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Easter in England.

OF Easter Monday rites various curious
relics still linger. One, called "clippins
the church," is performed by children o
the charity schools, amid crowds of peo
pie and and shouts of JOY. They place
their backs against the outside of the
church, and join hands till the circle is
complete and the building surrounded
when the ceremony is over, and they go tc
another church.
Another custom in Durham, is for men
to go about the streets and take off shoe
from every woman they meet, unless she
will pay small fee to prevent it. The
next day, as is but fair, the women retort
by doing the same to men.
In some parts still more ridiculous Gus
tom is found, called heaving or" lift
ing" On Easter Monday the men " lift -
women, and on Tuesday the women are
the lifters. 1t is done thus: two strong
men cross hands in the way we used to
call making a chair" in my school-days,
or they carry chair lined with white and
decorated with flowers and ribbons. On
meeting a woman in the street, they invite
her to take seat, and, in fact, insist upon
it. They then lift her into the air three
times, when she must kiss each of her lift
ers, and give them money besides. In the
time of Edward /. this custom was so gen.
eral that even the king was liftcd.'
In Kent, the young people on Easter
Monday go pudding-pieing." That is,
60 to public houses to eat pudding pie, a
dish about the size of saucer, with raised
paste rim, and custard inside.
And everywhere, and all the time, are
Io1
striped and mottled, and gilded orna-
mented with names, or notices, or pic
lures. Common ones are variously adorn-
ed with designs drawn with bit Of tallow,
which keeps the dye from taking on those
parts A better kind Of decoration is to
scratch the design with sharp knife on
an egg after it is dyed; landscapes, mot
toes, ETC., can be made very neatly.
A common game-which, perhaps, you
KNOWS played with Easter eggs. The
owner of hardboiled Easter egg chal-
lenges any one he meets to strike eggs with
him. If his egg breaks the other, it is
called "the COCK of one" and its owner
has the broken one as a trophy. When it
has broken, two, it is "cock of two," and
so on. If an egg which is cock of one or
more is broken, the conqueror adds the
number of trophies won by the victim to
his own score.
The custom Of making presents Of eggs
is said to be Persian, and to bear allusion
to the "mundane egg from which the
world was tabled by certain nations to
have been derived. 1t is custom among
Jews, Egyptians .and Hindoos, and was
adopted by Christians to symbolic the
Resurrection. This feast of eggs, there
fore, very properly occurs at EASTER Oljre
1ho,ne, 81. Nicholas for Apil.
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How Far will a Grenback 30.

Mr.. Brown kept boarders. Around his
table sat MI Brown, Mrs. Brown, Mrs.
Andrews, the village millner Mr.. Black,
the baker; Mr.. Jordan, a carpenter; and
Mr.. Hadley, n flour, feed and lumber mcr-
chant.
Mr.. Brown took out ofhis pocket book
ten dollar note, and handed it to Mrs.
Brown, saying
"Here, my dear, are ten dollars toward
the twenty promised you"
Mrs. Brown handed it to Mrs. Andrews,
the milliner, saying
"That pays for my new bonnet"
Mrs. Andrews said to Mr.. Jordan, as she
handed him the note
THAT will pay you for your work on my
counter"
Mr.. Jordan handed it to Mr.. Hadley, the
flour, feed and lumber merchant, requesting
his lumber bill.
Mr.. Hadley gave the note back to Mr..
Brown saying
THAT pays ten dollars on my board"
Mr. Brown passed it to his wife, with the
remark that paid her twenty dollars he had
promised. She in turn paid it to Mr.
Black, to settle her bread and pastry ac-
count, who handed it to Mr.. Hadley, wish.
ing credit for the amount on his foul
bill, he again returning it to Mr.. Brown
with the remark that it settled for that
months board. Whereupon Brown put il
back into his pocket.book, exclaiminl
that he "never thought a ten dollar bill
would go so far"
Thur ten dollar greenback was made
to pay ninety dollars Indebtedness inside
OF five minutes. "Who says greenbacks ART
worthless 7"
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VARIETIES,

