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F81„0. Sala lisa very impeetent ingredient
in'the raticnsof pigeons, Bind where these
birdie are ootifined,'wlthout lt, they are never
tlleau ug3. at OVriffy, It is natural then, to conolade,
No kitchen should be without eoalea to the& it iekvalueble 4#1 the Med of othee herds,
teat the integrity of thiuge purchased by encl- r oldifawyis oxo out of their moult afor barn door fowls. nd
weight, end to nicasure the quantity of in full plumage, the sooner will they begin
to lay, in the autumn. Pollute usually oe-
'gin to lay as soon as they are completely
Plumed ale adult £wale, It is worth while,
therefore, to encourage moulting id every
way, giving them earercise,; insieot food, or
fish in their ration, wit wiele ground bond,
ground oyster shell, and sound grain. A
tablespoonful of fine salt in the soft feed,
given daily to a Rook of twenty hens, will he
a fair allowance. 'owls do not depend
upou this for the salt which their bodies and
feathers contain, for either the material
itself, or the elements of which it ie oonl-
posed, exist to a greeter or less extent fn
almost all the food they eat and the water
they drink ; and what we do by giving them
salt is simply to increase the (supply.
vartoue umlaut,
Finale digging the early potatoes before
rains asueo them to sprout, beep the later
kiad,a f cera from steeds, either by running .a.
nee row outtivator through the rows, or by'
eland pulling. ,
When tete pastures. begin to fall off, some
extra ford should be provided for all the
stock hat espeo1ally the cows, Horace ere
always well erred for, but the oowa a e toe,
often ne gee oted, both as to food and a supply
of pure w ter,
Buekwheet is easily injured by frost, and
should be o in good season. As it shells
easily, out with the dewupon it, let it cure
in small loose bunches, and draw it to the
barn when slightly moist.
It is not easy to reduce straw to the state
of manure excepting by, feeding it or by
using it as litter, which beoomea mixed
with the excrements and then quickly de-
compoeea under theatimulus of the action
of the motet mass.
The Na'iotral Farmer says : "Half a pint
of sunflo Wk r seeds given to a horse with his
other food each morning and night will keep
him in better health and better spirits than
he will be in without it, while his hair will
be brighter.
In Walla Walla valley (Oregon) may be
seen eighty miles of coutiauous wheat fields
along the to ,t -hills of the Blue Mountains,
The farmers continue to grow wheat, though
they have to pay 30 cents per hundred
}pounds to get it to m irket,
A little oharcoel fed two or three times a
"week to the pigs is beneficial in correcting
acidity of the stomach; to which hogs are
liable when fed upon Dorn and confined in a
pen. They will eat it greedily and fatten
much more readily with charcoal than with-
out.
The old Danes of raspberry bushes should
not be ado' ea to remain a single day after
:the grop is off. Cat them down close to the
root, and barn them along with other rub-
bish. They are not orn mint 1 and only
take the anbstanos from the young canes
which will boar next year.
"How do you sweeten your butter tubs,
or;woodenwere of any kind ?" we recently
inquired of a farmer's wife. " Steep up
some clover hay or sweet fern and pat in the
tubs when hot," was the reply. This is
worth knowing; and we give it for the
benefit of those who find trouble in "sweet-
ening" varous utensils used in the dairy.
One of the largest fruit farms in the world
is situated in the southern part of Florida,
and is owned by E A. Osborn, of Middle-
ton, N. Y. It comprises 2 500 acres, and
is covered with over 203.000 cocaanut trees.
So far the undertaking has east over X$100,-
000. An the cocoanut only thrives south
• of the frost line and near the coast, the
owner of this farm has a praotioalmonopoly
sof ;hat trade in :Florida.
The Ciders aaya What- iliwo mals an�ii
'butter be ashen, an tine T+
washed in weak lnranr aro that str, arse.{ ate
color the w.tea;,e d " wn-b " .,,,ts;t: aZfi
expel the oar .:c. a;a.iu=•,aza t aavzFr
lump from t*ae ire est, Jud. a...r. it
over withoat vka `—_, itezeassss;.t ate
of anoaicatotheg t- ., a=7
the salted butter will b g,_t
rancid and worttalerk:
In the winter of 18834, Thad tome z ne
:yearling steers that Idivided. into two I. ;
and wintered one Iotia the zteble, and the
'lo trnyard where they tai the protection of
a good weave -stick. They were fed hay or
bright fodder every day, end a little grain
morning and night, both Iota being fed alike.
In the spring the lot s abled had gained 115
pounde p -r head ; the ot wintered at the
atraw stack had lost 10 pounds eseh.
