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tarm Notes.

TUREIPs, carrots and onions chopped
are all beneficial to poultry but better
than these is either cabbage or lettuce
Cabbage always forms a welcome add.
tion to the poultry-house cuisine.
a CORRESPONDENT of the Cultiyator
says that few drops of butyr of anti
DIony applied to the diseased part is a
certain cure for foot-rot in cattle. Stacked
lime thrown at the entrance to the stable.
so that COWS may tread in it, is a sure
preventive.
EVERYTHING in history, nature and in
philosophy appeals to the farmer to Gull
tiyate an unbounded esteem for his occu-
PATTON, and to exert himself, in co-opera.
ton with his fellow-farmers, in placing
agriculture at the head of all pursuits in
honor and dignity.
OSE way for the farmer to make the
agricultural columns of permanent value
to himself, is to prepare a scrap-book.
into which may be transferred those bits
OF experience, statements of facts and
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EngIand's Army and Naval
Strength.

England's naval strength is $40 vessels
Of 915, $50 tons burden, with 2,819 guns,
and steam power equivalent to 603, 448
horses. Sixty-four of these vessels are
powerful ironclads. So far as the num-
Der stated go, it appears that we have an
admiral for each of the 267 vessels in
commission, with 33 to spare for receiv-
ing, store, training and surveying ships,
dispatch and tug vessels. yachts, ETC.,
and 43 more than one for every two of the
$40, including coal depots, chapels, hos
pitals and ,eformatories. There is a
similar glut with regard to the army.
OF generals, counting those on the active
list only, there is one for every two of the
ISL regiments, with 204 to spare. There
is lieutenant colonel for each of them,
with three over, and for every regiment
there are msjor-generals with Is over
S colonels, with 10 over, Is lieutenant
with forty four over, and nine
majors. with 146 to spare. Proportion |
ately, therefore, if not actually, we are
more abundantly supplied with officers
han even the great military powers of
he continent. OF regular troops we
nave Isl regiments; of militia, yeomanry |
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How Russians Battle.

We in the United States use the Rus
sian vapor bath as medicinal agent only.
But in the life of Russian peasant it
plays most important part. No ortho-
dox peasant will enter church until he
has cleansed himself physically by
means of the bath. After laboring
among pollutions for six and a half
days in the week, he devotes Saturday
afternoon to the vapor bath, and care
fully avoids thereafter all pollution
until he has performed his devotions at
the morning service on Sunday. Some
of the peasants take their vapor bath in
the household oven, in which the bread
is baked Others resort to the public
bath owned by the village. Strange to
say, notwithstanding their scrupulous
care in this particular, some of their
habits are absolutely filthy. While
bathing, the degree of heat which they
endure would kill a person not accus-
toned to it from childhood. And in
winter they often rush out of the bath
and roll themselves in the snow. Such
rapid transitions from extreme heat to
extreme cold illustrates q common Rus
sian proverb, which says that what is
health to the Russian is death to the
German. As the old proverb hath it,
zone mans meat is another mans
poison"
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TIE Rnttom or the Ocean.

Mr.. Green, the famous diver, tells
singular stories of his adventures when
making sketches of what he saw on the
silver banks, near Hayti:
The banks of the coral on which my
divings were made are about forty miles
in length, and from ten to twenty in
breadth. On this bank of coral is pre-
sented to the diver one OF the most
beautiful and sublime scenes the eye ever
beheld. The water varies from ten to
one hundred feet in depth, and is so
clear that the diver can see from two to
three hundred feet while submerged,
with little obstruction to the sight.
The bottom of the ocean in many
places on these banks is as smooth as 8
marble floor; in Others it Is studded
with coral columns, from ten TO one
hundred feet IN height, and from one to
eight feet in diameter. The tops of the
more lofty support a myriad of pyramid
zeal pendants each forming q myriad
more, giving the realty to the imaginary
abode of some water nymph. In other
places the pendants form arch after arch,
and as the diver stands on the bottom
of the ocean and gazes through those into
the deep. winding avenues, he feels that
they fill him with as deep an awe as if he
were in some old cathedral which had
long been buried beneath cold ocean 5
wave" Here and there the coral ex-
tends even to the surface of the water,
as if those loftier columns were towers
belonging to those stately temples now in
ruins
There were countless varieties of di-
minutive trees, shrubs, and plants. in
every crevice of the. coral, where the
water had deposited the least earth
They were all of faint hue, owing to
the pale light they received, although OF
every shade, and entirely different from
plants | am familiar with that vegetate
on dry land. One in particular attracted
my attention; it Tesembled a sea-fan of
immense size. Of variegated colors, and
OF the most brilliant hue.
The fish which inhabit those banks ]
found as different in kind as the scenery
was varied. They were of all forms,
colors, and sizes, from the symmetrical
goby to the glObe-like sunhsh; from
those of the dullest hue to the change
able dolphin; from the spots of the leop-
ard to the hues of the sunbeam; from the
harmless minnow to the voraciOus shark.
Some had heads like squirrels, others
like cats and dogs; one of the small size
Tesembled a bull-terTier. Some darted
through the water like meteors, while
others could scarcely be seen to move.
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The True Wife.

