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lapse of four thousand years. Such
workmanship'would excite the wonder
and admiration of the world.
HOME READrNa.-One of the most
pleasant and noblest duties of the head
of the family is to furnish its members
with good reading. Let good reading
go into a home, and the very atmos-
phere of that home gradually but sure
ly changes. The boys begin to grow
ambitious, to talk about men, places,
books, the past and the future. The
girls begin to feel a new life opening
before them i'll knowledge, duty and
love. They see pew fields of useful
ness and pleasure and so the family
changes, and out of its number will
grow Intelligent men and women to fill
honorable places, and be useful mem
bers Of society. Let the torch of in
telligence be lit in every household.
Let the old and young vie with each
other in introducing new and useful
topics of investigation, and in cherish
ing a love Of reading, study and i'm
provement.
PUDDING AND PIES NOT UNHEALTHY.
There is probably a great deal of
truth in the following extract, which we
make from DIR. Halls Journal of
Health: The universal error as to the
unhealthfulness of pies, buildings, and
pastries, taking it for granted that they
are we'll made and properly cooked,
has arisen from the simple fact that af-
ter we have made a fuFf meal of other
things, the stomach is oppressed by
them, and if the process is repeated,
becomes eventually dyspeptic; that is,
had not the power to work up the food,
because it had been worked to death al
ready. It would be quite as philosoph-
zeal that if a m Il has become very tired
by blowing all day, and afterward, by
chopping wood, has worked him
self OUT it was very unhealthy, to
chop"
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Orchard Grass and AIsike Glover.

orchard Grass and AlSike Glover.
In answer to an inquiry the editor of
the Massachusetts, PloughD1on says :
We have tried orchard grass pretty
thoroughly, and have come to this con-
elusion If most of the other grasses
on the farm are late, that is, if they are
mostly timothy, red top, etc, we would
SOW orchard grass, because it is desir-
able to haNe some fields that can be cut
earlier than others. That is a great ad-
vantage, and counterbalances some of
the disadvantages of orchard grass.
such as its tendency togrow in punches,
and its hard and why nature, if not cut
early, etc. If orchard grass is sown
alone, or only with ~clovers, we should
use at least two bushels of seed to the
acre. With timothy and other grass
are late, it does not do so we'll, because
it is fit to cut at least three weeks be-
fore timothy, but with clover it is even
better than timothy. If we were going
to mix any natural grass with it we
should get a little perennial rye grass.
But orchard grass may be sown thickly
with red and aliske clover, say five
pounds of red clover seed and five
pounds of alsike. If only red clover
seed is used, it ought to be at least ten
pounds to the acre, and fifteen is better.
But alsike seed is much smaller than
red clover-seed, and you get a vastly
greater number of plants. Alsike will
not show a great deal the first season.
If you SOW red clover it ought to give a
fair crop the first year, and when it be-
gins to disappear the second year you
will find the alsike. The latter is a
perennial, and it will last some years
unless it is killed out by the severity
of the winter. It does not seem to be
perfectly hardy. It will sometimes get
killed out, but it ought to remain sew
eral years. Orchard grass will bear the
shade and rich soil. It grows more rap
idly after being cut or fed off than any
other grass we know, but the second
crop does not send up Towering stalks,
and does not, therefore, grow SO tall and
imposing as the first crop, but it grows
thick and makes a bulky, though not so
very heevy a burden. Sowing it very
thickly prevents it from growing SO
much in clumps and gives it a finer
growth. Two bushels of seed to the
acre is little enough and more would be
better. With orchard grass, clover and
alsike the cost of the seed will be rather
greater than timothy and red-top, but
if you have never grown this grass we
you to try it. Sow it as early in
the spring as you can, give it a good
chance and you will see how you like it.
But do not make up your mind until the
second year, when you will like it, we
nk.-RWrGt World.
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Olive it Down"

