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Antnmn Woods.
Mountains bending,
Steep ascending,
Clad in oolors bright and blending,
Windy woodlands—never ending,
Flaming floods on every slope;
Fiery blusboe,
Tawny flushes;
God Is in the burning bushes
And tho vision on us rushos
Liko tbo rosy heights of hopo!
Crimson, yellow,
MiBty, mollow;
now tbo lorosts bow and billow!
Maplo, ash and oak and willow
Shed tho trophies of the year;
Thus wo rondor
All our splondor,
Leal by loaf in sad surrender,
Pomp and prido and pleasure tonder,
When our days aro in tho sear.
Down they shiver!
Qunko and quiver!
On tho swilt and Bilent rivor,
Whore tho current glides iorevor
To tho wido and windy ecu!
Sifting, sowing,
Drifting, blowing ;
Now thoy’ro floating—gaily goiug,
Liko tho lives ot men a-flowing
To the liiu that is to lie.
■—Modern Argo.
Emigration Figures.
ing to seo the old home desecrated by
the stranger’s hand. I Up to 1820 no statistics of emigration
No; there it stood, as she had always into this country were kept officially,
nown tt--the very Picture of home but the numbers wero trivial, only 8,386
comfort, the center of all those modest foreign emigrants being reported for
luxuries that a well-to-do farmer, of all tlmt year . In , 830 the number was 23,
other men, may most easily command. 300 . in 1810> 8 4 i( )oo ; 1842, 104,600; 1850,
But, although the dear old house was | 369 900. 1854i 497,600. That was the
unohanged, its inmates were new and
Btrange to her. A stout, middle-aged
man, in a white summer suit, with a
broad-brimmed hat and a cigar, sat on
the steps of the piazza reading a news
paper. A fashionably-dressed lady,
some years liis junior, swung in a ham
mock upon the lawn, lost in a novel.
Several children, in broad-brimmed
bats and brown Holland blouses, were
making the lives of two nurses a burden
to them, furthordown the lawn, among was immensely in demand, emigration j rympjo.tho Dakota^ farmer, and Glenn
the elm trees, where a swing had hung was heavy, reaching the highest figure ' n "‘ *“ — u 1
in 1873, 459,800. It fell to 313,000 in
1874, 227,000 in 1875, 170,000 in 1870,
142,000 in 1877,138,000 in 1878, but roso
to 178,000 in 1879, and was, of course,
very much increased in 1880. England
COMING BACK.
FARM, GARDEN ASl) HOUSEHOLD.
Small Farm. Best
Apropos of this subject, the Spring-
field (Mass.) ITnt'otfsays: There has
been some lament over the tendency in
this country to mass great areas of real
estate under one management, and fears
maximum number for nearly twenty I have been expressed that, in tho West,
years. In 1856 and 1850 tho number at least, we shall some time experience
was but about 200,000 each; it rose to Ike evils of landlordism whicii havo
251,000 in 1857; was 153,040 in 1860; in cursed oldor parts of the world. But
1801 and 1802,for tho obvious reason that such fears appear to be groundless. W0
our war was a deterrent, fell to 91,000; havo no law of entail, and tho prob-
the labor demand so far overcame this I ability that these vast areas will remain
that the number arose to 176,000 in 1883, under a single management for more
193,400 in 1864, and 249,000 in 1865. than one or two generations is rather
From 1865 to 1873, during the term of small. The big farms of the West are
post-war paper prosperity, when labor | proving comparative failures. Dal-
Italian Colonists in New Fork.
Tho first members of a family who
come to this country aro generally the
eldest. Those are explorers. It they
thrive, they send money to pay the pas
sage of their relatives. This voyage is
generally accomplished in from twenty-
five to thirty days on English steamers
that sail from Mediterranean ports, and
costs about 940 apiece. They arc so I
scantily fed on rice and potatoes by the
steamship companies that they generally
carry provisions of thdr own. As they
land at Castle Garden their countenances
toll plainly the sufferings they havo en
dured during a month’s journey at sea.