What do you think the sweet word
" wife" comes from 1t Is the great
syllable in which the English and Latin
language conquered the French and
Greek. hope the French may some day
find an expression for the idea in lieu Of
that dreadful word femme. But what do
you think it comes from? The great
value of Saxon words is that they mean
something. Wife means weaver"
You must either be housewives or
housemoths; remember that. In deeper
sense, you must either weave mems for
tunes and embroider them, or feed upon
and bring them to decay. Wherever a
true wife comes, home is always around
her. The stars may be over her head :;
the glow-worm in the dewy grass may be
the fire at her feet; but where she Is
dwells the spirit of home and for a no.
bic woman it stretches far around her !;
better than houses ceiled with cedar or
painted with vermilion, shedding quiet
light for those who else are homeless.
This is woman's truest place and high
est DOWeH.
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FARM AND HOME.
Value Of cobs.

According to single analysis reported
in Prof. Johnson's 4" How Crops Grow"
the ash of corn cobs contains forty-seVen
per cent. potash. four per cent. magnesla,
and nearly four and one-haf per cent.
phosphoric acid, which would indicate
that cobs are very valuable as fertilizer;
but the amount of ash in corn cobs Is
exceedingly small, being only about one
halt of one per cent, or eleven pounds II
a ton. This would give about five pounds
of potash, worth not far from half
dollar. The best use we have ever known
cobs to be put to as fertilizer was as
bedding for calves. The cobs were placed
several inches in thickness over the floor
of the pen in which calves were kept
loose through the summer. The tramping
of the calves broke the cobs into small
fragments. which would decay readily in
the soil, while, as q clean and comfort
able material for bedding, they could
hardly be surpassed. At least, that is the
report of those who have used them. A
bed of dry cobs foot deep would absorb a
large quantity of urine before becoming
foul or unfit for bedding, and after being
thus saturated, would prove quite valua-
lie as fertilizer. Cobs are, undoubtedly,
of some value as food for cattle, but much
depends upon the facilities one has tor
preparing them. 1t will not do to pay
much corn as toll for grinding cobs, if We
regard them according to their chemical
value; yet, when cobs and corn are
ground together, the meal for feeding to
animals may De worth nearly as much,
practically, by weight, as corn-meal. The
eobs make the meal lighter, and, perhaps,
more digestible. At any rate, the gastric
juice of the stomach will more easily be
mingled with the cob-meal than with
clear corn-meal, which, if ground fine, is
aPtto lie very compactly when taken into
the stomach without other food. Like
wheat shorts. ground cobs have a me-
ehanicsl effect upon corn-meal in the
stomach, acting Is divisor and separator
% the particles. COrn-cobs also make
pretty good fire kindlings, when dry and
IN place of better material may be worth
saving fer this purpose.-[N. E. Farmer.
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nrea,h,nr m,s.ma ,y,,bou, Iu,ury

These is no ezaggeration in the statement
that thousands of persons residing from one
years's end to another in fever and ague
regions on this Continent and elsewhere,
breathe air more or less impregnated with
miasma, without mourning the disease, sim
ply and only because they are in the habit Of
using Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a pre-
ventive. It has frequently happened, and
the fact has been amply attested by the
parties themselves, that persons surrounded
on all sides by neighbors suffering the tor
lures of this shivering and burning plague,
have enjoyed absolute immunity from it,
thanks to the protection afforded by the
Bittefs. Nor is that standard anti-febrile
cordial less eficacious in remedying than in
preventing chills and fever, bilious remit
tents, and disorders of kindred type.
Taken between the paroxysnls, it speedily
m'tigates their violence, and eventually
prevents their recurrence. These facts, con-
yincingly established by evidence, appeal
with peculiar force 10 travellers and sojourn-
ers in malaTiOus districts.
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Abandoned at See.

