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TOPICS FOR FARMERS.
Sowing Grain.-A writer in t

Sowing Grain.-A writer in the
i2eas;rol Neao Yorker says: The sowing sea-
son il past, b.. there arc some points
which came up this spring which |
would like to see discussed little more
One was the amount of seed to be sown
per acre. Most of the farmers hereabout
SOW one and three-quarter bushels of
wheat or three bushels of oats per acre :;
and | used to think that it was better to
use two bushels of wheat, but near
neighbor, one of our best farmers, / al
ways noticed had No. l " wheat, while
most of us had to sell ours as "No. g."
Last summer he and were talking on
the subject and he said that the reason
his wheat ranked higher than ours lay in
the fact that his was sown thinner, and
as it stood thinner the grain filled out
better; and as the difference between
g. and go" wheat is that one must
be plump while the other may be
shrunken, his argument seems good. In
1875 he raised forty bushels per acres
sowing five pecks of seed, and his crop,
are always good.
In talking of this matter with anumber
of farmers, one day, the amount to be
sown on rich and poor land was spoken
of, and while two agreed with me that
rich land needed less seed than poor,
the other five thought that the reverse
true. Now, |. claim that if your land is
rich, your grain will stool out and you
need less seed. / read not long since of
a stool of rye containing one hundred
and nine heads, the product of one
al IF +ar ylsa+
where the wheat had killed out. Henry
Coleman, of England, counted ninety
five heads from one kernel of wheat. and
says / sent out my drill to an eight
acre field with seven bushels of wheat
to be sown; by mistake in setting the
drill my man found, when he had sown
half the field, that he had sowed but two
pecks per acre not wishing to bring back
part of the seed and let me know of his
mistake, he set the drill to SOW five pecks
of seed per acre and finished the piece. l
did not know of the error but noticed
that part looked very thin; but at har-
vest the thin part yielded best and
the man confessed his mistake"
A well developed head contains, on
the average, forty grains; have counted
sixty -eight in head If we SOW one
bushel per acre and each grain produces
one head-if it grows it can't do less
we shall have forty bushes to the acre.
The average in our State is about thir-
teen bushels.
Prepare your land well, make it
smooth SO that when you SOW, your
grain will be covered evenly. Use less
seed and there will be thousands of dol
lars annually saved. A heavy crop has
been grown by dibbing in +" six quarts
per acre. Ohio alone has in single
year sown two million acres of wheat.
One-half bushel of seed per acre saved,
would make difference Of one million
bushels in single State, which would
send an agricultural paper to good
many homes which are now without one.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-22
Domestic Troubles Of Dickens.


1t will be gratifying to thousands of
Dickens's admirers in America to know
that the wife of Dickens, and her sister,
Miss Hogarth, are reconciled and both
united in compiling memoir of the
novelist. In an interview one evening
with George Cruikshank, last December,
at his residence in Hamstead, he told
me that the difference which arose be-
tween Dickens and his wife grew out of
her frequent criticisms, and what he
thought intermeddling with his own ex-
elusive creations, until he insisted upon
their living apart in the same house, at
Gad's Hill. This she declined to do,
and at once took her residence with Mr..
and Mrs. Cruikshank. His eldest son,
siding with his mother, left also, at the
same time. Mr.. Cruikshank added,
9 there was no scandal otherwise con-
nected with the matter" Perhaps, in
fairness, it ought to be said, that about
this time Dickens had disagreed with
his publishers, Bradbury Evans, about
Household Words, and parted company
and that Charles Dickens, ir., had
married daughter of Mr.. Evans. This
may have had it's influence upon the
young man going with his mother.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-22
Grains of Gold.

A friends frown is better than the
smile of fool.
Do nothing to-day that you will repent
of tomorrow.
Envy-Punishing ourselves for being
inferior to others.
People often affect to be out of hui
NOR, to appear of consequence.
He hath good judgment who doth
not rely entirely upon his own.
Foolhardiness is not seldom the self
disguise of conscious cowardice.
Better a soft heart and an iron hand
than an iron heart and a soft hand.
Account him thy friend who desires
thy good rather than thy good will.
1t is very foolish for people to put
themselves to the trouble of being i'll
natured.
A brave man is one who is not afraid
to wear old clothes until he can afford to
buy new.
There is nothing more necessary than
to know how we may bear the tedious
moments of life.
Do nothing in thy passion; why wilt
thou put out upon the sea while the
storm is raging.
A man may say thing twice if he
says it better the second time than he
was able to the first.
The praises of others may be of use in
teaching us not what we are, but what
we should be-
Disdain not your inferior, though
poor, since he may possibly be much
your superior in wisdom.
The practical Joker is one who thinks
that you are fool because you don't
know he is knave.
We are more apt to use spectacles to
behold other mems faults than looking
glasses to survey our own.
Manly spirit, as it is generally called,
is often little else than the froth and
foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
There is nothing that sooner over
throws weak head than the opinion of
authority; it is like too strong a liquor
in frail glass.
Definite principles and qualities are
realized only when we are placed in
definite positions and when we graphic
with definite objects.
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IncOnstant.

