in the Listory of the French Court She fascinated strangers by her elegant man ners, and corrupted gres. statesmen by the wiles of court beauties. But the great Queen was a genuine coward. An astrologer attended her in the palace and in all her journeys. She never engaged in any enterprise without consulting the stars, and after her death a great variety of amulets and charms were found on her person. In the last year of her life a great comet blazed in the heavens. It fright ened her terribly as an omen of coming death. It ahone in the windows of the palace at a great feast, and she could not ait, m quiet till all ihe shutters were dosed, and the gloomy portent wm that oat Make the Grass Available. It is well now to realize the fact that the grass season is half gone, and that ivory much of the success in carrying Block through the coming winter in ’good condition, and economically, will depend upon what is gained by them [during the next twelve weeks. This (lias an especial application to animals hat are thin in flesh. Such as are thin the first of August, having had good - store since the opening of spring, 1 hardly go into winter in good lix the .’i OU t extra attention. The term ex \Ha attention, of course, in this ease, , ..ns extra food added to the rations n 11 * rasa. omit the grass docs not promise to meet ..nf: requirement and every stock man of experience can make a fairly correct estimate in this regard recourse should be had to regular rations of extrafoods, given witli regularity at evening, or in tiie morning and evening, the latter be ing the best, where convenient. 'I here canle no gain made that will equal that made upon grass and grain com bined. All the conditions arc favorable to this: (1.) The bodily condition is fa vorable, the secretion • are acting freely, being under conditions that preclude any material liability to a congested or torpid state of any secretory organ; and (2), as a natural consequence, the excretory functions —the out flowings front the bowels, kidneys and skin—are in a like healthy and favorable state. On farms so arranged that the stock can be divided, allotments being made to different pastures, it is wise to hold a pasture lot in reserve, giving it a few weeks rest during the middle of the season; then, as if is made apparent which animals are likely to lag behind in the matter of taking on lie-.li, they should be separated from the others and placed in the reserved pasture lot. This division will answer the double purpose of giving the thin animals access to the best grass, at the same time placing them more easily under control, and separated as they are from the others, it is more convenient to deal out special rations of food. The pasture lot for such a purpose should be upon rolling land, if there is such, for the well known reason that the gra-s on such land is more nutritious, and has a flavor more acceptable to slock than the coarse and rank-growing grass of low lands. It is also easy, when stock is so divided, to give them other attentions not possible to he dealt out if they ro main in one lot. In this connection may be named, an occasional, or even daily ration of newly cut up corn; or, if the grass is abundant, half a dozen or so ears of new com in the ear, at noon time, no! omitting the usual ra tion of ground feed at the customary hour for giving this. So also a little extra observance in the matter of salt ing may lie indulged in with advantage. Furthermore, in taking visitors to see stock outside of the stables, theunpleas ant duty of showing animals it is desir able not to have seen, will be avoided. Perhaps there is nothing that so detracts from the appearance of a herd as to have a portion of the animals compris ing it in thin condition. Uniformity is one of the most attractive features in any herd. In fact, if the herd is a good one, no other quality lakes rank with this. On the same principle that the retail merchant assorts itis goods, placing the most attractive pieces in the show window and upon the more promi nent shelves, the breeder is warranted V* ..rwliirgsM V-oiudivViioeL cwfnpY<n\ , *<li when lie receives company at home, he is expected to replace his threadbare, failed coat, with one in every way pre sentable. So the tl in and faded stock may lie also excused from receiving visitors till, through the plans of man agement referred to, the bare or lumy places are covered, and the colors fresh ened. National Live Stock. Journal. A Natural Copper-Plating Bath. Two years ago, at a mine operated by William Utter, at fainpo Soco, near Milton, water caino in and work stopped. To keep the largo iron-bound ami iron-bailed bucket used to hoist rock from drying up and falling to pieces it was let down Into the water. Next season when it was drawn up, 10, a miracle! It was contior-bound and copper-bailed. From this hna sprung quite ail industry, and the mine has been sustaining itself from ore water ever since. The water contains an acid which has tho property of taking into solution the particles of iron t Insist into :t and it lias also copper in solution