Atall times ships of one kind or another are
floating about at sea, abandoned by officers
and crew, in what seems a hopeless condi.
ton. Some are dismantled and mere hulks
some swimming keel upwards, some are
water>logged, but being laden with timber
will not sink, but are driven hither and
thither as the wind and waves Tuay direct.
So people afflicted with catarrh, bronchitis,
and consumption, are abandoned by physi-
clans and friends as incuraDle, vet thousands
of such are annually restored to perfect
health by the use of DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy and DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. The Catsrrh Remedy is unequal
ed as a soothing and healing local appliea.
ton, while the Discovery puriies and en-.
riches the blood and imparts tone and vigor
to the whole system.
VIDoLIA, La, April 18th, 1877.
DR.. PIERCE.
DEAR SIR suffered for twelve years
with that most offensive and loathsome of all
diseases-catarrh. My taste and smell were
completely destroyed. L procured a supply of
DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and your Golden
Medical Discovery, which / used according
to directions, and a complete and permanent
cure was speedily effected. l take pleasure
in recommending them to all afflicted.
Ever thankfully yours,
CLARA f. HUNT.
WADING RIVER, Burlington Co., n. J.,1
February 2Sth, 1877.
DR. PIERCE:
DEAR SIR-Your Golden Medical Dis
covery is the best medicine for coughs, colds,
and consumption, ever knew. 1t has
saved my life. Respectfully yours,
HELEN B. MCAENEY.
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Are Long Engagements Wise ?

When first young couple are engaged
they are regarded with considerable ins
terest by their friends. But If the pro-
stationary period be extended to a great
length, they are unfortunately liable to
bore themselves and others. Among
friends snd in the family, the smile of
interest at the outset is exchanged for
the smile of pity in the issue. A girl
feels irritated and indignant when she
knows that she is pitied. There is often
some amount of affectation about an en-
gagged girl, which is sometimes amusing
and sometimes absurd. She is apt to
retire. like a stricken deer, to some lonely
glade in the drawing-room, where she
considers general society as mere intru~
sion, and all men, except the object"
as mere nonentities. She will exemplify
that selfishness which in nine case out of
ten belongs to love. Her own home will
have for her subordinate and decreas-
ing interest. She will lose the fresh
love of nature and the Keepness of her
zest for study. Her mind will become
obviously unsettled. Her girlhoOd seems
vanished and premature womsnhood
sets in. 1t is not natural that a wise
mother should seek to take a daughter
from such an unsatisfactory condition of
affairs? We are by no means certain, |
even if we put ourselves into q very hard |
and worldly attitude, that the rough>
and>ready method of getting rid of an
engagement by the simple
process of breaking it off is not really
the best. The principle is that if girls
can not form long engagements without
upsetting themselves IN this sort of way,
SO far as possible they ought to be kept
from forming long engagements.
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and volunteers, 488 regiments, making
total of 639 regiments, to say nothing OF
pensioners and reserves. We have also
a sea force mere powerful than that of
any two other naval powers, and the
advantage of an insular position instead
of open frontiers. We are in state of
profound peace with the world, and may
so continue if we please. Yet, notwith-
standing all this, there are persons
among US who believe, or fleet to believe,
that there is nothing 70 pFSSsnt the
landing of a hostile force of 10,, 900 men
upon our shores in single night, and
that there will be no safety for US until
every able bodied man among US l.
trained to arms Financial Reform
Almanac.
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Ia ar..,,.,a1 niaoorerY of az Are

il Dr. Tobigs' celebrated Venetian Liniment !
20 years before tie public, and warranted to cure
Darrhea, Dysentery, Cole, sn1 5pasBis, taken in
tslnally; and Group, Chronic Bhenmatisin, sore
Throats Cuts Bruises, Old Sores, and Fiars IN the
Limbs Back and Chest, externally. IL hiss Eever
tailed n family will ever be without ita alter once
living II a fair TRIAL. Price, 80 cts. DR.. 1OBlA AS
VENETIAN HORSE lINfdES Z. in PINT Bottles,
az One Dollar, is warranted superior 90 any other OF
40 PAY, for the cure OF CJi,e, Cuts, Bruises. Old
sores, etc. Sold by all Druggists -&>r7'-fO fark
Place. new York.
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Cot,nee Gingerbread.

