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7/0 B' DO THE WRINKLES COMEI Little Bo Peep climbs onto my knee— Little Bo Peep is four years old, Ands wlpvt her briatht blue eyes don't see Would need a mt?roscopo to behold. She ppi)# my beard—that’s one of her tasks; Site pokes my cheeks with her little fat thumb; Then, grazing straight in ray face, she asks: “ What is it that makes the wrinkles come?” Ah, little Bo Peep, yon can not guess How hard Is the question vou thus pro pound; Il calls for greater wisdom (or less) Than ever philosopher yet has found. There wn«n time, my little Bo Peep, \| nen my face was as smooth as yours Is Wow, When hover a line or wrinkle deep Had left its imprint on my brow. A time when 1 woke from balmy sleep To find lite always a glad surprise When 1 lauglied as you laugh, my little Bo Peep, And looked on the world with the. tune .blue eyes. Ah, wpU, 1 laughed and loved and grew old. Working away nt life’s hard sum, And half was dross that I dreamed was gold, And so the wrinkles began to come! Vv S tliftt is the wav, my Mtt le Bo Peep— As near its 1 can tell yon now— That is the way the fuyrOWs deep, One byohe, crept over tny brow. When I saw the glad, bright dream of youth, Like the rose of snnitner wither away; When t learned how the fragrant flower of Truth By the thla/le of Falsehood was strangled one day; iVhen the faith I placed in man was returned By man's ingratitude, blacker than night; When the hard and bitter truth hud been learned That might., in this world, too often makes right; When T saw the good borne down ami op pressed. The wicked triumphant in their shame, The Samaritan scorned an I the Pliariaoo blessed— Then, little Bo Poop, the wrinkles came, Bnt may yon tn the sunshine ever bask, So that when the years shall have m ul<> you grav, some Ho Peen gazin'.- at you shall ask : What is it. that keeps t.ii» wrinkles away / The Saxon Domestic. Nobody can fully appreciate the nu merous good graces and accomplish ments, the amiable disposition and the Imtient and obedient demeanor of the lalu* servant girl in Saxony -but those who have suffered from the vices winch the servant girl in America car riW with her anti accumulates as she change* places. Perham 1 can best describe the Saxon girt bv mentioning what she is not, and . giving a list of the things she does not do. Ta begin with, she does not go to church at six o’clock every Sunday morning, returning in time to see her mirtress and her employer washing the breakfast dishes. She does not hurry up the dinner hour on Sunday, making everybody in the house sit down to the table without an appetite, because she his an engagement to call on her aunt. She does not want two afternoons a week t< visit her sister, and she is contented ifshe gets two afternoons a month. She dors not make as much per week as a Rkillfnl mechanic, counting her board and the little things she takes with her th her brother-in-laws. She does not dress as well as her mistress, nor is she angry if her toilet is interrupted in the morning. If she is corrected in any work she is doing she does not tell her mistress to take it and do it herself. She does not see her company in the parlor. She doesn’t see any company in the house. Her brother does not call on her three'nighls a week, ahd keep her up timil midnight every time he calls, and she has apparently no male cousins. She does not object to doing chamber work, dr to taking care of the children when she has nothing else to do. Sho does not claim that the beefsteak which U good enough for her employer is not fit to be eaten. She can not throw up her place without giving three months' notice. She strives not to pass away the time talking over the division fence in the back yard to the girl next door, but, on the contrary, is perfectly willing to do a good day s work like other labor ing people. She does not receive !®l or $5 per week, even if she is the very best kind of girl. Her wages or less than *4 or $5 per month, and sometimes not more than S 3. She is as honest as she is industrious. Whatever she does she does neatly. She is neat herself, and she is not above wearing calicoes even on the street. Iler disposition is cheer ful, her manners are good, her hair is light, her eyes are blue, her complexion is fair, and, taking altogether, it A as tonishing how quickly she can be spoiled after she lands at Castle Garden.