One This? at a Time. prominent element in Commodore YanaerbUt's success" is said to have been hi? doing one thing at a time. So long ai he was engaged in the steamboat line it was steamboats and nothing else; and when he "Trent into railroads all the steamers were sold, except one, and that being tnnalable, was presented to the Government It is the concentration of energy and attention upon a given object which gives us the "mastery of it Many people tail because they are always ready to take hold of some other thing before the work which they have in hand is half done. It is better to do one thing thor oughly than a dozen things imperfectly. Wa may have too many irons in the. fire' at 6ne time more than we can handle with impunity. "A bit here and bit there" is the rule with some persons, and the result is that they do nothing but lipshod work. They may appear to be exceedingly busy as they jump about with goat-like alacrity from one thing to another, but they accomplish little, because they do not really finish anything. . The secret of success lies very much in continuous action. Trying to do too many things at once is fatal to this. If I were a me chanic, I would be careful never to en gage to do half a dozen jobs in one day, when I ought to know that there will be only just time enough to do one job properly. If I were a plumber, I would not promise to be in half a dozen different houses at the same hour. If I were an operator in stocks, I would not spread myself over too wide a surface. If I were a writer of books, I would always finish one volume before beginning an other. What a terriblo muddle an editor of a great paper would make of the con cern if he should undertake to furnish matter for all departments out of his own head! Division oMabor is the order of the day, and in the department of mechanics if a man does one thing well, this is all that is expected of him.- It does not follow, however, that in the higher occupations of life a man should always confine himself to one thing. While he is doing any onething, let him give his undivided attention to it; but a little variety of employment is not inconsistent with thoroughness. A German scholar iB said to have expressed his regret, on his dying bed, that he had devoted his "life to the study of two Greek particles, when it would have been the wisest course for him to have confined his studies to only one. He must have been rather a dry sort of man. One may be at the same time a poet, philosopher and historian; he may excel Doth as a painter and a sculptor; but he cannot work with the bruh in one hand and the chisel in .the other ; he must be content to do one thing at a time. The peripatetic performer who travels round the country with a row of reeds fastened to his lip'?, and a drum on his back, to be struck with his elbows, and a pair of cymbals in his two hands, may astonish the multitude by his musical veraatilty, but he does not as an artist of the highest order. There is nothing which more eeriously impairs the tone of the mind than desul tory reading the careless dipping into one book after another, and never dwell ing long enough .anywhere to find out what the author means. 'A.gifted per son, like Macaulay, may be able to slim a book and get all the cream, and then retain it for use taking in a whole page at a glance; but most people, if .they would hope to profit by reading, mutt be willing to walk slowly when such a man funs. In any pursuit, if we only keep on doing, and do not allow one thing to lap over another, so as to make confusion, we shall come out right enough in the end. Ihe tortoise won the race because, although he was deliberate, he kept itraight on. The hare lost it because of hie f riskiness. Everv brick in a great edifice has to be laid singly. Every thread in a garment must be spun on ito own spindle. Every letter, and space, and stop must be placed in the stick bv ltlf. Great results come of doing one thing at a time. Chaos sometimes comes when we try to do more. There is an essential distinction be tween work and play, and it is not easy to do both at the same time. One thing at a time. When we work, we should work; and when we play we should play. Work becomes wearisome when it is con tinued too long, and play ceases to be play when one does nothing else. We read of people who divide the day into sections, appropriating so many hours to work, and so many into recreation, and eo many to their meals, and so many to sleep. They live by rule. This is not al ways practicable, and it is not always de irable. If one gets fairly to work, and feels like it, it may be well to keep on until the task is accomplished, without regard to the striking of the clock. When the steam is fairly up it is wise to take advantage of the fact, for in certain moods we can accomplish mora in an hour than we could in half a day when the action of the mind is slow. As long aB the iron is hot we had better keep on striking. A" man .may live by rule with out' alldwing himself "to become a Victim to rule. Some people must live by rule, and are obliged to do only one tiling at a time, whatever their preferences may be. The operative in a mill has no choice of hours or occupation; when the bell strikes he must be in his place, and remain there until "the clock tolls the hour for retir ing;" and he must do just what the ma chine requires him to do. But nifist per sons have some liberty of choice, and if they do things helter-skelter they must take the consequences. It is a very poor way of doiug things, and generally re sults in zero, which in the Italian means naught, and