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WHEN THE FBOST IS ON THE PUNKIN. When the fros! is on the punkin and the fod der's in the shock. And you hoar tho kyouck and gobble of the struttin' turkey-cock, Aud the clackin’ of the guineys, and the cluckin' ol the hens. And the loser's hallylooyer as he tiptoes <>» the fence; O it's then the time a feller is a feelin’ at hit best. With the risin’ sun to greet him from a night of gracious rest. As he h aves the house bart-headod and goes out to fet'd th ■ stock. When the frost is on tin punkin and the fod der’s in the shock. Thoy’s soinopln kind o' hoarty-liko about tho atmosphere. When the heat of Summer's over aud tho coolin' Fall is h re Os course wc miss the Howers, and the blos soms on the t ees. An 1 the mumble of the buinmin'-bird< and buzzin of tho bees; But the air's so apprizin'; and the landscape through the haze Os a crisp and sunny morning of tho early au tumn days Is a picture that no painter has the colorin' to mock— When the frost is on the punkin and tho fod der's in the shock. The husky, rusty rustle of the tossels of tho corn, And the raspin' of tho tangled loaves, as golden as the morn; Thcatubble in th- furrics—kind o'lonesome like, but st 11 A-preachin'sermons to us of the barn-' they growed to till; Th * sirawstack in the medder, and the reaper in the shed; Tho bosses in their stalls belcw—tho clover overhead ! O it sets my heart a-clickin’ like the tickin’ of a clock. When the frost is on the punkin and the so 1- der’s in tho shock ! —l'. John»i»n, in lirli<ing)x>lt» Journal. Obliging a Preacher. Just back of Missionary Ridge, Chat tanooga, while following the highway to reach Tunnell Hill, I came across a lit tle church half hidden in the woods. The building was primitive, and the old darkey who sat on a log by the floor was BVJire so. After I had made inquiries about the route aud was ready to go on he said: “ Better git down, boss, an’ come in to meetin'.” “Do you hold services this after noon?” “ Yes, sah. We am gwine to open ; in 'bout live minits, an’ I’spectS de ser mon will be a powerful one.” It didn’t seem just right to be riding around the country on Sunday, and so 1 got down and took a seat beside the old man. After a few minutes spent in general talk, he said it was time to go in. 1 followed after him, and found myself the sole audience. I next found that ho was tjie preacher who was to deliver tho powerful sermon. He opened services in regular form and with all due solemnity, and then an nounced his text and began preaching. I stood it for fifty-five minutes, and then, as he had only reached “second ly,” 1 waited until he closed his eyes and then made a slide for the door. It was no go. 1 hadn’t gone six feet be fore he stopped his sermon and asked: “ Stranger, must you be gwine?” “Yes, I feel that 1 must.” “ An’ you can’t hcah the rest?” “ No.” “ Den I’ll ehop off right whar’ I is.” “Oh, don’t do that. You can go on with your sermon just the same.” “ But you see dar’ mus’ be a colleck shun tooken up arter de sermon,” ho protested, in anxious tones. “If you'll obleege me by takiu’ a seat I’ll sing a hymn an' pass de hat.” I sat down, and when ho had read and sang a hymn, he passed tho hat, transferred tho quarter to his vest pock et and observed, as we went out: “ I didn’t git down to de moas’ pow erful part of de sermon, but if you hap pen 'long dis way nex’ Sunday I’ll giv’ you de odder half. Dat quarter comes jist in time to encourage mo Io keep de good work bilin’.” Detroit Free Press, How to Get Rid of a Non-Paying Boarder. The London papers abound in curious information about New York. We learn from the /)ru7y .V ics that "Miss W anda Brown, res iling at a fa-hion able boarding-house in Thirty-ninth street. New \ork ( itv. recently gave her landlady, Mrs. Beeble. in charge for a sault aud battery. Being requested by the sitting magistrate to state the particulars of the assault, she deposed that upon three several occasions Nirs. Beeble had put a huge bullfrog in her bed. 'ls that so?' inquired his Honor ol the prisoner. ’ W ell, Judge, 1 ad mit the frogs,' replied Mrs. Beeble; ‘but what is one who is poor, though honest, to do with a boarder who will ne they pav nor quit? This is how it was: 1h: ( ] lost . nough money by her. and wasn t going to w. ste any more on gelt ng her out oi my house by the str< tig arm oi tie 1 law. But my. hus band supplied cold blooded animals to the medical students for their experi ments, and so it struck me one day, lo i.g over his stock, that a likely way to persuade Miss Brown to ; ay up, or, better still, to get rid of her, would be to mini nister a frog or two in her bed.’ * Did your expedient succeed?’ asked the magistrate, with a smile. * You bet,’ answered Mrs. Beeble. • Did she pay u;i, then?’ Not much, Judge; but alter the third frog she vamosed the ranch®.’ ‘That was a good notion of vours, Mrs. Beeble,' observed his Hon ?>r, vainly striving to keep b s coimto name, 'but duty compels me to lino you three dollars.’ ’’ —ln the rivers, rolling to sea, says the American Contract Journal, are ma; ons of horse-power daily running to w: ste. W’e do not appreciate the brook and river, 1 ecause they are so near and have been there so long. Had they com menced flowing but to-day we would have hastened to harness them. —Three Jersey infants, aged eleven, ten, and seven years, have been arrested for breaking into a saloon and making off with all the liquor and segars they could carry, and whatever change they could get hold of. A seven-year-old burglar is a sad and humiliating com ment on the education and care of young children in America.—CAris/mn I’nioit. —Recent geological investigations are thought to establish the fact that the eastern part of Kansas a part of Ne br-ka. Southern lowa and Northern Mi- onri were once covered bv a fresh water lake which received numerous rivers and smaller streams from the out lying regions. the turbid waters of which deposited a -ediment van ing from one hundred and titty to a lew feet in depth —A'. T. Sun. The Evolution ot the Postal System. The first recorded riding-post for any but governmental correspondence was established in Persia by Cyrus, 599 years before the Christian era. He di vided his kingdom up into postal dis tricts and appointed' innumerable mes sengers. These postal messengers of Cyrus went continually, night and day, with great speed. The superintendent of the posts was an important officer. Before he became the last Persian King, Darius held it. The first public riding-post in Rome came in under Augustus, nearly six centuries later. But the Chinese, who are credited with lots of good in those days, however bad they may be now, had a postal system away back in the first chapter of their million-volume history. A queer point in Chinese postal history is that they had laws pro viding punishment for writers of decoy letters and robbers of the mails. Chi i nese posts were called jambs. They were located twenty-five miles apart, and Marco Polo swears they numbered 10,000 and employed 2<X>,ooo horses in his day. These Chinese post houses were also inns, at which sumptuous entertainment was provided, if the Ve netian traveler is to be believed. The Peruvians and Aztecs had a regular system ot postal communication, evi dently the outgrowth of ages of experi ence, when the Spaniards dissipated their felicitous barbarism. Many speci mens of their hieroglyphical correspond ence exist in the museum now. Apart from the riding post, pigeons were extensively employed in tho Orient for the conveyance of correspondence. In fact the practice continues thereto this day. In Syria, Arabia, and Egypt every bashaw generally has a basketful of them with him on his travels from the grand seraglio, where they are bred, and ii'-es them in cases of emergency to communicate with his friends. There are records of dogs having been used for longdistance correspondence by the raceiof Nn t hern Europe. in those davs letters were generally in the f irm of rolls, round a stick, or, I if a long letter, round two sticks, be -1 ginning at each e id and rolling them : until they met in the middle. Books of I every size were c lo l rolls, Our word volume means ju t tho same thing in its original signification. The roil, book, or letter was commonly wri’ten on one side. Letters then, as is the custom in the east at present, wore sent in most cases without being sealed ; while those addressed to persons of listinction were i placed in a valuable purse, or bag, which was tied, closed u it h clay or wax, and so stamped with the writer’s sig net. The Roman scrinium, or bookcase, a very costly cabinet, shows how these I rolls were preserved They were put I in lengthwise and labeled on the top. I Charlemagne established a post on the Persian plan in his empire In 807. I But the first actual letter-post Bystem extending beyond tho mere conveyance of letters between different parts of one country, and branching out into for eign lands, was originated by the Hanse towns, about. 