Cultivation of Oats.
Oats are capable of receiving wonderful
improvements, both in quality and quantity
per acre. By selecting the seeds with great
care every seaeon. and by giving the crop
clean and rich cultivation, 75 or 80 bushels
of clean grain might be raised per acre by
good management juat as easily as forty by
the common system of cultivation. Al-
though o,tsabsorb coarser materiels from
the boil than wheat or barley, there is no
other kind of gra n that will return a better
compensation in an increased amount of
grana per acre, in consequence of the soil
being manured than oats. Oats flourish
beat when the soil is miler the highest state
of cultivation. A farmer may r.ice as many
bushels of oete per Gore as he reasonably
desires, provided he will manure and cul-
tivate the soil as well as it ought to be cul -
GARNERED WITTIOISMS,
"All I want is a single ,heart," writes a
poetess Probably she is trying to 511 a
bob -tail flush.
Bathing ie more popular in Russia thanat
some of the sea,lde resorts in this equutry,
beauuse the czar made all the aerie free,"
A Down-Eaet.fire company. in a resolution
on deceased member say : "He has respond-
ed to his last alarm." It's a wonder they
didn't add that "he has gone to his last"fire,"
"I hef prought ming sohmall pox mit ms,"
Bald a German lodger to the landlady. "Oh,
you wretch t" she screamed. "And me here
with four little innocent ohildren that ain't
vaccinated."
"And how does Charlie like going to
sohool V' kindly inquired a•good man of a 6•
year-old boy "I like goiu' well enough,' re-
plied the embryo statesman, ingenuously;
"but I don't like stayin' after I get there."
A pug dog has been taught to sing, and
play on the piano. This is a move in the
right direction. Now if some one will only
teach one of these worthless brutes to sing
"Sweet Violeta" to a guitar accompani-
ment we may hope to see the entire breed
exterminated at any moment.
A Bank Holiday-" Well, Jarvis, you've
beaten your wife,you ve'had your own head
broken, and your eyes blacked, and your
front teeth knocked out, and you. spent the
night in a police cell?' "Weil, Sir John,
it's a poor 'art as never rejoices 1"
Perkins-"Snifkin failed 2 Well ? I had a
narrow escape yesterday. He tried to bor-
row $10 :from me." Ponsonby -"Yon didn't
lend it to him'2""No, indeed. I :suspect-
ed there was something wrong and -and-"
Well?" "The fact is I didn't :have the
g10."
A negro 'boy, while walking along the
street, took off his bat and struck at a wasp
that had alighted on a tall .shrub hanging
over a fence. The boy put on his hat,
tamed to amara, and said: "I .thought I
got dat ar ole wags," "Dido tyou get him ?"
"No, ash; but I --"'he snatched off his hat,
ars&
's hand on the top of his head.
howled, and said: "Blame fi
4 set -r' sit act ole wawa"
A ga v,ame t c"ark applied to the h=ad de -
for leave of aheen a in order to at-
rse ,uietrnicghis of youngest boy.
"How di is thechi"id'y" "Four days old."
earler
good,' Baud the chief; "but two
weeks ago I gave you Leave of absence to
leaea your wile. What have you to say 1"
Fora .rr:.cfr,,txt the subordinate,, was dumb ;
thea putt`[ ega hold face on he said ; "I beg
your pardon; my little boy Is a posthumus
child.
Harpagon had commissioned a friend to
get him a lottery ticket "If I mike a
lucky choice, we shall go halves," said the
friend, smiling. "All right," said the other.
The day of the drawing came; Harparon
won a clock worth at least 500 francs. "Ah
poor old chap," he said mornfully to his
friend ; "if I had won wine or money, or two
different articles, we might go halves ; but a
clock -I really don't know how to settle
with yon 1' After a pause : "I have it 1
You ahall come now and again to see the
time 1"
Too Late.
A story is told as authentic of a yoe._g
man in the Highlands of Scotland who be-
came a drunkard, a gambler, and in the ex-
pressive Scotch phrase, "a ne er•do•weel."
His father owned a small farm vehicle had
been in the family for two hundred years.
