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Bismarck's Latest Scheme.
Washington, D. C, Dec. yO. The re
ports in one of the New York papers that
ur Government has asked the assistance
of foreign nation to compose the difncul
tics in the island of Cuba ia without any
warrant. The onlj grain of wheat in the
bushei of chat" is the fact that the docu
inents relating to Cuban affairs, includ
ing tbe President's message, have been
ent to foreign' Government, as is usual
in cases of international disputes, IJut
there is no intention on the part d the
Administration to abandon the Mmjr.x:
dot trine or to tolerote any European I
intervention in American aJfiirs.
There is, however, a very startling
rumor afloat which may involve the
very gravest consequences, and which
explains, better than any difficulty with
Spain, the activity in naval affairs and
the declarad impossibility of cutting
down the army and navy estimates.
The real difficulty seems to be here.
Bismarck is anxioas to obtain colonies
and create a great German marine. He
has had his eye upon Porto Rico, and
aegotiatioss have ben in progress be
tween the German and Spahish Gov
crnments with a view to the interven
tion of the former in Cuban affairs, the
prince to be the cession to Germany of
the Island of Porto Rico. This is the
real cause of the mysterious flurry which
has recently taken place in our army
and navy affairs, and I have reason to
believe that our diplomatists have been
at work for some time past to meet this
very formidable state of aflairs.
Strictly speaking, the surrender ot
Porto Rico would not be a contraven
tion of the Monroe doctrine, as it was
understood when enunciated; but it
would be the cause of a great deal of em
barrassment to our government it so
strong a military and naval power as
Germany should gain a foothold in the
West Indies so very near to our coast.
The damage inflicted upon our com
merce through Great Britain holding
possessions in proximity to our coast
during the late War will be sraartingly
remembered, and, in case of another
national trouble occurring, to have
Germany within sight of our shores
would be a serious disadvantage.
With Spain alone no trouble is to be
apprehended. Indeed everything is in
process of adjustment with that Gov
ernment in a satisfactory manner. Th
real complications is in this intrigue of
Kismarck's to obtain possession of a
naval station and form a German col
ony in the West Indies. JWir Tork
Graphic.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Madame Borghese, the wile of the
Brazilian Minister at Wehington, has
introduced Sunday evening receptions.
The school children of America an
nually pny $50,000,000 for schoj! books,
of which it is said the publishers pocket
$3:1,000,000.
A species of ml grauite has lately
been discovered in Minnesota, said by
competent judges to be superior to the
famous Scotch granite of Aberdeen.
Bose, a mongrel yellow d-g Is the
mail caiiier between Minnesota and
Dakota, sixty miles. lie makes the
trip for nothing and boards himself, and
never fails. There seems to bs no com
petitors for the position,
This country is getting to be em
phatically a beer drinking country.
For the year ending July 1, 1S75, the
internal revenue reports show that there
were 8,830,129 barrels of that beverage
produced here. The number of brew
eries now in operation in the principal
brewing States is as follows : New York,
303; Pennsylvania, 235; Wisconsin, 232;
Ohio, 210; California, 202; Illinois, 165;
Michigan, 149. Massachusetts does not
make much beer, but she drank last
year 609,923 barrels, or more than any
one of the forty-one other States and
Territories.
The Suez canal, about which there is
so much talk in the diplomatic circles
-vf Europe, since the acquisition by En
gland of a controlling interest in it,
originally cost about 195,000,000. Of
this amount $SO,000,000 -was a subsidy
from the Egyptian government. The
construction of the canal was generally
regarded as a blow at the martime su
premacy of Ergland. Out of 1,261 ves
sels passing through the canal last year
about seventy per cent was English, and
English shipping paid in toll to the ca
nal company nearly $4,000,000 out of a
gross-income of 15,000,000.
A priest namtd Gildas, of the Mon
astery of St. Paul Trois Fontaines at
Rome, has been experimenting on the
Eucalyptus globulus, of which many
trees have been planted in the Campa
"na. In a long communication to the
Societe d' Acclimation de Paris he says
that a decoclion made from the leaves
possesses valuable properties in cases of
fever. This is nothing new. Deccc
tions and inlusions of the leaves ot
several species of EucatfyptU3 haye
keen used for the last half century,
probably longer, by the inhabitants oi
-Lustralia in.cases of fever, and with
TBBChjoodeflect.
