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Cheap Living.

How to cook so as to make clean,
savory dishes is quite as important as to
know what food to purchase, and in
what manner it is to be cooked. so as to
secure the greatest amount of sustenance
for the least money; but that is chiefly
to be learned by experience. The bill
of fare which Miss Corson, the New York
cooking school manager, publishes in
her pamphlet on this subject, will IN
doubtedly shcw something new to many
people now pinched for want Of sufficient
food. One direction is follows, for o
family OF five:
monday there is boiled rice and milk
for breakfast. corned beef and cabbage
for dinner, and peas boiled in stock for
supper. That days food costs thirty.
five cents. Tuesday, broth and bread
for breakfast, costing ten cents; for din
ner, baked beans; supper, macaroni
and cheese. Wednesday there is toasted
bread and scalded milk for breakfast,
stewed tripe for dinner, and polenta for
supper. Thursday, rice panada for
breakfast, salt potaufeu for dinner, and
lentils stewed in stock for supper. Fri
day, broth and bread for breakfast,
muttons and turnips for dinner, and
barley boiled in broth for supper. Sat-
urday, mutton broth and bread for
breakfast, beef and potatoes for dinner,
and beans boiled in broth for supper.
Sundays fare costs sixty-one cents, and
includes breakfast of cocoa, bread and
fried %lentils, dinner of bean broth, has
let stew and suet roly-poly pudding, and
supper of cheese pudding. For the
week that makes q total expense of two
dollars and fifty cents, and leaves a bal
ance on my estimate of sixty-two cents
for extra bread milk and butter"
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A front Fishers Yarns.

Having fshed the lakes and streams
of New England for thirty years, says a
writer in Forest and Stream, I have had
some curious incidents occur, and
thought the following might interest
your readers: While fishing on a noun
tain stream, in swift water, had q rapid
bite, and thought I had hooked a large
fish. On pulling out I had two trout on
n line, n strung on the gut, the
hook passing through his mouth and
out his gill and hooked firmly into the
side Of the other. Fish No. 2 was ten
inches long, and, pulling sideways
against the stream, seemed q much
larger fish. Second: While fishing in
what We call dead water on a stream in
New Hampshire. I saw q large fish go
up stream. T waited with fshermau's
patience for an hour or two, then I crept
up to the stream, and threw at a venture
under an overhanging bough, and at the
first throw I had the trout fast. saw
that he was a large one, and thought l
would play him. I then saw he was
pulling sideways. I shortened my tackle
and landed my prize, and then found
that I had not hooked him, but in my
throw had cast the hook and line around
him, making a slip-noose. On my way
home, passing a locksmith's shop, laid
him on the old gents square, and he
stretched sixteen inches-not O large
fsh, but a large one for that place.
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CuriOus Remedial Agent.

In the course of a report which has
Just been published by order OF the In
spector- General of Maritime Customs i'll
China, DR.. F. Wong give us some curl
GUS particulars respecting q strange
remedial agent employed by the Chinese
in cases of Cynanchee tonsillaris. The
disease they term Mgo-how, or ''goose-
throat" and the remedy in question is
called How tsao, a soft stone not unlike
hillary calculus in appearance. 1t Is
expensive, being worth twenty times its
weight in silver, and is said to come
from Siam. Twenty or thirty grains of
this powder taken in water is thought to
be very %efacacious. DR.. Wong mentions
having seer q case where this remedy
was given, and where it certainly ap-
peared effective, after gargles and as
tringents had been applied in vain.
The specimens Of the stone which have
come under his notice appear like ami
nal c%oncretions and are OF various sizes,
some being smaller,,than pigeons eggs,
while others are as large as hens eggs.
The story goes that when q monkey is
wounded the animal, from it's natural
instinct, picks out the proper medicinal
herbs, masticates and applies them to
the wound, 80 that successive layers arc
in this way laid on 80 as to form a mass.
In time the wound heals, and the lump
of dried herbs falls off; it is then picked
up by the Siamese, found by them to
possess peculiar virtues, and sent in
small quantities to China as a drug
Nature,
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Something About Yourself.

