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Driving the Seal.

The seals are easily captured; their
captors, the natives, reminding one of
butchers as they go into stock-yard to
select and drive out batch of bullocks,
for the method of procedure is precisely
similar.
To the right and left of the breeding
grounds stretch sand-beaches or some
convenient landing, upon which the
Holluschickie" or the bachelor seals lie
by tens of thousands, extended in every
attitude assumed by them in titful sleep
or animated sport, and down from the vii
lage to these hauling grounds" come the
natives, who, after making survey of
the swarming myriads, step in among
them and turn aside from the masses two
or three thousand of the most eligible
animals, usually males of not over four
years old and not under two. This drove
which they have selected is driven to the
village as a flock of sheep would be, the
animals moving in succession of sud-
den starts, with frequent resting spells,
at the rate of about half a mile an hour,
providing the weather is cool and foggy
and the ground hard. Seals can be
driven at the rate of mile an hour un-
der peculiarly favorable conditions of
road and weather; but the loss of life is
great in large drove, so many falling
scnseless, gasping and FACILITATING, some
to rise again within a few hours and
others dying at once.
Only four or five men are required to
capture in this way drove of from one
to even fifty thousand, did they ever want
so many; and the labor of driving them
overland to the lt-houses near the vii.
lage is light, as the seals move without
| resistance and require but little urging
only it should he constant and gentle
They string themselves out in long files
as they travel, and drove of four or
five thousand will stretch over path
more than mile in length W
| Elliott IN Hn2.11e1's Mnnnzine
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LOcusts in Algeria.

AN Algerian paper, says the London
Echo, gives an interesting account of a
struggle between the farmers of the
colony and one of the most tremendous
swarms of locusts that have ever de-
scended upon the plains of Algeria. AS
soon as the distant cloud of invaders
was perceived every effort was made by
the terrified agriculturists to prevent the
descent of the hungry myriads upon
their pastures, while on the other hand
the locusts were equally determined to
alight and take refreshment. In order
to keep the insect host in the higher
strata of the atmosphere, where change
of wind might at any moment carry
them away, the farmers lit fires with
damp weeds, and by collecting all their
kitchen utensils, ringing all the bells, and
shouting, at the top of their voices the
produced such concert of hldeous
sounds that for time the locusts pre-
ferred famine to the din and remained
in the air; but at length hunger and
fatigue overpowered them, and they de-
cided on Drawing the worst and falling
to the ground, when the green fields and
trees suddenly turned yellow under the
multitudes which instantly covered them.
All through the night was heard one con-
tinuous and portentous sound-that of
myriads of invisible jaws engaged in
mastication-the next morning the battle
commenced, but the latest advices are of
a dlscouraging nature, as they report
that the locusts are engaged not only in
eating, but In laying eggs.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Sponge Cake Pudding. Butter a
mold well and ornament it with dried
cherries or sultanas, then three parts fill
it with sponge cake, and fill up with
custard. -Four sponge cakes, half pint
OF milk and two or three eggs, sweetened
with loaf sugar, make a nice small pud-
ding. Boil or steam it for half an hour,
and serve with sweet sauce.
Orange Roley-Poley.-Make a light
paste as for apple dumplings or valise
pudding, roll in an oblong sheet, and lay
oranges (sweet ones), peeled, sliced and
seeded, thickly all over it. Sprinkle with
white sugar; scatter teaspoonful or two
OF the grated yellow peel over all and
roll up closely, olding down the end to
secure the syrup. Boil in pudding
cloth one hour and half. Eat with
lemon sauce.
Ministers Pudding.-Three eggs, an
equal weight of sugar and butter, and
the weight of two eggs in flour. Melt
the butter, and beat it to a cream; beat
the eggs well, mix them with the butter
and sugar, beating the whole to froth !;
then add the flour by degrees, and the
rind of lemon chopped very finely.
Beat it all together, and pour into a
mold; boil gently for an hour. This
pudding requires as much beating as a
sponge cake. When properly made it is
delicious.
-Whitewood carvings are best mendet.
with isinglass or white glue. Walnut is
mended with the best dark glue, and
Clipped places filled with putty, which is
then stained to the proper depth with
raw linseed oil mixed with Vandyke
brown, burnt sienna or burnt lumber.
This takes weeks to dry, and the carving
should be protected from dust. Where
! veneers are broken and the pieces are
not at hand, the edges must be sawed
smooth and new strip glued on, when
varnish and polish will hide the mis-
chief. The loss of curl or two from
arabesque carving may be unnoticed if
the corresponding figure is cut off, the
ends rounded smoothly and repolished or
gilt as the case may be.-Hearh and
Home.
Clements for leather that will be tlex-
ible, water and fire proof at the same
time are in demand. Pure india-rubber
to be had of the dentists commonly, dis
solved in three times as much of the hes,
chloroform, is simple and excellent fol
such purposes as mending overshoes
sticking upper and under soles of chill
dren's shoes together when they come
apart by wetting. for making shoes water
proof, etc. The rubber must he pure an(
cut into fine shavings and left long tim,
closely corked in the chloroform, as it i
difficult to dissolve. When melted, one
third of the solution and two-thirds O
the best glue, added while boiling, make
a good cement for harness Anothe
recipe is two ounces of best Russian isin
glass boiled in pint of ale till dissolved
adding four ounces Of the best common
glue: When melted, slowly add one ant
a half ounces of boiled linseed oil, stir
ring till all are mixed. When cold it i
like india-rubber. Shave the leather
little, brush the cement on while hot
and press the parts together with
weight over night.-Hearth and Home
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The Massacre of Chinese Christians.