"A Fur Capo--The Cape Of Good Hope
N. B.--This is fur fetched.
-Mstortunes, like borrowed umbrellas
are easily carried-if they belong to 9th
ers.
"A late book entitled Half Hours with
insects" What lively halfhour one Can
have with flea
"A Yankee editor wishes no bodily
harm to his subscribers, but he hopes that
some of them in arrears will he seized with
remittent fever.
1t has been officially decided that the
reason why Il law book is like trolicsome
ram Jumping over fence is because they
are both boundin' sheep.
-"See here, Gripps, 1 understand you
have a superior way Of curing hams. |
should like to learn it." swell, yes; |
know very well how to cure them; but tine
trouble with me, just now, is to find out a
way to pro cure them"
--Lenten diet "Inquirer: Well, Sam
DO, how do you like your new place ?
Sambo: Berry well massa. In: What
did you have for breakfast this morning
Sambo Why, you see, misses billed
three eggs for herself, and gave me de
brof
-Irate Editor: Excuse me, sir; our
paper should be an authority on church
matters. We have. got Dean on our
staff" Clergyman: "Ah, but what you
want is Bishop" Editor. why sir ~
Clergyman Because your statements
continually need confirmation"
"A Catskiil woman recently knocked
down seven robbers, one after the other.
Her husband watched her from the top OF
the stairs, and felt so brimful of fight that
he couldn't cool off until he jerk ed his
eight year-old son out ofbed and whaled
him soundly for not getting up and help
ing his mother.
-Economy-Young Wiie-"Oh, Ar.
thur, you know the stationer at the corner
is selling off, and l have been thinking
seriously Of what you said the other day
about saving money and things, and so Eve
got all he had left of this years valentines
at half the price we should have to pay
next year, and they'll do just as well to
send to my sisters " Judy.
"A nervous man, whose life was made
miserable by the gathering Of two black
smiths, prevailed upon each of them to re-
move by the offer ola liberal compensation
When the money was paid down he kind
ly inquired what neighborhood they in
tended to remove to. why, sir" rsplied
Jack, with grin. Tom Smith moves to
my shop, and move to his
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farlNerG' Column.
speed the PiOpc.o
A PrOpagating Secret.

Under this head the London Gardeners
Chronicle says:
1t will be remembered that month or
two ago we alluded to an alleged extraordi-
nary secret for propagating trees and graft
ing roses, whereby much time could be
saved, offered for small sum by an Aus
trian nurseryman. This gentleman has
since communicated an article on the sub
iect to the Wiener Ga,tenfieund. Briefly.
his new method is as follows:
Cuttings of shrubs and trees are taken
off at the beginning of July, from in. to 9
in. long, according to their kind. The
leaves are removed from the lower portion
which is to enter the ground, but those
which VIII come above ground are left
Beds are prepared for them in the open air
by thorough digging and levelling, and
afterwards applying superficial layer,
about : IN. thick, of rotten manure from
a spent hot bed. The cuttings are then
stuck in about in. apart and in some
what oblique direction. Each bed when
filled is surrounded with lath fence, so
that shade may be given when the sun is
very hot, and the cuttings are well watered
with rose-spouted can. This completes
the operation. The only further care ne
cessary Is sprlnkllng overhead three or four
times day during the first week, if the
weather be very hot, and once day after
wards. In the course of five or six weeks,
treated in the manner indicated, the cut
tings of most plants will have formed a
callus, and further shading will be unnec-
essary. Late in the autumn a layer of
rough manure, 2 in. or in. thick, is spread
over for winter protection. 1t also serves
as manure when the cuttings start grow
ing in the spring and cuttings treated thus
make extraordinary progress,-forming
plants equal to two-year-old plants from
winter or spring cuttings. Very few, it is
asserted fail The method of grating
roses is the insertion of growing eyes early
in spring, instead Of dormant eyes in the
summer, They are inserted in the main
stem one on each side, to form symmetri-
cal heads. These make, it is said, as much
growth the first season as the dormant eyes
the second season.
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THE WIRE WoRM.-Being troubled
with the little pests one year, | was adj.
viscd to soak my seed corn in solution
of coppcras and saltpetre, using one fourth
of II pound each to a bushcl of ears of COM
mon eight-rowed corn. The result was
that my seed all grew, and lost none by
the wre-worms, and never saw corn have
so dark and vigorous color before. Since
then always soak my seed twelve hours
after been shelled. do not know as it
would affect the cut-worm, but have new.
er been troubled with them sinse | used the
solution of coperas and saltpetre. Neither
was | ever troubled with them when |
plowcd my corn in the fall, which would
Invariably do on old sod. Some farmers
exterminate them by hunting them out in
the hill and killing them byhand, but this is
slow and tedious work, and is liable to be
sighted by hired help.-COuntry Gentle
man.
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What will Maks the Hens Law.

