FACTS AXDJHUUIIKS.
Tlio city of Boston consumes an av
erage of 4,u20,200 pillions of water daily,
from its Coohitunto and Sudbury resor
voirs. i
Thcro aro 9.000 saloons In New
York. If plneil sldo by side in a direct
lino they would extend a distance of
forty-live, miles.
In the I'ineato district, San Bornar
dino County, California, the .San Jacinto
mine Is said to bo producing from $8,000
to 10,000 worth of gold per month.
During thoyear 18S1 1,700 locomo
tives were made in the United States at
eleven establishments, the greatest
number at any one place being 65 1.
Detroit Post.
Thore have been Bold of "Apple
ton's Cyclopa'dhi" !ll,'222scts, or 1, foi,
JMO volumes, or, adding the 'Annual
Cyclopaedia," 1,722,750 volumes. Chi
cago Journal.
The Chineso of San Frnnoisco pay
nbout $60,000 annually in licenses,
while it costs the city $100,000 n year to
maintain the law in the Chinese quarter.
Chicago Times.
For lighting the now residenco of
Mr. W. II. Vanderbilt. it is Hinted that
there aro 2.00 i gas-burners, supplied by
jibnut 15,000 feet, or nearly three miles,
of pipe. A' J'. Hun.
Tlio total length of fencing in the
Unitud States is upward of (5,000,000
miles, and the cost over two thousand
million dollars. Cost of fencing during
the Inst census year was nearly $71),
000,000. Tlio North German Gazette com
plains of the gnzzlory of its country
men. It fixes the amount paid for her
uml brandy in Germany in the last eight
years at $1,800,000,001), of which 1,
tiOO.000,000 went for beer.
A cattle-dealer informs tho Salt
Lake Tribune that ho has .shipped 2,fi00
liead of bcof cattle from Utah to East
ern markets during tho past year. Ho
nays Utah furnishes '10,000 head of beef
cattle to Eastern markets every year,
and cattle-raisers have realized about
Vlfi per head.
Land in tho moro common streets
of New York is worth $'250,000 to $.''.rD,
000 per aero; in tho best, part of Broad
way it is $'2,000,000 per acre, and tlio
tier no
Broad
corner of Wall and
streets, tho
most valuable corner on tho Continent,
was rocentlv sold at tho rate of 14,000,
000 per acre. N. Y. Timet.
As an illustration of activity in min
ing and railroad enterprises on tho Pa
cilio coast, tho fact is cited that the sales
of giant powder in San Francisco, dar
ing the month of April, reached nearly
700,000 pounds, tho largest since the
works were established. Heavy ship
ments have been made for the Canadian
I'acilio and North Pacllic Kailroads,
whom blasting on a vast scale is re
quired in tho work of construction. It
is presumed that tho manufacture arid
pale of other high explosives has been
just as groat.
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WIT AND WISDOM.
Whon is it lady's arm not a lady's
urmP When it's a little bare (bear.)
The troublo and worry and wear
and tear that comes from hating people
makes hating unprofitable.
Tho best way to discipline one's
heart, against scnudal is to beliovo all
8torios false which ought not to bo true
Logio is logic, and it does not fol
low that Noah brewed beer in the ark
because tho kangaroo wont on board
with hops.
It Is really very little uso teaching a
future great man penmanship. When
ho gets to man's estate he is sure to
write as if ho were drawing a design for
a cobweb factory. N. Y. Commercial.
An old yellow ilojr In Colojrno,
ltnn nwiiy with an old wutiiun s Ikkiio;
Hut tho wrathful olil crtnrno
lilt ti I in twleo with a Moki'o,
And It was ilruiulfultohourttioitnir RmRiio.
tiiHOitton iiaxehtvt.
At the extinguishment of onoin tho
night out-broken tire comes a iircman
Tcmarkably too late. Tho Command
ant stands him about it to a speech.
Fireman "1 could not before come, ivs
I so far from tho tiro location distnut
live." Commandant "Thon must
you next time nearer move!" Flictcnde
Mhtltcr.
An English turfman visiting Mount
'Vernon engaged in conversation with a
native, and, alter a tow preliminary re
marks, obsorved: "1 daro say Mr.,
Washington didn't caro much for
'orscs. You cawn't tell mo, I suppose,
if ho was ever a 'orse-brenker?" Tho
Virginian eyed him a fow seconds
doubtfully, and then answered: "I
-ain't much on history, but to tho best of
my recollection tho General was a lion,
tamer," Danbury News.