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If it be true that what is one man's
meat is another man's poison,itis t quaily
true, of course, that what is one rain's
poison is another man's meat. The
siioni, as amended, is fully verified in
this good city of Brooklyn, where men
are deriving handsome incomes from
that most disgusting and abhorrent ot
all diseases, small pox. A new busiuess
of vital importance to the community
has bctn starte I, and hundreds !
thousands ot men, women and children
are walking about with its badnge on
their arms.
Having got an inkling of the fact, an
agle reporter was dispatched to tbe
headquarter of tbe business, at No. 11
Tillary street, and found himself on ar
riving there confronted by Dr. N. A.
Bobbins, the presiding manager or head
of the firm. The doctor handed the re
porter a card, which set forth the fact
that No. 11 Tillary street was the "De
pot for Supply of Vaccine Virus, both
Animal and Humanized." A long con
versation followed, and the reporter
herein notes down the result of it tor
the enhghtment and benefit of the
readers of the Eayle.
It is very desirable iu a city eo large
as Brooklyn, and especially when an
epidemic of email pox threatens, that
there should be at hand a supply of
reliable virus in large quantities. Up to
within the last five or six years, nothing
but humanized virus has been used in
this country. In Europe and more
especially in Franc?, physicians have
been experimenting with animal virU3lor
a number of years. The reader doubt
less desires to know the difference be
tween humanized and animal virus.
Humanized virus is that which has been
passed from one cbildV arm to another
for an indefinite number of years. It
may have acquired in that time consider
able impurity, which is capable of being
transmitted by even so email a means as
vaccination. That disease has thus re
sulted there can be no question. A gen
tleman resident in the Eastern district
told the writer that his brother and five
other children were vaccinated at the
3ame time with the same humanized
virus. Out of the six children Sve grew
up with the hip disease, the gentleman's
brother among them.
Animal vfru3 is that obtained from
cows or calves. Cow pox, as it is termed,
is a spontaneous disease among cattle,
and the virus collected from the vesicles
is capable of being transmitted from
one animal to another by inoculation.
European physicians, especially the
Faench, have demonstrated the fact that
when a human being is inoculated with
cow pox he is protected against small
pox just as effectually a3 when vaccina
ted with humanized viru3, with this ad
vantage he possesses freedom from the
possibility of acquiring through the
inoculation other injurious maladies.
Thus there is furnished a variety of vi
rus which is certainly free from all im
purity, lor it has never leen in ttie hu
man sysfem at ail.
The stock of animal viiu3 which is so
justly celebrated in this country is known
as the Beaugency stock. It was dis
covered in Beaugency, in France, in
lSGG, and has been transmitted from calf
to calf ever since. It was imported by
Dr. Martin, of Boston, and is to day the
only stock of animal virus in the coun
try. At this juncture, whtn small pox
is prevalent, and when every one is
tkintcmg of being vaccinated himself
and having his family similarly pro
tected against the dreadful disease, it is
cf the very first importance that there
should be regular depots for the supply
of frrsh, reliable virus in large quanti
ties. It is almost impossible to furnish
humanized virus thup, but wiih bovine
the task is comparatively easy.
There are but few large dealers; how
ever, in the animal virus in the United
States. The best known are Dr. Mar
tir, of Boston; Dr. Foster of New York;
Dr. Griffin, of Fond du Lac, Wis.; and
Dr. Robbins, of this city. The latter
has been for may years Surgeon to the
Brooklyn City Dispensary, and has for
a long period furnished virus to the lo
cal physicians. The demands upon him
from the latter and from the Board cf
Health have of flate been very large. In
addition, he supplies other Health
Boards, and has correspondents in most
of the cities cast of the Mississippi.
The reader will be ready to ask, whence
comes his supply of animal vaccine? Be
has a farm where he raise calves on
purpose, and at this time he has an army
of these interesting young benefactors
growing up. mtnout describing the
method of vaccinating the calves, it may
be stated that the virus is passed from
one to another very rapidly, and that the
original virus is from the famous Beau
gency stock already referred to. Tbe
virus is put into quills which arc Bade
air tight, so as to hold the liquid active
for many days. The calves are not
affected by the operation. They lose
neitner appetite nor flesh, and when
done with are transported to the doctor's
farm to grow into demure cowhood, and
tarnish in doe time a fresh supply ol
calves to undergo the inoculating pro
cetw. Brooklyn Eagle.
A Tale or Two Continents.
A Story or Kontance, Lute, anil Probable
Suicide.
