ALL SORTS.
Pollock, the Brooklyn reporter who
accidentally shot Capt. Bourne, of the
police department, is almost crazed.
Directly after the accident he fell on hia
knees and began to pray, lie has a wife
and fire children, and the former is pro
fuse in her sympathies for the bereaved
wife of Capt. Bourne. And indeed Mrs.
Bourne has been much afflicted of late.
Not long since she lost a son, and the
other day she attended the funeral of
her father, in Danbury, Conn. The case
is an exceedingly sad one ; but we sup
pose the pastime of snapping pistols
will go right on as if nothing had hap
pened. Rochester Democrat.
Chicago precocity is wonderful. A
young gentleman in the employ of that
city as a lamp-lighter never lights a lamp,
but he gets double pay. lie lets out
each lamp to a small boy in the neighbor
hood, who for the privilege of being al
lowed to light the same pays him a
penny a night and finds his own matches.
This incident illustrates aptly the pas
sion of the American citizen for munic
ipal honors. It will also explain to won
dering mothers in Chicago how it is that
their sons' pantaloons always wear out
sooner on the inside of the leg than else
where. Boston Advertiser.
The probable area of coal lands in
Colorado is 100,000 square miles, a larger
space than the six New England States.
The ascertained area of lands abounding
in coal is somewhat less than that of the
btate of Connecticut. Of fifteen mines
working, one near Erie, the Boulder Val
ley mine, employs about 100 men, taking
out about 250 tons per day, the miners,
working by the piece, averaging daily
wages of five dollars each. The vein,
worked at from five to fifty feet below
the surface of the earth, is now nine
feet thick. The year's yield of the mine
mentioned above reaches 250,000 tons,
worth at least $l,0CO,000.
The highest figures reached by the
commerce between this country and the
Sandwich Islands were the imports of
1873, which amounted to f 1,316,270, the
exports for the same year being $931,484.
The imports have exceeded the experts
every year since 18C3 to 1873 inclusive,
the greatest amount of exports having
been $1,037,445 in 1871, the excess of Im
ports in that year having been a little
over $100,000. In the six years alluded
to there has been scarcely any noticeable
change iD the statistics of this com
merce. A gentleman was looking into the
window of a toy-store the other day
when two lads halted and one remarked:
" Say, Jim, don't you wish we had ten
cents to buy a present for our poor, lame
sister?" Jim replied that he did, and
the gentleman pulled out a shinplastcr
and said he was glad to be able to assist
them in such a praiseworthy enterprise.
He met the same boys half an hour
afterward and each had his pockets
stnffed with pop-corn balls. Detroit Free
Press.
A singular outrage is reported from
Ireland. A party of armed men waylaid
a young widow, who with her father and
mother was returning home on a car.
near Tullamore, Kings County. They
threatened to take the young woman's
life unless she would consent to marry
Grennan, one of the assailants, fortu
nately, assistance was at hand, and, on
an alarm being raised, five of the gang,
including Grennan, were arrested. They
have all been committed lor trial.
Warm! The Empress of Russia
wears a crimson velvet and fur-lined
cloak valued at $20,000. It is lined with
two hundred and twenty eight skins of
Russian sable, each of which is worth
$60. The Czar possesses a still more
costly mantle, lined with the fur of the
blue fox, which is worth $30,000. lie
presented to Adelina Patti, on the occa
sion of her last benefit in St. Peters
burg, a set of furs of the value of
$10,000.
Mrs. Wrisley's watch has had an
eventful existence in Haydenville, Mass.
It was stolen and recovered, the thief
going to State Prison. It was again
stolen and returned upon payment of a
reward, men tne .anil mver nood came
along and swept it away. A few daj'S
ago it was found hanging under the floor
of a bouse that had been overturned by
the water.
Two French savans have presented
to the French Academy ot Sciences the
result of their experiments upon a flame
produced by the mixture of sulphur of
carbon and bioxide of nitrogen. The
light produced by it is so infense as to
quite eclipse the sun. By the help of it
photographers will be able to do their
work at any hour of the day or night
and in any condition of the atmosphere.
The Grand Trunk Railroad Company
have adopted a new plan to prevent
their conductors from " knocking down."
By the new arrangement, which lately
went into effect, the conductors act
simply as guards, and a ticket agent ac
companies each train and takes up
tickets, and sells tickets to those who re
quire them.
President Clark's experiment at the
Agricultural College of Massachusetts,
by which a growing squash was made to
lift an enormous weight, has attracted
considerable attention. He has received
an invitation from California to deliver a
lecture on squashes, with the offer of
$1,000 and expenses. He will probably
accept.
Mrs. Senator Schurz, a woman who
is better informed, and, therefore, more
enthusiastic, on this subject than almost
any person in this country, ardently de
sires to be enfranchised. She believes it
criminal in men to refuse it. Woman's
Journal.
Times have come to that pass when
a man can't set his house on fire, collect
the insurance and put on any style with
the money without some one is mean
enough to throw out insinuations. De
troit Press.
An exchange remarks : " Now is the
time when prudent parents see to it that
the part of the boys on which they 6lide
down hill is properly half-soled" with
leather, tin or sheet iron."