in the Arabic is marked by a dot, which is equivalent to nothing. "One thing at a timel" young man, if you would hope to succeed, and if possi ble, let that be something worth while. Bishop ClarJ:, in N. Y. Ltdycr. The Predicted Great March Storm. "I wish I could feel as certain of heaven as I do that a great storm will pass over the couutrv on the y th-llth March next" remarked rrof. Wiggins when speaking to your correspondent about his recent predictions. "I observe that the Chief Signal Officer of the Washington Meteorological Bureau discredits your prediction, and says it is impossible for you to foreshadow -the ;ttetf.ygu, gayAwill- aweep from ocean to ocean nexOfarch! What have you to wy on the subject"?" "Nothing but that the storm will come unless the" planets' stop in ttieir' orbits, and that' the Chief Officer of the Signal Bureau talks of what he knows nothiug about; opinions never change Nature laws." . . I "Admitting that, will, you tell me why you believe, or to be more positive, how Jou know a great storm will- occur in Tarch?" ' 1.. " I "Yes; in the same way I know when there will be a lunar or-solar eclipse by the heavenly bodies. The data on which the storm's period and force 'are calcu lated, having been heretofore unobserved by astronomers, 'and founded partly on observation, would not, even if given! convince the public . People in general are less credulous in believing,what they Tcnow than what they do not know."' "Why not enlighten them, then!"' "Because I wish them to believe to save life and property. The chief reason, kowerer, why they will belrave is.fffiat they have known me frequentljrto-for-tall storms which have taken place exact ly as predicted." "It is stated that jour forecasts' have BQt been made from your knowledge of jMSmjt but if feoomd Mgkf and communication with the apirita; what have vou to say to that?" "I will not refer to the many storms I- ioreioiayeara aeo, uuiuuiue wuicu you yourself will remember of recent date. Last year I published a letter in the Canadian papers, which was subse quently republished inthe press of the United States, announcing that ,a great storm, accompanied by hail, 'would pas? .over .the American Continent-from-the' southeast on the 25th of June of that year. It waa on hand at the hour named, many proofs of- which mav still be found in a large number of United States cities. It unroofed houses in Washington, blewatraius from the rail way track, threw down churches and Iiublic buildings in PennsylvaniaOhio, ndiana, Illinois and Iowa, and was very destructive in Western Canada. In Georgia and Memramcook, New Bruns wick, the hail lay for twenty-four hours six inches deep upon the ground.. The press, both in the United States and Canada were loud in their praises, and the Toronto Mail said that my predic tion was fulfilled to the letter." "I remember the storm to which you refer, as well as the prediction you made of its coming. What other have vou anticipated within the last year1 or sor' "Early in July last I warned the pub lic through the.press that a great storm, with high tideeC would falfupon the At lantic, crossing westward on the 13th of September. The storm of that date is still, and always will be, painfully re membered by many readers of the Herald. Her Majesty's man-of-war Phenix was stranded on the coast of Prince Edward Island, and the propeller' Asia foundered in Lake Huron with over one hundred souls on board." "Why did the Asia leave Colliug wood if, as has been stated, the storm signal of the meteorological service was raised at that port before she left her moorings?" "The storm signal was not raised. A hurricane was blowing at the time, and the passengers implored the Captain not to leave port until the storm abated. Maiiy of them had read my prognostica tions, and were anxious to give mfe the benefit of the doubt and accept them' as niceiy to oe re&iizcu. x im the Captain ointed to the sig and said: 'The signal is not likelv to be realized. To their appeal gnal-tower up; there will be no storm. "Have you predicted any other heavy storms, Professor?" asked your corres pondent "Several others. In July last I pub lished a warning of a heavy storm which would cross this meridian from the east on the 13th of December, and it came, as you know,""to the minute. I see by the Herald that the tides on the New foundland coastwere higher in that storm than ever before known, the" damage all over the Atlantic being very great I only foretell great storms, for it is only in these that the public, especially seamen, are interested, and I have never predicted one that did not come within a tew hours of the time stated. On the sea-coast, where there are no mountain chains to obstruct, I can give the true time to the minute." "You say we are in the midst of "a very stormy period. When will the next heavy storm occur?" - "From the 18th of September1 last to the middle of April next is the most re markable period for great storms I have ever known. A storm a good deal above the average will happen in January, but a very severe one will strike the Atlantic on the 9th of February. In view of the proposed visit of the Princess Louise to Bermuda, I have written to Lord Lome advising him that her Royal Highness should not be .at sea on the 9th ot Feb ruary." "Do you anticipate this storm being as severe as the one you predict for March?" "Rr rr moono fni tVitt loftav will Hn kj ail uil& w ivaa iv- one of the greatest if not the greatest of the present century." "Where will it be at its greatest force?" "On this meridian circle. It may break immediately south of