If they get employment here it is gen
erally in railroad building, street paving I
and street denning. Their earnings
average 91.25 per day; but tlioy are |
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A man in Louisa county, Iowa, who
1‘Jicd quietly in his bed recently, escaped
Ideath narrowly many times during his
•career. Once lie was stabbed in the
iBtomach and given up by the physicians.
|At another time he fell into a well sixty
Ifeet deep; again, he was gorged by a
lbull until life was apparently extinct
land more recently a loaded wagon
•passed over his head, cutting off one
Irar,
Up in a city garret, on a hot June
day, a weary woman leaned back in her
clinir, and pressed her fingers against
tho eyes tlmt refused longer to seo the
stitches in the shop-work over which
she had toiled from daybreak till now,
four o’clock in the afternoon.
From the street far below her, a voice
had only thnt moment soared upward,
calling “Strawberr-ees! strawberr-ees!
Ripe, red strawberr-ees 1”
And, as if by magic, her thoughts
turning backward had carried her to
Depdenc, the home of her youth, and to
certain lovely June day in her six-
tecntli year, when she had stood in the
sti aw berry pasture on the Blessing
farm, witli the red berries perfuming all
the air, and said the words which
sect red her fate from that of Maurice
Blessing, and made her life what it was
tliis day, almost hopeless, and
ceaseless struggle for bread, won at tho
net die’s point.
llow it all roso up beforoher! Tho
gretn pasture sloping upward to tho
dniLer green woods, whose tops seemed
to touch the deep blue sky, sloping
downward to the gray stone wall, with
the cold spring leaping out through a
wooden trough, among its lower stones
And below the wall, “the thirty-acre
mowing,’’spread out like an immense
emerald velvet carpet, with the two-
story cream-colored liouso lifting its
pinzzaed front at the oxtremo end, just
where the shadod lane began, that led
from the Blessing farm out into tho vil
lage road.
She, the poor orphan girl, had boon
offered this comfortable home; and she
hnd refused it—for wlmtP For a dream
of lame, which had loft her toiling in
this hot garret, while in the black trunk
yonder the book which was to have
made her fortune, refused by one pub
lisher after another, was lying, till she
could find courage to thrust it into the
fire.
“Scarcely five years,” she sighed,
rocking herself to and fro. “ And
Maurice has sold the old farm and gone
to Colorado; and I am here, lonely,
disappointed, old before my time. Oh,
if I could only live that day over again,
and be as wise as I am now! Ior now
I know that I love him—now, when it
is forever loo late!”
Sickening, with a sort of calenture
among those hot city streets, for one
glimpse of her early home, Hester May
roso and went to the desk where her
worldly wealth was stored.
By the closest economy, site had
managed to lay aside a few dollais, for
the gloomy purpose of paying the ex
penses of her own sickness and death,
when tho time should come for her to
die among strangers.
From this sacred hoard she counted
out a sufficient sum to take her to Deep-
dene. . „ , „
1 will stay only one day, she
thought. “And I will work all the
harder after I return to make up this
sum again. But see Deepdene, now that
it is fairly in my mind, ’I must! And
I will take one more look at the dear old
farm before it is in the hands of stran
gers, and so altered that I shall not
know it.”
The next day saw her on her way.
The five yearn of her absence bad been
years of change to the little country vi -
l!l A railway whisked her across the lull
road from Torrington. Once she would
have made the journey in a y e °
stage, drawn by four horses, with
John Oolney. Grossest and most d.s
agreeable of earthly stage-drivers
“rKrfllago. loo, TO. smartened and
freshened up-new houses, new faces,
now iron fence around the small oval
park that graced the center of the town;
now names above the gilded fronts of
the shops; a new set of giggl'-ng misses
on their way to the new brown-ston
academy, which stood where she had
once thought it an honor to attend toe
district school, in a plain, one-story
structure of faded brick
No doubt all these alterations were!'
the better; but they made her heat t ac
with a sense of loss un
from time immemorial.
“ City” was stamped upon every face
and figure that she saw.
Had Maurice sold the plnco to some
retired morchant, who would over-or
nament and disfigure it in the modern
villa style P
If ono could but live their lives over
after they grow oldor, and aro taught by
oxpcricnco what is best for tlienil”
thouglit HeBtcr in her sadness, once
more.