We do not assert that woman is abso-
lutely fixed in her love and loyalty
but she is such compared to man. Were
she hundred times less stable than she
is, he well might honor her in that as
his infinite superior. Love to her
means loyalty, engrossment, dedication.
She is liable to deceive herself-she is
far more liable to be deceived But
when she gives without reserve or stint
the wealth of her affection, she plays the
prodigal to the last, unless his conduct
stir her to count the cost. The law of
her being is not to swerve where her
heart leads the away, nor will she, save
exceptionally. Too often, however, her
faithful heart is driven back by him
who summoned it from the frst--driven
back by neglect, indifference, rejection
and to shield himself, he calls his cold
ness or his cruelty her INCONSISTENCY He
is industrious in finding faults in her
that will excuse his own. He says she
is ickle-inconstant. She cannot COM
prehend how or why she is so, though
she has not the boldness to dissent from
what she years on every hand. She dis
covers in him extraordinary lapses from
loyalty, violated pledges, sundered ties.
These are not natural to her; but as she,
her teachers says, was born inconstant,
he cannot be so, surely. Her divergence
from him helps her in her unrighteous
self condemnation. Her looking at her
self through his eyes draws his defects
and exaggerates her own. He is her
consoler and casuist he always puts her
in the wrong, and graciously pardons
her for the sin he has himself committed.
No marvel her logic is perplexed, and
her ethics are bewildered. For such is
mans power over woman that, while he
knows his charges against her are un-
founded, he compels her to believe in
their truth.
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To take down the grid-iron from the
nail where it is hanging with the left
hand, is a sign that there will be a broil
in the kitchen. If mirror is broken,
it is sign that good looking-glass will
be missed at that house. If you hear
rooster crow when you are in bed, and
clock strike few times at the same
instant, it is sign of moi )rning, To
stroke green-eyed cat with white spot
on her nose is lucky, and heavy purs
will be the consequence. If you are in
house and hear baby cry, it is sign
Of marriage, or-if it isn't it ought to be
To lose.a pocket-book containing green
backs is unlucky.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-22

WILHoFT's FEVER AND AGUE TONIC
CHILL CURE!-SAFE AND SURE DIR. Will
hofts Tonic is curative and protective. 1t
will cure Chills and protect from further at,
tacks. Its reputation is established. Its COM
position is simple and scientific. 1t contains
no poison. 1t acts promptly and its effects
are permanent. 1t is cheap, because it saves
action and delightful in it's effects. Try it
and prove all that's said. WHEELoCK, FIN.
LAY d Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE RY ALI, DRUGGISTS
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ALEX. Stephens was noted for his
small stature even when boy. One day
he and some companions were playing at
" Hide-and-seek," and the boy whose
turn it was to seek had found all but
Stephens. Give upp' yelled he, with
out any effort to discover his hiding
place. d" He is so blamed little / couldn't
find him if / knew where he was"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-22

GREAT age carries with it certain re.
spectability whether it attaches to person
or thing. This is seen particularly in the
case of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment, which is
the most marvellous internal and external
remedy ever discovered. 1t ought to be kept
in every Aouse
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-22

MOTHERS! Mothers Mothers Don't fail
to procure Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
for all diseases incident to the period of teeth
ing in children. 1t relieves the child from
pain, cures wind collie, regulates the bowels,
and, by giving relief and health to the child,
gives rest to the mother. It is an old and
well-tried remedy.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-22

There is probably no other baking powder
manufactured that has become so much of a
household word as DooLEY's YEAST Pow
DER. For twenty years it has stood before
the public, and the innumerable testimonials
that have been called forth voluntarily,
testify fully to its merits.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-22

IF farmers and others continue to buy
dust and ashes put upin big packs and sold
for condition powders it won't be our fault.
We have exposed the swindle time and
again. @eridam's Powders are the only kind
we know of worth carrying home.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-22

NEVER blow down lamp chimney to
extinguishs the fame, for it is quite
liable to return the compliment and
blow YOU up.
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CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED.

