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miscellaneous Recipes.

Ice CREAM.-To three pints of cream
add three piuts of milk, one cup of sugar,
one egg well beaten, one tablespoonful
vanilla flavor; put into the freezer with
out cooking.
A NICE DISH For Observation-Disclosures
large ri pc clusters of the cherry currsnt;
dip them in the unbeaten white of an
egg, and roll in puIverized sugar until
perfectly coated with it. Serve in a
glass dish.
A REMEDY FOR WHooPNGCoUGH.-
Two-thirds castor-oil, onec.hird syrup of
ipecac. Dose: Half a teaspoonful from
two to six hours apart, according to the
severity of the cough. Shake the mix
ture well before using 1t is almost in
fallible.
ORANGE ICE.-The juice of six oranges
and grated peel of three the juice of
two lemons; squeeze out every drop of
juice, and let the grated peel steep in the
juice one hour; strain well through a
fine cotton cloth mix in one pint sugar,
then one pint water; freeze as you would
ice-cream.
PRESERVED CURRANTs.--Take ripe
currants, free from stems weigh them.
and put three-quartes.Sof a pound of
white sugar to every pound of berries,
take teaeupful of water to7eaeh pound
of sugar, and boil until-She syrup IS very
clear then turn it over the unlocked
berries, and let them stand over night :;
next morning put over a slow fire and
boil gently until the berries are clear :;
skim them ont into jars, and boil the
syrup until thick, and ur over the
berries.
CURRANT JAM Free the currants
from the stems; take eight pounds of
sugar to ten pounds of berries. Strain
the juice from half of the currants; then
crush the rest with the sugar; pour the
juice over them, and boil in a porcelain
kettle until it is a smooth, thick mass.
IIave moderate fire, and let it cock
slowly, so twill not burn the jam. This
is nearly as good as cranbSsries for cold
meats and game.
CUCUMBER PICKLEs-Make pickle in
clean tub that will bear a small
potato wash the cucumbers and put
them in; cover with cabbage leaves and
place something heavy on the top to
keep them under the brine; let them lie
as long as you wish to make few at
a time, take them out and let them re-
main in cold water over night then put
half water and half vinegar and a small
piece of alum in the kettle with the
pickles, and set them back of the range.
Be careful not to let them boil. Turn
them over every fifteen minutes, so they |
will all get done through. You can tell
by breaking one in two, and if it is green
it Is done. Take them out; put in a
stone jar; throw away the vinegar
put In fresh vinegar; cloves and allspice,
few of each; let it boil up, and throw
1t over the pickles in the jar, and then
cover. They viii be ready for use in
few days. Can be kept year if desired !
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hereafter. All it requires is a pontoon
bridge and little git up and go long,
Mary Jane"
His breakfast was ready, and thrust
ing his legs under the table with the air
of a man who had Just bought the house
and lot and paid the money down, he
harpooned a roasted potato and con-
tinued
"Old Hopandgofetchit, who has COM
mand of the Russian zOuaves, is in the
best position in the world to skip right
along into COnstantinOple and take pos
session of the court house. would do it
Il swear to gracious | would do il"
and he reached out and captured a hard
boiled egg.
Il would do it so quick it would
make their everlasting heads swim. Then
| would take a run across the Mediter-
ranean, flop down on the Suez canal
boats, tear up the tow-path and take
possession Of the mules. Then across the
country to the Gulf of Mexico, l would
fly as the hurricane, leaving death and
desolation in my-see here, Susan" he
said, breaking short and addressing the
nurse girl, ''for the love of heaven, don't
hold the baby with its head down."
The old gent continued to draw in the
VIctualS ike man VINO hadn tasted a
bite for six months, and talking in a way
to turn a book agent green with envy.
He told the woman what Congress ought
to do when it meets, and finally showed
away from the table, wiped his lips with
the cloth and asked them if they had an
old pair of pants that wasn't bagged at
the knees. The pants were hunted up
and handed to him by the lady of the
house, whs in turn asked if he would &c
into the garden patch and kill few
potatOe bugs for her.
"Potato bugs" he said, as he gathered
up his hat and passed to the door, ''po-
tato bugs are something with which j
have had no experience. | don't know
one from jay bird. But a friend of
mine will be here about noon who can
kill moro potato bugs in a minute than
you could shake a stick at. I'll leave a
chalk mark on the gate-post and he will
call. Ta-ta," and the aged tramp tipped
his hat gayly and was off, his stomach
sticking out in front of him like a bay
window oil city Derrick.
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FICTORII'S WE4LTH TO TINT or
me PRIA CT or HIIES.

