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TOPICS FOR FARMERS.

Content ON the Farm.-W. 81. Ingalls,,
of Green County, New York, takes a
philosophic view of farming. He is a
correspondent of the Rural Nec Yorker,
and thus addresses himself to that
journal: My June pullets, thirty-fve
in number, commenced laying about the
1st of. December and averaged about
two dozen eggs each day until within
three weeks ago when eggs went down.
Then my poultry, thinking it did not
pay for the wear and tear, dropped very
suddenly to three or four eggs day.
They have now recommended laying
abundantly and I shall consequently
expect to see the egg market improve.
feed buckwheat and oats and corn and
clam-shells, all they want, and plenty of
clean water.
I keep ten cows; they have made two
hundred pounds of butter since the first
of December, are looking well and are
coming in in March. iced twice dav,
once in the yard and once in the stable.
like to have my cows run out in the
daytime, unless stormy or very windy. I
think cattle are stronger if wintered in
this way. / feed corn-stalks and two
quarts of Indian meal and buckwheat-
bran mixed, mornings; and at night, all
the hay they will eat and the same feed
of grain. have farmed thirteen years
and never had sick COW in the spring.
My hogs get allsurplus milk and think
do much better than if fed on clear
grain.
Ihave seven hundred fruit trees, and to
protect them from the mice in the
winter, my little boy goes ahead with a
pick and loosens the ground, and then /
follow with hoe and clear from around
the tree everything wherein mice can
harbor, and pile around each tree little
| mound of clear dirt about three inches
high. Moreover, I take wire and sharp
knife along with me and clean out every
grub. This work do about the middle
| of September, and am never troubled
with either mice or grubs. My trees
have been set from two to ten years, and
| in that time I have lost only one tree
| through the rayages of mice.
This, of course, requires some labor
but as some worthy has said, you cant
get something from nothing. A little
labor laid out at the right time, saves 8
good deal of money and trouble. I hate
10 lie awake at night and think that
mice and grubs are undoing what have
tried to accomplish.
Now, just one word for the birds.
think they are my greatest friends
Nothing makes my children more happy
than the return of these featherec
wanderers. They ale harbingers of tht
summer days, and they follow me as
turn the furrow, and clean my land a
we'll as the trees of all the pests the,
can get at. l have never been in tn,
law business, but if 1 should see any
body on my premises shooting birds,
think should give him dose of Black
stone. I am happy in farming and thinl
all farmers would be so, if they worke'
more and grumbled less.
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The Gre stest Discovery of the Age is Dr.
Tobias celebrated Venetian Linimentl 30 years be-
fore the public, and warranted to cure Diarrhea
Dysentery, Cofic and Spasms taken internally; and
Group, Chronic Rheumatism, Sore TEroats, Cuts
Bruises. Old Sores, and Pains in the Limbs, Back,
and Chest, externally. 1t has failed. No family
will be without it after giving it fair trial
Price, 40 cents. DR.. TOBIAS VENETIAN HORSE
LINIMENT, in Pint Bottles, at One Dollar, is war
ranted superior to any other, NO PAY, for the
of Collie, Cuts Bruises, Old Sores, Sold by
all Druggists. Depot-IO Park Place. New York.
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Wells, Richardson &
Co.'s Perfected Butter
Color is recommended by
the agricultural press, and
used by thousands of the very
best Dairymen in this coun-
try. 1t gives a perfect June
Color, and is VS. harmless as
salt. Warranted to add five
cents per pound to its selling
. value. Ask yong Druggist
or Merchant for il, or write
to WILLS, RICHARDSON Il Co.
Proprietors. Burlington, Vt.
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p. A. AND p. /.
SAMANTHA at the centennial