PULMONA is certain remedy for the CURE Of
CONSUMPTION and all diseases of the Lungs and
Throat. 1t inyigoTates the brain, tones up the
system, makes the weak strong and is pleasant to
take. Price One Dollar per bottle at Druggists, or
sent by the Proprietor receipt of price pamphlet
containing yaiaalAe aiivice 10 COASU MPT1VES
many certificates Of ACTUAL CURES. and fun dfrec
tions for using accompanies each bottle, or will be
sent free to address. 0SCA IL u. MOSES, Is Cort-
La ndt Street. NV York
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GLEANINGS FROM THE MUSE.
BEHOLD THE DEEDS!


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form of French verse. the f" Chant ROYAL" is writ
ten by II. C. Bunner and appears in Scribner'i
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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-22

Asthma.

Thousands of the worst cases of Asthma have been
relieved by using JONAS wHITCoMB'S REMEDY.
In no case of purely asthmatic character has it
failed to give relief.
CINcINNATI January 81, 1873.
Messrs. JOSEPH BURNETT Co., Boston:
Gentlemen-I am happy to be able to recommend TO
those suffering from the distress of Asthma, your
valuable relief, JONAS WHITCOMBS ASTHMA
REMEDY. So far as l have used it my statement
concurs with others with whom am familiar, as to
the most favorable results derived from its use
J. N. DEAN,
Student at Cincinnati Law College.
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No Explosions for Is Years

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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-07
NULREKIeY,

There are several varieties Of the mul.
berry, nearly all of which seem to be na-
tive to this continent. The red and black
sorts are so nearly alike, that it is scarcely
worth while to discuss whether they are SO
or not
The mulberry is a very precocious tree
suited everywhere 1t is usually propa.
gated by cuttings, both from the root and
limbs. Those from the latter grow al
most as freely as if they had roots, and
none may be said to fail. Browne, in his
Trees of America" asserts that if limb
several feet long is driven into the ground
where it is soft in the spring, it will bear
fruit the next year. The fruit is small,
oblong berry, containing small seeds like
the strawberry. The seeds grow freely,
but are SO small as to require considerable
skill to succeed with them. Hence grow.
ing from cuttings is usually preferred.
OF the durability of the timber we have
the most ample testimony. The writer
has fence posts on his place, yet on duty
and apparently sound and perfectly good,
that are certainly forty years old. Posts
of this timber are always preferred, and
usually bring double the price of posts of
ordinary timber. They are worth much
than that, compared with the common
article.
In the United States Patent Office report
| for 1874, it is stated that the steamer
Maryland was twenty y-fve years old then,
and persectly sound. AN the timbers were
mulberry.
On the Mississippi river the mulberry is
perfectly at home on islands that easily
overflow, and in other wet localities, where
little else will grow, and that is of little
value for. any other purpose. The timber,
too, that grows in such places is the very
best and most durable, as the experience
of nearly half q century has proved.
In planting trees, it is certainly advisable
always to plant the best. AS the great
majority of the planting people do not al
ways know what is best the writer thinks lie
is fulfilling public duty in making known
facts like the above. At. the. very head
ofhardy, durable, cleanly, beautiful, easily:
propagated, rapid growing trees, he would
name the. catalpa and mulberry. Prairie
Farmer.
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THE LONDON THADE-GUuLDS.

A legal inquiry has lately been made in
reference to one of the London guilds,
which has more than passing interest,
as illustrating how some of the London
companies are managed 1t seems that
Edward III. gave a charter to fellow
ship of free porters, two classes of whom,
about couple of centuries since, formed a
company, having mnon hall and being
managed by two governors, who were to
be aldermen of the city of London, and
?welve rulers. In the shape of quarter
age" large number Of porters have to
pay sum varying from twelfth to twen-
tieth of their weekly wages, which brings
to the company an income of four thou
sand pounds year, only one-half of
which seems to be expended; but, beyond
this, some thousands of porters outside the
fellowship appear to have to submit to
levy upon their wages in order that they
may get employment after all the fellow
ship porters are engaged. What, however,
appears to have led to this inquiry is the
fact that the porters are paid in tokens
which they are compelled to change at a
public house. For this service the publi-
Can charges penny in the shilling, and he
expects the porter to spend another penny
in the shilling, for ''the good of the
house" Thus the unfortunate man, hav-
ing previously been heavily mulcted to
support guild from which he derives no
benefit, is further despoiled of more than
sixteen per cent. by the publicans. Re-
Gently an experiment was tried by way of
ascertaining what would happen if this ex-
tortion were not submitted to. A teetotal
porter took his tokens to a publican in
order to get them changed, and, contenting
himself with ordering a pennyworth of
biscuits, by way of punishment was kept
waiting two hours for his change, and dur
ing that time was the object of constant
eibes. The case is now in the courts.
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A RABYLONHAN DEED OF SALE.