— Chemnitz Cor. Chieaao News. Cod"sh Curing and Marketing. To cure a codfish well requires care and experience: and unless done well all the fisher s toil may go for little. The cod is usually pa-sed to a gang of four men. One rips up the ti-h. a second takes out the entrails and cuts off the bead, a third usually the best man of the lot by a deft movement cuts out the backbone, a fourth spreads on tlie salt and lays the tisli in a pile. Then the heap of cod are distributed on the flakes, or tiF-strewn platforms, reared along the shores. Every where in the neighborhood oi the unnumbered fishing villages these broad platforms appear, now perched in a clett of ti e rocks, now rising in tiers, but alwavs placed near the sea. in which the otlal is dropped. During the < tiring, which lasts two or three weeks, the fish must be watched carefully. If left too long on one side, they become “o\er salted. ” The sun in that case draws the salt to one side, leaving the other soft or rank, and the tish is almost unsalable. Then they must be heaped up at n ght. cov ered with canvas or oil-clo:n against rain, and tended almost as sedulously as bab< a. When ready for market they are sold to the wholesale dealers, bring ing at bL John’s, during a scarce season like the present, only five cents a pound. Newfoundland finds her chief market in Roman Catholic countries, where the fish are consumed during Lent. Lately, however, the Norwegians have become hot rivals of the Newfoundlanders in,- the European marketAmerican' housewives may be glad to know that the local tests of a good salt codfish are a surface hart! and well dried on both sides, white flesh, and an absence of salty crystallizations. Efforts thus far to utilize as compost the thousands of tons of otlal annually wasted have failed, and the same is substantially true of attempts to preserve the delicate caplin in some permanent edible form. —SI. John's (N. F.) Cor. N. F. ran tare or tne .vieaaowiu It is well, after the crop is taken off, to look well to the surface, as to its con dition, as there are few meadows that yield evenly all over the field. Most men practice upon the idea that when a meadow is once started, a sod being formed, it is finished, nothing being re quired but to open the gate at haying time, going in with the machinery, ahd taking the crop off close down. The mower is not so easy on a meadow as the old fashioned scythe was in the early days. The scythe cut with the edge directed upwards, while the mower is usually dropped dose down, shaving th • surface to the roots; and as the blade passes over inequalities that are higher than the general average of the surface, these higher spots arc shaved well into the nails, and tho vitality of the plant, whether it be timothy, clover, or any other meadow grass, will be im paired. The drought that lisiialiy follows harvest i« very dahiaging to a close-cat meadow, and the sun’s rays striking upon the exposed, closely-shaved Sur face, are exceedingly IryiHg upon ihd plant. The meadow should be harrowed thoroughly, but not too roughly, and well jqunured with fine manure, giving particular attention bi the spreading to Buch portions Os the find Its yii'ldlight, and hence require the ai<l of manure. The meadow should be cross harrowed. September is a little late to scatter se d upon such spots ns feqtiife replenishing in this way. but if neglected prior to this time it should be done now, trust ing to the stirring given the siirfa' h, the manure, and the fall rains, to rtiake the seeding effective. Seed in any cast should be liberally applied, but especially Bo in this, as with such an opportunity only a portion will take mot. Some men who arc lerv good hands to feed farm stock, are totally negli gent in the matter of feeding their crops. A meadow poorly fed is no more likely to yield a profit than is a steer if kept on a meager allowance. It is not expected that on farms in gen eral any at lent'< n wi 1 !»• |ad to artitb eial manures; yet there is no farmer who would not he be lelitcd pectin nrily by using these in ndditl n to his stock of manure from Ihe him yard. Mead ows are so wonderfully improved bv tho use of nitrate of soda, that It alWats pays to n-e this article who 0 ally need of stimulilt ng a grass crop exists.