A country clergyman had boon
ralsod to tho "dignity of rural dean.
'When before tho Bishop ho complained
of not receiving any extra title plain
reverend did not seem sullicient for his
now dignity. "The Bishop," ho said,
was called right reverend; a dean
very reverend. Why had not tho rural
dean also somo prefix?" "Well," ro
turnod his lordship, "I don't know
-what It cau bo unlc.s it bo 'rather rov
ereiid.'" Detroit Post.
A nice-looking young man, who
seated himself iu a well-filled North
Side car, hold in between his jeweled
fingers tho stump of a cigar, giving out
its 'dying fumes. They aro not a pleas
ant odor, oven to old smokers, and in
this caso wore specially vicious. Uno
bright littlo miss, a dozen years old,
Bauclly remarked, so as to bo heard:
If ho will throw it away, I will pick
Jiim up a longer stump as soon as wo
.get up to tho jmrk." It was not long
boforo tliat'yoimg mnn went to tho front
jjlatform to sco a man. Chicago Inter-Occam'
lie liaised on
Ore ii ml.
nn Acre of
A New York gentleman uVng plonty
of manure and water 'rules,tho nspnrn
gtH, pens; corn and other vegetables
needed in n family of seven, also tho
summer keep of two tows, and hay, and
manglowiir.les enough to winter them,
all on one acre of land. If tho matter
of providing fresh family vegetables and
feed for tho entire yetir'enti bo accom
plished on one acre of good ground
Judiciously worked, tho cultivation of
acre farms in the suburban surroundings
of largo cities must eventually become
(piito popular". It cannot bo claimed
that even man who owns an acre has
sullicient knowledge of farming or gar
dening to enable him to successfully
carry on a Hindi tr small farm, but there
is no reason why, through tho mod Urn
of standard works upon these subje ts,
and the oxerobo of good judgment,
every person wl o lives in tho suburbs
should not measurably succeed. It is a
positive pleasure to attend to a small
garden patch, and oven business-men
nave time enough at least to superintend
tho laying out and planting of such
plots of ground. Tho knowledge that
upon their own place thoy aro assured
of fresh vegetables, and plenty of them,
is a great satisfaction. Such a garden
ndds to the health and comfort of tho
family, and possesses tho additional
recommendation of increased beauty.
If it is possible to attain success upon
nn acre farm amid the rocks and creeks
of Central Now York, it would certainly
seem that an equal degree of success
would follow to "aero farmers" upon tho
prolilic rich soil of Illinois. In tlio im
mediate vicinity of Chicago, a largo
number of family gardens devoted to
raising vegetables havo been started
this spring, and there is apparently a
mania existing for this particular branch
of work. A lino llower garden is a
"thing of beauty and a joy forever," but
attached to the vegetable garden is tlio
fact that a return in dollars and cents is
certain to follow intelligent ollbrt.
Chicago Tribune.
The Salamander.
Wo havo always considered tho popu
lar nn thic.il legend or delusion, in re
gard to the salamander's being able to
go through the lire unscathed, as one of
the most preposterous mythical delu
sions. A Western gentleman, however,
whom we know to be reliable, recently
related to us a story In relation to the
lizards of Nevada, which would seem to
conlirm tho possibility of their enduring
intense heat for a short time, at least.
The black lizards of tho sage-brush
State aro very easily domesticatod,
harmless, social and' intelligent. This
gentleman hail several pet lizards, ono
of which lived near a furnace where ho
burnt retorts or molds for silver bull
ion. Tho work required a very hot lire,
which ho made open at each end. The
lizard would sit on tho tree near by,
watching him. His dog would fre
quently chase tho lizard if it ventured
to the ground, and compel it to take to
the tree again. Frequently, however,
tho lizard, apparently for tho sport of
the thing alone, would dash down off
the tree aud induce tho dog to givo it a
sharp race, when it would run right
through the furnace, coming out tho
other end liko a Hash, unscathed, wliilo
tho dog in his eagerness would bo
burned at the lire before ho could stop.
This would bo a daily occurrence, nnd
tho lizard actually seemed to enjoy tho
joko on tho dog. Tho time thnt the Ux
or salamander was in tho lire was very
short, and it doubUoss could not havo
remained there a very great length of
time; but tho fact of its not fearing tho
lire is sullicient to have given rise to tho
idea of the lire-proof salamander. Phil
adelphia Saturday Night.