Mr.. w. St. G. Boscawen has discovered
among the contract tablets in the British
Museum two documents of great interest
to geometricians. Attached to two terra
Gotta tablets containing deeds of sale of
estates near Babylon, MIR. Boscawen
found two neatly drawn plans of the es-
tates in question. The first of these is
deed relating TO the sale of some land
which took place toward the latter end of
the reign of Nebuchadnezzar 1t repre-
sents an estate of about 81 acres in area,
and bounded on the northern side by the
canal of the goddess Banituo. The names
of the owners of the adjacent lands are
given, and the greatest care is taken in
giving the dimensions of these plots Of
land. The whole is divided into three
pairs of parallelograms and check dimen.
sions are taken to test the accuracy of the
work. semi circular portion on the east
side is most carefully measured, both ra-
dius and circumference being given. TLt
second plan is unfortunately in mutlated
condition, but the remaining portions show
the same care and neatness as is found in
the perfect one. The deed of sale in this
second document is written on the reverse
of the tablet, and is dated in the reign Of
Darius Hystaspes. The value of these
documents as bases by which to fix both
the lunar and area measures in Babylonia
is very great. Both these documents
form portions of the now well-known series
of the Ejibi tablets. Mr.. Boscawen hopes
shortly to publish these documents, ac-
companied by fac-similes of the plans and
translations of the deeds relating to them.
Tile Atteneum.
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HOME DECORATION.

Decorative art was once known only to
the rich, but now it is familiar to the mid
die clusses, who crave forms of beauty.
Much wit has been expended upon cheap
chromos, but they are doing a good work.
Let us dwell for few moments on houses
and the art of furnishing rooms. Rooms are
quick tell-tales of character and taste, or
,he lack of it, and each room should ex-
press something and be in harmony with
itself. There are elegant drawing rooms
which chill you as you enter, and simple,
cosy sitting rooms in which every chair
says, "do sit down with me" and well
come comes from the very walls. House
hold taste is but synonym for household
culture, and she is wise woman who sur
rounds those she loves with objects of
beauty. 1t is not an impossible fact, for
women can accomplish much in this, direc-
ton. know one who has changed, as if.
by magic, an ugly seven-gabled house into
marvel Of beauty. 1t is by thousand
little felicities, pretty bracket, an artistic
gem of picture, statuette or bust gauzy
curtain yelling some little recess, pretty
hanging basket, graceful stand OF
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FREDERICK THE GzsEAT.

Frederick the Great was peculiar in die
tetics as in other things. A strong man, he
took strong food. "To. day" Zimmerman
writes, "the King had taken a great quan-
tity of soup made of the strongest gravy
drawn from the most healing things. With
it he mixed a large tablespoonful of pound.
ed mace and pounded ginger. He then ate
a large slice of beef stewed in brandy.
This he followed up by acopious allowance
of an Italian dish, composed half of maize
-four and half of Parmesan cheese. 10
this he added the juice of q garlic, and the
whole is fried in. buster till it acquires crust
as thick as ones finger. This is called
polenta. At length CONTINUES thinner
man) the King, praising, the excellent
appetite, which the dandelion has given
him, concludes the scene with large plats
Of eel pie, SO hot and SO. highly seasoned
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THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

He understood very little, if anything, OF
the questions of State policy beyond the
immediate field of his own personal re.
sponsibilities and duties. OF political
economy he was supremely ignorant, yet
his stroug common sense enabled him at
last to recognize some of its Fundamental
truths. His speeches on economical sub
jects TEEN with puerilities and absurdites,
without ingenuity in conception or in ex
preston. OF the ends and objects OF
Government he had formed no philosophi.
cal estimate, nor dreamed that authority
had any other duty or function than to
cause itself to be respected and obeyed.
The people were altogether a cipher in his
eyes, except as grouped round the sover-
eighty. All his sympathies were with
rulers, whatever was the character of their
rule, and he cared nothing for subjects,
whatever might be the nature of the sub.
lection. But when dangers meraced the
ruling few "from the action of the serving
many" he had the sagacity to discern that
those dangers justified and demanded COZ
cessions.-Sir John Bowring.