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FARM AND CfAEDEN.
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Inta Taoist BOSea for Out of Door
Cultivation.
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16.,43-1117;r'IP1er TaXtrail ;STOOK.
• VOitzang 'Bones, Keeping Chicken* .gtal
Wowing :augur Deets.
(A Practical Agriculturist's Weekly Budget )
Country Girls -The Giebt tor iLl�.
in the morning early,
. Just at the peep 0 day,
Stre.ining the milk in the ,dairy,
▪ Turning the cow e away,
f• 3Weepi g the door of the kitchen,
Making the beds upstairs,
Washing the breakfast dishes,
Dusting tile parlor chairs.
Brushing the crnmhs from the pantry
Runtiug for eges at the barn,
Cleaning the turnips for dinner,
Spiuning stocking yarn,
Spreading the whitened linen,
Down on the boohoo below,
Ransacking every meadow
Where the red strawberries grow,
Starching the ilktures /or Sunday,
Churning the snowy dream, . •
Rinsing the pail and strainer,
Down in the limpid stream, •
Feeding the geese and turkeys,
Making the pumpkin pies,
Joggins the young one's cradle,
' Driving away the flies.
Grace in every motion,
Music in every tone,
—Beauty in form ahd feature,
Thousands may eovet to own,
Cheeks that rival spring roses,
Teeth, the whitest of pearl—
One of these country maids is worth
A score of your city-ored girls.
daft for Live Stock. ".
What are all those lambs doing around
that black -object oyer there ?" inquired a
city Melia who a day or two ago was walk-
ing through the sneepfold with us. "Oh,"
we replied," they are waiting their turn to
get to the salt." Ho was somewhat aur.
prised when we reached the blaok object"
to see a large; witted box with clams sides,
resting on wheels-, and containing a lump
It -
of coarse, reddiala rock -salt, weighing, per-
haps, half a hundreaweight, mid so well
licked that its surface was all ourves and
no corners. ;Co doubt all stook -keepers
who understand the • cravings ot. bottles,
cattle and sheep take care. that salt shall
always be within their rearila; theugh-it is
seldom neon:eery to form it on their atten-
tion. Young stook are particularly fond
of it, and when, lambs are folded on a rioh
green breadth of vetches, trifolium and win-
ter barley, sein the case just referred -to,
or on cabbage or rape, they always appear
to us to pay epeeist attention to the salt-
box. We have nen a lamb go. to. thealat as
often as once and even twice an hour; he
doesn't take much of the mineral. at eaoh
visit, eiroply licking the lump three or four
times, then pausing and looking repaid with
an appearance ot quiet satisfaction sur-
rounding him, and finally walking off fot
fresh supplies of green food, but only pre-
sently to return again. A email medicare
of salt in or with the tood is enential to
the life of the highest aninaabia It is com-
posed of the metal slash= and the non-
metal ohlerine, the former being an indis-
pensable constituent: of that important
digestive fluid, the bile; which is secreted
by the liver; and the latter .entering -into
the compoeition of the gastric" juice which
is poured into the etemach trove the
secretory cells of its lining membranee.
The elements of common salt also- enter
into the constitution of the blood. Of the
ordinary foods given to Terra stook, common
salt is most abundant in mange's, but even
thee in small quantity; in grass and ether
green fodder its proportion•la even len,
while in wheat, barley, .oats and in meals
made from these grains, as also in potatoes,
salt is absent. Vast herds of buffaloes will
travel hundreds of miles to teach the salt
springs of Northwest Ainerwit, and in -the
central parts of South •Afresit the- Minter
who conceals himself beside a brine spring
never has to wait long for- his prey: Let
the animals find they •can get salt when'
they require it and they will besure to
take each quantity as nature demands,
while -their own. inatinot will guard then3
from erriog -on the side of excess; Our
live stook, like ourselves, should -take their
food cam grano soli&
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years, Lard Amid never be need la to
waggon, for a will penetrate the hub lend
?Matta_ wiy out around the tenons ot the
enekee Ite4 Wheel- TallOW le the ant
lubricrator for wooden axle nen and caner
o� for iron bubo, but many 0 the present
aide Mama are lam eacellentand bave the
merit of being cheaper and easier to
handle. Just grease enough should be
applied to the *agile of a vitiator* to give
it a slight mating. Vale is better than
more, for the surplue pub on will work out
at the ends and be found by the shoulder
bends and nut washer into the hub around
the outside of the boxes. To oil an iron
axle tree, Arab wipe the spindle glean with
a piece of cloth wet with spirits at tarpon.
tine, and then apply a few drops ot (Bator
oil near the shoulder aud end. One tea-
spoonful, le sufficient for the whole,
...titer Rural Notes.