It may be a strange assertion that
silence is sometimes more eloquent than
speech. But it is true, as many a knave
knows who has knawed for years at the
good character of others with detrac-
tons tooth. The rat that roots through
rotten rafters works to some purpose
when it cuts its passage through to the
flour bags but the rat that would per-
sistently try to burrow a hole through
an iron door, such a rat, in the phrase
of the burnt cork Dutchman, we should
say "wass creazy shure." As yet we
have to hear of such foolish members
among the inferior rodents but the
superior rodents, u two-legged rats,
belonging to the tribe yclept Bummists,
these are the c~raziest rats outside of
Bedlam. They will gnaw, and gnaw,
knowing well that their gnawing is use
less and what rouses their wrath most
of all is to see the object Of the "gnaw'
perfectly silent. This thing of gnawing
at the character of others for the sake
of ~injuring them in the very acme of
meanness; but the sure safeguard is
silence.
Let the detraction of SANDER take it's
course; LIVE IT DOWN, and you will
cheap Goals of fire on your enemy's
head" he will vince more under your
silent contempt than if you put a poi
nard through his wretched carcass.
Public men, whose good name is com
mon property, must sometimes refute a
SANDER publicly, but as far as the gen
erality of persons are concerned, an
upright life is the best refutation the
lying SANDER can get. Men will pause
to admire the virtue of the silent man
whereas, getting in a furry over the
matter wilt avail nothing, and people
have misgiyings they otherwise might
never think of entertaining. When
SANDER stings, the world will admire
you all the mor when you Give it
down" But the pulling slanderer will
wish you a thousand things unsaid; the
tables will be turned on him, the finger
OF soorn will be pointed at him, or,
worse still, his former friends will
freeze him with their cold reserve, and
he will hide his head with shame; that
is, if a spark of spirit is left in his
unmanly breast. This is net drawing
on the imagination no coloring the
matter too highly. Everybody knows
and feels ~instinctively the malice that
underlies d~etraction. The d~etractor
himself will despise a man who black
mails or bellies another; and yet he will
manifest this devilish propensity in
himself and destroy a neighbours good
in the most polished language i'm
aginable. Irish american.
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TIE New York World estimates that
there are 125, 900 women in that city
earning their living in other than do
nestle employments. Of these 1900
are milliners, 1900 artificial flower
makers, $1,000 in the hoop skirt manu-
factories, 1900 in the hating trade,
1900 t~ailoresses, while several thousand
work in book binderies, and large num-
bers are employed making paraso1s and
in other minor trades,
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Feel for Producing Milk.

The Practical Farmer a Y eft
is we'll settled in the opinion of all our
best dairymen that bran greatly pro-
notes the milk secretions in cows, and
it is fed almost universally. Equally
mixed with eorn-meal is the usual pro-
portion. This mixture seems to pro-
mote quantity and quality of milk.
From several sources we hear that buck
wheat bran is a great milk producer,
and it is now being used considerably
among our Chester county dairymen, in
about the same proportions as the other.
Thos. Gawthrop, neal West Grove,
Chester county, also by repeated trials
with his own cows, has fully satisfied
himself they do as well with eorn and
cob-meal and bran as with pure corn
meal and bran. The amount of nutri-
ment in corn-cobs is so very small that
this result will have to be explained on
the suposition OF the ground cob, act
ing to promote digestion by distending
the stomach. The presence of bulky
material being necessary topromote dis
tension and fill up the stomach of rumi-
mating animals, before perfect digestion
can be accomplished, is frequently lost
sight of. Hungarian grass is also found
for mich COWS to be rather superior to
the ordinary run of hay. The last year
or two Hungarian grass has doomed up
wonderfully in the estimation of our
dairy farmers ; and a very large scope
of land will be sowed with il the COM
ing season. 1t natures for cutting in
about sixty days, and produces two to
foBr tons per acre-the latter of course
on good soils. Three pecks to the acre
is the usual allowance of seed. Where
a good hay market is convenient. this
substitution Of Hungarian grass for
common hay in home feeding viii be a
clear additional source Of proft.-Ru-
raj NeU Yorker.
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PrETs and quarts Of filthy catarrhal
discharges. Where does it all come from ? Tbe
mucous membrane lining Of the chambers of
the nose and its little glands are diseased, 80
they draw from the blood its liquid, and expos
ure to the air ohaAges it to corruption. This
h~fe-hquid was to build up the system, but it Il
extracted and the systea is weakened bv the
loss. To cure, gam flesh and strength by
using DIR. PieFceis Golden Medical Discovery.
which also acts directly upon these glands,
correcting them. Also apply DR.. sags's "a.
tarrh Remedy with DR.. Piercs's Nasal Douche.
the only method Of reaching the upper cavities
where the discharge accumulates and comes
from. The instrumeng and two medicines aoI5
for "a by all druggists. 6s6,
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Mistaken Consolation.