Within the pa-.t two days the daily
papers have commented upon the
probable murder of a man discovered
dead on the hill- de, northwest of the
railroad machine shops in Saucelito.
The de 1 in in wn found with a knife
wound iu the breast, over which his
overcoat was buttoned tightly. The
sheath of a lon dagger was in the belt
of his parits'ooas, but ths blade could
not be found in the vicinity. Whether it
is a cjsd o! murder or suicide has not
yet been settled, though a number of
Italians believe, from the description
given, that it is a man named Catalani,
who has been missing for several days,
and one of them furnishes the follow
ing narrative:
Not many years since there lived in
the city ef Naples, Italy, a wealthy
gentleman who bore the name of
Catalani. He was young, rich a nd
handsome, and unburthened with the
cares of a family. He had passed his
majority, and bethought himself of
taking a wife. He looked about him in
the circle m which he moved, and
finding no helpmate to suit his
fancy, cut his eyes among the Bo
hemians. There ke found the "de Ber
mardi," a lady whose voice was only
excelled by her handsome features, whose
form was equal to JunoV, and whose
charms were not surpassed by the fabled
Venus. Catalani became enamored of
the beautiful songstress, and married
her 8gainst the wishes of his family.
Home was therefore rendered a II ;des,
and Catalani, disgusted with the treat
ment received at the hands of Lis rela
tive, gathered together what money he
could, and, shaking the dust of Italy
from his feet, forgetting hei cloudless
skies, her genial climate, started for the
New World. Eventually he settled in
this city with his bride. For a time he
prospered as long as his money lasted.
His money gone, there was but one
resort work. Hi3 wife, in the mean
time, had taught him in the art of sing
ing, and Catalani obtained a situation in
the Metropolitan Theatre. His voice,
however, didn't please the public taste,
and he resigned. To support the fam
ily, his devoted wife g ive music lessons,
and by her exertions they managed to
subsist for some time. At length the
crisis came. Crushed in spirit, Catalani
wandered amongst his countrymen; but
on Saturday last, unable to "suffer the
slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,"
he bid his affectionate wife and children
a last farewell, and embracing them said
they would never again behold him on
this earth alive. Since that time he has
not been seen, and it is feared by many
of his friends that he has ended his ex
istence. A party went from San Fran
cisco to Saucelito to view the body and
conGrm their suspicions, but at a late
hour last evening they had not been
heard from. Catalani was a man great
ly beloved by his countrymen, and
should his prove to be the body found
in Saucelito, there will be many a
silent tear dropped on his bier. San
Francisco Alta.
Nunibtr or Men in the Armies or the
World.
"lhe New York Sun gives the number
of men at present maintained in the
standing armies of civilized nations as
not less than 3,000,000. Ail these are
snatched away fro useful industries
and condemned to idleness and a vicious
life, while the laboring people are taxed
for their support and for the costly
armaments they require. Tbe annual
amount of the military and naval
budgets of Europs is 9G,963,800; the
loss of labor involved by the withdrawal
of so many men from productive indus
try costs $660,874,460; and the interests
of capital invested in militajy and naval
establishments amounts to $152,200,000.
This makes a total of more than $1,400,
000,000 taken every year from the people
of Christendom for the maintenance of
military establishments. But this is not
all; for nearly as many more men are
required to wait upon them in some form
or other, and they, too, become con
sumers of the world's cupply of food.
The first effect of this it that the finances
of nearly all European States are embar
rassed. On the other hand, let us for a
moment suppose that, by an undsrstand.
ing with the great powers, a disarming
in the proportion of one-half was effected.
Immediately more than 2,500,000 of men
from twenty to thirty-five years of age,
constituting the flower of the population
of that age, are restored to the labors of
peace, and at once an annual saving of
$640,000,000 is effected on the totality of
European budgets a sum which would
pay off in twenty years all ths European
national debts.
A royal decree has been issued at
Madrid creating a commission charged
with installing exhibits from the Span
ish colonies at the Philadelphia exhibi
tion. The commission will draw up a
memorandum relative to the exhibition.
Tbe Thermometer Sh In Detroit.
He was a way wojo man from the
East, and he had thirty-seven thermome
ters in a basket on his arm. Afier stand
ing on the street corners for two or three
hour3 without making a sale, he started
for the eastern part of theity, hoping
to do better among the private houses
He seemed to gain confidence from the
cheerful look of the dwellings, and he
bore Lin-seli like a banker as he ascend
ed the s:eps and pulled a door bell.