John Norris, of Winterset Iowa, has a
yearling oolt weigaing 1,800 pounde that he
has been working sines it wee 10 mouthe
old.
LOOnste are creating much damage in the
state of Vera Cruz, and coffee, tobacco, and
sugar mops are threatened. They originated
in Yucatan, and probealy, they will extend
north through the State of Yatoulabas into
Tex.e.s,.or as far as the bot ciliratto permits.
In Sweden, when severatdairy fame are
located on lakes or nevigible *Beam*, the
-milk is collected and t aken to factories by
'persons who run small beats; Milk is
injured less by being carried on the water
than over the land, even if the roads are
good and tat: ottruages are provided with
wings.
The recent increase of birde in the vain-
ity of Chicago is remarkable. In many
•localitiee bobolinke have become almost es
plenty as they are in the New England
States, though they -were very thane only
a few yeara ago. The robin -redbreast ia
also increasing very feat-Duelog,thatantata
few years crows have put in an appearance.
It ie found in 'pritotioe that beam are not
a good ortm te preemie wheat. One reason
possibly is thatahey leave the soil in too
looth it condition, for the rootawill not hold
in winter. But the chief objection to beans
as a fallow crop ie that they rob the soil of
precisely the food that the wheat plant
requires -phosphate and nitrogen.Farm-
ere wha grow beans this summer. should
save their land for spring grain, which will
give •opportuuity for .1310re plant toed to
acoumulate before' the pests are etatted in
search of it. .
An Englishman whci has , given great
attention to the manufacture of sugar in
different countries thinks its production in
Great Britain and the 'United States will
never 'be profitable if the beet is relied on
ta furnish the saccharine material. He
says that the steaming process, which has
been tried on a huge male in Germany,
has dieappointed the hopee. entertained
respecting it. • '
A poultry -keeper says that many flocks
of fowls are affeoted with scaly legs or
" seals." This is the work of a enaall pare,
sitio worm which burrows in the skin and
causes It to loosen in scales. It can be
Mired easily and effectually by rubbing the
lege of iatated . fowls with the ,following
mixture : A tablespoonful of petroleum
and a, half ounce of lard thoroughly min.
glad. Four or five applications during five
Weeks will generally olean.the legs of make,
• The petroleum whitens the skin for a time,
and sulphur may be substituted for the oil,
being just as efficacious in killing the para.
site and pot discoloring the akin ot fowls.
noses. .
A committee of the Massachusetts Horti-
cultural Society rem:man:tended the followmg
for outdoor culture as the best hardy roue
for general %titivation :
Alfred Colomb,* Marie Baumann,*
Anna de Thesbach, Marquise do Castellane,
Annie Wood, Maurice Bernardin,
Baron de Bonstetteu, Mme. Gabriel Luizet,
Baroness Rothschild, Mme. Rippolyte Jamain,
Charles Lefebyre. Mme. Victor Verdict,*
Duke of Edinburgh, Mons. Boneenne,
Etienne Levet, Mona. E. Y. Teas,* •
Fisher Holmes,* Paul Neyron,
Franeois Michelon,* Rev. J. B. M. Comm,*
Gen. Jatqueminot*, Thomas Mids. —
John Hooper, Louis Van Houtte,i
Jules Margatin, Mlle. Marie Bady,f,
La Rosier°, *Pierre Notting. -t ,
Those marked * are also recommended
a� continuous bloomers. The last three
marked t are somewhat tender or an -
certain, but the committee added them on
amount of tlaeir excellence.
Utilizing Bones. •
Not many years ago the bones ot animale
had no money value and were considered
useless tabbish. Later they canes Into use
for making buttons, knife-handlee, common
piano keys, etc.; then to supply phospborus
for friction matches and other purposes,
the demand for them increasing very
rapidly. Soon their value as fertilizere
was recognized, and now the farmer who
does not save and make good ase of all the
bones he can find on -his place is behind the
times. In the prat:Hann where large quail-
tities of bones are used, they eupply a
valuable by-product in the way of fats or
fatty acid, whioh are eateneively used
in the manufacture of soap and,
othar artiolee of eammerce. Two
prominent bone products enter largely
into daily use, viz., glue and anitnal char-
med. The value of these two product's
aggregates minions of dollars annually.