which is let go. particle by particle, as the iron is picked up. It is a simple chemical exchange, and this mine may make an other prolit still if it will get another chemical into the water w hich w ill make the ncid lay down tho iron which, as a black flood, the water carries down into the Stanislaus River. The copper in dustry' consists in taking bundles of scrap iron und old tin to the mine, where It is thrust into vats of water eauglit up, in which the metalsmv soon changed to copper, the residue of tho iron taking the form of a black stream and flowing away. To make sure of making the water swap all its eoppor for iron, which it is glad to do w ithout I loot, one vat is placed below another down the bank to the river, and when the water escapes it lias eaten its till of iron and left pay for its meal in genuine copper. N oixlvo i (Cal.) Mail. Spelling Iteform. The speling reform asosheoshun hav takn the Knglish langwij in hand again for tho purpos of simplifying it. They botiev that our lung as writn is not made osy enuf, and that it nta be impruvd by omiting the superffuus Inters. It is argud that the nu systiu will mak mat ers mor simpl, and remov all dout both in riting and reding. The bouty of the new soool will remov the difficulty hitherto attached to sueli wurds as tuf, ruf, each, pich, latter, thru, sutl, and many others of lik caraetor. We are of the opinvun that no gtid xvil ensu from this chang if it is carid out. On tho contrary, sum harm wil folia; es peshaly in Macing the orignl sorces and the ruto forms of the latigw'ig, and in nurishing a flckl method of speling, leving all to gess work. It wud be beter to gard the present system from jepardy. The chanj wil trubj formers mor than the prevaling wun. Stil mor, it wud mak such exists of the lexions in vogo that ail wud stand agast! This jurnl vews medltng with our tung, as writen, in th life of a tnelancolv mistak, and is avers to a singl chanj that wud put a spel on it in mior senses than won. —Boston Saturday Svtnmg Omellt. —A plain pincushion of silk, satin or ■ilesia can be kept fresh by having two extra covers to piu over it; for from twelve to twenty-five cents very pretty lace mats can be bought, and they may be put on diagonally, so that the covers of th© cushion will show (if of siik or satin), or be put on the usual way. The holes made bv the pins in a hand some cushion, and which, after a littlo while, spoil its good looks, are hidden by these lace coven. When one cover if toiled put the other ob.-A’. Y. rteh SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. —A transparent leather, said to pos sess great strength, is now made in Ger many, by anew process. —The London papers describe a small steam engine in which two verti cal aerial screws of twelve feet diameter are driven at sixty-seven revolutions a minute, and effecting an upward thrust equal to 120 pounds, the engine being equal to three-horse power, and weigh ing eighty pounds, one-haif of which was for framing and screws. —A new hot water generator consists in a closely wound water coil enclosed in a double cylindrical casing, arranged so that the heated air passes lengthwise of the coil in both directions, and through the outer casing to the escape flue; the heat is thus utilized to tne greatest extent, and the water in the coil is rapidly heated.- -N. Y. Sun. —A foreign exchange states that a wealthy land-owner in the Tyrol has made an application of the microphone to the detection of subterranean springs. Ho fixed the microphones at the spots where ho supposed water might exist, each being connected with its telephone ami battery. Then at night he put his car to each of the instruments and lis tened for the murmuring of the waters, and in several cases heard it. —A New Yorker has invented an atomizer and air moistener for cloth factories, which throws out moisture in a mist so fine that it is at once absorbed by the air, and not even the smallest drop of water falls upon machinery or fabrics. The use of such a contrivance is valuable in creating a healthful at mosphere and making it as easy to han dle threads in our dry air as in the moister air of England. Christian Union. —Buckingham County, Va., has a somewhat curious industry. Within an area of ten or fifteen miles there are some forty distilleries engaged in manu facturing oil from sassafras root. Each mill gives employment to throe hands, use about 2,000 pounds of root a day for each mill, and produce from one to one and a half gallons of oil weighing ten pounds to the gallon. Thus the forty distilleries consume daily 80,000 pounds of sassafras foot, make about fifty gal lons of oil, worth about $4.50 a gallon, and thus earn $225 per day. — N. Y. Cost. —Stem-winding watches are now made on a different plan from what has been customary, the improved system possessing, it is thought, some speeial advantages. Thus, when it is desired to set tho hands, the stem is first drawn out, which causes a collar on tho end of it to bear upon a stud in the shorter arm of a two-armed curved lever. This de presses the long arm of the latter, which turns a yoke and discharges the gearing from tin; main-spring arbor, connecting an independent whoel with the hand sotting train, to which motion is im parted by turning the stem. As soon as pulling on the stem ceases, the yoke is thrown back to its plaeo by a spring. Normally, another wheel, carried by the yoke, meshes with the arbor wheel of tho main-spring, and is thus always ready for winding by pressing down up on and winding the stem. The arrango ment is simple.