'Nothing for the poor," said the lady,
as she opened the door. "
"I am not soliciting for the jioor I
am selling thermometers,'' he replied in
a balmy voice. "
"Don't want any bought our stock
in the Fall," she said, drawing in her
head.
"I said thermometers, Madam," he
called in a despairing voice.
"I know it; but we've got all the veg
etables we can use," she called back, and
the door struck his toes.
Going into the saloon on the corner
the man addressed the proprietor with a
sweet smile, asking:
"Would you like a thermometer to
day?" By de pushel?" inquired the saloon
ist. "No a thermometer a little instru
ment for telling you when it is cold or
warm."
"Any music box in it?" inquired the
saloonist.
"No; it records the weather."
"What wedder?"
"Why, the weather we have every day
in the year. When it is warm this little
bulb runs up; when it is cold it sinks
down."
"Umpb! Vhen It ish warm I dakes
my goat off; vhen it ish gold I but more
goal in der stoaf. Go und sell dat to
some schxall py as knows noddings !'
The thermometer man entered a car
pet weaver's, and a bow-backed man
nodded kindly and cordially welcomed
him.
"Accurate thermometers for only
twenty-five cents," said the peddler, as
he held one up.
"New thing ?" asked the weaver, as he
took one in his hand.
'We have had thermometers for many
years. People have come to consider
them a household necessity."
"Zero? Zep? Who was Zero?" asked
the weaver, reading the wprd behind the
glass.
The thermometer man explained, and
the weaver, after trying to get his thumb
nail under the glass, asked:
"Where does the blamed thing open?"
"Thermometers are not meant to open,
my friend, was the reply.
"Well, I don't wast no thermometer
around me that won't open !" growled
the weaver. "I thought it was a new
kind of stove handle when you came m,
or I shouldn't have looked at it!"
The theimomcter man next tried a
dwelling house. In answer to his ring,
the door was instantly and swiftly opened
by a red faced woman, who hit him with
a club and cried out:
"I'll learn you, you young villain!"
She apologized and explained that
several bad boys had been ringing the
door bell, and he forgave her and said:
"I have some accurate and handsome
thermometers here. Would you '
"We never have hash for breakfast,"
she interrupted. "My husband detests
hash, and so I don't want to buy."
"Hash ! A thermometer has nothing
to do with hash !" he exclaimed.
"Well, I can't help that," she replied,
slowly closing the door. "We haven't
any lamps to mend, and you shouldn't
track mud on the steps in that way."
There was a portly man crossing the
street, and the thermometer man beck
oned to him, halted him, and when he
got near enough asked :
"Can I sell you an accurate thermome
ter to-day?"
"A what?"
"A thermometer."
"What do I want with a thermometer 1
exclaimed the portly man, raising his
voice a pvc.
"Why, to rote the weather."
"You blamed idiot! Do you supaoee
I run the weather?" roared the tat man,
growing purple iu the lace.
"But you want to know when it is hot
or cold, don't youP
"Am I such an old fool that I don't
know when it's summer and when it's
winter?" shrieked the fat man.
''We all know, of course," replied the
stranger; "but every respectable family
hu a thermometer nowadays."
"They have, eh ! I never had one, nor
I wouldn't have oae, and do you dare to
tell me that I aint respectable!'
screamed pWpextly.
"l didn't meanTi-3"
"Yes, you did, andjouve made me
miss the car, and I'll cese you!"
The thermometer mitj waded across
the muddy street and Made his escape,
and at dusk last night' was backed up
against the Soldiers' Monument, his
basket between his feet, asd was squint
ing sadly at the clock on the City Hall
tower. Detroit Free rrt.
Entoiled.
Atar.t ttrt (UniHuiior.f.
Where, my eweet caenr, He josr power
To move menV wllle
Yoa are a dead!; perfused flcwer
Thit t h!ce acd lill.
Tour face Is brighter than a dhtnocd'c p!cador
Or anr lewrl,
Swift-cjtd jctantl jetnitDc reader.
Demure asd crxtl.
Thrown back in wirn and Iraratt trefec
Your EiincliDK hslr
FaHe from a brow too cLa;te for loicV carvsee;
Too chaste sad fatr.
Your lipa blush deeper than the roc-:
Your narmurtac words
Are better than the breath of tio'.ct c!ctc?.
