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A fr«*iy Bight .nJ a b tier wind The
a »r look d•( >’<■ »n l void. Awaydown
tiu Bowery I <0.1.i «•'• t - great - tm
da nl ’hl miiltie. In • t <p n ■ 1 ’> lh "
till. « <lk» Kver«>> Jy predict » th.ck
.n’orui Iwrfo <in mint' A* ■ 'lined
into Fourth aim the wmi whi.tle-l
»hn : through lh- t ."graph wire, over
hr 4. and rattl'd >H • ■■ windows in the
neigi. orbood ‘ omrthing lay arrow tin
g... ».Je.« <lk ometh ng tliat n e 1«1 a
wa to abut out the e ex of th'* big city
It « aiounggiri with long »oft brown
ha r tangled about her 'boulder*
lit r fare wa- fair and ah • wa» h mely■
At t: I aeeme laa f nh<- »»• 1 oping,
but . clowi eaain na'ion ahowi d that h"
wu iiteinjrting to ho d hcraelf upon her
elb »» It was bar ito imagine a mor"
atu. .4 or pitiful rit re.don than that
at. h re ted upon her ferturea a ah'-
blinked in a vague and aimlew manner
at •mail flask lying on the pavement at
her f< > t Juat aa Ia > about to aaaiat the
g.r. t her (<■<■! aquick li'-avy »'e:>earned
Me to ook Broun i, and at my elbow wa
a pol:< r-rnaii
•‘You needn't disturb yourself, sir,"
h< Hil l. * die ia drunk It « a great pity
tbu so yo .g a girl hit come to such
shame already. ’
lb- mil ceinan .hook th* girl roughly
aud then ra l -cd he' to her feet I lie ■oft
brown hair win blown irroe her face
and the pushed it bar k. Then ahe began
to r rv. The jiolicemm threw the flank
into the middle of the street, where it
fell with a crash and waa du integrated
into a thouwand fragments.
' That's the curse of the world, he j
aaid. • I've seen moie crime anil suffer
ing from the bottle than anv other
twenty causes. Juat look at that girl
and aee what a mere animal she has be
bome under the influence of rum.
The girl laughed in an idiotic way a.
ahe staggerer! in the grasp of the blue
coated philosopher.
•'luunme go. ' rhe stammered, "'’not e
’f your business."
Inside of five minutes we were in the
station hoiis- where mother poli eman
was telling the aerge.int how he had
dragged a drunken man four blocks in
order to keep him out of the way of
wagons The prisoner lie referred to
mum ted out a few words of defiance
sol was whiared through a back door
in > jiffy
Fhe drunken girl was arraigned before
the sergeant. Then she told in thick
tor.", that she hail never lieen arrested
lx h ie, mid that if the good gentleman
wou d only let her go she would never
get drunk again It was no use. The
sergeant shook his head.
"!f I let you go non," he said, "you
might fare worse even than you have. As
vuu are you .g und res|M>ctable looking
l'l< give you a bed to sleep in to night
You are like u thousand others I have
Sven though I fear. You've learned to
tasi strong drink at home, si d that's an
incur..ble dim a»e
Tin- sergeant took me to the lodging
ro tn when lie saw Ilia" I wan Interested
iu bin couveiMXtlon. “There yon see
whit drink will bring women to," he
•■nl “Every one nt these poor, ragged,
homeless eieaturen you »-e lying on
thine bonids owes her Iron Idee and her
poverty to tippling.'’ <>n a long, low
platform of pine boatda lay eight or ten
wom<n. They were dirty, slatternly
and m sei able One slovenly hag sat up
with Ini yellow, skinny arms clasped
about hei knee* She was breathing
beav dy, as if aileep. an i yet her eyes
were open.
Another lav on her side with her arm
dr >' n a hiss her far nnd still another
was hu tilled up in a heap and was
groaning The air of the room was
thick and offensive I was surprised to
detect tobacco smoke in the place until
the *e'g< ant roared out angrily:
“Hen-, now no a nuking, i'll lock
you up if you ain't can ill.'
A withered old woman pulled a black
ened cla*uip‘ a from lieneath her shawl
and kuocH*<l th- gloving content* of
the bowl out against the palm of her
hand Then she lay down with a growl
ing ao md in her throat.