Surprising your age to be fifteen
years, or thereabouts, you can be fgur-
ed up to a dot, You have 100 bones
and 500 muscles; your blood weighs
twenty-five pounds; your heart is nearly
five inches in length, and three inches
in diameter; it beats seventy times per
minute, 1900 times per hour, 100, 800
times per day, and 80, 1872, 900 times per
year. At each beat a little over two
ounces of blood is thrown out of it; and
each day it receives and discharges
about seven tons of that wonderful fluid.
Your lungs will contain a gallon of air;
and you inhale "a, 900 gallons per day.
The aggregate surface OF the air cells of
your lungs, supposing them to spread
out, exceeds 20, 900 square inches. The
weight of your brain is three pounds;
when you are a man it will weigh about
eight ounces more. Your nerves num-
Der 10000, 900 or more. Your skin is
composed of three layers and varies from
one-eighth to o%ne.fourth of an inch in
thickness. The area of your skin is
about ], ZOO square inches, and you are
subjected to an atmospheric pressure of
fifteen pounds to the square inch. Each
square inch of your skin contains 3, 500
weating tubes, or p~erspiratory pores,
each of which may be ikened to q little
draining-tile one-fourth of an inch long,
making an aggregate length in the en-
tire surface of your body OF POI, 166
feet, or a tile-ditch for draining the body
almost forty miles long.
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Words OF Wisdom.

Many people find their only happiness
in forcing themseles to be unhappy.
In order to enjoy the present, it is
necessary to be intent on the present.
To be doing n thing and thinking OF
another is a very unsatisfactory mode
of spending life.
Would you be exempt from uneasi-
ness, do nothing that you know or sus-
pect to be wrong. Would you enjoy the
purest pleasure-do everything in your
power which you are convinced is right
We rise ourselves by adoring that
which is better than we are It is the
one virtue of the soul which is always
tending upward by its proper motion
upward to something higher, purer,
better flames Freeman Clarke.
The rainbow is beautiful, but without
a storm, without a passing cloud, with
out descending raindrops, it does not
appear. It comes after darkness and
gloom, and the contrast makes its light
the more charming and attractive. Pat.
terson.
Men talk too much about the world.
Each n of us here, let the world go as
it will, and be victorious or not victori-
GUS, has he not a life of his W to
lead9 One life-a little CLEAN of time
between two eternities-no second
chance to us forevermore.
The wind is unseen, but it cools the
brow of the fevered one. sweetens the
summer atmosphere. and ripples the sur
face of the lake into silver spangles of
beauty. So goodness of heart, though
invisible to the material eye, makes its
presence felt; and from its effect upon
surrounding things we are assured OF its
existence.
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The --latest Novelties In Mowers and
Reapers.

The --latest Novelties In Mowers and
Reapers.
We are all apt to run after the latest novelty,
and, in these days Of progress, 1t Is well to try
and keep up with the times; but 1t should be
borne in mind that only q small proportion Of
so-called novelties, when put to the test, prove
to have any value, and in the purchase Of a
moving or reaping machine the farmer cannot
afford to make experiments.
Twsnty-one years ago, the novelties Of two
driving wheels, q double-jointed folding cutter
bar, In front Of the driver-a wonderfully SIM
pie and perfect system of gearing and bracing;
a leading wheel, and q lifting lever-were first
introduced in the Buckeye Machine. These
novelties obviated all the dicfiulties that had
heretofore prevented the universal use Of now
ing machines and made them q necessary farm
implement. .
The Buckeye Machines have outlived scores
Of novelties which have tried to compete with
them, and the hundreds OF thousands Of farm
ers who have tested them bear witness that
they are to-day the simplest, the lightest In
draft, the safest, the least costly to keep in re-
pair, the strongest, most durable, and do the
best work. There are no mysteries about the
Bucseye Machine, but all Is simple, solid and
mechanically correct. Adriance; Plat & Co.,
Of Poughkeepsie, and 165 Greenwich Street,
New York, who enjoy 80 high o reputation as
the builders Of the Buckeye, have introduced a
later novelty in the Adriance Single Wheel
Reaper, which is in all respects q worthy COM
panion to the Buckeye Mower. .,''
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Curious Swedish Ceremony.