" Oleomargarine," or beef butter, is
superseded now by the invention of a
French chemist, who makes butter by a
chemical process, without using any fatty
matter whatever.
A Colorado bar-keeper, who shot a
man dead over the counter, pleads in ex
tenuation that an order for drinks was
counter-man-dead.
The Congressional library now con
tains 274,157 volumes and 53,000 pam
phlets, an increase during 1874 of 53,000
volumes.
The Albany Penitentiary will make
$30,000 clear profit this year. This
shows what earnest co-operation can do.
Ladies' winter walking shoes have
broad soles and moderate heels. They
button and are without toe tips.
A resident of Bridgeport, Conn., is
the owner of a six-year-old cheese. He
says : " There's millions in it."
An Oriental Trick.
Aj, interesting incident has just oc
curred in Bucharest and has created a
profound sensation in theatrical circles
in that place. It seems that the pro
prietor of the Suhr circus, anxious to
provide amusement for the public, lately
published an announcement that a chal
lenge given by Jules Rigal, a wrestler at
tached to the circus, had been accepted
by a gentleman, who, wishing to preserve
a strict incognito, wouM appear before
the public in a week. The amateur ath
lete, who, it was stated, was a person oc
cupying a high social position, was ru
mored to be no other than the Prince
Stourdja, a Moldavian noble, who has
the reputation of possessing herculean
strength. On the evening when " the
great unknown" made his first appear
ance in the circus the stalls were filled
with eager spectators long before the
commencement of the performance.
Rigal and his masked opponent having
made their bow to the audience at once
commenced the struggle, which was,
however, of short duration, for the dis
tinguished unknown in a few minutes,
amid frantic applause, floored his pro
fessional antagonist. So great was the
success of the spectacle that the man
ager announced to the admiring audience
that the nobleman wrestler had conde
scended to appear again before them on
the following evening, when the perform
ance was accordingly repeated and was
continued for several successive nights,
until one evening an indiscreet member of
the troupe unfortunately divulged the
fact that the masked wrestler was not a
distinguished nobleman but only one of
the clowns attached to the circus. This
led to a disturbance the "great un
known" narrowly escaped being torn to
pieces by his late admirers, the manager
and his troupe had to fly for their lives,
and the circus building would probably
have been dismantled and destroyed but
for the exertions of the police, who with
great difficulty succeeded in repressing
what promised to be a serious riot.
An Exploded Fat Man.
All nations have given to the Chinese
the honor of being the most ingenious
people in the world. They are ever
ready in curiosities of nature and art,
and seem to prefer enormities and mon
strosities to the true and grandeur of
nature.
The colony of Chinese on St. Ann
street, opposite the Superior District
Court, love, like all Chinamen, to boast
of the greatness of China, its wonders
and magnificence. The following 6tory
was told us by one of them, Che-Fupg,
the other night, as a proof of Chinese
superiority over the barbarians of the
West. W hcther it were a Chinese hoax
or not, it is at least theoretically and nat
urally possible :
Che-Fung is a picture of the more
wretched Chinese. He is frightful, dis
gusting in appearance. Tall for a China
man, being over six feet in height, he is
thin and emaciated, a skeleton scare
crow. His face is covered with wrinkles,
like a school-boy's atlas ; his nose must
be taken for granted, it is a mere sus
picion; his mouth is a perfect gulf in it
self; his eyes altogether out of the right
position; and the flesh of his face hangs
down like the hide of a rhinoceros.
Altogether Che-Fung is a disgusting
sight, looks as if he had been hung and
dried, boiled and smoked, then buried
for a month or so, and dug up to be ex
hibited. Yet Che-Fung is a good talker
in Pigeon English, and in a confidential
manner disclosed his whole history in
that language, of which, while making
out about one word in ten, we got a gen
eral idea:
" I was a circus man in China Tsien
Sing, as we call it. We are great on
gymnastic and legerdemain ; but particu
larly in natural phenomena, human curi
osities, etc. There is a human monstros
ity manufactory at Tsacping, where, for
a consideration, any of the human de
formities you Americans regard as lapsi
naturae can be made to order. .There are
many parents who thus sacrifice their
children to be made monsters of, and who
live on the gaining by the exhibition of
these monstrosities.
" I cannot explain how all of these
tricks are done, but that they are done
any Chinaman can testify. A dwarf is
of easy manufacture; a regular morning
dose of whisky and tea to a child will
stunt it keep it down to its original size
A monstrosity, a hunchback, is, of
course, easy; while human beings can be
made of any shape, from a cock to an
elephant, by being molded in a jar like
jelly stuck into a iar of the desired
shape when young, and left there to de
velop itself.
" As for mvself. 1 was brought up a
fat man.' "
"A fat man!" we exclaimed involun
tarily, looking at Che-Fung's spare form
" Do vou manufacture fat people In
China?" " It is only a trick of the trade
I was naturally a thin boy, but old Fee
Lee soon brought me out. You have
seen sheep slaughtered here, seen them
skinned. A hole is made in the outer
skin, the epidermis, a bellows is inserted
and worked. The air finds its way be
tween the cuticle and cutis, or skin
proper, and swells out the animal to
double its size, at the same time that it
almost separates these two skins, so that
the hide of the animal comes oil easily
lhis is the manner in which 1 was
treated. Every morning I was treated
to an air bath, and a gallon or so ot air
irjected into my system, and soon I be
gan to swell like a balloon.