— Chicaao Times. Her Eyes Unsealed. Tfiysii who have read Wilkie Collins] Lueilla’s misfortune, blindness from birth, caused by cataracts. Dr. Grosso’s fallacies regarding the struggles of sight to assert itself in persons who have been blind for life, the illusions of the patient regarding distance, color, form, etc., will he remembered. Lueilla could not, from restored sight, tell whether an ob ject held before her was a cube or a globe, whether a handkerchief was white or colored. She had a great hor ror of anything dark; that is, when she was blind, in her imagination Lueilla’9 answers to questions were put to tho theories of “Surgeon Optic Crosse,” and he was pleased at the result of his skill. There is in Rochester, at the City Hospital, at the present time the coun terpart of Lueilla in all the realities, but not in the “surgeon optic,” his fallacies and theories. The subject is Emma Waterstrant, twelve years of age. She was born in Loots, Pomera nia, Germany. She came to New York City two years ago. On llie Bth of April, this year, she came to Rochester ami resided with her aunt on Hoelzer street, her father atid mother being dead. Two or three months of this time she passed in the Rind Asylum at Batavia, where she learned to read raised letters by the touch. Her trouble was congenital cat aract, ami from birth she could only see so as to distinguish betjveen day and night. When taken to the ('ity Hospital the eminent oculist of the institution, after an examination, said her sight could lie restored, and three weeks ago he operated on the left eye, producing a “rift in the cloud” which had shut out her sight for so many years. The writer, interested in seeing her when the first test was made, visited the hos pital, and when tho bandage v;as re moved by the surgeon she told him she could see his lingers. A vase of (lowers was held before her and she said tlioy were flowers and one of them was red. She told what other objects wore, and their form. “ Dr. Grosso’s ” confirmed theories, “ Boor Miss Finch’s” versifi cation of tho “surgeon optics” fallacies were disproved—dispelled by this prac tical illustration, in tact. Emma’s sight continues to improve as tho “rift in tho cloud” widens from absorption. No further operation may lit* necssaT, and there is no question but that in good time slio may see “as others see.” i’lie patient sees and learns so gradually, the same as a child learning to read, that the mind is educated to forms and dis tances easily. Cataract patients never see immediately after the operation Rochester IX. l\ I Tost. Parliamentary. He was a member of the Mains Leg islature and had leen sweet towards an Augusta girl all winter, and had taken her to attend the sessions until she was | well posted in the rules. J Gn the lust day of the session, as they oatne near the peanut stand near the ( door, he said to her: ! “May 1 offer you my handful of pea nuts?’’/ ■ She responded promptly: "1 move to amend by omitting all after the word ‘hand.’” lie blushingly accepted the amend : ment and they adopted it unanimously. : t ts a hand-some wedding that fol j lowed. —Detroit Free Tress. Queen Victoria is loath to surrender property which has once conic into her possession. Claremont, bought bv her from the nation, and now the residence ’of the young Duke of Albany, has only been Int to him. The Queen retains In-own suite of rooms there, which are kept locked up. The housekeeper and fernalu servant* are also in her employ, and aiv paid hr her. Erasmus Darwin’s First Love. About the year 1760 there came to the town of Derby, in England, a young physician, who rented an oflice and be gan the practice of his profession. Young and careless physicians were no rarity in the town at that time, hut Dr. Erasmus Darwin was a rare man. At Elton, in Nottinghamshire, lie hail been born in 1731, a poor man's son, and without gentle blood in his veins. After studying at St. John’s College, Cam bridge, for a time, his means failed him, and he went to the less aristocratic uni versity at Edinburgh, there to pursue medical studies, and there to graduate. From college be had gone to the little town of Litchfield, where for several years he had a large practice. After a time Litchfield became too con tracted a field, and he went to Derby, where there was a better opportunity for development. Enter prising and ambitious, he soon had many friends in town, and among them a lucrative professional business. It was not unnatural that in course of time he should come to love. Among the lady friends whose society he frequented was the daughter of a farmer, an