“The chances are that every second
woman yon see her. has ; husband and
childien alive, said th- sergeant, "but
drink lias broken up their homes. If
there was no strong drink to I e got in
this city fur the next year the authorities
could dismiss one hall' the police force
at once. Women wi I sit down with a
whiskv bottle to drown some slight
trouble, little dreaming of the terrible
.‘ate they a-e inviting. Vo i saw thd
voting girl arrested in the street uist now
Well, look at lids women "
<tut of a dark cell came two wrinkled
arm* and claw like hands, and a mania
cal visage, with dishevelled giav hair
tumbled about It was pressed against
th' iron grated tioor
“' leiuember her thirty year* ago.' he
s< id She was tin u a young woman oft wen
:y toe ye us, good ooking, well shaped,
c -atly dress d and modest A young
lawyei w atugi odto e marred to her
Then she Ivegan to drink red wine at
hoiui- I don't know who taught her the
habit, but it soon grew upon her until
abv waa a full tiedged whisky drinker.
The voting lawyer broke off his engage
mi nt -nd she married a carpenter. lust
before her first child bun her bus.
baud died i-ue dsy I found her lying
m the glftlei dead drunk. I arrested her
amt a little girl was born in prison.
■ er since that -he has l-een a confirtnM
i uukard. Hei little grandchild gener
a v comes after her when she is locked
up."
\\ ben we reached the office of the at*
lion again there was a pale, shy little
•,-irl who shivered at the shining red
store,
Ihe Ct.lid proved to be the grandchild
of the drunkard tn the cell. She begged
nite .ualy Io lie a lowed to see the pns
ii. :, r.ad cried when he. request was
used. >he was anil' clad, under**'.-d
g with a ragged shawl » n d brotvn
s es tshe gnawed her thumb and rub
, h< r feet together nervously.
f v.m please, sir, she whispered,
; nndmahaa the key to the room
« 1 hvvc no place to sleep now. "
l.e '«rgvant or letwd the doorman to
. t the key from the prisoner, and when
’ w..s produced, the child crept away
er empty, dark home Later ou I
.be girl who was arrested in Fourth
street sitting on the side of a
' l»ed in the cell which had l.ee-1 fitted
<P for the accommodation of such a
•ise he sat with her hands in her lap
in I her fare bent m odily toward the
floor When I asked her how she came
to ire in such a plight she told me that
i her ii o her taught iior to driuk, but a ■
wa v . warned .' er to drink in moderation,
i -b- uxed to take beer with her meals nt
first Then she tried a little whisky,
and found that its effec ts were more ex
l.i er.' From th"t time on she had
always tv ; t a flask of whisk', under her
pillow >he had been drunk a score of
I t mei in the house, but ha I never yet
been drunk in the public streets until
1 that night.
•‘l've heard that same story a hundred
t. over,” said the sergeant. "It's
»in ike to say that most girls are
•aught t dr.nk in bee.' gardens Tbn
great ma ority of those who drink in
toxicants begin the habit at home, under
the eye-of their parents. That girl has
probably g>t some wretched old father
•iho thinks of nothi'ig but whisky him
relf from morning till night. !V lien he
hears of his daughter's anest the chances
;irc that he will go snivelling up to the
court in th- morning wringing hi- hands
and sweat ng by all the g"d- in heaven
] that he always told his child to <lo what
| was right. He will wonder how it was
possible that hi- girl could aver get
drunk, indead of wondering how she
could ever w itch the example lie set to
her and vet kep sober. \eic iurk
•
A trice Io "st top shoulder <1 People.
A stooping figure is not only a famil
iar expression of weakness or old age,
but it is, when caused by careless habits
a direct cause of contracted cheat and
defective breathing. Unless you rid
yourself of this crook while at school
you will probably go bent to your grave,
i There is one good way to cure it.
Shoulder braces will not help. One
needs, not an artificial substitute, but
some means to develop the muscles whose
duty is to hold he head and shoulders
erect I know of bit one bull’s eye
hot. It is to carry a weight on the hea i.
A sheepskin or other s rong bag filled
with twenty to eighty pounds of rand is
good weiglit. When engaged in your
morning studies, either before or after
breakfas*, put this bag of sand oti your
head, hold your head erect, draw your
chin close to your neck and walk slowly
about the room, coming back, if you
please, every minute or two to your book, <
or carrying the book as you walk The
muscles whose duty it is to hold the
head and shoulders erect are hit, not
with scattering shot, but with a rifle ball.