JOSIAH ALIENS WIFE'S New Book.
81, 900 Sold i'm Two Months. Agents run after
by Everybody and his Wife Now is the time to se-
cure territory, etc Send for circulars, terms to
Agents, ETC., etc. Address, AMERICAN PUBLISH
ING CO., Hartford, Conn, or Chicago Ill.
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InaI SOcIdCeS WAS WdlCluS 10 take pos
session of my body, and / yearned to
open nv bosom and receive that grand
soul. Every night the detestable gray
rat came and peered through the wires.
His cool, contemptuous malice exasper-
ated me strangely. I longed to reach
out from benea h my cage and seize and
throttle him, but I was afraid of the
venom of his bite.
My own soul had by this time nearly
wasted away, so to speak, through dis
ciplined disuse. The owl looked down
lovingly at me with his great placid
eyes. A noble spirit seemed to shine
through them and 10 say, &c will come
when you are ready" And would look
back into their lustrous depths and ex-
claim with. infinite yearning, "Come
soon, o Socrates, for am almost ready !"
Then / would turn and meet the devilish
gaze of the monstrous beast; sneering
malevolence dragged me back to earth
and to earth's hatred.
My detestation of the abominable
beast was the sole lingering trace of the
old nature. When he was not by, my
soul seemed to hover around and above
my body, ready to take wing and to
leave it free forever. At his appearance
an unconquerable disgust and loathing
undid in a second all that had be- n
accomplished, and was still myself. To
succeed in my experiment felt that
the hateful creature whose presence
barred out the grand old philosophers
soul must be dispatched at any cost of
sacrifice or danger. -e
II will kill you, you loathsome ami
malP' l shouted to the rat, and then
to my em ancipated body will come the
soul OF Socrates which awaits me yon-
der" s'l5i.5
The rat turned on me his leering eyes
and grinned more sardonically than ever.
His scorn was more than / could bear.
threw up the side Of the wire cage and
clutched desperately at my enemy. I
caught him by the tail. drew him
close to me. I crunehed the bones of
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Joint resolution granting the use OF s-ti!
lery, tents, etc., at the soldiers reunion TO Be
held at Centerville, Iowa. Approved jun
IA, 1873.
Joint resolution requiring the Secretary
of War to turn over to Governor Hubbard,
of Texas, such tents, poles and pins as he
may require tor the use OF the volunteers of
the State at their summer encampment.
Approved June s, 1878.
Joint resolution asking for Investigation
in the case of Edward O'M. Condor. Ap.
proved June 15, 1873.
PRIVATE BILLS.
An act for the relief of Dudley A. Fish, of
Bucyrus, Ohio. Approved May 25 1878.
An act granting pension to Daniel W.
Martin, a private in Company A, Fifty
second Ohio Volunteers. Approved June
| Is, 1873.
An act granting a pension to James
Shields. Approved June is, 1873.
| An act granting pension to Levi ]. Field,
late private of Company z, Seventy seventh
Ohio Volunteers. Approved June 10, 1878.
VETO BILLS.
| An act to authorize the coinage of the
| standard silver dollar and to restore its legal
| tender character. Returned with objections
February 26, 1878. This is the Silver Bill.
| The entry on the record at the White House
| boars across the lines the word "Veto, u
| heavily underscored and written in red ink. ;
| AN act to authorize special term of the
Circuit Court of the United St. tes for the
Southern District of Mississippi, to be held
at Scranton, in Jackson County. Returned
with objections March 6, 1878.
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A Local Industry.

The japanese raise mushrooms on de-
cayed roots, stumps or logs. Certain
varieties of the oak tree, when cut down,
furnish the most acceptable mushrooms.
Incisions are cut through the outer bark
of the logs, which are made by splitting
trunk into quarters. The logs are left
in the forest to rot for about three years,
when mushrooms grow upon them
if the rotten portion Of the wood be
scraped away. After the first crop is
removed, the logs are put into water in
the morning, and in the afternoon are
beaten with a mallet; they are then
ranged on end slanting, in the forest, and
the mushrooms grow again upon them.
This process is continuously repeated
and it is found that the largest mush.
rooms grow upon logs that are beaten
hardest.
Another method of culture consists in
burying the logs. The japanese dry
their mushrooms by artificial heat
slowly and carefully applied. The in
dustry is of some magnitude, and con
siderable portion of the dried product il
| exported.
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The Brain a Photograph.