The queen of England Is at this time
the richest woman in the world, total
ly apart E1Dsa the sum she annually
receives from the country. When the
prince consort chose south Kensington
as the site for the great exhibition, he
invested a large amount of money in
lands thereabouts, and that money has
by this time increased forty or fifty fold,
and brings in a revenue adequate in itself
20 cover the expenses of good sized
kingdom. The queen herself is an excel
lent manager, and had she begun life
with a capital of $500 she would by this
time have made it ESQ., 900, for she has a
turn for money-making, and never loses
a chance of increasing her store. It may
kau}pubted whether she spends much, If
tvictoryGe than f25, 900 a year, for she
rafSfy receives any body even to dinner,
and, although she has to keep up a large
staff of servants, $125, 900 will 90 a long
way even here to defray all expenses OF
that description. | mentioned this sum
of G25, 600 the other day to a friend OF
mine, who knows a good deal more about
the court than do, and he laughed at il
as being absurdly high. However that
may be, the queen receives e3Sj, 900 q
year from the nation, about $40, 000'from
the duchy of Lancaster, and not less
than goo, 900 from her invcstments-o
IS, 1880 IA year. The Prince of Wales
receives $40, 900 from the nation, about
100000 from the duchy of Cornwall, and
his wife Ell, 900 from the nation
altogether $4,000, and upon this he
has to keep a large family and to receive
and entertain numerous visitors and
guests, give garden parties, balls, din
ners, and incur vast expenses generally
which ought properly to fall upon the
monarch. No wonder that he is rela
lively a poor man. The prospect before
him is not very bright, for the queer
may reign for twenty years to come yet
She is only fifty-eight, and as strong as
lion, in perfect health, and probably
hopes to rfign as long as her distinguished
ancestor, George Ill, who was on the
throne sixty years; peace to his mem.
oryl And certainly no one wishes any
evil to happen to the queen, or to see the
shortening of her days; for, after all, il
is by no means certain that the change
whenever it may come, will necessarily
be for the better.--L. j. Jennings London
TctEcr
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CATTLE PLAGUE,

on tie Increase ia london and EnriroHS,
Notwithstanding she Rigid Restrictions
Enforced tciH Imported Cattle.
The cattle-plague committee of the
British house of commons have agreed in
their report to recommend that all i'm
portatious from Germany, Russia and
Belgium be absolutely prohibited, and
that cattle reported from all other coun-
tries be killed at the place of landing +;
that stock in the metropolitan markets
should only be removed for slaughter !;
that all movement of cattle in the infected
districts be prohibited; that fairs and
markets be stopped; that the infected
farms be subjected to quarantine; that
the compensation for pleurO- pneumonia
be the same as for the cattle plague; that
all cattle-sheds in towns be subjected TO
registration and inspection. Notwith-
standing these stringent measures, the
disease is on the increase in London and
its environs. SO infectious is the disease
that it Is dangerous for cattle to pass the
infected districts or to breathe the air of
hay or straw from those districts, or to
drink from the pools or fords where dis
eased cattle have strayed. Sheep may
convey by their wool the disease, and the
wool from foreign countries should he
carefully kept from contact with anything
likely to carry disease. Hoofs, horns,
etc, and the clothing OF men employed
to slaughter diseased cattle, will also
convey the infection.
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sheep. r,n,.ips a,.a Pea stra,e.

The Canada Farmer says: The Eng
fish farmer neither makes nor expects to
make any profit on sheep over and above
the manure which they furnish by con-
Stunning the roots and oil-cake on the
farm. If tie sheep pay for the outgoings
and the interest on their purchase, and
leave the farmer the manure free, he
considers himself richly pad and so he
is. In Canada we do better than that,
so far as buying and selling the sheep is
concerned, but still the generality of
farmers are content to keep but few
sheep, and only those they can winter
through on pea straw and some few roots,
without difficulty"
In Canada, sheep have to be housed
through long, cold winters, and they
consume more than many suppose.
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GARDEN OF EDEN.