— Na!ionol Live Stock Journal. ’ Are Women Better Dressed than Ment One of the signs of advanced civiliza tion is discomfort in dress; the further any nation advances in civilization, the more she tortures her subjects, and, strangely enough, the Infliction fall# upon the so-called upper class. The educated class, the members of the liberal professions, the denizens of the city, the merchant and his clerks, suffer more than the poor laborer from heat if not from cold. As between the sexCS there is little difference in this respect. Civilization even extends its cruel hand over the babe in its cradle, and would afflict the dead if they had any feelings left. Science has investigated the absorbent and radiant powers of different fibers and different colors, but man, in his wisdom, disregards this, and prefers the worst instead of the best. Woman may expose her brain to the direct rays of the sun by wearing a small, useless bonnet, but tashion compels her to carry a parasol to compensate for it. On the other hand, fashion, not so cruel as she is painted, is equally in favor of large hats with useful brims. Not so with man. Broad brims are tabooed, and parasols are not permissible. With re gard to the neck, man has no choice; a collar he must wear, and one fitting close to the neck and reinforced by a cravat or tie. To woman alone is granted the comfort of low-necked, nalf-low, heart-shaped or loose-fitting collars. The body, or trunk,is no better off. Man must wear a stiff white shirt, a vest, and a lined and padded coat. Woman needs wear but one (visible) garment, which may be made as light and thin as possible without being trans parent. It is even doubtful whether the tightly drawn corset, that object of uni versal use which is so violently de nounced by the opposite sex, causes more discomfort than the numerous articles with which man surrounds him self; for physiologists have learned that woman can breathe with the upper part of the lungs (thoracic breathing), and therefore suffers less from tight-lacin<r than man. As regards the arm, matters are pretty evenly balanced, with the odds in favor of woman, who may shorten her sleeves as much as she pleases, and in no case wears more than one long-sleeved garment, where a man wears three. Cuffs she may dispense with, but ho can not. Her sleeves need not be lined'; tiis must, unless of very thick material —Boston Journal of Chemistry. A Change of Base. It was at a social gathering at Colonel Percy Verger’s mansion on Austin ave nue. There was a newly-arrived young lady present, who was in Austin on a visit. She was talking to an Austin young gentleman, when, pointing to an other young lady, she asked: “ ho is that horrid fright with red ha>r and turn-up nose near t he window?” “ Do you refer to the young lady with the bine dress?” he asked. ‘■\es, that gawky-lo >king creature with the blue dress and a cheap pink sash, and a stuck-up air about her.” "I’hat is mi sister,” remarked the young man, gravely. ■’Good gracious! You don't tell me so? I don’t know when I have seen such a dear, charming creature lam just dying to be introduced to her. lean tell by her looks we shall like each oth er.”— Texas Sitlini/s. Ihe Indiana Bureau of Statistics, estimating the benefits to be derived from tile drainage, show that land which yielded an average of nine and a half ' 'ii'hels of wheat per acre for five vears before drainage, yielded nineteen and one-half bushels for five vears after I e ing drained. With coni the increase was from thirty-one to seventy four nushels per acre. During the same period the num! er of eases of malarial -I kuess was diminish,.J from 1.840 cases to 40U cases after drainage. I Indiana State Sentinel. Individuality. In asserting your own individuality, do it with becoming modesty. How? Oh no Telemochtis, “cheek” is not “ better than wisdotn.” It is not better than anything. It is too brassy to be mistaken for anything else. All the triumphs of cheek are only apparent. The world knows the Cheery man, and assigns him to his proper level. It is true, that sometimes the man of cheek bores his way along through the crowd to seats and places intended for better people, and for the time we give way to him. But so we give way, my boy, to a man carrying a pot of paint in each hand. Not