She would have gone up to the house
nnd asked leave to rest und look around
if it had remained in tho care of old
Farmer Williams and his wife, the ten
ants of the upper farm
But she could not faoc these prosper*
ous, happy “city people,” who would
look at her with their coldly-curious
eyes, and wonder, almost audibly,
“ what she could want,” even if they did
the Caliiornia nabob, have not sue- shamefully choatcd by foremen and em-
ceeded well. Tho Sullivan farm in pioyers, nnd they consider thcmsolves
Illinois has been cut up, and tho work fortunato if at the end of a week’s hard
of subdivision is more likely to go on work they roalize 95. Ignorant of tho I
than that of accumulation. Tho To- language, thoy are unable to mako their
ronto Globe points out that groat farms rights good; and should they protest |
and Ireland (taking 1873 rb a stand-1 requiro a vast amount ol machinery, I againBt tho organized system of spolio-
ard) sont about one-third, 159,999 which, to be mado profitable, must be j tion of which they aro tho victims, they
out of 409,999; it may surprise most kept at the same work year after yoar.
readers, however, to know that thoso Tho most successful farmers ol tho West
two countries send about an equal num- are tboso who own comparatively small
ber, and that in 1872,1875 and 1878-9, arms, which they can keep ontiroly
England sent more than Ireland. Thus, under their own supervision and man-
for 1879, 24,000 emigrants wero of age with littlo help, and improve rather
English nationality, and 20,900 wore than deteriorate, by a proper rotation of h n from seven to ten months. With this
Irish. Scotland contributed 13,000 in crops. capital thoy turn in disgust from this
1873 Germany sends nearly as many A still bettor cxamplo of the superior- kind of labor and become organ grind-
England and Ireland combined- ity of small farms over big ones, is 0 rs, fruit vendors or ragpickers.
150.000 in 1873, against 152,900, a na Mound nearer homo, in the ruarkot gar- pr ieO they pay for an organ ranges
31.000 in 1870, against 44,000. Among ^ns ucar tho groat cities. Some of the from 9#0 to 9100. The wealthiest in-
tho other European countries, Sweden finest of these we know of are in the dulge also in the ad|unct of a monkey,
stands next; then Norway; then France, vicinity of Boston. For an example, The children of tho family won d bo
Italy nnd Austria. Not China alone, there is one of five or six acres within glad to be taken care of as kindly as
J ..111.- I: : * — .. I 4I...4 nt4tf nrlti/ilt nmnllOAB I 4l>n aiemmIma
I are discharged. On tho principle that
half a loaf is better than no bread, they
I conttnuo to work in this way until they ]
: havo accumulated 9100. By dint of pri-
I vations from which most men would
shrink, this purpose is by thcmlattained
Longing.
Ol all tho myriad moods of mind
That through the soul oome thronging
Which one wan e’er so good, so kind,
So beautiful as longing T
The thing we long ior that we are
For one traneeondent moment,
Before the present, poor and bare,
Can make its sneering ooinment.
Still, through our paltry stir and strife,
Glows down the wished ideal,
And longing molds in elay what life
Carves in the marble real.
To let the new file in, we know,
Desire must ope the portal;
Forhaps tho longing to be so
Helps mako tho soul immortal.
Longing is God’s fresh heavenward will
With onr poor earthly striving;
Wo quonoh it, that wo may bo still
Content with merely living;
But would we loarn that heart’s fell soopc
Whioh wo are hourly wronging,
Our 11 vos mustollmb lrom hope to hope
And reallr.0 our longing.
Oh, let ns hopo that to our praise
Good God not only reckons
The moments when wo tread His ways,
But when the spirit bcokons—
That some slight good is ulso wrought
Boyond solf-satislaotlon,
Whon wo are simply good In thought
Howe’er we loll In notion,
—Jamet it. Lowell.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are some men so talkative that
nothing but tho toothache can make
one of thorn hold ids jaw.—-V«ut Orleans
Picayune.
“Strivoto make a good impression
refreshed
At tho foot of the lane a gentleman,
in Ja summer suit of silver-gray, stood
leaning against the bars, with his straw
hat drawn down over his eyes so far
that lie failed to seo the strangor’s silent
npDronoh.