But to save dock from the consequences of
his misdoing. he was obliged to mortgage it,
far beyond the possibility of redemption,
The old man sank under the disgrace and
tivated. The most aatiefactery way of misery, and died, leaving his wife, two or
applying barn yard manure to any soil for three children, and worthless Jock. Bat
'the purpose of tncr, aging its productiveness, the shook of his death brought the boy to
when oats are the principal grain to be his senses. He forswore cards and whiskey,
raised, is to epread and plow it under in came home, and turned into hard work.
late autumn rather than in the spring of tho He toiled steadily for years. At last his
year. In most cases oats are allowed to
stand too long before they are out. Moat
farmers let the oats stand till there is not a
green head in the field. But as soon as the
chaff on about one half of the heads has
assumed a yellowish hue, then the oats
.Should bo out, There may be a few heads
that will not be out of the milk at that stage
of their growth, but if they are allowed to
stand longer, more loss wilt be sustained in
shelling off the early and dead ripe oats
than there will he in the shrinkage of those
heads that are in the milk when the straw
is out. Early cut oath are heavier per bush•
el, fairer to the eyes and will sell for more
money in the market.
Salt in the Ration f r Poultry.
There is a prevalent notion that salt
causes the feathers of fowls, or perhaps of
the feathered tribes in general, to fall out.
This, we believe, is well founded, Certain-
ly, exoees of this condiment should be avoid-
ed. There appears to bo some connection
between salt and feathers, Feather -eating
'fowls are often cured of the tendency by
adding salt to their food, and a small Goan•
mother was "struck with death.
Jock, now a middle-aged marl, grizzled While the man and his cine drop into nshesr,
farmer, atern and grave, was tient for in Only a fire picture, a areaaure of fancy a.
haste. He stood in eilecce by her death -bed thing of a moment that vanished in smoke,
a moment, and then broke forth,- and ashes. But so have gone, later, many'"
"Mither 1 mither 1 gin ye see feyther there, hoped and plans of him who pens these linos.
tell him the farm's our own agen. An' it's Ah, more 1 the father who wrote, the
a' recht wi' me 1" uncle who lead, and the roof which shelters
The story reminds us of Doctor Johnson, ed the fire have all mouldered and crumble&
who came when he was an old man of seven- in duet. "
t' to atand int ie mar cot -place of Uttoxeter, The fire and its pictures melted to ashes,
his grey head bare to the pelting rein, in plans and hopes vanished in air, house and
bitter remembrance of some aot of disobedi- people crumbled to dust -all lost, save in
ones to his father on that spot when he was memory, what was real. air truly it what
a boy. was fancied,
But of what avail are these tears or acts -- -
of atonement when the old father or mother
whom we have hurt and slighted so cruelly
is dead ? Do they see 2 Do they forgive 2
Who can say 2
"It is only," said a another lately, "einoe
my own children speak to me with rudeness
and comtempt that l: understand how great
the debt was which I owed my own mother,
and how poorly I paid it."
Many a gay girl who reads these words,
vibe treats her another as a member of the
family who dose the work of a servant with -
0.
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AJ T+RE. .11Afla P'OR SLIM, CBlllltlP,— Ale stndi.-Jowl
( .J. DALmr, fluolph.
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One friend have I, os "?.lied co '= i Sh 1torL;p+ilLbo rr by ; uotian I1131'EIdI?L FI,RWCJH SNOB BLACKING
pendent, who always rlt��,E h tette n .,next ori of the, count,+,. Who vgt l$111,1D A AST11111Rif n it tr:le; Rwo ocwe, ear
p 1 B 1 •ruled ioAiea T . x� , l�l.:. ,, ,: , ':t�" i.',,Yaarllpp heiloruand 0+'o bull. Write tor dorOrip.
plain, o a e y iL „„ flog, prise and padlsrop ko 11. x I{�xxa, Tratal r+e.
Na oonvenieut letterheads for him, with A Wyoming Territory Glee Club has AGUMAE FaBli VOA "'HALF -101)”-,lovasTi"
Smithville x•-188 , one third the way lynched-stx=.mon for horse Stealing this year,
AT'
„alas east, ot the eery ot at. Thucuaa. Fq
dawn the pogo -a yawning shat m that moat a . far, without interfering with its muaioal particulars address 1, J I.,EWIS, Now $arum, On
needs be bridged over with e. certain day pursuits, It le conoedod,ball that the IieitriloN
and one of the twelve months, flanked an «When I was young,” said a boastful Bv8nut8e Ooleame Kingston, is deeerved-
the ona:Aidewith-:hum: 641li iicka Jill,tar.:adattee,,404,1iordw$ eerbeer Athea 'the': young trio stoet popular 'business trelning tohool in
and upon the other with 188 , an unfinished en in 1.,osld9n were at my feet."` Itealy 2 'El, i
monument Waiting ttijeai,ctbne, uoD of rte 1 lh�jro)tiiodl'pt,�t, ;Hai`t'i that the rejoinder.nS• N• �`•��`�i'I' W�QD
unite,
+ 6 a u . - , _r ,. ' Has resumed her buelcess as Ladles' Nureo, Com.
