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Dress Again. :

WOMAN, while striving to reach broad
er plane which places the sex on level
with man, yet fails to display good taste
and sense in the one province strictly un-
der her management-her own dress.
We are told that dress is an index of char
acter; in that case, how few minds among
the fairer portion of our community are
properly balanced! Grace, prOpriety,
delicacy. simplicity, fitness and proper
ton, are each and all outraged in the
ashions now in vogue. The belle of the
time is one panorama of awful surprises
from top to toe. Her clothes characterize
her. She never characterizes her clothes.
She is upholstered, not ornamented. She
is bundled, not draped. She is puckered,
not folded. She struts; she does not sweep.
She has not one of the attributes of nature
nor of proper art. She neither soOthes
the eye like flower, nor pleases it like q
picture. She wearies it like a kaleid-
oscope. She is a meaningless dazzle of
broken effects. Custom has ReOnciled US
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The Striped Cucumber Beetle.

ALTHOUGH it may seem that all that
pertains to the natural history of this in
sect is known, there still remain points
about this as well as about many Others.
which patient study and time alone can
reveal. Thus it seems that the larvae of
the cucumber beetle and its work on the
roots of the plant is now known only a
a few years. Harris says, in so many
words, that the Larvae then was not known.
and it is only in the second of Mr.. Riley
Reports that We have met with descrip-
ton of it.
1t seems to be established that although
the beetle, especially in early spring. is
found on many different plants, as for in
stance on the pear tree, as is recorded on
page 239, No. s of the second volume of
the american EntOmologist, where the cor
respondent, j. q. Zeller. Spring Bay.
WOodfOrd county, ILL.,, reports them rs
infcsting his pear and cherry trees. and
attacking the blossoms. The larvae is
found only ut the root of plants belong
ing to the gOurd family.
1t may not be uninteresting for those
who raise such plants to considerable
extent, and are consequently liable to suf-
fer loss by the ravageS of this insect. to
learn what Colonel John Logan. of Car
linville, MacOupin county, ILL.,, who has
been for few years past extensively en-
gagged in raising cucumbers, gives us as a
good remedy against its attack on the
roots. First, he says, as soon as the
plants have acquired good stand and
vigOr he carefully avoids stirring the soil
around the stem of the plants; that while
the same is hard and compact the beetles
are prevented to enter and get at the roots.
Secondly, he applies a spoonful of I'M
Stacked lime to the roots of every plant
to the WINS he applies Paris green as ap-
piled to the potato vine, and the result of
these three remedies is saving of most
of the plants, attributing Indifferent ap-
pication as the cause Of loss. Now. al
though we admit the good effect of the
COlonel's remedy and thankfully receive
the Information, the application of it
seems to be based on errors. He knows
that something destroys the roots, and
suppOses the beetle to be the cause; packs.
therefore, the earth around the stem to
prevent its ingress. The lime may de-
strOy the Larvae and thus save the plant.
but here the lime destroyed the only enc
my of the roots, and the lime alone. The
packing of the earth would therefore seem
to be unnecessary. 1t seems to be true.
as Mr.. Riley says i'm his first report. that
the beetles do enter the earth through the
cracks that are made nv the swelling and
spreading of the seeds, but only to nip
of the young sprouts or leaves, thus de-
strOying the plants before it is even out OF
the ground.
Meanwhile he who wants to pick the
squash, the melon or the cucumber, can
plant ana sow in hopes, for applying I'M
Stacked lime to the roots of infested plants
and Paris green to the tops, be they the
worms or the beetles that gnaw the roots,
he will have the fruit.
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COrundunl.

