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We find these sensible suggestions in the
american RurdI Home, and commend them to
our readers. The advantages OF keeping few
sheep are well stated, and the views put forth
are correct: 'fi. I +
The relative profit is much greater from a
small flock than alarge one. The grain farm
er, NO matter how few his acres, can make
ways room for them somewhere, and they con-
sumo and turn into money ftod that otherwise
would waste. But he must be careful not to
0verstock. To illustrate, suppose the farmer
culfivates only eighty acres, raising grain
chiefly. He. keeps few cows, and the neces-
sary teams. One-fiffh of his farm Is in mas
tlre, One-ffth meadow one planted, one spring
grain, and one wheat. He thinks he has as
much stock as hs can proftably keep, but ii he
puts on one sheep TO every five acres, he will
Ind their products clear gain. In the spring,
early, they can run on the sod which In TO be
planted. and one sheep 20 each acre win not
that they can 60 into the pasture, and win clean
after the COWS to advantage. run on the
stubbles after harvest will not be felt, where
each sheep has two acres, and i'm the fan there
is plenty of feed. Through the winter thew
can be Kept well on what the other stock would
not consume, with the addition of little grain.
Probably the most profitable are some of the
coarser wooled, mutton breed. The lambs
sell to the butchers for high prices, and when
fat, the sheep brings as much as a yearling
steer. Sixteen mutton sheep, we'll manag ed,
If none were kept, nothing would be realized
The greatest drawback is liability to loss by
dogs; and 1t is disgrace to any state to protect
1t ours so well that they expel to a certain ex-
tent, the only animal which can cheaper the
meat and clothing of the people.
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MEASURING THE !BARY.

We me assured riotous baby
Agaiyst the Gotta wall:
A lis gIew al tine threshold.
Ard the bov was just asta'f.
RIVAL tiger lily, -
Win spots Of purple and gb,d, -
And q heart like a jeweled chaliee,
The fragrzu. dew 20 hold:
without the blackbird whistled, -..
High mp in the old root trees. go.
trf 20 and fro atthe window ~
The red rUse rocked her beeS:
And the wee pink fists OF baby
Were never a moment still,
Snatching at slime aud shadow
Tkatdaneed a.the latt.ce-Siil. -
An me- in a daSkeHed chamber,
With the sunshine shut away.
Through tears that fell like bitter rain,
We MEASURED the baby to-day.
And the hs'le bare Yet that were dimpled
And sweet a. a budding rose,
Law sid, bv side together;
In tht hush OF long Fepcse.
I-p from tie dainty pillow,
Whit a. the risen dawn,
A fair ittlc face lay smiling
With the hsut OF Heaven thereon;
And the dear little hands. like rose leaves
Dropped from the rose, Law still.
Never 10 catch at the sunshine
That erept 10 the shrouded sill.
We measured the sleeping baby
With ribbons white as snow,
For the shining rose wood easSet
That waitcsi him below,
And out of the daIkcned chamber
We went with a childless moan;
For to the height OF the sinless angels
Our dear little one had grown.
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POTTERY MAKING AT TREHroN-Thisb branch
OF industry is of recent origin, the first kiln for
makingof pottery In Trenton having been built
about 1850. Since then the business has been
prosecuted with varying success until the pre-
sent time, but now the trade is in a more -four
lshing condition than ever before. At the pre-.
sent time there are In the United States over I5O
kilns engaged in making cr0ckeryware exclu-
sively, New Jersey and Ohio having two-thirds
OF this number. These kilns are capable of pro-
ducing at the rate of $50 900 worth Of ware each
per year, making a total for the whole of nearly
s4,500 1900 per year. They would use in such
production 1900 tons Of coal, and an equal
amount OF clays and other materials. In the
real estate, stock and materials, there is in
states about @ 900 900 more, while the amonnt
of money invested i1 mining clay and other ma
terials, and In machinery for preparing them
Tor use, Is probably some IS 900 900 more scat
tered through several states, and furnishing
Kell-remunerated labor to hundreds Of work
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INTIMACY BETWEEN PARRSTAND CHILD may
seem a strange thing b many a father and
mother. You know that child should respec
you, you know that child is in duty bound to
love you, AZ you are to love the child. But you
have never thought Of the propriety, of the
necessity for intimacy between parent and child.