artless and modest country maiden, as fair and fresh as the dairies in her father’s fields. Young Mr. Darwin loved the girl, and his affection was reciprocated. Sina Chaffee put her whole soul into that love, but like m“,uy another maid en loved too strongly. There were de lays in the advent of the promised wed ding day', unavoidable delays, no doubt, but Darwin’s love grew cold. Another and wealthier lady had gained his half given affections, and the farmer girl awoke from her fond dream to find her knight was faithless. The blow was too severe, and she was glad to remove from the scene of her disappointment to America. The Chaffees settled in a, Massachu setts town, and became well-to-do farm ers. Other young men sought the pret ty Sina’s hand, but to each offer she turned a deaf car. The years went by, and when the lady’s youth had passed, Amasa Converse, Jr., asked her to he his wife. He was a prosperous Windsor farmer, not such a gay beau as had been Dr. Darwin, but still a very popular man. Miss Chaffee’s acceptance of his offer came reluctantly, but at length Amasa brought her to his father’s home as his wife. Mrs. Converse never had cause to repent her choice. She did not, however, forget her Jir-t love, and with a far-away respect, for him she gave her son his name. Erasmus Dar win Converse is living to-day in Cum niington. an old, gray-haired man. In the Windsor Cemetery the June roses arc budding above the grave of Sina Converse, who died many years ago, hearing in her old age of her early lov er’s fame as a bolanist and scholar, of his earnest advocacy of temperance, perhaps of the birth of his son, who in later years was to he the father of Charles Darwin, the great naturalist. Long ago her romance faded, and she who would have been the wife of a great man lies in a Berkshire meal cemetery in the well-earned repose of a farmer’s wife. —Berkshire County (Mass.) Eagle. “Pocket Burroughs” in the British Parliament. “Pocket burroughs” derive their quaint appellation from the fact that the individual commanding their votes car ries them, as it were, in his pocket. ttie purse of Plutus holdiii^jnffiienceover agoodly number of them.'”"lt is a well-known fact that there are scores of them pur chasable as any other commodity of tha market can be bought up, lock, stock andibarrel, and are so bought. The lato commission of inquiry into con tested elections gave ample evidence of this, having brought to light, the as tounding revelation that the voters of several such burroughs—not small ones either—were bribed, almost, to a man! Many of them even boasted of the large sums they had received, after stipulat ing for, and chaffering over them, with out thought of shame or qualm of con science. One would naturally expect that a candidate for Parliamentary honors would be required to give some proof of his fitness for Parliamentary duties. Rut in boroughs like these no such qualifica tion is needed. With them, political capacity and knowledge of statesman ship—or, indeed, other knowledge of any useful kind—are the least and last things thought of. Money’ will make them take the wall; and well the man of money knows it —feels as certain of entering Parliament, if lie only pays tho price, as he would of an opera box by purchasing a tiekot. It is simply a question of how much he is disposed to pay; and that he arranges with tho electioneering agent, who in turn makes it square with the electors. There are always constituencies open to represen tatives of this kind, ami who care for no other, and would not havo any other. Nor does the candidate need to be resi dent among them or even have previous acquaintance with them. He may be a total strangor of unknown antecedents, brought from some distant part of tho country—London or elsewhere his first introduction to his constituency that it to bo, given him by the local lawyer who acts as his electioneering agent, often only a few’ days before the elec tion. Rut the lawyer himself has been previously made acquainted with his legislative capabilities by having heard the jingle of his gold. This communi cated to tlic covetous constituency has a marvelous, almost magical, effect, and presto! the unknown Pluto, who may be the veriest adventurer, becomes one of the Senatorial grandees m the great British Empire, on which the sun never sets! —Captain Mag tic Ileal, in X. Y. Tribune. a Grassnopper vioufl-tsarsr. A gentlemen just returned from a hunting and prospecting trip down Reese River relates the following phe- which came very disagreea bly under his personal observation. He was down below the canyon, some forty miles from here, riding quietly along, when an immense crowd of grass hoppers darkened tho air. Directly he saw a similar cloud in the shape of a whirlwind ooming from the opposite direction, and the two bodies came into collision of a peculiar violence, and with a roaring sound resembling that of a hail ana thunder storm mixed. The dead hoppers poured dcfwn like the fur ious drops and streams of a genuine cloud-burst, filling the atmosphere al most to suffocation. In less than fif teen minutes they covered the ground for over one hundred acres to the depth of from six inohes to three feet. Ilia horse fell twice before he got beyond the oonfines of the storm. Passengers on the narrow-gauge railway describe that thousands of crows and buzzards are gathered at the locality described, and the scent of the pntrefving hopper* is terrific.