In a month or so I was returned to
my parents a fat boy, and a fine specimen
of a fat boy, measuring, although only
fifteen, eighty-eight inches around the
chest and forty-six inches around the
thigh. I was advertised as weighing 600
pounds; the truth was I weighed only
about 180, the eighty being the weight
of 200 gallons of air by which I was
pulled out.
" I don't believe that I altogether pre
sented a very pretty aspect, being puffed
out and lumpy in appearance ana look
ing bloated rather than fat. However, a
very close observer could not detect the
imposture, and I was exhibited for many
years, earning a respectable livelihood
for my parents, who had brought me up
to the profession of fat man.
"The profession was not an agreeable
one. The air made me ever feel sleepy
and sick. It did not, however, make me
lazy ; did not impede me as fat would
have done. Those who saw my agility
and gracefulness on the street wondered
how so fat a man could be so lively, lit
tle suspecting that his apparent fatness
was an assistance and half carried me
along the street. There were few young
men in China that could beat the mon
ster of 600 pounds in a foot race.
"I came over here and exhibited in
America in San Francisco for some
time. One day during a sitting an
American child, with the usual ingenu
ity and investigating disposition of
American children, crept up behind me,
and, probably impressed with the desire
of discovering whether a fat man could
feel or not, ran a pin or knife or some
thing sharp into me while no one was
observing him. The result was some
what of an explosion; the captive air
rushed out and left me a thin-looking
individual as I am now. There was no
one to blow me up scientifically and I
therefore gave up the profession of fat
man for that of washerwoman. I seldom
feel any evil consequences from my
previous condition save that my cuticle
or outer skin is almost separated from
myself, and like an ill-fitting suit cf
clothes almost drops off or bunches it
self up in a disagreeable manner. I
sometimes get cold inside of it, which is
not at all comfortable. Still the position
of a washerwoman is much preferable
to that of a fat man and I intend to stick
to it." New Orleans Picayune.
Advertisements.
A volume of curious lore, in the form
of " A History of Advertisements from
the Earliest Times," has recently been
published in London by Henry Sampson.
By sketching, with ample illustration,
the ingenious methods by which the ends
of advertising have been accomplished
in different ages, the author has fur
nished a valuable record ot the advance
of civilization, and has also shown how
unalterable is human nature under all
the modifications of social custom. Hu
manity is never, perhaps, more favora
bly revealed than in the advertising col
umns of the newspapers; and individual
character, aims and tendencies are to be
plainly read from many of their an
nouncements. The lunatic who once
replied to the writer's inquiry how she
passed her time in the asylum, " Oh, in
reading advertisements!" was by no
means devoid of w it, for in their diver
sity there is abundant food for amuse
ment and for reflection.
Among the multitudes of specimens,
diverting, instructive and saddening,
with which Mr. Sampson crowds his
pages, is this, dated 1816:
WaLted immediately, to enable me to leave the
tonne which I have for the last five years inhab
ited in the same plight and condition as I found
it, 500 Live Kate, for which I will gladly pay the
sum of 5 sterling; and, an I cannot leave the
farm attached thereto in the fame order in which
I got it without at least five millions of Docks
and Dockenw f weeds, I do hereby promise a fur
ther cum of Jt5 for said number of Docks.
B. The rats must be full grown and no cripple.
Nothing need be added to the above to
complete its full exhibition of the writer's
eccentric disposition.
How perfect a certificate of the Irish
nationality is the following, which was
posted on all the dead walls of Dublin in
1781:
This is to certify that I, Daniel O'Flannagan,
am not the person that was tarred and feathered
by the Liberty mob on Tuesday last; and I am
ready to give twenty guineas to any one that will
lay me fifty that I am the other man that goes by
my name.
Several of the most significant adver
tisements in Mr. Sampson's collection are
taken from the American journals. Here
is one that appeared in the Connecticut
C our ant of 1806:
Thomas Hntchins has advertised that I have
abeeDted myself from his bed and board, and
cautioned any person against making me any pay
ment on bis account. I now advertiee the pub
lic that the same Thomas Ilutchins came as a
fortune-toller into this town about a year a o,
wittwa recommendation which, with come artful
falsehoods, induced me to marry him. Of the
four wives he had before me, the last he quarreled
awav; how the other three came by their deaths
he can best inform the public; but I caution all
widows or maidens against marrying him, be
their desire for matrimony ever so strong. Should
he make his advances under a feigned name, they
may look out for a little, talkative, strutting, fee
ble, meager, hatchet-faced fellow, with epindle
shanks, and a little warped in the bark.
Thankful. Hotchiss.