S Sl9ce tee daysof Solomon, and since the ages
appreciated the necessity tor obedience to
parents; but how few have ever understood that
the parent is holnd in duty to be the intimate
is worth q hundreaweigh of authority. Let US
not underestimate authority either. We are no
advocate for the weak indulgence that lets the
child go without restraint. But intimate and
confidential friendship Is worth infinitely more
than all authority. When manhood comes, the
authority must cease. But the parent who has
the confidence of his child has al influence over
the child that lasts forever. The strong man
never outgrows the restraint of the parental in
fuence, If only the intimacy has been kept up.
While, then, parent should never from mere
something worse, whilst parent should never
from mere feebleness yield to a child he should
seek to bring every disagreement to q close as
soon as possible: If you must carry your point,
punishment, let it be soon over. Get back on to
the footing Of good understanding as soon as
may be. There are cases i'm which hours are
are right and he is wrong, but do not prolone
the attitude OF antagonism one minute longer
than is absolutely needful to the child, remem-
DeIng now precious q thing inttmacy-the state
OF loving cOn6dence-is to the best results in the
development Of child. There are many enc
mics to this intimacy-a lack Of sympathy on
the part of the parent; lack of forbearsnce
and charity for the child's natural faults; stern
and fOrbidding manner; and, in short, eyery-
thing that repels. Some parents never make An
end. When child has committed fault. thew
never have done with reproying it, but keep 4
rambling IRE On the subject for days and days.
which is an admirable method of destroying In,
timacy, and rendering the child as hateful as
the parent IN such case makes himself
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RUINED BY GAMBLINs-Orer Three thousand
Dotdrs Token from a United Ststes Paymaster's
Safe by has Cfrk.-The Louisville CoHier-,Jour-
nal says Several days ago Detectives Bieh
and Gallagher arrested Merritt Leggitt, assist
ant paymaster, or clerk to Major 81. b. Reese,
United States paymaster at the custom house,
and Frank Burdett, gambler, with no special
location. The men were lodged in LIST street
station, with Instructions to the station keeper
70 turn them over to the United States author
ities when called for, which would be in a day
or two. Yesterday Gen. Eli Murray, United
states marshal, on an afidavit charging them
with the embezzlement Of % 800 in money from
the paymaster's safe, sent q deputy to take the
men in charge and lodge them In Jail, which
Was done. IL Is said that Leggett had ACQUIRED
q habit of play, and one night permitted his
passion for gaming to carry him 50 far beyond
reason that he lost all sense of caution, PLAYED
heavily, and becoming unusually excited, rave
the key OF the paymaster's safe to Burdett, and
requested him to 60 and get certain packages
OF money from 1t. The latter did so, taking out
the sum OF $500, with which he returned TO
the victim, who soon squandered it at the gam
ing table, and not long afterwards was arrested
Tor the crime, and now lies i'm a felon's cell,
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On Friday last jury at Burlington, Iowa,
brought into court verdict Of guilty Of muir
der in the second degree against Eugene
Wafrer, aged sixteen, and his brother Max,
aged twelve, for the murder, i'm June last, OF
their mother. Mrs. wahrer, the murdered
mother, is said to have been a woman of high
culture, who married against her will DIR.
Wahrer, physician of high professional stand
ing They had eight children, but lived unhap-
PLY together and separated, Mrs. Wahrer takine
position in school in Salem, Iowa. She had
not seen her children for year, and few days
previous to the murder, DR.. Wahrer being alb
sent, she visited them. She had some difficulty
with the children about her clothes, and also
asked for the key Of the money chest. Eugene
then testifies that Max and himself got some
knives to brighten her, as she threatened to kill
Max unless he gave her the key Of the money
chest. He said that shortly afterwards he saw
her pursuing. Max with a knife, and rapidly
gaining on him. He shouted to her 30 stop
or he would stab her, but she ran on He struck
her on the head, but she seized Max by the col
lar. Eugene struck her once or twice m the
neck, and Max, turning on her buried his knife
IN her breast. She dropped her knife said she
was killed. and asked them to help her. They
caught her by the arms and dragged her to the
barn. They then went to the house. where Bar
bara told them to go and give the alarm at once
lest she should be suspected of participating i'm
the crime. They covered the blood with s3me
sand and threw horse blanket over the corpse.
for the blows had been almost instantaneoaslv
fatal. Then they went to Fort Madison and
telegraphed to their father to come home, for
little Katie was sick. The neighbors coming i'm
found seven wounds upon the BODY two of
which would have caused death i'm half minnie
in the opinion Of the physician. Such was the
Staying OF the unfortunate woman.
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WORLDLY GRIEf.-H is said that the follow
ing letter was written 10 q lady by bereayed
and stricken widow In Cincinnati:
DefreH Loztsa-Darling John died last night.