The bones of the spine and the interver
tebral substance will soon accommodate
themselves to the new attitude. One
year of daily practice with the bag, half
an hour morning and evening, wi.lgive
you a noble carriage, without interfering
a moment with your studies.— Hall'e
Journal of Health,
The Nose.
Many great men have large noses, as
for example Washington, Cromwell. Na-
poleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Welling
ton, Cicero. Cue .r. John Hull, Brother
Jonathan and Mr Punch! The popular
fancy, as well us a so called science, still
associate* certain types with mental
traits. Thus a convex nose is held to
be indicative of courage, nnd a concave
nose of cowardice. Flexibility of the
nose is put down as a mark of docility,
while inflexibility warns one to expect
stubbornness. This assertion certainly
proves itself when applied to the ele
ph nt and the rhinoceros'.
The nose serves various important olli
ces in connection with the different emo
tions. To rub it violently suggests the
person's perplexity or annoyance. To
la. the linger on it signifies contempla
tion and intense self-questioning. Tc
blow it very hard, whi'e listening to
affecting passages in books, or hearing
a recital of wrong or distress, indicate*
emotion and sympathy, because every
one knows that the handkerchiefs em
uloycd upon the nos - will also be fur
lively used to wipe away the unmanly
tear
I'he nose is one of the most digntfiel
organs wo possess; to pull or tweak it it
always considered a grave insult, second
only to the insult accounted so deadly
by eastern nations: that of pulling the
la-ard I’-ut/r’.* Co:n/MHiion,
Polite >e*s Pays.
‘•Wont you leave your coat down herr
before you go up to dinner? Let mt
take it," suavely besought the clerk of a
country bote of a visitor who hud just
come in. “I will bang it up," he con
tinned politely. The guest thanked him
for his profuse display of courtesy, ai d
went upstairs highly pleased with the
trouble that had been taken over him.
“We always do that,” said the clerk
winking at a bystander. “I have only
been in the hotel business twirmonths,
but that was the first trick i learned I
wanted that man's coat as security for
the payment of his dinner bill. It is the
rule in many country hotels to get the
unknown transient to deposit his coat,
hat or gum boots in the o lice. If it is
done pro|M-rly, the vis tor think* it is
nothing but native politeness ” —PAi'/j.
dt.'.diia
Ouxh
I
The plough bov whistle i tw mid the pl m;h.
For his lungs were sound and he had n<
■ ou;h -.
H ■ iiided bis team with a pliant h nigh.
And waters lit well at a wav a I tr ni-b.
11.
Tin* c it was liar I. for :.. I .» I wa-nmgh—
It lav on tn.- shore* of .. . I ri-sh lough
But hi* ».•!' fed Inm w .< -tout and to.igh,
And he plied Ids . ■ t > flank and hough.
111.
He toile I a day and ha low an I chough
FL-warou dhw . d th-ugh beoft'eried
shoiigh.
But bls pio-igh at «.-stru. k a hidden a u h
With a fores that -ent the share ,da»,
ttnsmgli
IV.
Fbfrightened team ran off with the plough
With the a;s*wdof the wind from the n on -b
boy. though 1 s
He shouted. Whoa And into a sfougii
It plungwl whore the mu 1 was s ft a .
dough
V.
The plough boy went, for the wreck was thor
.High
lie tied that night from the farm to the U*r
ough
—Boston Courier.
'THE SOLDIERS OK BURMAH.
PASSXtra IM BB7IBW ■«ro*> XIMG
TMMBAV
nrleuial '■ rwopv Who Were fitted
entnst the Hrlllolt tlueer J
b!ean« of ' Irlory
ill. Afinard i amtueil describes as fol
lows a review by King 'lhebaw at Man
dalay of some six thousand of he
troops constituting the flower of his
. army:
"All the time the troop- were a-sem
bling the air was filled with the sound
• of gongs und bells, most sweet toned,
1 some with a high, clear note, others
booming out a deep bass. In front of
each regiment was carried by two men a
large gong, gilt all over, about three or
four feet wide, and they had also ten or
twelve small gongs, not more than six
or seven inches wide, to each regiment,
carried at intervals, ab ng the line.
