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Binders for Horses.

We never could see what vice or de-
formity is in a horses eye that should
make it necessary to cover it over and
shut out it's owner from at least two
thirds of its rightful vision. The poets
say that old age looks backward but
we never heard such an idiosyncrasy
charged upon the horse. The theory
that he is less apt to be frightened
when shut out from everything behind
him, we suspect to be all fallacy, else
saddle-h horses and war hcrses would
be dnly blinded. Every horse is as
familiar with his own carriage as with
his own tail, and as far as his "person-
al" fOrtitude is concerned is no more
disturbed at being pursued by one than
By the other. As for the scarecrows
that come up behind, they are mostly
so familiar to the animal that the more
fully the horse can perceive the more
quietly does he submit to the approach.
Then it is such pity to cover mp one
# the most brilliant features of this
most brilliant creature. The horse has
borne such hand in the civilization of
this rough and tumble world, that it
seems not as much a cruelty as a dis
courtesy, as we'll as a disgrace, to hide
his form with embarrassing toggery.
No wonder we estimate the force of the
world as horse power; no wonder the
Romans and the Germans, each in their
own language, designate their aristoc-
racy as riders no wonder their deacon
dants make chivalry synonym for their
highest virtues. Let the horse be given
his due, and unblinded. The check
rein is another nuisance in harm, ssware
which has almost entirely disappeared
from England, the army having at last
given it up by order of the commander
in-chief, Sir John Burgoyne, all honor
to him.-KQnSQS Farmer.
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Best co1ors of Walls for Pictures.

The question as to the best color for
wall one of whose chief objects is to
show off framed pictures is a vexed one.
Messrs. Christie & Co., the famous art
auctioneeTs, have their rooms hung with
dark green baize from floor to sky-light,
and certainly the result justifies their
experience; but I think any one who
enters the hall of Mr.. F. Leighton, r.
A., will see that there may be a more
effective wall color to set off pictures
than green, not to speak of certain other
effects of tho latter which really put it
say just what the color in Mr.. Leigh
toms hall is. It is a sombre red, which
at one moment seems to be toned in the
direction of maroon, and at another in
the direction of brown. It has been
made by avery fine mingling of pigments;
but the general result has been to con-
vince me that there can be no better
wall for showing off pictures. especially
in a hall with good deal of light, than
this unobtrusive reddish-brown. [ re
member that when the Boston theatre
was first opened a wall of somewhat
similar color added greatly to the bril-
liancy of the scenery. But there are
many eyes to which this would not be a
pleasing color or shade even for a hall
1t would hardly be beautiful in purely
domestic room-and such will do well
TO try some of the many beautiful shades
of olive or sage-gray. Mr.. ". J. Hen
messy, the eminent American artist, has
made his house in Douro Place remark
ably charming by careful use Of such
shades throughout. His quiet rooms
are restful as they are pervaded by re-
fnemert, and each frame on the walls
has perfect relief, each picture full
glow.-HarperS
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A Suicides Reasoning,

At least one man who knew he had
become bore, and when convinced of
the fact he killed himself. This was a
young spendthrift named Butenof, the
scapegrace son of a San Francisco bau-
ker. Before the suicide he wrote a let
ter in which he said "That the public
should not suspect that the deed was
done in a fit of insanity. 1 state that
after months reflection I take leave of
this world in the full possession Of all
my senses, and that am calm and col
lected, aud am driven to this by ex-
treme despair, nervous excitement, etc.
I have gone to the dogs. For years /
have depOrIed myself correctly in this
world, but during the last ten weeks l
found that | would have to become in
volved in debt and live upon the charity
of others. Even now / find that | have
overstepped the bounds, and can no
longer obtain CENTS worth of favor.
For weeks have offered my services for
my board, and they have not been ac-
cepted. IT would take too long for me
to regain my former status. I have al
most begged of those who have through
me made hundreds of dollars and they
turned from me with their dimes ia
their pockets. Some did help ne ct
first, bot their manner Was such that to
approach them a second time for favor
became impossible. My inns rmost
thanks to there follow the names If a
dozen persons /, who have this day that
[ take poison refused nae credit"
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What a Typhoon Can Do.