VIII loin him oD the other shore / have Or
dered the lovefiest mohair for the funeraiEmsde
WIN polonaise and trimmed with real point lace.
will be paid In sixty days. I know Won so T
Win me. We bad fonr doctors, at q a visit.
Aunt Maria viii not 20 into mounting, because
s M nss Just bought her fall and wihfer tRinrs.
cad; put by heart 10 nearly broken. Send ne =
Sus pspef pattern Of that sacqus Of yougs. Your
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love ana have no efcnss tsr hating Il is a..
innecenf hflev-ersAsuse, nshnryise tncsensf
on turning corner. Issrpcse the Mississippi,
Which was flowing quietly along, minding It's
own business. hates the Aissoarf Tor comm
poe Gle Miespuri IN like Danner - tes the Mis-
sis&pPi for difating With its lAnPsd but insip id
current the rich "Reminiscences o. che varied
sglls through which Its own strearn has vsnder.
the tnrtfd current, but win own that my heart
sinks when fnd all of a sudden am in for
corner confluence, and cease loving nay neigh
These antipathies are at least weaknesses; they
may be Sins in the eye Of the recording angel. I
often reproaeh myself with my wrong doings. i
ing me from some kinds OF tsansgression, and
even for granting me some qualities that IL 1
dared should be disposed TO call virtues 1
tho DO u did mot s
hinder Ine. The parable was told 20 illustrate
single virtue, humility, and the most unwar-
ranted differences have been drawn from il as 10
the whole character of the two parties. IL seems
not at all unlikely, but rather probable, that
the Pharisee was q fairer dealer, better hus-
band, and more charitable person than
to us, 'inked with one virtue,'i-- but who
may have been guilty, for aught chat appears
to the contrary, of ga thousand crimes"
ksmembe. how we limit the application Of
other PARALLELS. The lord, it viii be reccllected,
commended the unjust steward because he had
done wisely. His shrewdness Was held up as an
example, but after all ne was a miserable
swindley, and deserved the state prison as
much as many of our financial operators. The
parable Of the pharisee and the publican Is a
perpetual warning against spiritual pride. Bat
IL must not brighten any one Of us ont of being
thankful that he Is not, like thisor that nelgh-
Dor, under bondage to strong drink or opium,
that he is not an Erie railroad manager, and
that his head rests In virtuous calm on his own
pillow Ii he prays I'm the morning ~ be kept out
OF temptation as well a. for his daily bread,
shall he not return thanks at night that he has
not fallen into sin as well as that his stomach
has been filed? i do not think that the poor
pharisee has ever had fair play and am afraid
good many people SIN with the comforting.
half latent intention of shifting their breasts
afferWard and repeating the prayer OF the pub
licau-P Poet of The Hrealfast Taxi
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A RUNWAY LoyER-A singular freak has
been eommitted by Young caSats in England.
He was to have been married II the daughter Of
q county magistrate In Statfordshise q member
of the congEegseiou in which the curate minis
tered. On ehe previous night he made the Gus
tunary visit at the young lady's houSe, where
The presents were laid out In the drawing-r room,
and several friends had arrived to take part in
the ceremony onto-morrow. The villagers had
decorated the church and festooned the streets.
The bride put on some Of he's wedding costume
TO show her sutton, who remarked, "Whst
shAsald YOU say Il should run away, and not
come TO- morrow" The young lady laughed
away the suggestion as the height of improba-
bility. In the morning, when the bride and her
friends were about to enter the carriages, Q note
from the curafe Was put into her hand. She
read u ard Immediately tainted. Her sutton had
written that he uEelt 6e,Was unVorthy Of her
and therefore could not become her husband. y
IL turned ont that within an hour after leev-
ing his bride ,expsctant u ehe previous nieht
the curate had ieftforths north BY the Scotch
mail. & s. LIZ IL 4. ILL -aL
n0Ochool teaehers In Na0ochusetfs averAse
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EDUCATIONAL.

NJ lss hARw EDEL TAKES PLEASURE To
~ INFORM The PATRONS VI her SCHOOL and I'm
phkGAkTEN that she has REMOVED 10 No
lSis street, where she will reopen her school on
MONDAY, the ID inst. f3eosts
MOUNT VERNON INSTITUTE, 1880
w SIREET-Englsh and French Boarding and
Day School Tor young ladies and little girls Mr. AZ
" PABLO Principal. The spring term Of this insti-
tuition commences FEBRUARY 81. All the branch
German and Latin languages taught by competent
and experienced teachers. Music, drawing and
dancing BY professors. Further information AZ 10
terms, references &C. furnished Application 10
the Prncipsl st her residence, 1850 street, Cor
coran hoNl Jl9eo5t-
MISS y. FLETCHERS SCHOOL FOR VOTING
lvA LADIES AND CHILDREN, 1891 Ns,e rovk
ermss.-Ihe third quarter viii commence JANuARY
~, l6S ocle-4m-
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The Dinner.