— Austin (Tex.) Jlcoev'U. —Think of telegraphing in the staid old Holy Land ! Oflioe* at Betbelcot tod N’MtwUh _ .- PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —Madam Ristori, the famous trage dienne, is nearly sixty years old. A gentleman living near Buffalo, N. Y., has two daughters, one of whom was born in Montana and the other in Idaho. In remembrance of his sojourn in the Western wilds lie lias named them after the two Territories. —The female correspondents who make Washington their fruitful field of operations have organized a Press Cluk and will endeavor to have galleries in the Senate and House set apart for their special use. —Chicago Herald. —Preston Powers, the son of Hiram Powers, the great sculptor, has com pleted the cast for a marble bust of Gar field. It has been pronounced perfect by the wife and mother of the dead President. The bust will be sculptered in Rome. —Rufus Hatch says: “I was one of a corps of engineers that did the first day’s work that was ever clone on a railroad in Wisconsin. I held onto the Jiind end of the chain and stopped it at the 100-foot stake. That is the way I commenced engineering.” —Tiie story of Mrs. Lincoln writing, when a young girl, a letter in which she expressed the determination to become the wife of a President, is confirmed by the production of the document, now in the possession of General Preston, of Izjxington, Ky. It was addressed to a daughter of Governor Wicklittc, and oentained a playful description of the gawky young Lincoln, to whom she wasbetrothem She said: “But I mean to make him President of the United States all the same. You will see that, as I always told you, I will be the Pres ident’s wife.”— N. Y. Sun. —The late Bishop Scott was strongly attached to outdoor sports. In early youth lie was forced by poverty to fish for a living, and to the' latest years of his long life lie retained a fondness which he frequently indulged for the hook and line and net. He was expert at the tiller and at the oars, and wat also a crack shot with a fowling-piece or ritle. After he had risen to the high est honors of the church, he often took delight in roaming through the fiekb and woods, and sailing on the stream* or the bay, accompanied by his grand sons and other boys of the neighbor hood, who found him.a genial comrade and an apt instructor in the sportsman’s arts. —Chicago Times. —Senator Vance, of North Carolina, fre lucntly illustrates his speeches with anecdotes, or, rather, parables, which he relates in a manner that seldom fails to bring down the house, no matter how much the majority may disagree with him politically. Speaking not long ago against a bill which he considered “penny wise and pound foolish,” ha said it reminded him of a kind old man who lived at the top of a hill in North Carolina. One day a wagoner came by, and, unluckily, got his team “stalled” at the foot of the hill. To the old man’s house he went, asking the loan of a pair of mules and a “fifth chain” to help him up the hill. Said the kind old man: “My friend, I have not a pair of mules or a fifth chain to save your life. But lam always anx ious to help a man in distress; I can lend you the best fiddle you ever drew a bow across. —Chicago Times. X'lr Poisrm* Whatever the annoyance of flies in the house, do not use fly poison. This is sold under the deceptive name of “Cobalt,” to be mixed with sweetened water and set about the rooms to attract the flies. It kills tho flies—but it kills children also. Wo have known of two distressing deaths from this cause, and it should be generally known that the powder sold under that name is not cobalt at all, but is really metallic ar senic, and a most deadly poison. There should be a severe penalty for selling this most destructive agent under the false name of “cobalt.” Do not use it, either as “cobalt” or in the shape of “fly paper.” A dark paper is sold called “fly paper," with directions to put a piece in a plate and keep it moist. This paper is impregnated with the same deadly arsenic. In Europe a still more dangerous fly-paper is sold, which has been soaked in the deadly cyanide of potassium. Avoid them all. The sticky fly paper, which the makers call “Catch ’em Alive, Oh!” is any common paper upon which is spread a thick var nish made by melting together rosin and linseed oil; it is not dangerous, and acts only mechanically, by cruelly hold ing the insects fast until they die. Quassia is stated to be poisonous to flies; we have not had occasion to try it, but have no doubt of its efßeacv. A strong tea made of this, sweetened with molasses, may be exposed in plates without fear or danger. It is said that strong green tea, well sweetened, acts as a poison to flies. With regard to the destruction of the mosquitoes that may enter the house, we should feel disposed to make a trial of the Persian insect powder, pyrethrum. A small quantity ot this burned in the closed bedroom has been found to destroy every mosqui to. In France pastile3 made of this powder are used for this purpose. The same end may be accomplished by sprinkling some of the powder upon a few live coals on a shovel or in any safe vessel. The powder is perfoctly harm less to all but insect life.