because we respect the man, but localise we want to take care of our clothes. AVojd cheek, because you can Fell gnods Withbut it, ahd Vour custom ers won’t run away and hide in the cel lar when they see you coming. Re member, my boy. the world it> older than ybutsfelf by setehal tfiousahtl year*; that for centuries past it has been so full of better and smarter young men than yourself that their feet stick out of tho dormer windows, and when these yolihg mfeh died, th** old globe went whirling right along, and not one man in ten million went to the funeral, or even heard of the death. Be as smart as you can, of course. Know as mubh aM you cah, without blow ing the packing but of your cylinder heads. Shed the light of your wisdom kbrbftd in the world, buj- try not to daz zle people with it, and don’t always ex pect people to believe that a thing is so s mply because you say it is. Don’t be 100 sbfry for ybur old father because he knows so much less than you do. Re member, my boy, he hasn t had your advantages. The world has great need of ybung men* but no greater need than the young theh havC of It; Young nu n are useful, and they are ornamental; we all love them and we couldn’t engi neer a picnic successfully without them. But they are no novelties, my son. Oh no; nothing of the kind. They have been here before. Now, mind; I don’t want you to be sb modest that you will shut yburstdf e'.Uar oil*; but dbh’t be sb fresh you will have to be put oh ice to keep from spoiling. Don’t be afraid that yolir merit* will not be discovered. I’eOple tdl OVet Ibe State atte huntiiig fol* yoti, ahd if you are woith finding, they will iihd you. A diamond is not so easily found as a flint pebble, but people search for it more earnestly, and shout and show it to the world when they find it. If you are a pebble, mv boy, you'll help macadamize the road, and if you are a diamond, you’ll go into the crown jewels or travel with a min strel troupe, the Fates only know which. / urliiai on llamki w tire on Cattle* The suggestion was recently made in this paper that our National and State entomologists could not do a better thing than to investigate the subject of the external parasites of cattle and (0 deVise means that will itlsure their de struction. Every person is presumed to know a louse when he sees it, but very few can identify the different varieties of this numerous family of insects, or Can tell whether the kind that is found oh one class of Animals or fowls Will live And thrive on another. Comuarativelv few know how to destroy them without injuring the creature they molest. Au lowa farmer thinks that lie has found a remedy that is at once harmless to the animal and harmfid to the parasites. In a communication to The Homestead he gives it: ‘‘lake common larkspur seed and steep it,and wash thoroughly every part of the body. I have known one appli cation to destroy every in-eet and egg. Two will suffice if done thoroughly. I give in addition two remedies that 1 con sider more efficacious than the other: mercurial ointment, kerosene and lard, tobacco smoke, a wash of tobacco, or sul phur in salt. These all will sometimes injure the stock. A good remedy is dry dust gathered from the road, and sifted and put in a box for winter, (nature’s remedy); rub it well in, and as they hatch repeat. Also pulverized charcoal mixed with dust is still better. 1 have heard that fine Indian meal or shorts were good, used in the same wav. 1 know they are good to apply inside. When an animal is affected it should be immediately removed from the other stock and thoroughly treated, and not allowed to run until the whole herd is covered. The old-fashioned larkspur is the best, as it bears the most seed and is perennial. A small patch will supply all the seed you will or ought to need Chieaao I'inies. The Effect of Stock Fluctuations. “ Guess 1 won’t take in the school to day,” said a Carson urchin with an Appeal in his hand. “Why not?” "Concordia has fallen oft ten cents, and I don't dare show up until it picks up again.’ "What have the fluctua tions of Concordia got to d > with y.uir studies.” “A good de d,” ansiveicd tlie boy "My teacher has a hundred shares of the stoeß, and when it falls of! a few cents we all catch it heavy. I keep my eye on the list, and when there’s a break you bet I don’t go t,> school. 