Saab facts show the value of thing's too
often overlooked, or so little esteemed as
to be permitted to go to waste. Farmers
generally understand that the chief fertiliz-
ing property of bones -is -the sphoiphate of
lime they contain, amounting to half their
dry weigjat. The organic part, that whioh
can be 16111tymd out, or will dopey out in
time, ocattains much nitrogen, °DAM,
hydrogen and sulphur, the nitrogen being
valuable RS a fertilinar. The reduction Of
bones goes on rapidly in contact with fer-
menting mattem. They should be broken
up and placed in a oorepaot compost heap
with ashes, then covered with a thick layer
of earth and the mate kept moist. It is
better if nthietened with ligaid manure.
Wnotgon-Viloccloo,
A. well -made wbeel will endure °mutant
wear from ten to twenty-five Vitae if ore
Is taken to Me the right kind and proper
Amount Of grease, kit if title Matter is not
attended to it will be used up iii five et ma
The Engagement 00.
TAM TOiligNAIDO.
A 'Wind Velocity 01 100 PIM* an How -
Ito Elaequal notions 10 a olasaill Space.
When Arse perceived the tornado is
generally desorthed as a dark, 1 unnetehaped
puma hanging from bevy, dark, agitated
donde. tat roaring sound is heard as it
copses nearer; and the whirling funnel is
Often nen es ming from side to side, and
to rise and fall. Within ite dark column
'Various objeots enatohed from the ground
iney be seen rising and turning round and
round in the eddying wiada 1 Pine trees
appears ithe bushes, and barn doors are
mistalain for ebingles. • At a certain height
then fragments are thrown letterl out
of the power ef the ascending current,
and then fan th the ground, often with
violence, from their lofty flight.
If such a oloud appear in the weft Or
eceithweet, ope abould make all possible
haste to the north or south of its probable
track; but there is seldom time to escape.
The rapidity of the storm's approach, the
noise of ita rearieg, the fear that ite dark -
nen and deetrtuation naturally inspire, too
often serve to take away.one's presence of
mind; and, before there le time for reflec-
tion, the wind has come and- passed, and
the danger is over for Came who survive.
The force of the wind is terrific. Heavy
tars haye been parried, free from the
ground, at suoh a velosity that, when they
strike, the tires are bent and twined, and
the spokes are broken from the hubs. Iron
chains are blown thapugh the air. Large
beams aro thrown with such strength
that they penetrate the Arm • earth,
a foot or more. Children, and even
men, have often been carried many
feet above the ground, sometimes
dropped unhurt. a. velooity of wind ex-
ceediug 100 miles an hourls-required to
produce such effects.' Strange exatnpleia of
the 'wind's strength are found in the treat-
ment of rimall objects ,• nails are found
daverrhead first into planks; a cornstalk
is shot partly through a door, retailing the
nring of a candle through a board. -Wore
than tins, the wind showsigns of very
unequal motions in small space; bedding
and clothes are tore to rags; harness .
stripped from horses. Nothing oan with-
stand the awful violence of the tornado's
centre ; and yet, at a little distance to one
side or the other, there is not only no harm
done, but there is no noticeable disturbance
in the gentle 'Made. The track of marked
dieturbance averages only half laraile, and
the patla of great destruction is of tea only
a, few hundred feet wide, -From Prof.
Davis' work on " Whirlwinds, Cyclones and
• Tornadoes."
My love," he said,- " I have a heavy bur.
den on my mind to -night. There is some-
tlaink that I must say, which, as my
affianced wife, you should knote."
"-What at it, George ?" she asked anxi-
ously. ' • •
" Ism a victim to the demon of drink
Strive as I may, I cannot resist 110 temp -
Won of liquor."
"That wall be all right in time, dear,"
she replied, hopefully. "When I am your
wife, my love and influence will bring about
a reform, I am stirs. Is that all-?" •
'No. ' I'm a confirmed' gambler. I
dropped $18 last night at draw poker."