— Aariculturist. The Ethics of Baggage Smashing. From the report of a recent interview with a handler of personal baggage at a railway station we learn that the only wonderful thing about damaged trunks is that the number is uot greater. The tendency of the traveling public to car ry large trunks, which are bought as cheaply as possible, is not viewed with favor by the stout fellows who are ex pected'to handle baggage. The rule is for a single man to handle a trunk, no matter now large the latter may be; as a natural consequence the great boxes in which some people stow their efiects are hard to lift and are dropped with alacrity that is not in the least modified by regard for contents. There are two remedies exclusive of com plaint to the company —which never does any good; one is to distribute weighty articles more carefully among the various pieces of luggage,' and the other is to use smaller trunks. There is not the slightest possible excuse for making a trunk of a large model of Noah's ark, unless, indeed, the owner, like Noah, proposes to transport live an imals and to smuggle them through as personal baggage.—Ak Y. Herald. —The common a'Tliction experienced in the birth of the two-headed girl has been counter-balanced by the birth at Brownsville, Neb., of a one-headed girl with four perfect legs and four perfect arms. Thus does the whirligig of time make all tilings even. Chicago herald. Certain physicians say that crying should not be repressed in children, a* the result may be Saiut Vitus’ dance or epiieptie JtU. .. _ „ _ , RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —The average number of graduates this year from our Colleges is said to be the largest ever known. —A “ People’sChnrch,” to cost $150,- 000, to be erected in Boston, will be the largest religious edifice in New England. —The bell at the Eirst Congregational Church in Exeter, N. H , gave out re cently, after it had been rung morning, noon and night for eighty-two years. —The Methodist Episcopal Church, on an average, organizes ten new Sunday schools, dedicates fourteen new churches, ami adds two new parson ages, each week during the year. —Prof. Samuel Ives Curtis, of the Chicago Baptist Theological Seminary has been elected to the chair of Hebrew in Andover Seminary, to succeed Prof. C. M. Mead, who retires. —At the commencement exercises at Harvard College, the other day, Presi dent Eliot announced that tiie bequests for the year were nearly $400,000. Among those pro .cnt was the oldest living graduate, William Thomas, of Plymouth, Mass., of the class of 1807. —The late Joseph Armour, the pork packer, was not a Baptist, but lie left the direction of his SIOO,OOO institution for the training of Chicago boys and girls to Dr. Lorimer. His brothers will increase the endowment and make it one of the leading charities of Chi cago. — N. Y. Express. —The women of India are beginning to disregard caste restrictions and seek an education. At the matriculation ex amination of Calcutta University eight women passed, six of them being na tives of India, and at Bombay seven women passed. At the first arts ex amination at Calcutta, a woman ob tained a scholarship of the first grade. —The catalogue of the Indian Uni versity at Talequah, Ind. Ter., shows an attendance of sixty-eight students, of whom four are preparing for the ministry. Of the whole number fifty three are Cherokees, and fil'd Dela wares, while seven are whites; thirty six are young women, Norma Rasmus, taking the highest standing of the year, ninety six per cent., and twenty stand ninety' or over. Yet “ the Indian can not be civilized!”— N. Y. Examiner. -The Rev. Dr. Joseph Alden, who, at the age of seventy-live, has retired from the Presidency of the New York State Normal School at Albany, has had a long and honored career as an educa tor of youth. He was after being graduated at Union 1 College, for two years tutor in geometry and Latin at lTinceton; seventeen years Professor of Rhetoric and Political Economy at Wil liams College; five years Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Lafay ette College; six years President of Jefferson College. Pennsylvania; and fifteen years President of the Normal School at Albanv.