°its Eaton Hall the magnificent mansion
No Mean device of letterhead so placed e g Portable homes for ladles during ecoouohment*
that onlytwo.thlrds of the first page can be which the Duke of Wesertaster has re. Reeidence, No, L IIforum
°, d St., foruo, Sweetly
written pon ; no thin, tissuelike paper to builtfoi';higrtpiil l4?fi file ti nhe of uDee, four Private.
he.t one page, lean. the mites from Cheater, has jaet boau opened to 1i' M UU VETEtitt,Att1 ',JOLbabiu-Cernper-
confine therm to that pp p g the public.. anoe:St. Toronto, Patrons, Gov, Gen, of
whole of one ala st and two•thfrde oto the Canada, Lieut. Gov, of. Ontario The moat success.
others blank as iK shallol"v writes s head and ' Seitih Aifstralia is pna►ing through an un- _ fol Veterinary institution in America. Over five
vacant ria his Heart, , , exampledp'eriod°al'dept'eea oh. ' During the : hpoilonoodgr duatreinSaseioe ad¢tn a0tICe. All ex.
In Mone of these sham. devices, none- 4f first six monthe'efthisyear'only 3,8`34 people Fltle eo111re. Prinoipal, PRhectn, o 81tiet. , y,8,
these eheetaf none of these means for, deceit/ went to the c ilony, as compared with 8 571 S tl0E�8 Aipil, iris+ 4L# $Mi UD ,
ing, does my friend inaulg+e. wholeit, it.. . . tit- Willtema' Eye Wets has provrd itseit'a sucoaeo
Neither does he'hegin his letter by forret-' ,'esv of employed on railroad in Abbe- . y ail', ha v. uatdib on•,'dine todt.cothos it their
ally add'resaing me as "Mr, Saandso," of `Ville' county, S, C , '7iately escaped from the • ej'retat$ were h of ed vi 8 ,year.n, dbs b coailattaaled
Suohandsuoh a piece, before wariliipg ug
enough to write. Dean Sir." • . .
But he t thee a plain, large, generoem s eel
of foolscap, and, preparatoxyto filling, closely'
its many compaot lines, wrttes,'near 'the
upper right hand corner, ire anhoneet, pains-
taking way, the name of his residence; end
the date of writing ; next passing too,the
opposite. corner, .bat a little lower 'on the
page, headdresses rheaaptl'.there is po mita
taking who he means,. for he writes 4, eMy
Deer Soandso," and at once 'begins one o€
the brightest, kindliest, most eeneible letters
that ever aroused the : fanoy, 'satisfied the
heart, or enlightened the understanding., '
My, friend is not a fine. penman -indeed,
is rather a poor one-butwrites a plain, leg.
ible hand, and never emitters his words
half across the page with worse than melees
flourishes.
,Neither does he now and then skip: three
or four lines, just at if' he thought nothing
of me, had little to say, and took this man;
ner of letting me 1 now it. '•`
Truly, he duly spume off'hio words, phrases,
and sentences, and properly separates ;.his
paragraphs ; but all this ie done he sociis an
honest, homely way that the'form-the sub-
stance of 'he letter=somehow' blends harm
onioualy wan the thought -its spirit -into
a perfect wuule; indeed, into ahold f'e hien.
ed letter, that feeds the mind and makes glad
the heart.
Such a communication as thiel one is oath. ,
pelled to read over and over again, feeling
an interest in the formation of every letter,
in the use of every word, in the construction
of each phrase and sentence, for foto each of
these one knows his frtend has, so to speak,
breathed the breath of life.
Bat apart from its own' charms ands in-
trinsic merit, this . old-fashioned letter,
through the mists of long, lona years, brings
tip the memory of a winter afternoon, when
a little boy is told to " keep quiet for father's
writing to Uncle William."
For pen, -the father had a quill from"the
wing of a goose, "which.• wi•h "pen" knife,
had just been trimmed and. cut into desired
shape.
ink, he used that which the 'mother
had made by boiling oak bark in a solution
of copperas.
For letter paper, he had old-styla foolscap.
For blotter, there was the great wood fire,
- before which the writer every now and then
held the newly -written sheet to dry.,
The seta was getting low, and the father
moved his table near the west window,
meantime ordering the restless boy to sit,
down and keep still.