The recent typhoon and tidal wave
on the China coast proves to have been
far more destructive than even the first
reports indicated. It is estimated that
in all more than 10000 lives were lost.
At Macao alone the number lost reach
ed 10000. The city was laid in ruins,
the tidal wave breaking on the shore
with awful violence, and sweeping eve
rything before it. The loss of lives
around and in the vicinity of Hong
Kong will exceed 1000, and a large
number of Europeans were among the
killed. Added to the distress and SUI
feripg from the typhOOn, were the in
human depredations of the pirates, and
the subsequent terrors Of threatened
plague. When the tempest WAS ut its
hight, fires broke out in six different
places in Macao, maliciously set by pi-
rates for spoils. The church of st. An
tonic ana large number of houses in
the neighborhood were burned down
Many people lost everything and were
rendered homeless. Four days after
the storm, the efflavia arising from the
Thousands of decomposing bodies was
so great that the soldiers revolted and
refused to bury any more bodies. The
governor, fearing that the plague would
follow if the bodies were not disposed
of, ordered them burned, and 4000 bod
les were cremated, the troops first COW
ering the corpse with tar and then set
ting the heaps on fire.
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Labor-Saving MACHINERY,

The saving in the operation of hus-
bandry by the use of modern nipple
ments and methods is equal to one-half
the former cost of working. By the
improved pillow, labor equivalent to that
of one horse in three is saved. By
means of drills two bushels of seed
will 30 as fer as three bushels scattered
broadcast. The plants come up in rows,
and may be tended by horse-hoes !;
being in the bottoms of little burrows,
the ground crumbles down against the
plant, which is not so readily heaved
out by the winters frost. The reaping
machine is a saving of more than one
third of the labor when it cuts aud
rakes, and will eventually save fully
three-f ourths when it is made to bind
automatically, as it shortly will be-
The threshing machine is a saving of
two-thrrds on the old hand-fail mode.
The root cutters for stock in England,
and in some places in the northern
states sand Canada, much reduce the
labor of winter feeding. The saving
in the labor of handling hay in the field
and barn by means of horse rakes and
horse hay-forks is equal to one-half.
With the exception of the grain drill,
which had precarious existence pre-
vious to 1875, all these improvements
have been commenced and brought to
the present relative perfection within
the century now closing. --Hdrper'S
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A Month"; r4 Ass Gs,s s sgsFyF FsFts
| mars free aller q Co. st. louis, MO
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Mystery of the Lakes.

Lake Erie is only 60 or 20 feet deep ;
but Lake Ontario, which is 592 feet
deem, is $50 feet below the tide level of
the ocean, or as low as most parts of the
Gulf of St. Lawrence; and the bot
toms of Lakes Huron, Michigan and
SUPERIOR, although the surface is not
much higher, are all, from their vast
depths, on a level with the bottom of
Ontario. Now, as the discharge through
the River Detroit, after allowing for
the probable PORTO carried off by
evaporation, does not appear by any
means equal TO the quantity of water
which the three upper lakes receive, it
has been conjectured that a subterra-
mean river may run from Lake Superior,
by the Huron, to Lake Ontario. This
conjecture is not improbable, and ac-
counts for the singular fact that salmon
and herring are caught in all the lakes
communications with the st. Lawrence,
but no others. As the falls of Niagara
must have always existed, it would puz-
Zle the naturalist to say how these fish
got into the upper lakes without some
subterraueau river /; moreover, any peri
Odical obstruction of the river would
furnish a not improbable solution of the
mysterious fiux and rehux of. the lakes.
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New Cause Of Tnothache.

