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A KINO IN DISGUISE „
w > hrnln ** rny hands arc tired.
i hm •* no heart for work or nlnv*
Just let the hours go as they will^*
I ran do naught at all today. ’
I i ni ß |,! > r tU^i flooa 1101 nee<i my aid;
I II lay nside my sword and shield*
Tomorrow, perhaps, with better heart
I may bo glad to‘take the field.
W , hnt Today? A few short hours
rl ° r Wecp>
And sleep and dream, an<f dream and sloe*.
“?' {’"h ® rlod m y better self.
Jait up thy drowsy heart and erea
WhK. .To-day? Ho laailnj. r °*-
A mighty monarch in disguise.
“Wis hands are full of splendid gifts-
Honor and wisdom, wealth and fam
ri| only bour-ho colls tby nime.“
Tt l r won n t X ‘°H 8l . y ’ V th <'*<"' haste,
went and stood in Duty’s place*
And just at noontide’s weary hour*
i ortune and I mot faco to face.
*ho said: “I’re wa ted here for theo.
And half I feared thou would delay
‘he Dost has still denied 7
Is thine with tenfold grace To-day.”
What is an hour? Oft fortuno, fame
° f years the goal and oriM*
W 5" 11 °^ ,a y ? Go sorve it well ’
1 brehamm a monarch in disguise.
■ L,Ut)I L. Harr, in Harycr' * WcckJu.
BIYEK-DKirT MAN.
In a paper read beforo the British
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence at its recent annual meeting’ in
Southampton, Prof. YV. B. Dawkins
said: *• Tho geographical change in
horthorn Europe at the close of the for
est-bed age was very great. The forest
of the North Sea sunk beneath the
waves, and Britain was doprossed to a
dept h of no less than 2,800 feet in the
Welsh Mountains, and was reduced to
an archipelago of islands, composed of
what are now the higher lands. The
area of the English Channel also was
depressed, and the “silver streak”
was wider than it is now, as is proved
bv tho raised beach at Brighton, at
B ruckles ham, and elsewhere, which
marks the sea line of the largest island
01 1,10 archipelago, the southern island,
as it may be termed, the northern
chores of which extended along a lino
passing from Bristol to London. The
northern shore of the continent at this
tune extended eastward from Abbeville
n °rth of the Erzgebirge, through Sax
ony and Poland, into the middle of Rus
sia. Scandinavia being an island from
which the glaciers descended into tho
I his geographic il change was ac
companied by a corresponding change
m climate. Glaciers descended from
the higher mountains to the sea love',
and icebergs, melting as they passed
southward, deposited their burdens of
day, sand and erratics, which o cupy
such a wide area in tho portions then
submerged of Britain and the continent.
This depression was followed by a ro
elevation, by wlrch the British Isles, a
part of the continent, and all the large
tract of country within the one hundred
fathom line again became the feeding
f [rounds of the late pleistocene mamnnv
ia.
An appeal to the animals associated
with the river-drift implements will not
help us to fix the exact relation of man
to these changes, because they were in
Britain before, as well as after the sub
mergence, and were living throughout
in those parts of Europe which were
not submerged. In can only be done
in areas where the submergence is
clearly defined. At Salisbury, for in
stance, the river-drift hunter may have
lived either before, durin r, or alter the
southern counties beeaine an island.
hen, however, he hunted the w'oolly
and loptorhine rhinoceros, the mam
moth, and the horse, in the neighbor
hood of Brighton, he looked down upon
a broad expanse of sea, in the spring,
decked with small icebergs such as
those which dropped their burdens in
Rracklesham Bay. At Abbeville, too,
he hunted the mammoth, reindeer and
horse to the mouth of the Somme on
the shore of the glacial 3ea. The ev
idence is equally clear that the river
drift hunter followed the ehase in Brit
ain alter it had emerged from beneath
the waters of the glacial se t. The riv
er-drift man is proved, bv the imple
ments he left behind, to have wande/ed
over the whole of France, and to h ivo
hunted the same animals in tho valley
of the Loire and the Garonne as in the
valley of the T.iaines. In the Iberian
peninsula he was a contemporary of tne
African elephant, the mammoth, and
the straight-tucked eleph mt, and he oc
cupied the neighborhoods both of Madrid
and Lisbon. He also ranged over Ita'y,
leaving traces of his presence iu she
Abruzzo. and m G eece he was a con
temporary of the extinct pigmy hippo
potamus (Hippopotamus renllanU.)