The French periodical, Missions Catho-
hQues, gives an authentic and detailed
narrative OF the recent massacre of Ro~
man Catholic native converts in China
The account, as translated for the Lon
don Tablet, relates that the massacre
broke out on the 25th of February, when
the literates," as the prosecuting party
is called, opened the campaign by be-
heading two men in the service of Pere
Deare and Christian, whom they then
threw into the river. The same day they
burned the three villages Of Trun-Lam,
Nio-Vinh and Bau Tach, and massacred
the inhabitants that were in them. Those
who succeeded in escaping to the woods
were hunted down with hounds, brought
back, and killed on the following days.
The river was covered over WITH bodies
floating down it from the side of Lareg.
At that time the murderers were massa-
cring the Christians of the parish
of Holven, and were burning their
villages. Those who took refuge in
the cliffs of the neighborhood were
hunted down and burnt alive. The
Grand Mandarin of Justice was at the
market OF Sa-Nam with 800 soldiers, but
remained an inactive spectator of the
massacre of the Christians of Nam.
DuOAS, OAAy q AC" VI "uOn WtEc 1Dlc 10
escape. The literates who were
the heads of the militia appointed to
massacre the Christians say that the
work of determination carried out under
the eyes of the Mandarins was concerted
between the court and the literates, and
was done in reprisal for recent events.
The Mandarins have just received orders
from the court not to employ any other
means save those of persuasion to stop
the murderers in their career One of
the chiefs who had Just caused two
Christians to be murdered on the high
road went on the parade before the Gov
ernor OF the citadel, by whom he was
dismissed with honor. On his return
twenty women or children fell under the
swords OF this man and his followers.
In several localities they take an en-
tire family-father, mother and children
bind them together with bamboos, and
then fling the bundle of living humanity
into the waves. First, however, thew
take care to cut off the mans head. The
multitude of dead bodies thus fastened
together in groups of from eight to ten
blocks up the principal river, but to the
great surprise Of everybody does not send
forth any bad smell. There are then
five parishes containing nearly 10000
Christians, which will have to be blotted
out Of the mission-namely, Lang
Thank. Huyen, Nam-Duong, Hoy.Yen,
and Doreg:Thauk. Many 81 the victims
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Mice and Mice.like Pe0Dle.