1109. The Hanseatic league, established in north Germany, consisted chiefly of merchants in the chief ports of Germany, Eranee, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Russia, Norway, and ! England; correspondence between them ! was a business necessity, and this ne cessity led to the formation of a postal union, so to speak. The Hanse posts carried private correspondence, too, but. at such rates that it cost more to post j love-letters than it does to tell your girl j how you adore her through the personal ! columns of a modern daily at $1 a line. As long as tho 11 inse towns stuck to business and letter-carrying they were ; all right. But they became belligerent, and started in to light other confedera tions and powers, and about the middle of the fifteenth century their power be gan to decline. In 1805 all that was left of what had been the most powerful commercial league and automatic con federation in Europe were the towns of . Hamburg, Lubock and Bremen. But t four centuries before that their postal i system had faded from monopolistic | powers. The Emperor Maximilian had established a post between Austria aud Normandy. About the same time Louis XI. set up the first regular post-houses in France since the decline of those es tablished by Charlemagne. Post-horses and stages came in use in Franco in 11 83. Ihe mounted posts in France were stationed at distances of four miles apart, and were required to be ready day and night to carry government mes sages as rapidly as possible. Private correspondence, however, was earned on very differently. The students of a university in Paris established a postal institution in the eleventh century. A number of pedestrian messengers' were employed, who boro letters from its thousands of students to the various countries of Europe from which they came, and brought to them the money , they needed for the prosecution of their ; studies. 1 England and America, however, were the nations which actually developed tne postal system to its present magnifi cent proportions. The first post-houses in England were established in 1483. The regular riding-post system owes its origin to Edward IV. But as far back as Edward 11. private letters were sent by regular post, as the inscription on the envelopes, “Haste, post, haste!” ’ shows. I Little or no improvement was made in England in the postal system until Queen Bess’ reign; £5,000 "a year was all the post cost then, even in its ad vanced condition. In 1858, disputes among the foreign merchants resident in Ixmdon, in regard to the foreign post i which up to now they had been permit ted to manage among themselves, which they had done with a jealous eve to their , own interests, of course, led to the ap pointment of a “master of posts.” The first chief postmaster of the world cre ated thus was Thomas Randolph. Ho went to work vigorously, and in his time did away with most of the abuses which grew out of the old mixed-np system of posts.— Cincinnati Enquirer. —We ought always to look at life cheerfully. When an old man crawled ashore after having fallen into the river from a log he simply remarked that he could have crossed on that log easily enough, but that he didn’t want to.— N. Y. lieraid. Mohammed's Success. The pauses Which led to Mohammed’s Success will be best understood by tak ing a rapid glance at the condition ot Arabia about the time of his birth. It must be borne in mind that a vague be lief in one God existed among the Arab tribes long before that event. Nor must it be forgotten that the Arabs and Jews were kindred races, speaking kindred languages, and having kindred customs, practices and prejudices. Driven out of their own land at successive epochs by Assyrians, Greeks and Romans, many Jewish tribes settled in Arabia; and when the Roman Empire became Chris tianized, colonies of Christians also scattered everywhere, found their way into the Arabian peninsula, causing much mutual attrition and interchange of thought between Jews, Christians and Arabians. Occasionally Arab tribes were thus converted to the faith of the colonists. Unhappily both the Judaism and Christianity imported in this way into the country were of a debased character. They were not very much better than the forms of religion already prevalent among the Arab tribes. Even the doctrines of God’s unity had been tampered with and corrupted. No creed worthy of the name of religion existed anywhere in Arabia. Tritheism, poly theism, Sabaeism, adoration of the sun and planets, idolatry, fetishism, animal worship, plant-worship, stone-worship, superstitions of the grossest kinds, were rife in various ways among various tribes. Nowhere, except in the hearts of a few of the more intelligent and thoughtful, were any true ideas of God still cherished. It was under such cir cumstances, and amid such surround ings, that Mohammed, “the praised one” (as his name signifies), was born at Mecca about A. D. 570. His father, Abdullah, died before his birth, and his mother, Aiuinah, when he was six years old. Yet he enjoyed one great advantage, notwithstanding his orphaned condi tion. He had not to waste time and energy in pushing his way upward from obscurity. His grandfather, Abd-ul- Muttalib, who adopted him, belonged to the Arabian aristocracy. He was of the noble family of Hashim, of the Kuresh tribe, and was the appointed guardian of the Ka’bah, or sacred temple atMec cah, a small, tube-shaped stone building which had