India, but there are.three chances to one that it will be strongest on this side of the earth that is, in the vicinity of Bermuda and the Gulf of Mexico. Of course it will be felt all over the world, from sea to sea and from pole to pole." "If your storm does not come," re marked your correspondent, as he started to withdraw, "you will "I am like the Scotch piper," said the Prosessor, before the interrogation was finished, "when asked by the llussian Emperor to play a retreat 'Nae, nae, I do nae ken that' he had never learned it To me the storm is as much a fact as if I saw its wings expanded upon the sea. The fact is,, the press is thrusting me through a storm much more trying than those which can arise out of any displace ment of the elements." Ottawa (Ont.) Cor. N.Y. Herald. A Little Boy's Adventure, A light-haired, bright-faced boy of six years alighted from a train from Chicago at the Erie depot on December 22 and took his seat in a waiting-room, where he patiently remained until W. E. Gibbs, one of the employes, questioned him. The boy said he had come from Chicago alone to meet his mother, who resided at 93 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, and that he was expecting her. He said his name was'Thorbie Kjolberg, and that he was never away from home before. He was not in the least afraid, and he soon began to be considered by the depot attaches as a good fellow. They gave him something to eat and took care of him until night fall. As his mother did not com by that time he was taken by Mr. Gibbs to Brook lyn and turned over to the York street police. Sefgt John Eason" whb"""was at the desk, was attracted by the boy's ap pearance as soou as he entered, and .at once took him in charge, promising to find his mother. At No. 93 Atlantic av enue it was ascertained that Mrs. Kjol- I Derg uao. Deen living mere, nut mat sne had started on the previous Monday for Chicago to join her husband and child. She passed her boy on the road, as he had been put on a train in Chicago by his father to go toTier. The boy said that his father lived at 226 West Ohi street, Chicago, but in response' to a tele gram from Police-Superintendent Camp bell, Chief Doyle, of the Chicago police, telegraphed -that no boy was missing from that number. Sergt. Eason took the boy homeland the little stranger seemed to fill a vacancy in the household caused by the death of his own little son. When Chief Doyle's f telegram arrived, Sergeant" Eason went before Justice Walsh and got'an -order assigning the lad to his custody until'he was claimed. He was accepted as a Christmas gift in a home where Christmas promised to be dreary.' The little Chicagoan made the festival unexpectedly pleasant, and hiB own stockings were filled to bursting on Christmas nipht. Superintendent Camp bell wrote a letter to the boy's father in Chicago. To-day a letter, written in- a cramped hand,, came from the father, who gave his address at 388 West Ohio street, saying that he had intended to send a ticket .for his child, -but that he had no money and was out of work. He asked to have his child sent to him and promised to take care of him. The Soci ety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil dren had no money, to send the child back, and, as the 'Police Department has no such fund, the child oould not be sent Mrs. .Eason is delighted, and Police-Superintendent Campbell, by the Sergeant's request, has written to" the father describ ing thef child's surroundings and the' at-" tachments he has' inspired, and asking if the father is willing to yield the care and training of the child to Sergtr Eason. If heis not, the Sergeant and his wife will care for him until his father is able to end for him N. Y. Cor. Chicag Tril uns. " c iir t Sare'tke Dri-lag aid Worllaf Horse. .. Not atfew. hate learned that -by put ting the weight auddenly upon a small, round stone, orupon.theedge of a plank uu a aiuewais: qui . oi repair, uunene&a may follow that will ' cling toithe1 person through life. Many horses are lamed in like jnahner from being recklessly driven where-cobble-stones -are -in-the -path, a Btep upon one'of these, when the horse ii moving a load or going at a rapid gait, being quite likely to strain the) joint within the foot, or produce a like affect in some part of the'limb. It is a winder thatf so many horses go through life 're training a fair degree of soundness in body and limb to the last, when we, consider the violent strains put upon them, the overheating, and exposure to inclement weather at the same time. Neglect of the feet, permitting horses to be driven on ice at -this season of the year without having the ahoes'sharpened, is fthe-source of many a violent strain to joints, tendons, and muscles. Whether sharp or smooth shod, the driver can, if he will, always choose his ground. An ingenious, considerate driver, by looking a little ahead, may give his horee'the most favorable footing, and at the same time keep his wheels out of rutsT It shows a great want of tact and judgment in men upon the road, -when all follow the one beaten track, each one doing all he" can to plow the rut deeper. If ,a halt is made, that the team may have a 'brief rest and regain wind, a prudent man will see that the team is brought to a stop on a de scending grade, if lie can avail' himself of this advantage, as, if heavily loaded, the tart causes unccessary strain upon any other ground, c - In an uneven country, whether a team is heavily loaded or not, great care is' required, both in ascending and in descending hills. A man may be, in a measure, pardoned for driving his team