In front of the fire, at the edge of -the
hearth, in a etraigh-barked "split " bottom•
guetd, but subsequently 'reported at the
(-penitentiary; and explained that ho hal been
veorleed to, hard. on the Md.
The jlrnoese of . #'anlpgation forded upon
travellers by some Spanish towns in • con-
sequence of the cholera is severe that some
people have to be carried off on stretchers,
and one woman, who begged hard to be let
offs died,froni the, effects, ,
,A,olub of 4,800 members, in Berlin, re-
cently advertised for six medical officers to
attend them at a salary of $375 per annum
each.. This would make th oontributers
from each member of the club about 75 cents
a year for • medical attendepce. More than
400 doctors applied for the places.
z'Rupture, Breach or Hernia
.•permanently oared or no pay. The worst
cases guaranteed i• Pamphlet and references,
two three -cent stamps. World's Dispensary
Medical Association, 663 Main Street, Buf-
falo, . Y,
Children will wear a great deal of navy
blue oombinedwith scarlet: •
' Consumption Cure"
would be a truthful name to give to Dr.
Pierce'a `� Golden Medical Discovery, the
most efficacious medicine yet discovered for
arresting the early development of pulmon-
ary dieeaae, But " conetunption ours
would not sufficiently indicate the scope of
its influence and "usefulness. Ie all the miny
diseaseswhieh'epring from a derangement
of the,liver'and blood the ' Discovery" is a
• safe and sure speoiho. Of all druggists.
• .Capea,•,fichus, and short mantles will all
be worn for early' fall wraps. ,
•, •'How often is, the light of the household
clouded by"signs of melancholy or irritability
on the part of the ladies. 'Yet they are not
to be blamed, for they are the result of ail-
,"nients 'peculiar to that sex, which men no
'not of. But the•cause may be removed and
joy reetered by the.: ,nae. of Dr. ' Pierce's
`!Favorite prescription,'; .wbioh, as a .:tonin
and pervine for debilitated women,:si certain
safe and pleasant. It is beyond all compare
the great healer of women:
' Large rosary beads are used in dress or
namentation.
No means have been taken by the menu-
faetnte�re to push the Bale of their " Myrtle
Navy" tobacco except giving from time to
time"a sialpp1estatement of the facts connect-
ed with it in the public. press. The large
-and rapidly, 'increasing, demand for it has
tbeep the result•of the,experience of smokers
which these statements suggested. Their
advice to`bnabies6 men is to advertise large -
ed chair, his feet resting upon Dae -of. its ly if they have the right article' to back up
rounds, sits the boy, who thinks it strange the advertisement with.
that other people write Tetters
and: that •alp ain, tb have +another velvet and velve
little boys have to bet so quiet. He woLder's : teen eeaepa.
at last, if he will ever grow big enough•:to •Alma Ladies' Colloae, ,lata Tl}omae, Ont.,
write and mean enough to tyrannize over has fall oto and complete courses in Lit.
little boys. Meanwhile the Jun goes down,
twilight comes on, and with these que`stioae eratunce , Re Mika, Fine
nae, las, and
Como meroial
,For 50 gp. announcement, :Rai Autitina B,D,,
the Agreat
fa a for dthe e�most 'part cheerful, yet "Si;"..gexelaimedthe orator, "has the
changeful; at times veiled, for a tnoment, Indian any rights ?""He has,"said the
in smoke, at others crossed by dark lines, as' chairman, but he gets left when he tries to
if about putting on a frown, hut in an in assert` theta. ' •. T ,
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stint these are chased away by a, warm, PrevCutloll•ILettCr Than Celle.
cheery glow from within that melees the Many of :the diseaseshio prevalent in these
bright eye of flame wink kindly and trust.' ' dayn are caused by. using soap containing
in ly at the boy. • ' impure and infectious matter. Avoid all
Bask into these sparkling eyes the boy risk by using` PaBieepIo* Laundry Soap,
looked instantly, •and at last confidingly, till which is' 'web/sedately pure. Ask your grocer
he saw picturOd in their ilopths a little boy fore PERFECTION. -Manufactured. only' by
like himself ;but in a moment the fiery eyes ' thtigoronto poap 7o.. ,
- snapped, and in them he, next saw a Ran-
long
}an ;Another season,.of lace is, predicted, and
large and strong, wearing a big. hat and indicated by the flrsG.iruportationa of dresses
long scat; again the glowing eyes ap rk1e, hate Arid bonnets.'
and the man seems to be beside..a'.tthle, r ' A. p. 947. •
with one arm resting upon, it as, if .writing,, _ ,..,_... _- .•
while about him are little --boys and gide,;