These they kept continually striking,
I fancy, with some idea of marking the
time. The cost'.mesof the different regi
ments were very varied. Their coats
were very like the British tunic in shape,
line regiment was in red, with black
tr Hisers, having a yellow-tripe, and hel
mi ts of red paper mache. They all
carried muskets, and if they were no
better than some 1 examined of the pal
ace guard, old rusty muzzle-loaders,they
could not be of much use. I understood,
how ver. that they had a good store of
"ni lei- Two flags preceded each regi
ment >ii n came some twenty or thirty
i men with tall pikes, decora'ed with silk
'streamers, and then the regulars four
deep. l ied to the muzzle of each man’s
mu-ket ".ere s -me green leaves, the em
bl mos vic ory. The chief officer (colo
nel; of each regiment rode on an ele
phant at the rear of his men. He was
most gorgeously attired in a green or red
velvet coat, covered with gold lace. Be
hind hnn came the officers of the regi
ment, all mounted on pon'es, and tnen
' twenty or thirty men with bare legs and
putzo (the native dre»s, a long skirt)
i girded up, each carrying a musket in a
red c'oth cover. I was told these were
the officers’ weapons. Two small brass I
cannon, about three feet long and three
inch bore, mounted on wl eels and
dragged by three or four men. brought
up the rear. These men were dressed in
red coats, trou-ers nnd helmets.
Beside the two cannon accompanying
each regiment there was a detachment
of about sixty cannon, all dragged by
hand and simiiiirin pittern to the above.
I should have said that each regiment
was accompanied by its own commissa
riat, consisting of about sixty mtn. fol
lowing behind the regulars. Each of
these men carried a stick over his shoul
ler, from the end of which hung a round
basket. There were two regiments of
marines for arming the war barges: they
wore red coa's nnd bright blue trousers;
•.heir officers were also mounted on po
nies and the colonel on an elephant; but
what becomes of these animals when
afloat Ido not know. The horse marine j
in Burmah is thus a veritable warrior! j
There was one detachment qt military ,
messengers or runners, about eighty in j
number, with bare legs and girded
putzo. The marching was very poor. '
Now and then a column would get into
step and go prancing along in dancing
master style, lifting up their knees with
most lofty action. When they arrived
before the king in the inner column each
man fell on his knees and touched the
ground three times with his forehead,
shouting some laudatory word* in a loud
voice. A regiment seemed to be about
four to five hundred strong.
There were two regiments of Chinese,
only about one hundred strong each, in
green, loose stuff jackets of the orthodox
Chinese share, wide pink trousers and
peaked bamboo hats. These warriors. I
was told, were great favoiites of King i
Thebaw. Following the Chinese came
two troops of cavalry mounted on ponies.
There were about two hundred of them.
The ponies were well shaped, hardy
looking an-mals, and kept admirable
order. A Burmese saddle is covered
with embroidered cloth, red. blue or
purple, rising very high in front, two
long tassels dangle on either side in
front of the saddle. The stirrups are
very small, the Burmese inserting only
the big toe. The bridle seemed a com
plicated arrangement of buckles and
tassels. Three shields of tin oi zinc are
fastened on th-- saddle to protect the
knees of the rider. Each man carried a
large sword buckled around his waist,
and riding with very short stirrups, his
knees were tucked up almost level with
his pony’s back. The organizing and
drilling of the Burmese army was n the
hands of two Italian officers. They were
present in the pa'ace yard and started
each regiment on its march before the
king.
The rear of the column was brought
up by about one hundred and fifty ele
phants in single tile. Some of them were
magnificent animals, with immense tusks,
but the last twenty or thirty were quite
young and very small. Each elephant
was guided by a mahout astride on its
neck, and the larger animals carried a
small cannon mounted in the howdah on
its back, in which also rode two men.
The army, after passing the king,
marched on right round the city walls.
I met some of them two hour* later out
side the city walls. They seemed com
p'etely exhausted after the six or seven
mile march and came along with very
listless giit. There were then about fif
teen thousand soldiers in Mandalay, and
the Burmese could probably muster an
army of thirty thousand men. Many of
these, however, I was assured would be
useless, being merely an undrilled rab- I
ble. f, >»<?*>/< Tinto*.
The Street Crier Gone.