1t is said that the most extensive de-
post of cOrundum known to exist in any
country has been discovered i'm Chester
county, Penn, on the line of the Will
mingtOn and Reading Railroad. COrun.
dunn is crystalliZed or massive mineral
of extreme hardness, allied to the saph-
phire. When crushed it is used for grind
ing glass and similar purposes, and is I'M
equaled as a rapid and lasting cutting
material. Emery is an inferior variety of
cOrundum. In 1886 mineralOgist discOv-
cred in Newlin township, in Chester
county, deposit of the mineral, which
was exhausted after about fifty tons had
been taken out. The land afterward
passed through several hands, until finally
last summer, by tracing boulders on the
surface, . vein was discovered which
proved to be of great value. The first
definite indication of the vein was found
about one foot under ground in the form
Of nodules, which increased in size as the
diggers penetrated the earth, until at .
depth of ten feet the vein pre-
sented a surface of about five feet in
width. Its length and depth have not yet
been ascertained. The cOrundum is found
in boulders weighing from few
pounds to several tons. The Reading
Eagle says that it finds ready market at
$500 per ton In the rock delivered at the
railroad station, or $500 per ton when
crushed. The owners of the property are
rapidly perfecting machinery for crushing
the mineral at the mine. and as the de-
mand for 1t is unlimited, they deem their
vein considerably more valuable than an
ordinary silver mine.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-06-14

kangaroo" style Of dress will contain
newer and severer elements of criticism
than any which go to form our Judgment
upon fashions which repel us only because
thew are out of date. How endless our
ingenuity in sowing this seed of criticism.
If we have a pretty foot, We wear our
heels beneath our insteps and cripple IT..
If we have abundant hair we cover il
with the hair of some uncleanly dead
grisette, or Irvine with it an Indian weed
which is namelessly horrible and eX-
poses the wearer to nameless horrors. II
we have "A pretty dress, we cut ii up. We
slash it Oft, we twist it hither, we snip it
yon, we bolster it here, we stuff ii there,
we mutilate it everywhere. We PAY 10
attention TO artistic effect, to harmony OF
any sort, and yet the thought expended
on her dress by the modern belle is equal
to that bestowed by an author on his
writings. If "exertion of intellect
I stands censor on the beauty of our cos
tune. Heaven save the mark IVacerty
| MGgdzine.
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DOg-POwer.

The use of dogs as draught-pOwer is
a noticeable feature of the local traffic OF
Berlin. Milk carts, bakers and grOcers'
wagons, locomotive fruit and mineral
water stalls, furniture cars. and the light
er vehicles of all descriptions, may be
seen drawn by two or three dogs har-
messed like horses, or by a single d' g har-
messed by the side of "A woman or boy.
Two thousand one hundred and eighty
six dOg-carts are duly registered among
the licensed cOnveyance> of the city. The
loads with which dogs, as well as horses.
are tasked, and the treatment which
both classes of animals receive on the
streets, would keep Mr.. Bergh and his
staff in very lively state of interference.
N. Y. Nation.
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Some Funny Epitaphs.

a book Just published gives us batch
of epitaphs copied from old tombstones.
Here is one on Mr.. Pepper, a publican,
at st. Johns. Stamford. Lincolnshire:
''Hot by name but mild by nature.
He brewcd good ale for every creature;
Brewed good ale, and sold ii, too,
And unto each man gave his due
The following wretched etiusiOn of
CHASTITY puns is from Hackney church.
ward. to the memory of Peter Stiller:
"As still rs death poor Peter lies,
And Stller when alive was he;
Still not without hope to rise,
Though Stiller then he still will be.
In Doncaster churchyard is this coup
let:
''IIere lies Brothers by misfortin serounded
One of his wounds Il the other was
dr6wnded"
The following lines are over the re-
mains of Robert Trollop. architect of the
Exchange and Town Hall, New Castle,
England:
''Here lies Robert Trollop,
Who made Won stone roll up,
When death took his soul up,
His body filed this hole up
In Oxfordshire, the following lines APP
pear on a maidstone:
"Here lies the body of John Eldred,
At least he will be here when he is dead,
But now at this time he is alive,
The fourteenth of August, siXty-iive.'
In the churcbyard of st. Johns. in the
old city of Chester, the following lines are
commemorative of one Sarah Booth:
"a good wife, IA tender mother,
Ii were hard to find out such another;
In love she lived, in peace she died,
And when God called her he was not denied. -
Over the grave of man and wife,
whose married life was somewhat cOnten-
tons, is the following expressive and
comprehensive line:
''Their warfare is accomplished
From a tombstone near London, the
following lines are taken:
''IIere lies the body of Nancy III. Gwyn,
Who was very pure within
She burst her outer shell of sin,
And Matched herself a cherubin.'
As an illustration of the exigencies OF
rhyme an English writer cites the follow
ing epitaph from tombstone at Manches-
ter:
'Here lies, alas! more the pity,
All that remains of Nicholas Newcity.''
y. Bills name was NewtOwn.
But the English epitaphs more than find
their match in American graveyards. In
church in Hartford, Conn.,, is the fol-
lowing:
''IIere lies two babies, so dead as nits:
DE Lord he kilt them nit his ague fits.
When dey was too good to live NIT me,
He took dem up to live nut d H.,
The following comes from Ohio:
''Under this sod
And under these trees
Lieth the bod
V of Solomon Pease.
He's not in this hole,
But only his pod;
He sheiled out his soul
And went up to his God"
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Nose Proverbs.