"Ab! George, when we are married 'I
will make your home so pleasant and cozy
that you wall never want to go out at night
without ms."-. •
"1 don't know. I am also a speculator
in stocks. In fact during the peat week on
Wall street I lon every dollar I had in the
world." ' • , . _ •
"1 -don't care for . money," the young
woman then said, as she disentangled her-
mit from his embrace, "-.bat my husband
husband must be honorable and upright in
every way. I can never consent to risk my
future with a man addioted to drinking and
card playing."
AVAPISSIS 41,thEirpr1.11S40.
Some ilicaree ISoggestlye to the Phu.
orataropiticat losveallicaren
A. Mr. McDougall, of Manchester, Eng-
land, bas imeatigated the subject 10 the
workhouses of his city, and .the results of
bts inquiries ere worth atteation. Hie in-
venigetions were confined to 254 man,
whicat did not include epileptics or lunatics.
Divided into Manes, he found that the
firstailase-embraoing pauperism mooed by
old age or influnita-seantained nearly
outemehth of tbe paupere of the oily.
The Becond class, embracing those dis-
eased or disabled by acoldent (not
caused by misconduct), included
about one-eeventh of the paupere.
The third Maas, composed of those who
were unable to fine work, although willing
to work, was about one -fortieth of the
whole. The fourth elan, enabraeing thoee
who were idle and thriftlees, apare from
drunken or immoral babite did, not con -
tale a single case. The filth elass, those
made paupera by drunkenness in men,
enthraced onsafourth of all the poor. The
sixth cle,se, in which pauperism was caused
by drookenness in women, contained ons -
twentieth of the whole. The Beventh
alma was the widows and children of
drunkards, wbioh numbered one-afth of
the paupers. The eIghtici class, being the
widows and children of sober husbands,
had onosizth of the paupere. The
ninth class, widows of sober huebands who
bad drunken sons, numbered 1 per cent. of
the paupers; and the tenth M '
ass widows
reduced to paupetiara through immoral
(not drunken) practices of husbands, the
number la not given. Briefly these facts
show that drunkenness is reeponsible for
511.,p,ertoent. of the pauperism of Manches-
ter, waild°48a per cent. a due to all other
causes combined. 11 woind be a valuable
contribution to natation' literature if some
painstaking philanthropist would investa
gate the causes of pauperism in the large
cities of our own country, although if is not
probable.the results would greatly differ
'from those reached' by Mr. McDougall. -
Chicago News.
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The Little Amertcau Ludy nod Eller Baby.
There was a little woman on board with
a little baby; and, both' little woman and
little child were cheerful, good-looking,
bright-eyed and fair to see: The little woman
had been passing a )(nig time with her tack
naothet in New 'Yotk, • and had- left her
home in St. Louis in that ,conditiou in
which ladies who truly lave their lords
. desire to ' be, The baby was born in her
mother's Man, and hehad not seen her
"hueband (to whom she was now returning)
-for twelv.e menthe, having left him a
month or two after their marriage. Well
to.be sure, there never was a little woman
eo lull•of hope, and tenderness, and love,
and anxiety, as this httle Woman was; and
all day long ehe wondered Whether a he"
would be at the wharf-; and wlaether "10"
had.- got her bettor; and whether, if -she
sent the baby ashore by somebody else,
"10" would know it, 'meeting it in the street,
which, seeing that he had never set eyes
upou it in hie tife, teas- iart,. very likely in
the abstract-a:hut was- pnatable enough to•
the young mother.' She was such an art-
less little creature, and was in such a sunny,
beaming, liotiliful. state, and tot out all this
•thatter --eta:ging close about her heart so
freely that all theother lady. 'passengers
entered irito tae sprit of it ma -much as
she; and the captain (who -heard all about
it 'trona his wife) was wondrous ely,I promise
you, inquiring -every time we met at table,
as in forgetfulness, whet ehe -expected
anybody to meet her a Liens, and
whether she would want' o ashore the
night vie reached it (ut apposed she
wouldn't); and cutting y other dry
jokes of that nature. There wasame little .