The researches made by DR.. Sillin,
one of most experienced of European
dentists, have led him to the opinion
that common or acute toothache pro-
ceeds from causes but little considered
or understood. In the center of every
tooth, he says, there is cavity CORE
spending in shape to that of the tooth
itself, and into this cavity passes,
through a minute aperture at the end
of each root, a branch of a nerve, an
artery, and vein; and. when either by
mechanical injury or decay, this cavity
becomes exposed to the airs action, the
bloc thickens or c0agulates to an ex-
tent beyond the capacity Of the vein to
remove in the natural way infamma-
ton ensues, and pain commences, at
first slightly more blood is pumped in
at every pulse of the heart, through the
branch of the artery, and, the hard
material of which the tooth is formed
being unyielding, a pressure is set up
on the walls of the cavity and its con-
tents, including the nerve. This pres
sure is increased OF every pulse with
great precision, causing intense and
hourly increasing pain commonly
known as acute toothache. Another
very general but less painful kind is
that arising from Inflammation Of the
root and socket.
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Shs SZu tEo. SrINsoN q Co. PorLIa1 Maine.

o70 Each Week. Agen Is wanted. Particu-
ID - lars free WORTH eco, ST. Louis, MO-
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cure for UiutberIa.

The ravages of diptheria in Aus
tralia have been so extensive within the
las few years that the government Of
fered 2 large reward for any certain
method Of cure and among other re-
Eponses to this was one by Mr.. Great
head, who at first Kept his method q
secret, but afterward communicated il
freely 10 the public. Il is simply the
use Of sulphuric acid, of which four
drops are diluted IN three-fourths of
tumbler of water to be administered to
q grown person and. a smaller dose to
children, at intervals not specified.
The result is said to be a coaguiation of
the diptheritic membrane, and its
re;;!,y TtTIi5Tsal by coughing. It is as
serted that where the case thus treated
has not advanced to q nearly fatal ter
minatiOn the patient recovered in al
most every instance.
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go PER DA Y commission or $40 week
~ - salary. and penses. We offer il and viii
| pay it. Apply now. G.Webber&Co, Marion,O
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The Action of Camphor Upon Seeds
ana Plants.

NJ. Vogel has lately communicated to
the Munich academy, the results of a
series of experiments with camphorated
water, applied in various forms to s; eds
and plants. Obtaining a homogeneous
solution. by shaking oamphor powder
in a flask with distilled water, he took
two branches of a towering syringa,
which were introduced, one into ordi-
nary water, the other into the camphor
water. Considerable differences soon
appeared. In twelve hours the branch
standing in pure water dropped and
was near whitening; the other branch,
in c2mphor water, stood upright, and
without any sign of witheIing-some of
the buds were even developed. It was
not till after three days that this branch
began to wither. Similar results fol-
lowed other experiments with syringas
and some other plants, but on some
species the camphor water seemed to
have little or no effect. The effect of
the camphor water on seeds soaked il
it, was still more striking. In one ex-
pertinent radish seeds seven years old
wee taken. As radish seeds retain
their germipative power, under ordi-
nary treatment, but three or ut most
four years, it would have been useless
to plant these seeds in the ground.
Treated with camphor water, however,
they terminated in four days, and thus
some days earlier than fresh seeds IN
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Where the Cotton GWorm Originates.

w AC4S tAC SSEUO1 EO4AA S14SAAe10On'
At the Hartford meeting of the Amer
lean association for the advancement of
science, held in August last, Mr.. Aug.
r. Grote read very interesting paper
on the subject of the cotton caterpillar,
a few extracts from which we lay before
our rea. ers
The earliest period at which the
young worms we're noticed in Marengo
and Greene counties, Alabama, by the
writer, was the last week in June, their
first appearance varying in the same
locality to the middle of July. The APP
pearance of the worm is always heralded
by the advent of the moth, the latter
being attracted to lights in houses, at
least week before the worm appears
in the fields. The next feature observed
was that the worm is always heard of
first to the southwark of any given
locality, and comes as an army from the
south, the brooda arriving consecutively
as long as the season lasts. This south
ern army is killed by advancing winter
and by the decrease of food plant.
The moth was first described by Hub
ner, under the name GletiG GrgjIL0ceG,
from Bahia, Brazil, where it was very
destructive to perennial cotton. It is
also very destructive in Mexico, and the
West Indies, and Mr.. Grote believes
that the insect dies out with its food
every year IN the southern states, and
that its appearance the following season
is due to fresh immigration of the moth
from these more southern localities.
It is capable of extended flights, as it
las been taken alive in the eastern
states, in Buffalo, New York, and in
Chicago. Illinois. probably following
the coast line, or the water courses
employing into the Gulf of Mexico.
There is no proportion between the few
that can survive in warm winters, and
the swarms OF the first appearance. The
permanent residence of the cotton worm
is outside of our cotton belt, and the
conclusion is that the aLetiG is not indi-
genous with Us, but an annual, not a
denizen, but a visitant, and that the
agent of destruction must be directed
against the first brood.
Mr.. Glover put forth the same views
in regard to the origin of the first
brood, with the proposed remedy, as
long ago as 1867, and we are glad to see
that his views are borne ont by Mr..
G-ote, who certainly, after five years Of
careful scientific observation, must be
accepted as an authority.
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mason & HAMLIN
Cabinet Organs.