Students of De Qui ncy who have been
delighted a d instructed by his brilliant
paper on "Tbe Palimpsest of the HUI
man Brain" would do well to read some
speculations just advanced by DIR. G.
William Siemens, bearing upon physio-
logical research. The discovery of the
microphone and of its two elder sisters,
the telephone and the phonograph, the
doctor thinks, will probably be regarded
as one of the greatest achievements of
the present century, and the phenomena
presented by them may reveal the secrets
of animate organization. He proceeds
to trace an analogy between the action
of the brain in the exercise of memory
and of the phonograph in reproducing
the impression it received. Briefly, his
statement of the case is this: The i'm
pressions received through the senses are
communicated to the corpuscular bodies
imbedded in the gray substance OF the
brain; these corpuscular bodies, in
which the sensitive nerves terminate,
are connected bv delicate filaments with
the nervous system of volition, On
which they react, and that the mind
may have the power of dealing with
impressions received in the past, there
must be some material which perma-
nently receives these impressions. He
then asks whether the gray substance of
the brain be not like store-house, con-
tanning the accumulated treasures of ouI
knowledge and experience, to be called
into use by the directing power of the
mind, in turning on, as it were, one
photographic barrel after another. On
this theory there may be given an ex.
PLANTATION of dreams, hallucinations
etc, in states or conditions where the
control of the will is weakened and the
imprints of the past in the brain be
come confused and enter into strange
combinations. That the appearance o.
things around us may find permanent
judgment through some form of impres
sion in the gray matter of the brain, a
we'll as sound has lately been shown BY
Willoughby Smith. He substituted
crystalline selenium for carbon in tn,
microphone, and when ray of sunligh
fell on the selenium noise like that o
steam hammer was heard.
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Elizabeth of England's Last Days.

If the Ministers and courtiers were
counting on her death, Elizabeth had
no mind to die. She had enjoyed life
as the men of her day enjoyed it, and
now that they were gone she clung to it
with fierce tenacity. She hunted, she
danced, she jested with her young favor
ties, she coquetted and scolded and
frolicked at sixty-seven as she had at
thirty. "The Queen" wrote a courtier
a few months before her death, "was
never so gallant these many years nor so
set upon jollity. She persisted, in spite
of opposition, in her gorgeous progress
from country house to country house.
She clung to business as of old, and
rated in her usual fashsion 'one who
minded not giving up some matter of ac-
count"
But death crept on. Her face became
haggard, and her frame shrunk almost
to a skeleton. At last her taste for
finery disappeared, and she refused to
change her dress for week together.
A strange melancholy settled down on
her.
"She held in her hand" says one who
saw her in her last days, ga golden cup
which she often put to her lips; but in
truth her heart seemed too full to need
more filing"
Gradually her mind gave way. She
| lost her memory, the violence of her
temper became unbearabie, her very
courage seemed to forsake her. She
called for a sword to lie constantly be-
side her, and thrust it from time to
time through the arras, as if she heard
murderers stirring there. Food and
rest became alike distasteful. She sal
day and night propped up with pillows
on a stool, her finger on her lips, hel
eyes fixed on the floor, without word
If she once broke the silence it was with
a flash of her old queenliness. Whe1
Sir Robert Cecil declared that she mus
go to bed the word reused her like
trumpet.
"Must" she exclaimed; &c is must
word to be addressed to Princes? LITTLE
man. little man, thy father, if he hat
been alive, burst not have used tina
word"
Then, as her anger spent itself, sh
sank into the old detection.
Thou art so presumptious," she said
"because thou knowest that I shal
die"
She rallied once more when the Min
listers beside her named Lord Beau
champ, the heir to the Suffolk claim, a
possible successor.
"I will have no rogue's son." sh
cried, hoarsely, I" in my seat"
But she gave no sign save motion O
the head at the mention of the King o
Scots. She was, in fact becoming in
sensible, and early the next morning
on the 24th of March, 1903, the life 0
Elizabeth life so great, so strang
and lonely in its greatness-ebbe,
quietly away.
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'HE TWENTY.sECONp on FEE
BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.


Pale Is the February sky,
And brief the midday's sunny hours;
The vind-swept forest seems 10 sigh
For the sweet time Of leaves and flowers.
Yet has no month prouder day,
Not even when the summer broods
Oer meadows in their fresh array,
Or autumn tints the glowing woods.
For this chill season now again
Brings, in its annual round, the morn
when, greatest Of the sons Of men,
Our glorious Washington was born.
Lo, where, beneath an icy shield,
Calmly the mighty Hudson howsl
By snow-clad fell and frozen field
Broadening the lordly river goes.
The widest storm that sweeps through space,
And rends the oak with sudde- force,
Can raise no ripple on bis face,
Or slacken his majestic course.
Thus, mid the wreck Of thrones, shall live
Unmarried, undimmed, our hero's fame,
And years succeeding years shall give
Increase OF hoBors to his name.
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ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HOU USE.