wizen; dried -apple -faced old woman, who
took °erasion to doubt the oonstancy of
husbands in such eiroarnetanoes of bereave-
ment; and 'there was another lady (With
a lip -dog), old enough to . moralize on
the lightness Of 'human. affections,' and
yet not iiiYold that she could help nursing
the baby now and then, -Cr laughing with
the rest when tlie little ivoraan called at by'
its father's name, and asked it all' manner
of fantastic questions aoncerning him in
the joy ot her heart.. It was something of
a blow to the' little woman that, when we
were within twenty miles of our destina-
tion, it became clearly neoesearY to put
this baby to bed. But Abe got over it with
the same good lamer, tied a handkerchief
round her beadaa d mune out into thelittle
gallery with- thp thei. " Then- suoh an
oracle as she bedame in reference to the
looelitiee 1 and each facetiousness as WM
displayed by.the married ladies, and. such
eympathy as watt -shown by tne tingle ones,
and such peals -of laughter as the Jane
cannon herself (who, would just as soon
have cried) greeted every jest with 1 At
last there were the lights of St. Louie,
and here was the wharf, and those
were the steps; and the -little Wined,
Covering her face with her hands,
and laughing '(or damning to laugh) more
than ever, ran into her own oe.bin and shut
berself up. I have . no doubt -that in the
&arming inconsistency of such excitement
she stopped her eare, len she should hear
a him " asking for her -bub I did not see
her do it. Then a grant • crowd of people
rushed onboard, though tin boat was not
yet made fast, but wad afrandering•jthout
among the other ' boate to find a landing
place; and everybody looked for the hue -
band, and nobody EitioW hitt, when, in the
midst of us all -Heaven knows how she ever
got -there 1 -there was the little woman
clinging With both arms tight around the
nem, of a fine, good-looking, eturdy
youug fellow; and • in a moment
afterwarde, there she was again,
actually clapping her- hande for joy, as she
dragged biea through the small door of het
small cabin to look at the:baby as be lay
asleep-" American Notes," by Charles
Dickens, .
Brandy Bottle and the Bible.
Fresh from a journey of 4,000 reales in
mule cart and ox waggon, up and down
the most diaturbed districts in South
'Africa, with the exoeption of Zululand, the .
Mae: Vaidlaw Thompson, the travelling
Secretary of the London • Miseionary
Society, reports that in all the tribes el
South Mena bad brandy 10 the greatest
nurse of the nativeah The ,brandy keg does
far more harm than the powder barrel. In
North Bechuanaland brandy has been
kept out hitherto with considerable suc-
cess ; and iu Basutoland, in the old times,
the import of brandy was • forbidden.
Siam the late Basuto war liquor has been
introduced freely. As a malt, half the
chiefs in Basutoland ' are dipsomaniacs.
They drink morning, noon and night, and
many of their absurd actions are attribut-
able, not to the inherent folly of the Basute
nature, but to the baleful influence of the
white man's beverage. '
Up and Down flintra,
The other day, after dinner in Eaton
Square, London, inuah to the atnazetnent
of the neighborhood, a young nobleman, in
full evening dress, rode, for a bet, a racer
up hie steps, into hi8. hall, thenceto his
dining room and out again. Thom exploits
used to be confined to the old Cantle Squat.
der, Sir Toby Raokrent, six -bottle, fifteen -
prose era iu Ireland. A gentleman there,
etyled Jerusalem Whaley, rode one Of his
ooach homes up the grand staircase of his
residence in Stephen's Green, Dablin, and
into the diratter room, where his guests were
assembled.
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Col. Malezewski, who died lately at hie
home in Prue:tams iroland, Was 100. While
serving in the Prussian army he was taken
plower, paid forthwith enteted the rrenalt
army and Wok part in many of Napoleon's
eampaigns. After Waterloo be went home,
but in the rising of 1880 entered the Polled)
army, and, being taken prisoner, passed 47
years in Siberia. He 'was only relemed in
2379.
Miss Brown, vtlal is nO tenger young,
was chiding Miss Moire for het foolishasen
in ceasing a paratol, which Miss Brown
said Was Melees and a pima of affectation.
"I never may a paraeol,'" ithe Baia;
" No," eplied Mies Moire," people on the
Shady side of life have no tati for them."
Midge is raining( the tarn in Bitted°
00UntYb
, The Vicissitudes et it Bute Bora°. .