I’he ancient colored man who. on the
darker winter mornings, was wont to
make his rounds carrying a tray on his
head ami melodiously singing, is no
1 oger a familiar feature of Philadelphia
street life This was his song, chanted
with peculiar gurgle, half warble, as
•catchy" ns anything a mock Tyrolean
•ver warbled on the stage:
I >•- hominy man
Am on h-e e-s way,
Wnl de good hominy!
The oyster peddlers put their'extended :
hand to their mouths, as a <ortof a voice
detiector, and yell at the tip top of ths '
scale:
Oysters, oh-
Yere de gw.
Forty xeats a hundred!
Teros Si/tings.
Such a rickety structure is the capitol
of Neva la that it has to lx> held up bv
l-r-ifis.
A/rO.VD FHE OATS.
Two dimpled hands the bar* of iron grasped.
Two blue and wondering eyes th© space
looked through.
This nia-eivs gate a boundary had been set.
Nor was she ever known to be but true.
Strauge were the sights she saw across the
way—
A little child bad died some day’s bifore—
And as she wat bed,amid the silence hushed,
Some carried flowers, some a casket bore.
The little watcher at the garden gate
Grew fearful, hers such thoughts and won
d -rings were,
Till said the nurse: “Come here, dear child.
Weep not.
We all must go. 'Tis God ba- sent for her. ’
“If He should send for me"—thus spoke the
child—
“l’ll have t > tell the angel, ‘Do not wait.
Though God has sent forme, I cannot come;
I never go beyond the garden gate.’ ”
—Katharine McD. Rire, in Harper.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
People we must put up with —Pawn
brokers.
A fine art— Presiding over a police
court.— Hatchet.
A detective story —“We’ve caught the
culprit.” — Judge.
There is only one bill more powerful
than the plumber's —the mosquitos.
Whitehall Time*.
The smart business man like the
woodman makes good use of his *'a :s. ’
Germanloun InJepr.n ieat.
The clerk who works for the mere ant
who will not advertise, knows the tor
tures of solitary confinement. — 11 aler.vo
Obuerrer.
The cigar that, is called imported is
about as appropriately named as the
hired girl we call domestic. — Yorkers
Stateauan.
“A genuine patriot,” said an orator
recently, “must at all times be ready to
die for his country,even lhough it should
cost him his life!” (Thundering ap
plause.)
“Petroleum has declined twenty-one
cents,” says an exchange. But before
vou praise petroleum toi its honesty,
wait until it is offered one dollar,and see
whether it declines that. — Puck.
“Beans Regarded as Food,” is the
heading in an exchange. That is the
way beans should be regarded. Any oue
who would regard beans as a beverage
would be away off.— Neic York Gr<i;Ja -.
An ancient old maiden in Cologne.
Wished to give her pot pool.e a bogne;
The condition of her cupboard
Equaled that of Mme. Hubbard,
Consequently the poor dog had nogne.
—Palmer Joarnal.
“You dear thing.” she said gushingly,
“how handsome your bonnet does look.
Ptu sure it looks as well as it did last
winter.” Only a woman could say
things tike this and say them so easy.—
Rockbtiui(Me.) Courier.
Gogglesop—“Very stupid girl, that
Miss Wilpin.” Hamworth—“How so?”
“Why, you see, we were guessing con
undrums the other evening, und I asked
her what was the difference between my
self and a donkey.” “Well.” “Well?
Why,by .lo<'e,she said she didn't know.”
Philadelphia Times.
SHE SHOULD HAVE DABSED'EM.
The beautiful maiden is shopping to-day.
Quite busy, and to her surprise.
While through the thronged street she is tak- '
ing her way.
Her beau in the street shv espies.
Good gracious I 'tis awiul! II <’s coming, no
doubt. i
And swift to her heart strikes a pain;
The eyes ot' affection will -ingle her out,
He'll see her an 1 speak, that is plain.
•She halts, blushes redly, then crosses the
s‘r et,
Avoiding the youth that she ioves;
The maid it would mortify much should they
meet—
There are holes in the tips ot her gloves! :
—liirilon Courier.
Mistakes About Hydrophobia.
A New York veterinary surgeon said
to a representative.
"The most widespread error about
hydrophobia is that it is most prevalent
in the hot months. A surprising num
ber of people hold it as an article of
faith that the ’dog days’ are so called
because that season is particularly dan
gerous todogs. At all events, tlie belief
is almost universal that July ami August
are the months iu which to look out for
mad dogs. As a matter of fact, statis
tics show that there is less hydrophobia
in those two months than in any iu the
year, and that cases of hydrophobia in
winter, early in the winter and late in
the winter, that is, in November and
December and in February and .March,
are rather more than twice as frequent
as they are in July. You have only to
read the papers every year to verify this.