South of the Mediterranean his imple
ment' have been met with in Oran and
near Kolea, iu Algeria, and in Egypt
in several localities. At Luxor they
have been discovered by General Pitfc
“ivers in the breccia, out of which are
hewn the tombs of the Kings. In Pal
estine they have been obtained by the
Abhe Richard between Mount Tabor
£nd the Sea of Tiber as, and by Mr.
Slope' between Jerusalem and Bethle
hem Throughout this wide area the
implements, tor the most part of Tint
or of iju rtzite, are of the same rude
l >pes and there is no difference to be
noted between the haclies found in the
caves of Creswell, in Derbyshire, and
those of Thebes, or between those of
the valley of the Somme and those of
* a estine. Nor is our survey yet ended.
Ihe researches of Foote, lting, Medli
°o t Ha ket and Ball establish the fact
b a the river dri't hunter ranged over
’he In 1 an peninsula from Madras as
t: r north the vallev of the Nerbudda.
L< i * \w find him forming part of a
:i l; a n which t! ere are spec'es now
i‘ v g n India, such as the Indian rhi
nocci os aud the aruee and extinct types
JIM& (Snwrp |trps.
"** n .® nd leplmnts. There were two
f, * nct hippopotami in the river, andliv
•g <ravials, turtles and tortoises. It
I ’ therefore, that at this tima
I .nn f stood in the game re
i.it on to the present fauna as the
.uropean fauna of the late pleistocene
does to that now living In Europe.
i , e * re fi'om the region of ti epi
cal India to tho banks of the Delaware,
in Jersey, by the recent discover*-
ie, of Dr. C. C. Abbott in the fleighbor-
Iren ton. The implements are
ot the sdmn tithe as those of the nver
s of Europe, and occur under the
same conditions as those of France and
*,‘f;! l n - I bev are found in a Dlateau
>i 11 \er gravel forming a terrace over
looking the river, and composed of ma
terials washed down from the old termi-
nal moraine which strikes across the
. tate °f New Jersey to the westward.
J lie 1 ogo Mock of stone and the gener
al < haracter point out that during the
time of its accumulation there were ice
ra ts floating down the Delaware in the
spring, as the Thames, the Seine, and
the Somme. The physical evidence is
CiCar that it belongs to the same age as
deposits with similar remains in °Brit
ftin. Ihe animal remains also point to
the same conclusion. A tusk of a mas
todon is in Dr. Cooke’s collection at
Brunswick, N. J., obtained from the
gravel, and Dr. Abbott records the
tooth of a reindeer and the bones of a
bison from Trenton. Here, too, living
and extinct species are found side by
side. Thus in our survey of the group
of animals surrounding man when he
first appeared in Europe, India and
North America, we see that in all three
regons so widely removed from each
otl or, the animal life was in the same
stage of evolution, and “the old order”
was 3’ielding “place unto the new.”
The river-drift man is proved by his
surroundings to belong to the pleisto
cene age in all three.
It remains now for us to sum up the
results of this inquiry, in which we
have been lead very far afield. The
identity of the implements of the river
drift hunter proves that he was in
the same mde state of civilization, if it
can be called civilization, in the old
and new worlds when the hands of the
geological clock pointed to the same
hour. It is not a little strange that his
mode of life should have been the same
in the forests to the north and south of
tho Mediterranean, in Palestine, in the
tropical forests of India, and on tho
western shores of the Atlantic. The
hunter of the reindeer in the valley of
tho Delaware was to all intents and
purposes ihe same sort of savage as tho.
hunter of the reindeer on the banks of
the Wiley or of the Solent. It does not,
however, follow that the identity of im
plements impl'cs that the same race of
men were spread over this vast tract. It
points rather to a primeval condition of
savagery front which mankind has
emerged in the long ages which
separate it from our own time.