1 play sick. Golly! how she basted me the time Mount Diablo bust ed down to two dollars. When it was cellin’ at twenty she was as nice as pie. 1 was the first feller that got on to the break, and told the boys of my class that if she didn’t sell there’d be the dickens to pay. 1 heard Uncle Fraser say it was a good short, and I never s ept a wink for a week. I grabbed the appeal the first thing every morning; when I saw her keel down to sixteen I skipped to the hills. Oh my! How she did bang Johnny Dobson round that morning. 1 was in hopes that the I lasted mine would pick up. but the wa ter got in the lower levels: and 1 knew we were in for it. She licked some- I ody for every dollar it dropped. After it struck eight it picked up a little, and we hid time to get. My mother’s been •atchin’ my pants now ever since the big break in Sierra Nevada, and if th • market don’t take a turn pretty soon l.’m goin’ to quit the public school and •ro to work on a ranch.”— Carson Citi, —ln Arizona, wnen a few bands of In liaus leave their reservations and kill tiv citizens, the Governor reports that a “feeling of insecurity exists.” This tat ■nient at ba.-.t seems plausible.— ( 7</> yo Herald L D. E. Southworth is re sponsible for sixty-four novels He Saw a Sea-Serpent. “Say” ejaculated a man as he rushed up and grabbed a Herald reporter by the arm, “have you interviewed the man that saw the sea-serpent?” The reporter replied that he had not, and asked to be immediately taken to the fortunate individual. . Now, if there is anything which Chi cago has been backward in it is the production of sea-serpents, and while such towns as Boston and New Bedford and Cincinnati and St. Louis have been giving out tales of monsters of the deep, Chicago, with ample lake facilities and an ” quantity of the breed, has been strangely sliefit. The reporter conse quently made haste xb interview the gentleman who* it being a sea-soryv stdfyi will be hereafter referred to a? “a gentleman of Undoubted, veracity.' The man who had seen thd tfiOnstei' was interviewed by the reporter in tnß hot over Commodious quarters which he occupied. He had a Wild, startled looky from which the reporter surmised that he had not recovered from the terrible sight. His name was James Smithing ton, and on being requested to detail his experieflfies,' he pt once proceeded to business, first casting a ftittivtl glance around to make sure that the aninlAl was not in the apartment with him. “i left the lake front about 7 o’clock last evening, in cortqiafly with a friend. When about two miles off the north end of the Government pier at the enti’dnco to the Chicago River, my attention was called to a singular looking object which was advancing upon me at a i terrible rate of speed. When within a i.few thousand feet of us it seemed to I raise its immense body, or neck, some ten feet out of the water, and at th? I same time twenty feet in the rear, its fail was seen to rise up, and at times lash the water. All at once the fish or serpent vanished from sight. At this point in the narrative the gen tleman of undoubted veracity suddenly stopped, and, pullingoff his boot, shook it, and then grasping it by the straps he suddenly sprang forward and crushed Un inofferisivO tobacoo quid which lay upon the floor. “It had become quite dark by this time,” he resumed, “and when I re turned I agitin saw the terrible thing advancing upon me at a great rate of speed. When about twenty-five yards from me it stopped, but in an instant it shot ahead with a ringing and rum bling noise. Its single eye, of a blood red color, was directed upon tile, and I was powerless to move from beneath its baleful glare.” The reporter shuddered a first-class shudder. “ The rumbling noise increased, the glare of its single eye became fiercer, and 1 seemed paralyzed. Its body was about ten feet high and equally wide, and it was nearly fifty feet long. It was a bright yellow, and the head resembled that of a bull-dog. A large flat prong extended out from either sideof its jaws, and—it was terrible! terrible!” At this point in the narrative, which corresponded exactly with that of the New Bedford sea-serpent, a man tapped the reporter on the shoulder and drew him aside. He wore a star upon his left breast. “ Well, young feller, I guess I’ll have ter take him along. He’s got ’em pretty bad, hain’t he?” remarked the facetious personage with the twinkle on hrs coat. “I found him a-wrestling wid the red light on the grip-car last night. Gio Wallace gave him sixty days at the House.” The reportei silently folded up his notes and stole away, and the last thing that he saw when he looked back was the “gentleman of undoubted veracity” extracting an imaginary sea-serpent from the back of his neck. The reporter wonders if the men who saw the New Bedford serpent are getting better.