Quiet people seldom get justice done
them, except by their immediate friends.
1t is your noisy, rackety folk who secure
most OF the worlds spontaneous acclama-
ton. The man who talks common places
at the top of his voice, who is in the habit
OF perpetrating preposterous jokes and
laughing cOnsumedly at the same, and
who makes point of thrusting himself
into conversation whether he understands
the drift OF the same or not, runs much
better chance of being dubbed clever
fellow than does the individual who
rarely speaks unless he is thoroughly nu
fat with his subject, and who is addicted
to advancing his opinions in hesitating,
timid fashion. Even when boisterous
people have been found to he shallow
lmpostors and to partake largely of the
character of the drum, which looks big
and is so extremely hollow, many per-
sons still feel a sort of admiration for
them, and they receive more credit than
is their due. Their boldness, which, in
many instances, amounts to positive i'm
pudence, secures the half-admiration of
those who feel, and rightly, that it is USE
less their attempting the same kind of
thing, and who are frequently completely
ecllpsed when brought into contact with
forward being of the kind under notice.
These are led to feel moreover, that they
compare unfavorably with him in another
and, in the eyes of a sensitive being, a
more important aspect. He is addicted
10 lndulg1ng in extravagant protestations
OF friendship at moments notice; after
an acquaintance extending over half an
hour he will slap your back with consid-
cradle force-indeed, with more force
than is pleasant, looking at the matter
from physical point of view-and ram
his arm through yours with an amount
of energy which should speak volumes
for the warmth and sincerity of his
feelings toward you, and finally walk
off with you with an air of easy
proprietorship which ought to be very
hattering to- your vanity. e., if
you are at all liable to glory in the fact
that 1t is competent for you, more than
for the majority of your fellows, to make
very favorable impression in short
space of time. Quiet people, on the
other hand, are slow in manifesting
warmth Of feeling, and you will not often
find them slapping comparative strangers
on the back, or linking arms with people
OF whom they have not thorough knowl-
edge. Occasionally, of course, they may
40 so, for the contagion of example is so
great that these passive beings are some
times led to initiate the ways of their
more dashing brethren. But, in the
event OF their doing so, they invariably
only succeed in bringing down humiliation
upon themselves. There is hesitancy
about what they do which plainly indi.
Gates the effort they are making, and they
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TIES. Wheat. Corn. O0
Oats.
Here, then, we have a grand total prod
uCt of over 600 ono 000 hnshela of wheat

Here, then, we have a grand total prod
uct of over 900, 100000 bushels of wheat,
corn and oats produced in ten States
alone OF the Union. It will be noticed
that Iowa, although one of the Youngest
Commonwealth of the cereal region.
surpasses Illinois in the production of
wheat; but Illinois produced, in 1872,
more corn and oats than either of the
other States. The rivalry between ILL
nois and Iowa is now very sharp and
close, and the latter will, no doubt, in a
few years, leave its sister on the other
side of the river in the rear Ohio raised
over Coz, 600 900 bushels of corn: but
Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota and ILL.,
nois beat her In wheat production for
reasons that are obvious. The large rela-
tive increase of the cereal production in
the States west of the Mississippi River
is significant and suggestive. With the
westward movement of the "star of en-
pire" the active force of progress, ad.
Justing itself to the geographical colo
MES, Is now at work toward the center of
the continent, moving in the pathway of
the commercial activity and industry of
American civilization.
The value of the farms in the States
composing the cereal region in 1870 was
as follows: Iowa, $780,, 1852, AL; Kansas
$90, 1927 ,O40; Nebraska, $30,242, 1856; Hi.
nois, $920, 506,346; Minnesota, $97,847,.
~; Indiana, $634934,189 Michigan.
$S9o'240,57s; Wisconsin, $500, 414,064;
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Do Not Neglect to Thin Out Young
Fruit.