WE have no fewer than fourteen English
proverbs relating to this important feature
of the face. They are as follows:
/. Follow your nose.
2. He cannot see beyond his nose.
3. An inch is good deal on the end OF
mans nose.
4. He would bite off his own nose to
spite his face.
). He has a nose of noses.
6. As plain as the nose on your face.
Z. To hold ones nose to the grindstOne.
s. TO lead one by the nose.
.. To put ones nose out of joint.
10. TO pay through the nose.
IL. To have good nose for a poor man :
pig.
II. To thrust ones nose into other peo-
pies business.
13. A nose that can smell a rat.
II. Every mans nose will not make a
shoeing horn.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-06-14
Number of Grass Seeds to a Bushel.

A writer in the Maine Farmer gives the
following figures
Red Clorer.-64 lbs. to the bush., ,024
OZ.-20,000 seeds to the OZ.-20, $780, 900
per bush. One peck to the acre would give
3, l20, 900 plants if they all grew; $4,000
per rOd-1l7 per foot nearly one to every
square inch.
Alsike Corer.-64 lbs. to the bush,
1,024 Oz.-72,0OO seed per OZ.-73, 72S 900
seeds. One peck to the acre would give
Is. 49,. 900 plants; l27,7O0 per rod-42;
per foot, and 3 to every square inch.
Herdsgrdss.-44 lbs. per bush., 900
seeds per Oz.-5O. 6S0, 900 per bush.; peek
per acre, 12,672, 900; 1920 per rod, 29O
per foot, 2 per square inch.
Red T6p.-12 lbs. per BUSH, 425,OOO
seeds per Oz.--Sl 100000. One peck to
the acre would give 20, 400, 600 plants, 127 =
800 per rod, 46S per foot, 81 per square
inch
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The wife of Premier Gladstone is said

The wife of Premier Gladstone is said
to be sorely lacking in self.possession and
social tact, and is, in consequence, a
constant thorn in the side of her polite
and polite husband. Recently, with the
|013ect of refreshing her liege's memory,
- mt in the frame of a conspicuous mir
M, n her own house, card with these
Elggds: "Don't forget, dear, to invite those
'holx1d Smiths" Gladstone did not see
Dotoed until after the horrid Smiths had
11Gnneo1yos inspected it to their infinite
2 oofion.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-06-14

Keep cattle and sheep in the yards
until the grass has grown sufficiently to
afford some nourishment as well as reas-
enable ''fill'' for the Animal. Watching a
spire of grass to see it grow, and crop
ping it when the sixteenth of an inch
above the surface makes a constant but
not a satisfactory and much less dclecta-
BILE employment for COW or sheep; and
vet on no incOnsiderable number Of farms
the animals are permitted to wear the
flesh from their bones during the early
spring days ind9i1 land repre-
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fact that it is vulgar for woman to drink.
There are some things that woman may
not do. and maintain her social standing.
Let her not quarrel with the fact that so
ciety demands more of her than i, does OF
men. 1t is her safeguard in many ways.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-06-14
The Great Summer InxigOrant.