— N. Y. Herald. A Stitch in Time Saves Nine. The familiar adage “a stitch in time saves nine,” if taken or not taken, repre sents about the difference between suc cess and failure. In other words,procras tination is the thief which steals not only the time but the stitch which should save the nine. How many, or what proportion of the farmers of our fertile prairies of the West prove comparative failures for want of promptness* in the ordinary operations upon the farm? How many machines are left where last USO.fi for tho VOOOAn tket if will l>o “bo much more convenient to store them away at some future time 1” It is only necessary to travel extensively through the newer portion of the West to be convinced that the surplus incomes of many farms are wholly exhausted in the wasteful use of farm machinery, and little less can be said of many of the older portions. How many or what proportion of our farms and their sur roundings are being improved and be coming more attractive from year to year? How many farmers have we among us who are merely drifting, or are like the dead fish which is only ca pable of swimming down stream and with the current? Is our rural popu lation advancing in intelligence, culture and enterprise in such a ratio that re fmcmant is becoming more and more apparent in the homes and in the in creased productiveness of the soil, the improvement of the live stock and in the more attractive surroundings of those who toil, which must in the future as in the past continue to be the bul warks of our civilization? The farmer who is unable to see the small things to be done on a farm, and fails to do them promptly, will never ac complish the great things or the results within the reach of all who are capable of exercising a reasonable amount of skill and judgment. The “one-Eoss shay” was an excep tion among perishable implements in going to pieces all at once. A single board usually parts from a building at a time or a rail from the fence; and with but little extra effort, while occupied with tho ordinary duties of each day, they might be replaced and thus kept in repair, and with a little additional effort from time to time some needed improve ment might be made. In traveling through the country we constantly see the results of lost oppor tunities and failures of crops for lack of promptness on the part of some slack farmer. Often, too, when the work is done at the proper time it is so imper fectly done that ultimate failure is tne result. The corn field may receive labor enough to insure a crop if proper ly applied, bnt the plows may be run so far from the plant that the grass and weeds spring up and choke it out; and in the preparation of the soil and in the planting of the crops the same unskilled process is often seen, and no prophet is needed to predict the result. It may be asked, “Where is the remedy to be i found P” There is no remedy except in the use of reason and common sense. More brains must be put into the work of the farm, if the producers of this country make it possible to keep pace with the rising tide of progress repre sented by other interests. Brains, in the future as in the past, guided by whatever motive, are destined to be the ruling element, and monopolies in this age of development, as never before, will tend to override and reduce to the conditions of serfdom the class which forms not only the very foundation stone of society, but of our wealth—the producers upon our prairies.— Western Rural. —The public have become more fa miliar year after year with the fact that a few miles from the coast, and not far below St. Augustine, there exists a fresh water spring in the Atlantic, that is, that there is there a natural circle of water, from a quarter to a half mile in diameter, fresh in taste and different in color from the sea water. Of late years it has been fully identified and officially reported on by the United States coast survey.— Chicago TrUrune. —The Imperial Gazette, a Chinese newspaper, has the reputation of hav. jng beca primed In consecutive sene* lor fifteen eeaturta FOREIGN GOSSIP. —Queen Victoria has granted a char ter to Newcastle-on-Tyne making that town a city. 6 41 —A London clergyman of the W e End makes a charge of $5 a year to women who want spiritual advice. —A Dublin medical student sought to bribe a London doctor to go to Dublin and, under a disguise, pass the examinal tiou’ which he himself felt incompetent to undergo. —During eleven years of peace the ordinary debt of British India has in creased from £97,000,000 to £157,000! 000. In the meanwhile £ 142,000,000 has been expended on canals ami (ration work, and 8,000,000 people have I died of starvation, although a famine fund of £15,000,000 has been expended —The system of banking in Scotland whereby shareholders were liable to their last cent for the debts of the bank is now at an end. All the banka have concurred in forming themselves into joint stock companies, and at the worst all that they can hereafter loose ia the value of the shares which they have ac quired in their bank. —The Mansion-house (London) Com ruittee of th ' Rowland Hill Memorial fund has completed its work by erect ing a statute at the Royal Exchange and a memorial in Westminster Abbey, and has handed over the remainder of the fund, amounting to more than $70,000, to Trustees, as a nucleus for a fund for the relief of aged and distressed postal employees, and their widows and or phans, throughout the kingdom. —The Duke of Hamilton