Speaking of Job, I remark that he
was the worst bored man that everIived.
I have thought his specified
troubles a sufficiently dark background
to set off his current reputation. That
he deserves to be called patient there is
no doubt, but not alone because of his
boils, bereavements, and loss of prop
0rty. have seen men suffer from head
to foot with the most painful diseases,
and yet complain less than he. There
have been wars, fires, and whirlwinds
shat have left the serenity of modern
saints untouched, though destroying
everything else belong 1g to them.
The grief Of many stricken parents has
distilled in tender mercies rather than
bitterness, and led them to devote them
selves to the ostpatience-trying phases
# benevolence. But J b was torment
ed with bores, of whom the wife of his
bosom was chief. How they sat and
prosed away about causes the most ir-
relevant Above all tests of patience
ls that of mistaken consolation. Dis
tress of almost any kind may be courage
ously borne by a very ordinary sinner,
but only an extraordinary saint can en-
dure patiently these miscalled "visits
Of confidence" Why does society
countenance this system of torture for
the afflicted, by which the pangs of be-
/ eavement are aggravated beyond mea-
sure? To be obliged to listen to COM
monplace when the heart is thronged
with high suggestions from the spirit
world to hear the dear ones memory
wronged, in pretense of sympathy, by
remarks which show how little he was
understood; to be lectured on the duty
Of resignation, and told that Gods
hand has fallen upon US forour sins-is
there any element of refined cruelty
wanting in this? The sad face, the low
voice, the friendly, insinuating manner
Of the sympathizing bore are the more
cooperating that we cannot then ex-
press evaporation. We must meet him
disarmed, the emotional nature
already charged to the full, and
the sacredness of sorrow forbidding III
10 reject violently ever its unworthy as
Fociations. Could some one only con-
vince him that in the house of mourning
strong love is silent and preaching is
profanity -Charles ". Jenkins.
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The Character of the Ocean Depths.

Until a few years past, nothing had
been asoertained with certainty concern
ing the character of the ocean depths.
1t was the popular idea that they were
wholly incapable of sustaining animal
life. Men conceived OF them az q desc
late waste, shrouded in eternal dark
ness, and subjected to such a stipend
GUS pressure as to make life of any kind
impossible. Even men of science
shared in the prevalent idea. They
were unwilling to accept the instances
of animals, comparatively high in the
scale of life, that we're reported to have
been brought up on sounding lines
from great depths. The great ocean
slumbered beneath the moon, covering
a region apparently inaccessible to hui
mar research and experiment. DR..
Carpenter and his colleagues, however,
found that it was possible to work with
as much certainty if not with as much
ease, at a depth of 600 fathoms as at
100. Their operations were carried to
the depth of nearly three statute miles
with perfect success. The bed of the
ocean, comprising an area of 140, 600, 900
square miles. is now added to the le-
gitimate field of natural history. 1t is
no longer a barren waste, but a nursery
of rich and varied life. It's fauna in
many cases exhibits a series of most
elaborate and delicate organisms, of
exquisite beauty in their soft shades Of
coloring, and the rainbow tints of their
marvellous phosphorence, far surprising
the inyertebrave forms which TEEN in
the belt of shallow water that fringes
the land.
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Dr.. Pierce,a GoIdAn Medical Discovery