The human skin is 4, ul oi holes a \ fine sieve.
Through these millions OF oriHccs a considerable
portion Of the waste matter Of the system cXulcs.
But In warm summer weather. when the ilOw of
perspiration Is excessively copious, something
besides the exhausted material of the body is evap
Grated. Nutiitive elements of the bleod, required
for the sustensncc and support of the living frame,
pass through the pores, and the result is loss Of
strength and vigor. 1t would BE- dangerous to
check tie leakage. Tor every pore is AT once ven
tilation and an escape pipe, and constipation oi
the skin IS as detrimental To health AS constips-
ton OF tn bowels. The wiSesi course l. To rein
force and yitalile the langud system with Hostel
trrs Stomach Bitiers. and thus enable it To b,ar
without peril or inconV cnicnce the extraordinary
drLi The debility, la>Situde, AMI dcprc sion OF
spirits general in hot weather. and which are
too often the precursors OF bilious attacks and
painful affections OF the bowels and the nerves,
quickly disappear under the inyigsraIing and reg
ulatng operation of slis uncIu'led vegetable stim-
ulant and Alternative To the feeble il is an article
% prime necessity AZ all seasons, and as even the
robust apt wilt and langUish under the devil
taliznE influence 81 feryid temperature, the
Bittrrs can be conscicntiously recommended as a
healthful summer tonic for all.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-06-14

The LITTLE CORPORAL for June con-
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CoCoANUT PUDDING.-On a grated CO.
cOanut pour a quart of boiling milk.
When cool, add six well-beaten eggs, a
coffee cup of white sugar, a tablespoonful
Of butter put into the milk while hot.
two tablespoonful of rOse-water, and halt
teaspOOnful of salt. Line your dishes
with a nice paste, turn in the pudding and
bake
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= c1<Ktssh eggs, according to the
49,. afford great nOurish-
DWoAk animals. 1t tells of a
~ n apps arances, was nearly
- Of life being barely per-
yAs almost instantly re-
QIe or two fresh eggs.
Ne attended the ad-
10 weak cattle, and
The remedy is a
fygnA<2 d, mall Tn
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Consumption.

A great deal has been said and written
In regard to the cause of consumption.
So mach has been thought to depend upon
the climate that the hope has been enter
tanned that some region might be found
which is exempt from the ravages of this
disease. During the settling of the West
various sections of that region, at one
time and another, have been proclaimed
to be the lOOked-fOr retreat from this
dread destroyer. California at one time
enjoyed this distinction. Then it passed
to Minnesota, and now it has passed to
some still more recently settled territory.
No region can long retain this distinction,
There Is no cline, no retreat where con-
sumption may not prevail. Newly set
tied countries are usually thought to be
free from this disease. The first settlers
of new country are invariably the most
rugged and healthy men and women ;
their habits are prOmotive of health. and
all such communities are peculiarly ex-
empt from all diseases. The feeble and
consumptive do not go thither till later
period, and then it is found that cOnsump-
ton prevails there as well as elsewhere.
Yet 1t must be admitted that even i'm the
older settled regions of the United States
there Is a difference in the degree of prev
alence of consumption. The Northern
States along the sea-bOard are much more
seriously afflicted with this disease than
the Southern States along the same sea-
coast. This fact has led many to attrib.
ute the difference to the severity of the
more northern climate. This would be a
very natural inference to draw from the
case. Sun there may be other difference
IN the surroundings of the people of these
CWo sections to account for the difference.
Looking little more closely into the do
Ueotlc habits of the people at the North
No obeere one very important fact in its
loeylng upon tbs subject. 1t is the neg
- - Xe111le11oo Of dwellings,, work.
1opos u1lls, ehuEchD and schoolhouses.
49, neetnGn ln11tn6es the chief aim
q o1go ~ oekola6e the afr, to shut
- Sg1TM and close.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-06-14