- Chieaao Herald. Attempts upon tjucen Victoria’s Life. The most blameless sovereign Europe has ever had—Queen Victoria—has not been free from the danger of assassina tion by lunatics. Her death could pro duce no change in the established order of the Government. She has barely the shadow of political power. If royalty were abolished, Great Britain could not be a freer country than it is. Yet the Queen has been three times shot at. ouce struck in the face, once threatened with a loaded and with an unloaded pistol. The first attempt upon the Queen’s life xvas made June 10, 1840, by Edward Oxford, a lad of 17. He fired two shots deliberately, but missed. His xvas much the same kind of a character as Guiteau’s. He was half-crazy with a longing for no toriety. He was pronounced insane by a jury, and sentenced to be confined in a lunatic asylum during her Majesty’s pleasure. John Francis, son of a ma chinist in Drury Lane, fired at the Queen May 30, 1842, from the very spot where Oxford had stood. He was but a few feet from the carriage, which fort unately was driving at a rapid pace, and missed his aim. He was condemned to death, but his sentence was com muted to imprisonment for life. The very day after this mitigation of punish ment became known, a hunchbacked boy named Bean made another attempt on the Queen’s life. He presented a pistol at her carriage, but was uot per mitted to fire it. The pistol was loaded with powder, paper tightly rammed down, and some scraps of clay pipe. Bean was imprisoned eighteen months. An Irish bricklayer named Hamilton fired a pistol loaded oulv with powder at her Majesty May 19, 1849, on Con stitution Hill, where two previous at tempts had been made. His sentence was seven years’ transportation. Robert Pate, a cashiered Lieutenant of hussars, struck her Majesty in the face with a stick May 27, 1850. His sentence also was seven years’ transportation. Arthur O Connor, a boy of 17, presented an unjoiuled pistol at the Queen, Feb. 29, 1872. He was whipped and imprisoned for a year. The mixlitied law, which authorizes whipping to lie prescribed in the discretion of the Judge, is thonght to have had the effect of discouraging attempts upon the Queen’s life. ——lt is said that some Boston women got lost up in the Catskills the oth-r day, and this is the way they called for help : “ Will some refined and educate i jwrsou of the male sex kindly dirt ct us t > the road communicating to the Grand Hotel ? ’ —„V. K Graphic. WM. A. MILLER, MILLER & CARGILL, WHOLESALE QUEENSWARfi ♦ No. 184 Market Street, OmkTTJLZSTOOG-yv. TjELtSTTSr. Refined Petroleum and Lubricating Oils, 1 s<q>3 Oin | THE -WHITE’’ SEWING MACHINE, The Ladies’ Favorite! BECAUSE 1 TIS THE LIGHTEST RMNIN3H the most quiet; makes the prettiest stitch ; and has more conveniences than lidSl f f sass At Kffl any other Machine. J) It It is warranted five years and is the Ilf iT easiest to sell, and gives the best satis- ~~ W faction of any Machine on the market Intending purchasers are solicited t exarn’R© it before buying. Responsible ;-U dealers wnn.*cd ill all unoccupied (er "'T, ’’ -- ritory. •T. 13. Ac T. I 1 ". SMITH, Wholesale and Retail Dealers, marll till janl 59 Broad Street, ATLANTA, Ga , - use Lawrence & Martin ? s IfWIQ Wi For COUGHS. COLDS SORE THROAT BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, PNJU MONIA CONSUMPTION, Diseases of THROAT, CHEST AND LUNCS. BALSAM CON SUM PTION in its incipient and advanced stages, and all alaeases °f the THROA 1 3 »; and LUNGS, but it has never been so advantageously compounded as in the TOLU , Kovn a ‘ RYE. Its soothing Balsamic properties afforaa diffusive stimulant and tome to build up i system after tne cough has been relieved* Quart size bottles, Price SI.OO. n A [ ITi AKi I Do not be deceived by dealers who try to palm