Put two or more quarts of water in Il
kettle, add one large seed pepper or two
small ones, then put the kettle on the fire.
When the water boils stir in coarse ground
Indian meal, until you make thick mush.
Let it cook an hour or more. Feed hot
Horseradish chopped fine, and stirred into
the mush has been found to produce good
results. -Four weeks ago we commenced
feeding our hens mush as prepared in the
above directions, and for result we
were getting from five to ten eggs per
day for 4 long time. We hear great
deal of complaint from other people about
not getting eggs. TO all such we would
warmly recommend cooked food, fed hot.
Boiled apple-skins, seasoned with red pep
ers, or boiled potatoes, seasoned with
horse radish, are good for feed much bet
ter than uncooked corn. Corn, when fed
by itself, has tendency to tatten hens, in
stead of producing the more profitable
egg layer A spoon full of sulphur stirred
40 their feed O &C assionally will rid
them of vermin and tone up their systems
This is especially good for young chickens
or turkeys. Out of flock of ten chick
ems, Matched the last November, we have
lost but one They have been fed cooked
feed mostly and are growing finely.
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Poe tic al.
JcSu Dulcis MemOria.

an old Latin Hymn of 81. Bernard Write
IN 1852
Jesu! the very thought is sweet
In that dear name all heart-joys meet;
But sweeter than the honey far,
The glimpses of His presence are.
No word is sung more sweet than this
No name is heard more full of bliss
No thought brings sweeter comfort nigh
Than Jesus, Son of God most high!
Jesus, the hope Of souls forlorn!
How good to them for sin that mourn
TO them that seek Thee, oh, how kind
But what art Thou to them that find?
No tongue Of mortal can express,
No mortal write its blessedness;
Alone who hath Thee in his heart,
Knows, love Of Jesus, what Thou art?
o Jesus King Of wondrous might!
. victori glorious from the fight
Sweetness that may not be expressed,
And altogether loveliest
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Tur FAnMER,s GR1NnsroNr-There is

THE FARMERS GRINDsToNE.-There is
no tool as essential on the farm as a good
grindstone; it is therefore necessary that
every farmer should have one and know
how to take proper care of it. A grind
stone should always be kept under cover,
us exposure to the suns rays hardens the
grit and Injuries the frame. The stone
should not stand in water when not in use,
as this causes soft places. The water
should be allowed to drip from some YES
sci placed above the stone, and the drip
should be stopped when the stone is rot
in use. All greasy or rusty tools should
be cleansed before sharpening, as grease
or rust chokes up the grit. The stone
should be kept perfectly round.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

That was queer boy in Wayland, ILL.,,
who went into the house, got into bed and
fell asleep after seeing his mother fall into
WELL
The latest law in regard to gambling
passed by the Nevada Legislature makes
a misdemeanor for parties owing money to
gamble it away.
The Constitution of Massachusetts
DISTINGUISHES persons dependent on public
charity, but the law has been for a long
time almost IL dead letter. 1t is now pro-
posed to revive it.
"A Tennessean took his first and last
ride on a railroad train recently. He step
ped off when it was going forty miles an
hour, supposing that such was the custom,
and was fatally injured.
An old lady in Middlebury crossed
over bridge marked Dangerous" without
seeing the sign. On being informed of the
fact on the other aide, she instantly turned
in great alarm and recrossed it,
WIN. Bright, of Knox county, Tennes-
see, heard noise in his smoke house. He
armed himself with gun and fred at the
thief The shrek of pain that followed
had Il familiar sound The thief was his
son, who was seriously, if not MORALLY
wounded.
"A negro in Williamson county, Tenn,
was an uncommonly determined murderer.
He chopped his way through two doors to
get at the woman he killed That night a
mob showed equal determination by break
ing into the Jail with sedges in order to
take him out and hang him.
DR.. L. of st. Louis, who is something
of wag, called on a collored Baptist min
lister and propounded few puzzling ques-
tons
"Why is it," said he, " that you are not
able to do miracles that the apostles did
They were protected against poisons and
all kinds of perils. How is it that you are
not protected in the same way2'
The colored brother responded, prompt
ly, Don't know about dat, doctor.
s'pect is. have Token a mighty sight
of strong medicine from you doctors, and
l is alive yet"
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out. Even now it is left almost entirely
to playful children and the uneducated
classes. This sentiment, quoted from an
English almanac of hundred years ago,
will, I'm sure, meet the approval of grown
ups" of the nineteenth century:
But It is a thing to be disputed,
Which is the greatest fool reputed,
The one that innocently went,
Or he that him designedly sent"
II. III. IH., ST. Nicholas for ApriL.
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II Hurts the OLD Fogy Dealer