An exchange suggests that the advice
given by Colonel George Washington to
the British General BraddOck, to flight
Indians in Indian fashion," Is in order
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-06-14

The CHRONOLOGICAL JoURNAL.--Thc
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Rest and Oh
Jord's Ii. cr hrigd
and Tonic-fOr Dy
Sick Headache, e
"A of LiyeE
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GODEY'S LAWS RooK number

GODEl LADY BOOK.-Ihe nulnD'l
for june closes another volume of this dcscrve'ilS
popular magazine, and ends the forty-third year
of lis publication. The illustrations in this num-
Der are: Lunch Time, - fine stccl-plate; a
colorrd fashion, plate; an extra establishment OF
frame in leather work, printed in colors; an
extensive sheet of tashion,-drcssss hats, bon
nets, etc; chldrrns fashions; a wood-cut OF
'liclping Themselves carrying Weight,
by Marion IIarland, is continued, followed by
other interesting literary matter, and useful in
formation IN the different household departments.
\ handsome chrome i given 20 each subscriber
10 this magazine Tor Is73, whether IL single sub
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by l.. y. Cooley, Philadelphia, Pa.
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s 800 per rod; 2le per foot; y per inch
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MRS WINsLOW's SOOTHING sYRUP.s

having the tn slm,le o. CURTIS 4 PERKINS o
'lir outs die wrapper.
So sold by druggists throughout the worlo
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-06-14

HOW IT'S DONE, or the Secret Out.-ven.
j i triioqusH learned In days. This GREAT SECRET
and no others. Gamblers Tricks. Cardiology; also,
How to III Vt, TRAP and FISH all In the original
Book Of w onstcrS." Mailed for - cts. Address
y. Z. GU ILEI: Iarihage. llllnnis.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-10

Dairymen are now making ready for the
opening of their business, N it has become
II quite general practice to have the cows
come in in March The plan of having the
dairy season open early is good one, pro-
viding the COWS are rightly managed during
the spring months. When the grass begins
to start, and the sun to shine warmly, cows
begin TO lose their appcttes for dry feed, and
not getting sufficient of the green, fail in flesh
at the very time they should be the most pros
porous,
An old dairyman, and one who is remark
ably successful, tells me that he does not be
lieve IN cutting or stcamlng good hay FOR
cows in winter, Gr in cold weather they are
glad TO get it, and if properly protected from
storms Will keep in good condition without
grain but when spring comes, ana the COWS
begin 10 get a taste of fresh grass, he cuts all
of the the dry teed, and not only brines 1t II
little, but gives it good sprinkling of corn
and oat meal, mixed half and half; he uses
less feed in this way, and his cows gain daily
upon it, and never get so much grass, but
they are willing to go to the barn at night for
the fOddering. Cut feed is given until the
pastures afford ample for the herd to fill them
selves to satisfaction and gradually lessencd
as the season advances.
There is no economy in attempting to stint
mich cows, to overiecd them, or to milk too
many weeks in the year. They require food
both to sustain themselves and to make milk
lack of food will diminish both. Oyerteed-
ing will exhaust the physical nature prcma-
turely, and milking eleven months in the year
will work a like result in II majority of cases.
Cor OhtO Fol7ner
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-10

DEvoSs-Thc head is fine and well set on
horns of medium length, generally curved
color usually light blood.red, but sometimes
inclined to yellow; skin thin and orange-yel.
low; hair of medium length, soft and silky,
making the animals remarkable as handlers
muzzle of the nose white eyes full and mild
ears yelowish or orangecolored inside, of
moderate size; neck rather long, with little
dewlap; shoulder oblique; legs small and
straight and feet in proportion; chest of good
flrst-rate quality, long, wide and tieshy; hips
round of medium width; rump level tail full
near the setting on, tapering to the tip; thighs
of the bull and OK muscular and full, and
high in the flank, though in the COW some
times thought to be too light; the size medi
UNI, most generally called small.-FhHt