checked up on level ground, provided he occasionally loose the checks to give relief; but no one is excusable for driv ing, up hill, whether loaded or not, with out loosening the check rein. It will always be observed - that a horse, while pulling at.a load, unless he has a high, slanting shoulder, and has always done his work with head" checked up, will ex tend his nose, placing the air passages in as nearly a direct line as possible, as in that position his breathing an important factor in his strength and endurance is facilitated, while with head checked up, the air passages are thrown into sharp curves, and free breathing rendered 'im possible. This is especially the case In ascending a hill. Horse owners seldom reflect that the horse formed for going up hill easily to himself may have a very faulty forma tion for going down hill, ahd that in per forming the latter act, is quite open to injury unless great care be observed. Thus, a horse with a heavy hind quarter and loin, with wide hock and hind leg, may have this associated with a thick, upright shoulder and wide breast This formation will enable the auimal to ascend the hill quite easily; but that formation best calculated to stand the down-hill travel, namely,'a high, slanting shoulder, being absent, such a horse is liable to injury in the shoulder and fore legs, unless driven down hill with great moderation. Such horses, if driven down hill upon a trot, are liable to injury at every step. A long hill, even though the load 'be light, should never be ascended without one or two. stops being made, the strain upon the tugs taken otf, if the load is heavy, by a block to the wheel, or, what is better, whether the load is heavy ot not, turning the team and wagon diagonally across the road, which will render a start comparatively easy. Any one who has not tried this mode of refreshing a hard-working team while upon the road, would be .surprised at the invigorating effect of allowing a horse to eat a quart of oats during a stop of eight or ten minutes without unhitching, the head being released from the strain of the check rein in the meantime. A few minutes' access to grass, with the head at liberty, has a like effect No sensible driver, let the wagon be ever so light, will keep his team upon a steady trot for a long distance, no moderation of gait being allowed. An occasional short dis tance upon a walk gives opportunity for regaining breath, and enables the horse to resume the trot without undue tax upon muscle and wind. Discerniag drivers say of some horses, that they have no judgment, they will o till they drop, and to be saved from eing early stiffened and blemished, must be restrained and favored - when ever put upon the road. Such, horses should be held in the light of a luxury, that their spirited bearing and going qualities may stay to a good old age. Horses of this class generally have good material in them material that will wear well if not unduly abused. But in reckless hands, these high-mettled trav elers, selling, when fresh from the coun try, up in the hundreds, soon find theit way to the auction market for used up horses, and are next seen crippling along at some menial service. National Lin Stock Journal. Fashions In Jewelry. Straight slender lace pins remain ir favor, but there is a tendency toward re viving larger brooches, representinc flowers, and this is true not only of gold pins, but of those with enamel and precious stones. The novelty this season is a oroocn ot nowers made of thin gold mounted on quivering spiral stems, that may be worn at the throat, on the corsage instead of U bouquet, or in the hair. A cluster of wild roses made entirely of thin gold is a beautiful brooch for the corsage. All the designs for broochei are repeated for pendants. Lockets and crosses are passe, and the preference ii given to clusters of precious stones, oi else to the flower, animal, reptile and bird devices, with also the butterfly and dragon-fly pendants so long in favor. The ruby and the pearl are the fashionable stones, and are dearer than they have ever been. Emeralds, that have been so long out of fashion, are now much sought after, and fine 'ones are very scarce. Sapphires with rubies and diamonds are a great deal used. The rich Oriental coloring made by associating rubies, to pazes, sapphires and ' diamonds- in one pendant or brooch is now. preferred to the colder pure white of diamonds alone. Canary diamonds of the deepest hue are in, great favor. Colored pearls pink, gray or black are combined with white pearls and with diamonds. Solitaire diamonds remain popular for ear-rings, and are plainly set, but there are also many fashionable combinations for ear rings showing a large colored stone in the centre, with a row of diamonds' around' it, and scarcely any gold visible Tourmalines, Alexandrites, cat'seyes? sapphires, emeralds, rubies or pearli'are useu iu uiis way. a oau mcrusiea witn diamonds is a new design for ear-rings. Ruby and sapphire solitaire earrinzs are also very fashionable?arjfr'a Bazar. o J - -- ---- ' kJ C7-tJ1fc John Gilbert, the actor, writes to. the Boston Gazette thai he must declirfc'tfr contribute to its columns any reminis cences of the old Bostonltage. "To re peat the words of other.people brains," has 'been a constant dutyfor so many yean that he would "surely make a mess of it," and mightjuuwell -undertake the feat of writing an original play, "rihould I atteniptMie adds," 4'to give an ideaof the stage m former times, it1 would not bacvry complimentary to the" 'present' state or the tfraufa, No"doubl I?am by many called au old1 fogy. 