It may further be inferred from
his widespread range, that the
river-drift man (assuming that
mankind sprung from one center) must
have inhabited the earth for a long
time, and that his dispersal took place
before the g aeial submergence and the
lowering of the teiupeiature in northern
Europe, Asia and America. It is not
reasonable to suppose that the Straits
of nehring would have offered a free
passage either to the river-drift man
from Asia to America or to American
an mals from America to Europe, or
vice versa, while there was a vast bar
rier of ice or of sea, or of both in the
high northern latitudes. I therefore
(eel ine ined to view the river-drift man
as having invaded Euro; e in pre-giacial
time a ong with the other living spec ies
which then appeared The evidence,
as I have a'ready pointed out, is con
clusive that he was a’so g acial and
post-glacial. In all probability tho
birthplace of man was in a warm, if not
a tropical, reg on of Asia, in “a garden
of Helen,” and from this the river-drift
man found his way into those regions
where his implements occur. In India
lie was a nu mber of a trop cal fauna,
and his distribution in Europe and
along the shores of the Mediterranean
proved him to have belonged either to
the temperate or the southern fauna in
those regions.
A Remarkable Career.
A remarkable career was that of the
H< n. John Tod, who died recently at
Victoria, B. ('., aged n nety-one years.
In 1807 he entered the service of the
Hudson's Bay Company, and within a
few \ ears hail visited almost every por
tion of the vast territorv from Hudson’s
Fav to the Columbia feiver. He visit
ed Montreal in 1812, and Astoria, Ore.,
in 1818. Afterward in the Peace River
country he spent nine years without
he* ring his mother tongue or seeing the
lace of a white person. Forty vears
ago he was in charge of old Fort Kam
loops, and one day, when almost alone,
was surprised by a large party of In
dians, who invaded the fort for the pur
pose of plunder, aud, perhaps, murder.
Quicklv knocking out the head of one
of several barrels of powder, he delib
erately lighted a match and threatened
to blow up the fort and every one in it
if the Indians did not instantly leave the
ne ghborhood, which it is needless to
saN*~the} r did. He was a member of the
first Executive Council of Vancouver's
island, and held that position several
vears, but retired to private life about
"fifteen ye rs aio. He retained full
possession of ail his faculties to the day
of bis death. Chicago Tribune.
—Since the first oil-well began to
flow, $1,500,000,000 have been added to
the wea’th of this country by the prod
uct of petroleum.
Demoted to Industrial Interest, the Diffoieii oi Troth, the Establishment Justice, and the Preserration of a People’* Government.
Balky Horses.
We have received a note from a sub
scriber in Michigan in which he sava
that he owns a most stubbornly balky
horse, and that he has inflicted every
variety of punishment within the pale
of human limits, but as the vice is not
yet remedied, he appeals in despair fot
advice. Tho treatment of the animal
httd the totie of the letter sent us, plain
ly shows that our correspondent has
lost all patience, and that in conse
quence, what he does to the horse is
done under extreme excitement, which
is the very worst condition in which a
man can approach and attempt to han
dle a balky horse. That balking is one
of the most exasperating things with
which men have to deal, is freely ad
mitted, but excitement not only does no
good, but it does very much harm. It
is impossible to say why some lorses
balk, and knowing no other cause, it. is
fair to presume that it is the result of
pure natural cussedness; and if that
presumption is correct, the horse when
refusing to go is something like a stub
born child or even a stubborn man. the
more you scold and the more you chas
tise, the greater is the stubbornness
developed. We have seen horses refuse
to budge an inch though a fire had been
kindled under them, and we remember
one horse tint would lie down when he
balked, and submit like a martyr to be
ing gouged with a pitchfork. There
can scarcely be any species of pun
ishment which we have not seen
inflicted upon balkj horses, end
Ihcre are few instances in which it
has done any good, because the man
was excited, aud the horse was
excited, and the harder the man str ck
and the louder he swore, the more dis
tinctly the animal said: “ I won’t.”
There may be no grounds for the suspi
cion, and it is, perhaps, attributing to
the horse too much of the reasoning
faculty, to think that when he balks he
deliberately sets about irritating the
driver, and that if he finds he cannot
irritate him, he will quietly give up the
undertaking, but really it often appears
to be so. We have not : ced that if the
driver is deliberate in his actions, and
moves about as if notlrng in all the
world could suit him better for the time
be ng. than to have the animal balk,
and Ihen in a quiet sort of a way, as if
he were amusing himself, inflict punish
ment, the horse appears to be non
plussed, and to conclude that he is play
ing a game in which the fun is all on
the other side. We were greatly amused
at the recital of the manner an owner
treated a balky horse by tying up one
of its fore legs, and then sitting down
where the horse could see him and
quietly reading a paper. We have
not the slightest doubt that such a
course would result most satisfactorily.