Or songs of birds.
I watch rou, love; my heart is trembling
To find yoa there.
So Btracgely Belf-pame, unditscmblin?.
So fair, so fair!
Calmer thn death ; a whitc-ficcd etatue.
How can I move you!
I love you, darlinp, wondcrin; at you.
Hate yon and love you.
Let go rcy soul and 'et ns hasten
Far from your spell ;
Those bonds yon bind me with nnfaten
Whilealliiweir
Why do you clisten with such beauty
So fttxange and fateful.
When wallticr coldly down the path of duty
Yoa srcm so hateful.
I thick of treason, plot defiance.
Your vivid presence
ComcH on andholda me with magic s:kcc
That never lessens.
Yon are so subtle, so magnetic,
I thrill and crave
Servile beneath you and ecstatic.
Like a drugged slave.
Eyes swift like lole-sUrs in dear winter weather.
Lids lashid and curled.
Oh! face more fair than the world', together.
Than all the world.
Why will ycur glory ever pnrsue me
With pleasant pain.
Bright eyes that kill me with your burning
through me.
And quicken me again!
I ask not love, nor love's endearment.
But only this:
To Use the hem of my lady'd'garmrnt
With a soul's whole kiss.
To have yon near me, waking, sleeping
Lhicg and dead;
To give my heart, sweetheart, inn yonr keeping,
And keet yon in its stead'
Gtorge Doualat Btaury,) in Tht Atdint.
FARM, GARIIEX ASD HOUSEHOLD.
Deep Plowing.
Deep plowing is good practice when
you have a deep soil. It is better for
some crops than for others. Plow deeper
for roots than for grain, and especially
for corn, since in one short summer corn
will mature quicker if the roots are not
obliged to go down into a cold subsoil
for nutriment. But with shallow plow
ing you must have plenty of plant food
mixed with the surface soil, since you
desire to confine the roots to that for the
sake of the warmth. But above all,
beware of deep plowing in a shallow
soil. Toronto Globe.
Smut in Wheat.
Mr. J. Copley, of Massac county, 111.,
writes that he believes smut is caused by
a "bug," and that threshers carry it
from one farm to another. The "bug,"
he says, is a size larger than the chintz
bug, and black in color. Examine a
grain of smutty wheat, he says, and you
will find a hole where the "nit" came
out. Wc presume he can get some
profitable information concerning this
insect by sending specimens to C.
Thomas, Carbondale, 111. Mr. Thomas
may shake hil confidence in his theory a
little, but there will be no harm in that
Iluagarian Grass for Cows.
The following is the testimony of Dr.
Loring respecting Hungarian grass: I
believe I can make more milk with this
grass, cut and mixed with cornmeal and
shorts, than I can with the best timothy
hay, cut and mixed in tbe same manner.
And when you remember that you can
raise on ordinary land, by sowing the
seed of Hungarian grass late in June,
from two and a half to three and a half
tons of good fodder to the acre, and that
this crop can be sown after we have
ascertained whether we are to have a
good of hay or not, you will see the
value of this grass. I have such a high
opinion of it that on my own farm this
year and last, I raised from seventy-five
to one hundred tons of it tor the purpose
of feeding to my milch cows during tbe
winter.
Treatment of 014 Hones.
What shall we do with old horses, is a
question of some importance to the
owners of that valuable animal. After
years of faithful service under the saddle
and in the harness, this old friend of
man becomes superanuated ; and no
longer able to do effective work, What
shall we do with him? To turn him out
to die would be cruel in tbe extreme; to
cell him to some animal in the shape of
a man, who would overwork him, and
hall starve him, would be worse; to keep
him up and take good care of him would
be troublesome and expensive, especial
ly to a farmer or other person who is
compelled by his occupation to keep ten
or twelve horses. Some individaabj
would he disposed to end his sufferings
by poison or by violence, but that is
revolting to a person cf ordinary sensi
bility; therefore, the question coses up,
-wbat shall be done with him?" Car.
Country Gentleman.
The flelsteia Cew.
The Holstein bred cows are now at
tracting much attention in varioua parts
of this continent from their wptifrful
milkintr uualit'e. Thpv r retire of
the north of Germany Urge, heavy
cattle, of compact form, making, when
fattened, excellent beef, ana being also
good worker. They have been grown
in Holland for generations with special
regard to their milking qualities. In
that country they are invariably black
and white; but in their native Duchy
they are found of various colors. Ttie
quality of tbe milk of tbe liolstein i
such as fits it well for the cheesemakcr,
the globulin being small and uniform in
size. The skim milk is of & very blu3
tinge. The butter made fr.mi the cretin
possesses great lasting qualities.