The career of St. Gatien, who divided the
Derby after a dead heat With Harvester;
affoule a remarkelste illustration of tbe
vicinitudes of a ;ace horse.. In addition to -
&tabard. and, ,unfashionable parentage he
was suoh aainean, common -looking year-.
ling that his breeder ordered hie trainer to
sell the colt by: auction' during one of tho
autumn meetings at Newmarket, soon after
he was broken:, The :oolt bad :previously
been offered for sale privately at £100 to
several people. at Newmarket, including
Haynoe (Mr. Rotheohild's trainer), who
consented to take the -youngster in liquida-
tion of an aceount of 450," but deolined to
give the century." -As Sherwood had
only two or three horss at the time,,he
cemented • to train the colt at -80 shillings
a • week,. instead- of .at the standard
charge of 50 shillings, on condition
that Major Bruce made it up to him 0
St.• Gatien turned out well. Fie won all
the three mon for which he started at 2
years Old, and as his, owner continued
anxioue to eell„ St. Gatien was purr:lased
by Mr. Hammond for £1,400 during the
winter, with a contingent:7 of "another
thousand-" it heavven the Derby 1 'Hat
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vaster, on the other bandasoit-8,600 guineas
at auotion only a inonth !cetera' the 'Derby,
and phe dead heat- betweeu the..pair has
been waggiehly compared to Herring's well
known praline of "81. Giles and St.
James:" Sir John Willoughby lean offioer
in the Guards, but unlike the Macaiebs,
who been of the pease:300p of a boat of
their own at the flood, Mr. Haranaond began
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life in Grolding's .stable alt. Newmarket:.
From that -employment he Workedhis way
into the position of confidential commis-
sioner to many of the trainers and Sockeye
at Newmarket -7-a vein of raoind one which
has secured him a fortune.-Lonclon. World.
What Net Paley ao Thinkhjg.-
"Ab the domatencement of riay third
year as an under -graduate," says Dr. Paley,
theauthor of the celebrated "Evidences of
'Christianity," and other theological works,
"1 FAB awakenen at 5 'teolook in the morn-
ing by ono of my idle oorapanionsa who
stood at nay bedside and said . Paley, I
have been thinking what a fool you are! I
could do nothing profitably"! I were totry,
and can afford the life I bead; you 'could da
everything, and cannot afford IV I was so
struck" adds the great controversialist,
"with .tbe visit and the vieitor that I lay
in bed a great part of the day -and formed
Pt' plan." .Whet the plan was can be
imagined from the course of life on which
the loathed doctor thenceforward entered,
and for a century he has been -considered
a pillar of orthodoxy and eta of the most
Convincing apologists of Christianity. Tot
it seems.thet, as far as Cambridge itt con-
cealed, Dr. Paley might just as well have
stopped in bed altogetheaarid never writ-
ten. his Evidences," for at Cambridge he
Will henceforth be dethroned, Hitherto,
candidates for the "previous examination"
at _the university have been requited to
stand au exensitiation in the "Evidences ;"
but in future they can, if they like it, 00-
stitute." elementary logic." Even at his Own
univareity, a prophet is not always sure of
beieg held in honor. The change, • it 'may
be and; is one the principle of which hag
been Omitted for some time past et Oxford ;
and possibly itis the leet blow , struck at
tne old notion that the English universities
are the chosen seminaries of the Ohuroh
of England -London Telegraph. •
Demanding a New Veal.
A verdict of murder had just been brought
n.
4, Year Honor," mid the prisoner's coma
eel, ritang and addressing the Court, "1
demand n new trtal." '
00 What ground ?" asked the judge.
"On the ground that. some members of
the jury are incompetent to render &just
verdiot. Abaopg them are an undertaker, it
rope Marrufactuter, a fibrin, and it dealer
in moaning goods."
A. new trial was granted.
A Meeting of the Parish nas paned a
reirolutiot -whioh, trf our has no legal
effect -That the reeeiver of a letter has the
right to pablish 11 witholit the oonsent of
the writer or his hake.'
Religion is* not " a thing of, noise and
spawn, bat Of ilOnt self.eaOriAoe and 'qtilet
growth.
Laterit (koala 'Scotland.
David Reid, for e great number of years
a well-known chemist and druggist In
Abeedeen, is dead.
The translation of the Queen's uew book
into Gaelio Juts been .entrusted by Her
Majesty to Mrs. Mary Mackellar, the
Gaelle peetess.
Miss Harris, aister of the late WIlliara
Harris, who gave £20.000 to'Dundee gigh
School, has given 200 to provide two gold
Medals annually to the dux boy and girl
in the eobool.
Invercauld.Foreat frorn In.vercaulcl Howie
-
past Loch Bung to the top of Benabourcl,
and along the . frontier of Mars Foreet to
Allanroore, is to be oonverted into it cattle
grazing.