The numerous reports of cases with
which the papers are at this moment
filled verify it. A distinguishe 1 veteri
nary surgeon in England kept a record
of hydrophobia cases for a series of
years, and the result was that he discov
ered that, in England at least, February
was the most dangerous month. A record
kept in France during a period of ten
years showed au average of twenty
cases in January. 21 in March, and 25 in
April, while in July there were only 12.
From this series of observations the in
ference was drawn that the disease was
much more prevalent in the rainy than
iu the dry months. This hot weather
error, like the error about aversion to
water being a symptom of the disease, is
also a source of danger. People lock
up. muzzle, nnd drown dogs during the
months when it is safest to let them run
at large, and let them run at large just
when they are most liable to the disease
and most dangerous.
“But hydrophobia is after all so rare a
disease that there is no necessity of half
the fuss that is made over it. During
the five years from 1866 to 1871 there
were in New York city only twenty-two
cases, or an average of three and’two
thirds per annum among the million and
a quarter of people here. This is a
greater number of cases than was shown
by a long record kept in Paris, where
during a series of forty years only nine
ty-four cases occurred, or an average of
two and. one-third per year.”
At Russian railway stations passengers
now find a •■grievance book,” in which
complaints are entered. The record of
wrongs reaches the central office once a
month, when the complaints sre investi
gated.
' FAB*. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
How (• Keep Apples.
Some orchardists may be benefited by
learning that apples may be kept as fol
low* Fill, nearly to the top, barrels
with apples, and pour in fine, dry sand,
and shake down gently till all the crev
ices are tilled with sand. It is claimed
that apples cared for in this way will
keep indefinitely. We have seen apples
keep nicety which were pitted n dry,
sandy, or gravelly soil, as potaloes and
turnips are kept. To pit apples, select
some dry s: ot where there is no danger
of water filling the pit. excavate two or
three fset in depth, and any size in cir
cumfe.ence you may wish: place dry,
clean straw in the bottom, and aso
i cover the apples with straw', then a later
of dry eartli deep enough to escape free -
ing. ' Apples kept in this way will come
out nice aud crisp in the spr:ug.
Farmer*’ Accounts.
Farmers, as a general thing, are poor
book-keepers. Their accounts appear to
be, as a general thing, of the most prim
itive kind, or noneat all.
So careless are they often about mak
ing a straightforward and dear record
of biisinoss transactions, that one would
infer their feeling amounted almost to
repugnance to such a task. This shows
a lack of method as well ns of business
training and habit. The want of method
explains the lack of success on the part
of many farmers, for without method,
uo business in the wo: Id can be success
ful.
When the farmer sells his wheat to the
miller, in eight, cases out of ten, he has
but a very indefinite idea what it has
cost him a bushel to grow it But the
miller must know what it cods him, and
that clear through ail the processes, un
til it is packed away in flour barrels and
sold. Why is this? Is it more neces
sary for the miller to reason and ca cu
late, to be successful, than it is for the
farmer? Not at nil. Only the miller is
the better business man, and manages
his affairs in a more business like
way. Many farmers are so careless in,
entirely d. stitute of accounts, as to
place them at a great disadvantage when
dealing with men of other occupations,
and not unfrequently to make them the
victims of designing sharpers. When
the farmer settles with the doctor and
the lawyer for their services, he pays
them what they ask. When he works
he takes what he can get. When he goes
to town to buy he asks, “What will you
take?” When lie goes there to sell it is
“what will you give.”
Somebody else always sets the price
bolh ways. This will alwa s le the
w; y until American farmers lake agri
cultural papers, study market reports,
calculate their losses and gi’ns, and be
come mure business like in their meth
ods. Let nil farmers begin no.v to bal
ance their accounts of the season, and
see where they stand financially at the
of the year. And let those not in
the habit of doing so beg n the new
year nnd maintain to its cl> sea system
of accounts elnbo:ate enough to at least
give a clear and correct statement of all
transactions during the corning year.
For rest assured that in nine cases out
of ten good book-keeping and good
management go hand in hand. — .\merc
can A'jriea l ! nri»t.