existed as a sacred edifice for many centuries previously. The guar dianship of this temple was regarded as the highest honor to which any family could aspire, tho belief being that it was originally erected by Abraham over tho spot where he was about to sacrifice Ishmael. On the death of the grand father of Mohammed, while he was still a boy, his uncle, Abu Talib, became his guardian, and during all his difficul ties never deserted him. His family | though noble, was poor, and the boy Mohammed was obliged to earn his livelihood by tending sheep in the wil derness, thus from his earliest years resembling his great prototype, Moses, who had to act as shepherd to his fath er-in-law, Jethro. It was notuntil Mo hammed was twenty-live years of ago that he married his rich kinswoman ; Khadijah. She was a widow lady who had acquired great wealth by trading transactions, and was fifteen years his senior. She had intrusted the manage ment of her affairs to Mohammed, and, having found him eminently trust wort hy, gave proof of her gratitude by offering him her hand. It is remarkable that he ! remained faithful to Khadijah until her death, which did not occur until he was ! in his fifty-first year.— Nineteenth Cen tura. A Horror of Horrors. A letter received in ('hieago yester day brings the news of a most terrible cident, in whi h the victim was Captain •lames Anderson, a navigator well i known in Chicago and at most every port along the chain of lakes. The 8 hooner Benson, of which Captain Anderson was commander, had gone to Lake Superior for a cargo of timber, she and two or three other craft being I towed by the tug Metamora. The tow ■ arrived safely at the camp on Serpent I River, rnd the work of loading com menced. On the second day after ar . rival, while timber was being put aboard the Benson, the accident oc curred, and the horrible death of Cap j tain Anderson was the result. Great j iron grips are used Io draw the huge, heavy, slippery sticks of timber into the vessel. In some wav these grips I slipped when Captain Anderson was i standing by, and. Hying up, caught the Captain by the head and literalh tore his head otT. The sight was a sieken i ing and horrible one, and the accident cast a gloom over the entire camp, and especially over the crew of the Benson. Ihe hardy sailors, some of whom had been through war ashore and a.loat, said they never witnessed anything so terrible before, and certainly hoped they never would again. What made it more terrible was that a second be fore tho Captain was in robust health, a whole-souled, large-hearted, good-na tured friend, talking in his jocular way with the men. \\ hen the latter heard the grip slip, saw the body slung twenty or thirty feet and the head remain in strings in the fearful teeth of the horri ble tool, it was more than they could stand. 1 hey -huddered. sickened, ami shed tears. No more work was done on board the Benson that day. C’/u’ca <7o Inter Ocean. Gum Arabic. The most familiar objects about us are often least understood, and probably few can pause to ask the question, what is gum arabic, amt from whence it comes? In Morocco, about the middle of November (that is just after the rainy season), a gummy juice exudes spon taneously from the trunk and branches of the acacia. It gradually thickens in the furrow down which it runs, and as sumes the form of oval and round drops, about the size of a pigeon egg, of differ ent colors, as it comes from the red or white gum tree. About the middle of December the Moors encamp on the border of the forest, and the harvest lasts a full month. The gum is packed in large leather sacks and transported on the backs of camels and bullocks to seaports for shipment to different coun tries. Ihe harvest occasion is made one of great rejoicing, and the people, for the time being, alm ist live on gum, winch is nutritious and fattening. Such is the commercial story of this simple but useful article. " > Sanborn’s Experiment in Feeding. , The published details of the ®M> er ’' ments of J. W. Sanborn Superintendent A tbd College Farm at Hanoxer, contain Interesting results, Bome which in condensed form are here given. The experiments in feeding calves present some facts which may some value to meat raisers. Two calves were taken, four and a half weeks ol , both together weighing 283 pounds, and were fed 20 quarts Os skimmed milk daily late in November. They gained in 18 daxs 39 pounds. Over 8 quarts of milk were required for 1 pound i growth. For tn* next 14 daysta pound of mixed meals was t o. J to f and they gained 63 pounds, aw \ 2.2 cents per portnd. For the nexv days t,hey had 2 pounds of meal and 4 pounds of hay added to the milk each day, and they gained 59 pounds, at a cost of 3 cents a pound. 