Mr. S. Q. Neilson, Superintendeat of t130
Airdrie Burgh Pohoe, died on the 11E13.
Mr. Neileon had been in the Burgh Police
Force for thirty years, and was highly
respected.
Rev. William Holdom, pariah minister
at Grangemouth, died en the Sib, after an
Mans of four weeks, at an advanced age,
bas labored in Grangemouth with muoh
acceptance for over thirty years.
In his 010Bitlg addreBB to the General
Assembly the Moderator said "Wo miss
from our ranks in this Assembly one of the
very, genii of the place -the, impersonation
of Soottieh goodness, Piety,,and solid worth
-the late Sheriff Barclay. '
Markin& Auld Rink is about to be
renovated, externally and internally. Fitty
years ago this was the only churcli in the
parish; now there are three in the village,
besides 000 at Thornton, another a5 Milton
and a miertioxt hall at Balourvie.
The Glasgow Water Commissioners con-
template applying to Parliannat for
authority to eatend their works at Lode
Ketrine, 'am ete to permit of an increased
Oupply of water for tbe oity to the extent of
25,000,000 gallons a day.'
Mr. Thomas Soutar, banker, BlItirgewrie,
mysteriously disappeared in Editiburgh on
the 2ard May, and he has not since been
heard of. Mr. Soutar, wbo was a man of
exoellent character, was attending the sit-
tings of the General Assembly.
The subject ote harbor of e,afuge for the
east coast of Scotland, which has been
under consideration for it considerable
time, bas now been deoided upon. As was
expeoted, Peterhead has been.ohosen, or at
least the South Bay at Peterhead. The
lwaorokre will be constructed by Scotch convict
b
A. Great :scheme.
A. Novel Book-iDnee tor Twenty-eight
Cents.
One of the quaintest book -racket seen 'in
quite a while has just been finuthedby a
young woman living in Hartem. Every
one admires its unique beauty, but perhaps
would not be so profuse in their praisee
aid they know a Wa8 ,eaade-of it soap -box.
The box was obtained from it corner
grocer, and. was of quite nice, smooth wood.
The top and bottom were removed, one of
the sides placed down three inches tram
-the top ruid,the top edges were prettily
scialloped. The Whole was then coated
with oak varnish. and it strip of creana
leather, pinked at the edges, tacked on to
each shelf. The shelves were kept firmly
in plata 13y little iron rivets, and weir)
hung from the sides by means of a crimson
cord passing through both ehelves and
fastening into two scream in the wall. A
few little pieces of brie-it-13ra° were placed
on the top shelf, while a row of handsome
volumes beautified the lower one. The
entire con was twenty-eight oeuts.--Neat
York Journa'l, •
illutterollition area Ike sholat.
In the province of Catania. Sicily, the
Native' of San Fibppo, the patron Odra Or
Oalatebiano, is celebrated in a strangely
superstitions manner. The ignorant pops*
lotion of that district believe that fan
Filippo has the power of reaterina to 4cali
all those afficted with epilepsy, hysterits,
insanity, or other nervous maladies -In
short, that the invocationof the saint*
euffment to oaet out the "evil emit." On
the ciayot the battiest such agitated per-
sons front all the country around are
brought by their relatiorm to be cured
inetanteneously at the Church lof Cala-
tabiano. On arriving they are seized by
robuet peasants, who attempt to make
them Wise the image of the saint, and cry,
"Viva San Filippo," Some, as May he
expected, are too etupid to obey, others
struggle funously in be Monte of their
(Jason, who then rebore to the most savage
menus of compulsion, tearing off their
clothes, pulling their hair, and even lading
them, continuing the torture throughout
the day until the victims pronounce the
sacramental words. This being &BOOM*
plished, the unfortunate invalids are again
consigned to their relations, Nebo take them
home with tears of joy, only te be bitterly,
undeceived by finding them later on worse
tlaau before. This year the same eeene
was repeated, but was soon put a stop te
by a police constable, who in the name of
the law, arreated all those who relined to
renounce the barbaroue Guam.
" Yoti are looking esstremely happy this
morning, Smith," said Robitelon ; "what is
the cause of the joy ? "
a My mother-in-law le coming to tree me,"
gleefully replied Smith.