'lam hot an noyed by the-ternn-s-Seeing what I have seen, and seeing whatf Iaee, when theatres are crowded to witness; the feeble'at tempts of notorieties, when sterling splays by, talented and , experienced! artists an neglected, the rtan u, indeed ia:4tv jloraMi wjajtwa' ., , c -, , ,: ni .1 tc Yentikstlar.Ora Cribs. We have cribbed groat quantities of corn before many -of our neighbors would begin huskingj and ye. vj have no moldy cojn. Ve make ventilators floors ,are eiffhteeu rJnches, from the ground, so as to seeure perfect ventihv- r Tirfcn nnnnfrilfirh vi oa ..a.. ;. tis where the eovn falls from'the swop aV it is thrown. in, at r the .window?, sinne at "that point in. ihe "crib the c rn uacks cloTsely aiid'th"? shattered corn and silks and husks and piece- of leaves and tas sels that more or less will be found in every load will accumulate, ba one ever so careful, -and pi event free circulation of air throilghT the! mass. Where the farmer helps, to husk his .own corn, and is untiring ari3" persistent, he can keep out husks, andrsilcaiid trash; but when several teams are" .Rework, and each gaqg of men is,expeuted.tpv crib a given amount for a day's workiwe may say it is- impossible j to 'kVepcbutJthe trash. which keeps corn from' drying out free ly, as well as brings, in with it much moisture.0 " ' In such cases," then, we must hava more ventilators, thatjs', they must bo. 'placed nearer together. In our crib that is six feot wide, and long enough to hold 3,000 bushels, wo have windows every twelve feetfor throwing corn. Three feet back f romp and" directly in front of them, we place the ventilators. 'They are not in the way in scooping in the corn, and there the pile of corn is -always the highest and most packed, and from that point each way the corn rolls down and, is clean and loosely packed farthest 'from the ventilators. The heating that always starts up in a crib causes an upward draft through the ventilators which carries off mois ture and reduces temperature to tho saving point. How do you .make the ventilators? The distance from floor to roof is four teen feet. We rip out four strips three inches wide and fourteen feet long. We then make four frames of inch boards four inches square. To these four frames we nail the four long strips, one on each side. This leaves a space of about two inches between the s trios, through which the corn will not pass. We bore holes in the floor where the ventilator is to sit, and- put up tho ventilator, fasten ing to the floor and roof so it will keep its place. The cost is trifling, but the device is satisfactory in its results. We have seen men throw rails in cribs of wet corn to let the air in. If the rails are sot in perpendicular they do some good, as the heated air passes upward beside them, but.if placed in horizontally they' are of little value, as they do not work with the ascending gases strujrslinjr to pass upward. There, is no excuse for a great crib of moldy corn. By such a device one can begin to crib corn a week earlier than without it. That week's gain, too, on some of the bottom lands when over flows come mav save the crou. Thce ventilators cost little, occupy little space in the crib, and yet let off .vast quantities of heat and moisture from the pile of new corn. Cor. Cincin iiaii Commercial. Matrimonial Stories. At a recent fashionable wedding.after the departure of the happy pair, a dear little girl, whose papa and mamma were among the guests, asked, with a child's innocent inquisitiveness : "Why do they throw things at the pretty lady in the carriage?" "For" luck, dear," replied one of the bridesmaids. "And why," again asked the child, "doesn't she throw them back!" "Oh," said the young lady, "that would be rude." "No, it wouldn't," persisted the dear little thing, to the delight of her doting parents who stood by; "ma does." "Do you" pretend to have as good a judgment as I have?" said an enraged wife to her husband. "Well, no," he replied deliberately; "our choice of partners for life shows that my judgment is not to be compared with yours." In matters of controversy, however, the woman usually has the best of it. A witty old author advises men to avoid arguments with women, because in spinning yarns among silks and satins, a man is sure to be worsted and twisted ; and when a man is worsted and twisted, he may consider himself wound up. The above retort might be matched by a dozen others culled from domestic con troversy, in which the woman has come off triumphant. "Really, my dear," said a friend of ours to his better-half, "you have sadly disappointed me. I once considered you a jewel .of a wo man; but you've turned out only a bit ;of matrimonial paste." "Then, my llove," was the reply, "console yourself with the idea that paste is very adhesive and in this case will stick to you as long as you live." " See here," said a fault-finding hus band, "we must have things arranged iu this house so that we shall know where everything is kept." "With all my heart," sweetly answered his wife, and let us begin with your late hours, my lpve. 1 should dearly love to know where they are kept." He let things run on as usual. It is not often, how ever4, that one comes across such a crushing retort as that which a Sheffield husband received from his wife the other day, through the medium of the public press, ne advertised in one of the local journals that he, Thomas, A , would no longer be answerable for the debts incurred by his wife, who seems to have been a truly amiable creature, if one may judge from the ad-vertisement-whichshe:Lpublishcd next day in reply: "This is to