You've trees should be allowed to bear
only a few specimens as their growth
and healthy development will he of far
more value than the fruit. 1t is ruinous
to young trees to mature full crop of
1rult. This is one reason why we see so
many stuntcd trees. 1t seems difficult
tor many people to bring their decision
up to point which requires them to d.
mlnish the quantity of fruit upon their
trees. Sometimes they plead want Of
time; but this is not admissible, for if
they have not time to attend to the
proper cultivation of fruit they should
abandon it altogether The real cause is
their greediness. You can't make them
believe that they are the gamers by de-
stroying a portion of the crop, saving
that nature is the best Judge as to the
quantity of fruil Such persons have no
practical knowledge of fruit raising, and
the sooner they give it up the better it
will be for them, their pockets and rep
utation.
AS soon as pear and peach trees begin
to show their product, the thinning out
process may be begun at almost any
time. 1t is true the operation can be
performed conveniently only upon such
trees as are not over large But it
should be especially attended to in
young trees, which frequently ovcrbear,
to the great injury Of the health of the
trees as we'll as the quality of the
fruit. To obtain the finest speci-
mems of pears the specimens should not
be allowed to grow in clusters or in con-
tact with each other, and all that exhibit
the least imprerfection should be re-
moved. What is lost in number will be
doubly made up in size and flavor. This
should be remembered Many persons
regard the thinning out Of peaches, pears
and apples as so much loss. But they
are not judges of fruit and have no
knowledge of it's proper culture They
want as large a crop as possible, letting
the quality take care of itself, no matter
how much the tree is damaged and what
effect it may have on the following years
crop.
Our own practice is to pinch off hun
dreds of pears, apples, peaches and other
fruit, leaving only four to ten or twenty
on tree, according to the size. After
a tree has been growing vigorously for
four or five seasons, it may be allowed to
produce small crop-N. Y. Herald.
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again lend us helping hand, and the
rest of the boards and boxes are piled up
somewhere out of doors for further use.
Nothing is left that can harbor, mold or
undue. moisture, not even the vinegar bar
rel and jugs. Only the rubbish on the
cellar bottom reminds us of the generous
store of good things that went down in
November; and when the last vestige of
that is borne away by stout hands we
dismiss our knights of the hoe with
thanks, for the rest of the task is COM
paratively easy.
First, there is thorough sweeping
overhead, down the walls, and about the
CRATES in the windows and upper half of
the doors; then the gravelly ground,
which by use has become almost as
smooth and hard as floor, gets several
sweepings, till we are quite sure that no
decaying matter hides in the soil, when
Bridget carries the disabled spiders and
scrapings off to some far-away place.
After some dry lime, such as we find
partially slaked among the Jumps, has
been sprinkled on the ground close to the
walls and in the entrance to the drain, we
are ready for whitewashing. Providing
ourselves with an old brush for the proc
ess is damaging to new one) and ket-
tie of whitewash made of fresh lime, a
handful Of salt and sufficient boiling
water to allow the mixture to be spread
on the stones, we give the boards and
sleepcrs above, and every stone and crew
ice in the wall, a generous brushing. By
the time they are dry and the air is puri-
fed by the action Of the lime the cellar
is perfectly sweet and clean, and we aim
to keep it so. If milk is smiled. il is
wiped up Immediately, and occasionally
dry lime is sprinkled under the racks to
prevent mold. With everything banished
from the room that could impart an un-
pleasant odor, we spend many cheerful
summer hours in our dairy-RuM Lee, IN
Rural Neao Yorker.
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Cleaning the Cellar.

Now, we do not imagine that in the
whole country there is but one thorough
ly renovated cellar, but thousands OF
them, If you busy people would only tell
US about them; so we may be pardoned
for abiding to the way ours is made suit
able for dairy purposes.
One day neighbor caught US down
cellar, right in the midst of our cleaning
in part of the house which we have
come to regard as more essential to the
well-being of the family than the parlor;
and while we were giving the timbers
over head and the nicely-painted walls a
good coat of whitewash she expressed
her surprise that anybody should be so
foolish.
Don't you have enough whitewashing
to do upstairs? Is so much extra work
necessary"
We mildly answered eyes" to the first
query, and emphatically Eyes" to the
last. for in lieu of cool room above
ground the cellar was to be our milk
room during the heat of summer, so no
unpleasant odor must linger to faint
cream or butter. Our work was soon fin
ished, and the freshly-scoured milk racks
and tables were in place, when two conf
cal figures, mistress and maid, emerged
from the cellar, we'll pleased with their
ha1f-day's work.
After tea our friend followed us down
the stairway, and rewarded US with the
following comment:
How cool and light it seems! Why,
l should like to stay here and skim the
milk myself"
This approval from the skeptic of an
hour or two ago was quite encouraging,
and here is the programme from begin
ming to end: In the spring, just as soon
as the weather will permit, the windows
and outside cellar door are opened, and
all the decaying vegetables, as we'll as
empty barrels and bins, are carried out.
When it is warm enough to remove the
roots to some out-building the men folks
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A Few Words to Feeble and Delicate
Women.

By r. V. PIERCE, NJ. D., of the WORLDS
D1srENsARY, Buffalo, N. Y.
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IMPROVEMENT is the order of the day. The
greatest change is made in the Elmwood
Collar. This is made a little wider than it
was, so as to be in the present style. Ask for
the Improved Elmwood.
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THERE is an old maid in Lowell, Mass,
who shows the documents to prove that
she has refused over forty offers of mar.
rage.
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