“ Will you lot mo pass, if you please!”
said Hester, at last, after waiting some
moments.
He wheeled round, as if site had
ward movement wore recorded. In I seems almost wasteful, but the results tor was hastily sent for by ono of these sippi river.
1870 according to British statistics prove his wisdom. Within two or three organ grinders who lives in Baxter In the Btato of Ohio there are 93,308
54 554 oersons went from tho Unitod I weeks ho has mavkotod from a small 8tvcet> because his monkey was ill. Tho persons on the pension rolls, of whom
I ICinedom to this country and 54 097 patch if 175 worth of string beans. HIb man bad himself been confined to ills 2,996 are widows of soldiers of tho
went thither from this country; to Can- early potatoes are aiready dug and have bed fcr a m0 nth, and haa refused to call war of 1812.
adn 0 335 and 0 229 from Canada; I brought him something ilko 93,009, and I lll0 physician because that would cost customers on a milk route in Now
to Australia, 32,190, and 9,570 from the K™und w f c » a * J ’ , When - u P on ‘\ l3 anival, the doe- „ avc .n, Conn., are supplied by a woman
fnrttl emigration 109 409 and at work producing a second crop of t or learned what tho matter was, he'
vi tirtta immtarat oa The total vegetables. .The amount of truck rushed down tho 8ta irw«y of tho house.
' if Si from Mav 1851 to wl>>°h ho manages to securo from h'S L weal . ing ut the impudcnco of the
movement of .risli from May, 1851, to | „ hi. Iinum I Italian .But thr hitter was not discour-
who in all sorts of weather drives her
rounds with unfailing regularity.
That prisoner has a very smooth
11a wuveiuu ruuuu, iia 11 ouu miu 1 , , . Q7ft ,, t 1 few ROrOS, which lie about his liouso . luulftn< UUI llir liuwi WIH I1UI, ui.vuui- I . * .
struck him, and starod doubtfully in 1 1 „ Ireland and barns, is really marvelous, but tho L godt Ho followed tho physician, and countenance, said the judge to the
• * 1 » ort3 wa , 9 Twentieths secret is high cultivation and a scion- 8i ‘j cnll offerod him a fivc .dollar note, sheriff. “ Yes ” responded tho sheriff,
direct, of vrhom "ket^twmtiettas tilic mothc ’.. Tho same method may bo llopln ' that tbo argument would prove “ he was ironed just before ho came in.
came, to this countiy, 07 per cent 01 ine n |j ed an y W boro in Massachusetts, and j rrC8 istible. The modicnl man, how- The whole oost of planting and cul-
wholenumbor leaving tla umitn ivi g | Uw dawdling away over huudreds of L vcr> haughtily walked away. Strange tivatlng an acre of cotton, ginning tho
acres, and getting only half a crop, and lls ^c incident may appear, it is sur- product und delivering it ou a railroad,
atthesamo timo impoverishing tho soil, p. l880 d by that which tho writer saw | is stated by a South Carolina plantar at
is tho i-heorost folly.
l'aature for Hold.
The subject of good pastured for hogs
in surnmor is becoming one df Bpecial
interest to farmers. So also the provid
her face
She uttered a groat cry
“ Maurice 1 Maurice! I hoard that you
hnd sold tho farm, and gouo to Color
ado!"
“ Hester, can tliis be you,” lie an
swerod.
Ilis eyes seemo.i to devour her. Words
rose to liis lips, and wero forced back
again. At last lie asked:
“ Is your husband hero witli you
Hester P"
" My husbandP”
“ Why, yes! I heard thnt jcuwtr
married very soon after you went to tho
city."
“ You heard wrong, Maurice! I have
not been married. I have never even
thought of such a thing.”
“ But why did you go, then, IlosterP
dom from 1853 to 1870 also came here,
it is perhaps a hopeful .symptom thnt I
the human tide which will for yet many
ycai-3 sot to these Western shores con
tains a larger proportion of skilled or
half-skilled laborers, and a smaller pro
portion ol tho least dcsirnblo class than
used to be tho caso.
when, in ordor to collect materials for cioven dollars, or about live and threo*
this sketch, ho paid a visit to “Now eighths cents per pound.