notify that I, Elizabeth A , am able to pay all my own debts now that I have got shut of Tommy." Some husbands would be obliged to confess, if they told the plain, unvar nished truth, that, when they led their wives to the altar their leadership came to an end. " Your future husband seems very exacting; he has been stipulating for all sorts of things," said a mother to her daughter, who was on the point of being married. "Never mind, roam- ma,' ") oni1 4riA offoifinnofrn ml kn tms already dressed for the wedding, "these 0. buu aubuuuaw tin, nuunu are his last wishes." This is a com plete reversal of the rule laid down by the old couplet:" Man. love thy wife; thy husband, wife, obey. Wives are ourheart; wc should be head al way. In many instances, the state of the case is rather something like the' following: "If I'm not home from the party to-night by ten o'clock," says the hus band, to his. better vand. bigger half, " don't wait'for me." " That I won't," replies the lady; significantly : I won't wait, -but I'll come for you." He is home at tea o'clock precisely. Cham bers'' Journal. Not In the Rieh't Direction. Last week the Austin Waterworks Co. had several hundred' men employed laying pipes. s- They1 were engaged in d"ggingcatthw3fojrter of a mile long about a foot deep, whed.one of the most intelligent farmers Uying on Ohlom otjfefcaloieluViteam and asked one of the men what Tm was dig-- "That jusl'shosowmuchihfeUi genco these city lolks'kfcTS:''" Here they are digging for half am0e along the top of the ground hunting,for water, when ii they were to jlfgr straight down they might strike water wilhin 'forty feet," and smiling, at .the simplicity .of the city folks, he started; his teamand drove oa. Texas Sittings. ' 1oa c- - ta " r. 'orm 'SiC? T? trj b 0 Ctn 'i - During the, exhibition of -a arena at Barnesville, Ga., a 'negro gave the ele phantapiece"of toTftacco.-Thls so en raged the animal that'' he 'struck the ne gro a fatabblow with his trade. l FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. Kentucky claims and probably re ceives more for her fine stock than any other StatQ. . j Pickcled Chicken: Boil four ' chickens till tender enough for meat to t fall from bones; put meat ill a stone jar, and pour over it thrco pints of cold good, cUif r vinegar and" a pint and a half of the water in which the chickens were boiled; add spices, if preferred, and it will be ready for use in two davs. This is a pop ularSuuday evening dish; it is good for luncheon at any time. Detroit Post. Gravy which is excellent with boiled -fish or with pork steak, is mado by browning a sliced onion in a little butter, and adding a little at a time soirie beef stock; thicken with flour rubbed smooth in a little of the old stock. Add, if vou h.aye. it, some chopped parsley or or cestershire sauce. If served with -pork, a tablespoon ful of tomato catsup is good. Shit and pepper to taste. Boston Tran $crijit. The Farmer and Dairyman says: "Stock-breeding 'is -an art, upon the study of which it is difficult to enter without 'becoming fascinated with it. It oilers a field for the unlimited exer cise of the highest genius and skill. Tiie most scientific physiologist would find iu it scope for the occupation of all the powers of his mind, while to the prac tical man on the farm'it offers a never failingsourcc of interestingexperiments." Fried calf's brains make a very good dish. First wash them iu three or four waters, remove the skin, and boil them for ten or fifteen minutes iu salt and water, to which a little vinegar has been added ; after taking them out let them lie in cold water until ready to Use them. Make a batter of the yelks of e;;gs and cracker crumbs; cut the brains in slices and dip them in the batter, and fry iu hot lard or butter. Servegarnishcd with parsley or beets. Chicago Newt. The Philadelphia Ledger says that Mrs. Mary ( Jr.ivoty, Bailey's Crosj-ro.ids, Huck county Pa., has a cow which a few mouths ago had its front leg cut off be low the knee by a railroad tram. A vet erinary surgeon dressed the wounds, and tied up the arteries so skillfully that tho cow recovered, when a neighbor, a eabt-net-maker, made for her a wooden leg which he strapped on the stump. The cow lumped along holding the iujtired leg up for a day or two, but now she ha? concluded to use the wooden attichuieut. and limps around quite comfortable upon it, and seems to be in good health. - Oyster sauce, which is delicious with salmon, and with chicken also, is made thus: Let a dozen or more I tr.re oysters come to a boil in their own liquor or in a very little water, mix equal quantities, say half a cupful, of butter and Hour till they are smooth, then put in a stew pan with the oyster liquor, adding salt, cayenne pepper, and a small cup o! sweet cream; set the pan on the stove, and let the sauce simmer gently till it is entirely free from lumps, and of the requisite thickne$;; juit before removing it from the.fire, aid the pieces of oysters. Pour ovor the fish on. the platter, but it served-witli chicken, put itiuto a gravv boat N. Y. Pod. Mushroom.. Several gardeners have fitted up cellars especially for the purpose of growing mushrooms in winter, and after some more or less troublesome experience at the beginning, have come to depeud upon them as a regular item of farm produc tion. The conditions for growing them are simple enough to discover, but not always easy to provide with unfailing regularity. They require a damp air of a tenierature from 50 to 70; if never below 00 it is better. They do best in the dark, but light admitted occasionly for the purpose