II Hurts the Old Fogy Dealers.
THEY SQUEAL AT THE Low PRICES AT
WHICH WE SELL OUR STOVES.
MEssRs. EDITORS Gentlcmen-We want
YOU to proclaim that we are ahead in Low
PRICES.
Our foundry is right in the Coal and Iron re
gions of Pennsylvania therefore we can make
Stoves cheaper than any other foundry and we
Will sell them at RETAIL at WHOLESALE
PRICES.
We are ahead in QUALITY. We use none
but the best No. l Iron and employ the best
mechanics we can procure.
We are Ahead in our ''rlMES COOK" for
quick baking. 1t took the Gold Medal over all
competitors, baking 1l1@ lbs. of Bread i'm fl
minutes from the time of lighting the fire
and only used 3 lbs of wood.
n yom tcant the Best Bakey, tie L1gea ODeu,
tie Hcoeica Iron, the Best F1ttcd Store, J1y the
" TIMES COOK.
We guarantee every one. If it does not bake,
cook, draw or give satisfaction You may re.
turn it and we will refund the money.
The only place to buy them is at 9G n GAY
ST., just above the Bridge.
- DO not forget tie m'mJcr 90. 1t is be.
tween Front Street and the Bridge.
.zS"Thc No. is 90 9G. 90.
w. j. II. GLUCK,
96 n. GAY STREET, Baltimore.
p. 5. As the city of Baltimore is being
flooded with stoves made in our Penitentiary
by Convict Labor, we would particularly warn
and caution our friends to be very careful
where they deal, and where they buy to ask
who makes the stoves. In fact come direct to
No. 96 N Gay Street for explanations. sc15
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BLUE GLAss.-Gen. Pleasanton's blue
glass theory is assailed by the Scientific
american His idea that electricity is gen.
rated by the passage of light through the
glass, is declared to he absurd. Nor have
colored rays any beneficial effect on life,
the reverse rather being the truth, as a
pure, white light is best. The only good
that can possibly come of blue glass is, in
its use as shade for decreasing solar
light.
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The average salary of school teachers
in Italy is 5000 year,
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1872 ELY'S 1872
Great Cheap Boot and Shoe House
No. 1872 North Gay Street, Baltimoe.S
Prices Reduced!
Buy your Boots aud save money. We are de
termined to give customers the advantage ola
STILL EIISTlIEHS REnILGTInN


Ladies' Lasting Button at sll prices.
Ladies' Lasting Lace at all prices
Ladies' Kid Button at all prices.
Ladies' Pebble Button at all prices.
Ladies' Kid Fox Button at all prices.
Ladies' Kid Fox Lace at all prices
Dents Fine Boots at all prices.
Gents Coarse Boots at all prices.
Gents Nail Boots at all prices:
Misses Fine and Coarse Shoes of all kinds. Boys
and Youths Boots and Shoes. In fact we have every
thing to be found in we'll assorted Boot and Shoe
House
ALLOW PRICES.
Everything warranted represented the money
returned at Ely Great Cheap Boot and Shoe House,
lS2 N. Gay street Remember the number 1872. Think
OF 49, visit 1S2 aud YOU will purchase what you
want in the Root or Shoe line.
Mems Heavy Boots a. Shoes n Speciality.
Samuel S. Ely,
oct22 IS2 N. Gay ST.
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A. MACINTOSH.
Notary Public and COnveyancer,
Real Estate and Tax Agent.