Longfellow's Autographs.
Longfellow's courtesy was as unfailing
as tho demands' upon it wore numerous
and pressing. Very few imagine what
a tax it is upon tho time of our moro
prominent authors simply to write tho
autographs which are requested of them.
Ho almost Invariably complied with
such requests, whon made in a
proper manner, wearisome as it must
often havo been to do so. Not long
sineo ho had a lettor from a Western
boy, who sent his name, desiring him to
translate it into every language ho
know, and send it baok to him with his
autqgraph! Tho poot was much amused
nt tho roquost, but it is doubtful
whether ho found timo to gratify that
boy.
Still another iucldont rolated of him
is that ho was ono day walking in a
garden with a littlo live-years maiden
who was fond of poetry and occasional
ly "made up some" herself.
"1, too, am fond of poetry," ho said
to her. "Suppose you give mo a littlo
of yours this boautiful morning? '
"Think," cried he. afterward.
to a
friend, throwing up his hands, his eyes
sparkling with merriment "think what
her answer was! Sho said: "Oh, Mr.
Longlellow, it doesn't always coma
when you want it!' Ah mo how true,
how truol" Lucy Larcom, in St. Nich
olas. There is a smart Kentucky dog
whoso owner can tell by her bark what
kind of animal sho is after. Tho other
day ho heard her and bet live dol
lars sho had treed a male fox squir
rel. Tlio hot was takon anil tho crowd
sot out after the dog. They camo up
with her; sho stood yolping at a rattlo
snake. " 1 want my live dollars," says
tho man. "Hold on!" says tho owner
of tho dog. "We'll kill' tho snako,
first." And thoy did It. And when
thoy had cut tho snako in two out
popped a malo fox squirrel which tlio
snako had swallowed. Tho man sllont
lv handed tho dog's owner a live-dollar
bill.
Wlmt Can
If I Hml."
"Iflhnd a million," savs the sad
eved voting man who works mighty
hard to create a la do dnhlmprcsTion,l
"I would bojtie most sougliU-for young
man in this section. I would hhvt&yil)
tho belles ofjthe town anxious for m
smile, and l would marry tho prettiest
jlirl in seven eotiniic- and live a lilo of
noetic, though innn liccnt. simplicity."
But, bless his little tender heart, if he
had a million he would be captured by
tho boldest, rod-hcadodest freoklede.s't
girl in the neighborhood who would boss
his entire household, and he would feci,
as cheap as though ho wasn't worth a
cent, 7
"If I had a million," says the shop
girl, as she plods along with her lunch
basket and tries to loiik pretty with her
imitations of style. "I would loll iu my
carriage, I would drcs in silks nnd seal
skins and have the sweetest millinery
and the loveliest pug dog. nnd the man
whom I would marry would have to be
great iu intellect nnd power to match
my fortune." But, bless tho little
frizzed bangs that decorate her pimpled
brow, if sho had a million some sharper
would captivate hei. invest her money
in "wild cats" and in less than three
oars sho would In' running a millinery
foundry under a French nom deplume.
"11 I had a million," says tho Hy
young man with tight trousers and
wa-hbowl hat, ."I'll got tho nobbiest
turnout to be had for money. I'd put a
crest on the panel, and I'd hae a
coachman in livery with his eyebrows
all pulled out and his face as smooth as
a pane ol glass, and I'd cut tho biggest
swell in those purls." But the lirst
thiirg ho'd do would bo to start in on
the wine supper racket, tlio next, go on
the street in future, the next, cards,
then the next, the pistol; nine chances
out of ten.
"If I had a million," says. Hie plod
ding, weary workingnian, " I would
have the linest lioue in town, filled with
upholstered furniture, boautiful carpets,
cottly paint'ngs ami all the luxuries.
Then I could bring up my family as I
wish to." Deluded man! Does ho
realize thnt if he had a million nnd his
nice house thnt the chances aro it would
bo a museum of bad taste in tho lire rod
plushes and gaudy works of art. that
his children, instead of Jearning inde
pendence and thrift from tho necessi
ties of tha-,0 surroundings, would drift
to an inane and profitless manhood, and
after tho mainstay of tho house had
pasedon!to that other "golden realm,','
would fritter his millions out and scatter
the dollars like the leaves of the forest,
never to be gathered by kith or km of his?