SAUCE: Slice lemon; take the seeds
out, so as not to get the bitter; put it
with pint of sugar and small quantity
of water; let it boil, and add piece of
butter.
tried Chesters, Sufolks, Poland Chinas
and Berkshires, and discarded all but the
Berkshires, as for the food eaten they
produce the largest amount of good
pork.
HOME pudding: One pint of milk,
yolk of two eggs, three crackers rolled
fine and bake. Use three-fourths of
cup of sugar, and the whites for frost
ing: spread over the pudding, and re-
turn to the oven for a few minutes.
In the use of bone manure it is well
| to bear in mind that the more finely it
is pulverized, the more quickly it acts.
The effect of finely ground bone may not
! be noticeable for more than three years,
but quick return for the capital in
| vested is made. Coarser bone may be
far less observable in its effects upon
crops, but of course, those effects will
continue much longer.
PUFFErs: Beat two heaping table
spoonfuls of cream tartar in three pints
Of well-sifted -four; beat three eggs
we'll; one cup of sugar; one cup of soft
butter; add one pint of milk, into which
dissolve one teaspoonful of soda, after
which add the -four. Mix lightly, and
bake thirty minutes in a quick oven
pour it all in dripping-pan, and when
done cut it in small square pieces.
BREAD pudding: One pint of the
bread-crumbs, one quart of milk, one
cup sugar. The yolks of four eggs
beaten. A piece of butter the size OF
an egg. Grated rind of a lemon. Bake
until done, but not watery. Whip the
white of the eggs stiff and beat in cup
of sugar in which has been stirred the
juice of lemon. Spread over the pud
ding layer of jelly; pour the whites
of the eggs over this and replace in the
oven and bake lightly.
MULcHING is good thing in all de
partments of plant growth. Newly
planted trees always, and oftentimes fol
successive years. Raspberries, currants
ETC., do much better when mulched, and
it is very easy to pull up the few weeds
that force themselves through the mulch
Strawberries need plenty Of water a
fruiting time, aud mulch is as good a
spell of wet weather. 1t also keep
the fruit clean and the weeds down
Tomatoes when allowed to lie on thu
ground are helped by mulch. At thi
time of the year plenty of grass can b'
, cut for the purpose.
, PLUM pudding: Take sixpenny loa
of stale bakers bread, cut in small
pieces Except the under crust); lay i
T in pan, and pour quart and pint o
t boiling milk over it; let it stand an hou
: or two, then mash it quite fine, and
when it is cold, stir in some hour-tw
r or three handfuls-add seven eggs wei
D beaten, three-quarters of a pound Q
a beef suet chopped very fine, two pound
= of stoned rasins, one pound of currant!
4 small quantity of cinnamon and cloves
g quarter of pound of citron, two nu
megs. Boil it three hours, and have th
water boiling when it is put in; ais
k have teakettle of hot water to fill IL
y the pot.
IS THE municipal authorities of certai
a European towns pay children for co
9 lecting May bugs" upon their first al
y pearance. In few hours the childre
of Mannheim collected and sold at
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fixed rate over 5000 litres (2,113 Ameri-
can pints.) Suppose our town authori-
ties were to pay for the potatoe beetle
upon its first appearance in spring-say
ten cents per quart or a remunerative
price, whatever that might be found to
be. Might not this prove an efectual
method of exterminating the pest?
Surely every farmer would be willing to
pay an extra tax in support of any ex-
terminatory measure that would do
away with Paris-green.
WORKING in garden is highly con-
ducive to health. The exercise is gen
tie; it is united with amusement, and
by it both the body and the spirits are
invigorated. There is something in the
odor of the earth that strengthens the
whole system. Let the sedentary man
take up the pruning knife and spend an
hour of the dewy morning amongst his
vines, or the spade, hoe, or rake and pre-
pare for work over his asparagus, lettuce
or radish beds, and he will thus give
tone and vigor to his body and his mind
| for the severer studies of his desk. The
teacher will teach all the better; the
minister will preach all the better fol
the mind exercise which the gardeI
gives.
BAKED rice pudding: One teacup o
rice, two tablespoonfuls of moist sugar
one quart of milk, half an ounce o
butter, or two otablespoonfuls of chopped
suet, half teaspoonful of grated nut
meg. Wash the rice, put it into pie
dish with the sugar, pour in the milk
and stir these ingredients well together
then add the butter, cup up into yer.
small pieces, or, instead of this, tn
above proportion of finely minced suet
CRATE little nutmeg over the top, an
bake the pudding, in moderate over
from an hour and half to two hour
As the rice is not previously cooked, car
must be taken that the pudding be yer
slowly baked, to give plenty of time fo
the rice to swell, and for it to be yer
thoroughly done.
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SnuE.Dipping.