Several instances are on record and are
well authenticated, where cows of this
breed have given large quantities of
milk. One crw is certified to have
yielded an average ol eighteen quarts a
day for nine months. A heifer, owned
in Chemung county, New York, gave,
after her fir6t calf, fifteen quarts a day
for nine months.
Oalontu
It is admitted that the majority of
people like onions as food, and, only for
the perfume, many would eat hem who
now do not. The unpleasant breath
which eating this vegetable produces Is,
perhaps, the greatest objection to its
uec, but still it is a very wholesome and
desirable article of food for many, and
hence should be brought on the table in
tbe most attractive form. White onions,
and those grown in the South, are leas
odorous and pungent. Take off the out
side skin, cut off both ends cloie, und let
them stand in cold water an hour, then
drop them into a saucepan with two
quarts of boiling water. Cover, and
boil fifteen minutes. Have a kettle of
boiling water on the fire ready for uc,
pour off the water from the onions, and
add as much more be sure the water is
boiling and boil half an hour longer,
scald a cupful of rich milk and a little
graham fiour to thicken it. Salt and
otherwise season to taste. Boil up a few
minutes and serve the onions whole; or
they may be cut in halves before cook
ing. Tnat they are antiscorbutic as well
as antiseptic is also admitted, and this in
the way they should be prepared for
such use. A few moments before eatins;
they should be sliced quite thin and
sprinkled with sugar, and you have a
palatable relish, which will not ri?e on
the stomach or produce heartburn.
riUBfe er Sectls.
Seeds that grow on limestone land
should be changed every few years for
those which grow on barren or gravel
land, and rtc versa. Such an exchange
in his experience, always proved satis
factory. By continuing to sow one kind
of seed all the time, the crop, through
time, will become inferior in quality. In
regard to live stock It is tbe same. The
Caastcr county stock is good, but run it
awhile and it will become inferior. We
should cross and recross our breeds. He
believed in it, practiced it, and was
benefitted. He thought that agricul
ture should become a study, as the farm
ers know too little about their soils.
Lancaster Pa..) Farmers' Association.
Cesafort lathe Stable.
How many larmers who have really
good stables, give the attention that
even strict economy demands to the
comfort of tbe horses kept therein?
How many, even of those who supply a
liberal amount of bedding, and even
blankets to their working hones, pay
as strict attention to cleaning the ani
mals that their health demands? How
many, when the bodies of the animals
present a tolerable appearance, think
they have done their duty, and that the
animal has been well cared for?
Very few, If the animals to which
scratches, grease, im pared hoofs, dis
eases ot tbe frog and the many other dis
abilities, resulting in lameness or stif
fened limbs could answer.
The tact is, upon the most of west
ern farms after they have been brought
under cultivation, the winter is a sea
son of comparative rest for the teams;
and, in cleaning unless especial atten
tion is given to rubbing the limbs thor
oughly, and to keeping the hoofs, soles
and frogs of the feet in proper condition,
the wnitn' are better wintered in a
dry, well sheltered yard, with a closed
shed into which they may run at will
than in a stable, however comfortable,
where due care is not taken of tbe ani
mal's limbs. The reason u: Thus
they not only take the aecaasary exer
cise to keep up the circulation, but they
are not exposed to the constcat evapora
tion arising from stable floors, especi
ally that of stables kept icdifferextly
clean.
A. horse will endure severe cold with
out serious inconvenience, if allowed
to exercise, either In the yard, or to
mjve about ia a box stall. So aiso he
will remain comiortabie If tied in a
roomy stall, if the floor be kept dry with
fresh raw, their limbs be daily rubbed
asd the fetlocks and soles of the feet
kept clean. If this cannot be doae, l5.en
the horse must be allowed his liberty.
every fair day, for exercia? when not at
work.
Hone owners often ssppoee their
fccrjes have taken cold is fair weather,
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' and. when iher aver, the animals nave
, not tven ont of the stable. Very true!
' Let thcx look at the condition of the
J stable, and remember at th same time,
j that nn ordinary cold is but the step-
ping atone to influenza and those other
diseases which in the ordinary vocabu
lary are tinned influenza All iclUru
matory disease, a paeumon, usually
have theii origin in cold, o do rheu
matism and various other kindred dlf-
t'iM-.