Farm and Garden Neto*.
The new remedy of u.-inz ice- water for
killing the eabb ige worm is easily tried,
by placing blocks of ice in a watering
pot of water, and showering the plants
ear y in the summer.
Major Brooks says “farmers' wives and
daughters hunt raspberries along fence
corners, and become scratched and fa
tigued. Planted in gardens, they are
more easily obtained in abundance.”
Squashes should be kept in a warm,
dry p ace, and should not freeze. It is
not best to keep vegetables too warm,
but care should be exercised to prevent
the freezing of those that are easily af
fected by cold.
A writer in the Indiana Earner think*
that he kept his hen-house iree ot u e
j by having two sets of perche-, which he
changes, exposing to the wen her the set
not in use. How much easier to kerosene
the perches occasionally!
To prevent the spread of chicken chol
era Dr. Salmon recommends a mixture of
two ounces of sulphuric acid to two gal
lons of water. This will dertroy every
germ of cholera that it touches tn a few
mmirtcs, being one of the best disinfect
ants known.
The Aew England Farmer says that
, farmers there have settled down to the
conviction that the silo is a valuable aux
iliary to the stock farmer, enabling him
to become a little more independent than
formerly of unfavorable weather for
curing and preserving the crops grown.
The .Massachusetts farmer who cultivates
forty-five acres has fodder enough on
hand to winter fifty head of cattle, and
will sell his best hay at S2O a ton.
The care of milk is not understood as
well as it should be by many farmers’
families. Milk cannot be exposed to de
leterious influences, such; s the bad odors
of the stable, moldy and impure milk
room, and many other things which could
be mentioned, without being contami
nated. The milk room must be properly
cooled, and its temperature kept regular,
either by natural or artifiuial means. In
fact the milk is as a rule handled too
carelessly fur making the highest qualitv
of butter. ’
Fred for Milch Cows in Winter.
The first requisite for a large yield of
milk in winter is a warm stable and
pienty of dry bedding. It has been
proved by repeated experiments that
warmiugthe water given cows to drink
causes a perceptible increase in the quan
tity of milk. It is better, if possible, to
have a variety of fodder than to confine
them to an exclusive diet, even of the
best clover hay, which, when cut at the
right season and properly cured, is un
doubtedly as good a steady diet as can be
found, excepting, perhaps, well cured
rowen An occasional feed of bright
well cured corn fodder is also excellent
for a change, and a ration of oat or bar
ley straw once or twice a week will
pro ■ably be relished and sharpen the an
pe ;te for hay Oats, cut when in the
miU and well cured, are highly relished
and produce a good yield of milk. In
addition to all the above she will eat
clean, if an ordinary-sized cow, give her
d ily, dividing into two feeds, a°peck of
mangolds, four pounds of new praeess
oatmeal, four pounds of corn meal and
four pounds of bran. If the cow is a
Holstein or an unusually large nnimal.
the ration can be increased, but if she jj
a small Jersey probably a less quantity
will suffice. ' If mangolds cannot be at
tained give sugar beets, or even turnips
in case neither mangolds or beds are
convenient, only use care to slice th ei;l
aud feed directly after milking. sn
as to avoid an unpleasant flav.
or in the milk and butter,
which is sure to occur when turnips are
fed a short time b Tore milking. Some
feed decorticated cotton-seed cake meal
instead of oil-meal, but others think the
quantity of the butter made from it u
not equal to that of corn meal alone. It
requires good judgment and experience
to prone ly feed and care for a herd of
cattle or horses so as to keep them in
thrifty condition and avoid waste of
fodder. Hue of the chief requisites for
success n this direction is regularity i n
feeding and watering. Another is to
learn just the amount each animal <an
digest and assimilate. It is better to
keep them a little short, so that their
appetites mav be keen, than to overfeed
so as to cloy them. No more should be
given at once than will be immediately
eaten up clean. When the hay is of
good quality three fodderings a day
probably answers as well as more, but
when coarse, unpalatable fodder is given,
l etter results can generally be obt ined
by feeding neat stock five times daily.
It is much better to alternate a feed of
poorer quality with the good everyday
than to coniine anima's exclusively to a
diet of poor hay for any length of time.
.Most farmers understand that it is not
good economy to feed all their poorest
fodder when stock first ccmes to the
barn, as when this is done the change
from green to dry fodder is so great as
to cheek growth in young animals and
cause a loss of flesh in older ones.—
AmcriMn Cultirator.