of working the beds, does not harm. The beds aiv mado of fresh horse dung, free from long straw, mixed with its bulk of fresh loam. Tlie. dung and loam are mixed in a shed mid allowed txrlieat for a day or two." when the compost is packed upon shelves in the cellar about a foot deep; the moisture will heat up and after the heat has sub sided a few days so that a thermometer plunged in the bed will make about 'JO-', the spawn is put in. The spawn is im ported from France and hngland, and 7ery much depends upon having a good article to begin with; it is broken up from the square blocks resembling bricks made of mud, and pieces about as big as hen's eggs are planted every foot or so in the bed just under the surface; after a few days the surface of the bed in covered with fresh loam an inch deep; in five or six weeks the mushrooms should begin to come up iii clusters" all over the bed,, it takes them three or four days to expand to their full size, when they should be carefully plucked and packed in cotton wool in paper boxes for market. The demand for them seems to be on the in crease; they are used by the .first class hotels and club bonuses in considerable quantities and sell for prices ranging from f0c. to 1.00 per pound through the winter; a successful grower informed me that he had sometimes sold So00 worth in a season from a cellar 20x80 feet, pro vided with three tiers of beds over each other upon shelves, and provided also with heating apparatus. The crop how ever is not always a sure one even in tho hands of skilful gardeners, and much seems to depend upon what is called "luck," which simply means ignorance of some required conditions ot success, or inattention to such as are well known. In Paris and London immeii.- quantities of mushrooms arc grown and consumed, and it is likely the demand for them here will increase. JV. E. Farmer. Shade for Stock. Live stock can thrive and prosper on ly in the enjoyment of good health, and this can only be under such conditions as meet all the requirements of their nature. If anything is lacking to make, the in com fortable and contented it will tell serious ly on the thrift of the animal and conse quently on the profits of the owner. Abundance of pure water, good food, clean quarters, and proper rest if at labor, are essential to the best results. But in addition-to this there is a very important matter which is not so generally attended .to, and that is, proper shade for animals that run in pasture through the long hot days in summer. Such stock usually spend only a portion of the day in actual grazing, and this generally in the cooler parts of the day. Usually during the warmer parts of the day animals will stand in the shade, if any is provided, where they aro protected from the hot raysof the sun, and are more or less saved from the annoyance of. flies. Every ono knows with what eagerness sheep, cattle, horses, hens, and, in fact, all animals seek the shade of trees in the pasture, or, in their absence, that of the fence. It is certainly very trying to the endurance of an animal to spend several hours of the day exposed to the fierce rays of the sun. Animals are not only uncomforta ble under such circumstances, butauffer I positive injury. In furnishing good, cool sbade tor his stoctr, therefore, the stoctc owneris .consulting his own. pecuniary in terest, ami-should from this, if no othe. consideration, supply the wants of his stock? But the higher motives'of hu manity should lead every ownerof livean imals to secure their comfort in every way possible. Poplars and Cottonwood, grow so rapidly that 'they will in a short time be large enough to serve the purpose. In-thecmeantime board' sheds may be ercctedthatwUl.answer until the trees aro. sufficiently, large for f hade. See to it, and do notlety'our animals suffer another sea eon as they did last: The trees wiH also add to the appearance of your pasture, and in time may be trimmed and fur nish more or less wood' WasUtnotime in -making- this wise ' provision forytfur imali. 'SanFrancisco Cfttonick "37.cH PITH AND FOIST. The French only mix nine different articles together: to' make, mince-meat. It is.the sixteenth .and seventeenth in gredients' which make American mince' pio 'queen 'of the world. Detroit Free Press? : - i ' ' A Mazarin Bible wasrecently sold for i .$17000. 7 why the dickens doesn't'some enterprising publisher get out an edition of the Mazarin Bible?' He could1 make inoney'by selling them sis?'Wvr ras $16, 500 a-piece. TheJudge. "Ah,,T moaned! a widow recently bereaved, "what a-misfortune!' I knew .what kind of a' husband-1 have, lost,, but how cant know whafkindofS husband his-successor1 'will be?"-" Detroit7 Free Press: i- s ' cs'j 3 TheDetroit -Free-jPress man says : ."oncosts money.tosbe good,!. lis sus pected that "the 'last time lie' wasjn cHiirch heput a silver dime iiF the con tribution basket in mistake for- a cent Such errors will occur, if a man, is wealthy. Norrisloum Herald. A man at Omaha found three dol lars on the street, jind he advertised the find to the extent of seven dollars, and made the loser foot the bill."