Has . complete Abstract Of Title 10 all Lands
! King Coup. !. VIII attend 20 the purchase and
attention paid 10 Transfer Of Real Estste and
Payment Of Taxes. Patronage solicited and salts
faction guaranteed.
Once On MIL street. nearly opposite the Zoe.
eSental Ho1ol."
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\ Sacramento Clergyman onCe
preached very peculiar sermon
soothing. stirring and satisfying. II
was 50 soothing. that half the congrega-
,ion went 10 sleep; 50 stirring, That the
remainder left before he had flushed;
aud So satisfying, tha. hone OF them
ever came 10 hear him again.
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Oysters unwholesome" said he. with
= contemptous sniff. Il ain'r got any
patience with these rew-fangled idees
Oysters can't hurt nobody Why, |
give 'em to my grandfather-old man
Of ninety. sir-give him dozen raw
oysters-they wasn't particular fresh.
either-giv'em 10 him half An hour
b-fore he died-'n' they didn', DO him
10 harm Oysters, sir, is wholesome "
--I'uck.
An Eastern exchange says: Ou.
West the human car crop grows to an
immense size, Judging from the news
papers Thus, one editor SAYS broth.
er contemporary can wsg his left ear.
Then the editor who Is accused of wag-
ging his left ear. says the accuser has
cut Sits in the rim of his hat 10 make
room for his ears Another man out
there uses bis ears for napkin. An
other can fan himself with his aural
.ppen1ages. and still another employs
his ear for an umbrells. The champi-
on earlst, however, Is An editor who
wears several reefs in his ear to pre-
vent his treading upon them rs he
walks along the street.
The circus Is coming again. and once
more We will have the pleasure of wit.
Messing the cheerful spectacle of seven
church members taking one little child
two years old "to see the animals II
didn't 90 into the circuis department.
said a good deacon, after the last moral
circus was here. but dropped in to
look around the menagerie a few mo-
ments with my little grandson, and
do think the man who tied his legs in a
bow-knot around his neck and then
crawled through the hoop was alone
worth the price of admission"
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A sympathetic chemist, daring the
performance Of the last scene IN "Ro-
m.o and Juliet" became 50 excited by
the apparent reality Of the sisge bus
mess. ,ha, he jumped from his seat.
dashed his ha, over his forehead and
shouting. Hold him up. Juliet, while l
run for the stomach pump" rushed on'
of the theatre.
msa demanded free glass of rum
in Nevada saloon. and did not get IT.
Then he said he never tined II. but u
had been the ambition Of his iiie 10
kill a har keeper: but when the bar
keeper took out two six shooters ana
club the man said he did not mean
polite. gen,lemsnly barkeeper. but one
of those fellows who wore paste dia-
monds and parted his hair in the mid
die.
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WHY PERSONS ARE DRowNED.-Per-
soDs are drowned by raising their arms
above water, the unbuoyed weight Of
which depresses the head When a
tuan falls into deep water lie will rise
to the surface. and will continue there
if lie does not raise his hands. If he
moves his hands under the water any
way he pleases his head will rise so
high as to allow him full liberty to
breathe, and if he will use his legs as
in the act Of walking up stairs his
shoulders will rise above water so that
he may use less exertlon with his hands,
or apply them to any other purpose.
These plain directions are recommend
ed to the recollections of those who
have not learned to swim in their youth,
as they may be found highly advantage
GUS in preserving valuable life N'o-
6urn Adrerti~r.
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for Sale.

rI'HE UNDERSIGNED oFFiRs MS PLACE
/ In the Sncquslmie for sale. IL contains 100
Acres Bottom Land and 20 Acres Timbered Up
land. sloping Ee.tly 10 the river. II IL II miles
from SaoquAlnie City al the river srossing. .
miles from Lake Washington, and - from Seattle.
Fifty scres siAshsd. 20 scres In grass. acres Of
upland grubbed for al orchard; - tons OF bay
on hard.
Tie place has three-qusrters Of mile frontage
on tie river " safe from overflow. and has
clear stream q water running through, which
can be brought Ia the house. barn or milk house.
Is valuable for numbering. having . good deal Of
timber H. and 10 the frst key point for getting
out tse timber On the adjacent six or eight
tions and has = good bay for booming. The loca-
sion IL central and anords good steam boat land
ing hotel aud store wouid DO we'll there at
the present time. aud IL II convenient u six log
ging eainps now IN OPERATION
House and tools Oh, the place. Cause Q! selling.
weak lungs.
For further part icnlsrs inquire Of
GEORGE WHITE,
affidavit Sao1uamie River. W. =.