It does not require much .-tretch of
imagination to picture that horse as
utterly disappointed and utterly dis
gusted. Standing upon three legs,
while his owner was comfortably seated
in the shade, the outcome of that little
enterprise was so entirely different from
what the horse had expected, that any
amount of disgust was pardonable.
We had some years ago a horse that
had this irritat ng vice, but we had lit
tle difficulty in breaking him of it. When
he would balk we wou.d approach his
head < almlv, pretend to ar an. c some
portion of the harness, stroke hs face
kindle, and then clasping his nose,
twist it ir. such a manner as to in.lict
severe pain, pulling him forward at the
same time, but being careful to give him
the impression that the whole thing was
a matter of course, and that it would
have been a dreadful disappointment if
it had uot happened. A few times of
this sort of treatment was quite suffi
cient to effect a cure. In the manage
ment of horses the animal must be
taught to respect the man, and no horse
will respect any man that shows no
more sense than the animal itself shows
when it becomes angry and stubborn.
If the horse knows that any neglect of
duty on his part will insure punishment,
but that it will not be given in the spirit
of revenge, but in the spirit of dignified
love, he will be careful not to merit it.
The animal feels toward its master, un
der su h circumstances, something as
men feel toward the law. They respect
the law and know that it will not harm
them so long as they are obedient to its
commands, but they know if they vio
late it, they must feel its penalties, not
savagely inflicted, but inflicted without
anger, and with dignity.
Thus far we have been speaking of
horses in which the habit of balking is
confirmed. If the animal balks for the
first time while in your possession, a
careful examination of the harness
should be made, in order to see if draw
ing is not pa nful to the animal. We
once witnessed a numbskull beat a
horse unmercifully for balking at the
foot of a hill, when the whole trouble
was that the collar was too small, and
it was utterly impossible for the animal
to draw the load and breathe, it is
sincerely to be hoped that not many
such idiots as this man will ever have
the handling of horses, but the case
serves as an exaggerated illustration of
many things that may be the causes of
such* trouble. There are stubborn and
desperately wicked horses, but as a rule
this animal i a faithful and intelligent
servant of man, and will perform his
duties if his driver will perform his. If
the horse refuses to do what is required
of him, his usually noble, willing na
ture merits a close scrutiny of all at
tending circumstances before he is
wholly condemned lor apparent neglect
or stubbornnesa. —Dingo (Me. ; Rural
—The young man who wants to look
tony this winter will have to get some
thing different from an ulster. A red
and white blanket, buttoned under the
! chin, would attract attention.— Detroit
‘ Free Pres*.
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
About Plums.
A plum tree is usually a delusion and
a snare to the unfortunate owner. It
gives promise of fruitfulness in bud and
blossom and may set abundance of fruit.
But while the owner sleeps the enemy
descends upon his cherished tree and
marks it for its own. Its mark and sign
manual is a little half-tnoon, A crescent,
which it stamps upon every little plum.
Then the plums fade and drop from the
1 r ee, and although a few may hang on,
jet before they reach maturity the sap
oozes from their wounds and they per
ish. And not a plum remains to fulfill
all the promises of its blossom. This is
why a plum tree is a delusion. The
enemy4s a most insignificant creature;
a small, puny, sneaking beetle that,when
disturbed, falls to the ground and lies
curled up and motionless, so that it es
capes detection. It has a disagreeable
name, too, which seems to mean mis
chief as soon as we try to read it. Con
otrachclus nenuphar may %iean every
thing mean, sly, treacherous, and de
structive, and this is precisely what this
weevil is. And it is a wee-evil, too, for
one can never see it upon his, or its,
plums, it is so small, nor upon the
ground, where it falls and “plays pos
sum.” Near a hundred of them could
be placed in a square inch, and a hun
dred will easily destroy the fruit of a
whole orchard. It is a little, brown,
long-snouted beetle, belonging to a bad
family, in which are found the grain
weevil, the chestnut weevil, the plum
gouger (another pest, which goes into
the center of the fruit), the cranberry
weevil, the grape curculio, the rice wee
vil, the potato-stalk borer, and a number
of wood destroying pests. Fortunately,
like some evil persons, its own smart
ness is its own destruction, for its de
ceptive, sly trick of falling to the ground
when disturbed, and lying “perdu”
(lost —which this word means—is an
excellent term to apply) helps us to
capture it by spreading a sheet under
the tree and jarring the latter, when the
insects fall and are easily seen and gath
ered.