There is a whole domestic tragedy con
densed in these few crisp lines. An
equally pithy advertisement was printed
in a Princetown (Ind.) journal but a few
years ago:
Wanted, two or three boarders of a decent
stripe, such as go to bed at 9 o'clock withont
a pipe or cigar iu their mouths. I wish
them to rise in time to wash their face, and comb
their heads beiore breakfast. When they put ou
their boots, to draw on their pants over them,
and not have them rumpled about their knees,
which is a sure sit;n of a rowdy. When they sit
down to rest or warm by the tire, nor to put their
feet on the mantelpiece or bureau, nor fpit on the
bread-tray. And to pay their board weekly,
monthly, or quarterly as may be agreed upon
with a smile upon their faces, and they will find
me as pleasant as an opossum up a persimmon
tree. Old SIecali-a.
The following was printed in an En
glish paper of 1804:
To be disposed of for the benefit of the widow,
a Blind Man's Walk in a chnri table neighborhood,
the comings-in between twentv-five and twenty
sis shillings a week, with a dbg well-drilled, and
a staff in good repair. A handsome premium
will be expected. For further particulars, apply
at No. 40 Chiswell street.
The Military In Louisiana.
The bone of contention in Louisiana
affairs just now is the use of a squad cf
United States troops (fifteen in all, we
believe) in the legislative halls last Mon
day. It is no longer a question whether
Kellogg was elected Governor two years
ago, or whether the Democrats carried
the State last November, or whether the
Returning Board counted the vote fairly.
These things have all been ignored or
put out of sight for the moment, lhe
agitators and sensationalists have got
something now to howl over, and they
seize it with the desperation ot sensation-
mongers. ' Interference of the United
States troops" is the burden of the la
ment, lhis is the " outrage wlucli is
used to fire the Democratic heart, and
which has brought prompt responses
from Democratic Legislatures, and Gov
ernors, and caucuses. Nobody has
stopped to inquire who is responsible
for such interference as there actually
was. There was ' interference," and
that is enough to account for the gen
eral outcry that has gone forth against
the President and Gen. Sheridan, against
the Kepublican party and lvellogg,
against everybody and everything that
did not agree with a violent and fraudu
lent organization of the Legislature.
Perhaps it would be well to ask, before
going any further, who was responsible
for this " interference" in the Jirst place.
The facts show that neither the Presi
dent, nor Gen. Sheridan, nor Gov. Kel
logg, nor the Republican party first
called for the intervention of the mili
tary. The militarv was first called in
by Mr. Wiltz, the temporary Speaker of
the House, who was rushed into the chair
by the Democrats by a viva voce yell. We
have the testimony of all sides that Mr.
Wiltz first called upon Gen.deTrobriand
to use the force under his command to
protect the Democratic organization of
the House. It is further stated, and ad
mitted on all sides, that Mr. Wiltz did
this in compliance with a resolution
passed by the House while under a Dem
ocratic organization, asking De Iro
briand to clear the lobbies with the mil
itary. The purpose of this resolution
was to force the Metropolitan police, the
State conservators of the peace, out of
the House. After the United States
troops had thus been invoked, Gov. Kel
logg issued an order to Gen. de Tro
briand to drive out five persons who had
no certificates of membership, and who
were not as much entitled to be pres
ent as the police who had been previ
ously ejected. Now the Democrats
throughout the country ask us to de
nounce President Grant and Gen. Sheri
dan because Gen. deTrobriand executed
the second of these orders, and ignore
the fact that he had previously been
called upon by the Democratic Speaker
to exercise the same interference in be
half of the Democrats. In other words.
the interference of the military in behalf
of the Democrats is all right and lawful,
but interference on behalf of justice, as
opposeu to tne .Democrats, is all wrong
Ve decline to take so absurd and un
tenaoie a position, it is not necessary
to the issue to discuss whether the mili
tary should have been called in or not
by either side; but, certainly, if a Demo
cratic Speaker of the House, illegally
elected, had the right to invoke military
aid, then a Republican Governor, who
has held the seat for two years, had an
equal right to do the same thing. If the
whole proceeding was wrong, then it ill
becomes those who began it to blame
those who had nothing to do with it.
And in this light the country will regard
it after demagogues have got done yell
ing about it. Chicago Tribune, Jan. 8.
Good Evidence.
In one of the New York courts a party
was recently on trial charged with send
ing scurrilous postal cards through the
mail. The prosecution otlered in evi
dence a letter written b7 the defendant,
in which certain words were misspelled.
He did 60 with the view of showing that
the same words are misspelled in the
same way in the postal cards in question,
and then arguing to the jury that the
identity in spelling is additional proof
that the defendant wrote the cards. In
his support of his right to offer he quoted
this curious case :
' A tailor in Ayr, Scotland, by the name
of Alexander, learning that .a man of the
same name had died leaving considera
ble property without any apparent heirs,
obtained access to the house occupied
by Mr. Alexander during his life, and
found there a collection of letters about
his family. These he carried off, and
with their aid fabricated a mass of sim
ilar productions, which, as was claimed,
clearly proved his connection with the
family of the deceased. When the tail
or's suit to gain possession of the prop
erty came on for trial it appeared that
there were a number of words in the let
ters which were produced by the suitor,
and which purported to be from differ
ent individuals, misspelled in the same
way. Upon examination it appeared
that the letters were all written by the
same hand, and the case attracted the
attention of the inner house. The tailor
was therefore brought to the clerk's ta
ble, where he was made to write a dicta
tion of the Lord Justice Clerk, and in
doing so he misspelled all the words that
were misspelled in the fabricated letters,
and in precisely the same way. He then
confessed that the letters in question
were fabricated, and that he had writ
ten them on old paper found in the gar
ret of Mr. Alexander's house."