4or the next 14 days they had nearly the and gained 71 pounds, at a cost of -■< cents a pound. Duringthe next 14dax s they gained 60 pounds on the same food, with some addition of hay, at a cost of 3.5 < ents. Fourteen days later they had gained 63 pounds, with added meal and I hay. at a cost per pound of 3.9 cents. The less n taught by these results was that the older the meat, the more cost ly; but through t' e whole, although in winter, there was an actual profit, rat ing the meal at 1.4 cents a pound, the milk at 4 mills, and the hay at. $lO per ton. This was a single limited ex periment, but it shows the importance to farmers of knowing at what age of animals it is most prolitab’e to feed or dispose of them. We observe in the de i tails of the above experiment that there was but a slight increase in the amount of food given when the weight of the animals bad largely increased. Other experiments were made, with those averaging 425 pounds each, to de termine the probable amounts of lood animals would consume. They were found to require 3J per cent, of their live weight daily in hay, the small amount of grain being estimated in hay. Ten pounds of hay were required for one pound of growth. Additional trials were made with two-year steers, weigh ing iron) 1,000 to 1,100 pounds. An average of eight experiments, extend ing from 28 to 90 days, gave a con sumption of 2.1(1 per cent, of their live Weight daily, with an average gain of [o.’&’Tof a pound. The important fact was determined that the older : larger the animal grows, the more food i it requires to make a pound of growth. Some valuable experiments were ; made with roots as food. For growing cattle, carrots brought nothing, but they proved very much better for milk and butter than swedes or mangolds. The Litter were found worse th in useless for milch cows, as compared with other food, While for growing animals they brought one dollar and seventy-five cents a ton, rating hay at ten dollars a ton. I’rof. Sanborn alludes to the old analytical methods of determining the value of foods, and these applied to carrots would show 1.35 of albuminoids. By the present method it is cut down to only 0.26. This fact bears rather hard i on the infallibility of abstract scientific ’ teaching The Pea Weevil. The pea weevil is so destructive in : every part of the United States, except, : perhaps, from Central Wisconsin north, as to have most seriously inter fered with the cultivation of the pea as a seed or food crop. Hence the most of our seed and food peas are raised in ! Canada, and corresponding latitudes I where the season is too short or too cold for the insect, the ravages ot which occur more freely as we approach the ■ tropics. This insect is one of the snout beetles, I and closely allied to the curculio,and no i means have yet been found to stay its ravages. The eggs are laid on the pods ; of the young pea, to which they are fas tened by a viscid fluid. The insects work at night and on dark, cloudy davs, and i the eggs hatching, the minute worm ; finds its way through the pod and into ; the peas, upon which it feeds, avoid i ing, however, the germ, so that a pea ' may be nearly eatpn out, as to its meat, and yet still retain the power of germi nation, although weak. If the peas, as soon as gathered, are threshed, and dried at a temperature of i 140 degrees, the youngf insects are said to be killed, but the seed will not germi nate. Immersion of the dry peas in scalding water for 100 seconds is said to kill the pupa without injury to the pea. An immersion of about three minutes totally destroys germination of the pea. Late-sown peas usually escape the attacks of the insect, but the crop is then liable to mildew in the West. So far, it must be confessed, no cer tain practical means have been found to subdue-the insect, and it is now feared the allied weevil (Bruchus Fabie) which attacks the bean, will create great loss in this crop. In fact the weevil family (eurculioni(hr), or snout beetles, one of the largest families in the order of bee tles, and comprising over 10,000 distinct and described species, and preying upon all grain, legumes, fruits, and nuts, are the most difficult to check of any of the destructive insects. As to effective means for killing all insects infesting seeds, the weevil tribe generally, we have lately seen the bisulphide of carbon recommended. It certainly is deadly,and a small quantity poured in the bottom of a grain bin would permeate the whole mass. Half a pint of the liquid is said to be sufficient for fifty to 100 bushels of grain, since it is both volatile aud penetrating. The Miller advises placing the chemical in connection with the grain, in order to get it duly in the bottom of the bin, as follows: Take a hollow iron cylinder—a gas pipe will do well—and fit into it a wood en rod, which shall be a little longer than the iron tube. One end of the rod uto be made sharp; now