Prince de Ligne, countryman and
contemporary of Maria Theresa, wrote
an essay, con the Location of the
Earthly Paradise" and, after some
reflections on the hygienic influence of
different climates, calls attention to the
fact that " Paradise-traditions in locat-
ing the Garden of Eden, differ only in
regard to longitude, but not to latitude.
The latitude keeps near the Snow
boundary, a line just south of the
regions where snow may fall, but viii
not stay on the ground. 1t passes
through Thibet, Cashmere, northern
Persia and Asia Minor, and reaches the
meridian Of Europe near the center of
" celebrate6life as a festival have lived
along this Inc, and we may doubt if in
the most favored regions of the new
world human industry, with all the
aids of modern science, will ever reunite
the opportunities of happiness which
nature once lavished on lands that now
entail only misery on their cultivatOrs.
All over Spain and Portugal, southern
Italy, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, Persia
and western Afghanistan, and through
out northern Africa, and from Morocco
to the valley of the Nile, the aridity of
the soil makes the struggle for existence
so hard that to the vast majority of the
inhabitants life, from a blessing, has been
converted into a curse.
Southern S@ain, from Gibraltar to the
head-waters OF the Tagus, maintains now
.ople-about one-tenth of its former pop
Y nlatiOn, Greece about One-Uwentieth. As
late as A. d. $40, a good while after the
rise of the b1ohammedan power, the
country now known asTripoli, and distinct
| from the Sahara only through the eleva-
ton of its mountains, was the seat of
eighty-five Christian Bishops, and had a
population of 8 600, 200, o(which number
three-quarters of one per cent. are now
| left The climate which, according TO
authentic description, must once have
| resembled that of our southern Allegha-
mes, is nov so nearly Intolerable that
even the inhumanity of an African
despot forbears to exact open-air labor
from nine am. to five pm. Steamboats,
that pass near the Tripolitan coast in
summer, on their way from Genoa to
Cairo, have. to keep up a continual
shower of artificial rain to save their
deck-hands from being overcome by the
hirnace-air that breathes from the barren
hills of the opposite coast The rivers
of some of these countries have shrunk
to the size of their former tributaries,
and from Gibraltar to Samarcand the
annual rainfall has decreased till failure
of crops has become a chronic complaint
And all this change is due to the insane
destruction of forests. The great Cauca-
sian sgIUania that once adorned the birth
| LMS> the white race from the western
{ ...1.4iv. to the foothills of the Hima-
layasSh has disappeared; of the forestarea
of Italy and Spain, in the days of the
elder Pliny, about two acres in a hun
bred are left; in Greece, hardly one.
But even the nakedness of the most
fertile tracts of southern Europe is
exceeded by the utter desolaticn of the
Ottoman Popular ,Sc3ence
Monthly for august.
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The business of driving cattle and
grazing them all the way from the rich
valley of the Columbia river to the no
less fertile valley of the Mississippi has
been in operation in a small way for three
years, aud is now developing into large
industry.
These facts have great significance.
Cattle by the hundred or thousand cannot
be driven over desert of any cOnsidera
Bile extent for they will starve. During
| the war, we remember seeing droves oil
fine stock from Lexington, KY, driven
into Knoxville mere walking skeletons
because the grass and other cattle teed
between the two cities had been con-
sumed Mules packing -four, meat ana
other supplies for the Federal army, died
by hundreds on the same routefrom star
walton. Hence, the driving OF cattle by
thousands from Oregon and Washington
/ Territory to Kansas tells of grazing land
and water where barren waste was sup
posed to exist
The agricultural resources OF THIS con
tinent are neitherstudied nor appreciated
| by our statesman. 1t Is a good act TO
plant the seed of Oregon salmon in all
our rivers and lakes that a capital tish
may abound but it would be a much
more important benefit to plant grass seeds
and the seeds of forest trees where the
climate is best adapted to their growth
| across the treeless plains on either sideof
the Rocky Mountains. Timber and grass
secure and support population, wealth
and advanced civilization. WezSoticea
Kansas correspondent of the RuI -ss- ..ss:s
! inquiring about the seed of tbeaeid cedar.
/ We wish he had one hnn9ioL bushels of
such seed from Middle Tennessee where
it abounds.
Cattle raisers and all dealers in meat
stock, horses, hogs and sheep, should
take an interest in extending green past
ures and lovely groves over the naked and
barren places Of the United States These
invaluable plants have the power to
draw rain and dew from an atmosphere
that would yield neither to man or beast
without their aid. The air over the
Desert of Sahara has moisture which is
not beyond the reach of science in ex-
tending the bounds of a fertile oasis on
all sides. Fertility grows as well as
babes, pigs, corn and wheat Our next
lesson to learn is to draw woods, grass,
rain and grain out of a dry atmosphere.
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SOUL-HARROWING.
PICTURE Of the Results Of the Famine fo'
PreUaiIiHg in I1idid-TLe Roads
StTetolt tcith the Dead
mi IlniMn.