A curious ceremony is performed ev-
cry year in Zurich (Switzerland), on the
eve of the so.called Sechselauten, the
ancient spring festival of the Tigurines,
as our forefathers often classically
named the people Of Zurich. But the
most popular ceremony belongs to the
festival itself. This is the solemn con
demnation and execution of the hated
winter. It seems to be o theory of the
~Sechselauten that winter ought to end
on the 31st March and that spring
should begin on the LIST April. After
sunset on the last day OF March, multi
tudes OF men, women and children COL
lect together OH the Stadthausplatz, in
order to witness the burning of the un-
lucky "Bogg," the god of winter.
During the burning Of the winter god
this year the crown of the neighboring
Uetliberg was white with snow, a sign
that the hard Zurich winter was
not over, 80 that the experiment
with the Bogg was a little daring and
venturesome. The execution of the
Bogg has occasionally been put off un.
til q later and less wintry day, in April,
This was the case last year. Yet, when
the citizens arose next morning, the
Bogg seemed Like the Phoenix to have
arisen from his ashes and declared that
his reign was not ended, for the city and
the whole neighborhood wore the appear
ance Of a winter landscape, every street
and field being white with snow.
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Mules in the Mines.

In underground places, the intelligence
of mules displays itself in a remarkable
manner. They soon learn to obey every
command their driver gives them. A
curious freak about mules is that when
anything touches their heads they dodge,
while touching horses ears makes them
throw up their heads. For this very
reason horses cannot be used under
ground, for they would soon break their
skulls, while mules never get injured
in that manner. The switch mules in
the Nevada mines, when the men are
eating, go from man to man begging for
something to eat, and they will eat
cooked meat, pies, drink coffee-in fact,
take anything the men have. One Of
the mules, when the men r not look
ing, is in the habit of upsetting the mems
lunch pals and helping themselves with
out leave. They have also taken to
drinking ice water, and are not satisfied
except they get their regular allowance.
The mules which pull the rock-trains
are driven three or four tandem, each
having a torch upon its head, which
keeps bobbing up and down as they
move along, and they present a very
novel appearance as seen from q distance
in the darkness.
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The Secret Of Bueiless SIccess.
tt s claimed that Vanderbilt exmoitea 8rcab
nerve and shrewd business sagseity 10 the pur'
chase Of stocks and railroads controlled BY him.
Yet. whenever he made an investment he re-
ceived in return an equivalent either as bis
own, or as collateral security. Dr. d. Y:
Pierce has invested many hundred thousand
dollars In advertising, depending entirely upon
tho superior merits Of his goods Tor security.
The unparalleled popularity Of his family med
icines, and the annual increase In their sale,
attests in arg :ments stronger than words OF
their purity and efficiency. II the blood be
impoverished, the liver sluggish or there be
tumors, blotohes and pimples, DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery will effect o speedy
use DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgadve Pellets.
Debilitated females suffering with those pecu-
liar dragging-down sensations and weaknesses,
will find DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription q
safe and certain remedy. Prompt relief and .
permanent cure have 80 univ srsally followed
its use, that the doctor now sells 1t under .
positive guarantee. ..s IS ..
r.. ...: OAKLAND, Douglass Co., Oregon, /
., -rr. Jan. IS, 1877. T.
Dr.. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y: .fc 49,. -
Dear Sir-Your Golden Medical Discovery
has cured my daughter Of goitre, after many
physicians had failed. 1nclos' d please find
S1.5o for q copy of The Peoples Common
Sense Medical Adviser. With, us 1t takes the
place Of the family physician.
Yours truly, AARON ALLEN.
Mr.. VERNON, Ohio, July 10, 1875.
DE-. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y: ~ It,.
Dear Sir-Four bottles Of your Favorite
Prescription has entirely cured my wife. We
employed three different physicians and many
remedies, but found no relief. With q thank
full heart, I am, Ever your friend,
49, AUGUST WARNING. D..
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such frauds may be prevented, II not, to clear
up the general belief throughout the country
that there were such frauds" 81