off R , oc , k ,,^ n ( ‘ 1 1 J : 1 y UAU I IV IM ! in place of our TOfiU, ROCK AND RYE. which is the ON A MEDICATED article—the genuine has a Private Die Proprietary Stamp on each bottle, "me permits it to be Sold by llrug’g’iHts, Grocers and Everywhere, WITHOUT SPECIAL TAX OR LICENSE. "he TOLU, ROCK AND RYE CO., Proprietors, 4! River St., Chicago, m - X>x*. K- F. WRIGHT,I Wholesale and Retail Druggist, Dealer in I IDIRTTGrS, nVEELT)TOIUTE2S, CHEMICALS,I Perfumery, Soaps. Hair Dyes, and Toilet Articles generally; White Lean, Mixed Paints, readt I for use. Colors in Oil: Dry. Linseed. Tanners’. Machine and Kerosene Oils; Varnishes, I Putty, Window Glass, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures: Surgical Apparatus, such as Abdominal Supporters. Trusses, Lancets. Pocket Cases, etc., etc. ■ 1 Ins firm also deals in Smoking and ( hewing Tobacco, Fine Cigars and Snuff, and have the ■ elusive Drug trade in fine Wines, Whiskies and Brandies in Dalton. I ( all and see them at the corner of King and Hamilton streets, Dalton, Ga. Prices guarantcrl I compare with Atlanta. iclff W ■ Tlxe Dalton A.jrg'tis, I jciIANGRD FROM IX'DEPENEENT HEADLIGHT,] I Brightest. Most Progressive, Liberal and Popular I News Paper in Northwest Georgia. OTTEjY OUST ZE JX. YZEJX.ZEU Advertisers can find no Better Medium through which to Meet the Fanners, • Mechanics, Merchants, Mill Men and People of this section. I H. A. WRENCH, Publisher. I A Remarkable ( uriosity, A recent steamer from the Orient brought to San Francisco a remarkable curiosity, in the shape of a live sala mander, which is confined in a large wooden trough, and daily supplied with fresh water and live fish at the Palace Hotel. The salamander comes from Japan, and was captured in a fresh water lake in the mountains. The specimen is thiee and a half feet in length, has four feet and an extensive tad, the head be ng I road and fiat, and shaped like a heart, and the eve’s so small as to be hardly discernible/ The mouth is not unlike that of the croco dile, and the novel guest at the hotel is known to b *at least seven years old. It is dark brown in color, the epidermis tie: ng covered with excrescences, which arc watery glands, secreting an acrid viscid l.uiii. —The Hom, Farm, of Augusta, Me gives an account of an experiment in fig-growing m that State, which it ap pears has proved a success. The fiO-s were grown by Mr. F. (). Frost, of Mon- < alls them brown Turkey . 1 Wy g'’“Wn on trees set in i< garden, whu h were given the same rare as one would bestow on an apple o? pear tree. They yield two crops in the x< ar, and Mr. Frost showed at an exhi bition of the State Pomologieal Society specimens of both erops-one fully ripe and one about a quarter grown The it diaken oil. when they are placed in the < ellar amt receive no care till again set out in the spring. Evaporating Fruit With Profit. Fruit growers who contemplate P'I*' 1 *' ting up expensive evaporators and car eying on the evaporation of fruit on ■ 1 large scale are advised by one who has had an extended experience in the bust' Dess. He says that in order to insure profitab e results one should not only have a large orchard of his own, saj one thousand trees or more, but ough l to be in a neighborhood where there are many large orchards and fruit to he had at low rates. This experineed cor respondent estimates that one bushel of apples makes about five or six pounds of dried fruit. He allows eight or te“ persons to run one evaporator, and, to the profits, adds ten cents per bush' for preparing and drying the appl® B . 11 ’ tiie cost of the fruit, - ' and he has th ® profits, as, for instant e: Say the api’‘ e ’ are fifteen cents per bushel and the cos of preparing and drying ten cent* making twenty-five cents. 'l'hi-nino" 1 ’ , of evaporated fruit from one Ini'lid <’ apples is, ay five and one-half po |lD ' ’ al. ] erhaps, eight cents per pound. 2 1 ing a profit of twelve and a half cent’ per bushel. Os course if the skins a’ ll cores are converted into jelly or vUll '£\ it would add three cents per bushel 1° 11 nrolits. -A’. FKor/d. —One Vermont town of less th l 1,500 inhabitants is represented ’-D ( fornia by nearly fifty of her young n* , ' c The farms on which some of the worked in boyhood have become m'*” pasture land, and the old homes are »• serted.