The Grange advance., 1874-12-01

-Saxony forbids the cremation by
her subjects.
Europe promises to keep the peace
for many years; at least, that is the
conclusion reached by Prince Godesho-
koff and Bismark.
james Russell Lowell is named as
Minister to the Court Of the Gar.
Such an appointment would reflect hon
or on both Russia and the United
States
Alexander H. Stephens is said to
be in better health than he has enjoyed
for ten years and to weigh 80 pounds.
Not very heavy weight for eve" the
Vice President Of as light government
as the Confederacy proved itself.
Richard H. Dana Of Boston has
passed his eighty-seventh birthday.
When William Cullen Bryant was a
STRIPPING OF 10 and wrote his Thanatop-
sis, Dana was editing the North Amer-
ican Revie,o, and Bryant is past eighty.
The Oregon Senate has passed a
law which provides that husbands and
wives without children may be divorced
by simply ceasing TO live together.
This is an easier and speedier method
than Chicago Or Indiana could ever
boast Yet we think we know one class
of people who would seriously object to
this method-the lawyers.
An exchange suggests that in the
fall and early winter all the poor scrub
stock found among cattle should be fat
tened and killed for beef or otherwise
disposed of, keeping only the very best.
The suggestion is certainly a good
one, and if carried out will be found a
very successful aud cheap way Of i'm
proving the herd.
The Herald Of Health is Of the
opinion that laziness is what ails the
American girls, and that their ailments
are due to idleness, and the sickly COM
planning creatures who are always in
the hands of the doctors are those who
are doing nothing. Employment of
the body and mind is the best doctor of
moral and physical health. 1t is an
old saying that IAN idle brain is the
DEVILS work shop" and it is no less
true that an idle body is the pleasure
home Of disease.
The american Agricultmralist ia
vors drilling wheat. In travelling
through the country during the past
season and conversing with farmers,
we found the sentiment to be strongly
in favor Of this plan. 1t has an espe
cial advantage in dry springs, such a.
was last spring. There is always the
saving Of work, which the Agric~ltural
ast estimates at one dollar an acre; then
the saving Of seed and an increase il
yield which the paper named places
at fully one-fourth on fairly good sol
are some Of the great benefits claimed
"A machine has been invented to bt
.employed at the next London 1nterna
,tional Exhibition to test the qualities Of
the different varieties of building mate
rial. The plan includes the behavior o
huge beams Of various woods unde
breaking and thrusting strains; Q
rolled iron joists, fitch girders, ston
steps and stone landings, under break
ing strains; Of stone columns and cube
of stone, from various quarries. and va
riously bedded, under thrusting strain
the resistance Of piers Of brick-work
and of bricks Of many different kinds
to similar strain; and the resistanc
of cement to tensible strain. It
proposed to try not fewer than thre
similar specimens Of each sort.
"A new horse shoe fastened on tn
foot by dovetails at the heel and by
screw at the toe, is one Of the recent i,
ventions that looks as though it woul
be practical and useful. "By it's us