Take one cup OF butter and lard melted
together, add one cup New Orleans mOlasses /;
stir into this one cup each of sugar and cold
water. two large teaspoonfuls ginger, two
eggs beaten, and four cups of flour, having
10 it three large teaspOorfuls DooLEY's
YEAST POWDER. Bake in moderately hot
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DoN'T be afraid any more. Professor
Newcomb says: $50 small is the earth.
compared with the celestial spaces, that
if one should shut his eyes and fire at
random in the air, the chance of bring
ing down bird would be better than
that of comet of any kind striking the
earth. -0
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uapboo,,,s yIror

Il lost when the body is wasei by Dyspepsia, Sick
Headache or Liver Complaint. For this pitiabe
condition TUTT's Pills area specific. The vgor and
elasticity OF youth, and buoyaucy Of spirits. will
follew their use. IS cents. Is Murray sfreetN. Y.
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DR.. PIERCE

THE nearer we approach the equator
the more frequent do we find abnormal af>
fections of the liver; but for remedy con-
trolling such in any climate the HOME
STOMACH BTTTERs has no equal. Prepared
by the Home Bitters Company, st. Louis, Mo.
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Mothers Mothers I Mothers y D ont fail to
procure Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for all
diseases incident to the period of teething in
children. 1t relieves the child fIom pam. cures
wind collie, regulates the bowels land, by giving
relief and health to the child, gives rest TO the
mother. 1t is an old and welLtried remedy.
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" ALGERNoN sends us a poem in
which he declares, "There is rest for me
in the silent tomb" Oh, there is, ia
there? Yes, there is; lots of it. You
try 1t. You'll find cut how mnch rest
there is in the silent tomb, with half a
dozen Chicago medical students digging
in after you and fighting over you. You
crawl into the tomb for a little quiet
time, if you want to, Algernon, but you
Just take your revolver with you, all tae
same Burlington Hawkeye.
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DON'T BE A FOOL,

H, send for free Price List. and know why We sell
Fiye-Ton " agon Scale At $50. All Iron ana steer
brss. beam Delivered freight paid and no pay
till tested. JONES OF BIAGHAMION' b'nsh"in-
tcn Y
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NEW ORLEANS.
School Music Books !!

High School Choir. EP ss.sS per d 6o2.
a standard, useful and favorite Book.
School Song Book. C. E'S dozen. 50 per
Fine Book for Girls High and Normal Schools.
Choice TTlos. W. :. TiIden. 500 per dozen.
Three part Songs for Female Colleges, semina-
ries, &C.
Grammar School Choir. s @i 8 p TIiS Dozen
Excellent collection for High OF Grammar Schools
American School Music Readers.
In 3 Books each 80 cents, 30 cents and % cents.
Carefully prepared for Graded Schools.
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nIIM CREvOLVEE6. Price List free. Addres
dUVO Great Western Gun Works. Pittsbure. Pa.

MANN and Organ playing learned IN dsy No
BLHttU Ernud Agents wanted. hare chance.
y Send for circnlar. A. q. MORTON. Aflanfa. O..
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NAE0sycsaI Asests ssPssa sys5ysTs BE-.
AZRshs %iaSssss:' Fcsr G. Il '' s
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-11-20
How n Spdentary Life Affects
Woman.