Comfort in the utable, therefore, iUrs
not connst simplj in -apply ini; the ani
mals with shelter from the wind; in giv
ing an abundauce of food, in keeping
the sides and hips clean by mcam of tho
daily brushing; or, in uly blanketing
the animal when he has ictumed from
labor. All these arc accessories to com
fort. If the foundation upon which tho
usefulness ot the horse rests his limbs
and hoofs; if these are nrglccted, the
rest is but cold comfort indeed
Floral Notes.
Fwhmu. A more charming plant
for pot culture could not be found than
the Fuchsia. The whole plant is beau
tiful stock, leal and tloner. Some
recommend them as bedding plant, but
it certainly must be in a moixfr climate
than ours, for the hot jummcr sun bore
scorches them ho tha they soon become
wretched looking objects. Fuchsias are
in their glory under glasi during spring
and earlv summer, and if given proper
treatment out .of doors will bloom all
summer and long after Iwini: removed to
the house in the fall. The bct situation
for them in lummcr time Is a shaded
one on the north ide of a h'iue, under
a porch, or tree?, or a summer houe, uny
place where the sun in i fierceness will
not strike them, or stormy winds break
down the branches. They bear pruning
well, and can thus be trained into any
fancied shape. We always do the prun
ing by pinching the ends of the growing
branches. Grown ta'l, pyramid shaped,
thoy make beautiful specimens; the top
pinched on", the side branches shortened,
they soon form dense, bushy plant, and
b:aring in abundance their long, droop
ing, graceful flowers. Fuchaiits show
ofl best in nn elevated jvosition, r. to sec
the leauty of the flower, it mm, re
viewed from below; in a hih vase on
the verandah, on a shelf or bracket, or
what finer place coulJ be selected than
at the head of a stairway i Tncre ar.'
many varieties, with different shades of
color, some single, others double; tho
double flowers arc the largest, the single
ones the roost abundant. Some varieties
have golden aud beautifully variciratrd
foliage, contrasting finely with the
green-leaved sorts. (Jive the plan's
shade, protection from strong winds,
rich soil, plenty of pot room, abundance
of water whilst growing, and they will
reward you with hundreds of the most
beautiful flowers. To have Fuchia
bloom during winter, pinch off all the
flower buds that appear in fumuicr, and
the strength of the plant will thus be
reserved until it is wanted t- bloom.
Profuse flowering is an exhaustive pro
cess, and no plant can stand a continued
drain on Its vital resources without giv
ing out some time.
A Gauden ok Wild Flow eiu. While
so much attention is paid to cultivate!
flowers, there are many plants growing
in meadows, prairies and wooc's which
deserve mere than a passing admiration.
Every garden should have a few of these
wild flowers transplanted to its bordra
and shady nooks. In doing no, care
must be had to give them the require
ments of their native habits. If they
grow and bloom profusely in the moist
or shady places, then they should have
just such a spot in thu garden, for there
they will do best. If they flourish on
dry and high places, then they should
have a tunny open position in their new
home. These wild plants bloom early,
and thus satisfy longings for early spring
flowers. Tbe ferns that grow in shady
woods are very fine for r'jck work, in
places not exposed to the hot sun; some
of tbe small ones are also fine far bank
ing baskets. The wild violets are good
tor borders or planting in clumps.
Many of these wild flowers are fragrant,
and of showy colors. IL L- Bbiir.
An OK Dell.
The Newport Xciei has this account
J of a 'venerable and quite notable doll:
"Among the relics contributed by New
port to the Centennial Fair which the
ladies of Providence are carrying on, is
a doll believed to be the oldest in the
country. It is of wax, about ten inche
high, land has grown yellow with age
util It looks frightfully like a corpse.
It boasts the following history: It was
imported from Paris as a model of the
fashions of the day, and was bought in
Philadelphia by the Hon. Benjamin
Bourne, of Bristol, who was a member
of Coagre; from 1190 to 1T9G. The
doll was given to his niece. Mm Lillic
E. Turner, daughter of Dr. Peter Tur
ner, a surgeon In ' tbe Revolutionary
arov- Miss Lillie w bora la 1702,
The doll's eyes still move, and it still
wears the finery ia which it crossed the
ocean to show the ambitious dame of
the young Republic hov Ueir Paririia
sister dreeaed.
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