suoh frauds may be prevented, II not, to clear
up the general belief throughout the country
that there were such frauds" g..
Foreign News.
The pleasure steamer Empress Of India, with
q party of about eighteen persons on board,
became un~managable and capsized over a dam
on Grand river, at Calf, Ont. ALI of the pas
sengers were plunged into the river below and
drowned. 90, = T. -
. Count schouvalof arrived in London the
other day from st. Petersburg. Bis mission
is the subject Of general discussion In that
city and on the continent. In Berlin the semi
official Provincial Corresponding anticipates
q favorable result from Count schouyalof's
efforts. It says that the latest declarations Of
the British ministers, as we'll as the news man.
Tested at st. Petersburg, are full OF wishes
and hopes for the renewed consolidation OF
European peace.
The Lerdo (Me1ican) revolutionists captured
the town Of Reynosssnd levied a "prestmo"
Of $1,000
A fire within the precincts Of the sublime
Porte at Co~nstantinople destroyed the greater
portion OF the buildings, including the minis
tries Of Justice and OF the council OF State.
The ministry Of foreign affairs, tho grand
v~izierate and thea archives were saved.
A vote WAS taken by the striking cotton
operatives Of England upon q compromise pro-
posal, and the proposal was rejected by 1885
against 1872. The result WAS hailed with satis-
faction by the operatives and the strike will be
indefinitely prolonged.
The English feet carrying troops from India
has arrived at Malta.
Al American gentleman just returned to
England from an extensive tour in Russia, says
that 200, 900 Russians are moving toward the
Galician frontier Of Austria. The garrisons
throughout Poland are moving southwark.
Camps Of troops and recruits were noticed at
many points along the railways. Moscow and
st. Petersburg are full OF troops. and new
levies are constantly coming forward. The
commissary department is purchasing heavily
all kinds OF supplies. There is great bitter
ness among the people against England.
Paris newspaper states that the treaty Of
San Stefano will be submitted to q congress by
Russia, and that negotiations have gone 80 far
that all the powers have assented to the con-
gress. '."
Nine thousand Turkish refugees have been
sent to Asia from Constantinople. An immense
number still remain in q wretched state OF des-
titution. ... t. .'.
A special dispatch from st. Petersburg says
it is rumored that the Russian Imperial Bank
is 80 heavily indebted that the government
dare not continue the publication Of the weekly
returns. The banks affairs are in almost hope
| naa confnaion. r.....
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COrns and Warts.

These troublesome e~1crescences re-
ceive much attention in the domestic
columns of our exchanges, aud we copy
a few..of the hints given to sufferers with
the promise of speedy relief: First.
One writer says: "For more than a
year I was afflicted with a large corn on
the ball of my left foot, and also a large
wart in the palm of my left hand. l hit
upon a cure for both. 1t was q simple
application of wood (hickory) ashes and
strongcider vinegar sufficient to molsten.
T kept it on thirty-six hours. often add
ing more vinegar to keep up the moist
ure. The application then was renewed
for thirty-six hours more, when I found
all pain had ceased, both being entirely
destroyed. then could wear my boot,
and, by q small application every night
of beef tallow, IN one month all the hard
substance that had formed around the
corn had been removed. There is now
no trace left of either corn or wart.
Second. For soft corns between the
toes, another writer bids US take a bit OF
old soft linen or cotton batting, ~saturate
it thoroughly with glycerine, and then
dip into fannie acid and apply to the
corns. Third. A physician says that
warts may be removed "by rubbing
them night and morn with a moistened
piece Of muriate of ammonia. They
soften and dwindle away, leaving no
such marks as follows their dispersion
with lunar caustic." Fourth. A chem
list suggests still another cure for warts:
dissolve q few Jumps of ~bi-chromate
of potash in a little water. Apply sew
eral times each day." Fifth. And Halls
Journal of Health directs the sufferer
to "dip q stick the Size of a knitting
needle into muriatic acid, and touch the
top of the wart night and morning with
what adheres to the stick, to effect a
painless cure. Buy q small quantity in
a glass-stoppered bottle, keep out Of the
way of children, off your clothes and the
skin, and you are safe in using it.
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A Bow who Gave His Note.