place the rod inside t n- tube, and with the sharp end down f. rce them both to the bottom of the gram; then, having withdrawn the rod. turn in the liquid through the tube, which should be pulled out. The insect icide, of course, is left at the bottom of the grain, and being very volatile, soon diffuses through the mass and converts the bin into an insect cemetery Prairie Farmer. —ls young men get no good at church they are at least kept from getting bad. WM. A. MILLER, C - T . CARgijJ I MILLER & CARGILL, WHOLESALE. QUEENSWArJ • I No. 184 Market Street, CHATTANOOGA. TZEJSTTST. Refined Petroleum and Lubricating Oils Isep3 6m | THE “WHITE” SEWING MACHINE,! The Ladies’ Favorite! | * BECAUSE T iS THE LIGHTEST RUMMIN3 I the most quiet; makes the prettiest stitch ; and has more convenience s f rsjii anv other'.Machine. Tt is warranted fiye years and is the I eaß ' estto sel1 ’ and gives tlie boet Batis ' W faction of any Machine on the iu aiket I Intending purchasers are solicited examine it before buying. Responsible dealers wanted in all unoccupied ter ritory. J. ». Ac T. 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Prices guaranteed W compare with Atlanta. jels tl The Dalton Argus, [changed from independent headlight,] Brightest, Most Progressive, Liberal and Popular News Paper in Northwest G-eorgia. ONLY ONE TDOL-LjJLIEL jL YEAR- Advertisers can find no Better Medium through which to Meet the Farmers, Mechanics, Merchants, Mil! Men and People of this section. H. A. WRENCH, Publisher. One of the Epochs. Among the latest commissions issued by Acting Post master-General Hatton, says a recent Washington special, is one to “Bill” Nye, lately appointed postmaster at Laramie City, Wv. T. Nye is the editor of the Daily tioome rang. In accepting the nomination he says: Laramtb City, Wy. T.. Au.mst 19, JBH2. Ml Dear General: 1 have received the news by t legraph of my nomination and con “emation as postma-t r at Laramie, and wish to extend my thanks for the same I have order -d an entirely new set of boxes and peat-office outfit, ineiud ng new corrugated cuspadores tor the use of cleflts. 1 look upon the appointment nivself as a triumph < f eternal truth over error and wrong. It 's one of the epochs. as I mav say. m the N’ati >n’s onward inarch toward wh o 't'J. . punty and . P er, vet on. I don't know wh< n I hat e noticed any stride in the affairs wh . i,h 80 thoroughly impressed me with its wisdom. Now tha we are coworkera in the same department, I trust yon will not Teel shy or backward in consulting meat anv time relative to matters concerning Posl-Ot tief* Department affairs. Be perfectly t runk with me, and feel perfectly free just to bring anj thing of t. at kind right to me. I do not fee leluctant because I may appear at times void and reserved Perhaps you think I do not know the d tlerence between a post-office window andla three-em quad, but that is a mistake. My general information is far be yond my years. With profoundest regards i remain, smeeredy yours. Bill Nve. —ltalian papers announce the dis covery at Dorgali, in the island of Sar dinia, of a great stalactite cave. Fifteen galleries have been already traced. In •me of them there is a row of pillars like white marble, and the floor is smooth, resembling the finest basalt. When lit up with torches the combina tions and varieties of coloring are won derfully beautiful. The Climate in Different Parts of ie Union. Figures gleaned from the observation points of forty-nine States and Territo ries show that the hottest places in the Union are Florida, Louisiana and Ari zona, the mean temperature of which i* 69. Texas ranks next at 67, Alabama ($. Mississippi 64, Arkansas 63, South Caro lina 62, Indian Territory 60, North Caro lina 59. Georgia and Tennessee stand on a par at 58, Virginia 57, Kentucky 56. The mean temperature of 55 prevails in Cali fornia, Missouri and the District of Co lumbia ; 54 in Maryland and Pennsylva nia, 53 in Delaware, Ohio and Oregon» 52 in Idaho, Utah and West Virginia, 51 in Indiana, Kansas, New Mexico and Washington Territory, 50 in Connecti cut, Illinois, Nevada and New Jersey, 49 in lowa and Nebraska; Massachu setts ranks with Rhode Island, New York and Colorado at 48; Michigan and Dakota are equal at 47; Alaska is not the coldest part of the Union, as is com monly supposed, but stands with New Hampshire at 46 ; colder than these are Maine and Wisconsin at 45, Montan* and Vermont at 43, Minnesota at 42. and coldest of all, Wyoming at 41. —Two or three year old cattle will add one-third of a pound more per daV to their weight upon prepared hay and roots than upon the same materials un prepared. Chicago Journal. —A minister at Brompton Ont., has been sued by a girl he kissed two years ago; she waited for him to do it again until her patience was clean gone. —( hi caao Tinuu.