The Timess BelIary correspondent,
describing the awful effects the famine
in Southern India, says the great bulk
of the people are now emaciated their
ribs are sticking out in painful Promi-
nence, and their skins covered with "A
dirty looking desquamation of cuticleS
described in the Irish famine of 1867
by Dr. Donovan, as a peculiar famine
eruption. If we look at the thousands
of people collected on the relief works,
these famine-marks are of almost uni,
versal prevalence. The superintendent
of the relief operation in Adoni reports
that the journey over one of his roads re-
sembled path Of the - battles in
numbers'of the dead andS[Ting. If the
people had been smitten by local oat-
breaks of cholera in ordinary times they
would have fed from the works and
never returned, but 50 severe Is the
pressure for food that zone cQIh afford
to leave the works and lose their pay
even for single day.
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sion. I was still in mourning, but COW
cred up with nuns white wall" The
wedding was postponed, and the lady re-
sumed her mourning and her shell-fsh.
The suit was renewed and broken off
again and again, the defendants affection
seeming to be in accord with his appe-
tite for oysters. He first fell in love
with her while he was eating one of her
" stews," as she undertook to prove by a
memorandum book. There was no entry
on the pages, but she accounted FOR its
absence on the theory that she " did not
put any inward feeling on what he then
said to her" She remembered his asking
her if she was an Englishwoman and that
she answered, 81 ham,"
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1tb,te F;ela Labor. il, ne s,mth

The. New Orleans Democrat, discu-
ssing the question of immigration to that
state, comes to the conclusion that
" Louisiana ought to be the Hesperides
of the western hemisphere" 1t combats
the prevailing belief that white men are
unable TO werk in the sugar fields of
Louisiana, and to establish Its position
calls attention to the fact that thous
ands of white men aided from the plant
ing to the harvest in raising Louisiana's
last sugar crop, and that the large in
crease in that crop was due to the large
addition to the number of white laborers
in the sugar fields" Many of the old
sugar plantations have been sold in
farms of from forty to two hundred acres.
The improved processes of farming keep
the land in better condition, and crops
that are properly planted and cultivated
require no work upon them during July
and August, the hottest months.
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Cattle Grazing across the Continent.


The Willamette (Oregon) Farmer
makes the following interesting state
ment:
w. S. Newbury, of Portland, has Just
returned from an extensive business ex-
eursion through the upper Columbia
farming country and furnishes us inter
esting facts as to the progress of the
country and the increase of prosperity.
For one thing, a regular trade established
between Kansas ranchers and stockmen,
and the cattle men of eastern Oregon.
and already this spring several parties of
cattle buyers have gone through the
upper country, from the Dalles to Pc
louise, purchasing beef cattle to drive
east. One firm has purchased 300 and
was still buying, and others were in the
field making large purchases. These
cattle are started eastward b. way of
Boise and Snake river, through Utah,
and are driven all the way To Kansas by
easy stages, reaching there, some of them,
early in the fall. Later in the season,
those that are in good order are shipped
east by rail, and the rest wintered in
Kansas ready for shipment next spring as
soon as they are in good condition,
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orioin of the CaffTe pyao,,e.