Clioiec nclicacies.for rnvnlld*.
S.vio Pcddinc. —Add one cup of sago
to three pints of warm water, sweeten
with one cup of sugar: cook slowly, and.
when done, flavor with vanilla, and turn
into cups or molds. Serve cold, with
cream.
Snowball Custard. —Add the whites
of three eggs, well beaten, to one pint of
boiling milk, dipping them into the milk
in tablespoonfule. As they rise turn
them, and, when done, put them into a
p iddiug dish; then put the beaten
yolks, sweetened to taste, into the m Ik,
stir until it thickens, remove from the
fire, and flavor with lemon. Turn this
custard into a glass dish, and lay the
whites cn the top. It is delicious.
Rice (.'beam.—l et one quarter of a
cup of rice soak in one and a half cups of
warm water until it swells; then cook
until soft. Take one pint of rich,
creamy milk, heat it to boiling point,
then add the yolks of three eggs, well
beaten. with four tablespoonfuls of
sugar; stir until it thickens; turn into a
dish, and frost with the whites of the
eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, sweetened
and ra. ored. Brown in the oven.
Arp Snow. —Peel, core, and quarter
or slice some tart, juicy apples, and stew
them in a little water until soft. Sweeteu
to taste, and turn them into a deep glass
dish. Make a soft custard, with one
quart of milk and six eggs; reserving
the wh tes of these; sweeten to taste,
and flavor with lemon extract. When
this is cold pour it over the apple, whip
up the white of the eggs to a stiff froth,
add three tablespoonfuls of sugar, and
heap lightly on the top of the custard.
Dropped Eggs on Toast.—Have readv
a dish of hot water, well salted; break
the eggs into a saucer, and slide into the
water, one at a time. Dip the hot water
with a spoon over the top of the egg.
M lien done, take it up with a skimmer,
and lay on buttered toast, dust a little
salt and pepper over it, and butter as
desired. Soft boiled eggs for invalids
shou d be put in a dish of boiling water,
a.id set on the back part of the stove,
where the water will only simmer. They
will cook ev.-nlv and be soft and jelly
like.
B>ef Jelly.—Cut a pound of beef tn
small pieces, and put into a porcelain
kettle with a pint of cold water; let it
stand half an hour, and then put it over
the tire, where it will heat gradually.
.Alter it gets boiling hot, skim and put
it where it will simmer slowly tor half
an hour. While it is cooking, put a
third of a box of gelatine into a bowl
with two tablespoonfuls of cold water
and let it dissolve. Salt the broth to
taste, and strain it while boiling hot
over the dissolved gelatine; stir until
clear; then strain into cups or molds,
and put away to coo]; keep on ice. Mut
ton or chicken broth mv tie prepared in
this way. Do not be afraid you have
used too little gelatine, for it seldom
hardens in less than six' or eight hours,
and even longer. This is very nice and
nutritious for an invalid.
; A Tree-Climbing Fish.
Os all land frequenting tish. bv far the
, most famous is the so-called climbing
. perch of In iia, which nut only walks
I bodily out of the water, but. even climbs
trees by means of special spines, near the
head and tail, so arranged as to stick
into the bark and enable it to wriggle its
way up awkwardly, something after the
same fashion as the "looping - ’ of eater
pillars. The tree-climber is a small,
scaly fish, seldom more thau seven inches
long; but it has developed a special
breathing apparatus to enable it to keep
up the stock of oxygen on its terrestial
excursions, which may be regarded as to
some extent the exact converse of the
means employed by divers to supply
themselves with air under water. Just
above the gills, which form of course in
natural hereditary breathing apparatus,
the climbing-perch has invented a new
and wholly original water-chamber, con
taining with n|it a frilled bony organ,
which enables it to extract oxygen from
the stored-up water during the course of
its aerial peregrinations. While on
shore it picks up small insects, worms
and grubs; but it also has vegetarian
tastes of its own, and does not despise
fruits and berries. The Indian jugglers
tame the climbing-perches and carry
them about with them as part of their
stock in trade; their ability to live for
a long time out of water makes them use
ful confederates in many small trick
which seem very wonderful to people ac
customed to believe that fish die almost
at once when taken out of their native
clement.— Papular Science Monthly.