The court, without regard to the case
cited, admitted the evidence.
The Pig.
The pig was thus written up by a
Georgia boy, whose composition was
published in his local paper, the Griffin
News, and was as follows :
" The ts is about as bie as a sheep.
only a pig's wool isn't good for making
stockings of. Why is a pig like a tree?
Because he roots. That is a conundrum -A
pig washes himself in the mud. A pig
has four legs, one under each corner of
his body. They pickle pigs' feet, but
. r -, , j
not until aiter uie pig nas uone using
'em. A pig squeals awful when it rains,
also when you pull its tail. A pig has
got a first-rate voice for squealing and he
grunts when he feels good. You can't
make a whistle of a pig's tail 'cos it is
crooked. Why is a pig like Tommy
Grant? 'Cos he's got his nose in every
body s business. 1 his is another conun
drum, which is all I know about a pig."
AGRICULTURAL AD DOMESTIC
Sod Fences. In England and Ire
land they have the " sod fence." I have
seen it in this country occasionally, but
I think if our farmers knew its practical
merits we should see it oftener. Only
dig two ditches four feet apart, three
feet wide and two feet deep; throw the
dirt from the ditches on the space be
tween; beat it down .till it has some
hardness, and give it enough slant to
prevent "" caving," and you have a fence
for a lifetime. In most cases here we
need no turf or " whin-bushes" as they
do, for in a year the bank will be cov
ered by a luxuriant growth of blackberry
bushes, answering every purpose. Even
where timber is plenty we can make
this fence cheaper than almost any
other. Cor. Courier-Journal.
To boil potatoes they should be put
into a vessel of cold water for an hour,
then put into fresh water and boiled in a
kettle or saucepan, closely covered, in
Jhe most expeditious manner possible;
or they should be steamed, which would
be still better. If boiled no more water
should be used than merely to cover
them, as they produce a considerable
quantity of fluid. When they are done
the water should be instantly poured off,
and the kettle containing the cooked
potatoes be placed on the 6ide of the
lire with a cover on, and a cloth over
them, until the steam is absorbed and
they are rendered quite dry and mealy
before they are sent to the table. Prairie
farmer.
Plants in pots often sufler from
drought, tor, though they are carefully
watered every day until the water stands
in the saucer! if thev are turned out of
the pot and examined, it will be seen
tli At tho purth ill unit the roots is ouite
dry. for the water runs down the side of
the pot, leaving the tender rootlets as
t i . :
ury as ever, ii your pianis are in. pui,
see that the soil does not become baked
frequently loosen with a stick or trowel,
so that when watered it may soak down
through the center, feeding the roots and
causing them to grow vigorously.
Feeding Cows Turnips.
The question is asked: "Does
feed turnips to cows?" Yes.
it pay
to feed turnips to cows?" l es. r eea
them to dry cows, but not to them while
in milk. In winter the cow gets only
dry feed hay. corn fodder and straw
It may be that some feed meal and bran
in small quantity, lhis is a great cnange
from crass, therefore I think the cow
should have something to keep the bow
els loose, and turnips will not only do
that but will keep the animal in good
health. 1 do not know that there is
much food in the turnip, so as to save
hay or other fodder; but there is some
thing in them that seems to keep the
cow in fine condition, and if any one will
feed his cows a few messes and look on
and see them eat, certainly I think he
will say:" Yes, turnips are good food for
cows." I am only speaking of dry cows
in winter.
Any farmer who grows three to five
acres of corn may have 300 to 500 bush
els of flat or field turnips if he will take
the trouble to save the seed. If anyone
wishes to try it next season, and will fol
low the directions here given, 1 will guar
autee them a full crop every time:
Get good seed. Sow half a pound per
acre in among the corn any time in July
when working the corn the last time; be
sure and put the seed down broadcast
before you plow or cultivate the corn
so as to work the seed into the ground
no matter if you are marking with the
plow you will not get them in too deep
The seed will come up sure. For the
good of your corn and turnips keep the
weeds down. Moires Ilural.
Table Maimers.
The table is the place at which the
family meet, and where there should be
the freest and most unrestrained social
intercourse. We eat to live; but the
mere animal necessity is lifted up and
glorified when the charms of pleasant
conversation and of mutual courtesy
surround the custom. So far as the sus
taining of life is concerned, that object
might be reached if each took his bread
and meat and retired to a closet to eat It
alone. But there is a spiritual life that
is to be fed and sustained, and it is
starved where there is no grace, not only
beiore out during a meal.
The great trouble with our American
life is that it is too cloomy. We take no
time to entertain and amuse each other.
TSot seldom does it happen in some
houses that a meal progresses in dead
silence, except when it is necessary to
speak about the dishes, or totielp some
one to potatoes or pie. This is almost as
bad as rudeness or quarreling. There
ought to be bright, genial, sparkling talk,
in which the children should be allowed
tajoin. There is no sense whatever in
compcling an intelligent child to sit like
a deaf mute at the table; though, on the
other hand, children should not monopo
hze the conversation, nor be allowed to
ask strings of irrelevant questions.