The dinner is the principal meal of the day,
and Ihe one that restores the waste OF the Iys-
tenn the most, because generally taken after the
days tasks are done, and being composed of
more nutritious and more numerous dishes than
the other meals. As the mind and stomach can
not both work well at once, it is certainly nc
cording to hygenic laws not to eat much or
heavy food at breakfast and lunch. 1t il differ
ent at dinner; besides having no work to per-
form after 1t, the enjoyment OF having the
whole family assembled is one of the best condi-
ments that can accompany the meal Wives
and mothers, have flowers on the diIner-ta !
have fattractlve-lOoking dishes; have paatabIe
food; have cheerfulness have a cup of warm
coffee or tea after the dinner You are then
pretty sure to have warm hearts around you
Do not freeze the stomachs Of the members of
your family at the dinner-table. and then run
the risk OF freezing their hearts. Keep the ice
cream for the evening, to refresh the palates
that may have been parched by conversation or
singing. Another important thing, and which,
ike nearly all other domestic duties, devolyes
on the wife and mother, is the selection of the
daily food. We have explained what to serve,
ana how TO serve It; we will add few direc-
tons as a guide. First, understand thar nv GOOD
and proper food we DO not mean costly fool,
Many have poor food, and consequently poor dim
ners, though they have paid a high price for il
VINE others have good and pruperly- prepared
food for reasonable price, the difference be-
tween the two being only in its selection AMI
preparation Cookery is a branch of chemistry
&C., are compounded as carefully as a chemical
preparation. They act on the system according
TO preparaton-that is, If web prepared, thew
DO good; II not, the opposite. Cookery Is the
science that keeps in order the animal mcchan-
ism Of humanity. The physician is only called
m when, through causes entirely Independent Of
cookery, that mechanism ia out of order. =
Prof. Blot in Harper's Buzdr, =
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XyLoI.-The medical men have fresh mn r
zle on hand. XylOl is new chemical eompound.
and, according to the German doctors, it Is 4
specific Cor the cure Of smallpox; but accord
ing to . remarkable statement Just made public
by physician in st. Louis, DR.. Walsh, il fs ALSO
To mingle with the feathers Of atpiIlow, and to
lay the head upon that pillow, is to die, Ss
though by the fumes Of charcoal. True, ali
pillows may be disused-b1t then some evil-dis-
and the sleeper, recovering from small pox'
might die OF the very poison which cured his
disorder, The whole business b complicated,
ana xyiol Will be at discount literally drug
in the market-uptil such time as the chenisfs
and the doctors tell us what Is true and what Is
false concerning 1t. tl- = -
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IT Is no sscasf thssFr Professor AeassiI is a
1Nsena Opponent Of Tie Dsrwiaisn theory Of
duced to q lady whom he was quite sure Of haS.
ing met beforcs tShe told him that he was mis-
taken He langhingly replied. . We'll, We have
known each , St ne s1t presume itwD when
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MAJ, nof =, r ZOE Two.rJosn Beer, a Swiss Young
other day, being despsndent hecans. s tsa the
80. 49, o ~ empioyment He had rich nncie
rnS ao \, wssitl brother in France, Who had
. sssnT him; wherefore he left letter
I,.ssis .nat the rope with which he execufcd
t n.nsen should be cat into two parts and IN of
Mem sent 70 each Of his slfsobligine reisti~ess
aso anectsd that the Bili for his funeral ~
Penses should be sent to his uncle. "a
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frsl schools have had their saiaries incress, SSo
escn per amum, and are indignant and think
tney are paid ont of oil proportion sgith the
pinnclpaL they Aave written to thesboafd as
OF Ge0 Central School, have noticed Won ia We
very eeneron1ly added to each OF our Has the
..saeosss MN e elo pen annnn.l No desire to
confidence In NJ, but af the ~ < tiySe - y;sh
TO decline 4 With many thapks, aid would hum
bly, suggest nat our one tatantb given hin that
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ga Montreal dentist has recovered ann in a
suit for breach Of promise Of marriage. aeainst
the fair and false daughter Of wellsto-do
farmer. = . =
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TSIs e 70 SIys s 4. ice, T.. Q. :gss.(ssr
ss ~: ~; Germ + e q: :!
d.ses.sa ~ hssesy v.Fssi % sx6i6if The same,
Se1ots - - day a Jssssry ssxf: they nay ssheT
wise By lev be exciuded iron al bspeat of the said
sTy, les. tjow&sI JAS. A. BaewN
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THE FILIBUsTER EDGAR STRwARr.-This
vessel, which left New London, Conn.,, on the
18TH OF March last with cargo of arms and am
Baltimore, from Key West, on the 3ist ult.