A better way, however, is to set the
fowls to do this for us. If one must go
out to his plum trees three times a day
for three months, spread the sheet un
der each tree, jar it, carefully put the
beetles in a pail of water with some
kerosene upon it, and so go from tree to
tree, he had better retire to a desert
where the curculio and he could starve
together quickly, and not linger three
months. In this case each plum might
cost him a dollar, if his time be worth
as much as that of an Italian rag-picker.
But the fowls will do the work very
cheaply. Only put a fence around the
plum trees or plant them in the chicken
yard, and the curculio will have no
chance. Last year I enlarged my chick
en-yard and inclosed in it a young plum
tree, but five years planted. It was one
of a dozen trees, all of the same age and
all well grown. The tree in the yard
has borne this year half a bushel of fine
plums; some limbs bent to the ground
with the weight. Not a plum has been
gathered from the other eleven, al
though they were set full of fruit. Now
I have inclosed the whole of the trees
in a fence of wire netting and made a
poultry-yard of it. Next year I expect
plums.
I ought to say that one plum tree is
too much for this pest, or was last year,
when it bore a bushel of fruit. It is the
wild goose plum, and an extraordinary
tree. It was set out five years ago; it
is now eighteen inches round the stem,
has a spread of twenty-four feet in di
ameter, and is sixteen feet high. It bore
a few plums the second year after plant
ing. It is a wild seedling, no doubt, for
it is in every respect of bark and leaf
like a wild plum from the woods. The
fruit is round and red, with some small
yellow dots, one and a half inches in di
ameter, has greenish-yellow flesh, of
good flavor when ripe, and is equal to
the green gage for preserving. I don’t
know of a plum beside thU that will re
sist the curculio, and this it does, not
because the insect will not sting it, but
that from some cause—probably its un
satisfactory flavor and the texture of the
flesh—it disagrees with the young mag
got.— N. ¥. Times.
Manure Under Cover,
Of course all the advantage of making
manure in covered yards may be secured
by box feeding, with less outlay for roof
ing, since more space must be allowed
for a given number of animals turned
loose together than when confined in
stalls. It is the protection from rain
and sun, the abundant use of litter and
its thorough incorporation with the ex
crements, and the exclusion of air by
compact treading, which go to make the
superior manure. All these features of
the method work against the loss of
valuable plant food. Nor does box
feeding and constant accumulation of
manure under the feet of the animals
necessarily imply offensive stalls.
One method or the other, box feeding
or covered yards, should be adopted by
every farmer who lives where manure
is worth saving, and who finds himself
compelled to supplement his stable ma
nure with commercial fertilizers. Stable
manure must not be lost sight of, in this
increasing interest in these concentrated
fertilizers, for we can not produce our
crops, and have enough for ourselves
and others, without its aid; and there is
nothing in all the list of commercial
mixture which gives so good an aver
age return for the money invested in it
as well-made stable manure.— Lancaster
Farmer. m m
—We carry all our neighbors’ crimes
in the fight and throw ourown our
shoulder.
About Bed-Room Carpets.
I need hardly insist on the fact that
the old-fashioned plan of covering every
part of the bed-room with ca-pet stuff, so
ss to make the carpet hug llie wall, is as
bad a plan as can possibly be followed.
In these days everybody is beginning to
recognize this truth, and the change
which has taken place within the last
ten years, in the matter of carpets lor
bed-rooms, is quite remarkable. In
some instances, 1 notice that an extreme
change, which is nei her wanted nor
warranted has l een instituted: that is
to say, instead of the carpet that at one
time" covered all the surface of the
floor with the greatest nicely of adapta
tion, there is no carpet at all. This ex
treme change is not at all desirable.
It is good to have carpets in every
part of the room where the feet
must regularly be placed. It is
bad to have carpets in any part of the
room where the feet are not regularly
placed. These two rules govern tlm
whole position, and the most inexperi
enced housewife can easily remember
them. By these rules there should be
carpets all around the bed. carpet op
posite the wardrobe or chests of draw
ers, carpet oppos te the washing-stand,
and carpet opposite the dress ng-table,
but none under the beds, and none for
a space of two or three feet around the
room—that is to say, two or three feet
from the walls of the room. The car
pets that are laid down should be loose
from each other, ea h one 3hould be
complete in itself, so that it can be
taken up to be shaken with tho least
trouble, and ea’h one should be ar
ranged to fie close to the floor, so that
dust may not easily get underneath.