" if 1 find a million, siys the young
mechanic jiiit out of his apprenticeship,
" I'd go into manufacturing on a largo
scale. I'd double my money in live
years. I'd avoid all the mistakes of this
man and thnt man I can see just how
to do It." Fool, if he wants to go into
business, let him remember that from
small beginnings almost every great es
tablishment within his knowledge has
f'rown. If he had n million, ho'd very
ikely make an , assignment just about
tho time ho expects he would havo
doubled his money; but if he starts in
slow, and goes careful, the doubling of
his small capital will occur at regular
intervals, nnd ho may retire with a
million.
" If I had a million," says the enthu
siastic joung man who is overloaded
with ideas, " I'd start a newspaper ."
Hold on, young man! The millionaires
of New York, somo of thorn, have news
papors ami people will not-take tho
trouble to read themj much less to give
heed to their editorial sentiments
New Haven ltujistcr.
What He Would I)o.
It was in the sinokingcar on the New
York Central. There va- one chap who
was blustering a great deal and telling
of how many duels he had fought, aud
ouluml nun sat a
small man reading a !
maga.ine.
" birl" said the big man, as he wheeled
around, " what w'ould you do if chal
lenged?" " Ilofuse," was tho quiet reply.
"Ah! 1 thought as much. Refuse
nnd be branded a coward! What if a
gentleman oll'ercd you the choice of n
duel or a public hoiewhipping then
what!"
" I'd take tho whipping."
"Ah 1 thought so thought so from
the looks of you. Suppose, sir, you
had foully, slandereil me?"
"I never shindc."
" Then, sir. suppose I had coolly and
deliberately insulted you; what would
you do?"
"I'd rise up this way, put down my
book this way. ami reach over liko this
and take hint by thee nose-as I take you,
and givo it a thrco-quartor twist just
so!"
When the littlo man lot go of the big
man's nose, the man with the w bite hat
on began to crouch down to get away
from bullets, but there was no shooting.
'I ho big man turned red then pale
then looked the littlo man over and re
marked: " Certainly of course that's it ex
actly!" Ami then conversation turned on tho
general prosperity of the 'country. De
troit Free Press.
China, it is said, is inaugurating a
system of railways which will give em
ployment at homo to the class tliat now
seeks it in America. Wheat culture is
being extended and Hour mills intro
duced to mako thorn independent of
California, and textile factories are al
ready successfully working. Mining is
now'bem developed under competent
engineers. Shipbuilding Is being c
pauded, nnd a beginning is mado in
agricultural implements. Shoos and all
kinds of clothing thoy can mako' iu China
and supply their California customers at
round profits, Christian Union.
RELIGIOUS AjSl) LMjUC AT10XAL.
printing hnsKheen introduced ns n
studv into tho high school of Snn Jose,
Cnl. , b
! -4a Chinaman, dving'of consumption
in Chicago, erected' an altar in his laun
dry, nnd worked before It, with his face
to the oast, as long its' he was able to
wash nt all.
Forty thousand dollars, tho full
amount needed, has been contributed to
endow a professorship in Syracuse Uni
versity in memory of tlio Into William
Pcnn Abbott. -I 'licit (A. Y.) Herald.
The Professorship of Anatomy in
tho Harvard Medical School' has 'had
but three incumbents in the century of
Its existence Dr. John Warren, Dr.
John Collins Warren and Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
While preaching from the text:
f'Hogivcth His beloved sloop," , a To
ledo minister stopped in tho. middle, of
nis sermon, gaed upon his sleeping
auditors and wild " Brethren, it is hard
to realize (ho wondrous, unbounded
lovo the Lord appears to have for n
.good portion of tins congregation."
ToMo liladc.
The new pay roll which the Board
of Education of Brooklyn will probably
adopt makes an incrotiio in. the pay of
some principals. The Principal, of" the
Central Grammar-School will receive
$'','100; twenty-six others will receive
,'1,000. If this schedule is adopted tho
pnv of teachers in the public schools
of "the city will amount to 8D,742, of
which the Statu will apportion 82G0,
M'J. 66. and the city $570, '202. -14'. Brook
lyn Eutle.
Bishop Moore made tho annual
address before tlio Conference of the M.