The Popular Science Monthly remarks
that many of the ills and diseases prev
slent among women in our day are no
doubt traceable to the sedentary mode of
lite so common among them. The pro
oress of the industrial art has done away
with much of the household drudgery to
which women were formerly subjected,
and the result is in too many cases want
of sufficient occupation for needed bod
ly exercise. II says: The fruits OF
this state of things are strikingiy ex-
hibited in certain observations made by
the late DR.. Robertson, a Manchester
surgeon, who, in his practice as special
list for women's diseases, found that IN
women whU themselves performed all
their household work there was no trace
of certain complaints, that these com
plants begin to make their appearance in
women with one servant, become more
pronounced with women who have two
servants, or worse still with those who
have three servants, and so on. he
showed statistically that the deaths from
childbirth were four times greater In
the cases of women with four servants
than those with none. On the other
hand we observed q statement the other
day that since the suspension of labor in
the mills of New England on account of
the panic, many of the female operatives
have sought employment as domestics,
and as consequence there is much more
sickness among them than there was pre-
viously This would seem to show that
homework is not as healthy rs labor in
cotton and wooden goods.
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From the London Lsncet,l
Il man we're deliberately to shut
hmse.t for some SIX OF eight hours daily
IN Etuziy room, wi.h closed doors and
windows ltha doors not being opened
even 10 change the air during the period
Of lnaarcerauon). aad were then to com
plal1 If headache and debility, he would
De justly told that his own want of in
'eII'gent foresight was the cause of his
suffering. Nevertheless, this is what the
great mass Of people do every night Of
their lives, with no thought of their i'm
prudence. There are few bedrooms in
winch Il ia perfectly safe to pass the
night E.,b1ut more than ordinary pre-
Cautions to secure an inflow of fresh air
Every sleeping apartment should of
course have = fireplace with an open
Chimney, and in cold weather it is we'll
The grsts contains small fire, at least
enough t0 create an upset current and
carry on the vitiSted air OF the room.
II al such case., however, when fire
Used, i, IS necessary to see that the
air drawn into the room comes from the
outside of the house. BY an easy mis-
Is = bOSSbtc u tl1dCb the occupant
OF a bedroom With fire. in closed
house, in direct current of foul air
Drawn from all parts of the establish
ment. Summer and winter, without the
Use OF fires 1t Il veil to have a free in
gress for pure air. This should be the
DDenulator's first concern. Foul air will
md an exit if pure air 10 admitted in
sufficient quantity, but it is not certain
pure Fir viii be drawn in if the impure
drawn sWay. So far as sleeping rooms
are concerned, it is wise to let in air from
without Tie aim must be to accom-
push the object without causing great
hll Of temperature or Z draught. The
6lndoSa mar 20 drawn down an inch OF
no = tao sop NTH advantage, and {
ioid q masnc ZIP fvzs1 "vertiI
e. = IA * fke aa.iiss ef 6rszsht
Am, c1tss - egree Errpisce, Vl:l reOer
tii5 E'-i~s-, se6 see>lges "a oapieene7i
eoAstqea-eec e7on Sbaa chs t,1eikeR
eod. i d aoCeTss, ecseaiiaI taos tAs
SIT 81, sutaice rsould be pure. Little il
hkely 10 be gained by letting in q fog OF
even town mist.
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Queen, Pioneer, Staples, aad Centen
NAL Favorite, it is thought will also
prove adapted to Southern soils.
In making plantation of straw berries
it is well to have the ground deeply
spaded or ploughed, and we'll enriched.
If the plants are set out in November,
they will give quite crop OF fruit by
the following spring, and will frequently
yield berries of the largest size within
four or five months from the time OF
planting Frequent cultivation or stir
ring of the soil within six inches of the
plants, is quite an assistance in obtaining
these large berries. Z. H. HAINEs.
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Fair Agnes.
THE cHAMBERMAID OF MABLEHEAD WHO
BECAME A LADY"

From the Springfield Republican,
Sir Charles Henry FARMLAND, son of
a former Governor of Bengal, and de
scended from family of England trac,
ing lineage back to the Norman con
quest, had visited America long previous
10 the war of the revolution, and was
holding the office of collector of his
Majesty's customs in Boston under the
royal government of Massachusetts.
Unhappily the gay manners and licen-
tious principles of the young knight
we're better accommodated to the profit
gate circles Of the Old World courts in
which he lad moved, than - tbs severe
morality Of Puritan New England 60
ciety.
On some occasion in pursuit either Of
business or pleasure. IS Wosld aPreAi
that thD nOblexAR eAescod to Wait ths
village of Marblehead, (some sixteer
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Marriages by telegraph may be ro-
maotic, bot come day widow may dis
cover thet they are not worth shucks to
hold property BY.