"Your mother-in-law! Good graohturi,
is that a rause of happinese ?
• "Yu bet it is. "-The times are hard and
money tightaa-My mother-halaw is a great
church member. My wife bothers the life
out of tne fot a new dress., that I can't
afford. I Send up and • as het mother to
come sae as. I meet er at the depot, put
on a long face, teher what a frivolous
world it is and hofr extravagance in dress
prevents many nien froni maims more
money to the foreign missions. By the
time she reaoheit my house Ilona her
loaded, and the new dress as rant:aptly sat
down iipon. It's a greateeheme."-Pittsbure
Chronicle -Telegraph.
In one of the leading (flubs two proini-
tient members were discussiug the pecoa.
dilloes of another member. Said one -a
" That fellow deserves to be expelled. He
has broken every rule of the olubsate One."
"'Which rule ie that?" asked ;the other..
"That whieh forbids teeing ther-tervanteaa.
WM the answer.
1 fet 0mM-tropical California. Eiti
fot the land fitiwing with mileand honey1
the land whore oranges grow and grapes in
purple &more weigh down the vine. Five
Welles df hail fell at Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, on the 18th of June, 1884.
'There are other things besides beady
with which to eeptivate the hearts of Men.
The Italians haVe saying, katir ie hot
fair, but that Which pleeseth."-aNitten de
Len:Jles.
1r Accidents of*Pastiloa.
The high -shouldered eleevee came of a
wrinkling of tlae sleeve when the ehouleer
seam was to high or too low according as
the °loth had been out, a, crease which
caused a lump when the lady raised ber
arm. Little by little, what was A blemish
beriarcie an intentional bump,. until now it
has to be muffed and poked out to be eau -
adored stylish. . .
islit generally known that the popu-
lar Mother Hubbard" cloak was another
accident. Mr. Wort13, having some yards
of an unsaleable fabric op band, gathered it
up into a tart of bag,- 011t Blite for sleeyes,.
and trimmed the bottom with fleawort. It
is doubtful if he himself knew what he
meant to do with this " gathered bag." One
day a lady taw it. Oh 1 What a queer
thing 1"•slie cried. "1 shall never wear
that." The neat day she tried it on, the
third site bought it. And in three stamens'
time every woman in Paris wore " Mother
Hubbard.
An, Enormous Fish.
The Port Elgin Free Press seas : A .
couple of weeks age_Capt. W. H, McLeod,
who is running one of the fishing boats
belonging to Mr. D. McLeod, an extensive
fiat dealer in Southampton; taught an im
menet) akwon trout, weighiog 80 pounds,
measuring -from the point of its nose to the
end of its tail 5 feet, 2 inches, and around
the thickest part of its body 34 inches,
'The head was 10 inches in iength, and the
width of the tail, from point to point, • was
12 Mabee. This is the largest fish of this
speoies ever caught here and Mr. D. Mc-
Leod may well feel proud of having °aught
such a grand 'mailmen ot the Amy tribe.
The moaner was packed in ice and con-
signed to Mr. Furey, of Woodetook, where
it is now held for exhibition, and is after -
wattle to be preserved and plaoed itt the
museum in Rochester, N. Y.
A. Bull Fight.
A •correepondent of the Paris Tempo de.
serib'es a Spanish bull fight whibla took
'pace the other day at-Nieraes. Though there
' were 10 (10-ttspeotetors present the tartar-
,
,
J. Miller Kelly, President of the Board
of Aldermen, Rochester, has been indictedandeithe new code for agreeing to accept a
bribe of 02,000 from the Baltimore re Obio
Telegrapli Company to permit it lines to
run into Rochester. A bench warrant has
been ieeued and the bail fixed at $10,000.
Kelly is confined to Ins house by Bioknees.
He was appointed the nevr manager of the
Western House of Refuge a year ago.
Judge Ardagh set Cossels bail at 46,000,
which he has not obtained, and still re-
mains in Barrie jail.
mere were hissed, and three-fourths of the
lookers-on left the circus before the dose
Of the slaughter. The Temps correspondent
describes the animals as having been weary
creatures, fatigued by the journey, and -
without the strength to defend themeelyee,
and as having been slaughtered in the
most revolting and cowardly manner.
M. Ferry stated in the Chamber of De-
puties yesterday that the Paten otre had
been ordered to Pekin to demand satieftio-
don_ for the Langson affair.
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