Mr.. Arnold, who has been travelling
between the Caspian and Persian Cults,
writes to the London Times, and among
other subjects, gives the following curl
Gus account of the origin of the cattle
plague: There is an infamous place on
the road between Teheren and Mashbad,
in the dir, ction Of Herat. l remember,
at Odessa and Bessarabia, to have heard
men who were deeply interested in the
matter exI ress a confident opinisn that
rinderpest or cattle plague had its origin
in the poisonous bite of black spider
common in the marshes of Bessarabia,
where have been told that rinderpest is
always raging.
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THE report of the committee TO exar

The report of the committee TO exar
inc into the New Orleans customhou
recommends the abolition of the MAJ
officer, and also one appraiser, and exf
liners to take their own samples.
recommends the abolition OF boarding
stations at pass POutre, South pass and
Southwest pass, and the establishment of
one at the jump. 1t recommends the
construction of revenue boat to cruise
in shallow water at the mouth of the
Mississippi river, to prevent smuggling !;
and also cutting down the customhouse
force more than twenty-five per cent.
and expenses in the same proportions
1t abolishcs the old system of public
drayage, and recommends it be let bJ]
contract to the lowest bidder, 40 biSse1
be received for more than filte8tof37k -
per package, a saving tos he Ss5silii!ai4,j \
of more than twenty cents Pnr ..As
and reducing the rates to tHoAs -: "a
the most economical merctsSat 49,
commends storage where it ! ~
convenient to importers witht A r
to the government.
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Do not try to fatten your pig rapidly
until you have first grown him. You
cannot make a heavy hog unless you first
produce a lengthy pig. Weeds, clover,
meat, scraps, boiled potatoes, kitchen
refuse, any and all heterogeneous or flesh
forming foods are preferable during the
early months of the pigs existence, to
the meal and grain OF fat-forming food,
which are required for the finishing pro-
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Caution TO the PubIIc.

We understand there are unLfO
grocers and dealers whe palm off n nd
purchasers Yeast Powder in bulk,
for the genuine DoOLEY's YEAST -, -
For the protection of housekeepers an
public generally, we arc authorized to-
that the genuine DooLEY'S YEAST Pow
is sold only in cans. Always refuse tsA =.
it exceptin cans, securely labeled. Thes&
smile signature of DO0LEY & BROTHER, I
manufacturers, is plainly printed on ca
aha1
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The length of Life.

Mortality statistics, showing the ser
age duration of lite among persons oya-
rious classes, are often faulty. In las
sachusetts such figures are more caretlly
and accurately obtained than alpst
anywhere else; and the following ble
is the result OF very recent invastigaon
in that state:
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AGRICULTUR4L.
nor 70 Kee, Bacon Hams.


Place them in some dry place until
the. outside becomes thoroughly dry
then put them into a stout paper sack,
tie them up tight and bury them in
ashes, the deeper the better. The meat
will keep sweet and nice for an indefinite
time. Some bury their bacon in eats,
grain, salt, brap, etc but ashes is far the
hest
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McnLirn j. male Of IL tzhibi

Mention is made of tie txbibition /
curious snakes from Asia CALLED glas
snakes, which break in piece ~ - strud
with 4 stick We need not g5~to ASH
TO find this curious reptile, as they art
found ia the Innian territory, having the
same peculiarities ascribed to the glas
snakes. In that portioa.sof the colony
occupied by the CherdS 1 have seer
them and witnessed their brcaking-uI
pecuIiarities when struck with stick
They resemble our striped snakes in sizl
and color. l have been surprised y
find no mention of these snakes in worhi
on natural history.
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ST. IOTIS.
The
GOOD OLD
STAND BY
MEXICAN MUSTANG LlNIMEHT.
FOR EXAM AND BEAST.

Established - Years. Always cures. Always
ready. Always handy. Has neveryet failed. Thirty
millions hare tested n. Tho whole world approve
the glorious old Mustaug-the Best aud Cheapest
Eminent in existence. % cents a bottle. The
Mustang Linimcut cures when nothing else Will.
81 L, nv Al L ,trnI1IN-L VIZ nERs
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which depresses the head. nan
falls into the water, he VII TIE
surface, and continue the
not elevate his hands. If Rf Ewes Is
hands under the water in any way ie
pleases, his head will rise, SO high asio
allow him free liberty to breathe, and if
he will use his legs as in the act of wax
ing Cor rather of walking up stairs bis
shoulders will rise above the water. so
that he may use less eXertion with bis
hands, or apply them to other purpces.
These plain directions are recommended
to the recollection of those who havenot
learned to swim in their youth, as hey
may be found highly Advantages in
preserving life