Says the Atlanta Sunny South: 1t is
not generally known to what extent this
practice of dipping snuff is carried in
some sections in our fair South. nor how
many matrons and young girls of intel
ligence and high social standing are
slaves to habit that gradually under
mines their health, skaters their nerves
and too often insidiously opens the door
to the terrible opium habit.
Snuf-dipping is demoralizing in the
first instance, because in most cases it
fosters concealment and deceit. The
habit is kept secret from parents and
friends.
We know daughters whose snuff bot
ties are concealed in their rooms, where
they use it constantly without the
knowledge of their parents. We have
seen at boarding schools, girls 60 into
Mysteries when deprived of the snuff,
and borrow tobacco from the servants,
as substitute, until they could obtain
| their usual stimulant of Scotch and
Maccaboy, and we are well acquainted
with three sisters-beautiful young girls
were it not for the sallow hue furnishing
their complexiOns-who are at present
under medical treatment for derange
| lIe'ho VI tiIC HCINOuS SyotCIA dAo ulSCc
| tive organs, arising from the constant
use of snuff. Their physicians have as
sured them it was the cause of the dis
ease thus blighting their young lives, ant
that medicine must be in vain as long a
the practice was continued and still the!
cling to their snuff bottles as persistently
as the topper to his demijohn. And thi
when they know that this vile poiso1
nourishes the worm disease at the roo
of life, silently, slowly but surely de
stroying it ere its prime: for aside from
the filthiness of this habit, the constan
drain of the salivary glands, produces
by frequent splitting and the narcoti
poison of the weed itself, throw the del
cately balanced system out of order, an
bring a train of diseases to render lii
unexpectedly burdensome.
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The Pickanninies at &C Fifth Avenue"

lScribner for July.1
When the play of Uncle Toms
Cabin was given at the Fifth Avenue
Theater, lately, the principal attraction
was the company of genuine plantation
darkies who took part in the episode of
the Virginia Breakdown" To eyes
used only l. burnt-cork limitations, the
dancing of these originals approached
the neighborheed of genius; it was
simple as Bret Harte would say, but
!" first-cIass >, it had fire and abandon,
no less than. polish. When the fun and
fury were at their height, forward came
two shining pickanninies-the boy five
years old, the girl three-and dancing
the walk-around with considerable
though not perfect art, pointed the
moral of training training-training !
Thus early had all these artists begun
their careers. And from their witty,
sometimes startling, expressions with
regard to each others performance, it
was evident that their training as crit
les had gone hand-in-hand with their
training as artists. A pickanniny on a
plantation begins to learn the break.
down at the age of three, and keeps uI
a constant practice for years and years
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HONOR TO AMERICAN MANUFAC-
TURERs.-His Majesty Oscar II, King of
Norway and Sweden, has sent to the
Mason q Hamlin Organ Co. the Grand
Swedish Gold Medal in recognition of
the superiority of their cabinet organs.
The medal is surmounted by a crown
and bears on one side the inscription
"Litteris ct Artibus," and on the other
around the bust of the king, Oscar l
Svec. Norv. Goth. Wand. Rex" This
honor will be the more valued by the
Company from the fact that His Males y
Oscar III is known to be n musical con-
noisseur of highest attainments.
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WILHoFT's Tonic is not a panecea-is
not a cure for everything, but is catholicon
for malarious diseases, and day by day adds
fresh laurels to its crown of glorious success.
Engorged Livers and Spleens, along the
shady banks of our lakes and rivers, are re-
stored to their healthy and normal secre-
tions. Health and vigor follow its use, and
Chills have taken their departure from every
household where Wilhoft's Anti-Periodic is
kept and taken. Don't fail to try it. WHEE.
LOCK, FINLAY & Co., Proprietors, New
Orleans. For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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WATERLOO bridge, one of the finest
and most elegant bridges crossing the
river Thames, has latterly become SO in
secure that it will have either to be re-
paired at an enormous cost or else pulled
down. 1t was built soon after the cele
brated battle, and opened with great
ceremony by George ".