Everyone should prepare for the table
by some simple process of dressing.
The hair should be smooth, the
hands washed, the general appear
ance of each individual inviting.
and each should try to be as
agreeable as possible to every other. It
is quite wonderful how a little freshen
ing of the toilet freshens up the soul as
well as the face. So far we ought all to
be luxurious. If the mother sees to it
that her school-boy sons always come to
dinner with clean hands and nails, and
that her daughters never dawdle into
the room in tawdry finery or soiled
wrappers, she will do more than she
dreams of in the work of making them
grow into real gentlemen and ladies.
The table itself ought to have a festive
look. Flowers have a special grace on
the breakfast board. A dish of fruit
nicely arranged pleases the eye as well
as the palate at dinner. Clean linen,
even though coarse, and whole plates
and cups, with bright glass and silve
help the appetite along. A few well-
cooked dishes, however plain, nicely
served, will promote health and happi
ness better than a great variety ruined
in the preparation.
Some housekeepers, with an eye to
saving trouble on washing day, have
adopted the marble oil-cloth ir stead of
the white damask for ordinary use. For
our part we would prefer economy in al
most any other way. A fine white table
cloth, or a Dull or crimson one occasion
ally for breakfast or tea, will furnish
forth the family feast much mure beauti
fully. Christian at Work.
To Make Yeast and Bread.
Take a handful of hops, pour on them
three pints of hot water, and boil half an
hour. lake three tablespoonfuls of
flour, two of brown sugar, two of salt,
one of ginger, and mix them all smooth
ly with a cup of warm water. Strain
the hops and pour the hot liquid over the
mixture, stirring briskly to prevent
lumping. Set it over the fire until it
boils, stirring often enough to prevent
scorching, vnen nearly cool add a cup
ful of lively old yeast and set in a warm
place. In a day or two it will ferment,
and be ready to pour off in bottles; a
wide-mouthed glass fruit-can is better,
and should not be quite filled, as there is
pretty sure to be a second rising. If
closely corked and put in a cool place it
will keep sweet three or four months.
But the bread is not made directly from
this yeast. Take a pint or more of
nicely-mashed potato, add a spoonful of
brown sugar, a teaspoonful of salt, and
hot water enough to make a thinnish
batter. When nearly cool, add four or
five spoonfuls of the stock yeast, and if
kept warm it will 6oon be light and
ready for use. After fermentation set it
in a cool place, and it will keen sweet
several days, and may be renewed and
increased by adding more of the warm
potato batter. For the loaf take a quart
of flour, a pint of the potato yeast, and
nearly a pint of warm water. Mix thor
oughly, set in a warm place, and it will
rise in about two hours. Now stir in
flour until it is quite stiff", but not too
stifl". Transfer the dough to the wide
flour-pan or the molding-board, and for
ten or fifteen minutes knead it with the
hands and slash it briskly with a case
knife. This slashing makes the loaf
more tender and even-grained, also pre
vents those large air-holes that are apt
to insinuate themselves in a hastily-made
loaf. At the last the loaf is not still
enough to stand alone ; put it in a deep,
round tin basin, keep it warm until it
rises to the brim, spread over its surface
a spoonful of melted lard or butter; with
the oven "just right," the heat will pen
etrate the loaf evenly, there will be no
thick, hard crust, and in little less than
an hour it will come out of the oven all
of a pinkish tint, and " every bit good
enough to eat." Western Rural.
Importance of Silex In the Soil.
Silica gives hardness and stiffness to
the straw and leaves of cereal grain.
When wheat or rye is sown where a
brush-heap or pile of logs has been
burned to ashes, the straw will be unu
sually stiff and the leaves, much harsher
than the other straw growing in the
vicinity, bu. away from the area of the
burning. The potash of the ashes and
the silica found in the soil are taken up
by the growing plants, and form a coat
ing or liquid glass, which is spread even
ly over the straw and leaves of the grow
ing grain, as a metallic coat-of-arms
was used in old times to cover the body
of a soldier. When the growing straw
of wheat is inclosed in a thin tube of
elastic glass, the innumerable spores,
which frequently fill the entire atmos
phere like flakes of snow, and which pro
duce rust, do not find a congenial place
for their lodgment and complete devel
opment. But when the plants do not
have access to a generous supply ef silica
and potash, the stems are so limber that
they are easily prostrated by driving
storms, so that the ears of grain will be
developed only in part. When silica is
available only in small quantities, the
pores from which fungi spring adhere to
the leaves and stems, where they find a
suitable spot for their development, and
thus the productiveness of the plant is
seriously impaired. The practical value
of silica is further perceived in the yield
of excellent fruit. Annual Record of
science and Industry.
m s
Fence Planting on the Prairies.
The erection of board fences on a
irairie farm is an expensive operation,
n Nebraska the law wisely removes the
necessity for the herding of live stock ;
and in Iowa the needs of practical farm
ing life bring about very much the same
result.
But. in each the law and the practice
are the things of the day. It is an in
stinct in the owner of land to define his
possessions by metes and bounds, obvi
ous to the eye, which separate his land
from that of his neighbor. If fences
were not a convenience there would be
no fences, therefore ; but as fences are a
convenience the improving prairie farmer
sets himself to their creation as soon as
his house is built and his land broken.