K. Zion Church, at Poughkcopsio, N Y.,
recently. Tho prospects of colored
Methodism were never brighter, the
Church hnving a membership of 11,000,-'
000, soattcredin nearly every State and
Territory, Cnnndn, Liberia nnd the In
dian Islands. There are twenty-two
Annual Conferences presided over by
six Bishops, and church property to tho
amount of 10,000,00'), and a recently
established institution of learning in
North Carolina. Chicugo Tribune.
President Eliot, of Harvard, has
that lat best gift of man tact. At
ono time his students dooloped an un
pleasant liking for sitting in largo num
bers upon tho fence that surrounds tho
college yard. Tho ProMilont, not do
siring such a thing to become a custom,
was at a loss how best to break up this
practice At last, ono oven ng, ns ho
was walking alonir the sidewalk, nnd
tho students were sitting on tho fence
singing, etc., tho President said: "Gen
tlemen, allow mo to congratulate you
on hnving adopted the Yale custom."
He was never troubled afterward by
students sitting on- tho fence. Chicago
Journal. '
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Mattings.
To all persons who contemplate fur
nishing a house, and who desire to unite
saving of money with saving of labor, I
will make u suggestion. Nothing iu my
experience of housekeeping has given
me more real satisfaction tnan the mat
tings on all my second-story rooms.
Beautiful matting can be purchased for
fifty cents a yard, ndd its advantages
over carpets are legion. If wo consider
health of paramount importance, as we
should do in these days of 'invalid
women, then we ca.mot hesitate a mo
ment in our choice between carpet and
matting for a sleeping-room; while a
carpet attracts the dust and stores up
an endless amount of it. to be circulated
j through the nir at nil times, a closelv
' woven matting retains none of it; tho
I dust collects, to bo sure, as it always
' will in all places, but with scarcely any
expenditure of strength can bo swout
I oil' easily and quietly, without flying
nbont nnd covering the furniture.
Gentlc eWuicnt sweeping is a rare gift
wining servants; iney usuany scrape the
carpel almost in pieces, and raise clouds
of dirt, part of which settles again in
the
room..
Carpets attract something still worso
than dust; tho insidious moth is n bete
noir to housekeeper;; its favorite lurk
ing places aro around tho edges of tho
carpels, and especially under pieces of
furniture, where unseen ami unsuspect
ed by tlio novitiate housewife it com
mitts gripvpus depredations. My mat
tings, were put down in the spring;
through the summer thoy were cool
looking aud grateful; in the fall I was
spared the terrible tearing up of rooms
anil shaking of carpets; only had mv
mattings wiped off with a clean cloth
and water, when thoy hnd tho fragrance
of new-mown hay. Somo warm-looking
rugs and mats thrown down gave a cozy,
comfortable look to tho rooms. In tho
following spring when tho mattings
wore taken up 1 was amazed to see that
no dirt at all had worked through them;
the floors were us clean ns though lately
swept
Bare floors with rugs aro handsome,
but an exceeding great care;, the pol
ished boards, get scratched in spite bf tho
greatest care, and moreover show every
particle of dust
Consider for a moment, all weary
housekeepers, in how many ways mat
tings could diminish your cares, and
you must certainly agree with mo in as
serting that they "aro the most desirable
covering for tlio floors of sleeping
xpartments. Even one of tho prettiest
parlors I know has a matting upon tho
lloor. In winter a large Turkish nig of
genial, warm colors covers all the contor
of tho room; tho heavy red drapery of
tho windows is drawn far back so "that
tho sun streams in and brightens the
wicker chairs with their comfortablo
cushions. Ono cannot enter tlio room
without fooling that an artist's brain
has conceived and an artist's hand ar
ranged such beauty. Cor. Our Continent.
An Unnnttirnl Condition.
The fnrmer or stockman who has entY
tic to toll kriows that theio is an appar
ently astonishing disproportion between
wluu he receives for his cattle and the
price asked the consumer for beef at
this time. In fact ho finds it more dtlll
cult to ell'cct satisfactory sales in Chica
go than ho docs sometimes when tho
butchers nre charging a considerable
less price for ments, nnd if ho does not
happen to know what the trouble is, tho
situation is nn enigma to him. Tho
truth is that the supply of cattle exceeds
the demand. But then arises the Inquiry,
if that is true, how happens it that tho
retail prices arc so high? Wo will ex
plain. Probably the scarcity of grain
had some influence in raising prices at
the beginning, but it is slated that tho
rise was principally because of a corner.