DR.. PierCe'S Go!ddl Medlcai discovery
will cure . cOuAh In one-ha!f the
time necessary ~ cure il with Il
other medicine, ASd IL does it, ~~FSy cry
tuEit sd, bnt II rrmoDtA tA< c1~"A~-sf&4"''S
irritation art frSE isg ne d&ncfs6 Parts, Fornl
cases of Hoarscness, sN9Prc"si0n OF
Loss OF Voice. BrOncNtGls, severe
Chronic or Aingerin& Coughs it
viii be found to s9rpass any mAdrine that WHa has I;
cures the severest Coughs, it Strengthens the sys-
TEN and purifies the bE6od. By its
great blood purifying ~proDsIes, Il cures all
commoa lSIotch or NmploJ
-Four to six botN are warranted to cure
salt Rheum oETetter and the worst kind
Of Pimpls on Ne face, BOiIs, Carbun-
cIeS, Sores, e. ysipelasand BlOtches
among the hair, Eght to twelve bottles are way
rantcd to cure R8nnfng OF b Ears,
corrupt or RunnkIg Ulcers Scrofula
TiaryDiseases. 32to siE bottles. Liver
Complaint. $l.O0SI 8 bottles fer
$500, by all Druggists. NDufactured at the
WOrId's DiBpeEsary,EN 30, 81, 81 and
6 West Seneca St, BUFFALO, n. ~
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-FOUR Persons Convicted of Murder by
a Paper-Gun Wad.

Ben Shelby, Arthur. Shelby, Ball
Woods and William Smith were convict
cd of murder in the first degree, in Bur
net county, and sentenced by Judge
Turner to be hanged On Friday, tn, 18th
of January next. The prosecution was
conducted by Judges Terrill and Walk
er, employed by the friends of the muir
dered nan The case was one of the
most interesting in the annals of crimi-
nal trials, and the evidence, though con-
elusive, was entirely circumstantial.
Ben. McKeever, the murdered man.
was shot from his horse at night, near
The residence of the Shelbys, his throat
cut, and his body carried on horseback
three miles and thrown into a cave in
The prairie $50 feet deep. Alarge rock
was placed on the bloody spot where his
throat was cut, and apparently every
precaution was taken to avoid detec-
lion. The appearance of the rock indi-
Gated to the keen eye of the frontiers
man that it had recently been placed
there. Close by it was paper wadding
that had been fred from a shotgun.
On examining the gun of Ben Shelby,
paper wadding was found in it, and an
other piece of paper that had evidently
been fired from a shotgun was found
ander Shelby's doorstep. In his house
was found the Chimney Corner periodi-
cal, and it was ascertained by compare
son that the three pieces of gun-wad-
Ting had been torn from that paper. A
small fragment Of McKeever's coat. of
peculiar texture, found at the bloody
spot, revealed the fact that the murder
had been committed there. There were
many other circumstances pointing to
the accused persons as the murderers.
bat n deserves especial mention. On
carefully placing the paper found where
tile blood had been covered by the
rock, and comparing it with the wad-
ling found in Ben shelby's gun, the
following enigma could be read from
one paper to another:
With pieoe Of paper or a nIste.
SIT round the fire both large ana small:
letter make, almost an eight. VI
And nnw zynY g.. n
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Spring in the CIearings.

In newly cleared regions OF country, spring is
always an unhealthy season. The virgin soil. en-
riched by deeomposed vegetable matter. sends up,
when first barred 10 the sunshine, volumes of MAS
matte vapor that generates every variety of inter
mittent and remittent fever. All low laying,
swampy districts, the deltas Of rivers, the prairies,
the salt-marshes on the coast. the bayous Of the
Gulf States, and the shores of the northern lakes
are also visited at this season by malarious epidem-
les that PROSTATE no inconsiderable number of
their Inhabitants. This ought not to be, for 1t can
easily be prevented. No fact in medical history is
better established than the fact that Hostetter's
stomach Bitters will evert every species Of mala-
rious disorder. A course of this standard tonic and
Alternative commenced in advance of the unhealthy
season and continued regularly until its close, will
prove an absolute protection against chills and
fever, bilious remittent fever and other complaints
of n periodical type, as we'll as against the dis
turbances in the digestive organs and bowels, so
common at this period of the year. AS a remedy
Tor dyspepsia, biliousness, liver disease, nervous
disorders, physical weakness, rheumatism, melaL-
chOly, ~hysteria, and ailments to which the weaker
sex are exclusively subject, Hostetter's Bitters
has no competitor at home or abroad.
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The PuAEsT AND SWEETEST Cop-lGryER on
il Hazard q CasWeT's, made On the zen shnrs
from fresh, selected ivers, of the God onlv by
CAsERIL, HAZARD q Co., Nsw York. Ii Il al.
solutely pure and sDaat. Patients who haya
once taken II prafsr 4 10 all others. physi-
caans hare daoidsd It superior 10 al other ofls
Ia m~aEha&-Gsm.
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HORsE-MEN. and others who pretend
to know, say that the following directions had
better be observed in using Sheridan's Cavalry
Condition Powders: Give a horse a table
spoonful every night for a week; the same
every other night for 4 or 6 nights the sam
for a milch COW, and twice as much for an OK.
The addition of a little fine salt will be an adj
vantage.
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KING OF TIE y,