Live fences, of course, are the desider
atum, and there are three plants which
are most in favor for the purpose. The
honey locust, the Osage orange, and the
white willow make good fences. The
two former are impermeable to stock ;
and when the latter is well established
the same character may be claimed for
it. The white willow "is also of rapid
and hardy growth.
Mr. C. B. Mendenhall, of Marshall
County, Iowa, has used the white willow
extensively. On his farm there are
about thirteen miles of white willow
fencing, of from three to seven years'
growth, about half of which will turn
cattle, and a portion cut half a cord of
wood to the rod. Mr. Mendenhall has
also a grove of white willow covering
twenty acres, set out six years ago, and
which he considers to be worth $500 per
acre.
As, we doubt not, some of our readers
are even now considering the question of
moving West to Iowa or Nebraska, and
as knowledge is a light burden to carry,
we give Mr. Mendenhall's method of
planting : The willow slips are to be
eight inches in length, thrifty sprouts of
one or two years' growth. The ground
for the hedge-row is to be plowed as
deeply as possible during August, a dead
furrow being left where it is proposed the
fence shall stand. Just before frost
comes the land is to be turned back, the
dead furrow being filled in. As soon as
the earth is open plant the slips eibt
inches apart, covering them with finely
pulverized earth. Cultivate as corn for
two years, keeping the infant fence en
tirely clear of weeds. The following
method will insure a rapid growth:
Mulch well in the fall after the second
year, placing the mulching as close to
the plants as may be without touching
the stems.
By following Mr. Mendenhall's plan
the prairie farmer, with white willow,
will have a thrifty fence in the course of
three or four years, and in six years his
inclosures will be perfect. Albany
Ledger.
Objection Makers.
It will probably be found that those
qualities which come under the head of
foibles, rather than of vices, render peo
ple most intolerable as companions and
coadjutors. For example, it may be ob
served that those persons have a more
worn, jaded and dispirited look than any
others who have to live with people who
make difficulties on every occasion, great
or small. It is astonishing to see how
this practice of making difficulties grows
Into a confirmed habit of mind, and
what disheartenment it occasions. The
savor of life is taken out of it when you
know that nothing you propose to do or
suggest, hope for or endeavor, will meet
with any response but an enumeration
of the difficulties that lie in the path you
wish to travel. The difficulty-monger is
to be met with not only in domestic and
social life but also in business. It not
unfrequently occurs in business rela
tions that the chief will never by any
chance, without many objections and
much bringing forward of possible diffi
culties, approve of anything that is
brought to him by his subordinates.
They at last cease to take pains, knowing
that no amount of pains will prevent
their work being dealt with in a spirit of
ingenious objectiveness. At last they
say to themselves: "The better the
thing we present the more opportunity
he will have for developing his unpleas
ant task of objectiveness and his imagi
native power of inventing difficulties.
Arthur Helps.
The Debit and Credit Account.
No one can pursue a business intelli
gently and profitably without carefully-
kept debit and credit accounts. With
these accounts carefully kept the farmer
can, by yearly balances, see just what
he is doing. If the account is too heavy
on the debit 6ide, the farmer can see just
where he is tending and will, by this in
formation, be influenced to take a new
tack and recover himself before he has
gone too far.
3 ... .
Now, January will soon be here, and
we advise all who have not done so be
fore to open an account with the farm
and its operations. Here are the items
that should be charged against the farm:
Interest on the capital invested, at the
usual rate, 10 per cent.
The taxes.
The depreciation in value irom ex
haustion.
The interest on the capital invested in
implements, farm machinery and the
stock employed to work the farm.
The depreciation in value ot these irom
use. This item can De esumaiea uy me
average length of time these articles last
by good usage.
The value of manures and seeds, and
of the materials for repairs and improvements.
The interest on these until returns are
had on their use.
The cost of all labor, both of the owner
and his hired help, at the rate he pays
for help.
The actual costlor Doara ior nis nirea
help.
All female labor employed in the pro
duction of butter, cheese, etc.
Credit the farm with :
All its products, both that sold and
that consumed by the family.
The enhanced marKei vaiue oi ine
farm.
Permanent improvements.
The rent of the dwelling-house.
We cannot too strongly urge the im
portance of a knowledge of just how our
affairs are going. If the facts which will
be brought out in these accounts each
year show that we are on the down
grade we shall be prompted to call a halt
and to begin earnest inquiry as to what
we should do. If it should be found by
comparing notes with our neighbors that
exclusive corn-growing was the cause of
our trouble we should take a new tack.
If it should prove to be an attempt to
grow wheat or any other special crop
that caused the failure we should cast
about to see just what our farms and our
locations to markets require that we
should do.
Friends, we repeat again what we
have often said in the Farmer, informa
tion about our business and upon kin
dred topics lies at the bottom of success.
Success was never secured without it
except in rare cases of force of circum
stances. We must above all have reli
able information about our business af
fairs, and how can we have it except we
carefully collate it and compare it and
weigh it?