At nil events beef nt retnil begun to leap
tip hi prico until people to a largo extent
'stopped buying beef, and tho consump
tion lias boon steadily falling oft, and is
still continuing to fall on". This being
the caso, the retailors havo stopped
bming, except in a comparatively small
way, and tho butchers havo quit
slaughtering to nn extent that makes
the supply inadequate to even the coni
parathely light demand. So with com
paratively plenty of cattle in the coun
try,' for which tho producer cannot get '
what he ought to get, the consumer is
compelled to pay almost famine prices
for his beef. It"is said by the dealers
that tho trade Is almost wholly in mut
ton and pork. It is a shame "that this
largo prico which beef is commanding
cannot in somo way bo divided up be
tween the producer and consumer to
the benefit of each. How far specula
tion may have operated to produce this
result, wo do not know, but, as beforo
stated, it is said that tho fault lies
scarcely anywhere else. If so and if
it is not true in tin's instance, it is true
with other food products very often it
is a sad commentary upon our civiliza
tion. If there is no way to prevent in
dividuals and boards of trade from using
the products of our farms as tho basis
of gambling operations, to the detriment
of the .farmer and to tho injury of the
consumer, there is something radically
wrong in what wo call civilized life,
anil the rules and laws which it orig
inates. It will not bo claimed that a
man or sot of men have the right to
carry on a business by the side of other
men's property that would injure tho
latter. Tho enjoyment of any rights
which we have is conditioned upon it
being harmless to our neighbor. This
is the theory of civilized government
Yet men aro permitted to make a cor
ner on grain or moat, which is ah inju
ry to everj' producer, or to tho majority
of producers, in the end at least, and to
every consumer. It is simply getting
.money at the expense of somebody else,
nothing moro or less. And what tho
.difference ia between that and settings
up a disreputable business next door to
another man's residence, we cannot see.
The number of really good cattloiis
smnll, the price of corn being so high
that nothing can be made feeding it.
As most of the best cattle, however,
always go East, Western markets are no
worse olf, or at least not much, on that
account. ' The usual stock from which
Western markets aro supplied is plenty.
Western Jiural.
AYIipio nnd How to Apply Fertilizers.
It is often difficult to decide for
barn-yard or stable manures, or for
any artificial fertilizer whether to put
it in the hill or broadcast it; and
whether to apply it on the surface, or
bur) it deeply. Hero, is a hint or two.
If not strongenough to injure the firt
tondor roots, a littlo manure near at
hand gives tlio plant a good send off,
liko nourishing food to tho young calf
or other animal; the aftergrowth is
much better if the young nnimnl or
plant is not dwarfed by imperfect and
insufficient diet. Therefore, drilling in
nocuous, hand fertilizers in with tho
seed is useful, as is putting some well
rotted manure or leached ashes into
hills of corn, potatoes, indeed with all
planted seeds. But there are good rea
sons for distributing most of the ma
nures or fertilizers till through the soil,
and as deeply as tho plant roots can
possibly penetrate. The growth and
vigor of all plants or crops depend
chiefly upon a good supply of strong
roots that stretch out tar, and thus
gather food over tho widest extent of
soil. If a flourishing stalk of corn,
grain or grass bo carefully washed, so
lis to leave all its roots or rootlets at
tached, there will be found a wonderful
mass of hundreds and even thousands
of roots to tiny plant, nnd they extend,
off a long distance frequently several
feet tho farthor tho better, to collect
moro food and moistuip. Put somo
manure or fertilizer in place two feet
away from corn or-potnto hill, or from
almost any plant, and a large mass of
roots will go out in that direction. So
if we mix manures or fertilizers well
through the whole soil, thoy attract these
food-seeking roots to a greater distance;
and thoy thus come in conttiqt with
moro of "the food already in the soil,
and find more moisture in dry weath
er. A deeply stirred soil, with manure
nt tho bottom, develops wator-pumping
roots below tho reach of any ordinary
drouth, and tho crops keep right on
growing all -tho moro rapidly on ac
count of tho helpful sun's rays that
would scorch a plant not reaching a
deep reservoir of moisture, American
Agriculturist.
Tlio Wesloyan Female Collpgo in
Cincinnati, O., has been struggling
along for somo years with an oppressive
debt, and announcement is now mado
that unless !)0,00u is raised before the
expiration of t)io current academic
year its property must bo sold. Detroit
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