Winners of THREE HIGHEST MEDALS AND
DIPLOMA OF HONOR at Vienna, 1873 PARIS,
1857, and in AMERICA ALWAYS. Declared by
MUSICIA ~ GIN FRA LILY to he UN RI VA LED
4 INCOM p 4 r 4 BIZ f.. sold at fixed uniform
prices to all. which printed and invar,sble
PURCHA SERS Of ORGANS ARE r. e.
MINDED that the temptation 70 Dealers am
PeddleTs is very strong to deal in and rec Commend
as best the organs of those ma kers who Will paw
them the largest commissions or ais
counts for selling.
The MASON q HAMLIN ORGAN Co,
printing as they do their lowest prices, can az
ford to dealers only the sun aIlest com nm SIS ions.
This plan secures to every purchaser the lowest
price because the dealer cannot ask more than the
catalogue price; but il causes many dealers to 90
their best to Sc other organs simply because they
get enormous discounts on them. ONE organs are
currently sold to dealers at seventy five per cent
discount at one quarter the prices printed for
them. As a rule, the poorer the organ the higher
its print price and the gre teT he discount on IT,
The MASON 81 HAMLIN ORGAN CO. are
now Offering ST les. with important impr I'VE
ments; and selling not only for cash evclu.
svely, but also on new plans of easy payments.
running through one year or longer They also
rent new organs win privilege of purchase. Rent
ID aid three years purchases the Organ.
send for the IlIuslra ed Catalogues and Circulars
which give very full information. and are sent
tree. Adore THE NJ ASON g. ia HILIN Or
GAS CO., al ,ither new HO'k, Boston, or
Chicago.
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Weights of Boys and Girls.

Upon the average, boys at birth
weigh n little more and girls little
less than seven pounds. For the first
twelve years the two sexes continue
nearly equal in weight, but beyond that
age the BOYS acquire a decided prepon-
derance. Young men of twenty average
one hundred and thirty-fve pounds,
while the young women of twenty aver
age one hundred and zen pounds each.
Men reach their heaviest weight at
about forty years of age, when their av-
erage weight will be about one hun
bred end forty pounds, but women
slowly increase in weight until fifty years
of age, when their average weight will
be one hundred and thirty. Taking the
men and women together, tn ir weight
at full growth will then average from
one hundred and eight to one hundred
and fifty; and women from eighty to
one hundred and thirty. The average
weight Of humanity all over the world,
taking the ages and conditions, work
lugmen and women, and gentleman and
ladies without occupation, black and
white, boys, girls and babies, is very
nearly one hundred pounds, aYoirdu-
pOis weight.
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| Columbia, and the property is to be
sold under DEGREES of condemnation.
There is another act on this subject
upon condemned and abandoned prop
erty, and provides for its sale, etc., ETC.,
and that the party interested may re-
claim the proceeds after the war npon
proof of loyalty.
1 think the effect of the amnesty
would be to relieve all property from
the operation of the law of confscation.
My impression is that it would have the
effect to destroy the judicial sales made
under 1T. These sales were made be-
fore any conviction and without service
OF process on the party, and it is diff
cult to realize how the act can be sup
ported against one aimed to be citizen,
and whose loyalty is vouched by presi-
Dental pardon. In this connection ell
fines and penalties incurred by any vio-
lation of revenue laws would have TO be
considered, and release from arrears
of taxes and duties.
a clause in the act of 7th June, 1862,
is to this effect "That the title of, in,
and to each parcel of land upon which
said tax has not been paid as above pro-
vided, shall thereupon become forfeited
hereafter shall vest in the United States
or in the purchasers at such sale in fee
simple, free and discharged from all
prior liens, membranes, right, title
and dues whatsoever"
There are some conditions precedent
to the operation of this section OF the
act which perhaps have not been fulfill
ed but another section imposes a lien
q pon the lands which does not depend
upon any condition. The arrears of
taxes for three years and the stringent
conditions of the act will occasion the
forfeiture OF a large amount of property
for taxes if the collection of the arrears
is insisted on.
The legislation upon the subject of
slavery consists of acts of COMPRESS for
the abolition of slavery in the District
Of Columbia, in the territories, forts,
arsenals, and the repeal of the fugitive
slave acts. Besides there is an act to
tiberate all slaves in places captured by
the United States, and the penal pro-
visions of several of the acts OF congress
of slaves of the owner.
Western Virginia was admitted to the
Union in December, 1862. It purports
to have been done upon the consent of
the people of that section of the state
and of the legislature of the state.
In number of the states the public
lands have been appropriated by the
state, as Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, and Arkansas, and in others
PARTON of the public money of the
United States Was seized.
l cannot see myself that order can be
restored without a long interval between
the decision to reconstruct the Union
and the contamination of that act. l
question whether this will be agreed TO,
but wise craftsmanship clearly indicates
that it would be better that this should
be adopted as the mode of procedure.
Very respectfully,
j. A, CAMPBELL.
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s. Fresh LinS."