-' It is some times disagreeable to meet with an hon est man. Exchanqc. A Michigan paper says: "Bears are going to be thicker than grasshop pers in tho woods of Michigan this win ter." Dare say. Hears are generally considerable thicker than grasshoppers; in fact, bigger in every way. Boston Post. A logical conclusion. Little Bob: "Tom, why do you call mamma mater? What's mater mean?" Tom: "Latin for mother, you know." Litttle Bob: " Oh ! I thought it was because slio had to see about getting husbands for Flo ami Edie that she was a mater." N. Y. Tribune. H"r- At a recent marriage in Brooklyn "the bride wore a dress of brocaded plush, of crushed strawberry hue." A man never wears a pair of trowsers, of crushed strawberry hue save when he goes to a festival and sits down on a plate of the fruit. And that is what he generally doos if the paragraphcrs don't lie. Xorrislown Herald. A: parvenu Having purchased an ancient castle, with all the accessories, is found by his daughter on the first cold day warming his hands by a fire which he has had kindled in a suit of plate armor. "O, pa. what have you been doing?" The lord of tho manor, with satisfaction "Tho feller that patented that ar stove must have been crazy, bu I've made the. old-thing heat up!" There was a hand-painted sign in front of an uptown grocery in Chicago, which originally read, in dark, rheu matic letters, "Calt for Sail." A very nervous and sensitive man-living around the corner noticed at once that it was wrongly spelled, and spoke to the pro prietor about it. "Hasn't that sign been changed yet, Bill?" he inquired of his confidential clerk. "No; I guess not." "Well, hang it all! I told the boy to fix it last .night; gimme that marking pot," and' rushing out of the store the board soon bore the cabalistio words, MSauIt for Caie." Cheek. SUIEXCE AXIi IXDCSTKY. It -is said that, the invention and subsequent improvements of the Ameri can plow made a saving on last year's J crop in this country ot yu,UUO,UUU. N. Y. Sun. An attachment for reed organs has been invented by means of which the player, reading, from, a dial like that used to- indicate the power of steam, knows just what degree of-dynamic force he is producing. It seems to be especially adapted for deaf jnusicians. Boston Po'st. " A company of capitalists- have no tified the council 6f Kingston, as they have of lI;nnilton? that they purpose erecting in Canada a large rolling-mill, blast-furnaces, foiindry, machine-shops," and nail-factory, with a capital ofat least $l,O0O,OO(f, and give employment to twelve hundred men, utilizing; Cauav dian ores. This is the receipt which Si. C. Lar rabec employs in-making a dye for sofc leather: Seven hundred and fifty rans yellow, lo) grammes chrome vcllow, l.iiiO grammes pine- clay, 1,009 grammes quercitron, 1,000 grammes alum, 750gramincs sulphuric acid, ami 4 litres tragacanth solution. So little is heard about the indus tries of Tennessee nowadays that most people will be surprised to learn that, while two years ago hardly a pound of dried fruit was shipped from Chatta nooga, the dealers in this city alone have handled so far this year over 750, 000 pouuds. Knoxville and Nashville are going into the business extensively, and lesser places more modestly. N. Y. Sun. .A Munich professor has invented a bracelet that will remedy the atlliction known as " writer's cramp." The pen holder is fastened to the bracelet in such a manner that it can- be used to write with ease and without bringing the lingers into use at all. The hand can rest on the table, moving easily along as the letters are traced, and it is said' that little practice is required to give exputtucss iu the use of the invention. Uy means of what he calls .a gyro graph, Dr. Caudcze has been able to take photographs of landscapes from the windows of a train running at the rate of forty miles au hour. The appa ratus consists of a copper tube, similar to that which carries the Tenses iu an ordinary camera, but in it the lenses aro placed on opposite sides parallel to the axis. Within is a shutter similar to, the box of a stop-cock. It presents two square openings, which do no let the rays pass in making a quarterof a turn. A rotary motion is produced by the action of a spring. Only an exposure of the one-hundredth ot a second is necessary to obtain wonderfully distinct views. A writer in an exchange says: "I discovered many years ago that wood could be made to last longer than iron in the ground, but thought the process so simple that it was not well to make a stir about it. . 1 would as soon have poplar, basswood or ash as any other kind of timber for fence posts. I have taken out basswood posts after having been set for seven years that were as r sound when taken out as when first put in the ground. Time and weather seemed to have no effect on them. The posts can be prepared for less than two cents apiece. This is the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil and stir in pulverized, coal to the consistency of paint. Put a coat of this over the timber, and there is not a man thafwill'live to see it rot." Practical Jokes. The other night a Stcubenville man coming home with his wife, discovered his property .scattered over the floor and the burglar looking out of the window. He procured his gun without arousing the burglar's suspicions, took aim and fired. The burglar fell to "the 'floor. The householder approached the pros trate figure, and, to his astonishment, found that" it was only a bolster rigged npin his own Sunday clothe. ' "Having left his brother in the nduso he at once recognized the author of the practical' joke., He took the iigu re and, stood it up by J the front door so, that when hi3 brother ente'rcd it fell forward upon him. He 'began calling police," "fire." "murder" and brought out the. neigh bors, who aided him in securing .the burglar."1 "On discovering the character of the intruder, he dectdid to' retire' awhile from the business of making practical iokeal Bxireit Post ana. .v,j-.j-i ist! I VAWriMMWSTfcsfciJ I 3C. 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