Open you accounts on the 1st of Jan
uary; keep the items. It will prompt
you to look carefully after the little de
tails and save much that is now wasted.
Indiana Farmer.
Pure buckwheat flour, when baked
into cakes, as is usual, is apt to "lie
heavy on the stomach;" the fact has
given rise to the remark. To obviate
this and improve otherwise, mix Graham
flour with the buckwheat a little more
than two-thirds buckwheat with one
third Graham or unbolted wheat flour.
This may be mixed in large quantity and
kept on hand for use. The Graham will
make it light, aid digestion and make it
palatable and wholesome. It can be
mixed and baked at short notice by mak
ing a batter with sour milk from the
churn and raise with soda, or, what is
more generally acceptable, mix and set
it by the stove over night. If, the first
morning, it is not sufficiently light, it will
be the next and thereafter, if not kept
too warm. It may be mixed with water
or milk milk is best and in either case
a little soda should be added just before
baking; more where sour milk is used.
Give it a fair test. Western Rural.
Waffles (very nice). Beat well the
yolks of three or four eggs; add two and
three-quarters pints of sweet milk, half a
teaspoon of salt. Mix through a part of
the flour one heaping teaspoon of baking
powder, then add enough more sifted
flour to the milk and yolks to make
rather a stiff batter. Beat the whites of
the eggs to a stiff froth and stir in care
fully at the last. Bake in waffle irons.
Eat while hot, with butter and sugar, or
powdered cinnamon.
Planoa and Organ.
Fine new rosewood pianos for f3K).
Fine walnut organs, six stops, $125.
(tood second-hand pianos, $150 to $200.
Reed's Temple of Music, Chicago.
A flock of sparrows got on a grain
car at Boston and rode to Concord, N.
II., where they have settled.
No Uncertain- Sound. When a man
discovers a great truth it is his duty to
proclaim it to his fellow-man. The use
of Dr. Walker's Vinegar Bitters can
not be too strongly recommended to the
invalid public. To those who have tried
it nothing need be said their experience
is their proof, pure and positive as Holy
Writ. To those who have not tried it
these truths cannot be too often repeated.
It is a certain vegetable specific which
aids faltering nature against the triumphs
of dyspepsia, bilious disorders of every
kind, malarious fevers, constipation of
the bowels, liver complaint, Spring and
Fall debility, etc., etc. It costs butlittle
and can always be at hand. It is the
Eoor man's friend. It saves a doctor's
ill and the time lost in riding five, ten
r twenty miles after him; besides being
free from all the poisonous medicaments
of the pharmacopoeia. It Will not stimu
late to-day to leave you weaker to
morrow. Its benefits are permanent.
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Xlie Road to Health.
Cleanse the stomach, bowels and blood from
all the acrid, corrupt and offensive accumula
tions which produce functional deranjrement,
and you remove the cause of most diseases
which afflict the human family, and thus save
large doctors' bills. The most effectual and
reliable remedy for this purpose is found in
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. N.
cheap wood or paper boxes, but kept fresh
and reliable in vials.
High liver, those indulging in ease and
pleasure, and those of sedentary habits, can
prevent Boils, Carbuncles, Gout, Red kin,
Eruptions, Pimples, Constipation, Piles,
Drowsiness, Biliousness, and other conditions
induced by such habits by taking from four
to six of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purirative
Pellets once a week, or, better still, one or
two each night. They are sold by dealers in
medicines.
Sea Foam Baking Powder. In another
column will be found the card of the old and
reliable house of Geo. F. Gaxtz fe Co., who
have won an enviable and solid reputation as
the inventors and proprietors of " the best
Baking Powder in the world." All through
the Eastern States it is universally used, and
countless praises are daily received from
dealer and consumer. Those who have used
it will have no other, and those who have not
have yet to learn the delights to be derived
from 6weet, pure bread. American Xewjxi)er
JKrporur.
Theke is probably no way in which we can
benefit our readers more than by recommend
ing- to them for general use Johtuum'it Artodyiw
L.ttument. it is adapted to almost all the pur-
? loses oi a family .Medicine, and as a Fpeeilic
or coughs, colds, whooping coueh, soreness
or tne chest, lame stomach, rheumatism, spit
ting of blood, and ull lung- difficulties it hirs
no equal that ever we saw or heard of.
The propriety of giving condition medicine
to horses, cattle ana sheep was discussed and
admitted bv man v of the Agricultural t?ocie
ties throughout the State last fall, and we be
lieve that in everv case but one thev decided
in favor of Sheridan's Caifdry Condition. lno
ders. Good judgme?t.
A material reduction of rates has re
cently been made by the Sherman House
Chicago. Its proprietors are determined
that it shall continue to be the most pop
ular hotel in Chicago with business men
and the traveling public in general, and
they are accomplishing their purpose.
Wilhoft's Anti-Periodic or Feveb and
Ague Tonic. This invaluable and standard
family medicine is now a household word and
maintains its reputation unimpaired. It is in
dorsed by the medical profession, and pre
scribed daily in the Charity Hospital and
other Hospitals in New Orleans. Wilhoft's
Tonic is thus highly recommended by the
leading medical men of the country, and is
worthy of such indorsement. Whkelock,
Finlat S Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
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