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THE MOST TH0ReCGu PRIV, WI
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CURES ALL HCMOP9 FpNr.@0'
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nv Sts 1850 C'0N9I SCPTS
CaDccr0p, t~,nnrs are o..
geon's knife->crofrriIaa rCatrTsed Ss5
lion prevented and c I gglQ1erei, grSr
VenrrpnJ nIsooa.
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DruDsv -rD.4qI or '", tAosA and NJ
internal. aid TlmtLr. .1.,' swelling, va -q
III v,,. ,Om. tI-r., Eedlced 6ai%
EryaivrEas. AL. ~,
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detergent medicine ''''0'ea Oy ts
gcorbuf}r Es5s,, Pc
Or Rough >kin MI nt~'5s' 3aaanr
leaving thr skin -n,c,, ~ ,''r''a quickly 4
Chronic n.,c,g..g, 'i lar. %"
C-lr~,i In D"-S"G@i, Fsvei 2ol4,. -.
A. AL. i.'~. '".asra, Debility, n H..
qua1." ..t-.. ,..y before hin ia eao! !
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WE have heard recently of several
sons Anodyne Eminent; one case of a man
forty-fve yeare old, who had not done a days
work for four years. The back should first be
washed, then rubbed with a coarse towel. APP
ply the Liniment cold, and rub it we'll with
the hand.
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Guinea Pigs.

A writer of distinction says Of those
little, plump, clean animals should DC
nsed for food. A mistaken notion is en-
t~ertained generally that they are q KIND
of rat, and therefore an unjust preJu-
dice ought to be overcome, since they
are excellent eating. They are harm
less, timid, vegetable feeders. Their
flesh is. Gutritious and delicate. If once
received into u markets, being easily
raised, they would soon be priced for
their many desirable dietetic properties.
Being prolific, too, they might be rails
ed in vast abundance, their food being
an item of no expense, a few cabbage
leaves, roots or waste parings being all
they would require to grow into proper
tons to fill vacancies in q gourmand's
stomach.
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Is A sign-board a vested right? This
question is now before a Chicago court.
There are in that city two hotels named
the Briggs House, and each wants to
compel the other to get married, OF re-
sort to some other device for having its
name changed. The Judge has the mat
ter under ~advisement.
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LIKE lightning are the miraculous
cures effected with 'Flagg's Instant Relief.
Aches, pains, sprains, bowel complaints, etc,
cannot exist if this great medicine is used.
Relief warranted or money returned.
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CR1sTADORO's EXCELSIOR HAIR DYE
is the most sure and complete preparation of
its kind in the world; its effects are magical,
it's character harmless, its tints natural, its
Qualities enduring.
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A NEW kind of fur reioices in the
suphonious name Of the skunks. The best
collar in the world is called the Elmwood. For
sale everywhere.
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alt EsuuU Q me both large Nnd FnIaI
letter make, almost an eight,
And o You see what covers all.

AN UNIQUE establishment, and the on
~ one OF the kind in the South, is the
for aged INDECENT negroes now
building at st. Augustine, Fla The
endowments is due to the ~liberality Of
the late Buckingham Smith, ~ one
time minister to Spain, and . liye-long
STAKEHOLDER, who willed his whole es-
tate, amounting to over $4,000 III this
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THERE il one man at Lime Rock
il be were IN the waves off Lime
Rock, Ida Lewis the hsroine Of salt
water salvation, Would probably not
pull an oar to saya-her husband.
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PENNsrnvAN1A's annual production Of
minerals nearly equals that Of ali other
states and territories put together. In
the last year reported BY the census
hsr mines yielded SIC, eos, 800 worth Of
minerals, and all the rest Of the Soirn-
cry s76, $50, eOA worth.