Carpet stuff’ for bed-rooms should be
made of fine material closely woven,
and not fluffy on the surface, ffhere
was a form of Brussels carpet called
“tapestry,” which some years ago was
very largely used. It was as warm as
the ihic.est blanket, and it was almost
like wire in liber; in fact, it was tough
enough to last half a life-time, and it
was the best carpeting for bed-rooms I
ever remember
The advantages of small carpets in
the bed-room are many. They cause
the footsteps to be noiseless, or com
paratively noiseless, they prevent the
feet from becoming cold while dressing
and undressing, they make the room
look pleasant, and when used in the lim
ited manner above suggested, they save
trouble in cleansing, by preventing dust
and dirt being trodden into the floor.—
Dr. hiciardson. in Good Words.
Repulsed by Factory Girls.
At Kirby & Brothers’ oanning factorv,
Burlington, N. TANARUS., there : s employ ed a
young girl named Sallie Cook, who re
sides with her guardian, David Hughs,
in that city. She had previously’ made
her home with Mrs. Gill, who keeps a
saloon in Philadelphia, until or ’ered to
go behind the bar and wait upon cus
tomers, wheD she left the house one
morning and fled to her lawful protec
tor. A few days ago a strange man ap
peared at the canning factory making
inquiries for Miss Cook. The other em
ployes in the factory took it into their
heads that the unwelcome visitor whs
an emissary of Mrs. Gill, who had come
to carry the girl off, and they
determined upon a repulse. Forming
themselves into a solid phalanx, the
factory hands began the assault by bom
barding the intruder with decayed toma
toes and such other ammunition as was
at convenient disposal. It took but a
few minutes to convince the visitor that
the “Skinners,” as they are termed in
Burlington, were in earnest, and would
probably knock him out before they
finished their fusillade. When he re
treated out of the factory yard loud and
triumphant shouts rent tne air, and a
motley collection of old tin cans, worn
out shoes, and various odds and ends
were hurled at the retreating stranger,
who, as soon as he gained the street,
ran down the railroad track in the di
rection of Beverlv. -* Philadelphia Record.
What Are Clouds!
Though the clouds are such familiar
objects, very little is known about them,
and the processes by which they are
formed and give back their moisture to
the earth are unsolved mysteries-
They can not be classified as belong
ing to the solid, fluid, or gaseous form
of matter. Yet they are defined as be
ing “a collection of watery particles in
the state of vapor , suspended in the air.”
If they are ordinary vapor, they must
be governed by the laws which affect
vapors. Brande defines vapor thus:
“When liquids and certain solids are
heated, they become converted into
elastic fluids or vapors, which differ
from gases in this respect, that they are
not under common circumstances per
manently elastic, but resume the liquid
or solid form when cooled down to or
dinary temperature.” According to this
definition, clouds can not be composed
of ordinary vapor, for under all condi
tions their temperature must be below
the condensing point of water-vapor.
At the elevation at which clouds are
often seen, they are in the regions of
perpetual congelation; and as they float
above the highest mountains they mast
be exposed, even in the sunshine, and
certainly in the night, when the solar
heat is not poured upon them, to tem
peratures colder than those of the frigid
zones.— C. Morjit, in Popular Science
Mont hi v.
. —A young fallow asked another at a
ball if his girl was there. “Yes,” said
he. “Do you see that girl dressed in
pink?” “What, that splendid woman
with such magrilficent eyes? You don’t
say. How lucky you are!” “Just so.
Of course I am. Well, my girl is tho
one next to her.”
SUBSCRIPTION-Si.Se.
YOL. X. NO. 9.
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIYE.
—An Ohio dairyman, who claims to
have weighed the skimmed milk fed to
swine, and the gain in flesh thoreoi
says 100 pounds of skimmed milk will
produce three pounds of pork.
Molasses Costard: One cup of
molasses, one cup of sugar, one and
one-half cups of flour, one mp of sour
milk, and one teaspoonful of soda.
Bake in shallow tips.— The Household
—The man who takes advantage of
air, soil and fertilizers, and studies how
to manufacture grain and roots, meat
and fruits out of these raw materials,
is the one to succeed. — San Francisco
Chronicle.
l*robably the youngest farmers in
the country are two children living near
Shreveport. La., who had eight acres
in cotton and ten in corn, and had good
crops. The children are brother and
sister, aged respectively thirteen and
ten years, an 1 have done most of their
own work.— Chicago Times.