After much sailing to and fro and living in port
since last March, she finally succeeded two or
tnree weeks ago IN landing her cargo at Porto
The cargo consisted of I 900 Remington rides.
200 Springfield rifles, several thousand percus,
son caps, Loco hand grenades; i've tons OF pew
other necessities for the struggling Cubans.
The Stewart will remain in Baltimore for two
or three weeks for. the purpose OF repairs, but
not known. The Commander of the Sfewarf
during this successful expedition was Captain
Sommers, formerly Of the United States Nayy.
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Eeyutian JurrI8r.-

Expert as are such performers as Blitz An
dersOn, and Others, who have ast0nished thou
sands upon thousands with their adroit manage!
ment OF eggs I'm bag, the transfer of seeds
from one locked box to another packed away in
the center OF half dozen dove-taiied caskets
one within another, the bare-legged exhibitions
In the open squares OF Cairo, in broad daylight
put the mysterious legerdemain Of those light
fingered gentlemen quite In the back ground
less performances till 1t saved all further effort
In the way Of accounting for their extraordinary
decepti0ns by admitting without argument that
the devil must have been at their elbow.
On one bright morning fellow had gathered
crowd blowing c0nch shell. An oval area
was formed by @ compact mass of wonder
watching spectators. Women and children sat
on the sand up to the prescribed line white
strangers from all over the earth supported in
the rear by various officials, completed the ar
rangements. At one end Of the open space a
common salt mortar was placed. Opposite. at
the other extremity of the oval, perhaps two
rods on, Mahomed KAISER ell Mesher marched
forward with serpent, about yard long, held
BY the neck, wriggling and squirming for
lowered into the mortar BY winding in the bodyy
corkscrew fashion up to the head.1H then took
up his former position at distance. ADDRESSING
the assembled multitude with the yolubility of n
mock missioner on Broadway. he said, dNow
look, for the snake will disappear" While thus
vocifeFating the snake frequently stretched nm
out of the vessel several inches but fell hack
again at rebuke from the orator. Once! twicei
three times!-and sure enough the frightful
creature was gone. An examination Of the
mortar satisfied an there were no reeent;on
rooms within. How was the feat accomplished
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TFf6eA.

Our lives, or rather their happiness and
misery, are IN great measure made up of
tribes, just as time is made up Of moments. The
discomfort Of having to wait for meal beyond
its regular hour, OF things i'll prepared or care
lessly done, Of meeting siovenliness and discOm-
fort where q little thought and pains might have
introduced ease and even elegance. or Of being
brought up sharp at every turn by want of
Pmctnafty or fOf nlethod-these are ills more
difieult 10 bear than the uninitiated imagine
Most houses might be comfortable and elegant
Yes, eleesat! For comfort consists In Ind
ing everything where and as it should
De; elegance, In adding to what should be
mere that which need not be there but
Shoec presence surprises, attracts and gratifies
Is, rneIc Is OFTEN either comfort nor elegance in
the richest mansions, while both are found in fine
laisOreEs' cottage. A jug filled with Movers .
neat white curtsia, . couple OF ffower-pots NAV
efYeet what the expenditure of HUNDREDS ~ %"iy
lars has NOT achieved. Let II not be said that
these are mere TRIES, unworthy the Attention Of
ChrisfiaH. DistrHst the pretense Of spiritu aItv
whose eyes are too lofty for the common things
OF life: In the long catalogue of things TO sithnk
on'' (Phfl.fv, S) theyrsnk 1t any rate among the
Whatsoever things are lovely" You say they
are tries; then all the more they ought not to be
neglected. But tribes though they be, to neglect
them is not tribe, it is breach Of plain duty
Hearth and Howe. =
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REAL ESTATE AGENTS.

A. BOSWELL co.,
Real Estate Brokers.
Southeast corner ~ street and yirrini. aveppe-
southwest,
WASHINGTON, ID. @.
HOUSES and LOTS FOR SALE.
HOUSES RkNTkD and RIMS COLLECT.
ED. ,.nE ~