has declined Ix>rd Rosebery’s offer of $5,000,000 lor the Island of Arran, on which Hamilton Palace is situated. The island is near the mouth of the Clyde. It is about twenty miles long by eight to eleven broad, and contains a superficial area of 165 square miles, or 105,814 acres, of which about 15,000 are cultivated. It is a rugged, mountainous island, and not of much account to anybody but a lord or some rich person who wishes to be known as a landlord. —The price obtained at a London show for the prize bull-dog I/>rd Nel son, who had won every cup for which he ever competed, was $50,000. His aspect is described as that of the “most unprincipled ruffian that ever ran on four legs to help his master in the at tack on a helpless traveler on a star light night.” His coat is milk white, his eyes red and bloodshot, his chaps fall down each side of his jaw, and when he raii-s his lips and shows his teeth the spectators draw back in ter ror. —Recently a remarkable mirage was witnessed between four and seven o’clock one afternoon at the Lake of Orsa, Sweden, (latitude 61 deg),in a region by the way, notable for phe nomena of this kind. First large and small steamers were observed as if ply ing on the lake, and their outlines were very distinct. The funnels of the ves sels’ seemed to emit smoke. Then a transformation occurred. In place of the ships there were verdure-clad is lands. Lastly a haze came on and the wonderful spectacle ended. Milk in Cookery. The value of milk in cookery is too frequently overlooked, a variety of cooked dishes which are based upon its beinsr both economical and almost uni versally agreeable to the taste. For instance, milk porridge has been a favorite article of food with some of the nations distinguished for advancement in civilization, and with whom this has served as one of the standard dishes of the dinner-table, even that of the formal dinner. In the South a soup is made from green corn and milk which is very delicious and nourishing, being well adapted to replace the oyster-soup which is usually more relished in the colder seasons. A dish of somewhat similar preparation is called by certain German people “rice pop,” being rice boiled in milk and forming a kind of porridge. In alimentary science great value continues to be placed on such vegetable soups as are made from dried beans, peas and lentils; ancient exam ples of the use of such dishes show that their nutritive qualities had been well learned. A staple article with tbo Greeks corresponded with the Roman puls. The dish may have been of the same general variety as that of the pulse which the Prophet Daniel and his brothers grew so much fairer and fatter on in ten days than other children, who were served with wine and the portion nf the king’s meat. On seeing the loaded tables of the Persians after the battle of Platsea, the exclamation of Pausani us was, “What gluttons the Persians were, to come after our porridge when they had such plenty!” The chief dish and greatest delicacy of the phiditia, or public meals kept up under the 1 iws of Lycurgus, was a kind of porridge which they called their black broth, and to this luxury only the most honorable, par ticularly the old men, were entitled. Th u dish was made with small pieces of meat and some blood. Yet these people lived very differently afterward, thero having been then, as there is now, no doubt that varied and good living is for the well-being of people generally. Awful Warning. At one of the Thomas concerts at Chicago the other evening the electrio lights suddenly went out, leaving the audience in perfect darkness for a few minutes. This was thought glorious by some of the young couples present, and over in the southwest corner of section B someone was heard to say in an un dertone; “Je—whillikens, Susie, what the deuce have you got in your mouth?” Just then the light blazed up again and a young man was noticed holding his hand over his mouth. A stream of blood was trickling through his fingers, and the expression on his face touched the observer’s heart. His girl took some thing out of her mouth and put it in her pocket, looking pained and guilty. She led him quietly to the door and they passed out. Young ladies should not' wear their hairpins in their mouth. It is not the place for them, aqd a wound in the side of the jaw made by coming suddenly and painfully in con tact with a cruel two-pointed hairpin at a time when his heart is set on a moment of ecstatic bliss might result in a coolness on the part of the young man which would be heart-breaking Mil waukee Sun. • —Crab Apple Jelly: Cover the apples with water and let them boil till per fectly soft. Pour off the water and strain through a flannel or towel. Put the juice on the fire and boil ten or fif teen minutes. Measure a pint of sugar to a pint of juice, put the sugar in pans in the oven and when perfectly hot add to the juice and boil five or ten minutes longer. For marmalade: Rub the ap ples through the sieve, and put about one-balf pound of sugar to a pound of fruit, oock owly some time. Three or few lowa* iaprerw ifa