[Inly." Sitting on tho ladder leading to There aro 125 reaping machines rat
the roof of a house was a woman n urs - mjng over tho Dairymplo farm in
ing a monkey at her breast. jWhen I10 Dakotft( w hich embruoes 24,999 acres in
ing of a supply of roots for them during J uttered an ejaculation ol astonishmont, wbc at and 12,999 in oats. Tho wheat
the winter is beginning to receive do- ti l0 woman, in tho subdued tone of a a ycrages eighteen bushels to the acre.
Tile Moment of Fear. I served attention from the moreprogres- pcno n who is afraid to disturb a patient, and the oa ts about seventy-five. This
Bonaparte lost four aides de-cam pdur- sivo and successiul farmers. The con- calmly whispered: “Stamarolto” (lie w ;n gj vo the enormous yield of 432,990
ing the short time he was in Egypt, tinuous and oxcossive use of corn lias is sickJi bushels of wlioat, and 909,000 bushels
One of them, Crosier, appearing to long been deemod wrong both in theory These organ grinders earn in good I 0 f ofttg< To move this immense amount
Napoleon to lack the proper degree of and in practice, although comparatively I weather about 91.59 per day, and arc 0 ( gvuin would require 111 freight
boldness at tho proper time, lie burst few feeders ever seem to have considered generally accompanied by a woman and | i ra i rB of thirty oars each
out against him in one of liis violent and how it might bo avoided. Tho hflhM a baby. in order to excite the charity of
— ^ — . humiliating attacks of abuse and con- however, is breaking, and a radical th(J good .natnred Americans. As lor , manuscript under liis arm,
Why did you loave DeopdeneP Why tempt. Tho word coward escaped him; change in the of „‘ robin mc> 1 know of no 6 rcftter nuisance t,mn and said vory politely^ “ I have a trifle
did you refuso to marry me, if -if there I Crosier determined not to survive it; he | 5 na „i f in „ | tlio sound of a baud organ, and have ' ’
was no one elso in the way?” sought death on
Poor Hester! I did not succeed
She thought of the hot city garret, of | He was in attendance on Napoleon in | n B “h n S mnrttonertimothv*. I low tho example of tho French and
Italians by rigorously forbidding an in-1 y° u
He came into the editor’s room witli a
cd not to survive it; he regards feeding seems fast going;on 1 ms ^ ^ of ft ,“ ud organ( ftnd havc ^"/r’.r.T/ueautiful sunsetyestcr-
scveral occasions, but change, we doubt not, will result been always at a loss how to understand P ere 0 . h1 ~ , f,-i P nd
. till tho siege of Acre, very marked decrease of disease among American law-makers do not fol- day. which was dashed oflt bjr a fr
irinnnn on NT.mnlnnn in swine. Of the grasses most suitable for way « nm of mine, which I would like inserted i
no was m ttWU uu U v. „« swino. ur tiro grasses .....
the trendies there, when such a sharp hog pastures may be mentioned tlmotoy, rigorous.y iwu.uu.uh «n ...-, - , u ... .. „
lookout was kept by tho garrison that rod olovor, blue grass and orohard gnus. W ^I 0 U is a perpetual bore, as|Ju 8t inaert lt yourself, lepliod the
if an elbow or feather showed itself In Umber pasture, whore1 red clover [ ^ an m.diaguised manner of beg- editor, gently pushing the waste basket
above or beside them it was immediately would not do so well on account of the The army * f tormentors that in- toward hlm.-Golvc lon News.