a Boston lawyer was called on a short
time ago by a boy, who inquired if he
had any waste paper to sell. The
lawyer had a crisp, keen way Of asking
questions, and is, moreover, a method
ical man. So pulling out a large
drawer, he exhibited his stock Of waste
paper.
"Will you give me two. shillings for
thatf"
The oylooked at the paper doubling
~ a moment, and offered tifteen-pence.
"Done," said the lawyer, and the
paper was quickly transferred to the
bag of the boy, whose eyes sparkled as
he lifted the mighty mass. -.
Not till it was safely slowed away did
he announce that he had no money.
"No money. How do you expect to
buy paper without money!"
Not prepared to state exactly his plan
of operations, the boy made no reply.
edo you consider your note goodT'
asked the lawyer.
eyes, sir"
every we'll ; if you consider your
note is good, I'd just as soon have it as
the money but II 1t ISM gooo 1 oon'
want it,"
The boy affirmed that he considered
it good 4; whereupon the lawyer wrote q
note for ffteen-pence, which the boy
signed legibly. and lifting the bag OF
papers, trudged of.
Soon after dinner the little fellow re-
turned, and producing the money an
nounced that he had come to pay his
note.
"Well," said the lawyer, "this is the
first time I ever knew a note to be taken
up the day it was given. A boy that
will do that is entitled to note and
money too )" and, giving him both,
sent him on his way with a smiling face
and happy heart.
The boys note represented his honor.
A boy who thus keeps his honor bright,
however poor he may be in worldly
things, is an heir to an inheritance
which no riches can buy-the choice
promises of God.
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Artificial Ears and Eyes.

This discovery mania is really ave.
Inspiring in its tremendous possibilities.
Mr.. Thomas A. Edison, the photograph
inventor, has written to an acquaintance
in Chicago a significant note which we
find in the Tribune of that city:
MEMO PARK. N. j., May 10.-DEAR
SIR: The many letters that I have re-
ceived on the subject of an apparatus
for the deaf has convinced me that the
demand would be enormous So I have
put two of my most skilful assistants at
work testing my ideas. I feel sure that
I will produce a practical apparatus
within six months.
MI. Edison's ingenuity may be stimu-
lated by the fact that he himself is con-
siderably deaf, 80 that he has to hold his
hand to his ear and scoop in the voice,
like a sailor in a hurricane. And really,
there is no scientific deduction against
the success of the attempt to create an
artificial ear. The organ of hearing is a
purely mechanical continuance, and it
may be possible to convey sensation to
the auricular nerves by artificial meth
DDS. And if the deaf can be helped to
hear, why not the blind be made to see?
Helmholtz, one of the greatest physicians
living, has spoken with some contempt
Of the human eye as a mechanical in
struwent, declaring it far from perfect;
and Professor Clifford has told
us that it is not achromatic, and
that an important portion of the
retina does not reflect an image.
It would be rather audacious for
a man to attempt to improve on it,
and, as a matter of fact, human beings
will probably have to put up with this
imperfect continuance for q good many
years yet; but if Edison can artifcially
reach and impress with sensibllity the
aural nerves. is there any reason why the
blind may not ses with patent glass
eyes2 This is a realm, however, where
experiments are somewhat more valuable
than conjectures. -New York Graphic.
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A Newspaper Wonder.

The Advocate, NORTHUMBERLAND paper pup
lished in New York, has created o marked ex-
element among publishers. 1t was begun in
May, 1876, as a local paper at Spring Valley,
Rockland county, and on Jan'y LIST, 1877, re-
moved to New York. The first issue in that
year was 43s copies. using twenty-five pounds
Of white paper, postage fifty cents, while the
issue OF May 22d instant was 156, 0O0, using near
nine tons Of white paper and paying $500 post
age. This has been done by q discreet but bold
method of advertising. The company expect
propose to e1pend 5000, 900 in advertising to
secure that end. 1t during the months Of June,
July, August and September puts it's ADVERTISE
ment Of one column into 800 papers. includ-
ing the city dailies. II business men would
take courage and show faith in printers's ink,
much could be done to dissipate hard times by
ra,;,-;pr IY,oipaop
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FOE YOUNG PEOPLE.


Whistle and Hoe.
There Is q boy just over the garden fence,
Who is whistling all through the livelong day,
And his work is not just 8 mere %pretense,
For you see the weeds he has cut away:
Whistle and hoe,
Sing as you go.
Shorten the row
BY the songs you know.
Not a word Of bemoaning his task l hear,
He has scarcely time for q growl, know,
For his whistle sounds 80 merry and clear,
He must find some pleasure in every row,
Whistle and hoe,
Sing as you 60,
Shorten the row,
By the songs you know.
But then while you whistle, be sure that you
hoe,
For, if you are idle, the briers will spread;
And whistle alone to the end Of the row
May do for the weeds, but is bad for the
bread.
Whistle and hoe,
Sing as you go.
Shorten the row
By the songs you know.