But the kiss of all kisses is the eli
matte one-the lovers one-the first
touch of lips together that are henee-
forward to be all in all to each other,
and for this kiss who would not ask for
fresh lips? Who cares for lips that
have been common to lovers before?
L always meant to be The first COM
er in a wOman's heart. Fresh lips or
none for me" IT'S a sigh from a mans
heart more pitiful in that he is strong
apd not young. Into his pure heart
and life one day, pair of wistful blue
eyes, two rosy lips, and girlish voice
crept in, but crept in only to make for
themselves grave in the before unbro-
ken ground, where, Nesting down in its
depths, they were left to be undis-
turhed. 1t is the old story-other lips
pressed hers after, as they had before
his turn and still another had the bet
ter right to weep over her coffin-but
she, in that hour past, had crept in and
buried herself in one mans heart for
ever. How many lives we know not of
are lowering over an open grave, into
which has nestled the form of some
thing loved the best.
Common sense dictates that we must
not expect too much of mortal man or
woman. We are all tainted with the
original sin, and total depravity has
been catching disease for some time.
| doubt not that, though the number
may be small, there are more fresh girl
lips to be kissed to day than fl esh manly
lips to kiss them. What man has
right to demand more than he can give {?
Alas but the girls Go not echo the
cry They know there is little use to
expect fresh lips, and, wise in their gen.
Grafton, cease to ask for them. They
take the goods the gods offer them and
ask not who has had them before.
Thank God there are men who can ask
for fresh lips. May blessings rest on
the pure, rosy ones that shall be lifted
to meet theirs in the old-fashioned be-
trothal kiss.-Jedn Gold.
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DROWNED.

The flashing lighthouse beacon pales before
The rudy harvest-moon's intenser ray,
That battles, and changes into sparkling ore,
Its stones Of granite gray.
Round the tall brigs the greedy ripple laps,
As with the ebbing tide they softly s"lhg'
A shore-belated sea-bird slowly maps
His strong-F'Iuned, dusky wing
The pier-ligbts. nnaged on the waters, melt
M SILVER pillars, such as visions show
OF palaces where tabled CAliphs dwelt
In To- ends long ago.
A single boat steals down the moonlit track,
Through the still night its oIr-strokes echo far
Fringed with cleft light, the outline sharply black
Heaves on the harbor bar.
What strange freight fills it? Yonder heavy sail
Covers some form of blurred and shapeess dread;
Rude is the PAIL but fitted well 10 veil
The oceans outcast dead.
His name, his history? Vain it were TO guess,
Blt short to sun : a waif, a MYSTERY;
Deaths mOckiTg gloss upon iife's loneliness;
sccFet Of the sea.