grazed by a bullet. Crosier watched shade, white clover will boUound valuar ^ York js t0 a gl . e at extent com- The Western women who go to Bos-
his opportunity and jumped upon the ble. it Tf.Tu t TtaTo easy matter posed of Genoese. Tho work is by no ton to kill the author of the fo.lowing
platform. “Como down, I command several kinds, but, 1- ta no ^symatt^ easy> for to carry ftn 0 rgau about story must go to the office of tho Commer-
you!” cried Napoleon, in a voice °l lokeep ^ ^ toW n is very laborious. These people cial Bulletin: “Is your programme
thunder; but it was too late; the victim ground. The> moretoardy will g fu Migs B0et ieoru3herP” asked a young
of his severity fell at his feet. later crowd the others out We are ™ iro“ u ^ ^ q{ f hQ weight ol man of a Wc8teru dam sel who had just
Murat, the chivalrous braver of nil sure more hogs aio be .ng g ^ L, u n lhe muscles that many struggled out of tho refreshment room
danger, had also his moment ot f«r, year than ever of thei whS have beonlimglntho bi^ with dlavpaintmentiBher eye and an
which lost him the countenance of his | csted in Pork produotton ar^ | ^ ^ Jf lamG . .. order of da nces” in her hand. “ Pro-
The fruit vender is another interest- gramme fullP” said the daughter of the
It was at the 1 reaarama , ^ type of the Italian colonist. The | Setting Sun, “Waal, I guess not! I
the dream of fame that never had been 1 ■""" 11 " mir ” 1 ” 1 ’- -■ -« •»- «room.” "Plenty of room.
realized, of the unlucky book that was
lying in the black trunk, of the littlo
burial hoard so hardly earned and |
saved.
The tears came quickly to her eyes,
obscuring the honest, handsome face on
which sho gazed.
“Don’t cry, Hester,” said Maurice]
Blessing, taking her hand. “ And tell
why you would not marry me,
doarP”
Because I was a fool!” sobbed Hes-1
ter.
Is the folly ended?” asked Maurice,
ding a smile as he bent over her. ^
Cannot you give me a different an-1 lir8t Italian campaign, ui.iwviunit wtw 1 ^j‘ e J sub j ect 0 f gra88 for hogs in summer, I laziness and narrow mindedness. He I and an ice cream, an’ that don’t go far
swer now, IlesterP If you can, wo will | fh „ „ ar . | 0 r tho raising of roots for them in win-1 resorts to this occupation because it ro- toward filling my programme, I can
quires no physical exertion, no mental ^ you> »
on the dear old farm.” | rison. n« 1**“,*?'“*“ T'"' Health iilut*. I labor, and bocause his ideas are not suf-
rcmoved^fromt^genTral^and'ii^ewy Lemon juice will allay the irritation ficiently broad to venture into other 0&tmeaI<
fie wJ caused by bites of gnats and flies. Our older readers remember when the
sent out on the most distant and dan- a weak solution of carbolic acid in y OD j y U8C 0 f oatmeal among us was to
gerous services; in short, he more than rain water will cure pimples and simple as good for ills puipose as lie can . , ud wilU for the s i c k. There
conquered Id.cl.ur^r be,oreU.ebuttle| eruption.. |.UU SS |”» *
from 95 to $19 per month to the corne r
But you sold it and went to Colo
rado,” said Hester, wonderingiy. “ At
least I heard so.”
I was a fool, too, Hester; for 1 went
o) Colorado, and I was quite ready to
sell. But my brother-in-law, from the
city, persuaded mo to rent it to
him ior one year, till I had
time to think the matter over. When
came to my senses— although I had
not forgotten you, darling—I was very
glad that the poor old place was mine
still, and I came back some six weeks
ago to see it. My sister and ber hus
band and family go back to the city
next week, stopping a( the mountains
on Iheir way. I shall bo left alone, with
good Mrs. Williams for my housekeeper
and her husband as head hired man—
just as I was before. Hester, won’t you
take pity on me, and come and share my
JiomeP I have never cared for any one
but you."
I do not know in what words Hester
answered him. But I see her daily in
the cream-colored farmhouse, the very
model of an active, bustling, good-tem
pered farmer’s wife.
As for the book she has utterly for
gotten it. She needs its recompense no
longer, and she is far too happy to care
or wish for fame.
of Aboukir, on which occasion Napoleon I Ammonia, saleratus water, and other
himself was obliged to declare that I10 aBjaBne wa8 hes are the usual remedies
was superb. The brave Marshal Lannes
one day severely reprimanded a colonel
who had punished a young officer for a
moment of fear. “ That man,” said lie,
is worse than a poltroon, who pretends
he never knows fear.”
On the bank holiday at the Alexandra
palaoe, London, 199,990 persons were
turned into one inclosure. Thirty
thousand cups of tea and coffee, 350
barrels oi ale, 42,000 loaves of bread, and
itn a seuoo u. —*■-. . . , I 60,000 buns and cakes were consumed
And sho turned mto the shad n j b morning and night.
hat ledonly to tho Blessing farm, »od
Light and Heavy Blows.