- Mosquitoes may be kept away, it is
said, by using oil made as follows:
“()l of tar one ounce, olive oil one
ounce, oil of pcnn) r royal, spirit of
camphor, glycerine, of cai h one-half
ounce, carboiic acid two drachms. Mix
and shake well before using. Rub tho
face and hands while fishing.”— N. Y.
Tribune.
—An item for the household says: “If
the water in which new cabbage is
boiled is changed once or twice it is
less apt to be indigestible.” Perhaps it
is; and persons who are in the habit of
drinking water in which new cabbage
is boiled >hould heed tho suggestion;
but as long as water is so cheap we shall
continne to take ours raw.— Norristown
lh raid.
- To Clean Marble; Mix one quarter
of a pound of soft soap with the same of
pounded whiting, one ounce of soda
and a piece of stone blue the size of a
wa nut. Boil those together for fifteen
m mites, and then, whilo hot, rub it
over the marble with a p eco of flannel,
and leave it on for twenty-four hours;
then wash it oft with clean water, and
polish the marble with a piece of coarse
flannel or a piece of an old felt hat.—
lius on Journal of Chemistry.
—Poult ry-breedors do not seem to ap
preciate the great value of bones for
their fowls, and but a limited few ever
make use of them for this purpose. No
matter whether the birds are confined
or not, they are suro to be benefited by
a moderate quantity of bones, though
tliO'O which arc kept iu close confine
ment need them most. Nearly eveiy
family of any size have refuse bones
enough from tho kitchen to afford the
poultry quite a treat from time to time.
— Exchange.
-Chicken Pie. vYash and cut the
chicken into pieces as above. Boil
about a half hour. Take up, then wash
out the kettle. Fry two or three slices
of .salt pork and put thorn in the bottom
o tho kettle; then put in tho chicken,
about three pints of water and a piece
of butter the size of an egg. Sprinklo
in a little pepper and cover over the top
with a rich biscuit crust Cook about
three-fourths of an hour, or till the
ci -, jst is done. Cut several holes in the
center of the crust - Country Gentle
man. ________________
Fashionable Wrinkles.
Two new wrinkles are charged upon
the fashionable women of New York
City by a correspondent of the Cincin
nati Enquirer. The first is fiddling.
“It is not rare now to meet a finely
dressed girl with a boy carrying one of
those black, coffin-shaped boxes which
formerly were lugged by professional
musicians only. She is on her way to
or from her violin lesson. Pretty soon
she will stand up before the guests in
i her papa’s parlor, tuck one end of a
fiddle under her chin, and torture the
company’B ears while delighting their
eyes. However horrible may be the
noise produced she will look well dur
ing the process of making it” Tho
second freak of fashion is represented
to be to pray on genuine prayer-rugs
from the East, such as a Mohammedan
uses. “They are usually about three
by four feet in size, ana can be dis
tinguished by the design, which always
represents some large figure at one end,
and pointed at the other. Places are
indicated for the hands and knees. De
vout women procure the real things
from an importer; and, without facing
Meeof., bumping their heads on the
floor, or removing their shoes and
stockings, like the sons of the Prophet,
.*t : 11 actually do use them to kneel on
while praying. They are said to be a
great comfort.”
—“ No, sir,” said the shopkeeper, “I
don’t think you will do. We want a
man who understands the rules of or
thography, and you have spelled ‘situa
tion’ in seven different ways, at least, in
your application.” “Well, what o’
that? Ain’t that a mark of genius f
Doesn’t it show versatility? I want you
to understand that I ain’t one o’ them
fellers that has to spell a word the same
way every time. No, sir! If that’s
the kind of a man yer want, you’ll have
to take somebody else. I ain’t the feller
to pin himself down in that way. Good
mornin’, so long.” And the versatile
soeller walked out, with the jaunty air
of a third-rate actor. — N. Y. Mail .
—“ Yes,” stud the gilded youth of his
friend, “Jack has a passion for propos
ing to girls. Why, I’ve known of his
proposing to six girts in a week, not one
of wnora he’d marry for a farm.”
“Doesn’t he run a terrible risk of being
accepted by somebody he doesn’t
wan’tf” “Not a bit. He isn’t worth a
dollar I ” —Boston Post.