The difference in effect between a
blow delivered by a light hammer trav
eling fast, and one delivered by a
heavier I10 minor traveling more
slowly, is that the effects of the
blow are more confined in the first
case and more spread in the second.
The blow from a light hammer pene
trates but slightly below the suriace;
while a blow from a heavy hammer
penetrates deeply into the metal which
is being forged. In practice, it will be
observed that light, quick blows have
a tendency to drive out of shape, split
and break the iron; while tho force of
heavy blows with a heavy hammer
moving slowly, penetrates deeply into
tho iron, and forces the ;mass 01 the
metal out into the desired shape.
Every woodchopper knows the differ
ence in effect between the effort to drive
a wedge into a tight place by light blows
or by heavy on»s. —Manvjacluro* and
Builder.
for bee stings. A fresh tomato leaf
crushed and rubbed on the puncture is
recommended as an easy and sovereign
cure.
A correipondent residing at Ilonolu
Sandwich islands, says that a good
health preservative is to sponge the
body in cold water, containing a small
percentage of some alkali, such as am
monia. The ammonia combines with
the oil or grease thrown out by the
perspiration, forming a soap, which is
easily removed from the skin, leaving
the pores opeD, thus promoting health
and comfort.
Milk (or Chicken*.
Sloppy food is unfit for chickens.
Their stomachs are formed to grind
hard substances, and if given soft food
tho gizzard, a portion of the stomach—
which is mutiple in fowls as in cattle—
is weakened, and does not perform its
partial digestive functions. Milk may
be given with coarse cornmeal, both
being scalded together until it is a stiff
mass, or it nay be curdlod and separated
from the whey, and given dry. But it
must not be sour. Sour Jood is sure to
bring on intestinal disorders and pre
pare such a weakened condition of the
system as will offer favorable oppor
from 95 to $19 per month to the cornc r ,
storekeeper, according to the importance ^ ^ ^ J behind the age n
of the site. He goes to market every ^ ^ are glad that at least among the
two or three days and buys from 95 to more intelllgent c i as8e s of Americ ins, it
$39 worth of truit. lhe profits 0 , a | ba8 become a, common article of food.
of iruit
stand in a good location averages in the
best season $2 a day. He generally
feeds on such fruit as begins to decay.
Like all his countrymen, lie is sober and
more than economical—stingy. He
But in Scotland, where people are
noted for brain and brawn, it has long
been the staple food. Says a recent
Scotch writer: “For the past forty
years I have made my breakfast of a
does not mind coming to blows for » pint of oatmeal porridge, with very rare
stolen apple. The police often hinder exceptions, and nothing else, fasting for
their prospering. Now and then they p our hours afterward.
are ordered to remove, on the pretext
that their stands are incumbrances.
Should they fail to heed the order, their
open-air shops are seized, and that is
the last they see of them. They fre
quently lose a great deal of money in
this way, or by removing to loss favor
able places. “Good corners,” as they
call those central pointB of the city
where their goods find a ready sale, be
come scarcer every day. This explain
why many a fruit vender whose bright
eyc-s and soiled hands were familiar to
New Yorkers las disappeared. The
most of these havc set up their stands
in Brooklyn, which seems to- offer a
better field.— New York Sun.
I The mosquito has six legs and only
ono mouth. Let us therefore be thank
ful that if it does bite it doesn t kick.
“ If, howe ver, I take any other form
of breakfast, I find myself very hungry
before the next meal, which is never tho
case when I have had my porridge.” He
adds: “ I feel assured that if the laborers
of the southern counties, with their
children, would but take a basin of oat
meal porridge and milk, with such
other food as they can procure in the in
terval, we should have a much stronger
and healthier race of men and women.”
We have no doubt, not only that such
diet would give us a stronger and
healthier race of men and women, but
that it would save children from many
of the ills now so rife among them. It
is easily digested, nutritious, makes
muscle, and gives a clear head, which
cannot be said of a large poition of the
food used in this country.—Youth's
Companion!